45, just concluded. nicola bulley was a5, she vanished back injanuary. of course, you remember that massive search in lancashire and at the north of england. we are expecting to hear from the family. let me dish out the live pictures from the coroner s court. we are expecting to hear from the family in the next little while. as soon as that starts we will carry that life here on bbc news. whilst we wait for that, let s turn to the situation in russia and the aftermath of the mutiny by wagner paramilitaries. president putin has said the authorities will now miss you how money paid to the missionaries was spent. early he thanked his security forces, silently stopped a civil war. vladimir putin told troops gathered in the kremlin that they stood up to turmoil which would have let to chaos. he led a minute s silence for pilots killed during that mutiny. the fsb has confirmed that a criminal case against the wagner group has now been dropped. the defence ministry says that the gro
in this trial. hello, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. we start with that major development in ukraine where thousands of people have been told to evacuate their homes after kyiv accused russian forces of blowing up a major dam, threatening a catastrophic flood. this video tweeted by ukraine s president zelensky shows the breached kakhovka hydro electric dam. he has accused russia of blowing up the dam to slow its offensive by making it harder to cross the dnipro river. russia says ukraine is to blame. this dam is over the dnieper river, between areas controlled by russian and ukrainian armies in the south of ukraine and there are fears for the cooling capacity at the nearby zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant the biggest one in europe. regardless of who or what caused the breach it has potentially deadly consequences for towns and villages in the path of the water. bbc verify has established there was already s
hello and welcome. welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories and checking out the truth behind them. let s start with a major story in ukraine with the authorities they are saying more than 40,000 people are at risk from flooding after that major dam in the south of the country was attacked and collapsed yesterday. we can bring you the latest on the story because in the last few minutes president putin has been discussing what has been happening in a call to the turkish president, calling the dam burst a barbaric act, kyiv s barbaric act. he has gone on to say it is a humanitarian and environmental catastrophe. he made those comments while talking to president erdogan. those comments being relayed from the kremlin. and of course it is pretty much the usual tactics from russia s president with any major situation like this, constant denial. those are the latest comments from president putin. let s get more on what we have found out and what is happening on the
ukrainian military sources have told the bbc their forces are carrying out a series of small scale armoured attacks against russian occupiers and shifting to offensive actions in some areas along the front line. we ll take a look at claims from moscow that a full scale ukrainian counter offensive has begun. also tonight, we ll head to california where apple is showing off its new products including an augmented reality headset. in the uk prime minister rishi sunak announces that two new barges have been bought to house up to 1,000 migrants. he says his plan to stop small boats crossing the channel is working. we ll ask a migration expert if she agrees. and we ll discuss the huge amount of processed foods in british shopping baskets, and what needs to be done to freshen up our diets. but first the war in ukraine. looks like a significant escalation in the fighting. is this the start of a counter offensive? we ll ask our experts in a moment. first we re going to look