Our correspondent Daniel De Simone was at the Old Bailey Criminal Court and sent this update. They have been in the uk for between ten and 15 years, the three defendants are orlin roussev, bizer dzhambazov, and katrin ivanova. The latter two have been living as a couple in a series of suburban properties in london for about ten years. Orlin roussev arrived earlier in the uk, about 15 years ago, and he worked in financial services, a technical role in communications, and later moved on to, he claims, own a company that was involved in signals intelligence, which involves the interception of communications. The other two worked, were told, in health care jobs. Thats what they told neighbours. They did own a local community group, which supported bulgarian people who move to the uk with english language classes and other things. This investigation was, is by the met Police Counterterrorism team, which is response offer espionage investigations. It investigated them in february. Properties
back upstream, you can t really see what is left of the dam and hydroelectric plant. so who did this? russia controls this area, but blames ukraine. kyiv is in no doubt. translation: the kakhovka hydroelectric power station. l it was an absolutely deliberate, prepared explosion. they knew exactly what they were doing. translation: tonight, i the kyiv regime committed another terrorist crime. the kakhovka hydroelectric dam was blown up, which led to the flooding of significant territories. so what is the significance of the dam? it provides water to huge swathes of agricultural land, including in crimea, and the reservoir behind it provides water to cool the zaporizhzhia nuclear plant further up river. both areas are under russia control. the reservoir is huge. the dnipro river is especially wide here. 150 miles long, and up to m miles across. this is what the dam looks like undamaged. our colleagues at bbc verify say this image of a smaller breach was taken just days ago. but
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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
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