trainee medics in france are pushed to the breaking point by the pandemic with committing suicide every 18 days on average according to a doctor's union. pharmaceutical giant pfizer the cost of its vaccine by 60 percent in the. new turn. the czech republic accuses russia. an explosion back in 2014 but terrorism

and refuses to release any evidence. international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now more than a year into the pandemic trainee doctors and nurses in france are feeling the toll of an intense workload on the front line this according to the national union of medical internes there is now an average of one suicide every 18 days among youngsters working in hospitals are. reports now 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 could be 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 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 and among attempted suicides it was 70 percent 4 percent of trainees had attempted suicide and that was before the current crisis before an interim 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 so weak 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 that out for each of one student taking that 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 vary and i also want to tell you a little bit about one mother who's also been speaking to 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 precious different places but they all had one thing in common and the one thing in common was the clothes that they were under the rock back breaking clothes she said this is a situation where intelligent motivated people who are strong in their lives know 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 them. worldwide covert deaths past 3000000 over the weekend with a disturbing 20 fold surge in new infections in india this month meanwhile in europe new delhi cases have stabilized after a 3rd wave but the sluggish vaccine campaign has been dealt a further setback u.s. pharmaceutical giant pfizer has hiked prices on future orders of its job for europe potentially raising the cost by more than 60 percent that is despite promising last year to keep the price down. if we were. implements free open markets 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 stew it's because that's really taking advantage of a situation and people will not forget if you do is out vaccines are very expensive

they say if human lives the yellow economies to reopen but we saw them at the price of a meal pfizer was already the most expensive covered 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 contracts with an even higher price were revealed by the bulgarian prime minister pfizer was 12 years then became 15 year contracts are now being signed at a price of $19.00 europe's and the cost of the pfizer shot could go up still further with the us firm saying people will be offered 3 doses instead of 2 we spoke with bharat. a senior consultant in disease control at exit or medical school he says that 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 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 a runaway uncontrolled infections in the poorer nations what will happen is that is the right recipe for where it is of concern to emerge so it is in of our own self-interest to immunize the world at pace as fast as possible that's what's called living in a global village it is our duty to do this. several countries are partially opening up travel for people who have been inoculated against go ahead but not all vaccines

are being treated equally the european commission has said that once a green digital certificates are rolled out they will only include shots recognized by the e.u. regulator so those who receive alternative vaccines including russia's sputnik v are likely to be shut out of the scheme one italian businessman who traveled to russia to get vaccinated tried to get clarification from his local authorities. when there was landing in. after my last 3 more school so exactly the day after which to do so was saw i was let's see needed and when i wrote that it. was us going to the full use of the. lord it is the checkpoint. for sure. i don't do no more and they said they don't know because they didn't get an instruction from hell. and there are no i ask what does this is really do because in technically. already got the sick condos they send me the

moment there is no any. so i have to stay 14 the single i'm going to sort the situation is that i could see very. little tourism sector has been devastated by the pandemic with losses from last year estimated at more than 120000000000 euros and it has led to more than 330000 job losses. again think the government needs to be much clearer with its travel rules if it wants to bring back visitors. easy. even that spooked in the is not good. and recognizes from. each of us you need to do with splitting the new land to eat only it's like if you are not to see me in these absolutely crazy what do you freshen jude is the mission

with. a slate here do they have to stay for. a meeting nobody would come to visit don't want to count really for example. any way from any on the ground to. you in the summer this is a very big probably even can be a really big problem for there for the summit to just. cuba's ruling communist party has elected a new leader to replace raul castro miguel diaz who is already the country's president will now take the post of 1st secretary castro announced his departure last friday and that same day declassified files were released showing he had been the target of a cia assassination attempt as early as 960 archies explains. raul castro reveals he's stepping down what better time. aim to disclose your country mule 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 carriage drew regime. will not change by its own choice. but cuba must change not me 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 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. was 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 that you without the secretary of the united states is deliberately lying by calling cuba a sponsor of terrorism this is slander and an insult 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 roll 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 about who want to do it i read it every day. gloria a member of the cuba and venezuela solidarity committee thinks of anna is unlikely to make major policy shifts under the new leader 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 davis explained over and over it is a revolution a continuation and that the new leadership with me again the esko 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 cast showing 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 put down. the czech republic has toned down its allegations against russia over 2 explosions that happened more than 6 years ago prague is still saying a russian agents were responsible a claim that has caused tit for tat diplomatic expulsions although it has now clarified the allegations saying that it was not an act of state terror act he's done quarter comment. expelling moscow's diplomats accusing russia of blowing up of

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 sending 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 an attack on goods belonging to. the agents of the bulgarian businessmen and that is his ammunition he apparently sold to the contras the blues to russia it 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 and 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 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 the czech republic that was given to it back in the soviet union during 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. 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 nuclear firm ross adam 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 bidders include french south korean and american corporations independent journalist martin summers thinks that there is a simpler explanation for the fact that there excluding was clearly a political decision. it was a commercial decision and they would all be single and as many different good as possible in order to get the best products and bally russian chillingly from getting to this work ringback is to do with the general deterioration in relations between russia and china and the western powers we know the tensions are very holy . crane we've got a new administration in the united states that wants to send various messages so it's clearly politics involved. on the eastern ukraine now where the

self-proclaimed done the republic 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 in their respective territories. is in the region for us. the residential area around airport is basically deserted every single house here is either damaged or it's been completely destroyed like this one for example we don't know where the local residents are some of them have left the area of the nazca and some of them have moved to other places as i understand there are around 7 people living here with thousands of empty houses across town is the suburb of alexandria va where i like around the airport people decided to stay despite 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 was fully 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 the. ukrainian army officials deny 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. where they really were 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 flowed through city until they liberate us liberate us from woods 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 to different place eventually but hasn't left the village currently a mother of 2 girls marie may's 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 she did it 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 it's aches 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. in the donetsk region. 3 arab israeli men have been arrested and officers injured as fireworks and rocks were hurled at 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 jaffa israeli jews that rallied against the assault sparking a counter protest of arab israelis who lit street fires and attacked. this comes at a time of alarm amid some israeli jews over the country's shifting demographics jews and now make up less than 3 quarters of the population compared to 82 percent when the state was founded in 1988 the inflow of jewish immigrants is also historic

low we asked people on the streets of tel aviv why that's the case. the government in the country doesn't citizen good fairly enough it's really expensive to leave it's really hard to grow and to create new business. 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 we spoke with the leader of an immigration and geo in tel aviv he told us that while the jewish influx is declining more and more people of other backgrounds are moving to the country 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'd want to immigrate to today we're soon people from over 100 different countries wanting to come to israel. and that has bring into a decline in the jewish population we are seeing the decline of the majority which may bring in the future for a situation where the most growing minorities will demand to change the status of israel as a jewish state even if we don't reach a situation with the jews or absolute minority and that can have of course far reaching implications for a country that sees itself as a homeland for the jewish people. russian opposition activist alexina vali has been moved to a prison hospital amid claims of a deteriorating health and he's juggling vogue explains. on monday the russian state penitentiary service announced their decision to transfer unexplained 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 now and 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 or there's a female back to your headlines in 35 minutes this is our chief international.

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a little story on money in politics yeah it's one of the oldest stories in the history of humanity since the moment society 1st decided to you know organize itself and those with wealth and means have spent gifted and bribed those in leadership often successfully 0 in effort to maintain and enlarge or gorge their bast sums of money and power this song and dance of political bribery by those with means cuts through all political affiliations and parties from democracy to communism theologies to monarchies to socialism to colonialism all throughout history those things have been infiltrated influenced than fallen victim to those with wealth and means and while yes money in politics as i said is an old story one that we've heard countless times before that doesn't make it any less important or less deadly in fact quite.