ah, ah, if you a little to do them, it is the only con varian, but it's not just to wave anymore. given the numbers we are recording, it's a tidal wave front set. so national and european record for daily coded cases. as the continent struggle to contain the fastest reading, omicron straight across the atlantic, though 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, american big tex tuffy, which so leading companies come on the political 5 from both the republicans and the democrats. we take a look at how the influential firms become mixed up and divisive us politics. and a rare look inside one of russia's most notorious prisons known for housing, some of the country's most dangerous criminals in the wake of the soviet collapse

in the 1990 fucking into a cell like this were all these hardened tattooed criminal give you this not being rejected by fellow prisoners and carmen, a pariah with something they feared, are the most with good. have you with us as we head towards the end of the thursday, the 30, the december. i'm calling brad r t h q with 1st for you. then france. has marked a grim 1st by logan europe's highest daily coven infection, right. more than 200000 were registered on wednesday. the scramble continues to contain the only cranberry it is how the french health minister describes the escalating situation to visible. so does it mean this is the value is the ohm icon very and, 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 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 to put in the country within to show proof of vaccination if they wanted to into a collab, a bar in 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 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 covert 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 mulder variant, the only convent there is likely to be a situation in france where your health services are struggling over. you are still tops the global table when it comes to the number of deaths from cobit but president biden's. now distancing himself from his pledge to shut down the virus saying now that solution can come from the white house, but from individual states instead, there is no federal solution. it gets found 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 to refresh your memory. just over a year ago, biden slammed the trump administration's coven testing efforts as a travesty. and said that americans vaccine roll out with well, behind other developed nations. what is the 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 covered under biden's watch. with new cases hovering at around half a 1000000 per day. new york's been the worst hit with case numbers, they're reaching an old time record since the arrival of the metro strength. saskia taylor's been discussing washington response to the crisis. vitamin said what, for what that is? no central 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's 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 the 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 is covered 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 jobs. 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. the terrible, i mean 62 percent is close to 50 percent and that goes to

a 100 percent. the reason where we are not vaccinated is because people are misinformed. there 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 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 anymore. you as bad as all those people that didn't get back to vaccine mandate for domestic ad chapel. do you think that's the direction of a 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 message and lawmaking perspective, then you don't have the pretends to set up the mandates. put up other restrictions of the 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, 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 support in moscow alone, being given a vital supplies of oxygen. next aunties, and from krislofski traces how the life saving supplies of reaching patients in need. oh boy. oh boy. oh boy hm. breathing. how does that person dream? we don't usually pay attention to breathing because she had somehow attached to the body of a mandatory component of life. i remember the fear when i felt that my breath was about to stop that i was forgetting have to breathe. ah was

going to put it all new oil. i would say the turning point occurred this year with the emergency delta strain. when it became clear that medical treatment required placements to have more oxygen, on average one patient can assume 50 late as of oxygen from minutes if it's not intensive therapy, but it's the case a serious volumes can write. the 6 p leads is permitted 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, ah, just monopoly. we're now at a filling station with oxygen is pumped into cylinders under high pressure. cylinders are needed by hospitals to help transport. patients to their country produces $2700.00 tons of oxygen per day. in the past we have had to and now we have to work in a manual mode. we have close ties to the ministry of defense rose cosmos, iris,

atom. all the companies that help supply hospitals with oxygen with time was ticking every day. if not every hour matter, but we have been told to ramp up production to full capacity by any means. that's why as demand has increased oxygen production has also increased from 200 tons to 600 tons. remodel, saw busy thought i was a fight for life, fight for oxygen fight for all of us for you. and for me,

facebook's toughest ever years in politicians on both sides of the divide, putting pressure on the phone of a whistle blower and anti trust claims, as well as a corporate over hole to become met at the firm's also been trying to wound or make as along party lines he goes on of looks at how america's big tech firms have become swept up in the country's 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 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 radio for a home, or 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 visa. yeah. chelsea manning, julian 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 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 revelations 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. mugs, zuckerberg try to fight back. my view is that what we're seeing is a coordinated effort to selectively usually document to pay full picture of our

company. alas, his trials and tribulations did not. and that democrats, preston, calling 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 users, 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. wait, there's martin. i think he's in the middle of some high. perfect. hey mark. i said, let me put my game based 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 where a cancer to democracy in that the sizing for a global surveillance and propaganda seemed 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 ban, 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 but was madman, but our role is to serve a heavily bully conversation and our moves and reflect. there are things that we believe were healthier, 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 dances change each year yields big tech scandals in abundance. 2021 made no exceptions here. raising questions if there's any way out tool to tame the big tech as big oil once was a year without say, all the way, just a few months left for president mc chrome to convince french votes is to keep him in the job. the competition snaps at his heels. you can meet some of the biggest

challenges among our stories after the break 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 2020 to have in store for us? will we be living in interesting cars? ah, is your media a reflection of reality? in the world transformed what will make you feel safer? isolation for community. are you going the right way,

or are you being led somewhere? direct. what is true? was is way in the world corrupted. you need to descend. ah, so join us in the depths or remain in the shallows. ah, ah, hello again. president putin sack to russia's prison chief last week is reformed, got underway in the wake of damning video showing widespread abuses and torture in penitentiary facilities. while next we vis say for my notorious prison in st. petersburg has now been replaced by a more modern facility. the old jail though, 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, ortiz constantine, broadcom has been given a rare access. as report,

there does contain graphic descriptions of violence. me were in saint petersburg and in front of what used to be rushing most infamous prison 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 stalins rolling in thirty's and forty's. i mean, you can see how small it is. it is, i think 3 times smaller than a regular. so you can, i mean,

you can even fully stretch out your arms while inside. you have to spend days and weeks and a cell like this where it can actually 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, 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 we did a good win 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 seal gate. there was a small basement where though sentenced to death were executed. he came to nationwide notoriety in the 9290s when the severe economic crisis of follow 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 do you come to you? are you going to cough up that cache you? i mean, it was you that, that with this kind of talk was column back then there were dictionaries of criminals. lang is out of radical islam bites get used to run among russian criminal circles. in the 9th, 1992, he spent 8 months in this prison on record to your charges. i. yeah,

burleigh of the businesses, someone owes me money. so i went off to deal with the guy. i didn't go to raise the meeting for guns. almost everyone had gone to that time. we arrived at the meeting place in the police to meet 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 up throughout the air. the door opens. i filthy ugly mugs staring at me. their faces of hog criminals. yeah, that's all i sat down on the edge of the bed. it was our place to sit down these guys, look in the light that we had a lit cigarette and all of these gangs was a smoke. they took almost a 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, recalls some of the night mary scenes he witnessed every day at work with her. pick me up at a corridor up to 14 people used to shed this tiny cell. is it true that some in

even 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 seats. inmates ended up rolling their blankets to have at least minimum comfort growing up in russia, in the ninety's and seeing videos of this business over crowded cells. i vividly remember how terrified i was when i imagined what it would be like walking into a cell like this. were holly's hardened tattooed criminals give you this look as the door slams behind you. and some of the former inmates recalled that are being rejected by a fellow prisoners and the common a pariah, was something they feared on most, some times in more than solitary confinement or punishment from the guard. it goes up. i mean that this is a terrible place that ruined the loss of people's lives. what's your,

what your modem, what 0 owner came out to these doors they were mentally damaged? is kalia taylor is? oh yeah, i read about your daughter. so how young guys will rate my old mops does a couple of times. they raped young guys simply because they wanted sex. the country's future president vladimir putin visited the crosses in 1992. he was particularly shocked that prison dentist pulled out inmates 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 in the city. or the most important thing is that we have a restroom, but you can look from the inside. has any prisoner travesty when i from you, with what happened? i couldn't cope with my anger and i killed the mice, strangled him. leadership yoshi fish what really want to leave back with you?

these weights 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 than the final months before polling day. a shall do bench can now report ho hi im is running out on a manual macro ones. first 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 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 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 to buy a brand. you doesn't mean this. his words are more blocks to the 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 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 stuns 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 is angling for the fight her life. she believes that she is the only one who can deliver a knockout blow to mack on an average la valley for victory. the french people 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 them back 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 business 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 are going around the country like a business, like a company, 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 friendship public. and that's a man that for many symbolize is the best of what it is to be french. it seems that may be a winning strategy. so it's important to have a charismatic leader 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 when that honesty, respect for the people above. oh, and a commitment to france. 2022 also sees another real tasks of the viability of mac loans 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 to the national assembly,

come home on the heels of the presidential votes. will his vision be give him the rubber stamp of re approval, or will it be discarded to history? only france can decide charlotte, even sky, ah, see, paris. okay, that's how it looks for moscow. so fathers, thursday, december, the 30th you'll final boom, bust of the is on the way next. only on out into that blue ah, ah. and it states, it has to be rash, to be able to afford an 5 and 400 luxury that for sure, despite having the most expensive health care system in the world, we have poor life expectancy. we have higher infant mortality. we have

more deaths from treatable causes, so americans are suffering every day from it. it's as if these people don't count all how they confuse customers and dump the sick. all right, so also satisfy their wall street investors. no parents should have to see what i saw. so if you're denying payment for someone's care, your make life and death decisions and determine who gets to live and who dies to me, that's best getting away with murder with .