the, the business dw, do live from ballot, thousands are of actuated after a data breach and southern ukraine. it on least at tar and of level to see is amount of humanitarian catastrophe as teeth and moscow accuse each other or destroy the cutoff. got down and are i wanting the flooding could cause an environmental

disaster to we talk to your friends environment administer to get his assessment of the thoughts off the coast of you having a bit to avoid a serious oil spit more than a 1000000 barrels of skill stored in the abandon tank, transferring it safety is a risky process. by doing nothing could be devastating. the i'm gonna have those as well come to the program. thousands of people offline, southern ukraine, after the destruction of a large dime and an area controlled by russia. rescue teams are racing to evacuate areas in on dated by flood waters. the united nations, a chief says the breach at the health got down to be the most significant damage to

civilian infrastructure. since the start off, the chief claims must go, blew up the dam on the front line to slow your brains. military. russia is accused of ukraine off sabotage. meanwhile, the us says it cannot say, conclusively, what happened with flood waters. rising people grasped what they could and fled supplied sydney, every thing is to match them. what's uh, your all the furniture, the fridge, food, all the flowers. everything is floating. i don't know what to do. satellite images taken 2 days apart. so the extent of the damage to the coast could um most of my officials say up to 80 townsend villages or at risk of flooding. thousands of residents have been told to evacuate. the dam lies in russian control,

southern new crane, and near the front line. want to show you ukraine blames most go for the breach president below him is lensky claims that keith knew that russia had placed explosives on the last year in 4 months or indeed. the information indeed came from our intelligence. we chatted without partners and everyone essentially understood that the russian federation was together with certain collaborators. had a mind the dam calling about i'm, i'm assuming the wallet done with schumann or ukraine just such a un security council meeting to discuss the disaster. well, sure, again, pointed the finger of blame at ukraine. why would we do it? besides, through canadians was threatening to during the demo time, including the united states representative counted this, i want to make absolutely clear. it was russia that started this. what? it was russia that occupied this area of ukraine,

and it was russian forces that took over the dam illegally last year and have been occupying ever since. well, lee does have condemned what is being called a humanitarian, an ecological disaster. now let me give you a bit of background on the situation. the want to begin searching through the cost cut down and the hydro electric power plant. early on tuesday morning, it was built in the soviet times to a hold of lawns reservoir, that supplies water for millions, including full crimea, that was antics by moscow with them and most of the affected region on the russian control that you can see here in the shaded areas, the dime itself is located just above a small town of nova hoff got. that's on the, the pro river. the reservoir lies above it's making possible other sites these up what is yeah, nuclear power plant,

which is also under russian control before the dam burst, the reservoir contains an estimated 18 cubic kilometers of water that's roughly equal to the great salt lake in the us state. of utah, the lots of salt lake lake in the western hemisphere isn't providing water to the separate as your nuclear power plant, as we've mentioned. and although their plants react as have been shut down since last september, they still need cooling water to keep them safe. now ukraine's environment minister has told the w of that the breach of the dam will leave tops of his country's nature and walk life in a state from which it may never recall that was on the street. that's also said up to 1000000 people may be left without access to fresh water. he was speaking to the w corresponded jack pout in brussels. are, in my opinion today we have the few just the crimes environmental crimes from the 1st day or full scale invasion. i understand that the now we have destroyed

a lot of territory as we have for the last national park theater. thought it, this isn't, isn't a new pulse key, or is it a oil? you know, we have a lot of for destroyed them. parts of, i'm an old man to work for you to be on emerald. now to look them out to the door and i understand that the some parts of wild nature, we lost forever. this is a better button. ok. this is a real side. and this is real. how many of them got the story for the future? um, i understand that some, maybe 1000000 people will be was out of fresh water from the 1st day of the full scale invasion. we tried to calculate all of environmental damage. now we have more than $2400.00 cases or 4. and why don't month old crimes? the total damage is more than $52000000000.00 oil us. i believe that in

future it will be as a base to get the reparations from russia. now, i mean, not that i say not about the older protection. i mean environmental protection that's got more now with the w's correspondent, mt of my son, the max. what's the latest? give us an update? this. right, so what we've been hearing from the affected areas in southern ukraine, the water levels were expected to peak during the day. um, now there were some 1st initial reports that in some areas that were 1st to the water levels are starting to drop it further down stream. there's still new floods coming into with lower intensity. now evacuations are still under way, are still ongoing from uh, what we heard from the forties and the have some region more than 2000 homes were destroyed, more than 1500 people had to be evacuated so far. overall on the left and right bank and ukraine and russian control territory. i'm 40000 people are believe to be

in danger of flooding. there haven't quite some dramatic scenes playing out in the have sun city itself where media actually has access to and kind of get a bit of a better understanding of what the situation there is. and there have been reports of people hiding from the floods, trying to get to get on top of cars getting top on rooftops, waiting forever evacuation. evacuation is ongoing. teams have been dispatched to the region have been working since yesterday trying to get people to safety on a very difficult circumstances. access is limited. roads are washed away in certain parts. there's limited communication and showing still going on. so russians are still showing these affected areas, they're having reports of one person killed, but that could not get independent independently verified. uh now as you've mentioned much of this, there's also as affecting territory that they've actually controlled by the russians and that's not accessible, usually to west end to end of the slides yourself and was so how do we know about

the situation that i mean, that's right like other stories in his were actually in the occupied areas. there's very, very, very little access of versions only give access to, uh, to, to pro pro russian or media from what we know we know from, from them or from, from, from kilograms for example. um, pictures that are circulating on social media. now the russian state news agency tests published a few numbers they were seeing that's in the effected regions in the, on the left bank and the russian control territory. 2700. the houses had been flooded and that there was evacuation process going on. 1300 people were evacuated . the mayor of nicole, one of the affected cities there. um, stated that 900 of people were evacuated from his town. a town to 45000, but however 7 people are still missing. so it's from, from this, it appears that there were some, some,

certain responses certainly evacuation underway. but then if you look at the telegraph because of local tell room groups from the area of the situation looks a bit more dire of further down south in the alaska region, for example, downstream across across the river from harrison and the russian occupied territory . they had been reports of people stuck in addicts stuck on roofs waiting for evacuation, having to rely on each other for evacuation because there was simply no, no real system in place dw, responded max on to the in key for us. thank you much now mike mountain is a samuel studies fellow at kings college in london and i asked him who he thinks was behind task done bridge. and i'm 90 percent show that this is the russians and there was a slim charge. so that happened by accident because the st structure had been weakened by previous minish activity. but if you look at the timing way,

ukraine is moving to a new phase of its counts from offensive. and also the fact that a lot of this was a, is gonna have a huge amount of terry and impacts is also taking out some ukranian positions on the islands in the middle of the river. i think that's what the russians were intending. but i think it was important tonight that i don't think the russians expected it to be this big and this serious. i think they wanted a small floods that would take out those. you kindly positions, but this ended up being something much bigger. me, now, you credit the president problem is a lensky said, and it's not the address that this will not stopped refrain from taking back occupied territory. how is this likely to change quite literally the shape of the battlefield? so i think he try and has a 2 jobs now obviously it needs to focus on getting it civilians safe and, and that really is the focus right now as you've heard from your correspondence,

but not really a week or so that will be done. and then the dr field has changed downstream. the down, it's going to be the river is gonna be much wider. so it's gonna be much more difficult for you trying to attack a customer the but up stream eventually is the water has received the river, particularly area of the current reservoir. up until yesterday, why was the restaurant will be smooth side perhaps over the summer. that might dry out. i think look here, all these changes and this impulse and say exactly what the changes are going to be the best way that we can do it in general times. we should probably also note that the training ministry is much more able to adapt than the russian ministry. and so something of this scale, as you say, change the shape of the both of those types. you probably might have an advantage and the speed at which it can adapt. now this does offset, and as you said, have struck a territory that is mainly controlled by the russians. how will this affect their ability to defend against that you find in offensive as well?

this is one of the main reasons why i think that they were intending for a smooth breaking the dime. and they've ended up with a massive one. there were lots of reports of russian soldiers on the south bank of the river need pro, climbing to the tops of trees, and that positions have been wiped out. so any possible gain that they might have had, perhaps they could re deploy those troops to another area to defend against you, training and offensive, say in the south towards the operations have been wiped out day on. now having to look at rescuing that routing troops. so what i think this has been a bit of it is also that nobody wants it on now both sides having to adopt some respond. yeah, yeah. the kind is that having to get the civilians out of the following on the russians that having to read to prove that troops. and that was these folks up, lots of logistics like it actually, i suspect in the long time is not going to have a huge effect on the battlefield. mark mountains. i thank you very much,

mike. thank you. let's have a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. us secretary of state and to the blinking has flown into saudi arabia and help folks with the saudi crown. prince mohammed been some of the pat, reportedly discussed a range of bilateral issues and an open and comforted conversation, blinking is indicating them to study washington's relationship with we out of to years of deepening disagreements in the us. the fullness news jersey governor chris christy has launched his campaign for the republican presidential nomination . christy joins a growing slights of candidates in a race dominated by former president donald trump. opinion polls suggest trump country has the most support. christie worked on from successful 2016 presidential campaign, but it's now a vocal, trump critic. it's in the us to people

have died and a shooting at a high school graduation at the state of virginia. a 19 year old suspects has been arrested. one of the victims was reportedly a graduating student, several others are being treated for gunshot injuries. iran has unveiled an intermediate range ballistic missile, which of the claims is capable of traveling a type of sonic speed. president abraham rise. he said the weapon will boost the country's power of tones as the messiah was presented to us and post sections on over a 1000 people and entities in iran, china and hong kong. for the support of terror on some military program. united nations has begun an operation to drain more than a 1000000 barrels of oil from a decaying tank off the coast of u. m and b. so safa has been abandoned off the portal for data for years,

threatening an ecological disaster. but finally, after years of fundraising, a salvage mission is getting underway. a listing rec, off the coast of yemen, fedex, but say it's a catastrophe. waiting to happen for stuff is coming, move in a 1000000 barrels of crude oil. and that's concerned. it could break apart at any moment for tank. it was being used as a floating storage facility for oil. when you had been civil war per accounts in 2015 since then it's been left to rot. in 2019 a team went on board and took these photographs. they shaved the extensive and neglect even van pipes were leaking and valves rusting through a smooth adult from space. the stuff could have a big environmental impact, a spilling the red sea would devastates wild life,

leaf fishing communities destitute and would disrupt trade. 3 of us who is canal you people have been talking about it and the not doing anything about it. this group has been able to do something about it and i believe will be successful. will continue to push forward until we succeed. for united nations raised money for us, i wish operation for members states private companies, and even the public through a crowd funding campaign used soon as it proceeds to buy his own time to cooling, to the north. fis on the nation shows the plan for notes. it moves in close adults with this stuff, the engineers board and gain access to its tanks below a pumps and transfer the oil to the north dakota. once its empty for tank, it will be towed away to be scrapped the risk. so something going wrong are real,

the palpable. and this is something where to go wrong. indeed, many questions would be asked the only way we could answer that question as well. walking away is not an option. it wouldn't be easy, the un saves the alternative, could be the biggest oil spill the world has ever seen more of this week. and now go to bare root and speak to the address for tips. program director for green peace in the middle east and north africa. julia is this you and salvage mission going to succeed? it's a fault. thank you for having me. we're hoping it's going to succeed. there's no other choice than a success because if it doesn't succeed, because it can impact and you might see an impact, going to be very, very, very significant. and we have a trust and faith in the u. n. and it, what's that is which is established, there was a lot of experience and have the equipment needs to like contain and boom. to make

sure that this operation happened a safety as possible. now what are the ecological risks that if something goes wrong? well, we need to know that the red sea is one. uh it's really i'm not sure of under the treasure with a great biodiversity amazing codo named rules and all of that would be best in t. uh, so be impacted by, by an or speed of that magnitude reduction potentially port times that x. and by, that's always go beyond simply because you come in fact, you need to think about that. you might, you might then in fact, i mean it will investigate one of the words to my, to in classes in the word i know in the image. it has the potential to block key points, electrical data port where a lot of the fluid is coming to him and goes through with that port. it will disrupt, wants us to fly because we know human defense on the same nation plan and will affect the supply for more than 10000000 people. it also disrupt one of the most

important sector for them in the economy, which is the fishing sector. and in the past are going to young, think the young man saw the radio might be infected, egypt, if you guys well, and now this case happening in the red sea right now, is it unique? and that was all the other threats of his offices like this. i know it's not unique in the world. i mean, there are uh many tankers was being left alone either with a skeleton crew or with no one on board. i mean, this is really part of the, the old system that is the main thing over. well, i mean, one thing is the choice kind of a software which is frankly under reported is the fact that the nice and all companies like, because like, like o n, v are like the owner of the, or on board as a software that they have been using on the 2015 for the patient. and despite that they've been sitting silently in the shadow. it's comforting that billions of

dollars of a profit was the and it's been struggling up to the moment to raise the necessary funds for this population. that is a choose kind of in that story. so why did it take so many years to take action? well, it's a, it wasn't very slow process. i mean, it was very difficult 1st for the, for all parties involved to reach a, an agreement on that plan. like i said, after that it took more than 2 years for the you and to raise the money for that for that, the nation which is estimated around a $150000000.00. i mean, they've been going nothing on the guards of a lot of governments. they have been organizing fledging conferences of the budget conferences and they even launched across the funding platform asking people to pay, but people should not be the one paying for that. so this would be the one paying for that. and again, we're, we've been asking for the oil companies who are likely owner of the on board the software to actually pay for the operation, which is the, not just

a drop in the ocean compared to the central billions of dollars that they make every year city on a sunday, they're some brilliant fees. thank you very much for this. in these insights. my pleasure to let's have a look at some other stories making headlines. the united nations court has ruled that london genocide suspect for this young couple guys on fits to stand trial. the criminal tribunal at the hague is calling for an alternative legal procedure that would rule out to conviction. the 90 year old was arrested in 2020 of the decades on the wrong though, and it the german install. so it will show its hosted french president him on the way to my call or the working tonight in the city of pots dump, nibbling on tuesday. ukraine was understood to be top of the agenda to maintain shots, that germany and fonts are linked by an inseparable friendship. and up chuckling challenges together. police in paris 5 to go some

demonstrate is protesting against the amount of, of my calls, pension. we for the bill, raising the minimum time of the age to $64.00, was approved in march without the votes in parliament, or at least have continued spies, little shots of rolling back the pension of bull, which will take effect in substance some sports news will you know and tennis nova jungling which has won these, has gone through to the semi finals off of the french open. the syrup had to work hard for victory after losing the 1st set of russian cabin cuts in the press that was on. and the 2nd set as well before the former was number one, played the perfect type rate. despite some late take up stock, which served out the match and just over 3 and a half hours and remains in with the shots of waiting a new rec hold of $23.00 grand slams. you know, i think serve as a great confidence booster. you know, mentally, sol,

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