misinformation is going to kill people, not a joke. not a joke. it is like telling your kid i tell you what, when you see a red light, cross the street. i mean, come on. so what we re trying to do is use every avenue we can, public, private, government, nongovernment to try to get facts out. and right now in the nation s capitol, steve scalise, elise ste panic are joinings a new push to encourage people to get vaccinated. today s event is after months and months of republicans promoting vaccine hesitancy or ignoring those who did. in a new report it reveals part of the tragic toll the pandemic inflicted. more than 1.5 million kids around the world have lost a primary or second degree caregiver due to covid-19. think about that. all who call this a hoax. here to make sense of all this, sasha burns in north carolina where new cases are surging. ben collins following the latest on the battle of misinformation, and dr. peter hotez with the vaccine for development. cases aren
and looting south africa s president says efforts to overthrow democracy have failed. using a pretext of the political grievance, those behind these acts have sought to provoke a popular insurrection amongst our people. and diving for world records. we speak to the free diver who has done just that, 7a metres under with no fins and without taking a breath. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. i m mark lobel. we start in western europe where hundreds of people remain unaccounted for after some of the worst flooding in decades. 120 people are so far known to have died as record rainfall caused rivers to burst their banks. in germany, chancellor angela merkel described the floods there as a catastrophe. torrential rain has also devastated parts of belgium, the netherlands and luxembourg. swollen rivers, including the rhine, and the aar, have filled towns and villages, destroying homes and leaving many stranded. in the town of erftstadt in germany, who
with the crisis. gail maclellan reports. under heavy guard, the president visited a shopping centre in kwamashu, where clean up operations are ongoing. mr ramaphosa has ruled out declaring a state of emergency, he says calm has returned or is returning to most of the affected areas. the events of the past week, he says, a deliberate attack on the country s democracy. these actions are intended to cripple the economy of our country, to cause social instability, and severely weaken or even dislodge the democratic state. the violence sparked by the incarceration of former president zuma spread from kwazulu natal to gauteng, killing 212 people and causing millions of dollars in damage. the president says the instigators had been identified and are under surveillance, but they haven t been named. he also announced the introduction of social relief measures, which some fear may prove to be inadequate. the domestic environment complexity is the issue here, the poverty levels, unempl
using the pretext of a political grievance, those behind these acts have sought to provoke a popular insurrection amongst our people. reaching under water depths of 74 reaching under water depths of 7a metres with no fins and without taking a breath. we are joined alive by a new diving world record holder. welcome to the programme. we start in western europe where hundreds of people remain unaccounted for after some of the worst flooding in decades. 120 people are so far known to have died as record rainfall caused rivers to burst their banks. in germany, chancellor angela merkel described the floods there as a catastrophe. torrential rain has also devastated parts of belgium, the netherlands and luxembourg. swollen rivers, including the rhine, the meuse and the arr, have filled towns and villages, destroying homes and leaving many stranded. in the town of erftstadt in germany, whole houses have been submerged and a landslide has demolished parts of the town. our corresponden
wales from france, even if they are fully vaccinated. popper vaccine centre is open in venues across england this weekend, in a push to get more people vaccinated before the country unlocks next week. pop up. the first case of coronavirus has been announced in the athletes finished, 62 for the tokyo games begin. six days before. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. rescue crews have been racing to find survivors after the floods that wreaked havoc in germany and its western neighbours. 153 people are so far known to have died across europe, 133 of them in germany alone. hundreds remain unaccounted for and thousands are now homeless. thousands of residents of wassenberg, an area west of the german city of cologne, have been evacuated after a dam was breached by floodwater overnight. german officials say the country s flood warning system functioned as it was supposed to, but the amount of rain and how rapidly it fell was unforeseen. let