tonight says the christmas presents get to santa's been reading the wish lists of european leaders we wonder what we try to find out ahead. also egypt voters passed the new pro islam is constitution tonight but more violence is feared now as the opposition vows bell not stop fighting against. what israel signs off on twelve hundred more settler homes in east jerusalem as it continues to defy global condemnation in the aftermath of palestine u.n. upgrade.

hello there kevin i would hear the new census tonight if you're celebrating christmas best wishes to you of course for me and the rest of the team now our top story tonight santa has been busy doing the rounds on a flea you got what you want to for christmas although there's been more window shopping than people actually passing with cash this year it seems even the catholic church is trying to expel the pope all the more sparking mass and simply his visit ok and cost for this year's more frugal or to the sea mostly picked up by donors to as for elsewhere around europe a dollar has been looking at whether the wish lists of those in charge could be just too much sometimes little helps. it's a time of goodwill and cheer and giving and for one particularly jolly gent it's busiest time of the year santa is taking a little bit of time out from clear delivering presents to the boys and girls to join me here in central. 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. as 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 bird lynne 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 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 gerald 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 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 sansar here's the thing i want to be prime minister again i know there were some problems last time however no i'm ready to step back in and leave this lead to success quite possibly out of the euro sincerely silvio berlusconi will 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 a minority list. peter all over. no surprises there we're going to work the artistic tracing the europeans are stereotyped battles all year will remind you of what we witnessed indeed later this hour. festive spirit takes on

a whole new meaning for britain's police and hospital staff this time of year is christmas revellers down a few too many drinks at times for some it means spending the holidays in a cellar award ninety sarah first been out among the party goers this year. well it's a 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 a sensitive nature might want to look away now because we've been doing some people getting into the festive spirit to find out whether they're going to be drinking responsibly plus a typical nice. pretty sorry but it is actually very yeah and there's a thing with the underage drinking to fill the young people hitting responsibly. no . hello no everyone just gets upset him all. over it he think. it's a stress. and. 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 hurt on your school while you can also . see apart from these guys you want to be

a prophet of god when you want to get more responsible over that you just want are you morsels fluency flurry of the age of twenty five not really both. come of the people that we've been speaking to here tonight have told us the we can't. for christmas they have a day nicknamed blackeye friday a reference to the number of fights the breakout hit g.t. excessive drinking this is why the campaign is a calling on the government to really tighten up the policies to make sure that we keep seeing these increases in alcohol abuse in the k. 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. recalls so. developing story tonight has been confirmed that egypt's new constitution has been passed with a majority sixty three point eight percent voting yes that came through within the

last hour opponents a vow to continue the fight against adopting he is a misleading charter the official declaration was delayed while fraud investigations took place egypt saying violent unrest and mass rival rallies in recent weeks the opposition slammed the referendum is fundamentally illegitimate but it's doctorow more lives to the arab and islamic studies told me earlier the charge from the vote don't break the rules of democracy. this is the first time in the constitution that you have the president cannot resolve the column went and cannot and 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 but you have. the collections brought the parties to the to become the majority what will happen if these islamist parties could not deliver on the promises could not have a guarantee a better security about the economic conditions i think what will happen the people

will vote against them if you look at the voting behavior in egypt in the parliamentary elections around seventy percent voted for islamist party. parties and in the presidential elections around fifty one percent so their vote is declining going down mainly because they are not permanent opposition and the more they have to deliver on the promises they cannot just for most while the end not delivered so now people have expectations and they can control politicians by voting. israel's plans for even more new satellite homes are causing a stir. for the twelve hundred housing units in east jerusalem continue to palestine's you and upgrade as we report later and. economically disadvantaged occupy substandard housing in the inner city. voters with a cavalry look behind the new american political lexicon and how semantics could

mask what parties are really up to so after the break. you can tell an ordinary russian siberian in the blink of an. anthropologist those days siberians were different clothes different food. different animals. but what about. my journey began in two men but the big city was all shiny oil funded skyscrapers i'm shopping malls much like any other prosperous russian. so i decided to travel to. a small town just outside. many. dumplings came from here to dominate the russian cuisine but only in siberia

put them in soup with cabbage and making sure you can have many as a starter main dish. although it may draw. most people in siberia see nothing wrong with hunting only if you decide to participate. when you look at pine martin it. is in the middle of a swamp only accessible by transport in the summer months and winter a path is cleared to do dogs it's inhabited by siberian a large muslim minority that migrated head before the russians.

and this. israel siberia maybe not the stuff of tourist brochures but distinctive enough to show that after all these years siberia still not quite like anywhere else. in the trails given the green light building of the twelve hundred new satellite 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 over the palestinians u.n. status upgrade our middle east correspondent paula slayer record. 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 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 he is appealing to right when voters and according to all 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 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 there a united to see them he says expresses a wide national agreement and certainly 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 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 for five hundred thousand people live in israeli settlements speech campaigner dr ron pundak told me the country would only have to withdraw some of the settlers have a territorial agreements reached with the palestinians. settlements is definitely within the vocabulary of talking into the center right voters so i believe that between now and twenty second of january we'll see only innovation of the discourse from the prime minister and the round of the issue of settlements i hope that those will only messages which are connected to elections and not realities and practices on the ground of the five hundred thousand are being divided at all two hundred thousand titles within jerusalem and there is a total agreement with the palestinian side in the negotiations in the past that all the two hundred will stay inside is why we really delineate the borders of jerusalem then we have the three hundred thousand in the west bank those

approximately two hundred thousand out of them which are living very close they just sent to the green line would become part of israel within the exchange of territories and there is a minority of approximately eighty to one hundred thousand israelis which will have to be evacuated as happened in two thousand and five with our previous government of again shown in which israel evacuated approximately ten thousand which was just a good example for the fact that we can make it so if between us and peace will be standing one hundred thousand is where it which will have to go and be accepted and will be hard by israel and we compensated etc i believe that this is something which goes with the national interest of the majority of israelis. the pentagon'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 please list niall boeing told us 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 can also potentially be used to monitor north koreans and north korea's nuclear facilities but 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 stir a huge conflict and if you look at the results of the latest offering the elections the president will work in hey she can model of. reaching. into the way she is with north korea going will get easier but i think what this shows is that by purchasing these rooms or having the energy to at least the ruling party doesn't really have any plans to change its foreign policy trajectory in the

world i don't think north korea it will tack anyone listen to her book first and if we look at the board it's going to stop the real work south korea and the scientists it looked at the satellite this orbit around us and often she and reports say the machining work done on the galaxy three missile that they watched was for food 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 through look easy or stuff where japan and china what people intention. military aircraft crashed in southern cassocks down killing all twenty seven people on board the acting head of the country's border guard was among the hostages they were thought to include other senior military personnel as well the until they and seven two took off from the capital last to nine came down just twenty kilometers from the airport it shine kent a city that witnesses say it fell from around eight hundred meters while trying to

land it's not know why in other news tonight police in bahrain of used tear gas so mall antigovernment protesters continuing an entire. crackdown on public gatherings demonstrators want the prime minister to quit than the seeking democratically elected government activists also say human rights campaign a society use of those stay in jail for a further fifteen days he was caged for writing about the crackdown on twitter meanwhile the country's just wrapped up a gulf economic and military summit. a school bus has crashed in eastern china killing at least eleven preschool children the principal author on the angle of our vehicle which plunged into a lake always restive dangerous driving and on suspicion of overloading the bus kindergarten will also be closed now because it was found operating without a voice. well for 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. the charity's up and has started exercising now

a little fearful raised hopes that his january tenth inauguration may still go ahead a few months after his reelection in a tight vote. in the political theater it seems the five parties to stake change the script to suit the scene when supports not going their way we see it time and time again but are american voters willing to read between the lines and work out what's really meant to be happening out he's miniport tries 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 their courage.

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 of america basically are on strike increasing taxes on job creators this administration and this president policies are hostile to job creators that have a saying the wealthy who make over two hundred fifty thousand a year if you say a job creator they say well we can't 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

this same condition is known as an eight syllable hyphenated furries void of any emotion host. medic stress disorder the aftermath of war includes post-traumatic stress disorder for those of you suffering from p.t.s.d. when it comes to a war where you have the most damaging euphemisms like. saying innocent civilians were killed in a drone strike you say that was collateral damage collateral damage is 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 americans were 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 what 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 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 george orwell who first coined a term for it newspeak reporting from new york. r.t. . now as we begin to say goodbye to twenty two of our two remembers what the years produce sold today our news teams recall the austerity the 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 have seen we also stood over some type of square and i just see the cameraman behind the camera everybody else around me putting gas masks on like you had a few for moscow going to see your lights 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 is 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 course 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 to the states the size of the city and then you really get a sense of just how angry and how desperate people are to 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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