getting tough on the the world's titans the e.u. unveils a major overhaul of the digital market rules which could see massive fines for online giants who abuse their dominance. with. activists say a new crowd control tactics by french police dubbed a smash and grab are a mass violation of human rights and press freedoms. putin congratulates joe biden on victory in the u.s. presidential election and expresses russia's willingness to work together that is after the u.s. electoral college confirmed the democratic candidate as the winner. of

broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r t international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. you know the world's big tech giants are finding out just how much structure doing business in europe could become in the near future the unveiling of what is described as its biggest ever overhaul of digital market rules but seen by many as directly trying to. re in to the power of firms like google and facebook amazon apple and microsoft. 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 the gatekeepers 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 did when 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 repeated lee we can also impose structural remedies divestiture that sort of things there's going to be a lot of scrutiny paid to acquisitions and mergers 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 that acquisition isn't approved by the night 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 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's wrong in particular it targets them so it's understandable why they've said that we've also heard from facebook who are 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've heard from them back in sept. where they threatened it seemed to either rain back or pull out of the e.u. altogether if this bill was put forward they haven't the simple reason they haven't done it is the 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 now 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're talking about 10 percent of global turnover in them if there is a persistent noncompliance that could be increased to 5 percent of daily then over there you worldwide burn over. 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 the religious nation technologies there were 2 different speeds and the are not able to for evolution of technology sloan's keep for this reason that we are attempting to up the. speed in the 20

years ago you cannot force tech giants are to follow the rules that we dismantled find and speaking we have seen in the last couple years so very small fines in almost any keys is these fines that are not going off and after tech giants. in admissable abuse that is how human rights and media groups have branded police behavior add recent protests against a new security bill in the french capital more than $140.00 people injured 2 journalists were arrested including through controversial law enforcement tactics dubbed smash and grab. reports. 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. 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 for held including a 17 year old young woman this underage girl was arrested at saturday's demonstration she didn't do anything wrong exception 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 mr 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 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 lawyers people work origin interests were random the arrested no one was prosecuted because they'd done nothing wrong except for stanton in the way of the police charge of that it's up to the officers to decide when to charge this is a demonstration of props urgency and dangerous and the fact of this is the part 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 but the officers themselves are also furious at how they are being treated of police in the french of capital staged their own protest and what they see as a lack of protection from the government over public abuse 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 parts of families wives children and parents it affects a lot of people and we need to support without that we won't. lot of mir putin has congratulated joe biden on victory in the u.s. presidential election that comes after a majority of the electoral college across the united states cast their votes for biden as 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 president trump still insists that his legal challenge over alleged voter fraud will continue meanwhile the trumpet ministrations attorney general bill barr has resigned he previously said there was no evidence of widespread election fraud and comments now 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 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 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 46th 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 analyst lionel spoke to us about some of the quirks of the electoral college system 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 prised you want to try that one out 1st 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 edited a little via its 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 the daughter of one of iran's top generals assassinated by the us earlier this year is breaking her silence and she has spoken only to our team that and much more as soon as we come back this is our 2 international stay with us.

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a the smoking gun we know now without a doubt the media interference for the biting campaign before the election by the story was not it was not russian misinformation we were lied to again we are is the accountability. welcome back this is our international now the daughter of the top iranian general assassinated by the us earlier this year has spoken exclusively to our team in her 1st media interview zainab salbi mind me told our tease of going underground about the response to his killing from her family and the country as a whole you can watch the interview in full starting 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 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 i marry because a lot that everything will be stopped because they killed gen so i am money off the middle east but they are so wrong they didn't see the anger and the eyes of iranian peoples they didn't see their tears they didn't see their sadness and i have to say that generously money has a military from people that they will take revenge from chomped and they are so wrong they are sinking this war will be end the end of general silly money this is the beginning. and there is a 1000 people like general saw the money are ready to fight like 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 they interest powers. an investigation which claims it can name and shame a russian agents mainstream media outlets have published extensive and sensationalist details of security operatives hot on the heels of opposition figure election of ali since 2017 but as our senior correspondent tamara ghazi have explained 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 claimed the 2800 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 they dream about how he would expose. the russians it 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 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 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 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 lost grad investigation was well made up. it's 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 holmes which was distributed by the times is not true this is what you call open ended. there is little doubt that covert has impacted our lives in one way or another and in an article for our tea dot com or non-philosophers says there won't be a return to normal once the pandemic is over we asked the slovenian academic to expand on why and he says it is because the crisis has opened up opportunities to control people like never before. that's great if we can save our lives. 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 still alone it's no

dispiriting dream and those now we have a bank and an already small enjoyment like let's enjoy it while it lasts who knows what will happen i did a virus she's waiting to die. or something i am to measure us look down and. many use decent book establish. their own. so i'm going to do what i go to. state of being. me on the horizon even the prospect of so why our brain. mind process usually been dealing so definitely not exaggerating here and you. think we should. have. we learned from.

me. to give you many details and sound good for your. interest and so the point today scientists yes. but they are all in the being we stepped many many mediocre schools go. do nice science just isolated to one nice lady not the same. but you are. going to go into me. most of the money. and you will get. all of these and you will. have the does it for me this i'll be back in about 35 minutes with another full look at your news this is art international stay with us .

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for the 1st time in the united states a doctor will be sued by the state for 2nd degree murder for over prescribing opioids hears the accused not to reconnect calls. a family doctor for over 22 years he's now suspected of being a prescription matter. the judge has to ascertain if there is enough material to go to trial. the plaintiffs in the room have lost a child a brother a friend from an opioid overdose. dr nichols was their doctor she was the one prescribing the trucks. let him serve unbox i'm an attorney in oklahoma city i practice cripple defense i've got a police officer and i've been a prosecutor and i've been

a judge i've been here all my life born and raised in oklahoma. provide the hard to the oil production we're right on the edge of we're cowboys are the case so we've got a lot of people in here that are hard working people and it's a pretty peaceful city as far as that goes. box knows these roads inside out and who's on 1st name terms with the local people all his career he's defended this community but today they can lions have changed before i was having people from where the poverty level and i have people all walks of life i have lawyers i have doctors children who become addicted to the opiates every level in every area of life is for is for the low income high and. all of what affected by the opiate use . he represents several families from this town

everyone has lost a relative deceased of a cardiac arrest following a painkiller overdose drugs prescribed by dr nichols. this oklahoma city lawyer has never seen a case like this a new victim wants to press charges. quickly and you can see you can see you. have a seat and that marshall has been raising her 2 children alone since her husband died of a painkiller overdose my math shows that's $99.00 per day that she would prescribe me and my 2nd. one in 20122012. he was a fireman she works in education counselor a regular family all it took was back surgery to turn everything over in a few months her husband became addicted to.