RT News - December 30 2021 (17:00 MSK)

Belgium suddenly backtracks on its Covid clampdown and re-opens theatres and cinemas. That after its highest court slammed the restrictions as excessive. 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 sort it out. We discuss his response to the pandemic so far. We look back at what's been a tough year for America's big tech, which saw leading companies embroiled in political fights with both the Republicans and Democrats. We get a rare glimpse inside one of Russia's most-notorious prisons. Home to some of the country's most-dangerous criminals in the wake of the Soviet collapse in the 1990s.