headline story. in europe. also ahead in the program with millions of americans losing their jobs and small businesses shuttered during the. country's biggest companies paid no federal tax last year. and current hollywood release them are a teeny and depicts the story of the man widely regarded as. a. lawyer. who is new evidence that.

there is always pressure. more. just after midnight in sofia in an right here in moscow this sunday april 4th welcome to the news hour on r.t. easter weekend in europe things aren't looking too festive germany introduced strict nighttime curfews in several states. booze and public spaces to slow the spread of virus well that comes as some other e.u. states have announced a partial closure all together all of vaccination centers over the holiday charlotte can tell us more. again there is in the 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 weekend vaccination so we must all vaccinations centers that are opened across the country fully vaccinated that cool came as the world health organization criticize 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 haven't stuck now but as europe celebrates the spring holidays the inoculation rate at least in some regions is actually growing to a standstill in madrid spain vaccinations have actually been

a whole team 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 leaders 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 the usual stereotype of truman 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 also energy to refrain from all known urgent travel and that we are all consistent the fall all the rules here in france is a new nationwide lockdown begins many getting ready to upscale and 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 for weeks or you do not go but for those hoping to take advantage of the noise so whether with tourist quench or where drinking alcohol outside in public spaces or even the parks has become the latest. it's 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. while in the hard hit parisians suburb of. doctors are struggling to find enough intensive care beds for patients. 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 negative the situation is grave sense sunny is the poorest region in mainland france about 800 kroner virus cases per 100000 people that's more than twice the national average there's also been reports that teachers are walking due to the high number

of infections in school. meanwhile yet another locked and gathering in a park in the belgian capital has been dispersed by mounted police. water cannon was also want to put a damper on the events while riot officers broke up groups of strikers in the name of social distancing no you might remember a few days ago fellows in brussels turned out for what was billed as an anti lockdown concert though they get sold turned out to be an april fool's joke by frank's trash. out of. a sting in europe a prominent psychiatry has been detained in serbia for allegedly spreading anti vaccine propaganda you have. also leads a small right wing party is one of several people being questioned in a government crackdown officials accuse them of creating fear in public and putting

lives at rose bowl the perpetrators of criminal acts must be dealt with especially when they threaten public health. serbia has the 3rd highest vaccination rates in europe with more than 2300000 citizens having received at least a for shots other european countries are trying to pick up the pace with italy becoming the 1st to introduce the controversial really measure of compulsory jobs for health workers the u.k. has introduced mum to 3 jobs as well but so far only for care homes the earlier i discuss the issues raised by groups vaccination rollouts 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 terribly if anything else is working and in full put all these 3 things together for me i think

it is really important i think 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 phosphorescence who think there will be a company who traces are going to be going to try strasse who are really discriminates against our staff and which is being described we have to burn my own book it's just the vulnerable who are politically. coded no i would say to. 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 seems to have because of police not taking taxi ins. we've let them

work with little patience because actually honestly all vulnerable 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 an individual level and 20 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 mean. easels being one such example considering we're in the middle of a pandemic does there's more need to be done to counter the more extreme versions of of these protesters whoa of course repeats what exactly are the roots.

are obvious to produce we've got we are not prepared to debate the issue or some of these photos from throughout round goes through proved wrong what we really need is a tool to be good and go through promotions great tool decisions are. the true nancy but it seems. it has been revealed that over 50 big american companies including seals force and nike paid 0 in federal corporate income taxes in the last fiscal year is admitted widespread job losses blamed on the pun demick artie's killed my pienaar 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 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 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 many to be more lobbyists in washington then there are shedding tears and congressmen and women you know the wordage the jayanti of people working on legislation in the capital of washington d.c. are paid agents of large corporations so you see 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 whole tax problem a bit of the theatre 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 artsy new york. the story of the detainee who is widely regarded as the most tortured man in kuantan the movie bay is the pick to in the hollywood film the mauritanian know in today's episode of going underground auction returns he speaks to the director of the movie. the lawyer mamadou slahi who was held in the tourist prison for 14 years without charge arrested in mauritania by u.s. forces following the 911 attacks mr sly was accused of being an al qaeda member the

film is based on his diary published in january 25th which exposed the harbor's of life in the detention center the full interview can be watched on r.t. throughout the day but here's a quick teaser. you want to represent the head recruiter for 911 constitution doesn't have an asterisk 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 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 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 clinton 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 mamadou or nancy i think some people. would like to see obama the same today i'm completely i'm still not from any responsibility that you didn't get away from the fact that he continued he continued to use the policies of history just this. how did that feel after winning and then as far mamadou today i understand he cannot easily travel is a kind of prisoner today well he is a kind of prisoner he 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. this is our to international still ahead the islamic state terror group had control of a key talent in mozambique for over a week but the international community seems not overly bothered or enough of the prick. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person or those with. the day or thinks. we dare to ask.

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withdrawal all its stuff from mozambique as the african nation faces a terror campaign p s law mixtape group all in control of a key target sees there over a week ago fatalities among civilians have been mounting the un world food program mourns that almost a 1000000 people in mozambique require food aid because of the crisis but the international community is seemingly reluctant to help authorities policy takes us through. 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 and to hitting 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 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 peace there that we'll be able to leave there the way we used to. do 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. 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 the gap came to speak 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 their politics this was not the 1st time that we have seen my misled me state i 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. 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. this is something that should have been done in this very little more than 2 years ago. but the response so far. 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 johannesburg south africa. a controversial russian blogger and prankster has found himself at the center of a criminal investigation after his alleged reckless driving in central moscow led

to a head on crash. can tell us more about the. 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 is on the wrong side of the law and he has 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'd been me behind the wheel i arrived here just now it's

indeed my car i lent it to friend who ended up in the crash i don't know what happened and now you assaulting me with the cameras of new clue what happened. you were driving your own car is that correct no do you behind the wheel i don't really know don't know what whether you go behind lou will know i was behind the wheel moscow authorities claim that his car violated the city's speed limit at least 400 times this year alone the blogger faces 2 years behind bars and awaits trial at home though with some limitations he's 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 he is very worst of all about what happened and he's ready to pay compensation to everyone

affected by the accident. argentina's president to fernandez has tested positive for coronavirus but has said he's feeling well and in good spirits it comes despite the nation's leader being received the cobra job in february or sorties polish correspondent ricardo. president alberto for numbers has tested positive for covert 19 he turned 62 on friday who noticed some symptoms including a temperature above 37 degrees and a headache the head of state needs to stay in isolation as do those who were in contact with him in the last 48 hours the president's partner fabiola yammers also took the covert test but the result was negative now the president himself is optimistic and doesn't have any grave symptoms he was earlier vaccinated with the russian sputnik very short he received the 1st dose in january and the 2nd one in

february he's now waiting for the results of a 2nd test to see if they confirm the initial diagnosis in argentina the number of daily coronavirus cases has increased to around $15000.00 almost the same as during the peak of the pandemic in october russia's only institute which developed the sputnik the vaccine reacted to the president's illness saying that its job is over 91 percent effective adding that even if affection does occur in the shot also ensures mild. speedy recovery. high level figures have been arrested in jordan over alleged plot to unseat king abdullah the 2nd members of the royal high swords are reportedly among those in custody including the former crime prince who is there reading mark's half brother 20 more people are also reported to have been detained jordanian officials however are denying that the extra in prince was arrested.

police officers have been injured 26 people were arrested at a. protest in london. the bill would have. the right to limit demonstrations which. other major cities across. a historic procession. through the center of cairo. transported the country's national museum. of egyptian civilization. just. being transported where more than. a credible well for

a deeper dive into any of this our stories. are website always fresh content. 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. again at the risk of no no rush cross though i put a stop yes it got. going things on their way. back home but i can merican suffered from racism and a complete lack of prospects. the real. one by elsa store on her 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 were too through during the night. around the crowd. to move a golf you know gone to school. you. know almost a 100 years later the history is repeating itself my great grandfather george time went through russia. probably the worst time to go anywhere why not me. when i come here. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy glue foundation let it be an arms race is often spearing dramatic development the only place really engage and desist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very.