from from. from. the from from. more than one and a half million people have signed an online petition calling for legal measures against the french state over its failure to act on the climate change. journalists rights groups react with indifference to the naming and shaming of russian media workers by a british newspaper in connection with allegations of spreading disinformation. and scandal hits a russian town after the children of local officials go on a charity trip to turkey organized only the kids with severe illnesses.

christmas from moscow and all of us here at r.t. international has just turned a four o'clock news round up this hour with mean a day or two to welcome to the program an online petition has been launched in france by environmental groups demanding to sue france over climate inaction more than one point six million people have signed already shot into penske takes up the story it seems this was not the president that much corn was hoping to find under his christmas tree on christmas day this petition is backed by four charities including two charities here in france which is calling for the french state to be sued over its interruption on climate change and it's not just go on and move the one point six million signatures it's also being backed by french celebrities we are simply going to sue the french state and their actions regarding climate change we're trying to force a state to drastically reduce emissions another headache perhaps

a president who's already been having a difficult few weeks as the yellow dress protests continue they've been going on now for more than six weeks some of the weekend's here in paris. have seen would have been described as the worse right seem more than half a century. now they all started six weeks ago on nov seventeenth over plans to increase attacks on fuel hit in france now that led to president trump in the us to mock president might call over that the paris agreement isn't working out so well for paris protests and riots all over france people do not want to be large sums of money

much to third world countries there are questionably run in order to maybe protect the environment chanting we want trump law friends for weeks off to protest started present my cold turned round and said you know what's ok i've heard your cries we're actually going to scrap that field tax increase all admission now the yellow vest protest as haven't been totally appeased by that and it seems that president michael has i'm good environmentalist's by making that decision many people saying you called sit on the fence when it comes to climate change how can you scrap a fuel tax which is meant to be used for money to improve the environment and say at the same time that you're fighting to protect the environment. the international community remains committed to the fight against climate change fronts and your must show the way the fight goes on and this comes amidst bad pollings for president michel as well a current polling suggests that he's at twenty seven percent follow there when he

came into office when that was around sixty percent so it seems the festive period not so fresh steve the president might call in and it seems the french president is on many people's mortie list this year the best protests have echoed around the world most recently in germany where and from the left parties are people to rally like the french offered i should be more assistance in germany we need more people to come to the streets that's how we'll achieve our aims let's pressure the government the politicians to bring about social justice. let's discuss this with. germany's at the left party thanks for coming on to the program based on this so i'm going to calls for a yellow vests style wave of protests in germany does the country have inequality issues and needing radical solutions. the quality issues in germany i even

worse than in france because the new your liberal policies they're demanding the market more moving forward in france have already been passed in germany. so we are seeing the tax first tabs and. the undisputed leader of the opposition in germany is now moving towards a popular movement that can topple the or talk with merkel. the french movement i mean has certainly been fruitful forces raising the minimum wage over time paying prudence and so on and so on could a german movement have similar success in your opinion. narratives called. stand up movement and now over one hundred fifty thousand people have signed up online and in january people will be voting on a program true place the government and the current government policies online for the very trust time in germany so this is one of the meeting calls in france is

for democracy and popular democracy and we are implementing that in germany with this movement how likely though is online democracy as you put it likely to work in terms of protests because what we've seen is weeks and weeks of protests on the streets of france is that going to happen in germany. well one of the problems in france is that the movement is not quite a nice enough but they are just starting out in forming leaderships in germany we already have been understood leader of the movement which is dark next she has incredible political experience and she can provide that leadership to guide us to a change in our country if the masses do follow what francis losses and germans come out on to the streets in other words how will the german establishment react to that i think. they are scared as hell because we

haven't seen something like that in germany for over thirty years since the berlin wall came down and so german establishment is scared because they know that their position is untenable they know what they have done to this country and they know that the people are angry ok. of generals and the left party thanks so much for coming on to the program thank you. thank you. british newspaper the times has named and shamed staff at a russian media outlets offices in the u.k. after an m.p. accused the organization of spreading disinformation the hounding of the outlets journalists though has been met with indifference by media protection groups. and initially it was it was a bit of a shock on the other hand it's kind of hardly surprising given the nz russian sentiment there is you know travel in all your key newspapers just

a bit it's yes not nice to see your picture up there with your name except under the headline of being part of a crime when stooge 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 news journalists and are we right into my unit 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 and. we sent an inquiry to the defense ministry there's a form on their website 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 labelled 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 abuse them 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 took aim at the tongue 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. r.t.r. several media organizations to comment on what's happened among them the international federation of journalists the international press institute and the o.-s. we'll let you know when we get a response. the german magazine der spiegel says

it's reporting one of its former top journalists to the police over allegations he stole donations made to people who featured in his articles class or a lot of this is already mired in scandal after he admitted last week to fabricating over a dozen stories that has since sacked the award winning writer it's a spec he may have faked more stories than he's owned up to. now one man who's popularized the term fake news is donald trump here's a look back at some of the year's biggest fakes. you are fake the level of dishonesty is out of control for me as for. your lies. 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 create awareness. but let's go through some other examples now folks had a good laugh when it was revealed that the washington post that 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 mike claimed 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 in the russian spy on in the oval office with trump 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 ak and damia some of the fake research got through. or . go. and one trend we saw throughout the year was fact checkers retracting their fact checks what could be more embarrassing those who claim 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. kind of hope for some rest spine from the fake news shenanigans as it is just after eight am on christmas morning at the white house.

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so when you want to be present. want. to be right to be close to what. can't be good. interesting always at the water's edge. welcome back to the program as the world celebrates christmas festive songs are in the air though some have a slightly different ring to them with lyrics that carry a less traditional message like this parody remake of carol of the bells which has attracted thousands of views online.

you. have never heard of the job. christmas classics have had 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 has been slammed as racist while rudolph the red nosed reindeer is apparently a bully t.v. host and political commentator steve malzberg things the new remake of carol of the bells with that we just heard it makes a 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 their 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 that address the safe spaces that the college students are given because they can't take it they address capitalism being taught is evil gender that you can't assume somebody is gender freedom of speech freedom of thought it's all encompassed in this parody and i think it was brilliantly done. a scandalous russian town after the children filmmakers travel to tokyo saying money donated to a charity for kids with severe illnesses but in a caution of 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 difficult situations it does go to the consumer. who are in the mood with them but at the who can put its computer to work with their form 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 get what you got mean you've got to be needed to go to the clinic we need you to. do. or you could. do it but you might. need what you call 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 worst. 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 the 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 formed to do they had of the charity foundation says there were no violations you ring 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 regions as he will investigate what happened and as for the local official who loved one being asked about the consequences the woman to greet you with a book of which. you are. not your lady well we have learnt that you no longer works there. the mare of the town has since said he's willing to cover the costs incurred by the children of officials who went on the trip to turkey. the chinese foreign ministry is demanding an explanation from the u.s. over purchases of spying equipment for american embassies worldwide. the u.s. accuses china for tagging cyber security but the latest wiki leaks release shows the u.s. is guilty of throwing stones from glass houses statement came after wiki leaks published a report with a full list of the u.s. embassies purchases the report highlights and spying equipment reportedly made for

cia and national security agency global operations according to the list u.s. embassies that purchase of various types of spying equipment among them are hidden cameras disguised as pens lighters and shirt buttons and missy's also by bit oculus g.p.s. locators and microphones the u.s. has yet to respond to the claim. now we're joined by network security expert professor benjamin shout professor benjamin thanks for coming on to the program china's regularly accused of top level spying so isn't this a little bit hypocritical or for beijing to throw the same accusations back at washington. and then the u.s. definitely isn't very eager to trade with china so trauma is using all means or. bad deal into china the chinese people really do not like. and always wanted to

emphasize hourman it is only fear is not a point but was. it is the chinese government you see in the u.s. based on these close by we. do you think there's a reasonable explanation as to why u.s. embassies require this kind of equipment. now infamous u.s. eavesdropping or is already common knowledge to world presidents often. openly criticize the u.s. on the use of similar equipment before you why do you think that the u.s. is not being transparent over these purchases. well embassies enjoy those jurisdiction it is home caught on and treated to it unlocks embassies are saved happens to activities that are otherwise deemed illegal outside the embassy but certain spying behavior are right oh right

violations of international laws and agreements not to mention mention trust for example the u.s. and china have signed agreements a few years ago when stopping spying activities for commercial pope it's like you. we're going to leave it there network security experts benjamin chad thanks very much for coming on to the program thank you. as always our be back with more headlines around thirty minutes time but first up it's a document about those having to sleep rough in the u.k. during the festive period called my homeless christmas. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy going from station let it be an arms race. sparing dramatic development only personally i'm

going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical of time time to sit down and talk. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter to us as a rich one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you longs to be ultra rich eight point six percent market saw a 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 numbers you need remember one one does not show you can afford to miss the one and only.

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