it. was. 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. activists a new crowd control tactics by french police dubs smash and grab are a mass violation of human rights and press freedoms. but an appearance in congratulates joe biden our victory in the u.s. presidential election and expresses russia's willingness to work together as after the u.s. the electoral college declared him the winner. is

. a very warm welcome to you you're watching r t international with me to karen. now 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 seem by many as directly trying to rein in the power of therms like google facebook amazon apple and microsoft are to use that piece all of a has more on the new regulations. the very simple reason that the european union have done this is their belief that the major tech and online players in the world how far too much power in the market in the european union that's why margaret rest of the european commission vice president put forward the new digital market bill that she says hopes will regulate the likes of google facebook pull on listen

and microsoft how they do business in the e.u. in the same way that commodities markets are already regulated what we are going to present to you to milestones in our journey to make europe thanks 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 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 the vast majority of legislation dealing with tech was from way back in 2004 so it was well overdue a revamp it has taken

a long time to get this digital market bill in place but if you think it 2004 companies that we were talking about the likes of aliza and google they either didn't exist or certainly didn't exist at the level that they do today so the way that this digital marketing bill's going to target them is that the gate keepers as they're called the big players are going to be under a lot of scrutiny to make sure that they it here to the rules there's also going to be a lot of scrutiny paid to acquisitions and. merges they are all going to have to be run by brussels if that happened and do business in the e.u. market if they aren't or if start acquisition isn't approved by the ny entity may well not be able to do business inside the e.u. and there will be big punishments we're talking about fines as high as 10 percent

of global turnover that could be absolutely astronomical and for repeat offenders there is the potential of being booted out of the a you market altogether did some 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 in response we've heard from google who are being critical of the digital market bill they say that it's target specific companies in a way that is wrong in particular it targets them so it's understandable why they've said that we've also heard from facebook a little more accepting they said through a spokesperson at the how to be rules however they did go on to say that they hoped

the new bill would target tech giant apple saying that they needed to be boundary set on that particular business that is a different tone struck from facebook compared to what we heard from them back in september where they threatened seem to buy the rain back or pull out of the e.u. altogether if this bill was put forward they haven't done the math simple reason they haven't done it is the e.u. is a massive portion of global market share and it's an awful lot of money for these companies to be made here the difference is now they're going to have to play by some new rules we heard from internet law and 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 talking about 10 percent of global turnover and then if there is a persistent noncompliance that could be increased to 5 percent of the elite then

of delhi world wide turnover. book and google will just have to accept the new reality. to the new rules it is difficult to see facebook pulling out of the e.u. altogether inconceivable the reality is that in the legislation technologies there were 2 different speeds and the are not able to form an illusion of technologies lenski for this reason we are attempting to up the station that is dead in the 20 years ago you cannot force tech giants are to follow the roots of the small fine and 'd speaking we have seen in the last couple years so very small files in almost any cases this finds a lot of it after scare tech giants. and it miscible 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 smash and grab. reports. so today's a protest against the draw floors on security and in trying republicans values police deploy new crowd control tactics. essentially arrests and 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 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 soon lists to reveal

their contacts. with journalists lors people work origin interests were randomly arrested no one was prosecuted because they'd done nothing wrong except postage and 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 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 florence with some warning that the list of any admissible abuses is growing by the day so much even ski auti paris but the officers themselves are also serious at how they are being treated police in the french capital stage their own protest or what they see as a lack of protection from the government over 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 you must know that it will soon parts of families wives children and parents it affects a lot of people and we need to support without that we won't. food. live near putin 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's cooperation is in everybody's interest however donald trump still insists that his legal challenge over alleged voter fraud will continue meanwhile the trumpet ministrations attorney general bill barr has resigned earlier found no evidence of widespread election fraud or pretty 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 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 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 in line i'll say as the u.s. electoral college system hardly 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 to 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 on 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 there's an incredible brilliance send this b.s.

if you're the winner it balances out if you're the loser is entered the louvre and it's archaic it's edge of color in his ass a fide 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. the daughter of one of iran's top generals assassinated by the us earlier this year is breaking her silence and she's spoken. to much more since we come back after the break. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

every dollar for it to go forward because it can't be absorbed by the account chicanery and fraud fraudulent accounting of quantitative easing goes into something called the c.p.i. consider summer price index so that the value of that money printing will know how deep based the currency for real this is going to be. and the game doesn't work because once the full inflation genie is out of the bottle you can put it back into the bottle. exhibit a the smoking gun we know without a doubt the media really interference for the bite you campaign before the election the 100 by you story was not it was not russian misinformation we were lied to again we were is the accountability.

welcome back the door to all of the top iranian general assassinated by the us earlier this year has spoken exclusively to r.t. and the 1st media interview zainab somalis hold off he's going on the ground about the response to his killing from her family and the country as a whole you can watch the interview in full from wednesday you see how people come to the streets and they are crying and they are sad and they are angry and they want revenge and they are waiting for an answer because they know what general silly money did for them and they on their you know so well why trump order to kill my father so so obstinate after killing my father american saud but everything will be stopped because the children are also a money to power of the middle east but they are so wrong. they didn't see the

anger also are in the eyes of iranian people they didn't see their cheers they didn't see their sadness and i have to say the general saw that money has a military from people that they will take revenge from and they are so wrong they are sinking this war will be end the end of general soli money this is the beginning and there is a $1000.00 people like general salim money are ready to fight life him stronger more powerful and this is our power and if they are thinking for the they must or no our people are united and they will stand in front of such a dangerous powers. and investigation which claims they can name and shame russian agents mainstream

media outlets have published extensive on sensationalist details of security operatives halt on the heels of opposition figures alexina valmy since 2070 but as all senior correspondent mark gasnier of 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. 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 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. 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 net as novelli 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 opening exposé is about as worthless as the last one hospital tests show that the russian opposition leader alexina found he was poisoned by

a nerve agent from the north 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 last grad investigation was well made up. at all so there is no data about any offense be poisonous result 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. there's little doubt their coverage has impacted our lives in one way or another and in an article for r.t. dot com renowned for laws the 1st says there won't be a return to normal once the pandemic is over we ask these live any an academic to

expound on why and he says it's because the crisis has opened up opportunities to control people like never before. that's great if we can save all of us. just afraid. to you know perspective now i think it's happening would be so much more of. the same damn deep fried lest they die to go all socialized and so it's not dispiriting dream and those now we have a bank and an already small enjoyment like let's enjoy and wait last who knows what will happen i did a virus she's waiting to die. or so i am for measure us look down and. many use took established maker and used. their own. into what i call

a post human state of being. me on the horizon even the prospect of so why our brain or mind process usually been dealing so definitely i'm not exaggerating here new. i mean. these. are. except that we learned from. apes to date me. to. sound good for your. interest and so the point today scientists yes these are. open but bit by bit but they are all in the being we stepped many many mediocre schools go the size east deny

science just isolated the one with. the same things do better seeds or you are. going to be. most of the money. and you will get. all of these and you will. thanks for joining us here on r.t. international that's all from a by sean thomas we'll be with you in 30 minutes with all the latest. television is on the demonstrators right now the propaganda machine. it's always russia.

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they are this is the kaiser report the show that keeps it real then takes it the next step. stacey right max well i'm going to get the next perhaps a step too far with a metaphor for what is happening around the world in terms of the global monetary system overseen by the nanny that is the central banks we saw this week that the e.c.b. is announced yet another 500000000000 euros of quantitative easing and this headline here gives me a metaphor for what the central banks are basically the central banks are giant nappy as they say the kingdom and the united states we say diaper coated china ask capping crew to wear nappies to reduce virus risk this is supposed to help them through avoid the toilets on the plane and so they don't get cove it or whatever but i feel like you know the fed is a diaper it holds all the toxic waste inside it and that was meant

to prevent the spread of a pandemic of bad financial debts it's meant to spread inflation rate so you diaper the which nobody likes a leaky diaper you know i don't want to be on the air trying to fly one of the stewards with a leaky diaper it would turn me off or whatever was on the menu at that particular time and i feel like i had overpaid for that particular ticket but the said is essentially accumulating all of the toxic debts why are they doing that they're doing it for 2 reasons 2 to prevent these banks like j.p. morgan and others from having to declare insolvency even though they are insolvent and they also do it to stop the spread of inflation because they are neutralizing the impact of all that money printing by putting it right back on the fed's balance sheet is called debt monetization and america used to make fun of the so-called banana republics in latin america for doing debt monetization and but they've out

banana to all the.