so happy easter rim europe or some e.u. states expand. the partial closure of vaccination centers. u.s. firms lay off staff amid the pandemic it's revealed some of america's biggest companies paid no federal corporate tax. so the hollywood film the mauritanian depicts the story of the man widely regarded to be the most tortured detainee. r.t. speaks to the director of the film and the president's lawyer. who was evidence of julia still to this day. there was always pressure.

by that thanks for joining us this is r.t. and. the comes around again in europe but it's not looking too festive germany has introduced strict night time curfews in several states france has banned booze in public spaces to slow the spread of corona virus and it comes to some in the e.u. have announced a partial closure of vaccination centers over the easter weekend. has details. after an agonizingly slow start to the vaccination campaign it was supposed to be following only picking up speed effects innocently completing this from the fact the nation is a national priority there's no bank holiday there's no weekends vaccination so we must all vaccination centers that are open across the country fully vaccinated that cool came as the world health organization criticised europe's vaccine rollout is

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 haven't stuck 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 ruling 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 knows covered 900 takes the holidays off. if it doesn't have holidays we're still recovering from the ludicrous christmas meet up and that usual stereotype of an efficiency 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 obscure and rolled 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 through weeks or you do not go but the boy is hoping to take advantage of the nicer weather with tourist quencher believes 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. seoul if you can ski r.t. harris. in the impoverished presumed suburb of st sanda need doctors are struggling

to find enough intensive care beds for patients. but we are being overwhelmed with covert cases serious covert cases our 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. the same sanden in is in the poorest region in mainland france it has about $800.00 coronavirus cases per 100000 people which is more than twice the national average have also been reports teachers been walking out due to the high number of infections in schools. a prominent psychologist has been detained in serbia for allegedly spreading anti vaccine propaganda you have on the stink of it she also leads a small far right party is 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 survey 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 in the u.k. to introduce mandatory jobs but so far only for care home staff. 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 of either the vaccine is safe secondly the gravity of the situation and thirdly if anything else is working and in full put all these 3 things together for me i think it is really important and i think it is a cloud from a community responsibility that this vaccine would be a mandate for everybody who had the possibility to pick up an thingy 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 mostly dance class and school or i think there will be a company who faces are going to be a great show stross who are really discriminate against our staff and in a very which is being described we have to burn my own book it's just the vulnerable who are particularly perplexing why currently no i don't see the facts of the matter of the vast majority of the population actually do not need this fascination you know how to workers are actually sent home if they are symptomatic with any infection and it's not discrimination and if they refuse to take back scenes or have because of police not taking taxi ins. there we've let them work with a little patience because patients who are vulnerable and is not discrimination is just protection of patients that you work with and talking about the mandate of the

the vaccine i think if we talk about any individual person there might be still in fact after vaccination or can still transmit the infection but if this were actually is applied on a broader community then the transmission would certainly be stopped and we haven't witnessed this one in israel so in 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. it's being one such example considering where in the middle of a pandemic does does more need to be done to counter the more extreme versions of of these protesters well of course repeat what exactly are the 'd root servers are obvious to produce. are not purchased to debate the issue some of the sudden something outlandish. proved wrong what we really eat is who to be good we go

through promotions great tool decisions or our rep with all of the currency but it seems. it's been revealed that over 50 big american companies including fedex and donkey managed to dodge paying federal corporate income tax in the last fiscal year submit widespread job losses blamed on the pandemic of the scale of more bullets and how the us 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 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 who are 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 you know the words of the johnnie 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 of not. they had 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 28 percent . with the reduced to 21 percent raise it 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 are 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 higher 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 r.t. new york. the story of the detainee who is widely regarded as being the most tortured man in guantanamo bay is depicted in the hollywood film the mauritanian in today's episode of going underground returns he speaks with the director of that movie and the lawyer of muhammadu slahi who was held in the notorious prison for 14 years without charge arrested in mauritania by u.s. forces following the $911.00 attacks in the slot he was accused of being an al qaeda member the film is based on his diary that was published in january 25th seen it exposed the horrors of life in the detention center you can watch the full interview on r.t. throughout the day for now here's a preview. you want to represent the head recruiter for 911 constitution doesn't have an asterisk at the end. to kidnap me

from i am probably here with the back of my head and chains around my body. there 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 or 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 they 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 that everybody 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 the 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 were many many other people in one time in the same situation as he in even today the 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 for monday you and you get a small sense of what it must have been like to be mamadou or nancy i think some people. would like to see obama the same today. completely absent from any

responsibility that you consider getting away from the fact that he continued to use the policies that was recess. how did that feel after winning and then as far mamadou today i understand he cannot easily travel is a kind of president today well he is a kind of prisoner we didn't get a passport for 3 years after he got out that was the deal the us 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 give him citizenship and allow them to allow him to travel he's a free man he should be allowed to travel. still ahead the islamic state terror group is had control of a key town in mozambique from alton

a weak international community doesn't seem to bother to explain all after the break. the wall street frauds going all the way back to the twenty's they're not different they're repackaged rebranded and sold again it's the same wine it in new bottle so the smack frog is just a variation on the dot com frog which is a variation on the mortgage sub prime fraud to remove fraud the g.d.p. would be it would be negative 20 percent.

just under 3 months after the shock siege of the u.s. capitol car running outside the building has left d.c. reeling with one police officer dead and another in hospital security washington's been ratcheted up again in the wake of the attack the suspect was shot dead after he stepped out of his vehicle and brandished a knife the officer who died in the attack has been identified as william evans a capitol policeman of 18 years president biden has sent his heartfelt condolences

to the officers family well the pentagon 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 capital one under further. lockdown and also has they've also done the same thing from government buildings just in case this might have been a decoys old might like 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 they're going to maintain security for an indefinite period of time. mozambique is in the grip of terrorism with the islamic state group holding on to control of a key town sees that for more than a week now and it's led to dozens of victims a mass exodus and the interruption of french and he projects in the area the international community seems to be doing little to help beyond making statements that suggest africa is not a priority for major powers auntie's pulis leon has more. 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 flemister where poles 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 to get it for she i can't go back to palma i don't believe there will be pleased 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 the 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 to be the largest natural gas fields in africa francis. total which paid for the multi-billion dollar gas project in the area earlier the same didn't work because of rebel attacks this was not the 1st time that we've seen my misled me state was a big in fact they have actually taken control of. the port which is a key port for region are treated in the region so. presence in

mozambique cannot longer be ignored it is huge it is destructive and it is dangerous 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 direct countries of the u.n. will have to assist in and this is something that should have been done in this very little 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 teeth 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 mind as civil rights activists were quick to slam the law as unconstitutional and violating human rights ortiz to meter part 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 banned them from accessing health care this is tend to manta matter kids will turn to 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 wall 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 an. a 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 y. 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 woken benevolent corporations and celebrities. let's join me this morning on r t all written with updates and often. people. in the 1920 s. and thirty's several 100 african-americans moved to the soviet union and many of their descendants still live in russia. looking at the risk of you know no rush for

us though up most of us it got worse are going things on their way. back home black american suffered from racism and a complete lack of prospects. is that not the smug the real. one by else a store on the by doing. so they decided to leave everything behind and start a new life in a country about which they knew almost nothing at all some of the american rear troops who are looked at through reviewing the you know if you heard round great crowd. to move a golf you were going to go all close you and now almost a 100 years later the history is repeating itself my great grandfather george time went to russia. probable worst time to go anywhere why not me.

why don't i come here. max kaiser this is the kaiser report well you know the world can't be too messed up if the farmers in france are protesting and dumping truckloads of manure on government buildings you know all right there's in the world in other news stacey of course the french farmers dumping manure in front of government buildings a something i do recall from the early days of kaiser before in the early days of the last global financial crisis so it could be a sign that everything is about to go boom they're a leading indicator remember we talked about the price signals that have been destroyed by intervention from the commanding controllers but this is

a signal they cannot stop and that's the french farmer and then another french farmer when he's a up and dumping manure and government buildings you know this thing going to go down it's going down and ponzi go boom that's our 1st headline the spac market is in the process of detonating and it will take the ponzi sector with it this is a piece written on wall street dot com specs are special purpose acquisition companies and they involve these pipes which are private investment and public equity so there's you know any time you have more than one shell when you're having to you know max used to be a magician in times square and if you have to start doing all that sort of maneuver and moving the shares over there on that over there and this over there but you have a shareholder you the retail person are going to get rich right that's usually a sign that there's something going on well this is arguing the.