really, 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 grades, stomach failure, germany faces, criticism for not doing more to prevent last week. just letting crunch of the despite previous warning, stations find almost 200 lives and cause damage amounting to billions of euro's been an assassination attempt. molly's incident president, the attack happened during a press service and the west african nations and started to one. the world's richest man, just based off successfully completed a 10 minute space flight and his private companies rocket to thousands petition for him not to return to

the news by the you watching our team to national great how he was 1st sour, the number of confirmed dead after the devastating floods in western europe has risen 210909, another 300 people is still unaccounted for. search and rescue operations remain under way in the worst areas of germany and belgium. while the position in germany is calling for the interior minister to quit, blames in personally for the countries level of unpreparedness floods have cause damage estimated at more than 2000000000 euros. tis have been hoping to clear away the devastation, crippled infrastructure, coupled with huge piles of debris and making it difficult to move around and for life to return to even a semblance of normality. hello, my sons, 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 country that's 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. not only local sang goodbye and the authorities response, politicians and climates experts claimed the government knew of the impending catastrophe in advance, but just failed to warn the citizens. officials so claimed that the worst it areas were altered and that sled many to ask what went so badly wrong. peter oliver reports is before the floods struck west in germany, belgium looks in bergen, the netherlands, the copernicus, satellites that make part of the european flow to when a system detected problems were 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 belonging was 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, audio history. 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 scene 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 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 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 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 with the authorities not better prepared for what

nature would throw out them this time. and will lessons be learned from this tragedy piece roll of all t and cologne. germany by the spring, under a 100 co is an m p for germany's left part in is based in the arc and region which is one of the badly hit areas of germany and good to have you. on the 1st of all though, we're talking about the natural disaster. how far is it to to put blame on, say the interior minister, or say hoper, who some people want to resign. it was an actual disaster. can you ever be prepared for something like that? and i think that's where the last are, but we are witnessing a fatal or a monumental sailor on different levels. you know, we have generally a federal system. so it's not easy to, to, to identify the where the problems where, but for example, the,

the federal government is 3. they, they, to then last year to check their allow system. and this was the failure and they pronounced to do it again this year and to repair it and they didn't do all they are pronouncing for next years. so they're out of course responsibilities on the national level. well, i would say year and the federal state level as some would say that other countries affected austria, belgium, the netherlands, dealt with this better. why would that be the case? what in germany do wrong? that they did better? i'm not, i don't have a complete, complete overview and of course we are still here in the situation and my city and nearby here and the carnita minister install that we are mainly

trying to help the people because the another problem now arising but as our, if i see, it seems that the warning systems and following evacuations in these other countries were a better organized than germany, which is just because the high developed country. but there was a problem in that system and we have to check it and we have to make it better. this particular responsibilities would be the, the if the people are not fitting their responsibility, policies that they should reside. as i mentioned during the arc and region that's been badly affected, i'm not sure how it was there back in 2016. and the sudden that was when there were also severe floods in germany. what things did people learn from,

from those previous floods from 5 years ago? what had been improved? so i don't know since that there was not a lot of what was done. for example, we have here nearby. we have them since 10 years. the bid to have some power or whether what to do, both you pathway in touch with situation where the water can, can go to type them or i don't know the word. and this is the basis for years and years, but nothing happens. so this could be one of the problems. and now that's really, i think thing now we should take the warnings seriously. that's to be a deep reform of the whole preparation for that same type of

or leave the effect of the because it probably has to do with the climate change. and we have to have we have to echo the climate change the other we have to prepare for situation like these. so would you agree with angler who had more needs to be done to address climate change? are you comfortable with that? rather than her saying, we need to do more ourselves to be prepared. you're happy with her saying climate change is the issue. i never would accept the argument of climate change as an excuse for things happen here for an excuse for not taking the responsibilities that should have been taken. but everybody knows that these kinds of of extreme weather situations of rain are of dryness. this will probably will,

will rise in the next 2 years. so we have to do that's kind of the way to do the situations and there was not enough time for this. so i don't know what was the context i was going to america said exactly, we shouldn't never use the climate change as an excuse for not doing the necessary things if you'll party. but anyhow, i didn't think you would have been better prepared. well, i think so. yes. of course i think so. i think it's a question and this is mainly a question in the interior ministry. i have seen yesterday a press conference of the ministry of the folk person there. and it was, i was shocked about the how to say the, ignoring the problems and not realizing how, how,

how responsible you are, if you are in such a position. i refer to that the bit on the warning system they try to to establish last year, which didn't work. they agree that it doesn't work, but there was nothing in the last year. i would think i would think that we would have done it better. and i also just want to ask you because we heard from our correspond on the ground when people were turning up lots of volunteers turning out to try and help but also official people. but to try and make some kind of order in the chaos seem like an awful lot of people didn't know what they were doing. they didn't know how to coordinate. they didn't know what should go where and what you would have thought would be. basics in a disaster scenario didn't seem to be well known. it's not seem like

a big failing. why i don't know. i don't know the situation you are describing. i was here and on sunday i will go after the interview as well, to install the back. it was so catastrophic scenario. i was much more than i expected after you will be in the picture from, from the division. and so that was, and there was so many arity so much everything in between the people that help each other. i've never seen something like this while these people, they asked me because they knew me from because i'm in the region and they asked me about these failures about these alarm systems. and they asked me to, to investigate it. and that's what i'm doing now. and according to

coordination, i cannot judge on this, we have a good technical. this is a technical help organization. they are, this is a very civil organization for these kinds of, of disasters, of sense of the foreign places as well for me. and so far is a very good thing. i think it should be strengthened. but a concern, employ nation between this, take this back and other authorities, i can, i'm not able to judge if it works or not. i don't really, don't know. that's a fair point. and i totally respected andrea kelly, it's my guess really appreciate you. under hunger and peter, germany's last party, my guess. thank you. in other news has been an assassination

attempt. molly's intern president's report suggests that it was a tax during a press service in the capital's main mosque. with more details, his aunty correspond charlotte davis. k. this assassination attempt on molly's into room president a c. me. greta said to take place in the great mosque in the capital city of mancha, 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 when he talks about the sacrifice of the sheep, and after that at least one man will 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 can, has been taken to a secure location at an army base. but there are reports that another individual

was injured in that assassination attempt to just want to give you a bit of background to what's happening in the molly at the moment at 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 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 in 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 him places into a precedent. now those 2 crews, within a year, 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 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 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 programmatic, 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. 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 down the next few hours in the next few days in that country? huge wildfires are raging in ne thrush with a massive effort now underway to try bring the situation and the control. special, 5 fighting paratroopers of even been deployed in the bottle. and in this video, you'll see them in action. exiting planes and power shooting down to those hard to reach areas. a troop as a 20 lead to by trying to fight the flames and shovels to dig 5 breaker lines, emergency services, volunteers, and locals have overdoing a bit to try down the flames. when you think smokes been hampering assets in the

worst areas, though, according to the emergency ministry close to 200 wildfires burning at present especially helicopters, drafted in for his father, also raging in another region. cornelia, as popular tourist destination in the north west of russia, people living in the path of the flames. there have been evacuated. a region wide droughts been making forests tinder dry and vulnerable to wild foss. well, he's already the world's richest man, but amazon found jeff bays also scaled new heights after blasting into orbits in his own rocket. the managers start to one the it was a short and sweet to space, the entire journey lasting. just 10 minutes in favor landing, safely back on earth. some note had wanted the billionaire to stay for good line petition objecting to his re entry had racked up more than 160000 signatures on

these. kelly morgan, us people in new york, whether they would have liked him to return we need them. yeah. but i'm saying 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 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 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 his obscene race to space should be required to pay their fair share. while working families were 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, but 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 with 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 base has become the 2nd billionaire to privately make it a space in less than a week. those achievements aren't impressing all it's fun. no, it's calculated for every minute a business mogul goes to space. 11 people die of starvation around the world. richard wolf, ameritas, professor of economics at the university of massachusetts. i'm hearst, says 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? morrow 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 the tool to intimidate any will, uncritical. that's how human rights groups have branded these rarely hacking. spyware, pegasus you, revelations showed it's reported to be used by governments around the world to potentially target politicians. journalists, even religious figures, software was originally developed, see out the fight against criminals and terrorists. the thought is constantine roscoe revolts. 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 journalist 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 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 u. e. 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 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. they can access every message you've ever received. you can access every photo and video every email. it is effectively the most invasive form of the valence 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 jew location data. this used to require a victim to click and 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. and as a group firmly denies false claims 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 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 were the one he's working on, selling. it's a product with all the relevant allies from media expands saw and it's leaking budget. raise the question whether it's sufficient, all kind of tools, a private phone company and send, and it may rain job question. and when you have such totem pole one, that can truck 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 activities where

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