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tom: it s the christmas season. which is according to andy williams the most wonderful time of the year. but not everyone is into that and they re tired of all of the good cheer but would it surprise you to know a new study find that declining invitations to holiday parties is actually good for you. many people say yes to invites when they want to say no. you see they re afraid their friend will be angry and cross them off future party lists. but researchers found, quote, people tend to exaggerate degree to which the person who issue invitation will focus on act of the invitee declining invitation as opposed to the thoughts that pass through their head before they decline. you get it right, it s old bit of wisdom you wouldn t so much about what other people thought of you. if you knew how seldom hay did there s a lot of demands on your time this time of the year. you have to look out for your mental health even if it makes you kind of a grinch. this woman hates holida
tom: it s the christmas season. which is according to andy williams the most wonderful time of the year. but not everyone is into that and they re tired of all of the good cheer but would it surprise you to know a new study find that declining invitations to holiday parties is actually good for you. many people say yes to invites when they want to say no. you see they re afraid their friend will be angry and cross them off future party lists. but researchers found, quote, people tend to exaggerate degree to which the person who issue invitation will focus on act of the invitee declining invitation as opposed to the thoughts that pass through their head before they decline. you get it right, it s old bit of wisdom you wouldn t so much about what other people thought of you. if you knew how seldom hay did there s a lot of demands on your time this time of the year. you have to look out for your mental health even if it makes you kind of a grinch. this woman hates holida
tom: it s the christmas season. which is according to andy williams the most wonderful time of the year. but not everyone is into that and they re tired of all of the good cheer but would it surprise you to know a new study find that declining invitations to holiday parties is actually good for you. many people say yes to invites when they want to say no. you see they re afraid their friend will be angry and cross them off future party lists. but researchers found, quote, people tend to exaggerate degree to which the person who issue invitation will focus on act of the invitee declining invitation as opposed to the thoughts that pass through their head before they decline. you get it right, it s old bit of wisdom you wouldn t so much about what other people thought of you. if you knew how seldom hay did there s a lot of demands on your time this time of the year. you have to look out for your mental health even if it makes you kind of a grinch. this woman hates holida
welcome to bbc news. we start in moscow, were a court has as i expected rejected the appeal of the us match one. evan gershkovich. evan gershkovich. have a look at these images of evan gershkovich appearing in court. the russian authorities accuse him of spying, charges which he and his employer, the wall streetjournal, strongly deny. he appeared at the same court where yesterday an opponent of president putin was convicted of treason and sentenced to 25 years in prison. here s our russia editor, steve rosenberg. this was the first time evan gershkovich had been seen in public since being arrested. the wall streetjournal reporter was appealing his detention. the appeal was rejected. he s the first western journalist here to be charged with spying since the cold war, a charge that he, his newspaper and his government categorically reject. the charges against evan are baseless, and we call on the russian federation to immediately release him. a rare glimpse inside the prison wh