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To fill our dams so that we can irrigate the orchards and vineyards and everything through the summer, so now we've become even more dependent on underground water. as i listen to you, i'm thinking this sounds like a nightmare scenario. you've got a long—term water shortage problem, which is being massively exacerbated by this immediate power problem. we only had this level of load—shedding from about january, february, so we have managed to survive this season, but if this happens next year, where we have another dry winter and we have stage six load—shedding, which is where we are 11 h...

Rain and then a relatively short winter when it is supposed to rain, but for the past seven years we've had way lower than average rainfall so we haven't been getting the winter rain that we need to fill our dams so that we can irrigate the orchards and vineyards and everything through the summer, so now we've become even more dependent on underground water. as i listen to you, i'm thinking this sounds like a nightmare scenario. you've got a long—term water shortage problem, which is being massively exacerbated by this immediate power problem. we only had this level of load—shedding from a...

Overnight in a big fire broke out in a residential building and it densely populated refugee camp. it is not the first time we have seen people dying from a fire. tens of thousands of people attended the mass funeral in gaza, it started at the hospital where people were gathering overnight to pay respect to those victims, then the march was walking towards the cemetery where 21 graves were there. gaza is suffering from a severe power shortage, so people normally store large amounts of fuel to run their own generators and to overcome the power problem. police are still collecting evidence from ...

More election news just ahead. let's turn to the critical energy shortages in ukraine brought about by russian attacks on infrastructure there. nick roberts is on the ground for us in eastern ukraine right now. nick, how dire is the power problem? >> it's dire. it's critical in kyiv. the concern is that just one or two more russian strikes could hit that critical part of the infrastructure that will take the city down and black it out. it can cause heating and a number of things it to go down. here in the east of the country, i was sitting down with the mayor today. this region here hangs quit...

Reliable and doesn't change when it comes to what we should be doing, and reassurances about the economy and inflation. this seems like if they can sustain it, it's probably a good idea in a midterm election year. >> i mean, it's the only idea, nicole. their problems here go back months when the president and his party set expectations sky high on voting rights and build back better, but they didn't have the votes on day one of his presidency, and they haven't got them now. and so the messaging problem was created a long time ago, and it's really a power problem. they haven't got the votes. so...