foss, this for the people are nice to know what is happening there in our series guardians of truth, watching it on youtube. dw documentary, the, this is the w news, live from berlin. thousands are evacuated out for a damn breach in southern ukraine. a lease has a torrent of flood water, fierce mount of a humanitarian and environmental catastrophe. as keith and moscow accused each other of destroying the control of adapt. also coming up front concerns over the

health of the co, francis. the vatican says that he will have abdomen surgery today in a room hospital where he is expected to stay for several days. and german metal band, rum stein, under pressure as allegations of sexual misconduct are made against its lead. things are currently on tour. the band says that it is taking the claims extremely seriously the . i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. a damn breach in a russia health area of ukraine has sparked a growing humanitarian and environmental emergency with flooding, impacting dozens of towns and villages. the catastrophe is also now expected to reshape the battlefield. just as ukraine launches, it's counter offensive war. i'm not coming up. but 1st rescue teams are racing to

evacuated areas in, in dated by flood water. the united nations, a chief says that the breach of the cove cut down could be the most significant damage of civilian infrastructure. since the beginning of the war. keith claims that moscow blew up the dam on the front line to slow ukraine's military. well, russia is accusing ukraine of sabotage. meanwhile, the us says it cannot say conclusively, what happened with floodwaters rising, people grasped what they could and fled supplied sydney, everything is submerged in water. all the furniture, the fridge, food, all the flowers. everything is floating. i didn't know what to do. satellite images taken 2 days apart. so the extent of the damage to the cove could um most of my officials say up to

a t townsend villages or at risk of flooding. thousands of residents have been told to evacuate. the dam lies in russian controlled, southern new crane and near the front line. want to show you ukraine blames most go for the breach. president below to me is lensky claims that keith knew that russia had placed explosives on the dime 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 optimism in the wall of the blue schuman a little ukraine. just such a un security council meeting to discuss the disaster. last year, again pointing the finger of blame it ukraine. why with with to it. and besides, through canadians was threatening to doing the demo on thing, including of the united states. representative counted this,

i want to make absolutely clear as it was russia that started this work. 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 and ecological disaster. and earlier i spoke with elena co saki which southern ukraine area manager i care international and asked her how the organization is getting a to the thousands affected. or as you can see, we're at the moment to in had a son named had a son, c. k, behind me is the area of the city that is flooded and where i can, the curation is ongoing, as we speak in for the 2nd day already on we are receiving information from the local authorities from our partners, uh on the ground from local organizations and mountain care organizations who have

engaged the already since yesterday morning in a factory thing, people, but also providing essential assistance to those who have been evacuated. now what we understand is uh that some 1000 around 1500 people have been inaccurate. that so far, but that there is a number of people that are still staying in their places of residence even though it's affected by floods in the head of school safety, but also in other a rural areas around the city that have been heavily effected. what we are doing now is uh basically assessing the situation, hour after hour and provide any assistance to our partners to respond as soon as possible. we understand that the breach is impacting both sides of the river. um, so ukrainians pro child side as, as well as the russian controlled side. i'm wondering if you can give us a little bit of insight into whether you're getting calls from the russian side. and are you able to help people there?

some of our partners indeed have reported that has the set top different channels on communicating with people that are affected and the receive their needs a full those full points. they are reporting as well. uh, the calls uh from the left bank. however, at the moment is that side is not accessible but to buy the coals and by the request. seeing also heavily affected. we've also had reports of russian and sold governor warning today that there are mine fields which are flooded can, can you confirm and, and what does this mean in terms of getting help to people or what we understand is that, or indeed that this is a risk um, the area of the headphone safety itself but surrounding area has been contaminated and there is a risk of that to the movement of water can actually move the mines or other explosive devices around. so there is a risk of, uh, these mines uh,

or under explosive devices being activated uh, how far is to we did not receive any reports on the other incidents as of now, but this is something that we are closely monitoring as well. and also uh closely monitoring um, showing the potential for shelling, tell us a little bit more about how, how you are preparing to deal with that. yes, i don't know if you could hear, but there are ongoing, let's say explosions during the day. mainly the are tell her, are hillary, i'm back so we haven't a for the past 2 days, at least the there hasn't been more severe showings. however, this is the ongoing situation in the region and has been for the past several days with ongoing explosives that keep the affecting people's lives here. thank you so much for providing that perspective, selena kentucky which area manager of southern ukraine of care international. and

joining us from her son, we appreciate it. thank you very much. and here are some other stories making headlines around the world. in bangladesh, thousands of schools have been closed as the country grapples with its longest heat wave and decades, temperatures and the capital doc. i have reached 41 degrees celsius. the energy minister has warned a frequent power cuts due to a fuel shortage. residents say that the power cuts have also led to water supply issues of the smoke from wild fires in canada is blanketing new york city and other parts of the northeastern united states. new yorks mayor is urging people to limit outdoor activities. the canadian province of come back is at the epicenter of the fires. international firefighters are helping to battled the flames. and the us to people have died in a shooting at

a high school graduation in the state of virginia. a 19 year old suspects has been arrested. one of the victims was reported as a graduating student. several others are being treated for gunshot injuries. hope frances will undergo abdominal surgery today and has already arrived in the hospital where he is expected to remain for several days if addict and spokesperson has said that. the 86 year old is suffering from a hernia, which is causing painful and worsening symptoms. or the, or the pope appear that is weekly general audience that the vatican francis has been suffering increasing health issues over the last few years and was forced to spend several nights in the hospital with bronchitis in march. and let's go to rome now, where we are joined by journalist alina, a tribe of tony who is in right outside gemelli hospital, where the pope is being treated. so what do we know so far as well?

uh, as you mentioned that the, uh uh, the pope is out the jamalia hospital in central room. this is a traditional hospital where pips always go to be treated to have operations to receive tests and so forth. so he arrived this morning and his impression is going to be this afternoon of to which hopefully we'll have some news. he'll stay here a couple of days. adopters will be sending updates during the course of the day. now, as you mentioned, he is having a little surgery. the actual technical time is a lot corrupt to me and it's tied to a honey, a, a very, very painful honey condition that is causing him much pain, suffering, and also physical distress. so this is sort of the update we have at the moment from on the ground, put it into the broader context for us because in the past months we have often heard reports on the pope's health. how is the vatican preparing right now? yes. yes, absolutely. well, his health is an ongoing issue, but i would have to say an ongoing issue from when he was a teenager. well,

most from his twenty's because you might remember that he, uh he had a 1st serious uh long condition and it has positive lung removed in his twenties. uh so there were often alarms, uh, as this one. today he was a, he came into hospital last month, and it was a pre, uh, it wasn't a pre planned operation last month when he came in. and to on to this is just the latest in his series journalist, alina trump, a tony, thank you very much for the update from rome and german hard rock band, ramstein kick off a series of concerts in munich. tonight i missed the claims of sexual misconduct involving lead singer till linda mon, german media is reporting that the band is now looking into allegations made by several women in recent days. it's alleged female fans were selected gigs to join the other parties after parties, excuse me, with some reportedly making reference to sexual acts. a

spring in david love, it's from doesn't your culture. so tell us a little bit more about these allegations. right, sir? well, the most serious allegations are of a legend, sexual coersion, or sexual assaults by lead men to linda mind, who is said by some women to have given them alcohol directly. others say that they were recruited by a so called super fan, either online or at concerts, to go back stage and party with them potentially have sex with him. many say that they were pressured by that women to drink alcohol, at least to women say that they believe that they received the date rape drugs. one woman says the telling them and got very angry at her when she refused to sleep with them. another one says that she woke up to find him on top of her. so some really serious allegations there. and we're seeing more and more women coming forward. this week, a youtube are recounted on her youtube channel that allegedly she was at a concert she told was told by this recruiter that she was being taken through

a backstage party and found herself in a small room with 8 girls. she said they were completely silent, that some of them that they were very young, they appeared to be intoxicated. she said no one was checking ages and she was told that this was the pre selection of girls that telling them on wanted to sleep with allegedly so more and more of these actors, accusations, and allegations also coming out has linda mindset. anything have his handle upset anything the band, i mean they're, they're smart performed tonight, aren't they are performing tonight under a lot of scrutiny. they have put out a statement saying that the distance themselves from and do not believe in any kind of molestation. they've denied wrong doing. they said also that they are launching their own investigation into these allegations and that they have fired that a super fan who they are calling an assistant who is actually just of, of doing the recruiting. now the fans appear to be pretty divided,

and some of them have been trying to sell their tickets ahead of the shows in munich. there's also been a response for politicians here in germany. so i'm talking about canceling. the concerts are trying to band them. germany's family minister has also been talking about trying to make concerts in general, safer for women. you mentioned investigations into the allegations. tell us a little bit more about what, what might happen there. well, we don't know of any official investigations that so far a lot of people think that some might be coming, especially when it comes to allegations of date, rape, drug use. what we are seeing so far is really a discussion in society about this band, but also about group so called grouping culture in general of its been accepted for an for decades and the music industry and a lot of people are looking at it and saying the sex drugs and rock and roll coverage, and maybe this, maybe this was never okay to begin with. david levitz from the time you culture with the latest on the situation. again,

these allegations against to linda man of the band rom shine. we appreciate it. and with that now you're up to date on dw news coming up next, a documentary on coca cola as plastics. problem is always more on the website, the w. com. you can also follow us on social media. i'm sarah kelly and berlin. thank you so much for joining us, the profit tearing, instead of responsive the global business of asbestos. this is not a legitimate business. the people that are in don't deserve to be treated with any .