the, the, the say is the w use life from bullet has been out for instance, 2 battalions house for an unprecedented series of explosions across lab and on thousands of pages used by hezbollah members. designate almost single tediously security sources. plainly as 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 stone to europe. pensions rise in sway to a spanish city on the american coast as the number of microbes hoping to reach the european mainland soles, plus floods in central and eastern europe, leave a trail of destruction. thousands more. evacuations are underway by teams of

volunteers trying to save the towns and cities and the rising water level, the invisible and welcome officials and living on say at least 9 people, including a child's have been killed off. the pages used by has belong exploded across the country. runs ambassador to level known as among the know, the $2800.00 injured by the single tiny is boxed the pages like the one you see behind me was supplied by time with each company. going to pull it. it says they were made by a sub contractor and hungry hezbollah militants began using the simple pages in hopes of avoiding is by the surveillance of the mobile phones. the militant group claims israel for the explosions and says, the attacks will not go on punished. there's been no immediate comment for me as

well. okay, and it seems like this played out hundreds of times throughout lebanon and syria, behind the king's pages used by the militia group hezbollah to communicate with its operatives and supporters. and i'm told number of the devices exploded, lasting around in our ambulances. we're seeing crowd industries moving the data and the going to task, but it is 12 level, not the countries health ministers confirm 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 us deal with these, 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 siblings squarely on israel, invalid to punish the perpetrators of the attack. walter, yeah. doing well. he know what about new method? as the number of injured continues to rise lebanese health authorities, or calling for fresh blood donations, as hospitals rush to treat the victims of the attack. the don't use by how much data is following developments in favored. i asked him about the situation on the streets. the day off to the bloss, so weekday mornings are usually very busy and in between. but today was an ordinary call and 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 the needs 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 of the unity and sympathy in, in the country. that is very divided. it is a very anxious morning here in balte. i would say tell us more about the reaction from his bull though. well, you know, this is a huge security breach. it's unpredicted and has been less to assessing the situation at the moment. we know that has below, as its own telecommunication, a network and infrastructure. it is part of its command and control system. the on group has already caught the use of smartphone, mobilize his blas chief, personally, had warned as fighters and even civilians 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 are the turn, the test pages have proved not to be any safer. so far we can only assume that it will take the on to 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 a, his fighter is, if not thousands, that wouldn't be out of service for some time due to injuries. i really feel like she's not a traitor. so how did these pages and these blasts actually happen. matthew liberties are counter terrorism analyst at the washington institute for near east policy. we asked him if he'd ever heard of anything like this. nothing like this. it reminds of the western penetration is ever on. has 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, a denied space. a place is difficult for operatives from the west informational to operate. this is a huge intelligence penetration of his ball. 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 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 blog, 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, but i think i have it from the washington institute for near east policy. for more background, i spoke to zucker transferred from swans the university. he deals with international relations and the impact of technology. i asked him how he described what's going on across living on. this is a very unprecedented attack in terms of scale. i mean terms of the use of the pagers, but it is not unprecedented for either way up to high and 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, we're leaving a come aust, 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 be not quite sometime in the planning, especially because it requires uh 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 decide 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 in other mental psychological warfare and the results and elements 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 are said to have been injured or possibly killed in this attack, but this was something that happened in public space. it's yes, we've seen some of the images of people being in grocery stores and going about their daily lives. and these pages exploding and according to some reports of these pages where program to be before a few seconds then to explode in order to cause injuries to the phase and to the mind. which of course, would put some further pressure on the hospital in the health care system. and the supreme 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 one's the university. thank you very much for timing in training throughout the new stories. now from today's in columbia and attack on

a military base using a truck loaded with explosives has claimed the lives of 2 soldiers and injured thousands more. the government is blaming the national liberation army. i left this ramble, but president gustavo paypal says the attack ended long running peace talk. same did holton columbia, as decades don't conflict with graphic works and explosion in a german city of color and has injured at least one person and destroyed shop windows. the bloss took place in the early hours of wednesday on a popular shopping straight. it's the 2nd such explosion in cologne in recent days . police have not yet commented on any motive behind the incidents. pensions remain high on the border between morocco and the spanish territory of 0 to over the weekend were all coast police clashed with migrants trying to breach the board of fans. hundreds was stopped from entering the tower tre. x 5 is located across the job, rolled a straight from spain's mainland. it's been

a major injury point for many migrants trying to get into the european union from the dw young phillip schultz and this report every day, the line in front of the you test, the biggest soup kitchen gets longer. we had and her colleagues prepared several 100 free meals here on most of all that guess a migraines from the margaret or oh, that's a ton of i'm on with you in the if you there for the past few months, masses of people helping crossing the border it has always been a lot to do here, but currently it is more than ever for the us. hundreds of migraines have arrived in the small spanish explained in the recent we face when for up to 8 hours from a roku. taking advantage of the warm weather and the cub provided by the nighttime fog to make the end of the good board crossing. that'd 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 she cons get seen at the clinic or get a place at one of the official migration centers because staff for come see, i'm just gonna see when i was in sleeping out here for 5 nights on the bed it's full of insects and it's very cold. nice that a whole week. there were also some guys who 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 migrants, temporary shows has, has been set up in old garages. but that housing 5 times as many minors as plant journalists are not allowed to excess and see which has the local government is not prepared to be interviewed. the residents of c u, which are torn between empathy for the migraines and this year that the small town is speaking. oh, but well, 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 equal to your system that's i see that as well. so i'm on the side of these 4 guys, of course on the top take on. yeah, i definitely got is this be observed period, if not, if the whole of africa will come to europe in the future. so object of idea, but it will go back many say the last, i'm not working after a few weeks the all star at season. so you to simply issue many migraines with a document that allows them to take the next very to the spanish mainland. that'd be assess betsy hopes you also get on the phone and if, if at all so, and i have family and friends suite in switzerland also in germany. i know how to fix cellphones died. maybe i can get a job and doing something like that. number for us, that'd be a, here's that the climate for regular migraines in europe is getting tough. are that he's still convinced that his future lies on the other side of the sea? i asked the w, corresponded jack power. i can bronsels how the you views the crisis. 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 claim 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 west. 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 5 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 seemed to have what 10, 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 i'm margarete, to screen 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, would you say that side is tony. 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 as you say, germany has put up its internal land borders. again, a number of other countries, a continuous considering doing the same sweden, we saw the doctor's government 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 u 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 a 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 a vis 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 we'll 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 gives migration that may be precious against that that will also be precious from the other national governments. as we say, we seen the rhetoric change, dw, is jeff patrick with the view from brussels. more news making

headlines this hour now. kashmir is holding its 1st local election since india in post direct control over the disputed territory in 2019. despite the votes, valuable retained powers to override laws passed by the local assembly. thousands of additional police and power military. you have been deployed to prevent a repeat of the violence that's not previous pulse. us rappa and music produces showing that he coves, as being denied bail off. 3 pleaded not guilty to racketeering and sex trafficking charges. it was arrested on monday evening, formally known as puff daddy coves is accused of sexually abusing women and coercing them into drug fueled 6 bodies, using threats and violence the one size in portugal as killed at least 7 people, and aged dozens of others, thousands of firefighters have been battling the flames since the weekend with a lot just fight is 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 now arisen to 22 high winds and heavy rain full. i have ranked havoc in austria, the czech republic, poland hungary, on romania. the weather is stabilizing in some pond. spot. many rivers are still overflowing. the cloth rooms at the school in romania should be filled with children at this time of day. instead, the teacher has a busy cleaning of the damage from days of flooding. the night that's the time we had to flats the what the end or to school. you mean? now we have no more laptops to work since you're not interested in my house is also flooded for the 1st time. thinking on that though, do you 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 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 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 its tributaries. basically what we are trying to make it stable. there are leaks in some places, but we are trying to bunch them up as soon as possible with sun box, which people have be making here. seems this morning a voice mail stuff for him, the other i hope that we can keep them on minutes as they are out with some of our kicks on. a race against time. neighboring parts of

poland have already been completely submerged. full instead of the largest city, what stuff in the south west is bracing itself for the rising waters is what the may have to say to dw, to listen to about some of the mature a logical situation of coal. samantha inside, 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 to end 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 products. so the weather situation is good. and i hope that it will not change the flood spots was hit by a disastrous flooded 1997. i put it through the w reported mountains so that

everything now hinges on the weather. yes, definitely. so the weather, it has been stable since monday, which helps a lot to drive the embankment. and as we see now, the old river is not over flowing, but we still see quite moderate stream and lots of trees and stuff floating down the river. but the crucial parts are actually being secured. so this time not like in 1997, the city seems to be more prepared. they're trying to concentrate on the places that are, could get dangerous for the people, but they're mostly not at the old river, but the tributaries and the destruction was wide spread back in the ninety's. how exhausting is this fight by volunteers to save the towns and cities the voluntary seem to be working night and day. so we've seen pictures and

reports from voluntary around the embankments close to a 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 of the same as the fire department. everyone's joining in, in this say, if it's not, if you spoke to the mayor of what's left, what is the government? they're advising people to do. stay off the banks. keep a stash, little stash of water, and just be alert because the big wave should be coming in. drops off, at least on the late 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 continuing and, and is the 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 broadsoft for us. so the south vienna is among the austrians that he's hit by the rising board has its position on the fonts moving

down u, as long made it vulnerable to severe flooding men. so in the 19 seventy's work began on massive slot defenses to reduce and of the flow of the water entity is say that without the systems in place, this is flooding would have been much worse. 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, a still 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 floodgates 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 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. coming up eco, india look,

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