[000:00:00;00] ah, when ever you ah, ah, the german chancellor visits the area struck by catastrophic floods with more than a 100 people dead and many still missing. ah, are you watching algae live from to have with me fully bad? people also head, the release of prisoners remains an obstacle in talks between the afghan government and the taliban in doha. as south africa celebrates mandela day,

the country reflects on a week all righty and the inequality and poverty behind the race. and an international journalism investigation finds that israeli spyware hockey. the phones of hundreds of journalists, political figures worldwide. ah, german chancellor, anglo merkel, has described the scenes in flood damage villages as surreal and ghostly. and the crisis in parts of europe is only getting worse. more heavy rain has hit parts of eastern germany, austria, and the czech republic. at least a 183 people are confirmed dead by that number is expected to rise out of grainy reports from shoulder in germany. destruction on a scale hardly imaginable. people in short, germany are clearing out with the flood waters left behind. at a local guest house in bery,

they're taking stock and saving whatever they can with fish and fish are going to have to do the sugar. and that's also some crystal oem, bar manager. michael croyt shows us how high the water rose here. often there's some saturday was meant to be the brewery, the grand opening, after a 4 month renovation. now he says he'll be lucky if they open within a year. the cushion line was annoyed on that, but i will not thousands. i'm not in everything in the cellar was destroyed. the heating systems and everything technical and the cooling. we're talking at least 3 quarters of a 1000000 euros to replace it all. with recovery and clean up effort fully underway, chancellor marco came to this region on sunday, promising give the people what they need and she was clearly touched by what she thought is this a 2nd? it's terrifying. i would say there is no word and the german language to describe this devastation. but what i witness is incredibly comforting. it's how people are sticking together, how they helping each other,

the solar that the among people. the mercury cabinet is scheduled to meet on wednesday where, according to report, they'll approve billions of years in relief and reconstruction funds down in the village. it's all hands on deck. volunteers didn't come from across germany to help out the burner knowing if in his 2 friends came from the neighboring village and you're going to don people, it's crazy to see old. people have now become poorer from one day to the next. they can use all the help they can get back at the bar, michel croyt says he doesn't have time for the sadness to sleep in help. his started to arrive and he wants to focus on reopening as soon as he can adarine al jazeera short of germany or the flood waters that are receding from germany. and now passing through the netherlands, boston reform from newberg. and yes,

very scary moment. still here for people living along the river the most as it's at its highest level in many, many years. and that means that there have been working throughout the night, the army police residence. everyone came together to, to work with sand back to strengthen and enforce the dykes. there were some correct damages at certain places water was coming through. so it was really an emergency situation. i spoke to a residence well, very nervous, but they really didn't want to leave. they wanted to help to enforce dykes because that's what the dutch, of course i've known for. they know their battle against water, their battle against nature. well, they're now being challenged to the max. they never really expected it to be here and this part of the country because there's a part that's above sea level. this is where in the south, where everyone thought everyone would be safe. but that apparently didn't work with this extreme wider methodologist have sat for this kind of rainfall. we don't have any models. we don't know how to dig,

how much water could go to the rivers and how strongly status. because that's not a concern. this water is basically soaking dikes right now, and that's really worrying the authority in belgium, tens of thousands of people remain without electricity. natasha butler is in league with the latest on search and rescue efforts. hundreds, thousands of people have actually had to leave their home, forced out by the flood waters. and then there are those people who tried to hang on and stay in their homes and they didn't want to leave and go to a shelter. but they've had to leave anyway because some emergency work is saying some of the homes are simply not safe enough. they've been too damaged biting salt water for them to say many homes have collapsed. other homes have been severely weakened. so what emergency work is all doing is really going to from house to house. they are trying to see if they can still find survivors. there is still

a possibility. they say we know that least 100 people are missing, but it could be that some, oh, the frail will move on. people took shelter or higher floors in their home and then they're still stuck there because communication went down in some parts of the region off the flood waters, kids and pops. they haven't been able to contact the outside world if you like. the emergency workers still hopeful they'll find people alive, but of course they are saying that it is possible that they will still retrieve some body. so it's still very difficult situation for people here. they're still coming to terms with what has happened to them, and you can see behind me a lot of activity as people in this community in this neighborhood, there's, are trying to clean up, trying to save what they can, even though there's not much to faith because everything has been so badly impacted . several houses have collapsed, getting at least 33 people after land slice calls by heavy rains in india. financial capital. rescue is fear more people could be trapped in the debris in

more by, in one neighborhood, half a dozen. sharks collapse on top of each other, authorities se, rainwater inundated a water purification complex, disrupting supply to large parts of the city. in other world news, the afghan government and taliban have issued a joint statement agreed to speed up discussions to find common ground in talks held here in doha, italy been expressed. disagreement with proposals on a political roadmap and constitution for afghan is done is demanding the release of $7000.00 prisoners at the afghan government delegation phase. they cease, fire is its top priority. without a deal there is concern a civil war could erupt once the withdrawal of us troops is complete. osama bin java has been monitoring the talks from the venue in after 2 days of negotiating. the taliban and the gun government side being led by doctor de la de la, have come to a joint declaration where they have agreed that there is going to be

a speeding up of this negotiation process. we started back in september last year. the agree that the they are going to make efforts to try and resolve the differences amongst them. and they're going to try and reach an agreement on how to improve the situation on the ground in afghanistan, especially when it comes to the covered crisis. the i've gone side was led by dr. de la de la, who tanked his company host and said that he's hopeful that these talks are going to pave the way forward. but while these positive sentiments were being discussed, there was also the disagreements that were, that we saw between the taliban and the other side when it came to the issue of thousands of dollars and prisoners, which, according to their agreement with the united states, were supposed to be released sanctions list from the united nations. the name was supposed to be removed and they were supposed to get a, a government which according to them is going to be inclusive and is going to be representing a wide spectrum of, of fun. but that seem still not have happened. it is not included in the joint

declaration, but both sides say that they've made progress towards trying to reach a solution the understand each other. and this is something which of the taliban side alluded to as well. optimists will say that this is a positive development that they have agreed on a joint declaration. but other side of people who don't see it as rosy as others would predict. see that the taliban or the other side are dragging their feet since september. these talks have not yielded any positive results. there has been no real impact. there has been no real cease fires. no deduction in violence on the ground in advance on the battlefield continues to heat up as talks continue in the a major border crossing between pakistan and afghanistan has been partially reopened. after the taliban seized control of the afghan side on wednesday, hundreds of afghans have arrived at the frontier with small hoops allowed into shame on a pakistan. if he could make lifeline for southern i've gone, it's done with agricultural exports and other goods passing through it. you have gone,

government has launch and operation to retake it. now phones belonging to hundreds of journalists, activists, and politicians have been hatched by government using spyware, owned by israeli surveillance company, and s o group. that's according to the latest investigation conducted by 16 media outlets. investigators say they obtained a list of 50000 numbers targeted by the spyware pegasus, at least 600 politicians, 85 human rights activists, and almost 200 journalist from 50 countries have been effected. report is working for international news organizations such as the associated press, new york times bloomberg knowledge is here. i have been targeted since 2016 and is so initially said the software would only be in use would only be used to spy on terrorists and major criminals. the israeli firm has called the investigations findings exaggerated and basis. let's me thompson lena barber's, his data scientist for the university of california, san diego, and he joins us from portland,

oregon. thank you very much for being with us hobson. so this package, this by where is men to target criminals, drug dealers, not ordinary citizens. first of all, just how widespread was the use of the spyware, and who did it target? we don't know how wide spread it was used, nor what its purpose was. all we know is that it was used to target these journalists and activists around the world. and in fact was used in order to facilitate the ca shogi merc motor recently. yes. okay. tell us a bit more about the spy wage. self peg is it? how does it work? how sophisticated is it, and what does it do? it's military grades as being our software used to route phones for mobile phones using 0 day vulnerabilities that require no action by the user to completely take

over the phone and utilize it for whatever the purposes are for the organization that has accomplished a hack. who uses a, who are initials, customers. obviously the various are governments around the world that can afford their services. it's, it's a private company and they, they, they provide their services to the highest bidder. so obviously the organizations and governments involved in the custodian murder or one of their customers. yes, you could get tell us a bit more about how it was used in the cash o g murder. precisely. it was used to track shogi and actually his women and that were associated with them, fellow journalists and so by, by tracking them, they were able to locate him and, and facilitate the, the capture of him and an extradition to, to turkey where he was murder and torture, right? the, the message that i use by,

by amnesty and forbidden stories to uncover this quite spectacular. i understand how, how sound ave, because of course, he's really company and it's so says the findings are exaggerated and baseless and has defended itself saying that it's products saves lives by stopping things like bomb attacks and crime. yes, of course, a respite agency will deny everything that associated with their their to those and how they're used. amnesty international team was an international team from as you spoke, said earlier of 11 news organizations as well as amherst international itself. they developed, they assembled experts in forensics technology in order to uncover those. this is such sophisticated software that was quite difficult for them to decrypt and, and, and detect this obfuscated code that exists on these phones. these, these algorithms and these, these tools are designed to destroy themselves and leave and not leave a trace. it's quite remarkable that they were able to,

to uncover them. but once the signature is uncovered, the obviously there's, there's no and i so did not even deny it because they cannot, the code is, is, was retrieved by these forensic experts, right? find to remark, remarkable investigation as you say. but now what i mean in most countries, there are no walls limiting private companies that sell surveillance technology to governmental ivers. how, how do we solve this? how do we know that our phone has been hacked, for example, and how can we prevent this from happening? we need to ban together just as amnesty international has encouraged us to do and fight back. it's the only recourse for us and the public against these government actors and authoritarian regimes. we have to fund and donate to organizations like amnesty international and news organizations such as yourself that are exposing the sort of refers activity. thank you very much for talking to us about this hudson

lane from the university of california, san diego. joining us there by scott, thank you for your time. thank you. still ahead on our as we look at the implications for middle east economies, now that opec can its allies have agreed to raise production of black gold. i'm rock rental and south dakota where native americans are dealing with the legacy of the u. s. government boarding school program and varying the remains of children who died long ago and far away. ah, ah, it's time for the journey with sponsored by cattle airways in the western pacific. yesterday's tropical depression has not been named and is a tropical storm in far. it's not particularly big yet,

but it will grow as indication of disrupting the normal seasonal rain, which is you see is not a straight line anymore. the one that lives she runs from japan to china, chinese and they'll be big showers, growing as you can see, all the way from more or less the yellow reverse or the western yankee down towards you. none but hong kong, where shall as well basing. not necessarily very big showers, and japan allows she try picture a scratching off the shadow as this storm grows, it goes towards this sudden islands of japan. we're q chain and it will be pretty big about how he gets he and also talk to that a big tropical storm. after that it looks like it's heading towards ty, one for the middle or late part of next week. that takes much of the energy out of the atmosphere. so though we have 20 a shout in the philippines and particularly in men, ma, maybe vietnam, and can bodie and south that in borneo, sumatra and java. the showers are fewer and further between this is seasonally

normal. just thought i'd make the point. as the monsoon rains, mom buys been hit hard, but i think it'll be to delhi for next 2 or 3 days. sponsored cattle airways. i'll just see the world and picks the fascinating story of a prisoner exchange, negotiated to intermediaries on behalf of us and israel, a story of brinkman ship and bartering, a captive israeli soldier for palestinian prisoners as recalled by mediators and players from both sides. anatomy of a prisoner exchange on out here. ah, ah.

the me watching al jazeera, a recap of on top stories. gemini, chancellor, has described the situation in areas, heartache by blood vessels are real and terrifying angle. michael has his didn't came to the village of shore. a massive cleanup gets under way across western europe. 1980 people have died in the front, the afghan government and taliban. i'd be sure to join statement following another round of talks in the country. capital have agreed to speed up discussion being that finding common grounds. the world's largest oil producing nations have ration agreement on boosting production after a rift between 2 key members threatened to stole efforts. opec nations kind of a production by almost 10000000 bows a day at the side of the pandemic. when demand plummeted, as a global economy started to recover, opec gradually restored output by almost 50 percent, but negotiations and ideas to further increase our boot. expose a rift between the u. s. e,

and found your baby in the it's called saudi proposals to extend the arrangements unjust. now a compromise given, giving the u a and others, a higher production culture has paved the way for the latest deal. opec will begin further eating cuts from august. cornelia meyer is an oil and gas on a list, as well as ceo of my resource. she says, among those who will benefit from the deal. i found you ravia, russia, and iraq, but not the way what i think the big win offender steel is basically both producers and the consumers. because what we had up to now is we didn't know whether we would get this, you know, gradual using off of, of production cops and the market just kind of under supply to the tune of $2000000.00 barrels a day. and you know, the economy is starting to power ahead. so this was, was very, very tough to touch and go because we didn't know we'll blanket no one get no

further increases. and if there are no further increases will discipline amongst the $23.00 opec plus members go out of the water, at which point, obviously we would have had to rate race to the bottom. so now we know we have predictability in uncertain times. we know the agreement will go through the end of next year. we also know that they will, you know, get, they will release $400000.00 barrels a day every month. obviously, will be reviewed every month. because given the pandemic, you never know what happens next. the you a got about half of what they wanted in terms of having their did the, the, the, the level raced the baseline waste from which you calculate the and the cuts. but both, both saudi and russia got 500000 barrels a day. so they could update, but that's to ask that the rock and for the rock,

this is actually very good. me it's been more than 18 months since the corona vice 1st, the merge since then. several vaccines have been discovered tested and rolled out on a mass scale, more than 4000000 people have died from covey 19, but the w a show says up to 3 times more people have died directly or indirectly, as a result of the pandemic. more than 190000000 cases have been recorded with several countries currently hitting record highs, including indonesia, thailand and vietnam, and koby, 1900 deaths across the continent of africa jumped more than 40 percent last week alone. 12.9 percent of the world has not been fully vaccinated, but that rate drops significantly in poor countries. only around one percent of africans have been vaccinated. as you case, foreign minister is urging the public to be cautious when cold 19 restrictions are lifted on monday voice johnston is self isolating. after having contact with the health secretary, who's tested positive for carolyn of eyes,

despite being vaccinated starting st. now says it won't take part in a pilot study that allows people to work in their offices and only isolate when not a day jobs. chris smith is a consultant biology at cambridge university in the u. k. he says the outbreak is far from over. we are looking at roughly $50000.00 cases per day that we know about . and that's important because of course, remember that about 50 percent of the cases of grown verse have no or few symptoms . and so people often don't know they've got the virus, so we can probably double that. we're probably looking at a $100000.00 cases per day at the moment, which does seem stupendously high. but if you take that number and ask when we had our last outbreak, the big wave in january, which was caused by the circle, kent or alpha of area. and what will we seeing in terms of cases in hospital and what we're seeing in terms of those cases in hospital translating into mortalities

from crone of ours. and it's like night and day, it couldn't be more different because now what we're saying is very high level, $50000.00 cases that we know about per day. but what we're not seeing of those cases translating into people in hospital or thank goodness people who are passing away. there's a very, very significant difference between when we had previous outbreaks and now, and this is being attributed to the impact of the vaccine with 90 percent of u. k. adults having had at least one dose, the vaccine and close to 70 percent. having had 2 doses of the vaccine, which is the crucial number that we think we need to combat the delta of air in which is accounting for the vast majority of cases here. now. so it's that difference which is giving the government the confidence to say, well, despite these cases will nevertheless now open things up. and we will actually allow people to go about their business. but they're not saying don't do these things. don't use public health measures don't use face covering while they are saying is it will no longer be a legal requirement to do

a lot of these things. and they're sort of pushing the bug south africa. the president has called for unity as he joined cleanup efforts. in one of the cities hardest hit by looting and riots serial, run my post. i promised a full review while visiting. so wait till after more than a week of the worst fun. and since the end of apartheid, more than $200.00 people were killed during protest against the jailing of former president, jacob's wilma and it later evolved into anger over poverty and unemployment. the chaos has caused more than a $1000000000.00 worth of damage. and the fall out continues south africa marks the birth of nelson mandela, the anniversary birth of now monday lights 1st, democratically elected leader bennet smith went to june, summa, township in durban, to see why people are so angry and frustrated when a party to end it almost 30 years ago, millions of south africans like dorian and gamer, hope for a future of equality, opportunity,

and prosperity for her. her children and her grandchildren. it hasn't turned out like that. things are worse. since, since this democracy was, there is no democracy. yes. there is no democracy at all during story is one of frustration and wasted potential. a story familiar to millions across this country . i was interested in going maybe universities with but i put in a 40 because it's too much. i couldn't afford it, but i was so interested in being something having some profession, but i can dorians daughter says she's not got the right connections to get a job. as said ben z through, we'll see we're not working because those who are in higher positions, they only look after their friends or their family. so it's not going to be easy to our kids to get jobs because we don't know people in high places,

nothing on the world bank says that south africa is now the most unequal society in the world. the top 10 percent earnest take home 65 percent of the income white people, a still more likely to find work and better paid work than the black counterparts. widespread writing and looting that sweat through parts of south africa last week was sparked by the jailing of former president jacob zooming. but it was chronic poverty and unemployment. the spurred on the violence, the poorest have been the main victims. more people are now jobless, after the destruction of shops, warehouses and factories. totally, totally surprising. take them back on the way. not prepaid at all. i mean, there's a need because obviously there's no jobs. people are hungry, no money to buy food because money can get food. doreen would at least like her grandchildren to have

a fair chance. their future i wish for them is to get the best education they can get. but i don't see that happens in this world, we're living in now that growing up in a country where half the population lives below the poverty line, bernard smith, and presume a township south africa for many decades, native american children were forcibly sent to government on boarding schools in an effort to assimilate from some, not call it a deliberate effort at cultural genocide in south dakota. one indigenous community has reclaimed the remains of the children who died in the schools. rob reynolds has a story. oh, with the sound of drums and prayers. songs the remains of 90 kangaroo or yacht a luck code to children returned home to their native land. their story is a long and painful one, stretching back over 140 years. be

a lot of sadness here today. beginning in 1879 native children from the la cota and other tribes were sent to government run boarding schools. the 1st group embarked on steamships from this point on the missouri river headed for a government school in far away carlisle, pennsylvania law. the kids involved with this is the last place, this parents here and go on tens of thousands of native children entered boarding schools. the project was meant to assimilate to destroy native language, culture and religion. and to turn the young people into model christian americans. but many did not survive the schools harsh regime of maltreatment, neglect, and disease. for decades, the lakotas children lay buried in carlisle cemetery, but they were never forgotten. after years of effort to properly identify the

remains and then carefully exhibit them children including little hawk hollow, horn bare strikes, 1st. swift bare and others left so long ago or surrounded by their people. once more, that's who to come home. does it make you feel emotional? yeah. really happy. young luck. oh, to reflect the hardships their relatives endured. i would have been full of terror . i would have been full of i would expect nothing but death. to be honest, it's almost a nauseating feeling to, to realize what these kids been through. the children's remains replaced on the ground inside, especially constructed tv. they're surrounded by relatives and religious leaders. they were welcomed home in a private prayer ceremony. later the entire community gathered as the remains were laid out,

wrapped in buffalo hides and surrounded by sacred sage people prayed long into the night. the homecoming is an event of enormous emotional and spiritual importance to his people says organizer russell eagle bear. there's a re awakening. of our people, and that's an important, you know, we need to, we can be living in grief all the time. and on the following day, the children were laid to rest in the local cemetery home at last, in the land where they belong, rob reynolds, al jazeera mission, south dakota, ah, logan, i'm fully battle with the headlines on al jazeera germany, chancellor, has described the situation in areas hard is hit by franchise. surveil and terrifying angular merkel has visited the village of shoulder as a massive cleanup gets on the way across western europe. more than 180 people have

died in the front. is this a scrape? it's terrifying. i would say there is no word in the german language to describe