rondo joins me now.u are here and talking about your story and your triumphs, really, but take us, rondo, to the beginning of your story. how did you land in writers and the first place. >> yeah, so i got arrested at the early age of 19, i just turned 19. i have been arrested before, i was already out on bail. i was around the wrong people, wrong decisions, the way i grew up. i felt like that was the way that i had to live because that's the only thing i know. that led me to be incarcerated in october of 2021. i served 15 and a half months and before i found a program, it was -- i had to do things, i had to see things i wasn't proud of. in order to survive in that environment, you have to do things you aren't proud of. >> people should know that the program is not universal. everyone is not a part of rikers. it is not even like -- something about you has to be a part of this program, and you were a part of it. talk to me about some of what you experienced before that program because most people know rike

and rondo joins me now. i'm so happy that you are here. and talking about your story and your triumphs really. but take us to the beginning of your story. how did you land in rikers in the first place? >> yeah. so i got arrested at the early age of 19. you know, i just turned 19. i was around the wrong people, the wrong decisions. i felt like that was the way i had to live because it was the only thing that i knew. so that led me to be incarcerated in october of 2021. 15.5 months. before i found the program, i had to do things, i had to see things that i wasn't proud of. but in order to survive in that environment, you got to do things you ain't proud of. >> people would know the program is not universal. not everyone is a part of it. is not even like, you were a part of it. talk to me about some of what you experience before that program. most people know rikers as a notoriously dangerous place. at least three people died in one of the eight detention centers on rikers island. the staff attorney from legal aid society rently said this. th

i remembered that six young students were disbanded after the youth festival, this is rondo, no, no, word then they forced all the vocal-instrumental ensembles of the country to pass the program, and there were two or three compulsory songs that everyone sang, that’s... that’s it, it was, if the guys of the whole earth, one, and some other, that’s enough, according to -i think there was another song by saulsky , something related to snow, no, not to that extent, these were purely correct soviet songs, composers, members of the union, well, that’s understandable, yes, how many of these programs do we have retaken, but do we know what we usually did? if the songs were in english, we wrote translations about oppressed blacks , yes we were allowed, but a few songs by soviet composers, and under our songs we invented some famous composers there, says a strange song, yes there is such a one, yes this one wrote it, well, go then fuck the hall, six young people, we acted in what way, sang everything as in the original in english, but the presenter announced before that, now it’s a parody? ye

classics, premieres, poems of the legend guslyar, the rock opera song of share, the musical apokryv and rondopera lucian topol based on the works of yanka kupala, maxim bogdanovich and maxim tank became events of a national scale. the orchestra has given thousands of concerts in belarus and abroad, in russia, china, and canada. turkey and germany, romania, india. after reviewing the significant dates , you somehow want to quickly return to the holiday atmosphere, don’t you? therefore not let's drag it out and go back in time to learn about the interweaving of pagan and christian traditions, exactly how our ancestors celebrated the new year holidays. we’ll also get acquainted with the kollad goat, conduct a ceremony of generosity and tell fortunes for our betrothed. belarusian sacrament. look in the ethno section. from january 6 to january 19, belarusians celebrate an ancient slavic holiday, in which pagan and christian traditions have been closely intertwined over the past millennia. the name of this carol holiday is pagan. according to one version, the word koleda itself arose from the word

so, there's all these similarities, and the obituary for rondo and the real life to -- >> so you have been looking through obituaries, coincidentally. or you did it as a part of the matter of course to figure out where the person may or may not be? >> i had to look through every arbitrary, i would be -- so we were led to that obituary of the individual to take a look at that and that's what we did. we took a look at an obituary. and, then from there, we started the process. i was for 2015 we put those records from randall. and then my dad, in 1960, 71 randhawa court a color he had a signature with conrad on. it and i red nile signature. >> unbelievable, i've been thinking about putting those things together. and having such tenacity to follow this story to the very end. and tiller it's an obituary. this person has now died. and you end up having to go to the home. what happened when he got there? >> yes and then kathy, ashley for the first time i look, they didn't know that we were coming. myself, and the u.s. marshal and knocked on the, door introduce themselves and told her that we

. >> reporter: a competing company called rondo uses even cheaper bricks in their thermal batteries for the powering up to of a factory without a wind upgrade, so this could be magnets for the industry. both were in dubai where big oil had a big presence and andrew came back convinced that clean, simple ideas are the future. >> the transition is inevitable. it's going to happen, and actually, if you talk behind closed doors in the fossil industry, they're confident of that, and i'm confident we can take the huge tool of solar and wind and display fossil winds faster. >> reporter: really, why? >> because of the technologies coming down the pipe. if you asked me five or 10 years ago, i would say i'm got sure we have everything we need to decarbonize, but today, we have the tools we need, we just need to deploy them. >> thanks to bill weir for that report and bill will join me for a special state of the union where we focus on the climate change crisis sunday eastern at noon on cnn. coming up, noon analysis of the military operation in gaza finding the 2,000 pounds of bombs and the deadly