between a rock and a hard place after weeks of massive yellow verse protests more than one and a half million people have signed a petition to sue the french government over its alleged failure to act on climate change. journalists rights groups indifference to the naming and shaming of russian media workers by a british newspaper in connection with allegations of spreading disinformation. the russian town becomes the subject of a national scandal after the children of local officials go on a trip to turkey using charity money.

good evening welcome merry christmas this is r.t. and. all the more than half a million people have already signed an online petition demanding to sue friends over climate inaction it piles fresh problems on the french president who's tried to block eight a furious yellow fest protesters rallied against fuel tax rises. picks up the story . seems this was not the president the 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 and it's not just go on and move the one point six million signatures it's also being backed by french celebrities but we are simply going to sue the french state for its inaction and regarding climate change we're trying to force the state to drastically reduce emissions another headache perhaps of president gore who has already been having a difficult few weeks as the yellow vests 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 worst right seen more than half a century. now they all started six weeks ago on nov seventeenth over plans to increase a tax on fuel here in france now that led to president trump in the u.s. 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 france for weeks off to protest started president might could turn round and said you know what 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 a piece by that and it seems that president michel. has i'm good environmentalist's blight making that decision many people saying you can't 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 michael as well a current polling suggests that he's at twenty seven percent follow that when he came into office when that was around sixty percent so it seems the festive period

not so fresh states the president might call in and it seems the french president is all many people's naughty list this year. the protests around the world most recently in germany were an m.p. from the left parties are people to rally like the french was as there should be more resistance 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 the quality issues in germany i even worse than in france because the new new your liberal policy is that a monarch paul is moving forward in france have already been passed in germany. so we are seeing the facts first hand 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 one of the problems in france is that movement

is not hoarded nice enough but they are just starting out and forming leaderships in germany we already have been understood leader of the movement which is dark next she has credible political experience and she can provide that leadership to guide us to a change in our country. edition newspaper the times is named and shamed stuff for the russian media outlets offices in the u.k. and to an m.p. accuse the organization of spreading disinformation the hounding of the alice 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 anti 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 train when stooge but as i say you know it's very much part of what's going on just saying you key the sunday times has been so thorough in its reporting of the

threat of so-called russian descent information that its latest story about the russian funded radio station sputnik 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 write 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. 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. or several media organizations to comment on what happened among them the international federation of journalists the international press institute and the o s c to let you know as a man we get a response. 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 plus the lotus is already mired in scandal after he admitted last week to fabricating more than

a dozen stories that spiegel has since sacked the award winning writer it's a spec that he may have faked more stories than he's actually owned up to. and 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 it was for this i realized. who she is and how fake the risk can be very faked 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 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 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 my review. of the in the russian spy 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 a. 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. for .

us. 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 while alive in twenty nineteen. r.t. new york. may be hoping for at least some response from what he sees as the fake news on the president's already tweeted merry christmas and probably already opened his presence. for.

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hawks. welcome back as the world celebrates christmas fest this songs are in the though some of the slightly differing to them with lyrics that carry less traditional message such as this parody remake of carol of the bells which is attracting thousands of views on bond. you. are not. going to do for her her job or for. christmas classics have had a hard time lately for example the song baby it's cold outside that was banned by some radio stations as being sexist the popular jingle bells has been slammed as

racist while rudolph the red nosed reindeer is apparently a burly t.v. host and political commentator staples burke thinks the new remake of count of the bells we just heard 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 the error 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 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 . scandalous at a russian town after the children of city officials travel to turkey using money donated to a children's charity has the story. a group of children from the russian town of clint's a 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's a bit these go to the. who are in the mood with them god of the who contributes conclude or to give of 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 you need . to. look or you could. do but you might do. what you feel you do 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. but it's not just ordinary citizens who are up in arms officials have also come out strongly against of the incident calling and 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 owes 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 who put it in your book of which it was weakness and one of the iraqi national congress naturally maybe well we've learnt that you no longer works there the mayor of the town under fire is now reimbursed the cost of sending the children of officials on trip. china's highlighted what it calls

hypocrisy of the u.s. claims of spying by beijing accusing washington of using its embassies around the world for covert surveillance. the u.s. accuses china of attacking cyber security but the latest wiki leaks release shows the u.s. is guilty of throwing stones in glass houses or statement came after wiki leaks published a list of u.s. embassies purchases the report highlighted spy gear reportedly made for cia and national security agency global operations that beijing claims that u.s. embassies are being used to spy on foreign nations right around the world including washington's own allies diplomatic compounds are said to have bought various spy quitman to including cameras the skies the thais shirt buttons and caps and this is also purchased microphones night vision gear and secret g.p.s. locators the u.s. is yet to respond to those claims that work security expert benjamin chowed told as this would be not just a violation of international law but also agreements with beijing the now infamous

u.s. eavesdropping of its alleys is already common knowledge with world presidents of its alley's openly criticized the u.s. on the use of similar equipment before a sudden spike in behavior are right oh right by allegiance to international laws and agreements not to mention mention trust for example the u.s. and china have signed agreements a few years ago or on stopping spying activities for commercial purposes the more than china is a peaceful country and we believe in limon situation through trade but at the same time china is becoming very well equipped in modern warfare expression effendi the country in electronics or. tennis legend martina navratilova is in the spotlight after getting embroiled in a twitter spat over transgender people participating in the sport as women. clearly that can't be right you can't just be claimed herself a female and be able to compete against women there must be some standards and

having a competing as a woman would not feed the standard of the tweet provoked mixed reaction online including from cyclist rachel mckinnon who last year became the first transgender athlete to win a world title. that's transforming genitals do not play sports what part of it related to tennis i hope you see your way to regret and how you've handled this never to have us root is just another variation on someone saying that if you have a piece you're not a woman let's get real and stop pretending she isn't transformer big just because she's ridge and famous and effect woke like pretensions you're the real hero here i'm a teacher the truth is painful to some but that doesn't merit shouldn't be spoken it's incredibly disappointing that you've been intimidated into backing down from telling the truth and i still oversensitive one of the greatest tennis players of all time she's also a widely known. rights activist however following the spate of criticism she

apologized and deleted the tweet you should transgender athletes in sports generating huge debate you can check out more views on the issue by heading to our website that's our team dot com and that wraps things up for this news hour to join me in just over thirty minutes time for the latest. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy don't foundation let it be an arms race off and spearing 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. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or

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because you don't really feel like a human being in it. and then. the guy this came over smithsonian gave me this book and. christmas is about whoops love and family but there are so many people in the u.k. that have none of these things i want to see what it was like to be almost on the signs to go through christmas as a homeless person. or

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