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
hello, i m lewis vaughanjones. you re watching the context on bbc news. the influential uk business lobby group, the cbi, wins a vote of confidence over its future after a series of scandals. let s start with the race for the white house, which has become a little bit more crowded today with chris christie announcing his bid for the republican nomination. you may remember him from his time as the governor of newjersey and also his unsuccessful run for the presidency in 2016. and that ultimately ended up with him endorsing donald trump who, of course, won and is running again this time round. mr trump isn t noted for being nice about any of his rivals, so we ll see what he has to say against his one time backer. back to our panel gillian tett, editor at large for the us financial times, who joins us from silicon valley in california. and nathalie tocci, from the institute of international affairs, is in rome. let s start with chris christie, what do you make of that? is in l
on both sides of the river. inundating settlements our russia editor steve rosenberg gave me the view from moscow. in the last out of the white house has been giving his opinion. here is john kirby from the national security council. john kirby from the national security council. john kirby from the national securi council. ~ , , security council. we ve seen reports that russia was security council. we ve seen reports that russia was responsible - security council. we ve seen reports that russia was responsible for- security council. we ve seen reports that russia was responsible for the l that russia was responsible for the explosion at the dam. which i would remind russian forces took over a legally last year and have been occupying since banned. we re doing the best we can to assess those reports and we re working with ukrainians to gather more information. we cannot say conclusively what happened at this point. conclusively what happened at this oint. , ., point. l
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
but right now, south africa is in a big mess, with a protracted energy crisis, shocking levels of unemployment and inequality, and systemic corruption. my guest is the secretary general of the anc, fikile mbalula. is his party about to pay the price of failure? fikile mbalula, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having us, and welcome to luthuli house. it s a great pleasure to be here. how disappointed are you with the state south africa is in today? south africa is undergoing challenges like many other countries. but i think to put us into a category of a failed state, it s an exaggeration. er. ican give. but you think that s a conversation that south africans are having amongst themselves? well, it comes from pockets of the. ..powerful thinkers in the country who project us as displaying characteristics of a failed state, of course. we may not be too defensive to that. if certain things are not resolved, we will become a failed state. but we are notjourneying towards that di