collect the signature, the same. the reason this is extremely important service that they provide to the city. we need to take america to try to bring people together trying to deal with people who've been left behind me. oh, battling the corona virus on a south korean war ship. hundreds of sailors test positive recovered 19. i mean, well pumped up the party england list karone of restrictions, but scientists wanted could soon have a 100000 cases a day, a hello there on this. this is out of their life from also coming up. israeli spy way

is linked to an investigation that finds the phones of hundreds of journalists and politicians have been worried about carbon levels and the effect on climate change from long fi still ranging in siberia south korean war ship has now become the latest battle ground for trying to come up the current of virus around the world. it's an example of just how aggressively the delta variant is fueling these carbon 1900 searches in just one week, infections on board. the military bethel went from 6 to almost all of the crew of 301. it comes as south korea fights, it's west outbreak at home. meanwhile, southeast asian nation. the also struggling to contain the delta variant, indonesia is now battling and oxygen shortage and has more daily infections than india and brazil. africa that has recorded few cases and other continents,

but there has been a 40 percent jump in carbon 1900 deaths just in the past week. only about one percent of the continent has been vaccinated. meanwhile, the confetti and countdowns of mark the stars of what's being called freedom day. as england lifts almost all restrictions. but scientists there are wanting that could be more than a $100000.00 cases a day. and just a matter of weeks, public pride has worn out from sol. 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 the u. s. aircraft carrier way back at the beginning of his pandemic in march of last year. that was similarly stricken in the pacific ocean war. ships 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 and it's no less alarming out of the crew of some $3247.00 testing positive. this said destroyer is part of south korea is contribution to the anti piracy task force of the east coast of africa. it's still had another month of its deployment to run, but that has now been premier julie cut short as questions are being asked here is have career about given the vulnerability, why hadn't the crew been vaccinated now the military have come under a lot of scrutiny and they had said that there were logistical problems in getting vaccines out to the ship. that may be true, but they certainly have much bigger logistical problems. now they have a stricken vessel and a sick crew. and the solution to it is by no means easy as they have sent from south korea to military croft to bring the entire crew back here to south korea. those same planes have taken at 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. meanwhile, highland has expanded its locked down as current virus infections. their rise is now reported a 4th consecutive day of record new cases with more than 11000 infections. domestic flights have now been suspended and even more places under curfew. people from high risk areas of been asked to stay at home. tony chang has one f on the capital bank call drove past the hospital today where they were queues outside the hospital around the block of people waiting just to get tested. it's a real problem here. i think the government recognizes that they don't have the system. this situation under control, they're trying to increase the level of the locked and we're still not seeing the same level of lockdown. we saw this time last year when very strict missions were in place. but the tightening things up, this is the 2nd time in less than 7 days. they've increased the curfew. it's now no

longer optional. people have to stay in doors between the hours of 9 pm and 4 am. more places of business are being close to being forced to shut again. that was voluntary last week when they put these measures in place flights out of the capital a being ben. this is regarded as a deep red zone in an area of really serious infection. and they want to start people from moving in and out of bank up until the problem is the government kind of torn down in the south is trying to open up trying to get taurus back into pre kit and some movie now the other holiday island that opened up with the sandbox scheme, but with everything that's going on in the rest of the country, it seems very unlikely that time will open up. the prime minister's hope was that it would happen on the 1st of october. i think at this stage that's very, very optimistic. when i, one of the biggest local sponsors of the turkey lympics has said it will not any commercials related to the games because of the lack of public support for the

event itself. toyota, chief executive, toyota. we'll also miss the opening ceremony in tokyo on friday. polls suggest more than half of the japanese public do not want these games going ahead and nearly 70 percent say they doubt that organizes can control curve in 1900 infections. there been about 60 positive cases now reported amongst athletes. officials and journalists so far how far, right, british commentator katie hopkins will be deported from australia after she boasted on social media about breaching quarantine roles. hopkins traveled through his trailer to take part in the reality tv show. she was in a 14 day mandatory hotel quarantine and sidney, before the filming was used to start. her trip sparked outrage because the government has kept such strict caps on the numbers of astray leant, 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 shall be leaving. i'm moving on now, and phones belonging to hundreds of journalists, activists, and petitions have been hacked by governments using spyware, owned by israeli surveillance company, the and a so group that's according to the latest investigation conducted by 16 media outlets. investigate to say they obtained a list of 50000 numbers targeted by the spyware pegasus, at least 600 politicians, 85 human rights activists, and almost 200 journalists from 50 countries have been effected. john, this working for international news organizations such as the associated press new york times, bloomberg and al jazeera have been targeted since 2016. and so initially said the software would only be used to spy on terrorists and major criminals. these railey firm has called the investigations findings exaggerated and baseless. well,

let's get more now. it's harder to her, me. she is in western islam or what else we hearing from that. and so, and what do we know about the company itself? but we don't know much about the company, except that it is a company that specializes in cyber security that most of its all of its clients, actually foreign governments. now we know that the company was founded by former military intelligence officers and jose, most of its employees from israelis have actually made a thing in the military intelligence. apart from that, we don't really know much, it has changed. the companies that own did have changed several times over the years. now the company says that deals only with foreign government that it sells. it sells them the software that the good these governments one,

but it bears no responsibility on how these governments use this by where as self trade all to says that lately because it has come under criticism. it has forgotten several lucrative contracts, basically because it didn't know how the software will be used. so many people have been affected by this. do we have a sense of who's been targeted with the software in the region? while it, several countries have bought this self to where i was just speaking actually to a person who worked in an engine that really tracks what and so is doing and, and so is not the only the only company here that specializes in cyber security. it has sold itself where to saudi arabia to amman, to be to russell,

have to my roll call. but what we know for what we understand that those governments i go forward and use that software to basically track and spy on human rights activist on poli journalist from al jazeera on anyone really who has something to say against these governments. now it has to be said that this has been raised here over and over again, specially after the killing of the saudi journalism has. so so says that it has done its own investigation and it was not it's by where that was used, but that had at the time put a lot of pressure on the government of former prime minister benjamin netanyahu because make no mistakes and the so can not these these programs without the ok or did pass it ok. of the israeli government?

well at the time after what had happened to them. ok. well, the feeling benjamin, that the now is that there was much more at stake there. and the associate for example, continue send the selling is by where to the government of saudi arabia. so it's really anyone i spoke to this morning was telling me the biggest problem is that these companies really operate outside of any kind of regulations. any kind of legislation quite secretive and only a few people within the government know exactly what they're up to. very interesting indeed, how to do that with all the latest force from my story. some thank you how to well ali i spoke to sit on the verge of roger, and he is a founding editor of the wire and a journalist whose phone was hacked. he says there needs to be legal repercussions . 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 you suspect,

which of all hacking into my phone is specifically excluded from the definition of multiple levels. because it is defined as one of the constituents of the crime of hacking. so if it has been found on my phone, as we can confirm this means my phone was hacked. that's me, the crime was coming. the question is, who has committed this crime now? and i saw it on the record a thing that they only sell their spyware to so called better government. 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 pegasus the have stopped well short of it? categorical denies. so the government has never been denied on the record that they use. pegasus is really, you know, 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 norms or democratic norms. and so the targeting of journalists cannot be justified by any people to national security, which is the usual alibi cited by, by government when they, when they tread on civil liberty a here you have and at the cross section of douglas, instantly the wire may be seen as critical of the government, but we have identified john live in the what actually seen or have a reputation of being quite close to the government. so, you know, it's the full range of people who have been targeted that so this, this, you know, usual argument that all of this is a national security. your interest of the state simply doesn't wash when you have indiscriminate targeting of the are still ahead here on their end. so that for get braces for more unrest as former president jacob doing this corruption trial review live updates in the course. and the clean up continuous from floods in western

europe as heavy rain continues to ah, ah, it's time for the journey with sponsored by cut on airways. well, the rain has moved on. it's still possess presents a potential threat that snow as heavy as it was as a massive sandstone is going through a potent line that takes you down towards the balkans. that is the active for cold from still pushing against that simulation. very humid air, as it's not as bad as it was, the heat wave. it's further west of the british isles and fans to some degree that be temperature. all this is clyde in the northeast, coming down the low countries is creeping into fossil northern england. that'll keep the temperatures down for many. now. as for the rain, it rained quite

a lot last night in austria and the check republican in slovakia, as you can see now we've got more or less lines you hungry and down towards croatia . those are gonna be the place of concentration because it's going to be slow moving to the next 2 days. there are no orange tops here, so it's fairly big showers, but not torrential rain but is persistent in one place. croatia, bossier has governor for example. now, this further west, still 30 degrees in paris, but 23 in bomb. this is dry. it's cloudy, but it is dry still in germany. heat wave probably is the expression to use in spain. and you might argue it is in london as well. we hang around the such degree, mach until mid week sponsor cut on airways joined the debate. do not have maxine reaching those who are most of the needs and amplify your voice. it allowed a diverse community and how an array of different story know topic it off the table

. it's such a tough ethical debate where there is an obvious discrimination in systematic discrimination of the play people or thursday for new boys. the stream where a global audience becomes a global community on al jazeera. ah, ah, the hello again, i'm talking pay and home. let's remind you about top stories. he found the majority of personnel on board a south korean military ship have now tested positive for the current of virus infections by from $6.00 to $247.00 in just a week and comes south korea fight. this was the outbreak at home on

meanwhile, england is celebrating what it called freedom day. the government has listed almost all karone of ours restrictions. still, as it reports more than 50000 new cases, a day. scientists and health expense i infections could now double and we belonging to hundreds of journalists, activist them publications, have been hacked by government using spyware, owned by an israeli surveillance company, the n f. oh group. the israeli firm has called the investigations, findings exaggerated and faced well, right now jacob zoom is long running corruption trial is resuming with the former south african president appearing in court by video link, zoom and deny is charges of fraud corruption and money laundering, dealing to a $2000000000.00 alms deal with a french defense from when he was the deputy president on july 7th, during the 100 himself into police to serve a 15 month prison sentence on a separate case. now his arrest then spoke days of violence and loosing,

spend as smith is outside the court house for us in petersburg, bennett. after all the violence and chaos of the past week, remind us where this all began and what this trial is actually about. stacy, this goes back to 1999, 16 allegations of fraud, but zoom jacobs, numerous facing going back to the purchase of fine to jet some of a military equipment from 5 european firms. but in this case, specifically the french for carlos. this was when zoom was deputy prime minister after many, many, many attempts to get the trial stopped to postpone it. finally got going in may that is they started preliminary hearings for the trial in may. then zoom was arrested a couple of weeks ago, went to jail for contempt of court fighting to give evidence to another corruption hearing from when he was president. anyway,

so this court started again today zoom as lawyers are applying though for the trial to be postponed again because they say a prisoner has a right defendant, has a right to be in person in court. this is all being held. but really, the only person in the court room is that judge, zoom himself is in prison about a 30 minute drive away his lawyer also appearing virtually and outside courts, where normally that been fervent, zoom and support is. every time the court has appeared previously that only the media and the police massage van. and can you talk us a little more through the proceedings that we expect to then? i can see the an armed vehicle behind you. other worry is that we could see more unrest while it was feared or thought that zoom as supporters would use this hearing today as an opportunity

to show that support for the former president. that's why there's a very heavy police and military presence of park just to my right hand, where they normally gather is actually also been sealed off. so it's not even possible for people to get particularly close. this country also going through a very severe cobit outbreak on days in lockdown, which may have dissuaded some people. anyway, zoom as lawyers are arguing that the trial should be postponed to allow that client to pay in person. the prosecutor say that sets up facilities whereby zoom can speak personally virtually and privately to his lawyers if necessary. the prosecutors want this case to get going. if the judge rejects that application and there are other application from the defense is to have the prosecutor removed because the defense a ledge, he has leaked material to the media to zoom his team at every step, trying every opportunity to for the moment delaying the hearing. because they say

that clyde should be in court. i'm zoom a says he wants to address the court in relation to the attempts to have the lead prosecutor random. ok any, all of the out a very sensitive moment for the country. bernard smith, the force outside the courthouse and peter merits. thanks so much banded. caught in japan has handed down prison sentences to to americans who helped form a nissan chairman called us go on to flee the country. michael taylor, a us on the veteran received a tree is in jail. his on pizza was given a sentence of a year and 8 months. they pleaded guilty to help him go and escaped 11 and back in 2018 the axis and also facing charges of financial misconduct and japan, which he denies. well, that's not returned to the pandemic. and speak more about england, easing its corona, vice restrictions. we can now speak to dp good assoni. she's a clinical epidemiologist and also a senior electro queen mary university of london. she joins us from cambridge deep

based on our previous conversations. i'm guessing that you're not going to be celebrating with a lot of the country today. no, i mean, i'm not sure a lot of the country celebration either. i think many, many people are worried about opening up in the middle of what's of aging pandemic, which is already leading to the pressure on hospital leading them to cancel routine care routine appointments for many. so i think i don't believe that this isn't just the pro and non ethical one that will be 2 millions of infections in the coming weeks and hundreds of thousands of people suffering. the consequences of long cool, which from that do you or what she needs pictures of people gathering and clubs, and oldest confetti i. this is all happening amidst this real chorus of criticism from health and signtext. but like yourself, i'm curious to you right now feeling like you're being heard by the government when it comes to policy. no, absolutely not. i mean, i don't know who they just think you because, you know, we had said that was signed by more than 1000 scientists. and health care

professionals, the chair of the b. m a has res concerns, which is a british medical association. right? nothing. the academy of medical classes of always concerned. you know, a group of biologists have been opened at the financial times, warning about the risk to buy new radians. we've had was needed, condemned the strategy as unethical and mergers and diabolical. where the government seems to be moving ahead despite all these concerns, including knowing that public sentiment is whole heartedly in favor of continuing greater restrictions and mosque use even following the 19th july. and you say murderous that i mean the projections that we're looking at, a fairly terrifying, especially as the wells is now grappling with delta. how bad could it get? i mean, i think the, the fact is that we don't actually know because this is something no country has done. i mean only half of population is 40 vaccinated, which means we're now allowing the band to make to spend on mitigated and the rest of the population. we don't know how that's going to pan out with being tool that

we maybe see as much as 100000 or 200000 daily cases. and that we might see 2000 daily hospitalization. we're being told that we might have half a 1000000 people who end up with long call that to add to the 1000000 that we already have. but the truth is that there's so much uncertainty because nobody has done that before. and frankly, that is not to now. yeah, that looks good. d. p. i notice that there are still these tight quarantine restrictions in place for travelers of europe now heads into the summer holidays is something like that at all with the policy changes that we thing like this. yes, i mean our policy completely inconsistent. so why do we have the dose of it in that also has high levels of skill for vaccines in terms of, you know, protection against infection transmission. we are now restricting and coordinating from to which have similar variance but equivalent amounts of escape. and you know, i understand doing that, but it only makes sense if you also focus on containing the band with a highly transmissible in the median within our country. i mean,

i think we are going to find ourselves, my more isolated or the coming month as more and more countries mistake travel from the u. k. because that is a sensible thing to do. and now, given that we have a region pandemic here, where one percent of our population is actually infected at this point in time, going to some terrifying figures. the be good funny that chemical epidemiologists been a senior electro queen, mary university of london. always great. can you expertise here on out there? thanks for joining us and best of luck with your way. thank you. now german tangela angler. michael has described the scenes in flood damaged villages as surreal and ghostly. and the crisis and parts of europe is now only getting was more heavy. rain has hit parts of eastern germany, austria and the czech republic, at least a 183 people have been confirmed dead. that number is still expected to rise. adam rainy reports now from schulte and 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. initial food, either a good line of us are suncrest, old old bar manager. michael croyt 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 and 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 merkel 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's 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 get the whole it's crazy to see you 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, often floods to wildfires, more than a $180.00 blazes burning across the russian province

a siberia. the region is one of the west effected areas and almost $2500.00 firefighters have been called into battle. those places are about manual and controllable blazes is consumed thousands of kilometers the siberian forests. as the trees burned to ascend, billowing smoke drifted towards your goods city and dozens more towns in yacht. katya officials warned residents to shut the windows and stay in doors to avoid the choking smoke. 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 degrees celsius if the highest ever recorded in the

arctic circle. this is not from nasa shows in red, the early summer heat waves that have been scorching eastern russia and europe. the figure says that's ok. 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 roots 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 really small 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 and the month of june was the hospital records. the russian military is fluid. 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 planes are taking to the skies to douse the flames, but these fires are also igniting under a month resident by bottom many se 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 northern manly out there on the.