Intelligence that helped intercept a terror plot in St Petersburg medina content of reports. 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 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 maint is 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 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 well we spoke to Chris Phillips a former head of the u. K. Counterterrorism Security Office he says the Case Highlights the need for cross Border Intelligence sharing. It what it does as well is that we live in such an interconnected world that intelligent sources the us of obviously go are also dealing with people and that are 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 you can only hope to come to 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 of a computer recently a lot to do with drugs and of course he says this is a big problem for all countries. Now in the stores the shape the week kazakstan has 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 valdosta asked to 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 causes of the tragedy pilot error a technical malfunction and bad weather his how events unfolded you know. Im sure. Sure. It isnt true. But it did you knew you were going to have a good look at her of the crew i know you didnt listen to them some look at her as we were discussing risk im not aware of the shores it was aboard the peregrine its a report you would use in your proposal the snake will see. Warming using. Not. Like google did i mention a doctor but do you. Believe in god i dont mean literally maybe giving it i have. Learned. That i should just let hold strong jolt in the left wing literally seconds later the plane began to rock back and forth like a bogus 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 caved in to see 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. While 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 do ya asked at all and if theres of buildup of ice on the wing as soon as the plane takes off youre going to have a situation where youd 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 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 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 who recruited call up voters although bloomberg himself denies he 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 wait 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 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 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 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 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 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. You 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 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 president. Michael bloomberg is ranked number 9 in the world on the forbes rich list bantam vestige of journalist Dave Lindorff believes that does not make him 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 to give strength he has almost no poll support all the money. Billionaires have not traditionally done that well running for office its. You know youve 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. So you people have been killed in the Texas Church Shooting well have that story im off to this short break. What politicians do something. They put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. So when you want to be president. Or some want to. Have to go right to the press this is what the 43 in the morning cant be good. Im interested always in the water. In the United States president ial candidates debate the future of the u. S. And the world. Max kaiser and stacy herberts dig into the burning questions of this election cycle one self every week will tax student debt trade was corporate money universal basic. And more catch up with whats front running this sunday exclusively on. A gunman opened 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 instant happened during a service in the town of point settlement the local chief of police has praised the t. Shirt because he took out the attack. So today at approximately 11 50 am a government in or the west Freeway Church of christ whats 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 lath frightening into injuries well just 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 and urged americans to quote fight the evil scourge of anti semitism. If hank happened during a Hanukkah PartyPolice Arrested a suspect soon after the incident and a counterterrorism unit is monitoring the situation. Reports say the attacker was a black male but the motive remains unclear the new york governor called the attack an act of domestic terrorism. We have seen or not in new york this is violence spurred by hate it is Mass Violence and i consider those. Terrorism with a lot of. Semitism a lot of medicare acts in the area. Completely unacceptable. In the specially during this time of peace and hanukkah we dont understand you know what the motivation is for all of this is just pure hatred well this follows a spike of hate crimes against jews in the region theres 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 the israeli Prime Minister has condemned the latest incident. Swim a global israel strongly condemns the latest surge of anti semitism and the brutal attack in the middle of hanukkah holiday at the rabbis house he 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 is phenomenal and we offer this help to every country or political analyst olivier 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 well the jewish communities they 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 their government to prevent certain attacks but if the situation is getting worse and worse. Is of course the place to be for jules was in danger to as the case. Is 70 years ago it is still the case ukraine and the selfproclaimed peoples republic in the east of the country have completed a prisoner swap president selenski was icky of airport to meet 76 people released by the breakaway regions he goes down 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 took part in this war in the swap in total for instance we do know that has sent some 61 people former prisoners to the territories of the selfproclaimed guns peoples republics and those breakaway regions in turn have sent 76 of the former prisoners back to kiev now this whole thing was only possible because of the normandy for the latest round of the normandy for talks when Vladimir Putin for the 1st time. The ukrainian president for there was the lenski and of 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 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 the swap too and they didnt go well with some people because some people in ukraine think share a rather radical stance the 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 didnt take good world that you showed up at the codes 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. Now its something of a tradition for the Holiday Season for World Leaders heads of state a major organizations to deliver their annual greetings and 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 regular engage an eye contact except well wishes and feign merriment or 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 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 know 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 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 is usually bellicose tweets have been a bit 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