but our t correspondent, dmitri polk, come bring us more of the details. well, moscow has now sent a team of investigators to serrato, after videos emerged online, allegedly showing the abuse and torture of an inmate at one of the serrato prisons now gulag that net as website and an organization that is dedicated to protecting the rice of russian inmates across russia's prisons, they're the ones who released this video, how're investigators must now confirmed the authenticity of it. however, the head of the organizational at intercession has now said that he has received over 40 gigabytes of videos and other materials showing that the violations abby's have actually been wide spread across several russian prisons. russian inmates have been subject to violence, torture abuse, rape at the hands of other inmates who were apparently allegedly working at the past of the penitentiary system workers. now here's what the head of the organization said about how he actually obtained this footage. we managed to hold out of russia, a person who for 5 years served to s

for more, i'm now joined, live in the studio by ortiz, dmitri polk, the retreat. ah, what more do we know about these new restrictions? well, basically it's been a while since moscow has seen such strict risk measures. however, it seems that here we go again yesterday puttin announced that there would be a week off for all workers across russia. or today, moscow. mercy has abandoned has come out and extended that period and introduce measures which essentially amount to a lockdown, a starting from october 28th till november 7th or businesses will 1st of all have to send their workers on a paid vacation of paid leave for those 11 days, but also businesses that are deemed non essential will have to suspend their operations. its businesses like retail cinemas, as fitness centers, a theaters and so on. also all mass public events will be canceled and even after this so lockdown period ends. events for over $500.00 people will still not be allowed. also, schools and nurseries will also have to take an extended vacation. we seem like some serious measures being taken. w

images for understandable reasons, but we can get more on the story now with our correspondent, dmitri polk. dmitri some pretty horowitz accusations there. i think it's fair to say, what are we learning about what occurred? well, right now, there's a team of investigators that have been sent from moscow to the serrato region where one of these videos allegedly takes place now of the organization that released these, these videos and globbed out nat, their organization dedicated to protecting the rights of inmates throughout russians, russia presence, now they're the ones who released his video. however, so far it's not been confirmed, which is why the investigator has been, have been sent there. but the head of the organization lead immunization has now said that he has actually received over 40 gigabytes of videos and other materials, largely showing that the this abuse and violations, they were wide spread across several prisons that inmates were tortured, raped, abused by penitentiary, service workers, throughout several prisons across russia, a, here's what the have the organization sai

numbers are rising fast, especially here in the capitol, across developments for us are to east dmitri polk. well, it seems that despite all the efforts by the russian government to try and curve the spread of the corona virus, the numbers unfortunately continue to grow and are even reaching record levels over the last 24 hours. over $33000.00 new cases have been confirmed throughout the country, but 9 percent of which were apparently asymptomatic. but a new morbid record was established over a 1000 deaths were reported. it's the highest number of daily cove debts there's been since the start of the pandemic now, in terms of the numbers 6 and a half 1000 of the new cases were reported from moscow, where authority recently launched 20 new centers, where people can get free express. calvin tests, that's in addition to the vaccination sites throughout the city, which authorities, they are the key to battling the crown of ours. you look where most mass rapid testing is spreading across europe. moscow is also involved in this experiment. we've open 20 testing points in the capitals document, cen

it's raised further concerns, though, over the control big tech is having on debate. dmitri polk investigates, it's always been a blurry line between what is considered free speech and what is considered powerful content. but social media giants apparently know exactly which is which in their crusade against what they consider misinformation. google and you tube have bands and monetization of pretty much any content that quote promotes climate change. denial. this includes content referring to climate change, the hoax, or a scam claims denying that long term trends show. the global climate is warming and claims denying that greenhouse gas emissions all human activity contribute to climate change. but it's not like that, that giants are doing this stuff solely out of a sense of moral responsibility, though. in this case they were bombarded with please, from advertisers who feared their products could be associated with pseudoscience conspiracies. and while some might think, well, what's the big deal? it's stopping the promotion and monetization of bad and false ideas. what's so bad about this

filipino and a russian for promoting freedom of expression less now cross to our correspondent dmitri polk. dmitri, the announcements taken many by surprise. tell us more about the journalists and why they're being recognized by the committee and also well in the run up to this kind of for this nomination, everybody was excited and curious to see who would be this, who would win this year's nobel peace prize. because in the past, it's always been a controversial matter with a lot of very controversial nominations throughout the years. over this years, decision also turned out to be well quite unexpected than our region. nobel committee decided to split the award among 2 journalists for their contributions to safeguarding freedom of expression. the 1st journalist is maria reza of the philippines. she is the co founder of raptor or digital media company for investigative journalism in the philippines. according to the nobel committee, her work focused critical attention on to charities regime and controversial murderers anti drug campaign, among other things. now the 2nd journalist, to who t

in the line with policies aimed at limited greenhouse gases, but as ortiz, dmitri polk comments, those green energy ambitions might have to take a step back just for bit. environmentalism is all the rage right now, but mother nature doesn't always play ball. winter comes whether there's wind enough or not to power the turbines and where it's freezing cold. no one actually cares if gas and coal are green. energy prices are skyrocketing in europe and environmental initiatives seem to only be making things worse. the fact that wind farms are useless when there's no wind is a big problem for the likes of the u. k. for example, where they're supposed to produce around 20 percent of the country's energy supply . so it's back to dirtier forms of power. less than that, we need to learn that fossil fuels are still needed in the energy mix in order to back up renewable energy. because if we continue to remove all the bases capacity that is coming from sources like the gas called a nuclear, without having something that is like come backups the intermittency of wind and solar. then we will be hav

a new facial recognition payment system, the 1st time it's been done on such a scale. artesia. dmitri polk went to check it out. moscow special says it was one of the oldest subway system in the world. the days all the way back to the 1930. however, ever since then it's never stopped growing, evolving and modernizing and today it's why the regarded as one of the most beautiful and technologically advanced subway systems on the planet. with millions of passengers every day. one of the key features of the moscow metro system has become the numerous ways people can pay for their ride. they can use our universal transit card like this, their regular bankcard, a smartphone smart watch. and now even just their face to pay for a ride called face pay, the system uses the latest biometric technology to make. getting into the metro was hassle free as possible. a camera scans the passengers faces at the turnstile, matches the biometric data to his database, binds each person's account, an associated bankcard to charge the fair and the gates open. all that takes about as long as a regular car transact

restrictions all aimed at trying to curb the rise in numbers and that's throughout the country. dmitri polk, stella had an ard t will take you on a journey to russia's extreme north, where a floating nuclear power plant is breathing new life into a coastal hedge with well that gig is a rather glad merican entre armed with volcano energy is calling out the wall street and the whole financier class ah, also for eric room, identify 2 types of freedom, freedom, roman freedom too. and while we all idealized alessa, achieving the former, the freedom from use on abuse is no small feat in this day and age. this is especially true for africa, which for centuries has been exploited under all sorts of pretext. what needs to happen, or the continent truly take its deserve place in the world. join me every 1st bit on the alex simon. sure. and i'll be speaking to guess with the world politics sport business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. mm. o quarter of an hour into the program. welcome back. a remote time in russia's eastern arctic is experiencing an economic boone. after being hooked up to the

now launch free testing in 20 centers, including in the city's largest shopping malls. dmitri polk reports from one of them. we are here in the heart of russia's capital in moscow, on the red square in the gloom department store for a while, it's been a place where people could get vaccinated. but now it is also one of the 20 centers that gets out free. express coven tests. these centers are being opened up as cases in russia continue to search in just the last few days. the number of new daily cases across the country has climbed to almost 30000 figures as high as last winter with most of them being in moscow. however, many medical experts think that this is actually reaching the peak and that these numbers is rising numbers and cases are actually due to more tests being readily and easily available. and that's kind of why the also thing that this could be signaling an end to the search. because the more tests, the more cases are confirm, the more people are treated and less people get in fact it. well, this is the actual test site in the room where people have been steadily flowing in th

here's our t's dmitri polk. well, it seems that we might actually be getting closer to an approval the w h o just recently updated the status of the approval process for the student v vaccine. this process was put on hold earlier. they were waiting some documentation, but now it's been resumed and is apparently already in its final stages. all that remains to be done really is that a team of inspectors from the w h o must now visit russia to finish up all the necessary paperwork and inspections, and so on. but russian health officials do hope that the vaccine could be approved . finally, within just the next few months, because as a reminder, the splitting feedback scene was one of the 1st ones due to be developed and see widespread use. actually right now, it's available in 70 countries and has an efficacy rating of over 97 percent harbor throughout his development. the vaccine has seen a lot of controversy which is severely hindered his acceptance in the west and the w. h. o has been yet to recognize it or rec

filipino under russian for promoting freedom of expression, less cross live, to our own correspondent, dmitri polk. for this story to meet you the night spent, i think it's safe. this has taken many, by surprise. can you tell us who these journalists are and why they're being recognized by the nobel committee? sir? yeah, well, the nomination itself will as well. everybody was interested and curious who would receive this years nobel peace prize because it's always been a controversial matter with lot of generally very controversial nominations throughout the years. well, this year's a decision turned out to be also quite unexpected. done norwegian nobel committee decided toward the prize to maria ross of the philippines, and the russian journalists led me to re murata, for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression. now in terms of the more out of this is the 1st time a russian citizen has received the peace prize before that only 2 people from the u . s. sr, have ever received it, a scientists and human rights aggregate. andrew soccer off and the former ussr president michael gorbachev. now

region, has now launched free testing in 20 centers, including in the city's largest shopping malls. dmitri polk reports from one of them. we're here in the heart of russia's capital in moscow, on the red square in the gloom department store for a while, it's been a place where people can get vaccinated, but now it is also one of the 20 centers that gets out free. express, coven tests. these centers are being opened up as cases in russia continue to search in just the last few days. the number of new daily cases across the country has climbed to almost 30000 figures as high as last winter with most of them being in moscow. however, many medical experts think that this is actually reaching the peak and that these numbers is rising numbers and cases are actually due to more tests being readily and easily available. and that's kind of why the also thing that this could be signaling an end to the search. because the more tests, the more cases are confirm, the more people are treated and less people get infected. well, this is the actual test site in the room where people have been steadily flowing i

putting her in the spotlight as a potential government stooge ortiz, dmitri polk digs deeper. whistleblowers are generally seen by many to be sort of brave heroes. they put their careers freedom work even lives on the line to reveal the dirtiest seeker itself corrupts organizations and governments. but when a whistleblower like francis halligan comes along and becomes an overnight mainstream media darling with an odd background and a full team of top tier lawyers with close ties to the establishment. that sort of raises some questions to say the least. i mean, come on, how many whistleblowers get these kinds of high production, promo reales? these look has the resources and potentially the motivation to learn my life. this is my virtual badge to gain fisma. and i was recruited kitty for cynic misinformation, pm. i was extremely excited to be able to make a difference in the whistleblower blowing the lid on the social media giant that's constantly accused of pushing agenda's, censoring dissent and violating privacy, etc. well, let's just say halligan's revelations turned out to be a bit more

and for more on this, we're going live to dmitri polk, or correspond in the studio. thanks for joining us, dmitri. first of all, of course, this isn't the 1st time that moscow's gone and to lockdown what's gonna happen after it's reinstated? yeah, that's a fully right. it's actually been a while since we've had such strict measures here in moscow, but yeah, it seems, here we go again a yesterday president wooten announced week off for workers across russia. however, up to date, so he's head banging when i came out and extended those measures and extended an inch basically to reduce the lock down period, which will last from october 28th till november 7th, 11 days and total. that's a bit longer than with president putin initially announced. but during this period, organizations will, 1st of all, of course have to send their workers if they can afford it and allow it, and their worker's home with pay, they have to remain retained their salaries. but more importantly, businesses and enterprises that are not deemed crucial must now suspend their more work for this lockdow

his are corresponded. dmitri polk. if you think you should have a say in your child's education, then congratulations. you now might be investigated by the f b i and labeled a domestic terrorist or just get a lawsuit like this mother from rhode island. i just wanted to re enroll my daughter in kindergarten and know what she was learning. and i asked the principal whether they were going to learn critical race theory, engender theory. and it turns out they would be, they said that they don't call kids boys and girls. they don't use gender terminology than the 1st thanksgiving. they asked kids what could have been done differently on thanksgiving. and they teach kids a certain line of thinking about history and every grade. and when i ask more questions about what does this mean, why don't you call it or think girls? and how exactly are you teaching american history? they told me to use that met public records request. and when i did submit public records request, my school been threatened to sue me because they thought

authorities basically pleading citizens to finally get vaccinated to put an end to the spike parties. dmitri polk reporting for moscow. thanks a lot for those details. well, that's all the news for this. our stay tuned for more in just about 30 minutes. ah ah movie now it shows the wrong. oh, just a well. yes to see out the same because the african and engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves well to pardon we choose to look for common ground. it's been decades since the fall of spain's fascist regime. but old wound still haven't hailed your interest in going into dunlab. and the only reason is because on the coming out to a nickel, freedom. okay. give me a bowl said cutting me on the bus at the station. we notice that i just, they seem courtroom, which with thousands of newborn babies were torn from their mothers and given away and forced adoption. late bought about, i used to yell for fiesta, bitter my old roll borders of yellow element to this day mothers still search for grown children while adults look in hope for their birth parents.

here, sar, teased dmitri polk. this comes as cases in russia, unfortunately continued to grow. and in moscow, it's especially noticeable a moscow's mayor, sergei abandon has now introduced several new covered measures which will come into effect on monday and her set to last. so leave end of february. now these measures her 1st one is that unvaccinated people over the age of 60, as well as though suffering from chronic illnesses, are now required to work from home. companies must also now follow a worker work at home quota, having at least 30 percent of their workers sent home. and our company is working in the service industry must now have at least 80 percent of their workers vaccinated used to be 60 percent. so now it's up on now, these measures were laid out in the mayor's open letter, where he highlighted an outline, the crisis currently going on in the city and pleaded, the elderly said finally get vaccinated because of the 5000000 people in moscow who have at least received one job, it seems that the people at the highest risk of complications from the disease have still

i discussed all this with ortiz, dmitri polk. well, the russian prison service has announced that it is fired for of its employees in the seraph region. after videos emerged on line, showing the elected torture and sexual abuse of inmates in one of the prisons in that region. now, earlier this week, a team of investigators was sent to the region. so 1st of all, confirmed the authenticity of these videos and 2nd of all, to open criminal cases against anybody who might have actually had a hands in these violations. the federal. busy penitentiary service has said it will bring to justice. anybody who had anything to do with this abuse the videos themselves, however, were released by an organization called glock. that net as an organization dedicated to protecting the rights of inmates throughout russia's prison system. and apparently they have some 40 gigabytes of videos. busy and other materials, allegedly showing the arabian abuse of inmates throughout several russian prisons across several years. ortiz actually spoke with the hea

the dmitri murat of hasn't looked into it over the years. 6 colleagues have been murdered for their work that he honored them. if the premier occupant, of course this awarded for anna polk of sky eureka kit, more eager d'amico anastasio but rover stock market off. natasha. esther. moreover, our foreign colleagues who gave their lives for the profession, i am not the right beneficiary of this prize. the rules here, maria reza, who's also suffered harassment. intimidation, told al jazeera of her worries for journalism. in the age of social media when news organizations last are keeping powers to technology platforms are the, those platforms advocated responsibility for the public sphere. and back has made facts debatable because the data facts and my eyes are actually treated equally. in fact, the algorithms of the world's largest distributor of news, a spot. actually a feverish lice laced with anger in act spread faster and they've been tracks for some who watched the nobel peace prize and it's regular controversies closely. this year's decision is a welcome one. i think this was bull's eye, it's obviously, well, the served and it's 2 candidates that, that both have done