so join us in the depths. of the shallows. headlines when i see a clash of ideas e.u. leaders push back against washington's plan to waive. a thankless job with no prospects and you poll suggests 40 percent of french nurses want to change their profession. medical personnel. salaries are miserable and people are starting to understand what is really. broken out between israeli police and palestinian protesters ahead of a jewish nationalist march. of palestinian families from

east jerusalem. silenced for their views a former olympic weightlifter. female athletes are being told to be quiet about any issues they have with transgender athletes competing with other women. we need to we have to speak out. and anything we say. all right monday afternoon here in moscow this is the international for me you will receive the entire crew a very warm welcome to. european leaders have also turned their noses up at a u.s. proposal to waive patent rights to vaccines splits about the move appeared during

an e.u. summit just this weekend german chancellor angela merkel saying it would not solve the ongoing shortage of shocks across the globe. for me for me questioning patient protection here is not the path to lead us to more vaccines and that's a vaccines i have made it clear that i do not believe that the waving of peyton's is a solution to make that seems available to more people this was an idea mooted by the by didn't ministration last week they said you know what we can do is we can waiver the paintings back scenes which will allow the vaccine production to be ramped up in other countries because the portuguese who hadn't created ducks back scene would then be able to produce it it's an idea that the world health organization has welcomed but generally. welcoming this to the could germany be left out on its own in the cold over this issue taking the opposite side to this was france's president michael who suggested that the idea of wavering vaccine peyton's could be

a good idea opiate he flip flopped on this quite a few times over the weekend so it's yet to be determined where he will land on this particular issue he seemed to be incensed infuriated when he was pressed a press conference by journalists as with a europe should be following the us is a leader on this and he basically said us follow them i think you'll find it's the opposite way. i ask you the european press and almost psychological question when a year ago we europeans lost access to covert tools accelerator you didn't say oh you europeans have moral leadership of the us isn't following you and when the us follows us which is in fact what is happening you say are the us is showing leadership emanuel mako on though had his own criticism specifically for the us when it comes to the export ban on covert vaccines and on essential ingredients

needed by european produces to make the vaccine here drop them is what he demanded . i call it very clearly only. united states to win the export bans not only on vaccines but on components of those vaccines that are necessary for production we've killed back today saying it can't produce a vaccine in europe because components a block from the united states lift the export battens. just about this in context the e.u. has exported around 200000000 doses of vaccine is around the world at the same time the white house has pretty much put a blanket ban on any vaccines to leaving it she was in that comes at a time when this seems to be this grueling frustration this tension in the e.u. over the idea that basically the party didn't administration is not pushing forward its own agenda as if it's the one the needing to charge all the way through the code health crisis and some might be questioning whether in the future when this is

. the story that will be painted is that this is a. covert war that america won and glossing what's really happened meanwhile a new poll in france suggests 40 percent of nurses want to change their profession they complain of working conditions small salaries and a lack of recognition and perspective we spoke to a nurse. who says discontent among health workers had already been growing for quite some time. you know when i read in the newspapers the 40 percent now this is want to change that jumps i am terrified that they leave and want something else not because the crisis is pressed ration it's been building up of several decades and they have already expressed that by going out into the streets and demonstrating that those protests were violently suppressed in france the police often not true forceful repressive methods you saw what happened to the yellow vests and the demonstrations of medical personnel also brutally suppressed and

special forces clearly these in their powers so when the crisis hits employees who are already tired and devastated by then demanded recognition of their work and a pay rise but it never happens it was like somebody poured ice cold water on the french health care system which was ranked 3rd or 5th best in the world has turned out to be a fiction of medical personnel are exhausted salaries are miserable and people are starting to understand what is really going on. according to the poll 51 percent of nurses think their profession doesn't allow them to experience real career development or prospects nearly 2 thirds concert of a job to be thankless and more than 92 percent believe the health crisis has shown the role of duties of nurses must be reviewed on the issue of salaries as overconcerned as well more than 75 percent of working nurses less than the national

average with enormous pressure on the health care system during the pandemic salaries became one of the main issues for widespread protests among workers last year the government promised to spend an additional $8000000000.00 euros to boost the wages. again so if you're thought he'd have alternately failed medical workers . we were called heroes during the 1st wave but now the demanding that we do move than ever before and the directives that come from the government are a catastrophe bordering on criminal we have an invisible common enemy 19 and specialists from different fields of nice to fight and only the government fail to provide the medical staff with the necessary percents frequent and did not revise their working conditions i am simply horrified that the prime minister is talking on t.v. about some kind of victory they say we did not have to introduce enough to look down and this is a victory let him explain that to those who have lost their relatives to be honest

i don't understand what kind of victory we can talk about here. israeli police fired tear gas and stun grenades in new clashes with palestinian protesters at a holy site in jerusalem. the confrontation comes as israelis marked the annual jerusalem day to remember age the unification of jerusalem and the israeli control over the old city hardline israeli nationalists plan to march through the muslim quarter of jerusalem's old city later on monday and i knew all the event widely perceived as a provocative display of jewish germany over the contested city the clash was there the old city have already led to one incident i should warn you you may find the following video disturbing the jewish driver of a car rammed into a palestinian protester near the old city of a demonstrator was seen quickly getting to his feet and limping away the driver

claimed his car had been set upon by a mob and whilst trying to escape he lost control of the vehicle after that the protesters surrounded the car trying to attack the driver and passengers with rocks before an armed policeman arrived at the scene. the latest violence follows days of tensions over the possible eviction of palestinians from land claimed by jewish settlers israel says the seizures are necessary for security or clusters of the past few days have left almost 300 palestinians injured and here are some of the scenes from jerusalem on sunday. but.

tensions have reach maximum points here outside jerusalem as you can see the israeli soldiers are marching forward and they're ready to apply the full force of the law fans raney police have surged forward to arrest and number of people so you can see that that's happening over there and now people are going to run back because it's going to be stymied coming in our direction there are water bottles being thrown there are glass bottles being burnt rocks being thrown out it really is a game of people getting forward and then retreating and inserting forward into the israeli police are able to clear the area we are looking at the 3rd consecutive night of clashes here in jerusalem and at the same time this is the worst violence that the city has seen in 4 years tensions also combining high not just here in jerusalem but across the west bank what reinforcements has been voted and now the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has stated he will not allow strict elements to right here to introduce

a limb and he'll make sure that worshipers are able to practice the freedom of worship all of this of course is happening during the holy month of ramadan which is part of the reason why we seen this a take intensions also 2 things to watch for on monday they will be the annual jerusalem day commemoration in which thousands of israelis take part they march through the streets and they will be coming this way which is likely to provoke the situation which is why some have been calling for to be delayed and the other big story we've been watching is what's going to happen with the force in fiction are some 70 palestinians. from their homes in the arab israeli neighborhood of shared jarrah now they want supposed to be an announcement tomorrow by the supreme court but that has been delayed because of the tensions that we've witnessing here in jerusalem at the same time a court has gone out from her months to actually for people to come to the streets and provoke the situation the fact that the palestinian president mahmoud abbas and

different people spoke to palestinian elections that was supposed to happen later this month has also added to tensions and he believes the israelis on that so far on this violence one israeli youngster has been killed and one palestinian youngster has been killed so they are very barricades tensions holding high at the moment the way it looks at a far from over policia r t jerusalem. meanwhile in this footage you can see israel's iron dome defense system intercepting what was said to be 2 rockets fired from gaza on sunday night israel also says incendiary balloons have been launched from gaza sparking fires which burned for days the antiwar coalition's richard becker says the recent events marked the biggest spike in tensions between the 2 sides in recent years. netanyahu is hoping that somehow repression we're going to have our part of the problem that

he's placing with all the corruption charges and for what and somehow get him back into office but there's something much bigger at this point on here well i think that they understand and this is where the current case was postponed and they are now facing the possibility of a new mass rebellion so we're seeing something that we haven't seen in a long time and it's worth it really is a reaction to the increasing and intensified oppression and repression of the palestinians of. new zealand's former olympic weightlifter tracy lambrakis claims female athletes are being told to be quiet over any issues they have about transgender people participating in women's competitions whenever we have tried to speak out we've been told that we can't say that anything we do say that potentially leads are being taken so the human rights court so we've been

dissing carriage every step of the way and even to this day they still being told to be quiet and not talk about it laurel was overweight lestat before the transition so having transitioned in the thirty's that athlete would have still had the benefits of space suster own for 30 years so there's no way of the women making compete against a transient athlete who's had that been a sense of taste or strength for that long even with having to lower it they lowered it now it's still male 18 times the amount the average female is a reason why ends thought we do have male and female characters and by allowing this to happen it's just earlier in the lines. issues were 1st raised when transgender athlete laurel hubbard was allowed to compete as a woman before transitioning in 2030 and hubbard took part in men's weightlifting

competitions and later in 2015 she was permitted to take part in the olympics after the international olympic committee released rules for transgender athletes allowing them to compete as women. anyone who transitions from female to male is allowed to compete with other males without restrictions for those who transition from male to female face in conditions firstly the gender status has to be confirmed as female and hasn't been changed for at least 4 years and the level of testosterone has to be below 10 for at least 12 months and tracy line breaks again things the rules should be evolving as the sport does he needs to be more research just. looking into the facts and making sure that everyone is on the same pay whether or not the rules of stay here that's what needs to be discussed these roles were i think developed in 2013 or 2013 we're now in 2021 so i feel like the bulls should be evolving as well and

as. people of all because people are coming out now whole transgendered and i think that we just need to keep up with science why should i compete when i'm never going to be able to one because of that's what i'm up against and i think it seems well to have women dropping out of school which is not what we want we want to increase in women planes full of you are watching a lot international still to come here on the program u.s. politicians are seemingly split over the president's emergency rescue package they say it might be more of a hindrance than a help to the economy that's story on more and less than one minute. will. the world is driven by dreams shaped by thinkers and those with.

the day or thinks. we dare to ask. the problem with having money printing and also near 0 percent or 0 percent interest rates is that it destroys price signals in the economy because you're saying the.

because. when it comes to relations with russia the e.u. seems to be a mixed signals so. it's time for cooperation with. the czech prime minister old. at least one russian. discuss the whole issue with. if you're trying to understand policy towards russia in recent days good luck because for a block his premise is unity and cooperation that's some real splintering here on monday foreign minister came out in the century said that brussels needs to stop pushing ties with russia to an irreparable brink we're certainly in

a difficult phase of our relationship with russia between slovak and russia but also collectively between the european union and russia we need to stop the negative spiral of our relationship now germany supports the sentiment says it's time to mend fences with russia so there's one camp that's working to repay rebuild news that the kremlin welcomes but on the other hand another camp has emerged and its future is the czech republic weeks off to prague out of the blue and without any evidence accused russian agents of being behind an explosion of a weapon step in 2014 and expelled russian diplomats has punishment it's now asking all the e.u. nations to jump on its bandwagon and also kick out some russian officials on top of that it's also apparently going to demand financial compensation from moscow for that explosion to the tune of $39000000.00 euros now whether the whole block will take a sledgehammer to its ties with russia and fulfill progs wishes is pretty unlikely

partly because the whole explosion story is so far from watertight 1st off it was a case that ran cold for 7 years and suddenly it was resurrected from the dead the 2nd thing is that the investigation is still ongoing but already the blame has been laid at the kremlin still spit but the most bizarre thing is that the czech president himself came out and said he see nothing that would suggest russian responsibility and that this anti russia hysteria has to stop this is the czech president himself why would he want to undermine his own country for that state and he was actually accused of treason so like i said good luck trying to get to the bottom. what it what what it is that the e.u. wants from russia is it dialogue or is it a deterioration of ties the individual states understandably i think at times looking after their individual interest but of course they're all part of this union as the been any kind of unifying message to come out of brussels well i think 1st off we need to talk about what russia's position is because russia's made it very clear from the beginning that it's always open to dialogue but when prague

expelled the russian diplomats when talk of sanctions and much it did speak out pretty strongly it said that this was all an ethic the e.u. state to quote please the western leader now off the back of that regarding brussels and its statement i do want to listen to something that we heard from one of its representatives our relations with the u.s. is changing now we have a strong partnership this became especially clear after the g. 7 summit will discuss russia with which on the contrary relations are not improving what we just heard from the route is an incredibly strange statement because essentially the suggestion is that good relations with the u.s. are dependent on bad relations with russia and that kind of rhetoric does nothing to dispel rumors that a western leader is pushing e.u. russia ties to the cliffside so like i said it's all really entangled infighting within the e.u. infighting within the czech republic and with prague diverging so much from its

neighbors setting up its own campaign you have to ask is it doing it for itself or is it doing it as someone else's behest. a protest has been held outside tokyo's national olympic stadium against this summer's games which are due to be held in the city for less than 3 months before the event gets underway following last year's postponement due to the whole pandemic by demonstrators marched around the stadium at the same time as a test event was being held inside with around $400.00 athletes an online petition in japan calling for the olympics to be cancelled as already collected more than 200000 signatures since being launched on friday it all comes as japan has just extended a state of emergency in tokyo and 3 other areas until at least the end of the month amid a surge in covert cases well a recent poll shows almost 60 percent of those quizzed want the games to be called off just over a 3rd think they should go ahead and of those around

a 5th think there shouldn't be any spectators so we hit the streets for the people's reaction. in my opinion this is because the lives and livelihoods of many people have been neglected for the sake of their lympics of course the pandemic masses and for their lympics the outdoor sleepers the homeless people and the people in their apartment complex as they were in the uk did from here there are many problems like that happening i believe that they leave fixed must be stopped immediately and must be abolished. it's a celebration of nationalism edges criminal saree and exclusionary event it's also a very near liberal ultra capitalist event where only a small percentage of people will benefit in order to make money and we will all be cut off that's why i'm against such a. recent us jobs report paints a grim picture of the country's unemployment rate some blame biden's relief package

for holding back any chance of an improvement despite its good intentions r.t.c. could have done off it's been assessing the political divisions over how to jumpstart america's economy. when biden became president democrats of relief could probably be heard from space now it was all going to be fine even a once in a lifetime pandemic battering america's economy didn't rattle of their faith and defying all odds biden was predicted to create a whopping 1000000 new jobs in april alone and then the actual figures came in it looks like she wanted 66000. it looks like it was a bit disappointed to 66 but maybe i have it wrong if you double checked the bureau website here one search for yes to 66 is correct yeah and that was his face before he found out about also the surge in unemployment so expectation versus reality biden's excuse well you shouldn't have got your hopes up

in the 1st place we knew this wouldn't be a sprint would be a marathon quite frankly removing more rapidly than i thought we would today there's more of a looser economy is moving in the right direction just to put things into perspective this is the sort of treatment trump was getting as president during the 1st 3 years before the pandemic sent the world's finance into a death spiral bundled sent mainstream journalists bent over backwards to deny him the credit for the u.s. economy actually doing well trump is sitting pretty on a solid economy and he likes to take credit for it he inherited an economy that was improving it is really hard to think of things donald trump has actually done to make the economy better trump pales in comparison to recent presidents help economy is bailed to top the best quarters of the obama years so the hope was

a biden landed himself in must be boiling by now not so much apparently unlike trump he's not the villain it's actually kind of funny which are going to go 266000 jobs the economy it's a disappointment jobs are still gaining back we are still more jobs are still being added president biden is pitching his efforts truckster bill as a way to fill that jobs gap coming out of this pandemic it's challenging you know we have different conditions across the country we can see the rescue plan really doing its job we're seeing that our economy is still growing we're still recovering and you might say well there is still a pandemic and you'll be absolutely right it's not making things any. easier except covert 19 is not the only culprit keeping americans out of work the other one is biden and he's very generous stimulus checks why would you seek a job when the government is literally showering you with free money the disappointing jobs report makes it clear that paying people not to work is dumping

what should be a stronger jobs markets $1.00 step policymakers should take now is ending the $300.00 weekly supply mental unemployment benefits based on the chamber's analysis the $300.00 benefits results in approximately one in 4 recipients taking home more in unemployment that they earned working a great many of kentucky ends and americans look at the situation and find they are better off financially to stay home rather than go back to work but it's not trump who put the dollar printing press into overdrive so there's no need for personal attacks let's all stay civil the biden administration speaks as if it can control all events and that is just simply not true this is a fantasy right now they're extending the unemployment benefits merely because they want to pay people to vote for them it's all political but the economic result is a huge shortage of labor for business and it and it's harming business binds using the political chaos in this country to pass twilley and trillions of spending bills

that are a complete unnecessary waste of money the policies of the bottom is traditionally seen just over the last 3 months have been like nothing we've ever seen and in american history just an absolutely irresponsible thing the jobs report that came out that was disappointing is just the beginning we will continue to see shocking reports over the coming months and they're going to get worse and worse. i that's a news program for this hour here on international just pop up half past 3 in the afternoon here thanks for joining us we're back soon hope you can join us at the top of the. remembering the board on this edition of the program we explain why the russians

have an aversion to war contrary to what is said in the west. at the recent g 7 foreign ministers meeting russia was declared reckless and expressed is really reckless and aggressive. i'm actually fancy watching going underground the team and i will be back for a new season with a brand new look on international nurses day wednesday the 12th of may but until then we'll be showing some of your favorite shows from this season stay safe and we'll see you then. you know a moment i'll speak to the former president of the islamic republic of iran this in a week when the u.s.s. nimitz aircraft carrier has been reportedly sent to iran's maritime borders and donald trump secretary of state at least for a few days might pompei oh the former cia director has made it the national press

club in washington d.c. what is being seen as seemingly outrageous claims about iran being now allied to al qaida well joining me from tehran the iranian capital now is the former president of iran dr mark rood up and in john thanks so much for coming on i'm going to ask you right off the top. because i haven't spoken to you since what did you make of the assassination of professor most and their factories. not far from where you are right now where you're talking to me from. in the name of god the compassionate and the merciful oh god may you hasten the advent of your advice judgment and bestow upon him health and triumph. and let us be among the best of his supporters and advocates. and those who spare no effort before his advocate. or total.