hi there, thank you for being with us. the authorities in ukraine say more than 42,000 people are at risk from flooding, after the collapse of a major dam in the south of the country on tuesday. president putin has said ukraine was behind the breach, which he called a barbaric act . while kyiv and moscow blame each other, once again, it s civilians paying a heavy price for russia s war. this is the scene in the city of kherson entire houses and streets submerged underwater. some people waiting to be rescued in affected areas have been forced to spend the night on their roofs, or in trees as the waters rose. the dam supplies water to large tracts of agricultural land, including in crimea. and the reservoir behind it provides water to cool the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant further upriver. both areas are under russian control. the united nations says the dam collapse will have grave and far reaching consequences . 0ur ukraine correspondent james waterhouse is in the city
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
thanks for having me. it s a pleasure to have you on the show, mr bennett. i want to take your mind back to those dark days of october in israel, after hamas s barbaric attack on southern israel of october 7. a few days later, joe biden visited your country and he said this to israelis. he said, while you feel the rage, do not be consumed by it. after 9/11, he said, we in the us were enraged. while we sought justice, we also made mistakes. do you think israel has paid heed to those words from joe biden? i think the operation that we re conducting is not about rage and it s not about what happened. it s about preventing it from happening again. you see, there s a huge difference between 9/11 and october 7th. afghanistan is far away from the united states. gaza is on our doorstep. and hamas, the terror organisation that executed this horrible attack, tells us point blank, we re going to do it again and again. so we have really no choice but to eradicate it. close to 20
scotland and further south through the night followed by a heavy showers and it will not be a cold or frosty night, so temperatures in double figures in the south would colder towards the northern isles but it will be the winds that will be the focus tomorrow, with gust widely 50 60 and maybe as high as 80 towards the northern isles, enough towards the northern isles, enough to cause significant disruption to travel. blustery wherever you are and we have cloud and a patchy like rain in the south, pushing further south, and then sunny spells and squally showers moving in from the north and even a bit of snow over the highest ground of scotland, blown in on the really strong north westerly winds, and temperatures between five and aberdeen and maybe 12 in london. it is mild but we still have the mild and windy weather with us on friday so patchy rain pushing east, a bit of snow over the highest ground, of scotland on friday, and another blustery day but not quite those strong di
borisjohnson says that vladimir putin threatened him with a missile strike in a phone call in the run up to russia s invasion of ukraine. after decades of calls for greater scrutiny of the family courts, journalists will be able to report proceedings in a pilot scheme. and coming up in sport on the bbc news channel: rory mcilroy produces a brilliant final putt to secure victory over patrick reed at the dubai desert classic. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at 0ne. ministers and nhs leaders have announced plans to provide hundreds more ambulances and thousands of hospital beds in england by next winter. £1 billion of existing funding is being allocated and there are also measures to try to reduce the number of patients who turn up at a&e and then stay overnight. but there are questions about how the extra resources will be staffed and some health experts warn they will be undermined by a burnt out workforce. 0ur health correspondent katherine da costa has the de