only green washing. after all, there are billions to be made. our chiefs documentary, deep sea greed starts due date on d, w. the . this is the daily news live from the land. a space of emergency is declared in southern ukraine is a major them is destroyed. you credit and russia are accusing each of the blowing up the cost. good them. evacuations are on the way with flooding, likely to affect thousands of people. also coming out from the program, germany looks to those security ties in the,

in the pacific defense minister bar of the story. this is in india hoping to counts of russia's growing influence in the region. the and i, the era many cubes. mckinnon. good to have you with us, ukraine in russia, accusing each other of blowing off a major diamond hydro electric power plant and the russian control pos if you train officials that have declared a state of emergency. ukraine's military accused russia of destroying the dam to slow it's military movements. meanwhile, the kremlin has accused you crane of sabotage. people are being evacuated as a flood worth. what says serge, into nearby towns. the nova cost cut down supplies drinking water to something that you cry and cry. mia and seeds cooling tanks to the nearby is just for reach you at nuclear power plant. a wall of water sewage is through

a mass of breach. in the car health could dam the flood vultures appearing to over well what was left of the damaged infrastructure. as most of rushed down stream, the level of the deep pro river rose several neat hundreds of residents began evacuating. ukrainian officials seed up to $86.00 on the square at risk of flooding. a specialist that required family evacuation of people to safe areas has begun. included with all services are working with emergency service police, military, you all are together and i, i all ready to take documents on his centrals on wait for evacuation buses would advise them. also, if i'm addressing the residence of the left bank, similar to leave, please do everything possible to save your lives a lot and leave the insecure place at once. booking numbers patient at that,

but this file footage shows the dam before the attack under russian occupation. much of the affected area in southern ukraine is also russia controlled. both sides blamed each other for the dams destruction. ukrainian authorities have previously one of the dams value equip, unleashed 18000000000 cubic maces of water. the dam race of why provides cooling water. so this f raise your power plant. but the you in nuclear watchdog see that so no immediate nuclear safety risk after the dam was damaged. i also corresponded and keep sonya found the car. what more she could tell us about the destruction of the dime. it was the local authorities in the coastal region have now said that the gulf co hydro electric power plant, that entire facility now is completely under water and the state one phone company

that that runs the lawn says that an explosion in the engine room in the early hours of this morning, this is what caused the damage to the facility at the c o. it's absolutely beyond repair. now this incident, of course, has caused huge alarm. hillcrest and savanski has destroyed the motive for the meeting of his national security and defense council. he said he's discussed emergency of, you know, international and security measures are tried hard rochelle, comfortable for what he calls a 10 roost attack. can you tell us what's the effect this is having on people living downstream from them and also those dependent on the reservoir behind it. when you to a 20, if you're really worried about catastrophic flooding in up to 80 a, towns and villages in this area. now we're already showing off of entire towns and villages almost completely submerged. the miller of noble co schools go with this

damn is located. so that's what the levels of already risen in his, in his tone with, you know, playgrounds and coffee is now completely on the water. he's also saying that the internet services seem to be disrupted pieces by russian forces, wielding from the gulf no off because the one region they've already begun to that creations of wasted is a low lying areas. residents being advice for you to take the documents and drinking water if they can, what they must evacuate, living advice to not leave behind that fits on trains or then clauses and key to so that they can be rescued from the flood waters. we're also getting some reports of the roads being washed away, which will make it difficult for rescue teams to access some supplements. we also have the risk between now being brushed and from keys to the salt of ukraine, calvin, google, and for being vehicles guiding things like water treatment plants and trend rates. so a truly dramatic scituate, hey, shannon and who is in charge of getting the situation under control. now when the, the district of nova cools,

go with them and follow up on is located that is under the russian control. now this is located near the front line in the southern caps on region. i'm really the, the disney pulled over. there is the dividing line and we're here to go for about 16000 people now in the critical zone on the crate in control, the west bank also to the photo book. and of course, this is all you know, complicating matters we heard from the ukrainian interior ministry or do today seeing that facility is looking to do it. and he said that, you know, russian forces to continue to k as in frank headphone, even as the population is being evacuated from the city. sonya, on the car forcing from key. thank you so much for that. now the kremlin is cooling the attack on the dime, deliberate, sabotage by keith correspondent m alicia. when is in riga or in lot the air and i asked her for an update on rushes reaction. a while the kremlin spokes person me and see if his cost spoke to journalists today, and he denied that russia is responsible for this attack. he instead shifted the

blame to key of to ukraine. he said that ukraine carries responsibility for everything that has happened, and he call this an active sabotage. he also said that the one of the potential consequences of this, or one of the potential goals of this from the ukrainian side, as he says, could be to cut off crimea, which russia antics from ukraine, from the water supply, which is supplied by this. um this down this uh, hydro electric power plant. um and he also um said that this whole thing as he put it could be um, an indication that you credit is counter offensive on the whole isn't going well. as he said, he thinks the ukrainian side is choking so essentially accusing ukraine of desperation when it comes to its war efforts to sides again, once again, trading blame and the consequences for the locals as the kremlin spokesperson also said, will be dire. melisha and reporting from rica. thank you. right now,

nato is saying that it blames russia for attacking the the spacing of speaking from process law. the in slovakia. earlier today, the nato secretary general young stilton bug cooled, the breach an outrageous act. the destruction of the cove gone. dom today, pitts house and so civilians at the risk and coal, so severe environmental damage. this is a great just act which should demonstrate so once again, the brutality of rush also war in ukraine. government also leaving no doubt about who it blames for the destruction of the nova kafka down chunk. flo will awful. it's said the following. this is something that takes on a new i mention, but it fits the way the person is waging this war. but is it really that clear?

cut off the fence. i'm less marina merrill and about the blame game between russia and ukraine, and also to 1st what russia would guess house of doing this. could be um, well for the russian side, obviously knowing that the premium condra offensive is possibly under way it bought uh, floods ukrainian positions make it more difficult to cross the deep river. so they would create essentially a swarm to prevent ukrainians from striking using that position using that direction. and this is a tactics that has been used during the 2nd world war blowing up dams to prevent enemy advances. so that's what russia could potentially gain from blowing opposite them. okay, but what about you crate? i mean, what could that reasons be for damaging the stem? i paid for the premium side. and um, we have cnn already last year was the air pin down next to key. if um,

do you bring inside the blue upset them to prevent the russians from taking care of um, in this specific scenario, firstly, it would cut off fresh water supply to crimea, which would make it difficult for russian authorities there. on the one hand, on the other hand, it would disrupt the electricity supply. it would create a committed, carrion catastrophe. so there will be a need for reallocating people in the vicinity of saddam and because um, some of the territories controlled by the russians. the idea is to distract the russian forces and to possibly have russia re deployed forces to know like a whole grading or the 2 handles this. okay? now this isn't as you say, the 1st time that we've seen a tax on critical infrastructure. but this does seem to be a major escalation. so would you say, can we expect to see more of these types of major incidents? well, yes, it is a major escalation because this is

a purposeful targeting of critical civilian infrastructure. and no matter which side it is, um, sometimes it is necessary from a military perspective. counting was collateral damage if it helps to fulfill the military objective. from a utilitarian perspective, you create a short term damage in order to achieve greater good. however, as this unfolding, as there is a possibility that we will see similar attacks from critical civilian this infrastructure as both sides capital desperate. i do have to ask, i mean, how worried should we be about the impact of the down breach on the jeff? the reason you 2 pallets alone because that of course relies on the water from the down for cooling. yes, others correct? and it would seems that the russian side was worried about it, at least in the official statements. we know that according to russian forces in november 22, them have been reinforced to infer that nothing happens is

a nuclear power plant because either way, these are a side would benefit from the nuclear power plant flowing up and right now the situation is unclear, of what we know from real fell across here as well, is that for the moment um, everything is in order and it still has enough water to be cooled. however, we will have to return that in a couple of days and see how the station changes arena around defense unless from king's colors. london, thanks so much for your time. thank you. now following visits, to sing a pool on indonesia, germany is defense. minnesota is now in india, or as the story is, as in delhi, as part of a week long visit to the region, he wants to strength and ties with what he calls reliable partners in the, in the pacific. and says that this corporation is key to global peace and stability . germany is supporting india is defense capacity in an attempt to reduce india's

reliance on russian supplied wesson's dw as chief political correspondent. nina, honda is travelling with the defense minister and she sent us this assessment of his visit from delhi. as far as the stories is the 1st german defense minister to visit india since 2015, both countries once a deep and collaboration, they see each other as important strategic partners in 5 boys. the story is called india, the most important strategic partner for germany and europe. for the next few years or so, the story is says that this region here, the end of pacific is going to be shaping the 21st century. and that requires deepening collaboration, also in the defend 6. so now germany and europe, far as the stories argues comp miss out on that opportunity to play an active role in the, in the pacific. he's what do you have to say? i'll say he met his indian counterpart. we totally agreed about the german in europe and wrote in the in the pacific. we agreed that the more engagement of

europe and germany is necessary, especially odd, joined, exercise, next year. really had been appreciated by him. and we were, we were both of the same opinion. we need more cooperation, not only do it by exercises, also by the defense of industry, defense adam and cooperation. and we are working on it. and of course, i think we should and we can, and we ought to do more in the region, intends a partnership with india because we are approaching times. we can't really predict what is going to happen in the next few years. and we need the strategic partners like indonesia, like india, for example, especially gym and defense minister speaking. that is a quick reminder of our top story for you today even most ago are accusing each other, blowing off the major them in a russian controlled part of southern new price officials in the area around the no business costs could them have declared

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