what is true what is faith. in a world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. for a mate in the shallowness. a mere direct cord 3000000 world pandemic deaths of 5 is a huge turns and further hikes already the price is the e.u. code. meanwhile san marino plans a return to normality aiming to inoculate all citizens by next month with russia's close it job. the rear brakes give us a breath of fresh air and get us moving towards a sense of normality sputnik the has proved to be a winning george the several day that passes in recent weeks the number of interactions is decreasing. russia expels 20 czech diplomats in

a retaliatory moves after prague blamed moscow for huge ammunition ammunition blast 7 years ago and threw out 18 russian representatives. and raul castro announces he's stepping down as cuban leader the same day as a cia a cia assassination attempt is revealed. a very warm welcome to you from our team here in moscow you're watching r.t. international with me. now was kind of a desk pasta 3000000 at the weekend with a particularly disturbing 20 fold surge in new infections since last month in india meanwhile in europe a daily new cases have stabilized after a 3rd wave of inspections and u.s. pharmaceuticals giant pfizer has hike to e.u.

prices on future orders of its vaccine potentially sending the cost more than 60 percent higher to some $23.00 a dose it comes as brussels seeks a new short supply contract with the from next year r.t. saskia taylor has the details. you wouldn't think that big pharma and ethics go hand in hand but you clearly haven't and that pfizer if we were to implement a free open market principles in pricing the products we could go to huge prices and so everything we can manufacture but it would be unethical i think we will not do it's because that's really taking advantage of a situation and people will not forget if you do start it must've been hard that when the 3rd wave started coursing through europe more curfews and lock downs were announced hospitals were overrun and pfizer couldn't take advantage even though it's sitting on the thing they say is the only way out of vaccine but no that would be unethical the people will never forget turns out though pfizer doesn't really

care about people it cares about fresh dollar bills so it hiked its prices after all vaccines are very expensive this if human lives the yellow economies to reopen but we saw them at the price of a meal a very nice meal in a very nice restaurant after all fisons vaccine is the most expensive on the market and it can't start handing out discounts just because it's a once in a lifetime global pandemic some countries that who can't afford pfizer's prices but still want the citizens to live full well that's fine we'll just produce it ourselves while no because pfizer and co are not only lobbying the biden in this region to stop and low cost vaccine production to help out low income countries they even want those countries to be sanctioned are ethics but even for those who do have the cash purchasing pfizer is beginning to break the bank pfizer was 12

years then it became 15 new contracts are now being signed at a price of $19.00 points 50 euro and with the e.u. signing off on a future order of 900000000 doses those extra euros really add up but as pfizer well knows the block do. didn't really have a choice because brussels farts pick astra zeneca has become vaccine non-grata after it's linked to red blood clots at this point it would probably struggle to hand out its vaccine for free let alone charge for it johnson and johnson's hit the pause button over the same concern and the european medicine agency is not keen on approving any of the shots at the moment so the pfizer job stands as the sole savior all 12 no $1519.00 and a half years of it but if you don't count those 3 surprise a likely scenario is that there will be likely a need for somewhere between 6 and 12 months and then from the there will be an

annual leave our nation puts all of that needs to be confirmed a vaccine with 3 doses in the 1st year and a booster annually after that what a tidy little way to keep those billions coming in to hell with the corporation how would morality to hell with humanity you really have to hand it to pfizer even in a pandemic it's just another day another dollar meanwhile the tiny european country of san marino is enjoying a return to pre-code normality thanks to sputnik the schools museums and gyms have reopened as will cinemas and theaters on april 26th as the enclave is not a full member of the e.u. it was able to turn to russia for its fantasy sputniks he is currently under review by europe's medicine regulator meaning it cannot be deployed in member states till approved.

that. sherry is putting vegas proved to be a winning choice is every day that passes in recent weeks the number of injections is decreasing. 3 openings give us a breath of fresh air and get us moving towards a sense of normality without splitting v submariner would probably not have had these reopening so sued and it's set me helped with that and also because the e.u. agreements were failing to deliver the phase of vaccine to us thanks to the russian vaccine play able to move our reopening timetable for would.

the fact that. russia has declared 20 czech diplomats persona non-grata and a rising diplomatic spat is in response to prague expelling 18 russian representatives while accusing mosco of being behind a huge explosion it's an ammunition death back in 2014 the russian foreign ministry says it's an effort to distract attention from an alleged coup attempt in bello reuss. the accusations herb's surge especially as earlier the czech government laid the blame for the explosions at the door of the companies that. this hostile step is a continuation of a series of russian actions conducted over the last several years by the czech republic one cannot also fail to notice the american influence by trying to win washington's favor as the u.s.

imposes sanctions against russia the czech authorities have even outdone their american masters so many diplomats were forced to start packing their suitcases in recent days because of expulsions and counter expulsions 1st of all america ordered 10 russian diplomats to head back to russia moscow's response was then almost identical then poland announced a similar move but they're saying only targeted 3 people and then eventually we heard from the czech officials who announced that prague decided to expel 18 people working for the russian embassy that is even more than that then america originally chose to punish you understand that this is a very significant share of the embassy staff so you'd have to think that there must be a very serious reason for it well the czech authorities have accused this group of 8 saying of working as intelligence operatives and also blamed russia for being

behind a manger explosion at an ammunitions military warehouse in the czech countryside that happened 7 years ago and killed 2 people no confirmation of the cause has ever been released by the czech authorities it coincides with the decisions on diplomat expulsions by washington and warsaw that's not all by the czech republic either is it private is seeking some suspects in particular well you know and that is the interesting part because the people the suspects that checked. police are now looking for actually people with faces that you may find familiar these 2 were once accused by the k. of trying to poison the script balls in the united kingdom in 2018 so now when the authorities said that these 2 could be linked to that explosion

immediately their names and photos were back and international headlines but the russian foreign ministry though is saying that these announcements in these steps that are taken by the czech authorities could only be a deliberate attempt to somehow distract the attention of the media and the international community from another story which is now in the news here in eastern europe it looks like when it's actually supported by facts that the west need it to cover up the importance of the information published by both russia and belarus about not just a conspiracy but an actual plan for a constitutional clue we need to speak about it so a coup was allegedly being planned against the leader of the roost what more do we actually know about this this is a story apparently that was happening more or less some real taney as the russian federal security service has announced lately that they have detained 2 men one

with russian citizenship another one with dual citizenship del roofs and the u.s. detention happened in moscow and these 2 are believed to have been plotting a coup in bella ruse by attempting to assassinate the ball russian president alexander lukashenko and possibly even members of his family during victory day celebrations that are upcoming the bell russian president almost instantly blamed the u.s. for it for orchestrating this attempt but washington has denied any involvement now. you may wonder what does frog have to do with all this what we have to understand that the czech republic is a close u.s. ally in eastern europe it's a member of nato not with a central role but still and russian officials very often have blamed washington for using some eastern european countries the czech republic in particular house

puppets of the assumption by the russian foreign ministry is that washington could be pressuring these countries into making political moves against russia to demonize it so that is the message coming out of moscow in the meantime the u.s. state department has already said that they are expressing full support for the move that's been made by prague. well with the situation increasingly tense experts think further demonization of russia is the goal. this story in the czech republic it's ludicrous i mean 767 years ago russian agents and by the way that they must be changed thongs because russian change sponsors because there were you know in seoul spring 2018 they were in prague in 20140022 so to score didn't. make an explosion that just completely drew to cross its sense that you

know it will be a food very soon this story about the munition depo all the czech army which is not the 1st in nato it's a small army and it's not new clear or dead poles new you know it's just a mission they exploded this sounds like demonizing russia you know as much as they can now. as requested by biden's white house that has expelled 10 russian diplomats one of the interesting aspects the story of 2 alleged russian agents for who or what became public at the time the scripts. were people who thought the church would do instant we're going to rush in 2100 so it's very all this information the subject we decided was already known we were 2 services 2 years ago when you know sort of so there's an element. which is ours or should

behind it. cause us states to grapple to change voting laws following donald trump's claims of electoral fraud biden's functions russia came in it's yet again it felt harming american actions as stories coming up after the break. extenders but the bible guy looked a few more to the stored safely and we should. be sure it's still there are you going to get it back. next year. oh it's no good use a repatriation scheme what would you do if the 70 or. so of this every year treasury for. the world is driven by a dreamer shaped by one person of those.

who dares thinks. we dare to ask. welcome back when monday marks the end of castro's ruling cuba raul castro who led the country's communist party for the last 10 years off to succeeding his brother fidel announced as resignation on friday this was the same day declassified

documents revealed he had been the target of another cia and the assassination attempt it explains. raul castro reveals he's stepping down what better time to disclose your country meal the idea of assassinating him this is the perfect metaphor of cuba u.s. relations as the cia has published once top secret cables describing how in 1960 the agency offered $10000.00 to a pilot flying roll castro from prague to have to arrange an unlucky accident the plot can be added to what some say were the hundreds of assassination attempts on rolls brother legendary el commandante fidel providing a glimpse into just how big a thorn in america's side cuba was and even remains to this day clearly the

carriage drove regime. will not change by its own choice. but cuba must change not me i don't care how i die but rest assured if they invade us i'll die in combat. you don't make friends with uncle sam by overthrowing a dictatorship ruled by his appointee or by building a socialist state right in his backyard for del castro did both his relations with the us started with a trade war escalated into a naval blockade of the island and climaxed with something that had the world staring into the abyss over nuclear apocalypse during the cuban missile crisis and island nation smaller than the size of florida found itself squeezed between 2 superpowers in the thick of what almost became an all out atomic war it shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from cuba or

against any nation in the western hemisphere present attack by the soviet union on the united states things eased a little since then of course the us is a very different country the soviet union hasn't existed for nearly 3 decades but cuba cuba remains the same along with its ever so poor relations with the us we will not live saying actions on the cuban regime we will enforce the embargo. we reaffirmed today that any strategy that seeks to destroy the revolution either through coercion and pressure or by using subtle methods you will feel. the troika of tyranny in this hemisphere cuba venezuela and nicaragua has finally met its match with joe the secretary of the united states is deliberately lying by calling cuba a sponsor of terrorism this is slander and an insult against cuba cuba is no closer

to freedom and democracy than it was 4 years ago the age of castro is coming to an end but is the anticapitalist cuba heading the same way well rolle castro says over his dead body like. nothing nothing obliges me to make this decision but i firmly believe in the strength and value of example and the understanding of my fellow countrymen and let no one doubt that as long as i live i will be ready with my food in the stirrup to defend the homeland the revolution and socialist it will be you that the only really. 3 arab israeli men have been arrested and officers injured as fireworks in rocks were held today israeli police separating rival demonstrations over the assault of a rabbi their religious leader was assaulted as he entered a traditionally our part of the city of jaffa sinus jews rallied against the

violence sparking a counter protest of arab israelis who lit street fires and the tanks nor enforcement officials who had formed a human barrier between the demonstrations it comes as the jewish population of israel hits all time lows they now make up less than 3 quarters of the country down 8 percent on when it was founded in 1948 the proportion of jewish immigrants is also what is story close we asked people in the streets of tel aviv why they thought that was the case. the government in the country doesn't cheaters citizen goodly enough fairly enough it's really expensive to leave it's really hard to grow and to create new businesses and actually to succeed i think it's easier to do it in different countries it is very simple the natural growth of the non jewish population was the higher rate of the jewish one that's just simple math count the number of children per jewish family count the number of children jewish family you

add the numbers they are citizens of israel and it doesn't matter how many jewish or non jewish that's it well the head of the israeli immigration policy center told r.t. why the demographic changes are happening but the main reason for the decline of the jewish population is due to immigration israel has developed its g.d.p. is much higher than the countries around there are around the area many people in the past did not see israel as a place that they want to immigrate to today we're seeing people from over 100 different countries wanting to come to israel. and that has bring into decline in the jewish population we are seeing a decline in the majority which may bring in the future for a situation where the most growing minorities will demand to change the status of israel as a jewish state even if we don't reach a situation with the jews or absolute minority and that can have of course far reaching implications for a country that see themselves as

a homeland for the jewish people. michigan is the latest u.s. states that will debate changing election laws off the disastrous to accusations of fraud in last year's presidential election but is artie's more gassy of explains the white house's sanctioning russia as a states to play. round and round we go another election now the scandal scandals least of which had nothing to do with russia but again and it's moscow's fault more sanctions more accusations and more changing the subject during the campaign for the for the presidency i was unequivocal that if i was elected president i respond to any attempt to influence our elections to the last election and because elections are sacred for sovereign undertakings their expression of the world the american people and we cannot allow foreign power to interfere in our

demand democratic process with impunity there is a sense that american elections attending almost in 2 or need just undertaking sacred only a divine affair where the free and the faithful the right in the streets to cost their god to give and ballot in the name of all that is good and america but all is not well in the land of the free there is a crisis of faith where as many as 40 percent of american citizens but leave the last election was rigged. presidential elections all the united states are

a broken outdated mess the system itself it's soo broken that in any other country they'd be calling it election fraud it isn't sacred when some people's votes count law than the votes of others depending on where they live there is nothing holy about people's votes being. rounded up or rounded down by delegates it's an old ugly mess that frankly should have been obviated some time ago the electoral college is just the tip of the iceberg the mail and boots in 2020 were all over the place hundreds of thousands of votes lost and miscounted threw away were covered and recounted and about a 3rd of all state voters didn't even need to show their id to vote and this is in a country with roughly 12000000 illegal immigrants speaking of millions needs of americans with a criminal backi would have they've served this sentence and not allowed to vote

none of this counts of fraud because see it's negro even mistakes of kosher or high load by the bless of the constitution the validity of an election is not voided by honest mistakes or emissions unless they affect the result or at least render it uncertain but hey america all it's talk of democratic processes never was a democracy it's a federal republic where corporations and billionaires can hammer the internet and the airwaves and the radio waves with billions of dollars worth of propaganda unabashed republican or democrat propaganda blasted at you from every side from a cab ride to new york to a country fair in iowa vote team red vote team blue and best of luck if you're running as an independent america hasn't elected an independent president in a 170 years we face tremendous mainstream media and shout out we know this is

a 2 party system so the greatest difficulty is just making sure that people know we're here without them not that we only have these 2 options and i believe that's really a poor way to keep us coloring behind party lines at the end of the day russia doesn't need to interfere to make them. of american elections all of that's the do is sit back and watch the show unfold but america america needs russia to interfere they'd needs to blame someone else for this mess it needs a scapegoat in all of it all in the void having to say hold on we have a problem so make up more nonsense about sacred elections and blasphemous russian hackers and you think keep the faith in the deck rip it divisive electoral system from collapsing. but hear it on t.v. we always love to hear your thoughts on stories they do get in touch by following

us on social media back in 30 minutes with the latest see there. was a pandemic no certainly no borders just lying to nationalities. consumers . we took a backseat. to. judgment 2 commentary classes if. we can do better we should. everyone is contributing editor own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenge is great the response has been massive so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it

together. it's been decades since the fall of spain's fascist regime but old wounds still haven't healed i'm going to go into the oven thought it was pretty famous. because for me from a dog. the bottom is a bowl to me on the bus at the 6 mean old or the interest of the single which we know sells ins of newborn babies were torn from their mothers and given away and forced adoption that only leaves the other 4 feaster my own role as a fellow mentor to this day mothers still search for grown children while adults look in hope for their birth parents. child's seemed wrong. but all we all just all. the world is

yet to shape out these days because as a kid and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. i'm afshin rattansi and we're going on the ground of lockdown edition as the closing arguments in the trial of the former minneapolis police officer dared to even begin over the killing of george floyd and brought to biden's detention of nearly 20000 children with someone who fed us back death squads unsolvable but 1st from minneapolis a leading voice in the twin cities black eyes mother movement who's running for the

minneapolis city council want to seat robin ones they robin thanks so much for coming on i mean the scenes from minnesota they look like to me they look like apartheid south africa. just give us a background to what your 1st reaction was when you heard about the killing of dawn to write while this televised trial about george floyd is progressing. i think in a show reaction was this can't be happening and i was actually at my home i am looking at the live stream but never action that was hosted by a family united against police violence they held action to uplift another one of our community members who were murdered by the police i mean it was organized by its partner and what was said quite ironic was.