in the culture wars can one side bank question. mm. the rule the worst of flooding in china in a 1000 years, it's caused to death whitehouse transport infrastructure. grease dimes and even sparked a huge loss at an early minium plant. the situation is said to be getting worse. the all encompassing reach of spy phones. the french president, ordered a series of investigations to report emerge. he and his senior team were being

snoop, torn by israeli developed spyware. also ahead point. nobody suggestion is on check to nation on the way no serious economy. president biden says the highest us inflation rate in 13 years was foreseen and won't last long. that's not really bringing much comfort to those feeling the pension that pockets groceries are definitely up. and also the rents are also going up. i don't buy anything. one of the what the, wherever me even says now with a i, i truly, truly no more than 20055 who's along with specialists, planes and power troopers are all mobilized in a huge fight against wildfires. and ne russia that have already ripped through an area bigger than california. ah . when i welcome to the program tonight, here on the international, i'm rory,

sushi and moscow where it's now just often 9 pm. just some shocking for the show you and stories for you this hour. at least 25 people have been killed and more than a 100000. evacuated off a devastating floods hit china. on tuesday. the country's been deluged with what weather forecasters calling the heaviest rains in a millennium. the who's are just for a moment here on the program. let's break down exactly what's happening in all these different reasons in the country. we'll bring up the map for you, and we'll show you, for example, in the red right here is the worst hit region. this is china central hand on the province. now its largest city right here showing that you were located on the yellow river, whose banks have burst, a weather forecasters of painting

a very grim a few days that come with more heavy rain and strong winds. typhoon caught in all this hammock, have a got should say, it's going to be hitting right here along the coastal region, these nearby regions here. these will be getting some affection, i should say it will be affected in the near future. now let's zoom interest on a jane issue in the central part, which has seen some of the most dramatic events and just really shocking pictures coming from this area. we can show you right now what is ultimately a waterfall inside general use airport coming down through the roof and things were so bad about hub, it was unable to accept any incoming flights for 26 hours. and part of the local subway system were completely submerged, leaving terrified commuters trapped underground. we understand the network had to be completely shut down. the meantime, over ground cars was seen just floating down the flooded streets. while rescue was, we're plucking people from the raging torrance, you can see right here. it was water that also triggered a huge explosion,

an alley minion plant. the incident happened after a nearby river bus its banks. its waters reacted with chemicals at the site. a massive plume of smoke could be seen rising into the sky and a local reporter wang men. g brings us to let us now from the streets of ginger. i'm here, i want to say that it has been blocked by the to actual way, a capital city on central time of the probing where the rescue was due. all the way to have a re, for a capital pro has left a call that's only one se ring you have 3 of funds is right now for weather forecast. say it will last until tomorrow. the latest from a local authority and say that either way for a capital c, a recess hungry and let me clean up after 3 days while it's for year rainfall remains run to $614.00 millimeters, which means that you have with me today it's

a whole year ring for each of the 3 days. the central theatre people with liberation, army said on wednesday morning. it has sent for more than 3000, the man and 80 sets of equipment to fly to the plot. to carry out the rest your walk in the city. i said to emergency response level, a flat being raised to level one. the railway operator carries out mercer us to ensure safety, such as the stopping services on lowering the operation speed at some residential area. so you have to be cut off the water supply and electricity. the providential flow control and, and try to relieve, had a quarter reported up more than 140000. the residents have been affected by torrential rains and who and i, since july 16 and 10000 has relocated to safely so fall. dozens of cities now tackling massive disruption to the transport services with the roads

just being swept away, destroyed and railed lines damaged as well. the extreme rainfall is also threatening circle dimes. and rest of was the authorities that reported a 20 meter breach in a dime to the city of lou yang, a warning it could collapse at any moment. soldiers, or least military personnel. they've all been deployed to help with the rescue efforts. sounds of people banded in a suburb of gen, job many have been waiting for flock to subside. st. last night we followed a rescue team into one of the worst effect is areas where up to a 100 people have been mandate for 24 hours. rescuers have resorted to live both in areas where the water level rick is beneath most of or a ride to help on tuesday night. his company is dedicated to dissolve to rescue your shame on me. roy thought, all the water can reach a depth of up to 2 meters,

many are surrendered at this point and they don't have any food. we're in a difficult situation right now. i believe has to both moves forward. the water gets deeper and cause how means the merge? local resident lead us when area where around 20 people waiting for help. yes, many cars are still on the water and people in the area can get out on the 3 of us swam out to find the reza cute for help. there is no more signal at all due to the loss of internet and communication tools. the stranded on their own, a dozen people were found trapped in the lap dated building, started talking about within an hour the ring water reached by the shortwell. i was submerged in water with me and put it up, put it on may on the outside of mail. when you go home, you know, not yet a migrant worker in jungle now has to find

a hotel to stay in. many hotels either fully flooded. no easy task. this is one of the worst effect is area. it's the 3, it's all inundated, the traffic lights are not working. there is no electricity, no internet, daily supplies are not available for the locals. what's worse? there will be more rainstorms in the next few days. the d. c. dtn, don't go on and province. well, the french president, her manual macro and has ordered a series of investigations off the reports. his phone was under surveillance. news leaks reveal he and members of his senior team are among high profile figures, who may have been snapped on with will with israeli developed piece of phone spyware. it's known by the name of pegasus. it's been revealed not only macro and in his ministers were targeted, but also they're close relative including spouses,

but a parents that's just the tip of the iceberg. in france alone, around a 1000 rights activists, john las done politicians were reportedly snipped on with suspicion, actually falling on morocco as the country that may have been interested in the french president and his team. and morocco, one of france is different magic allies, denies all. and any allegations. now, these revelations are the latest developments in a story that had already been making plenty of headlines, ledgers, israeli hacking spyware that can infiltrate phones has been used by government worldwide. software was originally developed to help in the fight against organized crime and terror. well, the firm behind it dismisses the allegation and a so group firmly denies false claims made in your report. many of which are uncorroborated theories, the re serious doubts about the reliability of your sources, as well as the basis of your story. and the latest episode of ours is going underground, programmer wiki leaks editor in chief christian,

clemson says he's amazed the stories only now gaining traction at the scope of these private spy companies was exposed to a decade ago. we did to point out the seriousness of this business to 10 years almost. ready december, 1st, 2011. we can publish internal documents exposing the incredible scope for these privatized spike companies. and they were offering to this particular gm's and targeting activities and political opponents. and i'm generally in 2011 when the duty i'm asylum was a long, seamless publication. another press conference at city university in that story got very little fraction that to me. and i was very surprised at the time because it was such a strong revelation, strong story,

but it has taken 10 years now to maybe reach pollution. maybe people are now ready to upset the fact that the us by tools can be carrying. but it is the commercial surprise to to us we can live well with inflation in america hitting a 13 year high. people are rapidly feeling it in their pockets. and you poll, says 88 percent of americans are worried about the disproportionate increase in living costs. president biden bow claims that hasn't come as any surprise to him, and it's certainly having little impact on his spending plans. our experts believe in the data shows that most of the price increases we seen are, were expected, and expected to be temporary. nobody suggestion is unchecked inflation on the way. no, serious times. let's check that no one checked inflation claim. now if you have

a car, it costs you twice as much to run it as it did last year. your prices have double your daily breakfast now comes with an 8 percent price. as the cost to milk bacon and fruit have gone up. on top of that, you've got consumer prices that have hit their highest amount since 2008. now, despite the presence assurances, america's working families already being a hard hit by the pandemic are starting to feel the pinch. the groceries are definitely. and also the runs are also going up and just household items, making serious progress to ensure that it works the way it's supposed to work for the good of the american people for construction material is out of this world. somebody's making some good money. and i think it's because joe biden, we could help families in small business, is whether the ups and downs or as the economy recovers. i don't buy anything when asked me what the, wherever me give it says nowadays i, i truly, truly don't look, we brought this economy back from the brink. now biden refuses to hear those voices

. perhaps you listen to those within his own party labor market tightness, behavior of housing, markets, and asset prices all rising in a more concerning way than i worried a few months ago. this raises my degree of concern overheating scenario. there are huge uncertainties, but the focus of concern now should be on overheating. and if that's not enough to change the president mind on the economy, perhaps this comparison is the wake up call. he needs the u. s. as in the very bad position from a long term point of view, i don't see how these can and well, when we're running now, budget deficits, something like 15 percent of g d p. this is beginning to look a little bit like a latin american con. printing and spending money like there is no tomorrow, as pretty clearly got people concerned. biden gave the excuse to spend is necessary to tamp down inflation, which is ridiculous out of nothing in common. you can't stop the consequences of

monetary printing by doing even more monetary printing, which is what it means to spend this level of money. and the fact is that biden, and all of his advisors and the political party that he represents, are big spenders, and they want to spend more money. they think that the u. s. government can go into infinite amounts of that. there's no limits whatsoever. they really believe this by mature is us. the problems are just temporary, but perhaps it's a bit like the pandemic and the economic aftermath. it's a bigger problem than was 1st thought. but it seems to be a problem that biden's apparently incapable of recognizing. caleb mob been r t new york or so it had few here on the program on t. william shakespeare is being dumped by one english universities literature department over his supposedly to come lonia liz and bar on that off to the break. the

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me the the, me ah, it is good to have with us for the program tonight. well, there is a fury across from the switch on wednesday introduced vaccine passports for certain public places of protest are still happening nationwide. and powers to host the largest rally. people are also unhappy about mandatory inoculations for jobs and sectors from health to hospitality. let's cross live now to the french capital, or sean at 215 are joining us here in the program. charlotte, you may have been talking for the past few days now. i protest in demonstrations and 130 french towns and cities, and yet people are still really angry. thoughts,

right. how i would describe the moods of many of the people that i've spoken to in paris. as you can see behind me, this is the end of the process to the deputies in cross the sales of a new hello floor. and it is one of many protests that been taking place in the country today. but just want to talk a little bit about the health cops, which you mentioned that anger is about in the health path. it's currently being debated when we expect to become new by the end of the week is mandatory inoculation for health work as people who work in of a particular cap degrees of job. and also this idea of how fast, which means starting from today already in some places you can go in and you can prove your why the fully vaccinated, like a curve is 19 or you have a negative certificate that includes doffing. so when say, museums,

swimming pools, gym, navy, and this is an issue, people say not happy about it means that there are more than 50 individuals in those places. you can't go in and actually witness somebody being turned away from swimming pool earlier today he was 9. he said, i've got that gets if certificate, but i don't have it with me. and they said, sorry, you can't come in. these are the new rules and the rule of guns about them being debated will be extended to the cafe direct or the people who take long distance travel on buses and trains, all of which will mean the people in front no trucks and they can continuously know prove that the curve is negative. we'll see massive restrictions on what they're able to do and chatting to the people here today. they say that this is a deliberate slave. is it help take your shit really belong if we're no longer free to cheat or med since we take,

we have every right to ask what kind of regime this is. and it looks like this is a regime that's become authoritarian and dominated by big pharma over the authorities, obligating peoples without consent or explanation. yeah, that's tyranny. clearly cool. pull over here to the found freedoms. every one has the right to decide for himself. get vaccine if you want, don't. if you don't, every person is free to decide. we've also been hearing from health work as also from the unions representing firefighters across the country, saying that they again again, this idea of a mandatory vaccination within my president mac on just a few weeks ago. and from mid september, anybody in certain categories, including those who are nurses or working in residential care homes, will have to show that they are fully vaccinated. so that means 2 weeks off to having that 2nd job. if it's a to job vaccine or a month after the one job vaccine,

if they don't show that they won't be able to work. and there's also concern that removed that they be paid either. so there is real consternation over some of the issues here. but just to give you a sense of what the situation is with coven 19 problem. we heard from the health minister in the last few hours that they were 21000 new positive cases identified in the law say there were 18000 the day before that. and we are seeing an increasing crew cases here in front. once again, though not as yet an increase in hospital admissions, and we've heard from the government that we know what's coming into both ways. we all and that is why they believe the vaccination is so important. but many of those are spoken to here today. say they want to describe themselves as anti vaccine in general. they just keep this faxing back to them right now. there is no scientific consensus. on the one hand, we are told this is

a solution on the other that there are lots of secondary complications and no decline in cases. the benefits in the benefits are different for every age group. for example, young people might not be that badly affected by the virus. so the vaccine is not necessarily for them. i would be ready for reducing liberties. if i could understand the cause, reason, but i really don't trust the reason they are setting up so there's this protest in parts, but also protests across the country. in fact, for your own, one of the sun is shown great, which is in the east. the from nearly on the projects is actually stormed the town hall managed to take down the poor trade of president macro. and we know the vaccine center has been attacked, including one that was done just a few days ago, dots not being treated as an all in attack. and we also know that several deputies

have been threatened with their life as a result of supporting health bill. and there's also being a lot of, i'm go over one posted, emerged an investigation now into that, which showed president mccord akin to add or left. on top of that there was hunger over the fact that yellow stones have been used in the protest. you may know that yellow stalls are used to identify jews in north, in germany. and this idea the unseen vaccination group trying to make themselves akin to holocaust survivors has really, really good. so many people from so many quoted mean one of course we know that the deputies are trying to paint at the moment this. no, it seems that it's certain that it's going to pass by friday of this week. and not because the government believe that this is the only way forward, including the need for mandatory vaccinations, and this is our combination of guy rocketing particularly amongst younger

individuals. the health minutes. the thing that 9 out of 10 new cove it infections is in somebody who is not box and they did that twice. they say they are pushing through. now as a result of that, we know that there's also be a huge increase in searching for a faith certificate. and there is a problem with that problem. we have seen some of the rings being investigated by police with individuals being apprehended. so fall arrested. some people paying around $300.00 euros to pretend that they've been fully vaccinated against 19. and that is a real concern. and we understand that an amendment in not no, that's going to deal with this. so the idea is that if you take a fake certificate or you or somebody who provides one, you could see yourself with a fine of 75. and i was in jurors and a 5 year jail to this is being treated as

a very serious. while there are still many citizens who are concerned that they push towards what they call a health dictatorship, is depriving them of the liberty to choose whether or not they want to be vaccinated. no, i live in paris. thank you. well, there's been a new victim of council culture, the one and only william shakespeare are now in creative writing course in the u. k . is to be be colonized which includes dropping the work to be english. play right at the move was immediately ridiculed with many branding it as an anti academic. now it comes off to some students at the university of east anglia complain the course was dominated by privileged white male experience. so now a new module will focus on a, quote, the emotions of modern english from a multi lingual global i should say medieval society and it's colonial expansion. see more than twice that's

a mouthful. essentially means the bars been booted. an author is born in africa, asia and south america were now top the reading list. well, we did ask people for their thoughts today, everybody must bring their own set. thanks to chase. this is imposing one to speak with you on it and basically fanning it. it's censorship because if you think some of the attitudes that correspond to your own absolutely short term isn't completely misguided obviously that at each other. because my find it offensive. well, that needs to be addressed to, you know, so i've only told that it would be a big mistake. the fact is that the place written when they were in the time that they were. and i think that people, i think people are big enough to better understand what kind of time and why it wouldn't be. it wouldn't right like that today. but then i think for the dumbing

down, but nobody, nobody able to process the information themselves. i don't think that's progress. the university has defended the move saying the changes make the course more diverse and inclusive adding the students when i study literature from all around the world. busy including publications, from its own award winning graduates. a talk radio host, john gone. he's not having it sees anglia, similar talk, reflected in the world, did that creative writing course. so the actually attaching their own it's just seems to me to be deaf. of course, let's make sure the syllabus has writers from other ethnic backgrounds. let's make sure we show it's in its whole clarity. but the idea is the you stop by counseling . shakespeare no, or that you counsel white male writers. how does that help any one? you can't just cancel it and pretend shakespeare didn't exist. i mean,

they would never do this in some way, like prompts with molly. this is council culture out. it's was, is woke agenda and the students need to basically get their life. you can learn from the classics, wolf's and all. no one asked necessarily by studying the merchant of venice. for example, think that everything in there is acceptable, cuz you don't, you look at it in the whole and that's what needs to happen. we want our kids to get education. not indoctrination, don't we? all right, honey. our attention to russia now we're more than one and a half 1000000 hectares of forests have been consumed by raging wildfires and rushes. ne, cootie, a region. some 50 towns and villages have all been blanketed with choking smoke, emergency services, volunteers, and locals are all battling to bring the flames under control. we understand around

2000 people and 300 vehicles of all being deployed. arthur correspondent, and what i'd guess via has been looking at a scale of this tragedy. wild fobs then just one russian region have consumed an area that is larger than jamaica for more than that group. and full cost aren't good. it's hot, it's dry. and it's burning, ah, [000:00:00;00] the to put it far out, you have to, you have to get to it, which is a problem. given the vastness of rushes force firefighters, are literally parachuting into the fall zone to join the efforts. the government is

sending more and more resources and manpower and vehicles and fire fighting across to combat the inferno. but local activists said, still not enough that reaching out internationally for help. they've even us leonardo dicaprio for assistance. okay. i've heard you. i and my management will look into it, then we would talk with your therapy in charge to see how we can be of help. siberia is dying now. also be area. hopefully a help. can you post on your official page about 5 in siberia, please. ok, i'll fix a meeting with my management. thank you very much. leo. siberia loves you. the activists to publish the exchange later. the need has it, but so far as these will ready have the response. if we receive an official offer of help, then of course we would be happy if he came over and provided some assistance. but to be honest,

i find it hard to imagine what he can do to extinguish the awkward fires. sit in hollywood. publicity is always good. the more noise that people raise, the more attention that these fires will get. this is a perfect for storm historic heat level, lack of rain, dry forests, all came together in these fires that have burned down thousands of square kilometers of ancient woodland. and killed countless wild life. this is a taste of what's to come as the climate changes. because the overwhelming prognosis is that these 5 will rage worse and worse every saba, all over the world. yeah, more on those are wildfires all across parts of russia and r t dot com right now. some amazing video and photos waiting for you there. for the meantime. more of your wednesday worldwide news headlines returning at the top of the hour

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