Wherever you are in the world its time for our to International Law donald quarter with you here in the studio welcome to the program. Now the easter weekend isnt proving to be much of a time for celebration in Europe Germany has introduced strict nighttime curfews in several states while france has banned alcohol in Public Places to slow the spread of covert it comes as some other e. U. 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 early picking up speed of exodus from the completeness from the facts the nation is a National Priority theres no bank holiday theres 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 europes 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 havent 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 thats in direct opposition to calls from the countrys Health Minister who has demanded that they keep the ruling out the jobs now in germany to some states shutting up shop prompting anger and mockery at the sluggish rollout some Vaccination Centers in germany are going to be shot over the easter weekend but thats ok because its 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 doesnt have holidays were 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 shes. 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 as you to refrain from all non urgent travel and that we all consist in the fall all the rules herein francaise a new nation wide lockdown begins many are getting ready to abscond with the citys a sort of weekend truce is being allowed for people to get away for the break but the 2 came with this warning either you go for weeks or you do not go but the boy is hoping to take advantage of the noise so whether with a tourist quencher believes where Drinking Alcohol outside in public spaces or even the parks has become the latest. Its 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. Harris. While in the hard hit prison suburb of. Doctors are struggling to find enough intensive care beds for patients. We are being overwhelmed with cases serious cases are intensive care units is almost full the flow of patients increases every day there are more positive tests negative the situation is grave since a denny is mainland france is poorest region and has about 800 coronavirus cases per 100000 people that is more than twice the National Average ever 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 unleased to put a damper on the event while riot police broke up groups of stragglers in the name of social distancing a few days ago thousands of brussels turned out for what was billed as an anti lockdown concert though the gig itself turned out to be an april fools joke by unknown pranksters. A prominent psychiatrist is 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 serbia has the 3rd highest vaccination rate in europe with more than 2300000 citizens having received at least a 1st shot of the 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 u. K. Has introduced mandatory vaccines as well but so far only for care home workers and earlier my colleague union oneill discuss the issues raised by europes 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 of either 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 its the right thing to do business it no i dont agree mostly dance class and School Room Door i think there will be a company who traces are going to be going to try stross who are really discriminates against our staff and which is being described we have to burn my own just the vulnerable who are particularly perplexing why currently no i dont see. 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 its not discrimination and if they refuse to take back scenes who have because of police not taking vaccines. Weve let them work with little patients because actually on a hospital vulnerable is not discrimination is Just Protection of patients that you work with and talking about the mandate to offer them 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 havent 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 theyre helping us examples of on t. V. Is being blamed for the resurgence of preventable diseases misa. Being one such example considering were 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 repeat what exactly. The root servers are obvious to produce we. Are not prepared to debate the issue or somebody sending something out ram goes through to meet proved wrong what we really need is who to be getting the flu promotions right tool decisions are out. Of the treasury bonds. And other news its been revealed that over 50 Big American Companies including sales force and nike paid 0 in federal Corporate Income taxes in the last fiscal year thats made a widespread job losses blamed on the pandemic arties kaleb up and looks at how the us system appears to be favoring the rich. Paycheck to paycheck thats how more than half of been living especially since the pandemic and theyre 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 quite a big difference sounds like a joke especially for americas 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 its the right time especially that were in a pandemic and Small Businesses and weve done enough to to survive this pandemic and i mean its a troubling time for everyone now and then for people to tax Small Business owners who are a struggling b. Are fact finding creative ways to stay in business over the last 40 years that is roughly since 1000 a. D. 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 shaded areas and congressmen and women in other words 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 a candidate and 2 parties and by pain these armies of not be used. They have the influence to make sure that the tax system favors that but dont 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 heres the deal were going to raise the Corporate Tax it was 35 percent which is too high we all agreed 5 years ago it should go down to 28 percent. With the reduced to 21 percent raise it back to be 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 americas 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 dont have to pay high rates of taxation if the United States has tax rates higher than other countries theyll move their profits to other countries some observers say that the biden planned attacks corporations is just a farce and they dont 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 the latest episode of going underground features an interview with its director and the lawyer of the man who was held in the no. Tory is 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 our t. V. Throughout the day but heres a quick teaser. You want to represent the head recruiter for 911 constitution doesnt 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 dont 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 shes 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 whatever that is 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 else is that there are the whole point of this story is 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 the 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 doesnt happen in an innocent man narrative plot to a film thats a terrible twist on the end of the movie and we shouldnt really be giving it away its actually the part that more people have said to me oh my dogs because youve been through this incredible and sometimes harrowing journey and you think youre coming out the other side because theres 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 mamadou or nancy i think some people. Would like to see obama the same today im completely im still not from any responsibility that theres no getting away from the fact that if he continued to continue the policies of his treatises. How did that feel after winning and then as for mamadou today i understand he cannot easily travel is a kind of prisoner today well he is a kind of prisoner we didnt get a passport for 3 years after he got out that was the deal the us made with mauritania they wouldnt 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 hes a free man he should be allowed to travel. Still ahead of the Islamic State terror group has had control of a key town in mozambique for over a week now but the International Community seems not overly bothered or on that after the short break. And you know became the bottleneck is the politics peace your movement and you know full well you see that is a government who some left over for a week or 2 did this vision when he said action on this lead before is not to go like todays students socialists then they can copy at the least go socalled peace with the palestinians solution and between so you want about me and you know it those who say only that you know. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy for indication let it be an arms race is on offense very Dramatic Development only closely im going to resist i dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. 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 terror Group Holding control of a key town it seized 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 polis lior explains. Im here in downtown johannesburg where buses 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 go back to palma i dont believe there will be peace there that we will 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 the shortest path and we want to be the largest natural gas fields in Africa Francisco told which paid for the multibillion dollar gas project to me area earlier the same didnt work because of a political discourse no difference time that we have seen on the state 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. Presence in mozambique not long. It is huge it is destructive and it is dangerous to believe that. Weve 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 its a worldwide problem i think its something that the u. N. Will have to step into and i think its something that the countries of the u. N. Will have to. This is something that should have been done in this very little bit more than 2 years ago. But the response so far 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 stop 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 roman culture of has more. Edward bill is a video blogger with more than 4000000 subscribers on his you tube channel in fact its 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 hes on the wrong side of the law and hes 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 this is what you feel me me as if it had been me behind the wheel i arrived here just now its indeed my car i lent it to a friend who ended up in a crash i dont 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 know who you behind the wheel i dont really know dont know what whether you go behind you will know i was behind the wheel moscow authorities claim that his car violated the citys 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 hes been prohibited from using the internet and calling people on his phone however representatives of the people affected by his actions dont 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 hes ready to pay compensation everyone affected by the accident. Argentinas president Alberto Fernandez has tested positive for the corona virus but has said he is feeling well and in good spirits it comes despite the nations leader having received a vaccine in february heres our spanish correspondent ricardo romero. But if youre president of the birth of the 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 for the u. N. Is also the covert test but the result was negative now the president himself is optimistic and doesnt have any grave symptoms he was earlier vaccinated with the russians but in very short he received the 1st those in january and the 2nd one in february hes now waiting for the results of a 2nd test to see if they confirm the initial diagnosis. The number of day the coronavirus cases has increased to around 15000. 00 almost the same as during the peak of the pandemic in october russias Galileo Institute which developed the sputnik vaccine says its shot is more than 91 percent effective adding that even if infection does occur the shot also ensures mild symptoms and a speedy recovery. Several top ranking figures have been arrested in jordan after an alleged coup attempt 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 monarchs half brother 20 more people are also reported to have been detained but jordanian officials are denying the expert crown prince was arrested however hes 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 a 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 historic procession of egypts ancient rulers has passed through the center of cairo the mummies comprising of 18 kings and 4 queens were transported from the countrys National Museum to their new resting place at the museum of egypts civilization a 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. For more details on those news stories you can check out our website r. T. 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