because there's always a small. good. luck they may have pearson called donald trump to thank him for information that helped fuel the new year terrorist plot in st petersburg. u.s. warplanes carried out 5 strikes in syria and iraq killing at least 19 people iraq has condemned the raids is a violation of its brevity. and in the stories that shaped the week a passenger plane crash in kazakhstan kills 12 people and leaves dozens injured. last us presidential candidate michael bloomberg apologizes to his team used prison labor to promote the billionaire's election campaign.

you're watching the weekend here on our team to national i'm ours on a lot quit welcome to the program we start with this flood of putin has personally thank donald trump for a tip off from u.s. intelligence that helped intercept terror plot in st petersburg medina cochon of reports. russia's federal security service detain 2 people that were allegedly planning to carry out terrorist attacks in the city of st petersburg according to the security service these people in question were planning terrorist attacks in crowded places during the new year celebrations it was also reported that avid and shedding light on some of their intentions was also found the scene well they were being detained russian federal security service a mage's these the rest on the 27th of december following information that was received from their american colleagues now some may say that it was

a significant step in the relationships between the 2 countries and in a telephone conversation the russian president vladimir putin thanked his american counterpart donald trump for this piece of data that help prevent these attacks they prevented what could have been a tragic catastrophe yes the city of st petersburg russia is north and capital is packed with people during new year holidays so this piece of information how to prevent a horrible situation indeed both presidents discussed a range of pressuring issues they agreed to continue cooperation in the fight against terrorism actually the last time they spoke was in july and in person they mad back in june at the g. 20 summit in japan at the time the meeting was said to be quite long and productive so it seems that both sides trying to keep the lines of contact open well we spoke

to chris phillips former head of the u.k. counterterrorism security office he says the case highlights the need for cross border intelligence sharing. what it does as well is that we live in such an interconnected world. is the us. also dealing with people and planning incidents in. petersburg and and i think we're going to see more of this because because of the use of internet telephones these interconnected groups able to strike anywhere you can only hope to come to work together not only against terrorism but the bigger thing actually people should be even bigger than terrorism we organized crime because organized criminals are wreaking havoc across the world at the moment we've seen people murdered in london of a country she said be a lot to do with drugs and of course she says this is

a big problem for them. the u.s. military has carried out 5 s. strikes in iraq in syria killing at least 19 people and injuring dozens american officials have called it a defensive operation against an iran backed militant group. what we did was take a decisive response that makes clear what president obama has said for months and months and months which is that we will not stand for this long. to take action the put american men and women in jeopardy i would add that in our discussion today with the president we discussed with him other options that are available and i would note also that we will take additional actions as necessary to ensure that we act in our own self-defense and we deter further bad behavior from militia groups or from iran but according to the u.s. as you just heard the bombing raids were a tag a shim for friday's rocket strike on the cook base in iraq which killed one american contractor no group has claimed responsibility for the last attack but the

pentagon has blamed a type hizbollah an armed group that emerged after the u.s. invasion of iraq and has repeatedly targeted american troops it is also one of the main shia forces fighting against islamic state in both iraq and syria. well according to the iraqi news agency the country's president has condemned the u.s. strikes calling them harmful to the country and the prime minister has described the operation is a violation of iraqi sovereignty and a dangerous escalation for the region former pentagon official michael maloof gave us his view on the situation u.s. there isn't need much of a provocation to escalate this not only inside iraq but toward iran directly everything is on a razor's edge already and i don't think that we need to have any more provocations on either side that could launch into a full blown attack and that's basically also all the trump would need basically to divert attention away from his. impeachment preoccupation and

unite and unite the country and so this this is coming at a very very dangerous time. now in other news the shape the we start on this held a day of mourning for the 12 people killed in a plane crash on friday dozens more were injured in the tragedy including children the aircraft lost altitude just after takeoff from the country's largest city el mattie on a domestic flight equipped to cause great barrier and crash into a building in a residential area investigators are looking at 3 possible causes of the tragedy of pilot error or technical malfunction bad weather here's how events unfolded. live. 30. 7 pick a. little later. the corridor. of the

consumer look at the receiver. not. the shows it was awarded to bring its a. surplus and. the did i mention i don't know what do you. mean you're in one hand i mean one thing and then you're right. who offered you a split felt strong jolt on the left wing literally 2nd to the plane began to rock back and forth like both i began to tighten my belt panic had already begun the children had started crying when the plane began to go dollars it was clear that would definitely go into the ground shorts and i braced myself for impact then the sewing capabilities of the mergence a door was open so i jumped on the wing and again slipping because it was icy we

helped each other to get down. geoffrey thomas from airline ratings dot com gave us his thoughts on what might have gone wrong. early indications point to 2 possible causes one is that as we can see snow sleet snow everywhere it was very very cold icing conditions at a may well have been that the plane was not correctly d.-i still not do ya asked at all and if there's of the build up of ice on the wing as soon as the plane takes off you're going to have a situation where you hit the lift over the top of the wing the air over the top of the wing is disturbed therefore you lose lift the plane or you reach now 2 to 40 feet and then crash back to earth. and the other thing we have but there's

a possibility there was an engine problem we know the aircraft reached takeoff speed of about 175 miles an hour and then quickly that speed quickly took to within a 2nd or 2 of the takeoff back to a 148 and that's when all the data was lost. so possible engine problem possible icing problem on the wings. us democratic presidential hopeful michael bloomberg has apologized for the use of prison labor by his campaign team female inmates were recruited to call up voters although bloomberg himself denies he knew what was happening we only learned about this when the reporter called us let's assume as we discovered which friend a subcontractor had done this we immediately ended our relationship with the company and the people who hired them imagine being so wait you have people who have people who have prisoners to do stuff for you agence being so rich you don't

even bother to check what you are spending millions of dollars on. rita reading we sad indeed when we learn a vendor of a vendor of a vendor use prison labor we did know about it and we never would have allowed it we don't believe in this practice and we immediately stop working with pro com and the people who hired them so so how do you do it pay someone to pay someone to tell them mike bloomberg is a big spender he was last to do in the presidential race and he has already outspent all the other democrat candidates on campaign advertising i mean the guy has so much money he doesn't seem to have the time to check what he spent a good dog but there's credit michael bloomberg did promise america more work just to. get it. for president jobs

creator. right america more jobs even if you don't particularly want them what makes it much much worse is that many of the prisons in the states a private run for profit and there are laws that force people to work so if you are in a jail and you are told to work you have to you'll be punished sometimes they pay you as much as $20.00 a month that's right $20.00 a month now here's the irony mike bloomberg billionaire one of the richest people in america was essentially paying for what is a slave labor to cool people apparently tell them that he's a good guy wait the bloomberg is he was paying someone to pay someone to tell everyone what a good guy he is trump says he wants to run the nation like he's running his business god help us. everybody says stuff that comes back to bite them

but when billionaires do it it's generally an order of magnitude. it get. further you dig when he launched his campaign his media bloomberg news sent. thousands of its journalists pledging to uphold its principle of not investigating its own this is the sort of person mike. mike bloomberg started as a middle class kid to work his way through college business from a single room to creating. good paying jobs along the way to stop their code of he probably shouldn't but he didn't. continue he became. intimate selling bank is new to christie priced gadgets the same bankers who threw on rival 3 set all for 2005 actual crashed the project tens of

millions of people with homes of life savings and jobs. michael bloomberg the president. michael bloomberg is ranked number 9 in the world on the forbes rich list but investigative journalist dave lindorff believes that doesn't mean necessarily make him a good candidate for president it really shouldn't be acceptable for anybody liberal or conservative to use prison labor it's forced labor bloomberg is a multibillionaire he's worth like $54000000000.00 he's made his money by you know not paying attention to things like that. that he's not concerned about the little guy. which i guess becomes you know if you're if you're supposedly a democrat you're concerned about the little guy and it's enormous a packer see it a big problem just i think it's going to hurt him a lot i don't know where people get the idea that bloomberg is the great savior for democrats in the race in the race to get struck he has almost no poll support only

as his money. billionaires have not traditionally done that well running for. this it's it's you know you got to have money to run for president but when you have that much money i think most people are pretty suspicious of your motives in running for office. there's been a sharp increase in u.k. weapons sales to saudi arabia over the last 5 years and that's despite london signing up to a treaty to prevent exports to rights abuses oxfam which calculated the rise says it's deeply concerned about the way the weapons have been used in the conflict in yemen according to the charity the u.k. has license sales worth nearly 6 and a half 1000000000 pounds to 8 members of the saudi coalition in the last 5 years and that's more in the far than in the 5 years before it signed the treaty more than 100 countries signed up to the trees that regulates international trade in

conventional weapons it regulates the arms trade in order to prevent human suffering the british government was also keen to stress its importance when it signed up. the a.t.t. is the only legally binding treaty regulating on promoting legitimate and responsible trade in conventional arms he remains a unique and valuable instrument when the arms trade treaty came into effect the u.k. was a real champion of that treaty unfortunately sales to countries that we in yemen know party to not war in yemen have actually increased and i think there's just been a sake know that you're yemen world's worst humanitarian crisis right now and the u.k. and far from kind of living up to the treaty in and the word is that treaty has has continued to so the countries involved in a country where we know i am international and having no is has been disregarded.

with pressure mounting the u.k. has now had to suspend the sale of weapons to saudi arabia in june the court of appeal said that they were all unlawful although the government is expected to appeal the decision at the supreme court saudi arabia's intervention in yemen started in 2015 to fight who think rebels who they say a terrorists however it's the level of civilian casualties that has become a major cause of concern.

ots found says there is clear evidence of human rights violations in yemen. the evidence is really able well meaning. that there's been consistent violations of international law and the case is really clear that. that the government needed to you know if it was going to continue to license weapons had to be clear about whether there was a pattern of violation in that violation and it was clear that so i find that high that that system would be a payout and i think it's. you know very sad that the government have had to try and chosen to appeal this decision and wish to continue to sell weapons to have been used in a war there is causing on so the untold poverty and harm and destruction for the people of yemen. a government has opened fire inside

a church in texas killing 2 people the instant happened during a sunday morning service near fort worth it was live streamed by the church on social media in the video which of course is not able to show you a man can be seen standing up from a pew brandishing a shotgun and opening fire to members of the corrugated congregation then shoot back at him killing him the local chief of police has praised the 2 church goes for their quick response. today at approximately 11 50 am a government in or the west freeway church of christ what's on the texas during a church service the perimeter reports indicated that the manager of the church and part of weapon a couple of members of the church returned bar. striking a suspect who died at the scene well just hours before that texas shooting a machete attack on a synagogue in new york state left 5 people injured 2 of them in critical condition donald trump expressed support for the victims and urged americans to fight quote the evil scourge of anti-semitism.

the attack happened during a fan of capacity police arrested a suspect soon after the incident in a counterterrorism unit is monitoring the situation. bleeding in the dining room i saw a guy living in the unconscious on the floor in the hallway so the people critically injured i fortunately one of them is a very old guy who lives a beloved guy everybody loves. so started putting up a fight it threw a chair then he started with his training as a trainer he tried to do this train where every could police have named the suspect as grafton saddam has aged 37 has been charged with attempted murder though his a motive remains unclear the new york state governor has called it an act of domestic terrorism. here. in new york this is why i won't. buy you hate it is mass violence. terrorism.

semitism. medicare's in the area. completely unacceptable. in the specially during this time of peace and harmony we don't understand you know what the motivation is for all this is just pure hatred or this follows a spike in hate crimes against jews in the region there have been 7 anti semitic instance in new york city this week alone and less than a month ago shooting at a kosher supermarket in jersey city left 4 dead israeli prime minister has condemned the latest incident so israel strongly condemns the latest surge of anti-semitism and the brutal attack in the middle of hanukkah holiday house in monsey new york send our wishes of recovery to the wounded we will cooperate in every way with the local authorities to help eradicate this phenomena and offer

this help to every country political analyst to live a rough of it says the rise in anti semitic instance could encourage immigration to israel. i think that it's a global problem all over the world especially in europe no also in america where the jewish communities there were settled when the jews are in trouble all over the world. is the only place safe place to be now of course we can rely on those allegations of our government to prevent such attacks but if the situation is getting worse and worse. is of course the place to be for jules was in danger too as the case. is 70 years ago it is still the case. and other news ukraine and the self-proclaimed people's republic psni east of the country have completed a prisoner swap president selenski was act here the airport to meet 76 people

released by the breakaway region he goes down of has more on this story. well we do have some fishel figures finally we do know for a fact that more than a 100 people to part in this war in the swap in total for instance we do know that key of has sent some 61 people former prisoners to the territories of the self-proclaimed annette's and peoples republics and those breakaway regions into send 76 of their former prisoners back to kiev now this whole thing was only possible because of the normandy fringe the latest round of the normandy food talks when vladimir putin for the 1st time met the ukrainian president for them as lenski and german chancellor angela merkel and the french president among your mccrone being there as well this was one of the one of the things one of the agreements that they reached during that meeting in paris now this war has seen

there have been a few hitches and if you said backs of to this what for instance we do know that at least 2 people 2 persons refuse. to take part in the refuse to go back to clear from donetsk and lugansk republics regions for one reason or another also all saw 5 former members of burke could police unit an elite police unit that took part in dispersing the protests the protests the might an uprising back in back when it happened they were part of this war too and they didn't go well with some people because some people in ukraine think share a rather radical stance a rather radical view look on what's going on on the war and so on and what happened on the my done and they share not just animosity but pure hatred towards form a burka members so yesterday there was a court hearing in cuba in the ukrainian capital on the fate of the eye of those 5

persons now they were released which effectively that's why that's how it became possible for them to become part of the swap and those more radically inclined individuals they they didn't take it well that you showed up at the courts at the courts doors they clashed with the police chanting slogans like death to burkhard and so on and so forth but so far it looks that the prisoners will put over rule has been a success which is a major step for the ball for the sides for the currently warring sides. now in the near fast approaching it's a tradition of the holiday season for world leaders heads of state and major organizations to deliver annual greetings they usually wrap up the passing year and generally express hope for a prosperous and happy future but it seems this time there are a few peculiar messages around saskia taylor explains christmas the time of year when people gather together to celebrate the bonds of friendship and family as

a side note also a very awkward period for the brits have to regularly engage an eye contact accept well wishes and feign merriment or at the same time sorry this is not my weekly therapy session but anyway we've all grown tired of repeating the same old merry christmas and in a bid to keep good old yuletide going and make it all trendy and 21st century all the world over people are getting creative with the traditional greeting sometimes though they know how to best put it misjudged the mood while some bleak gingerbread houses we do so i get to go with them 35 jet merry christmas to christian soldiers and to all those celebrating around the world i'm a big fan of gingerbread but one in the shape of an f. $35.00 jet which are regularly used to conduct strikes over gaza just hours after the i.d.f. admitted that a raid in the gaza strip to 9 members of a single family was a mistake i think i'll give it a miss as apparently will many others are yes nothing says merry christmas like

a freaking war machine all you're missing is some gingerbread bombs to drop on some gingerbread palestinians maybe the i.d.f. had a brainstorm session with donald trump because his festive wishes also struck a somber tone i think someone forgot to tell him that joy is a contractual obligation in december on behalf of the entire trump family we wish everyone a joyous merry christmas but can you blame him at the end of the year we're all tired poor thing couldn't even hide the fact he was reading off a prompter so he doesn't. other things on his plate i suppose like his possible removal from office even as usually bellicose tweets have been a bit like cluster of late no caps lock no explanation marks that kind of thing also jumping in head 1st to the whirlpool of christmas for parts u.s. customs and border protection they congratulated santa for not scaling and he was sorry chimneys this year and applying for his visa on time like you'd expect it went down like

a sack of presents hundreds of kids in texas are spending christmas eve taking care of each other freezing cold insufficient food water medical attention hygiene it resources no contact with their parents many as young as one hope you brought gifts for these kids. he missed the stop and across the pond things want much better queen elizabeth the 2nd film test 67 christmas speech you think after all these years she'd have it down pat but it's been a tough year for poor queenie what with prince andrew clearly not being a natural in t.v. interviews perry marrying an american divorcee said divorcée crying on t.v. about being bullied by the very people who pay the heating bill of buckingham palace harry saying that he and william are fighting harry being a climate activists while jetting around a private jets her story not my weekly therapy session so instead of the usual merry christmas one and all they got this midterm filled. with small steps can make

a world of difference. a very legal way of defining being on the brink of a constitutional crisis our fingers crossed hoping your son didn't spend nights sweating away with a convicted sex offender and then the icing sugar on top of the your blog the un decided to pick the day christ was born to talk about how motherhood is a real chore which will apparently leave you poor bond employed and most likely gender discriminated against i wonder if mary and joseph consider these downsides as the road to bethlehem so yeah it's tough to know how to wish people while at this time of year but i don't want to miss out on the fun so mary day the christ was born but only if you recognize christ i'm not forcing anything on you so let's just say it's a winter holiday if the time winter doesn't offend this is a safe space after all totally up to you how you want to celebrate this day or not your call. well that was the weekly and that's it for me and you will be here with you next hour to take you through the latest news from around the world stay with us.

politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go right to be precise this is what the before 3 of the more people. interested always in the water. this. is a long held tradition on cross talk to take stock of the year that is about to pass we have a look at what moved us what changed and what gave us concern 2019 the good the bad and the.

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