who's to blame patients don't manufacture was. getting tough on the world of 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. the. activists say new crowd control tactics by french police dub smash and grab are a mass rights violation and press freedoms. 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. by

broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us right now the world's a 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 a 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 artie's 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 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 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 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 had threatened seem to rein 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 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 turnover delhi worldwide 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 logistician technologies there are 2 different speeds and the low are not able to for all the evolution of technology sloan's keep 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 with this mall finance and 'd speaking we have seen in the last couple years or very small finance in almost any keys is these fines that are not off and

after tech giants. the host of artes a boom bust a benz one explained why europe's handling of the tech giants could be more effective in comparison with washington's. 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 facebook is violating the law 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 what makes this different is that there is a very clear set of punishments up to anywhere from 6 percent to 10 percent of your gross revenue will be fined every single year that you violate those laws that's pretty significant in the united states we're going after a very specific companies and very specific grounds in this case it's creating a law that says anyone who's a digital gatekeeper and by the way who is

a market leader that controls a sizeable portion of the market those companies fall under this law and these rules and therefore it's much more broadly based and it doesn't require specific action of anything that has to be proved from the past everything against google and facebook in the u.s. based on past action this is based upon what these companies do moving forward. inadmissible abuse that is how human rights and media groups have branded police behavior at recent protests against a new security bill in the french capital 2 journalists were among the more than $140.00 people arrested including that through controversial law enforcement tactics dubbed a smash and grab and he showed pinsky reports. so today's protest against the draw floor was 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 under aged girl was arrested at saturday's

demonstration she didn't do anything wrong except she 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 work origin it was well random the 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 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 admissible abuses is growing by the day so much auti paris but the officers themselves are also furious at how they are being treated police in the french capital staged their own protest and 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 we must know that it will soon pics of families wives children and parents it affects a lot of people and we need the support without that we won't. but emir 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 trump administration's attorney general bill maher has resigned and he previously said there was no evidence of widespread election fraud artie's killed and reports 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 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 in 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 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 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 and this b.s. if you're the winner it balances out if you're the loser is into delivery 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 the top iranian general assassinated by the us earlier this year has spoken

exclusively to our t.v. in her 1st media interview zainab told us that go out told artie's going underground about the response to his killing from her family and of the country as a whole you can watch the interview unfold from wednesday you see how people come to the street 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 are in the know also well why trump order to kill my father. so so obstinate after killing my father. i marry cuss a lot but everything will be stopped because they killed general soleimani deprive 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 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 election of ali since 2017 but as artie's more guns they have explains that 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 20 inventions 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. 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 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 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. at all so 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 slava 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 a lot cheaper at the same time people prayed 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 let's enjoy and wait last who knows what will happen i did a virus she's waiting to die. or something you don't know i am for measure us look down and. many of us d.c. took established major museums both their own and. lebanon into what i call a post human state of being totally. me on

the horizon even the prospect of so why our brain our minds process usually been dealing so definitely i'm not exaggerating here and you. think we should. have. except that we learned from. 8 day me. to give you any. sound good for your. interest and so the point today scientists yes these books should be opened by bit by bit but they are already being we stepped in many many mediocre schools go should be so easy to do nice science or just isolated lately to go on with the nice lady not the same

these groups are you are you. going to go in on me and most of them are me. and you will get about. all of these and you will. that does it for me this i'll be back in about 36 minutes with another look at your headlines this is how to international stay with us.

as the u.s. economy was booming gaining numbers of people made homeless. you can work 40 hours 'd in a week and still not have enough to get housing everybody believes america still has the lead up to the reality of it is that we're not financially equality and the lack of political housing or living minimum wage give many people no choice. that's been a problem with the city knows turn limits on the police state way out almost. the food that there is no answer because yes that requires resources the most

vulnerable are abandoned on the streets to become the invisible cliques. greetings and salutation we are a little over a week and a half before christmas but the gifts are already were raining down on the corridors of power here in washington d.c. monday brought us the gift of the resignation of the presidential power mongering attorney general himself mr william barr yes the mastermind behind the infamous let's clear lafayette square of protesters with chemical weapons for a campaign photo op. is finally calling it quits just in time for the new year i guess the poll of his inevitable news media make over through multimillion dollar book deals speaking engagements and future appearances on the ellen show was just

too much to resist for the attorney general meanwhile time magazine bestowed their gift of person of the year on president elect joe biden and his running mate kamel harris for putting their lives on the line in hospitals and health care facilities across the nation every day since koch who. will wait i'm sorry no. they didn't really do that no no no no time magazine awarded them persons of the year for putting their lives and their freedom on the line for protesting the killing of black men and women by police in cities across the no way. bad they didn't really do that either so what did harrison joe biden do to deserve time's person of the year award. thoughts questions i guess the editors of time magazine considered easily winning an election against a wildly unpopular president presiding over a terrible economy and i gigantic health care crisis well i guess they thought that

was more heroic and difficult than working on the front lines of code 19 or practicing free speech in the face of police brutality and pepper spray but the biggest gift of the holiday season so far has got to be the corporate power brokers in d.c. who will be getting the gift of immunity as democrats and republicans appear to now be in agreement on including sweeping and retroactive immunity from coronavirus related lawsuits in the latest edition of their covert relief bill that is set to be passed by congress in the next few weeks and trust me folks legal immunity from creating unsafe working environments and failing to keep employees safe during a pandemic that is indeed the gift that keeps on giving. i think it's time to start watching the homes. what's going on in a city. there so let's see this is this.

state. great city slaves systemic dissent says so. so when the bill is. welcome everyone to watch the i robot and i'm. so amazing i got to ask do you think i mentioned it in the in the start do you think the you know. do you think attorney general barr we're going to see kind of the white washing of his time in history like we've seen with george bush bill kristol you know another kind of bush era people you going to like how he's going out is going to bring him that kind of like fame and fortune but they received in the next few years actually no i think that poor end of it. rules were tied to the trumpet ministration is going to be very hard 8 partially because of the because of the alliances that hollywood has with with being on the left anyway george bush he was

a little bit different because he came from a plethora of money and connections before he was ever president but i also feel like he was smart enough to know when to be quiet george bush was not a public figure for a long time after he after he left the white house he was painting or doing whatever he was doing with his grandkids at that time and he would be an ultra silent i think that for bill barr because he was such a close friend of donald trump and he was he was part and parcel acting not only as the as the chief judicial response for america but you also acted as though he was the personal lawyer in p.r. person for president trump and i think that a lot of the things that came come with that are him actually getting involved in things that we haven't seen attorney generals get involved with in the in the past that's going to be tough for him especially since he didn't go out shouting against donald trump on his way out even though we know what we're going to fire him firing him to talk about firing him bill bar to his credit he went out still trying to represent this man in the best light he possibly could and i'm not so sure that's going to play well for him in his.