so who's to blame. doctors manufacturers. are. getting tough on the world's tech titans the e.u. unveils a major overhaul of digital market rules which could see massive fines on line giants who abuse their dominance. of the routing congratulates joe biden on victory in the u.s. presidential election and expresses russia's willingness to work together it's off to the us the electoral college declared him the winner. activists a new crowd control tactics by french police dup smash and grab are a mass file ation of human rights and press freedoms. under the turkish president tate sounded washington for sanctions imposed anchor is purchase of

a russian missile defense system. ownership you did not do we expect supports not sanctions from our nature enjoy the united states of america. a very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with me nicky 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 unveiling was being described as his 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 an apple and microsoft well let's see what's in store and cross lots for your correspondent piece all of a piece of good to see you now the big 5 american firms has the lion's share of water europeans do and buy online why does the e.u. think it needs to weigh in. because they have too much

power as simple as that moderate vestigal the european commission vice president for 8 europe fit for the digital age in a wonderfully fancy title that she has she said essentially the same thing that there is too much power in the hands of too many too few companies or beg your pardon google facebook has an apple microsoft all of these household names they dominate the digital world. with century what they going to have is a new set of regulations that's going to regulate the digital market in a similar way as commodities markets and a regulated. what we are going to present to you 2 milestones in our journey to make europe think for the digital age that is the services act and the duke's all markets act and 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 product 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. there has been dispute between the a u.i. and the world's tech giants those particularly those ones that are headquartered in the united states for a long time now and it comes to paying tax or as far as the european union sees it not them not paying as much tax in the e.u. as brussels thinks they should be now it's 2004 that the majority of the current legislation was written if you think back to then a lot of the giant companies now they either didn't exist or certainly didn't exist

on the scale that they do right now what this new bill will look to do is target what it called gate keepers those giant household names in particular they're going to be under a lot of scrutiny from brussels about how much competition there is and how much they dominate the playing field there's also going to be a lot of oversight from brussels when it comes to acquisitions and mergers so if one of these big companies wants to buy up a small entity they have to run not take over past brussels if it does if they don't or if it doesn't fit the the new standards that are being set then the entity may well not be able to operate in the european union markets. there is also not just rules there are punishments as well some pretty hefty ones could see fines of up to 10 percent of turnover leveled against companies if they break the rules there's also the chance that a major tech giant could be booted out of the market altogether if they

persistently break the rules 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 if a gatekeeper breaks the rules we can impose fines if it's done 7 times repeatedly we can also impose structural remedies divestiture that sort of things. well in response to the news coming out of brussels we've heard from google who've criticized the digital marketing bear digital market bill i beg your pardon saying it targets specific companies because it does and they are one of them. facebook have been a little more accepting they've said through a spokesperson it they acknowledge there has to be rules however they did also go on to say that they hoped these new rules would target tech giant apple who they

said needed to have boundaries say it's interesting that this is the tone being taken from facebook after it's being announced to cast your mind back to september they were saying if this went through the way it has then perhaps they would either limit what they do in europe or pull out of the e.u. altogether it never looked likely that that was going to be the response from facebook that they were actually going to follow through on that huge market share of the global markets in the a you have a huge amount of money for those companies to make just now they're going to have to play by a new set of rules indeed peace and thank you for that report that some piece on. we had from internet low on cyber security experts who say the tech giants will have to adapt as the european market is too big to abandon. the penalties are enormous we're talking about 10 percent of global turnover and then if there is

a persistent noncompliance that could be increased to 5 percent of daily then over there you worldwide burn over his book and google will just have to accept the new reality. to the new rules it is difficult to see his group pulling out of the e.u. altogether inconceivable the reality is that the religious nation technologies there are 2 different speeds and the are not able to for all the evolution of technology sloan's keep for this reason that we are attempting to up the decision that they did in the 20 years ago you cannot force tech giants are to follow the roots of this mall find and 'd speaking we have seen in the last couple years so very small in almost any cases this finds a lot of it after. that of a person as congratulated joe biden on victory and the us presidential election

itself the 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 as a voter fraud will continue meanwhile the trumpet ministrations attorney general bill barr has resigned earlier found no evidence of widespread election fraud or tell of more paid 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 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 $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 lynell say as 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 end to 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. 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 until journalists were arrested including 3 controversial law enforcement tactics dubbed a smash and grab aussies solid defense gave a pause. so today's 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 under-age 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 mature that 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 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 work origin it was all random the rest of it 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 do with the search to decide when to charge this is a demonstration of upsurge and dangerous and in fact in this support of 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 with some warning that the list of any admissable abuses is growing by the day so much auti paris boats the officers themselves are also furious that how they're being treated police in the french capital staged their own protest of

what they see as a lack of protection from the government over public abuse and harassment. i 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 them we would move food loads the list is off the international ahead tonight he is facing sanctions from washington that is where its purchase of the russian defense system would look at the reaction after the break. the world is driven by a dream shaped by phone person. who

dares thinks. we dare to ask. every dollar project going forward because it champions or by this account chicanery and fraud project an accounting of quantitative easing goes into something called the c.p.i. consider such a similar price index so that the value of that money printing will now dave base the currency for real and this is going to be the end game as it were because once the ball inflation genie is out of the bottle you can't put it back into the bottle.

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you rarely do. we get into the 1st point. yes these. are all in the being that many many millions. and most of. all the new. 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. 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 they embargoes target officials from turkey's top defense procurement and development his assets will be frozen and visas restricted russia's foreign minister says the move breaks international law but he's 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 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. and curb or the s $400.00 defense system last year and washington has threatened to punish turkey ever since claiming the system is a danger to nato istanbul based political analyst youssef aram ses are 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 cease producing parts for the f. $35.00 there's an american presence in djibouti airbase american presence that

should it you can radar station but i don't think you will take any very aggressive steps right now especially with the new haven ministration coming in and we've already seen the turkish president has called for a review of the sanctions where he's hoping that they could be lifted or the going forward. and investigation which claims they can name and shame russian agents mainstream media outlets that published extensive and sensationalistic the details of security operatives hope from the health of opposition fake it and explain a valet says $27.00 paid but as i was thinking a correspondent my gas the have explains there are now more questions they don't. 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 barley with one of the most toxic substances known to man move a truck 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 claimed 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. squad is in frequent telephone 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 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 and that is nevada in the alluded and you don't find the geolocation 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 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 from the. 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 lost grad 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 holmes which was distributed by the times is not true this is what you call open ended. thanks for joining us here on r.t. enter national went back in 30 minutes with the latest. so

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