getting stuff on the wild 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. to make putin congratulate joe biden on victory in the u.s. presidential election and expresses russia's willingness to work together to solve the u.s. electoral college declared him the winner. activists a new crowd control tactics by french police dubbed a smash and grab are a mass violation of human rights and press freedoms.

a very warm welcome it's 9 pm here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international with me karen our top story 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 the 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 amazon apple and microsoft artie's peter all of a has more on the new regulations. the reason that this is all being done is that the rules that currently exist were written back in 2004 long before companies like facebook almas and google before they became the that they are right now and it is the likes of google facebook ours 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 what we are going to present to you 2 milestones in our journey to make europe tix for digital age that is the services act and that it's all markets act. the 2 proposals they serve one purpose to make sure that we as uses as customers this is 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 to say do offline world large companies that have being called gatekeepers those real tech giants that are household names they're going to be coming around the most scrutiny there's also going to be a lot of attention paid to merges 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 there that 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 special rules that they fulfilled in the marketplace if a gatekeeper breaks the rules we can impose fines if it's done 7 times repeatedly we can also impose structure remedies divestiture that sort of things this is being rumbling on for a lot of years though this standoff between brussels and the world's tech giants

who are headquartered in the united states you google your facebook your apple your amazon your microsoft what is at the root of those problems is essentially questions over time the european union is not happy by the amount of tax or the lack of taxes they see it that these companies pay inside the e.u. that's $1.00 of the reasons they wanted to change the whole way that the digital market is regulated now there are some inside the tech world that say this could well but fire on the e.u. we've heard from facebook earlier this year saying that they could well either scale back or pull out entirely from the e.u. marketplace now it's unlikely that will happen because the e.u. is of course a huge proportion of global market share in a vast amount of money is available to be made here seems though if these tech

giants are to do business in the a year now though they're going to have to play by some new e.u. rules. let's go live now to internet's no expert on social media soliciting cohen thank you for joining us on the program it's great to see you. how do you see the big tech firms that responding here during the going to flatten the pull the much loved products and apps or will they yield rather than risk one of their most lucrative markets the e.u. . it is difficult to see facebook pulling out of the e.u. altogether inconceivable facebook and google will just have to accept the new reality and succumb to the new rules the new rule has been imposed by a new ruler which is now the e.u. . and that leaves very little choice through to the big. technology giants i do think it might force the breakup of something and i mean one

criticism is that some have used their might to swallow up or destroy competitors before they even had a chance well the reality is it is impossible to compete with any of those companies because. not only do they they they have the financial resources. there so a normas but they they have already collected so much data there gives them control over. over of the pretty much any technological development it could be created now winning the future and would the e.u. saying hey you know we want to be able to to give our people our companies our internet companies we want to give them an opportunity to compete do and we don't want you google or facebook. or marcus solved to be able to charge him

with every amount of money you won't just just to to give them the privilege to to be able to to develop the product we want to open the market you want to have more gold more people competing more companies competing i think that's not a silly about thing you mentioned that big funds like facebook they certainly don't want to risk losing the e.u. but how do those cards here because if the tech firms pull out that risk in syria is in hundreds of millions of people who use those websites and apps every day. well we hear here is people are getting fed up really with the wall that is being controlled by but. by both very very small number of companies that are located. mostly in the u.s. i don't see for some reason. they the people of the e.u. uprising against the protection that is about to be all for today embody you people

are using facebook people using instagram to using all those that doesn't necessarily mean that they love them will they like them people just toller rate those doughs. they did the meet that is being done to to them into the children into the next generation. but they they tolerate him i don't see any uprising in iran will just be all fortunately depending on who's point of view each is to take. out of the biggest ferns are all american and leisel to its economy if they start getting penalized or targeted by brussels might that see at the time economic measures levied against europe by washington do you think the penalties are enormous are we talking about 10 percent of global turnover and then if there is a persistent noncompliance that could be increased to 5 percent of daily 10 over

delhi worldwide turnover. i don't believe that this will turn into into. a tax war between the us and the you are in a way it might be the case that there is some supported the us for those sort of steps there are certain things that can do here in the new u.s. governments will never be able to do and i callahan's not lower expect on social media soliciting thank you for your time. a lot of a person has congratulated joe biden on victory in the u.s. presidential election as 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 contacts rest however donald trump still insists that his legal challenge over alleged voter fraud will

continue meanwhile the trumpet ministrations attorney general bird barkhouse resigned earlier found no evidence of widespread election fraud kaleb 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 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 the 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 g.-o. 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 u.s.

society legal and media analysts lionel's theys the u.s. electoral college system hardly stands up to best practice i want 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 could 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 your sneak writable brilliant send this because if you're the winner it balances out if you're the loser is entered the lovy and it's archaic isn't a clarion it's 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. in admissable abuse that's how human rights and media groups have branded police behavior recent protests against a new security bill in the french capital more than $140.00 people and 2 journalists were arrested including 3 controversial law enforcement tactics dubbed smash and grab artie's a solid defense kaye reports. so today's protest against the draw floor was on

security and in trying republicans value so police deploy new crowd control tactics. essentially assume ash 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 for 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 she 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 some toyman's there is also a red flag over judicial investigations and attempts to force journalists to reveal their contacts. with journalists lors people book origin it was all random the rest no one was prosecuted because they'd done nothing wrong except postage and in the way of the police charges it's up to doing the search to decide when to charge this

is a demonstration of upsurge and dangerousness factor 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 france when some warning that the list of inadmissible abuses is growing by the day so much even ski auti paris. but the officers themselves are also feel that how they are being treated police in the french capital stage their own protest of what they see as a lack of protection from the government over public abuse and harassed. will 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 will soon picks up families with children and parents it affects a lot of people and we need the support. without them we won't move was. done

mark could be about to classify immigrants from the middle east and north africa differently from the rest of the world when it comes to crime and employment statistics a danish immigration minister whose father is ethiopian has said it will help with on this political discussion the new figures we provide the more all the political discussion about the minority of immigrants with great very great challenges bryza huge difference in how immigrants from tile and the philippines and latin america 1st in relation to people from for example the middle east and i do not think it is racist to care to garages countries based on that a lot of the reaction online has been critical to the change with some doubling it outright racism under the current system copenhagen monitors the data by analyzing 2 groups western countries within europe america and parts of asia and the rest of the globe long west and the new category however apparently focuses on

predominantly muslim nations from the middle east north africa pakistan and turkey well to talk about their marks plan i'm joined by political journalist focusing on religious aspects i've been flying home and bash week or a she who is the chair for the european network against racism thank you for joining us on the program both of you the 1st question to you i've been please not this it is. in any sense a controversial measure but it's been criticized for dividing instead of uniting the country do you feel there are any racist and sectarian undertones to collecting data and classifying muslim immigrants separately. you know i don't think that acknowledging the truth and looking at the facts can ever be. racist or sectarian and i also i think it has to be mentioned that the minister of immigration and integration in denmark right now belongs to a social democratic government so it means that he doesn't come from

a right wing political idiology but i think it's very very crucial to stress that you have to look at the numbers and the facts and this can never be racist i think actually if you try to ignore the facts then you create racist so i think this has nothing to do with racism i actually do think that he wants to help the problem he wants to know what to do what kind of political solution that he has to choose to prevent the those high crime rates against some immigrants about what are your thoughts. a simple thank you very much for the invitation from television let me start by telling you that i have lived in denmark for 50 years and i've come from pakistan i'm going on a non-religious person but i have a muslim background and a group for 40 years writ minority politics in denmark and european union so i normally do very very poorly from minorities do but answer from. who hiking

who didn't. what's the problem you not to talk about my vision we have no migration since 1000 to me it must drop by for democratic party and the 2nd is that i have no means and don't know what the problem. needs to be maligned me nor means for me now that you are wrong but everything negative never and he did not accuse you of who didn't shoot some government argues in the labor market in culture and which can give a good picture so your me. under it is not religion so are you one color this is racist this is in this case when you the poor muslim countries to me this is islam and believe he said you know

that these innocent look at it the rhyme minister of this country but you just watch a democrat i know her personally and she is one of the more person you can find and you did so this is. completely wrong to say that we can meet. the people instead of. talking about which group there is a community this group there is a problem and try to solve it instead of given i don't hear as you just heard i mean things like this is not going to improve integration is just going to create more animosity what do you think salute. i'm not really sure about that i act as i think it is i think and i think it's very important to address the truth and it is actually the minister itself that has done this research and it shows that up to 55 percent of young men from north africa the middle east pakistan and turkey

actually do have some kind of sentence because they committed a crime as it is quite lower for other immigrants from other countries and this are the facts and i don't think it is racist to say hey we have a problem here because among these men there is such a high crime rate we want to help these people it's not because they want to and sort of ostracize them or blame them the actually wants to help them because if they ignore the problem then people would start to get even more racist and i think if you ignore that problem and people see that those people are committing crimes then we have you know another tendency to more racist and so i think actually this is to prevent racist and so i don't buy your opinion but i think it's i think it's very sad that we have this problem and i'll send politicians they have to deal with reality and they have to try to do something about it and i do understand that for

all the good law abiding muslims in this country it's not nice to hear those facts but still they are facts and i don't see any kind of racist idiology behind trying to help the problem was too far you know very well that can be missed misused and you can fix their duty as you who aren't so it is not a border duty but what is the intention behind i know as i said before i answer no because for i use protheroe is from. mothers denise and he used to be a nice person but since he came to the government he has started using color got. really isn't about people why do to call me a person with not european cultural background what is the sense in that i think that the denise society should stop dividing people into culture religion and groups and look at this type you know the whole this is a crime among the people do is a problem. the problem so we should look at that is group in which each group there

is a criminality in which group there is any problem and triton solve it instead of knocking about it all the time look i have been and why i think the whole ministry and interventionist the for years i know hard to focus on problems not war but good friends as that's why i said himself didn't regard my standards look around as i do and i think if i hope so i have quite a look why do why do people call me by send off usually presented a non us john culture background what does michael john has to do with my being that then i'm a black day in our day and have lived different for 50 years so why do categorise people we don't get over as we build into what priests and being what we are if we taught but be and. if we had a young or a group of young then his men that were born in denmark that had such a high crime rate the government would address that too and say this is

a problem we have to help this problem i don't see that this has gone on to do it don't know if it was religion or race i think it is you know i mean it is a problem for other people that people are committing crime not crimes no matter who they are so if you are a politician and you see that within a certain group of people there is a very high. number of people who are doing who are committing crimes you need to do some reading and the last thing i did i thought i think we have to separate idiology and facts and that's your. i am not this says. gee no look but we have 2000 right he said i am and i did it and was doing no luck then you make a list of don't want countries which have a muslim majority countries and say the problem comes there that is 1st of all that is a lie because most up understanding the turks go to universities have good jobs there

have been wonderful profession why don't you talk about them have you ever read any report in denmark which averages show us the contributions are acting we are just going to be shin's which have been in commerce in business is actually driving everything that is needed if you want people to integrate it if you want people to be part of the any society which belong then you have to appreciate them and not through human eyes that is my biggest worry and you know i have been working for 40 years sure so i'm not with anybody i know to be sure and i work with all the ministers from many many years and they have a political agenda you know that hardin we were party have got to squire that much food in denmark it will be a very beautiful humor loving country today is one of the most slum of would be country in whole york or new know the many many service from fundamental right if

the n.c. or or i see. this international which has proved that denmark is growing in the ground an action that is near should be put on for and i say something i encourage thing that i really do think that this government and a lot of things appreciate that there are so many muslims that are well integrated in the danish society but unfortunately resource but please let me finish and i think the reason why the minister is addressing this is because he wants to help the problem out he wants those young men who are committing crimes to be. part of the big society so he's trying to make a plan so make an entity to integrate those people so they can you know be a well functioning and they can get jobs i don't see the racism here i see that the danish government is trying to help some people not to ostracize and not to demonize them so i think this is really a you know they're trying to stretch out the hand and to help those people instead

of the minister i think you run i think you are inflaming a lot of hatred against denmark which i am in slightly and have those i am full and i am going to not fair because i am dead and that i would do something about the problem and it is a fact that 5 percent of all young man who's coming from those countries to commit crimes and that is a problem for the whole society for everybody because we don't want anybody to commit crimes in our society also listen to him that out johnny one thing before we came to denmark there was no jails there were no.