thinks. we dared to ask. pharmaceutical giant pfizer hikes the cost of its covert vaccine by 60 percent in the e.u. and a stock you would see at a time of sofia shortages. but european micro state of san marino plans a return to normality aiming to inoculate all of its citizens by next month with russia's support. the rio please give us

a breath of fresh air and get us moving towards a sense of normality sputnik be his proved to be a winning choice is every day that passes in recent weeks the number of transactions is decreasing. also russia 20 czech diplomats in a tit for tat move after prague expels 18 russian representatives claiming that moscow was behind an army initial blast 7 years ago. while it is fast turning into a busy monday for your worldwide headlines welcome to the program here on the international. 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 delhi cases. stabilized after a 3rd wave with

a sluggish vaccine campaign has been dealt a foe of a setback us pharmaceutical giant pfizer has hiked prices on future all those of us job for europe potentially raising the cost more than 60 percent it also happens to come at a time conveniently the brussels is seeking a brand new contract with out for next year is our correspondent. you wouldn't think that big pharma and ethics go hand in hand but you clearly haven't and that pfizer if we would 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 for 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 year 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 hand 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 phys ed job stands as the sole savior or 12 no 15 no 19 and a half years of it that's if you don't count those 3 surprise

a likely scenario is that there would 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 reduces in the 1st year and a booster annually after that what a tiny little way to keep those billions coming in to hell with cooperation 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 mean time the tiny european country of san marino is now enjoying a return so pre-code normality things to sputnik the schools museums and gyms have reopened as will cinemas and theaters on the 26th of this month now as the enclave is not a formal member of the e.u. it was able to turn to russia for its vaccine sputnik is currently still under review by the european medicines regulator meaning it can all be deployed to member

states in till it gets the official stamp of approval. he's putting his proved to be a winning choice is every day that passes in recent weeks the number of contractions is decreasing. 3 openings give us a breath of fresh air and get us moving towards a sense of normality without splitting feet submarine and would probably not have had these reopening so sued and except we 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 able to move reopening timetable for.

monday it does mark the end of castro rule in cuba but i would castro who led the countries communist party over the last 10 years is basically now saying that he's going to resign of course he filled in for his brother fidel but it was on a friday that raul did basically announce his resignation now that was actually at the same time the same day that de classified documents revealed that he had been the target of a cia assassination attempt and get some details on this and shed some light with our correspondent ego has done off. 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. 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 state things eased up 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 charity in this hemisphere cuba venezuela and nicaragua has finally met its match that you without the secretary of the united states is deliberately lying by calling cuba a sponsor of terrorism this is slander and an insult to gates cuba or 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 does 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 doubted that as long as i live i will be ready with my food in the stirrup to defend the homeland the revolution and socialism they will be about who want to do it i. it is our international good of you to join us on this monday a russia has expelled 20 czech diplomats in a growing feud with prague the czech government booted out 18 of russian representatives accusing moscow of being behind a deadly explosion at an ammunition depot that was back in 24 teen well the russian foreign ministry has dismissed progs claims as an attempt to divert attention from other developments in the region but within the past couple of hours staff were seen packing their belongings and leaving the czech embassy with their families

they've been given 24 hours to exit the country the czech foreign minister has condemned the expulsions saying russia has gone too far now and so prague will retaliate moscow though says the czech leadership appears to be deliberately ratcheting up tensions apparently under 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 owned the depos this hostile step is a continuation of a series of russian actions conducted over the last several years by the czech republic one can 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 there are sanctions 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 washington embassy that is even more that then america which in italy chose to punish and. you understand that this is a very significant share of the embassy staff so you have to think that there must be a very serious reason for well the authorities have accused this group of 8 working as intelligence operatives and also blamed russia for being behind a major 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 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 the authorities said that these 2 could be linked to that explosion immediately their names and photos were back and international headlines by doing this a joke at the chicks and then to be sure but you wouldn't expect them to be that chill. enlistee aging this explosions you joined in the discovering the social behind it i mean you know as being able to push.

themselves and. into being more active in this. was not that interested in that they didn't want to have these great iranians and he's pushing them. to push against 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 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 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 coming at 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 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 in the meantime one casualty of the diplomatic rift check nuclear power plant the czech republic says it's now planning to bomb russian state atomic nucleus. from even being for the construction of the facility and back in january

a chinese company was also suddenly excluded from the project well the remaining bidders include french south korean and north american corporations. shipping our attention now to eastern ukraine where the self-proclaimed donetsk republicans accuse the ukrainian army of firing 15 mortars shells in violation of a truce technically in place since 2015 or so that he's no flared up in late march with the warring sides accusing each other of shelling their respective territories our correspondent. is 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 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 it's honestly 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 label 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 alexander 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. 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 victory city both our former colleagues on the other side said that we wouldn't have flowed through city until they liberate us liberate us from what from our land marina is another local who says she is lucky to be alive because her house was shelled several times. she had surrendered different place eventually 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 if she did it is that. people always give birth even during world war 2 people who have been born every day they bash but who will

continue giving birth yes i worry 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. alexandrov in the donetsk region. 3 men have been arrested on officers injured as fireworks and rocks were hurled at israeli police and later rifle 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 then lit street fires and attacked the police now this comes at

a time of some israeli jews over the shifting demographics of the country jews now make up less than 3 quarters of the population compared to 82 percent when the state was founded in $1048.00 the inflow of jewish immigrants is also watching a story so we hit the streets of tel aviv to speak to the locals about what's exactly going on. the government in the country doesn't cheaters citizen good lean fairly enough it's really expensive to leave the 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 a 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 well the head of the israeli immigration policy center told r.t.

why the demographics are shifting 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 the decline of 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. michigan is the latest u.s. state that will debate changing election laws after accusations of fraud in last

year's presidential election it was a tease but i guess the if explains the white house is blaming and sanctioning russia. 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 well schools 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 or sovereign undertakings their expression of the world the american people and we cannot allow foreign power to interfere in our new democratic process with impunity there is a sense that american elections attending almost into a routine aegis undertaking sacred only

a divine affair where the free and the faithful the right in the streets to cost their god given 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. they are. 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 sometime ago the electoral college is just the tip of the iceberg malin votes in 2020 were all over the place hundreds of thousands of votes lost and miscounted threw away were covered in recounted in about a 3rd of all states voters didn't even need to show their id to vote and this isn't a country with roughly 12000000 illegal immigrants speaking of millions we need of americans with a criminal boss even of 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 hollowed by the blessid 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 how much of the internet and the airwaves and the radio waves with billions of dollars worth of propaganda unabashed republican or democrat propaganda blasted out you from every side from a cab ride to new york to a country fair in iowa vote team red vote 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 had to work to keep us coloring behind party lines at the end of the day russia doesn't need to interfere to make them. so the american elections all of us to do was sit back and watch the show unfold but america america needs russia to interfere they needs to blame someone else for the smiths it needs a scapegoat to bleed all of it on and avoid having to say hold on we have the problem so they make up more nonsense about secret elections and blasphemous russian hackers and you think they keep the faith in the death grip it divides its electoral system from collapsing. the desired international russian opposition activist violently has been moved to a prison hospital bed claims of deteriorating health correspondent jacqueline vega has more details on monday the russian state penitentiary service announced their

decision to transfer alex and of amit 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 an authorized authorities are urging people not to participate. in very good reporting right there we are back in about half an hour's time with more of your monday world headlines who can join us.

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