the the, this is dw new life from boyland, pedros kathy bye have full of flights of explode across lebanon. several people are reported to have been killed. tell them to and so think of on the 11 on us up to happened in just program thousands photos from the homes of the some of the worst flooding the his son for joe and becky 21 people are reported to have until the welcome to the program, lebanese, the officials say at least 9 people were killed,

a nearly 2800 injured when pages used by the hezbollah militant group exploded simultaneously across the country, his beloved plains, as well. for the last sunset, the attack would not go unpunished. but there was no immediate comment from these fairly military. as 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, lasting rounding our ambulances were seen, crowding the streets, leaving the dead, and the wounded task produced throughout level. not the 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 bullet commander described the attack as the quote big a security breach. since the reason i still it is with israel began 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 rush to treat the victims stuff the attack. matthew levitt is the counterterrorism and intelligence analyst at the washington institute for near east policy. i asked him if he had ever heard of anything like this. i'm at the scale. it's nothing like this. it reminds me of the western penetrations of runners. a

centrifuge system where widgets that were procured abroad and were messed with caused those centrifuges to us been to pass an 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 bell. is there any reason, according to you to believe that as well as not behind this incident? it is highly likely that is rose behind this incident. so 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, hezbollah started instructing its operators 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. but his volunteered was behind the targeted assassinations of several

of its commanders. and then they started spreading out these pagers. so 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 she, militias and iraq. now the cause of the explosions itself is not clear yet that activities about batteries, exploding or explosives being prompted them to 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. uh, this was not some type of uh, cyber uh 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. i 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 crate of purpose of this attack was up to pick out as many suspect a handful of flight tools as possible. but clearly these really is put 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 action. and i think perhaps counter intuitive leap. what this really is you're doing here is indicating that has looked they're very, very serious. that they need the 11 months of his bottle rockets to and that has the israel's committed to enabling the $60000.00 plus civilians have been displaced from their homes and that are the best real 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 either as bowl is gonna 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 triggered and all out war between as well and has bull something to explore the have long warned off sprites? i don't think that this alone does. i think there's no question that has bo retaliates. but as we see, even in has because commitment to retaliate for the assassination of one of its chief militants for sugar several weeks ago. 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 selling. understanding that, that too is potentially inviting full scale or 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 would affect the response as well. there are 2 issues here.

one is there communication system. so if you're as well or 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 that pages are more secure. and you get to remember, this comes after a series of israeli intelligence penetrations getting tactical time, the information of his bow off planning to fire missiles at the television area. and then carrying out a grant to 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 got 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 communications that about the level of penetration that these relatives of achieved within their organization. and that too 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 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, of some news really perspective this to your 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 one and 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. right. and dissipate that it was not staying as 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. whereas bullet redeployed and spiders, 10 kilometers from the board with his real steps firing. and the border cools and the is really stuff everything they're doing to that offers on the table. and i really hope everybody takes it at matthew and that's, that's counter terrorism. next pulled up the washington institute. thank you so much. thank you. let's take a look now at some of the stories making headlines around the world. with us russel and music produce lashawn duty combs has been denied. they will also,

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officials and central europe save a debt store from flooding. an extreme value has now arisen 22 high wins and heavy rainfall have wreaked havoc in us pre all checked republic. poland, hungary, and germanium. the weather was stabilizing in some parts, but many of of rolls of still overflowing the cloth rooms that the school in romania should be filled with children at this time of day. instead, the teachers are busy cleaning up the damage from the days of flooding the night, and that's the time we had slots the. what are the thoughts entered the school? 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. thinking on 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 then now destroyed of the county of galati in eastern romania was one of the areas west affected by the floods. the inundated central and

eastern europe. and as 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, build flood bar 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 subjects on a race against time. neighboring parts of poland have already been

completely submerged. now the plots of also hit the austrian capital vienna, but the city is resisting them better than most. let's take a look at the mass of slept defense system built the in the 19 seventy's and eighty's. austria is capital vienna wouldn't exist without the danube river. but over the centuries, the city has experienced a series of devastating floods. including in 1954 that inspired a mass of g o engineering project. the creation of an artificial arm of the river, of the so called new danube, running parallel, still a body of water controlled by dams, that in times of trouble saves the day. the danube river is nearly 3000 kilometers long and flows through 10 europe in countries when it gets to vienna. during normal times, it continues to flow along its ancient root. but if the water level rises to high

floodgates northwest of the city, open up the new danube, which can absorb the huge volumes of extra water south, east of the city. the new danube joins the river and the city stays above the water . the project was controversial and took 16 years to pull off, but the city got a bonus. the danube island made of the earth if it was excavated for the new river channel, the sheep grades here along side city dwellers out for relaxation. however, the city has not been completely immune to the most recent floods. a small stream has flooded in recent days, putting parts of the city under water. but nothing like what would happen if the daniel overran its banks. the new danube a win win situation for the city. one solution to buy time as climate change raises flood risk worldwide and with that to your up to date,

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