[000:00:00;00] a, with a headlines this, our belgium suddenly back tracks on its cobit clamps and reopens theaters and cinemas that offer its highest call, slammed the restrictions as excessive well, joe biden, distances himself from previous promising to shut down the buyers. now it says it's up to individual states, not the white house to store tanks. we discussed his response to the pandemic. so far. we look back to the tough here for america's big tech, which so leading companies get embroiled in political fights. we both republicans and democrats until we get a rare glimpse inside one of brushes, most notorious prisoners, known to housing. some of the country's most dangerous criminals in the wake of the

soviet collapse in the 990 walking into cell like this. were all these hardened heat criminals give you? this look, been rejected by fellow prisoners, commonly pariah with something they fear. remote good afternoon just gone 3 o'clock in moscow. you're watching arte international. now despite europe struggling with the new armor, chrome strain, belgium has suddenly you turned on some of its toughest coded restrictions. it comes after the countries highest court rule that the measures were excessive. by its judgment, the council of state suspends the measure of closure of the cultural sector facilities. it rule that this measure was not proportionate and cannot make it possible to understand why the attendance of theaters and cultural venues was particularly dangerous for the health of the population. essentially what you have

is belgium's highest administrative court saying that the government rules make no sense and as a result, government will have to backtrack. this follows a legal challenge that was filed by a local theatre producer. and it followed a number of restrictions that the government had only imposed a short time ago, amongst these new restrictions where that all theaters cinemas, and cultural venues had to close christmas parties would have to close early, and sports venues would have no audiences. and this is in addition to already the mandatory wearing of moss and people having to work from home. but now we have a situation where everything's reversed, so the cinemas, the theaters and the cultural venues ought to re open. and of course, it raises questions as to just what kind of consistency there is to these government rules and regulations you alcove. there are still months and months of the covered crisis ahead of us if the public is not in our side because of a lack of sense in the measures,

we will have lost the battle against the virus. now you do have a part of the public that has been very, very vocal in particularly demonstrating and criticizing these government restrictions in recent weeks, they've taken to the streets to voice their concerns. now in general, the current situation a cross belgium has been relatively calm. they figures point to over 500 cases per day, per 1000000 people. but the situation is quite different just across the border. if we look at fonts, for example,

font has registered and all time high of more than $200000.00 new cases per day. and that is a high for europe as well. as a result, the government has had to re impose restrictions. you have a situation where the french police are saying that everybody from 11 years and older. now when they are doors, have to wear them off. except if they're involved in cycling, if they're doing any kind of sports or if they're inside the vehicle, so you have within the, you block itself, different european countries dealing with these high covert figures in a very different way. honestly, reporting that, i mean, while the u. s. still tops the global table when it comes to the number of covey deaths, but president biden is not distancing himself from his promise to shut down the virus. and i says, the solution has to come from individual states rather than the white house. 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, biden did slam the trump administration's cobra testing efforts as a trumpet stay and said that america's vaccine rover that was well behind the developed nations. he then promised to change the course of the disease in his 1st 100 days in office. although that didn't happen over $400000.00 americans have died from cove it under biden's watch, with new cases hovering at around half a 1000000 per day. york has been the worst hit with case numbers. they're reaching an all time high since the arrival of the micron strain will cease ascii taylor discussed with guests washington's 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 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 is some policy or some politician going to stop it, we should have 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 and that goes to 100 percent. the reason we're,

we're not vaccinated is because people are misinformed. it was not accurate information, but is 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 vaccines. 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 travel. 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 transmits ability. if you don't have that part of the puzzle from a political message being and law making perspective, then you don't have the pretends to set up the mandate. put up other restrictions of occupancy restrictions or telling people that they need to wear a mask from when they walk into the building to least 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 ourself 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. what here in russia, the daily cave, italy has been declining, but of course that doesn't diminish the severity of the virus milli 600 patients in fact are on critical support in moscow alone and are being given vital supplies of oxygen artes, anton krislofski reports. now. now one how the life saving supplies are actually reaching the patients in the oh boy, oh boy. oh boy, them 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 start with that i was forgetting have to breathe. ah, let's go with it all new oil. i would say the turning point occurred this year with the emergency doubtless 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 2 minutes if it's an intensive therapy, but it's the case. the serious volumes can like 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 hospitals consumes daily for you with what we're now at a filling station where oxygen is pumped in the cylinders under high pressure. cylinders are needed by hospitals to help transport patients to their 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 ross out of all the companies that help supply hospitals with 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. it's why as demand has increased oxygen production has also increased from 200 tons to 600 tons, muzzle soft tissue sarcoma. ah, was a fight for life quite for oxygen fight for

all of us for you. and for me, facebook's toughest, every year has seen politicians on both sides divide, putting pressure on the firm over whistleblower and anti trust claims when he or she done of looks next. how america's big sack firms have become swept up and the country's 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 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 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 juliana songy. 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, a real whistleblower ratio, 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 whistle blower. europe political to rule 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, 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 uses, should bear responsibility for all the content on its pages. and again, facebook try to say face, oh, well, rather put on a new one. rebranding into meta right. there's martin. i think he's in the middle of a 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 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 published in 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 from social media back, 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 or 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. there are things that we believe we're healthier, public conversation. the kinds of things that we we don't to worry about. this is focused less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the dance have changed each year yields big tech scandals in abundance. 2021 made no exceptions here. raising questions if there's any way a tool to tame the big tech as big oil. once was not presentation sacked. russia's prison chief last week is reforms do get underway

in the wake of deming video showing widespread abuses in the countries jose up next . we visit a notorious form of prison in saint petersburg. that's now been replaced with the more modern facility. the jail was infamous than the 1919th in the 99 team. when it has some brushes, most dangerous criminals, amid the chaos that followed the collapse of the soviet union. r t. constantine roscoe has been given rare access to it, although just to warn you his report next as contain graphic descriptions of thoughts me were in saint petersburg and in front of what used to be rushing 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 in corridor are still sent chills down your spine. this is one of the solitary confinement cells that were widely used during stalins rolling the night in thirty's and forty's. you can see how small it is. i think 3 kind 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 effectively 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 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, 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. prison 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 do you get to cough that cache you? i mean, oh, watch you that that would, that help is kind of talk was colon back then. there were dictionaries of criminals . lang are gone, and his love, my escape used to run among russian criminal circles in the 9th 1992. he spent 8 months in this prison on racketeering charges. i. yeah. boy of the businesses some one of the money for went off to deal with the guy. i didn't go to raise the meeting guns. almost everyone had gone to that time. arrived at the meeting place, luckily 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 up towards the air, the door opens and i filled the ugly mugs staring at me. their faces of hog criminals. yeah,

that's all i sat down on the edge of the bed place to sit down these guys looking at me like that. a little cigarette and off of these gangs the smoke they took almost the 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. her 15th record up to 14 people used to share this tiny sentence. is it true that some in gibbons 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 nineties and seeing videos in this presence over crowded cells. i vividly remember how terrified i was when i imagine what it would be like, walking into

a cell like this. were all these hard 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 with something they feared the most. some times have been 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. margaret molina jump, but still everyone came out to the door. they were mentally damaged. if she could, well yeah, i mean, so how young guys will rate, but old mob to the couple of times they raped young guys simply because they wanted sex. the country's 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, but you can look from the inside. has any prisoner strategy feel and i from you. what happened? i couldn't tell you the language and i killed them. i strangled in leadership. she really want to be back with you. he's wait for me. and we will be showing more special report throughout the week. 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 starts. charlotte davinsky 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 chrome and 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 mac 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 miss did meet eric sim all, we laugh i 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 matt corn 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 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 while 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 all average rivalry for a 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 that 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 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 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 when 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's on the move party which was 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 oxy paris. thanks for watching. good to have you company this asked. that brings you up to date,

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