welcome to verified live,three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. of breaking stories, and checking the authorities in ukraine say more than 40,000 people are at risk from flooding, after a major dam in the south of the country, was attacked and collapsed yesterday. presdent putin has blamed ukraine for the attack calling it a barbaric act . while kyiv and moscow blame each other, once again it s civilians paying a heavy price for russia s war. this is the scene in the city of kherson entire houses and streets submerged underwater. some people waiting to be rescued in affected areas have been forced to spend the night on their roofs or in trees as the waters rose. the dam supplies water to large tracts of agricultural land, including in crimea. and the reservoir behind it provides water to cool the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant further upriver. both areas are currently
Describing as “barbaric act” the killing of a college girl by one of its members identified as Thingiu Khiam in Dimapur on May 8 midnight, the Khango-led NSCN (K) on Wednesday said that it has constituted an “investigating team” to ascertain the facts.
obama and president trump, when you re under 50% that s a disaster just with your base. mike: i would like to get into evan gershkovich who is being held from the wall street journal being held by the russians, matt, what should the administration do about this journalist being held by the russian regime? well, i m certain that they are going pull out the stops to get him released, another barbaric act by the putin regime and biden has been very clear about his approach to russia. unfortunately a lot of republicans haven t including donald trump who has come on fox to say things like russia is going to take all of ukraine and putin is super smart. that kind of thing feeds putin ice ego and also feeds confidence in doing things like kidnapping american journalists and this is just disgusting. garrett, your thoughts on wall street journal colleague being held? it s very unfortunate. i do agree with matt with one
the british government responded swiftly to his execution. the prime minister calling it a callous act , by a barbaric regime . we take this incredibly seriously. and of course, we will make sure that we respond to deter any further actions like this being taken by the iranian government. there s been an outcry from uk allies over the killing. the us called it sickening . emmanuel macron said it was a barbaric act . and germany described it as inhumane . this was the grim prelude to the execution a long, edited video on state run television last week, in which alireza akbari appears to confess to working for the uk. but in an audio recording from jail, obtained by bbc persian, he spoke of the pressure he was put under and accuses iran of trying to take revenge on britain. translation: they tortured me for 3,500 hours. - they broke my will, drove me to madness and forced me to do