the both the people, the devastation and destruction. a major cleanups underway along with intensive search and rescue efforts. after huge flooding in germany and belgium, we understand now more than a 100 people are dead and many more still missing. covert lands, the sicilian regional italy in a poverty crisis and authorities war the changing seasons will be even more challenging for local community weapons and accusers, russia and china of running smear campaigns against western vaccine. that's the u. s. issues more warnings about the side effects of its own injection and

a return to rationing people in south africa are forced to q for essentially off the hundreds of shops, all lucid off the rise. just go on the rampage. ah . lighting up your top stories for this hour here we're knocking and ash no, i will receive welcome to your news. at least 150 people have lost their lives in flash flooding. this just devastated parts of western europe. entire towns and villages have been left in ruins. intense rescue efforts are underway with hundreds still unaccounted for. and we understand now the java chancellor, anglo merkel. she is set to visit the disaster zone on sunday. my correspondent in the region is peter oliver. he filed this report, 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 with folly 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 moss, as the waters of 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 folder buildings that were in the past didn't stand much of a chance that 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 and 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 and that my son called me last week and he said the bass into it's flooded. we thought, oh okay, there goes to basement and said, 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 war to the toll them 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 evident and 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 are 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 to some of the woods that came to this level one and a half meters walked, 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, wouldn't us food, i've not experienced that in 30 years. living him, it was unbelievable. the water seems 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 river. there were people in the basement were trying to get out, but from inside you could not open the door because of the water 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, you know, 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, but you don't expect to hear it's i'm believable 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 this the searching for people and the metric, thick sludge show 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 deleted full gas there . thankfully the seals 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 ridge, 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 garbage and told the concrete as well as its moved its way through here, a force of nature that's left a trail of destruction, of the human cost to still not being calculated 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 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 warmer, 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 over a decade. the numbers are still continuing to grow as well, with masses of people out of work and businesses just struggling to get by. we heard from locals and one of the hardest hit areas live. and so 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 too much to go up. this attrition is dramatic. there are people who previously had shops and restaurants and 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. what a bad situation you're paying. so i don't, i just just total destruction. it's a situation that is truly frightening. the number of poor people is increased. they line up to africa, 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 war for those who did not have a job and already financially struggling now can know to pay their rent. i know people from this neighborhood, people well off and no back farms have very bad situation. 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 person or family to meet basic needs of life, such as food and shelter. the category makes up almost 10 percent of the entire sicilian population, while another significant number of families live in relative poverty. on the local authority, say it's a desperate situation. we've just got 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 were 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. week economy like sicily was damaged by cove. it. we've heard from 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'd not have a job anymore. people have started sending emails to requesting aid. for example, one incident, the particular struck me was about one couple. they asked for sultan christmas eve . we imagined them like the now there is 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 money are shifting our attention to paris now with thousands of protesting even tighter, new covey restrictions. this is what the french capital looks like on this saturday . earlier in july, the government made vaccinations mandatory for health work is giving them a mid september deadline. and from wednesday people will need

a so called help to visit certain public places ultimately showing they were inoculated. recently had cove it all past the p. c. r. test from early august last and need a health pass to get into restaurants and cafe. the owners of such establishments, however, they are out in force in these protests now in pirates, the thing they don't want to become quote, the virus police. the meantime, russia and china are undermining trust in western vaccines and 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. let's investigate this a bit further with a correspondent, caleb, and there's 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 information 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, coven, 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. i'd 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 of my age are scandalous. busy to be vaccinated after the summer, so far, i decided to make initially 9 most now when it comes to damaging information about the vaccine, the white house is certainly made quite a few gaps 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 do

you fact scenes or seats 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 biden and ministration considers to be. direct messaging, professor of infectious diseases, william schaffner, of police, people must be made aware of all the possible side effects, so they can individually makeup balance 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. well, it's been dubbed up paying demick the u. k. truck and trace up the tells people to isolate if they be near a covey carrier. but it's, let's see, hundreds of thousands of healthy people having to miss work and stay at home. and despite colds for the sensitivity to be adjusted, the health department is ruling out any changes. the health care sector itself has become a victim of the ap, with a shortage of doctors and nurses leading to operations being canceled there. being colds from the industry to allow a special exemption for medics for the department of health and the app is doing its job and reducing the corona virus spread. questions have also been raised if the asked is actually even necessary. now, given the widespread rollout of vaccines and the numbers are absent from work, including medical professionals, which is had a large impact some service slippers at makes no distinction between and a work environment contacts wearing perfect equipment or outside of that

environment. and one is unable to cow, where the contact came from is extremely easy to accidentally forget to turn off the notifications and tracking on the box. you are. so there are a number and the best in the affected, and therefore had to miss work as a result. so many profess those are understandably removing the act, so they don't accidently have a pink because many been very clear that they don't wish the physicians to do or anyone to believe the up, but always still actually independent mich tracking and tracing up with part of isolates. and 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. we still in and then it load effectively. i really think we've 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've virtually back to normal, where the coven infection rates, apparently on the rise in the country of the app is working overtime, only last week, more than half a 1000000 people were pinged and told to isolate figures only likely to grow with more than 26000000 people having actually downloaded the app. and some industries are reporting that up to 20 percent of the staff have been forced to stay at home. we've got a reaction to the current situation from a mix of people in london. police for people to leave me a moment. one's right to to be straight up in thing stop isolate and i can see the frustrations that people ha, so i can understand why some of deleted a particular effect work. well, it is very disruptive at the moment. i'm very frustrating. it's, it's, it's, it's necessary at the moment 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 this is the point, this me, i mean, if, if you come into contact with someone, you might have it. i mean, then you decide later you might notice 30, you have any symptoms. so down it up. but then it was, it's giving wrong information to me throughout the whole process. it has already been improved much your program or times and just about one minute the ah, is your media a reflection of reality? in a world transformed what will make you feel safe for tyson lation community? are you going the right way or are you being that somewhere? direct?

what is true? what is faith? in the world corrupted. you need to defend the join us in the depths. will remain in the shallows. ah, what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy foundation, let it be an arms race is often very dramatic. development. only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very political time. time to sit down and talk the just something 20 past the out here in moscow. a huge cues are 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. we thought we left about a 100, which is a 100 now of shops. we can confirm have actually been ransacked. attention to exploded just over the jailing of the former president, jacob zoom. this was on corruption charges and local residents and workers speak of a desperate situation. there is not, i fear stuck. it's finished. i don't know what's going to, it's with my tad. i've got this much 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 we have, 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 battery to get just one loaf of bread. so hundreds of shops of rain destroyed by looters, some local to reinforce the armed themselves to defend their businesses. and they also say the police have just been overrun polar clear reports on how a family from one of $200.00 folks poorest areas. i've been coping i'm hearing and exam township, which has seen some of the worst violence over the last few days. for shock, belonging to 15 brothers from outside the country were destroyed downstairs. nothing remained. the shop and upstairs where the brother lived and store they products, everything had been burned. the brothers were lucky to escape with a live, but white now the buttons on feeding lucky. 25 years of work and savings gone up in

flames. doing the this was electronics, groceries, when you come, when you come to brick, everything that took everything doing money to buy food for children. no. no, no money to pay the rent where it was. so digging like what we're going to do now, because we gotta get to going to do again, they're going to break it again. so where are we going? what is that? to make a living room and it's cold and what's happened there? and or in a closing my child, 7 o'clock, when i go to my room and i cooking cooking community, i didn't finish 9 a club, people coming here, type bitten my shop and begging to get my talk, my down 5 100000 scope. now further britain, listen to my clipping room, and i'm tending

a hiding my centre one corner pupils to bending my room. that damage. i think i die. some of the brothers were sleeping here with the stock. the looters grabbed everything in sight. and as they live to fit the room alight, television sits, electronics, cell, phones, clothing, money, and passports. everything has gone. among the torched remains these nothing worth salvaging and praying for god god. when i held men poor in clothes, only 5 did not living plays nothing but a mega day. what fun it before the benefits office, i'm paying now and really anything just nice to set my looking for deal. if i did some skip play and my brothers came to south africa

on bangladesh and looking for better life, he lost reverberates halfway around the world. didn't help me. my family's from this part of my family's kind hungry. when i'm making money, i eating my family eating now now making money, parties loading my family hungry as many south africans. the riot lasted only a few days. but shops are empty off to being looted. others are boarded up and delivery trucks are refusing to risk, bringing in more supplies. so on top of everything, if a more south africans are now going hungry policy or r t, alexandra, it may be called the united states, but some of those states are becoming increasingly restive. new polling is found that a growing number of americans want to break away and form new nations. almost half of all democrats surveyed along the west coast for leaving some 2 thirds of republicans in the south want the same. one text and representative has already

table to bill to make his state secession possible. the federal government is absolute 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 of votes of the state of texas to reassert its status as an independent nation. the polling on us discussion support shows that has actually been marked up fix since january the 6th of the day. the term support has right in the capital building. we've got reaction from 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, it when things like that happen and increasing number of american 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, it's basically an a vote of no confidence or any stories you think you may have missed or you want to catch up on just log on line to our website r t dot com for the meantime, your saturday evening program comes back in about half an hour's time with me, ah, ah, we live in an a now where the supply side of the equation is broken. no,

we're 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 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 war on drugs still did as a way to come back? a great problem. what's the one? it's part of the attitude of the nation, not just of north dakota, and it got to be something that you could get elected. this time, the fight against drugs took a tragic, told us that andrew was competing short form. this is way too

dangerous for him to be doing. clearly they put him in harm's way. a rural college student does interest get shot in the head and found in a river like that. something else had to be happening with the the news i'm actually return. see, and we're going underground. another thing, the stories, the powerful don't want you to know. coming up in the show in a week that fans will racism home against england football as mark as rushman. because soccer and gentlemen sancho is politics the route to eradicate entrenched

racism. one of the greatest cricketers of all time michael holding tells us about the power of taking the knee in front of a home secretary who said black lives matter, protest and dreadful. and ahead of nelson mandela or international days, this week's uprising in south africa evidence that enough is enough for the washington, the liberal experiment forged by mandela or after his campaign of violence finally brought him to powder and apologized. we talk to one of his comrades, you know, all of us, some or coming up in today's going underground. but 1st, after england lost the euro 2020 final to italy. in a week the british fans brought racism home against star football as what is kneeling. mean, seen as gesture politics by bar, a strong sense. home secretary, pretty italian, cool. the black lives matter. protests. dreadful is politics the only route out of entrench racism. joining me now from new market in england is one of the greatest cricketers of old time, the west indies, michael holding his new best seller. why we neil, how we rise shots racism through the careers? it was a bolt, naomi, a soccer anterior re michael. what not to have you on the,

on this program, one of the greatest sports does ever in this country, and was a timely book to come out just after the defeat of england that you're 2020. so forest. johnson's home secretary pretty but tell has said it's gesture politics that people have the right to boot and that black lives matter is dreadful. why do we neil your book school? why we neil? as soon if no one knew why it was there to kneel before this past week, they should know no gesture of kneeling. i think the world wide recognize just of supporting black lives matter and kneeling to show people that you would think that there was in justice and human need. dr. martin luther king, did it more recently calling cap on? what do i do highlighted it and of course we know what that's happened to him. what those who want to see that it is so cause just politics new.