the changes ahead, ah ah, if you little to do them, it is the only con variant, but it's not just to waive any given the numbers we are recording, it's a tidal wave. front sets a national and european record for daily coded cases of the continent struggles to contain the fast spreading over chrome strength joe biden. distances himself from previous promises to shut down the virus saying it's up to individual states to sort out not the white house. we discussed the u. s. president's response to the pandemic. so far americans, big tex, tough fear, which so leading companies come on the political 5 from both the republicans and democrats. we look at how the influential firms have become mixed up in divisive u. s. politics and a rare look inside one of russia's most notorious prisoners known housing. some of

the country's most dangerous criminals and wake of a soviet collapse of 1009 feet cross shade of the 2 main buildings. not only gave the jail it's unofficial name, but also made it easy for guards to monitor and access every corner of that prison. ah good to have you with us is thursday, the 30th of december. as we head into the last couple of days of 2021, i'm calling bray with the wealth news from arte international. first for you, then france has marked a grim 1st by logan europe's highest daily cobra infections. more than $200000.00 were registered on wednesday, the scramble continues to contain the only cron variant. the french health minister describes it as a tidal wave. if you was able to do them and miss it is i yours is the armor conversation, but it's not just to waive any more. given the numbers we are recording, it's a tidal wave. tonight's figures show the continuous increase. it makes you dizzy.

what this walls is that 2nd 2 french people are testing positive and that is through the day and night time. now, the french health minister made this announcement while arguing the case for the current health pass to be changed into a vaccine pass. what this would mean is that people in the country would need to show proof of vaccination if they wanted to, into a collab, a bar or any kind of public or cultural venue. the health minister said that this was a galloping circulation. the health minister also said that there are around 5000000 people in france who are not vaccinated, and they fall into different groups. and the one group who has people who are far away from other vaccine centers or from information they not necessarily for or against the vaccine, but they just simply haven't had the vaccination. and at this stage it's difficult to determine how big their numbers are. but they certainly is

a significant number of people who are in the anti vaccination group. and these are people who believe that cover doesn't exist, that the vaccine can kill people. they numbers are significant. and by converting or insisting that the health pos becomes a vaccine pass, you not really going to change their minds or address the concerns of this group. the hospitals in france are struggling to deal with the number of people who have been brought into hospitals because of the delta variant. and although now we're looking at a mold ovarian, the omi convent, there is likely to be a situation in france, where your health services are struggling. are here in russia, the official daily cove, italian on the downward trend, but hospitals are still under pressure with nearly 600 people on critical support in moscow alone. and it's getting hold of life saving oxygen supplies, which a vital, anton brozowski reports on how it's getting to patients in need. oh boy

. oh boy hm. breathing, how does a person dream? we don't usually pay attention to breathing because she had somehow attached to the body, a mandatory component of life. i remember the fear when i felt that my breath was about to stop that i was forgetting have degrees. ah was go up with a good bit all new oil. i would say the turning point occurred this year with the emergency del this drain. when it became clear that medical treatment was high, spots to have more oxygen, just one average one patient can assume 50 leave as of august and for a minute if it's not intensive therapy. but as the case, a serious volumes can write, the 6 belief is committed to much in a commercial truck with a trailer that can produce up to $1.00 tons of liquid oxygen per day. thus the

amount, the average russian hospital consumes daily for you with, if we're now at a filling station with oxygen's pumped in the cylinders under high pressure cylinders are needed by hospitals to help transport patients. today our country produces $2700.00 tons of oxygen per day. in the past we have had to and now we have to work in the manual mode is that we have close ties to the ministry of defense rose cosmos and rose. out of all the companies that help supply hospitals with oxygen with time was taking every day if not every hour matter. but we have been told to ramp up production to full capacity by any means. so that's why has demand has increased oxygen production has also increased from 200 tons to 600 tons muzzle saw. this is

a fight for life fight for oxygen fight for all of us for you. and for me, you are still tops the global table when it comes to the number of deaths from cove it. but president biden's, now distancing himself from his pledge to shut down the virus, saying now that the solution can't come from the white house, but from individual states. there is no federal solution. escape solved, state level, and then all them leg is found to where the rubber meets the road. that's where the patient is in. need of help or preventing the need for help. or just every year ago,

biden's slammed the trump administration's coven testing efforts is a travesty, and said that america's vaccine rollout was well behind the developed nations as of n presidential contender biden promised to change the course of the disease in his 1st 100 days in office but that didn't happen. over $400000.00 americans have died from covey to under biden's watch, with new cases hovering it around half a 1000000 per day. new york's been the worst hit, with case numbers that had reaching an all time record since the arrival of the oma crumbs rank healthy. saskia tend to disgust washington's response to the crisis. there never was a federal solution to a virus that spreads more easily than chicken box and with each to varian as becomes more and more virulent. the idea that there is some policy or some politician going to stop it. we should have been acknowledging that this is not a pandemic. and that this is endemic, at least a couple of waves ago. politicians, that's a 1st duty is not only did g d p and an inflation and everything,

but basically saved the health of their, of their countrymen. and this needs to be done. this was not done. joe biden got elected because of donald trump's of failed handling the cove. it in the minds of voters in coming up on the year that he was inaugurated. and we have covered as bad as it's been certainly case wise. we can now add up all the rough weeks for biden, to rough year for by 62 percent of americans. now, double chance, they said that when we get to a certain threshold, everything's going to be great. that's how immunity we're going to be able to live more normally. in your opinion, is 62 percent good enough? these terrible, i mean 62 percent is close to 50 percent, not close to 100 percent. the reason where we are not vaccinated is because people are misinformed. it was not accurate information, but is vaccines and a fake news are allowed on social media. basically lead to the fact that patients and people at the end of the day will doubt necessity of having a vaccine. there's definitely a lack of trust in the government as well as a lack of trust in big pharmaceutical companies,

especially now that an increasing number of so called lead vaccinated americans are being told. now, if you haven't had a booster shot, you're not back need any more. you as bad as all those people that didn't get vaccinated. vaccine mandate the domestic ad chapel. do you think that's the direction of cutting and the vaccines are for your personal protection? we have seen less of evidence that the vaccine limits trans miss ability. if you don't have that part of the puzzle from a political messaging and lawmaking perspective, then you don't have the pretends to set up the mandates could have other restrictions of occupancy searching, or telling people that they need to wear a mass from when they walk into the building until they sit down and they can take it back off. none of this stuff is going to stop this virus, we should be deciding for ourselves the best way out of this. the sooner we're going to be able to find the best equilibrium that we're going to have in this new reality though. yeah. facebook stuff is to have a year seen politicians on both sides of the divide, putting pressure on the firm,

whistleblower and anti trust claims. i was one of those corporate overhauled to become meta. the firms been trying to woo lawmakers along party lines. the cost on of looks at how america is big tech firms. they come swept up in the countries polarizing political seeing from multi $1000000.00 fines to watching the lid blown right off some of their most sensitive secrets for big tech. 2021 spelled big problems and facebook got the biggest kicking things started to turn sour 11 of its former employees when rogue and testified that the platform apparently exploited children for profits and failed to sends a hate speech. and there needs to be a record for a home where someone like me could do a tour of duty after working at a place like this and, and have a place to work on things like regulation to bring that information out to the oversight. or is that have the right to do oversight? regulatory agency within the federal government? yes. taking kindly to whistleblowers is one thing that american officials

absolutely can not put on their c. v's. yeah. chelsea manning, gillian assange, i'm talking about them. but francis hogan turned out to be a very different breed of whistleblower with billionaires and democratic party. top dogs sticking up for her after all. her demands filled conveniently in line with the government's own grievances against big tech. her testimony dovetails very closely with the democrat censorship agenda. their plan or their desire to heavily sensor social media and to take out their political adversaries. the kind of government intervention that was proposed by how again and those who were pulling her strings is going to take place an opaque fashion behind the scenes. and undoubtedly with input from the intelligence agencies which are by nature opaque and unaccountable to the public. when you're a real whistleblower rich,

you are targeted by the government. you are silent, you are prosecuted and sent to prison. but if you are celebrated on capitol hill and financed by independent companies, i'm sorry, but you're not a whistleblower europe political tool. her revelations got massive traction in the media and in the senate, you are a 21st century american hero. here's my message for mark zuckerberg, your time of invading our privacy. promoting toxic content and praying on children in teens is over. big tack is facing peak tobacco's moment of reckoning. mcg zuckerberg try to fight back. my view is that what we're seeing is a coordinated effort selected. we usually document to pay full picture of our company. alas, his trials and tribulations did not. and that democrats prestone cooling for the

tech jain to be dismember, chopped into separate businesses, facebook, instagram, and whatsapp. they also floated the idea that the platform, not just the uses, should bear responsibility for all the content on its pages. and again, facebook try to say face will well, rather put on a new one, re branding into meta rate. there's martin, i think he's in the middle of some high. perfect. hey mark. i said let me put my feet on so i can beat you. you'll be able to work out a new world even against in a i was a good, persistent state virtual object laid on an interactive passer environment. oh you are. yes you are. our company is now met. well, goofy robots may have impressed a bunch of 4th graders, but certainly not the democrats met as in where

a cancer to democracy matter sizing for a global surveillance and propaganda machine to listen authoritarian regimes in destroying sheila society for profit. facebook wants us to start calling it meta, but we're just going to keep calling it what is a threat to privacy, democracy and children. republicans gave facebook a good walloping to the social media giant, brought their roth upon itself. well, by blocking donald trump, of course, as twitter did to, if they can band president trump, all conservative voices could be next. a house republican majority will reign in big tech power over our speech for every liberal, celebrating trump social media, been the big tech oligarchy can muzzle the former president. what's to stop them from silencing you? twitters bumpier ended up in a change of leadership project. dorsey stepped down amid reports of growing discontent among investors making way for the new boss to rog wall, a man who seemed to have put twitters use

a policy above free speech. our role is not to be bound which was men, but our role is to serve or had deliberately conversation and our moves left. there are things that we believe were healthier, public conversation, the kinds of things that we, we don't to worry about. this is focus less on thinking about each, but thinking about how the dance of change each year yields big tech scandals in abundance. 2021 made no exceptions here. raising questions, if there's any way at all to tame the big tech as big oil once was president putin sacks rushes prison chief last week and performs get underway in the wake of damage video showing widespread abuses and penitentiary facilities. next we get a rough, rough chance to go behind the bus at a former notorious prison in saint petersburg, which held many of the country's most dangerous criminals. it was a major institution during the chaotic $990.00 s. when street violence and

organized crime became ramp and following the collapse of the soviet union out, he's constantly rose cove takes a look. me were in saint petersburg and in front of what used to be russia, as most infamous for them. for more than a century. this was the largest incarceration facility in the whole of europe were the country's most notorious and violent criminals were being kept. now we're going to check out the jails, darkest parts that have been hidden from the general public. for decades. this looks like a perfect sat for a horror movie. even after 4 years since the prison was shut down, its empty cells and court are still sent chills down your spine. this is one of the solitary confinement cells that were widely used during stalin's role in the thirty's and forty's. i mean, you can see how small it is. i think 3 times smaller than

a regular cell. you can. i mean, he can't even fully stretch out your arms while inside. you have to spend days and weeks in a cell like this where it can effectively only stand for sit on the edge of a small metal bed. lying down during the daytime is forbidden. well then it becomes how on earth in the prison was billed at the end of the 19th century as the most advanced facility of its kind in russia. firstly, because of its iconic architecture, we cross shape of the 2 main buildings. not only gave the jailers unofficial name, but also made it easy for guards to monitor and access every corner of that prison . at a time when cctv cameras were mostly with history, the prison served as a pre detention facility yet. and the soviet times,

there was also a dedicated wind for those found guilty of the most violent crimes like multiple murders and rapes, which is probably the dark part of the prison death row behind the field gate. there was a small basement where though sentenced to death were executed. he came to nationwide notoriety in the 1990s when the severe economic crises that followed the collapse of the soviet union and crime rates for the roof. russian streets became an arena of bloody wars between newly formed criminal gangs. what are you looking at? what are you doing here anyway? who do you, are you going to cover that cache you? i mean, it was you that, that would, that was kind of talk, was column back then there were dictionaries of criminals. lang as i was out of gorman and his love, my escape used to run among russian criminal circles in the 9992. he spent 8 months

in this prison on record during charges. i. yeah. boy of the businesses. someone told me money for went off to deal with the guy. i didn't go to raise the meeting broke guns. almost everyone had come to that time. arrived at the meeting place in the philly for me to run. the crime rate was so high in the ninety's, europe's largest prison quickly became too small to fit in all the mob stories and violent criminals. up i grew up with the door opens and i filled the ugly mugs staring at me. their faces of hardened criminals, yet not roll. i sat down on the edge of the bed. places sit down. these guys looking at me like that. a little cigarette and all of these gangs the smoke they took almost a whole pack for me. so he smoked together and talked so i realized is going to be okay. my next warden who served in this prison at the time recalls some of the night mary scenes he witnessed every day at work with her take me up at

a corridor up to 14 people used to shed this tiny cell. is it true that some in and slept on the floor under the bed? otherwise it was impossible to fit. everyone in people slept into shifts. a lack of funding had left the prison without the most basic things like toilet seat inmates ended up rolling their blankets to have at least minimum comfort growing up in russia, in the ninety's seeing videos of this presence over crowded south. i vividly remember how terrified i was when i imagine what it would be like, walking into a cell like this, where all these harden tattooed criminals give you this look as the door slammed behind you. and some of the former inmates recalled that being rejected by a fellow prisoners and becoming a pariah, was something they feared most, some times more than solitary confinement or punishment from the guard. it was not

. i missed that this is a terrible place that ruined the loss of people's lives. what you're talking about, no doubt. but still everyone who came out to the door, they were mentally damaged. it's clear to me. well, you know, how young guys will rate the old mob the couple of times they raped young guys simply because they wanted 6 in the countries. future president vladimir putin visited the crosses in the 1992. he was particularly shocked that prison dentist pulled out inmates ti without painkillers. the decision was made to shut down the notorious jail altogether and build a new one from scratch. in the next episode, we're inside the new prison that has replaced the old one is the city. the most important to be is that we have a restroom. you can look from the inside. we have any prisoner trotted feel a night from you. what happened? i couldn't tell you the language and i killed them. i strangled in the fish. what

really want to be back with you? he's wait for me. 2022 will be a big election year for france with president macross hoping to convince voters to give him a 2nd term. but he's up against a big competition in the final months before polling date. charlotte events can are reports. hey ho. hi im is running out on a manual macro ones 1st time in the elite a with the french people just months away from a new vote. and it does seem that even after 5 rocky years, macaroni is still in po position. i think it will be mark cron, micron, whatever happens, i will vote micro. however, he faces a battle with some new faces in the mix, all vying to unseat the so called president of the rich. and until recently, some predicted this would be an election that would be a run off

a 2017 with mack on facing off against the national rallies marine la pen. now, while she still showing favorably in the polls, she may not be his main opponent. for those who missed it, meets eric sim. all, we laugh i a brand you doesn't mean this. his words are more lost it into the presidential campaign before he was even confirmed as a possible candidate. initial poll suggested that he could be the one to face up to mac or in the 2nd round, but he support has since dipped. ah, a however, could his campaign be about to get a boost is or more is gaining allies from some unexpected quarters to some kid on them. he is the only one who has discernment and courage and who cares about

civilization? what he stands for is will i live for the defense of civilization then? and there is a valerie case, she's already fought off the big names in her room party law, her publican, and now she is angling for the fight her life. she believes that she is the only one who can deliver a knockout blow to mack on every lavender for victory. the french people have understood it will be either micron or us. and she could be right. early polls suggest if the woman who describes herself as part thatcher part merkel will makes it into the 2nd round of voting. she could give mack on a run for his money. now what's interesting about france's presidential election is just how the vast majority of people are apparently only considering giving their support to right or perceived right when candidates. and what matt connie's seen is

the man to beat. he remains incredibly unpopular. ah . mm hm. oh, you gotta look at the country like a company, really. it's no less than a company. and if the french people have voted for him and you and michael a 5 years ago, it was because they thought, wow, it's a young business man. he knows had to run a company, a lot of people who had voted for a menu and michael got disappointed because they said, hey, you know, you are going around the country like a business, like a company, and it's not working. so what happened in a company when it's not working, the shareholders get rid of the, our general manager,

and then they get another one. the other scene that has been emerging is a sense of hocking back to france, is pass candidates consistently talking about returning to traditional roots about holding on to francis identity. and one name keeps cropping up, is you know how the goal, he's the founder of the current french republican. that's a man that for many symbolizes the best of what it is to be french. it seems that may be a winning strategy from buffalo. it's important to have a charismatic leader who represents france. well, someone who knows how to make decisions. he did have someone who is strong, not necessarily physically, but he shows that he is sure of himself. someone smart with honesty, respect for the people above all, and a commitment to france. 2022 also sees another real test for the viability of mac calls and longer term projects for france. he is on the move party, which is created in the wake of his when just 5 years ago,

will also find out whether it remains a force in politics here. elections for the national assembly come home on the heels of that presidential vote. will his vision be given the rubber stamp of re approval, or will it be discarded to history? only france can decide. charlotte, even sky artsy, paris, and if anybody got 4 months to do it as well, woke up have coverage of it for you to here on our team by. that's it for you news for now. i'm calling bryan. have you next updated just over 30 minutes either. ah. and one is driven by dream shaped bankers, and those with

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