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The crisis had been hit country. And prince harry accuses the British Press of having blood on its hands as he gets evidence in a lawsuit against the newspaper against a newspaper publisher. Ukraine and russia are accusing each other of going up a major dam and flooding towns and villages in russian control of blowing up a major dam. Thousands of people have been evacuated. It links the banks of the dnipro river and supplies electricity and cools the zaporizhzhia power plant. Until monday, the dam held back 18 cubic meters 18 million cubic meters of water, generating electricity and providing fresh water for hundreds of thousands of people, but not anymore. The most Immediate Impact for tens of thousands of civilians downriver. This is the can this is the ukrainiancontrolled side. The river swelling, overwhelming the banks. Residents being evacuated. I was evacuated from the flooded village. Our local school and stadium downtown were flooded. The stadium was completely underwater. On the russianoccupied side of the river, the town is also under a meter or more of floodwater. Ukraines president accused the russians of terrorism. The whole world will know about this russian war crime, the deliberate destruction by russian occupiers of the dam is an environmental bomb of mass destruction. The world should show now that russia cannot get away with such terror. This is the reservoir upstream from the destroyed dam, and it is a vast body of water. We estimate that the banks you can see behind me in the distance are around 25 km away. The locals we spoke with say that they reckon that the water level today has dropped anywhere between a meter and two meters, and we expect in the coming hours and days for the level to continue dropping. On that basis, one can only imagine the kind of devastating effect it is having on affected areas south of the dam. Russian officials gave conflicting accounts of denial, some saying the dam burst on its own. Most pointed the finger of blame back at ukraine. In trying to prevent the offensive operations by the russian army on this section of the front line, the kyiv regime committed an act up sabotage or a terrorist act that led to the flooding of substantial areas with serious and lasting environmental consequences. Satellite imagery again reveals the extraordinary extent of the day lodz. The sluice gates of the dam have been gushing water since late last year when russia ended its occupation of the city of caps on of kherson. Russian forces kept control of the dam and had previously destroyed the road running along the top of it. For pressure, you can see the immediate benefit of stopping that connection for Ukrainian Forces to get across, and also, i would say that if they are not planning on staying there for the long term, for whatever reason for example, if they are not going to win, then they would leave and view this as an opportunity. This takes the war into a new phase with dramatic consequences. Lets take a closer look at the importance of the dam. The hydroelectric dam holds back a reservoir from ukraines enormous river. The dam it self is 30 meters tall and hundreds of meters wide. The reservoir holds a similar amount of water to the Great Salt Lake in utah. Ukraines interior minister says around 24 settlements and around 16,000 people have already been flooded in the kherson region. People in the city 30 km south of the dam are being evacuated. The United Nations nuclear watchdogs is there should be enough water to cool the reactors from a separate pond, which it says must not be attacked. The canal system irrigating much of southern ukraine is also at risk of being ruined. At the United Nations, the Security Council has been discussing the breach of the dam and its impact. Completely different accounts of what has happened, as we have heard so many times from the Security Council from the representative of ukraine and the representative of russia. The point from the representative of russia lots of points were made was that there had been previous threats to the dam that russians had pointed out in a paper they circulated to the Security Council last year, an article in the washington post, where a ukrainian official said they had thought of carrying out attack on the dam. That is the russian side. On the ukrainian side, they make a point that this was a dam that was in territory controlled and held by russia, and it was impossible to do a strike like this from afar. You need to do mine you needed to mine the dam to destroy it. Really, what you need is someone to properly investigate which of these two completely different stories is true. I dont think that is very likely to happen any time soon because i think to get these two to agree to an inquiry, to the terms to reference an inquiry and for the United Nations to carry out any such inquiry in an area that is still a front line military zone is going to be almost impossible, so i think youre going to continue to see this war of words going on. Following the reaction in moscow. Russias Investigative Committee has launched a criminal case into the destruction of the dam, calling it a terrorist attack. A kremlin spokesperson has said that the destruction of the station is a deliberate sabotage from ukraine. Therefore, all the responsibility for the situation should be on ukraine. Russia rejected all allegations of its involvement. He also added that the destruction of the dam had been carried out by kyiv because its counteroffensive could not achieve any goals. According to him, one of the goals of the ukrainian sabotage was to do was to deprive the Crimean Peninsula of water. He got the incident a terrorist attack and said it was committed in order to prevent the offensive actions of the Russian Armed forces. According to him, the Ukrainian Army had launched a longpromise offensive at several parts of the front, and he announced that 71 Russian Military personnel had died during those past three days and 210 have been injured. Usually, russian Army Commanders do not disclose the number of casualties. The last time some numbers were announced in september 2022. A preliminary hearing has taken place in a new case against russian opposition figure alexei navalny. He is already serving an 11. 5year sentence for fraud and contempt of court. He could face up to 30 years in prison on new charges of promoting terrorism and extremism. Navalny has called the allegations absurd. He and his family have repeatedly condemned the conditions in which he is being held. Days after heavy flooding, haiti has been hit by an earthquake, adding to its growing humanitarian crisis, which has been fueled by gang violence. At least three people have been at least three people have died in the magnitude 4. 9 quake. Officials say 28 people were injured. The People Killed were part of the same family that lived in a house that collapsed. Haiti suffered a devastating sevenmagnitude earthquake in 2010 that killed more than 200,000 people and another back in 2021 that killed 2200. Heavy rains killed at least 42 people over the weekend. More than 13,000 homes inundated. There has been significant damage to farmland. Salvaging clothes west aware salvaging clothes washed away after torrential rains in haiti. I lost a fiveyearold child. I risk losing two children, but god left the other one hanging in a tree. I saved one but lost the other one anyway. My house was swept away by the floods. I lost everything. Roads were turned into rivers of brown water. Many crops have also been damaged in a country where many are starved. The World Food Program says tens of thousands have been affected. Most of the damage is reported in areas around the capital, portauprince, and in the west. Haiti was already struggling with rampant gang violence. The head of the International Gang unit says that has impeded rescue efforts. The rain is in effect of Hurricane Season that will last until november. We have more on the challenges haiti currently faces. It has been a very difficult time, you know, for haiti, especially in the last year. Theres been various dynamics over the last months, including the emergence of a new movement at the end of april that has led to which is essentially a Vigilante Movement with nearly 200 alleged gang members, so it makes for a very complicated security setting. Let alone all the humanitarian disasters happening now. Humanitarian agencies, United Nations agencies which are underground, but inundate themselves with resources, still facing difficult conditions to get through because gangs are essentially controlling national roads. You also have a more basic crisis going on with hunger affecting nearly half of the population. Haiti is facing multiple set of crises as it is right now, and despite the presence of international organizations, this is a drop in the ocean to face the crisis. The Biggest Issue is the political crisis that needs to be addressed and resolved before a sustainable answer and response can be provided to the humanitarian disaster the country faces right now. The u. S. Secretary of state has arrived in saudi arabia on a threeday visit after a series of disagreements between the nations over iran and oil prices. Antony blinken will meet with crown prince mohammad bin salman , the second visit by a high u. S. Official in as many months. The visit comes just as iran has reopened its embassy in saudi arabia in a move to ease tensions between the regional rivals. The embassy had been closed for seven years due to a diplomatic rift. The deal was brokered by china with both countries agreeing to reestablish ties. Saudi arabia is also set to reopen its embassy in tehran, do not no official date has been set. A former advisor to donald trump is the latest candidate to jump into the race for the United States presidency. Former new Jersey Governor Chris Christie has officially launched his campaign, hoping to report hoping to become the republican candidate to challenge joe biden next year. Christie is now a vocal critic of trump. 10 other candidates are in the race so far, including trump himself, following governor ron desantis, former United Nations ambassador nikki haley, and former Vice President mike pence. Still to come this halfhour hundreds of palestinians turned out to the funeral of a twoyearold palestinian boy shot dead by Israeli Forces. And no surrender, no retreat. Protesters in france remind president macron they still want his Pension Changes revoked. Hello there. After bringing a very wet day to perth, one of the wettest in at least half a decade, the system has slipped its way to the southeast of australia. We will see a funnel of rain running from the tropics to the southeast corner. The flash flooding potential for places like victoria, New South Wales also seeing some of that heavy rain and behind that system, we have the wind picking up as well as the cooler field. By the time we get into thursday, we will see some of that rain roll into sydney. The temperature decreasing by the time we get to the weekend and we have a look. It has been rather warm in that corner of the world, but by saturday, 18 degrees, so slightly above the average, but more in the way of rain. A pretty settled situation for new zealand. But the south and north, just rain edging in. Windy conditions as well, so dont take your boat out. But continues to look very settled on thursday, that rain still edging into more northern areas. The heavy rain can be found across the northern half of the region thanks to monsoon rains, but also because we have a developing tropical site that will bring wet and windy weather to northern parts of the philippines by thursday. African narratives from african perspectives. Two short documentaries by african filmmakers from rwanda and democratic republic of congo. A new series of africa direct on al jazeera. A reminder of the top stories here on al jazeera, at least three people have died in a 4. 9magnitude earthquake in haiti, following two days of torrential men which killed at least 42 people and washed away thousands of homes over the weekend. U. S. Secretary of state Antony Blinken has arrived in saudi arabia on a threeday visit to stabilize relations with riyadh after a series of disagreements between the two nations over issues including iran and global oil prices. Kyiv and moscow have accuse each other of blowing up a key dam in east ukraine. A series of blasts breached the barrier flooding a swath of the war zone and displacing thousands. The dam supplies water to a large area of southern ukraine. An advisor to ukraines defense spoke with us earlier, and he told me ukraine will be ready to provide evidence russia is behind the attack. Our intelligence already has evidence and proof that this was a preplanned, manmade, artificial, technological disaster and terrorist act, and when the time comes, and when the International War crimes tribunal is set up, all this evidence will be put before it. There are, of course, some parts of this hydroelectric dam which cannot be inspected by the ukrainian side because they are no flooded, and before that, they were under the control of the aggressor, but at the same time, i dont think you can actually have a presumption of innocent when we speak of terrorists who have been indicted before the International Criminal court. These are the same terrorists who said in 2014 that it was not them who downed the mh17 flight. These are the same terrorists who having committed mass murders said the ukrainian side was actually scattering the bodies of actors to film the horrific footage to impress the world. We dont stand to gain anything from this because we are on a reoccupation mission. Take d occupation a deoccupation mission. We dont want to leave thousands homeless. These are ukrainians. Hundreds of palestinians turned out for the funeral of a twoyearold palestinian boy shot dead by Israeli Forces in the occupied west bank. He was shot in his familys car alongside his father outside their home close to an Israeli Military checkpoint on thursday. Palestinian authorities are demanding an international investigation. In this west bank village, these women walk here to wait, sat in sadness, sometimes in silence. Among them this morning, with the most to mourn, is young mohammeds mother. His birth, she says, was difficult. His survival a miracle. His death unwanted. She seeks answers from the Israeli Soldiers involved. I want an International Trial and everyone in the world to help me. My twoyearold son was executed in front of my eyes. I want the world to support me. I want justice. Boys and men filled the funeral procession as it arrives down the hill. A chorus of commemorations spanning several generations, many very Young Children among the crowd. God is great, they shout. Mohameds body, meanwhile, is tiny. Around 600 people and seemingly every single one, men and women, are here for this funeral. The anger is everywhere. The boys father, hollow with private grief, now part of a public spectacle. He says the bullet that killed his son came from a nearby israeli checkpoint. The Israeli Military says it regrets such harm to noncombatants and is investigating the incident, but palestinian authorities are demanding an international inquiry. The head of the Village Council says the longterm impact of events like this on local people is devastating. There is a negative effect when someone feels they cannot keep their child safe. This was a father whose son died in his lap. There is an effect on the father and on the whole family. Children here play this day in a cemetery, not a playground. Their parents pray, as they do every day, for a Better Future for their children. The leaders of the warring factions of sudan each spoke with the Saudi Foreign minister on tuesday, but neither has confirmed commitment to restarting peace talks in jeddah. With a conflict in its eighth week, cartoon residents are caught between air and ground clashes. The fiveday ceasefire agreement between the sides expired saturday. The United Nations assessed half the population are now in need of aid. Every perus president has been questioned by prosecutors investigating dozens of deaths in antigovernment protests. She spent three hours inside the Prosecutors Office in lima. 67 people were killed. She has previously denied Police Abuses and accuse protesters of instigating the violence. Arianna sanchez has more from peru. The president has been investigated for genocide, homicide, and serious injuries since the prosecutor of the nation launched an investigation of january against highranking officers of the army and police. At least 47 people, including children, died by firearms during the protests that followed the ouster of former president castillo in december of last year. The defense lawyer says she has been investigated for operational orders she did not give, but he says she was not in command. The lawyer says the only orders she gave were calls for peace. Human rights organizations like the Interamerican Commission for human rights watch, and Amnesty International are demanding a thorough investigation in what they call extrajudicial killings and excessive use of force by security forces. Angry confrontations have broken out during nationwide protests across rents against a new pension law across france against new pension law. Demonstrators want the retirement age returned to 62. It was raised to 64 in april. President macron past the reform without a vote in parliament. Natosha butler was at one of the main protests in paris. We have just seen workers out here in the streets of paris today. They all say they want to continue to protest against the french government pension reform, even though that reform was signed into law in april. They say it doesnt matter. They want to continue putting pressure on the government hoping that the government will scrap a law they say is unfair. Not only does it raise the retirement age by two years, but they say it forces through reforms by decree with which a lot of people dont agree. A lot of young people here today. We spoke to one who told us why so many people are worried about their future. Young people are really worried about democracy. The reform being forced through made them come out and protest. Young people want to be here. Lots of students have come here to show that youth care is because it is our generation that is affected. President macron says this law is necessary to sustain the Pension System for future generations. Young people feel alienated by the government, they feel the government did not listen to them. Union membership has gone up in recent weeks because they have been united around this reform, so what will be difficult for the french government now is they want to enact a new set of reforms in the french workplace, and it will not be easy, some say inviting new protests in the months to come. Britains prince harry has accused the u. K. Press of having blood on its hands as he testified in a civil case against mira group newspapers. He is the first u. K. Royal to enter the witness box since 1890. He alleges that at least 18 articles published contain information obtained illegally. Arriving for the main set piece of this trial and his broader battle with the British Press, harrys evidence began in the form of a written statement in which he said the press had decided early on to portray him as a drug user, attempting to ruin his relationships. He made a huge departure from Royal Convention on staying out of politics, writing, on a national level, our country is judged globally by the state of our press and government, both of which i believe at rock bottom. He goes on to mention his distress at various stories stretching from his school days to his 20s, including his stupid decision to dress as a nazi at a fancy party resulting in a telling off on the phone by his then girlfriend. Ask how much more blood will stain their typing fingers before someone will put a stop to this madness . In court, harry was repeatedly challenged by a lawyer from mirror group newspapers, who implied the prince was motivated by hostility toward the British Press and question how he could have been distressed by stories that he could not have that he could not confirm having read at the time. More than once, he suggested the information was already in the public domain. When challenged that he did not own a mobile phone at the time of one phonehacking incident, harry suggested his mothers phone may have been hacked instead. Mr. Granda responded, that is just speculation youre coming Sophie Fouron i have to walk really slowly, but i can actually get really close to them. Right there, royal penguins. We are between argentina and antarctica, in a windswept country the Falkland Islands or the malouines, or the malvinas, depending on where you come from. You might remember the 1982 falklands war