after this programme. a breach. this is a breach. this is the a breach. this is the dam a breach. this is the dam failing to contain a reservoir resembling a sea. this surge rushes down stream to dozens of towns and villages. it is effectively a front line between territory ukraine

controls and rush occupies. close to dnipro�*s mouth is her son. when artillery road didn't take long to find out what life is like. ——is kherson. when our team arrived. russia may have retreated here last year but they aren't far away. it takes a lot in this place to meet people leave. back upstream you can't see what is left of the dam and the hydroelectric plant. russia controls this area but blames ukraine. kyiv is in no doubt. translation: the powerstation was a prepared explosion. they knew exactly what they were doing. tonight

the kyiv regime committed another terrorist crime. the h dro another terrorist crime. the hydro is _ another terrorist crime. the hydro is that _ another terrorist crime. the hydro is that was _ another terrorist crime. the hydro is that was grown—up, leading _ hydro is that was grown—up, leading to flooding of several territories. so leading to flooding of several territories.— territories. so what is the significance _ territories. so what is the significance of _ territories. so what is the significance of the - territories. so what is the significance of the dam? | territories. so what is the l significance of the dam? it provides water to areas such as premier. both these areas under russian control. there huge. the dnipro river is especially wide here. 150 miles long and “p wide here. 150 miles long and up to 14 miles across. this is what the dam looks like undamaged. our colleagues at bbc verifies is this image was taken a few days ago. but this is what the dam has turned into. dozens of people are at risk of flooding. whole villages are underwater. the landscape has transformed. however destroy the dam knew

this would happen and decided it was worth it. ukraine has been ravaged by the battle. a country forever remoulded and now a region partially submerged. men who were once fighting for this land now control it. and they are enforcing their leader. men who were once fighting for this land now control it. and they are enforcing their leader. —— the dictat of their leader. this is the taliban antinarcotics unit. deep in afghanistan, they stop when they see a field of poppy.

while the men raze it, their commander shouts at the family that owns the land: "i told you to destroy yourselves." hidden from view, a woman screams back in anger but retreats indoors. within minutes, it's all gone — the poppy that this family spent months going. their son is detained for defying the ban. released later with a warning. we've been given rare access to the taliban campaign to eradicate poppy in the province. they have been at it for five months already. so now, we have to get to more remote areas, near the border with pakistan, to find standing crop. farmers here know how harmful opium is. there are high levels of

addiction in their own country. but there's no other option, says ali mohammad mia whose field was destroyed. translation: if you don't have enough food in your house - before going hungry, what else will you do? if we grew wheat instead, we won't earn enough to survive. when they hit those stalks, they sometimes come flying in the air. the sap from these bulbs comes flying, which is the opium residue. there is a very pungent smell of it in the air right now. the taliban go armed and in large numbers. there have been incidences of clashes with angry locals. they're accused of profiting from opium when they were fighting against foreign forces and the former afghan regime. a claim the taliban denies.

but now, from what we've seen and from satellite images, there is evidence of an unprecedented reduction. this is helmand province, which used to be afghanistan's heartland for opium. wheat stands where poppy was once grown. this man tells us of then the area, farmers have all but complied with the order. translation: we are really upset. we can't meet our families needs. we have had to take alone. hunger is at its peak and we haven't had any help from the government. we met the main spokesman of the taliban government, who told us they banned open because it's harmful and goes against their religious beliefs. farmers say they they're not getting any support

from your government. how do you plan to help them? translation: we know that people are very poor - but it causes a lot of addiction. we have called on international organisations to help and afghans facing losses. but you have made things very difficult with the ban on afghan women working for them. you can't have it both ways. translation: they should not link humanitarian issues - of political manners. opium isn't just affecting afghanistan. the whole world is affected by it. afghan produces nearly almost all of the heroin sold to europe. how will prices be impacted? we went to kandahar, another major poppy growing province, to find out. we met a farmer holding onto a small stash of his harvest from last year.

we are not naming him to protect him. he told us the price of each of these bags is now five times what it was before the ban. he is waiting for it to rise further so it can sustain his family longer. for now, the taliban appear to have accomplished what no one else could. but there are questions about how long they can sustain it. selling himself as a christian conservative, mike pence kicked off his campaign with a flashy video. that's why, today, before god and my family, i'm announcing i'm running for president of the united states. not one image of donald trump appears in his video, but mike pence cannot escape from four years of servile loyalty as the vice president.

right up until he refused to blockjoe biden becoming president. crowd shouting: hang mike pence! hanging mike pence was the cry from writers who stormed the rioters who stormed the capital. now defending the constitution is a campaign pitch. i believe anyone who puts themselves over the constitution should never be president of the united states. anyone who asks someone else to put themselves over the constitution should never be president of the united states again. mr pence is in much safer ground in iowa which will be the first state to make

a presidential nominee. also gaining with voters is ron desantis, senator tim scott and eight presidential candidates under the same roof. god is not down with america yet. mike pence is already well—known to voters, and yet he is still trailing badly in the polls behind donald trump, the clear frontrunner. who knows, the more candidates like mike pence who get into the race, the more they split that anti—trump vote and the easier they could make it for mrtrump to win the nomination. these voters didn't get to hearfrom trump himself but is giving this event. who are you supporting for the nomination? trump. or desantis. i would go for either one. but trump first, i think. i voted for president trump last time. the name calling has to stop.

straddling a harley—davidson. candidates like him versus the absent donald trump. and it's the former president who is still in the lead. in a cul—de—sac in central london, the world's media — focused on itself and one man. others have settled claims over the years, but here is prince harry, determined to have his day in court. telling those inside a packed court 15 and overflow annex that every single article written about him has caused him distress, and agreeing he had felt hostility for the media even before he knew about their methods. he was asked about this line in his witness statement. prince harry told the court he was talking about

journalists responsible for causing a lot of pain, upset — the press in general. asked if he was in the witness box to put a stop to the madness, he said it was his hope. he claims that many articles were based on unlawful gathering including phone hacking. often by private investigators. today he has been questioned about them in detail. he says the journalists behind the story, a visit from his mother on his 12th birthday, was by produced by investigators. the opposition claims he couldn't have hacked is fine because he didn't have one back then. he asks how they knew who he was at the pub at that time? the barrister told him this story of a thumb injury had already been reported the day before.

he claims itjust encouraged others to take stories further by taking illicit measures to gain information. he says he was often teased at school after these kind of articles, caused paranoia and distress, which led him to dump friends and not trust william. in a civil trial, in which a judge not a jury decides, says his lawyer. on the balance of probabilities, is it more like likely than not that the mirror engaged in phone hacking? or is it more likely they didn't? that they are weighing up just to see where the balance tilts. it isa it is a slightly different standard, a lower standard, if you like. for the best part of five hours inside here, prince harry calmly, quietly, seriously answered the questions put to him — questions designed to say his claims were wrong. he raised eyebrows and some

hackles when he described not just the british press about the government as at rock bottom. but he has broken so many of the rules of being a royal, political criticism is just another one to add to the list. he, though, has found his calling — to make calling out the press his life's work. in ukraine's eastern battlefields, this town is under siege. below ground, locals tune into the news from their bomb shelter.

as the russian army attempts to circle the town, ukrainian troops are trying to keep defence. two local men are keeping the civilian holdouts alive by running eight supplies each day.

20 minutes outside of the town, these two grab breakfast. the sound of artillery as a hint of what awaits them. friendship is crucial in this period. even in a difficult situation, it helps us believe that we will survive. dodging russian bombs on the way into avdiivka each day is bad enough. having to do it in an old banger that seems to breaks

igor and alexey are the last link in a chain of international aid that stretches all the way back to western europe. humanitarian supplies are transported across ukraine and stored at this warehouse just outside avdiivka. the last leg is down to them, running the final gauntlet to get the crucial cargo to where it is needed most. but it doesn't always go to plan.

a stray shell could land at any moment. this is not the place to get stuck. shelled every day, this final stretch is the most dangerous. but once inside the town, the firstjob is to drop off the aid before the next bombardment. oleh is a policeman from western ukraine, almost 1,000 kilometres away,

deployed to help the people in this frontline town. russian bombing here is indiscriminate. anything can be a target.

music box plays tune. while his parents have left, others have decided to stay

in the basements of the city. despite the horror, there is one place left in avdiivka that allows people to feel human again, if only for a few hours. in the basement underneath the local building, eagle and his volunteers on a local aid hub.

here, you can have a hot meal, wash your clothes, charge your phone. the simple things no longer taken for granted.

with the day drawing to a close

and the delivery is done, —— with the day drawing to a close and the deliveries done, it is time for igor and alexie to get out. —— and alexei to get out.

hello. there were two main parts to saturday's weather story — some heat and some thunderstorms. it was by quite some margin, the hottest day of the year so far — 32 degrees celsius in parts of surrey, lots of other places not too far behind. but for some, that heat through the afternoon into the evening spawned some thunderstorms. a dramatic view for this weather watcher in shropshire. this is how it looked on the radar picture through saturday evening across parts of the midlands, east wales, north west england and also up into western scotland. some quite intense thunderstorms, a lot of rain falling in some locations. and for sunday, well, it's more of the same — more hot sunshine but more scattered thunderstorms. in fact, a few showers and storms from the word go across parts of scotland, one or two, perhaps, through the channel islands, central southern england. and while there will be some spells of warm or even hot sunshine through the day, all that will do is intensify those showers. quite hit and miss — some places avoiding them —

but if you catch one across parts of southern england, the midlands, east wales could give torrential rain, squally, gusty winds, thunder and lightning. 30 degrees in london, somewhere could get to 31. northern england, seeing spells of warm sunshine and the odd thunderstorm. scattered showers for northern ireland and some continuing across scotland. maybe not quite as warm here as it was during saturday. now, for sunday night, it's another pretty humid affair. some showers and thunderstorms are set to continue. some areas of low cloud, mist and fog, but some clear spells, too. but overnight lows, generally 11—16 degrees — and bear in mind, we'll only get down to these temperatures very briefly because as soon as the sun comes up again on monday morning, those temperatures will start to climb. plenty of sunshine around but again, some scattered showers and storms — perhaps a line of thunderstorms popping up from london through the midlands and into parts of mid wales. again, a very warm day widely — temperatures between 20 and 27 degrees. some spots could getjust a little bit warmer than that. and deeper into the week,

while high pressure remains just about in charge, not quite strong enough to suppress all of the shower activity, there will be some showers, maybe the odd thunderstorm. and as more of an easterly breeze starts to develop, it could be that those temperatures drop backjust a little bit. but broadly speaking, lots of dry weather and sunshine, and it is going to still feel very warm.

live from washington. this is bbc news. former us president donald trump returns to the campaign trail for the first time since being indicted for his handling of classified documents.