community. are you going the right way or are you being led. by. what is true or is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the debt. or immediately shallows. trainee matt takes in from the bush to breaking point by the back with one in town committing suicide every 18 pace on our fridge put into a doctor's union. pharmaceutical giant pfizer hikes the cost of it hope it's not seen by 60 percent to the e.u. and a strong u. turn at a time when the fish soldiers. and the czech republic accuses washout bokeh straits

can explosion back in 2014 fonts rules out to take terrorism and refuses to release any evidence. bring you the stories others might not this is all attempts national 27 live from moscow. let's jump straight in the story for you more than a year into the pandemic a trainee doctor says in france all feeling the toll of an intense while quote on the front line according to the national union of medical in tons that's now an average of one suicide every 18 days among youngsters walking at hospitals shot at 2 penske 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 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 at breaking point believe some people in the rezoned we're 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 had attempted suicides 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. but there will be measures put in place to wards the end of the summer to try and find a solution to that but the union said see that's not soon enough and between now and then if we take that average of one student taking their like one in turn

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 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 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 in different pressures different places but they all had one thing in common and the one thing in common was the clothes they were the rock back breaking clothes she said this is a situation where intelligent motivated people who are strong in their lives normally 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. whole world wide to cope protests past 3000000 at the weekend with a to starving 24 new infections in india this month meanwhile in europe new data cases have stabilized after a 3rd wave but the sluggish vaccine campaign has been dealt a father a setback u.s. pharmaceutical giant pfizer has hiked prices on future orders for europe potentially raising the cost by more than 60 percent despite promises last year to keep the price down. if we would simply. free open markets 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 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 bite of 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 bulgar and prime minister pfizer was 12 years then became 15 year contracts are now been signed at a price of $19.00 europe's and the cost of the fires a shot could go up still further with the us firm saying people will be offered 3 doses instead of 2 we spoke with canary a senior consultant in disease control accident or 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 the 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 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 a pace as fast as possible that's what's called living in a global village it is our duty to do this.

countries are partially opening up travel for people who have been inoculated against it but not all vaccines are being treated equally the european commission has said that once green digital certificates are rolled out they'll only include shots recognized by the e.u. regulator so those who receive alternative vaccines such as russia but mcphee 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 authorities. when i was lending. my last cream in more school so the day after which she. saw i was. really fascinated and wrote that it really. was a scheme to the use of the. dollar that is the checkpoint. for sure. don't you know this they don't know because they didn't get an extra. from el salvador

a theme and then i ask you what does this is wish you would surely do because i'm technically. already got the sick condos they send me the moment there is no. extradition so i have to stay for a day in the single i mean to sort the situation is i could see very. well at least her some sector has been devastated by the pandemic with losses from last year estimated at more than 120000000000 euros if that also to more than 330000 job losses i just. think you government needs to be much clearer with its travel rules if it wants to bring back visitors. that. eve lukin that spontaneity is not here. and recognizes from. each of us you need to do with blood to me in your land. it's like if you are not

assuming you did indeed use absolutely crazy what do you freshen judas the mission would speak to me play here do you have to stay for. a meeting nobody would come to visit don't work around for example. or any way from any other . you understand that this is a very big problem you can be a really big problem for there for the summer tourist. he was ruling communist party has elected a new leader to replace raul castro. who had stopped until now was 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 stand 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 where 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 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'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 as an attack by the soviet union on the united state things eased up a little since then. of course the u.s. 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 lift sanctions 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 you will feel the troika of tyranny in this hemisphere cuba venezuela and nicaragua has finally met its match so if that you with tell 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. 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 social they will be you that will want to do it. here every day. well i spoke with. member of the cuba and venezuela solidarity committee she thinks that is unlikely to be any major policy shift on cuba's new data well it certainly is and 2 the leadership officially of you know fidel roll and other leaders of what they call the generation of the centenary 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 b.s. guy now 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 while does not seem or had you just have to wait until the short break to find out about as i said tighten.

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welcome back now the czech republic has toned down its obligations against russia over 2 explosions that happened more than 6 years ago prague is still saying the russian agents were responsible claim that schools take the top diplomatic expulsions but it's now clarified that on occasion saying it was not an act of state tara well for more on this i'm now joined by author don't quit in the studio don't we've seen diplomatic spouse and some mixed messages so let's just go through what's been said by prague what's been response well so still like you already said expelling moscow's diplomats accusing russia of blowing up a munitions factory 6 years ago by the way over 6 years ago by the way with the

same 2 people that they accused russia of something to poison the script balls back in 2018 these are some really bold moves and all of a sudden prague is backtracking on what it was saying so let's take a listen to what the pm said after he was done pointing the finger of russia. i'd like to read to read that it was not an act of state terrorism it was in the goods belonging to. the agents of the bulgarian businessman that is his ammunition he apparently sold the contras to russia so russia apparently blew up a warehouse in the czech republic and then that's not an act of state terror this just doesn't seem like prague really has its story straight especially when there was no evidence given to back up its claims still prague wasn't wasn't hesitant to risk a tit for tat response over it which we saw when moscow had called these claims absurd and expelled in response 20 czech diplomats and we also heard from the czech embassy in russia which said that as

a result of these expulsions their operations here were completely paralyzed so we did also hear though from the european union's chief diplomat that prague did not ask any other countries to follow suit in expelling russian diplomats in their own countries but these expulsions were by no means an isolated incident we also saw poland and the united states having tit for tat expulsions with russia as well while progs beef with russia goes even further it now wants russia to give up some of its embassies land in in the czech republic that was given to it back in the soviet union in the 1970 s. and russia immediately shot back saying that the czech embassy itself has a lot as a huge plot of land in moscow that it doesn't expect it to give up so this is certainly a confusing situation a lot of little political nitpicking definite confusing is that right watch that's that's some clarity if the coming days that was done to me. well another casualty of the diplomatic rift is a check nuclear power plant the czech republic has just announced it is barring the

russian state atomic. from bidding for the construction of the facility now back in january a chinese company was also excluded from the project on a legit security grounds the remaining bidders include french south korean and american corporations independent journalist martin summers thinks that is a simple explanation. the fact that their experience is clearly a political decision. it was a commercial decision and they would all be single and as many different it is as possible in order to get the 1st prolix unbundling brochure in showing 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 . in ukraine we've got a new administration united states that wants to send gary's messages so it's

clearly politics involved. let's head over to eastern ukraine where the self-proclaimed do not score public house accuse the ukrainian army of firing 15 mortar shells and violation of a truce technically in place that's 2050 mm hostilities flattop in late march with the warring sides accusing each other of selling their respective territories. in the region the residential area around the next 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 skin 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 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 flea 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 sniper shot the man there is no way that he couldn't see that he was a surreal and ukrainian army official. 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 poles our former colleagues on the other side said that we wouldn't have food 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 saran to different places ensure the but hasn't left the village currently a mother of 2 girls marina is expecting another daughter in the week despite being terrified from the endless sound of artillery fire she seems optimistic about the future of her unborn child so see that you did as that. 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 cos or have already alexandrov in the donetsk region. now the news 3 hours. israeli men have been arrested and officers injured as fireworks on rocks were hauled out israeli police amid rival demonstrations over the assault of a rabbi the religious leader was attacked as he entered a traditionally arab part of the city of tampa israeli jews rallied to gates the assault sparking a counter protest of arab israelis who lit street fires and attacked police. this comes at a time of alarm with some israeli jews over the country's shifting demographics jews now make up less than 3 quarters of the population compare that to 80 percent when the state was founded in 1948 the inflow of jewish immigrants is also

a historic low we asked people on the streets of tel aviv why that is the government in the country doesn't treat her citizen. fairly enough it's really expensive to leave it's really hard to to grow and to create new businesses in actually to succeed i think it's easier to do it in different countries these are simple the natural growth of jewish population was the higher rate of the jewish one that's just simple math count the number of children per jewish family and the number of children. you are the numbers are citizens of israel and it doesn't matter how many jewish or non jewish that's it we spoke with the needs of an immigration and joe in tel aviv he told us why growing numbers of normal jews are making a move to 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'd want to immigrate to today we're soon people from over 100 different countries wanting to come to israel. and that is bringing to 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. minority and that can have of course far reaching implications for a country that sees itself as a homeland for the jewish people. russian opposition activists say of ali has been moved to a prison hospital amid claims of detail rating health. expands on monday the russian state penitentiary service announced their decision to transfer of all need to

a regional hospital for prisoners now according to their statement his health is currently satisfactory and he has agreed to start taking vitamin supplements opposition activists has been on hunger strike since march 31st protesting the fact that his personal physicians have not been allowed to visit him and he said that he's been having medical issues just a few days ago one of his physicians said that his health is currently seriously deteriorating according to lab results that were shared with him but the state is insisting that all of his medical needs are being met on the as currently of course serving a 2 and a half year sentence for parole violations and over the weekend his supporters called for a nationwide demonstration to be held this wednesday over these recent developments with his health but since that rally is on authorized authorities are urging people not to participate. that's all from me for this hour but speaking r t if you still want more though head on over to r.t. dot com plenty of stories waiting for that and have a great day. is

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