RT News - July 17 2021 (12:00 MSK)

Devastation and destruction - a major cleanup operation's underway, along with search and rescue efforts, following torrential rains and fatal flooding in Germany. More than a hundred people are dead, and many more are still missing. Covid lands the Sicilian region of Italy into a poverty crisis. Authorities also warn that the changing seasons will be even move challenging for local communities. The US accuses Russia and China of running smear campaigns against Western vaccines - but that's as Washington issues more warnings about the side-effects of its own jabs. We hear from someone who suffered severe convulsions after being inoculated. People in South Africa are forced to queue for essentials, after hundreds of shops are looted after rioters go on the rampage.