ah, the devastation and destruction of major cleanups on the way along with intense search and rescue efforts, often huge flooding in germany and belgium. or we understand no more than a 100 people are dead. and many more remained missing. covert lands, the sicilian regional italy in a policy crisis and authorities warned the changing seasons will be even more challenging for local community. also, washington accused, as russia and china of running smear campaigns against western vaccines. that's us issues more warnings about the side effects of its own injections. we hear from someone who suffered severe convulsions after being inoculated,

full body for bolton tremors, brain on to say, believe me, i still have not recovered. to return to russian people in south africa, i'll pause to q for essentially the hundreds of shops lose it off the riotous go into ram. they 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 we're going to, going to do again, they're going to break it again. the are just not the 8 o'clock on saturday night here in moscow and weaver my duck, your top stories for this hour here, we're not to international. welcome to so right now, at least a 150 people have lost their lives in flash flooding. that's just devastated parts

of western europe. entire towns and villages have been left in ruins. now intense rescue efforts are underway with hundreds still unaccounted for. over understand the german chancellor angler michael is set to visit the disaster zone on sunday. for the meantime though, we have this report from peter on of the devastation that 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 fall and number one contender to the next chancellor of germany and lush, it is called the flood a historic disaster countries going through flooding, catastrophe on the historic scale. almost as the waters have started to recede by to 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 bad. my son called me last week and he said the bass into its flooded. we thought, oh okay, that goes to basement. instead, 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 was to the toll and through their 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 and just how much damage was able to cause and how easily it was able to pick up tons of metal and slower than the one side of the foot 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 untouched, 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. to come into the woods again to this level one and a half meters. water then 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. does food. i've not experienced that in 30 years living here. it was unbelievable. the water seem to gather itself up in

the mountains and then with one big wave come down and hit us hill. the street right in front of us turned into white's water rapids. just like a river, there were people in the basement who are trying to get out, but from inside you could not open the door because of the war to 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 respect it. and this was not done. it was dismissed is not a big deal. something that we could handle, you know, we did not have it on the control. man is so small against nature. here we see it. and so many people you don't expect people to die in a flood. in germany. you expect that may be in poor countries, but you don't expect to hear. it's unbelievable because i've heard a strange noise. so no was opening the front door and then the water was coming

from me and i just press, todd 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 the searching for people. and the magic sic 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 and liters full gas. they're, thankfully the fields on those tanks didn't for a cause. 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 carriage, you can see through the other side of the ridge that the river flows exactly on the other side of the property. that its hole in the wood off the side of the carriage

and told the concrete as well as its moved its way through here, a force of nature that left a trail of destruction of 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 throw it 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 that more rain could see those water levels rise again. already recon buildings. well, they could then be the next ones that end up collapsing, and this is certainly a devastating natural disaster that struck west in germany. it's one that isn't over yet. peter, all of a r, t in west, in germany. the economic impact of the corona virus has left italy facing its highest poverty levels in 12 years. the numbers are still continuing to

grow as well, with masses of people out of work and business is really struggling to survive. we heard from locals and one of the hottest reasons 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, to go up and 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 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 trust for money and alimony. unfortunately,

this is the current situation. this is the new reality. so when you know those who had little money already have nothing left and i get a horse who are those who did not have a job and already financially struggling now cannot even pay their rent. i know people from this neighborhood well off and no back farms have very bad. jason, latest figures show more than 5000000 people in italy now live in, quote, absolute poverty. as defined as a household income being below a level which makes it impossible for the personal family to meet basic needs of life, such as a shelter and food. the category makes up almost 10 percent of the entire sicilian population, while another significant number of families live in relative poverty. local authorities say it is a desperate situation. we've just got the new poverty, which is terrible. there are too many new poor people who didn't used to be poor, 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 a contribution. therefore, there are no doubt of the situation is really complicated. a week economy like sicily was damaged by cobit. we've, we've heard from a one charity organization in palermo that supports people in need. there's an inquest foot requests. indeed man, if i was asking foot all the families to ask him for shelter because they not have a job anymore. people have started sending emails to requesting aid. for example, one incident that particular struck me was about one couple. they asked for sultan christmas, eep. we imagined them like the now the with 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 a child to cold,

asking for sultan because his father lost his job in his home. consequently, there are many such incidents were involved in part to paris and now where thousands of protesting tighter, new covey restrictions that's i'll show you what the french capital looks like. this saturday. earlier in july, the government made back the nation mandatory for health workers, giving them a mid september deadline. for wednesday, people will need a so called help the visitors and public places showing us example they were not related. i recently had cove it all positive p c r test. now from early august to the also need a health plan to get into restaurants and cafe owners of the such establishment. so i'll enforce now in these protests. some thing that i want to become quote, virus to leave russia and china are undermining trust in western vaccines in a bit to promote their own. that's the claim being made by the white house, which says misinformation is being used to exaggerate the risk of side effects from

american and european made shots. so let's investigate this a little bit more. is caleb martin? 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 at the 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 . the people of my age are scandalous. busy to be vaccinated after the summer, so very far i decided to make us initially 9 most. now when it comes to

damaging information about the vaccine, the white house certainly made quite a few gaff themselves. 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 these 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, a professor of infectious diseases, william schaffner, believes that people must be made aware of all the potential side effects, so that each and every person can make their own balanced decision. 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. so it's been dubbed at the pink demick, you case truck and trace up the tells people to isolate if they've been near a cobra carrier, when it's ultimately led to hundreds of thousands of healthy people having to miss work and stay at home. and despite colds for its sensitivity to be adjusted, the health department is rolling out any changes at all of the health care sector itself, which become a victim of the ap, with a shortage of doctors and nurses leading to operation seeing tensile therapy and colds from the industry to allow a special exemption for metrics,

but the department of health insists the app is doing its job and reducing the corona virus spread. questions have also been raised of the app is actually even necessary now, given the widespread rollout of vaccines, have a number of factor absence and work, including medical professionals which is had a large impact some service slippery makes no distinction between in a work environment contacts wearing perfect equipment or outside of that environment and one is unable to care where the contact came from is extremely easy to accidentally forget to turn off the notifications and tracking on the whilst you are. so there are a number of pieces and the best in the affected, and therefore had to miss work as a result. so many national are understandably removing the act, so they don't accidentally have a pink because mouth's been very clear that they don't wish the physicians or anyone to delete the app, but always still actually independent mac tracking and tracing up with part of

installation. they just don't, 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. i think 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 measure the track trace isolate social distance thing people are at the point where they've virtually back to normal follow with our covert infection rates. apparently, on the rise in the country, the apps been working over time. only last week, more than half a 1000000 people were pinged and told to isolate that figures only likely to likely to grow, i should say, with not more than 26000000 people having downloaded the app. so some industries are reporting that up to 20 percent of our staff have been forced to stay at home. so we got reaction to the current situation from people in london. totally support

people lately as a moment. one's right to to be straight up in things stop isolate and i can see the frustrations that people ha, so i can understand why some of the pic that's going to affect work while it is very disruptive at the moment. i'm very frustrating. it's it's, it's necessary at the moment until a better 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 you might not have any symptoms. so down it up. but then it was just giving roll information to me throughout the whole process and has already been in for lunch or your program returns. and just a moment the

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the moon. ah. good with us today. huge hughes formed outside stores in south africa. the panic buying comes off for a week of some of the worst violence seen in the country in decades, which has ultimately left hundreds of shops, just ransacked. attentions exploded over the jailing of the former president, jacob zoom on corruption, charges local residents and workers 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 much alive 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 does that 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 queue 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. hundreds of shops have been destroyed by the looters. some locals have been forced to arm themselves to defend their businesses. nails and the police have just been overrun. the thought is paul asleep . now reports on how one family from a part of the johannesburg forest areas. i think getting along kevin 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 live and store they products. everything had been burned. the brothers were lucky to escape with their lives, but 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 the took everything. don't have money to buy food for children now. don't have money to pay the rent where it was so digging like, why do we going to do now because of that. again, they're going to do again. they're going to break it again. so where are we going? what is upstairs to my living room and it's cold? and what's happened there? and gloating my child 7 o'clock. when i go to my room

and i cooking cooking, we need to, i didn't finish 9 o'clock when it's coming here. type bitten my shop and begging to get my my done 500000 stuff. now, britain, boom to do my clipping room. and i'm tending a hiding my center one corner people in the building, my room damage. i think some of the brothers were sleeping here with the stock. the looters grabbed everything in sight. and as they lift, set the room allies, television sits, electronics, cell phones, clothing, money, and passports. everything has gone. among the torch remains, there is nothing with salvaging and praying for god, god and man poor in only 5 days,

only reading no sleeping place, nothing but a mega day. what fun it before the benefits office. i'm now, i'm really anything that's nice to set. and i was looking for deal. if i did some for the skip play and my brothers came to south africa from bangladesh and looking for better life. the last reverberates halfway around the world. didn't know me. my family is from this part of my family's credit and hungry. when i'm making money, i eating my eating now not making money. all is loading. my family are hungry. as many thought african. the wyatt lost it 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 more supplies. so on top of everything, if a more african are now going hungry policy or r t, alexandra,

maybe call the unit as you say, the united states. but some of those states these days are becoming increasingly restive. and you polling has found that a growing number of americans want to break away and form new nations. almost half of all democrats surveyed on the west coast for leaving, while some 2 thirds of republicans in the south was the same. and one texan representative has already tabled a bill to make his states secession possible. the federal government is out of control and doesn't represent the values of texans. that is why i'm committing to fall legislation that allow a referendum to give texans a vote for the state of texas to reassert its status as an independent nation. the polling on u. s. a. session support shows have actually been a month to uptake since january the 6th. the day that donald trump supporters right

here from the capital building. we've got a reaction from a libertarian activist spite cohen. that's not a republican or democrat problem, that is a, a washington dc problem saying, i want to see from the us more often than not, they're not actually necessarily saying i don't want to be a part of the us. that's more of a reflection of discontent with the status quo. they're saying, i am sick of seeing what i'm seeing around me. i'm sick of locked downs. i'm sick of the taxes. i'm sick of the cost of living spiraling out of control. i'm sick of not being able to afford housing or higher education or health care, and i want something different when things like that happen. an increasing number of americans say, i don't even want to be a part of this anymore. so i think it's much more macro things, much more major things that are affecting all of us that have happened like that. and this is something that's been boiling over for a long time. so dissatisfaction with the status quo is basically an abode of no competence. just about wrapped up the program for this half hour here on our team international. thanks for sharing a time with us here in moscow. we're back in about half an hour with more of you

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living in a now where the supply side of the equation is broken, knower entering into the supply shocks where there could be microchips 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 of it's runaway inflation because of the runaway money print thing as we've been bank for a few years. so now people are really coming to grips with the fact that as the reports been right about it, what net oh right now there are 2000000000 people who are overweight or. busy obese, it's profitable to sell food that is fatty and sugary and faulty and addicted. not at the individual level. it's not individual willpower. and if we go on

believing that will never change as obesity epidemic, that industry has been influencing very deeply. the medical and scientific establishment, ah, what's driving the its corporate, me ah, this is been bustling business show you can't afford to miss. i'm rachel evans, and i'm bridge aboard watching thing coming up. rising in play to remain in focus in now us treasury secretary janet and yellow and is saying it may not be as temporary as one was once believe. but does this mean it's time to shift monetary

policy? we'll discuss then whether says it is seen an increase in government demands to take down posts from journalists. we'll go over what it means for the social media giant. and later, as the entertainment industry is fighting to get back on his feet, we'll take a look at where the public is investing and how streaming services are given. movie theaters are run for their money. we have a talk show, solace. divert in we started the programmable latest comments from treasury secretary janet yellen, while continuing to justify keeping the funds pandemic policies in place. she admitted that several more months or rapid inflation should be expected. despite warning size in the housing sector. busy she said she doesn't think the u. s. is seeing the same kind of dangers it saw in the run up to the 2008 financial crisis. she called it a very different phenomenon. but she did say that she's worried about the pressures that higher housing prices will create for families with less.