ah ah, the headlines now t belgium suddenly back tracks on its coded measures and reopens they, it is in cinemas that after his highest course said that the restrictions with 2 excessive meanwhile, joe biden distances himself from previous promises to shut down the virus. now it says it's up to individual states, not the white house to sort it hangs. we discuss his response to the pandemic so far. and also become we look back at what's been a tough year for america's big tech, which saw leading companies embroiled in political fights with both the republicans and democrats. and we get a rare glimpse to inside one of russia's most notorious prisons, home to some of the country's most dangerous criminals in the wake of the soviet collapse. in the 1919 ocoee to sell like this,

were all these hardened tattooed criminals give you? this look been rejected by fellow prisoners and carmen, a pariah with something they feared, are the most hello, they're just gone 7 pm here in moscow. you're watching artie international. now despite europe struggling with the new armor chron strain, belgium has suddenly you turned on some of its toughest co be restrictions. it comes after the countries highest court, ruled the measures were too excessive. my 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 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 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. jagow, there are still months and months of the college crisis ahead of us if the public is not now aside because of a lack of sense in the measures, we will have lost the battle against the virus. so 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 an old 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 force or if they're inside the vehicle. so you have within the new block itself, different european countries dealing with these high covert figures in a very different way for a sleigh reporting that will, the us still tops the global table when it comes to the number of covey deaths. president biden is now distancing himself from his promise to shut down the virus and says, the solution has to come from individual states rather than the white house. 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, which is over a year ago. biden did slam the trumpet,

ministrations, cobra testing efforts as a travesty and said americans, vaccine rollout 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. although that didn't happen over $400000.00 americans have died from cove it under biden's watch, with new cases hovering it around half a 1000000 per day. york has been the worst hit with case numbers they're reaching at all time high since the arrival of the micron strain will cease ascii taylor discussed with guess 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 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 cove id 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 not close to 100 percent. the reason where we are not vaccinated is because people are misinformed. it was not accurate information, but is vaccines and a fake news that are allowed on social media. basically lead to the fact that

patients and people at the end of the day will doubt necessity of having a vaccine. there's definitely a lack of trust in the government as well as 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 the 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 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 into the building to least sit down and they can take it back off. none of this stuff is going to stop this buyer. 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. what here in russia, the daily cove, 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 at the moment, and are receiving vital supplies of oxygen. and the country has been ramping up its production to make sure patients get what they need. oh, boy, own breathing. how does a person dream? we don't usually pay attention to breathing because she had somehow attached to the body and 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. let's go with it all new oil. i would say the turning point occurred this year with

the emergency del, the strain when it became clear that medical treatment required heisman to have more oxygen. on average, one patient can assume 50 leap as evokes gym for a minute. it's not intensive therapy, but at the case a serious volumes can write. the 6 p leads is per minute. imagine a commercial truck with a trailer that can produce up to $1.00 tons of liquid oxygen per day. that's the amount the average of russian hospital consumes daily. with what 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 they are country produces 2700 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, gross, cosmos, rowse, out of all the companies that help supply hospitals with auctions 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 remodeled so good to so call me ah, fight for life. fight for oxygen. fight for all of us for you. and for me, are you watching all it's

a nice still to come this hours been a tough here for facebook off employees claim the platform exposure, children for profits and failed to sense i hate speech. we'll look back at the last 12 months just after ah 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 to somewhere? which direction? what is true was is great. in the world corrupted, you need to descend. ah, so join us in the depths or remain in the shallows. ah, ah, hello again. i face books, toughest every year, has seen politicians on both sides of the defied putting pressure on the firm. he comes off for expose a is by whistle blowers and renewed concerns with the companies monopoly. he got it done off now. looks at how america's big tech firms have become swept up and 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, 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 board 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 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 halligan 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 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 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. pick 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 for a picture of our company. alas, his trials and tribulations did not in them. democrats, preston, calling for the tech jain to be dismember, chopped into 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 save face to a well rather put on

a new one. rebranding into meta rate. there's martin. mm. i think he's in the middle of some high. perfect. hey mark. i said let me put my gave me on so i can beat you. you'll be able to work out a new world. even against in a i was a good persistent state virtual object laid on an interactive pastor environment. oh, you are. yes. you are. our company is now met. well, goofy robots may have impressed a bunch of 4th graders. but certainly not the democrats met as in wearing cancer, to democracy matter sizing for a global surveillance and propaganda machine. to listen authoritarian regimes and destroying seal a 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 the 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, 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 man, man, 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 do. what about this is focused less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the dance has changed 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 not prison. peyton sacked russians prison chief last week as reforms to get underway. in the wake of damming video, they showed widespread abuse in the countries jails. next we visit an atoria se former prison in saint petersburg that night been replaced with the more modern facility. the old jail was infamous in the 990 when it was home to some of russia's most dangerous criminals, submit the chaos that followed the collapse of the soviet union. well, it is, constantine, gross gulf has been given rare access to. it will no word of warning. his special report next does contain graphic descriptions of violence.

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 and court are still sent chills down your spine. this is one of the solitary confinement cells that were widely used during stalin's role. and in the thirty's and forty's, you can see how small 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,

i days and weeks and a cell like this where he can effectively only stand or sit on the edge of a small metal bed. garza lined down during the daytime is forbidden. well then it becomes how on earth the prison was billed at the end of the 19th century as the most advanced facility of its kind in brushing. firstly because of its iconic architecture. feet cross shape of the 2 main buildings not only gave the jail its 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 a fist 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 prism. death row. behind the field gate. there was a small basement where though sentenced to death were executed. prisoner 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 do you think that you're going to cover that catch you? i mean, it was you that, that with this kind of talk was colon back then there with dictionaries of criminals. lang was out of radical, him and his love, my it's 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, one of the money. so went off to deal with the guy. i didn't go to raise the meeting, go guns. almost everyone had gun to that at the right that the meeting place in the police to meet with the crime rate was so high in the ninety's, europe's largest prison quickly became too small to fit in all the mob stores and violent criminals. up, up, grow out for the air, the door opens. i filthy ugly mugs staring at me. their faces of hug criminals. yeah, that's all i sat down on the edge of the bed. it was our place to sit down these guys looking at me like that. as i lit a cigarette and off of these gangs the smoke they took home as the whole pack for me. so he smoked together and talked, so i realized is going to be okay. my next warden who served in this prison at the time, recalls some of the nightmarish scenes he witnessed every day at work. the pick me up at co, about to 14 people yeast to shed this tiny cell. is it true that some inmates have

been 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 and growing up in a rush 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, or holidays hardened tattooed criminals give you. this look as the door slams behind you. and some of the former inmates recalled that have been rejected by a fellow prisoner is and become an a pariah. was something they feared on most some times in more than solitary confinement or punishment from the guard. it was up. i missed that this is a terrible place that ruined the loss of people's lives. what's your argument?

what cerebral under came out to these doors. they were mentally damaged. this is kalia taylor. this is, oh yeah, i mean about your daughter. so how young guys will rate, but old mopes does a couple of times, they break down 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. some are the most important can be is that we have a restroom, but you can look from the inside. has any prisoner trotted feel and i from you. with what happened? i couldn't cope with my anger and i killed the mice, strangled him. yoshi fish what really want to be back with you? please wait for me. and you can some things at 2nd report here not say tomorrow.

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