headlines here on r.t. international journalists rights groups reacted with indifference to the naming and shaming of russian media workers by a british newspaper in connection with allegations of spreading information. a scandal hits a small russian town after the children of local officials go on a charity trip to turkey that was organized only for kids with severe illnesses and . a traditional christmas song gets a make over this year poking fun the political correctness so but this festive season.

it is just off to eleven am here in moscow on this tuesday december the twenty fifth from all of us here at r.t. international wishing you a merry christmas and happy holidays now let's try and find some news the british newspaper the times has named and shamed a number of stuff that the russian media outlet offices in the u.k. about all of sputnik accusing by an m.p. that of the organization spreading deceit information the hounding of the outlets journalists though has been met with indifference by various media protection creams and initially it was it was a bit of a shock on the other hand it is kind of hardly surprising given the instruction sentiment there is you know travel in all your key newspapers just say and but it's yes not nice to see your picture up there with your name makes a under the headline as being part of the same lens. but as i say you know it's

very much part of what's going on just saying you carry the sunday times has been so thorough in its reporting of the threat of so-called russian descent from ation that its latest story about the russian funded radio stations putin it which has a bureau in edinburgh carries the photographs of the journalists that work there labels them kremlin stooges and quotes a politician who suggests that their assets should be frozen i would good for school harassment i think putting the pictures of photographs of people who work on a newspaper like that i think is tantamount to almost it might put those people's lives in danger i'm a member of the national journalists are we right into my view in the new year to ask what do you need is planning to do about these journalists working for russian media organizations here in the u.k. have had to develop a thick skin over the past few years as tensions between london and moscow have heightened articles calling for outlets like r.t.

and sputnik to be banned have become a regular occurrence but recently the big papers have gone a step further and they started singling out the journalists working for russian media outlets this is the london bureau chief for russia's channel one more series of last month he did some filming outside the gates of a british military base first story about the british army's cyber warfare unit aimed at fighting so-called russian propaganda he didn't break any laws gave his press credentials to all the security guards he met and left several weeks later the u.k.'s daily mail newspaper printed his personal details and accused him of being a spy the story was reprinted by a plethora of papers it ratcheted up so much that the u.k.'s defense secretary issued a statement for citizens to stay vigilant. we sent an inquiry to the defense ministry there's a form on the web. site but we didn't get any response filming near the base is not

illegal it's a public area public land you don't need permission to film there you need permission to get inside talk to the stuff we didn't record our interaction with the security personnel we didn't try to penetrate the base the b.b.c. correspondent did the exact same thing as us it was broadcast and no one thinks of punishing him there's nothing illegal and you don't even have to work for the russian media to find yourself in hot water just expressing views that the mainstream is enough to be labeled a kremlin stooge putin's poor or useful idiot in the information war nowadays you have extreme language and if you find someone with an opinion which you object to and you don't agree with you then abused him or her by causing by causing them a stooge or to use the famous explosion about lenin there were useful

idiots the sputnik story isn't the first time the sunday times has used the naming and shaming tactic back in october the paper to came at the tone in cheek i see why in my you tube channel which is funded like r.t. by russian taxpayers and fronted by yours truly the paper didn't shy away from printing my photograph and labelled the project the blue peter of russian propaganda the times didn't request a comment from r.t. or myself it seems that naming and shaming doesn't carry a right of reply we have asked our several organizations to comment on what's happened among them the international federation of journalists and the international press institute and the oas see we'll let you know when we get a response. german magazine der spiegel says it's reporting that one of its former top journalists to the police. stole donations

made to people who were featured in his articles. already mired in scandal after he admitted just last week to fabricating over a dozen stories spiegel has since sacked the award winning writer it suspects he may have actually faked more stories than he is now up. also anyone man who's made a name for himself calling out fake news none other than donald trump so here's a quick look back at some of the year's biggest things the media you are fake the level of dishonesty is that if it were me it was for you i realize. the issues and how fake. the first can be very fake that one from famous catchphrase fake news has dominated the headlines ever since he first uttered it why does it drive his detractors so crazy well some would argue that it's true false information and deceptive reporting seems to be everywhere let's review some of the fake news of twenty eighteen. well one of the most

outrageous examples was the cover of time magazine it depicted a sobbing toddler representing donald trump's policy of separating immigrant children from their parents however it turns out that the girl in the photograph was not separated from her mother. who was not separated from her mother but yeah she's the face of this immigration problem and she has helped to create awareness. but let's go through some other examples now folks had a good laugh when it was revealed that the washington post had actually cited the satirical publication known as click call when reporting on the fact that british people were trying to make the song american idiot by green day go through the charts when donald trump was visiting the country and in other instances we've seen journalists just straight up making things up. for example

a reporter for the web scene known as the mike claim that maria know who's just pled guilty to charges of being an unregistered lobbyist for russia was in a meeting at the oval office i thought this was a photo show but it's not this is memory of the receipt for the in the russian spy in the oval office with. turned out that she was wrong the person in the photograph was actually a national security council staffer but in the journalist defense they both do have red hair and we all know that all of us gingers look the same. how about a paper on canine rape culture in dog parks or a feminist rewrite of hitler's my struggle it turns out that this year fake news was used to make a political point people were submitting fake research in order to expose what they believed was a bias in academia some of the fake research got through so. closely .

and one trend we saw throughout the year was fact checkers retracting their fact checks what could be more embarrassing those who claim that they are stopping the spreading misinformation actually spreading misinformation themselves and admitting to it based on what we've seen throughout the year it seems pretty clear that fake news will be well alive in twenty nineteen. r.t. new york donald trump. spike from the fake news so now about ten or eleven minutes past three on christmas morning at the white house right now and if trump isn't sleeping or playing on twitter you might be opening some press.

thank you. now just a bit of christmas cheer for you here on r.t. international not opening your prices too quickly and wishing you all

a very merry christmas and happy holidays from aussie international. now as the world does celebrate christmas festive songs i. have a slightly different ring to them with lyrics that carry less traditional message like this parody remake of the bells which has attracted thousands of years. online . you. sent us the next. morning to the people who had never heard joe before christmas classics having had a bit of a hard time lately for example the song baby it's cold outside was banned by some radio stations as sexist the popular jingle bells slammed as racist while rudolph the red nosed reindeer is apparently a bully on t.v. host and political commentator steve malzberg thinks the new remake of car of the

bells we just heard actually makes a pretty valid point. i thought it was brilliantly done it addressed the problem that we really have to address in this country here in the united states and it did it in a satirical fashion ironically enough maybe some people will be offended that they took that christmas song and chose it for the era of their music and to do their parody none the less it addressed every one of the problems going on on our universities or college campuses today it addressed the safe spaces that the college students are given because they can't take it they addressed capitalism being taught is evil gender that you can't assume somebody gender freedom of speech

freedom of thought it's all encompassed in this parody and i think it was brilliantly done. let's be political correctness here not international law in a moment we discuss whether children hugging relatives at this holiday time could send the wrong message or just a moment we go to america to speak to our guests. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. and spearing dramatic development only. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down and talk. the greek

riots occupy wall street arab spring these are the beginnings. of the protests across europe today it was all connected it's all based on the exact same concept of bankers printing too much money creating this wealth that income gap and it's delayed or deferred riot you know it's true that the violence was baked into the cake and now leaders like black hole are getting their just deserts. quarter past the hour here in moscow good to have you with us today scandal has hit a russian town after the children of lawmakers travel to tookie using money donated

to a charity for children with severe illnesses a correspondent with in a culture picks up the story a group of children from the russian town of clinton say five hundred kilometers from moscow went on a trip to turkey the journey was organized by a charity foundation which helps children with severe illnesses and those caught up in did. situations it to be about this go to the consumer. in the movie with them god of the who today it's cool cool to look at their phone dream a new car out of a well turns out some of those children work kids city officials local media discovered a video where the town's top officials try to explain why this happened went viral but you cannot you cannot mean you thought that they needed to go to the clinic we need. to. look for you. but you might. be just it gets even better or rather wars the mayor's daughter was also among the

lucky ones to go to russians were outraged and many of them went on social media to vent their fury these super arrogant officials are fully confident in their impunity. they must be fired a government official is a duty not a privilege our officials are the neediest people in our country the poorest scumbags but it's not just ordinary citizens who are up in arms officials have also come out strongly against of the incident calling it immoral and noxious after this scandal erupted so they had of the city administration explained that the children of local officials work as volunteers and some of them are gifted members of society. talented children they are volunteers this world and it was the year of volunteers there was a special meeting where the candidates were chosen just as the fund to do they had

of the charity foundation says there were no violations hearing the selection process she now plans an official complaint against the local media but the flames of a scandal have already been lit the governor of the region says he will investigate what happened and ask for the local official who a loved one being asked about the consequences the woman who put it in your book of which it was weakness and one of the first folks to get your response to the lady well we've learnt that you no longer works there. stock markets in the u.s. close to christmas eve lowest in decades for that day after president donald trump lashed out at the federal reserve system. the only problem our economy has is the food they don't have a feel for the market they don't understand this is three trade wars or strong dollars or even democrat shutdowns over borders the fed is like a powerful god for who can't because he has no touch he copilot. following the

statement from donald trump rumors started circulating that he might even sack the head of the federal reserve bank jerome powell despite hand-picking him as the chairman a year ago it would actually require congressional approval to fire powell but the news was certainly enough to drive down the markets even further in a bid to reassure investors after one of the worst weeks in a decade the treasury minister made what many are calling emergency phone calls to the heads of the six largest banks. we spoke with jeffrey tucker editorial director at the american institute for economic research who thinks in order to avoid a crisis u.s. trade policy among other issues should be significantly changed this is actually a very bearish sign about our economic prospects in the future and that's why people are talking about a coming recession the economy is still strong on paper if you look at the data is strong but the job of the stock market is not to read the existing data which is

always about the past the job of the stock market is to anticipate the future that hasn't yet unfolded it hasn't done damage yet but but we're in a very critical moment right now things can change right now and we can reverse course so there's still time tom can reverse this today if he gets rid of his steel tariffs and those aluminum terrorists and makes peace with china and and starts believing the real free trade. body parts here in moscow girl scouts in the united states are warning parents not to encourage their children to hug guests this christmas the organization says this could pressure girls into showing other types of physical affection instead the child herself should decide whether or not to give a hug psychologist andrea best jani archibald says learning about consent early is key. sadly we know that some adults prey on children and teaching your daughter

about consent early on can help her understand her rights know when lines have been crossed and when to go to you for help. the us girls goals were founded in one thousand and twelve the group calls itself a leadership development organization promoting confidence courage and character well just to discuss this latest advice we speak with conservative media personality gina luden and women's rights advocate reste. if you don't teach a child early on that they are in control of their bodies and that they are in control of their boundaries then there are subject to later on not be able to set healthy boundaries i think that this is all about communication and that's the key if parents are having the age appropriate conversations with their children that are well documented and data driven then they shouldn't have to have any sorts of concerns for thirty percent of the sexual abuse that happens to a child happens by a family member so here's the fact of the matter children are often not they around

people that we would like to think are healthy people unfortunately we don't always know as adults what the appetite a person may have for a child in a sexual situation these conversations need to be taking long before any gifts are exchanged and any expectation is made i'm not saying that anyone should be lackadaisical about the cues that children are taking but it is a balance and it is something that is really important and we're not going to solve it by telling our arts little girl on christmas day that she doesn't have to say thank you to grandma for her gift i just don't think that that's that's when we presume that as a solution we're missing out on what is really happening here in my opinion or putting children at greater danger fortunately most times when a person is being molested the parents have no idea if the grandfather uncle is molesting them and so it the onus is on the parents to be aware cognizant of what can the child is communicating to you as a parent have determined that these people are safe for your child to be around that the child this taught respect and manners and respect of elders and whatever

whatever the appropriate response is for that child in that moment because some children haven't. actual bent toward inward and we need to teach our children to be unfortunately when parents don't always know when a person is a safe person or not and we can't teach girls to put grace before being able to protect and set healthy boundaries no one saying that we should put graciousness or respect for elders before protecting our children but again if you decide only to protect your child on a holiday when they're already exposed to this relative that there are uncomfortable around the mistake is already made or there are some of your top stories here now it's an international for this tuesday december the twenty fifth we were talking with a new program at about twenty five minutes you can join us then.

i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes have to teach this. eighty five percent of global wealthy loans to the rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred trade per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember is one one business shows you can't afford to miss the one and only. i had a great education a good job and a family that loved me. i never had to worry about how i would eat somewhere i

would sleep. but i'm facing christmas alone out on the streets of london. well enough to be honest on. this story like you don't. really you know just a lot of those still give out food for the store. clerks. because you don't really feel like a human being in that. and then. the guy just came over to me saw me and gave me a change of this book. you know world a big part of the new lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we

need to be smarter we need. need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. my son doing drugs my nephew was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse he started going after the users in the prison population sewer we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill i increasingly became convinced that the war on drugs was on the state there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for . a long sentence in this for minor minor offenders in the drug trade

it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say bye daddy as you're walking out of a business it's just it doesn't get easier. where does that come to call russia no one's ever known one has ever heard of and never even heard about most school.

i am max kaiser this is the kaiser report santa didn't bring me nothing santa is on my black list now santa's air travel. yes it's christmas day a great part of the world celebrates this as some sort of holiday i were my reindeer shirt and that's not a reindeer that's bambi there's a random deer in the forest on rudolph or reindeers or christmas events that's a lot of fake news fake news from the forest that's a close as i can get and this is my closest i can get to tinsel it looks like my

tinsel jacket and that is what i'm wearing for you know we had began twenty eighteen with the stock market in the first six months of the year and nine months of the year really were on a tear they went up and up and up and up and many millennial zx were showing their robin-hood at screens showing how much money they were making also at the beginning of last year you had a lot of bros and when lamb bows and to the moon story it's in the bitcoin space who are they you know we're driving our lembo is and we're so rich well the end of the year hasn't been so kind to them i want to go through some of these screen grabs here from the millennial is at the beginning there who are sharing their portfolios being up these are some pretty dramatic yolo year of living you only live once but it's a you've been dangerously gentlemen it's been

a pleasure to yolo with you this guy shows this portfolio is down to four dollars an eighty one cents from thirty thousand six hundred ninety five dollars that's down ninety nine point nine eight. and this guy gentlemen is been a pleasure to yellow with you forty six dollars and seven cents and his started at sixty thousand three hundred sixty one dollars down ninety nine point nine two percent well this is the magic of capitalism because the capital that greases the wheels of capitalism comes from the losers that best the beauty of it you know you need to have a losers big. then that money is redeployed into the economy that that's the magic works that's where the money should come from not from money printing and that's been part of our problem is that on the social side everybody wants to say everybody is a winner all children when they're raised all you know people are as good in and as great as everybody else and the fact is. as you said you need many many losers for

the few winners that come out of these my.