the the ah, a grave systemic failure. germany, faith is criticism for not doing more to prevent last week flooding tragedy. despite the previous warnings, almost $200.00 lives the last and the damage court will amount to williams. as being an assassination attempt on molly's interim president, the attack happened during prayer serviced in the west african nations of central most committed to one of the the worlds richard man. jeff successfully completed 10 minutes space flight and his private companies rocket off the thousands petition for him not to come back and the latest generations lie empower,

being showcase the crowds outside moscow. with the bi annual max show opening today at the unveiling also including a brand new su, quite quite address. ah, it is a tuesday evening here in moscow just after 8 o'clock. the news team's been hard to work, lining up your top stories. welcome to the number of confirmed dead now after the devastating floods in western europe has risen to 199. another 300 people remain on the counted for a search and rescue operations remain underway in the worst hit areas of germany and belgium. meanwhile, the opposition in germany as calling for the interior minister to quit, it blamed him personally for the country's unpreparedness. the floods of course damaged,

made it more than 2000000000 euros volunteers have been helping to try and clear the devastation. a crippled infrastructure, coupled with huge positive devry, is making it difficult just to move around and ultimately for life to return to even a semblance of normality. 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 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. when it's not only the local van good by the authorities, response, politicians and climate experts claim the government knew of the impending catastrophe in advance, which was failed to wanted. citizens. officials though, do claim that the worst had areas were altered and led many to ask what went so badly wrong? as peter, all of our reports 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 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 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. 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 hit places. visiting the scene of utter devastation caused by the flooding and west in germany, chance 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 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 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 at them this time and will lessen be learned from this tragedy. feature all of all teeth in cologne, germany. we spoke to andre, whom co and m. p for germany's left party. he says the government's repeatedly broken his promises when it comes to the issue of emergency systems checks. we are witnessing a fatal or a monumental sailor on different levels as you know, we have to germany, a federal system. so it's not easy to identify where the problems aware that the, the federal government is 3. they, they do that last year to check their allow system and this was

a failure and renown to do it again this year and to repair it. and they didn't do so. no, they are not doing this for next year. it seems that the warning systems and of following evacuation in other countries were a better organized than germany, which is the just because the high developed country. but there's a problem in that system and we have to check it and we have to make it better. there are political responsibilities. people are not sitting there with of the big party they reside. so that's been an assassination attempt on molly's interim president. the report said just he was attacked during a prayer service in the capital's main mosque. latest details here with our seats.

charlotte ski, this assassination attempt on molly's into room president a see me going to said have taken place in the great more sky in the capital city of mancha. that attack came during a sermon for the festival, the atlantic 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 miss 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. 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 could know all me and he was the man that was behind molly's military crew. back in august last year, which saw molly moving to 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, thought to see me go, it was put him places into a president. now those 2 crews within a year were 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 to civilian rule. and france also suspended, joined military operations with the country as

a result that those operations have 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 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. at the same time, the united nations, which has around $14000.00 trips 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 and many people will be watching what happens now in the next few hours in the next few days in that country. or let's learn a little bit more here on the program across life to mr gerald horn, historian and author joining us here on the program this evening here. life for most good. thank you very much. a big hello to you this evening. let me let the finger pointing begin. gerald or who do you think could be behind this estimation attempt? well, there are a number of possible culprits. number one on the list or the religious zone ones who are on the marks, not only and molly, but we're health, health region. there are one of the reasons why francis decided to pull back in terms of the deployment of troops. and of course, ultimately you could point the finger back these ation and parents. because the parents that over the decades is treated molly, like a political football,

intervening and interfering extensively and excessively. and molly's internal affairs helping to destabilize left wing elements which were bit foreign, redistributing the wealth, which creates a vacuum for the rise of these religious zealots. and now with the pulled back, apparently you see that the africa command of the us pentagon is now moving into that part of africa. you might recall that just a few weeks ago, africa had one of its largest military exercises in the african continent going back decade. and i would be remiss if i fail to mention the lurking role of turkey . turkey is beginning to make a major move in the areas of africa where muslims predominate and that certainly include tomorrow. well, it's interesting you bring in the idea of turkey. of course, you mentioned washington, russia and china, certainly in recent years,

all of them making a lunch for various parts of africa, so called the, the bread basket off the world. let's just remind you of course, that monte was essentially under french rule and occupation from 18922900. 60 since $960.00. it's been more or less independent. you mentioned france. it hasn't denounced it. rather it did to announce the recent crew. i should say in molly, but on this latest event, nothing from paris so far. what do you expect commentary wise from the macro and government? well, the government is under fire on many different front. it's facing elections. with the face of mr. ma chrome being rather uncertain. now, these military interventions in africa are not very popular amongst the french electorate. and keep in mind that when you had a similar change of government and neighboring chat with the leader of shad being plane on the frontline of whiting just a few months ago, there was a circumvention of the champion constitution that led to the slain leader,

son taking the preeminent role in the country, and rather than rebuking that rather unique term of the bit, you thought president mc chrome just in threw into mina the capital to chat and cheek by jowl with the point leader on putting frances and permits or on the circumvention of the constitution, so franz who pans i'm afraid to say or not clean, with regard to africa. what about what it, what do you make of the voting of the president go? it has rule is the popular because you have many enemies. one might ask, is the government very corrupt? i would say that his assumption to the highest of the land was not very popular. he had stall on having elections. the economic community of west african states, which is the regional body, has been in bama code, the capital a molly repeatedly in recent months and c. c power. in august 2020. they have

pressured him to have the election sooner rather than later. he stole because he probably foresee that going into election will not be in his best interests. what about in your view? what kind of help do molly need right now from the international community? or should i ask you what virtually is part of the international community to blame for some of the issues right now? well, i think it's both. i think that the international community, particularly frank from united states or culpable with regard to this instability in molly because of the legacy of their cold war policy of liquidating any fortune on the left. but at the same time, i think it would be useful if the international community would investigate how these religious zealots are. so well art, that is to say that there is evidence to suggest that certain individuals, if not government in the persian gulf region, speaking of saudi arabia,

speaking of the united arab emirates, that they are implicated with regard to this rise of so called as lama susan. in that part of africa, and you can say the same thing i'm afraid to say about northern molds and b were the so called womic state is also on the mark. not to mention northern nigeria where the so called warming states. likewise, on the march, with the latter being particularly dangerous because my jury is the heavy weight of the continent having the larger economy and the largest population as well. are interesting commentary from gerald horn, historian and author joining us live here on our international thanks a lot, appreciate it. thank you for a quarter past down here in moscow. huge wildfires, a raging and ne russia with a massive effort now underway to try and bring the entire situation under control. special fire fighting power troopers have been deployed in the battle and it's

video we can show you try and show you them and action here. a power shooting down to hard to reach areas. now each of these troopers, they have a 20 liter box talk. suffice of flames and shovels, of course, to a big fire breaker lives. now we understand the emergency services, volunteers, and locals have all been doing that bit to try and balance the flames in your kuta think smokers timeframe the efforts in the worst it areas. now, according to the emergencies ministry, there are close to $200.00 wildfires bonding. right now, with specialist helicopters, drafted into help for as far as are also boating, another, another region that is cornelia, a very popular tourist destination in the north west of the country. people living in the path of the flames have been evacuated to safety. in a region wide drought has made the forest tender, dry and very vulnerable to these wildfires. of course, he's already the world's richest man, but amazon counted, jeff bezos has scaled new heights after blasting off into orbit in his own rocket.

start to watch the well it was a very quick trip into space or the entire journey lost it just about 10 minutes now with phrases, lighting safely back corner. there were some who wanted the billionaire to perhaps stay in space for good. an online petition objecting to his re entry, racked up more than 860000 signatures. is caleb moth and takes a closer look in new york and 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 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 avoided paying taxes. many look at this and blame corrupt loophole, written tax code that allows the rich to avoid paying their due 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 bills and the infrastructure of the united states is crumbling, the billionaires are having their own little space rate 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 mobile with earth, i mean over to an explain it 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. as also has become the 2nd millionaire to privately make it to space

and less than a week. but those are treatments aren't impressing oxfam, which has calculated that for every minute of business mogul goes to space 11 people die of starvation globally. richard wolf emeritus professor of economics at the university of massachusetts. i'm a host 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, moral demands are more powerful than allowing the super rich to become even richer. as for example, they have over the last 18 months even while the rest of the world was struggling

with the cold. busy in 10 demik a tool to intimidate any one critical. that's how human rights groups have branded the israeli hacking spyware. pegasus and new revelations have shown is reportedly been used by governments across the world to potentially target politicians, john lists and even religious figures. the software was originally developed to help the fight against criminals and terrorists, but it is contadino rush, golf now reports is 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. you 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 presses 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 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 really want use booking and selling it's a product with all the relevant allies from the media expands. so 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 a 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. one of those a targeted is french, are human rights activists on john list, dominique, simo, she's already said she's going to file a lawsuit though. she hasn't clarified against who, but we spoke to her lawyer. she do mean the fact that dominic seminar was spied on means that almost all important journalists and all editor offices in france could be spied on. that's what's important. so if we know lawyers are being targeted, and we also know that the $500.00 french lawyers who conduct the highest profile cases might also be why attorneys. and it's not just wiretapping. this means that

absolutely any information can be leaked. this is a violation, not only a fundamental rights, but also most importantly of confidentiality. if they are journalists, this concerns, they write not to disclose their sources. in the case of lawyers, we're talking about attorney secrecy. think about doctors, they listen to every one. but it's also worth recalling that n, as though, has indicated that prior to any request to install its pegasus software. it awaits prior approval from the israeli authorities. that is the israeli authorities and exactly how it will be used. who will y, a tap? whom can you imagine that if he is really states does this, we can be sure that the american state and everyone else is doing the same. and the french state to well, the best in next generation flying power has certainly been dazzling the crowds that just outside moscow. among the attendees that tuesday is opening up. the max and show was vladimir putin here, got a chance to, should we say, assess the latest su, quite fighter jet. the bi annual event has been going around now for about 3

decades. it'll run this year for 5 days. on equal, has done off, has some highlights from today. today's the 1st day of one of the world's biggest shows, max 2021. today is also a business day. so it means all the top bosses of rushes companies working in defense in high tech, in the space. they're all here to network and well perhaps make deals. but by far the most high profile jessia is vladimir putin. we came here not only to enjoy the show, but also for a grand reveal of something that is stored in a warehouse in the background behind me. it was a wash in that fight agenda. brand new never seen before, and never presented to the public named checkmate.

who's it seems pretty much everything is out of the ordinary with this new fighter jet evens and naming foods outside of russian tradition. like for example, mig at 35. this one has a more of a nato style name, checkmates again. now we don't know much about this machine yet. what we have been told is that you can carry up to almost 7 and a half tons of military equipment and travel at the speed of twice the speed of sound. now this was certainly the most impressive thing shown today, but not the only one who seen brand new russian passenger jets fly. also some impressive aerobatics from another gen fighter jet who 57. now this was of course, just the 1st day this show will be open to the public for a few days more for a couple of more days. for everybody who might be willing to enjoy the show thrown by some of the world's most elite performers. you know,

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