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call with his french counterpart in which he said the russians are preparing a dangerous provocation there. an adviser to the president said there's a 50/50 possibility of something happening there, and we got a statement from the army saying that they have observed foreign items similar to explosive devices being put on the roof of two of the plant's power units. now, we've heard previous talk from the head of ukrainian intelligence that some of the cooling ponds at that plant are mined and that the russians have deployed explosive-laden trucks outside of four of the power plant's six reactors. so there's concern something could happen there soon, but the russians are saying that they're planning nothing, that it's the ukrainians who are going to do something soon at that power plant. >> these are some of the last
concerning to not just ukraine, but the international community at large. just in the last 24 hours, ukraine and russia trading accusations that each side is shelling around that nuclear power plant. you had, of course, as you mentioned, last week, the power plant being cut off from the grid, cut off from electricity. and for the first time in its history its emergency services needed to be powered on. those needed to come on to keep the nuclear reactors cool, to avert the possibility of nuclear disaster. you pointed to president zelenskyy who has time and time again accused russia of bringing the world one step closer to the possibility of a huge nuclear disaster. now, let's just go through the history of what has happened in the last few months with this. this power plant was seized by russian forces in the spring, they held control of it since that time, while ukrainian engineers, ukrainian workers on the ground kept it running. it has been reconnected to the power grid. so there is some semblance of calm there. but ukraine is saying that
on saturday evening when russian forces shelled the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. the company said the site of the power plant's dry storage facility — where 174 containers of nuclear fuel are stored in the open air — was hit by rocket attacks. the international atomic energy agency had raised concerns on saturday about shelling — saying the action showed the risk of a nuclear diaster. president zelensky has urged a stronger international response to what he called russia's "nuclear terror". thames valley police are investigating the death of a girl that a water park this weekend. the child got into difficulties at the liquid leisure water park. members of the public searched a lake before she was found by emergency services. a leading charity is warning that millions of children in england could go hungry this summer because councils have reduced or scrapped free school meal vouchers over the holidays. the children's society says
power plant was targeted overnight by russian forces. the planted secure, there was a fire but it been put out, the power plant was not compromised and is under the control of russian troops now. you were watching bbc news. —— you are watching bbc news. a sunny friday for some of you, soggy for others, that balance will not switch much today. this is a strip of cloud thinning in situ rather than moving one way or another. it may thin a little bit this afternoon across some parts of eastern scotland into the pennines, parts of the midlands, so chances are turning a bit brighter here, but still outbreaks of rain across many eastern areas from it. east anglia, not many here stay dry. winds coming in from the south—east. it's further west, though. sunny spells, one or two isolated showers, a bit of a northwesterly breeze, but temperatures of around nine or ten celsius. coolest of all down some of those north sea coasts.
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good chance that will speed them up. >> in 2013, the power plant was shut down on a radioactive lead just as we had imagined on the west wing. now comes the impossible part. what to do with the 3,600,000 pounds of nuclear waste that is sitting on that beach in substandard then walls canisters. canisters that can remain deadly for hundreds of thousands of years. who gets to make the decision about what happens to this deadly waste that can threaten millions upon millions of people for hundreds of thousands of years? the man who got 81 million votes, sleeping in the white house tonight? now. the governor of california, is it up to him? no. no one who anyone voted for her to deal with such problems gets to decide what happens to that nuclear waste. it's up to someone you've never heard of.
built in corpus christi, texas. lauren simonetti is reporting on the fox business network, what went wrong for the company here? >> hi, megyn. good afternoon. this is a story, the power plant came, and they looked to get the appropriate air and water permits to need to build the power plant and they wanted to use something petroleum coke or pet-coke part of the petroleum process, a remnant and use that in the plant and usually it's sent internationally and they were like let's use it here in the u.s., it will help texas. that's not happening anymore, the plant will not be up and running and 4,000 jobs direct and indirect won't be had and a billion dollars in local spending over the next ten years, that was predicted, is not going to come into fruition, not to mention that the owner, chase power, looking to liquidate itself right now and it's blaming outright the epa.
of a leap of faith and i believe that there's substantial justification for it, that the crisis at the power plant proper is not going to degrade materially any further. in other words there's not going to be any more major releases of radioactivity, the operative question becomes to your point, exactly, what do we do with these thousands and thousands of square miles of contaminated ground. and the reality is, is that there's only one solution and we have too get heavy equipment in there, we have to remove topsoil, remove the tons of debris because remember we had a tsunami as well as an earthquake, houses that are collapsed, cars all of that is connam nated with low level contamination and has to be disposed of properly. >> let's assume it's not going to degrade further. yesterday we heard of more aftershocks, more problems at the plant. what is -- what could make it worse? is it the continued aftershocks, another earthquake with another tsunami? >> it is exactly that. you know, the power plant was severely damaged. we don't exactly know what the