RT News - December 30 2021 (12:00 MSK)

Belgian government backtracks on its previous Covid-19 rules: re-opening theatres, cinemas and other cultural facilities, following the country's highest court's decision, dubbing the measure 'inappropriate'. Joe Biden distances himself from previous promises to 'shut down the virus', saying it's up to individual states to sort out, not the White House. We discuss the US president's response to the pandemic so far. American big tech's tough year, which saw leading companies come under political fire from both the Republicans and Democrats. We look at how the influential firms have become mixed-up in divisive US politics. A rare look inside one of Russia's most-notorious prisons, known for housing some of the country's most-dangerous criminals in the wake of the Soviet collapse in the 1990s.