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i'm the how johnny welcome to the program. lebanese officials say at least 9 people were killed and nearly 2800 injured. when pedros used by the handful of militant drew exploded simultaneously across the country, as full of blamed as well for the blossoms of the attack would not go unpunished. there was no immediate comment from these reading latrice. the k arctic seems like this blade of hundreds of times throughout lebanon and syria, behind the kings, peters used by the militia group hezbollah, to communicate with its operatives and supporters. and until the number of devices exploded, last in rounding our ambulances were seen probably in the streets, reading the dead. and the wounded task produced throughout level countries. health ministers, confirmed thousands, were injured in the unprecedented attack. the ministry of health as recorded more

than 2800 injuries, 200 of which were in critical condition, and required either surgical intervention or entry into the intensive care unit. it is still unclear what caused the devices to explode. however, it has, the commander described the attack as the quote big a security breach. since the reason hostilities with israel began to load the statement right and lebanese television as below, which is considered a terrorist group by the you and others, police sibling squarely on israel, bowed to punish the perpetrators of the attack. walk. are you doing well, you know, what, by new method, as the number of injured continues to rise, loving these health authorities or calling for fresh blood donations as hospitals rushed to treat the victims of to day's attack. matthew levitas the next boat on counterterrorism. unintelligence, at the washington institute for near east policy, he joins me now from washington,

dc. welcome to dw matthew. have you ever heard of anything like this? i'm at the scale. nothing like this. it reminds me of the western penetrations of runs. a centrifuge system where widgets that were procured abroad and were messed with caused those centrifuges to us been to pass and overheat. but nothing like this, especially in a denied space. a place is difficult for operatives from the west informational to operate. this is a huge intelligence the penetration of his bow. is that any reason, according to you to believe that as well as not behind this incident? it is highly likely that as rules behind this incident, um, it has the fingerprints as really types of attack. it was targeted specifically as his ball up operatives. we know back in february of this year of hezbollah, started instructing its operatives to leave phones at home and start using pagers

to go more low tech in an effort to try and evade as really signals intelligence that has volunteered was behind the targeted assassinations of several of its commanders, and then they started spreading out these pagers. if it's something that has below has done, we know that at least one of them was near the iranian, and bassett, or the reports of their explosions, even in syria. and possibly a mom of symbolises in iraq. now the cause of the explosions itself is not clear yet the theories about batteries exploding or explosives being founded in the pages before. what sounds most plausible to you is based on what's being reported here in the united states. right now it seems quite clear that a small amounts of explosives grams were inserted into these pagers during the procurement of them while they were in the supply chain. this was not some type of cyber issue. this was an effort to get an identified supply chain. interrupt the

supply chain, take their devices a large number of devices and sort small amount of explosive into them. and then i get them out to an adversary report, sorry that there were a couple of people who has blogs, who kind of figured out what was happening. one of those people was eliminated. and then these really decided to go ahead before the other one concerned. and what do you think was the quite a purpose of this attack was up to pick out as many a suspected has bullet flight tools as possible. but clearly these really spoke to some place some time ago, but it's not one of those things that you put in place and you necessarily act upon because it's clearly a very big option. and i think perhaps counter intuitive leap. what the as realize are doing here is indicating to has lift. they're very, very serious that they need the 11 months of his bottle rockets to and that is that israel's committed to enabling the $60000.00 plus civilians have been displaced

from their homes. and then all of them as well to be able to go back. and this is a very, very serious message, but it's one short of full scale work. because we're getting to that precipice, we're getting to midnight. and i do as well as get it back off. i think it's quite clear that there's all defense forces are going to try and push hezbollah away from that order. well, that is the big question, isn't the, will this trigger an all out war between as well and has bullet something? the experts have long warned off. right. i don't think that this alone does. i think there's no question that has bo retaliates. but as we've seen, even in has because commitment to retaliate for the assassination of one of its chief militants with sugar several weeks ago. and they're trying to be careful about how they do that as well. doesn't want to do something that's going to ignite full scale war, but they're also not willing to stop the daily showing. understanding that that too is potentially inviting full scale war as well is going to have a difficult time figuring out how to calculate that response. i wonder if you can

give us a sense of just how significantly this attack may have affected his beloved communication systems. because that's what affect the response as well. there are 2 issues here. one is there communication system. so if you're his belly, you have to wonder about the security of any of your systems, not just the pager systems. we know, as i said in february, they left cell phones thinking the pages are more secure. and you get to remember, this comes after a series of israeli intelligence penetrations getting tactical time information of his bow off planning to fire missiles at the television area. and then carrying out preemptive strike, that time, just weeks after the assassination ford sugar. one of the most protected individuals has been wanted for years by both israel and the united states. so it has both going to be wondering, not only about the security that's communications which you're right, does affect their ability to plan something in the near term. but also more generally, not just about communication about about the level of penetration that these

release of achieve within their organization. and that to will affect their decision making on what to do next. now, such an operation could, must have been prepared over months. it's not something that is executed overnight, is that correct? as we know that this dates back to around february, reuters reported publicly in july. that has bella was in fact moving towards pagers and away from cell phones. specifically to evade is really a signals intelligence collection. so this was not a secret. at some point in that process, this really is found a way to penetrate the supply chain and to insert these explosives into these devices. the us has said that they had no prior knowledge of this attack to find the plausible i find it likely, the former us intelligence official and we don't get to know everything that even our closest allies are doing. and ever if it was something about war. yes,

somebody is really perspective just you are people who know about this before it happens, the more likely can succeed. so you'd want very, very tight operational security for something like this. this is a want it done operation that works or doesn't. and then you would experience, how do you expect us to now react to this situation? there's no question that the us is going to try and um, you know, temper things down so that it doesn't lead to all that work. but i intend to pay that. it was hot seeing the rest of the us negotiators are going to be pushing even harder still to try and convince has blog to accept a diplomatic deal that's on the table. where has blood re deploys expires 10 kilometers from the board with this real steps. firings and the. ready cools and these really stuff everything they're doing to that offers on the table and i really hope everybody takes it. that's not true enough at the account that or is this a mex pulled at the washington institute. thank you so much. thank you. a

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officials in central europe say the debt stole from flooding and extreme weather has now arisen 22. high winds and heavy rainfall have wreaked havoc in all spray, all the track republic, poland, hungary, and romania, the brother of a stabilizing in some parts, but many rivers austin, overflowing the cloth rooms at the school in romania, should be filled with children at this time of day instead, the teachers of busy cleaning up the damage from days to flooding the night. that's the time we had flats that what are they to enter to school? do you mean now we have no more laptops to work since you are not interested in my house. is also flooded for the 1st time, and that though, i know how the children and their parents feel up because these books and toys the to nearby kindergarten when you just a week ago and to now destroyed the county of de la t in eastern romania was one of the air is worst affected by the floods,

the inundated central and eastern europe as well. and as the residents here come to terms with the extent of the damage, all the parts of europe is still bracing to the arrival of flood waters. here in south west poland, local residents to binding together to help police and beyond me, both flood vari is along the older river and it's tribute trees. basically what we are trying to make it stable. there are leaks in some places, but we are trying to patch them up as soon as possible with sun box, which people have been making here seems this morning. they rushed me a step for him, the other i hope that we can keep them by minutes as they are some of our kicks on . a race against time. neighboring parts of poland have already been completely submerged.

german opposition leader 3. the smith looks almost certain to become the transport candidate for his christian democratic party in federal elections. next deal. he leads the central right cd you and today at the press conference in berlin, he received the endorsement office close to the arrival of them, opened in fulls book, the conservative block ahead of the ruling, 3 faulty coalition. mr mats as calling for a tougher line on integration, which is a key issue for vote of the cutting fluid in coalition led by chancellor of charles is fighting for the political survival in fighting at a loss of mortal support. so feel free, bush minutes become tron. so next deal. that's the question for all dw political correspondents prompt. the way things look at the bottom. and that seems very likely, yes. as you said, the polls show that the cd us by far the strongest quality at the moment other on 30 percent, the next strongest party is the fall right alternative for germany and any off to

that is or not shows the tron. so this policy, the social democrats in the polls as around 15 percent. so the way things stand at the moment, the conservative look almost certain to win, but it's almost a year. it's moving to. yeah. until the election is take place. that's a very long time in politics, as good as mass has just basically eliminated as politic, internal arrival from bavaria. but in the past election 3 years ago, the bavarian policy um lots to week and it's kind of that conservative candidate at the time. there's hope that that will be avoid at this time wrong, but there's no certainty of that. so that could even be project internal criticism or problems still coming up and then with these madison. his personality is also somebody who's not exactly the most popular politician in germany. he comes off on the cross as a, as a bit arrow gun, and he's impulsive. he can be quite scathing and his comments. so there's a long way to go. a long hill to climb or

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