Hello, im matthew amroliwala. Welcome to verified live. We start with flooding described as the worst in nearly 100 years in russia and kazakstan. Thousands have been forced from their homes cities under threat, evacuations ongoing. The flooding in the urals and Western Siberia has been caused by unseasonably warm temperatures, which has melted snow. In the russian city of 0renburg home to half a Million People the authorities said water levels had reached dangerous levels. Thousands of people have left the city. 0renburg is downstream from the city of 0rsk, which was inundated when a dam burst last week. Live now to moscow and our Russia Editor steve rosenberg. Steve, editor steve rosenberg. Give me a sense of the sc of steve, give me a sense of the scale of this . ,. , , of this . The first thing to say is that spring of this . The first thing to say is that Spring Flooding of this . The first thing to say is that Spring Flooding is of this . The first thing to say is that Spring Flo
And world athletics announces it will become the First International federation, to award prize money at the olympic games. Hello, im matthew amroliwala, welcome to verified live. We start with the breaking news from gaza about three sons of the hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and three of his grandchildren have been killed in an israeli air strike in gaza. That information is coming from the Hamas Affiliated news agency. We had brought you the breaking line about the three sons a little earlier but the three sons a little earlier but the same News Agency Tweeting in the last little while about the death of three grandchildren too, so six people in total. The hamas leader not based in gaza, he is based in Qatar Markussen 2023. That information coming in to us all the while. Lets go live tojerusalem and speak to our middle east editor sebastian usher. These are early reports, but what are you hearing where you are . We reports, but what are you hearing where you are . Where you are . We hav
The wikileaks founder has been held in Belmarsh Prison In London for five years. Our washington correspondent Gary Odonoghue had this update following joe biden s comment. Well, this was pretty much an off the cuff comment that he made as he was sort of walking through the colonnade at the white house and a reporter shouted to him, you know, will you consider australias request . Because of course australia, Julian Assange is australian and the Australian Parliament has passed a motion asking him to be returned to australia, saying would you consider ending the prosecution . He didnt seem to hear the question at first, but it was repeated and he said were considering it now. That would be a huge change, given that the us has been pursuing the extradition ofJulian Assange from the uk for years and the thing is still winding its way through the courts. The Home Secretary signed the extradition back in 2022, but theres been Court Challenges to that and the high court is still waiting for
it is crumbling. you know, it is crumbling our cooperation with our allies. nato is extraordinarily concerned that they can t rely us anymore as a nation. the world needs a strong america. we can t be leading from behind again. that s what they are seeing. i think they regret comments like president macron made. america is not back in the way we need to be back. america is stronger and safer when we lead from the front. that was the case from the prior administration. we re seeing a complete reversal of that trend right now. jon: senator bill haggerty, also former ambassador, thank you very much. thanks, jon. jon: up next, an fda panel rejects giving covid-19 booster shots to most americans. just days before the white house plans to offer them. so what happens now? plus this in the situation at the international bridge here in del rio, texas, continues to deteriorate by the hour. coming up, a look at some of the remarkable drone footage from above and exclusive ground
what we re doing, increase australia s capability, bring the u.k. in the fold as well. china continues to march on. the deal we have struck with australia and the u.k. and ourselves is going to advance our ability so we re stronger. we need to be doing that. jon: three months ago it was happiness and light between president biden and french president macron. listen to this flashback from early june. i think it is great to have a u.s. president [inaudible] very willing to cooperate. i said before, we re back. the u.s. is back. jon: the u.s. is definitely back, according to the president, and now the french have recalled their ambassador. what does that say? well, it s similar to what i heard when i visit to nato just about two weeks ago, the same as i went to the u.k. the whole biden administration approach is actually taking us away from our allies.