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
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and you can water here flowing freely through it. what it does not show is the nature, the exact nature of the damage. we have also verified footage from residential areas today that have been hit by flooding. that includes footage from in and around the town of kakhovka which is controlled by russia and also further down the dnipro river, the city of kherson. we still do not know, and that remains an open question, what actually caused the damage to the dam but we know from the satellite imagery from the past few days that there was some damage to the roadway by the dam but we do not know whether that is in any way related to the current incident and we do not have any verified footage of any explosions happening in the area and that means we will continue to monitor the situation, there footage and bringing you any updates when we can. we will return to the high court in
this is bbc news and these are the headlines. the ukraine accuses russia of blowing up a crucial dam on the dnipro river unleashing a flood of water. it is being investigated as a war crime. , ., ., ., crime. the geneva convention -rohibits crime. the geneva convention prohibits an crime. the geneva convention prohibits an attack crime. the geneva convention prohibits an attack on - crime. the geneva convention prohibits an attack on a - crime. the geneva convention | prohibits an attack on a facility like a dam or a nuclear power station so we have opened an investigation into boat, a war crime and a possible case of genocide into both. a dramatic day in london as prince harry takes on the tabloid press at the high court. he says, the papers behaviour had put him into a downward spiral . this is the scene at the high court and we are expecting prince harry to leave shortly. the cbi wins a vote of confidence over its future after a series of scandals. the pga tour