i'm show business i'll see that. trick for tat as the electoral college cast its votes ceiling joe biden when trump announces his attorney general will resign after voicing disappointment in his lack of action on voter fraud allegations and his handling of a probe into biden's son hunter. rolled out across the largest country in the world every region in russia prepares to give covert vaccinations in the hopes of avoiding a hard lockdowns over the festive period. hospitality workers in paris protest against a coded lockdown until mid january with many businesses on the verge of collapse. and dirty dealing are key films drug gangs taking over parts of berlin as police

report a rise in their activity since last summer in the german capital. broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us right now across the united states members of the electoral college have met to cast their votes for the country's next president and put joe biden officially across the line this comes as donald trump announces the resignation of attorney general bill barr previously suggesting he had not done enough to investigate claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential race nor to look into allegations of corruption in the foreign business dealings of joe biden's son hunter with more on this let's cross live to our g.'s killed. caleb . it's a big day in the news in the united states so let's talk 1st about joe biden in

his path to the white house is this clear. indeed joe biden at this point it appears he has the majority of the electoral votes california cast its $55.00 electoral votes and that put joe biden into the position of basically being the winner of the electoral college votes now this comes at the same moment that we're hearing reports that william barr the u.s. attorney general has been essentially forced to step down indicate that donald trump was quite frustrated about the fact that that william bar instructed prosecutors not to make public the investigation into hunter biden the son of president elect joe biden in the lead up to the presidential election and it appears that donald trump was frustrated about that and donald trump has also been frustrated with the attorney general for not looking in to allegations of fraud

around the country so we see donald trump speaking up on twitter saying that william barr will be leaving shortly before the christmas holiday rumors abound about about you know the possibility of firing its but it appears that william barr the u.s. attorney general will be leaving the post very soon now at this point it's important to note that you know at this point the electoral college has cast their votes and many people may not be aware that the usa does not have a popular vote to elect the president now doesn't really make a difference in this case because joe biden has won the popular vote is in the lead in the popular vote by roughly 7000000 votes but regardless every state every one of the u.s. states has a number of electors they then cast their vote in the electoral college and now occasionally in u.s. history there have been individuals they refer to as faithless electors who vote differently then their respective state assigned them to however. they're generally

not a factor there were some faithless electors in 2016 but this time around that does not appear to be the case but donald trump is still not. conceding donald trump says he is the legitimate winner of the 2020 election this is donald trump. no it's not over we keep going and we're going to continue to go forward we have numerous local cases where you know in some of the states a good to rig from the from us. now there was a last ditch effort to try and to try and you know win the white house for trump in the supreme court we saw the state of texas file to have the results in the state of georgia in pennsylvania michigan and wisconsin overturned based on allegations of fraud the supreme court opted not to hear the case they threw it out of court and as a result today's electoral college voting proceeded and there was a vote and joe biden has pulled ahead as the clear winner of that vote with

a clear majority now in the aftermath of the supreme court turning down trumps trumps proposal and trumps case and the texas intervention we saw leaders of the texas republican party talk about the need to form some kind of union of what they're referring to as a law abiding states take a listen to this. the supreme court and tossing the texas lawsuit has decreed that a state can take unconstitutional actions and violate its own election law perhaps law abiding states should bond together and form a union of states that will abide by the constitution now divisions in the united states are intensifying there have been repeated clashes between the left wing and right wing protesters across the country just this weekend in olympia washington we saw crowds of proud boys that's a right wing organization clashing with left wing activists and there was violence the police actually declared the situation to be

a riot after shots were fired let's review some of the unrest that's been taking place. now at this point it's pretty clear that on january 20th joe biden will be sworn in as the $46.00 president of the united states it'll be on january 6th that congress approves the electoral college votes and that seems to be pretty unstoppable at this point however that's unlikely to reunify the country there's a lot of distrust a lot of anger a lot of animosity from supporters feel this election was stolen from them trump's

opponents are still very angry about things that have gone on over the last 4 years and it's very unlikely that the inauguration of joe biden is going to simply heal these wounds a lot of deep divisions in us society all right artie's killam up in new york so across this busy newsnight for us thanks for that report perspective. right now russia has fast tracked the rollout of its sputnik vaccine to reach every region for the new year period in some parts of the country the vaccination program is already underway it is hoped it will bring down daily infections which peaked here in russia at the start of the month parties on quarter has more on today's developments. today's the day that sputnik vs finally made its way to every single region of russia president putin spokes person said that unlike many countries in the west of there will be no strict lockdown measures for this holiday season and that likely has to do with the russian health ministries latest achievement the president's order has been executed and vaccines but choose from aspects

a nation would deliver today to every region in russia vaccination is the path we should take if we also break the spread of the disease russia's prime minister has made it clear the vaccine is voluntary however it will be offered free of charge to all russian citizens medics teachers and social workers are at the front of the line to be vaccinated since their work is specifically high risk but we also heard from the prime minister that he promised 480000 vaccinations will be delivered across the country in december although inoculations have already begun in key regions like novosibirsk for example where medical workers have already taken the shot i know just people get to scoop it stuff this way we're waiting for the vaccine and we're happy to be furious to know and to get the champ let's not forget sputnik he has an over 90 percent efficacy rate and russia's health minister is also saying that the latest information coming out about it is very encouraging so with over 27000 more cases recorded in the country within the past 24 hours alone

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often. so you'll need to wait for 23 months. in the social you simply. can see results. to france now where hospitality workers have gathered in paris against prolonged lockdown measures which they say are crippling their industry although some restrictions will be lifted on tuesday restaurants bars and cafes will have to stay shut right across the holidays earlier my colleague andrew farmer discussed this with our dubinsky who was at the protest for us. from a number of different sectors the restaurant kept by him for sector but also from the tourism sector to a nervous people own entertainment venues like. all come out to tell the government they want to open up their business because they have had. 2020 men with them

saying they. see with some recent report showing that some 90200 thousands almost half of the business is. saying that they could be closing up shop for good in the next 3 months things are really so i know there is a small minority businesses with up to $10000.00 per month or 20 percent. from last year but many say that that is simply not enough on the cooling on the government. for this is the government has provided financial assistance but not everyone meets the criteria some restaurants tours and hotel owners just recently opened and they're not receiving help there's not enough help anyway. so popular professor cicle if the problem isn't the government's not doing enough the problem is that restaurants are closed this is not normal there's no reason for

a pandemic is not spreading from new research in france has proven that and restaurants a hot spot for the virus we've come here today not to demand help for the system we reopen for work i don't. know work expenses continue to multiply human but we don't have money to pay for it we don't have money for children to do just what we can to work but we still have to play with the current economic balance is unfit for life at the condom on manya from us if we can't know the current situation here are fronds is concerning the government there are almost 60000 individuals who have been considered to died as a result of 19 every day the infection rate is still around $10000.00 cases that is. what president papa was hoping it would be at this point the

government is starting a massive screening situation in some cities across france although there have been criticisms over that too and of course the new poet sheen phase of the decompile it starts on tuesday with projects now many to consider. starting . you could see that starts at 8 pm in the even knowing him as a racially charged but there is concern that on tuesday cultural institutions were supposed to be opening they won't be opened up because tradition in many restaurants is good. so in that there's a possibility that january 28th which is the date they were originally projected to be opening may not be the one when. there are many issues are there at the moment in france that spring people latch on to the streets to protest not least at the weekend we saw people. in protest over the new global security law all more

expected at their own more protests expected we've seen this protest over the last few weeks about the global security law and then to add fuel to the fire that there's this new promoting republican values law many of the protesters who came out of the weekend said that there are certain aspects of that more which used to be known as the separatism rule which ramos they tend to cool article $24.00 from the global security bill which is incredibly controversial this idea that you would criminalize publishing in a people who publish images where individuals can be identified and there is no intent to harm them now there was also a huge criticism of the protest over the weekend with the police using new tactics to try and avoid similar violence we have seen over the past few weeks essentially carrying out what i would describe as a smash and grab this is where the police ram into the crowds and they take out individuals who they think are trouble makers.

well almost $150.00 individuals were detained at the protests on saturday many of these detentions coming in the 1st hour or so of protests before it was really too much trouble and all of those detained 2 would journalist. now there's been huge criticism about from many oprah's issues sides also from human rights groups on june with scripts as well and that comes as the new press freedom index between 20 shows that france is down the scale yet again it's now what number for the world it was previously at number 32 in bases meaning how journalists were treated in 2019

the government says it is freedom of the press he would fronts but these rankings show that the certainty is diminished. as parts of the u.k. face strict 1000 restrictions this holiday season it has been revealed that the british prime minister boris johnson was warned by top health experts that easing measures before christmas would spark a 3rd wave a relaxation of restrictions on social contact combined with the natural desire to celebrate inevitably increases the spread of the virus whilst we are not at this point asking for a change in the proposed christmas rules we are concerned that the current public debate on those rules is ignoring the significant extra risk involved well a new 3 tier system came into force on december 2nd in england with many parts of the southeast including london now being moved into the top alert level this 3rd tier is applied to regions where the infection rate is highest while it strictly

prohibits households mixing with each other and allows restaurants and bars to open for takeaway and to delivery only all other shops and public services can remain open this includes anything from hair and beauty salons to churches and gyms. was hoping to reduce covert cases and allow some celebrations infections are still on the rise u.k. officials have even confirmed a new variant of the virus has been detected national health service chiefs however say that they warned the government back in september about the easing out of lockdown restrictions at the time the n.h.s. was reportedly treating around 500 hospitalized coburg 1000 patients but by december 10th this figure had soared to 13000 patients we spoke to. we spoke to excuse me senior clinical lecture dr. about the importance of safety measures in a month associated with families coming together. the order is their case numbers

are that we need to have a very restricted christmas what is important is that you are honest and believable and trusted and you tell your people that we have a problem it is not possible to meet on 23rd 24th 25th of december however very soon in the new year it will become possible so that is being truthful and honest and you explain to people that the vaccines are coming and when the vaccines are coming and most people have been immunized it will be safer easier and better to meet up you don't want to be raising your glasses to say hey we miss our departed friends. the german capital has seen a massive rise in drug use as police attempt to pin down entire districts that are said to be under the control of dealers our sister channel our german captured at the troubling trend that has been building since last year using hidden cameras.

it. at that. the only. intimidated me a well built young man came into my kiosk i told him to get out but he refused to and they started grabbing and i called the police but there are too late i gave a statement but nothing is changed. only. if you can see them looking out for pics. answer victim if somebody is not paying

attention they smashed a bag of wallets. that i move on when i go to the station looking for a dealer and i tell him what i need so it takes it out of his mouth this time the price for it goes it's $20.00 euros like even the money and we go our separate ways . here bronson from the alternative for germany party told us the drug problem has deteriorated due to an insufficient a response from local authorities the most important reason for this drug trafficking is a very lenient city government they instructed police to turn a blind eye towards the drug dealers that gurlitz up ethnic groups from africa most of them rejected asylum seekers multi-port it according to the law they activate

the africans are acting out and go to some poc and trying to make a living but demo illegal immigrants looking for decent work but as i said most of them rejected you saw him saying he is and should not be in this country secondly there are. klan activities arab who are dominating certain areas and. there are valid very well organized it's always nice crime and. their word is that lol and this happens not just in berlin but also in other cities in germany. the us has put sanctions on its nato ally turkey over the purchase of the russian s 400 surface to air missile system u.s. secretary of state my pompei all made the announcement on monday. turkey is a valued ally and an important regional security partner for the united states and

we seek to continue our decades long history of productive defense sector cooperation by removing the obstacle of turkey's s 400 possession as soon as possible the sanctions up put a ban on all u.s. export licenses for turkey's defense agency presidency of defense industries and an asset freeze and a visa restrictions on its president is mile dear and 3 other top employees sanction threatened to damage turkey's economy while the country is struggling to cope with the coronavirus russian foreign minister sergey lavrov says the u.s. move goes against international law yet he says it comes as no surprise. this is of course another example of arrogance towards international law a manifestation of a legitimate unilateral coercive measures that the united states has been using for many years even decades left and right and of course it doesn't increase u.s. authorities on the international arena where it is

a responsible participant in the international division of labor including military and technical cooperation. purchased the russian s 400 defense system in july 2019 washington had threatened to turkey with sanctions ever since claiming the system poses a threat to nato yes 400 is configured in a different way from other ground to air systems used by the alliance which means it cannot easily be incorporated into nato as wider air defenses in the region historian gerald horne believes the u.s. stance is all about business. the only way for 30 to satisfy washington would be disciplined or sovereignty and basically a mile to the 51st us need turkey wants to buy this is $400.00 system from russia united states does not want turkey to do so because in many ways nature was just a weapons racket it's just a way for a member states to pour money into their own estates. complex military materiel

from u.s. contractors like raytheon and boeing and all the rest turkey no longer wants to participate in that racket and they're in the conflict with regard to nato the expansion of nato for example to the former soviet republic of georgia may not only be to target moscow it may be in itself to target turkey as well following an expulsion of the from nato or putting further pressure or need to with regard to accepting georgia as a nato member this is a very serious conflict. anti-racism campaigners have set their sights on a leading art gallery in britain over a miracle that shows and enslaved black child tate britain it now except that the work is offensive the chair of the ethics committee noted that members were unequivocal in their view that the imagery of their work is offensive trustees

discuss the need to acknowledge the strength of feeling around the mirror and the harm that is imagery has cost the miro which covers the wall of a gallery restaurant is called the x. edition in pursuit of rare meets it is by rex whistler and shows a hunting expedition characters in the piece include a captured black boy being led with a chain around his neck campaigners want the worker to respond we're taking this time to consult and certainly them externally on the future of the room and the meal room and we will keep the public informed of future plans it has polarized opinion between those who want the mail to stay and those who call it an unacceptable carry over from britain's colonial past we put the issue up for debate . but we need to debate and leave these things where they are so people can understand history and understand how far we have drawn from these images they may now from defensive well know the current. situation if you're just going to hide

things away and you never going to educate people is passive which is also part of black history. what you're looking out. deeply offensive work placed in one of the most prodigious practices galleries in the country pulse black lives matter that the whole paradigm shift in thinking is that what was formerly acceptable what used to be acceptable is now no longer except. that you can move. to some sort of the museum of colonialism or british shaman you can provide the education context that. to have the super soft slavery while you retain your 45 grew up in a premier arts establishment of the country it can be moved and it can be praised the proper educational context but he certainly not in a public space in the credit prestigious art gallery or just

a creep saying it's british colonialism is not to mislead an essentially folse because you misleading people of black history it earned because you are to be alone is a leftwing matches political party said which should go to a party now so the actual movement for black lives is lost its momentum as being any credibility or less basic 8 people about the entire history of the slave but don't hide the fact that black african tribes were complicit in it well before europeans got there and it wasn't just british colonialism can we just be absolutely clear because you know no longer be used to be misled that chattel slave chance that led to china. well sling wasn't a periodic in slaven of warring tribes that could be released in the negotiation between different villages it was the most brutal long lasting exploitation probably one of the greatest crimes in human history or 50000000 africans exported

from west africa and the interior what we will to do is just create history away so that our friends are not alone and that sharing is a 19th century and i want to hide anything away i want to put it you know history in a museum of colonialism and slavery that puts it in the proper context and you my friend would be the 1st customer to get educated because your ignorance is so profound as to be absolutely shocking and that has a for me this i'll be back in let's say 31 and a half minutes with another look at the news this is art international stay with us .

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