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After satellite images show significant new damage to a major dam in the area. 0ur correspondent catherine byaruhanga sent this report from the capital, kyiv. this is the vital kakhovka dam, 36 miles north of kherson. it's one of ukraine's biggest hydroelectric power plants. under the cover of darkness, a massive explosion is unleashed. if the dam collapses, this could cause massive flooding, and quickly swamp over 80 settlements, including kherson. images from friday morning show sections of the dam were destroyed. the bbc cannot verify the extent of the damage, or who caused it. over in kher...

Pay. arthel: well, that happened in russia with crimea. nothing was done. what is the united states play here?where is this heading in the long term? >> the chinese realize we have defensive agreements with taiwan. we did not have defense agreements with the ukraine. what we did though have a something that was thrown under the bus. that is the united states, russia and the uk guaranteed ukraine their political sovereignty if they were to give up their nuclear weapons. which they did. then the russians took crimea which was part of ukraine at the time. at the time part of ukraine and that, rea...

Opposition "honestly terrible." machine workers in mexico believe survivors of the recent earthquake remain trapped in the rubble of collapsed buildings. rescue crews are working nonstop to try and find people and free them. at least 298 people are now confirmed dead. the scene in puerto rico, buses are evacuating thousands of people in the northwestern part of that u.s. territory near a dam that is in imminent danger of failing. the governor there says a crack developed in the dam in the wake of the hurricane maria and heavy rains and floodwaters there. if that dam collapses, it is feared...

Last hour, they are saying in king street, a little small town right off of i-95 and towards the coast, this is now about a five to six square mile area they are evacuating. getting everyone out of there. the creek that goes through there is going to be at house levels from now through about friday. a lot of the water that fell up state in the columbia area, sumter, all has to flow down this way. our estimates here, they even put it themselves right around 19 to 20 inches of rain. that's one area we are concerned with. there are still evacuations. even though the rain is turning off, water lev...