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hi there, thank you for being with us. the authorities in ukraine say more than 42,000 people are at risk from flooding, after the collapse of a major dam in the south of the country on tuesday. president putin has said ukraine was behind the breach, which he called a barbaric act . while kyiv and moscow blame each other, once again, it s civilians paying a heavy price for russia s war. this is the scene in the city of kherson entire houses and streets submerged underwater. some people waiting to be rescued in affected areas have been forced to spend the night on their roofs, or in trees as the waters rose. the dam supplies water to large tracts of agricultural land, including in crimea. and the reservoir behind it provides water to cool the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant further upriver. both areas are under russian control. the united nations says the dam collapse will have grave and far reaching consequences . 0ur ukraine correspondent james waterhouse is in th ....
announcer: live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. thank you for being with us. we began in ukraine where floodwaters are still rising in the city of kherson after a major dam was hit on thursday. tens of thousands of people have been stranded and whole neighbourhoods submerged. officials say they could be a catastrophic impact on agriculture which would worsen the global food shortages. this eastern bank of the dnipro river is currently a no man s land. neither russia nor ukraine control here. now, no one can live here. the ukrainian army drone spotted catalina trapped in her home. they tried to drop her water no luck. her son then makes the crucial catch. they re both taken to kherson, along with her daughter, maria. a city once occupied by russia, then liberated by ukraine, now on its knees. translation: we managed to find the simplest boat, i but my father and a neighbour got carried away in it. it came loose, and the current was too po ....
to move down the street in this part of kherson, you need one of these. that sign would normally be at head height. there are trees with their trunks completely submerged, and the silence reflects just how uninhabitable pockets of the city have now become. if you just look at these shop windows, if you look further down, there are teams making their way through, trying to find anyone trapped. and you can see why you would be trapped. it would be impossible to swim through this. the water is completely cloudy. it s thought to be contaminated from the hydroelectric station further upstream. and it s just very hard to compute what has happened here. on top of everything else, on top of the occupation. it s a city already on its knees. it s an environmental catastrophe amidst an active war zone and it doesn t get more active than kherson because of where it sits close to the river. but now, of course, the river has come to the city. and here s someone who escaped the flood water ....
advancing on the battlefield. we ll have all the latest developments. day two of prince harry in court. he says he found it suspicious, that difficult conversations between him and an ex girlfriend appeared in stories in the daily mirror. the uk prime minister is in washington dc. we ll ask how he s being received and what he s trying to get out of his trip. and the croccodile who got herself pregnant. on her own. we ll find out how. we re going to look at ukraine s military advances in a minute. first the damage by the attack on the dam. look at this. this is the scene in the city of kherson. not streets but rooftops. many people spending night on rooftop waiting for rescue. 29 towns and villages tens of thousands of people at risk. remember the size of the area impacted. dnipro river, kherson. these are satellite pictures. you could see just two days apart, you can see the difference of the flood water. our correspondentjames water. our correspondent james waterhouse ....
The ukrainian army drone spotted catalina trapped in her home. they tried to drop her water no luck. her son then makes the crucial catch. they re both taken to kherson, along with her daughter, maria. a city once occupied by russia, then liberated by ukraine, now on its knees. translation: we managed to find the simplest boat, i but my father and a neighbour got carried away in it. it came loose, and the current was too powerful yesterday. rowing didn t help. so we were left with my kids, the three of us, for the night. it feels like we lived a whole life in one day. otherwise, we re very grateful to everyone. this once innocuous road, now a slipway rescue boats. this once innocuous road, now a slipway for rescue boats. as people are brought to safety from submerged streets, the relief is palpable. to move through the streets now, you need one of these. ....