ah ah, tonight belgium suddenly back trucks on its cobit measures, reopens theatres instead of most after its highest course, that the restrictions were simply too 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 discussed his response to the pandemic so far . coming up to we look back at what's been a tough year for america's big tech, which saw leading companies and brought in political fights with both republican and democrat plus special for you. we get a rare glimpse inside one of russia's most notorious prisons. homan is day to some of the country's most dangerous criminal in the wake of the soviet collapsed back in the 1990 talking into cell like this were all these hardened

tap he'd criminals give you. this look, been rejected by a fellow prisoner, if them become an a pariah with something they fear most hello, they welcome to our international world news at midnight for moscow. with me, kevin, our 1st and despite europe struggling with a new or micron strain, belgium and suddenly you turned on some of its toughest covered restrictions. it comes out to the countries highest court rule that 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 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 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. you don't go, there are still months and months of the covered crisis ahead of us if the public is not in our side because of a lack of sense in the measures, we will have lost the battle against the virus. now you do have

a part of the public that has been very, very vocal in particularly demonstrating and criticizing these government restrictions. in recent weeks, they've taken to the streets to voice their concerns. now in general, the 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 there 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 them off. 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. yeah. meantime the u. s. still tops the global table when it comes to the number of covey deaths, but president biden's know, distancing himself some up from, from his to shut down the virus and says, the solution that 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. just over a year ago,

by and slammed the trump administration's cobit testing efforts is a travesty said, upset that america's vaccine rolla was well behind the other. developed nations then promised the coast to change the course of the disease and as for the 100 days in office. but that didn't actually happen over 400000 americans have died from cove it under biden's watch, with new cases. hovering it around half a 1000000 per day. new york spend the worst hit with case numbers. they're reaching an all time high since the arrival of the on the constraint. i'll see says could taylor discuss with guests washington's response to the crisis. thus far? vitamin said what, for what that is no federal 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 do 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 and demick, at least a couple of waves ago. politicians that's a 1st duty is not only did g d p and inflation and everything, but basically save the health of their, of their countrymen, and this needs to be done. this was not done. joe biden got elected because of donald trump's of failed handling of cove. it in the minds of voters in coming up on the year that he was inaugurated. and we have covered as bad as it's been certainly case wise. we can now add up all the rough weeks for biden, to rough year for by 62 percent of americans. now, double chance, they said that when we get to a certain threshold, everything's going to be great. that's how them unity we're going to be able to live more normally. in your opinion, is 62 percent in good enough. these terrible, i mean 62 percent is close to 50 percent. 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 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 the lack of trust in big pharmaceutical companies, especially now that an increasing number of so hopefully vaccinated americans are be in told. no, if you haven't had a booster shot you're not vaccinated anymore. you as bad as all those people, it didn't get vaccinated, vaccine mandate for domestic ad travel. do you think that's the direction of cutting and the vaccines are for your personal protection? we have seen less of evidence that the vaccine limits transmit ability. if you don't have that part of the puzzle from a political message being and law making perspective, then you don't have the pretends to set up the mandate. put up other restrictions of occupancy restrictions or telling people that they need to wear a mask from when they walk into the building to least sit down and they can take it back off. none of this stuff is going to stop this fire and we should be deciding for ourself the best way out of this. the sooner we're going to be able to find the best equilibrium that we're going to have in this new reality that we are in russia

. meantime, the daily cov, italy's been declining, but of course that doesn't diminish toll the severity of the virus. then the 600 patients are currently on critical support in moscow. and they're receiving vital supplies of oxygen. countries been ramping up its production to make sure the patients get what they need. oh boy. oh boy. oh boy hm. breathing. how does a person dream? we don't usually pay attention to breathing. we see it 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. ah, was go up with a good bit all new oil. i would say the turning point occurred this year with the emergence of the delta strain. when it became clear that medical treatment required

patients to have more oxygen, on average one patient can assume 50 leaves of oxygen for minutes if it's not intensive therapy. but if the case a serious volumes can rise to 60 liters 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 for you. ah, it's just monopoly. we're now at a filling station where oxygen's pumped into cylinders, under high pressure cylinders are needed by hospitals to help transport. patients to their 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. we have close ties to the ministry of defense rose cosmos and rows, atom. all the companies that help supply hospitals with oxygen mm. with

time was taking 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. muzzle sauce is all i was a fight for life, fight for oxygen fight for all of us for you. and for me you know less of the new year brings better time. say now the mayor of chicago's under fire at the moment for wishing people happy. kwanza the holiday that

celebrates african american culture, but many are infuriated that she did instead, but her energies into addressing the cities crime rate. after 3 people were shot dead in $23.00 were injured over the christmas break. joyous quantities, chicago, amy, and i wish to stand a very beautiful and prosperous coin to all of you celebrating as soon 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 votes in blue works chicago, experiencing the worst year for murders in a quarter of a century with over 780 people killed. there's been a significant increase in sexual assaults and thefts to our guests agreed between themselves that the mayor and other politicians, it seems, should be focusing their efforts at solving the cry wave in the city. i

said about the, you know, cool 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 over 90 percent of the perpetrators. so i don't think it's the message that people have a want in this regard for the pixels. 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 the headlines. 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 hi there on the way here on, on midnight news with me, kevin, all in facebook face. the tough here is politicians put pressure on the company today, but we talk about that and the rest of this evening to use after the break with ah

ah ah sir, welcome, nick jam bruner to the show for this christmas week. special nick was casey research for a long time, but he started his own company focused on helping people to see the big economic and geopolitical picture to survive and thrive. the changes ahead ah, again, exactly, yeah,

50 minutes past the hour. now. 50 minutes past midnight. here indeed, will facebook's toughest of a year, a sing politicians on both sides of the divide, putting pressure on the firm. it comes off to expose a's by whistle blows and renewed concerns of the company is monopoly. he goes down off next and looks at how america's big tech firms become swept up in the countries polarizing political c, from multi $1000000.00 fines to watching the lead 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, to, and sour 11 of its former employees when rogue and testified that the platform apparently exploited children for profits and failed to sends a haid 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 are 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 creation, 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 whistleblower europe. political to 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 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 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. rebranding into meta right. 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 an ai who is a good persistence date 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 matter is. and we are a cancer to democracy, matters to sizing into global civilians 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 it 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, or conservative voices could be next. a house republican majority will reign in big tech power over our speech for every liberal, celebrating from social media back, the big tech oligarchy can muzzle the former president. what's to stop them from

silencing you? twitters bumpier ended up in a change of leadership. jack 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 sir, we're heavily bully conversation and our moves and his left. there are things that we believe were healthier, public conversation, 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 they have 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, goes down for a correspondent that president putin sucks. russia's prison chief last week has

reform skit, under way, in the wake of dumbing video that showed widespread abuse in the countries jails next. and the tagging home with we visit a notorious former prison in saint petersburg. this not been replaced with a much more modern facility, but that old jail was infamous back in his day of the 1991. it was home to some of russia's most dangerous criminals and the chaos that followed the collapse the soviet union. so a special for you next time he's constantly rose cuff was given rare access to it just to warn you. his report does. cain contain graphic descriptions of violence. 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, 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 horror movie. even after 4 years since the prison was shut down, it's empty cells and of course, are still sent chills down your spine. this is one of the solitary confinement cells that were widely used during stalin's role in the thirty's and forty's. and you can see how small it is. i think 3 times smaller than a regular. so you can, i mean he 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. and the soviet times there was also we did a getting wind for those found guilty of the most violent crimes like multiple murders and rapes, which is probably the dark part of the prison death row behind the field gate. there was a small basement where they were sentenced to death were executed. he came to nationwide notoriety in the 9090s, when the severe economic crises of follow, the collapse of the soviet union and crime rates for 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 get a call for 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 is out of radical islam aisd used to run among russian criminal circles. in the 9th 1992. he spent 8 months in this prison on racketeering charges. i yeah. boy of the businesses. someone told me money. so i went off to deal with the guy. i didn't go to raise the meeting guns. almost everyone had gone to that time, arrived at the meeting place. luckily for me that the crime rate was so high in the 90s, europe's largest prison quickly became too small to fit in all the mob stories and violent criminals up up through at the air. the door opens and i filthy ugly mugs

staring at me. their faces of hardened criminals, yet not roll. i sat down on the edge of the bed. places sit down. these guys looking at me like that. a little cigarette and all of these gangs is a smoke. they took almost a 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 night mary scenes he witnessed every day at work for me to have caught up to 14 people used to shed this kindly sentence. is it true that some in even 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 a 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 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 were holidays hardened tattooed criminals give you this look as the door slams behind you. and some of the former inmates recalled that i've been rejected by a fellow prisoners and becoming a pariah, was something they feared on most some times in more than solitary confinement or punishment from the guard. it was offline. yes, that is a terrible place that ruined the loss of people's lives. what you're talking about, what cerebral owner came out to these doors they were mentally damaged. is kalia taylor ticket? oh yeah, i mean a. so how young guys will rate, but old mobs 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. or the most important can be is that we have a restroom, but you can look from the inside. has any prisoner travis feel and i from you. with what happened? i couldn't cope with my anger and i killed the mice, strangled in leadership yoshi fish what really want to be back with you these weights of change in times? well token of a change in times will this harold change? we're gonna wrap up with the news of the ongoing phone call tonight between the rationally the regimen posted and us president joe biden. it started around an hour ago. it was initiated by moscow. it's the 2nd conversation between the 2 this month with crane and need to expansion key topics the calls being held ahead of geneva and brussels meetings. forthcoming will keep you updated on the details as we receive them. that south internationals world news at midnight from moscow with may,

kevin, our thanks for watching our channel and for me and the team. very best seasons. greetings to you as well. ah ah christmas the traditional yuletide on a day. this traditional with a special christmas guide me christmas tolerance diversity guide. we all know that christmas is a family holiday. that makes oral your parents are properly number. i follow the agenda that make us no woman instead of snowman or even better at this new person designed for themselves.

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ah, stick to the spirit of christmas. you decide. oh 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 easy marijuana starting at the age of 14 and battled and the next 5 years, his addiction eventually became psychotic. using barry.