getting it 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 say new crowd control time to expire french police smash and grab are a mass violation of human rights and press freedoms. and blood a mere 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. are

broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to 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 is 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 peter 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 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 they 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 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's target specific companies in a way that's wrong and particularly 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 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 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 are we 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 earn 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 issue and technology is 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 roots of this mall find

and busy speaking we have seen in the last couple of years so very small finds in almost any keys is these fines that are not in off and off to scare tech giants. inadmissible abuse that is how human rights and media groups have branded police behavior and recent protests 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 a smash and grab. reports. so today's a protest against the draw floors on security and in trying republicans 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. 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 for held including a 17 year old young woman this under aged 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 it was were randomly arrested no one was prosecuted because they'd done nothing wrong except for standing in the way of the police charging 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 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 admissible abuses is growing by the

day so much ski ot see paris but the officers themselves are also furious at how they are being treated the 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 harassed. to 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 the support without that we won't move forward. lattimer putin has congratulated joe biden on victory in the u.s. presidential election this 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 that there was no evidence of widespread election fraud archies. comments 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 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 'd 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 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 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 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 sunni credible brilliant send this b.s. if you're the winner it balances out if you're the loser is aged a little over a year 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 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 art international stay with us.

the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person. thinks . we fear to ask. every dollar for it to go forward because it champions or 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 now dave base the currency for real this is going to be the end game as it were

because once the full inflation jamie is out of the bottle you can put it back into the bottle. welcome back this is our to international now the daughter of the top iranian general assassinated by the us earlier this year has spoken exclusively to r.t. in her 1st media interview there knobs on the money told artie's going underground about the response to his killing from her family and the country as a whole you can watch the interview in full on wednesday here's a preview 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 on they know so well why trump or dare to kill my father. so so obstinate after killing my father america sought that everything will be stopped because they killed general soleimani defiler of the 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 that generously money has a military from people that they will take revenge from chump and they are so wrong they are sinking this war to 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 that they must know our people are united and they will stand in front of such a they interest powers. it is an investigation which claims it can and shame russian agent mainstream media outlets have published extensive and sensationalist details of security operatives hot on the heels of opposition figure alexina vali since 2017 but as our correspondent what our guys 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 g.-u. 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 climbed 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 they dream 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 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 dark net 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 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 last grad investigation was well made up note 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 r.t. dot com renowned philosophers lovely is usually says there won't be a return to normal once the pandemic is over we asked the slovenian academic to expand on why 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. we were just afraid. to you know perspective now i think it's happening would be so much smarter but a lot cheaper and the same damn deep fried lest they die to go all socialized and so it's no dispiriting dream and those now we have a bank and an already small enjoyment like less enjoying to

a last who knows what will happen i did a virus she's waiting to die. or so i am to measure us lower down and. many of us decent took establish. their own we'll. do what i call a. few months state of being totally legal don't get me on the horizon even the prospect of so why our brain. mind process he's really been dealing so doesn't need to i'm not exaggerating here you. think we should. have. that we learned from. a. date me.

it's possible to need. to give you any details and sound good for your. interest and so the point today scientists yes these books should be opened by bit by bit but they are all in the being we stepped in many many mediocre schools go to the size east deny science just isolated lately to go one with the nice lady not the same these groups are you are you. going to go along me and most of them are me. and you. only knew. that. that does it for me this i'll be back in about 35 minutes and 20 seconds with another full look at you news this is our international stay with us.

by the pandemic no sydney no board is just blind to nationalities. as a much richer it we took a back seat. to. judge a. crisis with this until. we can do better we should. everyone is contributing to your own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges created with the response has been so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together.

join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. hello and welcome across the uk where all things are considered on peter lavelle exhibit a the smoking gun we know now without a doubt the media ran interference for the biden campaign before the election the hunter biden story was not debunked was not rushing to misinformation we were lied

to again where is the accountability. to discuss this and more i'm joined by my guest david freiheit in montreal he's a litigator turned you tube or who provides legal breakdowns of current events in new york we have. host of eat the press at r.t. america and in sydney we prostitute joe lauria he's the editor in chief of consortium news dot com her and gentlemen crossed up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i was appreciate joe let me go to you in sydney and 1st of all thank you for existing up 2 o'clock in the morning for this program and very much appreciate it we all appreciate it jerks job where is the state of journalism that we know that the big tech the media companies are running interference for the buying campaign does the repeated claims that $100.00 buy

used old laptop was and it's not that's not true they lied to us and remarkably and maybe someone here can explain to me why did the biden campaign come out with hunter's statement ok where's that going to go but you know i mean this is an extraordinary event i don't think you and i have ever seen anything like it in our . life where you have a complete blockade. taking people off of twitter blocking people from sending personal messages all in support of a candidate which normally speaking at least in our lifetime we should be more neutral go ahead joe what's going on well the question of this program is well the media recover yes sure the answer's no. no in the short term anyway i think bottom line is partisanship is dish roiling if it hasn't already destroyed journalism because journalism must be nonpartisan or else it sees it ceases to be journalism now become something else and we've got

a whole lot of something else right now in american media. bob kerrey the founder of our website consorting news in the last piece that he wrote before he died exactly 3 month 3 years ago december he wrote about this dying journalism and because of the partisanship taking it over and the basics of journalism of facts of being neutral of being impartial was going by the wayside he didn't if i did the arjun's of this with the in the reagan administration with the rise of right wing talk radio but then he came to see that especially during the obama administration and it really took off going to trump and station that the democrats were doing the same if not worse than what the right wing had done and when i say democrats i don't i don't call them left i think the democrats a center right but in that nonetheless they're certainly the other party and both sides are using other democrats because there's more or democratic t.v. meticulous and newspapers and there are republican i mean you just look at this

think it's not only m.s.n. b.c. but let's look at c.n.n. for a moment and bite your viewers peter to go to you tube and look up i think it was june 1st 1980 the very 1st broadcast of cable network news they had lots of news reports they had an interview with jimmy carter they had a report from the middle east looking critically at israeli politics they even had like a 15 minute investigative report about faulty fuel gauges on commercial airlines know the words they would journalism can be done on tell me to look at what we have now on c.n.n. we have crying on the air and had judy elation because their candidate won it was an embarrassment. and i have something to say about biden later in the one thing i'm sure that a commodity accident. that's the main point i want to make at the beginning here steve you know the but you know when when there's just that mission when you know the. campaign and it needed that hunter was under investigation actually been under investigation for 2 years where was the mainstream media and i'm thinking of them

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