RT News - July 21 2021 (17:00 MSK)

The worst flooding in China in 1,000 years: it's caused deaths, wiped out transport infrastructure, breached dams, and sparked a huge blast at an aluminum plant, and the situation's said to be deteriorating. The all-encompassing reach of spy phones: French president Emmanuel Macron orders a series of investigations after reports emerge he and his senior team were potentially snooped on by Israeli-developed spyware. President Biden says the highest US inflation rate in 13 years was foreseen and won't last long. But that's not bringing much comfort to Americans feeling the pinch in their pockets. More than two-thousand firefighters, along with specialist planes and paratroopers, are mobilized in a huge effort to contain fierce wildfires in north-east Russia, that have already torn through an area larger than California.