a not so happy easter in europe. curbs while others announce the partial closure of vaccination centers. many americans losing their jobs and small businesses having to close during the pandemic has revealed some of the big u.s. companies actually paid no federal corporate tax last. hollywood film the mauritanian depicts the story of the man widely regarded as the most tortured detainee at guantanamo bay he speaks to the director of the film the prisoners of war. who was evidence of the still to this day. there is always pressure against casey. more.

either thanks so much for joining us this is r.t. international. it's the comes around again in europe but it's not looking too festive at the moment germany has introduced strict nighttime curfews in several states france has banned alcohol in public spaces to slow the spread of coronavirus on this comes as some states in the e.u. have announced a partial closure of vaccination centers over the easter weekend. as more. 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 openly across the country fully vaccinated the

cool came as the world health organization criticised europe's vaccine road like 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 ruling out the jobs now in germany to some states 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 were getting ready to obscure on 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 noise so whether 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. seoul it even ski party paris. in the

impoverished parisians suburb of st sundanese doctors are struggling to find enough intensive care beds for patients. being overwhelmed with cases serious case the cases are intensive care unit is almost full the floes patients increases every day there are more positive tests negative the situation is grave. saying santa these in the poorest region in mainland france that has about $800.00 coronavirus cases per 100000 people that's more than twice the national average they've also been reports teachers have been walking around due to the high number of infections in schools. and to lock down a gathering in a park in the belgian capital has been dispersed by mounted police. water cannon were also unleashed to put a damper on the events riot officers broke up groups of stragglers in the name of

social distancing a few days ago thousands in brussels turned out for what was billed as an anti lockdown concert that get itself turned out to be an april fool's joke. a prominent psychologist has been detained in serbia for allegedly spreading anti vaccine propaganda you have on a story of it you also leads a small far right party is one of several people being questioned in the 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. services the 3rd highest vaccination rate in europe with more than 2300000 citizens receiving at least their 1st shot of the european countries are trying to pick up the pace with italy becoming the 1st introduced compulsory jobs for health workers the u.k. tubes introduced mandatory jobs but so far only 4 care home staff my colleague in an o'neill discussed the issues raised by european 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 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 unfunny 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 it does classmates 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 go soft and the worry which is being described we have to her mind that it's just the vulnerable who are particularly fetching coded no i'm cheating under the

facts of the matter of the mass 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. refusing to let them work with little patience because i can see you are an awful awful noble and it's not discrimination is just protecting your patients that you work with and talking about the mandate of the vet the vaccine i think if we talk about any dividual 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 unfunny from what we know in the past that they're helping us examples of on t.v.

is 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 we've got we are not prepared to debate the issue of the sudden something outlandish. proved wrong what we really eat is a putatively get real go through promotions great tool decisions about what with all of the. vaccines will. be revealed that more than 50 big american companies including fedex and nike managed to dodge paying federal corporate income tax in the last fiscal year now the mid widespread job losses blamed on the pandemic on the scale of more than looks at 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 and 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 in 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 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 the candidate and to parties and by paying these

armies and not be used. 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 28 percent . with the 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. story of the detainee he's widely regarded as the most tortured manning one tonne of a bay is depicted in the hollywood film the mauritanian and didn't days episode of going underground ashim a tons of a chance to speak to the director of that maybe and the lawyer of mohammed an old

slow. he was held in the notorious prison for 14 years without charge arrested in the mauritania by u.s. forces following the 911 attacks mr sly he was accused of being an al qaeda member the film is based on his diary that was published in january 25th in which acts exposed the horrors of life in the detention center for the interview can be watched on r.t. across the day for now 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 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 for whatever 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 god 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's tooled 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 same today i'm completely absent from any responsibility that there's no getting away from the fact that he continued to use the policies of his greatest us. 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 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 to give him citizenship and allow them to allow him to travel he's a free man he should be allowed to travel. still an islamic state terrorist group has had control of a key town advise them think for over a week but the community doesn't seem to bother to after the break. the world is driven by a dream shaped by. the

day or thinks. we fear to ask. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. and spearing dramatic developments only. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

welcome back not just under 3 months after the shock siege of the u.s. capitol building a car running outside the building is left d.c. on the bank foot with one police officer killed and another in hospital security most has been ratcheted up again in the wake of this attack the suspect in this occasion was shot dead after stepping out of the vehicle in brandishing a knife the officer who died in the attack has been identified as william the capital policeman of 18 years president biden sent his heartfelt condolences to the officers family pentagon analyst michael maloof says the latest incident will result in an even larger security presence in washington d.c. and 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 specially 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 capital area especially on capitol hill and the vulnerability of congressmen and senators are 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 that it sees that the more than a week and has led to dozens of victims a mass exodus an interruption of french energy project that the international community seems to be doing very little to help beyond making statements suggesting

africa's not a priority for major powers police later 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 and 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 go back to palma i don't believe there will be peace there that we will be able to leave there the way we used to. be open our people were killed on the beach where i was some minister on the way but other state 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 offshore discovery of one of

the largest natural gas fields in africa francis. 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 my misled me state attacking was a big in fact they have actually taken control of. the port which is a key port for regional trait in the region so let me state presence in mozambique not longer. it is huge it is destructive and it is dangerous i don't really believe that. we've known this was 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 team just stopped africa. this week arkansas became the 1st u.s. state to pass a bill that made it illegal for doctors to provide gender affirming health care to transgender mind as civil rights activists were quick to slam the law as being unconstitutional and violating human rights artes to me 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 mad to mad 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 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 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 to 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

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