world politics, sport, business, i'm show business. i'll see you then. ah, if you little to do them, it is the only con varian, but it's not just to waive any given the numbers we are recording, it's a tidal wave. from a national and european record for daily covey cases, as the continent struggle to contain the fast spreading over concentrate 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, america, big texas tough year, which so leading companies come on the political 5 from both the republicans and the democrats. we look at how the influential firms have become mixed up in advice if you at home with

a red look inside one of russia's most notorious prisoners known for housing. some of the country's most dangerous criminals in the way to the soviet collapse in the 1990 s. walking into his cell like this were holidays hardened tattooed, criminal to give you this much been rejected by a fellow prisoners and becoming a pariah with something they feared are the most my life from moscow. this is alta international just turned 9 am on thursday morning in the russian capital. i'm calling bray with 1st for you. france has marked a grim 1st by look in europe highest daily cove infection, right. more than 200000 were registered on wednesday. that's the scramble continues to contain the micron battery and the french health minister describes the escalating situation to reserve. also, does it mean this is our, your is the army conversion, but it's not just to waive anymore. 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 passed 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 either 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 there certainly is a significant number of people who are in the anti vaccination group. and these are people who believe that covered 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're 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 mild ovarian, the only convent there is likely to be a situation in france where your health services are struggling. or you have still tops the global table when it comes to the number of deaths from cupboard. 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 state, there is no federal solution. this gets solved, state level, and all only gets down to where the rubber meets the road. and that's where the patient is in need of help or preventing the need for help. just over a year ago, bite and slammed the trumpet. ministrations, coven testing efforts, is a travesty, and said that americans vaccine rolled up was well behind the developed nations. i was then 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 cove it under biden's watch, with new cases hovering around half a 1000000 per day. new york has been the worst hit with case numbers. they're reaching an all time record since the arrival if the overgrown strain are t. saskia data discussed washington's response to the crisis. why didn't sad what for what? that is? no federal solution. i don't think that is something that one wants to hand from the president. there never was a federal solution to

a virus that spreads more easily than chicken box and with each do varian as becomes more and more of the early, 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 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 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. and now a couple chad, they said that when we get to a certain threshold, everything is going to be great. that's how immunity we're going to be able to live more normally. in your opinion, is 62 percent in good enough. these terrible,

i mean 62 percent is close to 50 percent enough goes to 100 percent. the reason why we're not vaccinated is because people are misinformed. it was not accurate information, but is vaccines and a fake news that 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 the 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 vaccinated anymore, you as bad as all those people. it didn't get back needed. vaccine mandate for domestic ad chapel. do you think that's the direction that we're getting 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 message and law making perspective, then you don't have the pretends to set up the mandates. put up other restrictions, parking restrictions, 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. well, here in russia daily cove, italy's been declining, but that doesn't diminish the severity of the virus. of course 9600 patients around critical support in moscow alone can vital supplies of oxygen. next to ortiz and don krislofski traces how the life saving supplies are reaching patients in need. oh boy. 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 forget and have to breathe. ah,

was go up with a good bit of all new oil. i would say the turning point occurred this year with the emergency doubtless drain. when it became clear that medical treatment required heisman to have more oxygen just one average one patient can assume 50 leave as of oxygen for minutes if it's not intensive therapy. but it's the case of serious volumes can write. the 6 p leads is permitted 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 what we're now at a filling station we're oxygen's pumped in the cylinders under high pressure cylinders are needed by hospitals to help transport patients to they are country produces 2700 tons of oxygen per day. in the past we have had to and now we have to work in the manual mode. 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 . ready time we're 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 as demand has increased oxygen production has also increased from 200 tons to 600 tons muzzle saw. this is all i was a fight for life and fight for oxygen fight for all of us for you. and for me,

facebook's toughest ever years. the politicians on both sides of the divide, putting pressure on the firm of a whistleblower and anti trust claims. i was one of those corporate overhaul to become matter. the firms also been trying to woo lawmakers along party lines. egleston of looks at how america's big tech firms have become swept up in the countries polarizing political scene. 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 when one of its former employees when rogue and testified that the platform apparently exploited children for profits and failed to sends a haid speech. and there needs to be a radio 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 if 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, julian assange, i'm talking about them. but francis hogan turned out to be a very different breed of whistle blower 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 are pulling her strings growing is going to take place in 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 creation, you are targeted by the government. you are silent when you are prosecuted and sent to prison as well. but if you are celebrated on capitol hill and finance, i know that by independent companies, i'm sorry, but you're not a whistleblower europe. political school, her revelation has got massive traction in the media and in the senate. you are a 21st century american hero. here's my message for mark, soccer burke, 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. mob zuckerberg, try to fight back. my view is that what we're seeing is a coordinated effort to selectively usually document to pay it all picture of our

company. i lost his trials and tribulations did not. and that democrats, preston, calling for the tech jain to be dismembered, choked 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. rebranding into meta rate. there's martin. mm. i think he's in the middle of a perfect hey mark. i said let me put my gave me 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 pastor 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 wearing cancer, to democracy, matter sizing for a global surveillance and propaganda machine to listen authoritarian regimes and 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 bad. 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 too big bon mussman man, but our role is to serve ahead liberally, conversation, and our moves and reflect. there are things that we believe were held here, public opposition, the kinds of things that we we don't to worry about. this is to focus less on thinking about each, but thinking about how the banks have changed each year yields big tech scandals in abundance. 2021 made no exceptions here. raising questions if there's any way our tool to tame the big tech as big oil once was year without c on the way, just a few months left for president ba chrome to convince french votes as to keep it in the job of the competition snaps at his heels meet some of his biggest challenges

on our stories after the break. ah oh, you're welcome. nick jam bruno to the show for this christmas week. special nick was casey research for a long time, but he started his own company focused on helping people to see the big economic and geopolitical picture to survive and thrive. the changes the head 1st, driven by a dreamer shaped by center. so those with

sinks, we dare to ask in a low, again, president putin sacked russia's prison chief last week because reforms got underway in the wake of damage video showing widespread abuses in penitentiary facilities nationwide. now next we're going to visit a prison in saint petersburg. it's undergoing a transformation. the facility itself, though, was notorious in the ninety's when it, how some of the country's most dangerous criminals. following the chaos of the collapse of the soviet union, ortiz constantine broadcast has been given rare access. be aware though his report does contain graphic descriptions of bonds. me were in saint petersburg and in front of what used to be

rushes 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 night . the thirty's and forty's, you can see how small it is. i think 3 kind smaller than a regular so you can kind of been bullied, stretch out your arms while inside. you have to spend days and weeks and

a cell like this where it can of actor. we 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 jailer 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 in the soviet times, there was also a dedicated wind for those found guilty of the most violent crimes like multiple murders and rapes. this is probably the dark part of the prison death row behind

the field gate. there was a small basement where they were sentenced to death were executed. he came to nationwide notoriety in the 9290s when the severe economic crisis that followed the collapse of the soviet union and crime rates through 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'd you come to that you get a call for that cash you? i mean, it was you that, that would, that was kind of talk was column back then there were dictionaries of criminals lang, verizon's gone 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 gone to that garage at the meeting place in the police to meet with 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 are popular if the door opens and i filthy ugly mugs staring at me, their faces of hardened criminals. yeah, that's all i sat down on the edge of the bed. places sit down these guys looking at me like that. as i lit a cigarette and off of these gangs the smoke, they took almost the whole pack for me. so we smoked together and talked so i realized is going to be okay. next warden who served in this prison at the time. recall some of the night mary scenes he witnessed every day at work with her. pick me up, i've caught 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 and 19 and seeing videos in 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 prisoner isn't becoming a pariah, was something they feared? most, some times have been more than solitary confinement or punishment from the guard. it was not. i mister, this is a terrible place that ruined the loss of people's lives. what you've done, but still everyone who came out to the door, they were mentally damaged. it's kelly. well, you know how young guys will rate,

but old mob to 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 most important and is that we have a restroom. but you can look from the inside. you have any prisoner trotted steel and i from you. what happened? i couldn't tell you the language and i killed them. i strangled in your wishing fish. what really want to be back with you? he's wait for me. i'll 2022 is lining up to be

a big election year for france with president mccall and hoping for a 2nd term. but he's up against the big competition in the final months before polling date. the shot to bench can reports. hey ho. hi im is running out on a manual macro ones. first time in the elisa 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 one 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 of 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 love via brand you doesn't mean this. his words are more blasted 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. so get this on, he is the only one who has discernment and courage, and who cares about civilization? what he stands for is what 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, low 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 glove and 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

oh, you gotta look at that country like a company, really. it's no less than a company. and if the french people have voted for him and you in my core i 5 years ago, it was because they thought, wow, it's a young nicholas man. he knows how 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 like an error and a bit. no country like a business, like a company, no 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 harking back to france, is past 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. so because it's important to have a charismatic leader represent france, well, someone who knows how to make decisions to 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. oh, and a commitment to france. 2022 also sees another real test from 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. we'll also find out whether it remains a force in politics here. elections to the national assembly come home on the heels of the presidential vote. 2 will his vision be give them the rubber stamp of re

approval, or will it be discarded to history? only france can decide. charlotte even ski, ot see paris. i said could be a bruising ballot will be following the campaign here on our team. that's it for now though. thanks for watching. i'm calling bryan. have your next update in just over half an hour. seen him? ah, ah, is your media a reflection of reality? ah, in the world transformed what will make you feel safer? high selection community. are you going the right way? where are you being led somewhere? direct. what is true? what is great?

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