[000:00:00;00] ah, ah, if you're able to do them in minutes, the only conversion, but it's not just to waive any given the numbers we are recording, it's a tidal wave. front sets the national and european record for daily covey cases. the continent struggle to contain the files, the spreading only comes right across the atlantic. joe biden, distances himself from previous promises to shut down the virus saying it's up to individual states to sort have not the white house we discussed. the u. s. president respond to the pandemic so far? american big tex tuffy, 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 and divisive

us politics. and to red look inside one of russia's most notorious prisons, no housing. some of the country's most dangerous criminals in the wake of the soviet collapse in the 1990 walking into a cell like this or holidays harden to tack, he'd criminal to give you. it's not been rejected by a fellow prisoners and become an aide pariah with something they fear the most with my life worldwide. this is our international for moscow. i'm calling brady world news . this. our 1st en francais marked a grim 1st by logan. europe's highest daily cove infections more than 200000 were registered on wednesday, the scramble continues to contain them. a con barian, the french health minister describes the escalating situation. it also didn't miss it of yours as the ohm icon. very am but it's not just to wave anymore, given the numbers we are recording, it's

a tidal wave. tonight's figures show the continuous increase. it makes you dizzy. what the small is that hot 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 in a 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 you have people who are far away from either vaccine centers or from information they not necessarily saw 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 covert doesn't exist, that the vaccine can kill people. their 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 mold ovarian, the only convent there is likely to be a situation in france, where your health services are struggling. while 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 instead there is no federal solution. this gets solved, state level and then ultimately 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 or just over a year ago, bite and slammed. the trump administration's cove and testing efforts is a travesty. and said that america, the vaccine roll out, was well behind the developed nations. well as the 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 covered 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 reaching an all time record since the arrival of the oma chrome stream. c. saskia taylor disgust 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 have from

the president. 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 of the early, the idea that there's some policy or some politician going to stop it. we should have been a, acknowledging that this is not a pandemic and that this is and demick, 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 save 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. now, double chance, they said that when we get to a certain threshold, everything's going to be great. that's how them unity 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. not close to 100 percent. the reason why we're not vaccinated is because people are misinformed. it was not accurate information, but vaccines and the 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 hopefully vaccinated americans are be in told. no, if you haven't had a booster shot you're not vaccinated anymore. you as bad as all those people. it didn't get vaccinated. vaccine mandate for 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 transmit 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

of occupancy 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 fire and 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, i here in russia, the daily cove, italy has been declining, but that doesn't diminish the severity of the virus. of course, that is 600 patients are on critical supports in moscow alone, given vital supplies of oxygen. i'll tease anton krislofski, tracy, 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 degrees. ah, let's go with it all new oil. i would say the turning point occurred this year with the emergence of the dell, the strain when it became clear that medical treatment required high school to have more oxygen. just one average one patient can assume 50 leave as of oxygen for a minute. if it's not intensive therapy, but it's the case of serious volumes can write, the 6 belief 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 region hospital consumes daily for you with we're now at a filling station where oxygen's pumped into 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, gross cosmos, and ross out of all the companies that help supply hospitals with auctions with time, we're taking every day if not every hour matter, 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 mazel 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 over whistle blower and anti trust claims that as well as a corporate overhauled become matter. the firms also been busy trying to will lawmakers along party lines eagles down of looks at how america's big tech firms have been swept up by the countries polarizing political c. 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, one rogue, and testified that the platform apparently exploited children for profits and failed to sends a hate 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 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 democrats 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 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, a real whistleblower, wish you are targeted by the government. you are silent when you are prosecuted and sent to prison. 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 tool. 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 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 selective. 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 chilton, to separate businesses, facebook, instagram, and whatsapp. they also flow to 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 or well rather, put on a new one. rebranding into meta rate. there's martin. i think he's in the middle of some high. perfect. okay, mark, i said let me put my b b 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 seal a society for profit. facebook once 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 about 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, o is not to be bound mussman men, but our role is to serve a heavily bully conversation and our moves. additionally, there are things that we believe were healthier, public conversation, 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 times of change each year yields big tech scandals in abundance 2021 made no exceptions. hey, of grazing questions, if there's any way our tool to tame the big tech as big oil once was year, without se life from moscow on the way, just a few months left for president bach wrong to convince french voters to keep him in

the job. that's the competition snapped at his heels, made some of his biggest challenges, some on the stories after the break. ah ah ah ah ah

ah, so welcome, nick jam berner, to the show for this christmas week special nick was at 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 ahead ah ah, hello again. president putin sacked russia's prison chief last week is reforms get underway in the wake of damming video showing widespread abuses and torture in penitentiary facilities. well next we've visited notorious former prison in saint petersburg has now been replaced with a much more modern facility. the old jail though it was infamous in the ninety's, when it housed some of russia's most dangerous criminals. amid the chaos that followed, the collapse of the soviet union parties,

constantine broadcast has been given rare access. but be aware that his report does contain graphic descriptions of violence. 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, where 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 in corridor are still sent chills down your spine. this is one of the solitary confinement cells that were widely used during stalins rule in the night in the thirty's and forty's. and you can see how small it is. it is,

i think 3 times smaller than a regular. so you can, i mean he can't even fully 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 or 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 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 ccc cameras were mostly with history, the prison served as a pre detention facility yet. and the soviet times there was also we did

a good win 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 they were sentenced to death, were executed. prison came to nationwide notoriety in the 9290s when the severe economic crises 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 was out of out of 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 come to that time. arrived at the meeting place, luckily for me that the crime rate was so high in the 90s, europe's largest prison quickly became too small to fit in all the mob stories and violent criminals. a popular work with the door opens and i filled the ugly mug staring at me. their faces of hardened criminals, yet not roll. i sat down on the edge of the bed. it was a place to sit down these guys look, look, they took almost a whole pack for me. so he smoked together and talked, so i realized is going to be okay. next warden who served in this prison at the time, recalls some of the night mary scenes he witnessed every day at work

a miracle about to 14 people used to share this kindly cell. is it true that some inmates have been slapped on the floor under the bed? otherwise it was impossible to fit everyone in people's slipped 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 person's overcrowded cells. 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 his fellow prisoners and becoming a pariah with something they feared the most. sometimes even more than solitary confinement or punishment from the guard. it was, i find mister, this is a terrible place to ruin the loss of people's lives. what your job,

but everyone who came out to the door, they were mentally damaged. it's kelly. yeah. well yeah, i mean i get it. so how young guys will rate, but old me up to the couple of times they raped young guys simply because they wanted 6. the country's future president vladimir putin visited the crosses in 1992. he was particularly shot at prison. dentist pulled out my teeth 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 is that we have a rest from the inside. we have any prisoner trotted stealing night from you. what happened? i couldn't tell you the language and i killed the matter, strangled in little fish. what really wanted to be back with you. he's wait for me

. of 2022 is lining up to be a big election year for france with president micron hoping for a 2nd term. but he's up against some big competition in the final months before polling the shall do ben ski now reports. hey. oh hi im is running out on a manual macro ones 1st time in the lease a with the french people just months away from a new vote. and it does seem that even after 5 rocky is mac or a still in pole 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 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 love. hi, a 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 mack on, in the 2nd round, but he support has since dipped. ah a however, could his campaign be about to get a boost? is a more, is gaining allies from some unexpected quarters. should get this on him. 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, let her public on, and now she's angling for the fight her life. she believes that she is the only one who can deliver a knockout blow to mack on every la valley for victory. the french people have understood it would 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 look at that country like a company, really, it's no less than a company. and if the french people have voted for menu in my core, i 5 years ago, it was because they thought, wow, it's a young businessman. 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 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 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 project 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 for the national assembly come home on the

heels of the presidential vote. 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 sky artsy, paris, and we will be across the campaign throughout run that she news for now. thanks for watching the final alec salmon show of begin next aeronautics. with with 2021 rapidly coming to an end to this time for some reflection. what will we remember about this year? how did our lives change? also we look forward to the new year. what does 2022 have in store for us? will we be living in interesting times

with ah, mm sh. welcome to the alec family, show me hope you've all had a wonderful christmas. we're here for a special new year edition where we joined by the wonderful louis mcclain, i'm kara robbins. welcome to the show, just have a good christmas. oh yes, fantastic, beautiful. wonderful. well, there's women and men of many voices and the sure good of do what we're television, let the highlights of the showbiz year, though,