announcer: live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. thank you for being with us. we began in ukraine where floodwaters are still rising in the city of kherson after a major dam was hit on thursday. tens of thousands of people have been stranded and whole neighbourhoods submerged. officials say they could be a catastrophic impact on agriculture which would worsen the global food shortages. this eastern bank of the dnipro river is currently a no man s land. neither russia nor ukraine control here. now, no one can live here. the ukrainian army drone spotted catalina trapped in her home. they tried to drop her water no luck. her son then makes the crucial catch. they re both taken to kherson, along with her daughter, maria. a city once occupied by russia, then liberated by ukraine, now on its knees. translation: we managed to find the simplest boat, i but my father and a neighbour got carried away in it. it came loose, and the current was too powerful
welcome to newsday. reporting live from singapore, i m mariko oi. the headlines: tens of thousands of ukrainians are forced to abandon their homes, as floods caused by the destruction of a russian occupied dam continue to spread. rescue teams are trying to help people and you can see how they would be trapped. the water is cloudy. kherson, after everything it has gone through, is a city on its knees. a business targeting women and east asia has been uncovered in the bbc. prince harry takes to the stand again in his privacy case against mirror group newspapers he tells the court he s suing to stop the hate towards his wife meghan. wildfires in canada leave tens of millions of people living under orange skies, as air quality drops to hazardous levels.