with with with with. do. with. or with. egypt gets a new constitution is the islamist back document with a strong support from the public but deep divisions remain between opposition and government supporters over the course the country's taken. israel approves twelve hundred more settler homes in east jerusalem the expansion comes despite international condemnation and warnings over the peace process with palestinians. and as christmas presents are on a raft across the world the jury's out on whether euro zone leaders behave well enough for santa to answer their wishes or give them a big lump of coal in their stocking will brussels sprout wonders or not he tries

to figure out what's in the bag for europe. to am in moscow i matras a good to have you with us here on r t our top story this hour official results confirm egypt's new constitution has passed a national referendum winning a hair less than sixty four percent of the vote the country's electoral commission has announced the final tally after investigations into fraud egypt has witnessed weeks of violence with a two stage referendum sowing deep divisions between supporters and opponents of the country's president egyptian president mohamed morsi says enacting the new constitution quickly will bring stability and the chance to focus on fixing the problems at home but those against the islam misleading charter have decried the referendum as fundamentally illegitimate dr omar sure from the institute of arab

and islamic studies believes that neither the charter nor the vote democratic. this is the first. constitution that you have the president cannot. went and cannot. you have a prime minister who is actually in power. to take decisions without going back to the present so it empowers other centers as other elected civilian centers of power but you have. the democratic elections that brought the strongest parties to the to become the majority what will happen if these islamist parties could not deliver on the promises of. security. conditions i think what will happen the people will vote against them if you looked at the voting behavior in egypt in the parliamentary elections around seventy percent voted for islamist. parties and in defense tension lections at around fifty one percent so the vote is declining going

down mainly because position and the more they have to deliver on the promises they cannot just missed while the end not delivered so now people have expectations and they can control politicians by voting. israel's given the green light to building another twelve hundred new settlements in east jerusalem or land that's considered illegally occupied under international law this in addition to the already approved construction of thousands of new homes in the west bank in retaliation over the palestinians u.n. status upgrade ortiz middle east correspondent polish clear reports 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 which is a neighborhood in east jerusalem across the green line it comes in less than a month off to israel's controversial statement that it was planning to build in the one creditable which links jerusalem to the west bank and this is

a real line for many states and so he 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 israelis certainly he is appealing to right

wing 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 is safe to happen about a month from now at the same time netanyahu has a lot. rebuffed the criticism from the international community saying that you wish for them is the eternal capital of the state of israel and will continue to build them a united to see them he says it's place is 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 will 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 city limits that it is announcing today it's planning on building currently around half a million people live in israeli settlements but peace campaigner dr ron pundak

maintains israel would not have to relocate all of the settlers if a territorial agreement is 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 see only elevation 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 to the practices on the ground the five hundred thousand to being divided at all two hundred thousand 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 to 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 we'll have to go over and be accepted and will be. and we compensated etc i believe that this is something which goes with the national interest of the majority of israelis. remember you can always find more on the stories we're covering by clicking at r.t. dot com marial find plenty including this how the u.s. is about to commence a new large scale deployment. this coming year washington will be sending troops to as many as thirty five african countries more online plus. the catholic church gives believers and lovers of culture our real christmas present find out

what the multi million euro art database is for at r t done. throughout the day santa has been making his deliveries and hopefully you've got what you wanted for this christmas but there's been more window shopping than actually people parting with their hard earned cash this time around even the catholic church is a little old fashioned christian charity to help stage its traditional st peter's basilica mass cost for this year's more frugal nativity scene were mostly paid with donations and in the eurozone peter all has been looking at whether the wishlist of those in charge are too much for even the santa and his army of l. to handle. it's a time of goodwill and cheer and giving and for one particularly julie gent it's busiest time of the year santa has taken a little bit of time out from delivering presents to the boys and girls to join me here in central berlin high something. not come on the sled that i see it's just to

say where it's more comfortable you know keeping within the twenty first century that. you've got some letters from the boys and girls that you're going to share with us. 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. christmas i would really like a fiscal policy which would see my country's debt be would you see one hundred twenty four percent of our annual output on twenty twenty i know that this is a big ask but it will stop the international. monetary fund getting infant 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 perlin 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 america 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 ones 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 new more super rich followed gera deputy you and left fronts we really need a 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 sounds 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 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 a minority list. peter all of a c. n. n the christmas spirit is everywhere in britain flowing freely in the nation's pubs and restaurants but a summer training themselves to a bit too much the holiday cheer is lost on britain's police and hospital staff

sara firth brings us more from the streets of newcastle. well it's the season to be merry but for some of us perhaps a little t. merry with the christmas period once again upon us doing so when his campaign so 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. and 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. laurie but it is actually very yeah and there's a thing with. pitching responsibly. no. no everyone just gets up. at over eighty thing that is good for stress. and. drink responsibly yeah. well sometimes i'm not but i. am not tonight because of the good night out with a drink responsibly brought on the order you heard tell me just call while you can also. see apart from these guys you will be a prophet of god they want you want to get more responsible over that you just want our universal 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 the weekend before christmas they have a day nicknamed blackeye friday a reference to the number of fights the breakout has excessive drinking this is why a 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 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 because so. south korea may have some very expensive toys heading its way courtesy of the u.s. the pentagon hoping to sell a number of on manned aircraft to seoul more on the international reaction later on us. poor people used to live in slums now the economically disadvantaged occupy substandard housing in the inner cities. winding voters with semantics later this

hour we'll look at how parties can abuse language to mask what they're really up to after a short break. deadly

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thanks for staying with us here on r t eighteen minutes past the hour the pentagon's propose supplying high altitude spy drones to south korea the deal for up to four pylos aircraft still needs congressional approval and could be worth as much as one point two billion dollars. thinks the sale could seriously antagonize north korea though which is very sensitive to potential intrusion over 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 of the demilitarized zone so the south korean border they could 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 very 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 say she can't be a model of. reaching. into the relations with north korea when will it get easier

but i think what this shows is that by purchase to these rooms or having the energy to at least the ruling party doesn't really have any plans to change its foreign policy to their tree in any need for i don't think north korea it will attack anyone who listens for the first and we look at the ports being out of south korea or south korea and the scientists that will defeat satellites for you orbit around a small function and reports say that machining were 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 wharf look easy or stuff where you're japan and show them what people intentions doubletalk designed to dress up reality and sound bites easily digested by voters has become the default lie which of the political elite parties marina

porton i looks at whether american voters are willing to read between the lines to work out what politicians are really saying. 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 the slums now the economically disadvantaged occupy substandard housing in the inner cities. and their courage to know 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 sees are hostile to job growth. the wealthy who make over two hundred fifty thousand

a year if you say 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 put the nervous system has either snapped or is about to snap. in the first world war that condition was called show today this same condition is known as an eight syllable hyphenated freeze void of any emotion post-traumatic 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 war where you have the most damaging euphemisms like when instead

of saying innocent civilians were killed in a drone strike you say that was collateral damage collateral damage which to me is the worst expression no it's innocent men women children 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 a 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 what when from ation 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 their family and their work

that they don't. don't 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 a new speak reporting from new york marina r.t. . turn now to some other stories making global headlines a military aircraft crashed in the southern kazakstan killing all twenty seven people aboard the acting head of the country's border guards was also on the flight which is also thought to have been carrying other high ranking military personnel the plane took off from the capital austin and came down just twenty kilometers from its destination near the city of shame can local media reports the pilots were trying to make an emergency landing the exact cause of the crash is unknown and

investigations under way. police in bahrain used tear gas on anti-government protesters continuing an intense crackdown on public gatherings demonstrators demand the prime minister resign a democratically elected government they also want the release of a human rights campaigner saeed yousif who was jailed earlier this month for writing about the crackdown on twitter this comes just as the country is wrapping up a gulf economic and military summit. eleven preschool children in china have been killed in a bus accident the principal was behind the wheel of a vehicle that plunged into a pond she's been arrested on suspicion of reckless driving and overloading the bus the kindergarten also faces closure as it was found to be operating without a license. and as we countdown to the end of two thousand and twelve r.t. remembers what the year has brought us all 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 mounted and become everybody else around me putting just months on like you had a few for moscow during feast 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 police the producers like to see their

correspondents in the middle of a crowd which is great but then the crowd are shouting 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 and you go on the 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 livelihoods just the way over to pay back this most of. the people that think it's about spain's crippling unemployment figures especially amongst the young about the cost to the states is that this is 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. right after this break i'll gurn obvious speaks with the vice president of iran

about climate change in the vast middle east oil fields and for everybody who's celebrating have a very merry christmas stay with us you're on our. it's but atop a jaw drop and the view from that the ball scrabble and stretches as far as the eye can see apt for a city that chilled all of siberia for centuries. it lost its economic importance even before it was bypassed by the chance i bear in railway but the poles cremains a spiritual center. oh scenes like these are a yearly occurrence thousands of also ducks worship as themselves and bless it will

to commemorate the baptism of jesus. in the fifteen eighty s. the russians had only just conquered siberia taking it from the muslims. surrounded by enemies the balls was to be their stronghold constructed on top of an old a city but soon enough it became an economic hub siberian was the oil of its time bringing in a third of all russia's state revenue but the balls committed location head of the uses for the russians the russian heiress to crowds who led a revolt against the czar and eight hundred twenty five known as the decemberists will stand here and drove. there they created a replica high society adopting the latest fashions as soon as they came out or at least once they made it from paris to siberia. but the city also serves up some bit of irony for the russian role for.