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of the archivist. he had no right to retain them and maintain them and he kept them in a way at mar-a-lago that anyone who cares about national security their stomach would turn at. that s former attorney general bill barr making it clear that the classified documents case against donald trump is not a witch hunt as the former president has repeatedly claimed. we ll go through the many, many new developments tied to the indictment, and it comes as trump ice rivals for the 2024 republican nomination rally to his defense, at least for now. we ll have those comments. plus, the latest from ukraine where the country s counteroffensive is claiming some initial small victories over russian forces. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, june 12th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us it. ooh is going to be a busy one. we ll get right to it. our top headline, former president donald trump is scheduled to appear in a mia ....
a very warm welcome to the programme. thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes in southern ukraine, because of flooding caused by the damage to a dam on the dnipro river. president zelensky said 80 towns and villages may be flooded after the attack, which he blamed on russia. water is surging down the dnipro river, and is said to pose a catastrophic flooding risk to the city of kherson. russia has denied destroying the dam which is in territory under its control instead blaming ukrainian shelling. jon donnison has the latest. breached. the nova kakhovka dam, now almost unrecognisable. water, seemingly the latest weapon in the war in ukraine. and it is downstream on the river where the damage has been done. in ukrainian controlled territory to the west, officials say 17,000 people need to flee their homes. another 25,000 in the russian occupied east. in her song under ukrainian control, there are fears the flooding could come catastrophic and it is n ....
on the campaign trail. what he s saying about jack smith and the indictment and his plan even if he s convicted. new detail this is morning on the four indigenous children rescued after spending 40 days in the amazon rain forest including what they ate to stay alive. also what we re hearing from doctors on their recovery. and we re hearing from one of the passengers who was on that airlines flight, you remember this video, you see them there. when that man opened the emergency exit door mid-flight. what he was thinking during those moments. first, though, developing out of russia, a u.s. citizen has been detained on what a moscow court is called engaging in the narcotics business. travis leek has been living in russia. now cnn reached out to his family and his mother confirmed that her son indeed has been detained. cnn s jennifer hansler is following the story for us. what more are we learning about the charges against leek. at this point, we know what the court ....
it s a move which effectively ends the bitter divide within the sport. the pga tour had been defending its position since talk of a rival circuit began, with litigation pending against the liv tour, which had poached some of their best players. here s our sports editor dan roan. for the last year, it has been tearing the world of golf apart. bankrolled by saudi arabia, the rebel liv series lured some of the biggest stars away from the traditional tours, sparking an unprecedented dispute. but today came news of a shock merger and an end to theirfeud. in a joint statement, the pga tour, dp world tour and saudi public investment fund hailed a landmark agreement to unify the game of golf on a global basis, with a new collectively owned for profit entity, vowing to work together to best feature and grow team golf going forward. notably, today s announcement, they said, would be followed by a mutually agreed end to all pending litigation between the participating parties. fea ....
territory to the north. the dam is a significant resource, supplying water to a host of communities as well as to europe s largest nuclear power station at zaporizhzhia. this dam is over the dnieper river, between areas controlled by russian and ukrainian armies in the south of ukraine. this video tweeted by ukraine s president zelensky shows the breached kakhovka hydro electric dam. russia claims ukraine is behind the damage, while president zelensky blames russia. translation: the whole world will know about this russian - war crime, the crime of genocide. such deliberate acts by the russian occupiers of the dam and other structures such as the power plant is an environmental bomb of mass destruction. for the sake of its own security the world should know now that russia cannot get away with such terror. our ukraine correspondent james waterhouse has spent the day travelling to the affected area. a breach of a barrier designed to protect. this is the major kakhovka da ....