the who's ah, so maybe the devastation and destruction. a major cleanups underway along with intensive search and rescue efforts off the huge flooding in germany and belgium. we understand more than a 100 people are dead. many more are missing covert lands, the sicilian region of italy and poverty crisis authorities warned the changing seasons will be even more challenging for local community watkins and accuses russia and china of running smear campaigns against western vaccine. but that's the us. it's use more warnings about the side effects of its own injection and return

to rationing. people in south africa are forced to q for essentially off the hundreds of shops and looted off the rise to go on the rampage. ah, well, it's been a busy week, be a worldwide headlines on this talk today is no different, lots of stories for you this evening live for moscow. i received at least a 150 people have lost their lives in flash flooding. that's devastated parts of western europe. entire towns and villages have been left in a ruined. intense rescue efforts are underway with hundreds still unaccounted for. a job and chancellor angle of cal. it's set to visit the disaster stone zone, i should say inside the next 24 hours. for the meantime in the region, with this report, ortiz peter oliver devastation that was being left in the wake of.

what is the toll through towns like this one in western germany, leader of the state of nor throwing west fall and number one contender to be next, chancellor of germany and lush. it is called the flood a historic disaster. countries going through the flooding catastrophe on the historic scale. almost as the waters have started to receive 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's only does it destroyed everything is caught there. but on a molten house, just behind me pulling 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 and water already. it was quite bad. my son called me last week and he said the bass into its flooded. we thought, oh okay, there goes to basement. and then a day later, the whole flat was full of water. we had to sit upstairs in the bedroom and here we are now for been clean up and all too common fightin towns in this area of the belongings of people out on the side of the street salton 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 evident in just how much damage you was able to cause and how easily it was able to pick up tons of metal. and slow them to one side for the fluid was, is 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 of those not so lucky heart mclean can begs home was right in the path of the swollen river to come. and the water came 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 their foods. i've not experienced that in 30 years. living him. it was unbelievable. the was the same thing, 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 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 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 under control. man is so small against nature. here we see it. 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 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 says 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 liters full gas there. thankfully the feels 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, the river flows exactly on the, the other side of the property that its tall and 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 the trail of destruction. while the human cost is still not being calculated, if it's not true 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 weakened buildings. well, 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 woman 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 for over a decade. the numbers are still continuing to grow as well, with masses of people out of work and businesses just struggling to survive. we heard from locals and one of the hottest it regions live until they gave the until a few years ago, i was an entre printer who gave work to 40 families. today. i'm 60 years old and i feel humiliated. i feel like analogy to us for all of this

h charity to try to move forward to survive. multi go up. 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. what a bad situation you're paying, so i don't know, this is 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. but we need to 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 cannot even pay their rent. i know people from this neighborhood well off and no back farms, a very bad situation. well,

the latest figures showed more than 5000000 people in italy right now live in, quote, absolute poverty. as defined as household income being below a level which makes it impossible for the personal family to meet the basic needs of life, such as food and shelter. the category makes up almost 10 percent of the entire civilian population. while another significant number of families live in relative poverty, the authorities that locally say it's a desperate situation. we've discovered 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 regional leadership and the regional administration say yes, sometimes because they keep saying no. i was told by some organizations that there affected because people who were donating a contribution on to last year, a poor now. and seeking a contribution, therefore, there are no doubt that the situation is really complicated. a week economy like sicily was damaged by cobit. we've heard from one charity organization in palermo

that supports people in need. as an inquest food request is indeed manufacturers. so asking foot, all the families are asking for shelter because they not have a job anymore. people have started sending emails to requesting a, 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 any 85 shifting gears to paris now where thousands of protesting even tighter new coves restrictions. so 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 for wednesday, people will need a so called help pass to visit certain public places showing they were either inoculated or recently had cove it or passed a p c r test. and from early august, they also need a health pass to get into various restaurants and cafes. and owners of such establishment are out in force of the powers protest, something they don't want to become quote, the virus, police, russia and china, 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 shot. so let's learn a little bit more and i with my co respondent, his caliber 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 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, 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. 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, i 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 vaccines, 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 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 biden administration consider is to be direct messaging. we spoke with a professor of infectious diseases, william schaffner, who believes people must be made aware of all the possible side effects, so they can think for themselves and 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 mile. 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. between gov to the pink demick of the u. k. is truck and trace app that tells people to isolate if they've been near a cobra carrier. but it's led to hundreds of thousands of healthy people having to miss work and stay at home. and despite calls for its sensitivity to be adjusted, the health department is rolling out any changes. now the health care sector itself has become a victim of the ap, with a shortage of doctors and nurses leading to operations being canceled or been calls from the industry to allow a special exemption for metrics. but the department of health insists the app is doing his job and reducing the spread of corona virus. questions of also bring the rage if the app is actually even necessary. now, given the widespread rollout of vaccine have a number of factor absence from work, including medical professionals, which is had

a large impact. slippers makes no distinction between and 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 inadvertently affected and therefore had to miss work as a result. so many specials are understandably remain in the app. so they don't accidentally have the, those things because i've been very clear that they don't wish physicians to do for anyone to believe yet. but are we still actually in the pandemic tracking, tracing up with parts of isolation basis. 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. i think we really have to, we spill 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. well, with a covert infection rates, apparently on the rise in the country, the f is working over time. only last week, more than half a 1000000 people were pinged and told to isolate that figures only likely to grow with more than 26000000 people having downloaded the app and some industries are reporting that up to 20 percent of their entire staff have been forced to stay at home. so we got a reaction to the current situation from a mixed group of people in london. totally so for people who believe there's 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, the pick that is 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 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 me, 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 wrong information, constantly and throughout the whole process it has already been improved much your program returns in one minute. the we live in a now where the supply side of the equation is broken. so 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 this 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 men join me every thursday on the alex simon show. and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politic sport business and show business. i'll see you then in the moon ah,

just 2020 passed here in moscow. huge cues formed outside shops in south africa. the panic buying comes after a week of some of the worst bought and seen in the country in decades, which was basically left a hundreds of shops ultimately ransacked. attentions exploded over the jailing of the former president, jacob zoom or 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 on with my tad. i've got this much live 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, 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. one hundreds of shops of been destroyed by looters, some local to reinforce themselves to defend their businesses saying the police are just over, run. a polar clear reports and how a family from one of johannesburg poorest areas has been coping. i'm hearing and exam township, which has seen some of the worst violence over the past few days. for shock, belonging to 15 brothers, from outside the country were destroyed downstairs. nothing amazed at the shop and upstairs where the brother lived and store their products. everything had been burned. the brothers were lucky to escape with a live, but white now the brothers on feeding lucky. 25 years of work and savings gone up

in flames. doing this on the electronics, 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 you're going to do now, because you will get to going to do again, they're going to break it. so where are we going to make a living room and it's cold and what's happened there? and when a closing my child, 7 o'clock, when i go to my room and i cooking cooking 20 i eating finish 9 o'clock. when it's coming here, type bitten, my shop, and baking to get my my done 500000 scope. now. brittany ditton, my sleeping room, and i'm tending

a hiding my tell her one corner people in the building my room damage. i think i die. 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 sets, electronics, cell phones, clothing, money, and passports. everything has gone. among the torch remains, there's nothing with salvaging. i'm praying for god god, when i have a man in clothes, only 5 did not living place. nothing but a mega day. what fun it before. love don't focus on now and really anything that's nice to set my looking for this for deal. if i did some skip play and my brothers came to south africa from bangladesh, looking for better life,

the last reverberates halfway around the world. they've been of me, my family's from this part of my family's kind hungry. when i'm making money, i eating my eating. now now making money parties losing my family hungry as many south africans, the wyatt lost it 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 african on now going hungry policy or r t, alexandra, it may be called the united states, but some of those states are becoming increasingly rest of these days. 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 along the west coast off 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 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 a vote for the state of texas to reassert its status as an independent nation. the polling on us professional support shows has actually been marked up, takes in january the 6th, when the trump support is right here in the capital building. we've got the reaction from libertarian activist spike co, and 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. are there receive itself stories for this hour on this saturday evening program live for moscow is now just off by 10 30 pm here on saturday. we are back soon with more. your worldwide news headlines. ah ah, they cannot. they are to say, there's no petition or under work. can you been there to say that to people?

oh, we have to reduce the consumption. this is why. so far the consumption issue did not was not taken up very seriously. so, but it's a very serious issue. so we cannot address the climate change issue unless the people are on the word realize that we cannot continue our over consumption as we are doing now. the the hi max guys are this is the kaiser report. did you enjoy the summer solutions? yeah, i know i did. well, it's time to get back into the problems. so let's turn to stacey. right?

well, you know, the fad had better hope the solution to inflation is just time because remember, they keep on saying it is transitory. well, their usual solution is giving more and more money. the treasury is always giving more money, congress more and more money. so we're going to look at what some of the results that have come out while we've been gone for the past 2 weeks. there see no inflation numbers here over 5 percent. the highest and a very long time since 2008. but container freight rate spike to new extremes, up 500 percent for asia, us, asia, you says early 2020. and the worse is still ahead and we'll factor uses a quote from jerome. pow, just under this, it turns out as a heck of a lot easier to create demand than it is to bring supply up to snuff. so we'll go over some of the details on these rates, but they're pretty shocking mac. right?

yeah, that's a good comment by well, for after about demand, you know, that was spoken about in keynesian economics corners that they need to stimulate demand by printing money. but we live in an age now where the supply side of the equation is broken. so we're entering into the supply shocks, whether it could be micro chips, for example, or basic commodities or up 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 this runaway inflation because of the runaway money printing, as we've been saying for a few years. so now people are really coming to grips with the fact that yeah, kaiser reports been right about it. what's next? right, so we'll go over some of the data, the important one to look at there in terms of the container. freight rates is from

shanghai to los angeles. and so think about this. everybody got a lot of stimulus jacks. we covered this to thousands and thousands of dollars of over the past year, a year and 2 months. and what they did is they bought durable goods, they bought refrigerators, they bought. 4 washing machines and where did that all come from? it came from china. so this is the most important one for this coven lockdown story in the supply shortages and rates spiking. average port to port spot rates from shanghai to los angeles sword from around $1500.00 per 40 foot container. and early 2020 and from a 5 year average of $2177.00 to $4000.00 in september of 2020 to $8000.00 in june of 2021. and 9631 and the week ending july.