military thinks. we dare to ask. trainee medics in france are pushed to breaking point by the pandemic with a one in turn committing suicide every 18 days on average according to doctors union. pharmaceutical giant pfizer hikes the cost of it could be tried by 60

percent in the e.u. and a stark future at a time of severe shortages. and the czech republic boss a russian from bidding for the construction of a nuclear power plant citing and then that security threat. from arctic expulsions off to prague moscow. an explosion several years ago. make sure you never miss a story this is r.t. international whole team here in moscow. jumping right in more than a year into the pandemic trainee doctors and nurses in france are feeling the toll of an intense work load on the front line according to the national union of medical in tons that is now an average of one suicide every 18 days among youngsters in hospitals reporting 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 from 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 work more than that sometimes around 60 hours in a normal week but that union told r.t. that during the cold 19 pandemic things are so bad that some interns are working up to 100 hours every week but 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 an intern 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 80 and 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. but there 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 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 to vary and i also want to tell you a little bit about one mother who's also been speaking. to 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 in 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 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. past 3000000 at the weekend with a to stopping 20 fold in new infections and into this month meanwhile in europe new data cases have stabilized after a 3rd wave but the sluggish vaccine campaign has been tell if a setback us pharmaceutical giant pfizer has hiked prices on future orders of its 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

market principles in pricing the products we could go to huge prices and sell 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 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 5 that was already the most expensive covert vaccine on the market and the firm has been accused of lobbying by dint of ministration to prevent other countries from ramping up production to push the costs down the details of the upcoming contracts with an even higher price tag were revealed by the bulk air in prime minister pfizer was 12 europe's then became 15 year contracts are now been signed at a price of $19.00 europe's on the cost of the fires a shot could go up further still with the u.s.

farm saying people will be offered 3 doses instead of just 2 we spoke with a senior consultant in disease control access to medical school now he said that keeping vaccines affordable is going to be a vital part of ending the pandemic. it's a tragedy it is a tragedy and the nations are beholden to the supplies of 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 have 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 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 their 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. or several you countries are partially opening up charcoal for people who have been inoculated against it but not all vaccines are being treated equally the european commission has said that one screen digitals to cut our rolled out that only include shots recognized by the e.u. regulator so those who receive alternative vaccines including russia sputnik the are likely to be shut out of the new scheme want to tally a businessman who traveled to russia to get vaccinated tried to get clarification from his local for a tease. when i was landing in. my last dream school so exactly the day after which she. saw i was let's say technically you mustn't

aged and are over the border into the use of the before the bus but that is the checkpoint. for sure. and you know this and that and they don't know because they didn't get an instruction from the hell cell door of the name and they are now i ask what does this is wish i would surely do because in technical e c needed a already got the 2nd they send me the moment there is not any any extrusion so i have to stay for the simple and in-store situation is i could see very. well it's nice tourism sector has been devastated by the pandemic with the losses from last year estimated at more than 120000000000 euros it's also led to more than 330000 job losses and. i think the government needs to be much clear out with its travel rules if it wants to bring back. their.

eve lukin their sputnik is not yet out or as a and recognizes from e.-man. avascular to do with splitting the new land to eat only its like if you are not of a seemingly did indeed use absolutely crazy what we lead and you freshen judas the mission would speak to me and then. you have to stay 14 days. a meeting nobody would come to visit our county for example. or any way from any under the counter. you understand that this is a very big probably it can be a really big problem for there for the summer tourist. cuba's ruling communist party has elected a new leader to replace raul castro. who had stopped until now as president will take the post office 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 artie's it will stand off takes a look raul castro reveals he's stepping down what better time to disclose your country muled 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 role castro from prague to have to arrange an unlucky accident the port can be added to what some say were the hundreds of assassination attempts on rolls brother legendary old commandant the fidel providing a glimpse into just how big a thorn in america's side cuba was and even remains to this day clearly the

carriage drew 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 would be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from cuba or

against any nation in the western hemisphere as an 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 u.s. 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 like you 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 doubt that as long as i live i will be ready with my food in the stirrup to defend the homeland the revolution and social way will be you that will want to do it. here every day. well i spoke with gloria riva who's a member of the cuba and venezuela committee he thinks that is unlikely to be any major policy shift and to keep us. well it certainly is and 2 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 as apes explained over and over it is a revolution a continuation and that the new leadership with me again vs going l. 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 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 us 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. plenty more stories coming to you after

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is it really that you secretaries they like to dismiss this what are we to make of his policies towards russia china and ukraine. what comes 1st for him to use for interest is he employed by. geopolitics as you believe in. welcome back now the czech republic has toned down its allegations against russia over 2 explosions that happened more than 6 years ago prague is still saying that russian agents were responsible a claim that calls for top diplomatic expulsions although it's now clarified that allegation saying it was not an act of state terror while for more on this i'm now joined by our own quarter. coming i mean we've seen diplomatic spouse send some

progs is something that sort of took it back but mixed messages so just talk us through what's happened how is russia responded right well after all these expulsions after accusing russia of blowing up a munitions warehouse 7 years ago by the way with the same people that europe accused russia of apparently poisoning the script back in 2018 while progress all of the sudden backtracking on its story let's take a listen to what the prime minister said after he was done pointing the finger at russia. by god to read through that it was not an act of state terrorism it was an attack on goods belonging to. the agents of the goods of the bulgarian businessman that is his ammunition he apparently sold to countries that pose to russia. so russia apparently blew up this munitions warehouse but at the same time it wasn't an act of state terrorists seems like prague doesn't really have its story straight especially because they didn't back up any of their claims with any evidence any

published studies or anything still they were willing to risk a tit for tat response over it which came when of course moscow called progs accusations of sirte and expelled their own check their own check diplomats from the russian federation now according to the czech embassy that was a move that power lies their operations there and although the e.u. the e.u. chief diplomat did say that prague didn't act didn't didn't ask any other countries to follow their lead and expose inexpedient expelling these diplomats these exchanges these exchange of expulsions were not actually isolated incidents we also saw tit for tat expulsions between poland and russia between the u.s. and russia so it's interesting that this is all happening at the same time and this conflict doesn't even stop there really prague also wants russia to return certain plot of land in prague that the russian embassy has that was given back to was given to russia during the 1970 s. when the soviet union was still around and russia shot back immediately saying well

you know the prague the czech embassy also has their own big plot of land in moscow but it just seems like a lot of political nitpicking right now in a very overall confusing situation you know not of a coincidence with the czech republic and u.s. debt and sounds very official that was. many thanks. well another casualty of the diplomatic rift is it a power plant in the czech republic has just announced its barring the russian state atomic. from bidding for the construction of the facility back in january a chinese company was also excluded from the project on alleged security grounds the remaining bit is included friend south korean and american corporations independent john lewis matson summers thinks that's a simpler 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 1st prolix unbundling in russia or in china 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 . in ukraine we've got a new administration in the united states that wants to send various messages so there's clearly politics involved that. let's head on over to eastern ukraine now where the self-proclaimed and that's republic has accused ukrainian army of firing 15 mortar shells infile ation of a truth technically in place since 2015 hostilities flared up in late march with the warring sides accusing each other of selling their respective territories artie's very mccosker of is on the ground for us. the residential area around then 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 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 surreal 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 electricity both our former colleagues on the other side said that we wouldn't have food tricity 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 to rent a 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 the huge it is that. people always give birth even during world war 2 people 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 cos or have already. in the donetsk region. 3 arab israeli men have been arrests arrested and offices injured as fire walks on rocks were hauled out his way to place amid 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 kappa israeli jews running to gain the assault sparking a counter protest of arab israelis who did it street fires and attacked police. well this comes out of time of a law amid some israeli jews over the country's shifting demographics jews now make up less than 3 quarters of the population compared to 82 percent when the state was founded back in 1948 the inflow of jewish immigrants is also a historic low we also people on the streets of tel aviv why they think that's the case. the government in the country doesn't cheaters it isn't good enough 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 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 we spoke with the need to off an immigration and geo in tel aviv he told us why growing numbers of non jews are making moved as well 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 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 decline in the jewish population we are seeing a decline in the majority which may bring in the future for a 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 says self as a homeland for the jewish people. and finally russian opposition activist alexei navalny has been moved to a prison hospital amid claims of the terri to health artie's chuckin phooka picks up the story. on monday the russian state penitentiary service announced their decision to transfer unexplainable 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 none of all the is currently

of course serving a 2 and a half year since 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 while that's all from us here thanks for joining us next here on our team crosstalk talks about u.s. foreign policy and i think stage and. elderly forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. i robot must obey the orders given to human beings except where such orders would conflict with the 1st law your identification we should be very careful about artificial intelligence at that point all the great transfer of government here. really serious thing with artificial intelligence will something that the.

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