it up to something terrible can bill solve all ills. trying to mitigate life itself i just think i was in like i was just scared i was a scared little girl of 24 and like. i didn't have to be so complicated. it's been decades since the fall of spain's fascist regime but old wounds still haven't healed. in the news. because for me from your. keyboard mr bow or to me on the bus at us is mean older than just the same question which was you know thousands of newborn babies were torn from their mothers and given away and forced adoption that only leaves the feast or. to this day mothers still search for grown children while looking in hope for their birth parents.

or when r.t. pharmaceutical giant pfizer hikes the cost of its covert vaccine by 60 percent in the e.u. and a stark u.-turn that's more severe shortages. the european micro state of san marino plans a return to normality aiming to inoculate all of its citizens by next month with russia's sputnik be shocked. the reopening is give us a breath of fresh air and get us moving towards a sense of normality sputnik ves proved to be a winning choice is every day that passes in recent weeks the number of infractions is decreasing. russia kicks out 20 czech diplomats in a tit for tat move after prague expels 18 russian representatives claiming moscow was behind a blast at an ammunition. 7 years ago. well

this is the international for me rule re sushi in the entire news team here welcome to your monday we'll do it. so world deaths past 3000000 at the weekend with a particularly disturbing 20 fold increase in new infections in india this month meanwhile in europe new daily cases have stabilized after a 3rd wave but the sluggish vaccine campaign has been dealt a further setback u.s. pharmaceutical giant pfizer has hiked the prices on future orders of its job for europe potentially raising the cost more than 60 percent it does happen to come at a time when brussels is seeking a new contract and without firm for next year let's get some details on this saskia

taylor reports. 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 below 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 the situation 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 fos pick astra zeneca has become vaccine non-grata after it's linked to red blood clots at this point it would probably struggle to print out its vaccine for free like you don't charge for it johnson and johnson's hit the pause button over the same concern on the european medicine agencies not keen on approving any of the shots at the moment so the pfizer job stands as the sole savior or 12 no 15 no 19 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 marks a nation but all of that needs to be confirmed a vaccine with 3 doses in the 1st year and a booster annually after that what a tiny little way to keep those billions coming in to hell with the corporation to

hell with morality to hell with humanity you really have to hand it to pfizer even in a pandemic it's just another day another dollar well in the meantime the tiny european country of san marino is now enjoying a return to pre-code normality thanks to nick b. schools museums and gyms have reopened as will center most and theaters on the 26th of this month as the enclave there was not a formal member of the e.u. it was able to turn to russia for its vaccine a sport that is still under review by europe's medicine regulator meaning it cannot be deployed member states in till it is approved.

he's putting his proved to be a winning choice is every day that passes in recent weeks the number of interactions is decreasing. reopening give us a breath of fresh air and get us moving towards a sense of normality without splitting the submarine and would probably not have had these reopening so sued and except 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 a bill to move reopening timetable for when. russia

has expelled 20 czech diplomats in a growing feud with prague the czech government kicked out 18 russian reps accusing moscow of being behind a deadly explosion at an back in 24 teen. the russian foreign ministry has dismissed progs claims as an attempt to divert attention from other developments in the region now within the past couple of hours stuff was seen packing their belongings and leaving the czech embassy here in moscow with their families they had been given 24 hours to exit the country the czech foreign minister has condemned the expulsions saying russia has gone too far and now progs will retaliate moscow those says. czech leadership appears to be deliberately ratcheting up tensions on the influence of washington. 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 suspect. in particular well you know and that is the interesting part because the people the suspects that the police are now looking for are actually the 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 authorities said that these 2 could be linked to that explosion immediately their names and photos were back and international headlines the story in the czech republic. i mean 767 years ago russian agents and by the way they must be james bonds because russian james bonds because there were you know in. 2018 they were trying to thousands. to do so discord and. make. this sounds like demonizing russia you know as much as they can now. as requested by biden's white house the russian foreign ministry though is saying that these announcements and 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 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 what more do we actually know about this this is a story apparently that was happening more or less 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 bella ruse 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 asked 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 or one casualty of the diplomatic rift check nuclear power plant the czech republic says it's now planning to buy the russian state atomic nucleus. from even bidding for the construction of the facility back in january a chinese company was also suddenly excluded from the project the remaining bidders include french south korea and north american corporations. parts of eastern ukraine where the self-proclaimed republic has accused the ukrainian army of firing 15 more to a show is ultimately in violation of a truce in place since 2015 now hostilities flared up in late march with the warring sides accusing each other of shelling their respective territories. reports in the region. the residential area around airport is basically deserted every

single house here is either damaged or it's been completely destroyed like this one for example we don't know where the local residents are some of them have left the area of the nazca and some of them have moved to other places as i understand there are around 7 people living here with thousands of empty houses across town is the suburb of alexandria va where i like around the airport people decided to stay despite the constant attacks in the last few months 2 civilians were badly wounded and one man was killed by sniper fire while feeding his chickens that's according to the head of the local administration because i'm almost positive he said i was fully ukrainian positions are only 250 meters away from the nearest house that's where a man was killed recently they are targeting civilians when the snipers shot the man there is no way that he couldn't see that he was a surreal ukrainian army officials deny the incident ever took place and labeled

the details of the man's death as fake news weapons violations have been accompanied with explicitly fabricated accusations in the media specifically regarding live sniper fire from the ukrainian armed forces fake news is being spread intensively by the so-called media of suits and don't yet screech in districts local electrician alexandre lost a son and a daughter in law in this conflict and said that the shooting never really stopped here he was wounded several times while doing his job fixing power lines that were damaged by shelling. where they really were but i must have been born under a lucky star the ukrainian army is always trying to prevent us from fixing damaged power lines and shooting while i'm at the top of the electricity poles our former colleagues on the other side said that we wouldn't have food through city until they liberate us liberate us from woods from our land marina is another local who says she is lucky to be alive because her house was shelled several times. she had

saran to different places ensure the but hasn't left the village currently a mother of 2 girls marina is expecting another daughter in the week despite being terrified from the endless sound of artillery fire she seems optimistic about the future of her unborn child so she did it as that is unique teach students people always give birth even during world war 2 people have been born every day they bash us but we will continue given that yes i'm worrying and i'm constantly afraid but it's life and it goes on people i spoke with another all claim that shelling and gunfire have escalated in the last couple of weeks shooting now takes place not just at night but during the day as well that prompted schools and kindergartens to intensify safety drills for all children they hope it will increase their chances of making it to shelters in time cos or have already alexandrov in the donetsk region. are still to come here on the program as the us states grab hold of trains

voting rolls following donald trump's claims of electoral fraud a biden sanctions russia claiming it so yes i could end up fault for influencing an affecting american election.

is there really that you secretary of state. of his policies towards russia china and ukraine. comes 1st for him. interest in. politics believe anything. it is good to have you with us today so at the end of castro ruling cuba or all castro who of course led the country as communist party for the last 10 years office succeeding his brother fidel and alice his resignation on friday that was the same day that de classified documents revealed he had been the target of

a cia assassination attempt let's get some details with. 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 castro 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 would 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 will feel. the troika of tyranny in this hemisphere cuba venezuela and nicaragua has finally met its match that you with though 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 it's like. nothing nothing obliges me to make this decision but i firmly believe in the strength and value of example and the endor standing of my fellow countrymen and let no one down and as long as i live i will be ready with my food in the stirrup to defend the homeland the revolution and socialist it may well be right but what do you really. i hear every day. well the cia's actions in cuba follow a broad pattern of interference all across latin america journalistically and greenwald spoke about in the program on contact which you can watch in full right now at r.t. talk. journalistic tactic is one that i actually 1st noticed when i started writing about politics in 2005 there had been

a coup attempt in venezuela in 2002 to oust hugo chavez who whatever you think of him was democratically elected and very popular in the new york times editorial lies that it was a an attempt to restore democracy us back by installing what they called a respected business leader and it's step away from an attempt to step away from dictatorship and this is what the us media has been doing for decades calling us supported coups where they overthrow democratically elected governments and install you a pro u.s. dictators they call it and herald it as a victory for democracy and that's exactly what they did in 1064 they called it a revolution instituted by brazilians who are tired of communist corruption in tyranny and essentially for the next 21 years depicted this extremely repressive and brutal military regime as a manifestation of liberty and freedom. it is aussie

international 3 hour of israeli men have been arrested on offices injured as file walks on of rocks were hurled at his ready police to meet a rival demonstrations over the assault of a rabbi the religious leader was attacked as he entered a traditionally are a part of the city of jaffa israeli jews rallied against the assault sparking a counter protest of arab israelis who lit street fires on the top police. now this comes at a time of need some is ready jews over the country's shifting demographics of jews now make up less than 3 quarters of the population compared to 82 percent when the state was founded in 1988 of the inflow of jewish immigrants is also out in historic low so we asked people on the streets of tel aviv why this is happening. the government in the country doesn't cheat or citizen goodly enough fairly enough it's really expensive to leave it's really hard to 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 citizens of israel and it doesn't matter how many jewish or non jewish that's it or the head of the israeli immigration policy center told us why the demographics are changing but the main reason for the decline of the jewish population today 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 soon people from over 100 different countries wanting to come to israel. and that has bring into a 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 sees itself as a homeland for the jewish people. russian opposition activist alexina valmy has been moved to a prison hospital that made claims of deteriorating health his arteries jacqueline food. on monday the russian state penitentiary service announced their decision to transfer unexplained of all need to a regional hospital for prisoners now according to their statement his health is currently satisfactory and he has agreed to start taking vitamin supplements opposition activists has been on hunger strike since march 31st protesting the fact that his personal physicians have not been allowed to visit him and he said that he's been having medical issues just a few days ago one of his physicians said that his health is currently seriously

deteriorating according to lab results that were shared with him but the state is insisting that all of his medical needs are being met on the is currently of course serving a 2 and a half year sentence for parole violations and over the weekend his supporters called for a nationwide demonstration to be held this wednesday over these recent developments with his health but since that rally is on authorized authorities are urging people not to participate well if you're going to be reporting right there with just about the program for this many more of your monday world headlines still to come if you can join us at the top of the next hour. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by so personal those words.

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hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered on peter lavelle is there a method to secretaries they blame tim's madness what are we to make of his policies towards russia china ukraine and afghanistan what comes 1st for him values or interests is he informed by ideology or geopolitics does he believe in anything. discuss these issues and more i'm joined by my guess marcus papadopoulos in london he's a historian analyst and author of the new book arise where i'll see a return of russia to world politics and in oxford we have mark owen he is the director of the crisis research institute gentlemen rostock rules and in fact that

means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it oh.