and found in a river like something else had to be happening. ah, the ah, a grave systemic failure. germany, faith is criticism for not doing more to prevent last week's flooding tragedy. despite previous warnings, almost $200.00 lives are lost on the damage portable amount to failure. being on a nation attempt on molly's interim president, the attack happened during a prayer service in the west african nations. the central moccasin stock to the world and richard man jeff successfully complete that 10 minute space flight in his private companies rocket.

though it's off the thousands petition for him not to come back on the latest generation flying power showcase the crowd just outside moscow. it's the bi annual max asha which open today to the unveiling of a brand new super boy. why did you i was just off the 10 pm on tuesday here at moscow. this is our international from all of us here. welcome to your news. so the number of dead now confirmed after the devastating floods in western europe. the number is not at 199, though we understand 300 people, at least, are still unaccounted for. a search and rescue operations remain underway in the worst hit areas of both germany and belgium. meanwhile, the opposition in germany is calling for the interior minister to quit. claims him

personally for the countries unpreparedness floods of cause damage estimated a more than 2000000000 euros volunteers from all over hoping to help him to clear the devastation. crippled infrastructure, coupled with huge piles of deborah, it's making it difficult just to move around and ultimately for life to return to even a semblance of normality. sounds easy as you see, it is terrible. everson is destroyed. many people don't have any recommendation. the businesses are also closed. it is like a nightmare country 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. well, it's not only locals and good by the authorities. response politicians on climate experts claim the government knew of the impending catastrophe in advance would fail to even wanted citizens. officials. the claim that the worst 2 areas were

altered thus led many to ask what went wrong so badly as peter oliver now 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 where 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 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. 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 in particularly hot 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 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, our bursted 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 with the authorities not better prepared for what nature would throw at them this time. and will lessons be learned from this tragedy patrol of all tea and cologne, germany. we supposed to, andre honcho 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 in germany federal system. so it's not easy to identify where the problems where but for example, the, the federal government is 3. they,

they do that last year to check their allow system and this was a failure and they pronounce to do it again this year 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 evacuations, in other countries are a better organized than germany, which is the we should say because job the high develop 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 for precise because all the international there has been an assassination attempt on molly's into president report suggest he was attacked

during a prayer service in the capital's main mosque. i let his details here with our correspondent charlotte davinsky, this assassination attempt on molly's into room president a see me go to said to taking place in the great mosque in the capital city of mancha. that attack came during a sermon for the festival, the islamic festival, to buffy. 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. a see me going to is this interim president. she's been in place now for about 2 months, but he has a very checkered background. as i mentioned, he was a colonel on 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 immorally 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 and 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 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 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 and many people will be watching what happens now in the next few hours in the next few days in that country. earlier in the program, i spoke to historian gerald horn about who might possibly be behind this assassination . that there are a number of possible culprits. number one on the list or the religious is only 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 vacuous ation at parents because it's parents that over the decade 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 on redistributing the wealth, which creates a vacuum for the rise of these religious though it's huge. a wildfire as a raging and ne russia with a massive effort now underway to try and bring the situation under control. a special fire fighting paratroopers have been deployed and it's video we can show you them action actually jumping out of planes and power shooting down to the hot to reach areas. now each of the troopers has a 20 lead, a back pack to fight the flames. and of course, shovels to dig those fire breaker life. now the emergency services volunteers and locals have all been doing that bit to try and douse the flames in your kuta. smoke is hampering efforts in the worst areas. according to the emergency ministry close to 200 wildfires, a burning at present with specialist chop was drafted in to help. forest fires are

also raging and another. another region that of cornelia popular tourist destination that's in the north west of the country. people living in the palm of the flames have been evacuated to safety. the end of the day though, a region wide drought has made the forest tend to dry and very vulnerable the wildfires well, he's already the world's richest man, but amazon found a jeff bezos has scaled new heights softer, blasting off into orbit, in his own rocket manager the star to one the it was a bit of a quick trip into space though the entire journey lost in just about 10 minutes. with bezos landing, safely back corner. though there had been some though, here on our planet who was the billionaire to stay in space for good, an online petition objecting to his re entry, wrapped up well more than 860000 signatures a testing the pulse of the nation in new york is caleb martin?

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 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 1000000000 air 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 of 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 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 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 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 or, i mean over to 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. so basil has become the 2nd 1000000000 as are private. they make it the space in less than a week, but those achievements are certainly not impressing oxfam, which has calculated that for every minute of business mogul goes to space. 11 people die of starvation globally, richard wolf at the university of massachusetts. i'm house says the trips are simply an 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 thinking all still to come here on this program, including that's by in your pocket israeli develop phone? spyware has apparently been used by governments around the world to, well, why? john politicians and even priests will cover that story for you in just about one minute.

we ventured a new era, an era of confusion about deflation is giving way to a new era about the confusion of inflation. the ah me join me every thursday on the alex simon 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 the. it's good to be with us for this program tonight. like for most a tool to intimidate any one critical, that's how human rights groups have branded the israeli hacking spyware named pegasus. new revelations address is being used by governments worldwide to target john list and politicians among them. the likes of the french president of the software i was originally to developed, i should say, to help the fight against terrorists and criminals. exotic causes in a rush gulf now report has 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 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 a 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 a 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. you can access every photo and video every email. it is effectively the most invasive forms that islands 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 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 were the one you're working on selling. it's a product with all the relevant allies from media expands.

so and it's leaking, but it raised the question whether it's all kind of tools, a private phone company and 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. one of those target, it is a french human rights activist on john list, dominique simile, known as she's already said. she's going to file a lawsuit that she hasn't clarified as 2 against whom we did speak to her lawyer for a moment. she due to the fact that dominic seminar was spied on means that almost

all important journalists and all editor offices in france could be spied on it. 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 why it's happening. this means that absolutely any information can be late. this is a violation, not only a fundamental rights, but also the most importantly of confidentiality. if they are journalists, this concerns they write not to disclose their sources. in the case of lawyers, we are talking about attorney secrecy and think about doctors. they listen to every one, but it's also worth recording that n, as has indicated that prior to any request to install its pegasus software that awaits prior approval from the israeli authorities. that is the israeli authorities and exactly how it will be used. who will wire tap. whom can you imagine that if he is really states does this, we can be sure that the american states and everyone else is doing the same. and the french state to the best in next generation flying power has certainly been

dazzling crowds or just outside of moscow among the attendees or tuesdays opening of the max to show that of let me put in who had a chance to assess the latest to have a fighter jet, the bi annual event has been around for almost 3 decades. it'll run for 5 days this year on correspondent egos donald has today's highlights. to 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 that till bosses of russia, 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 and fight agenda brand new,

never seen before, and never presented to the public named checkmate. ah ah, it seems pretty much everything is out of the ordinary with this new fighter jet evens and naming foods outside of the 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 we've seen brand new russian passenger jets fly. also some impressive aerobatics from another 50 gen fighter jet sou who is 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. some of the l. a performance i highlighted right now with r t dot com. have a click and check out the max and show on our website. let me talk program returns in about half an hour. ah ah, the eastern half of the united states were going to have billions, if not trillions of periodical cicada is interacting with tens of millions of human

beings in their backyard. oh my god. obviously some of the cicadas do not have very high tolerance for alcohol because they are already passing out for 6 minutes a 400 i mean that's very satisfying. ready ready me as a crunch l i class person. i often the saw that i the culture blue book truly i would

always morning to meet the teacher could contribute usually. so which and protest and what gone. yeah. cuz we knew from the moment that she's in the background some of the good luck on the none of my new middle charts that exam on the i am x guys are this is the kaiser report. you know, we ventured a new era,

an era of confusion about deflation is giving way to a new era about confusion of inflation. alrighty, let's get into a stacy. yes, it's becoming a highly politicized sort of events. whether or not we want inflation and how much inflation and this inflation is good. but one thing you and i have said is that, you know, the seventy's are back. we started to warn about that stagflation sort of thing, inflation and prices, and of goods and services, and decline in employment number. so a rise in unemployment. well, today's covering new york city sex workers ramping and open air prostitution market amid lacks enforcement. we saw that in the 7 days if you lived in manhattan, are visited, often during the 1970s. what you saw are a lot of prostitutes in time square. yep, exactly. new york city reverting to it's 970 glory days of drug use and prostitution. because similarly,

you had stag place at that time and we asked the question again now. and you had the back in the sixty's, a collapse of what was known as the nifty 50 on wall street stock market went into a swan and the seventy's which caused economic may ham. we've got a stock market right now, which is trading near all time highs. what's missing would be a stock market collapse of 40 or 50 percent to really put the cherry on the on the pi here. i think we can, i think i think we got some broan on that front. i mean that's the interesting thing is again, max and i remember the seventy's. remember the seventy's in the arc? remember this sort of look of the 7 days of a lot of high murder rate or rising murder rate, the source of sense of chaos and all things allowed in the streets. obviously it's not as bad. the murderer aid and all that stuff there in manhattan. but one thing that is very different from that is we didn't have that high inflation,

but there was no.