to blame patients doctors manufacturers or the governments of. the day most could tie their shoes if things have to send in the news from moscow vladimir putin congratulates joe biden earlier on victory in the u.s. presidential election and expresses russia's willingness to work together it's up to the u.s. electoral college declared by the with. the . other news activists say crowd control tactics by french police smash and grab cause mass violation of human and press freedoms at nationwide rallies against the country's new security council. and the turkish president heads out to washington over sanctions over ankara's purchase of a russian missile defense system. that. we expect

supports not sanctions from our nato ally the united states of america. good afternoon thanks for watching out international live from moscow with me kevin irwin here with me in this hour 1st centers make sure those headlines for him a putin's congratulated joe biden on victory in the u.s. presidential election it's after members of the electoral college in the states across the u.s. officially declared biden the winner the russian president waited for that air fishel confirmation of the win then putin says any contacts with the new administration is welcome cooperation is in everyone's interest however donald trump says his legal challenge over alleged voter fraud is not over meantime the trumpet ministrations attorney general in other news bill barr has resigned here earlier found no evidence of widespread election fraud kaleb open wraps it all up

from new york. donald trump is still not conceding donald trump says he is the legitimate winner of the 2020 election 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 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 and 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 it 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 to 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 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. it's

pretty clear that on january 20th joe biden will be sworn in as the 46th 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. about the process of the whole election legal analyst lionel told us the u.s. electoral college system on the stones of these days to voting best practice i'm

going to be to president of the united states what is defeat number of states i can win to get 270 electoral votes to not desire really the biggest state but they normally comprise in terms of size. out of the 50 states you would need only win 11 this was done in 2012 the number may have changed somewhat but just think about this 11 states the biggies california new york etc and it would comprise 27 percent of the popular vote and you could be president you want to target or try that one out for size the idea of this is simply this you are and it's not that you are voting in the old days nobody trusted the citizen to understand the complexity of the of this the founding fathers didn't want necessarily senators to vote but they thought that we were just too too busy with plowing and herding cattle to understand this that's why the electors would meet oftentimes while after the

election because it took so long for them to get to their state capitals it seems archaic it seems anachronistic but there's an incredible brilliance and this b.s. if you're the winner it balances out if you're the loser is entered a low vienna's archaic is antiquarian his ass a fight so it depends on whose ox is gored but i love the system i just love because it's part of who we are confused and screwed up. inadmissible abuse so human rights a media groups have branded police behavior recent protests against a new security bill in the french capital more than a $140.00 people in 2 journalists were arrested including through controversial law enforcement tactics the smash and grab the show depends who reports. saturday's a protest against the draw floors on security and in trying republicans value so police deploy new crowd control tactics.

essentially assume mash and grab security forces smashing into the protests and grabbing out individuals who they think may be troublemakers nearly 150 people were detained provoking anger from some that describe these detentions as being arbitrary this saturday december 12th a number of observers saw inadmissible abuse linked to a deployment of brutal police and military offices and the infringement of the right to demonstrate that includes mass arrests and justify charging to break up a procession and detention without legitimate reason beyond legal limits. i was at the police station where several protesters were held including

a 17 year old young woman this underage girl was arrested at saturday's demonstration she didn't do anything wrong said she was protesting and recording police officers on camera this is unspeakable it wasn't just protesters being detained lists were also taken in one was suspected of planning to orchestrate violence refusing to a break a police dispersal order and cooperating their face now given the current mood of fronts with concerns being raised about press freedom there are fears in some quarters that this is a slippery slope. the strategy of paris believes force to dissuade people from protesting and this is unacceptable the main aim of this strategy is to cast doubt on the right to protest in fact many people got arrested for no apparent reason whatsoever this is some kind of communication complaint to persuade people that the government has stopped

a violent and aggressive actions but they did not and this is unbearable. it comes as the latest press freedom index shows that france has dropped down the list amongst the concerns include problems for reporters covering demonstrations having their equipment confiscated and being injured at protests not just by the police but even by demonstrators themselves sometimes there is also a red flag over judicial investigations and attempts to force journalists to reveal their contacts there was also a disturbing increase in judicial harassment of investigative reporters aimed at identifying their sources the french government says it respects press freedoms but these are new tactics and the detention of journalists is likely to the theory here process when someone in that the list of being admissible abuses is growing by the

day so much auti paris. washington's imposed sanctions on turkey over its purchase of russia's s $400.00 surface to air missile system but an angry president there and said he'd hoped for better treatment. we expect supports not sanctions from our nato ally the united states of america in our battle against terrorist organizations and forces that have plans for our region. 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 as 400 possession as soon as possible the embargoes target turkey's defense industry and officials whose assets will be frozen visas restricted or russia's foreign minister says the move breaks international law but also goes on to say not surprised. should.

this is of course another example of arrogance towards international law a manifestation of illegitimate 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. or thora t. on the international arena is a responsible participant in the international division of labor including military and technical cooperation. russia's s $400.00 defense system last year washington threatened to punish turkey ever since claiming this system is a danger to nato well as thoughts on this from istanbul based political analyst yousif area may their focus be with this well this is long been now it's happened how will turkey respond to these sanctions. well normally the protocol diplomatically used to reciprocate any type of hostile action taken against a country so turkey will try to reciprocate and complicate things for the united

states in bilateral relations and most likely american activity in the region as well 30 can also see buying u.s. weapons to turkey to cease producing parts for the f. 35 there's american presence in jersey air bases american presence that should it you can read our station so these are all steps that you could take but i don't think you will take any very aggressive steps right now especially with the new administration coming in january 20th i think turkey wants to wait and see a give diplomacy a chance with biting we've already seen the turkish president call for review of the sanctions where he's hoping that they could be lifted or east going forward yeah i think i was going to come on to the. lasting damage than to to relations with washington is it all going to be wound back anyway when the by the ministration comes in and how quickly could it be back. well i don't there's

a lot of deep rooted problems in the u.s. or the relationship i think the biggest loss of the sanctions is the transatlantic community you have nato the number one military sanctioning the procurement arm of nader's number 2 military and at a time when the strength of the transatlantic community is big question this type of action is very very detrimental and will this hurt us turkey relations it'll definitely hurt us start the relations off my cock they say that they try to get even turkey many many mornings where we have to realize that might be in the neighborhood 3 times this time a year and even visited it's them without ever sitting down and talking to turkish officials so this was a humbug you can't. i couldn't hear that but how does the been viewed in taking the saudis not even begun that well it's

a huge snub because we see the americans saying that they want to give diplomacy a chance but throughout this whole s 400 process acted very asymmetrically very unilaterally turkey wanted a working group to test the stuff of the f. 35 versus the s 400 if they hey this is not a threat that this will be it b s $400.00 will be operated as a standalone it's not integrated into nato systems but the u.s. has not tried to gauge turkey diplomatically has not tried to work towards a solution and this is viewed in turkey as asymmetric basically an imposition of america's will on turkey and turkey will not allow the united states to determine its bilateral relations and determine who approved cheers it's what was what's more important key big in the night to a lot and so do we need something here what's going to give. well i think both are important but at the end of the day just as with any country it's only national

security is completely paramount so i think this is a time for soul searching for nato where they're going to have to decide going forward what type of a line they want to be and it's going to be also a kind of soul searching for turkey how important is needed to turkey how turkey to nato these are questions that are definitely going to have to be answered in the year going forward because as we did right now there is not a strong cohesion a side of the alliance and turkey has been very very effective in its contributions to nato it is the transatlantic community's southern flank but what washington wants they want to see everything is in black and white in your friends with russia you can't be friends with the united states but unfortunately in this part of the world in the middle east in eastern europe in the balkans things are black and white. that is america have a point that there's a possibility of equipment that the russian kit is incompatible with the nato kit

how much of a problem is that really what i think we need to ask the 6 or 7 nato countries that already possess 300 if they're compatible or incompatible now we have to realize that turkey signed yet 400 deal before taps was brought into legislation i think this is very very important that the americans chose to retroactively use caps to punish turkey well if that's the case what about the other nato countries that have 300 why is this not a big issue for them why is turkey being singled out. now the question is so the noose affair and political analyst thanks for your input today big old story kicking off again soon again thank you it's 16 post may day moscow time thank you for your time as well because stick around after the break as mainstream outlets publish a fresh outlandish scheme of russian plotting against the opposition figure election of l. me make some of those claims in

a bit more depth to the senior correspondent here on r t international. so

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this spearing dramatic developments only mostly exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. again this is r t with me kevin o. in next for mainstream media outlets have published a huge investigation claiming to trace a russian security officers who have been following opposition figure election of army since 2017 but it appears to raise more questions than answers is our senior correspondent. on monday c.n.n.

spiegel and several other outlets premiered their latest hit tales about how a dozen russian f.s.b. agents tailed live on the for years and so incompetent were they that the script writers claimed they managed to identify them their phone numbers there every step their calls that tax their addresses they even uncovered a prior deadly plot to poison the valley with one of the most toxic substances known to man move a chalk hero see forgot about it he remembered just a few days ago jus to a clumsy mistake by russian intelligence his wife took the hit she apparently felt terrible dreadful like never before so she went for a nap. apparently cured her alexina valmy believes that the mysterious sickness his wife describes is very similar to the feeling of impending death that he experienced on board the airplane on 20th august after being poisoned with no

for chuck aside from the comically incompetent russian spies and agents who somehow for many years fooled the world into thinking that they weren't clowns and aside from the valleys amazing resistance to being killed i mean this guy would put bugs bunny or the road runner to shame aside from that what really stood out in this claim that the laughably useless russians have a nano substance which removes all traces of chemical weapons which they somehow forgot to use east of the problems of chemical and claimed 2018 invention of numbness or been set for a moving traces of chemical weapons from infected sites crucially at least one member of the f.s.b. squat is in frequent contact with a scientist from this institute now my big question in all of this is about the rule looking reading and sounding like fanfiction or cia agents they dream about how he would expose. the russians of be applauded by his peers my big question is

about you know whether any of it's true because there are 2 explanations in the 1st one is that these journalists were given the entire page the data by western intelligence agencies because they sure as heck didn't find it in the dark net as novelli alluded you don't find the geolocation data of f.b.i. agents cell phones on the dark net which is pretty horrendous it would mean western intelligence agencies and journalists are in cahoots the 2nd explanation is that this i open an exposé is about as worthless as the last one hospital task that the russian opposition leader alexina found he was poisoned by now if agent found enough so a few days ago british pundits claim that russian spies try to poison the valley again while he was in a coma i mean how hard would it be he's right there literally in a coma if you wanted to kill him you really really couldn't miss and this latest

grand investigation claims that the last grand investigation was well made up note also that there is no data about any effort to be poisonous reside in an ohm square novel that was there in the hospital therefore the rumor that f.s.b. ages could possibly have poisoned him again and omsk which was distributed by the times is not true this is what you call open ended. look at sun to come the daughter of the top or a need general assassinated by the us earlier this year spoke exclusively to r.t. in her 1st media interview zine absalom money told r.t. is going underground program about the response to his killing from a family in the country as a whole you can watch the whole thing a full interview here from wednesday. you see how people come to the streets and they are crying and they are sad and they are angry and they want revenge and they are waiting for an answer because they know what general

salim money did for them and they are in they know also well why trump order to kill my father so so obstinate after killing my father america thought that everything will be stopped because they killed general soleimani defo or of the middle east but they are so wrong they didn't see the anger of the od in the eyes of iranian peoples they didn't see their tears they didn't see their sadness and i have to say that generously money has a military from people that they will take revenge from chomped and they are so wrong they are sinking this war will be end the end of general silly money this is the beginning and there is a $1000.00 people like general soley money are ready to fight life him

stronger more powerful and this is our power and if they are thinking for the they must or no our people are united and they will stand in front of such a they just powers. social distancing to become synonymous with bound. to many parents are worried how a lack of social interactions going to be affecting the children's mental health my daughter has seen more giraffes at the zoo then she's seen other kids be just $23.00 and $4.00 are really important for learning how to share learning how to play outside what isn't he getting by not being able to run around the neighborhood with his friends. cambridge university study found a statistically significant increase in depression among children after locked us

psychology expert catherine hirsch person told us the effect of the restrictions often depends on the age of the child. i think it's very important for young children to play with peers and when they play with peers that's how they learn how to share it's how they learn how to navigate the social environment for the children who are in the floor 56 or there are definitely remember this time once we tell them it it safe to be with people again then i suspect they will work hard to overcome it because we gravitate toward this like a magnetic poor to people so i think we'll be irate some of the older children. who are maybe in middle school and high score for then this is truly such a difficult period because there with peers are the time some will probably go through exacerbated mental issues that we're going to want to deal with and so we

have to be quipped at the end to help these children learn to feel safe with the children of their age me time as the british government's public services to stay open even in the areas hardest hit by the pandemic it's been revealed the prime minister boris johnson was warned by top health officials that easing measures for 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 a new 3 tier system came into force in england on december the 2nd with many parts of the southeast including london now being moved into the top alert level the 3rd tears applied to regions where the infection rates highest while it's true it

prohibits households mixing with each other it does allow restaurants and bars to open for takeaway and delivery lonely and all of the shops and public services can remain open including beauty salons gyms and churches. as officials have confirmed a new variant of the virus has been detected in the u.k. as well as a sharp uptick in numbers by december 10th the number of new covert cases as risen to more than 21000 a day we spoke to a british senior clinical lecturer about the importance of safety measures in a month of course associated with families all coming together during the festive period. there were irises there case numbers out there 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 a we miss our departed friends. let me take 45 seconds of time to take you through these new stories in brief a fire that tore through a care home in central russia has killed 11 all the victims were elderly residents of the facility equivalent 1st occasions been launched to try to work out what went wrong. indian farmers a stopped up their protests against new farm laws designed to open up the country's idle cultural market workers held hunger strikes and blockaded roads over fears that removal of subsidies and minimum price guarantees would hurt them financially . argentinians got to see this they gather to watch the world's only total solar eclipse this year didn't have long to do it though it plunged parts of the country

into darkness for about 2 minutes people was special glasses to block out all trial that raise and look safely what is of course a natural phenomenon. so they did turn it on pause mid day that's it for me for now the fun so much more from assault on social media and of our social media or r.t. dot com for now reporting from moscow kevin i'm wishing a great day and thanks for watching. by the demick no certainly no borders just blind to nationalities. as american with the we don't look like seem. to be.

judging. commentary crisis with this system to my. we can do better we should. everyone is contributing it's your own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges created with the response has been masked so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we're in it together. i walked straight. to you. oh wow.