a not so happy easter in europe as some states expand covert curbs while others announce the partial closure of vaccine centers. 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 taxes last year. and a new hollywood movie the mauritanian depicts the story of the man considered the most tortured detainee at guantanamo bay r.t. talks to the prisoners lawyer and the director of the film. do is new evidence a tool is still to this day means no remittance tool against one. and there is always pressure against cases in more in guantanamo.

wherever you are in the world it's time now for our to international quarter with you here 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 a nighttime curfews in several states while france has banned alcohol altogether in public places to stop that to slow the spread of cove it comes as some other east states have announced a partial closure of vaccine centers over the holiday as charlotte dubinsky reports . off and i get the rise in the 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 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 when my 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 vaccinations 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 now is covered $900.00 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 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 getting ready to upscale and rolled with the city's a sort of weekend truce is being allowed for people to get away for the break but the 2 came with this warning either you go for 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 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. while in the hard hit parisian suburb of sense and danny doctors are struggling to find enough intensive care beds for their patients. being overwhelmed with cases serious cases are intensive care units is almost fool the flow of patients increases every day there are more positive tests negative the situation is grave since and any is mainland france is poorest region and has about 800 coronavirus cases per 100000 people that's more than twice the national average there are also been reports of teachers walking out due to high numbers 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 events while riot police officers broke up groups of stragglers in the name of social distancing a few days ago in brussels turned out for what was billed as an anti lock down call insert of the gig itself turned out to be an april fool's joke by unknown pranksters. a prominent psychiatry just as one of several people detained in serbia for allegedly spreading anti vaccine propaganda officials accuse them of creating fear and panic and putting lives at risk all the pap strangest of criminal acts must be dealt with especially when they threaten public health survey has the 3rd highest vaccination rate in europe with more than 2300000 citizens having received at least a 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 and u.k. has also introduced a mandatory vaccines but so far only for care home staff earlier my colleague you know neil discussed the issue 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 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 firstly phosphorescence rule or i think there will be a company who traces are going to be going to show

a strong us who are really discriminates against softening in the lorry which is being described we have to burn mine that it's just the vulnerable who are politically perplexing kind of know i'm cheating under the facts of the mantra 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 the police not taking taxi ins. i refused and said let them work with a little patience because actually on. is not discrimination is just protection of patients that you work with and talking about demand data off 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 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 numerous 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 repeats what exactly. the root servers are obvious to produce we. are not prepared to debate the issue or somebody sending something out ram goes sure. proved wrong what we really eat is a tool to be getting the flu promotions right tool decisions or our rep with all of the. vaccines going. now it's 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 job losses blamed on the pandemic artie's killam up 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 fedex 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 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 wordage 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 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 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.

the story of the detainee considered the most tortured man in guantanamo bay is depicted in the new hollywood movie the mauritanian and the latest episode of going underground features an interview with its director and the lawyer of the man who was held in the notorious. prison for 14 years without charges arrested in mauritania 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 art 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 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 dogs because you've been through this incredible and sometimes harrowing journey and you think you're coming out the other side because there's been this courtroom victory. and then the ravi schooled for monday you and you get a small sense of what it must have been like to be a mum a day or nancy i think some people. would like to see obama the same to vomit completely absent from any responsibility that this is getting away from the fact that if he continued to continue to use the policies of his treatises. how did that feel after winning and then as mama 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 u.s. 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 the give him citizenship and allow them to allow him to travel he's a free man he should be allowed to travel. 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 they tallies among civilians have been mounting and the u.n. world food program warns that almost

a 1000000 people in mozambique require food aid because of this crisis the international community is seemingly reluctant to help as artie's paulus lior explains. 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 and be 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 i get it for 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 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 killed just because we don't want to be the largest natural gas fields in africa francisco told which paid for the multi-billion dollar gas project in the area earlier the same didn't work because of the political discourse 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 i treat in the region so let me state 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. this is something that should have been done in this very group and more than 2 years ago. but the response so far has been. 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 with more here's artie's rahman courser of. 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'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 go driving 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 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. argentinians pret argentina's president alberto fernandez has tested positive for the corona virus but he said he is feeling well and in good spirits it comes to spite the nation's leader having received a vaccine in february here's our spanish correspondent ricardo romero. president of

the birth of a numbers has tested positive for covert 19 he turned 62 on friday who noticed some symptoms including a temperature above 37 degrees and the headache the head of state needs to stay in isolation as do those who were in contact with him in the last 48 i was the president's partner from beyond the yen is 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 those 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 corona virus 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 vaccine says it shot as more than 91 percent effective adding that even if an

infection does occur the shots also ensure mild symptoms and a speedy recovery. this week arkansas became the 1st u.s. state to pass a bill making it illegal for doctors to provide gender affirming health care to transgender minors civil rights activists were quick to slam the move as unconstitutional and violating human rights artie's dimitri gave us his take. 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 supposed hateful discriminatory laws denying health care to people trans rights a human rights trance kids are under attack across the country arkansas' 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 that 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 well 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 gen y. well because sooner or later reality will come crashing around him and when that happens they will be left alone confused abused probably suicidal and that's exactly the path that these kids are being pushed on by these always vulcan benevolent corporations and celebrities. not some other news in brief 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 while jordanian officials are denying the x. crown prince was arrested however he has now published a video claiming to be currently under house arrest. at least 10 police officers have been injured and $26.00 people arrested at the kill the bill protest in london clashes broke out during a 1000 strong rally outside parliament the bill if made into law would hand 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 the 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 egyptian civilization the ceremony called the golden

parade of the pharaohs began just after sunset some of the mummies being transported in climate controlled cases were more than 3000 years old. now if you like those stories you can find more details on our website at r.t. dot com or you can follow us on your favorite social media platform i'll be back with more news in just about 30 minutes so stay tuned. welcome to redacted tonight this is the show where americans in america covering american news are called foreign agents december 22nd 1963 exactly.