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
launched legal actionl against the publishers of the daily mail. action is being taken against the sun newspaper. ..legal action against the mirror group over allegations of phone hacking. who did you hack? it d be quicker to say who i didn t hack, wouldn t it? it d be easier. celebrities, politicians. i was living in this sort of superhighway of illicit information. it was exciting. you felt like a spy. i don t know to this day how many people have heard my deepest secrets, my desires. ..but phone hacking was not- practised by the mail on sunday or the daily mail. you have just about anybody who s ever appeared in a tabloid newspaper saying, give me large wodges of cash, please. i think it s actually a legal scandal. it s not the money i m after. it s to expose their guilt. it s justice. so prince harry has brought a claim against news group newspapers for publications both in the news of the world and in the sun, over 200 articles. more than half were published by the sun
The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod pastor is charged with attempting to influence witnesses and conspiring to solicit false statements and writings, all as part of an effort to influence an election worker.
(RNS) The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod pastor is charged with attempting to influence witnesses and conspiring to solicit false statements and writings, all as part of an effort to influence an election worker.