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that is the risk with you that you have given it to them. but i think this is the. work of. a medical in turn commit suicide every 18 days and from the pandemic pushes trainee doctors to breaking point. british doctors and nurses are also buckling under the strain of the pandemic with one health worker describing stop as $104.00. and the charge in the george floyd death trial accuses a democratic congresswoman of putting the entire process in jeopardy after she called for a confrontation if there's a not guilty verdict meantime a pig's head is thrown at the former home of
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a witness. who always here no matter what time of the day you decide to choose this is an international from the whole team here in moscow. well 1st up this hour a french union has sounded the alarm at shocking suicide rates among hospital trainees with thousands of in tons working around the clock during the pandemic the head of the union says the pressure is taking a catastrophic toll. terrible situation known since the start of john europe there has been one sues the mung to go into every 18 days or solid team penske has more on the crisis facing those front line budgets and france. 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
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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 cold 900 pandemic things are so bad that some interns are working up to 100 hours every week. 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 interned 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 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 intern's now they've met with the health minister here in france in the
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last few days and he has said that they will be measures put in place to once the end of the summer to try and find a solution to that but the union said r t that's not soon enough well as the couvade crisis continues to buy taylor in france it looks as if there is no rest bite that's going to come at least in the next few weeks even months for doctors nurses and of course those in turns really it seems that despite the fact that france is now in this lockdown the needs and demands on medical staff from doctors right the way down to those interns is as much as it ever was well we spoke to a woman his daughter walk to mechanic and took her own life in 2019 even before the pandemic began among. has now set up an organization representing the families of intense who have committed suicide during the coverts crisis she says that working
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conditions have become an acceptable over the past few years. my daughter died of professional burnout because of the conditions you work and study and because of the complete absence of measures to prevent psychosocial risks in the hospital where she works in every situation every death is unique the context is always different specialties places work little list cases are clearly related to working conditions they were overwhelmed at work there were also cases of harassment and study pressure but what they all have in common is that working conditions made them more psychologically vulnerable they weren't like that in the 1st place if we wait till summer how many were die is this acceptable to hear from the health minister that when we don't accept the fact that by summer we'll lose another 5 or 6 people until we finally have time to solve the problem know their loss should follow them full stop the question. well it's not just in the province one senior health worker in the u.k. has described their role as cannon fodder stuff have been treated like cannon
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fodder if i didn't need the money i would have resigned which is soul destroying because they used to love my job but now it feels more with dread and permanent exhausted the latest polls show the extreme pressure u.k. health workers are under more than 90 percent want a significant pay rise with the government's one percent offer described as insulting 2 and 3 have considered quitting in the past year the government claims that many n.h.s. staff are getting much more but not one percent raise over 1000000 n.h.s. staff continue to benefit from multi-year pay deals agreed with trade unions which have delivered a pay rise of over 12 percent for newly qualified nurses and will increase junior doctors pay scales by 8.2 percent. we spoke to dr tuan pun tesco child n.h.s. public who says that was a 7 point one out well i think this is a real wake up call the government has to do something i mean n.h.s.
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managers are not know they could be vocal in their criticisms of government but this is a survey which shows they are extremely worried about how the service will be able to continue i think they feel absolutely worn out so well at one point there were 50000 staff off sick with crew so not so new work people covering for those but they were then coverage for huge amounts of safety and this really means that all the stops of the pulled out and there are many people who also have to step up in terms of doing work that would normally be above the a grade if you like but nurses standing in a doing work there with the job i don't see troops officer they've taken on that issue your response to this is so i think there really is a feeling of exhaustion and i think the one percent pay off for a little government is really insulting particularly when
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a 2 percent rise it already been budgeted for and this is left start feeling very sick moralize cared for and worse and worse frankly. the trial of former us police officer tax haven in the death case of george floyd is expected to resume i want to stay in the public violence in the wake of one staff has spilled over with democratic congresswoman maxine waters even reporting on crowds to get more confrontational a move the judge warned could lead to the whole trial being a photon and. players when waters was talking specifically about this trial and about the unacceptability of anything less than a murder conviction i was elected officials will stop talking about this case especially in a manner that is disrespectful to the rule of law and to the judicial branch of our function crowds gathered outside the courthouse to demand justice for floyd while all those protested on nearby streets chanting and singing but
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a legit cools for violence including those from congresswoman waters have been resonating around the us the deaths of her weight and all that black men such as dante right have started up hatred sparked a confrontation and put the judicial system under an immense strain on coursera reports. it's almost like something out of a bad hollywood movie remember derek shelvin the ex cop whose actions led to the death of george floyd well someone threw a severed pig's head at his defense witnesses former hall and the police think someone was trying to send a message it appears the suspects in this found listen with targets in mr broad's his testimony because mr broad no longer lives in the city of santa rosa it appears the victim was full seitel it is retired cop perry brought apparently made a big mistake when he testified that george floyd's death was an accident in normal times maybe that wouldn't be such a big deal but children's trial is going on at the very same time we're seeing
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nonstop protests and clashes with police in minnesota over the more recent police shooting of 20 year olds do want a right. with us falling deeper and deeper into a freefall of partisan division there's always a politician that's looking to turn chaos into an opportunity. not. that. congresswoman maxine waters didn't just stop at playing judge jury and executioner she actively called on people to defy a lawful curfew. but
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let's not forget it takes 2 to tango walters is inciting violence in minneapolis just as she has the sun today in the past as speaker pelosi doesn't act against this dangerous with tarik i will bring action this week liberals and conservatives 2 sides that will seemingly do anything to get a leg up on the other it should come as no surprise then that even the legal. system is becoming a victim of the 2 party system is political games we're living in a world where you look at something like the case of george overthrow and the 2 parties see completely opposite things completely different reality and so how does how do people come together i don't think they you know i think. it's the best it's good to get ever closer to. simply choosing to not associate with one another we're never going to change the mind of the tension or what happens with the outcome of the trial it's going to end the visions between the 2 sides of this country well as
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also being plenty of democrats speaking out in support of congresswoman waters house speaker nancy pelosi has said there's no need for to apologize not quoting for confrontation as it were then the spirit of the civil rights movement meanwhile she's also been speaking out i don't think what she said in any way should we should criticize her for of course we should be more confrontational do you really think she's calling for violence and most people know that that's not true. and the people who are speaking out against her or using it politically i don't think that maxine meant anything by that except to say you have to stick with a you know you have to be there she's she's fine as far as i'm concerned well 1st off they've got the mainstream american media in their back pocket but this is by any means necessary you know this is rules for radicals this is whatever it takes to get the job done and they don't care apparently if people are going to die in
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their in their very neighborhoods their very constituents wind up dying but this is not the 1st time maxine has called for a confrontation she's been all rousing and rather she's been a rabble rousing in rousing this type of violence going back you can go back to the o.j. simpson trial you can go to michael brown you can go to many different cases listen they impeach president donald trump for saying things that were for more benign. stateside biotin administration has apologized for what it called trump's renegade approach to the climate crisis. if this could unleash a flood of over 2 confessions from the white house. we are very sorry for the last 4 years with a president who didn't care about science fair enough right from pulling out of the paris agreement kashyap waves around the world and one of the 1st things biden did
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after bumping trump out of the white house was to rejoin it i'm all we're at it maybe there's some other things from the past 4 years you guys want to apologize for on behalf of trump there's plenty to choose from though that could take a while and dems were pretty vocal about condemning all that stuff at the time so maybe that's a given so what about apologizing for biden's controversial past stance as he's had a long political career after all and then there's the whole inappropriate touching thing i'm sorry this happened but but i'm not sorry in the sense that i think i did anything that was intentionally designed to do anything wrong or be inappropriate ok not quite taking responsibility there maybe it's only about apologizing for past administrations so if anyone searching for ideas on where to start look no further let's start with the biggie the 1st and only use of atomic bombs in a war it's been over 75 years since hiroshima and nagasaki were devastated by the actions of the us but not even obama was willing to make apologies for that in the
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midst of war leaders make all kinds of decisions it's the job of historians to. ask questions and examine them ok how about another war where dangerous weapons were used agent orange in vietnam for example and let's not forget about that forever war that biden has just promised to actually end after 20 years of bloodshed but we cannot continue the cycle of extending or expanding our military presence in afghanistan hoping to create ideal conditions for the draw and expect you to different result that withdrawal speech surprisingly didn't come with a sorry for overstaying our welcome section but if those examples are too controversial why not start a little smaller. and apologize for the treatment and persecution of joy in assault and perhaps even drop the charges against him since his case threatens the very idea of journalistic freedoms but now what was i thinking how dare
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a whistleblower expose misconduct by the us government point is if apologies are going to be handed out there are plenty of people waiting in the wings to hear them but something tells me that isn't going to happen i'll never apologize for the united states of america ever i don't care what the facts are good ole bush sr telling it like it is i've got plenty more stories here off the short breaks that i got about quite yet.
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so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy the infantry shouldn't let it be an arms race is forms of skiri dramatic development the only thing we resist i don't see how that strategy would be successful very critical time to sit down and tom. welcome back and now new zealand is having 2nd thoughts over its role in the us 5 eyes intelligence alliance the country's foreign minister expressed her alarm over
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the groupings unteach china's stance it's a matter that would have raised with 5 eyes partners that were uncomfortable with expanding their remit or the 5 r's relationship that we would much rather prefer looking for multilateral opportunities to express how we interests on a number of issues all the 5 boys alliance involves the us britain australia canada and new zealand there's been a traditional focus on defense intelligence with agencies sharing data ranging from satellite images to surveillance and they've only recently ventured into political statements the main target of that has been on china which is new zealand's largest trading partner last spring the 5 eyes minus new zealand publicly accused of violating the rights of the weak of minority and hong kong protesters well back then beijing responded with a very stark warning. no matter if they had 5 eyes that.
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china's sovereigntists security and development interests but with their eyes being poked and wind. are joining us now is phillip ingram a former british military intelligence officer philip thanks so much for joining us this evening the fund i wanted to ask you so clearly new zealand is not particularly comfortable with what china sees as this guy ganging up on it do you think the we could see. we've been away from the alliance all together. no longer think the the terminology 5 eyes has been used for 2 different things here you rightly identified it as an intelligence sharing agreement with other wider pieces there that is solid the politicians find it comfortable because you've got a group of nations with similar backgrounds similar political histories know the rest of it to discuss things together in global politics and they tend to refer to the 5 eyes discussion as well but it's not linked to the intelligence agreements
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that are in players so it's a it's purely a political discussion that's going on and relationships in the southern hemisphere between australia new zealand china and a lot of the other major players are there are going to be different to those that are northern hemisphere best with the u.s. canada and the u.k. and it's not unusual that you're going to get difference differences in foreign policy and that doesn't mean that there's any problem with the $5.00 intelligence sharing alliance that's there why quickly want to pick up you mentioned straight obviously that southern hemisphere it's close to new zealand do you think that it would chad the same attitude but a stranger we know is also having depends of course on china for trade but a strain has been slightly more critical shouldn't they be more worried about father antagonizing beijing. well stress really is a very interesting position there's a lot of the strain in industries. for example strain mining and all the rest of our own by chinese companies however australia is politically very different at the
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moment new zealand's political position a new zealand being so isolated it can have a strong political stance quite easily and it's not really going to affect things that much it needs to make sure that it is working with different partners around the region from from a diplomatic perspective and the new zealand foreign minister is exactly right you know it's better that countries work together than work apart but that from a diplomatic perspective is not the same as making sure that the intelligence sharing agreements are on players and have been in place for quite some time or lived up to. do you think maybe that there is a concern that the 5 eyes is on the cusp of dictating policy in the sense that it's touching upon issues at least from new zealand's perspective the same sort of exists beyond the remit of 5 eyes is it slightly stepping outside of what its initial papias was well again i think this comes out of the confusion of the use of
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the language you know the 5 eyes agreement is purely intelligence. but the terminology is used in political circumstances in the same way that people will use the nato alliance has said this is part of political political and military but it sometimes is seen to overstep what's going on there is another alliance called which is a strange. kind of usa and u.k. it has got new zealand as part of it and that's used in military terminology and sometimes used in political terminology so the terminology is interchangeable in an unhelpful way because it doesn't. actually deal with the underlying issue that has to work came from 5 eyes and is an intelligence sharing agreement and it will stay that way. well sucking with beijing saying that it wants to blind to the 5 will definitely be following it sounds quite dramatic. it was i would love to don't you but we've run out of time that was former british military intelligence officer
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thank you so much for giving us your insight. in the meantime the search for germany's next leader his turning into an unpopularity contest after the country's most popular politician pulled out in favor of one of its least linked it is now the front runner to replace chancellor merkel after september selections peter out of up picks up the story. well it's put to bed what had been weeks months certainly a very tense last few hours of debate and discussion over exactly who would be standing for the chancellorship from the concert of union here in germany that's made up of the christian democratic union party and the christian social union party their bavarian sister outfit we do know now it will be our main lash it the 60 year old leader of the state of north rhine-westphalia has been put forward by the party and agreed on by the party as the next counted it and angela merkel has
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just given him her blessing in september's election it comes after markets who's the leader of the state of bavaria gave a concession speech on tuesday lunchtime that followed on from they a vote which the top brass of the party gave their backing to unlatch it. had said that he would respect whatever the result of the vote was and he's done just not even if this if i do is cast it will be the c.d.u. c.s.u. candidate for chancellor my word which i have given stones i told him that we as the c.s.u. accept it we offered him our full support the christian democratic union top brass may have given their backing to our men lash it but that doesn't mean that senior conservatives across the board are in favor of the man from north rhine-westphalia and in fact we've heard from marcus billionaire who's the secretary general of the christian social union this was speed him speaking on monday saying he wanted
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markets over for the job and he wasn't the only one it's been a week of deliberation know the days of decision come are over for is marcus is inspires the union and people across the country we are experiencing a great response from marcus is now it's time for the city you. very much seen as the continuity candidate when it comes to christian democratic you. union policy market zada would have represented certainly a bit of a change there's never been a chancellor from the christian social union in fact the union of the 2 parties only ever put forward a c.s.u. chancellor 2 times before neither of course were successful in that final ballot when you look at a poll that came out on tuesday morning it's quite clear that world according to this poll by the german broadcast r.t.l. the public really quite fun seed markets as the next chancellor to do a bit more context when the public were asked if they would vote for an unnamed
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celebrity from outside of politics 6 percent said they would do that a lot of eyes will be looking on the how the vaccination program across germany develops during the 2nd quarter of 2021 a lot of hope was packed behind art in the 2nd quarter would be when germany's very slow and sluggish vaccination program got back on track what we are looking at and where the smart money is going at the moment for you to bet on these type of things would be on a coalition between the conservative union and the green party now the greens announce their chancellor candidates on monday that will be. bach she's the 1st chancellor counted at the green party of put forward the greens currently all around 21 percent of opinion polls they'll be hoping they can try and get more than that because they see themselves potentially leading the next government that would be a big shake up in german politics but there is
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a long time to go yet between now and that election on the 24th of september. finally the world's biggest sports gear manufacturer night has been forced to cancel a special edition series of basketball jazz's after allegations of racial exclusion the tops was supposed to commemorate a unit of female u.s. pilots in wild will too. well the council top featured a star inspired by a plane flown by some of america's 1st female minute to planets they were suppose
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to be worn by the dallas wings which plays in the new n.b.a. but critics branded the local racist on the grounds that black women were. on and off for an online campaign the team and the money factor backtracked. the w n b a and the dallas wings recently learned the history of the program does not align with our shared values of diversity equity and inclusion as a result the dallas wings will not wear this uniform on court nike and its partners are removing it from retail and nike and the wings will work together on a new nike rebel edition uniform design for the future we had from conservative commentator christopher harris he thinks that was nothing offensive about the chassis and female war heroes as an example for people of any race. why is it that we should not celebrate the accomplishments of what group of people simply because someone else was not able to perform or was not celebrated was it unfortunate they did it that they did not allow black women to become pilots yes
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it's unfortunate but our black palette black women pilots today yes they are this should be a perfect teaching moment and center saying no we're not going to celebrate those will they should say hey you know what this is how it was but now let's forehead and run a campaign where we should all black women fighter pilots today that's what should be out there today but they think they're missing a golden opportunity because they're so caught up in the cultural marxism and this idea of point temper tantrums that they're missing a perfect opportunity was the nation's there gave it yes it was segregated at that site but i do want to point out something a lot of people don't know if democratic party is the ones who so to segregate in this country in the real world in real america americans don't really care about the skin color of their of their neighbors it's the marxist stylistic it's putting one group against another it's pitting black against white let's go buy from us thanks for stopping by since i.
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