Breaking news from texas where a shooting has taken place today church during the service there are unconfirmed reports of casualties 3 people are believed to have been shot with 2 dying one said to be in a Critical Condition this is a developing story well bring you updates and more information as we get them just hours sprite of the texas shooting a machete attack on a synagogue in new york state left 5 people injured 2 of them in a Critical Condition. And that attack happened during a Hanukkah PartyPolice Arrested a suspect soon after the incident the counterterrorism unit is monitoring the situation reports say that the assailant was a black male the motive remains unclear the new york governor has called the attack an act of domestic terrorism. Bill sr not in new york this is my aunts spurred by hate it is Mass Violence and i consider this an act of domestic terrorism. Semitism. Medic acts in the area. Completely unacceptable. Specially during this time of peace and we dont understand. What the motivation is for all this is just pure hatred the attack follows a spike in hate crimes against the Jewish Community in the region that have been 7 anti semitic incidents reported in new york city this week alone and less than a month ago a shooting at a kosher supermarket in jersey city left 4 dead in libya. Nothing can justify such acts of violence. 1st of all there is no total solution i dont want to use the word fighters solution god forbid there is no law because it is immaterial and has many many faces and you see it coming from many their reactions and with many different look evasions we put everything in one basket but this does not mean that everything can be approached in the same way israelis believe the world is against us and anti semitism as serious as it is is many times also used for political purposes but obviously there is a sense of shock and disgust of this kind of violence nobody can justify and nothing can justify this kind of violence the policy of israel they occupation the brutality is fueling. Some of the anti semitic movements many anti semites are using the police of israel as an excuse for their empty semitism. And develop it in house trying to donald trump for information which helped to prevent planned new years terror attacks on think peters committee in culture has details. Russias federal Security Service detain 2 people that were allegedly planning to carry out terrorist attacks in the city of St Petersburg now 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 FederalSecurity Service a mages 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 helped 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 president s 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. Investigations are continuing into what caused a passenger plane to crash to take your from oman to port and comes next on killing 12 people dozens were injured in the incident on friday including children these pictures show the rescue operation investigators are considering 3 possible causes of the tragedy pilots are a function of bad weather is how events unfolded. Sure. Sure. It is a. Bit of like a. Little its a good. Coder. To the freedom summer look at the recent river just. Not where as a shows it was a border of the paragraph or 4th he would. See. Me every month. Like google did i mention a dog a but do you. Believe in god not only mcgee given that i have. Many. Options here i should just let hold strong jolt in the left wing literally 2nd play to the plane began to rock back and forth like a boat i began to tighten my belt panic a dollar a day began that the children had started crying when the plane began to go dollars look it was clear that would definitely go into a crash which i braced myself for the impact then the sewing caved in the mergence the door was open so we jumped on the wing and again slipping because it was icy we helped each other to get down. Geoffrey thomas from allen ratings dot com gave assistance on what might have gone wrong. Early indications point to possible causes one is that as we can see snow sleet snow everywhere it was very very cold icing conditions and it may well have been that the plane was not correctly d. I still not do ya asked at all and if theres of build up of ice on the wing as soon as the plane takes off youre going to have a situation where you get 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 but theres a possibility there was an engine problem we know the aircraft reached takeoff speed of about 175 miles an hour and then quickly that speak quickly to within a 2nd or 2 of takeoff back to a 148 and thats when all the data was lost. So asa bill engine problem possible icing problem on the wings. The u. S. Democratic president ial candidate Michael Bloomberg has apologized to his campaign use prison labor to promote his election message female inmates were employed to call up voters although bloomberg himself denies he knew what was happening we only learned about this when the reporter called us but as soon 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 rich you have people who have people who have prisoners to do stuff for you agence being so rich you dont 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 dont believe in this practice and we immediately stopped working with pro com and the people who hired them so how do you do it pay someone to pay someone to tell them my bloomberg is a big spender he was last to do in the president ial race and he has already outspent all the other democrat candidates on Campaign Advertising i mean the guy has so much money he doesnt seem to have the time to check what he spent a good dog but they his credit Michael Bloomberg did promise america more work just to. Get ahead. For president jobs creator. Problems. Right america more jobs even if you dont particularly want them what makes it much much worse is that many of the prisons in the states private run for profit and there are laws that force people to work so if youre in a jail and you are told to work you have to youll be punished sometimes they pay you as much as 20. 00 a month thats right 20. 00 a month now heres 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 easy good god 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 hes running is business god help us. Everybody says stuff that comes back to bite them but when billionaires do it its generally an order of magnitude more cream it gets. Worse the further you dig when he launched his campaign his media Bloomberg News sent out a letter thousands of its journalists pledging to uphold its principle of not investigating its own or this is the sort of person mike is Mike Bloomberg started as a middle class kid who had to work his way through college and built a business from a single room to a global entity creating tens of thousands of good paying jobs along the way there. He probably shouldnt but he didnt let me continue he became richer year after year he made really a selling bank is ludicrously priced products all gadgets the same bankers who threw on bridal greed set off the 2008 financial crash depriving tens of millions of people of those of lifes savings and jobs. Michael bloomberg for president. Ok thanks stay without fail but back with more of the weeks top stories after this short break. The world is driven by a dream shaped by. The dares thinks. We dare to ask. You know world a big part of the movie lot and conspiracy its time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other its time for Critical Thinking its time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now were watching closely watching the hawks. Thats been a shopping creasing u. K. Weapon sales to saudi arabia over the last 5 years that despite london sunning up to a treaty to prevent exports to rights abuses oxfam which calculated the rise says its deeply concerned about the way the weapons have been used in the conflict in yemen. According to the charity u. K. License sales worth nearly 6 and a half 1000000000 pounds to 8 members of this articulation in the last 5 years thats more than in the 5 years prior to its signing the treaty a treaty that more than 100 countries signed up to it regulates the arms trade in order to prevent human suffering simple stuff 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 and promoting legitimate responsible trading conventional arms he remains a unique and valuable instrument when the arms trade treaty came into effect and the u. K. With a real champion of that treaty unfortunately sales to countries that we in yemen are party to now or in yemen have actually increased and i think this is the signal that. Youre yemen worlds worst humanitarian crisis right now and the u. K. And far from kind of living up to treaty in and the word is that treaty has has continued to say how countries involved in a conflict where we know international and having no is has been disregarded. The pressure mounting the u. K. Has now had to suspend the sale of weapons the saudi arabia in june the court of appeal said that they were unlawful or that the government is expected to appeal the decision at the Supreme Court saudi arabias intervention in yemen started in 2015 to fight to the rebels who they say are terrorists however its the level of civilian casualties that has become a major cause of concern. Im says theres clear evidence riyadh has committed Human Rights Violations in yemen the evidence is really i have a well meaning and that theres been consistent violations of International Law and and as you say the case was really clear that. That the government needed to you know if it was going to continue to license weapons had to be clear about that there was a pattern of violation in that violation and it was clear that so i find that height that that system will be a pallet and i think its. You know very sad that the government have had to try and chosen to appeal this decision and wish to continue to sell weapons that have been used in a war that is causing so untold poverty and hard destruction fed the people of yemen. Its a tradition of the Holiday Season for World Leaders heads of state and major organizations to deliver their 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 ask you taylor explains. Christmas the time of year when people gather together to celebrate the bonds of friendship and family as a side note a very awkward period for the brits have to regular engage an eye contact except well wishes and feign merriment all at the same time sorry this is not my weekly therapy session but anyway weve 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 in 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 gingerbread houses we do so i get to go with them 35. 00 jet Merry Christmas to christian soldiers and to those celebrating around the world im 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 can not i member of a Single Family was a mistake i think ill give it a miss as apparently will many others yes nothing says Merry Christmas like a freaking war machine all youre 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 its the end of the year were all tired poor thing couldnt even hide the fact he was reading off a prompter though he does have 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 kind of thing also jumping in head fast 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 youd 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 resources no contact with their parents many as young as one who brought gifts for these kids. He missed the stop and across the pond things want much better Queen Elizabeth the 2nd film test 67th Christmas Speech you think after all these years shed have it down pat but its 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 divorcee crying on t. V. About being bullied by the very people who pay the heating bill at 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 and 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 didnt 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 considered these downsides as the road to birth so yeah its tough to know how to wish people while at this time of year but i dont want to miss out on the fun so mary day the christ was born but only if you recognize christ im not forcing anything on you so lets just say its a Winter Holiday if the time winter doesnt offend this is a safe space after all totally up to you how you want to celebrate this day or not your call. Ok opens up today join me for the top of their i see that. 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On the welcome to worlds apart nobody else of dilution have turned humans into one of the most adaptable and successful species on the planet with the the capacity for self harm and even selfannihilation i think traits that once helped us survive now precipitating our own demise well to discuss that im now joined by dr David Perlmutter a neurologist and best selling author dr perlmutter its such a privilege to talk to you thank you very much for your time well oksana and so delightful to be with you today thank you now were recording this conversation a few days before new years eve when millions of people around the globe will be promising to themselves to leave better house the air a more fulfilling lives and yet we know from from the statistics that most of those pledges will remain and realized why do you think it is such a challenge what a terrific question to lead off with and you know there are so many books out there there are so many programs online and cetera that really give out good information about what we should eat that we should actual size Pay Attention to our sleep but the problem is so many people end up with these books on their bookshelves and year after year they go on the answer and the reason is now we have to start paying a. Tension to making making the choice and so what we are describing in our new book brainwashing is the bridge between information and action really finally giving people 2 things number one the recognition that their Decision Making has been taken from them actively and number 2 how to get it back now full disclosure ive been one of here a big fans ever since your number one New York Times bestseller grain brain was published in 2013 it gave me and im sure many other people didnt know the agency to make long lasting Lifestyle Changes but as you said in a couple of weeks youll have a new book out brainwash what are you trying to achieve with that. Well were hoping to achieve some very very big things and what were trying to bring to the public attention is the fact that our modern world our modern society through the foods that were eating our lack of sleep and certainly from all of the time we spend connected to Digital Media is changing the wiring of our brain as it relates to our ability to make good decisions im going to put forward a simple kind of understanding of 2 brain parts one is a part called the prefrontal cortex it sits up here in the forehead and the other is called the amygdala between the ears the a mega is like the child in the room its impulsivity its narcissism its us versus them it is fear the prefrontal cortex is empathy its compassion its thinking about the future in terms of what we do today thats where we need to make our decisions based from from the prefrontal cortex unfortunately when we eat the modern diet of our planet or when we watch the news or we spend too much time online we lock in to the a magdalen we lock in to the child in the room and were not able to make good decisions as i mentioned at the beginning of our time together while all the great books are there theyre not useful for anybody unless were able to implement or put bring action in terms of what all these terrific books are talking about in the same thing goes really for our mentality how we look at other people our next door neighbors people in another community and even people in other countries right now we look upon people around the world with fear with an us versus them mentality and this is brought about because of the way our brains are being rewired you know grain brain talked about the changes in the diet around the world. And like you say a lot of people gain some benefit from now from that but now were really want to look at how we can change how people look upon each other and how we look upon our planet and almost all of your books are focused on the brain which as far as i understand is not only you know has not only a professional oric adamic but also a personal of balance for you because from what i know you lost your father to alzheimers now you keep referring to yourself as we and i know that you wrote this latest book with your son who is also a trained doctor what is he bringing to the table. Well Austin Perlmutter m. D. Is a Board Certified physician in an area called internal medicine and austin brings a very youthful a very guarded perspective of how this is extremely Important Information for his generation and really brings a an incredible level of science and knowledge to the project so what it was a gift for me to be able to share in this experience bringing this book to the world you know as as we have this conversation were getting ready to publish this book here in the United States and its already been acquired by 16 other countries around the world and you know we believe this is going to be an important game changer that we desperately need we need to come together and we think that is the way to our survival is to look upon each other as friends not flow and you know whether its losing weight or whatever your goal may be achieving that goal as you mentioned earlier in our conversation the new years resolution all well and good but unless you make certain decisions youre not going to be able to follow through and thats what brainwash offers the ability to actually change your Decision Making ability well lets talk about those decisions because one of the takeaways of your book for me was that we as humans