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the robot must protect its own existence with the a grave systemic failure. germany faces criticism for not doing more to prevent last week's flooding. tragedy this, by the previous morning, the devastation claimed almost 200 lives and cause damage amounting to billions of europe. also had in the program, this spike in your pocket, major league sports worldwide outrage. that alleges is really developed. spyware has been used by governments around the world, potentially different journalists, politicians, on, even present us army veterans, through shade on the sunglasses, company, oakley,
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after it puts the wrong war on terror sign on its products. one x tells us vets are being increasingly exploited for commercial gain. veterans are constantly being taken advantage of and you 150, holler. classes are just one really dumb caddy example ah, across the world that run the clock, this is r t from the team, myself. you know me hello and welcome to the news our the debt tool after the devastating floods in western europe has risen to at least 199. while almost 300 more people are still missing. search and rescue operations continue in the worst hit areas of germany and belgium. the floods have caused damage estimated at more
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than 2000000000 euro local volunteers, helping, joining efforts to help clear the devastation, repair what's possible. crippled infrastructure couple with huge piles of debris, with making it difficult to move around on preventing life returning to any semblance of normality. sounds easy as you see it is terrible. everson is destroyed. many people don't have any commendation. the businesses are also closed . it is like a nightmare country promised i cannot remember what was promised, but we should have learned from this mistake in 2016. what happened could happen again, but nobody expected on such a scale here. well, it's not only locals, angered by the authorities, response, politicians and climate experts claim the government knew of the impending catastrophe in advance, but just fail to warn their citizens. officials so claim that the worst hit areas
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where altered and it's impossible to predict every outcome. so what went wrong? ne peter oliver of the report is before the floods struck west in germany, belgium looks in bergen benevolence, the copernicus, satellites that make part of the european float awareness system detected problems with on their way for the region. people in our viola, one of the worst effected towns in germany, have been critical of the warnings, or lack thereof that were given or done come to the case. no one was expecting it. the warning came too late. a public announcement, 5 or 6 hours in advance, would have helped to say some essential belongings. another problem is that many elderly people didn't even understand what was going on. they didn't hear anything about it. and then they're also the foreigners. everything should have been organized better. people should have gone door to door or received a warning by phone history. what happened with the opinions of experts analyzing what happened, today's information. you can just refer to the fact that people were informed by
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text message. you have to imagine how much information is being dumped on people every day already. but then they say, yes, we sent out messages instead of targeting people on the spot and perhaps getting people out of their homes in particularly hot places. visiting the thing of utter devastation caused by the flooding and west in germany, chance langler merkel pledged more efforts to tackle the challenge is posed by climate change. quickly chavez, which is the germany, is a country that can overcome this financially. germany is a strong country and we will oppose this force of nature in the short term, but also in the medium and long term to a policy that takes nature and climate into account more than we have done in recent years. there had been warnings from the weather in 2016 the river far burst, its banks, causing damage to bridges and other infrastructure. they were repaired, but nothing was done to protect against future high waters. it's not a secret that streets in bridges and all these dams are not in good condition and
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nobody's investing in it. and they're just like waiting till something happens again, 5 years ago we had a duration similar to this one and a bridge in the near broke and they just repaired it. like yeah, it's okay for now. and nothing happened till then. and now the bridge is gone again . this part of germany is no stranger to flooding, which banks the questions. why were the authorities not better prepared for what nature would throw out them this time? and will lessons be learned from this tragedy piece role of a c and cologne, germany. a tool to intimidate any one critical. that's how human rights groups have branded the really hacking spyware. pegasus new revelations have shown its reportedly being used by governments across the world to potentially target politicians, journalists, and even religious figures. the software was originally developed to help the fight
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against criminals and terrorists, but as constantine rush comp reports, it's ended up snooping on so many more 50000 mobile phone owners in 45 countries targeted by spyware. that's been in the hands of governments for years . with the approval of the israeli defense ministry. that's all according to a group of investigative journalists from 17 media outlets who claim they obtained a lead document that reveals the sheer scale of the snooping. edward snowden has already, tweed that this could be the story of the year. the ears also a guest. if it is the case, it is completely unacceptable and against any kind of rules we have in the european union. what the freedom of media is concerned, free press is one of the core values of the european union. it is
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completely unacceptable if this would be the case. according to the guardian targets include business executives, religious figures, government officials, and journalists among them, murdered washington post columnist jamal shoji the report singles out a number of countries suspected of using the spine to maliciously, among them hungry, saudi arabia the a turkey in india. the all either denied or refused to comment. the tool in question is called. busy pegasus, it was developed by israeli tech firm and a so group, the company keeps a low profile and doesn't really tout its services. but it is sad to be behind the most advanced piece of spyware ever developed. you can access every message you've ever received. you can access every photo video, every email. it is effectively the most invasive form of surveillance imaginable. according to the investigative journalist, someone who knows your mobile number can use pegasus to read all of your attacks e mails chats and jewel location data. this used to require victim to click and
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malicious lane, but the malware can now penetrate phones with so called 0 click attack. and a so group has for body claims, its product is being used maliciously by state actors and a so group firmly denies false claims made in your report. many of which are uncorroborated theories that raise serious doubts about the reliability of your sources is what is the basis of your story israeli firm and says it's that's clients granting access only to foreign governments with good human rights records . it also claims its products. is meant only for things like preventing terror attacks and locating missing children. if your mobile number is on the list, it doesn't mean you were actually spied on, but you were selected as a potential target. the journalists behind the revelation, say, they will publish even more names soon. what's clear from all this is that a very powerful spy tool is being wielded by governments around the world. whether
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for good or for bad. while you will have to take their word for it, solve a company these pretty long use booking and selling it's a product with all the relevant allies from expand saw and it's leaking budget raise the question mother, it's sufficient all kinds of tools and private phone company and, and it may rain joplin question. and when you have such a total of $31.00 that can track, you'll sort of last soon. even though the need that you will press any link. it may read the question whether we need to regulate those
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activities. you want to bring, you know, developing story huge wildfires or raging and ne russia with a massive for it now under way to try and bring the situation under control. special fire fighting part troopers humping deployed in the bottle. in this for that you can see them in action. exiting planes and part of the shooting done to hard to reach areas. each trooper has a 20 liter backpack to fight the flames and shovels to dig fire breaker lines will be emergency services, volunteers, locals, as well. they've all been doing their best to try and does the flames in your queue . tier thick smoke is hampering efforts in the worst hit areas. according to the emergency ministry close to 200 wildfires are burning at present with specialist helicopters, drafted in to help or forest fires. you're also reaching in another region. corellia now popular tourist destination in the north west of the country. people
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living in the path of the flames. their home been evacuated to safety. a region wide draw it has made forest tinder, dry, and vulnerable to wildfires. both their branded as the global war on terror sunglasses, but the marketing ploy by shades manufacturer, oakley, has created an army of angry us veterans. the issue centers on a ribbon, on the rim of each per representing the metal us soldiers received. the problem is they got the colors wrong. to make matters worse, the middle itself is seen by some us, nothing more than the equivalent of a participation trophy given for simply joining the military. we spoke to a former us marine sergeant who feels vets are being exploited for commercial gain . veterans are constantly being taken advantage of and 250 color, oakley. some classes are just one really dumb,
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petty example. sadly, to the extent that we have a militarist paradigm in the united states, there we go. there will always be a market for these kinds of crap products. all the exploitation claims come amid growing alarm over the problems of veterans face. the latest data shows an increase in the suicide rate among beds, which is one and a half times higher than nuts among civilians. with 18 to 35 year olds, particularly vulnerable. it is thought those figures may even be larger as the study doesn't yet take into account the impact of the ongoing pandemic, atom, co cash, again believes the government ignores veterans needs. it's not a challenge to get people to recognize that you served it's challenge to get people to care about the bigger problems in the fact that better and commit suicide rate of $22.00 per day more proportionally than the general population. and the v a is
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more interested in pushing pharmaceuticals that have suicide listed a side effect. then actually effective treatments for p t. s. d, and other things experienced by veterans homelessness, unemployment, all of the challenges that go along what the government does. by contrast, the u. s federal government spent $86000000.00 on housing for illegal immigrants and 0 for homeless veterans. and it is lab in the face for the sunglasses. this just little bit of icing on the cake. he's already the world's richest man, but almost on fonder. jeff pays us will be skilling. new heights today when he plus off to space in his own rocket. though it seems there's quite a few people who wants to stay once he gets there. an online petition objecting to his re entry to earth has racked up more than
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a $160.00 and signatures so far or to kill up and asked new yorkers whether they would allow the 1000000000 or to return home. we need them here, but i'm saying it's a lot of things happen in the world. you don't need to be flying to the space that seems a little bit extreme. but maybe because it will probably never really happen. those 3 people alone can take care of the whole world's problems right now with the pandemic. but they're going to space at the end of the day. we supposed be focusing on our population. not up there down here jeff days. those is not the only billionaire to have gotten space fever. he actually lost the space race to another . alter richman, richard branson. and ilan mosque is set to be 3rd on the podium. they all claim that it's for the common good. we had to make space more accessible to all welcome to the dawn of a new space age. recent studies showed that a minimum wage worker cannot afford a one bedroom apartment in 93 percent of the counties in the united states. this is
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not a situation where people can afford to just get off to the stars for a holiday weekend. now there are many billionaires like days, those who actually avoided paying taxes. many look at this and blame a corrupt loophole, written tax code that allows the rich to avoid paying their due or backwards and corrupt tax system has allowed the same person who pays nicks to know federal income tax to blow $7500000000.00 on his own private aerospace company, while hard work in american families pay an average of 14 percent income tax each year. basis on the other, billionaires in his obscene race to space should be required to pay their fair share. while working families are struggling to pay their bills and the infrastructure of the united states is crumbling, the billionaires are having their own little space race and seeing who can reach the stars faster. do you think you'll ever be able to afford to go to space? i can't afford to live in new york, the average person can barely afford starbucks. these travels never going to be
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affordable for everybody. by the fact we might be because you know what, as this economy is coming down to order technology and everything is being upgraded to the fact that how we bought the move, i mean over to our next planet possibly. so you never know, is it reasonable to allow billionaires to do 2 things decide how to spend their money. for example, competing on getting on rockets into space. and number 2, how do you justify the enormous wealth devoted to this kind of rich persons, amusements, those moral demands are more powerful than allowing the super rich to become even richer. as for example, they have over the last 18 months even while the rest of the world was struggling with the cold. busy in 10 demik with many feeling that glory projects such as races
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into space to make a mockery of the hard work carried out by the majority. it shouldn't be a surprise that many are wondering if we shouldn't just dump the ultra rich into outer space as the latest piece of space, junk, mop and r t new york. this is our international after the break in south africa. looks to pick up the many pieces following a week of writing and chaos sparked by the ceiling. were president ah, i ah, with me.
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ah, ah, i use so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy for taishan, let it be an arms race is often very dramatic. developments. only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical of time. time to sit down and talk the
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hello again. the corruption trial officer for his former president jacobs in the has resumed his dealing last week spark the worst violence scene in the country for decades. the prime minister of zulu nation. so it's fred because largest ethnic group told us the recent on rest and looting came as no surprise. we see a country that has so much going for it. been destroyed completely. because my view is that what is happening now actually should no surprise us because this country was a radio owner. nice because he division john state because because of the mismanagement of the economy by the government, every striking. so there you go, every strike that is to envision so you got it or is newton. this is what is heavy. you know,
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when the smallest good habit you stand is the approaches with demo categorize reporters, but they don't end up, you know, get for testing. they get route and they doing good already. nice, good. but it came from the policies of the agency who said the country must be made and governor. yeah, let's go through the background to this former president jacobs and was sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt of court after refusing to appear before a judicial inquiry investigating corruption. during his 9 year rule, the protests that followed resulted in more than $202000.00 arrests. many communities are still reeling from the violence, missing food shortages with local shops and warehouses either run, sacked or burnt done, or teeth policy reports now and the extremes. local residence, something forced to go to, to survive the crisis. we tracking along the indian ocean coast sine wave. lots of
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small towns has been isolated and have received no relief for days. the votes have been closed and all trucks with the usual supplies have not been able to reach them . the shops themselves have either been lifted or closed. scott, because the odors offer that they could be ransacked in the coming days. the. i now can, you can see a close to the house that has been completely muted and been down all the concrete steel lads has been melted down in the fire. that was like, today's the 1st day that one or 2 shop in the town had opened. most people are still staying at home, and as you can see,
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the sucked old boarded clothes. people are afraid amongst rumors that the violence is going to event anytime again. at the moment, i'm so sorry because with safety, it's still not safe. good, what's going on? that this will danger. so we just are trying to do a little bit of the comment here is one of the 1st shops to open, but it's owners. i hid is still assisting the damage. he says he was lucky to escape with his life intact. they've been losing everything in the shop with a single piece of bread, love everything for me to the noise even better, but i did not get his dog in my shop is all you can see the deals said holding just by yesterday and we now in the time of if you, which has also been completely lifted. where accompanying
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a shop owner who hasn't been able to reach the town since divine and started this is a 1st walk in the shelf. now i'm totally shocked to absolutely devastated something that we never did of. it's quite sad and i was going to see if everything's been taken out. you've taught me look in about 3000000 that would have stuck in looters . i didn't expect it to be bad, but this is like 10 of us. absolutely. so as you can see, there is security in front of this supermarket. the only reason that the supermarket survived is that what god sleeping inside at the time they suffer on the crowd. and for that reason, people ran away people from both this town and surrounding areas have come here because it's only place that they can get food. i can buy the groceries because my
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children are very hungry. there is no food in the house because. 1 we only, i hope is only this shop now if they're gonna break the shop. 1 shop here, i don't know what you're going to do now. if i'm in the past few days has left an estimated 2000000 south africans unemployed. as it is a country already faces. a huge problem of these people are doing. for days they haven't eaten. and many of them are afraid that the violence it's awesome over. so there's a lot of panic buying happening right now. on the tip of the african continent policy at our tea on an account south coast missiles were heard on camera this tuesday landing in the us gun capital kaboom, while the president and other top officials were praying. the incident was captured, live on local tv. wholly home in
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the per session was being held to mark the beginning of a muslim holiday. rockets were heard across the so called green zone, where the presidential palace and several embassies are located. the attack comes amid a renewed telephone, offensive across galveston in the wake of foreign forces fronted by the u. s. pulling out of the country. also, the a huge explosion has rocked in ela, minium plant in the city of dang, fang, and central. china must have plenty of smoke, could be seen rising high into the sky. the blast reported they occurred after water from a nearby river flooded the plant and reacted with chemicals. hello there. the facility, by the way, have it ready been evacuated? there is no immediate reports of casualties. no,
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with all ice on the fast approaching olympic games and took you the paralympics a few weeks later, sometimes gets overlooked, but for months, competitors right across the globe have been getting ready for action. and here in russia, it is no different. we took the streets of moscow with par athlete dmitri ignacio, off to gauge awareness of the global sporting spectacle. do you know when the paralympics are? yeah, if not dead this summer. do you know when the olympic paralympic games are happening? so i don't want to pc stanfull know what was know. can you name any some a sport? of course we're running water. madman, tom. we have to educate the russian people.
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we have good dog. the last world championship we had for sportsmen who l world sport ranking in our country, woodworking, and to the linux through worlds, fort rankings, world to limping, qualifying tournaments. the turned my career after london in 2012. but the thing didn't work out there. i performed bab be coming in 7th and 8th. so i decided no, i need closure and started preparing for you. but be bound up from me. i do everything by myself. of course i clean. i cook. i definitely everything. the only thing is it takes me a little bit more time than say, the normal man. and for instance, if i clean with my sister if fast,
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but if i clean alone it takes the whole day. i can type with my arm with my foot or even in rare cases when it's too painful. any other way? i type with my no unfortunately, you can't always use disabled parking. for example, we're talking a shopping mouse with a car, pull up with a parent and a young voice that gets out and it's evidence that they are disabled. why mon perspective and if it's possible, i don't use table parking because i was, i leave this place free for someone news worse. all make of all the major competitive for me is curtis mcgraw, the last time i lost him in the final by just a few seconds. he has the same disability as me. hello, he has his own knee. he also use this perspective.
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actually if we talk about moral preparation, for example, for international tournaments, then yes, we've not had enough ask for television, you know, in order for people to be able to watch it, you have to show carol and pick athletes shown in their competitions. and that's the view is can be interesting too, because in my opinion, incredible passions appointing over there. ah, yeah. and those games get going later next month. and or i'd short that documentary time next year on our to see what's being shown in moments. hope to catch you again for ah, ah
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oh right now there are 2000000000 people who are overweight or obese. it's profitable to sell food that he's 20 and sugary and the victims. he's not at the individual level. it's not individual willpower. and if we go on believing that will never change that obesity epidemic, that industry has been influencing very deeply. the medical and scientific establishment, ah, what's driving the mac, its corporate, me ah drug started as a way to come back, a great problem. what's the one? it's part of the attitude of the nation, not just of north dakota, and it got to be something that you could get elected. this time the fight against drugs took a tragic.
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