welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories and checking out the truth behind them. let s start in ukraine as we try to verify exactly what happended with the destruction of a major dam in southern ukraine. scientists have found evidence that there was a large explosion in the area of the kakhovka dam, close to the time when the dam was breached. a seismology team from norway found evidence of a blast by looking at seismic signals detected in romania. in a separate development, ukraine s security services have released a recording of what they say are two russian military figures discussing how the dam was sabotaged although the recordings can t be verified. ukraine has reported heavy fighting in the eastern region of donetsk on friday. officials said ukrainian forces had gained more ground near the city of bakhmut. there are also reports of heavy fighting in zaporizhzhia. military experts say the area will be the focus of ukraine s long awaited counter offe
Government spending. D. C. Mayor, vincent gray issued a Statement Today demanding a meeting with president obama and congressional leaders. The mayor says the shutdown is having dire consequences on the city and federal workers who live in d. C. Have been able to file unemployment claims because st mayor kept city workers on the job. However, Bruce Johnson reports that the people seeking jobless benefits, right about the time the city runs out of money to pay its workers. Those individuals have to file here in the district of columbia. At the d. C. Employment services office, 11,000 federal workers have signed up online or in person to collect benefits since the shutdown began. How many federal employees work in the city and could file for unemployment . 300,000. Could this office handle that kind of number . No. Congress agreed to pay federal workers for the time spent on furlough. The same workers who collect unemployment checks today will have to pay that money back. If you do get y
They are calling it the ride for the constitution. And it starts with the whole series of complaints about the struggles of truck drivers, but then organizers veer into wild rants about what they call treasonnist government officials. It focuses on the president. I dont think president obama obeys the constitution. I think he passes him as he sees fit, you know, it reminds me of a dictatorship. Protest seems to have hit a raw vein of anger. It is unclear why he blames the president for his troubles. Slip over in their grade if they knew what was going on these days. Its them, the government, not we the people anymore. 346. Some independent truckers complain they cannot make it anymore. The woman leading the ride for the constitution website is now disavowing a georgia trucker who promised three lanes of trucks barricading the beltway and the arrest of members of congress for allegedly disregarding the constitution. If they feel like they are going to get results out of it, more power t
Sunshine in the northern half of the and france, our neighbours, going under full lockdown and france, our neighbours, going underfull lockdown in and france, our neighbours, going under full lockdown in the coming country, but get ready for some days. France already in. Sir patrick pretty wet and windy weather this weekend. Ill have the details. Valla nce days. France already in. Sir Patrick Vallance said in september that the ghostly whooshing. Uk is on virtually an identical and halloween is almost upon us path, the same identical path as we look at how youre planning france. When we went into lockdown to celebrate with a difference. In march, late march this year, we followed behind france. Why is that good morning. Model now inappropriate to follow in its friday, 30th october. The governments view . Well, the our top story. West yorkshire will be placed under the highest level of coronavirus reason patrick and chris whitty have restrictions from monday, made those points is becaus