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
president zelensky has warned the destruction of the dam risks leaving hundreds of thousands of people without healthy water. extensive damage has been caused to buildings and farmland. the united nations has said the breach of the dam is one of the most significant incidents of damage to civilian infrastructure since the start of the russian invasion, and will have grave and far reaching consequences. moscow has denied destroying the dam, which it controls, instead blaming ukrainian shelling. the pictures you can see there are from one of the towns, these are coming to us live as a sum of the residents look on and i think one of the rescue boats, dinghies, hasjustarrived, and i think one of the rescue boats, dinghies, hasjust arrived, and and i think one of the rescue boats, dinghies, hasjustarrived, and i presume this is part of the evacuations that have been taking place for hours. our first report comes from jon donnison. breached, the nova kakhovka dam, now almost unreco
by the mirror group. after the pandemic, a warning, that a generation of disadvantaged children, are falling further behind, in education. the full monty, bares all, again. west ham face fury and tina later. good afternoon. 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. while kyiv and moscow blame each other, once again it s civilians paying a heavy price for russia s war. some people awaiting rescue in affected areas, in the kherson region, have been forced to spend the night on their roofs or in trees as the waters rose. the peak, is expected, later today. the kakhovka 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. president zelensky is warning that hundreds of thousands o
captain is said to have rejected a more lucrative offer from the saudi arabian side al hilal to move to major league soccer. it s thought messi wanted to stay in europe but there were no satista ctory offers. messi already owns a house in florida and his contract with inter miami includes sponsorship deals with adidas and apple. elsewhere, real madrid have agreed a deal with borussia dortmund to sign the england midfielder jude bellingham for $ 107 million dollars or £86 million pounds. 19 year old bellingham, who joined dortmund only three years ago from birmingham city, was one of england s top performers at last year s world cup in qatar and was recently voted player of the year in the bundesliga. bellingham who s agreed a six year deal with real madrid is due to have medical in the next few days. staying with football, the final of the europa conference league is well under way in prague where fiorentina are playing west ham united. west ham are looking to