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 the navy people, devastation and destruction. a major clean up the underway, along with intense search and rescue efforts. after huge flooding in germany and belgium, we understand more than a 100 people are dead, but so many more remain missing. toby lines the sicilian region of italy into a property crisis. already it was the changing seasons will be even more challenging for local communities. washington, a huge as russia and china of running smear campaigns against western vaccine. where that comes as the us itself is use more warnings about the side effects of

its own. just under return to rationing the people in south africa are forced to q for essentially off the hundreds of shops. a looted off the rise to go on the rampage. ah, well, it's just after midnight here in moscow you watching. are you international from all of us here? a very welcome to you. so at least a 150 people have lost their lives in flash flooding. those just devastated parts of western europe. entire towns and villages have just been left in ruins. intense rescue efforts are underway with hundreds still unaccounted for. the job and chancellor is set to visit the disaster zone on sunday. and reporting from the region is art. he's peter on the 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 valia 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 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 passed 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 and water already. it was quite right. my son called me last week and he said in the basement flooded, we thought, oh okay, there goes to basement. and then a day later, the whole flat with 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, 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 come into the woods. it 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 there, does food. i have 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 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, you know, we did not have it on the 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 unbelievable because i've heard a strange noise. so there was opening the front door and then the water 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 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 deleted 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 that the river flows exactly on the other side of the property. there a 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 the trail of destruction. while the human cost is still not being calculated of this natural disaster. when it eventually get thrown, to calculating the financial cost of what's happened to,

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 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 hosting its highest poverty levels for 12 years. the numbers are still continuing to grow as well, with masses of people out of work and businesses just struggling to survive. and we've heard from locals and one of the hardest hit regions 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, 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 quit, so 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 trust 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 war sued for those who did not have a job and already financially struggling now cannot even pay their rent. i know people from this neighborhood who were well off and now back forms

a very bad situation. the latest figures show more than 5000000 people in italy now live in, quote, absolute poverty. as defined as household income being below a level which makes it impossible for the past, no 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. a locally speaking that the authorities 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 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 heard from one charity organization in palermo that supports people therein need as an inquest full request is indeed man. if i was asking foot all the families asking for sultan 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 eve. we imagined them like the now the with family coming and asking for help. in these situations, we host of 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 or shifting gears now to paris, where thousands of protested even tyco new co food restrictions. this is what the french capital looks like on saturday. earlier in july,

the government made vaccinations mandatory for health workers, giving them a mid september deadline. and for wednesday, people would need a so called health off the visit. certain public places ultimately showing they were either inoculated. recently had coven, or pastor, p. c. r test. and from early august, they'll also need a health pass to get into restaurants and cafes. owners of such establishment were out in force in the protest. some of them saying they don't want to become quote, the virus police or prominent figure and the yellow vest movements and the french presidential candidate. jacqueline mago thinks that everyone should be free to choose whether or not to get vaccinated tossed even yet could the coffee. i believe that the only french people and frank were a manual ma, crohn's, he's vaccinated unvaccinated people. i only see french people. you shouldn't forget that not everyone who hasn't had the job or against the vaccine. it's just the opposite impact. i'm not against it at all. but i want to be free to choose and

give an informed decision, of course, on down have consequences. but why are they imposed? because the government is unable to handle the crisis properly. russia and china are undermining trust in western vaccines and a bid 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. well, let's learn just a little bit more about this. here's on correspondent kelly. 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 of 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 to the white house, certainly made quite a few gas 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 biden administration considers to be. direct messaging, professor of infectious diseases, william schaffner,

believes people must be made aware of all the possible side effects, so they can think for themselves and make a 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 the ping demick of the case tracking trace app that tells people to isolate if they've been near a covert carrier. but it's 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 and old 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. they bring their been cold from the industry to allow a special exemption for metrics for the department of health insists the app is doing its job and reducing the spread of the virus. questions have also been res. if the app is actually even necessary now, given the huge, wide spread roll out of vaccine and the number is faster, absent from work, including medical professionals, which is had a large impact and service slipper. it 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 walls. you are. so there are number in advanced in the effected and therefore to miss work as a result. so many professionals, understandably, remain in the app. so they don't accidentally have the pink government 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 isolation. 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. i think we really have to us, we still in pandemic mode. effectively, i really think we already got to the point where we're not really injecting those measure the trek trace isolate social distance thing people are at the point where they've virtually back to normal and we've covered an infection rate apparently on

the rise in the country. the f has been working overtime, only last week, more than half a 1000000 people were pinged and told to self isolate. and that figures are likely to grow with more than 26000000 people having downloaded the app. and some industries are reporting that up to 20 percent of our staff have been forced to stay at home. so because reaction to the situation from people in police for people to leave me 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 deleted a particular effect work well, 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 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 not have any symptoms. so

down it up. but then it was just giving wrong information to me throughout the whole process and has already been in for lunch. all right, we're back in one minute. ah, ah, is your media a reflection of reality? the in a world transformed what will make you feel safe for tyson lation community? are you going the right way or are you being somewhere direct? what is truth is break in the world corrupted. you need to

defend the join us in the depths or 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 on, 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 good of you to join us. huge cues of form. now thought the shops in south africa, the panic buying comes a week off to some of the worst violence seen there in decades. it's ultimately left. hundreds of shops ransacked. attentions exploded over the jailing of the

former president, jacob zoom on corruption charges the 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 mas allies 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. hundreds of shops have been destroyed

by the losers. some locals have been forced to arm themselves to defend their businesses saying the police are just overrun. correspondent paula slid. now reports on how one family from a poor area of johannesburg has been coping. i'm here in alexandra township, which has seen some of the worst violence over the past few days. for soccer, belonging to 15 brothers, from outside, the country were destroyed. downstage nothing amazed at the shop and upstairs where the brother lived 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 the ones electronics to groceries when you come, when you come to brick, everything that took everything down 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're going to the do again, they're going to break it again. so where are we going? what is that is 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 coming here, type bitten my shop and begging to get my model. 500000 stuff. now for the brittany ditton, my sleeping room, and i'm tending a hiding my center one corner people in the building, my room damage. i think that 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 worth salvaging and praying for god. god and i held men poor in clothes, only 5 did the reading not leaving the play. nothing but for the day . what fun it before the benefits office. i'm now a 1000000. it's nice to set my 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. given me my family's from this part of my family's kind hungry when i'm making money. i eating my family,

eating now not making money, bodies losing my family or the hungry as many south african the why it lasted only a few days. 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 south african on now going hungry politically or r t, alexandra, it may be called the united states, but some of those states becoming well should we say, are increasingly rest of these days. a new polling has found that a growing number of americans want to break away in full new nations. almost half of all democrats surveyed along the west coast off leaving some 2 thirds of republicans in the south one the same and called for the secession of texas. so certainly nothing new either with a state privilege representative a tabling a bill to make it possible at the end of the year 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, polling on us assessing support shows. there's actually been a month to uptake since january the 6th. at the day that trump support who's right here from the capital building, we've got a reaction from libertarian activist spike cohen. that's not a republican or democrat problem, that is a, a washington dc problem saying, i want to succeed 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, an 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 abode of no competence. i thanks for joining us here for the program on our see international. another program slated for you in about 32 minutes. hope you can join us in the the rather driven by dreams shaped by those in

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dom action 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 cricket is the whole time michael holding tells us about the power of taking the knee and from the home secretary, who said black lives matter protests. the dreadful and ahead of nelson mandela or international day is this week's uprising in south africa. evidence that enough is enough for the washington, the liberal experiment forged by him and del, or after his campaign of violence, finally brought him to powder and apologize. we talk to one of his comrades, you know, all of us and 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 football as what is kneeling means in his gesture, politics, by a strong sense, home secretary, pretty vitality, cool. the black lives matter. protests dreadful is politics the only route out of

entrenched racism. joining me now from new market in england is one of the greatest cricketers of old on 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 the 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 soon if no one knew why it wasn't necessary 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

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