the second and final day of prince harry's testimony in court has come to an end. he accused british newspapers of industrial scale phone hacking. rescue work continues in earnest in southern ukraine as nearly 30 towns and villages have been flooded following the instruction of the kakhovka dam. rishi sunak says that he would be discussing the long term security of ukraine withjoe biden. the prime minister is currently in washington. i think it fits with a pattern of behaviour throughout this world which is where ——war, russia, as an active strategy, deliberately targeted civilian infrastructure. and a little later... the tribeca film festival is set to begin in new york. we'll hearfrom one of its founders, robert de niro. as faras as far as someone like trump in that situation, _ as far as someone like trump in that situation, it's— as far as someone like trump in that situation, it's purely because it makes — situation, it's purely because it makes me _ situation, it's purely because it makes me so angry that we would allow— makes me so angry that we would allow someone like him to be president.

hello, i'm sarah campbell, welcome to the daily global, where we'll bring you the top stories from around the world. we start with prince harry. it's been his second day of being cross examined in the high court. the prince said he found it suspicious, that difficult conversations between him and an ex girlfriend appeared in stories in the daily mirror. the paper's publisher denies using unlawful means to gather information about the duke saying its reports were based on publicly available sources. our culture editor, katie razzall, was in court. the interest in this story shows no sign of waning. for the second day world's media gathered in a cul—de—sac in central london waiting for the high court's star witness. prince harry arrived here for another bout of cross—examination. the mirror group is determined to show he is wrong to claim that articles about him were based on unlawful information gathering.

mgn's barrister told him there was not a single item of evidence in these articles to show phone hacking and that prince harry's claims were pure speculation. the prince says this one, about a secret dinner he had with the late tv presenter caroline flack at the close�*s house was based on home phone hacking as he and his friend had out voicemails for each other and mgn says it comes from a photo agency. this one about his then girlfriend chelsy davy�*s period at the visit to a lap dancing club was also based on hacking, prince harry says and mgn says it was another paper is the day before. when he split from chelsy there was this headline. prince harry told the court he was likely to exchange voicemails about the difficulties in their relationship and said, "i now find this very suspicious." mgn says the story was in the news of theworld before.

prince harry blames the tabloids for his break—up with chelsy davy. today he told the court he had once found a tracking device on her car. put 30 claims by a private investigator. for my whole life, he said, the press have misled me and covered up the wrongdoing. andrew green for the mirror group asked him, would you be relieved or disappointed if the court decided he hadn't been hacked by mgn? prince harry said, phone hacking was on an industrial scale across three of the papers at the time and that is beyond doubt. yes, i would feel some injustice. andrea green continued, so you want to have been phone hacked? prince harry responded, no one wants to have been phone hacked, my lord. at the end of his evidence is barrister asked prince harry the toll going through it all had taken. the prince appeared to fight back tears. it is a lot, he said in a cracked voice. he stayed in court to hear jane carr, a former royal reporter who court insisted must give evidence. the byline appears almost a third of the article is

about prince harry being examined by the court. she commissioned private investigators to help with stories but she said she had never asked anybody to do anything unlawful. prince harry spent around eight hours in the witness box. he will be leaving here probably giving relieved having kept his cool and focus in the face of some tough questioning. there will be relieved also from his estranged family. because there was nothing in his testimony that would be embarrassing to the royals. prince harry's focus here solely is the tabloid press. an effort he said to an end to the abuse and intrusion of and his wife. and from outside the high court katie razzall filed the latest. he must have got pretty used to being inside that building because he was on the stand, as i said in that report, for around 8 hours. and if anything, i think he grew in confidence. so today it felt like he was more relaxed and even more kind of making his points more forcefully and pushing back on the mirror group barrister when he challenged him on particular points and just really sticking to his guns. and i wondered when i was watching him, i was thinking, you know, for anybody being in a witness box is really unsettling. but actually, maybe if you spent

your whole life, as he says, you know, in a goldfish bowl where people are always looking at you, perhaps it's less unsettling because you're not worrying about all the people who are staring at you in court, because that court was really packed. and he must have known that, you know, certainly in the annex next door and anybody who'd been able to get a link, if you're a journalist covering the story or people involved, you know, you were able to get a link to this court case in the interest of open justice here in the uk. so there were a lot of people looking in and then obviously a lot of people outside. he wouldn't necessarily have been no known what was going on inside specifically in terms of what he was saying. so there's been a huge pressure on him. but i think, you know, he remained calm. he remained focused. i suppose in the end, though, this isn't in front of a jury, so it's not a decision that's going to be made emotionally. it's in front of a judge only. and thatjudge has to decide within in the on the balance of probabilities whether he's proved his case or not. and we're going to find out.

we'll find out that not necessarily straightaway, because it's going to take some time to decide that. and the case here will go on for another few weeks anyway with other people who are also suing this tabloid chain here in the uk. the this tabloid chain here in the uk. case very much g prince the case very much going on even if prince harry a's testimony has ended today. afua hagan is a journalist and royal commentator. she has been reading and listening to all that has been said in court. harry's relationship with chelsea davy, how he talked about certain stories to do with spearmint rhino, the strip club to do with chelsy davy going mental, going berserk, and him calling her relentlessly. you know how those details could not have been gotten by friends because they weren't confiding with friends at that time. there were only really talking to each other because they had a certain level of paranoia about their relationship already because of stories that had already gotten out. and harry saying, look, there's no way anybody knew those details unless our phones were being hacked. i also thought it was really

interesting when prince harry was talking about how when he got voicemails, they weren't new. so even if he had an icon that would pop up on his phone telling him he'd had a voice mail, they had already been listened to. and why was that? and that would be if his phone had been hacked and the voicemails have been listened to already. i think that's very, very pertinent, actually. and also, prince harry getting emotional. at the end of the day, 7 hours on that stand must have been very difficult. and he choked up talking about that and saying it's a lot. katie, they're referring to the fact that although people in the palace might have been watching or listening very carefully to hear whether there were any references to members of the royalfamily, that was very much not prince harry's priority. the any attacks, if they were were were solely against the media, is that correct? absolutely right. you know, there wasn't really any attacks on his family at all. and when he did mention his brother,

prince william, that was yesterday when he was talking about paul burrell and their opinions on paul burrell and the snipe that they had against him. and he was saying how that story sowed discord between the two of them. but there were no attacks on his family whatsoever. but that really wasn't his agenda. this was all about him squaring up to mgm, as it were, and saying to them, look, you have hacked my phone. there's no way that you could get these stories if it wasn't by illegal means. can you just finally tell us exactly where this fits in, in terms of the whole court process? what happens now effectively? well, we've heard the last of prince harry's evidence. we won't hearfrom him again. we will hear from the other people involved in this case. there's four of them, that will happen over the next couple of weeks. and then the judge will deliberate over all the evidence that he has. so that's testimony from prince harry, the other three people involved in the case, and witness statements that have been taken beforehand as well and testimony from other people.

he's going to collate all that information together and deliberate and then come to a decision. now, remember, harry only has to have maybe one article proven out of the 33 that it's been phone hacked to have some sort of victory. 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 the city of kherson about 60 kilometres, 37 miles from the dam and hejust and he just sent us this. 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. it's not yet clear what caused the dam in ukraine to fail. although moscow and kyiv blame each other. and the uk ministerial of defence is also avoided pointing blame. the white house says it's too early to say and the uk's ministry of defence has also avoided apportioning blame. so what caused it and who might have done it? 0ur correspondent rajini vaidyanathan has been working with the bbc verify team and is in the verify hub with more. well, the team here at bbc verify have been looking into more detail

at the circumstances around the breach of the dam. now, first thing to show you is surveillance camera footage that the team have got hold of. i'lljust press play on it here. now, this is after the dam was breached as you can see quite clearly, there. timestamp here, 6th ofjune, 2.46 in the morning. and you can see up there, even after the breach, there's some explosions in the distance. now, what is quite key is that the team were looking at some telegram messages around 2.15—18, and people back then were reporting that they were hearing weird noises. then at around 2.40, more chat on the telegram channels, people saying that they heard more explosions, the really loud sound of water. some people even speculating that the dam had been breached. so that was only around 5 minutes before this footage 2.46, 42 seconds now. and you can see the plume of smoke there and there's a boat in the foreground as well. so this gives us a little more insight into what it looked like. now, the question, of course,

remains what was the cause of this? and ukrainian officials blame russia. they say that russia blew up the dam. 0n the other side, you've got ukraine saying that it was a missile attack. now, we've been taking a look at some satellite imaging to get more of a picture of what might have happened. now, this is from the 28th of may, so it's quite a few days before the 6th ofjune when that catastrophic breach happened. but you can see here, this is the dam in good working order. it's a hydroelectric dam and it's completely intact. if we move along to the 4th ofjune now, this is crucial because the 4th ofjune is two days before that catastrophic breach. but if you look in that red circle there, there was already some sort of damage to the dam two days before that massive breach. fast forward to the 6th ofjune and you can see that huge damage there.

and of course, on the ground we've seen in kherson the impact of that. the question is, was what happened on the 4th ofjune, the trigger for what happened on the sixth, or were there two separate incidents? now, of course, satellite imagery doesn't go under water, so we're unable to see underwater what may have been the cause of this. but it does shed more light on what may have happened. and lastly, the team here have been spending the day looking at infrared imaging. the top one here is from the 5th so the day before. now the black is where water is, the red is land. you can see rivers here. butjust take a look at what it looks like today if we move down here. huge, wide swathes of black where the water now is, engulfing some of the land mass. so we're getting more of a picture, of course, but there are still many, many things we're unclear

on and we'll keep looking. let's just show you a tweet, a short while ago from the french president emmanuel macron who has been speaking to ukraine's zelensky on the phone in the last few hours. he tweeted... live now to kyiv. and violaine des rosiers who is coordinating the relief effort in kherson for the international federation of the red cross. thank you so much forjoining us. i know you must have a lot of demands on your time at the moment. we were listening there to our correspondence is talking about the two sides, blaming each other, but at the end of the day people in this

area, kherson, orsuffering even more now that this dam has been breached. , , ., , , breached. yes, it is absolutely heartbreaking _ breached. yes, it is absolutely heartbreaking to _ breached. yes, it is absolutely heartbreaking to see - breached. yes, it is absolutely heartbreaking to see what - breached. yes, it is absolutely heartbreaking to see what is i heartbreaking to see what is happening there, especially that these people have been under so much stress and so much pressure because of the active armed conflict in the last year. so this is on top of all of the stress that they already have had to go through. what of the stress that they already have had to go through.— had to go through. what are you heafina had to go through. what are you hearing about _ had to go through. what are you hearing about the _ had to go through. what are you hearing about the conditions - had to go through. what are you | hearing about the conditions from your staff who are trying to help? so what we hear from our colleagues from the ukrainian red cross are trying to evacuate people, this is really the priority at the moment, it is very difficult conditions. we don't have access to all of the people that need to be evacuated post there are some logistic

constraints and some people are of course devastated and it is difficult, especially for elderly people or children, people with disabilities so we are really trying to fast track the support to the people that need to leave their house. as of now there are 2000 people that have been evacuated already. these people are taken in charge by the local authorities and by the red cross to find them a place to stay, a shelter, temporary accommodation and also to provide them with basic health services and different items especially water at the moment is really a priority. i wasjust going to the moment is really a priority. i was just going to talk about the polluted water, potentially, flowing

through the streets but trying to get clean drinking water is one issue at the moment. yes get clean drinking water is one issue at the moment.- get clean drinking water is one issue at the moment. yes it is and it is really — issue at the moment. yes it is and it is really the _ issue at the moment. yes it is and it is really the priority _ issue at the moment. yes it is and it is really the priority of the - issue at the moment. yes it is and it is really the priority of the red l it is really the priority of the red cross. there is already a lot of water that has been purchased in bottles, but this of course is not a sustainable solution. so we have water purification, mobile units that are being deployed in this area and we do co—ordinate and collaborate with the local authorities to find a more midterm, long—term solution to the water problem because this is something that will last for a few months before they can restore the water infrastructure. so of course, because of the water quality not being very good at the moment and the pollution, we also fear for some health consequences on the

population. health consequences on the pepulation-_ health consequences on the --oulation. , ., ., , population. dealing with a very difficult situation, _ population. dealing with a very difficult situation, thank - population. dealing with a very difficult situation, thank you i population. dealing with a very i difficult situation, thank you from the international red cross. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. some other stories now developing in the uk... less ham football fans have been attacked by fiorentino that support is before the europa conference final in the czech capital prague three people injured in a bar in the old town area of the city, one westhampton who did not want to be need to set his fan had a massive cut on his hand —— head. please also convert an officer had been attacked during the incident, the final gets under way in the next hour. a heat health alert has been issued for parts of england as temperatures are predicted to hit 30 degrees celsius over the weekend. the alert is in place from 9 o'clock on friday morning until 9 o'clock on monday morning in london, the midlands, eastern and southern england. people in england could be offered weight loss jabs by gps to reduce obesity related illnesses, as part of a two year pilot scheme

being launched by the government. it aims to reduce the pressure on nhs waiting lists. but experts warn "skinny jabs"are not a quick fix or a substitute for a healthy diet and exercise. you're live with bbc news. the british prime minister, rishi sunak, is in washington, on a trip designed to forge closer economic ties with the united states. his first stop was to lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier at arlington national cemetery something he said symbolised the common purpose of the uk and the us. and in the last hour, he's met the speaker of the house of representatives, kevin mccarthy. the two men exchanged some pleasantries, with mr mccarthy praising the bonds between the two nations, and mr sunak said that strengthening economies was vital for dealing with the challenges of the future. mr sunak will meet president biden on thursday. 0n the agenda there, along with trade, will be the war in ukraine.

0ur political editor chris mason has been speaking to mr sunak, firstly about the destruction of the dam in southern ukraine on tuesday, and who he thought was to blame: 0ur military and security services are still conducting their investigations, so we don't have a definitive answer on who was responsible. but if it does turn out to be russia, i think it would fit with a pattern of behaviour throughout this war, which is where russia has, as an active strategy, deliberately targeted civilian infrastructure. if intentional, this attack would represent the largest attack on civilian infrastructure during the war. it's harmed hundreds of, tens of thousands of people. and that's why it's right that we are providing humanitarian support right now. we will also work to hold those responsible to account, as we have been doing. and what we've been doing is providing support to bodies like the international criminal court who have already brought one proceeding against russia, putting resources on the ground to gather evidence.

but look, crucially, these acts against civilian infrastructure that we've seen in the past are abhorrent. they're appalling, they're causing enormous suffering. and that's why it's important that we continue to stand with ukraine firmly. let's talk about artificial intelligence. it's one of the things you want to talk about on this trip. we hear a lot about it in the news now and some quite doom laden predictions about it into the future. how worried should we be when people talk about its potential to kill people? how worried as the person in charge of our security are you about artificial intelligence right now? well, i want to make sure that we in the uk can realise the clear benefits of ai, whether that's in drug discovery or in other areas. but at the same time, we've got to put guardrails in place to protect ourselves, our country, our people from the very real risks that it poses, risks that the creators of ai themselves have highlighted. that's why i took a leadership role. i convened the leading ai companies in downing street a few weeks ago to talk about these guardrails, what the right approach to regulation is. i'll be talking to president biden about that tomorrow.

i believe the uk is well placed to lead and shape the conversation on this because we are very strong when it comes to ai. and it's a topic that i am particular started talking about two years ago to make sure that we are prepared. live now to washington and the bbc�*s gary 0'donoghue. take us to the timetable and what is on the agenda for the prime minister. he on the agenda for the prime minister. . , on the agenda for the prime minister. ., , , , ., minister. he has been in the capital at lunch and — minister. he has been in the capital at lunch and talking _ minister. he has been in the capital at lunch and talking to _ minister. he has been in the capital at lunch and talking to various - at lunch and talking to various congressional leaders including kevin mccarthy some warm words at the beginning of their meeting, also will be meeting varies committee chairs and people in the senate really i think this is to sort of drive the british agenda which is on ukraine and as you heard there on artificial intelligence. in these questions of the sort of trade deals having something to do with the americans. of course congress controls the first —— purse strings in america suspending on things like

ukraine which britain is keen on is absolutely crucial to the partnership. tomorrow, there will be president biden at the white house was up we are not expecting any major announcements we will see if anything changes from that but it is their first real face—to—face meeting here in washington having sort of come up against one another and in various summits around the world. ~ . , and in various summits around the world. ~ ., ., ~ ., world. we always talk about the secial world. we always talk about the special relationship _ world. we always talk about the special relationship between - world. we always talk about the | special relationship between the world. we always talk about the - special relationship between the us and the uk. is that still the case? to some degree, yes. there is a two nations divided by a common language and all of that kind of thing so it is still important. there are a lot of historical ties. always on these occasions there is a lot of talk about past glories, second world war, that kind of thing but also some key current strategic partnerships, whether that's on nuclear powered submarines in the indo—pacific, supply chain and infrastructure stability and assurance, those are key and important factors and those of sort

of things that they think they can do business on even if they cannot do business on even if they cannot do business on overarching free—trade agreement. psi, do business on overarching free-trade agreement. ai, you mentioned _ free-trade agreement. ai, you mentioned that _ free-trade agreement. ai, you mentioned that there - free-trade agreement. ai, you mentioned that there we - free-trade agreement. ai, you | mentioned that there we heard free-trade agreement. ai, you - mentioned that there we heard the prime minister talking about it he's very keen to be seen playing a leading role in an issue that has quickly started to dominate global headlines. ~ , ,., , ., , quickly started to dominate global headlines. ~ , ., , headlines. absolutely. it has only really blown _ headlines. absolutely. it has only really blown no — headlines. absolutely. it has only really blown up this _ headlines. absolutely. it has only really blown up this year - headlines. absolutely. it has only really blown up this year and - headlines. absolutely. it has only really blown up this year and we i really blown up this year and we have seen some of the companies involved rocket in price in the stock market. burton and rishi sunak believes that britain can be a leader, and leading and shaping the discussion about al on the upsides and downsides and perhaps being the centre in the future for one of those agencies that is there to design to regulate ai in the future, something that he is really been pushing, i think. something that he is really been pushing, ithink.— pushing, i think. thank you very much for bringing _ pushing, i think. thank you very much for bringing us _ pushing, i think. thank you very| much for bringing us up-to-date pushing, i think. thank you very - much for bringing us up-to-date with much for bringing us up—to—date with the visit by the minister to the us. do you stay with us here on bbc news plates more

hello. we are heading for a spell of warmer weather. on top of that, increasing humidity and also the possibility of one or two heavy showers, perhaps some thunderstorms as well. and we do need the rainfall because it has been so very dry over the last two or three weeks in some parts of the country and even in others, close to a month of no rainfall at all. central parts of england, church lawford last time it rained was the 11th of may, and southern parts of wales have not seen rain for about a month. and the reason for it is this persistent area of high pressure. it's sinking air through the atmosphere. that's why we call it high pressure. it's stuck here and it prevents weather fronts from coming off the atlantic. doesn't necessarily mean it's been all that sunny. in fact, we've often seen low gray clouds forming in the north sea and being pushed by that wind that blows around the area of high pressure. so cloudy mornings, but then brighter afternoons. so, through the course of the night, we'll see low cloud being pushed

in once again by that breeze off the north sea. skies across western parts of the uk will be clearer. i think temperatures will be no lower than around seven degrees and more typically nine or ten in city centre. so on thursday morning, cloudy start for many of us, particularly across eastern parts of scotland and england. and then, that strong june sunshine works its magic. the cloud burns back to the eastern coast, but it does look as though that eastern strip will stay on the cloudy side and chilly in places, maybe no higher than 15 degrees in hull, newcastle and norwich, or 17 in norwich or so. the higher temperatures will be further west. pollen levels still remain very high across parts of england and wales. further north, little bit lower. the forecast then for friday, and we are going to see that change in the weather across south—western parts of the uk. increasing humidity, i think hazy skies and the risk of showers, maybe some thunderstorms too, but very isolated in the south—west on friday.

in fact, they could arrive as early as thursday night. elsewhere, the weather will be more or less the same. what we've been used to in the last few days. now, the temperatures will steadily rise. we could see highs approaching the high 20s in some spots. so not too hot, i think. warm enough for most of us. that's it for me. bye— bye.