a dam north of city could exceed capacity sending a fresh torrent of water into the already flooded city. dana: we find meteorologist ian oliver. give us your update. i can see you there. yeah, dana. poor audio. transition from what as all this water rushes from the higher terrain into the lower valleys. the creeks, the rivers, those have been rising quickly. flood stage, the winooski river in front of me here, 100 yards that way is (choppy audio. dana: difficult to hear you, ian. we re having difficulty hearing you. there are distressing situations there. all right. ian, thank you so much. check back in with you. everyone stay safe and stay in touch with local officials on what you need to do. as i ve said before, we take nato takes, all of us take article five literally, one inch of nato territory means we re all in the war together against whoever is violating that space. we will defend every inch of it. bill: that was earlier today. president biden speakin
will be extraordinary. and after all this time, did covid 19 really escape from a laboratory in wuhan? there are a lot of people now who believe that china s primary aim here isn tjust to deny the possibility of a lab leak, but it is to deny the possibility that covid came from within china s borders at all. the disaster at the nova kakhovka dam on the dnieper river, flooding parts of the front line in southern ukraine, could well be a deliberately engineered effort by russia to derail ukraine s big counteroffensive. it s another extraordinary twist in this war, which almost every day seems to bring new complexities and new horrors. but how are people in moscow reacting to the way the war is going? the bbc s redoubtable russia editor steve rosenberg has lived and worked in the country for 30 years. things have not been going well for russia. you know, there were those explosions over the kremlin the beginning of may. there have been drone attacks on russian regions bordering
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hello and welcome to the bbc s headquarters here in central london for another edition of unspun world. this week, what s it like for a journalist to be treated like an enemy in moscow? as relations deteriorate between russia and the uk and russia and the west, and just when you think they can t get any worse, they get worse. you know, that makes it difficult. the civil war in myanmar, something the outside world seems completely unaware of. it really is a david and goliath war here, when you re seeing drones versus russianjets. so if they do win, it will be extraordinary. and after all this time, did covid i9 really escape from a laboratory in wuhan? there are a lot of people now- who believe that china s primary aim here isn tjust to deny- the possibility of a lab leak, but it is to deny the possibility- that covid came from within china s borders at all. the disaster at the nova kakhovka dam on the dnieper river, flooding parts of the front line in southern ukraine, could