the tokyo, when picks up buying them by growing opposition, spiraling cars to japan, thousands of athlete will compete in empty stadium. amid the corona, virus pandemic out there will be inside the bubble to bring them from games like no other. ah, the german chancellor visits the areas struck by catastrophic floods with more than a 100 people dead and many still missing. ah, are you watching algae 0 live from do with me for the back? people also ahead. the release of prisoners remains an obstacle in talks between the afghan government and the taliban. in any channel journalism investigation

finds that he's ready spy way. the phones of hundreds of journalists and political figures worldwide. and as south africa celebrates mandela day, the country reflects on a week of writing and the inequality and poverty behind me. ah, german chancellor anglo merkle has described the scenes in flood damage villages as the real and ghostly. and the crisis in part of europe is only getting worse. while heavy rain has hit parts of eastern germany, austria and the czech republic, at least a $183.00 people are confirmed dead. but that number is expected to rise. adam rainy, recourse some shoulder in germany. destruction on a scale hardly imaginable. people in short, germany are clearing out what 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 line of 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 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 system 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 these 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 in 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 that 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 get all it's crazy to see old as 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 of flood waters that are receding from germany. and now passing through the netherlands. that vast reports from new bergen. yes. how we scary moments 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 through these rivers and how strongly digest,

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 lias with the latest on search and rescue efforts that hundreds, thousands of people have actually had to leave their home, forced out by the flood waters. and then there are those people who try to hang on and stay in their homes and they didn't want to leave and go to shelter. but they've had to leave anyway because some emergency work is the same. some of the homes are simply not safe enough. they've been too damaged by the side waters for them to say many homes have collapsed. other homes have been severely weakened. so what emergency work is all doing is really going 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 a 100 people are missing,

but it could be that some older frail will move on. people took shelter on higher floors in their home and then they're still stuck there because communication went down in some parts of this 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 a 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 in india, several houses have collapse, killing at least 33 people after land slides caused by heavy rain in the financial capital. rescuers here more people could be trapped in the debris in the buy, in one neighborhood, half

a dozen shots from top of each other was already se rainwater inundated a want of serious attention, complex, disrupting supply to large part of the city. in other world news, the afghan government and taliban have issued a joint statement, agreeing to speed up discussions defined common ground in talks held here in doha, italy by express disagreement with proposals on a political roadmap and constitution for afghan. it's done, it's demanding the release of $7000.00 prisoners, but the afghan delegation says a 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 job . it has been monitoring the talks from the venue in don't 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. and have gone to sun, especially when it comes to the cupboard crisis, be 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 pay to be 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 on 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 a son. but that seems still not have happened. it is not included in the joint declaration, but both sides say that they have 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. the stalks 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 and advanced on the battlefield continues to heat up as talks continue in the journalists in indian and may said cash may have held the vigil for an indian photo journalist scaled enough county. stan danesh, the key was killed on friday while embedded with afghans special forces. the pulitzer prize winning journalist was where he knew the voice is use agency. he was caught in the crossfire between taliban, enough troops near the border with pakistan. now phones belonging to hundreds of

journalists, scientific symbolic dishes, have been hatched by government using spyware, owned by israeli surveillance company, and as so 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 reporters working for international news organizations such as the associated press, the new york times, bloomberg and ologist era have been targeted since 2016. and as so initially said the software would only be used to spy on terrorist then major criminals is really firm, has cold investigations, findings exaggerated and basis. for let's speak to bell mark sack about this is a senior research fellow at citizens, citizen lab, any joins is from berkeley in california. very good to have you with a spell. it's not the 1st time. and so,

as pegasus spyware has been accused of being part of a large surveillance campaign, just how big 1st and widespread is this latest hoc? well, based on what we've seen in the past, the scale of this latest leaked data, the 50000 numbers is a staggering compared with anything we've ever seen before. the closest thing we saw was in, around 2019 there was a bug inside the popular, what's out message, an app which was used to deliver the packets of spyware. and what's app was ultimately able to trace 1400 phone numbers in that case which had been hacked. but this, in this case, the scale of 50000 is, is sort of unlike anything we've ever seen before. and especially given the large. busy number of journalists, politicians, and other members of civil society that appear on this list when the company says

that it's supposed to only be used against criminals and terrorists, right? the spy way i understand, was used to facilitate the murder, saudi journalist jamal i showed you well, so there's a number of people in jamal kashodi, his inner circle, which found themselves under surveillance either before or after his killing. so we published a reported citizen lab a few years ago looking at one of jamal's close conference, omar abdel aziz, a montreal based saudi dissident who was hacked in the months leading up to use killing. similarly, we've learned now weakest latest leak, that jamal's wife was in fact under surveillance before jamal was killed. and jermel's fiance was in fact under surveillance several days after the killing as well as members of the turkish team that we're investigating because i'm all right . so how, how then does it work? exactly. it's very sophisticated. understand, how does pegasus infiltrate a phone?

what can, can he do? and how do we know that our phone has been hacked? well originally when we started studying pegasus in 2016, a target would have to click on a link to via s m s. in order to facilitate the infraction of the phone. if you didn't click on the link, the phone wouldn't get infected and wouldn't be able to be monitored. but around 2017 or 2018. and i saw a group appears to be released, a major update to the pegasus system, which allows governments to hack into phones with a so called 0 click technique. this means the target does not need to click on anything. they don't need to take any action. their phone could be sitting on a table one minute, it's fine at the next minute attacked, and once attacked, the government can access everything on the phone. they can get messages, they can turn on the microphone and looking into conversations happening near the telephone. they can take pictures through the camera. they can take passwords,

contacts, track gps, location. basically, anything you can do at the owner of the phone, or you can see the operator of the spyware can do or see as quite traveling quite a remarkable investigation here. talk to us about the methods used by, by amnesty. and the spot in is forbidden stories to uncover this. how sound are they because these really company and so it is off for thing. the findings are exaggerated and baseless and defended itself saying that its product phase life, spite by helping bama tox and crime. right? well, so we have soon as a lab were called on to do peer review of the investigation. so we reviewed amis these methods, and we tracked some of the phones that they were saying were infected with pegasus . and overall we found is that the methods that amnesty tech was using were sound right? essentially what they were doing is they were taking known artifacts on the phone associated with pegasus like these maybe dodgy s m s links and correlating done

with other bits. and then sort of building out this, this chain of, of items that were made to pegasus and then searching through phones. and ultimately we support amnesty conclusions after having reviewed their methods. it's sound, i don't think amazon is conclusions about the forensics are exaggerated in any way . right. bill, in most countries there are no rules limiting private companies that sell surveillance technology to governmental waters. how can we change this? hi, how can we make sure they are safeguards for journalists forums? well, that's a great question. one of the things that we're seeing right now is that a major hub for this technology is israel. so v israeli government has for many years, encouraged the development of a local cyber industry including companies like n s a group, as well as other companies that sell similar tools like candy room, which we published investigation on last week. and this whole ecosystem of

companies. it's not just like there's one bad apple company that's selling to repressive governments who are using using it against charter was a systemic problem with a whole industry. and i think there needs to be regulation and action from the israeli ministry defense. and these really government at home governments around the world, but most prominently in israel, there needs to be action by the government to bring the entire industry under greater control bill. thank you so much for talking to us about this. thank you for your insight. bell mark soc, is from the citizen lab joining us from berkeley, california. we appreciate it. thank you. get ahead on al jazeera, i'm rock rental in south dakota where native americans are dealing with the legacy of the u. s. government boarding school program and bearing the remains of children who died long ago and far away. ah,

ah, it's time for the journey to winter 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 can see is not a straight line in the mall run that line sure 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 dance? was you nan? but hong kong work shout as well, basing. not necessarily very big showers, and japan allows she try picture as catching off the shadow. as this storm grows, it goes towards this sudden orleans of japan. we're q chain and it'll be pretty big about how he gets it. 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, although we have 20 a shout in the philippines. and particularly in me, in ma, maybe vietnam, a can bodie and south of that in borneo, sumatra and java. the channels 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 the next 2 or 3 days. sponsored cattle airways. when freedom of the press is under threat, you know how you just con thought, genuinely about your thought toward the bacon government step outside the mainstream. there has been a implement here just some of access court to shift the focus. the panoramic that's turned out to be a handy little prefect. the prime minister clamped down on the press covering the waves. the news is covered for listening post on the

o. the me a lot of stories on germany, chancellor, has described the situation in areas hardest hit by floods. us rail and terrifying . i'm going to merkel has visited the village of shoals as a massive cleanup gets under way of off question. you're more than 180 people have died in the floods. the afghan government and taliban have issued a joint statement following another round of talks in the country. capital agreed to speed up discussion fame, that finding common grounds and phones belonging to hundreds of journalists back to the same issue, have been hacked by governments using spyware,

owned by israel surveillance company. and as over as, according to the latest investigation conducted by 16 media, south africa, the president has called for unity as he joined cleanup efforts in one of the cities hardest hit by looting and wides. so when i post, i promised a full review while visiting, so wait till after more than a week of the waste violence. since the end of apartheid, more than $200.00 people were killed during protest against the jailing of from the president, jacob zoom. it later evolved into anger over poverty and unemployment. not a full lot continues south africa march the birthday of nelson mandela, 1st democratically elected leader bennet smith, went to summa township in derby. and 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 always been twins. democracy. why do they not democracy? 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 university's way, 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't. dorians daughter says she's not got the right connections to get a job. as said, ben, z, 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 still more likely to find work and better paid work than that black counterparts. widespread writing and looting the sweat through parts of south africa last week was sparked by the jailing of former president jacob zoom. 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 a grandchildren to have a fair chance. the 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 to zoom a township south africa. the u. k. foreign minister is urging the public to be cautious when covered 19 restrictions are lifted on monday. for his johnson, a self isolating after having content with how secretary, who's tested positive for coven 19 despite having been vaccinated, downing street now says he won't take on in a pilot study. that allows people to work in their offices and only isolate when not at their jobs. people in vietnam's capital hanoi have been ordered to stay home from monday as new classes of corona virus spread. non essential services have been stopped including public transport services to southern provinces. 3 quarters of

recent infections have been detected in the south including hoshi, mean city. the health ministry has sent ventilators and thousands of workers to hard hit areas. police in thailand have fire water, cannon, deer, gas, and rubber bullets to stop on time. government protests is from marching to the prime minister's office. 100 defied corona vice restrictions to take part in the demonstrations in bangkok they blamed the government for mismanaging the pandemic. they also want the budget reduced for the royal family and many more than a $180.00 wildfires burning at cost siberia, the kusha region is $1.00 of the worst effected almost $2500.00. 5 fighters have been called into battle the blazes, while 5 in the region happen every summer. this year it's been more intense because of the unusually high temperatures. norbert manley has report, uncontrollable glazes is consumed thousands of kilometers the siberian forests.

as the trees burned to ascend, billowing smoke drifted towards the city and dozens more towns, and yet could hear the officials warned residents to shut windows and stay in doors to avoid the choking smoke in her breath with our eyes a burning and over all the smoke is very dangerous for the health of us villages. we see on television plains that are dropping water on the burning forest. but i am sending these plains to help us for some reason. yet katia has been in the state of emergency for weeks. last month the temperature saw to $38.00 degrees celsius. if the highest ever recorded in the arctic circle. this is not from nasa chosen read the early summer heat waves that has been scorching eastern russia and europe. the philippines says that's okay. it's all because of the drought for the 3rd year straight. we aren't getting the copious amounts of rain that we used to get. the

heat wave is sucking moisture of routes and trees creating a tinderbox in siberia. usually one of the coldest regions on earth, the fires are consuming what was once permanently frozen ground. and the carbon rich pete below. scientists worry that this will release more carbon into the atmosphere and contribute to climate change. the parameters probably kill the situation with wild fires in our republic. it's very difficult because we are experiencing the trial summers in the past 150 years. and you could hear on the month of june with the hospital records, the russian military is flowing in fi. fi has more than 2500 a battling the flames. the weather is exacerbating the problem. if not for the strong winds, we could do it faster. what you see, how strong the winds are. that's our biggest problems right now. the passenger

flights you could have been suspended now military plane to taking to the skies to douse the flames. but these fires are also igniting unger month resident by bottom . many say moscow hasn't acted fast enough or sent enough resources. people already feel isolated from the kremlin, which is almost 5000 kilometers away. now they feel abandoned to, nor been manly out there. and now for many decades, native american children were forcibly sent to government on boarding schools in an effort to assimilate them some not call it a deliberate effort at cultural genocide in south dakota in the us. one indigenous community has reclaimed the remains of 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 lot of 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 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 little cota children lay buried in carlisle cemetery but they were never

forgotten. after years of effort to properly identify the remains and then carefully examine them, children including little hawk hollow, horned 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? yes or no, but i'm really happy. young la, co to reflect on 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 t p. 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, robert olds, al jazeera mission, south dakota, ah, so again, i'm fully back to.