Is that time of the day again time for R T International donald quarter with you here in the studio welcome to the program. The easter weekend isnt proving to be a time for much celebration in Europe Germany has introduced strict nighttime curfews in several states while france has banned alcohol in public spaces to slow the spread of coded it comes as some other states have announced a partial closure of Vaccine Centers over the holiday as charlotte drew 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 theres no bank holiday theres no weekends vaccination so we must all Vaccination Centers that are open across the country fully vaccinated that cool came as the World Health Organization criticised 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 have in stock 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 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 thats ok because its 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 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 getting ready to obscure and rolled 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 nicer weather with tourist quencher believes where Drinking Alcohol outside in public spaces or even the parks has become the latest pope are no longer allowed tighter controls will also be in place with authorities clamping down on groups of more than 6 measures put in place as france struggles to get a grip on rising infection rates for many in europe it was hoped that this weekend would be a bit of a break from the monotony of prove it instead the virus continues to be the Biggest Party pooper in. Charlotte even ski r. T. Paris. While in the hard hit parisian suburb of doctors are struggling to find enough intensive care beds for their patients. Being overwhelmed with cases serious could be 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 sense and denny is mainland france is poorest region and has about 800 coronavirus cases per 100000 people thats more than twice the National Average 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 events 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 what was billed as an anti lockdown concert where 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 with the pap strangest of criminal acts must be dealt with especially when they threaten Public Health serbia has the 3rd largest 3rd highest vaccination rate in europe with more than 2300000. 00 citizens having received at least a 1st shot of the european other European Countries are trying to pick up the pace with italy becoming the 1st to introduce the controversial measure of cotton paul series shots for Health Workers the u. K. Is also introduced mandatory vaccines but so far only 4 care home staff earlier my colleague you know neal 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 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 take 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 firstly phosphorescence rule or i think there will be a number who traces are going to be going to try stross who are really discriminates against softening in the lorry which is being described we have to her mind that its just the vulnerable who are particularly are actually kind of you know im cheating under the facts of the amounts 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 or 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 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 havent 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 theyre 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 whoa of course repeats what exactly are the root servers here are obvious to produce. Are not prepared to debate the issue of the sending somebody out ram goes through proved wrong what we really need is a 2 to be getting the flu promotions right tool decisions are out. Of the. Balance of the United States its 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 thats amid widespread job losses blamed on the pandemic parties killam up and looks at how the us system appears to favor 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 many be more lobbyists in washington then there are senators 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 a candidate and 2 parties and by paying 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. But theyre 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 americas 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 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. Story of the detainee considered the most tortured man in Guantanamo Bay is depicted in the new hollywood movie the map of 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 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 our teeth throughout the day but heres a quick teaser. You want to represent the head recruiter for 911 constitution doesnt have an asterisk at the end. They kidnap me from my house probably 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 dont know for you to drop the case all through well that there is always pressure against cases in more in guantanamo 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 there were grounds for the us authorities to. Lock him up my understanding from talking to nancy talking to your cat shoes the letter the prosecution lawyer for the government in america that everybody else is that there are playing to the stories there were new grounds for having him there there were suspicions and he was still a to satiate 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 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. Id like to see obama the same to vomit im completely im still not from any responsibility that the youth is getting away from the fact that if he continues to continue to the policies of history just this. 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 didnt get a passport for 3 years after he got out that was the deal the u. S. Made with mauritania they wouldnt 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 hes a free man he should be allowed to travel. And avenues French Energy Company Total has withdrawn its personnel from mozambique as the african nation faces a Terror Campaign with the Islamic State group polled in control of a key town it sees there over a week ago fatalities 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 the crisis but the International Community is seemingly reluctant to help as arties paula slayer explains. And here in downtown johannesburg both of heading to mozambique me from last week insurgents affiliated with Islamic State launched a raid on the northernmost big town of palma ransacking buildings and murdering a beheading civilians. The latest attack is the biggest escalation by flemister wearables who have been waiting villages in 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. 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 cant go back to palma i dont believe there will be pleased there that well be able to leave there the way we used to. Ok lets not the 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. That limo 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 the full discovery of wanna be the largest natural gas fields in africa francis. Oh told which paid for the multibillion dollar gas project to me here we have only the same didnt work because of a political discourse no difference time that weve 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. Weve 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 its a world 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 assist in and this is something that should have been done in this very little bit more than 2 years ago. But the response so 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. South africa. A controversial russian blogger and prankster has found himself at the center of a criminal investigation after his allegedly reckless driving in central moscow led to a head on crash parties 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 so 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 is what you threw me as if itd been me behind the wheel i arrived here just now its indeed my car i lent it to friend who ended up in a crash i dont know what happens 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 dont really know dont know what whether you were behind you will know i was behind the wheel moscow authorities claim that his car violated the citys 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 hes under a nightly curfew and hes been prevented 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 to everyone affected by the accident. Argentinas president Alberto Fernandez has tested positive for the corona virus but he has said hes feeling well and in good spirits that comes despite the nations leader having received a vaccine in february heres 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 about 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 fabiola yen is also took 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 russian sputnik 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 in argentina the number of daily coronavirus cases has increased to around 15000 almost the same as during the peak of the pandemic in october russias gemmell a institute which developed the sputnik vaccine said its shot as more than 91 percent effective adding that even if an end. 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 heres arties dimitri pollack. The all knowing corporations and celebrities are at it again spreading their wisdom to us lowly humans who just dont 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 has just banned them from accessing health care this is ted to man to my kids who will tell us who they are its our job to support them not demonize or harm them dont bother looking any of this up though because these people who are saying this have definitely done their research theyve weighed the pros and the cons of this bill and have come to the undeniable conclusion that this bill is really bad just retreat spread the message and enjoy the feeling of moral superiority but if for some reason you decide to look past the veil of vacuous virtue signaling you might discover that theres 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 thats 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 whos to stop them and the people who will be calling that arent necessarily the ones who have gone through the treatments or lives with the consequences no theyre the will 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 havent found themselves. To be any happier while others are suing the clinics that encourage them as teenagers to change their gender basically equating its 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 dont seem to be affected at all by any of the procedures so whats the solution well politicizing virtue signaling and mutilating kids dont 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 dont tell a person who believes that hes 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 thats exactly the path that these kids are being pushed on by these always vulcan benevolent corporations and celebrities. Now on to some other news in brief several top ranking figures have been arrested in jordan over an alleged coup plot against king abdulla 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 now jordanian officials do deny the x. Crown prince having been 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. As a 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 egypt and civilization the ceremony called the golden parade of the pharaohs began just after sunset some of the money some of the mummies being transported in climate controlled cases were more than 3000 years old. Was your world news stories for this hour ill be back with your world News Headlines in just about 30 minutes so stay tuned. For. A. Little while ago 2 worlds apart there is a scene here in russia that whenever you start to get there at least. A testament clearly borne out by the late