welcome to verified live,three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. of breaking stories, and checking 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. presdent putin has blamed ukraine for the attack calling it a barbaric act . while kyiv and moscow blame each other, once again it s civilians paying a heavy price for russia s war. this is the scene in the city of kherson entire houses and streets submerged underwater. some people waiting to be rescued in affected areas have been forced to spend the night on their roofs or in trees as the waters rose. the 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. united nations says the collapse of the dam wil
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
president zelensky says hundreds of thousands of people have been left without clean drinking water after the attack on a durham in southern ukraine. vladimir putin has blamed kyiv for the destruction, calling it barbaric. prince harry tells the high court there has been industrial scale destruction of evidence of phone hacking by the newspapers that he is suing. i m nancy kacungira live outside the high court in london where prince harry was cross examined in his privacy case, he focussed on past tabloid coverage he s labelled incredibly suspicious . the personal data of more than 100,000 people is said to bein in the hands of a cyber gang suspected to be russian.
the ukrainian authorities shut it down to cut the peninsular off from water. last year kyiv accused invading forces of planting it with explosives, which the kremlin denied. one side has played its full hand, with endless consequences. that was james waterhouse and we will have more on the ground there from james in the next little while. we can look in more detail now at what we actually know about the breach at the dam. we can go to the verify hub with more. figs breach at the dam. we can go to the verify hub with more. verify hub with more. as you have been reporting. verify hub with more. as you have been reporting, there verify hub with more. as you have been reporting, there are - verify hub with more. as you have been reporting, there are a - verify hub with more. as you have been reporting, there are a lot - verify hub with more. as you have been reporting, there are a lot ofl been reporting, there are a lot of theories as to why the dam was breached. the team at bbc veri
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