long plenty puzzled initials, going to say peculiar news. the news you're sleeping and then the water comes and we can open the door just in your room and you're drowning europe has come to terms with the aftermath of devastating floods. parts of germany declare a state of emergency while neighboring countries are also hit by the tolerance of warfare, leaving at least a 180 people that are correspondent in the region theory and all phyla in the state of rhode island. latin this, this one of the worst effected areas by the flooding. you can see over to my left on the building where the water actually reached,

well above my own head highway of death. go for. that's what it looks like down. yeah. if you carry on further down the road, the longer the stories or shape the weaker on our south africans take up arms to fight off. looters made a week of may respond by the drilling of a former president. we understand scores of people have been killed and as the unmarked graves of 160 more children found in canada, the vigilance community, the government of the publisher school attendance list to get a clearer idea of the scale of the tragedy. the native peoples stress, the repression still exists to this day. genocide is still happening to us, please not taking reports seriously. predators know that they can target and people in general know that we could target the

ah, welcome to the weekly here on the international, the sunday program where we're highlighting the top stories of today and of the week late is numbers updated here with $118.00 people are dead and many more missing with a total expected arise further. this is the grim bottom line of the flash floods that have parts of western germany, belgium, the netherlands, and other nations as well. the deluge is said to be the worst of its kind in 200 years. at the worst, if i could towns and villages or entire homes, bridges and vehicles just swept away me with 15 minutes or are also our neighbors houses. everything was under water, it was very quick. it looks as if

a bomb has hit like world war the the flooding is now spread to east in germany. it is the west of the country that's been hit the hardest at both in terms of the human toll and infrastructure. the german chancellor has had a chance to visit some of the affected areas. for a sudden german language barely has the words to describe the devastation inflicted

. but from what i've seen, it's incredibly hardening to see how people are coming together. they are helping each other and the solid air that exists, busy and under his theory and off i live in the state of rhode island. to latin. is this one of the worst effected areas by the foot. you can see over to my left on this building, where the water actually reached well above my own head. the job for people here right now is cleaning up following this disaster. you can see just behind me, as people have taken all of their belongings from the houses, putting them out on the streets. everything covered with thick brown, sludge mud. the rain waters, the flood waters brought with them when they came into people's homes. extreme, heavy downpour started on wednesday and told months worth of rainfall. in a matter of hours, people in these towns say it was beyond their worst nightmare. it didn't go to

several people a dead. it was the bridge of the with destroyed or the bridges in all the towns have been swept away. people don't have anything to eat or drink. there is much and such everywhere. everything is damaged in many houses. the color is the biggest that ever happened to. it was understood, the speed at which the waters rose caught a lot of people off guard. this, coupled with it being the middle of the night seems to have contributed to the number of people killed in lifted off the electricity and mobile phone that works for shut down by the rise of water with no way of contacting the outside world. no one knew who was missing and who didn't have connections. local officials in violet said around 1300 people were missing on friday. thankfully, number is decreasing as communication networks or restore. it all happened very quickly last night and lasted about 20 minutes. first,

the manhole covers came up and then the water level rose up, the windows, the windows burst and within 2 minutes the hill house was flooded with water 2 meters high. i think it will take at least 2 or 3 years to clear everything up. lena, brenda and her family were asleep when water from the river, usually half a kilometer away, started to flood the lower floors of their home. i heard screaming outside and then my dad, he screamed, i went outside downstairs and there was already like water flooding into our like downstairs. it was like so fast that we just grab stuff and tried to get out of there. i think it was like maybe 15 to 20 minutes. so the water came up to here. so if you're sleeping and then the water comes and we can open the door just in your room and you're drowning, i can't even describe the feeling. you see,

your house is destroyed. it's going to be destroyed. this never happened before. it's like, i don't know. nobody would love it. you could even prepare for this. one blessing is that no more rain has fallen in this area in recent days. well that means is that the clean up operation can get on the way, but it's going to be a painful and onto its process and it will be a long time before any sense of normalcy returns to these towns as was continues to be pumped from the lower floor of building in the path of the flooding. people here slowly coming to terms with a tragedy which is killed so many. i left many, many more with their homes in ruins. peter, all of us are fi. fi la germany. thought that has been seeing its worth violence in decades of rising and losing erupted off to the jailing of an

ex president. and more than 200 people now confirm dead in the middle of the riots in the city of dub. and there was a dramatic incident involving a small child who miraculously was saved. a warning you may find the following images disturbing as flames and gulf blocker flat, a desperate mother threw her daughter to a crowd of bystanders on the street below. they were then seen cheering as the total was caught, safe and sound as a mother described to us her ordeal. melissa is doing what i can say. yeah. lunches, so shocked because she always remind me of what i did to her les, when she said that moving alterations i was pointing to my mom, you drew me down. you drew me. whatever news the flex spending and we only smell smoke from the 16th floor and the lady from the recession, she was going floors was telling us to come down. we reached the 2nd floor,

were not sure because outside of the plant, so when they were playing because people from the 3, those standing in the sleeve by mystery, they were trying to help us taking their lives and who called to the latest. so when i was there, there was the other big lady said she can carry the baby for me. so i was seeing the face down face. she didn't give me to be me so i can come out because the only thing i wanted was what baby to be out. she refused to said, no, i'm going to go fast enough, so you're going to get accumulate. they do, and i'm down after she got into the sale of the stairs fold in with her there was people trying to help and now there was no any other way for commerce who was stuck . and he was little fussy, there was a lady behind me. i saw that. can you tell me the baby's going to carry the baby for me? so i'm going to go down. didn't up down down. you can give that baby to me. control the baby with me. so are you stay to go? the baby for me? the baby is crying, and no, no,

never mind new crying just solid to me. i came flooding up the kitchen, people as gleaming, saw go, go. and i was like, well as relieved because i can see people, they drank a lot, but i didn't even know those people, but i so they'd be willing to help us. that it made me pause and see. so they scream color joe, joe and i was waiting for them to come together then after to the baby and now escape the big when they can see ocean they know it's going to my niece was always holding my hair like the likely they called shading me directed me go this way, go this way. they took me down to the catching me also. he and everyone i was saying you, you, you, brave, brave. in the meantime, rises every rating, stores on warehouses and estimated, $800.00 shops are being destroyed and local cleaning up what's left. some of even for the groups to help police patrol the streets and prevent further violence. a pool, a clear correspond, the reports from the region,

the canadian city in south africa way the minority, white of the cons community is going out on a voluntary patrol tonight. they've lost faith in the countries police and so like other minority communities have taken upon themselves to defend the own street and the own houses. ah, i think that both of them are with them on the water, all over the country. they've been deployed to many different areas. that's why we are assisting the welcome to go to college. we both are the communities actually locating that i am taking the shop into the garage, bombings, approximate. i excuse me

. what we hear people regarding the shopping scene for looters. they will probably be in the whole not got somebody to be vehicle. they're not, i could fine. and that's what they're going to be for the not the the, the people from the community. the community itself is guarding the shopping. things in these rocks have been placed in the road to stop any kind of potential looters driving down this road towards the shopping st. that's nearby here and potentially trying to loosen the in with acknowledge like this. what we can do is we can see them in the dock and we can immediately dispatch some of our guys to go to save it. and it's actually

happened the other night as well. and what this also does is this little thing over here. so we can turn this on and it makes a very wide area like and especially the other night when they saw that they were the dos they were hiding away from us. but the moment to be done, they obviously got the sky and they went back to where they came from. we don't have to put our guys into it too. hobbs way until it's absolutely necessary for them to react. we can another shopping center where the guys have mixed up with other volunteers who've also been here for the last few nights, making sure that their communities are safe. we already have the same purpose, so they more experience, they've got the weapon we the knowledge. so we follow the lead, all the all countries understand so, so it's pretty sad at the moment. but you all have to saying you ought to go. she's a lost friend on one of the townships on the end of all the time. and we are preventing those to come into us. others record starts getting to keep. it allows

us as much of the looting going on, there's a lot of positivity that has come out of the country and. and in a different aspect where we had a lot of divisions prior to this. but it's not that people that are low to looters, basically. so you got the black, white in the color, all sending together to prevent the same thing from happening in all our communities. it's quite culture and now it's late at the past midnight. we're going to head off. the guys themselves will stay here until the early hours of the morning. the situation remains tense and no one really knows what they tell me will bring policy a oxy arbiten. canada's indigenous community has urged the government to publish a school attendance less going by decades to further investigate crimes against them. it comes as the unmarked graves of $160.00 more children were found in the country. this week. the native community says is just the tip of the iceberg. i didn't even talk about the appeal in residential schools to my children. many of

our children who ran away during the winter and froze to death on their way home. and the black ropes start lying about the children. oh yeah, they're doing fine here. in the meantime they were missing and no one had searched for them. and we had to steal much of our food in order to ship 5. and that's only part of our sure bible renisha dan show. schools want you to imagine you have a 6 year old daughter that's been taken away from your test to go into an environment that shows no love. no hugs, no support. nathan, but verbal, emotional, spiritual abuse. i can't speak my language today because for experienced across

that way. i've tried, you could scream and cry and bank and there was no, no one there to to rush you. we were giraffe and be you could scream and scream your vision, no one there to come to your help residential schools or the last of which closed in 1997 were aimed at assimilating native children removed from their families. many suffered physical and sexual abuse. for more than a century, 150000 were put through the system. we understand more than 4000 deaths were recorded in 2015 the truth and reconciliation commission officially recognized the policy as cultural genocide and the scandal has further grown this year with the 1st discovery of the unmarked graves.

me. ringback i i the discovery of the graves has led to outrage across the country on canada day, early this month, the statues of queen victoria and queen elizabeth the 2nd was toppled by crowds chanting no pride in genocide and some indigenous groups called for the annual celebration to be counsel entirely, but most i and has been targeted. those who ran the schools leading to christian churches being attacked with several burned to the ground. the prime minister has

said the country must loan from the mistakes of the past. is difficult in moments like peace. to fully comprehend the decisions of the past that led to these tragedies and atrocities. but it is necessary to absorb them and understand them to be able to move forward. well true, those words? well, they weren't really enough for most in the community who are demanding an apology from the pope that they hold the catholic church responsible for much of what happened and believe that does have a case to answer. people are talking about wanting an apology from the pope. why do we have to for that, why, why hadn't gotten yet not apologizing? i feel like the people who, i guess,

look up to the polls are feeling the same way that is still happening to us to the may you know, the government have these policies in place that don't work well. when we do mental health checks with our people, they either die or they're thrown into the institution where pills are wrong down. and if there's any children in the wall, they're automatically thrown into into the child welfare system. so there's a lot of things to get done with the police, not taking reports seriously. and predators know that they could target. and people in general know that they could target a lot of joining us so far for the weekly here on the international. just about halfway through the program. now it returns in just a moment. i

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy plantation, 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 critical time time to sit down and talk the they cannot, they are to say there's no politicians in the around the world. can even they are to say to the people, oh, we have to reduce the consumption. this is why the sofa, the consumption issue did not was not taken up very seriously. so or, but it's a very serious issue. so we cannot address the climate change issue unless the people around the word realize that we cannot continue our over consumption as we

are doing now. the awe, thanks for joining us for the weekly program. here on our tea, a huge wildfires fled up in the far east and federal district of russia. we'll show you some good pictures here. their aircraft have been deployed to find the flames as well as thousands of fire fighters on the ground. there are almost $200.00 active sites that are burning in the region. rushes, ministry for emergency situations that are on a sunday, a number of fires were extinguished across an area of some 87000 hector. now think smoke enveloped several cities in the region leading to air pollution limits being breached on flights. also, being grounded ludicrous. that's how a british lawmakers described an ad by a top big company,

which suggests covey. vaccination is the only way to get your life back to normal. although there's been a low uptake of shots by those under 30 politicians, have warned heineken commercial is out of line. the hind can really ought to consider whether the discriminating is loyal customers who may be, cannot be vaccinated for medical or other reasons. there are lots of people who can't be vaccinated and it's quite wrong that they should not be able to go into a pub. and have a drink, ludicrous, i'm surprised to not making recommendations and other countries given their levels of vaccine hesitancy. the ad comes off, the british ministers reportedly drew up plans from mandatory vaccine passport to enter public and restaurants from the autumn. as despite what's seen as a hugely successful inoculation program with 35000000 people fully jobs in the u. k

. but britain is far from the only country where pro vaccine pressure is really getting into full swing. you know, so that was an australian which has been heavily criticized for employing obvious scare tactics and using an actor from an age group. not even yet eligible for the vaccine. on top of that, the pace of inoculation of the country is slow and part due to dose shortages. something that critic say it makes these campaigns even less appropriate. so we put the issue up for debate. real worry for me about this is you're going to create a i to, to society. if there will be those people who com, to have a vaccine for medical reasons or maybe for their own reasons, or maybe because the younger and they haven't had that vaccine invite yet. there is therefore going to be a to, to, is this, this is not going to create to,

to the system. that's absolute. poppycock, people who can't have it for medical reasons can have a medical exemption. but if they just choose not to have it, they creating their own apartheid. they have a duty, particularly young people now to do their bids for the rest of society, for those who need the back season. so you should be happy with the law generally the, the role numbers to perform ration, magic, clear bodies, possible. she doesn't actually work. they don't stall transmission. i'm not saying i was just touching my beloved. i suggest you check the wells world war. i'm very, i guess you stop spreading misinformation and face new jersey. you get behind this . there is a very big question over whether young people should have this faxing at all. and the reason for that is actually most young people will get cobit recover. they'll

be no long term sequentially, and this is about personal choice and responsibility. i want to do all these 3 things. i could go on. have a wrap around, the young people have a juicy, they should get vaccination as well. no one's talking about coalition. no one's talking about monday, treat jobs, but if you know people have fallen out to life based coming anyway, actually we should be encouraging those people. certainly, i've a 40 to make sure they have a vaccine. i would like younger people to have it as well. but i do believe in personal choice and liberty, we don't believe in compulsory vaccination for what we do need to do is get brittany back on track now or that wraps up the weekly fall. this our here on our international. thank you for sharing the time with us here at moscow. are the weekly does we're and soon here on our team, my colleague, daniel hol, can say with a new program and half an hour's time. for the meantime. thank you for joining us. who

me one make note board is i'm just blind to tease. emerge. we don't have authority. we go to the back seen the whole world, leads to take action and be ready. people are judge, you know, crisis we can do better, we should be better. everyone is contributing each in their own way, but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever. the challenge is paid for the response has been massive. so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are together now join me

every thursday on the alex simon show. and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politic sport business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. me the me me a welcome to world support. the great gentleman right, are good, a sad the dissolution who every problem is in the other problem, no worries, more visible than in the history of technology. the current exist, actual threat of climate change is ultimately the total sum of all our efforts to

improve the human condition can be ever be satisfied with that and keep the planet green at the same time. well, to discuss it, i'm now joined by ry. quang chunk principal advisors to the un secretary general on climate change and 2007 noble peace prize, florida. it's a chunk, it's a great pleasure, great honor for me to talk to you. thank you very much. for finding this, my pleasure. you've been advocating for a low carbon green economic growth for many, many decades. but you've got your noble peace prize for that. but it's only recently, dad, the green agenda has become a practical consideration for many countries have been included in their policies. i wonder how do you feel about it. i am more excited that it's finally getting traction or more frustrated that it has taken such a long time. my feeling is mixed. there are some brush side as there are. there are certain downside. my basic idea about the concept or paradigm of green gross was

the idea that investing and the protecting environment and climate change can be a driver of the economy grows and job creation rather than the burden and cost on our economy. so at the moment we're struggling between the 2 conflicting ideas that investing and protecting nature and even people, social welfare is a cost and burden on economy. but those are the thinking, school of ideas that it is actually an investment, long term investment for a much more inclusive and the green, or economic growth and job creation. so we still see clash of 2 big ideas. one idea is actually back why they're looking. the idea that investing in the environment, people ease or cost, that is, i see as a conventional thinking. but we have to shift away from that kind of conventional

thinking, tours new idea that protecting climate change and the people ease on investment. i think that sort of paradigm, at least with directly, has been adopted by many governments because i'm sure you're watched very carefully . the recent climate change on line climate change hosted by the bite and ministration and pretty much every leader said that they see environmental protection defied against climate change. as you develop mental paradigm societies now, while they all agree that something needs to be done, what they want to do is actually very, very different in the devil is always in the details. is there more agreement or disagreement on the practicalities? let me tell you my personal engagement with this a history of climate change in negotiation. i stuck into my devotional from 99 to one when the 1st and who has started since then on 92 we are the ers are.