it s a move which effectively ends the bitter divide within the sport. the pga tour had been defending its position since talk of a rival circuit began, with litigation pending against the liv tour, which had poached some of their best players. here s our sports editor dan roan. for the last year, it has been tearing the world of golf apart. bankrolled by saudi arabia, the rebel liv series lured some of the biggest stars away from the traditional tours, sparking an unprecedented dispute. but today came news of a shock merger and an end to theirfeud. in a joint statement, the pga tour, dp world tour and saudi public investment fund hailed a landmark agreement to unify the game of golf on a global basis, with a new collectively owned for profit entity, vowing to work together to best feature and grow team golf going forward. notably, today s announcement, they said, would be followed by a mutually agreed end to all pending litigation between the participating parties. featuring
territory to the north. the dam is a significant resource, supplying water to a host of communities as well as to europe s largest nuclear power station at zaporizhzhia. this dam is over the dnieper river, between areas controlled by russian and ukrainian armies in the south of ukraine. this video tweeted by ukraine s president zelensky shows the breached kakhovka hydro electric dam. russia claims ukraine is behind the damage, while president zelensky blames russia. translation: the whole world will know about this russian - war crime, the crime of genocide. such deliberate acts by the russian occupiers of the dam and other structures such as the power plant is an environmental bomb of mass destruction. for the sake of its own security the world should know now that russia cannot get away with such terror. our ukraine correspondent james waterhouse has spent the day travelling to the affected area. a breach of a barrier designed to protect. this is the major kakhovka dam, fai
the bbc finds evidence of major success in clamping down on opium growing in afghanistan. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. thank you for being with us. we start in ukraine, and the attack on a crucial dam in the south of the country. thousands of people have been forced to evacuate, because of rising flood waters. the dam sits between russian held territory to the south and ukrainian territory to the north. kyiv says that moscow is to blame, and so do nato and the eu, which has called the destruction a war crime . at a un meeting, russia has accused ukraine of sabotage. the uk prime minister, rishi sunak has said to kherson now, and this report from our ukraine correspondent, james waterhouse. i think it is still if you go by what us officials are saying just today it is still in its early phases. it has started nevertheless where ukrainian forces, small new units are probing different parts of this vast front line. they re trying to fin
live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hi there, thank you for being with us. we start in ukraine and the attack on a crucial dam in the south of the country. thousands of people have been forced to evacuate because of rising flood waters. the dam sits between russian held territory to the south, and ukrainian territory to the north. kyiv says that moscow is to blame and so do nato and the eu, which has called the destruction a war crime. at a un meeting, russia has accused ukraine of sabotage. the uk prime minister, rishi sunak has said it s too soon to make a definitive judgment, but if russia is found responsible, it would demonstrate the new lows that we will have seen from russian aggression . to kherson now and this report from our ukraine correspondent james waterhouse. i think it is still if you go by what you officials are saying just today it is still in its early phases. -by by what us officials are saying- it has starte
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