around 700,000 children are being taught in buildings that need repairs. the government said it has been investing in transforming schools. nine people are known to have died after a russian missile attack in ukraine. rescuers have spent the night looking for survivors in kramatorsk. the chancellor will meet with water and energy regulators to find out what they will do to lower prices. there are concerns that firms are exploiting inflation. and kevin spacey has arrived at his trial in london where he is accused of sexual assaulting men. he denies the charges against him. the the national audit office found a third of school buildings has develop beyond their initial design life. a lot were put up quickly after the war. so we are talking of 24,000 after the war. so we are talking of 2a,000 buildings. the risk of injury or death from a school building or collapse has been assessed as very likely or critical. what the hell s going on. jessica hill is with us and racheljones, a
welcome to verified live,three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. of breaking stories, and checking the authorities in ukraine say more than 40,000 people are at risk from flooding, after a major dam in the south of the country, was attacked and collapsed yesterday. presdent putin has blamed ukraine for the attack calling it 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 currently under russian control. united nations says the collapse of the dam wil
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
have the latest on that will come back to verify live. let s return straightaway to our story because both cad and moscow blame each other for the breach of that damn. meanwhile, people downstream of the dam are having to flee advancing floodwaters while those others have lost access to safe drinking water. let me just show you some of the latest pictures that we are getting from the region, because right throughout the day we have been seeing the rising waters. we have also seen in terms of the rescue efforts, multiple rescue efforts of people being plucked from rooftops. we heard that people are actually staying in trees overnight to try and escape all of that that you are seeing on the screen. let s speak to a climate and environmental policy expert from eco action ukraine, the civil society organisation that has been studying environmental impacts of the war in the country. thank you so much for being here on the programme. in terms of your assessment of the impact of wha
hello, i m sarah campbell, welcome to the daily global, where we ll bring you the top stories from around the world. we start with prince harry. it s been his second day of being cross examined in the high court. the prince said he found it suspicious, that difficult conversations between him and an ex girlfriend appeared in stories in the daily mirror. the paper s publisher denies using unlawful means to gather information about the duke saying its reports were based on publicly available sources. our culture editor, katie razzall, was in court. the interest in this story shows no sign of waning. for the second day world s media gathered in a cul de sac in central london waiting for the high court s star witness. prince harry arrived here for another bout of cross examination. the mirror group is determined to show he is wrong to claim that articles about him were based on unlawful information gathering. mgn s barrister told him there was not a single item of evidence in the