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Hello, im matthew amroliwala. Welcome to verified live. We start with flooding described as the worst in nearly 100 years in russia and kazakstan. Thousands have been forced from their homes cities under threat, evacuations ongoing. The flooding in the urals and Western Siberia has been caused by unseasonably warm temperatures, which has melted snow. In the russian city of 0renburg home to half a Million People the authorities said water levels had reached dangerous levels. Thousands of people h...

And world athletics announces it will become the First International federation, to award prize money at the olympic games. Hello, im matthew amroliwala, welcome to verified live. We start with the breaking news from gaza about three sons of the hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and three of his grandchildren have been killed in an israeli air strike in gaza. That information is coming from the Hamas Affiliated news agency. We had brought you the breaking line about the three sons a little earlier but...

The wikileaks founder has been held in Belmarsh Prison In London for five years. Our washington correspondent Gary Odonoghue had this update following joe biden� s comment. Well, this was pretty much an off the cuff comment that he made as he was sort of walking through the colonnade at the white house and a reporter shouted to him, you know, will you consider australias request . Because of course australia, Julian Assange is australian and the Australian Parliament has passed a motion asking...

It is crumbling. you know, it is crumbling our cooperation with our allies. nato is extraordinarily concerned that they cant rely us anymore as a nation. the world needs a strong america. we cant be leading from behind again. thats what they are seeing. i think they regret comments like president macron made. america is not back in the way we need to be back. america is stronger and safer when we lead from the front. that was the case from the prior administration. were seeing a complete reversa...

What were doing, increase australias capability, bring the u.k. in the fold as well. china continues to march on. the deal we have struck with australia and the u.k. and ourselves is going to advance our ability so were stronger. we need to be doing that. >> jon: three months ago it was happiness and light between president biden and french president macron. listen to this flashback from early june. >> i think it is great to have a u.s. president [inaudible] very willing to cooperate. >> i said ...

And kissing and the wiping of the dandruff off the lapel in the oval office, macron was railing against trumps entire theory of the case, he was railing against the america-first policy. he was railing against isolationism and nationalism. and withdrawal. he was saying were got to stay in the iran deal and rejoin the paris climate accord, he stood up there before all of congress and basically said what trump is doing here is not the way to go. >> he did. and i thought the most important comment ...