yes the records. are abandoned on the streets. the invisible. getting tough on the world's titans and the e.u. unveils a major overhaul of digital market rules which could see massive fines for online giants who abuse their dominance. with. activists say new crowd control tactics by french police smash and grab are a mass violation of human rights and press freedom. congratulated 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 our team international i'm sean thomas have you with us. and 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 what it has described as its biggest ever overhaul of digital market rules but is seen by many as a direct challenge to the power of firms like google facebook amazon apple and microsoft are cheaper oliver 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 they did to the markets act applies to 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 7 times repeatedly we can also impose structure remedies divestiture that sort of things there's going to be a lot of scrutiny paid to acquisitions and mergers they're 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 brussels they're not 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 targets 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 seem to buy the rain back or pull out of the e.u. altogether if this bill was put forward they haven't gone nuts 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 we heard from internet law and decide for security experts who say the tech giants will have to adapt as the european market is too big to abandon. 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 then over there you worldwide turn over. book and google will just have to accept the new reality and succumb to the new rules it is difficult to see facebook pulling out of the e.u. altogether inconceivable the reality is that the village station technologies there were 2 different speeds and the low are not able to follow the evolution of technology slings kate for this reason that we are attempting to up the station that there is data in the 20 years ago you cannot force tech giants are to follow

the rules that we dis mall find and 'd speaking of we have seen in the last couple years or very small finals in almost any cases these fines are not going off and after the scare tech giants. inadmissible abuse that is how human rights and media groups have branded police behavior at a recent a protest against a new security bill in the french capital 2 journalists were among the more than $140.00 people arrested including through controversial law enforcement tactics dubbed smash and grab. reports. so today's a protest against the draw floors on security and in trying public in 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 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 underage 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 lawyers people who cordon a tourist were random the arrested no one was prosecuted because they've done nothing wrong except post engine in the way of the police charges that it's up to the officers to decide when to charge this is a demonstration no props are just too dangerous and the fact of this is a 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 when some warning that the list of any admissible abuses is

growing by the day so much ought to be paris but the officers themselves are also furious at 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 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 we must know that it will soon parts of families wives children and parents it affects a lot of people and we need this support without. food. a lot of mere 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 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 trump administration's attorney general bill barr has resigned he previously said that 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 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 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 trumps

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 in us society legal and media analyst lionel spoke to us about some of the cork's of the electoral college system i'm going to be to 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 ended the lovy and it's archaic it's antiquarian 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 . 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 arch international stay with us.

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bank support diagram is kind of problem right now so you stop to. call them back this is our international now the daughter of the top iranian general assassinated by the u.s. earlier this year has spoken exclusively to our t.v. in her 1st media interview is a knob so many told r.t. is it 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 silly money did for them and they are and they know so well why trump order to kill my father so so obstinate after killing my father i marry because lot that everything will be stopped because they killed gen so i am learning to follow or a 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 tears they didn't see their sadness and i have to say generously money has a military from people that they will take revenge from charm 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 soley 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 they interest powers. it is an investigation which claims it can name and shame russian agents mainstream media outlets have published extensive and sensationalist details of security operatives hot on the heels of opposition figure alexina volley since of 2017 but as our correspondent explains of there are now more questions than answers. 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 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 removing 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 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 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 was poisoned by nerve agent found . 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 for 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 renowned philosopher 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 a strain to think it's happening would be so much smarter but

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this is the one business show you can't afford to mess unfair montana and washington coming out to european law may force the break up of big tech companies on competition rules and lead up to find up to 6 percent of global revenue in the u.s. food and drug testing of the past for a 2nd told the 19 vaccines delphi would turn out it's a highly effective we could feel a lot of vaccine by the end of this week we have a lot to get to so let's get started. a big move by the e.u. would attempt to break up the monopolies held by big tech companies that news as new rules were announced today by the e.u. in an attempt to either curb tech company power or even force those companies to break up well joining us now to discuss. journalist ben swan and we've had this conversation before but explain what comes this time in this package and this

reform announced by the e.u. . yeah this is pretty interesting there is something called the digital markets act and the idea behind it is to actually call for fines of up to 10 percent of the and you will global turnover of tech companies their annual revenues not their profits of their revenue so that's pretty significant up to 10 percent of that for companies that are so-called gatekeeper companies that would be facebook that would be twitter that would be amazon that would be any google property google and you tube right the idea behind this is to not try to to narrow it into just one kind of tech but across all the tech spectrum so-called gatekeepers and essentially punish them if they do not comply with the new rules that have been set up in order to protect privacy and to force these companies to not act in a way that is considered anti competitive or antitrust. well then hasn't the e.u. already assess these massive fines on those companies why are they taking these

additional steps and why now yeah that's a great point actually yes the answer to that is the e.u. for its part has consistently as you know fined amazon fined google fined facebook for violating their rules over and over and as you and i have talked about all the time sarah and the key problem here is the fact that these companies continue to break the law remember this isn't just oh we're violating some kind of rule these are laws that have been passed across the e.u. and these different countries like france and germany continually say hey facebook is violating the law google is violating the law so they assigned them record size fines and by the way every time there's a new fine it's a new record in terms of the amount these companies have to pay but as we've talked about these companies build this into their actual bottom line in terms of a line item in their budgets to say we're going to pay fines because we're going to break the rules if you find somebody

a much smaller i'm out then they can actually make committing a crime why would they stop committing the crime and that's what the point of these these new rules are is to say we know you're not going to follow this because the fines aren't enough and so as a last resort under this digital markets act would be calling for the breakup of these companies saying ok you won't follow the rules you won't follow the law well actually disband the companies and break them apart in order for them to function and then how is this different if at all from what the united states is trying to do here. well it's somewhat different in that the u.s. is talking about this through this brand new lawsuit that's been filed right 46 states attorneys general have been a part of this along with the f.c.c. and what they're essentially saying is look the.