a not so happy easter in europe some states expand curbs while others announce the partial closure of vaccine center. also with millions of americans losing their jobs and small businesses shattered during the pandemic it's revealed that some of the country's biggest companies paid no federal tax last year. and the new hollywood movie the mauritanian depicts the story of the man considered the most tortured detainee guantanamo bay r t talks to the prisoners lawyer and the director of the film. do is new evidence a tool that still to this day remains new evidence tool against one's enemy. there is always pressure against cases in more in guantanamo.

wherever you are in the world it's time for r.t. international quarter here with you in the studio welcome to the program. easter weekend isn't proving to be a time for much celebration in europe germany has introduced strict nighttime curfews in several states france has banned alcohol in public places to slow the spread of cove it comes as some other states have announced a partial closure of vaccine centers over the holiday as charlotte pinsky reports. 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 opened across the country fully vaccinated

that 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're 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 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 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 also energy to refrain from all known urgent travel and that we all consist in the fall all the rules here in france is

a new nationwide lockdown begins many are getting ready to upscale and rolled 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 to either you go for 4 weeks or you do not go but for those 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. 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 party paris. while in

the hard hit parisian suburb of sense and any doctors are struggling to find enough intensive care beds for their patients. being overwhelmed with cases serious could be 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 sense and denny is mainland france is poorest region and has about 800 corrupt coronavirus cases per 100000 people that's more than twice the national average and there have also been reports of teachers walking out due to the high number of infections in schools. meanwhile yet another large anti lock down gathering in the belgian capital has been dispersed by mounted police.

water cannons were also unleashed to put a damper on the event while 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 though the gig itself actually turned out to be an april fool's joke by unknown pranksters. a prominent psychiatrist as one of the several people detained in serbia for allegedly spreading anti vaccine propaganda officials accuse them of creating fear and panic and putting lives at risk with the pap strangest of criminal acts must be dealt with especially when they threaten public health so he has the 3rd largest vaccination rate in europe with more than 2300000 citizens having received at least the 1st shot other european countries are trying to pick up the pace with italy becoming the 1st to introduce the controversial measure of compulsory shots for health workers the u.k.

has also introduced mandatory vaccinations but so far only for care home staff earlier my 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 terribly if anything else is working and if will put all of these 3 things together for me i think it is really important and i think it is a cloud for one community responsibility that this vaccine would become a mandate for everybody who had the possibility to take 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 just classmates who are and or i think there will be a number who traces are going to be going to show stripes who are really

discriminates against our staff and which is being described we have to her mind that it's just the vulnerable who are politically. coded no i'm cheating i'm going the facts of the matter of the vast majority of the population actually do not need those facts nation know how to workers are actually sent home if they are symptomatic of any infection and it's not discrimination and if they refuse to take back seems to have because of police not taking taxi ins. i refuse instead let them work with little patience because actually on. is not discrimination is just protection of patients that you will quit and talking about the mandate of the the vaccine i think if we talk about a new digital person there might be still in fact after vaccination or can still transmit the infection but if this 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 unfunny from what we know in the past that they're helping us examples of on t.v. being blamed for the resurgence of preventable diseases measles being one such example considering where in the middle of a pandemic does this more need to be done to counter the more extreme versions of of these protesters well of course really what's. the root servers here are obvious to produce. are not prepared to debate the issue of the sudden somebody not rambos sure. proved wrong what we really eat is who to be getting the flu promotions right tool decisions about what with all of the. vaccines were. been revealed that over 50 big american companies including sales force and nike paid 0 dollars in federal corporate income taxes in

the last fiscal year that's made widespread job losses blamed on the pandemic as artie's kaleb mop and looks at how the us system appears to be favoring 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 be more lobbyists in washington then there are shedding tears 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 and not be used. they have the influence to make sure the tax system so 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. artsy new york. the story of the detainee considered the most tortured man in guantanamo bay is to

depicted in the new hollywood movie the mauritanian the latest going underground speaks to its director and the lawyer of the man who was held in the notorious prison for 14 years without charge arrested in morris. by u.s. forces following the 911 attacks mr slahi was accused of being an al qaeda member the movie is based on his diary published in 2015 which exposed the horrors of life in the detention center the full interview can be watched on our teeth throughout the day but here's a quick teaser. 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. 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's he's 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 has 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 is 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 rub is 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 sainted obama i'm completely i'm still not from any responsibility that there's no getting away from the fact that if he continues to continue the policies of his treatises. how did that feel after winning and then as for mamma do 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 had the islamic state terror group has had control of a town and mozambique for over a week but the international community seems not to be overly bothered more on that after the break. the wall street frauds going all the way back to the twenty's they're not different

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welcome back to the program now the french energy company total has withdrawn its personnel from mozambique as the african nation faces a terror campaign with the islamic state group holding control of a key town it sees there over a week ago fatalities among civilians have been mounting now the u.n. world food program warns that almost a 1000000 people in mozambique require food aid because of the crisis but the international community is seemingly reluctant to help as ortiz paul a slayer explains. 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 northern mozambique 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 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 a model that 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. ok let's not hurt people were killed on the beach where i was some minister on the way but others stayed and militants took women boys and children with them. among one night we heard gunshots so there was nothing else to do than flee into the woods and we spent 7 days there without anything to eat there were many children and no food. mostly because the hub of a gas industry with billions of dollars following the awful discovery of one to be the largest natural gas fields in africa francis. oh told which paid for the multi-billion dollar gas project to me every had only the same did work because of people that this was no difference time that we've seen on this let me state it was

a big in fact they have actually taken control of. the court which is a key port for region outreach into region so state prisons 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 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 more than 2 years ago. but the response so thought 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. a controversial russian blogger and prankster has found himself at the center of a criminal investigation after his a legit reckless driving in central moscow led to a head on crash archies roman kozyrev has more. 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 a crash i don't know what happened and now you assaulting me with the cameras of new clue what happened. you were driving is that correct no do you behind the wheel i don't really know don't know what whether you go behind who 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 prevented from using the internet and calling people on his phone 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 morsel about what happened and he's ready to pay compensation to everyone affected by the accident. argentina's president alberto fernandez has tested positive for the corona virus but has said he's feeling well and in good spirits there comes despite the nation's leader having received a vaccine in february here's our spanish correspondent ricardo romero. but if you're president of the birth of a numbers has tested positive for covert 9 soon he turned 62 on friday he noticed some symptoms including a temperature about 37 degrees and the headache the head of state needs to stay in isolation as do those who were in concert with him in the last 48 i was the president's partner from beyond the u.n.

is also 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 russians but in 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 day the coronavirus cases has increased to around 15000 almost the same as during the peak of the pandemic in october russia's galileo institute which developed the sputnik vaccine says it shot as more than 91 percent efficient now adding that even if infection does a core the shot also ensures mild symptoms and a speedy recovery. several top ranking figures have been arrested in jordan over an alleged coup plot against king abdullah the 2nd members of the royal household are reportedly among those in custody including the former crown

prince who is the reigning monarch's half brother 20 more people are also reported to have been detained a jordanian officials however are denying that the ex crown prince was arrested. at least 10 people at least 10 police officers have been injured and 26 people arrested at kill the bill protest in london clashes broke out during a 1000 strong rally outside the parliament the bill if made into law would hand the police the right to limit demonstrations which the activists see as an encroachment on their rights similar rallies have been held in other major cities across the u.k. as well. and a historic procession of egypt's ancient rulers has passed through the center of cairo the mummies comprising of 18 kings and 4 queens were transported from the country's national museum to their new resting place at the museum of egypt in civilization

a ceremony called the golden parade of the pharaohs began just after sunset some of the monies being transported in climate controlled cases were more than 3000 years old. for more on those stories make sure to check us out on our website r.t. dot com or on your favorite social media platform i'll be back with more news in just about 30 minutes and i hope to see you then. humanity has never seen such strange natural phenomena befall giant coming to his appearing in the peninsula. one off or another. was never about to

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if the farmers and 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 the 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.