it's. 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. of a mere putin congratulation job i did on victory in the u.s. presidential election express is russia's willingness to work together is thought to be u.s. the electoral college declared him the winner. activists a new crowd control tactics by french police dubbed a smash and grab all a mass style ation of human rights and press freedoms. and the turkish president

hits out of washington 1st time sions imposed over on chris purchase of a russian missile defense system. mogul we expect supports not sanctions from the united states of america but. a very warm welcome it's 8 pm here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international with me becky erin our top story this hour the world's big tech giants are finding out just how much stricter doing business in europe could become in the near future the e.u. is unveiling was described as its biggest ever overhaul of digital market rules but seen by many as directly trying to rein in the power of firms like google facebook as than apple and microsoft well let's see what's in store let's go live to europe and our correspondent piece all over that big good to see you piece are now the big

5 american firms have the lion's share of the europeans doing buy online what does the e.u. think it needs to weigh in. well simply they have too much power that the reason for this the current legislation that was in place was a lot of it was paid back in 2004 long before companies like facebook hours and google before they became the that they are right now and that is the likes of google facebook allmers and our poll microsoft that are firmly in the sights of the digital market bill that was unveiled by marketed vestigal the e.u. commission vice president for a year for a digital age as well as the internal market commissioner gary brettle they put forward this new set of legislation that they say is a big change and certainly could be a big change for the way these companies do business in europe what we are going to

present to you 2 milestones in our journey to make europe fix for the digital age that is the services act and the dicks in all markets act. the 2 proposals they serve one purpose to make sure that we as uses as customers businesses have access to and wide 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 compete online just as they do offline. well large companies that have being called gatekeepers those real tech giants that are household names they're going to be coming under the most scrutiny there's also going to be a lot of attention paid to mergers and takeovers they're all going to have to be

run by brussels if the entities that are taken over want to continue operating in the e.u. now the the rules that assess in place are important but what is there to make sure that they're at he had to are punishments that could be quite large fines 10 percent of turnover or even perhaps the risk of being banned from the e.u. market entirely. due to markets act applies this specifically to what we call gatekeepers and gatekeepers they are defined by a special rule that they fulfilled in the marketplace if a gatekeeper 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. well the dispute between the e.u.

on the major tech companies has been wrong billing on for years at the root of a lot of it is that these giant u.s. headquartered corporations haven't been paying the tax that brussels would like to see them paying and demand that they do pay within the european union the tech companies themselves of said about the digital market build it it could well be self-defeating in that if these regulations are put in place they may well either scale back their operations or pull out of europe entirely something similar to that effect was said by facebook just a few months ago bought there is a huge proportion of world market share here in europe and an awful lot of money to be made to just simply walk away from it peter thank you for those details that was artie's at peter oliver. pearson 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 biden the winner the russian president had waited for that official confirmation of the when putin says 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 transit ministrations attorney general bill vi has resigned earlier found no evidence of widespread election fraud can have more pain reports from new york. donald trump is still not conceding donald trump says he is the legitimate winner of the 2020 election you know 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 of 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 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 $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 and us society legal and media analysts lionel's says the u.s. electoral college system hockey stands up to best practice i'm going to be the 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 into the lovy and it's archaic isn't a clarion it's ass to 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.

and admissable abuse that's how human rights and media groups have branded police behavior at recent protests against a new security bill in the french capital more than $140.00 people and 2 journalists were arrested including 30 controversial law enforcement tactics dubbed smash and grab on seaside day by the ski reports. so today'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.

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 under aged 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. to mature that among the strategy of paris police force is 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 among 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 8 sometimes there is also

a red flag over judicial investigations and attempts to force journalists to reveal their contacts. with journalists lors people work originators were randomly arrested no one was prosecuted because they'd done nothing wrong except for sturgeon in the way of the police charges that it's up to the officers to decide when to charge this is a demonstration of props or just and dangerous and in fact in this report to the police. 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 in florence when some warning that the list of inadmissible abuses is growing by the day so what do you think ski or to paris but the officers themselves are also furious that how they are being treated police in the french capital staged their

own protest of what they see as a lack of protection from the government as a public abuse and harassment. to speak on behalf of the colleagues who are behind me who suffer every day outside who are abused and harassed because we must know that it also impacts our families with children and parents it affects a lot of people and we need the support. without that we won't move forward. there's little doubt that covert has impacted our lives in one way or another and in an article for r.t. dot com renowned philosopher. says there won't be a return to normal once the pandemic is ours and we asked this live in an academic to expand on why and he says it's because the crisis has opened up opportunities to control people like never before. in the street if we can save almost. just afraid.

now i think it's happening which is much more of. the strain than people are afraid lest they die to go on socialized and so on it's not just your team dream and those now we have a big small enjoyment like let's enjoy it while it lasts who knows what will happen . when. people are also killed although i am for the measures looking down and there's plenty of doubt use dish to make and use. their own will to. do what i call a close to human state of being totally digital you can turn to me on the horizon even the prospect of shall go to wire brain or mind process usually been dealing so definitely not exaggerating here in new.

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only knew. that. washington has imposed sanctions on turkey over its purchase of russia's as $400.00 missile defense system and sparked an angry reaction from president president. not what 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 officials from turkey's top defense procurement and development body his assets will be frozen and these us restricted russia's foreign minister says the move breaks the international law but he's not surprised.

i 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 t. on the international arena where it is a responsible participant in the international division of labor including military and technical cooperation. aboard the s 400 defense system last year and washington have threatens to punish turkey ever since claiming the system is a danger to nato is double based political analyst use of aram's as a one 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 in the bilateral relations and american activity in the region as well start you can also see by us whether it is turkey to see producing parts for the f. $35.00 there's an american presence in djibouti airdates american presence that should it you can read our station but i don't think you will pay any very aggressive steps right now especially with the new administration coming in and we've already seen the turkish president has called for a review of the sanctions we're just hoping that they could be lifted or the go forward. and investigation which claims they can name and shame russian agents mainstream media outlets have published extensive and sensationalistic to as a security operative pulse on the heels of a position like in a valley says 2017 but as authentic correspondent my doubts they have explained

that are now more questions than all. 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 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 novacek 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 20 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 it all looking reading and sounding like fanfiction or cia agents daydream about how he

would expose. as the russians would 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 pitch the day the by western intelligence agencies because they sure as heck didn't find it in the dark and that has never been the alluded you don't find the jew location data of f.b.i. agents cell phones on the darknet which is pretty horrendous it would mean western intelligence agencies and journalists are in cahoots the 2nd explanation is that this opening exposé is about as worthless as the last what hospital tests show that the russian opposition leader alexina vonnie was poisoned by a nerve agent from the north so a few days ago british pundits claim that russian spies tried to poison the volley 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 last grad investigation was well made up note also that there is no data about any effort to be poisonous resulted in ohms quinn the vote that was there in the hospital for 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 of the top iranian general assassinated by the us earlier this year has spoken exclusively to r.t. and her 1st media and interview is a not told r.t. is going underground about the response to his killing from her family on the country as a whole you can watch the interview in full from wednesday you see how people come to the street 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 silly 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 american sought that everything will be stopped because they killed general soleimani to follow our 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 cheers they didn't see their sadness and i have to say a general sort of money has a military from people that they will take revenge from chomp and they are so wrong they are sinking this war to be end the end of general soli money this is the beginning. and there is

a 1000 people like general soli money are ready to fight life him stronger more powerful and this is our power and if they are thinking for that they must know our people are united and they will stand in front of such a dangerous powers. many thanks for joining us here on on t.v. international this chase they will be back in 30 minutes with the latest headlines .

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