please her. or. her legal. or. illegal. as the christmas presents get wrapped has santa been reading the wish list of european leaders we are probably find out later this hour also israel signs off on twelve hundred more settler homes in east jerusalem as it continues to defy global condemnation in the aftermath of palestine's un upgrade. more violence is feared in egypt as the opposition vows they'll not stop fighting against the new pro islamist constitution if it's passed the referendum.

over happy christmas to show celebrating it for me kevin zero in on the rest of the our team used to be here tonight our top story santa has been busy doing the rounds and hopefully you're getting what you want for christmas to all vote there's been more window shopping than people actually parting with i don't catch it seems this time around even the catholic church is targeted spout with the pope holding a more spartan mass and some peter's basilica which she calls for this year's more frugal maternity sing two were mostly picked up by donors as for elsewhere around europe peter all of us been looking at whether the wish list since i was in charge could be just too much santas little else. it's a time of goodwill and cheer and giving and for one particularly jolly gent it's busiest time of the year but santa has taken a little bit of time out from clear delivering presents to the boys and girls to join me here in central. well if not come on the sled that i see new it's

just to say 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 oh right now this one has come from. a little boy in greece he says exactly what he wants for christmas and for twenty thirty. 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 ask 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 dear santa 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 in merkel 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. hello santa it would be great if this year knew more of our super rich followed jerad deputy you and left france 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 well 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 is 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 leave this 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. peter all of a. t's been tracing your prints of certain patterns all the year of course will remind you what we witnessed some more then 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 the summer means spending the holidays in the cellar in a ward so first spread out among the party goers this year. well it's the season to be merry but for some of us perhaps a little t. merry but the christmas spirit 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 such as our 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 plus a typical night so any cost so. very. sorry but it is actually very yeah and there's a thing with the underage drinking to feel that young people hitting responsibly. know. that hello no everyone just gets up the mall. not over it he thinks. he's a stressed. 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 or accusing you or heard tell me your school while you can also. see apart from these guys you want to be

a prophet of god to want you well you have to get more responsible over that you just want our universal flu and people are over the age of twenty five not really both. because the people that we've been speaking to here tonight have told us that the we canvassed. 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 alcohol a piece in the cake 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 has given the green light to build another twelve hundred new settler homes in east jerusalem on land is considered to illegally occupied under international law but some additions to the already approved construction of

thousands of houses in the west bank in retaliation of the palestinians u.n. status upgrade our middle east correspondent paul is sleep. 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 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 secure 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 is appealing to right wing 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 is safe to happen about a month from now at the same time netanyahu has largely rebuffed the criticism from the international community saying that you 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 wider national agreement and so i think this is the kind of sentiment that is feeding into the israeli public and then there is of course. school of thought that points back to two thousand and five when those ratings withdrew from settlements in the gaza strip with some critics asking whether or not all of the fear at the moment will ultimately lead to the same kind of conclusion the question mark over whether or not in the future israel will have to withdraw from the settlements that it is announcing today it's planning on building egypt's referendum results a jew this hour in fact that is the clock ticking towards fresh protests but the big question now the open vows to continue resistance of the draft i want to walk you talk more about that later in the program of. course the live in slums now the economically disadvantaged occupy substandard housing in the inner city why voters with vocabulary with the new vera couldn't political lexicon that house among six could well schooled parties are really up to so after the break.

in the glow of russia's north phone away from civilization and history are one helicopter treat from the nearest village. they still one family have been living here for a long time in tents made of reindeer skins. so obvious that. lodging runs you need to signal and minutes they also grew up in the but left it at the age of six and never returned.

they now live in the city in apartment building but still room and they are regions . was flooded here is a dancing teacher. was. next to his dancing as he tells the stories about his motherland. thanks a lot sooner we have to now has a one thousand strong reindeer had when the enemy only saw the light can and most around it is gathered tens and moved to another posture they travel hundreds of kilometers in winter women and children for them. but the two families have less of a chance to come across each other they belong to different worlds even though

there's sometimes a similar. and big 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 really meant at his report i trust to find out. the art of politics is made up of many things. handshakes smiles and a good arsenal of verbal camouflage 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 slums now the economically disadvantaged occupy substandard housing in the inner cities. and their current. 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 shock today this same condition is known as an eight syllable hyphenated furries void of any emotion post-traumatic stress disorder the aftermath of war includes post-traumatic stress disorder those of you suffering from p.t.s.d. when it comes to a war 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 damage. to me is the worst expression no it's innocent men women and children were 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 low information 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 with their lives or family in 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 elite 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 towards orwell who first coined

a term for it newspeak reporting from new york. r.t. . the us is pledging to teach africa how to fight terrorism we report on a lot about the. fight for the police soldiers to thirty five african countries to prepare for any future crises the growing threat from the street and also in line as well the vatican thank you for a visit to keep the masterpieces look at the best we've got details of how they keeping a pristine sistine chapel these days. egypt's poised for more tension and with the opposition promising to continue the fight against a new constitution. if it's passed the official referendum results due later on this hour in fact tuesday the declaration was delayed because of fraud investigations an official tally show over sixty percent voted yesterday is the myspace charter violent unrest a mass rival rallies in recent weeks between both poland and supporters of this new draft the opposition slammed the referendum was fundamentally illegitimate let's

talk about this with dr omar sure is from the institute of arab and islamic studies is joining us live on the line from bangkok tonight dr either the final results expected imminently as the just said it appears though doesn't it that the majority of egyptians have voted yes to the sharia based charter why do its critics say therefore that it undermines democracy. well there are two issues one of them that has to do with the relationship between religion and state in the new charter it does not differ that much from concept to show in the one hundred seventy one constitution it states in article two that the principal source of the legislation will be the principles of the law and principles of show yellow can be interpreted in two ways one is being just abstract positive principles like freedom justice or a very peculiar. interpretation today slavic law and this is what scares many of the seculars on the other hand also there is the civil military relations this

constitution is a bit through military it gives them a veto over high politics that is the national defense council which is composed of a majority of military command that is which undermines this idea of civilian control over the the armed forces so these are the two elements but having said that this constitution compare to the one nine hundred seventy one nine hundred twenty one thousand nine hundred thirty nine hundred fifty six and throughout the sixty's the various. short constitutions or constitutions that egypt had all of these constitutions were much more authoritarian and much less democratic than the one thousand and twelve have this is the first time in the constitution that you have the president cannot resolve the wind and cannot. you have a prime minister who is actually empowered to take decisions without going back to the president so it empowers other centers as other elected civilian centers of

power judgment what you say not great but could be worse my guess that's why more than half of the population seem to have again voted in favor of it and it does beg the question if so many people have problems with it why couldn't this constitution have been tweaked a little. well the majority actually did not have problems with it as we'll probably see something through the rate would be something in the sixty's probably mid sixty's the issue is that the majority wants two things one step allies ation of the of the gyptian. context the going back to normalcy having going back to their jobs without you having to go through sit ins or strikes or demonstrations in the streets having more or less the better security on the on the streets and also institutionalization of the revolution if you want to compete in politics you just form a party now it's like

a lot of storms you cannot form of how many supporters you have and you go and become a professional politician but you cannot tell a professional politician while while also being a judge or being a policeman or being an army officer or just staying in the streets and in the traffic so i think this is why the majority wanted it was not really of all for the show anyway or the principles of the show or of what for the auden it was maybe a vote for stability and going back to normalcy and the ones the forty percent or more the or less that voted against it they wanted about their version where you have less or for that illusion in the constitution so more secular politics to do and also less role for the for the military which is you know seen as the dominant political even get a response constitution for sure assembly waiting for the result it will show it will be the same as we get some more on that will bring it to our viewers thanks

for your time tonight on my show from the state of arabic and islamic studies. thank you for. a military aircraft crashed in southern ca sixty with twenty seven people on board official reports say there are no survivors there the acting head of the country's border guard was among the passengers who were thought to include other senior military personnel to the antonov a n seventy two went down near the city of kent around seven pm local time recovery teams are at the crash site now there's no indication yet as to what caused the aircraft to come down and we take you to some other world news stories in brief making headlines right now this twenty fifth of december police in bahrain they've used some more anti-government protest is continuing an intense crackdown on public gatherings the demonstrators want the prime minister to quit in the seeking a democratically elected government activists also say leading human rights campaigners say it yusuf will stay in jail for further fifteen days now he was caged to writing about the crackdown on twitter while the country's just wrapped up a gulf economic and military summit. school bus was about to be eastern china

killing at least eleven including schoolchildren the principles behind the wheel of the watch plunged into a pond she was arrested for dangerous driving and on suspicion of overloading the bus because the garden also be closed now because it was found to be operating without the mice. belfer venezuelan president hugo chavez has reportedly improved quite a respiratory infection arteries latest cancer surgery in cuba the country's vice president said on state t.v. that chambliss is up and they started exercising its raise hopes therefore that is joe utensil organization may still go ahead a few months of his reelection typo. i. as we begin to say goodbye than the twenty twelve hour to remember is what the year has brought for us saw today news teams recall the austerity anger 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 we actually we all sat still stood over some type of square and i just see the camera man behind the camera everybody else around me putting just months on i was like you had a few for moscow going to 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 correspondence tries 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 yellow and when you go on 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 to be chopped the way over to pay back this massive. people to 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 at how desperate people are to get the full of love busting into the country into just it's not in the middle of one of base big protest movements when the clashes break out. that's the year that was now looking ahead to the next couple of minutes after the

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and. i. good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are headlines for tuesday december eighteenth two thousand and twelve japanese pension funds are starting to invest in gold for the first time according to the wall street journal they're looking to mitigate the damage of market shocks and reduce the risks associated with currencies the paper says until recently they've invested in mostly domestic stocks and bonds will have more on metals with the gold antitrust action committees bill murphy and chris powell here in studio

plus the as the sea has approved a j.p. morgan copper exchange traded fund reportedly the first one it's about fight this it will copper and received the go ahead despite opposition from companies that actually use copper and some lawmakers who opposed it too now the concerns are that it could allow speculators says the market increase prices volatility and undermine price transparency for and dusty all metal will discuss the impact and the newtown school shooting has unleashed tears tragedy and of course through talk of gun control and gun laws from the weapon use the bushmaster rifle to big business let's talk about the reaction from wal-mart to wall street let's get to today's capital account.