passing out or 6 minutes or 400 i mean that's very satisfying. and the grade systemic failure. germany, faith is criticism for not doing more to prevent last year flooding tragedy. despite previous warnings, almost 200 lives of loss and done it cause will amount to 1000000000 the demand to one the world's richards man, jeff bates also successfully complete for 10 minutes space flight in his private companies rocket off at thousands petition for him not to come back also the by in your pocket. a major leak name's french president emmanuel macro,

and one of the targets was railey developed spyware. and the latest generation flying power to showcase to crowds just outside moscow the by and you will open today with the unveiling of a new 2.5. ah welcome to the program here on the international. it's just after 11 p. m. tuesday evening here as well. the number of confirmed dead after the devastating floods in western europe has risen to a 199. or we understand another 300 people 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. it blames him personally for the with an preparedness the floods have caused damage estimated

a more than 2000000000 euros volunteers from all over me, helping to clear the devastation. a crippled infrastructure, coupled with huge piles of debris, 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. not only local ang, good by the authorities, response a politicians on climate experts claim. the government knew of the impending catastrophe in advance, but just fail to warn its citizens. officials though claim that the worst of areas were altered must lead 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 it. the warning came too late. a public announcement, 5 or 6 hours in advance, would have helped to say some essential belongings. another problem is that many elderly people didn't even understand what was going on 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 the 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 particular places. visiting the thing of utter devastation caused by the flooding in western germany, john langler merkel pledged more efforts to tackle the challenges posed by climate change. quickly chavez, which is the germany, is a country that can overcome this financially. germany is a strong country and we will oppose this force of nature in the short term, but also in the medium and long term 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 versus 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 undress hong kong when m. p for germany is left party. he says that governments 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, where 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 pronounced 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 following evacuations, in other countries were a better organized germany, which is the highest 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 for precise huge wildfires, a raging in north east russia with a massive effort. and i wanted a way to try and bring the whole situation under control. a special fire fighting

power troopers have been deployed in factor in this video, we can show you them in action as they jumped out of the cross power of shooting down to the hard to reach areas. each one of those troopers has a 20 lead, a backpack to fight the flames, and of course, shovels to take those fire breaker life. now the emergency services volunteers and locals of all been doing that bit to try and douse the flames in your career. fix smoke as hampering efforts in the worked at areas. according to the emergency ministry close to $200.00 wildfires, a binding right now with special helicopters, drafted into health forest fires are also raging in another region. cornelia, that's a popular tourist destination in the west of the country. people living in the path of the flames has been evacuated to safety. now, a region wide drought has made the forest tinder dry and extremely vulnerable to wild buyers. for the best in the next generation,

flying power has certainly been dazzling the crowd just outside of moscow among the attendees on tuesdays opening of the max ash, oh, vladimir putin who got the chance to assess the legacy. su, white fighter jet. the bi annual event has been around for almost 3 decades. it'll run this year for 5 days. and with the highlights from today is to use ecos donald 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 the top bosses of brushes 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 it can carry up to almost 7 and a half tons of military equipment and travel at this 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 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 to form as well, he's already the world's richest man. but amazon found a jeff bezos as scales new heights off the blasting off into orbit, in his own rocket, demanding a star to watch the it was a rather quick trip into space. so the entire journey, lossing, just about 10 minutes. with bezos lighting safely back on earth, those some had been asking or shall i say one to the billionaire to stay put in space? an online petition objected to his re entry erect more than 860000 signatures. a gauging the pulse of the nation in new york is ortiz. caleb morgan.

we need him here, but i'm saying it's a lot of things happen in the world. you don't need to be flying to the space. that seems a little bit extreme. but maybe because it will probably never really happen. those 3 people alone can take care of the whole world's problems right now with the pandemic. but they're going to space at the end of the day. we supposed be focused on our population, not up there down here jeff 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 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 no 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 rates. 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 move,

i mean over to our next planet. possibly. so you never know with many feeling that glory projects such as races into space to make a mockery of the hard work carried out by the majority. it shouldn't be a surprise that many are wondering if we shouldn't just dump the ultra rich into outer space as the latest piece of space junk. martin r t. new york will basil this has become the 2nd the billionaire to privately make it a space of less than one week. but those achievements are not exactly impressing oxfam which has calculated that for every minute a business mogul goes to space 11 people die of starvation globally. and richard wolf at the university of massachusetts am host says the trips are an extravagant. is it reasonable to allow billionaires to do to 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 sunday by still come here on the program on our tea sharla? do whiskey joined us live in just a moment to discuss this israeli developed phones, spyware. that's been used by governments around the world to spy on all sorts of people. apparently, the latest victim, the french president, will get a live report with lottery in just a month. i

think i will. i will long when i will show the wrong one, i'll just don't rule out. the thing becomes the attitude and engagement equal betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart,

we choose to look for common ground. the rock now quarter past down here in moscow, israeli developed phone spyware was used to keep tabs on the french president and manuel mac ron. as, according to new revelations, relating to the pegasus hacking tool brought to lied by a group of investigative journalists, several other top french officials were also targeted. the a says is taking the claim, it's very seriously. let's learn more about this right now on cross life bronco correspondence trying to do, but the joining us here on the program a very good evening to you, charlotte. can you bring us up to speed? what do we know? well, these latest links now include that president mack corner france may have been one of those that were targeted by this is really spying software that's know now via

the peg. is this project also? not just him, but 50 members of his government from back in 2019, now this spyware, which was still valid in israel, essentially, attacks of phone. and when it's on the phone, it allows the people who are spying you, to turn on your microphone and to turn it off. i will, meaning they can record your conversations. they would also have access to all of your messages on application such as what's up or if you have an iphone on your message and allowing them to basically search through all of the data in your phone to uncover pretty much anything that they want it. now this data breach was revealed initially by a french group. they're called forbidden stories, and they've been working with a series of newspapers and media outlets around the clay with the last few days, revealing this huge leak of numbers from across the world. it even

includes close relatives of those who were ministers in mac cone's government, including the wife we understand of the french prime minister, former french prime minister edward felipe. now this is just the tip of the iceberg though, because those data leak. so for real around a 1000 individuals have in france will potentially targeted by the software by spice services, intel services by countries such as morocco and they included human rights activists, politicians, even journalists around $180.00 journalists across the world were also targeted in this attack. by the use of pegasus and hearing france, it included the human rights activists, dominique simon, on she didn't 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 and it's not just why it's happening. this means that absolutely

any information can be leaked. this is a violation, not only a fundamental rights, but also most importantly of confidentiality. while editors of some of the big publications were also apparently targeted by this pegasus spies software. as a result of that, the paris prosecutor has now opened an investigation into some of those potential data leaks. and those individuals that believe that they was spied on who had their phones checked and verify that they had despite software on that. and in that least across the world, there are some 50000 numbers that have been revealed just in this database leak. but that could just be one small portion of the number that a truly been infected by the spice software. now that includes that $50000.00 list includes 13 heads of state including the president of south africa, president manuel macro and also the prime minister of pakistan. but on top of

that, there are military heads of defense. they're all mats from 34 countries. so this is a real, huge leak. and a huge scandal of individuals that apparently have been spied on for the last several years now. and so which is the group behind the developing of the software, maintains the idea that this software is not being used maliciously by state active . and mr. group family 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? and if so, group has also stated that president and manual my goal is as far as it's aware, not a tall gauge of its customers. people that it sold this software to,

even though his number appears on the list, it says that he's not in dictated that he was selected for surveillance. but you can imagine there will be a lot of concerned individuals heads of state journalists, human rights activists, as more and more details about this data lake and who exactly has been targeted for this spice surveillance software is revealed. i'd also shot to pinsky. thank you. so that branded as the global war on terror. sunglasses for the marketing ploy by the shades, manufacturer, oakley, has now created an army of angry us veterans. the issue centers on a ribbon, on the rim of each pack, representing the metal that us soldiers receive. the problem is they've got the colors wrong. to make matters worse, the metal itself is seen by some is nothing more than just the equivalent of a participation trophy, given alpha or simply joining the military. we spoke to

a former us marine sergeant who feels vets are being exploited for commercial gain . veterans are constantly being taken advantage of and $250.00, oakley, sun. glasses are just one really dumb petty example. sadly, to the extent that we have a militarist paradigm in the united states, there was also, there will always be a market for these kinds of, you know, crap products. or the exploitation claims coming may growing alarm over the problems that the veterans do face. but the latest data shows an increase in the suicide rate of vets, which is one and a half times higher than among civilians. with 18 to 34 year olds, particularly vulnerable. and it's thought those figures may even be larger, as the study doesn't yet take into account the impact of the ongoing pandemic. i don't call cash again, believes the government ignores the needs of veterans. it's not a challenge to get people to recognize that you served is

a challenge to get people to care about the bigger problems in the fact that better ends commit suicide rate of $22.00 per day, more proportionally than the general population. and the v a is more interested in pushing pharmaceuticals that have suicide listed a side effect. then actually effective treatments for p t. s. d, and other things experienced by veterans homelessness, unemployment, all of the challenges that go along what the government does. by contrast, the u. s federal government spent $86000000.00 on housing war, illegal immigrants, and 0 for homeless veterans. and it is slap in the face for the sunglasses. this just little bit of icing on the cake. the corruption trial of south africa is full. my president jacob zuba has resumed his trailing

last week, sparked the worst violence scene in the country for decades. the head of the zulu nation, south africa, the largest ethnic group told us the reasons on breast and looting, actually came as no surprise. we see a country that had so much going for it had been destroyed completely because my view is that what is happening now actually should no surprise us because this country was a radio. it's nice because your region count status because of the mismanagement of the economy by the government, every striking. so there you go, every strike there is to inflation. so we got now or is new thing. this is what is heavy. you know, when a smaller scale heaven, you stand is the approaches we can calculate you purchased, but they don't end up, you know, just for testing. they then huge and they're doing good already. nice,

good. but it came from the policies of the agency who said the country must be made, and governor of a former president, jacob summa was sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt of court. after refusing to appear before a judicial inquiry investigating corruption during his 9 year rule, the protests that followed resulted in more than $200.00 deaths and 2000 arrests. many communities are still reeling from the violence facing food shortages with local shops and warehouses just ransacked. a polar slip file, this report from the region we tracking along the indian ocean coast sine way. lots of little towns have been isolated and have received no relief for days. the votes have been closed and the trucks with the usual supplies have not been able to reach them. the shops themselves have either been lucid or close scott, because the odors offered that they could be ransacked in the coming days.

the. i now can, you can see a close to the house that has been completed and been down all the concrete steel labs have been melted down in the fire that was proficient 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 shop, the old boarded clothes, people are afraid amongst rumors that the violence is going to erupt anytime again . at the moment, i'm so sorry, because safety, it's still not safe. good, what's going on? that this will danger, so we just are trying to do a little bit of the commitment. here is one of the 1st shops to open,

but it's owners. i hid is still assessing the damage. he says he was lucky to escape with his life intact. have been lose everything in the shop. it was a single piece of bread, love everything for me, the noise better, but to not get his dog in. my shop is on the you can see the previous entity of holding that just by yesterday. we now on the time of if you, which has also been completely lifted, where accompanying a shop owner who hasn't been able to reach the town since the vine and started. this is the 1st walk in the shop. i'm totally shocked to absolutely devastated something that we never terms of as quite said and we're going to see if

everything's been taken out. we've talked we're looking at about 3000000 or what have stuck has been looters. i did expect it to be bad, but this is terrible. absolutely. so as you can see, there is security in front of this supermarket. the only reason that the supermarket survived is that they were 8th armed guards sleeping inside at the time they suffered on the crowd. and for that reason, people ran away from both this town and surrounding areas have come here. because it's only case that they can get food. i came here by the groceries because my children are very hungry. there is no food in the house because. 1 we only, i hope is only the shop now if you're going to break the shop. 1 shop, 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. these people are doing. for days they haven't eaten. and many of them are afraid that the violence talk them over. so there's a lot of panic buying happening right now. on the tip of the african continent policy, a r t on an account south coast. or that just about wraps up the news bulletin for this half hour here when you to national nearly a half past 11 on tuesday evening. here at moscow, we're back soon with more of your news. i the 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 this security camera video in downtown bish connect shows young men grabbing a girl and forcing her into a cup. no one comes to 26 year old. i gotta kinda think of an aide. everyone assumes that a bright is being kidnapped to become an event and gets done. this was the last time she was alive. going this slow rodnick still more demos can watch than most of them though you still get on my finger on the development from the counselors at the bottom search. and the mobile in the past sort of thing was to get a minute convertible to the right. come on, let's build a minute. the investigator just laughed and advised the distressed mother to keep calm and start planning a wedding. 2 days later she heard of the tragedy through her news feed in a field in the same red car into which i had been pushed. a shepherd found 2 bodies

. the kidnapper had murdered her.