egypt gets a new constitution is the islamist backed document when strong support from the public but deep divisions remain between opposition and government supporters over the course of the country's taking. israel approves twelve hundred more settler homes in east jerusalem the expansion coming despite international condemnation and warnings over the peace process with the palestinians. and it's christmas presents are all wrapped up across the world the jury's out on whether euro zone leaders behave well enough for santa to answer their wishes will brussels sprout wonders or not party tries to find out what's in the bag for euro.

four am in moscow why matras a good to have you with us here on r t our top story this hour official results confirm that egypt's new constitution has been passed a national referendum winning a hair less than the sixty four percent of the vote the country's electoral commission's announce the final tally after investigations into fraud egypt's witnessed weeks of violence with a two stage referendum sowing deep discord between supporters and opponents of the country's president mohamed morsi morsi says enacting the new constitution quickly will bring stability and a chance to focus on fixing on me but those against the islam is leading charter decry the referendum as fundamentally illegitimate middle east history professor lawrence davidson says they had reason to be. i think the opposition to.

democracy. then yes. if you look at the muck you see in the wettest that you can see in the united states and some. in euro . the constitution the bees democracy is sickly guarantee the right minority on the other hand it's not time to have a kind of constitutional guarantee the sort of. unusual or not normal lifestyle it's not going to be something that should realise they're just guaranteed so it's the rights of the minority that have to worry some of the liberals in egypt and they have a right to be worried israel's given a green light to building another twelve hundred new settlements in east jerusalem on a land that's considered illegally occupied under international law that's in addition

to the already approved construction of thousands of new homes in the west bank in retaliation over the palestinians upgraded status at the un are these middle east correspondent policy leader has more. 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 secure homes in globe 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 over 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 when 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 has largely rebuffed the criticism from the international community saying that you receive 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. currently around half a million people live in israeli settlements but peace campaigner dr ron pundak maintains israel would not have to relocate all the settlers if a territorial agreement with the palestinians is finally reached settlements is definitely within the vocabulary of talking into the said voters so i believe that between now and twenty second of january you see only in the leisure of the

discourse from the prime minister the issue of settlements i hope that goes with the only messages which are connected to election. practices on the ground of the five hundred thousand are being divided at all two hundred thousand titles 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 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 between us and peace will be

standing one hundred thousand is where it's 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. remember you can always find more on the stories we're covering a click away at our team dot com here's a way to find on line right now how the u.s. is about to commence a new large scale deployment is coming near washington will be sending troops to as many as thirty five african countries more on that online plus. the catholic church gives a believers and lovers of culture a real christmas present find out what the multi-million euro are databases for at r g dot com. well throughout the day santa has been making his deliveries and hopefully you got what you wanted this christmas but there's been more window shopping than people actually parting with their hard earned cash this means that

even the catholic church has had to rely on a little old fashioned christian charity to help stage its traditional st peter's massive cost for this year's more frugal nativity scene were mostly paid with donations and in the eurozone parties peter oliver has been looking at wasn't the wishlist of those in charge or too much or even high powered santa. it's a time of goodwill and cheer and giving and for one particularly jolly gent it's busiest time of the year but 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 something you 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. the 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 still be international money. 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 general deputy you and left fronts 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 something here is 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 year 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 see. christmas spirit everywhere in britain flowing freely in the nation's pubs and restaurants but a summer treating themselves to a bit too much the holiday cheer is lost on the country's police and hospital staff sorry for it 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 but the christmas spirit 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 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 is 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 newcastle 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. very. pretty fiery but it is actually very yeah and there's a thing with the underage drinking to feel that young people who drink responsibly . know. that hello no everyone just gets upset.

over it he thinks. it's a strength. and. a soft drink responsibly yeah. well sometimes i'm not but i. i'm not tonight because of the good night out with a drink responsibly brought on or accusing you or her tell me your school where you can also move. forward she apart from these guys you will be a prophet of god they want you well you have to get more responsible over the intro you morris will soon people are over the age of twenty five not really both. come 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 t.t. 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 k. 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 r.t. recalls so. south korea may have some very expensive toys heading its way courtesy of the u.s. the pentagon wants to sell a number of on that aircraft just so we have more on international reaction on that plus. more people used to live in the slums now the economically disadvantaged occupies substandard housing in the inner cities winding voters with semantics later this hour we'll look at how politicians use language to mass but they are really up to that's after the break. wealthy british style moves on it's time to run the.

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thanks for staying with us here on our t. seventeen minutes past the hour now the pentagon is propose supplying high altitude spy drones to south korea the deal for up to four pilotless aircraft still needs congressional approval it could be worth as much as one point two billion dollars analysts nile bowie thinks the sale could seriously antagonize north korea though which is 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 the demilitarized zone so the south korean border they can also potentially be used to monitor north koreans and north korea's nuclear facilities however 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 north korean airspace this could potentially start a huge conflict and if you look at the results of that latest offering elections the president will let him hey she campaigned on a model of. reaching. into relations with north korea and going will get easier but i think what this shows is that my purchasing of these drones are having the attention to at least the ruling party doesn't really have any plans to change its foreign policy trajectory in any meaningful way i don't think we're grateful tak anyone to listen to her book first and if we look at reports coming out of south korea or south korea and the scientists it looked at the satellite this morning you orbit around a small function and reports say that the machine we're down 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 or for look easy or stuff where you're japan and killing a lot of people and tension. double talk designed to address that reality in sound bites easily digested by voters has become the default language of the political elite artie's marina porton i takes a look at whether us 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 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 there. 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 in america basically are on strike increasing taxes on job creators this administration and this president policies are hostile to job creators that is saying the wealthy who make over two hundred fifty thousand a year if you say a job creator they say well we can 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 shows today this same condition is known as an eight syllable hyphenated furries void of any

emotion post-traumatic stress disorder the aftermath of war includes post-traumatic . stress disorder and for those of you suffering from p.t.s.d. we're taking you to a war where you have the most damaging euphemisms like. saying innocent civilians were killed in a drone strike you say there was collateral damage collateral damages to me is the worst expression no it's innocent men women children killed in the collateral damage sounds like 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 they 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 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 with their lives their family in their work that 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 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 it newspeak reporting from new york. r.t. . turning now to some other stories making global headlines a military aircraft crash in the southern cal killing all twenty seven people on board the acting head of the country's borders that was on the flight which is also

thought to have been carrying other high ranking military personnel the plane took off from the capital and came down just twenty kilometers from its destination near the city of shem kent local media reports the pilots were trying to make an emergency landing the exact cause of the crash is unknown and investigation is underway. yes in bahrain it used tear gas and anti-government protesters continuing in a tense cracked out on public gatherings demonstrators demand the prime minister's resignation and a democratically elected government they also want the release of human rights campaigners saeed yousef 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 the vehicle that one hundred to a pond she's been arrested on suspicion of reckless driving overloading the bus a kindergarten also faces closure as it was found to be operating without

a license. and syrian rebels claim to have captured a small town near the turkish border government forces surrendered after weeks of heavy fighting opposition fighters now control large parts of the north of the country after seizing three major military bases and attack is now underway on a fourth base. running out of the hour now as we begin to say goodbye to two thousand and twelve r.t. remembers what the years brought us all today our news teams recall the austerity anger that took 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 we actually we all sat so still it's. square and i just see the come around behind the camera everybody else around me putting gas masks on like we had a few for moscow during the so you know life before i 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 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 court 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 the way over to pay back this massive. economic pull people to think it's about spain's crippling unemployment figures especially amongst the young about the cost of the states the services 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 you just it's not in the middle of one of these big protest movements when the clashes break out. coming up in a few minutes a festive year and kaiser report with poet john cooper clarke for everybody celebrating have a very merry christmas stay with us here on our. tucked

in between the russian mainland japan and the sun coming island is the island of minute on named off the french seafarer who discovered it it is described as the pride of the sakhalin region we'll take a look what's in store for us here. until two thousand and four the island was part of the boarders own and was completely restricted to visit this no this picture place is open to tourists unique plants and animals are its top attraction. really has been exploring the deaths of the world seas for several decades but it's here at morn you know an island where he has finally found what he'd been looking for the rest of the water here is very clear the visibility is very good and the underwater world here is extremely rich i've been to many diving locations across

the planet including the island of bali but mine are on top of my list while some go to the cycling region to enjoy the sights this convert the island's nature's riches into a healthy dollar it is home to the biggest seafood processing factory in russia the tonight shock hundreds of thousands of tons of fish get caught in the nets too late to produce delicious salamon caviar almost a necessary attribute of any feast in russia the owner of the enterprise says a good fishing season can bring in more than one hundred million dollars net profit . and to a large extent this is old to do what is environmentally. operates in the only and natural habitat and mild climate unique natural sights and delicious seafood can offer a diverse holiday for those who are not afraid to travel ten thousand kilometers from europe the question is whether this distant land would ever be able to become a major tourist destination.

merry christmas time for a very special report possibly the greatest park. still active tearing out stadiums around the world. and a very special report guest i present to you mr john cooper clarke. fantastic my christmas wishes come true i saw you recently doing something i have to have you here to do it trouser drove to get it away. now yes sir. who still bang goes through.