ah, the grave systemic failure. germany's face is criticism for not doing more to prevent last week's flooding tragedy. despite previous warnings, almost 200 live the last and the damage caused will amount to billy the manager, the star, to one the world to riches man, jeff bezos to successfully complete a 10 minute space flight in his private companies rocket off the thousands petition for him not to return to us also, that's fine in your pocket. a major leak named the french president has one of the targets of israeli developed fallen spyware. also the latest generation flying

power showcase the crowds just outside moscow. the bi annual max show which open today, also including the unveiling of a brand new coin fighter jets ah . just after 1 o'clock on wednesday morning here in moscow, this is auntie international. welcome to your top stories. the number of confirmed dead after the devastating floods in western europe has risen to 199. still, there are $300.00, at least on accounted 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 countries unpreparedness. the floods of caused damage estimated of more than 2 bill leon euros. volunteers have been coming from far and

wide to help with the crippled infrastructure coupled with huge piles of february, it's 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 accommodation. the businesses are also close to. it is like a nightmare country. i can't remember what was probably what we should have learned from this mistake. 2016. what happened could happen again, but nobody expected scale. not only locals and goodbye the authorities, response politicians on climate experts claim the government knew of the impending catastrophe in advance, but fail to warn its citizens. officials, the claim that the worked had areas were altered without sled many to watch when so badly wrong. as peter relevant reports is before the floods struck west in

germany, belgium looks in bergen, netherlands, the copernicus, satellites that make part of the european float awareness system detected problems with 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 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, audio 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 send 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 champ 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, 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 warning 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 situation 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 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 tea in cologne, germany, which way through under a hunk o m. p. for germany's 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 in 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 so for now to do it again this year and to repair it and they didn't

do so now they are not doing this for next year. it seems that the warning systems and following evacuations in other countries were a better organized than germany, which is the we should say because there's a high event upcountry, but there's a problem in that system and we have to check it and we have to make it better is there a particular responsibility if people are not fulfilling their responsibility? they should reside right now for a quick look at some new them brief from all around the world. we start off in the hey, non province in central, china is just been absolutely smashed by devastating floods. record rainfall is forced tens of thousands of people from their homes unless at least 12 people confirmed dead. this in the city of gen, joy, that's according to local authorities. as we see from the footage, railway stations on roads have been completely submerged and flood water. a gen joy

was reportedly hit by a year's worth of rain in just 3 days. the delicia is full cost to continue for at least another 24 hours from floods to wildfire which are raging and ne, russia, with a massive effort. now under way to bring it all under control, a special fire fighting power trip was have been deployed. in this video, you can see them in action, jumping out of planes and power shooting down to the hard to reach areas. now each of those troopers has a 20 later backpack to fight the flames, and of course, shovels very important to dig those fire breaker lines. now the emergency services volunteers and locals have all been doing that bit to try and down the flames and your kuta fixed smokers, hampering efforts in the work to areas. according to the emergency ministry close to 200 wildfires voting at the moment with specialists choppers dropped into help for as far as are also raging in another region that have corellia

a popular tourist destination in the north west of the country. of people living in the palm of the flames have been evacuated, that a region wide drought has made forests tend to dry and highly vulnerable the wildfires. so the best in next generation flying power has been dazzling crowds all water around moscow. i should say. among the attendees on tuesdays opening of the max ash, oh, vladimir putin. you had a chance to, should we say, assess the latest super, a fighter jet. the bi annual event has been around for about 3 decades. it'll run this year for 5 days. and with the highlights from today is all corresponding eager is done off. so 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 boxes 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 lam approved and 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 check make 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, megan at 35. this one has a more of a nato style name. check me 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. 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. he's already the world's richest man, and amazon found jeff bears also scale new heights after blasting off into orbit in his own rocket. the man and, and start to watch the watch. rather a quick trip into space. the entire journey lost in just 10 minutes, with breast or landing safely back on us. some had wanted the billionaire to stay up for good. an online petition objecting to his re entry, racked up more than

a 160 to help them signatures. gauging the pulse of the nation in new york is art is kayla. 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 extreme. but maybe it will probably never really happen. those 3 people alone can take care of the whole world problems right now with the pandemic. but they're going to space at the end of the day. we supposed be focused on our population, not up there down here. jeff days, those is not the only billionaire to have gotten space fever. he actually lost the space race to another. alter richman, richard branson. and ilan mosque is set to be 3rd on the podium. they all claim that it's for the common good way here to make space more accessible to all welcome to the dawn of a new space age. recent studies showed that a minimum wage worker cannot afford

a one bedroom apartment. in 93 percent of the counties in the united states, this is not a situation where people can afford to just get off to the stars for a holiday weekend. now there are many billionaires like days i was who actually avoided 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 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. by the fact we might be because you know what, as this economy is coming down to order technology and everything is being upgraded to the fact that how we bought the movie with earth, i mean over to the next morning and 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. martin r t new york has become the 2nd billionaire or privately make it this space and less than one week. but those achievements aren't exactly impressing oxfam which has calculated that for every minute a business mogul goes to space 11 people die of starvation globally, a richard wall for the university of massachusetts. i'm a host 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? morrow demands are more powerful than allowing the super rich to become even richer. as for example, there have over the last 18 months, even while the rest of the world was struggling with the cold. busy did pen demik come here on the program on our see, israeli developed a foe and spyware has been used by governments around the world to snoop on journalists, politicians, priests, don't even the french president. lucky do when ski we're giving up a report in just a moment here. next on the program. i

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ominous and dangerous. unfortunately, it would seem, this is how the major political parties and the media view, the state of our politics in a war, there are casualties and defeat in the culture. wars can one side bank questions, the other the good have you with us for this program is really developed phone spyware was used to keep tabs on the french president. that's according to new revelations, relating to the pegasus hacking tools brought to lied by a group of investigative journalists and several other top french officials were also targeted. the lease says it's taking the claim is very seriously. a charlotte dubin ski now reports president mac corner fronts may have been one of those that were targeted by this is really spying software that now via the peg. is this

project also not just him, but 15 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 turn it off. i will, meaning they can record your conversations. they would also have access to all of your messages on applications 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 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 julie of numbers from across the world. it even

includes close relatives of those who were ministers in my own government, including the wife we understand of the french prime minister form of 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 came 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 are also targeted in this attack. by this use of pegasus and hearing from it included the human rights activists, dominique simenon, she do mean the fact that dominic seminar was spied on means that almost all important general in all tauriel offices in france, county spied on next. that's what's important, not just why attempting this means that absolutely any information can leak out.

this is a violation, not only a fundamental right, but also most importantly, companies will editors if some of the big publications will roles. so apparently targeted by this pegasus spice 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 this spite software on that. and in that least across the will, 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 this spice software. now that includes that $50000.00 list includes 13 heads of state including the president of south africa, president manuel macro and owes. so the prime minister of pakistan,

but on top of that, there are military heads of defense. they're all too much foods he for country. 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 i so which is the group behind the developing of the software, maintain the idea that this software is not being used maliciously by state active enter. so 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 target of its customers. people that it sold the 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, fuming rights activists as more and more details about this data lake and who exactly has been targeted for this spice surveillance software is revealed fit, branded as the global war on terror sunglasses with a marketing ploy by oakley, has created an army of angry us veterans. the acw centers on a ribbon, on the rim of each pair, representing the metal that us soldiers receive. the problem is they got the colors wrong. to make matters worse, the metal itself is seen by some is nothing more than the equivalent of a, but it's a patient trophy, given alpha, simply joining the military. we spoke to a former us marine sergeant who feels vets being exploited for commercial gain. veterans are constantly being taken advantage of and $250.00 oakley.

glasses are just one really dumb petty example. sadly, to the extent that we have a militarist paradigm in the united states, there will also there will always be a market for these kinds of trap products or the whole of exploitation claims coming, growing alarm over the problems that veterans typically face day to day. latest data shows an increase in the suicide rate of vests, which is one and a half times higher than that among civilians. with 18 to 34 year olds, particularly vulnerable. and it's thought those figures may even be larger as a study doesn't yet take into the take into account, i should say, the impact of the ongoing pandemic, atom, cash again believes at the end of the day, veterans neglected by those in leadership. it's not a challenge to get people to recognize that you served it's challenge to get people to care about the bigger problems and the fact that better and 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, experiences by veterans homelessness, unemployment, all of the challenges that go along with the government does. by contrast, the u. s federal government spent $86000000.00 on housing for illegal immigrants and 0 for homeless veterans. and it is slap in the space for the sunglasses. this just little bit of icing on the cake. the corruption trial of south africa was a former president, jacob zoom has resumed. his jailing last week, sparked the worst violent scene of the country for decades. the head of the zulu nation, south africa,

the largest ethnic group told us the recent and rest and looting actually came as no surprise. we see a country that has so much going for it. been destroyed completely. because my view is that what is happening now actually should no surprise us because this country was a radio owner. nice because you division john state because because of the mismanagement of the economy by the government, every striking sort of you could every strike that is taking patients out because now or is newton. this is what is happening now. when the smallest good habit you stand is the approaches with the character graduate workers, but they don't end up, you know, get for testing. they then huge and they're doing good or a nice good. but it came from the policies of the agency who said the country you must make. and governor. the former president jack observer was sentenced to 15

months in prison for contempt of court after refusing to appear before judicial inquiry, investigating corruption during his 9 year rule. the protest that followed resulted in more than 200 deaths and 2000 arrests. many communities, though, still reeling from the violence facing dia, food shortages with local shops and warehouses, just being ransacked. he's pull a slip fall this report from the region. we tracking along the indian ocean coastline way more towns have been isolated and have received no relief for days. the votes have been closed and all trucks with the usual supplies have not been able to reach them. the shops themselves have either been lucid or close. got but because the odors offer that they could be ransacked in the coming days, the

now can, you can see a close to be we house that has been completely muted and been down. all the concrete steel flats have been melted down in the fire. that was proficient like today's the 1st day that one or 2 shots in the town had opened. most people are still staying at home. and as you can see, the shock the old boarded clothes, people have been afraid amongst rumors that the violence is going to erupt anytime again. at the moment, i'm so sorry because i was 50, it's still not safe out. 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 assisting the damage. he says he was lucky to escape with his life intact. people lose everything in the shop. it was

a single piece of bread, love everything for me, the noise better, but i did not get his dog and my sharpie on this. you can see the deals said holding that just by yesterday i went on the kind of if you which has also be completely lifted. where accompanying a shop owner who hasn't been able to reach the town since the vine and started. this is a 1st walk in the shelf now. i'm totally shocked. absolutely devastated something that we never did of as quite said, we're going to see if everything's been taken out. we've talked, we look in about 3000000 that would have stuck. that's been looters. i did expect

it to be bad, but this is like 10 of us. absolutely. so as you can see, there is security in front of this supermarket. the only reason that the supermarket survived is actually what 8th armed guards sleeping inside at the time . they shuffle on the crowd, and for that reason, people ran away from both this town and surrounding areas have come here because it's only place that they can get food. i came here to buy the groceries because my children are very hungry. there is no food in the house because. 1 we only, i hope is only this shop now if they're gonna break the shop. 1 shop here, i don't know. what can i do now? if i'm in the past few days has left an estimated 2000000 south africans unemployed . as it is a country already faces. a huge problem of these people are doing for days they

haven't eaten. and many of them are afraid that the violence it's awesome 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, and more updates from south africa online at all t dot com for the meantime. that wraps it up for this hour here when you need to national that my colleague john hawkins here at the desk with more of your worldwide stories starting at about 31 minutes the who's the problem driven by general shape control those in

me i think we dare to ask oh right now, there are 2000000000 people who are overweight or obese. is profitable to sell food. that is trinity and sugary, and the victim is not at the individual level. it's not individual willpower. and if we go on believing that will never change.