Hello, iam none hello, i am none to thanks for joining us on bbc news. First to niger where, in the last two hours, a deadline for the militaryjunta to step down has passed. The leaders of nigers coup have hours to restore the ousted president , or face the possibility of Military Action. Thousands of people gathered in nigers capital to support the militaryjunta as that deadline expired. Despite International Condemnation of the soldiers actions, thousands of nigeriens continue to show support for the army 7 hoping it can offer the country stability. Some neighbouring countries including mali, burkina faso and guinea have voiced support for the coup leaders. And algeria, which Borders Niger to the north, has said it is categorically against armed intervention. France says it will support efforts by ecowas to restore nigers elected president. Niger s Prime Minister was in paris on saturday 7 meeting lawmakers and greeting protestors outside the countrys embassy. He has dismissed pro co
60 and change haley delegates. Theres arent just crystallized, just how dominant trump has been. He has won a whopping 90 plus percent of all available delegate. It appears inevitable. And his march to the Biden Campaign even as the president picked up a win after win tonight, look at all the states he is historically weak for an incumbent. Looking at the polls, the Biden Campaign clearly wants to make a General Election pivot tonight, painting the choice between him and the former president as one, between moving forward or moving backward into Chaos Division and darkness but achievements. Some of it, much of it inaccurate. Trump diagnosed also what he sees as bodies glaring weaknesses without any prescriptions to actually fix what he believes is broken and no no mentioned from the stage of the woman who trump is beating tonight. And that is nikki haley lets go straight now to harry enten at this magic wall. So glad were here today, so show us some of the winds across these Super Tues
hello, i m matthew amroliwala, 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 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 already
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 s par
attack by ukraine. welcome to the programme. in ukraine president zelensky says the kakovka dam was mined by russian occupiers. russia says it was an act of ukrainian sabotage. we ll look who s most likely to have carried out the attack. also coming up. prince harry has been in court accusing mirror group newspapers of hacking into his voicemails when he was a teenager. the brain drain. nurses leaving ghana to come to countries like the uk. one nursing group says the situation is out of control. we start in ukraine and attack on the dam. un security council meeting in next hour. we re going to look at two things. look at scale of damage. and ask our experts who s most likely to have done this. this is the kakovka dam. water flowing through. 40,000 people being evacuated. 80 towns and villages impacted. this video tweeted by zelensky. these images from areas downstream. water levels could rise 12 metres. said one russian official. let s hearfrom a ukrainian mp who s there. t