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Russias 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 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 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 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 line of contact open we spoke with Chris Phillips former head of the u. K. Counterterrorism Security Office who says that the Case Highlights the need for cross Border Intelligence sharing. What it does point out as well is that we live in such an interconnected world now intelligent so sources that the us of obviously gone are also dealing with people and. Incidents in. 2 petersburg and i think were going to see more of this because because of the use of internet use telephones these interconnected groups able to strike anywhere you can only hope that Companies Work together not only against terrorism but the bigger thing actually possibly even bigger than terrorism is all the noise crime because organized criminals are wreaking havoc across the world at the moment weve seen people murdered in london and recently. A lot to do with drugs and of course he says this is a big problem for companies. Because of standards 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 plane lost altitude just after takeoff from the countrys largest city of marty on a domestic flight clipped a concrete barrier and crashed into a building in a residential area investigators are looking at 3 possible causes of the tragedy pilot error a technical malfunction and bad weather heres how events unfolded. Sure. Sure. It is a. Little its a good. Coder i know you did meet him some look at the reserve or just. As the shows it was aboard the airport he would. Agree with nancy. Reagan did i mention a dog abuser. Even had no memory mcgivney did i have anybody any. Place hold strong on the left wing literally seconds later the plane began to rock back and forth like a boat i began to tighten my belt panic doret had begun that the children had started crying when the plane began to go dollars look at it it was clear that would definitely go into a crash which i braced myself for impact then the sewing the mergence the door was open so we jumped on the wing and began slipping because it was icy we helped each other to get down. Because you. Geoffrey thomas from Airline 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 would 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 possible engine problem possible icing problem on the wings. U. S. Democratic president ial hopeful Michael Bloomberg has apologized for the use of prison labor by his Campaign Team female inmates what he created to call a vote is what 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 reached you have people who have people who have prisoners to do stuff for you absent 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 used 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 so how do you do it do you pay someone to pay someone to tell them Mike 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 theres credit Michael Bloomberg did promise america more work just to. Get it. Right for president jobs creator. 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 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 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 hes 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 hes running his business god help us. Cmon 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 this is the sort of person mike is Mike Bloomberg started as a middle class kid 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 should but he didnt let me continue he became richer year after year he made really a selling bank is ludicrous lee priced products all gadgets the same bankers who threw on bridal greed set off the 2008 financial crash the provident tens of millions of people of homes of life savings and jobs. Michael bloomberg for president. Michael bloomberg is ranked number 9 in the world from the forbes rich a list but investigative journalist Dave Lindorff believes that does not make him a good candidate for president. Really shouldnt be acceptable for anybody liberal or conservative to use prison labor its forced labor bloomberg is a multibillionaire hes worth like 54000000000. 00 hes made his money by you know not paying attention to things like that. Hes not concerned about the little guy. Which i guess becomes you know if youre if youre supposedly a democrat youre concerned about the little guy and. Enormous a packer see it a big problem i think its going to hurt him a lot i dont know where people get the idea that bloomberg is the great savior for democrats in the race to get stroppy has almost no poll support all the money. Billionaires have not traditionally done that well running for office its. You know you got to have money to run for president but when you have that much money i think that most people are pretty suspicious of your motives in running for office. Ok more the weeks top stories after this break. Wow 2020. Become an open fire inside a church in texas on sunday killing one person and seriously injuring another the shooter was killed in return fire from 2 members of the congregation the incident happened during a service in the town of White Settlement the chief of police this praised the Teaching Church goers who took out the shooter. So today at approximately 11 50 am the government entered the west Freeway Church of christ lights on a texas during a Church Service deployment reports indicated that the man into the church and part of weapon a couple of members of the church returned bar. Striking the suspect who died at the scene project where the person shot by the suspect died a local hospital and a 2nd person or is has. Injuries just hours before the texas shooting a machete attack on a synagogue in new york state left 5 people injured 2 of them in a Critical Condition donald trump expressed support for the victims and urged americans to fight the evil scourge of anti semitism. And the attack happened during a Hanukkah PartyPolice Arrested a suspect soon after the incident i counterterrorism unit is monitoring the situation report say the attacker was a black male the motive remains unclear the new york governor called the attack an act of domestic terrorism theyre not in new york this is why months spurred by hate it is Mass Violence and i consider the. Domestic terrorism. Semitism. Medicare acts in the area. Completely unacceptable we need in this specially during this time of peace we dont understand you know what the motivation is for all of this is just pure hatred and the attack follows a spike in hate crimes against the Jewish Community in the region there have been 7 until semitic incidents reported in new york city this week alone less than a month ago a shooting at a kosher supermarket in jersey city left 4 dead its going on a list of a raft of h. Says anti semitic hate crimes are a concern far beyond the United States. I think that its 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 of us the world. Is the only place safe place to be now of course we can rely on those and haitians are there governments 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. Theres been a sharp increase in u. K. Weapons sales to saudi arabia over the last 5 years and despite london signing 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 has license sales worth at least 6 and a half 1000000000 pounds to 8 members of the Saudi Coalition in the last 5 years as more than in the 5 years before it signed the treaty and more than 100 countries signed up to the treaty 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 and promoting legitimate and responsible trade in conventional arms it remains a unique and valuable instrument when the arms trade treaty came into effect and the u. K. Was a real champion of that treaty unfortunately sales to countries that are at war with in yemen are party to not war 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 involvement conflict where we know international terry know 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 unlawful although the government is expected to appeal the decision of the Supreme Court saudi arabias intervention in yemen started in 2015 to fight who threw rebels who they say are terrorists or its the level of civilian casualties thats become a major cause of concern. Well fund says theres clear evidence of Human Rights Violations in yemen. The evidence is really able well meaning and that theres been consistent violations of International Law and the case was really clear. 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 high that that system will be a pal 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 harm and destruction fed the people of yemen. So the tradition of the Holiday Season for World Leaders heads of state on major organizations to deliver their annual greetings usually wrap up the passing year in general express hope for a prosperous and happy future it seems that this time there are a few peculiar messages Saskia 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 bleak gingerbread houses we do so i get to go with them 35. 00 jet Merry Christmas to christian soldiers and 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 our strikes over gaza just hours after the i. D. F. Admitted that a raid in the gaza strip can know and members 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. Merry christmas 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 his usually bellicose tweets have been a bit cluster of late no caps lock no explanation marks kind of thing also jumping in head fast to the whirlpool of christmas for parts us 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 it resources no contact with their parents many as young as one hope he 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 midterms this year have filled in 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 consider these downsides as the road to bethlehem 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 went to doesnt offend this is a safe space after all totally up to you how you want to celebrate this day or not your call. Ukraine in the selfproclaimed peoples republic of donetsk and lugansk in the east of the country have completed the Prisoner Exchange ukrainian president for his alinsky has arrived in port to meet 76 people released by. More of the story. Well we do have some financial figures finally we do know for a fact that more than a 100 people to part. In this war in the swamp in total for instance we do know that has sent some 61 people former prisoners to the territories of the selfproclaimed. Peoples republics and those breakaway regions in turn have sent the 76 of the former prisoners back to kiev now this whole thing was only possible because of the normandy for all of the latest round of the normandy for talks when Vladimir Putin for the 1st time. The ukrainian president for their missile lenski and a german chancellor Angela Merkel and the french president a manual necron 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 refused to take part in the refused to go back to hear from donetsk and lugansk republics regions for one reason or another also all saw 5 former members of birth could police unit an elite police unit that took part in dispersing the protests the protests the mind on uprising back in back when it happened they were part of this war too and they didnt go well with some people because some people in ukraine think share a rather radical stance a rather radical view look on whats 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 former birchard members so yesterday there was a Court Hearing in kiruv in the ukrainian capital on the fate of the of of those 5 persons now they were released which effectively thats why thats how it became possible for them to become part of the swap and those more radically inclined. Visuals they they didnt 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 wall for the sides for the currently warring sides. And staying with our colleagues on the look of the league here with all the lights for you at the top of the hour. And were going to fulfill the repeated promises apologise to the people and come on you know with all pots to. Be. Pretty. Much. Pretty good. Now you want to work correct that. No. No. Ball. 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 up. Today there are good terrorists and bad evidence the bad news in yemen to the United States deems to be a threat the good to those who work in syria the cia and the us military were engaged in covert actions really throughout the world. Where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up the right way military funding an army of death squads theres no any more. Theres always a. Really good. Front running 2028 with me max kaiser and Stacy Herbert as we look ahead to all the excitement of the 2020 elections every episode we dig deep into something new this time were going to look at the wealth tax stacy thats right were looking at all the economic policies being presented by the Democratic Candidates many of them are very radical Bernie Sanders says billionaires should not exist and to find out whether or not they should we have a guest with us dr Michael Hudson and professor steve keen steve will start with you 1st well i have a very complicated position on this because part of my research is into. Whats called the financial instability hypothesis that explains where the 2000 and that process came from out of that part of what i discovered from the Mathematical Modeling i did was this is a simple relationship between an increasing level of private debt and a full name out of money going to work has as you had a rising level of debt which is what led to a crossroads that rising level of debt made a wrong