he just comes with up stories this, our belgium suddenly back tracks on its co boot camp down and reopens it's in cinemas that offers highest court slammed the restrictions as excessive. meanwhile, joe biden, difficulties himself from previous promises to shut down. the virus now says it's up to individual state, not the white house to sort it out. we discussed his response to the pandemic so far. and we look back to what's been a tough year for americans, big tech, which so leading companies embroiled in political fight. both the republicans and the democrats, and also the sad. we get a rare glimpse inside one brush is most notorious prisons home to some of the countries most dangerous from notice in the wake of the soviet collapse. in the 1990 walking into his cell like this,

we're all these hard to tack heat criminals give you. this look been rejected by fellow prisoners and becoming a pariah with something they fear. are the most good even just gone. 6 o'clock in moscow, you're watching international. now, despite europe struggling with a new, i'm a chrome strain, belgium has suddenly you turned on some of its toughest covey restrictions. it comes off to the countries highest court rule that the measures were too 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 to have is belgians 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 cinema's, the theaters and the cultural venues are 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 yell, go, there are still months and months of the college 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 cove, its 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 an 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 mosque except if they're involved in cycling, if they do 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, or slow reporting that will the us still tops the global table when it comes to the number of coven deaths. but president biden is now distancing himself from his promise to shut them the virus and says that the solution has to come from individual states, rather than the white hacks. 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 travesty and said that marriage is vaccine ro lived, was well behind that of other developed nations. he then promised to change the course of the disease in his 1st 100 days in office. whoa. that didn't happen. over 400000 americans have died from cove. it under biden's watch with new case is hovering around half a 1000000 per day. new york has been the worst hit with case numbers. they're reaching an all time high since the arrival of the micron strain. or the task taylor discuss washington's response with 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 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 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. now, double chance, they said that when we get to a certain threshold, everything's going to be great. that's how immunity we're going to be able to live more normally. in your opinion, is 62 percent 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. it was not accurate information, but it's actually

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 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 in the building to least sit down and they can take it back off. none of this stuff is going to stop this fire. we should be deciding for

ourself the best way out of it, the sooner we're going to be able to find the best equilibrium that we're going to have in this new reality that yeah, well here in russia, the dining cave, italy has been declining. but of course, that doesn't diminish the severity of the virus, maybe 600 patients are on critical support in moscow alone and receiving vital supplies of oxygen. and the country has been ramping up in production to make sure that patients guess what they need. oh boy, i own a breathing. how does a 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 start with that i was forgetting have degrees. ah,

was going to put it all new oil. i would say the turning point to kid this year with the emergency delta strain. when it became clear that the medical treatment with wash heisman to have more oxygen on average one patient can assume 50 leaf is evoked gym for minutes. it's not intensive therapy, but as the case a serious volumes can write, the 6 p leads as the minute. imagine 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. with monopoly, if 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. 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 cause, most arose out of all the companies that help supply hospitals with auctions

with time will ticking every day if not every hour matters, 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 50 thoughtful news fight for life. fight for oxygen fight for all of us, for you. and for me, and he watching our se nice still to come over the

next few minutes. there are just a few months left for president microns convinced french fate is to keep him in the job as the competition snap cities, hales just after the break. we'll have a look at his biggest writings. ah ah ah ah mm.

so rather than by dreamer shaped bankers are those with, i think we dare to ask ah, welcome back. now facebook's toughest, every year has seen politicians on both sides of the divide, putting pressure on the firm. it comes off for expose a's by whistle blows and renewed concerns over the companies monopoly. he goes down of looks now at how

america's big tech firms have become swept up in the country's polarizing political st. 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 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 fell 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 we're, but you're not a whistleblower 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, soccer berg, your time of invading our privacy. promoting toxic content and praying on children in teens is over. big tack is facing. pick tobacco's moment of reckoning. mcg 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. alas, his trials and tribulations did not. and that democrats prestone cooling for the ted joined to be dismembered, choked 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 tooth. 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 where a 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 from social media, been the big tech oligarchy can muzzle the former president. what's to stop them from silencing you? twitters bumpier ended up in a change of leadership project. dorsey stepped down amid reports of growing discontent among investors making way for the new boss to rog wall, a man who seemed to have put twitters use a policy above free speech. our role is not too big but was madman, but our role is to serve ahead liberally, 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 to down to change each year. yields big tech scandals in abundance. 2021 made no exceptions here. raising questions, if there's any way at all to tame the big tech as big oil once was now 2022 is lining up to be a big election year for franz president macro hoping for a 2nd term. but he's up against some big competition in the final months. be full polling starts as charlotte davinsky expects. take talk. hi im, he 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 off the 5 rocky is macaroni

a 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 all the rich. and until recently some predicted, this would be an election that would be a run off of 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 missed it, meets eric sim. all. we love i a brand you doesn't mean this. his words more lost it into the presidential campaign before he was even confirmed as a possible candidate. initial poll suggested that he could be the one to face up to macaroni in the 2nd round,

but he support has since dipped. ah well, ah, however, could his campaign be about to get a boost? 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 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 own party, let her publican, and now she is angling for the fight of her life. she believes that she is the only one who can deliver a knockout blow to mack on lag requirement 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. no. 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 macaroni seen is the man to beat. he remains incredibly unpopular. ah, it oh, you look at the 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 had to run a company a lot of people who had voted for him and un michael, is because they said, hey, you know, you are going around the country like a big company. no working. so what happened in a company when it's not working, the shareholders get rid of the a 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 counted. it's a consistently talking about returning to traditional roots about holding on to francis identity. and one name keeps cropping up. is yenna her girl. he's the founder of the current french republican. it's a man that for many symbolizes the best of what it is to be french. it seems that may be a winning strategy for 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 for the viability of macaroni 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 given the rubber stamp of re approval, or will it be discarded to history? only france can decide geology, even sky oxy. paris. that person, peyton sacked russia's prison chief last week as reforms to get underway in the wake of damning video. the shade wide spread abuse in the countries jose,

what up next? we do visit a former notorious prison in st. pittsburgh has not been replaced with a more modern facility. the old jail was infamous in the 990 s. when it was home. some of russia's most dangerous criminals, amid the chaos that followed the collapse of the soviet union artes constantine gross golf has been given their access to it just to warn you though his special report next does contain graphic descriptions of violence. me were in st. petersburg and in front of what used to be rushes most infamous prison 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 more moving. even after 4 years since the prison was shut down,

its empty cells in corridor are still sent chills down your spine. well, this is one of the solitary confinement cells that were widely used during stalins roll in the night. 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 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 effectively only stand for sit on the edge of a small metal bed. lying down during the daytime is forbidden. well then it becomes how on earth in the prison was billed at the end of the 19th century as the most advanced facility of its kind in russia. firstly, because of its connie 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 hi one. cctv cameras were the system for most of its 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 darkest 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 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 get to cough up that cache you? i mean, oh, what you that, that with this kind of talk was colon back then there with dictionaries of criminals. lang is out of radical islam. my escape used to run among russian criminal circles in the 9992. he spent 8 months in this prison on record tearing charges. i yeah. boy of the businesses. someone told me money. so i went off to deal with the guy. i didn't go to raise the meeting broke guns. almost everyone had gun to that time 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 monsters. and violent criminals are popular, whether it is the door opens and i felt the ugly mug staring at me in our faces of hog criminals. yeah, that's all i sat down the edge of the bed. it was

a place to sit down these guys, look in the light that hasn't been, you know, figuring i lit a cigarette and off of these gangs was a smoke. they took almost a whole pack for me. we smoke together and talk. so i realize is going on the next warden who served in this prison at the time recall some of the nightmare receives, he witnessed every day at work, but doctor 14 people used to shed his tyneesa. is it true that some inmates of and slept on the floor under the bed? otherwise it was impossible to fit everyone in people slept in 2 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 and 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. 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 more than solitary confinement or punishment from the guard. it was, i find mister, this is a terrible place that ruined the loss of people's lives. what's your mortgage? no doubt, but still everyone came out to the door. they were mentally damaged. if she could, well, you know 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 shot at prison dentist pulled out a made steve 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 thing is that we have a restroom. you can look from the inside, has any prisoner, travis feeling night from you? with what happened? i couldn't cope with my anger and i killed the matter strangled in leadership. you're wishing to pitch what really want to be back with you. please wait for me. when she can see that 2nd report here or not say tomorrow, just coming up, we'll just gone half past 6 in the evening. moscow was good to have you company mo, from us in half and with ah, christmas. the traditional yuletide on a day of this year making this traditional with

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