we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter what, i'll just bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. i'll just ah, a 125 people are confirmed to have died more than a 1000 missing as germany and its neighbors left reeling by devastating floods. ah, hello, i am marianne in london watching al jazeera, also coming off on the program. the events of the past week when nothing less than a deliberate, coordinated,

and well planned attack on our president. so around the opposed to the army will restore order in south africa after a week of violence which has killed over 200 people in britain, dany carson cases, past 50000. again, scientists warn the government's plans, and if most restrictions is reckless, was less than a year to the paging winter olympics. think as to being pointed at china's human rights rankled. ah. emergency workers in western germany and belgian are searching for more than a 1000 people still missing off to heavy flooding. a 125 people and i'll confirm to have died. but rescue efforts of being hampered by collapsed roads and damaged communication lines for countries have been hit by the record flood. so the full

extent of the damage across the region is still unclear. algebra step vos and reports now from the german town of syncing, where people are still trying to process the loss of life on the destruction to their homes and communities. they were trapped in the rooms on the 1st floor when the water rose up to 4 meters in no time, at least 12 the residence of this home for disabled people died before they could be moved to safety. across the street gabriella wild watched the neighbourhood swiftly turn into a swirling river and feared the worst. in that one month. the people on the la tours had not made at all. i don't know exactly what happened, but the next morning lucy survived. were evacuated from the balconies. absolutely horrible and living in this region, his whole life, herman angled still can't comprehend what he saw when the water came. panic

will pass. i wasn't just shocked. i panic. i quickly took out the car as well as my dog, and the 2 kept blowing to my daughter that we were taking care of this sort of destruction i've never seen before. floating yes, but not tree branches floating away when he was lucky enough to be moved to safety and to find his house still standing upon return. auto thought a home forced away by water destroyed by landslide. many remained missing. nobody expected that. a few days of torrential rain could have such a widespread catastrophic impact. confronted with the sheer power of water, people here wondering what happened and where all this water came from raising questions about the effect of climate change. and if what was called this once in a century, flock would know happen more frequently, people are saying that this might happen like for now every 510 years or something like that. i'm not sure. and i mean like we try to learn from this to gather with

relatives and friends. louisa who young is trying to clean up the mess at the family house, not knowing where to start. they try to return on thursday, but had to leave once again. the water was still here, we tried to get in the house and get everything up on the like highest point in the house. so and then we just grabbed also some stuff that we could see about. we knew ok, this is important and now we just left the extent of the damage won't be known for days or perhaps weeks, but the memories and trauma of this twist of nature will likely remain with the people here for much longer, that fastened al jazeera syncing in the western part of germany. and tasha butler as a 100 kilometers west across the border in the belgian city of age, which has also been badly hit by the floods. well, this is the neighborhoods, ovalo, mississippi over here. it is one of the worst effects today or is in the city.

what's summer since i've been telling me that even though they've lived in decades, they've never seen anything like this. they say the war. so basically flows down this street and there was such a force that it food furniture along with it and talk around call as if they were moved toys. well, the water level rose for about 2 meters. people now are simply trying to clean up the own salvage what they can. they're obviously extremely shaken. if we go through what it was so scary to see the war to rise. my car in the carriage is totally destroyed. there was water all the way up to here. well some streets in the area are still flooded and roads are still inaccessible to cause and to vehicles. and that is why the only way of accessing some houses is by boat. well, the prime minister, children has called the floods unprecedented and schooled for day of national morning on july 20th for the victims

ah, moved to south africa. now the president is saying the week of violence and looting in which at least $212.00 people were killed, was planned and coordinated. several ram opposed to the security forces of identify 12 ring leaders. he's deploy 25000 soldiers to the streets, to try and maintain some control, but it's missile ports now from durban. seen of some of the worst of the writing. me, south africa's army is protecting its citizens from each other and forcing an easy, comp, shops, malls, factories in warehouses, accounting, the cost after an outbreak of looting and writing, but swept through parts of the country after the jailing of former president jacob zuba on friday, his successor, several ram, a poser visited causal in a tower the worst effected province. it is clear now that the events of the past

week were nothing less than a deliberate, a co ordinated and well planned attack on our democracy. supermarkets were stripped, bare with ensure is now facing multi $1000000.00 claims for repairs. one banking group says the economy will contract by 3 percent. the books are in fresh produce section of the supermarkets been played out like everywhere else. now, what spawns writing the jailing a full for the check? what drove it off, the poverty quality, the south africa. now almost 30 years. the n. y minority, half of south africans live below the official poverty line. unemployment. is that a record high of close to 33 percent looting has created shortages of food, staples, and fuel causing long lines at the few places still open the source. i'll probably

the, you know, it was like it's communicated some way because you hear something here. the very same thing is happening somewhere else. so it was like there's the, there's a spirit that is going around. did that mean or miss that is going around or do they see that day people that job less and also down because off job monday. that's funny. yeah, after sunday. yeah. when the president, for the people, when i do truly crazy and that would coming down like a crowd, a lot of crowd coming down and there was for angry that he extended south africa's consumer council. he's warning of a humanitarian crisis, and the security is provided for people working in factories, distribution centers and shops. bernard smith, i'll just 0 durban, south africa. now, u. k is reported at the highest number of new cars cases and more than 6 months just stays before the government plans to relax, restrictions on english, palms,

restaurants, and nightclubs. u. k. government data shows that we're close to $52000.00 new cases of the virus reported on friday. just today. earlier, u. k prime minister bars johnson said the was the pandemic would be behind the country if it's careful. and that lifting most restrictions would help the economy bounce back. when i spoke to dr. gabriel scary, a member of the independent scientific adviser group for emergencies. here in the u . k. he's also one of the many magics and scientists warning the u. k. government's reopening plan is reckless. he told aus is eric could lead to a 1000 deaths a day. it's not a very good prospect. i think what is most concerning. a lot of scientists and public health people is the fact that the government actually wants this to happen in many ways. they want to see a lot of cases know during the summer they want those hospital nations and those deaths to take place now rather than in the autumn in the winter because they think the ultimate, the winter are going to be bad enough. and getting some of the infection out of the

way know is a good thing. but most public health people say that's absolutely crazy that we shouldn't be encouraging the virus to spread. we shouldn't be letting that spread. and we certainly shouldn't be welcoming more cases, more hospitalization and more death are going to get more mutation taking place. but that has to happen. and if you get that happening in a country like the ok for about half of the population is vaccinated, you're actually giving an evolutionary advantage to variance that actually can bypass the immunity generated by vaccination. so there is a real worry that we may get more mutations and we may make it more dangerous mutations. meanwhile, in the united states, president joe biden as acute social media platforms of killing on vaccinated people by spreading misinformation. earlier white house officials accused facebook not doing enough to stop false claims saying, 12 people,

or responsible for most 65 percent of anti vaccine misinformation on social media platforms. don't really look, the only pandemic we have is among the killing people was going to vote about vaccine hesitancy, coinciding with the rise and infections and hospitalizations across the country. the surge is being driven by the dominant delta variance, and it's largely affecting younger people in the united states. patty calling reports. this is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated. with more than half of the us population, still unvaccinated against coded a new urgent warning from white house official. yesterday cdc reported more than 33000 new cases of code 19. are 7 day average is about $26300.00 cases per day. and this represents an increase of nearly 70 percent

from the prior 7 day average. hospitals are once again filling up, and people are still dying from coven, more than 99 percent of those unvaccinated. it's particularly a problem in southern states. in fact, just for states accounted for more than 40 percent of all cases in the past week. with one in 5 of all cases occurring in florida alone, vaccines had become a political issue in the us. that was clear when the governor of florida started drilling t shirts and beer cooties with the slogan, don't felt g, my florida. a slap, the country's top infectious disease doctor and analysts say conservative media is making it works. a very successfully convinced a large swath of republicans not to get the vaccine. if you look at polls, republicans are much more likely to say they have not been vaccinated. they. 5 will

not be vaccinated, it's all making the situation more dangerous for children under the age of 12 who can't get vaccinated yet. and now there are report the food and drug administration won't look at allowing that until possibly december. so now more precautions. mask mandates. going back into effect in los angeles, california, the by new ministration is supposed to decide over the next few days. if they should lift restrictions on international travelers. coming to the us. these new numbers will likely make that much more difficult decision capital have al jazeera washington or the u. s. meanwhile, has donated 4 and a half 1000000 vaccine doses to indonesia. is it battle se, asia's was corona virus outbreak? indonesia reported over a 1000 virus related deaths on friday. it's now recording more daily infections in india and only 6 percent of their population has been vaccinated. government says

it's a worst case scenario situation that's currently playing out now with at least $56000.00 new cases in just one day. you know, watching out as they are a life from london coming up. we gain access to a disputed ethiopian region where to grind forces of seeking to win that last ground. and as canadians confront their history, research say many more unmarked graves of indigenous children, yet to be discovered. ah hello was seen some rather blustery conditions moving across the great australian bite easing across sample straight into victoria. we are going to see some lively showers continuing here. that wet weather will drive its way into new zealand over the next couple days. so it looks like a pretty wet and windy weather here,

but she was there in 2 victoria into tasmania, some heavy shows that it's a good part of due south wells with some snow over the mountain top. so the highest pigs founded a cloud there across south australia, a fair, but a cloud to into southern parts of w way want to she was able to was perth for a time. but we should sit grassy, brightening up as we go on into where sunday try reprice, whether maybe cross march of south australia by that statement, the wind starts to east down. but very wet and windy the, as you can see, for good part of new zealand. we've got some very wet weather affecting central parts of china. meanwhile, some very heavy rain here. the seasonal range stretch right across the south, west central parts up towards the yellow sea up towards basing some heavy down pools that is likely to cause some localized flooding that wet weather, staying very much in place as we go through sunday. a few showers there across the korean peninsula, some parts of japan as well, but to the north of that is fine and dry.

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so come back main stories now. at least a 125 people are going to have died more than a 1000 is still missing in floods. the ravaged west in europe, raging waters and landside have devastated entire communities, washing away houses and destroying businesses. in south africa, the president has the week of violence and losing, in which over 200 people were killed with planned and coordinated federal rama process. that security forces have identified 12 wind leaders and the u. k is reported its highest number of new covert cases in more than 6 months just days before the friction that eased across england. u. k. government data shows close to $52000.00 new cases of corrosion of ours were reported on friday. want to time to developments in ethiopia, now the vice president of the em horror region is told al jazeera that additional forces have been deployed to his borders with tech ry. this is to counter to brian fighters who launched a new offensive this thank the if you're appealing,

army has been fighting to grind regional forces since november al jazeera, obtained ragged government access to a disputed region in western. take ry from way catherine sawyer reports. i'm a special forces and the few p and federal police. at a checkpoint in my car, they're passing through require identification papers who owned a rare regional government guided trip, but event filming the forces and the militia called funnel was difficult. the town claimed by both the em. hara anti grand ethnic communities was under t guys administration before the war started in november. it's one of the was the atrocities happened. hundreds of people were killed. the communities accused each other's fighters of committing it gabbert m. s. gas magus to a farmer says a dispute about regional buddha territories goes back decade. all the glen leaders want to come on for shadowy. the already created

a system that film and then when the war and the power will not visit our land. to gran fighters and now pushing south west, they say they're taking back territory seized by higher forces in the last 8 months of conflict, political and military leaders in the capital harder, i get the increasingly nervous about the gains being made by great defense forces. they'll say they'll do whatever it takes to protect their land, and people go to the regions vice president shoes as a $985.00 map that places march of the dispute territories in harrow region. the borderline have however, since been redrawn he tells us when the t cry people's liberation front or t p are left to power the next to the land to take right. we have never, ever accepted the amount of people in the regional government has endorsed it. we have never been consulted. so what, whenever you say historical dispute as it,

it takes you some time years behind. and one time it was there, another time it was you. that's what you call dispute. it has never been. so it couldn't be just a dispute. it was rather taken unit 30 by that period if it was decided mom higher forces and now being deployed to the front lines. but the vice president also called on people here to defend themselves. i think they, they should be aware of and be informed be on the same platform that is where whenever the address of came, at least they have to prepare themselves in a new way to defend in any mechanism that they have to take up. and yes, many to grant who lived in my car and then nearby whomever a town have fled to refugee comes across the buddha in sudan, who still here recently held protest against the guys political leadership and its forces. it was not clear to us if they were on the streets willingly or had been

classed. every interview we tried to do was in the presence of a minder with a gun that the grands were afraid to speak openly. captain soy all jazeera, i'm horror region. if you'll be a refugee crisis, a garbage crisis, hyperinflation a devastating port explosion, and there's still no government in lebanon. the list of problems and crisis keeps on growing the resignation of the prime minister designate side. i'll hurry on. thursday is now adding to the time while, and many people in lebanon, a wandering. what's next? and the reports on this now from a route its rush hour in beirut, but one of lebanon's busiest transport point barely has any passengers arise and fuel prices. increased affairs, a financial crisis means the majority of the population of this small nation is struggling to afford basic needs. more of a lot of transportation allowance they used to be paid to workers was enough. it's not the case any longer. transportation costs increased by at least 4 times the

lawson value of the local currency. the leader has affected purchasing power. it has lost nearly 95 percent of its worth in nearly 2 years. but in recent weeks, it has been in free fall, reaching a record low after lebanon. politicians reached a dead end and efforts to form a new government use turn $1500.00. now my salary is worth $100.00 and i are, and in lira, we are always in debt. lebanon has been without the functioning government for nearly a year without one, an unprecedented economic meltdown can't be reversed. instead, rival politicians have been fighting for power and prime minister designate saddle heidi's decision to step aside complicates a solution. this could be an open ended political crisis. heidi who has considered the leader of the muslim sunny community, says he will not endorse

a replacement. the post of prime minister is reserved for his community. that is why his support is important because power is shared among religious sectors. the state is nearly bankrupt and this has affected many sectors, including health care and one aspect that is the issue of the stuff that are leaving in droves because of the financial pressures they're under. that is the shortages in medication and supplies. and the issue of the fuel and the power cuts before the hospitals were excluded from the severe power cuts that the general population were under. but now the hospitals have been included in the scots. there are also shortages in medicine, as importers struggle to find hard currency, and i did, i can't find medicine for my blood pressure and heart problems. i go to bed at night, not knowing if i will wake up the next morning. international calls are growing louder for lebanese leaders to form a reform minded government to deal with the collapse. but so far,

the priority of the political class accused of years of corruption is clinging on to power. then they're also, you know, they route well. now afghan forces of launched offensive to retake a key border crossing with pocket stone. the town of spin bolduc fell to the taliban on wednesday. it's a major supply room into pockets. john's pollution don. province, doctors in pocket. donovan. so been treating taliban fighters wounded in the latest fighting afghan police say they are hiding in civilian hollins. near the border crossing taliban has made significant gains in recent weeks as foreign troops withdraw from the country. and then in all the developments a pulitzer prize winning indian photo journalist has been killed in afghanistan. kandahar province, finish dicky, work for the reuters, news agency, and was embedded with afghan special forces. he was caught in the crossfire between the taliban and african troops in the spin bolduc sham on board. the area

now were searches in canada. i fear that many more unmarked graves of indigenous children are going to be found over the past 3 months. hundreds of shallow graves have been uncovered at former residential schools, and as alexia bryan reports, the search has barely begun. each flag marks a grave, a child, a story, and members of canada's indigenous groups want those stories heard. you are bearing witness to a very important truth about indigenous people and canada. it has been referred to as a historic dark chapter from the 19th century, more than 150000 indigenous children attended, state funded christian boarding schools and an effort to assimilate them into mainstream canadian society. the children was separated from their families,

languages and traditions. the last school closed and 996. i gotten so many beatings for speak my language that i was sure that there's a subconscious block that just didn't allow me to do it. thousands of them were physically and sexually abused or died of disease were dropped and b you could scream and scream your vision, no one there to come to your help. in 2008, the canadian government officially apologized for its part and launched an inquiry to investigate. hundreds of remains or unmarked grace had been found at former residential schools in recent months. using ground penetrating radar researches say, many of the graves were shallow and line with reports from survivors. the children were forced to dig them. they warned the discovery so far adjust the beginning. there are very likely to be many human burials in the study area. after all this

investigation has barely scratched the surface covering just under 2 acres of the total $160.00 acre residential school sites. indigenous leaders have called on prime minister at johnston trudeau, and the catholic church which ran many of the schools to open the records immediately and fully for all the remains can be identified. the responsibility of our children is their families, their community. so her birth date was good. sure. and up and down are right now i'm going to come up here are want the truth to be out of my going to be just your home. oh oh. the history of heard shared by generations to promise to honor those who never came home like sir brian al jazeera. oh,

the tokyo olympics. thoughts next friday, winter games in beijing are also just around the corner of china's hosting. of the games is a source of control the see with rights groups and governments highlighting claims of human rights abuses and jang, and in hong kong. katrina, you reports now from the main gains venue on pages northwest al scott's brand new $1000000000.00, ski and snow of facilities and a newly constructed olympic village organizes up to 2022 winter games. se venues and young junko on the northern outskirts of beijing are just 2 months from completion date off with the beijing winter olympics is a very open event. we hope it will give people around the world something positive to focus on. especially with the pandemic. the winter olympics, a juice opened in february, just 6 months after the summer games and took care for rising covered 19 infections

across the region. a worrying organizes chinese borders has been closed since march last year. and authorities haven't indicated when they will reopen. the current virus isn't the only challenge organizes are facing. staging will be the 1st city to horse board the summer and the winter olympics. the 2008 games took place. just as china was starting to emerge as a leader on the world stage in 2022, it's image and status will be vastly different. crackdowns on the democracy movement at hong kong and allegations of human rights abuses against the weaker minority. and should john have prompted calls for a bully court? on thursday, british m. p 's voted to state a diplomatic boycott of what they dubbed the genocide games. last week, the new parliament voted to do the same. the votes aren't binding the rights group say they send a strong message saying you're going to, these are my, you know, in the human rights abuses in hong kong. imagine china,

chinese authorities deny human rights abuses a be committed and say a bully caught will not succeed. the i or c headed by thomas bach says the olympics should not be influenced by politics in john co preparations continue. china has pledged to deliver a green and inclusive winter olympics, but how many people will be invited or choose to attend remains in question. katrina, you all to 0 young alco paging. ah, just to recap on the headlines before we go. emergency work is in belgium and west in germany is searching for more than a 1000 people still on accounted for after heavy floods. 125 people are confirmed to have died, but the figure is expected to rise. rescue efforts of being hampered as well by.