a not so happy easter in europe e.u. states expire and. others announce the partial closure of vaccination centers. millions of americans losing their jobs and small businesses shuttered during the time it's revealed that some of the country's biggest companies paid no federal tax last year. the hollywood film of the mauretania the story of the man widely regarded to be the most tortured detainee in guantanamo bay party talks the director of the film and prisoners noir. there was no evidence of julius still to this day means you know riverdance tool against. terrorism ways pressure cases in more.

live from moscow thanks so much for joining us today here on r.t. international and daniel welcome to this. easter comes round again into europe but it's not looking too festive germany's introduced strict use in several states while france has banned booze in public spaces to slow the spread of the coronavirus that comes as some states in the e.u. have announced the partial closure of vaccination centers over the easter weekend charlotte has the latest. after an agonizingly slow start to the vaccination campaign it was supposed to be finally 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 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 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. 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 also known as you to refrain from all non urgent travel and that we all consist in the fall all the rules here in france is a new nationwide lockdown begins many getting ready to abscond with the city's 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 for those hoping to take advantage of the noise so whether with 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.

paris. suburb of song don't need doctors are struggling to find enough intensive care beds for their patients. we are being overwhelmed with cases serious cases are intensive care unit is almost full the flow of patients increases every day there are more positive tests negative the situation is grave. on the knees the poorest region in mainland france and has about 800 coronavirus cases per 100000 people that's more than twice the national average and there have also been reports that teachers are working out due to the high number of infections in schools across the border and he looked on gathering in a park in the bells and capital was dispersed by the mounted police. water kind and were also unleashed to put a damper on the events while riot officers broke up roots of strugglers in the name of social distancing

a few days ago thousands in brussels turned out for what was billed as an anti lock down concert itself turn out to be an april fools day joke. i mean while a prominent has been detained in serbia for allegedly spreading propaganda. 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 pap changes have criminal acts must be dealt with especially when they threaten public health. has the 3rd highest vaccination rate in europe with more than 2300000 citizens receiving at least a 1st shot other european countries are trying to pick up the pace with italy becoming the 1st to introduce compulsory jobs for health workers the u.k. too has introduced monetary jobs but so far only for care home staff of a colleague you know neil discussed 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 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 phosphorescence who are and or i think there will be a number who are going to be going to show stripes who are really just going to go staff and which is being described we have to earn my own just the vote liberal who are which are actually kind of no i don't see the facts of

the mantra 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 back scenes or have there's a police about taking taxi ins. we've let them work with a little patience because actually on a school are vulnerable and 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 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 an individual level and 20 from what we know in the past that there help in numerous 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 does more need to be done to counter the more extreme versions of of these protesters whoa of course really what exactly are the roots. are obvious to produce. are not purchased to debate the issue of these photos from throughout ground goes through proved wrong what we really need is a tool to be good and go through promotions great tool decisions are probably true nancy but it seems. now it's been revealed that over 50 big american companies including fed ex and 90 minutes the dogs are paying any federal corporate taxes income taxes in the office call year the midwives for a job losses blamed on the pandemic artie's caleb maupin looks at how the us system appears to favor the wealthy. 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 fedex and nike after deduction exemptions they ended up paying net 0 but they were supposed to pay $8500000000.00 for the 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 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 many to be more lobbyists in washington then there are shedding tears and congressmen and women you know the words of 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 candidly 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 . 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 theater 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 caleb up and artsy new york. of the story of the detainees whose water regarded as the most tortured man in guantanamo bay is the pick sit in the hollywood film the mauritanian and today's episode of going on the ground afshin rattansi speaks to the director of the movie and the lawyer of muhammad to slow. he was held in the notorious prison for 14

years without charge or arrested in the u.s. forces following 911 attacks with this law he was accused of being an al qaeda member the film is based on his diary published in january 2015 which exposed the horrors of life in the detention center and the full interview can be watched on r.t. throughout the day here's a quick preview. you want to represent the head recruiter for 911 constitution doesn't have an asterisk yet. they kidnap me from my house probably here in 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 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 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 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 this still to this day remains no evidence at all against clinton 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 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's tooled 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 i'm completely absent from any responsibility that you just need to get away from the saying that he needed to continue to use the policies of his greatest us. how did that feel after winning and then as firm i would do 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 us made with mauritania they wouldn't give him the 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 ahead the islamic state terror group us have control of a key town in mozambique for over a week international community that seems a little ball it's more that on the bright.

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of the program or less than 3 months after the shock siege of the u.s. capitol a car driving outside the building is left washington reeling with one police officer dead and another in hospital security has been rushed up again in the wake of the attack the suspect was shot dead after stepping out of his vehicle on brandishing a knife the officer who died in the attack has been identified as william evans a capitol police one of 18 years president joe biden has sent his heartfelt condolences to the officers family former 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 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 they're going to maintain security for an indefinite period of time. for the shot and is your company into tal has withdrawn all its stuff from mozambique as the country faces a terror campaign with the islamic state group holding control of a key town it sees that over one week ago this is known to dozens of victims now the u.n. world food program warns that almost

a 1000000 people in mozambique require food aid because of the crisis the international community though is doing little to help beyond making statements that suggest that africa is not a priority for major powers auntie's poulos lee a report. i'm here in downtown johannesburg where buses heading to mozambique me 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 rebels 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 that we had at the hotel which was besieged by militants after 4 days without eating we decided to leave and 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 peace there that we'll 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 others stayed and militants took women boys and children with them. 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 help of

the gas industry with billions of dollars following be sure just cover we want to be the largest natural gas fields in africa francisco told which aids the multi-billion dollar gas project to me area earlier the same didn't work because of the politics this was not the 1st time that we've seen one this state was on big in fact they have actually taken control of. the port which is a key port for region i treat in the region so. presence in mozambique not longer. 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 countries of the u.n. will have to assist in and this is something that should have been done in this very little bit 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 r.t. . stop africa. a controversial russian blogger and prankster follow self at the center of a criminal investigation after his alleged driver going to central moscow road led to a head on crash artes are on course that of has more details. edward bill is a video blogger with more than 4000000 subscribers on his you tube channel in fact it's about 4.3 at the moment and say he is known for recording pranks where he

threatens and insults people in various situations but said now he's on the wrong side of the law and he's been charged with causing a multiple car pileup in the central moscow according to c.c.t.v. footage his car suddenly switch lanes and drove into oncoming traffic one woman was seriously injured and she is now in a coma in the immediate aftermath edward bill said that he was not at the wheel of the time of the accident but later changed his tune and admitted his guilt is what you threw me as if it had been a behind the wheel i arrived here just now it's indeed my car i lent it to a friend who ended up in a crash i don't know what happened and now you assaulting me with the cameras of new clue what happened you were driving your car is that correct no do you behind the wheel i don't really know don't know what whether you go behind you will know i

was behind the wheel moscow authorities claim that his car violated the city's speed limit at least $400.00 times this year alone the blogger faces 2 years behind bars and awaits trial at home though with some limitations he is under a nightly curfew and he's been prohibited from using the internet and calling people on his telephone however representatives of the people affected by his actions don't agree with the limited curfew imposed on edward bill and they have asked authorities to place him under house arrest now edward bill said that say he is very more full about what happened and he's ready to pay compensation to everyone affected by the accident. this week talking so became the 1st us face of possibile making it illegal for doctors to provide gender affirming health care to transgender children civil rights activists were quick to slam below as

unconstitutional and violating human rights used to be 3 poke 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 arkansas legislates a seemly have nothing better to do during a global pandemic an economic meltdown than to pass hateful discriminatory laws denying health care its people trans rights a human rights trance kids are under attack across the country arkansas has just banned 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 benevolent corporations and celebrities the cause a report next examining the signs of a buckling global economy and for u.k. views the documentary shuttle follows up on african-americans who moved to the soviet union to escape discrimination back home we were taught and often with the latest to join us again but.