too dangerous for him to be doing, clearly they put him in harm's way. a rural college student does interest get shot in the head and found in a river like that. something else had to be happening with the grave systemic failures. germany faces criticism not doing more to prevent last week's flooding tragedy. despite previous warnings, stations claimed almost 200 lives and caused damage amounts to billions of years. have been an assassination attempt on molly's intern president. the attack occurred during the press service in the west african nations central just by in your pockets a major league sparks worldwide outrages it alleges his rarely developed phone spyware. it's been used by governments round the world to potentially snoop on journalists, politicians, and even priests and us,

all of the veterans throw shade on sunglasses, company oakley, put the wrong war on terror sign on its products. one night soldiers tells us those who served in the military are being increasingly exploited for commercial gain. veterans are constantly being taken advantage of and $250.00. look, we are just one really dumb petty example. ah, hi there, welcome you watching all t and national great to have you with the number of confirmed dead after the devastating floods in western europe has risen to 199. another 300 people are still unaccounted for. search and rescue operations were made underway in the worst hit areas of germany and belgium. meanwhile,

the opposition in germany is calling for the interior minister to quit. the blames and personally for the countries unpreparedness floods of cause damage estimated at more than 2000000000 euros volunteers have been helping to clear the way the devastation. crippled infrastructure, coupled with huge piles of debris, are making it difficult to move around them for life to return to even a semblance of normality. fans in here, 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. open country that's 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 scale here. it's not only locals, angry at the authorities, response politicians, and climate experts. they claim the government knew of the impending catastrophe in

advance, but that it just failed to warn its citizens. officials so claimed that the worst areas were indeed altered and that's led many to ask what went wrong. peter oliver reports is before the flood struck western germany, belgium looks in bergen, the netherlands, the copernicus, satellites that make part of the european florida when a system detected problems went 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 a warning came too late. a public announcement 5. 06 i was in the funds will help to see some essential belongings. and other problem is that many elderly people didn't even understand what was going on if 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 history of 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 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 hitting places. visiting the thing of the devastation caused by the flooding in west and 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. the 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 versus bank, causing damage to bridges and other infrastructure. they were repaired, but nothing was done to protect against future high waters. not

a secret that streets and bridges and all these dams are not in a good condition and nobody's investing in it. and they're just like waiting to 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 happens till the end. 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 will lessen be learned from this tragedy. feature all of all teeth in cologne. germany has been an assassination attempt. molly's interim president report suggests that he was attacked during a press service in the capital of main mosque. with more details, he shall do whiskey. this assassination attempt on molly's into room president a c me,

greta said to take place in the great more sky in the capital city of mancha. that attack came during a sermon for the festival, the mac festival, to bassi. now, according to the manager of the mosque, the moment just given assume and when he talks about the sacrifice of the sheep, and after that at least one man war yielding a knife, got 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 quite most kind of been taken to a secure location at an army base. but there are reports that another individual was injured in that assassination attempt. just want to give you a bit of background to what's happening in the molly at the moment. a see me going to is this into room president. she's been in place now for about 2 months, but he has a very checkered background. as i mentioned, he was a,

a could know all me and he was the man that was behind molly's military crew back in august last year, which saw molly move in to an interim 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 in molly, which led to 2nd qu just a few months ago. and as a result of thought to see me go, it was put him places into a precedent. now those 2 crews within a year were molly have sparked huge diplomatic tensions not just with members of the african union, but also he, with the french government. molly has been suspended from the african union until it returns back to civilian rule. and france also suspended, joined military operations with the country as a result of 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, we know that france is looking to pull its troops out. if 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 with 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. 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. 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 spiraling higher. as you can see the situation

a molly is very grave at the moment too many people will be watching. what happens now in the next few hours in the next few days in that country? huge while father, raging and ne russia with a massive effort now underway to try bring the situation under control, special fall fighting parent shape is of even been deployed in the battle. in this footage, you'll see them heading into action, exiting planes, parachuting down to those hard to reach areas to these trooper carrying a 20 lead to backpacks to fight the flames and shovels to dig 5 brake lines. emergency service is volunteers. locals. have all been doing a bit to try down the flames that are in your thick smokes, hampering the effort so in the worst hit areas. according to the emergency ministry close to 200 such wildfires, a burning presence specialists helicopters have been drafted in to try help, or bars were also raging in another region correctly a popular tourist destination in the north west of the country. people living in

the path of the flames there have been evacuated to safety. region wide drought is made. forest tin to dry and vulnerable to wildfire. a tool to intimidate any one critical that's our human rights groups, have branded the israeli hacking spyware. pegasus new revelations have shown as reported it been used by governments around the world to potentially target politicians. journalist, even religious figures, software was originally developed to help the fight against criminals and terrorists. desantis constantino sculpture bolts. now it's ended up snipping, 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 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 enter. 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 for good or for bad. while you will have to take their word for it, he saw the company. these really want these booking, selling gets the product with all the relevant lives from the media expands. so and it's leaking. but it raises the question whether it's sufficient, what kind of tools?

a private phone company. yes. and it may rain job question. and when you have such a total of 30 po, one, that can truck you will sort of last soon. even we don't need that. you will press any link. it may read the question whether we need to regulate those activities. eyes already the world's richest man, but amazon found a jeff pays also scale to new heights at the blasting into orbit and his own rocket . the managers start to watch the lily a quick trip into space, the entire journey lasting around 10 minutes with us landing safely back on earth. some know, had one to the billionaire to stay there in space for goods online petition

objecting to his re entry ranks of more than 100. 60000 signatures. this is kelly morgan, us new yorkers, whether they would allow me to return or if we need them. yeah. but i'm saying a lot of things happen in the world. you don't need to be flying 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 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 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 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, those who actually avoid 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 it's obscene race to space, should be required to pay their fair share. while we're king, 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. 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 movie was earth. i mean over to explain it possibly. so you never know 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. but it's also become the 2nd 1000000000 to privately make it into space in less than a week. but those achievements aren't impressing oxfam, which is calculated for every minute of business. mo goes to space 11 people die of starvation around the world. it should wolf emeritus professor of economics at the university of massachusetts. i'm hearst says the trips of 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 did pen demik branded as the global war on terror sunglasses, but the marketing ploy by shades manufacture oakley, has created an army of angry us veterans. the issue sent us on a ribbon, on the rim of each pirate, represents the metal us soldiers received. the problem is they got the colors wrong

and to make matters worse, the metal itself is seen by some there's nothing more than the equivalent of a participation trophy given out for simply joining the military. they said to a former us marine sergeant who feels that vets are being exploited for commercial, gay 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, which also there will always be a market for these kinds of trap products. well, the exploitation claims can them a growing concern over the problems veteran's face latest it shows an increase in the suicide rates of vets is one and a half times higher than that among civilians with 18 to 30 fully roads, particularly vulnerable. and it's sort of those figures might be even higher. so

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the mike say show has taken to the skies just outside of moscow. the event has been held by annually for almost 30 years. it will run for the next 5 days, mrs. showcase. the very latest in aerospace and defense technology developed by both russia and foreign companies that improves include the event to take off with a speech in which she said, russia is open to air and space cooperation with all interested parties. so she delegations from 20 countries or attending max 2021 with around 500 companies present 5 countries. i've already expressed interest in buying russian to coin fight. the corruption trial of south africa is formed. president jacob zoom has resumed his jailing last week. spot, the worst violence said in the country for decades. the head of the zulu nation, south africa, the largest ethnic group told us the recent and rest and looting came as no

surprise. we see a country that has 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 a radio. it's nice because you 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 we go now or is newton. this is what is happening. know when the smallest good heaven you stand is the approaches we can calculate your workers, but they don't end up. you don't 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 you must make and governor was a former president jacobs who was sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt of

court after he refused to appear before judicial inquiry. investigating corruption during his 9 year tenure, the protest followed resulted in more than $200.00 deaths and 2000 arrests and communities railing from violence. they face food shortages with local shops, some warehouses or the ransacked or burned down. all these poor slow reports on the extreme, local residents had to endure to survive the crisis we dropping along the indian ocean co sign. wait, lots of town 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 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 we house that has been completed and been down all the concrete steel labs 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, the sucked 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 with safety, it's still not safe. good. what's going on that this will danger. so we just trying to do a little bit about yourself. the commitment about here is one of the 1st shops to open, but its owners, i hid is still facing the damage. he says he was lucky to escape with his life

intact and lose everything in the shop. it was a single piece of bread, love everything for me to the noise. can you tell me better, but i did not get his dog in my shop it on. you didn't see the previous entity of folding that just by yesterday. we now on the time of if you which has also been completely lifted. we're 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 said, and we're going to see if everything's been taken out. we've talked, we look in about 3000000 stuck in looters. i do 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 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 our hope is only this shop now if you couldn't 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 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. okay, that's all for now. don't forget the last one you stories available on a website. check that out at r t dot com the in the back either a financial survival. no money, there's a girl. i wanted to do the central bank support on the problem. i know they stopped. ah, me,

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the the ah corporate decision order which has traditional catholics outrage is this adaptation going to help the church be more inclusive or moved to divide, possibly a race. the fundamental traditions which have existed since its founding. we will give you the $360.00 view and polish layer is still in south africa and will bring

us the latest regarding the continued at rest. as the violence has now claimed at least 212 lives, the trial for jacob's humor ex president as resumed. i'm going to use and you are watching news use right here on our to america. let's get started. ah . following the arrest that president jacob do my south africa erupt into lethal protests that have killed more than 200 people in the streets. now, over the weekend civil unrest over to look the seaside city of durban as a citizens rush to defend their homes and business from the mob violence. now the south african government has deployed 25000 troops to assist local police forces in the.