the who's the headlines, they saw it as being an assassination. attempt on molly's into precedence could during a press service in the west african nations central grave systemic failure. germany faces criticism for not doing more to prevent last week's flooding, trying to do despite previous warnings. devastations claimed almost 200 lives and cause damage amounting to billions of years by in your pocket. so major league sparks worldwide outrageous the ledges israeli developed phone spyware

. it's been used by governments around the world to potentially snoop on journalists, politicians, and even priests. the us army veterans throw shade on the sunglasses, company oakley, post the wrong war on terror side on its products, on the soldier tells, as those who served in the military, off being increasing the exploited for commercial gangs. veterans are constantly being taken advantage of. and 250 to holler book. we are just one really petty example. ah, either watching artsy international. great. have you with us? first is our there's been an assassination attempt on molly's intern. president's report suggests that he was a tax during a press service in the capital of main mosque. with more details,

his aunty shall davinsky. if assassination attempt on molly's into room president a see me, greta said to have taken place in the great mosque in the capital city of mancha. you said it's thought apparently 2 individuals try to attack, came one man wielding a knife that attack came during a sermon for the festival, the festival, to bassi. now, according to the manager of the mosque, the moment just given assume and where he talks about the sacrifice of the sheep. after that, at least one man will, yielding a knife, caught up and tried to stab the colonel, the interim precedent in the back. now we understand that it appears that he was not injured in this attempted assassination, and that he was removed immediately from the great loss can be taken to a secure location at an army base. but there are reports that another individual was injured in, not the fascination attempt, and just want to give you

a bit of background to what's happening in the molly at the moment. a see me going into room president. he's been in place now for about 2 months. but he has a very checkered background. as i mentioned, he was a could no me and he was the man that was behind molly's military crew. back in august last year, which saw molly move into an into room presidency as they tried to move back to civilian government. but he wasn't happy with how fast this was moving. and apparently there was a power struggle molly, which led to a 2nd qu just a few months ago. and as a result of that to see me go, it was put in place as into a precedent now. booze to cruise within a year. and molly have sparked huge diplomatic tensions not just with members of the african union, but also here with the french government. molly has been suspended from the african

union until it returns back civilian rule. and france also suspended, joined military operations with the country. as a result that those operations have reached started, but we know that the diplomatic ties remain tense as molly still continues to go pick up. and without this civilian government in french diplomatic issue is a big one. and that's because, although those military operations with molly and military have been restarted in the last few weeks, we know that france is looking to pull its troops out of not just molly, but in the saw hill area, french troops have been there for many years. they've been fighting against an islamist insurgency that started in the north of the country and around 2012 and has really expanded and be massively problematic. the thousands and thousands of people being killed since then,

and hundreds of thousands of people being forced to flee their homes. as a result of this insurgency, that doesn't seem to be quelled, no matter how many military troops are on the ground. at the same time, the united nations, which has around $14000.00 troops stationed in the country, it's looking to expand its peacekeeping mission there. but molly has been in the grips if this is law, make insurgency for many years now. and it does seem as if the violence is aspiring higher for the moment, colonel, the interim president, a see me going to, we understand the safe in the army base following this attempted assassination today. but, you know, as you can see, the situation a molly is very gray, but the moment too many people will be watching what happens now in the next few hours in the next few days in that country. the death toll after the devastating floods in western europe has risen to at least $199.00. well,

almost 300 more people remain missing. search and rescue operations continue in the worsted areas of germany and belgium. while the opposition in germany is calling for the interior minister to quit saying he has personal responsibility for what happened with floods of cause damage estimated at more than 2000000000 euros. luca volunteers have been joining the efforts to help clear the devastation and repair was possible crippled infrastructure, coupled with huge piles of debris, making it difficult to move around and preventing life from returning to any semblance of normality. fanzines you, as you see it is terrible. everson is destroyed, many people don't have any commendation. the businesses are also closed. it is like nightmare countries gone 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. thought only locals and goods by the

authorities. response, politicians and club experts claimed the government knew of the impending catastrophe in advance, but just failed to warn the citizens. officials so claimed the worst it errors were altered and it's impossible to predict every outcome. and that begs the question that went so wrong. these are all of a fix of the story is before the floods struck west in germany, belgium looks in bergen, the netherlands, 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 due to. 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. in the history of what happened with the opinions of experts analyzing what happened to this 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 and particularly hard hit places. visiting the thing of utter devastation caused by the flooding and west in germany, john langler merkel pledged more efforts to tackle the challenges 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 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 bank,

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 a 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 with the authorities not better prepared for what nature would throw out them this time and will lessen be learned from this tragedy . feature all of all teeth in cologne, germany, a tool to intimidate anyone, critical human rights groups have branded these rarely hacking spyware. pegasus new

revelations have shown is reportedly been used by governments across the world to potentially target politicians. journalists, even religious figures, software was originally developed to help the fight against criminals and terrorists that constantino scarf reports. now 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, the 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, 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 pegasus to read all of your text, emails, chats, and location data. this used to require a victim to click malicious lane, 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. and mister 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, he saw the company these really want these booking and selling gets the product with all the relevant allies from media ban saw and it's leaking. but it raises the question whether it's a patient, all kinds of tools, a private phone company and, and it may rain job question. and when you have such to poke the one that can track, you'll sort of last soon. even though the need this, you will press any link,

it may read the question whether we need to regulate those activities. he's already the world's richest man, but amazon found a just phase of is scaling new heights. having just blasted off into space in his own rocket, these long life pictures of that journey came it or in the middle of the screen there. you can hear little bits of live coventry there. of course is a company that manufactured the new shepherd there. and this is going to be an historic journey of an altitude of around a 106 kilometers in the plan that they have go. it seems those excited as bays also and all 4 of the crew on board the ship are making that journey quite a few people down as one basis to stay. once you get 7 online petition objects into

his re entry to earth will be expected to re enter and parachute done to the does it will that petitions racked up more than $100.00? $60000.00 signatures so far? well, he's kill morphine, as, as people in new york for the day would allow the 1000000000 now to return home. we need him 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 focused on our population, not up there down here. jeff bezos is not the only billionaire to have gotten space fever. he actually lost the space race to another altar. richman, richard branson, and ilan mosque is set to be 3rd on the podium. they all claim that it's for the common good way here 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 to actually avoid 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 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 affordable for everybody. why 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 with many feeling that glory projects such as races 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 martin r t new york. well, he's done it basis, has made it to space because the 2nd believe that to privately make it there in less than a week, but those achievements aren't impressing oxfam which is calculated for every minute . a business mogul does go up 11 people die of starvation around the world emeritus

professor of economics at the university of massachusetts. i'm hearst, richard wolf says that the trips are an unnecessary extravagance. 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, 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 dead pan demik now another new she, while father raging in ne russia with

a massive effort underway to try and bring the situation and the control special for fighting paratroopers have been deployed in this battle. and in the fifty's, we're going to show you now you can see them in action. exiting planes, parachuting down to the hard to reach areas. each of those troopers has a 20 liter bag back to find the flames and shovels to dig 5 brake lines. emergency services, volunteers, and locals that we're doing a bit to try down the flames that are in your area. thick smokes, but hampering efforts so in the worst areas. according to the emergency ministry close to 200 wildfires, a burning presence with specialist helicopters drafted into try help for as far as of also the raging and another region cornelia of popular tourist destination in the northwest of the country. people living in the past of the flames there have been evacuated to safety. a region wide drought has made force to the dry and vulnerable to wildfires. the republic of south africa is in the

groups of food shortages and devastation following a week of deadly ross. we look at how local saw making day after this break the join me every 1st day on the alec salmon show and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politics sport. business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. me . ah, with me. ah.

ah, i use the the me ah, welcome back, the 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 pair, representing the metal us soldiers received the problem being, they got the colors wrong and to make matters worse,

the metal itself is seen by solvers nothing more than the equivalent of a participation trophy given out for simply joining the military, we spoke to a former us marine sergeant who feels that vets are being exploited for commercial gain. veterans are constantly being taken advantage of, and $250.00 oakley. 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, you know, crap products. the exploitation claims come mid drawing concern over the problems that veterans face. latest data shows an increase in the suicide rates of vets, one and a half times higher than among civilians, with 18 to 35 year olds, particularly vulnerable. and so those figures might be even larger as the study doesn't yet take into account the impacts of the ongoing pandemic. adam cook as she gain believes the government ignores the needs of veterans. 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 and 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. this just little bit, i seen on the cake the max her show has taken to the skies just

outside of moscow. the event has been held by annually for almost 30 years and will run for the next 5 days. it's to showcase the very latest in re space and defense technology developed by both russia and foreign companies. they know who to include the event to take off with a space in which she said that russia is open to air and space cooperation with all interested parties. listen, delegations from around 20 countries or attending max 2021 with around 500 companies present. 5 countries have already expressed interest in buying, rushing to point 5 to the the corruption sheil of south africa's form of presidents jacob zoom, has resumed. his jailing last week, spunk the worst violence seen in the country. for decades. the head of the zulu nation, south africa, the largest ethnic group told us that the recent rest and looting were no shock. we

see a country that had so much going for it had been destroyed completely because my view is that what is happening now actually should no surprise us because this country was radio and it's nice because he did ration account status because of the mismanagement of the economy by the government, every striking. so there you go. every strike there is to envision so we go now or is newton. this is what is heavily you know, when the smallest good habit you stand is the approaches we can calculate your workers, but they don't end up, you know, get for testing. they get huge and they're doing good already. nice, good. but it came from the policies of the agency who said the country must make and governor for president jacob's they send us the 15 months in prisons. the

content, of course, after refusing to appear before, were due digital inquiry was investigating corruption during his 9 years in office . the protests that followed resulted more than 200 deaths and 2000 arrests. and the communities are still railing from the violence they faced food shortages with local shops and warehouses, either ransacked or burned down on these poor slim reports on the extremes. local residents have had to endure to survive the crisis. we tracking along the indian ocean coast sine weight loss 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 shops themselves have either been lucid or close. got that 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 completed and been down. all the concrete steel slabs have 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, the suck the old boarded clothes. people have been 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 on the desk or what's going on that this will danger. so we just are trying to do a little bit of the committee 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. it was

a single piece of bread, love, everything for me, the noise. can you tell me 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 on the time of if you which has also been completely lifted. where accompanying a shop owner, who hasn't been able to reach the town since the vine and started. this is the 1st walk in the shop. now, i'm totally shocked to absolutely devastated something that we never did of. it's quite sad and we're going to see if everything's been taken out. we've talked, we're looking at about 3000000 and what stuck has been looters. i did expect you 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 god 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 came here to 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 this shop i, we don't know what we're going to do now. if i'm and for the past few days has left an estimated 2000000 south africans unemployed. as it is a country already cases, a huge problem of these people are doing for days they haven't eaten,

and many of them are afraid, but 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, our teeth on an account south coast using our team to national that brings it right up to date for this news. our band with more than 2 stories in about 30 minutes hope see that the war on drugs started as a way to come back. a great problem. what's the war on? 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, told us that andrew was competing short form. this is way too dangerous for him to be doing. clearly they put him in harm's way. a rural college

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