well, reducing power ah, that's under cutting, but what's good for food market back here to the global economy with i belgium suddenly back trucks on its covert measures and re open citizens cinemas offer its highest court, said the restrictions were too excessive. as elsewhere, joe biden, distances himself from previous promises to shut down the virus and now says it's up to individual state, not the white house to sorted out. we discussed his response to the pandemic so far . coming up to look back here, what's been a tough here for america's big tech, which so leading companies abroad in political fights with both republicans and the democrats. first, a special for you, we get a glimpse inside one of russia's most notorious prisons home in its day to some of the countries most dangerous criminals in the wake of the soviet collapse. back in the 1990 walking through cell like this were all these hard to attack you to

criminals give you. this look been rejected by a fellow prisoners and become an 8 pariah with something they feared. most hello, welcome towards internationals world news at 11 from moscow with me, kevin o in person, despite europe struggling with a new omicron strain, belgium tonight suddenly you turned on, so it's tough. first, kobe restrictions, he comes after the countries highest court, ruled at 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 cinemas, 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. jagow, there are still months and months of the covered 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. 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 curve it's situation a cross belgium has been relatively calm. they figures point to of that $500.00 cases per day per 1000000 people. but the situation is quite different just across the border. if we look there at france, for example, fans 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 hattie,

we impose restrictions, you had a situation where the french police are saying that everybody from 11 years and older. now when they're outdoors, have to wear a mask. 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 new block itself, different european countries dealing with these high cove. it figures in a very different way. meantime, you are still tops the global table when it comes to the number of covey deaths, but president biden's no 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. this gets solved, state level, and all my gets down to where the rubber meets the road from us where the patient is in need of help or preventing the need for health. just over a year ago,

biden's slam the trumpet ministrations covered, testing efforts as a travesty and said america's vaccine roller was well behind other developed nations. he then caused, promised to change the course of the disease in his 1st 100 days of office, but that didn't happen. over $400000.00 americans of died from cove it under biden's watch, with new cases hovering at a red half a 1000000 per day. new york's been the worst hit with case numbers, they're reaching all time high since the rival of the oma chron straight r t. sask taylor discussed with guests sir 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'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 the 1st duty is not only the g d p, and inflation and everything, but basically saving 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. there was not accurate information, but is vaccines and a fake news that are allowed on social media. basically lead to the fact that patients and people at the end of the day will doubt necessity of having

a vaccine. there's definitely a lack of trust in the government as well as a lack of trust in big pharmaceutical companies, especially now that an increasing number of so called lead vaccinated americans are being told. now if you haven't had a booster shot, you're not back need anymore. you as bad as all those people that didn't get back to vaccine mandate for domestic ad chapel. do you think that's the direction of a cutting and the vaccines are for your personal protection? we have seen less of evidence that the vaccine limits trans miss ability. if you don't have that part of the puzzle from a political message being an lawmaking perspective, then you don't have the pretends to set up the mandates. put up other restrictions of occupancy restrictions or telling people that they need to wear a mass from when they walk into the building until they sit down and they can take it back off. none of this stuff is going to stop this virus. we should be deciding for ourselves the best way out of this, the sooner we're going to be able to find the best equilibrium that we're going to have in this new reality though. yeah. here in russia,

the daily cove italy's been declining, but of course, that doesn't diminish the severity of the virus that is 600 patients at the moment, from critical support here in moscow alone and receiving vital supplies of oxygen, the country's been ramping up its production to try 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, a mandatory component of life. i remember the fear when i felt that my breath was about to stop that i was forgetting have to breathe. let's go with it all. no, i and i would say the turning point occurred this year with the emergence of dell, the strain when it became clear that medical treatment required heisman to have more oxygen. on average,

one patient can assume 50 leave as of oxygen for minutes. if it's not intensive therapy, but if the case a serious volumes can rise to 60 leaves is per 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 . we're now at a filling station where 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 a manual mode, is that we have close ties to the ministry of defense. gross cosmos. arose out of all the companies that help supply hospitals with oxygen with

time was ticking every day. if not every hour matter, but we have been told to ramp up production to full capacity by any means. it's wine as demand has increased oxygen production has also increased from 200 tons to 600 tons remodel saw. this is a fight for life, fight for oxygen fight for all of us for you. and for me, you know, with a better time since the new year able mean time the marriage chicago talk, which isn't the fire for wishing people happy kwanza the holiday that celebrates african american culture. but many are infuriated that she didn't instead put the

same energy into addressing the city's crime rate of to 3 people was shot dead and $23.00 injured over the christmas break. jury is kwansa chicago. i mean, i wish to stand a very beautiful and prosperous coins to all of you celebrating this season. 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 queens it to the 4442 people shot in chicago in 2021. thank you for keeping chicago safe and crime free voting. blue works chicago's 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 thefts are gas agreed that the mer another politicians in their view should be focusing their efforts more at solving the cry wave right now in the city. i said about the call for unity.

i think they're upset that she chose to get that message as opposed to specifically address the crime that's happening or see all over the over the last year. the fact that she's ignoring the fact that she again doesn't address the fact that over 90 percent of the victims are lacking brown and over 90 percent of the perpetrators. so i don't think it's the message that people haven't followed. i think it's for wanting disregard for the because 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 be murdered and being killed the way a lot of politicians think is that if they ignore bad news, the bad news goes away. whereas if they address it, it keeps it in my headline. so it perpetuates the new cycle rather than ignoring it,

hopefully it falls out of that new cycle. busy 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 going platitudes and basically not doing anything to solve problems without international along the way here and i will. these are the 11 with me, kevin know in facebook, face to tuffy and then didn't it. as politicians put pressure on the company. talk about that a more after this quick break. 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 for is your media a reflection of reality in the world transformed what will make you feel safer? high selection for community. are you going the right way or are you being led to somewhere? which direction? what is true? what is great in the world corrupted. you need to descend. ah, so join us in the depths will remain in the shallows. ah, ah, again, facebook,

toughest of the year is seen politicians on both sides, the divide, putting pressure on the firm. it comes off for expos days by whistleblowers and that to renewed 2 concerns to over the company is monopoly. he goes down off looks next to that. how america's big tech firms become swept up in the countries polarizing political said 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 when one 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, julian assange, i'm talking about them. but francis hogan turned out to be a very different breed of whistle blower with billionaires and democratic party tub 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 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 rich, you are targeted by the government. you are silent, you are prosecuted and sent to prison. but if you are celebrated on capitol hill and finance, by independent companies, i'm sorry, but you're not a whistleblower. you're a 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 mark soccer berg. your time of invading our privacy. promoting toxic content and praying on children in teens is over. big tack is facing the tobacco's moment of reckoning. mob zuckerberg, try to fight back. my view is that what we're seeing is a coordinated effort to selectively usually document to pay for a picture of our company. alas, his trials and tribulations did not in that democrats. preston,

calling 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 uses, 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 rate. there's martin. mm. i think he's in the middle of a 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. meta isn't we are a cancer to democracy, matters to sizing intake levels here, villians and propaganda machine for boosting, authoritarian regimes and destroying civil 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 bon mussman when, but our role is to, sir, we'll head liberally, conversation, and our moves. unless there are things that we believe will help your 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 gonna for correspond to the president posts in san rushes, prison chief last week as reforms get under way. in the wake of damming video that showed widespread abuse in the countries jails. so in the wake of the next, the special for you,

we visit the notorious former prison in saint petersburg. there's not been replaced with a more modern facility. the old jail is infamous back in this day in the 1990s, when it was home, then to some of russia's most dangerous criminals. and the chaos that followed. the collapse of the soviet union sees counseling rose coff has been given rare access to it. just warning and so his special report does contain graphic descriptions of violence. me were in saint 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 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 corridors still sent chills down your spine. this is one of the

solitary confinement cells that were widely used during stalins rule in the night. 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 you can even fully stretch out your arms while inside. you have to spend 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, lying down during the daytime is forbidden, well then, and becomes how on earth 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. the 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 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 was 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, watch you that, that with this kind of talk was colon back then there with dictionaries of criminals. lang is out of radical. him and his love, my escape used to run among russian criminal circles. in the $9992.00, 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 . during the meeting gum, almost everyone had gone. right to the meetings like literally to meet the crime rate was so high in the 90th years, largest prison quickly became too small to fit in all the monsters and violent criminals. up up through the door, opens ugly mugs staring at me. my faces of hog criminals. yeah, that's all i sat down in the bed. sit down, look like that. we have that figuring out i lit

a cigarette and off of these gang for the smoke they took the whole pack for me. so we smoked together and talked, so i realize is going 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 share this behind me. is it true that some inmates even slept on the floor under the bed? otherwise it was impossible. profess. 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 nineties 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 not, i missed that this is a terrible place that ruined the loss of people's lives, no doubt. but everyone who came out to the door, they were mentally damaged. if this is well, yeah, if you don't like your daughter, so how young guys will rates by old mops, does a couple of times they raped young guys simply because they wanted sex. the country's future president vladimir putin visited the crosses in 1992. he was particularly shocked that prison dentist pulled out inmates teeth without painkillers. the decision was made to shut down the notorious jail altogether and build a new one from scratch. in the next episode, we're inside the new prison that has replaced the old one in the city. or the most

important can be is that we have a restroom. but you can look from the inside. you have any prisoner travis feel and i from you with what happened. i couldn't cope with my anger and i killed the man strangled him. you're wishing to fish, we really want to be back with you. please wait for me. to change in time, say, wrapping up our tend to nationals, world news at 11 from moscow with may kevin oh and max and co and his latest kaiser report on here with the next thanks for watching our channel and for me and that's a very best seasons greetings. with oh, driven by dreamer shapes bankers, as in

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