something else you hear see some other part of it and realize everything. i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. tonight as the christmas presents got wrapped to santa's been reading the wish lists of european leaders. of. israel songs off on twelve hundred more subtle in east jerusalem as it continues to defy global condemnation in the aftermath of palestine u.n. upgrade. more violence is fear egypt has the opposition vows they'll not stop fighting against the new pro islamist constitution if it's passed the referendum.

l.o.l. a very good evening for me kevin owen here at the r t new center tonight if you're celebrating christmas i hope you have a good day for us than santa has been busy doing the rounds and hopefully your getting what you want for christmas ovo there's been more window shopping apparently than people actually parting with their hard earned cash this year even the catholic church has tightened its belt with the pope holding a more spartan mass and some peter's basilica cost for this year's more frugal nativity scene two were mostly picked up by donors as for elsewhere around europe it are all of us been looking at whether the wish lists of those in charge could be just too much santas a little. it's a time of goodwill and cheer and giving and for one particularly jolly gent it is busiest time of the year but santa has taken a little bit of time out from delivering presents to the boys and girls to join me

here in central. well you have not come on the sled that i see no no it's just a second where it's more comfortable you know keeping within the twenty first century there and you've got some letters from the boys and girls that you're going to share with us something here ok all right now this one has come from a little boy in greece he says exactly what he wants for christmas and for twenty thirteen. dear santa for christmas i would really like a fiscal policy which would see my country's debt be reducing one hundred twenty four percent of our annual output by twenty twenty i know that this is a big task but it will stop the international monetary fund getting even more annoyed with us although we didn't make the whole thirty billion euros worth of savings we promised just recently we did try very hard. dimitri said marise.

well who else has been writing to you oh well this one has come from somebody not too far away from where we are right now this is come from a little girl and burn lynn with her christmas wishes for twenty thirty. thank you for the positive economic growth i asked for last year it has been very helpful this year it would be great if we could have more of the same just is there a way we can give less of our money away to the eurozone countries all the best angle m p s i also want to win the general election next year thank you of course you get letters from little boys and girls from all over the world these drones just from here in europe produce this from us once come from from paris from a little boy who says this well all of his famous friends keep running off and leaving him. it would be great if this year knew more of our super rich followed gerrard deputy you and left france we really need their seventy five

percent income taxes if we are to stay with the likes of angola and not find ourselves in the same trouble as demetrius thank you francois hollande oh right with this one comes from a little boy who has been on the naughty list in the past but he insists he's going to be good in the future. here's the thing i want to be prime minister again i know there were some problems last time however now i'm ready to step back in and leaders lead to success quite possibly out of the euro sincerely silvio berlusconi well we'll have to wait to see if their christmas wishes come true but santa did you get my letter yes was i on the nice list you're on minority list. oh peter all of a. you know we have to work with no surprises there no artie's been tracing europeans or separately battles all year as you'll know if you watch us will remind you of what

we witnessed later this hour. festive spirit takes on a whole new meaning for britain's police and hospital staff as christmas revellers down a few too many drinks for some it means spending the holidays in a cellar ward sarah first spin out among the party goers. well it's the season to be merry but for some of us perhaps a little to mary but the christmas period once again upon us brings awareness campaigns a warning people to be careful about how much they drink over the holiday period now in the last couple of years we've seen the figures increasing so the number of alcohol related injuries and we continue in the u.k. to pay too high a price for alcohol abuse now every year it's costing the n.h.s. millions of pounds in dealing with the people who are coming three the hospitals and in the build up to christmas it really puts a strain on services such as the police and searches are ambulances now that's

a very sobering thought indeed we've come to the north of england to new castle to go out on the town and views of the sensitive nature might want to look away now because we've been joining some people getting into the festive spirit to find out whether they're going to be drinking responsibly was a typical night. very. sorry but it is actually very yeah and there's a thing with the underage drinking to fill the young people hitting responsibly. you know with that hello no everyone just gets up the mall. over it you think. it's a stretch if you and yourself drink responsibly yeah yeah well sometimes i'm not but i. i'm not tonight because of the good night out with a drink response report on order you heard tell me your school where you can also

move. forward see apart from these guys you will be a prophet of god do what you want just to get more responsible over that you just want a morsel of food and people are over the age of twenty five not really both. of the people that we've been speaking to here tonight have told us that we can be. for christmas they have a day nicknamed blackeye friday a reference to the number of fights that break out here do you see excessive drinking this is why a campaign is a calling on the government to really tighten up their policies to make sure that we keep seeing these increases in our kahala piece in the case for their part the government this year have really tried to target the sale of cheap alcohol campaign is a really calling on people to be very careful about how much they drink over the festive period surface r.t. because the israel's given the green light to building another twelve hundred new

circle homes in east jerusalem on land which is considered illegally occupied under international law that's in addition to the already approved construction of thousands of houses in the west bank in retaliation of the palestinians u.n. status upgrade or middle east correspondent paula sleep now. what we're witnessing is that israel is continuing with its expansion of settlements and this new announcement is that it has approved the building of some one thousand two hundred new secure homes in globe which is a neighborhood in east jerusalem across the green line it comes in less than a month after the israel's controversial statement that it was planning to build in the one corridor all which links jerusalem to the west bank and this is a real line for many states and certainly we've witnessed that kind of criticism and condemnation from the international community since the palestinians went to the united nations several weeks ago for upgraded statehood there have been some five and a half thousand new homes announced in terms of what the israelis were building

israel has undergone as i say strong international criticism for these announcements with many in the international community voicing their intense displeasure at these actions by the jewish state in fact the israel's closest ally which is the united states in a rare and blunt move said it is well was engaging in to quote a pattern of provocative action by continuing with settlement expansionist plans domestically the kind of statements that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is making with his proposal and plan to go ahead with the settlement building is current favorite among the israeli left certainly he is appealing to right when voters and according to the polls he is likely to win the next parliamentary election so these kind of statements are playing into the election that are said to happen about a month from now at the same time netanyahu has largely rebuffed the criticism from the international community saying that to receive them is the eternal capital of

the state of israel and will continue to build them a united to see them he says expresses a wide national agreement and so he this is the kind of sentiment that is feeding into the israeli public and then there is of course some. school of thought that points back to two thousand and five when the israelis withdrew from settlements in the gaza strip with some critics asking whether or not all of the fear at the moment would ultimately lead to the same kind of conclusion the question mark over whether we're not in the future israel will have to withdraw from the system instead it is announcing today it's planning on building. closely our middle east correspondent egypt's referendum results a jew soon but is the clock ticking towards fresh process that's a big question a lot of people that the opposition has continued resistance to the draft no matter what the later in the program. used to live in slums now economically disadvantaged occupy substandard housing in the inner city.

blinding voters with the cavalry will look beyond the new american political lexicon and how semantics good bodies are really up to the brain. what do you see when you look at the scroll perhaps you wonder what bright future she'll have or maybe feel sympathy for her because you see she's in a wheelchair but if you're t.s.a. agent then you see hard core terrorist scum finding a small amount of residue from explosives on the girl's hands she was detained for almost an hour and her tears for mercy did not move the inspectors to allow her mother to be with her as they took her away for further inspection some of the t.s.a. agents couldn't put two and two together and realize that people in wheelchairs get all sorts of random stuff on their hands because the wheels they push roll along

the ground when will these endless tales of bizarre instance of the t.s.a. stop when will they stop worrying about girls in wheelchairs one of the stop searching under a terminally ill woman's bandages and when will they actually catch a terrorist were to kill security feels a lot more like ridiculous tyranny to me but that's just my opinion. thank. you. wealthy british scientists i think it's time to. go. right back.

to market. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with my next concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report on our. blog any tips poised for more tension with the opposition promising to continue the fight against a new constitution if it's passed the official referendum results to later tuesday there was delayed because of fraud investigations official tally show over sixty percent voted yes to the islamist space charter egypt seen violent unrest

a mass rival rallies in recent weeks between both opponents and supporters of the new draft the opposition claims document undermines democratic freedoms and slammed the referendum is fundamentally illegitimate middle east professor of history lawrence davidson told us they have reason to be worried i think that the opposition there are a democracy. there and yes there's lots of if you look at them are prosy in the west particularly i mean i read and circuses. anura. the constitution that these democracies we guarantee are right minardi on the other hand not tiny kind of judicial guarantees. sort of. unusual or not normal lifestyle not going to be something that should. so

it's the rights of the minority. and they have a right to be worried the president's plan to sell high altitude spy drones to south korea the deal to provide for global hawk pilotless aircraft still needs approval from congress and could be worth as much as one point two billion dollars little analysts niall bowie says the pending deal could escalate the conflict with neighboring north korea which steadfastly protects its territory. if congress allows these drones to be sold to south korea what i think will happen is that they will use these drones to monitor the demilitarized zone so the south korean border they could also potentially be used to monitor north koreans north korea's nuclear facilities however we have to remember that north korea is one of many times but its territorial integrity so i think will happen is if south korean drones for example penetrate north korean airspace this could potentially start

a huge conflict and if you look at the results of the latest offering elections the president will let him hey she campaigned on a model of preaching. into the relations with north korea and no one will get easier in pyongyang but i think what this shows is that my purchasing these drones are having the intention to at least the ruling party doesn't really have any plans to change its foreign policy trajectory in any need for i don't think north korea will attack anyone on the list it's provoked first and if we look at reports coming out of stuff korea or south korea and the scientists that looked at the satellite this morning in orbit around a small function and reports say that the machine were down on the galaxy three missile that they watched was very crude so i think what the real danger is and it is in north korea pursuing these tests and was staking you know having seen debris from on china or for looking for stuff where you're japan and killing a lot of people and tension. the u.s.

is pledging to teach africa how to fight terrorism but reporting about that on mine that we're reporting how it running to deploy soldiers to thirty five african countries now to prepare local troops for any future crisis with the growing threat from extremist groups also to online the vatican vacuum for visitors to keep their masterpieces looking the best with details of how they're keeping up a pristine sistine chapel. in the political theater it's easy for parties to change the script to suit the scene when supports not going their way but are american voters willing to read between the lines and work out what's really meant a good question what is more important try to find out. the art of politics is made up of many things. handshakes smiles and a good arsenal of verbal camouflage the americans have a lot of trouble dealing with reality americans have trouble facing the truth or as the late american comedian george carlin put it euphemistically language that

conceals reality poor people used to live in the slums now the economically disadvantaged occupy substandard housing in the inner cities. and they're her. no they don't have a negative cash flow position. and today america's love affair with semantics has given birth to a new phrase to describe the rich job creators in america basically are on strike increasing taxes on job creators this administration and this president policies are hostile to job creators that are just saying the wealthy who make over two hundred fifty thousand a year if you say a job creator they say well we can raise their taxes they're the ones or create jobs when in reality when their taxes are higher under bill clinton three times as many jobs are created the propensity to add softer terms to the english lexicon has surged over the decades particularly when it comes to military related language there's a condition in combat most people know about it it's when

a fighting person's nervous system has been stressed to its absolute peak and maximum can't take anymore and puts the nervous system has either snapped or is about to snap. in the first world war that condition was called show show today the same condition is known as an eight syllable hyphenated furries void of any emotion post-traumatic stress disorder or me aftermath of war includes post-traumatic stress disorder those of you suffering from p.t.s.d. when it comes to wars where you have the most damaging euphemisms like when and so saying innocent civilians were killed in a drone strike you say there was collateral damage collateral damages to me. the worst expression no it's innocent men women children are killed in the collateral damage so that a real estate transaction allied soldiers shooting each other has become known as friendly fire kidnapping and transferring terrorist suspect is called extraordinary rendition and the torture america's war prisoners might endure is referred to as

enhanced interrogation in most cases these new words are used by people who try to define an argument or frame it in a way that will support the position that they're advocating and during the last u.s. presidential election a certain demographic of voters became otherwise known as without well when from asian voters bother went to twitter at two o'clock today to encourage low information voters think low information voters are stupid people but you say low information voters because it sounds nice although in their defense it could be people who are just too busy you know their lives their family and their work they don't have time to focus on the election until the very last minute and then they vote based on the hairstyle of the candidate running for president as america's political elites continues creating new vocabulary to soften the hard truth a greater focus could instead be put into asking why so many issues need to be rephrased before being presented to the public george carlin created comedy about

the strategy but it was george orwell who first coined a term for it newspeak reporting from new york. r.t. . more news today military aircraft crashed in southern cousin twenty seven people on board official reports say there were no survivors the acting head of the country's border guard was among the passengers there were thought to include other senior military personnel as well the seventy two went near the city of shame came to seven pm local time recovery teams at the crash site there's no indication yet about what caused that aircraft to go down. other world news stories making headlines in brief police in bahrain have used tear gas on more government protesters in an intense crackdown on public gatherings demonstrators what the prime minister to quit and they're seeking a democratically elected government activists also say leading human rights campaigner youssef will stay in jail now for a further fifteen days he was caged for writing about the crackdown on twitter

meanwhile the country's just wrapped up a go supernova community summit. two bus crash in eastern china killing at least eleven during school children the principal was behind the wheel of a vehicle which plunged into a pond he was arrested for dangerous driving and on suspicion of overloading the bus you can the government be closed now because it was found we operated with otherwise. the health of venezuelan president hugo chavez has reportedly improved quite a respiratory infection after his latest cancer surgery in cuba the country's vice president said on state t.v. that chavez is up on the start of the road signs and raised hopes that his january tenth inauguration may still go ahead a few months after his reelection with a tight vote. i. as we begin to say goodbye to twenty twelve r.t. remembers what the year has brought for saw today our news teams recall the austerity anger that took hold in europe.

it came to the point where if you walked into the studio you knew there was going to be a story about europe and austerity and protests and riots whether it would be spain or greece or even the u.k. and these were real people in real situations in very scary situations and our correspondents were out there in the midst of it all. so waiting but also i thought still it's over some type of square and i just see the camera man behind the camera everybody else around me putting just months on you for months go to the see your life before you can say anything you get that horrible taste in your mouth and of course it's the tear gas that's become so synonymous with these demonstrations in

greece along with the firing of molotov cocktails and clashes with the place the producers like to see their correspondents in the middle of a crowd which is great but then the crowd the shouting the correspondents try to speak out everyone's very loud you can't hear anything that makes for good television. it's an incredible event covering it is pretty exciting you've got political elements you use the elements of the court force you've got the tragic human stories of people who are driven to desperation and pushed onto the streets to protest what they see is their livelihood just the way over to iraq this most of . the people do think it's about spain's crippling unemployment figures especially amongst the young about the cost of the state the services and then you really get a sense of just how angry and how desperate people. get the full of love that's doing to the country and so yes it's not in the middle of one of these big protest movements when the clashes break out.

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