this is what happens to pensions in britain don't you watched as a report. trainee medics and frogs are pushed to breaking point by the pandemic with one in turn committing suicide every 18 days on average according to a doctor's union. pharmaceutical giant pfizer hikes the cost of its paper truck seen by 60 percent in the e.u. and a strong q tonne at a time of severe shortages. russia excels 20 czech diplomats off to prague kicks out 18 russian representatives claiming moscow was behind on these

issues last more than 6 years ago. bringing you the stories others might not this is all too international 247 live from the russian capital as always good to have you with us when our 1st story for you this hour is how that more than a year into the pandemic trainee doctors and nurses in france are feeling the toll of an intense walk load on the front line according to the national union of medical and tons there's now an average of one suicide every 18 days among youngsters walking in hospitals sort of devinsky reports from paris. well we know the in the medical profession it's one of the toughest jobs in the world and we know how much tougher that has go 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 were in a terrible situation now and 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 code $900.00 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 attempted suicide and that was before the current crisis before in term 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 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 wards 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 the average of one student taking their like one into taking their

life every 18 days how many more will die between now and the end the summer which is 5 months away this is simply your enough and the proposals by the minister to vary and i also want to tell you a little bit about one mother who's also been speaking or see you. 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 clothes they were the rock backbreaking clothes she said this is a situation where intelligent motivated people who are strong in their lives knew me went into a situation to come doctors to become the savior of 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. wild wild wide covert deaths past 3000000 at the weekend with a disturbing 24 new infections in india this month meanwhile over in europe new data cases have stabilized after a 3rd wave but the sluggish vaccine campaign has been dealt a father setback u.s. pharmaceutical giant pfizer has hiked prices on orders off the job for europe potentially raising the cost by more than 60 percent despite promising last year to keep the price down. if we were to implement free open markets principles in pricing the products we could go to huge prices and so everything we can manufacture but it would be a little cooler think we will not do it's because that's really taking advantage of

a situation and people will not forget if you do that. vaccines are very expensive this if human lives the a lot of economists to reopen but we saw them at the price of a meal or pfizer was already the most expensive coated vaccine on the market and the firm has been accused of lobbying the biden ministration to prevent other countries from ramping up production to push the cost down the details of the upcoming contract with an even higher price tag were revealed by the bulger and prime minister pfizer was 12 years then became 15 new contracts are now been signed at a price of 19.3. 9 the cost of the pfizer shot could go up still further with the u.s. firm saying people will be offered 3 doses instead of just the 2 we spoke with a senior consultant in disease control at exeter 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 reich 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 the vaccines as had 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 a runaway uncontrolled infections in the poorer nations what will happen is that is the right recipe for where eons of concern emerge so does in our own self-interest to immunize the world at the pace as fast as possible that's what's called living in a global village it is our duty to do this. several e.u.

countries are partially opening up travel for people who have been inoculated against covert but not all vaccines are being treated equally the european commission has said that once green digital certificates are rolled out well only include shots recognised by the e.u. regulator so those who receive alternative vaccines including russia sputnik are likely to be shut out of the new scheme one italian businessman who traveled to russia to get vaccinated tried to get clarification from his local authorities when i was lending the. last. school. which she. saw i was let's see me did. and it. was us going to the use of the beef. that is the checkpoint. for sure. i don't do this. because they didn't get an instruction from

el salvador theme and then i ask what does this is really do because i'm technically. condo's this is the moment but it's not. just the 14 the single source to do it i could see very. well it's nice towards him sector has been devastated by the pandemic with losses from last year estimated more than 120000000000 euros it's also led to more than 330000 job losses. thanks the government needs to be much clearer with its troubles if it wants to bring back those visitors. even. sputnik is not good. from. each of us to do with new land. it's like if you are not assuming it is

absolutely crazy what do you freshened jude is the solution would speak to me. here do you have to stay for. a meeting nobody would come to visit don't work around for example. or the only way. you understand this is a very big problem you can be a really big problem for the summer tourist. cuba's ruling communist party has elected a new nita to replace raul castro miguel diaz who had served up till now as president will take the post of secretary castro announced his departure last friday and on that same day declassified files revealed he had been the target of a cia assassination attempt as early as 1960 start off 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 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

will 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 will feel. the troika of tyranny in this hemisphere cuba venezuela and nicaragua has finally met its match so if i deal 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 you 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 down and as long as i live i will be ready with my food in the stirrup to defend the homeland the revolution and social they will be right who want to do it. every day. well let's bring in now gloria reify who is a member of the cuba on venezuela solidarity committee we're very glad to have you on the program. they have your insight as well the 1st thing i have to ask you so the castros have held power for 60 years now do you think this says the end of an era for cuba. well it certainly is the end 2 of the leadership officially of you know fidel role and other leaders of what they

call the generation of the centenarian those who were involved in 1953 in the struggle against but. but they have 6 planes over and over it is a revolution of continuation and that the new leadership with me again. the president of cuba now becoming the 1st secretary of the communist party of cuba it is in an orderly organized and politically decided manner we have to talk about those declassified files why are you surprised to hear about that 960 assassination plot against royal and do you think there are other ones that maybe we don't know about yet there are so many documents of the us attempt to 638 a terms of fidel castro's life over the time of his leadership and now it's not a surprise but it is news of this revelation of the attempt on roll castro in 1960

certainly there must have been others because the u.s. knew that role was a leader of the struggle for the for the revolution and was considered to be a successor if anything happened to fidel in fact for dell said that at one point in the people i believe were very supportive of that because fidel as a 22 year old was side by side with his brother at the time of the 1st assault on the producer regime in 1053 and then 27 years old when but the use of fled and the revolution triumphed so he has been an extremely loyal and highly regarded leader within cuba why i want to talk that about his legacy now and how he is regarded because there have been reports of severe food shortages in cuba since the start of the pandemic obviously the economy last year dropped by 11 percent how

much do you think that royals need to share is to blame for that. i think who's to blame for the problems of cuba is the u.s. blockade of 60 years has been tightened now under the trump of ministration $240.00 measures including banning the remittances that cubans send to their families in cuba from the united states and elsewhere we're talking one and a half $1000000000.00 in 200-1240 measures by trump and now biden says he's not likely to change this this is an outrageous economic war on the people of cuba so it's not role castro who's to blame and what took place in the 1990 s. with the collapse of the soviet union and the loss of cuba's absolutely nane trading partner where cuba received but 80 percent of imports from soviet union and

its eastern europe was that the country had to engage in a whole new economic strategy to survive and it was role castro as general of the army as a top military active officer he was the one who stated publicly in order for the revolution to survive we must provide food to the people so it was the young soldiers who were converted many of them into helping grow food to provide for the people it was rebel castro who as part of the cubans defense regarded food as essential so it's definitely not the cuban people to blame for this crisis today well they are so much more to talk my job to pick their brains but unfortunately we've run out of time but we do appreciate you coming on to the program that was poor and a member of the cuba and venezuela solidarity community perhaps eastern while we still got a lot more coming up to the break so don't go anywhere yet. is

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is there a list that just 6 days they played to his madness what are we to make of his policies towards russia china and ukraine. what comes 1st for him dolly's interest is employed by ideology or geopolitics busy believe in. welcome back now russia has expelled 20 czech diplomats in a growing feud with prague the czech government early a booted out 18 russian representatives accusing moscow of being behind a tragic explosion of a musician 2014 the russian foreign ministry has dismissed progs claims as an attempt to divert attention from other developments in the region while you're on monday stuff was seen packing up 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 expulsion saying the russians gone too far and prague

will retaliate moscow says the czech leadership appears to be deliberately wraps up tensions under the influence of the us. herb's surge especially as early as 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 us imposes sanctions against russia the czech authorities have even outdone their american must is 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 authorities have accused this group 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 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 by doing this a joke at the chicks and to be sure but you wouldn't expect him to be that shill. enlistee aging explosions you joined in the discovering social engine behind it i mean you know as being able to push. themselves and. into being more active in this. time was not that interested

in that they don'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 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 about not just a conspiracy but an actual plan for a constitutional clue we need to speak about it so 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 is the russian

federal security service has announced lately that they have detained 2 men one with bell russian citizenship another one with do will. citizenship. 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 bo russian president alexander lukashenko and possibly even members of his family during victory day celebrations that are coming the bell russian president almost instantly blamed the u.s. for 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 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 while one casualty of the diplomatic rift is the check in a power plant the czech republic has just announced its barring the russian state atomic. from betting for the construction of the facility back in january a chinese company was also excused from the project the remaining bit as included friend south korean and american corporations the russian and chinese firms were excluded on the largest security grounds bought to independent journalist martin

summers thinks that might need some explanation. the fact that they're excluding was clearly a political decision. if it was a commercial decision then they would all be single and as many different good as possible in order to get the best price and burning brush or in chilling it from getting to this work is to do with the general deterioration in relations between russia and china and the western powers we know that tensions are very holy over the new union crane we've got a new administration in the united states that wants to send various messages so it's clearly politics involved. and find it in eastern ukraine where the self-proclaimed to not score public has accused the ukrainian army off firing 15 mortar shells and violation of a truce technically in places since 2015 hostilities flared up in late march with the warring sides accusing each other of selling their respective territories artes

of as on the ground. 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 alexander of 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 his son of a 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 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 a 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'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 adventure 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 if you that you did as that if you need 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.