so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. in the a grave systemic failure. germany thinks his criticism for not doing more to prevent last week flooding tragedy. despite previous warnings, the devastations claimed almost 200 lives and caused damage amounting to billions of euro. also ahead in the program this, by in your pocket, a major league sparks world wide eyed bridge ledges as really develop phone. spyware been used by the government around the world, potentially slip on journaling, politicians and even priests. the u. s. army veterans through

shade on this sunglasses, company ok now after it puts the wrong war on terror, a side on its products. one x soldier shows us those who served in the military are being increasingly exploited for commercial gain. veterans are constantly being taken advantage of. and $250.00 are just one really petty example ah, just after mid day and grabbed in the evening in melbourne on 1 pm right here in moscow. this tuesday, july, the 20th welcome to the news r and r t. the debt or after the devastating floods in western europe has risen to at least 10909. while almost 300 more people are still missing. search and

rescue operations continue in the worst areas of germany and belgium. meanwhile, the opposition in germany is calling for the interior minister to quit thing. he burst personal responsibility for what happened that the floods have caused damage estimated at more than 2000000000 euro. local volunteers have been joining efforts to help clear the devastation and repair it was possible. tripled infrastructure, coupled with huge piles of debris, is making it difficult to move around and preventing life returning to any semblance of normality. fanzines, 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 learnt from this mistake in 2016. what happened could happen again, but nobody expected on such scale here. well indeed,

it's not so only locals, angered by the authorities, response politicians, climate experts alike claim the government knew of the impending catastrophe in advance, but just fail to warn their citizens. official is the claim, not the worst hit areas where altered it's impossible to predict every outcome. that begs the question then one went. so rough 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 can do that. no one was expecting that 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 of what happened with the opinions of experts analyze what happened. today's information. you can just refer to the fact that people were informed by 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 western germany, chance langler merkle 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 accounts 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 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 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? peace role of a c and cologne, germany. a tool to intimidate any one critical. that's how human rights groups have branded these really hugging spyware. pegasus

new revelations have shown its reportedly been used by governments across the globe to potentially target politicians, journalists, and even religious figures. the software was originally developed to help the fight against criminals and terrorists. but as constantine ross called 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 gasped 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 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 pegasus. it was developed by israeli tech firm and as so group in company keeps a low profile and doesn't really out 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. they can access every photo and 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 this to read all of your attacks, e mails, chats and location data. this used to require a victim to click a malicious link, but the malware can now penetrate phones with so called 0 click attacks. and a so group has for body claims its product is being used maliciously by state actors. anissa 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 journalist 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 for good or for bad. while you will have to take their word for it, solve a company these really want booking and selling it's a product with all the relevant allies from the media, expand saw and it's leaking. but it raises the question whether it's sufficient, what kind of tools, a private phone company and and it may rain job question. and when you have such 231, that can truck you will sooner last soon. even with those the need that you will

press any link, it may read the question whether we need to regulate those activities. huge wildfires are ranging in ne, russia with a massive effort now underway to try and bring the situation under control. special fire fighting paratroopers have been deployed in the possible. in this footage, you can see them in action exiting planes. par shooting, done to hard to reach areas. so each trooper has a 20 liter backpack to fight the flames. shovels to dig fire bricker light. the emergency services volunteers and locals alike of all being doing their bit to try and does the flames and your crew to fix smoke is humping efforts in the worst hit areas. according to the emergency ministry close to 200 wildfires are burning

at present. with specialist helicopters, drafted into help, forest fires are also raging in another region. cordelia, a popular terrific destination in the north west of the country. people living in the path of the flames there has been evacuated to safety. a region wide draught made forests tinder, dry and vulnerable to wildfires. there brand, it does the global war on terror sunglasses, but the marketing ploy by shades manufacturer, oakley, has created an army of angry u. s. veterans. so let's take a look at what we're talking about. the issue centers on a ribbon, on the rim of each pair representing the metal us soldiers received. the problem is they got the colors wrong. to make matters worse, the metal itself is seen by some is 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 baths are being exploited for commercial gain . veterans are constantly being taken advantage of and $250.00, oakley, sun. glasses are just one really dumb petty example. sadly, to the extent that we have a militarist paradigm in the united states, there will also there will always be a market for these kinds of trap products. while the exploitation claims come amid growing alarm over the problems, not veterans face. the latest data shows an increase in the suicide rate of vets, which is one and a half times higher than not among civilians. with 18 to 35 year olds, particularly vulnerable. let's thought those figures may even be larger. study doesn't yet take into account the impact of the ongoing pandemic. alum coach, 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 ends commit suicide rate of $22.00 per day, more proportionally than the general population. and the v a is 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 or illegal immigrants and 0 for homeless veterans. and it is slap in the face for the sunglasses is just little bit of ice. you know the cake.

he's already the world's richest man, but amazon founder jeff pays us, will be skilling. new heights in a number of hours time when he bluffs off to space in his own rocket. though it seems there's quite a few people who want him to stay. he wants, he gets there on online petition objecting to his re and 3 to earth has rocked up more than 160000 signatures. so far, our teeth came up and asked new yorkers whether they would allow the 1000000000 or to return. 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 extra human. but maybe 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, where he 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 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 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 next to know federal income tax to blow $7500000000.00 on his own private aerospace company, while hard work in american families, paid 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 bill than 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 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 did pen demik with many feeling that glory projects such as races into space and 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. another story we're following today. the corruption trial of south africa is former president jacobs in the house resumed. his jailing last week sparked the worst violent scene in the country for decades. the head of zulu nation, so the african largest ethnic group told us the recent on rest and looting was no shock. 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 there is to envision so because now or is newton. this is what is happening now. when the smallest good habit you stand is like your approaches with democratic reg purchase, but they don't end up. you don't get for testing. they then huge and doing that on a scale, but it came from the policies of the agency who said the country you must make and governor a former president jacobs. and i was sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt of court south to refusing to appear before judicial inquiry, investigating corruption during his 9 your rule,

the protests that followed resulted in more than 200. that's on 2000 arrests. many communities are still reeling from the violence facing food shortages with local sharps and warehouses, either ransacked or burned down our teeth. paul, asleep reports now on the extremes, local residents, so it's hard to endure. to survive the crisis we tracking along the indian ocean coastline where lots of small towns have 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 tops themselves have either been lucid or close scott, because the odors offered 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 burned down. all the concrete steel slabs 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, these shocked all bordered clothes. people are afraid amongst rumors that the violence is going to erupt anytime again. at the moment, i'm so sorry, because 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 commitment 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. have been lose everything in the shop. he was

a single piece of bread, love everything for me to the noise commuter better, but i did not get his dog. and my shop is on this page. you can see the preview and deals holding that just by yesterday, and we now on the time of if you which has also been completely lifted. we're accompanying a shop. oh no. who hasn't been able to reach the town since divine and started this is the 1st time i walked in the shelf non, totally shocked. to absolutely devastated something that we never terms of as quite said and what are going to see if everything's been taken out. we've talked about 3000000 and what have stuck has been looters. i do, they 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 they were 8th armed guards sleeping inside at the time they suffered on the crowd. and for that reason, people ran away 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 children are very hungry. there is no food in the house because. 1 we only, i hope is only this shop now is 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. these people are doing. for days they haven't eaten. and many of them are afraid that the violence from over so there's

a lot of panic buying happening right now. on the tip of the african continent policy, a r t on an account, south coast missiles were heard on camera this tuesday landing in the us gun capital car bill, while the president and other top officials were praying, the incident was captured, live a local tv wholly home in the prayer session was being held to mark the beginning of a muslim holiday. rockets were heard across the so called greens zone, that's where the presidential palace. several other embassies are look hated as well. the attack comes in made a renewed tele bell offensive across the dentist and in the wake of foreign forces fronted by the u. s. pulling out of the country and also the

a huge explosion rocked in elementary implant in the city of dang, thing in central china, you must have plenty of smoke, could be seen rising high into the sky. the bloss reportedly occurred after water from a nearby river flooded the plot and reacted with chemicals held there. the facility had already been evacuated. there is no immediate report so absolutely groundless. that's china's take on accusations from washington, and it's a lot that was responsible for a must have cyber attack earlier this year on microsoft exchange email server. today, an unprecedented group of allies in partners, including the opinion, the united kingdom, australia, canada, new zealand, japan and nato. are joining the united states and exposing and criticizing the p r . c. ministry of state security as malicious cyber activities. and this is the 1st time nato has condemned p r c cyber activities. so i would know that we are

actually elevating and taking steps to not only speak out publicly, but certainly take action as it relates to problematic cyber activities from china . there have been many reports about cyber crime recently, but this prosecution is unique. this case is about a cyber hacking and economic espionage campaign led by the government of china be it is believed to have affected at least $30000.00 us organizations. microsoft identified the hackers as a state sponsored chinese cyber espionage group. wherever it, with no sanctions being talked about international affairs, unless the economics professor at china's side, the western university benjamin show has diets about the accusation. the underground world of hackers is so large and strong that it defies every single

nation on earth. they are sometimes independent groups or even long roofs, who could inflict large damages to the largest nations. the us department of people even cannot treat hector's attacking the u. s. department defense buildings and secrete systems. how can they be sure that it is from china and not by the u. s. l i z this time given what i was snowed, it has or do revealed. and how many times you repeat leaders asked us not to eavesdrop the national practice. you just yourself, who is the largest threat to the world with all eyes all the fast. busy approaching olympic games in tokyo, the portal and picks a few weeks after that sometimes quite often in fact gets overlooked. but for months, competitors across the globe. they've, of course, been getting ready here in russia. it is no difference we took to the streets of moscow with par athlete mitree ignites off to gauge awareness of the global

sporting spectacle. do you know when the paralympics are? yeah, if not, there's this summer. do you know when the olympic paralympic games are happening? so i don't what pcs done for now? what was it know, can you name any some sport? of course we're running. what else? madman, tom, we have to educate the russian. we have good or the last world championship we had for sportsmen who l. world sport ranking and now country can and to ballistics, through world war rankings, world to limping,

qualifying for them. and the plan turned my career after london in 2012. but the thing didn't work out there. i performed bab becoming in 7th and 8th. so i decided, no, i need closure and started preparing for you. but the bound from real, the 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, it's fast. 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 ya to say come up with a parents and a young voice that gets out and is evidence that they are disabled. why mom,

perspective x and if it's possible, i don't use table parking because i was, i leave this place free for someone news worse off than make the major competitive for me as curtis mcgraw last time i lost him in the final by just a few seconds he has the same disability as makes, although he has his own need. he also uses perspective actually if we talk about moral preparation, for example, for international tournaments, then yes, we've not had enough. okay, we just interrupt that speak as russian president vladimir putin is right now giving a speech of the annual max or show being held just outside moscow. let's listen into what he has to say to you. in this almost 3 decade,

max has become an important platform for presenting and showcasing the state of the art achievements of the domestic and international aviation a lot as being discounts here about the future of the asian and traditionally very interesting contract. my aerobic program is presented to the years and it gives a wide cartoon. it is for a corporation and collaboration and been mutually beneficial ways. and it is important that despite the consequences of the current of wires pandemic as we move is not of marks up corresponds to its international status. and is held that on such level we should and more than $254.00 companies from more than 50 countries are presented.