the, the, this is the w use life from the land as well. that's where it is to retaliate for an unprecedented series of explosions across leveled on thousands of pages use by has pulled out members debt. nate almost simultaneously, security sources claim is, well, is responsible for the sophisticated attack that appears to have been months in the making. the tiny territory that's seen as a stepping stones in europe tension is rise in a spanish city on the american coast. as the number of migrants hoping to reach the european mainland soles, fast floods in central and eastern europe leave

a trail of destruction. thousands more evacuations around the way, while teams of volunteer is trying to save the towns and cities from the rising water levels. the . i bade visible and welcome officials in lebanon say at least 9 people, including a child have been killed of the pages used by his belie, exploded across the country. it runs at madison at 11 or is among the nearly 2800 injured by the civil, tiny as lost his beloved claims as well for the explosions. and it says the attack will not go unpunished. there's been no immediate comment from the is why the military chaotic seems like this blade of hundreds of times throughout lebanon and syria,

behind the king of peters used by the militia group hezbollah to communicate with its operatives and supporters. and i'm told number of devices exploded. last in rounding, our ambulances were seen, crowding the streets within 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, the commander described the attack as the quote biggest 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, invalid 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 of the attack that we use mohammed straight to is following developments in a boot for us. i asked him about the situation on the straits a day off to the bloss. a weekday mornings are usually very busy and based on but today was an order entity column. it took me around 7 minutes to reach the office. i usually spend around 30 to 40 minutes on, on the road. no schools and public institutions are not working today and the state is still in shock. and therefore a lot of companies are just staying home anticipating the situation. many are heading to hospitals across the country to donate blood to give any sort of a possible support. this was an event with a massive scale then,

and it kind of broad feelings off of unity and, and sympathy in, in the country that is very divided. it is a very anxious morning here in balte, i would say well, you know, this is a huge security breach. it's unprecedented and has been less to assessing the situation at the moment. we know that has the last is own uh, telecommunication, a network and infrastructure. it is part of its command and control system. the on groups have already caught the use of smartphone, mobilize his boss, chief personally, had warned as fighters and even civilians and in the south from using smartphones. due to security breach that, according to the party led to the killing of several of its fighters and leaders. now,

these at the turn that the pages have proved not to be any safer. so far we can only assume that it will take the on time to digest the event and find and turn it is that to the store is communication and command and control system. meanwhile, then it is believed that hundreds of the his fighter is if not thousands, that wouldn't be out of service for some time due to injuries. it's a favorite bureau chief mileage straight to the matthew live. it is a kind of terrorism analyst at the washington institute for near east policy. we asked him if he'd ever heard of anything like that. nothing like this. it reminds of western penetration. there's other honors, a centrifuge system where widgets that were procured abroad and were messed with cause 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 penetration up as well. right now it seems quite clear that a small amount 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 a 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 start 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 luminated. and then these really decided to go ahead before the other one concerned. and let's spring in, okay, 10 from this one is the university. he's an associate professor of international

relations, encompass the impact of technology on international norms. welcome to d, w. how would you describe what's just going on across lab and on to thank you for having me. first of all, it is a very unprecedented attack in terms of scale. i mean terms of the use of the pages, but it is not unprecedented for either way up to high end explosives in, in values, elements for example, books or packages or even phones. we've seen in the past how israel explosives and the phone for example. you mean a come off chief ball maker. so it is unprecedented in terms of the scale, but not so much in terms of the practice itself. how long would you say this is being in the planning? it must have been quite some time in the planning, especially because it requires certainly boxes to the pagers. if it, if it is confirmed that it was automatically explosives, these explosive must have been placed at some point in between the production and the distribution of these painter to save with entail. uh,

no totally technological prowess, but also certain degree of access to the pagers into the supply chain and distribution chains. and what would you actually call this? was this a calculated attack? it was probably a calculated attack, any payment achieving multiple objective. i'd say certainly there is an element of terrorizing the population of level known and as i meant the psychological warfare there is always an element of signaling to hezbollah that has nowhere to hide. as we've heard from previous interviewees has while i had actually transitioned to pagers because they considered them more secure, a safer, but now they've been shown that they can be used as devices as well. you mentioned the possibility of an act of terrorism here. i mean, we are talking about a lot of hezbollah operatives who was said to have been injured or possibly killed

in this attack, but this was something that happened in public spaces. yes, we've seen some of the images of people being in grocery stores and going about their daily lives some days pagers exploding and according to some reports of these pages where program to be for a few seconds then to explode in order to cause injuries to the phase and to the 9th, which of course would put some further pressure on the hospital in the health care system. and there's some people speaker suggested there's also put out of play for quite some time. many it's bullfighters wouldn't been injured in the operation. look at trying to that from this once a university. thank you very much for timing. a quick look now. add some of the other stories, making headlines around the world. and explosion in the german city of cologne has injured at least one person and destroyed shop windows. the blast took place in the early hours of wednesday on

a popular shopping straight. it's the 2nd century explosion in cologne, embracing days. police have not yet commented on any motive behind the incidence. ross has top security officials that guy showing go, has met with around the president my sort possess scanned into ron. because i scan says he's country is committed to deepening ties with russia and that strengthening relations and cooperation between around in russia. it will reduce the impact of sanctions in columbia. an attack on a military base using a trunk, loaded with explosives as claimed the lives of 2 soldiers and injured thousands more. the government is blaming the national liberation on the left. this revel group president could stop a peaceful says the attack ended long running peace to obtain that holton columbia is decades long. conflicts with gorilla groups. it might, those tensions remain high on the border between morocco and the spanish territory of quatre over the weekend world coast police clashed with migrants trying to

breach the board defense, hundreds was stopped from entering the territory. the exclaim is located across the gibraltar, straight from spain's mainland. it has been a major entry point for many migraines trying to get into the european union from the t w's. john phillip schultz and this report every day, the line in front of so you test the biggest soup kitchen gets longer. we had and her colleagues prepare several 100 free meals here on most of that gets a migrants from the margaret. oh, that's a kind of fun with you and uh, if you there for the past few months, masses of people helping crossing the border. there has always been a lot to do here. but currently it is more than ever without. i mean, some of the us hundreds of migraines have arrived in the small spanish explained in the recent we base when for up to 8 hours from a roku. taking advantage of the warm weather and the cab up provided by the

nighttime fog to make the entity good board crossing. not be also arrived recently, the erie and tells us that since getting here you spend every night outdoors. he sustained a few injuries by crossing the border, but he can't get seen at the clinic or get a place at one of the official migration centers because staff for come see i'm going to come see him when i was in sleeping out here for 5 nights. on the it's full of insects and it's very cold and the set of all we there were also some guys who were still your belongings. vega and you're tired all the time. but you can't fall asleep. the situation is even worse for on the h. migraines, temporary shows, has have been set up in old garages, but that housing 5 times as many minors as plant journalists are not allowed to excess. and so you test local government is not prepared to be interviewed to the residence of c u, which i, i, torn between empathy for the migraines and the fear that the small town is being

overwhelmed. i don't, i mean the migration that is regulated, but at the same time, you mean, and when we take people in, we have to make sure that the basic needs are met a system that has the guy as well. so i'm on the side of these poor guys, of course on the top take on. yeah, i definitely got is this to be observed period, if not, the whole of africa will come to europe in the future. so over the cup of idea, but uh able to pass that many say the last not working after a few weeks, the or 3rd season. so you to simply issue many migraines with the documents that allows them to take the next very to the spanish mainland. that'd be a says that he hopes you also get one stone and if, if at all so on. i have family and friends, sweden, switzerland, also in germany. i know how to fix cellphones died. maybe i can get a job doing something like that. number for us, that'd be

a here so that the climate for regular migrants in europe is getting tough. are that he's still convinced that his future lies on the other side of the sea. and they don't use that parent joins us from brussels. how involved has the you being in trying to support local authorities say well, this is a real headache for the european union and the institutions have in brussels. this is the, the situation in search has been going on for many, many years. well, over a decade now, where people have been trying to get those papers in spanish, i can place in order to then be transferred into the rest of the european union. and it's really emblematic of the situation that the you face is the sort of for noon with if migration closes in one area or it's of balloons item to another. and we're seeing that happen at the moment in that spanish hang tight, tight back in march of 2023. the you set top an agreement with the rocco

to the tune of over 600000000. yours, in order to support the american economy and to boast of their ability to prevent illegal migration into the enclave. it's not massively being seem to have what it's and obviously the situations we've seen over the last few days in the last weeks. i have prove that it's perhaps not working as well as the you will forward. he's would have hope it would have the you commission and margaret to skeen us who's in charge of these kind of issues. he was on a spanish radio station a couple of weeks ago and said that they won't be intimidated by these waves of migration, that they will continue to make sure that suits are in this, the spanish or ortiz all supported by the e. u to prevent illegal migration. many new countries have been taking a hard line on migration. and germany included most ways simply it, would you say the tide is turning? so yeah,

this is really the big question and this is one of the issues that the use facing at the moment we've seen is you say germany has put up its internal land borders. again, a number of other countries, a content is considering doing the same sweden we, so the dots governments last week and that was what it called. it's a hard line government, this problem talk by a far right policy. they, they, in that is that they would bring in the most harsh asylum policies that your advocacy and that's what they promised, including ending family re unifications for adult children. if a parent has gone to the asylum in the netherlands, that's what they plan to do. and they say that they want all types from the you scheme to share the burden of migration around the blog. so instead of the people that arrived predominantly in italy, spain and greece staying in those countries to be processed for asylum. instead, they would be moved into other countries, but it looks like, i mean, the hard to say whether the tides tiny, but that's certainly

a different public rhetoric around migration that seems to have arisen in the last couple of weeks even. and we've seen a new e your leadership team announced how might that change the bronx approach to migration? so yeah, this is, this is a really interesting once in the last book yesterday we saw a huge, a new commission. and i asked the new commissioner for migration is from the austrian people's policy from austria and magnus bruna. quite hard line against migration. he may try to re adopt some of the laws that were agreed earlier last year in order to do this, you sorry, in order to over who the migration system was stipulates the 1st place a person arrives has to is it has to be the place where they apply for asylum. there's a lot of questions about whether that little will be able to stand in the next 5 years of the you mandate. i'm with a migration commission of from a policy which is quite hard line that goes migration,

that may be pressures against that. that will also be precious from the other national governments. as we say, we seen the rest of it change the w's. jeff, powered with the view from brussels. some of the world news headlines now, a strategy and police of a race. the dozens of suspects accused of using an encrypted messenger to coordinate drug trafficking and killings. police a global organized crime networks, develop the ghost. it was infiltrated, using integrated software updates, more risk to being carried out in canada, and here in europe. us, rafa and music produced a showing. the combs has been denied fail of the he pleaded not guilty to racketeering and 6 traffic in challenges. he was arrested monday evening, formerly known as puff daddy coves is accused of sexually abusing women and causing them into drunk. fueled 6 bodies, using threats and violets, the one size and political as killed at least 7 people then ended thousands of

others. thousands of 55. his have been battling the flames since the weekend with a lot of spies concentrated in the north. high temperatures and strong winds have been complicating efforts to control the place. officials in central europe say the death toll from flooding and extreme weather has no reason to 22 high winds and heavy rainfall every topic and austria, the czech republic, poland, hungry, and romania. the weather is stabilizing in some pod spot. many rivers is still over flowing. the cloth rooms at the school in romania should be filled with children at this time of day. instead, the teachers are busy cleaning up the damage from days to flooding. the night last time we had slots the what are the, the end or to 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, i think that these books and toys attended by kindergarten when you just a week ago. and then now destroyed the county of galati in east and romania was one of the air is worst affected by the floods. the inundated central and eastern europe as well. and as residents here come to terms with the extent of the damage, all the parts of europe is still bracing for the arrival of flood waters. here in south west poland, local residents to binding together to help police and beyond me, build 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 punch them up as soon as possible with sun box, which people have be making here. seems this morning a voice mail stuff for them,

the other i hope that we can keep them on minutes as they are out with some of our like excel, a race against time. neighboring parts of poland have already been completely submerged. problems, 3rd largest city. what's life is pricing itself for the rising borders? is what the may have to say to dw. that's about some of the major, a logical situation of coal samantha's side. firstly, it is stopped raining and this applies not only to but also off, but also to the region. and secondly, the sun is shining. so on the one hand, the water can evaporate and on the other, the hydro technical devices, and of course the embankments have a chance to dry out of it. they were subjected to high stress caused by the water even if the wave flattens at some point. the devices are working all the time to

navigate your colleagues, so the weather situation is good, and i hope that it will not change the plus off was hit by a disastrous flooded 1997. i asked the w, corresponded mazda store who's in the city, what's happening now to protect people and property from the rising of waters, as the voluntary seem to be working nights and today. so we've seen pictures and reports from voluntary around the embankments close to broad swath where they are securing the banks with sand bags, and they are doing it for 2 days consecutively now. and also the military is helping at the most crucial parts at the same as the fire department. everyone's joining in, in this f at model, you spoke to the mayor of what's left, what is the government? they're advising people to do sales,

the banks keep a stash, little stash of water, and just be alert because the big waste should be coming in. drops off, at least on the lights, late thursday, or friday night. and, but in a while, the and the other a cities i visited yesterday, and the major flood will come today. and we've seen smaller villages that have been flooded already. so evacuations, a continuing and, and is a clarity on the, on, on when these rising waters are going to peak because there's been some confusion on social media for example. yes, that's true. there is a lot of fake news happening and the city is trying to keep control of information always giving supports to the people. there are no major evacuations in the city of broadsoft, but in smaller villages,

some of them has has been abandoned already. and we, the situation is very dynamic, so everyone is supposed to check the information and just keep alerts, which is the most important thing right now. thanks for holding. mazda. so in boss left for us of vienna is among the cities hits by the rising water is in australia, its position on the finest moving down you as long made it vulnerable to severe flooding. and so in the 19 seventy's work began on massive flood defenses to reduce end of the flow of the water engine is say that without these systems in place, this is funding would have been 5 watts. 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. 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 european 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 flood gates, northwest of the city opened 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. there 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 a reminder now of our top story, this our on the double union officials and leave it on say at least 9 people were killed when pages used by his bladder exploded across the country, rounds and bands that it's 11 known as among the thousands injured. his beloved lame z as well for the simple painting as black. i forget you can always get the w news on the go download our app. and it'll give you access to all the latest news

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