i. so it's not as the christmas presents get all wrapped themselves reading the wish lists of european leaders we are what we try to find. but the chips voters passed the new pros that missed constitutional violence and the opposition they will not stop fighting against. and israel signs off on twelve hundred more supply homes in east jerusalem as it continues to defy global condemnation in the aftermath of palestine to integrate.

if you just joined us for good morning to its kevin i would hear the new center the smalling on top story sound has been busy doing the rounds of course hopefully you got what you wanted for christmas although there's been more window shopping it seems than people actually parting with their hard earned cash they see iran and even the catholic church trying to expel the pope holding a more spartan mass than usually in some places. costs for this year's more frugal nativity scene two were mostly picked up by donors as for elsewhere in europe pedro has been looking at whether the wish lists of those in charge could be just too much for some says little help. 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 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 all right now this one has come from a little boy in greece he says exactly what he wants for christmas and for twenty thirteen. dear santa for christmas i would really like a fiscal policy which would see my country's debt be reduced to one hundred twenty four percent of our annual output from twenty twenty i know that this is a big ask but it will stop the international monetary fund getting in from 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 to. demetrius a modest. 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. 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 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 new super rich followed jerad 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 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 and 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 on minority list. peter all over virtually. no surprises there the tray sing europeans are sturdy bottles old you will remind you of what we would miss some more later this hour. first of 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 for some it means spending the holidays in the cellar award sarah first been out of town the party goes this year. well it's the season to be merry but for some of us perhaps a little tea mary but the christmas period 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 for 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 then 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 plus it's a cool night. for. laurie but it is actually very yeah and there's a thing with the underage drinking to feel the young people hitting response saying no to that hello you know everyone just gets upset. over it you think. it's a stress you know and eat yourself drink responsibly yes. well sometimes i'm not going to. i'm not tonight because of the gordon. drink response report or the order you heard tell me your school where you can also . see a part for these guys you will be a prophet of god if you want to you want to get more responsible over that you just

want are you more slow food 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 the weekend before christmas they have a day nicknamed blackeye friday a reference to the number of fights the breakout had teaching 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 our kahala piece in the k. so therefore 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. it's been confirmed that egypt's new constitution has been passed and i will majority sixty three point eight percent voting yes opponents have vowed to continue the fight against the option of the islamist leading chancellor the official declaration was delayed while fraud

investigations took place in egypt saying violent unrest mass rival rallies recently reached the opposition stand the referendum is fundamentally illegitimate but the doctor from the institute to. make studies told me this is a chart a no vote break democratic rule. this is the first time in the constitution that you have the president cannot move the egyptian parliament went and cannot. 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. democrats collections and drop the parties to the to become the majority what will happen if these islamist parties could not deliver on the promises of 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 the

parliamentary elections around seventy percent voted for islamist party. parties and in the presidential elections around fifty one percent so the vote is declining going down mainly because they're not 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 sets are causing a stir would talk about that so disapprove a further twelve hundred housing units in east jerusalem and continued retaliation over palestine as a un upgrade also reporting to. the slums of the economically disadvantaged occupy substandard housing in the inner cities. and the new american political lexicon of how someone takes could. really up to after this break.

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israel's given the green light to build another twelve hundred new settlers 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 slee a report. 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 after israel's controversial statement that it was planning to build in the one corridor all 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 wing voters and according to 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 you mr them is the eternal capital of the state of israel and will continue to build them 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. five hundred

thousand people live in israeli settlements peace company dr ron pundak told me israel would only have to withdraw some of the settlers if 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 see only in a variation of the discourse from the prime minister of the issue of settlements i hope that those will only messages which are connected to elections and not to the ality practices on the ground the five hundred thousand are 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 that

just went 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 offered shove on in which israel evacuated approximately ten thousand which was just a good example for the fact that we can make it so between us in peace we'll be standing one hundred thousand israelis which will have to go over 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 is trying to sell a high altitude spy drones to south korea detail to provide for global hawk part of the cross still means approved in congress and could be worth as much as one point two billion dollars that it. says pending deal could escalate the conflict though

is neighboring north korea which steadfastly protects his 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 is sort of thing will happen is if south korean drones for example penetrate the green airspace this could potentially start a huge conflict and if you look at the results of the latest offering the elections the president will work in hey she can't be a model of. reaching. into the relations 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 any major way i don't think we're related will attack anyone

this it's provoked first and if we look at the course coming out of south korea or south korea and the scientists that looked at the satellite the screen orbit it's an awful sheen and reports say that 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 wharf look easy or stuff where japan and germany was able intention and military aircraft crashed in southern cousin stan killing all twenty seven people on board the acting head of a company called god was among the passengers who were thought to also include senior military personnel themselves and seventy two took off from the capital us tonight then came down just twenty kilometers from the airport at shin ken city witnesses say it fell from around eight hundred meters while it was trying to land not know what went wrong. so that is a brief place in bahrain have used tear gas some more anti-government protesters

continue an intense crackdown on public gatherings demonstrators want the prime minister to quit and they're seeking a democratically elected government activists also say leading human rights campaigners say abusive will stay in jail for a further fifteen days he was caged for writing about the crackdown on twitter meantime the country's just wrapped up a gulf economic and military summit in china a school bus is parked in the east that killed at least eleven preschool children their principles behind the wheel of the vehicle when it all and do a leg she was arrested for dangerous driving and on suspicion of overloading that bus kindergarten also closed because it was found created without a license. the health of venezuelan president hugo chavez has reportedly improved he'd caught a respiratory infection after his latest cancer surgery in cuba the country's vice president said on state t.v. that chavez is up and has started exercising the liberal raised hopes of his january tenth and organization may still well go ahead

a few months after his reelection was a tight. in the political theater it's easy for parties to change their tune to scrounge up some votes when their popularity is on the way but all are american voters willing to read between the lines to work out what politicians are really saying when they speak in euphemisms teasmade important tries to find out. the art of politics is made up of many thinks. 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 elite 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 are just 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 shows today the same condition is known as an eight syllable hyphenated furries void of any amount

. 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. 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 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 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 low information

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 elites 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. . so it should begin to say goodbye to twenty twelve ought to remember as well the import of seoul today i would call the austerity the to hold across 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 stood over some type of square and i just see the cameraman behind the camera everybody else around me putting just months on i was like you had a few for moscow going to see 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 place produces like to see the correspondents in the middle of a crowd which is great but then the crowd shouting the correspondence tries 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 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 to be chopped away over to doctors most of. the people to think it's about spain's crippling unemployment figures especially amongst the young about the cost to the states the study says 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.

a more flexions from the news team all across the border guards here the next couple of days not a few minutes a suitably festive mag's keyser get the jacket together with punk poet john cooper clarke discussed how money runs in the blood of the music business at the expense of creativity cards report of the. under guard these men and women are working on the longest and probably the loneliest road in the world they're reenacting march into exile made by thousands of czarist russia. if i was here three hundred years ago i may have disappeared

my local lord i may have deserted from the army or a variety of other crimes the result was the same like my fellow prisoners around me i've got a long and very cold walk ahead into exile in siberia yet it took them years to get there summers and winters entire years a lot of people died on the way this group in the western siberian region of omsk discovered they're living on the only surviving stretch of the original nine thousand kilometers of the siberian exiles track that's had no modern changes made to it yevgeny discovered that he's descended from some of these exiles and decided to build a museum telling a story he and his re-enact is now receiving to us from all over the world to show them what it was like for these bloody good earnest it's scary to put the shackles on of course but it's interesting if we don't remember our history we will have no future we want is a monument to one of the czarist russia cruelest chapters. the city serves as the

capital of anticommunist white russian leader admiral culture shock in the civil war from one thousand nine hundred to nine hundred ninety whilst in residence he lived here though the study of the man like the maintenance of this building has remained a taboo right up until the present day or we still receive hate mail saying that he hanged a lot of people and was famous for severe punishment it's all true but it was at a time of civil war both sides were monstrously cruel it is sadly the theme of cruelty which links so much of our history to the rest of russia's particularly of exile where they were an apple or a criminal. merry christmas time for

a very special kaiser report possibly the greatest punk legends still active tearing out stadiums around the world ladies and gentlemen a very special kaiser report guest i present to you mr john cooper clarke john cooper clarke. fantastic my christmas wishes come true i saw you recently doing something i have to have you here to do it bongos trouser on the road struggles a bit of world. now yes sir mungo's trails as there is who stole bone goes trousers and he sang gallon stetson it's my the reason holiness improperly dressed like that who stole bongos trousers cause it wasn't post-show a bit it's save the planet. x. you still bone ghosts rousers. back east trying to do some good in no world and that's no way it's well paula.