really nice and cool, with the new prolong plenty puzzled initials for this peculiar use, the devastation destruction major cleanup operations under way, along with search and rescue. and for its following torrential rains and fatal flooding in germany. more than a 100 people are dead. and many more are still missing also add in the program co redlands, this is cyliam regional mentally into poverty crisis authorities. also war in the changing seasons will be even more challenging for local community. the u. s.

accuses russia and china running smear campaigns against western vaccine, but downsize washington issues more warnings up on the side. effects of its own. we hear from someone who suffered severe convulsions out for being inoculated. those full body for vol. tremors. brain fog has stayed with me. i still have not recovered to return to rationing people as south africa era force. the que long hours for essential is out for hundreds of shops are looted when rioters go on the run, doing money to buy food for children, doing the money to pay their rent was doing. so digging like why do we going to do now? because we are going to, going to do again, they're going to break it again. ah,

just after mid day in moscow. thanks for choosing r t for your global news update this our, my name's you know, no meal. at least 150 people are now known to have been killed in flooding. that's devastated parts of central europe, entire towns, villages they've been left simply in ruins. many more people as well are missing as intense rescue efforts. continue our teeth. peter oliver is on the ground for us in germany. devastation thus was being left in the wake of waters that told through towns like this one in western germany leader of the state of nor throwing west farm and number one contender to be next chancellor of germany and lush. it is called the flood a historic disaster countries going through flooding, catastrophe on the historic scale, almost moss, as the waters have started to recede by into something close to their normal levels,

you can see the trail of destruction that's being left by the flood that ripped through towns like this one, these old buildings that were in the past didn't stand much of a chance. the river flows just over my left ton shoulder here, where you can see it only does it destroyed everything is caught there. but on a molten house, just behind me, torn half of the side of the building off in some places in the flooded region, the clean up has been able to start. i was here, i just finished cleaning up stock was about to sit down to enjoy a cup of coffee. when it all started, suddenly, the water came flooding him from above. from behind from all sides, i only had time to move away my car and it was all covered in water already. it was quite right. my son called me last week and he said in the basement flooded, we thought, oh okay, that goes to basement. and then a day later, the whole flat was water. we had to sit upstairs in the bedroom. and here we are now for a big, clean up an all too common fight in towns in this area of the belongings of people

out on the side of the street sultan, from the fluid water, the tall and through the houses. but another common sight, things like this cause tossed around as if they'd been toys the force in which the water came through these areas. really the evidence in just how much damage was able to cause and how easily it was able to pick up tons of metal and slow them one side for the flood waters, cruelly indiscriminate. while some places have been utterly destroyed, others have been incredibly lucky. just meters away from those places that have been ruined. some houses left pretty much on touch, but they are the ones in the minority. others not so lucky. hartman clean can begs home was right in the path of the swollen river. and the water came to this level

level one and a half meters walked in, spilled over with all of the strength of what would have been in the river as well, and headed over towards that house over there. wouldn't us food, i've not experienced that in 30 years. living him, it was unbelievable. the water seemed to gather itself up in the mountains and then with one big wave come down and hit us here. the st right in front of us turned into white water rapids just like a rebuttal. there were people in the basement were trying to get out, but from inside you could not open the door because of the more too pushing against it. this is terrible. we had very good information, but people did not listen. they ignored it and they did not listen to it. we were told that we were going to have pretty bad weather. and from year to year it gets worse. you just have to accept it and respected and this was not done. it was dismissed is not a big deal. something that we could handle. no, we did not have it on the control. man is so small against nature. here we see. so many people you don't expect people to die in

a flood. in germany. you expected maybe in poor countries, you don't expect to hear. it's unbelievable because i've heard a strange noise. so there was opening the front door and then what was coming from everybody. and i just pressed hard, pushed hard to close the door and then needed to help my son. and together we could close the door. there's so many tragedies, so many lives which are gone now and searching for people. and the 6 sludge shows you exactly where the water is reached. if we come up through this courtyard here, you can see some gas tanks over my right shoulder. 2000 liters full gas there. thankfully the seals on those tanks didn't break because they were picked up and jostled around by the flood waters that came through here. put into perspective a little bit of just how ferocious those waters were over there over my left shoulder. where those washing machines are. they used to be a caravan caravan,

is now here inside of the ridge, you can see through the other side of the ridge that the, the river flows exactly on the other side of the property. that a hole in the wood off the side of the, the garbage and told the concrete as well as it's moved its way through here, a force of nature that's left a trail of destruction. while the human cost is still not being calculate because of this natural disaster, when it eventually get thrown, to calculating the financial cost of what's happened to choose to run into the hundreds of millions of euro. if not more, what we are seeing at the moment. those towns like this one completely evacuated because the biggest fear of the authorities is the more rain could see those water levels rise again. already recon building swells, they could then be the next ones that end up collapsing. and this is certainly a devastating natural disaster that struck western germany. it's warming isn't over

yet. peter, all of a r t in west in germany. let's bring you to another headline story today. the economic impact of the corona virus has left italy facing its highest poverty levels for 12 years. the numbers, they're still continuing to grow as well, with masses of people out of work businesses really struggling to survive. we heard from locals and one of the hardest hit regions live until they gave the until a few years ago, i was an entrepreneur who gave work to 40 families today. i'm 60 years old and i feel humiliated. i feel like analogy to us for arms at this age, charity to try to move forward to survive. much of the situation is dramatic. there are people who previously had shops and restaurants now have to close everything. they can no longer reopen because they have no more money. many people have turned to charities and their new poor, queuing up trust for food, but a bad situation,

your pain. so the question of this, it is total destruction. it's a situation that is truly frightening. the number of poor people is increased. they line up to ask for food. it is terrifying. they also go to church, his to us for money and alimony. unfortunately, this is the current situation. this is the new reality. but when you know those who had little money already have nothing left and i get a worse and worse, those who did not have a job and already financially struggling now can know to pay their rent. i know people from this neighborhood who were well off and no back farms have very bad. jason, pretty staggering figures. latest figures show more than 5000000 people in italy, now live in absolute poverty. that is defined as household income being below a level which makes them possible for the person or family to meet basic needs of life, such as food and shelter. the counter green mix up almost 10 percent of the entire

system in population. while another significant number of families live in relative property, local authority, say it's a desperate situation. we've discovered the new poverty, which is terrible. there are too many new pull people who didn't used to be for having serious psychological consequences. i want to make an appeal. i will keep making the original leadership and the regional administration say yes sometimes because they keep saying no. i was told by some organizations that they are affected because people who are donating a contribution on to last year, a poor now and seeking contribution. therefore, there are no doubt of the situation is really complicated. a week economy like sicily was damaged by cobit. yeah, just another voice, unless we heard from one charity organization, palermo that supports people and it doesn't increase the food requests. indeed, manufacturer was asking foot all the families asking for shelter because they not have a job anymore. people have started sending emails to requesting aid. for example,

one incident particular struck me was about one couple. they asked for sultan christmas, eep. we imagined them like the nazareth family coming and asking for help. in these situations, we hosted these people in a, b, and b to give them a certain dignity. another incident concerned, the child too cold, asking for sultan because his father lost his job and his home. consequently, there are many such incidents were involved in russia and china are undermining trust in western vaccines and bid to promote their own jobs. that is, the claim being made by the white host, which sees misinformation is being used to exaggerate the risk of side effects from american and european made shots. but just based in reality, are those allegations caleb month and those more not there is a huge anti vax movement in the united states. many americans are simply refusing to get vaccinated for coven 19. so we figured it wouldn't be too long before the

white house started pointing, as usual, suspects russia and china has promoted their own vaccines through messaging that undermines western origin vaccine does help development programs. so you know, that is more than just competition about vaccines. the risk and impact there is that this type of information magnifies the risk of potential side effects associated with western vaccines. this is what the, what the information some of this misinformation is doing. it seems like what the white house spokesperson is saying is that reporting on the findings of u. s. federal agencies is somehow just information because it was the us food and drug administration that came forward and recently warned about the johnson and johnson, single dose, cobra, 1900 vaccine. and the fact that it could actually cause gillian bar syndrome, which is an auto immune disorder that attacks the nerves and could result in

paralysis. now these cases have been rare, but this is according to the food and drug administration. the u. s. federal government agency now it was officials in denmark who recently suspended the use of the johnson and johnson and astro venica vaccines, citing possible harmful effects. but apparently that's just information, even though it came from the danish ministry of health. it's also worth noting that on this accusation of competition, the main reason that people traveled to russia to get the vaccine was simply because they didn't want to wait for months to be vaccinated. here's what they said in the 30 people over my age of can. busy lead to be vaccinated after the summer. so very far i decided to make initially 9 most. now when it comes to damaging information about the vaccine, the white house certainly made quite a few gaps. so take a listen. we are quite focused on communicating directly with those people,

hence our special guest today about why it's important to get vaccinated. why do you fact scenes are safe? why they can still kill you even if you are under the age of 27. we need to be clear and direct about our messaging. i guess that's what the buying and ministration considers to be. direct messaging, while multiple cases of severe side effects have been reported, you know, from covert vaccines. one such example is angelie de cells case, which 1st came to global attention after she received defined your job. in january, you may find awarding some of the following images distressing angelie as so i'm sure the video from facebook showing his mother shaking violently in hospital box ambition. he said she suffered severe convulsions soon after getting the shot in louisiana. speaking to r t. and julia said she had no prior significant health issues and claims the u. s . government, just turning a blind on it to people. i know that i would have lost the use of my

legs and what has been paralyzed. i never would have taken it. there was never the no inform consent. what so ever about the side effects that i asked. right there was definitely not. 1 enough of awareness about hey, this could happen. see those the full body convulsions, tremors, brain fog has saved with me. i'm 6 and a half months out now. i still have not recovered. if i do not take diver mccune daily. my symptoms come right back. we are completely brushed aside, and i think that's only because our government is trying to get to heard immunity and they're not going to address us. alright, knowledge until they reach their goal. a vaccination professor of infectious

diseases, william schaffner, believes people must be made aware of all potential side effects, so they can make balance decisions. when you educate the population, you have to tell them all about the benefits of the vaccines. and you must be very clear about the side effects also. so they're not surprised and disappointed. every vaccine in the vaccine that we use has side effects. fortunately, most of the side effects are very brief. they're very mild. they're our occasional rare, serious side effects. we must know about them, and we must be transparent about them so that the people come forward for receiving the vaccines can make a clear choice. it's been dubbed the pink demick, the u. k. truck and trace up that tells people to isolate a, they have been your coven carrier. but it's led to hundreds of thousands of healthy

people having to miss work and stay at home. despite calls for its sensitivity to be adjusted, the health department is ruling out any changes. the health care sector itself has become a victim of the up with a shortage of doctors and nurses leading to operations being canceled. there being calls from the industry to allow a special exemption for metrics, but the department of health and safety up is doing its job and reducing their crew of virus spread. questions have also been raised if the app is actually necessary. now, given the widespread rule out of vaccines, have a number of factor absence and work, including medical professionals, which is had a large impact and said it's slippery. makes no distinction between in a work environment contacts where in full perfect equipment or outside of that environment. and one is unable to tell where the contact came from. it's extremely easy to accidentally forget to turn off the notifications and tracking on the

whilst you are. so there are a number of the best in the affected and therefore had to miss work as a result. so many professionals are understandably removing the act, so they don't accidentally have the pink because it's been very clear that they don't wish physicians to do or anyone to believe the up, but always still actually independent mich tracking, tracing up with part of why collation, they just and we didn't have any protection against this infection, but now having got the vaccination, having protected the own elderly and the vulnerable, having disconnected the wave of infection from the weight of death. thanks. and we really have to work with those. we still in panic mode effectively, i really think we already got to the point where we're not really injecting those measures of track trace isolate social distance thing people are at the point where they virtually back to normal and with coven infection. we are swearing in the

country, the ups working overtime, only last week, more than half a 1000000 people were pinky done to them to isolate. not figures only likely to grow with more than 26000000 people having downloaded the app. some industries are reporting that up to 20 percent of their stuff has been forced to stay at home. we've got reaction to the current situation in london. police for people for a moment and one's right to to be straight up in things stop isolate. and i can see the frustrations of people ha, so i can understand why some of deleted a particular effect work. wallet is very disruptive at the moment and very frustrating. it's, it's, it's necessary to move it until a better hold times. if it's bad. i don't have the person the i've never had it. and i just think to the point this personally, i mean if, if you come into contact with someone,

you might have it. i mean then you decide later on this 30 you have any symptoms. so down it up, but then it was just giving roll information to me. throughout the whole process it has already been improved much. ok, this is art international. we keep the news rolling in 90 seconds. stay with us. the join me every 1st day on the alex summon show and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politics sport business. i'm show business. i'll see you then me the the

the the logan huge cues of formed outside stores in south africa. the public buying comes after a week of some of the worst violence seen in the country in decades which left hundreds of shops, ransacked down, routed tensions exploded over the ceiling. a former president,

jacob zoom on corruption charge is quite a few of them as well. local speak of a desperate situation. there is not i fear stock is finished. i don't know what's going to it's with my tad. i've got this month life for me. even in my life, i can buy this more thing like this. because of this thing, i don't know what's going to do for the next 2 months. we're just trying to see what we can get to what's needed at home. what do i mean? shut off, just follow cupboards just to keep us going. but it's been a frustrating week due to the planning buying the is a shortage of bread ingredients. people are waiting in the cues for a long while. and it's actually sad to see that some bread trucks have been taken down and been thrown into the river. there are a lot of people out there, old young, sickly, that factoring to get just one loaf of bread,

100 sharps being destroyed by the looters, some locals helping force to all themselves, to defend their businesses. alleging quite incredibly that some police officers had been students of, well, they have lost literally everything on the reports on hold. formerly from one of 200 burg purse there is hoping, hoping i'm hearing alexandra township, which has seen some of the worst violence over the past. few days or soccer, belonging to 15 brothers from outside the country were destroyed. downstage nothing remains. the shot an upstairs where the brother lived and store they products. everything had been burned. the brothers were lucky to escape with their lives, the white now the brothers on feeding lucky, 25 years of work and savings gone up in flames. doing this on the electronics to groceries when you come, when you come to brick,

everything that took everything. don't have money to buy food for children. no, no, no money to pay the rent where it was so digging like what are we going to do now? because that again, they're going to do again, they're going to break it again. so we're going to make a living room and it's cold. and what's happened there and or in a gloating my child, 7 o'clock. when i go to my room and i cooking cooking community, i didn't finish 9 a club. when it's coming here, i've bitten my shop and begging to get my, my done 500000 stuff. brittany ditton, my flipping room, and i'm tending a hiding my center. one corner people in the building, my room damage. i think i die. some the brothers were sleeping here with

a stuck the loose, his grabbed everything in sight and as they lift, set the room alight, television sets, electronics, cellphones, clothing, money and passports. everything has gone. among the torch remains, there is nothing with salvaging and praying for god when i have man for bed that includes only 5. did you know sleeping place? nothing was put to make it a what fun it before the benefits office. i'm now a 1000000. it's just nice to set and i was looking for deal. if i did some skip my past the bottom came to south africa from bangladesh and looking for better life, a loss reverberates halfway around the world. even know me, my family is from bala, this part of my family's credit and hungry. when i'm making money,

i eating my eating now now making money, bodies loading my family hungry as many south african. the wyatt lasted only a few days at shops on mt off to being looted. others are boarded up and delivery trucks are refusing to with bringing in most applies. so on top of everything, if a more south africans are now going hungry policy or r t, alexandra, another story to bring you today. the e u has launched legal action against member states hungry on poland over what it calls discrimination facing the l g b t. community europe will never allow parks of all sides to be stigmatized. we start legal action against hunger and poland for violations of ponder, mental rights of eligibility. i. q people are several polish regions of adopted

laws declaring themselves free of l g b t, ideology. furthermore, a war stores constitutional courthouse notice that it rejects decisions by the use court of justice. and brussels has similar troubles with hungry to a new hungary in law bands, depictions of homosexuality and educational materials and tv shows for the under a deans, the government does also order disclaimers to be put on boot feature and gay content stating the contained behavior. inconsistent with traditional generals, and it seems the local authorities perceive their laws differently to the you know, the europe in parliament and the european commission wanted to let the l g, b, t, q activists, and organizations in schools and kindergarten. hungary does not want that debate is about who decides which way we should raise the children, according to the european funding treaties. this question evidently,

falls under the competence of the hungarians. it is a national competence. the law has primacy over national law and all decisions by the european court of justice, including orders for interim measures are binding on member states authorities. and national court was clinical run a rough 1st believe that you need to widen its focus. the question for me also as an observer is why does the e u, excuse me react on such as a ration of single government in only specific metric field? we look at other metric fields where government in the european union have violated law and you have not seen that trick. for example, when the showing an area of the out of borders were not protected in 2015. no,

really. if you read off that you do have the theme government in depth to themselves, more than that, you regulations allowed no reaction in black the we have over $200000.00 non task force for russian descendants who do not well enough the national language. whereas the, you called for a total of minorities, et cetera. all right, more great programs get there. start in moments here and r t discover what's being served up where you are, after the shortest, the breaks me ah, the we

live in a now where the supply side of the equation is broken, knower entering into the supply shocks where there could be micro chips for example, or basic commodities or sharply, there's a food insecurity now by hundreds of millions of people around the world just emerging over the past 12 months because this runaway inflation because of the runaway money printing as we've been bank for a few years. so now people are really coming to grips with the fact that yeah, as the reports been right about it, what the .