headlines this hour vladimir putin congratulate joe biden on victory in the u.s. presidential election and expressed his russia's willingness to work together it's after the u.s. electoral college declared the winner. also to come getting tough on the world's tech titans the e.u. unveils a major overhaul of digital market rules which could see massive fines for online giants who abuse their dominance and. i think. activists a new crowd control tactics by french police dubbed smash and grab are a mass violation of human rights and press freedoms and also to come this hour the president hits out of washington for sanctions imposed over anchorages purchase of

a russian missile defense system. the initiative that we expect supports not sanctions from our nato allies the united states of america. hello there good evening you're watching r.t. international now glad imitated has congratulated joe biden on victory in the u.s. presidential election is after members of the electoral college across the united states officially declared by the winner well the russian president had waited for that official confirmation of the when putin does say that any contact with the new administration is welcome and that cooperation is in everybody's interest however donald trump still insists that his legal challenge over alleged voter fraud will continue meanwhile the trump ministrations attorney general bill barr has resigned he. we have found no evidence of widespread as action through what kind of weapon

reports now 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 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 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 the 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. because

. it's pretty clear that on january 20th joe biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the ited 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 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 and u.s. society. ok well let's get the thoughts now in the 3rd he's

a senior political science lecturer at the height of the center for american studies he's with us now we appreciate your time thanks for coming on martin just firstly we've heard that president trump said he's still going to contest this election but for all intents and purposes it's over isn't it i think so i think there will be probably some attempt as your correspondent mentioned on gender to 60 by some members of the republican party house delegation but i think it will lead to nowhere and i think he is contesting the election i think still to have a grip on the republican party because i think that keeps him the undisputed leader of the republican party for some time to be asleep and children reparation so i think he knows that it's over in practical terms as well. i mean in terms of relations with russia under the trump of ministration relations weren't great what you think the prospects are of anything improving when joe biden comes to power. i thought that the chill in the u.s.

russia relations that is going on since probably 2012 will continue and it might actually deepen a little bit under biden because i think the atmosphere to rhetoric will change a little bit i think the biden administration will bring in some some issues such as sort of values also in transatlantic relations but also issues like democracy and human rights he will be publicly be more supportive of to so hold in between countries between a 2 and russia belarus ukraine and the south caucasus so in that sense i think we shouldn't expect a very happy relationship it having said that i think that the fact that. both biden but also secretary of state designate and tony blinken are known quantities i think in moscow people do not have under realistic expectations of each other as was probably the case at the beginning of the obama administration so i think that the 2 actually the 2 foreign secretaries will do

a lot of the work initially. and tony blinken. and that at least it's professional and the mixed message saying it was a sign of the trumpet ministration on the one hand being in bracing president hu even at miring him on the other hand being in adversity on some issues such as north stream such as. nature or in the baltic states and so on that will be become more coherent but it will be a tougher language i doubt that the actions of the american government will be much tougher but we can talk about that in a 2nd as well. there's a lot of policies where there's conflicts but there are policies where there could be cooperation and i both sides who over the last few years haven't been able to do that but if you take iran for example nordstrom as you mentioned i mean this there is nothing. i'm going to happen. i agree i think there are areas of positive

engagement of the 2 countries and i think the 1st will be about nuclear proliferation as you know and everybody in inversion knows that the bilateral new start agreement just do it to expire both 2 weeks after biden's inauguration and so i think. both sides will include i think chinese strategic weapons but biden may reach out quickly to moscow maybe even to seek a temporary extension so did it doesn't expire on i think a february 5th so i think that can be. a scope or in the scope of where cooperation in other areas could happen and here you will think that the 2 presidents might actually have to talk very soon after biden's inauguration but there are other things i think biden's announcement to rejoin the world health organization will come at russia russia is still one of the countries upholding the jointer comprehensive plan on action which is the technical name for the iran

atomic deal and whether biden will simply rejoin it on the old terms remains to be seen but that's something that russia will welcome and i think even on climate change in counterterrorism they want room for operation but i think a lot will be done by diplomats will be done but on the state department level maybe not on the white house and the rocky kremlin level. the biden says he knows how to handle putin is that a good sign or is just political rhetoric at this stage. i think it's mostly rhetoric but he's true i mean he visited the old soviet union for the 1st time in 1979 as a relatively young senator and he's come back several times when he chaired the senate foreign relations committee in the ninety's so he does know moscow both in its old soviet union days but also i think in the more recent russia days and no i think the rhetoric because he will use issues of human rights he will be more

openly supportive of the countries that are that i mentioned a couple minutes ago this might make it to a rhetorical more difficult and withdrawn but i think on the on the working level on the professional level especially between the diplomats i think things might be easier because the 6 x. that we had in the from europe will probably be gone whether putin well comes more coherence if it's tougher i don't know but i think that the russian side will be intelligent enough to distinguish between rhetoric and concrete actions that the americans take i think nobody in america or in the west has any interest with a violent confrontation with russia anywhere. do you think there is at least a better climate for cooperation i say that because every time try to engage with russia the rules of claims of treason domestically within america itself. subsided can you expect biden to toe it pains in that get getting caught up in all

of that stuff that found himself in. i mean we can have sort of a reverse only nixon could go to china affect if trump it stayed in power and moved closer to russia he would have been accused of collusion all the stuff that was sort of haunting his his his term in office if biden does that i think the criticism of a more engaging role of the russia would be quieter it but at some point the democratic party has to come to grips with how how it deals with russia whether it goes back. to an old pragmatic obama approach or whether it takes the approach from 20 or 16 that russian government agencies are to blame for many things that go on domestically in the united states so i think i think here biden has quite a bit more room to maneuver it and trump would have he would be criticized from a bipartisan group in congress if he if he went too close to russia biden might not fascinating stuff martin look we're going to leave it there but it was really good

to talk to you that was martin ternate a senior political science lecturer at the heidelberg center for american studies thanks for coming on thank you for having me. now the world's big tech giants are finding out just how much stricter doing business in europe could become in the future because the moon is unveiling what's described as its biggest ever overhaul of digital market rules but seen by many as directly trying to rein in the powers of firms like google facebook amazon apple and also microsoft let's get in there and go straight to berlin to see what's going on pater just explain them why does the european union feel the need to intervene hello. well the reason that this is all being done is that the rules that currently exist were written back in 2004 and margaret vestigal the vice president of the european commission who presented this new framework said they have really out of date and

they needed a new set of rules for tech companies to do business because the big 45 google facebook amazon apple microsoft as well they have too much power too much control over the way the the market works now what the market investor has said is that she wants to see the digital markets as regulated as the commodities markets and putting forward this new legislation is new plan this new framework saying that they would be a lot of rules and they would also be a lot of punishments for those that should break those rules. what we are going to present to you are 2 milestones in our journey to make europe hits for digital age that is the services act and the duke's all markets act. the 2 proposals they serve one purpose to make sure that we as uses as customers businesses have access

to every wind choice of safe products and services online just as well as we do in the physical world and that all businesses operating in europe that can be big ones that can be small small ones that they can freely and fairly competes online just as they do offline well the digital markets act applies this specifically to what we call gatekeepers and gatekeepers they are defined by a special role that they fulfilled in the marketplace without enforcement not worse much and here again if a gatekeeper at breaks the rules we can impose fines if it's done several times repeatedly we can also impose structural remedies divestiture that sort of things. so what happens if the big beasts of the digital jungle decide they're not going to

play by these rules well as margaret jessica just mentioned their fines those fines could well be as much as 10 percent of a yearly turnover there's also more punishments for those that if they are people that break or companies that break the rules repeatedly infringe upon the rules 3 times in 5 years and you could face a ban from the e.u. market entirely now there's also a large the largest of the large tech companies will later be labeled as gate keepers nail beyond the tightest scrutiny possible and also brussels is insisting on being informed of any mergers and acquisitions that go on we've seen huge companies like google and facebook buying up other players on the digital market they'll have to rule not pass brussels 1st if they're to do it and use those services or offer those services in year up it's been going on for quite

a while between the european union and the big tech giants those companies that are mostly headquartered in the united states the root of a lot of their problems is the e.u. looking at these tech giants and saying you're just not paying the tax you should be. yeah sure ok thanks peter that was artie's peter all of our reporting from berkeley. it invisible abuse that's how human rights and media groups have branded police behavior at recent protests against the new security bill in the french capital more than $140.00 people in 2 journalists were arrested including 3 controversial law enforcement tactics dubbed smash and grab explaining more his charlotte dubinsky. so today's a protest against the draw floors on security and in trying republicans values 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 the 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 over 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 sexual was protesting and recording police officers on camera this is unspeakable it was just protesters being detained to kill lists were also taken in one was suspected of planning to orchestrate violence refusing to obey a police dispersal order and covering their face now given the current mood in france with concerns being raised about press freedom there are fears in some quarters that this is a slippery slope it could lead to much of that among the strategy of paris police 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. with journalists lors people who are doing it was around them the rest no one was prosecuted because they'd done nothing wrong except was to engineer their way of the police charges to do it the search to decide when to charge this is a demonstration of searches and dangerousness factor in this part of the building.

the french government says it respects press freedoms but these are new tactics and the detention of journalists is likely to add to the theory here a process when some warning that the list of any admissible abuses is growing by the day so much auti paris however the officers and so furious at how they are being treated police in the french capital staged their own protests that what they see as a lack of protection from the government over public in peace and harassment. speak on behalf of the colleagues who are behind me who suffer every day outside who are abused and harassed because you must know that it will soon plex all families wives children and parents it affects a lot of people and we need the support. without the fear. now there's little doubt that it has impacted our lives in one way or another and in an article

for r.t. dot com the renowned philosopher schecter say there won't be a return to normal once the pandemic is over but we are living in academic to expand on why and he says it is because the crisis has opened up opportunities to control people like never before. in the street what we can say to all of the we were just afraid to do your perspective now i think it's happening which is much more of. the training than people are afraid lest they die to go on socialized and so on it's not distributing dream and those now we have a big smoke and there's enjoyment like let's enjoy it while it lasts who knows what will. people also feel although i am for measures look down and there's plenty of use diesel took establish.

control and we'll. do what i call close to my state of being totally digital you can turn to me on the horizon even the prospect of. wired brain. mind process use may be dealing with their so definitely no exaggerating here new. that we learned from. apes date me. you really do. interest in point today

science to seriously yes these books should be open but. they are all in the being we stepped many many millions. of shells. most of them. and you. only knew. that washington has imposed sanctions on turkey over its purchase of russia's s $400.00 missile defense system and sparked an angry reaction from president. not 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 s 400 possession as soon as possible. target officials from turkey's top defense procurement and development boarding these assets will be frozen these restricted russia's foreign minister says the move does break international law but he's not surprised. but look at your solution or 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 us or thora to you on the international arena where it is a responsible participant in the international division of labor including military and technical cooperation. just. $400.00 defense system last year and

washington had threatened to punish to ever since claiming that the system is a danger to nato stamboul based political analysts yousif them says that it has plenty of ways to retaliate if he wants to. it's a huge snow because we see the americans saying that they want to give diplomacy a chance but throughout this whole s 400 process acted very big symmetrically very unilaterally certainly will try to reciprocate and complicate things for the united states bilateral relations and american activity in the region as well start you can also see by us whether it is turkey to cease producing parts for the f. $35.00 american presence in djibouti airdate american presence that judyth radar station but i don't think you will take any very aggressive steps right now especially with the new administration coming in and we've already seen the turkish

president called for a review of the sanctions we're just hoping that they could be lifted for. now an investigation which claims he can name and shame russian agents. let's have published extensive and sensationalist details of security operatives whole from the hales of the opposition figure in the valley since 2017 as all senior correspondent what gas to have explains there are now more questions than answers. on monday c.n.n. dispy girl 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 barley 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 of the problems of chemical and climbed the 2800 invention of numbness or been set for removing traces of chemical weapons from infected sites crucially at least one member of the f.s.b. squad 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 daydream about how he would expose. the russians of be applauded by his peers no 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 pitch the day the 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 was poisoned by a nerve agent from. so a few days ago british pundits claim that russian spies tried 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 grad investigation claims that the lost grad investigation was well made up note also that there is no data about any offense 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. the daughter at

the top iranian general assassinated by the united states heroically she has spoken exclusively to r.t. in her media interview saying absalom ani told r.t. he's going underground about the response to his killing from her family and the country as a whole can watch the interview in full from tomorrow. 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 on they know so well why trump order to kill my father so so obstinate after killing my father america thought that everything would be stopped because they killed jenner.