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russia. moved off the. last 7 years ago. international headlines international a very warm welcome to you. more than a year into the pandemic now a trainee doctors nurses in france are feeling the told of an intense workload on the frontline according to the national union of medical there's now an average of one suicide 18 days among youngsters working in hospitals our correspondent has more from power. well we know the medical profession is one of the toughest jobs in the world how much tougher. over the last year with the pandemic time and time

again we've told you stories about how medical staff are suffering under the pressure now we've been hearing about the situation for medical interns who normally work brutal hours as they try and finish their training to become doctors to be the people that save lives in the future and one union has told r.t. that the situation is so bad that these essentially frontline soldiers in the war against 19 and now a breaking point some people in the rezoned when a terrible situation known since the start of january there has been one suicides among medical interns every 18 days just to give you a sense most interns are supposed to be working a 48 hour week that's more than most people would generally in a week but we know they were more than that sometimes around 60 hours in a normal week but that union told r.t. that during the covert 900 pandemic things are so bad that some interns are working

up to 100 hours every week and. this is got worse during the pandemic but it was already a serious before out of also sides among medics 25 percent were interns in the monger attempted suicides it was 70 percent 4 percent of trainees had attempted suicide and that was before the current crisis before in terms worked a 58 hour week much of that in surgery and that's got worse during the pandemic it rose to 60 hours than 70 hours than 89 in paris up to 100 hours a week so it's exhausting now that union has told r.t. that they need to be immediate action to alleviate the situation and the pressure for the interns now they've met with the health minister here in france in the last few days and he has said that they will be measures put in place to once the end of the summer to trying to find a solution to that but the union said. that's not soon enough and between now and

then if we take that average of one student taking they're like one in 10 taking their life every 18 days how many more will die between now and the end the summer which is 5 months away they say it's simply not enough and the proposals by the minister seem very and i also want to tell you a little bit about one mother who's also been speaking to see her daughter took her own life back in 2900 so before the could be 19 pandemic that she's now set up an organization representing the families of student interns who have taken their lives in the last few months and she said all of them died for different reasons they took their lives to different pressures different places but they all had one thing in common and the one thing in common was the clothes they were under the rock back breaking clothes she said this is a situation where intelligent motivated people who were strong in their lives knew

me went into a situation to come doctors to become the savior lives in the future and they were taken in and they were completely put in this so much strain that they were cracked they were weakened and in the end the only thing they felt that they could do was to take their. world covert deaths past 3000000 at the weekend with a particularly disturbing 20 fold new infections in india this month meanwhile in europe in new delhi cases have stabilized after a 3rd wave of the sluggish vaccine campaign has been dealt a further setback u.s. pharmaceutical giant pfizer has hiked prices on future orders of us jobs in europe potentially raising the cost more than 60 percent and conveniently it comes at a time as brussels is seeking a brand new contract with pfizer for next year's seems you don't want to hear this the details now. you wouldn't think that big pharma and

ethics go hand in hand but you clearly haven't and that. 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 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 both sides are 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 you know citizens to live so 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 euro and with the e.u. signing off on a future order of $900000000.00 doses those extra euros really add up but as pfizer well no. the bloc doesn'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 let alone charge for it johnson and johnson's hit the pause button over the same concern and the european medicine agencies not keen on approving any of the shots at the moment so the pfizer job stands as the sole savior all 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 will be likely a need for somewhere between 6 and 12 months and then from the there will be an annual leave oxidation but all of that needs to be confirmed a vaccine with reduces 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 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. but we spoke with mr di canio a senior consultant at the disease control center of medical school he said keeping vaccines affordable is going to be a vital part of ending the pandemic. it's a tragedy it is a tragedy and a nations are beholden to the supplies of like scenes and the price of the vaccines and we have a global pandemic a very serious global pandemic and it is incumbent upon pharmaceutical companies the world trade organization and the richer nations to keep their vaccines as at a low price as possible and to promote the giving of the vaccines cheap and at a cheaper rate to all the other nations because if you have run away uncontrolled

infections in the poorer nations what will happen is that is the right recipe for where eons of concern emerge so it is in our own self-interest to immunize the world at a pace as fast as possible that's what's called living in a global village it is our duty to do this. meanwhile the tiny european country of san marino is enjoying a return to pre-code normality thanks to sputnik 3 schools museums and gyms have reopened as will cinemas and theaters on the 26th of this month and now as the enclave is not a formal member of the e.u. it was able to tons of russia for its vaccine sputnik 3 is currently under review by europe's medicine the regulator meaning a cattle be deployed in member states until he gets the final stop of approval.

putting his proved to be a winning choice is every day that passes in recent weeks the number of transactions is decreasing. 3 openings 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 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 were able to move our reopening time table full with.

russia has expelled 20 czech diplomats in a growing feud with prague the czech government kicked out 18 russian representatives accusing moscow of being behind a deadly explosion at an ammunition de. back in 2014 now the russian foreign ministry has dismissed progs claims as an attempt to divert attention from the developments in the region now early on monday staff was seen packing their belongings and leaving the czech embassy with their families here in moscow they were given 24 hours to leave the country the czech foreign minister has condemned the expulsion saying russia has gone too far so now prague will retaliate. moscow though says the czech leadership appears to be deliberately ratcheting up tensions 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. 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 must 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 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 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 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 job at the chicks and then to be sure but you wouldn't expect them to be that shill. enlistee aging this explosions you joined gene and now discovering the social engine behind it i mean it. has been able to push. into. people in this. time was not that interested in that they didn't want us to have these great iranians and he's pushing them. to push against and they were 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 actually supported by facts that the west needed 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 cool was allegedly being planned against the leader of belarus what more do we actually know about this this is a story apparently that was happening more or less samuel taney as the they were. federal security service has announced lately that they have detained 2 men one with russian citizenship another one with dual citizenship del ruse and the u.s.

detention happened in moscow and these 2 are believed to have been plotting a coup 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 blame 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 and the main to the u.s. state department has already said that they are expressing full support for the move that's been made by prague. well one casualty of a different matter grifters a check nuclear power plant the czech republic says it's now planning to bar the russian state of tomic nuclear farm ross artem from bidding for the construction of the facility and back in january a chinese company was all all of a sudden just excluded from the project of the remaining bidders include french south korean and american corporations well let's get details on this now and cross live to the independent journalist martin summers coming on the program today good to see you martin the czech authorities are saying they're excluding russia from the nuclear power plant project because it's a security threat and do you think we should take that explanation of face value or

perhaps there's something else going on. well the fact that they're excluding is clearly a political decision. it was a commercial decision and they would all be seen as many different it is as possible in order to get the 1st through leaks so there's clearly politics involved it but not not not just russia apparently recently in january a chinese company that was going to be up in the bidding for making this nuclear reactor that they were a chinese company was also suddenly barred from from being involved it looks like now it's just going to fall to the american the u.s. better westinghouse electric but clearly there's no corruption going on here is that. well i mean nuclear industries is there is a very interesting industry because of course there are questions about how volatile e.c. is without government support in any government and of course the decisions to have nuclear power the all related as we all know most of the production nuclear weapons potentially and there's always been a great deal of politics in the nuclear industry and bunny russia and china from

getting to this work is to do with the general deterioration in relations between russia and china and the western powers now the president i mean loss' him and has said that he wants russia to actually be involved in the nuclear power plant project but i suppose the. it is the czech leadership united on this issue do you think. well i think zemin obviously has been relatively pro russian in his orientation or in many in recent years the blue cross the security services of a country like the czech republic or to a large extent independence of the elected political leadership their loyalty will lie to other security services notably the c o r n m r 6 and they will basically manipulate events in order to achieve

effects which are not necessarily the considered geo the elected political leadership model let's a letter addressed to the bizarre twist of stories have a check arms depot blast that happened more than 6 years ago and all this time check or $47.00 blaming the deposed owners but now all of a sudden it was russia that they're dead. yes and of course the timing is very suspicious we know that tensions are very high over what's happening in ukraine we've got a new administration in the united states that wants to send there is messages and then suddenly we discover that this seemingly accidental explosion that was carried out by the russian secret service is all you have to ask the question what possible benefit that could be for the russian secret services involving themselves in this and of course the appearance of the mysterious catron borish of who are

becoming very you know they seem to get around these killers and they are part of the narrative that's been developed about how evil and uncompromising russia is and why everybody's got to you not to oppose them which of course is largely a political narrative why haven't you bring that in you say political narrative martin and it's very interesting you say that because you mention these 2 so-called russian agents these 2 guys who were blamed for the poisoning of the script pals and you know if you speak to any lawyer there tell you the whole script alcaeus they would never stand it has no legs to stand in court what so ever but now the czech republic is bringing up these 2 guys i guess because they're a bit famous and saying that these guys are in involved in what's been happening i mean does this sound credible to you let's be serious though it just let's be fair let's be honest it doesn't sound credible and that people knowledgeable people will

know what's going on here is all related to. what's called operation beluga which has been ruling for years french and a terrorist squad officer paul burrell told us all about this years ago and it's an ongoing campaign by the intelligence services in the west to sabotage constructive cooperation with russia and it's you know it's got all sorts of facets to it. urt say these these are mysterious agents or parts of the clues it's almost like a chilling news story like a film. the the real all the i'm sure this is in what in the west. you know they did basically been presented with what is an extraordinary film with lots of extras the special effects. you know catchy names for people to remember who's involved and you know this is been developing 3 years but it now is coming to

a very strong cade because of the crisis around certainly in the ukraine. independent journalist martin summers joining us live here at r.t. international really appreciate that thanks for your insight today thank you thank you. 3 arab israeli men have been arrested and officers injured as fireworks and rocks were thrown at israeli police amid rival demonstrations over the assault of a rabbi at the religious leader was attacked as he entered a traditionally arab part of the city of jaffa israeli jews that rallied against the assault sparking a counter protest of arab israelis who lit street fires and attacked police. now this all comes at a time of alarm a midsummer israeli jews over the country's shifting demographics and jews now make up less than 3 quarters of the population compared to 82 percent when the state was 1st founded in 1948 hour the inflow of jewish immigrants is also up in historic low so we hit the streets of tel aviv to watch the people what's going on. the

government in the country doesn't cheat a citizen. 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 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 situation where the much of the 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. to eastern ukraine now whether self-proclaimed barnett square public has accused the ukrainian army of firing 15 mortar shells in violation of a truce technically in place since 2015 hostilities flared up in late march with the warring sides accusing each other of shelling their respective territories and artie's at home and cause arrest is in the region. the residential area around done

as 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 alexandre of where i'm 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 it was almost like this 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 serial ukrainian army officials denied 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 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 a top of the tricity both our former colleagues on the other side said that we wouldn't have full tricity until they liberate us liberate us from what's 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 of eventually but

hasn't left the village currently a mother of 2 girls marie mayes 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 if you there you did as the. people always give birth even during world war 2 people have been born every day they bash us but we 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 costs or have already alexandrov in the donetsk region. ruling communist party has elected

a new leader to replace or all castro miguel diaz canell who had served until now as president will take the post of secretary of castro knowledge his departure last friday and on the same day declassified files revealed he had been the target of our cia assassination attempt as artie's reports. 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 provide.