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scotland becomes the last place in the uk to remove the legal requirement people to wear face masks in indoor public spaces. and south africa has sent in thousands of troops to help rescue efforts in kwazulu natal, where floods and mudslides have killed more than 400 people. russia has redoubled its pounding of ukraine targets, including a missile attack on the western ukrainian city of lviv. the latest reports say six people have been killed, and eight wounded in a city which until now has largely escaped unscathed since the russian invasion. smoke was seen rising from the outskirts and residents spoke of hearing five explosions. footage later emerged of the impact on residential areas. overnight there s been an intensification of the russian bombardment with multiple cities and towns across ukraine targeted by air strikes and shelling. five people have reportedly been killed and 13 injured in shelling of the city of kharkiv. in mykolaiv, near the port of odesa, the governor
let s start with this video which shows the incident. you can see the plane here circled. it disappears out of view for a few seconds and then you can see the impact. now, we have verified this. everything in the video is consistent with what we know about the area and the weather this morning in the belgorod region. that was the moment the plane going down about 20 seconds into the video. we see this this smoke plume. could this be a sign that the plane was hit by a missile? well, experts we ve spoken to think, yes, it could be. the open source defence intelligence company believes that this smoke cloud may hint at the use of surface to air missiles. they also told us it could be a warhead detonating near the plane. another expert, mark hansen from the centre for strategic and international studies, has said that this is consistent with an aircraft being shot down. this smoke plume, he says, is consistent with an explosion. so there s that. the governor of belgorod said that
federal indictment. what he s saying about the case and how other republican presidential candidates are handling it. we ll also look at security preparations underway in miami where trump is expected to appear in court this week. plus, a dam collapse creates a new humanitarian crisis in ukraine. thousands left without food, shelter and drinking water. volunteers are trying to save lives. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we re following a developing story out of russia. a court in moscow confirms it has detained a u.s. citizen on drug charges. it s travis lee describing him as, quote, former paratrooper and musician. he will remain in custody until august 6th. a video of his arrest and his police mug shot were published on thursday. cnn filmed him in 2014 for an episode of anthony bourdain, parts unknown. they are aware of reports of the arrest. a states department spokesperson said they will try to get consular access. don
kyiv staged a terrorist attack using eight drones a claim denied by ukraine. it follows an attack on kyiv, with ukrainian officials saying more than 20 drones had been destroyed. one person was killed in what was the seventeenth attack on kyiv since the start of may. there s been some mixed reaction from ukraine s allys. in a statement, the white house has said the us does not support attacks inside of russia . they are also trying to find out about what happened earlier in the day. meanwhile in estonia, the uk s foreign ministerjames cleverly was asked about the drone attack and said ukraine does have the right to attack russian territory. ukraine does have the legitimate right to defend itself. it has a legitimate right to do so within its own borders, of course but it does also have the right to project force beyond its borders to. to undermine russia s ability to project force into ukraine itself. so, legitimate the military targets beyond its borders are part of ukr