discrimination and systematic discrimination of the place. people are thursdays for new wasted. this stream where a global audience becomes a global community on al jazeera, the holding the powerful to account as we examine the us, his role in the world on al jazeera ah battling the current of ours on a south korean war ship of hundreds of sailors test positive curve at 19 and pumped up to policy england list. corona virus restrictions, but scientists wanted could soon have a 100000 cases a day,

a mother there on the start, the pain. this is out there, like from also coming up. israeli spyware is linked to an investigation that finds the funds of hundreds of john, less than politicians have been hacked. mores about carbon levels and the effect on climate change from wildfires raging and siberia. well, a south korean war ship has now become the latest battle ground for trying to combat the current of virus around the wild. it's an example of just how aggressively the delta variance is now fueling cobra. 1900 searches in just a week. infections on board, the military vessel of gone from 6 to almost the entire crew and comes of south korea continues to fight. it's once outbreak at home, while southeast asian nations are also struggling to contain the delta variant,

indonesia as baffling and oxygen shortage. and now has more daily infections than india, and brazil. africa has recorded few cases and other continents, but there has been a 40 percent jump in coban 1900 death. just in the past week. only around one percent of africans have been vaccinated. still though, the u. s. remains the worst effected country. now, every state is seeing arise and infections still the confetti and countdowns marked the stars. what's being called freedom day. as england lifts almost all restrictions. but scientists there warned that there could be more than a $100000.00 cases a day. and just a matter of weeks, i will speak to tony chang in bangkok very shortly as thailand expands its restrictions. but 1st, let's get more on that outbreak on board that south korean warship with robert bride who's watching this 4th and so well, the speed at which the spread that is truly causing a huge amount of alarm. it is

a very alarming outbreak, given the fact that this did seem to spread through the entire ship's company in the matter of just a few days. it is rather reminiscent of the outbreak that courts b u. s. aircraft carrier way back at the beginning of this pandemic march of last year that was similarly stricken in the pacific ocean war. ships are, we know, are incredibly vulnerable, confined spaces, especially below decks with very little chance for large crews to socially distance . this is a much smaller ship, but it's no less alarming out of the crew of some $3247.00 testing positive. they said destroyer is part of south korea is contribution to the anti piracy task force of the east coast of africa. it still had another month of its deployment to run, but that has now been premier surely cut short as questions. i'll be nice here is have career about given the bottle rehabilitation. why haven't the crew been

vaccinated now the military have come under a lot of scrutiny. they have said that there were logistical problems in getting vaccines out to this ship. that may be true, but they certainly have much bigger the just to call problems. now they have a stricken vessel and a sick crew, and the solution to it is by no means easy. they have sent from south korea to military croft to bring the entire crew back here to south korea. those same planes have taken out a replacement crew, a reduced crew of a $150.00 sailors whose job it is now to bring this ill fated vessel back to south korea waters rather pride there with all the latest force from phil. thank you so much, ron. on moving over now to thailand, which has expanded its locked down as corona, virus infections continue to rise. it's now reported a 4th consecutive day of record new cases. with more than 11 thousands infections. domestic flights have been suspended and more places and now under curfew, people from high risk areas have also been asked to stay at home. well let's speak

to tony chang. he's in bangkok, the capital 4th. tony, we've seen thailand slowly expand their restrictions, but it really doesn't seem to have helped. what's driving this isn't delta? yes, very much. so a couple of weeks ago we would tell the only 50 percent of the cases doctors were saying where the delta variant last week. it was more than 50 percent of those cases. and these are now clearly sweeping through time on certain areas which are being designated as dark red suns, particularly here in the capital bank. we're hearing about clusters not just tens 20 people but, but hundreds of people. and i think that that ability, that has to spread much faster as a real problem here. correspondingly, the government is trying to step up these low down measures without going into the full down as they saw last year. when the pandemic 1st came to thailand. we've now got a coffee which has been strictly enforced between the hours of 9 pm and 4. i am putting

more pressure on people, not travel during the day, although they're not yet saying that they can't walk shop. so being close shopping malls had been closed, but the tightening up restrictions there. i think they, they're trying to do everything they can to, to stop people moving around without actually stopping business, the flow of business. and i think this is a real problem to the thai government at this stage, their real concerns about the damage this is doing to the economy that said with these infection on the still ongoing. i think that many people who would welcome that we've also seen in the last couple of days. questions being asked about tons vaccination policy. a couple of lead letters between the time government. an astrazeneca reveal that this time last year, when china was negotiating, how many doses it wanted, it only estimated needed 3000000 a month for masters, i think a well, now they're trying to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible. there is

a great shortage here. astrazeneca is being produced on the license in thailand, but the company that's doing it had no experience. there been a lot of questions about how that was set up. and it really seems to be failing the test. many of those doses being imported, and yet the thai government still hasn't approached other manufacturers, particularly those in the united states for more doses. and i think there's a frustration there and that's now spilling onto the streets. yes, the evening we saw a protest as, as we had done at the end of last year, coming out on the streets that were violent clashes with the police who fired rubber bullets until guess a child dispersed them. know that many a number because of the curve in 1900 situation, but i think there is a huge amount of unhappiness here with the government. when people feel secure enough to come out on the streets again, they'll be voicing that dissatisfaction very loudly. and we'll be watching that closely for you here on out there. tony chang there for us in the high capital, bangkok. thank you tony. well,

one of the biggest local responses of the total olympics, meanwhile, has said it weren't any commercials related to the games because of the lack of public support for the event. toyota c o q t o. that will also miss the opening ceremony in tokyo on friday. poll suggests that more than half of the japanese public do not want these games going ahead. nearly 70 percent, so they doubt that organizes can control cove in 1900 infections. there has since been about 60 positive cases reported amongst athletes. officials and journalists so far while far right british commentator katy hopkins will be deported from australia after she boasted on social media about breaching quarantine roles. hopkins traveled to australia to take part and a reality tv show. she was in a 14 day mandatory hotel quarantine and sydney before filming was due to start and trip sparked outrage because the government's kept such strict caps on the numbers of strains even allowed to return home, leaving tens of thousands stranded overseas. i thought it was just shameful. the

fact that she was out there, boasting about breaching quarantine, was just a pulling. it was a slap in the face for all lies astray. indians who are currently in lockdown and it's just unacceptable behavior. so i, personally, i'm very place she'll be leaving moving on now, and phones belonging to hundreds of journalists, activists, and politicians have been hacked by governments using spyware, owned by israeli civilians company the n a. so group, that's according to the latest investigation conducted in a consortium 16 media outlets investigation, say they obtained a list of 50 thousands numbers targeted by the spyware pegasus. at least 600 politicians. ac 5 human rights activists. and almost 200 journalists from 50 countries has been effected reporters working for international news organizations such as the associated press, the new york times. bloomberg and algebra have been targeted since 2016 and initially said the software would only be used to spy on terrorists and major

criminals. these railey pham has called the investigations findings exaggerated and baseless. while bill mark sack is the senior research fellow at citizen lab, he explains how and why spyware is becoming even more aggressive. originally, when we started studying pegasus in 2016, a target would have to click on a link sent to via some apps 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 in a so group appears to have 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 can be sitting on a table one minute, it's fine. 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 listen 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 as the owner of the phone, or you can see the operator of the spyware can do or see a major hub for this technology is israel. so be israeli. government has for many years, encouraged the development of a local cyber industry, including companies like n s o group, as well as other companies that sell similar tools like candy room, which we published an 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 then using, using it against journalists. it's a systemic problem with the whole industry. and i think there needs to be regulation and action from the israeli ministry of defense. and these really government, as well as 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. our court in japan has handed on prison sentences to 2 americans who helped foreman to san shannon color school and flea the country. michael taylor, us, me, veteran received 2 years in jail and his on peace was given a sentence of a year and a month. they pleaded guilty to help in going escapes 11 and back in 2018. the ex nissan bosses facing charges, the financial misconduct in japan, which he denied are still ahead here on algebra. again up continues from floods in western europe as heavy rain continues to fall. on since the end of the call, we look at why south africa hopes for quality. it turns into anger and frustration . ah,

it was still reading in southern germany yesterday, but really we talked about yesterday and tear all night both yesterday and today the chances are we're gonna see a line of shares on the edge of that cold front. that is nothing like as active as what caused, remarkable flooding in germany. something like 100 millimeters rather than 3 or more. now the whole system is slowly south is by the time we get to monday, we've let a few small showers in austria mostly be now talking about maybe the hungarian plane being further south into serbia. croatia, generally speaking, it's going to be the balkans that are showers further east and east and you're in fact attempts to dropped here as a result into the twenty's, not the 30s. now the nurse will up in scandinavia in western, europe's completely different stories warmed up. tremendously temperatures exceeding 30 and placed in france and in the british isles. hasn't seen that. certainly the bridge owl since last september. and that's going to persist or the

edge down a little bit. we're going to on shore breeze increase in the cloud in germany, but still, and maybe pointedly, it stays dry. now in africa, the big season range that they show up in the highlands are really concentrating further west in guinea and maybe a bit further north, but they are daily and big the frank assessments and arguments suggesting that by no ministrations playing alone game, it's very much of a warm embrace, the iran nuclear deal because of us domestic politics informed opinions, schools and chelsea have been reduced to rubble. how do you think this shapes, the generation and the politics that life has been shape? why vitamin the in depth analysis of the data global headlines inside story on our jazeera

ah the hello again. i'm sorry. let's remind you about top stories. the fallon majority of personnel on board a south korean military should have tested positive for the current of ours. infections spiked from 6 to 247 in just a week and comes south korea fights of west outbreak at home. england, meanwhile, is celebrating what it calls freedom thing as the government has lifted almost all corona virus restriction. that sounds, that reports more than 50000 new cases a day. scientists on health expense say infections could double and we phones belonging to hundreds of journalists, activists,

and politicians have been hacked by government using spyware, owned by israeli surveillance company. the group, these randy firm has called the investigations, findings exaggerated and faced them. well, we can now speak to see that the veteran, he's a founding editor of the wire and a journalist whose phone was hacked. he joins us now from new delhi. so let me start by asking you how you found out you were being monitored with this pegasus software. we have been working with with a bit of the story, which is the parent based media organization and nonprofit. and they access the database of numbers and decided to assemble a collaborative media project involving news and some around the world. and the wire is one of them. and it was as part of the research into what these numbers were. you know, my number popped out and that's in a way why they reached out to me. and so i was informed about the bible bit and

stories and we had this phone forensically examined by amnesty international. and the infection was, the detective said, i know there's plenty of speculation about the agencies involved here, but nothing concrete. what kind of work do you do that you think might have made you a target will. i'm one of the funding due to the wire and we are in the leading independent media media platform at a time when most big media organization have decided to lay low and not provide critical coverage of what's happening in the country. so we are really at the cutting edge of individual journalism and have been for the last 6 years since we started. right. so there is no doubt in my mind, but my selection of the target and my colleague gave a news on the vocal, tested and found positive and free for the people who love the though i've already killed the. so the wire is links to the kind of what we do. s there any kind of

recall for and found this kind of surveillance of the legal and india. yes, packing. i mean there is something known as muffled, lawful interception. and there's the prescribed procedure for this mention in statute in government rules as well as the guidelines and the use of specs which involve packing into my phone is specifically excluded from the definition of muscle because it is defined as one of the constituents of the crime of acting, so if it has been found on my form, as we can confirm this means by phone was hacked. this me, the crime was committed. the question is, who has committed this crime now? and i still don't recall the saying that they only sell the spyware to so called better governments. so it's really for the government of india to answer. and when they've been in the past that are you, are you a user of businesses the have stopped well short of it got to go to gal denies,

but the government has never denied on the record that they use pegasus. so i think that this is something which is an offense in india, and it needs to be investigated and room and perhaps only the judiciary has the ability to perform some kind of independent investigation into the scandal. or let me ask you then said, i mean this is software as we say, developed by this really company. you're an indian journalist. do you worry that israeli surveillance practices, perhaps influencing the way that other states operate? will we know that the israelis have in military and civilian technology, have developed a lot of tools which are very useful for government around the world, particularly those that play fast and loose with the humanitarian moms or democratic norms. and so the targeting of journalists cannot be justified by any

referrals to national security, which is the usual alibi cited by, by government when they, when they tread on civil liberties a here you have the cross section of douglas and bentley of the why, of maybe seen a critical of the government, but we have identified john live in there who are actually seen or have a reputation of being quite close to the government. so you know it for full range of people who have been targeted. and so, with this usual argument that all of this is a national security, your interest of the state doesn't wash, but you have indiscriminate targeting of the sky and had a fed her arjun that founding editor of the why, of speaking to us from new delhi. thank you so much for sharing your experiences here with us on out to 0. thank you. now moving on and german chancellor anglo merkel has described the scenes and flood damage to villages as to real and ghostly

. and the crisis and parts of europe is only getting worse. more heavy rain has had parts of eastern germany, austria on the check republic, at least a 183 people have been confirmed dead. that number is still expected to rise and rainy reports. now from shore 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 going into the food. either a good line of us are suncrest, old old bar manager, michael croyt. it shows us how high the water rose here. often there's some saturday was meant to be the grand opening after 4 month renovation. now he says he'll be lucky if they open within a year the cushion line and was annoyed on the thought that i will not thousands and nobody in everything in the cellar was destroyed. the heating system, everything technical and the cooling. we're talking at least 3 quarters of

a 1000000 euros to replace it all. with recovering 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 slick and 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 merkel cabinet is scheduled to meet on wednesday, where according to reports, 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 learner norm, if in his 2 friends came from the neighboring village and you're going to don people, it's crazy to see you all the 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, severe rainfall target heavy flooding, and the austrian border. town of lane, streets across the old city were submerged. as you can see, after the call back were the best its banks, residents had to be evacuated from several district. the mayor has declared a disaster and the government has pledged support to help those who've been effective home from flooding wildfires. more than $100.00, an ac, a blazing across siberia. the critique region is one of the worst effected areas and almost $2500.00 firefighters have been called into battle. those places while fires in the region do happen every summit. this year it's been even more intense due to record high temperatures or above man reports. uncontrollable

glazes is consumed thousands of kilometers the siberian forests. as trees bird to ascend, billowing smoke drifted towards the city and dozens more towns and yet could hear. officials warned residents to shut windows and stay in doors to avoid choking smoke knicker, but 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 they are 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 pilgrim says that's okay. it's

all because of the drought for the 3rd year street. we aren't getting the copious amounts of rain that we used to get. the heat wave is sucking moisture of ritalin 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. for that purpose out, i would probably kill the situation with wild fires in our republic is pretty difficult because we are experiencing the trial summers in the past 150 years. and the code here on the month of june was 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 flight, you could have been suspended now military plane to taking to the skies to douse the flames. but these fires are also igniting hunger amongst resident by bottom many se moscow hasn't acted fast enough or sense enough resources. people already feel isolated from the kremlin, which is almost 5000 kilometers away. now they feel abandoned to northern manley out there, and now the funeral has been held for the indian photojournalist who has killed in afghanistan. on friday. john list an indian administered kashmir, held a vigil before danesh city. he is very ill. he was killed while caught in the crossfire between taliban, an african troops near the border with pakistan. the pulitzer prize winning journalist was working men with the voices, news agency, and was imbedded with afghans special for meanwhile,

an afghan government delegation on the taliban say they will hold more meetings. after 2 days of inconclusive talks here and katha, they issued a joint statement saying that negotiations will continue until a settlement is reached. the taliban disagreed with proposals on a political roadmap and the constitution from chemist on the on group once prisoners released. but the afghan delegation says a sci fi is its top priority. well, so the african president has called for unity as he joined cleanup efforts. and one of the towns hardest hit by loosing and riots through. i'm opposed promised a full review while visiting. so whether after more than a week of the west of violence since the party tara, more than $200.00 people, were killed during protest against the jailing of former president jacob's duma, while it also later evolved into anger and poverty over unemployment. all the fall out, his continuing in south africa amongst the birthday of nelson mandela its 1st democratically elected leader. but in smith went in to do me

a 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 always been since this democracy was there is no 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 universities always, but i put in a 40 because it's too much. i could, 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. a said man z through would 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 counterpart. 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 and 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, they got money, we 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, presume a township south africa. ah, this is out of there, and these are the headlines. the majority of personnel aboard a south korean military ship have tested positive for the corona, virus infection spiked from 6 to 247 in just

a week and comes our south korea fights. it's whilst outbreak, yet at home by the bride has moved from sol. questions are being.