ah, the so many people, devastation and destruction. a major cleanups underway along with intensive search and rescue efforts off a huge flooding in germany and belgium. we understand more than a 100 people are dead, but so many more. miss koby lands, the sicilian region of italy and poverty crisis authorities warned the changing seasons will be even more challenging for local communities under referring to rationing people in south africa are forced to q for essentially off the hundreds of shops and looted off the writers. go on the rampage. ah,

your new around the world around the clock, this is art international, a very well welcome to you. so at least 150 people now have lost their lives in flash flooding. those devastated parts of western europe. entire towns and villages have been left in ruins. intense rescue efforts are underway with hundreds still unaccounted for. the german chancellor merkel is set to visit the disaster zone in the next 24 hours. and reporting from the region is all correspondent peter on devastation, thus was being left in the wake of waters, the toll 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 the flooding catastrophe on the

historic scale. all the mass of the waters has 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 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 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 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 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 of the not so lucky. hartman clean can. big

home was right in the path of the swollen river to come into the woods again to this level one and a half meters work, 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 says he is living here. 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 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 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. i mean, you know,

we did not have it under control. man is so small against nature. here we see that 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 no was opening the front door and then the water was coming from everybody and i just press todd pushed hot 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 tank. clover my right shoulder, 2000 and leases of 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 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 garret told the concrete as well as its moved its way through here, a force of nature that's left a trail of destruction. while the human cost is still not being calculated, this natural disaster when it eventually get thrown, to calculating the financial cost of what's happened to run into the hundreds of millions of euro. if not more, what we are seeing at the moment, those towns like this one completely evacuated because the biggest fear of the authorities is 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 west in germany. it's warm that isn't over yet. peter, all of a r, t in west in germany. the economic impact of the corona viruses left italy facing its highest poverty level. and over a decade the numbers are still continuing to grow with a masses of people out of work and business is just struggling to survive. we heard from locals and one of the hottest 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 all 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 africa, food it is terrifying. they also go to churches to us for money and alimony. unfortunately, this is the current situation. this is the new reality. but when you know those who had little money already have nothing left and i get a worse and worse, those who did not have a job and already financially struggling now cannot even pay their rent. i know people from this neighborhood who were 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 household income being below a level which makes it impossible for the person or family to meet the 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. local authority, say it's a desperate situation. we've discovered the new poverty, which is terrible. there are too many new pole 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 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 code. we heard from i one charity organization in palermo that supports people and made as an inquest food request is 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 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 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 the 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 turning our attention to paris now with thousands of protested even tighter. new covey restrictions show you what the french capital looked like. on saturday. earlier in july, the government made vaccinations and mandatory for health workers give them a mid september deadline. and from wednesday, people will need a so called health path to visit certain public places showing that they were either inoculated or they had cove it. or they passed a p c r test from early august and also need a health pass to get into restaurants and cafes. and the owners of such places are

out in force in the protest. some saying that i want to become quote, the virus police are prominent figure in the yellow vest movement and the french presidential candidate project leading mo, things that everyone should be free to choose whether or not to get vaccinated tossed even yet could this coffee, i believe that the only french people and frank were emmanuel cron. she's vaccinated. and back to me the people i only see french people. you shouldn't forget that not everyone who hasn't had the job or the record. it's just the opposite. any. i'm not against it at all. but i want to be free to choose and give an informed decision. of course, i don't have consequences, but why they impose because the government is unable to handle the crisis properly . it's been w, the ping demick of the u. k. is tracking trace app that tells people to isolate if they've been near a covert carrier. what does that to hundreds of thousands of healthy people having to miss work and stay at home. and despite colds for its sensitivity to be adjusted

at the health department as ruling 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. there have been calls 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 spread of the virus. questions have also been raised if the asked is actually even necessary. now, given the widespread rollout of vaccines, have a number of staff. they're absent from work, including medical professionals, which is had a large impact on slippers at makes no distinction between and a work environment. contacts were in full perfect equipment or outside of that environment. and one is unable to tell where the contact came from. it's extremely easy to accidentally forget to turn off the notifications and tracking on the whilst you are. so there are a number in advanced in the effected and therefore had to miss work as

a result. in many professionals, understandably removing the app, so they don't accidentally have the pink government been very clear that they don't wish physicians to do or anyone to believe the up. but always still actually independent mich tracking and tracy was 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 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. well, with our cupboard rates, apparently on the rise in the country of the apps working overtime, only last week, more than half a 1000000 people were pinged and told to isolate. and that figure is only going to

grow with more than 26000000 people having actually downloaded the app. and some industries are reporting that up to 20 percent of best off. i've been forced to stay at home. so we got reaction on the situation in london. police for people really for a moment. one's right to to be straight up and things stop isolate and i can see the frustrations with people ha, so i can understand why some of deleted it 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 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 ro information constantly throughout the whole process and

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join me every 1st a on the alex simon show. when i was speaking to guess in the world, the politics sport. business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. in the moon, the. ah, it is good to have you with us for this program. huge cues have formed outside shops in south africa as a panic buying comes after a week of some of the worst violence seen in the country in decades. it's a less hundreds of shops, just ransacked. attention is 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 my life for me, even in my life, i can buy this more thing like this because of this thing. i don't know what's going to do for the next 2 months. we're just trying to see what we can get to what's needed at home. what do i mean? shut off. just follow cupboards just to keep us going. but it's been a frustrating week due to the planning buying. the is a shortage of bread ingredients. people are waiting in the cues for a long while, and it's actually sad to see that some bread trucks have been taken down and been thrown into the river. there are a lot of people out there, old young, sickly, that factoring to get just one loaf of bread. hundreds of shops have been destroyed

by looters. some locals remain forced to arm themselves to offend. that business is saying the police are just overrun. a polar clear now reports on how a family from one of johannesburg poorest areas has been coping. i'm hearing alexandra township, which has seen some of the worst violence over the past few days. or soccer, belonging to 15 brothers from outside the country were destroyed. downstage nothing remains the shop an upstairs where the brother live and store they 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 to groceries when you come, when you come to brick everything the took everything. don't have money to buy food for children. no, no,

no money to pay the rent where it was so digging like what are we going to do now? because that again, they're going to do again, going to break it again. so where are we going to make a living room and it's total and what's happening there? and or in a gloating my child, 7 o'clock. when i go to my room and i cooking cooking community, i didn't finish 9 a club. when i come in here, type bitten my shop and begging to get my my done 500000 stuff. now, britain, listen, boom, to my sleeping 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 states,

electronics, cell phones, clothing, money, and passports. everything has gone among the tortured remains. these nothing with salvaging and praying for god, god and i held men poor include only 5 days in no sleeping place. nothing but a mega day. what fun it before the benefits office. i'm not really anything just nice to set and i was looking for deal. if i did some for the skip play my past the bud 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. now making money, all is loading. my family are hungry. as many african the wife lasted only

a few days, stops on mt off to being looted. others are boarded up and delivery trucks are refusing to, with bringing in most applies on top of everything. if a more south african on now going hungry policy or r t, alexandra b, u has long legal action against member states, hungary and poland over what he calls discrimination facing the l g b t. community europe will never allow parts of both sides to be stigmatized. we start legal action against hunger and poland for violations of ponder, mental rights of l, g, b, t i q people, well are several opponents, origins of adopted laws declaring themselves free of what they call the l g. b. c, ideology, a separately war source constitutional court has now said it rejects decisions by the use court of justice. and brussels has similar troubles with hungry as

well as talk to a new hungarian law bands, depictions of homosexuality and educational materials and tv shows for the underwrite teens. the government has also ordered disclaimers to be put on books featuring gay content. so they contain quote behavior inconsistent with traditional gender roles. and it seems the local authorities perceived that laws differently to the e. u for you in parliament. and the european commission wanted to let the l g, b, t, q activists, and organizations in schools and kindergarten. hungary does not want that debate is about who decides which way we should be the children. according to the european founding treaties, this question evidently falls under the competence of the hungarian when it is a national competence. v you law has primacy over national law and all decisions by the european court of justice, including orders for interim measures are binding on member states authorities and

national court. we spoke with j a political analyst, our ratner offers, who believes that he needs to widen its focus. so the question for me also as an observer is, why does the you react on such as a ration of single government in only specific metric field? we look at other metric fields where governments in the european union have violated law and you have not seen that trick. for example, when the showing an area of the out of borders were not protected in 2015. no, really. if you read off that you do or have in theme government in depth to themselves, more than that, you regulations allowed no reaction in black the,

we have over $200000.00 non task force for russian defendants who do not well enough. the national language. whereas the you who called for by a to the rule of minority, etc. well, the e, you might be condemning some of his member states over some issues. but at the same time is giving us full backing to others, such as lithuania, which was placed barbed wire on his border with bella roofs, and passed tough migrant measures. we're ready to strengthen our level of support and deploy more european standing cole. offices and equipment. were speeding up and beefing up what was already planned and in close cooperation with the less awaiting authorities, were preparing furthermore, a rapid border intervention. lithuanian border is our common external border and friend. tech stands ready to help when needed. hundreds of migrants have illegally crossed into lithuania from bella, and recent weeks joining the approximate,

1700 people who have already been detained to the board of this year. vilnius has accused bella roast of deliberately shipping foreign migrants to the border, a claim that minced denies. lithuanian authorities also permitted the master attention of those migrants limiting their right to appeal. the use of stance on the issue marks a bit of a shift and policy back in 2015 hungry fortified. it's fences on the borders with croatia and serbia, claiming that within 2 years it had help cut the inflow of migrants by almost 100 percent. but russell's condemned hungary branding its move, racist, and xena phobic. they will also suggestions of the country should be forced out of the block. and we discussed the issue with serbian american journalist, deb mileage. they're carving out an exception for the fullest wayne here, and it's border wall because this is to deal with bellows. it's, they're dealing with the exact same immigrants, even their don carrion's bill to the border fence to stop the people. well,

not just people for the middle east, for general, things to put it up to stop people from serbia. they put it up to stop the syrians, rockies. afghans focused on ease of africans and so on who were using that particular route to get into the you. it's who does it as well as whom it is done to if the move is aimed against the designated enemies, in this case, bella luce, then okay, it's fine whatever. but if it's aimed against the designated victims or to designate do gooders, in this case, you know, poor migrants from the 3rd world only coming to realize their basic human rights by getting onto european union welfare. then of course, that's horrible, terrible, racist, immoral, etc. the whole point of my write up is that there is no moral consistency except the moral absolutes of who, who may be called the united states. but some of those states are becoming increasingly arrested for these days. a new polling is found that

a growing number of americans want to break away for new nations. almost half of all democrats surveyed along the west coast for leaving or some 2 thirds of republicans in the south want the same called for the succession of texas. will certainly nothing new either with a state representative tabling a bill to actually make it possible the end of last 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 of votes of the state of texas to reassert its status as an independent nation. the polling on u. s. a. session support shows that there's been a marked up fix in january. the 6th, when a come supporters right here in the capital building, we got reaction from libertarian activist, spite coming that's not a republican or democrat problem, that is a, a washington d. c 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, 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 is basically an abode of no competence. why those are your news bulletins for this half hour here and auntie international. thank you for sharing your time with us here in moscow you'll program returns at the top of the hour with my colleague, daniel hawkins. thanks for joining me.

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