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
President zelensky says hundreds of thousands of people have been left without clean drinking water after the attack on a durham in southern ukraine. vladimir putin has blamed kyiv for the destruction, calling it barbaric. prince harry tells the high court there has been industrial scale destruction of evidence of phone hacking by the newspapers that he is suing. i m nancy kacungira live outside the high court in london where prince harry was cross examined in his privacy case, he focussed on past tabloid coverage he s labelled incredibly suspicious . the personal data of more than 100,000 people is said to bein in the hands of a cyber gang suspected to be russian.
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Us is that something happened on the 4th ofjune. either something happened on the 4th ofjune that led to then what happened on the sixth, or perhaps there were two separate incidents. we don t have underwater images, and nor does anyone, to say what happened beneath the water here, but we know therefore that two things may have happened, or one thing may have led to another. 0n the other hand, you have the russians saying that ukraine had a direct missile attack on the dam. we know that in the last few months there have been some strikes on the dam. it was hit in august and november last year but significantly none of that caused any huge damage like we have seen here. we know the dam was controlled by russia. we know it was on the front lines. other experts we have been speaking to also say that wear and tear will have played a factor.
It wasn t a well maintained dam by the russians. it had a lot of pressure on it. the water was higher than it should have been, it was at the highest levels for a number of years, so there are a lot of factors at play, but for now we continue to investigate. let s turn to the unfolding humanitarian crisis on the ground. damian rance is a spokesperson for unicef and gave us an update from the people he has working on the ground. unfortunately this is yet another attack on infrastructure that s vital to the well being of children in ukraine. the damage caused by the flooding, the damage to the dam, it only causes further displacement to children who have already been through so much, but it also impacts their access to safe water and electricity. some 16,000 people in ukrainian