RT News - August 09 2021 (12:00 MSK)

The terrors playing out behind bars as transgender-identified convicts increasingly work the system to be placed in female jails, coupled with a subsequent rise in sexual attacks on women prisoners. RT investigates. The relentless march of wildfires that continue to wreak destruction in Eastern Russia, and cloak cities in dense smoke. Our correspondent goes out with a fire-fighting unit to see the scale of the devastation up close. Anger boils on the streets of France over new anti-Covid measures making it mandatory to show a health pass to access restaurants, hotels, and even to see doctors.