ah ah, tonights belgium suddenly back tracks on its covert measures, reopens theaters and cinemas, after its highest cord said the restrictions put to excessive as elsewhere. joe biden, distances himself from previous promises to shut down the virus and now says it's up to individual states, not the white house to sorted out. we discuss his response to the pandemic so far. coming up to we look back here, what's been a tough year for america's big tech, which saw leading companies abroad in political fights with both the republican and the democrats. plus a special coming up. we get a reg glimpse inside. one of russia's most notorious prisons. just some of the countries most dangerous criminals in the wake of the soviet collapse back in the 1990. talking to his cell like this were holdings,

harden's tattooed criminals give you. this look, been rejected by fellow prisoners and the carmen, a pariah with something they feared are the most holiday. welcome to world internationals. will these 10 from moscow live with me? kevin o' it 1st and despite europe post struggling with a new omicron strain, belgium has suddenly you turned on some of its toughest covered restrictions. it comes out to the countries highest court, ruled the measures with 2 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 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. yackel. 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. ah. 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 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 outdoors have to win a mosque except if they're involved in cycling, if they do in 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. yeah, i mean, come to us till tops the global table when it comes to the number of coven desperate president biden's know, distancing himself from his promise to shut down the virus and says the solution has to come from individual states rather than white us. there is no federal solution, it gets found state level and 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 just over a year ago, but, and slammed the trump administration. covert testing efforts as

a travesty and said america's vaccine rolla was well balanced. the developed nations, them promised to change the course of the disease and the 1st 100 days in office a low i didn't actually happen over 400000 americans have died from cove. it under biden's watch with new cases, i'll bring it around half a 1000000 per day. new york's been the worst it with the case numbers they reach can all time highs since the arrival of the on the chrome strain. next to my daughter sussex, taylor discusses with guess washington's response to the crisis. thus far, 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 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 our 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. and now double chance, 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. these terrible, i mean 62 percent is close to 50 percent, not close to 100 percent. the reason why we're not vaccinated is because people are misinformed. it was not accurate information, but is vaccines and the fake news that are allowed on social media basically lead to the fact that patients of people at the end of the day will doubt necessity of having a vaccine. there's definitely

a lack of trust in the government as well as the lack of trust in big pharmaceutical companies, especially now that an increasing number of so called lead vaccinated americans are being told. now if you haven't had a booster shot, you're not vaccinated anymore, you as bad as all those people. it didn't get back to vaccine mandate for domestic ad travel. do you think that's the direction that we're getting 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 in and law making perspective, then you don't have the pretends to set up the mandate. put up other restrictions of the occupancy restriction 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. 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 we have here in russia, the daily cov, italy's been declining. but of course,

that doesn't diminish the severity of the virus at all. nearly 600 patients are on critical supported. moscow alone are receiving vital supplies of oxygen. at the moment, the country been ramping up its production to try to make sure patients get what they need. 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 stop that i was forget and have degrees. ah, was go up with a good fit all new oil. i would say the turning point occurred this year with the emergence of dallas drain. when it became clear that medical treatment required heisman to have more oxygen,

on average one patient can assume 50 lead as of oxygen per minute if it's not intensive therapy, but it's the case of serious volumes can rise. the 6 belief is permitted much in a commercial truck with a trailer that can produce up to $1.00 tons of liquid oxygen per day. thus, the amount, the average russian hospital consumes daily. with if we're now at a filling station with oxygen's pumped in the 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 the manual mode is that we have close ties to the ministry of defense rose cosmos. and ross out of all the companies that help supply hospitals with oxygen 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. so that's why as demand has increased oxygen production has also increased from 200 tons to 600 tons, muzzle sauce 50. so i was a fight for life. fight for oxygen fight for all of us for you. and for me. the morrow chicago's under fire for wishing people have he kwanza the holiday that celebrates african american culture, but many are infuriated that you didn't instead address the cities crime rates.

after 3 people was shot dead and $23.00 injured over the christmas break. joyous quantities, chicago, amy, and i wish to stand a very beautiful and prosperous coins to all of you celebrating the seas. as you light the candles and gather in unity, we hope your holidays filled with rejoicing and happiness. how many people were shot this weekend? happy cleanser to the 4442 people shot in chicago in 2021. thank you for keeping chicago safe and crime free voting. blue works chicago, experiencing the worst year for murders in a quarter of a century with over 780 people killed. there's also been a significant increase in sexual assaults and theft. i guess agree between the says that the mer and other politicians in their view should be focusing their efforts in solving the cry waive in the city instead. i don't think they're upset about the

call for unity. i think they're upset that she chose to give that message as opposed to specifically address the crime that's happening in your city or over the over the last year. the fact that she's ignoring that the fact that she again doesn't address the fact that over 90 percent of the victims are black and brown and over 90 percent of the perpetrators are lacking. so i don't think it's the message that people have a problem with. i think it's the are wanting disregard for the videos she wants to focus on the holidays doesn't really ignore. doesn't really address the fact that a lot of people are not spending the holidays with their loved ones because they have to come to wealthy, murdered and being killed. the way a lot of politicians thank is that if they ignore bad news, the bad news goes away. whereas if they address it, it keeps it in the headline. so perpetuates the news cycle rather than ignoring it, hopefully it falls out of the news cycle and reporters in the media and the general

public moves on to other topics for a lot of things that are happening in american society. i think that the public in general is getting tired of politicians, giving platitudes, and basically not doing anything to solve problems. you know, without international on the way here in a world news at 10 with me, kevin o' in facebook faced and tough. yeah, it didn't. it is politicians put normal pressure on the company we talk about a don says more if he needs to off to this break. ah ah ah

ah ah welcome nick jam bruno to the show for this christmas week special nick was at casey research for a long time, but he started his own company focused on helping people to see that big economic and geopolitical picture to survive. i haven't thrive the changes the head ah ah ah, again, facebook's toughest, every year,

a sing politicians on both sides of the divide, putting pressure on the firm it comes after, exposes by whistle blowers and renewed concerns over the company is monopoly. he goes down off next. that looks at how america's big tech firms become swept up in the countries 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 thing started to turn sour 11 of its former employees when rog 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 boards 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 whistle blower 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 gain and those who were pulling her strings going is going to take place in opaque fashion behind the scenes. and undoubtedly with input from the intelligence agencies which are by nature opaque and unaccountable to the public.

when you're a 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 tool, her revelations got massive traction in the media and in the senate. you are a 21st century american hero. here's my message for marx, aka berg, your time of invading our privacy. promoting toxic content and praying on children in teens is over. big tack is facing me tobacco's moment of reckoning. mcg zuckerberg try to fight back my view. is that what we're seeing is a coordinated effort selective. we usually document to pay full picture of our company. alas, his trials and tribulations did not. and that democrats, preston,

calling for the tech jain to be dismember chilton, to 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 tried 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 some high perf. oh, hey mark. i said let me put my b b on so i can beat you. you'll be able to work out a new world even against an ai who is a good, persistent, stayed 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 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, 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 or wall. a man who

seemed to have put twitters, use a policy above free speech. oh is not to be bound but was madman. but our role is to serve a heavily bully conversation and our moves. 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 for as opposed to the sacks rushes prison chief last week as reforms get under way . in the wake of damming video that showed widespread abuse in the countries jails . what next and a special we've lined up for you. we visited the taurus former prison in saint petersburg. there's not been replaced with the more modern facility,

while the old jail in his time notorious is the statement that was infamous. the 1900 ninety's. when it was home to some of russia's most dangerous criminals, amid the chaos that followed, the collapse of the soviet union selling out his company, rose coffee was given rare access to it just to warn you. his special report does contain graphic descriptions of violence along the way. me were in saint petersburg and in front of what used to be rushes most infamous for them for more than a century. this was the largest incarceration facility in the whole of europe 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 rule. the night in the thirty's and forty's, and you can see how small it is. it is, i think 3 kind smaller than a regular so you can, 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 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. 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. he came to nationwide notoriety in the 1990s 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 get to cough up that cache you? i mean, it was you that, that would,

that was kind of talk was column back then. there were dictionaries of criminals. lang was out of radical, him and his love, my escape used to run among russian criminal circles. in the 9th 1992, he spent 8 months in this prison on record during charges. i yeah. boy of the businesses. someone owes me money for went off to deal with the guy. i didn't go to raise the meeting go 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 after work with the door opens and i filled the ugly mugs staring at me. their faces of hardened 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. we have a lit cigarette and off of these gangs the smoke they took almost

a whole pack for me. so we 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 night mary scenes he witnessed every day at work for me to have caught up to 14 people east to shed this tiny cell. is it true that some inmate 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 of this presence over crowded south. i vividly remember how terrified i was when i imagine what it would be like, walking into a cell like this, where all these harden tattooed criminals give you this look as the door slammed behind you. and some of the former inmates recalled that being rejected by

a fellow prisoners and becoming a pariah, was something they feared. most. some times have been more than solitary confinement or punishment from the guard. it goes up. i mean, this is a terrible place that ruined the loss of people's lives through your job, but still everyone who came out to the door they were mentally damage or if you could, well yeah, i mean, so how young guys will rate the old mob to the couple of times, they break down guys simply because they wanted 6 in the countries. 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, the word inside the new prison that has replaced the old one is the most important thing is that we have

a rest. you can look from the inside. we have any prisoner trotted feel a night from you. what happened? i couldn't tell you the language and i killed them. i strangled in the fish. what really want to be back with you? he's wait for me. change in times, wrapping up our international work news at 10 from moscow with me, kevin, and thanks for watching our channels. we in the rest, the team for the best seasons. greetings to you as well. ah ah christmas the traditional yuletide on a day this year making this traditional with a special christmas guide me christmas tolerance diversity guide. we all know that christmas is a family holiday. so make sure all your parents are properly numbered.

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