RT News - January 03 2022 (12:00 MSK)

Police dogs and batons are deployed against anti-lockdown demonstrators in Amsterdam. The city's mayor gave the order to break up the thousands-strong illegal rally. With Covid cases steadily surging, we look at how big pharma managed to benefit from the pandemic throughout 2021. From a power-supply crunch and record migrant influx to soaring inflation and all time-high homicide rates - we look at what made 2021 a difficult year for the US. RT look back at one of the defining moments of last year - the disastrous US withdrawal from Afghanistan - which brought the country to the brink of collapse.