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live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hi there, thank you for being with us. we start in ukraine and the attack on a crucial dam in the south of the country. thousands of people have been forced to evacuate because of rising flood waters. the dam sits between russian held territory to the south, and ukrainian territory to the north. kyiv says that moscow is to blame and so do nato and the eu, which has called the destruction a war crime. at a un meeting, russia has accused ukraine of sabotage. the uk prime minister, rishi sunak has said it s too soon to make a definitive judgment, but if russia is found responsible, it would demonstrate the new lows that we will have seen from russian aggression . to kherson now and this report from our ukraine correspondent james waterhouse. i think it is still if you go by what you officials are saying just today it is still in its early phases. -by by what us officials are saying- it has ....
welcome to the programme. thousands of people are being evacuated in southern ukraine, where the destruction of the russian controlled nova kakhovka dam has caused extensive flooding. but it s uncertain who is responsible. joining me on my panel tonight for the next hour, will be gillian tett, editor at large, us financial times. and nathalie tocci director for institute of international affairs rome. also tonight: prince harry has been in court. accusing mirror group newspapers of hacking into his voicemails when he was a teenager. the new liv golf tour threatened to split the world of golf. now it s going to merge with the existing pga tour. what does it mean for the game? and he used to tell people to vote for donald trump now he s running against him for the republican presidential nomination. we ll weigh up the white house chances of chris christie. we start in ukraine. and let s begin with that breaking news in the last hour that a us official has told the bbc ....
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so we opened an investigation in both a war crime and possible case of genocide. the influential uk business group the cbi, wins a vote of confidence over its future after a series of scandals. and the us based pga tour has announced a shock merger with its saudi backed rival, liv golf, ending a bitter split in men s professional golf. hello. welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories and checking out the truth behind them. let s start in central london. it has been a dramatic day at the high court, where prince harry has just left. the duke of sussex has given evidence in court, making him the first member of the royal family to appear in the witness box for over a century. the last time this happened was when queen victoria s otis khan served as a witness eldest son. he has been cross examined in his case over alleged unlawful press intrusion by mirror group newspapers. in a witness statement, he said the tabloids hacked his voice mail when he was a ....
in this trial. hello, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. we start with that major development in ukraine where thousands of people have been told to evacuate their homes after kyiv accused russian forces of blowing up a major dam, threatening a catastrophic flood. this video tweeted by ukraine s president zelensky shows the breached kakhovka hydro electric dam. he has accused russia of blowing up the dam to slow its offensive by making it harder to cross the dnipro river. russia says ukraine is to blame. this dam is over the dnieper river, between areas controlled by russian and ukrainian armies in the south of ukraine and there are fears for the cooling capacity at the nearby zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant the biggest one in europe. regardless of who or what caused the breach it has potentially deadly consequences for towns and villages in the path of the water. bbc verify has established there was alr ....