A tip off from u. S. Intelligence that helped intercept a terror plot in St Petersburg medina reports. Russias federal security has detained 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 a new years 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 as the city of san petersburg russias northland 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 we spoke to Chris Phillips former head of the u. K. Counterterrorism Security Office he says the Case Highlights the need to cross Border Intelligence sharing. What it does as well is that we live in such an interconnected world now that intelligent so is the us of obviously gone are also dealing with people and planning incidents in. Petersburg and and i think were going to see more of this because because of the use of internet telephones these interconnected groups able to strike anywhere so well you can only hope that Companies Work together not only against terrorism but the bigger thing actually possibly even bigger than terrorism is organized crime because organized criminals are wreaking havoc across the world at the moment weve seen people murdered in london a complete recently a lot to do with drugs and of course this is this is a big problem for computers. And news the shape the week has extent on is 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 their craft lost altitude just after takeoff from the countrys largest city almaty on a domestic flight it clipped a concrete barrier and crashed into a building in a residential area investigators are looking at 3 possible courses of the tragedy pilot error a technical malfunction and bad weather heres how events unfold it you know. Im sure. There is a. Bit of a kid you know you were going to have a good look at the crew i know you had to let me do some look at the reason we were discussing was im not aware of the shores it was aboard the peregrine its a report you would use your proposal the snake will see. Anything wrong in using. Id like to go did i mention a doctor but do you. Believe in god i dont mean literally mcgivney going to have. Any. Options you know 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 doret it began 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 the impact then the sewing cage that exists in the mergence a door was open so i would jump on the wing and again slipping because it was icy we helped each other to get down. The years. Well Geoffrey Thomas from Airline Ratings dot com gave us his thoughts 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 diaz did all and if theres a 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 there for you to earth. And the other thing we have but theres a possibility there was an engine problem we know the aircraft reach a 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. Us democratic president ial 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 to 90 knew what was happening we only learned about this when the reporter called us lets 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 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 stop working with pro com and the people who hired them 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 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. For president create. 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 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 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. It get. Worse the further you dig when he launched his campaign his media Bloomberg News sent out a letter to 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 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 ludicrous lee priced products all gadgets the same bankers who through unbridled greed set off the 2000 a 5 actual crash the provident tens of millions of people the votes of life savings and jobs. Michael bloomberg the president. Well Michael Bloomberg is ranked number 9 in the world on the forbes rich list but investigative journalist Dave Lindorff believes that does not make him necessarily a good candidate for president. It 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. That hes not concerned about the little guy and 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 because 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 in the race against trump he has almost no poll support all he has is 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. The u. S. Military has carried out 5 strikes in iraq and syria killing at least 19 people and injuring dozens american officials called it a defensible price and against an iran backed militant group. What we did was take a decisive response that makes clear what the president has said for months and months and months which is that we will not stand for this long. Because the put american men and women in jeopardy formative events took office of actions in defense of our personnel and interests in iraq by launching 15 strike eagle against 5 targets associated with hizbullah which is the name of the iranian sponsored Shiite Militia group according to the u. S. The bombing raids were retaliation for fridays rocket strikes a strike on the kook base in iraq which killed one American Contractor no group has claimed responsibility for that attack but the pentagon as you just heard there has blamed could type hezbollah an armed group which emerged off to the us invasion of iraq and has repeatedly talked to American Forces it is also one of the main shia forces fighting against Islamic State in both iraq and syria or the iraqi president has condemned the u. S. Strikes calling them harmful to the country and the countrys Prime Minister described the operation as a violation of iraqi sovereignty and a dangerous escalation for the region full of pentagon official Michael Maloof gave us his views on the situation. Us there isnt need much of a provocation to escalate this not only inside iraq but toward iran directly everything is on a razors edge already and i dont think that we need to have any more provocations on either side that could launch into a full blown attack and thats basically also all the trump would need basically to divert attention away from. Impeachment preoccupation. And unite and unite the country and so this this is coming at a very very dangerous time. Theres been a sharp increase in u. K. Weapons sales to saudi arabia over the last 5 years and that is despite london signing up to a treaty to prevent exports to rights abuses oxfam which calculated the rices is 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 thats more than in the 5 years before it signed the treaty now more than 100 countries signed up the treaty that regulates International Trade in conventional weapons it regulates the answer trade in order proved 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 trading 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 we in yemen know party to not war in yemen are actually increased and i think this is being sick know 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 so the countries involved in a conflict where we know international terry know is has been disregarded or 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 on lawful order the government is expected to appeal the decision of the Supreme Court saudi arabias intervention in yemen started in 2015 to fight rebels who they say is terrorists however is the level of civilian casualties that has become a major cause of concern. Oxfam says there is clear evidence of Human Rights Violations in yemen. The evidence is really i have a well meaning and that theres been consistent violations of International Law and 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 high that that system will be upheld 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 so weapons that have been used in a war that is causing untold poverty and homme and destruction fed the people of yemen. And other news ukraine and the selfproclaimed peoples republic in the east of the country have completed a prisoner swap president zelinsky was a key of airport to meet 76 people released by the breakaway regions a ghost town of has more on this story. Well we do have some official figures finally we do know for a fact that more than a 100 people to part and this will in the swap in total for instance we do know that key of has some 61 people for. The prisoners to the territories of the selfproclaimed nets and guns peoples republics and those breakaway regions in turn have sent the 76 of their former prisoners back to kiev now this whole thing was only possible because of the normandy full of the latest round of the normandy for talks when Vladimir Putin for the 1st time. The ukrainian president for them is the lenski under german chancellor Angela Merkel and the french president of manual 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 refused to take part in the refused to go back from donetsk and lugansk republics regions for one reason or another also all saw 5 former members of burr could police unit an elite police unit the part in dispersing the protests the protests the might an uprising back in back when it happened they were part of the swap too and they didnt go well with some people because some people in ukraine they 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 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 individuals 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 wore poor overall has been a success which is a major step for the wall for the sides for the currently warring sides. A gunman 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 we are 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 congregation then shoot back killing him the local chief of police has praised the 2 church goes for their quick response. So today at approximately 11 50 am the government entered the west Freeway Church of christ whats on the texas during the Church Service the perimeter reports indicated that the man entered the church and fired a weapon a couple of members of the church returned bar. Striking the suspect who died at the scene what is hours before the 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 nursed americans to fight quote the evil scourge of anti semitism. The attack happened during a Hanukkah PartyPolice Arrested a suspect soon after the instance and a counterterrorism unit is monitoring the situation. This older guy leading in the dining room i saw guys reading in the unconscious on the floor in the hallway so the people got to critically injured unfortunately one of them was a very it was an old guy who lives or a beloved guy everybody loved them couldnt run so started putting up a fight it threw a chair then he started with his training as a trainee style you try to do with his cane where every could. Police have named the suspect as Grafton Thomas h. The 37. 00 has been charged with attempted murder although the motive remains unclear the new york state governor has called it an act of terrorism. I hate it is. Semitism. 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 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 this latest incident. Israel strongly condemns the latest surge of antisemitism and the brutal attack in the middle of hanukkah holiday at the white house the monsey new york we send our wishes of recovery to the wounded we will cooperate in every way with the local authorities to help eradicate this phenomenon we offer this help to every country or political analyst olivia raphe of it says the rise in anti semitic instance could encourage immigration to israel. I think that its a global problem all over the world especially in europe no also in america where the jewish communities they were settled when the jews are in trouble all over the world either the only place safe place to be now of course we can rely on those and haitians are their government to prevent such attacks but if the situation is getting worse and worse. Of course the place to be for jules wenzel in the in danger to as the case. Is 70 years ago it is still the case. Now looking ahead towards the end of the year its 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 a sense good 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 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 and 21st century all the world over people are getting creative with the traditional greeting sometimes though they know how to best put misjudge the mood while some bake 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 from family we wish everyone a joyous 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 but he does have other things on his plate i suppose like his possible removal from office even is 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 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 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 midterms 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 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 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. Well that is your date for now will be back here at the top of the hour with another round of the stories that shape the week see about. Match geysers financial Survival Guide liquid those that you can convert music thats quite easily. To keep in mind though as it would mean to a place of. Record. Is like the child in the room its impulsivity its narcissism its us versus them its 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 be a make believe we lock in to the child in the room and were not able to make good decisions. It 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. From running 2028 with me max kaiser and Stacy Herbert as we look ahead to all the excitement of the 2020 a lecture ons every office