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this is. a magical and commit suicide every 18 days in france as the pandemic pushes trainee doctors to breaking point. british doctors and nurses are also buckling under the strain of pandemic with one health care describing staff as cannon fodder. 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 in the meantime a pig's head thrown up in the my home of a witness. make
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sure you know mr story this is art international live from moscow hello and welcome . our 1st story for this hour is how a french union has sounded the alarm a shocking suicide rates among hospital trainees with thousands of in tons working around the clock during a pandemic the head of a union says the pressure is taking a catastrophic toll. terrible situation known since the start of john europe there has been one suicide the monk to go into every 18 days or shouted to bensky house more on the crisis facing those frontline medics and from. 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
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a normal week but that union told r.t. that during the covert 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 in term of 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 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
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the summer to try and find a solution to that but the union said that's not soon enough well as the couvade crisis continues to bite 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 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. while we spoke to a woman whose daughter walk to mechanic and took her life in 2019 even before the pandemic began the mother has now set up an organization representing the families of intones who have committed suicide during the crisis she says watching conditions have been on acceptable for years. my daughter died of professional
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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 task is unique because. always different specialties places work that ellis 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 more will die is this acceptable to hear from the health minister that if 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 no euro loss we should follow them full stop. well it's not just from one senior health walk in the u.k. has described the role as cannon fodder stuff have been treated like cannon 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 i'm permanently
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exhausted while the latest polls show the extreme pressure u.k. health. of the 90 percent want a significant pay rise with the government's one percent described as insulting $2.00 and $3.00 have considered quitting in the past year but the government claims that many and they obsessed off getting much more than a one percent raise over $1000000.00 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 john pontus co-chair of the keep our n.h.s. public he says the walk is a simply one out. well i think this is a real wake up call the government has to do something i mean n.h.s. 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
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to continue i think they feel absolutely worn out so overwhelmed at one point there were 50000 staff off sick with curb it so not so new work people covering for those but they were then coverage for a huge amounts of safely and this really means that all the stops to be pulled out and that many people also have to step up in certain ways of doing work that would normally be above their great 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 from the government is really insulting particularly when a 2 percent rise had already been budgeted for and this is left start feeling very demoralized cared for and worse and worse and frankly.
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we intend capital mentality has imposed a knock down off to a deadly side and covert case says fatalities have a daily record on tuesday bringing the nationwide total to all the 180000 hospitals across the nation also that have a crowded meaning patients are simply being timed away there are widespread reports of on balances no doubt with pontin's dropping off across the torrens and it's fair to the official death toll could last the true scan of the crisis public health expert i went up to told us that the situation is dire. the indian situation right now is very grim good girl doesn't really you know continue to go up it will be very difficult for them to sort of look you know really explored i think the current situation for indian government is will be to really ensure that they have enough supply for the misty population but do you who isn't about exports i think
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that is something which we now had to be the is the bigger issue is the lack of diagnosis because there are cases where people are not able to dig into the regular to go for 0 or different mccann ism and also i think the other german which is emerging is that it's hitting the population of a young girl each which was not the case in the in the wee one on monday india were just 270002 covert infections with numbers remaining close to record highs but while the caseload source the vaccine rollout is fayned up only a small fraction of the population has been inoculated that's despite india being the world's largest faxon producer manufacturing many of the top teams in the west india has also signed up to produce 200000000 doses probably to 92 countries as a part of the w.h.o. kovacs program although those supplies are now on hold the government's move to
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restrict vaccine exports to make up for domestic shortfall talk to bear from the delhi medical association told us that india can no longer afford to send its childs. is less than 10 percent and. he. didn't order. so many. to less to have the impact on the herd immunity and on the coverage of the effects it will be good to go for india. to keep pace with their international obligations. indeed you should work. for a lot or the countries. depending on india he couldn't leave britain. says. nice in new york say they have arrested the suspect in a deadly shooting which left one person dead and 2 injured at
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a supermarket on tuesday i believe she looking at live pictures from the scene right now a mosque to gunman entered a grocery store located on long island opened fire fatally wounding a 15 year old member of staff the shooter then fled the scene heading to an hour's long. within the next hour jurors are expected to reach a verdict in the trial of the former us police officer dart choked and accused of killing george floyd last may it's one of the most politicized murder trials in u.s. history the judge actually lashed out at a democratic congresswoman who crowds to get confrontational if jovan is acquitted . congresswoman 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
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especially in a manner that is disrespectful to the rule of law and to the judicial branch in our function on monday people count that outside the courthouse to demand justice for floyd at this protest on nearby streets chanting and singing but i legit calls for violence including those from congresswoman maxine waters helping resonating around the less the deaths of floyd on the block plan such as 20 right. confrontation and they put the judicial system under the mental strain as autons daughter of course reports. it's almost like something out of a bad hollywood movie remember derek show 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 is 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 falsely telling it is retired cop perry brought apparently made
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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 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 up. we're too nitty believe it or not does not. know. that math problems and. you got it right. congresswoman maxine waters didn't just stop at playing judge jury
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and executioner she actively called on people to defy a lawful curfew. that meant that they no. let's not forget it takes 2 to tango maxine waters is inciting violence in minneapolis just as she is the sun today in the past as speaker pelosi doesn't act against the strangest toric 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 over and the 2 parties see completely opposite they live in completely different reality so how does how do people come together i don't think they do i think. it's best if you are getting ever closer through. this simply choosing to not associate with one another we're
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never going to change the mind of the tension remember what happened with the outcome of the trial it's going to end with a vision he tweeted that you sides of this country. speaking out in support of congress what's this how speak up for example not to place he has said there's no need for want to apologize and that calling for a confrontation is within the spirit of the civil rights movement meanwhile need to pass times he's hoping speaking out. i don't think what she said and 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 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
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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 their in their very neighborhoods their very constituents wind up dying this is not the 1st time maxine has called for a confrontation she's been all rousing and rabid you've 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 impeached president donald trump for saying things that were for more but 9 while staying with the u.s. administration has apologized for what it called donald trump's renegade approach to the climate crisis. this could unleash a lot of over 2 confessions from the white house. we are very
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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 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 are 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 dances 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 any 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
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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 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 the 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 on surprisingly didn't come with a sorry for overstaying our welcome section but if those examples are too controversal want to start a little smaller. and apologize for the treatment and persecution of julian assange
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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 a whistleblower expose misconduct by the u.s. government point as 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 well i've got plenty more for you coming up the short breaks appeased you are quite yet.
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while new zealand is having 2nd thoughts over its role in the us 5 eyes intelligence alliance the country's foreign minister expressed her along home over the groupings on th china 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 so the 5 eyes alliance involves the us britain australia canada new zealand there's been a traditional focus on defense intelligence with agencies sharing data ranging from satellite images to surveillance and they very recent events it into open neat political statements the main target of that has been china which is new zealand's largest trading partner last spring the 5. new zealand publicly accused of
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violating the rights of the weak minority and hong kong protesters well back then beijing responded with a very stark warning. well and then went on with no matter if they had 5 eyes that is if they did china's sovereigntists security and development interests where that is being poked and blinded. let's bring in now chris phillips he's a former had told the u.k. national counter-terrorism security officer officer all that chris was very happy that you brought your insight to the program the 1st thing i want to ask you in your opinion doesn't even make a fat point that maybe the 5 eyes has started straying into the air out of politics and it sort of what beyond its remit well it certainly it was signals intelligence operation which risk really if gathering information told us and then sharing it with those that need it said no and of course over the last 2 years we have seen
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a movement away from that will addition to that in games the political sphere and to be quite astute so it's quite fair for new zealand to do what they want to do things in the 40 different way. we have to talk over say about what china said it was saying that it's ready to blind the 5 eyes do you think this is have just interacting statement on could we really see some kind of action coming from beijing well of course 6 you know the whole world works you know it's a round world trade integration so with china they go if it is in a lot of oh it's across the world and can cause economic damage in different ways and i think the fight always themselves are trying to do is to try to rein in some of this power that the trial is a massive and by doing that course you know it's a little it's not surprising that the chinese would. no new zealand prime minister to send autumn is sort of she sent me back choppy she insisted that the country
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doesn't have a problem with actually criticizing china but let's show that we make it we do it in appropriate platform is she sort of trying to have it both ways she's trying to keep everyone sort of satisfied and pleased with the country you know what i think she would not want to get rid of the thought of all. sharing. and i imagine that she she wants to deal with john ellis or a different way and as i said i think that's reasonable and you know for it to be finalized it was going to be working in unison that said there is a real problem with the way tone is approaching it looks different areas including . the before countries do generally feeling the same way about but what they're up to now are you surprised about the a different approach that is seen as a neighbor a stranger has taken because it's also very heavily dependent on china for trade what do they have to gain from antagonizing beijing in the way that they have done
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over the last months. well it's not it's not you know it is actually speaking out for what you believe in and they clearly feel that china is doing some bad things and want to talk about it and of course there will be repercussions i have questions from china who will get upset and see as meddling within that holders so this is these are the normal sort of issues you have with geopolitical politics but of course the world is such a small place now and you know the thought of always really does cover right across from me and china is seen as a bit of a threat to not only australia but so the other countries in the force. in your opinion do you think that this will have any bearing on the alliance between new zealand and the other partners but then 5 alliance oh no i don't i think i think they're making clear you know the thought of always as you said is is all of our
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intelligence again in the chair and your colleagues that is saying so no i have a problem i saw i think what what you will have these different countries have different ideas about how to do with an issue and that's clearly what you said earlier. in new zealand she feels as though she should try to join in a slightly different way to get to the same end. well side we're talking about some bacon powerful players here on the global stage still simply following not see how it all pans out how was that chris phillips former head of the u.k. national counter-terrorism security office thank you so much for coming on to the program. of wild biggest sports can manufacture that's nike has been forced to cancel a special edition series of basketball after allegations of racial exclusion so the tops was supposed to commemorate a unit of females u.s. pilots and wild will too.
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the council top. inspired by a plane flown by some of america's. planet's they was supposed 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 worked. back then and after an online campaign the team on the line in fact both backtracked nike 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
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a new nike rebel edition uniform design for the future we had conservative commentator christopher harris he thinks there was nothing offensive about the knees and the female was. an example for people of any race. why is it that we should not celebrate the accomplishments of whatever 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 it's unfortunate but our black and pilot black women pilots today yes they are this should be a perfect teaching moment instead of 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've they're missing a golden opportunity because they're so caught up in the cultural marxism in this idea of point temper tantrums that they're missing a perfect opportunity it was the nation's segregated yes it was segregated at that
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such but i do want to point out something a lot of people don't know if democratic party is the ones who so who segregated 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. that's how things are shaping up for now as of a thanks for stopping by any of those because next up on our clear top document medical to know what's about. to. happen planet another one of our is going to come the way to go for food. ballot
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