not so happy easter in europe as some e.u. states expand restrictions while others announce the partial closure of vaccinations. it's back up to the banks in the u.s. capital after a car rammed into a police barricade killing in. the hollywood film the mauritanian depicts the story of a man widely regarded to be the most tortured detainee guantanamo bay he talked to the director of the film and the prisoners of war. there was no evidence of the still to this day. there is always pressure. more. says u.s. firms lay off staff amid the pandemic it's revealed some of america's biggest companies paid no federal corporate tax.

good morning thanks for joining us here on r.t. international. another easter holiday in europe but it's without many of the 1st of its east germany's introduced strict nighttime curfews in several states while france has banned booze in public spaces to slow the spread of coronavirus comes as some in the e.u. have announced the partial closure of vaccination centers over the easter weekend. has details. off to an agonizingly slow start to the vaccination campaign it was supposed to be following early picking up speed effects and it's really completing this for the vaccination is a national priority there's no bank holiday there's no weekends vaccination so we mustered all the vaccination centers that are openly across the country fully

vaccinated that cool came as the world health organization criticize europe's vaccine rollout this being fully inadequate vaccines present our best way out of this pandemic however the rollout of these vaccines is an acceptably slow we must speed up the process by ramping up manufacturing reducing barriers to administering vaccines and using every single vial we have in stock now but as europe celebrates the spring holidays the inoculation rate at least in some regions is actually growing thing to a standstill in madrid spain vaccinations have actually been a poultry for 4 days the plan is to allow medical staff to rest but that's in direct opposition to calls from the country's health minister who has demanded that they keep the lng out that jobs now in germany to some states are shutting up shop prompting anger and mockery at the sluggish rollout some vaccination centers in

germany are going to be shot over the easter weekend but that's ok because it's not like this is an emergency or anything german leader is pummeled by press for this because everyone now is covered $900.00 takes the holidays off. it doesn't have holidays we're still recovering from the ludicrous christmas meet up and that usual stereotype of fish and sea took even more of a battering as chancellor angela merkel flip flopped over the idea of extending the restrictions instead she's. a bit of rest. so what does this mean for the next few days it means 1st and foremost that it should be a quiet easter one in a small circle with a very reduced context i also urge you to refrain from all non urgent travel and that we all consist in the fall all the rules herein francaise

a new nation wide lockdown begins many getting ready to abscond with the city's a sort of weekend truce is being allowed for people to get away for the break but the 2 came with this warning either you go for weeks or you do not go but the boy is hoping to take advantage of the nicer weather with a tourist quencher where drinking alcohol outside in public spaces or even the parks has become the latest pope are no longer allowed tighter controls will also be in place with authorities clamping down on groups of more than 6 measures put in place as france struggles to get a grip on rising infection rates for many in europe it was hoped that this weekend would be a bit of a break from the monotony of prove it instead the virus continues to be the biggest party pooper in. charlotte even ski r.t.

paris. in the impoverished prison suburb of st sundanese doctors are struggling to find intensive care beds for patients some saying they may soon have to make some difficult decisions. but we are being overwhelmed with cases serious group of cases are intensive care unit is almost full the flow of patients increases every day there are more covert positive tests and negative the situation is grave . is the poorest region in mainland france and has about 800 coronavirus cases but 100000 people that's more than twice the national average have also been reports teachers are walking out due to the high number of infections in schools. prominent psychologist has been detained in serbia for allegedly spreading anti vaccine propaganda you have on a story of it also is a small far right parties one of several people being questioned in a government crackdown officials accuse them of creating fear and panic and putting

lives at risk all the perpetrators of criminal acts must be dealt with especially when they threaten public health will serve as the 3rd highest vaccination rate in europe with more than 2300000 citizens receiving at least the 1st shot of the european countries are trying to pick up the pace with italy becoming the 1st to introduce compulsory jobs for health workers the u.k. has introduced mandatory jobs but so far only for care home staff i call again and he'll discuss the issues raised by europe's vaccination rollout with a panel of guests. well when we talk about the mandate for the common 1000 vaccine i think we need to look into a broader perspective the 1st thing is that a lot of the vaccine is safe secondly the gravity of the situation and thirdly if anything else is working and it will put all of these 3 things together for me i think it is really important and i think is a cloud for a lot of community responsibility that this vaccine would become

a mandate for everybody who had the possibility to take up until if money tree just for health workers is going to save the lives of vulnerable people it's the right thing to do business it no i don't agree firstly phosphorescence who earns or i think there will be a number who traces are going to be ok sure stross who are really just going to going to start off and which is being described we have to her mind that it's just the vulnerable who are particularly practicing poly coated no i'm cheating under the facts of the matter of the vast majority of the population actually do not need those facts nation know how to workers are actually sent home if they are symptomatic of any infection and it's not discrimination and if they refuse to take back scenes who have because of police not taking taxi ins. i refuse unselect and work with little patience because i think you are an awful awful noble is not

discrimination is just protecting your patients that you work with and talking about the mandate after the the vaccine i think if we talk about a new digital person there might be still in fact after vaccination or can still transmit the infection but if this waxing is applied on a broader community then the transmission would certainly be stopped and we haven't witnessed this one in israel so in a community level the impact of the vaccine is a lot more than what you see any individual level and 20 from what we know in the past that they're helping us examples of on t.v. being blamed for the resurgence of preventable diseases measles being one such example considering where in the middle of a pandemic does this more need to be done to counter the more extreme versions of of these protesters well of course repeat what exactly are the root servers here are obvious to produce. are not purchased to debate the issue some of these photos

from throughout round goes through proved wrong what we really eat is a tool to be good we go through promotions great tool decisions or our rep with all of the currency but it seems. just under 3 months after the shock siege of the u.s. capitol a car ramming outside the building is left d.c. reeling with one police officer dead and another in hospital security in washington's been ratcheted up in the wake of that attack the suspect was shot dead after stepping out of his vehicle brandishing a knife reporting from outside capitol hill his r.t. america's foreign fronsac. last week we had the fencing around the capitol taken down and then this incident happens we just had a press conference where all of this information was released but the incident happened around one or 2 pm suspect was then shot around $115.00 and then the national guardsmen were actually deployed to come back out into the streets of washington d.c. moments after that all happened so i want to take you a look at

a look at the scene behind me here where you're seeing all of those police vehicles right into that area is a driveway where many senators you'll see the building on the left that's the senate building many of these senators walking back and forth to and from that building just across where you see those police officers on the right there is a driveway there where again many of these senators their cars or workers into the work at the capitol drive in what happened was at one o 2 pm the suspect drove his car through that driveway hitting 2 police officers and then smashed into a barricade much like the barricades that you're seeing that we're seeing right here in front of these national troops however the suspect coming down the street those barricades were not up at the time now since this incident they have been the barricades have now been erected we just had a capitol police officer die back on january 6th during the insurrection here at the capitol so the d.c.

is very much been on high alert since then which is why they brought out that fencing on this officer is now the 5th capitol police officer and it's 200 year history to die in the line of duty again we had that officer brian sic nick di back on january 6th during the insurrection as far as the mood of what's happening here you can see very much you know looks very very high stakes behind the barricades there but actually if you take a look completely across the capitol you can see everyone very normal people on their scooters people walking around taking pictures of the building with the suspect being dead and with an officer being dead there still no motive given we don't know the motive yet however the capitol hill police have said in their press conference that this was not they do not consider this an act of terrorism. well the officer who died in the attack has been identified as william evans a capital policeman of 18 years president joe biden has sent his heartfelt condolences to the officers family former copernican analyst michael maloof says

the latest incident will result in an even larger security presence in washington d.c. well into the future the initial concern was this could have been a decoys and immediately the rest of the capitol went under further lockdown and also has they've also done the same thing for government buildings just in case this might have been a decoys but so far nothing else has happened it could have been just a test if people who had been tensions of it in the capitol will look upon this as a lesson learned what to do or what not to do and how to go about this but i think that this latest episode just reinforces especially if it was done by a lone a lone wolf that the they're going to have to maintain their their security presence and actually beef up security because of the sensitivities of what's going on in the in the capitol area especially on capitol hill and the vulnerability of congressmen and senators are going to maintain security for an indefinite period of

time. span revealed more than 50 big american companies including fedex and nike managed to dodge paying federal corporate income tax in the last fiscal year this is amid widespread job losses blamed on the pandemic and he's killing more than looks at how the u.s. system appears to favor the rich. paycheck to paycheck that's how more than half of been living especially since the pandemic and they're also paying taxes but what would those americans say when they found out that $55.00 of the largest corporations in the united states paid no taxes last year that includes frederick's and nike after deductions exemptions they ended up paying net 0 but they were supposed to pay $8500000000.00 quite a big difference sounds like a joke especially for america's small businesses that have been devastated by the pandemic and still had to pay the rent after earning nothing and surprisingly they now might be hit again now that biden is planning to raise personal income taxes

that hit 95 percent of small businesses like a hurricane a strange decision it is letting big corporations off the hook while burying small business owners even deeper i do not think it's the right time especially that we're in a pandemic and as small businesses and we've done enough to to survive this pandemic and i mean it's a troubling time for everyone now and then for people to tax small business owners for a struggling be perfect finding creative ways to stay in business over the last 40 years that is roughly since 1080 there has been a systematic redistribution of wealth and income from the poorer and the middle class to those at the very top there are men and be more lobbyists in washington then there are senators and congressmen and women in other words the jayanti of

people working on legislation in the capital of washington d.c. are paid agents of large corporations so you see that the control of the big businesses by giving donations to a candidate and 2 parties and by paying these armies and not be. they have the influence to make sure that the tax system favors that but don't go rushing to say the world is unfair biden is also promising a tax increase on the very rich i have nothing against millionaires and billionaires but here's the deal we're going to raise the corporate tax it was 35 percent which is too high we all agreed 5 years ago it should go down to 20 percent . but they're reduced to 21 percent raise it back to up to 20 percent ironically though is there really any point in doing this when companies are already failing to pay the current rate even when taxes on the rich were much higher 18 of

america's top $258.00 corporations still managed to pay only some of it seems like loopholes are quite friendly to the rich and powerful all tax problem a bit of the theory because behind it the reality is the bigger the corporation the easier it is for them to pay for the lawyers the accountants the economists like me who will help them escape taxation the reality is that around the world today large corporations have the ability to move their profits to wherever the tax rate is the lowest so they don't have to pay high rates of taxation if the united states has tax rates higher than other countries they'll move their profits to other countries some observers say that the biden planned attacks corporations is just a farce and they don't really have any intention of making them pay however small

businesses will continue to struggle and artsy new york. still to come the islamic state terror group has control of a city in mozambique for more than a week but the international community seems little bowl this or that story after this break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic. only. exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit. in.

the story of the detainee he's widely regarded as the most tortured man in guantanamo bay is depicted in the hollywood film the mauritanian in today's episode

of going underground and she returns he speaks to the movie's director and the lawyer of muhammadu who was held in the tourist prison for 14 years without charge arrested in mauritania by u.s. forces after the $911.00 attacks mr slahi was accused of being an al qaeda member the film is based on his diary that was published in january 2015 that exposed the horrors of life in the detention center full interview can be watched naughty throughout the day here's a preview. you want to represent the head recruiter for 911 constitution doesn't have an asterix yet. they kidnap me from my home prop me here over the back of my head and chains around my body. they seem to be a lot of pressure going to class pressure i don't know for you to drop the case all through well that there is always pressure against cases in more in guantanamo cases involving alleged terrorists and we tried did make that point when joni

talks about that she's taking the words right out of an op ed i did in 2010 where i said i was a terrorist lawyer and proud of it people thought what him and that is saying about how bad it was there were grounds for the us authorities to. lock him up my understanding from talking to nancy talking to your cat shoes the letter the prosecution lawyer for the government in america at every else is that there are playing to the stories there were new grounds for having him there there were suspicions and he was still to associate with some people who may have done some bad things but there was no evidence at all in this still to this day remains no evidence at all against guantanamo he was an innocent man who was locked up for more than 14 years and there are many many other people in one time in the same situation as even to date obama put him back in jail after he wins that doesn't happen in an innocent man narrative plot to a film that's

a terrible twist on the end of the movie and we shouldn't really be giving it away it's actually the part that more people have said to me oh my dogs because you've been through this incredible and sometimes harrowing journey and you think you're coming out the other side because there's been this courtroom victory. and then the ravi schooled from for monday you and you get a small sense of what it must have been like to be a mum a day or nancy i think some people. would like to see obama the sainted obama completely absolved from any responsibility that this is getting away from the fact that he did it in unity he continued to the policies of his recess. how did that feel after winning and then as for mamadou today i understand he cannot easily travel is a kind of prisoner today well he is a kind of prisoner didn't get a passport for 3 years after he got out that was the deal the u.s.

made with mauritania they wouldn't give him a passport and now he has not been able to get a visa so far to 2 european only got a visa to south africa we are hoping he and his american wife and baby can someday find a country that will give the give him citizenship and allow them to allow him to travel he's a free man he should be allowed to travel. mozambique is in the grip of terror with the islamic state group holding on to control of a town it sees there for more than a week now this is led to dozens of victims a mass exodus and the interruption of a french energy project in the area the international community is doing little to help beyond making statements that suggest africa is not a priority for major powers loosely reports. i'm here in downtown johannesburg both of heading to mozambique leaf from last week insurgents affiliated with

islamic state launched a raid on the northernmost big town of palma ransacking buildings and murdering a beheading civilians. the latest attack is the biggest escalation by islamist web boles who have been waiting villages in towns in northern mozambique for the past 4 years leaving hundreds of thousands of people displaced and at least 2000 dead half of them civilians according to the united nations. and we had at the hotel which was

besieged by militants after 4 days without eating we decided to leave an escape into the forest but some of my white colleagues lost their lives again i get it for she i can't go back to palma i don't believe there will be peace there that we'll be able to leave there the way we used to. ok let's not people were killed on the beach where i was some minister on the way but others stayed and militants took women boys and children with them. among one night we heard gunshots so there was nothing else to do than flee into the woods and we spent 7 days there without anything to eat there were many children and no food. mostly because the hub of a gas industry with billions of dollars following the awful discovery of one of the largest natural gas fields in africa france's. total which paid for the multi-billion dollar gas project in the area earlier but then didn't work because

of rebel attacks this was not the 1st time that we've seen one misled me state attacking in mozambique in fact they have actually taken control of. the port which is a key port for regional treat in the region so. presence in mozambique cannot longer be ignored it is huge it is destructive and it is dangerous i do have to believe that. we've known this is going to happen and that has the word has the backing definitely of countries from from up north east and i think this is a it's a worldwide problem i think it's something that the u.n. will have to step into and i think it's something that the countries of the u.n. will have to assist in and this is something that should have been done in this very group and more than 2 years ago. but the response so for has been lacking in a region that has become the latest frontline in the global war being waged by

militant islamist mozambique is turning into yet another african hotspot with world powers remaining mostly silent policy our team just stop africa. this week arkansas became the 1st u.s. state to pass a bill making it illegal for doctors to provide gender affirming health care to transgender miners civil rights activists were quick to slam the lower is unconstitutional and violating human rights artes to me to park takes a closer look. the all knowing corporations and celebrities are at it again spreading their wisdom to us lowly humans who just don't understand anything at all wisdom of the day the new arkansas law preventing minors from getting gender reassignment surgery is practically murder and is killing children our consist legislators similarly have nothing better to do during a global pandemic and economic meltdown than to process hateful discriminatory laws

deny health care to people trance kids are under attack across the country arkansas is just ban them from accessing health care this is tend to madd to my kids who will tell us who they are it's our job to support them not demonize or harm them don't bother looking any of this up though because these people who are saying this have definitely done their research they've weighed the pros and the cons of this bill and have come to the undeniable conclusion that this bill is really bad just retreat spread the message and enjoy the feeling of moral superiority but if for some reason you decide to look past the veil of vacuous virtue signaling you might discover that there's a bit more to the issue see what these people mean by health care is the practice of injecting confused kids with a bunch of hormones and irreversibly mutilating their bodies because you know that's apparently

a basic human right and 12 year old kids definitely know what they want to do with their life and if they want to whole new body well who's to stop them and the people who will be calling that aren't necessarily the ones who have gone through the treatments or lives with the consequences no they're the will internet crowd who is using a complex issue to further their agenda and show everybody just how virtuous and compassionate they are the people who actually did get their gender changed with little to no questions asked haven't found themselves to be any. happier while others are suing the clinics that encourage them as teenagers to change their gender basically equating it's a child abuse and despite all the propaganda about how wonderful it is to receive hormone injections actual research studies have shown that most people with gender dysphoria see no improvement in their mental state after the transition and suicide

rates among trance people which are unfortunately very high don't seem to be affected at all by any of the procedures so what's the solution while politicizing virtue signaling and mutilating kids don't seem to be working that well gender dysphoria is a disorder and should be studied and treated as such not glorified or used for clout you don't tell a person who believes that he's napoleon that he is an actual french general why well because sooner or later reality will come crashing around him and when that happens they will be left alone confused abused probably suicidal and that's exactly the path that these kids are being pushed on by these always vulcan benevolent corporations and celebrities and i represent for this news out thanks for the company i'll return with updates in 30 minutes.

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