in the ice branches, but perhaps the bank assigns a new hobby of $900.00. the referred not to be the news that refers and never comes . but when you feed them altogether, you'll realize it's called just another way of living. are you ready to meet the devon then join me right? just do it on vw. the this is steve of lee news long from berlin. it only gets worse, southern ukraine reels from a verse down as flood waters rise. thousands of people are homeless, humanitarian and environmental catastrophe, even moscow blame each other for destroying the dam. also coming up,

is this manhattan, or mars? huge areas of the us are blanket is full key and stinky. smog from wildfire is burning up in canada. plus a bid to avert a serious oil spill off again, but more than a 1000000 barrels are in this abandoned tank are transferring it is risky. doing nothing. could be devastating. the nicole fairly to all of you joining us on p b. s. in the united states and our viewers around the globe, welcome authorities and southern ukraine are racing to evacuate thousands of residents, the breaching of the cohort. god damn has flooded dozens of towns and villages united nations h. she says it could be the worst damage to civilian infrastructure in this war.

claims moscow blew up the russian control dam, located on the front line to slow any counter offensive. russia accuses ukraine a sabotage and turkeys president. ridge of type airline is told both leaders and phone calls that an international investigation is needed. now, the volunteers and rescue workers use motorized continues to pick up people down stream from the destroyed them trapped by the rising flood waters along with their pets. residents along the right bank of the didn't the pro river, controlled by ukraine are being taken to temporary evacuation zones by road and by rail. one of them is in the city of nikolai, of 100 kilometers from the flood zone. in his son there are paramedics, as well as volunteers, to help the back you,

we use find food and shelter. the collapse of the dam has brought further misery for tens of thousands already caught on the front lines of the war between ukraine and russia. 65 year old and as a rude and yeah, emerged from a bomb shelter after 3 days of rushing shelling to find her home, submerged a body shop where you could, your music. the city is like a ravine completely flaunted it's impossible to drive through the people who are trapped and what became like an island. i was taken away by my friends. i had to leave because having spent 3 nights in a bomb shelter, i just couldn't take it any more. but how does that route in the is luckier than most? her ordeal has ended on a bright moment. you have company, your color to her sister's lives and because i have so she has a place to stay and shoulders to lean on of the

well, those living along ukraine's lower than the parole river are now dealing with the immediate consequences of the dams collapse. the impact may be felt for generations with thousands of homes and livelihoods swept away in the disaster. juliano still keno bikes as a rapid response coordinator with the international rescue committee based in keys and earlier he described to me how his team on the ground is handling the situation . currently, we're at the international rescue committee are carrying out rapid needs assessment . we are focusing on the 1st phase of our response and mika lives. we're seeing that people are still being evacuated from the floodgates areas. so the numbers currently are around 3000 people who have left her son. what we're seeing is that make a live is that transits area and people are moving towards odessa and other central regions of ukraine. our teams in odessa are also preparing shelters to be able to

receive people in creating from her so on. now the russians and the ukrainians both say the collapse does not cause any civilian casualties, but the fear dimension of the flooding makes that very hard to believe. can you hear people corroborate the official information or what is it that importance to highlights here is that we're dealing with an emergency inside an emergency. this attack is yes, another very serious violation of international humanitarian law. we're very concerned that we are dealing with 16000 people directly affected by defrauding. we're talking about people's livelihoods, people's homes have been made in habitable. we're talking about an area of $650.00 square economics is that is not completely flooded. this is without a question, a infringe on an international humanitarian law. and that is why with the international rescue committee and other organizations in the in d u. n. organizations,

we're doing our best to help the people evacuate thing. and of course, what i like to highlight is not only are not only going to take part in the immediate evacuation part, but also as soon as these areas will be coming accessible again. the official news state that it's going to be about 10 days until the water will be up to this level . we'll be making sure that we'll be accessing through these areas and helping the people who remains, especially because i think that they are safe return. mm hm. and it will be until then that we do not know the true extent of this. now this river is also a front line between rushman and ukrainian control territories. how is that complicating efforts for your organization and others? it's, it's extremely complex and we are not only dealing with the fact that these areas have been under constant showing for the last months or almost a year now. but also that these are my region territories. we have been receiving

information also pictures from our calling because on the ground that now the minus the unexploded ordinances have been floating around is making the here we are extremely dangerous for both the population and art seems on the ground. so access is a severe problem in this case, so we'll be good working closely together with the civil protection of unit of ukraine to see what is the best approach in evacuating people and accessing the areas once they become uh once the water has retreated. dallas diana smoking advice, b r c, rapid response team. thank you so much for your time. affairs are the floods could impact the separation of nuclear power plant, which draws water for cooling from the new pro river to walk us through the dangers . let's bring in professor management english car, the with the department of civil and environmental engineering of the university of southern california. good to have you on the show. now there was grief concerned

about this app or is your power plant before this already? how much bigger is the risk of a nuclear catastrophe after the collapse of this damn a? good afternoon, deb, but fortunately is that provision nuclear power plant is 130 kilometers upstream from the list of failure and a put that be flooded. but separate here is depending for it's cooling water and the ultimate, it seemed to the water from the uh, the car, whole a reservoir. and if that reservoir drains under water, basically last, then that zippers yoga and have a problem for its cooling. however, the cooling pump of cooling, sorry, the cooling ponds over there, that we have enough reserve water, but then the water and event goes dawn from the reservoir. they can not pump it for

the station a pump. they need to bring these uh, upgrade to the pumps. which by the way, they have the after their for before cuz you might accident of 2011. they have somehow developed this contingency plan. but my biggest, what do you for is up, patricia is not immediately the access to power is the problem of the kinetic of the her still it yet on that and the accidental shutting and all of those things that would happen a lot self upside probably because we have only one upside power that gets the electricity to is that produce, you know, despite the obvious which would be a halt in hostilities. what are the immediate measures that, as far as your concerned need to be taken to ensure the safety of the plant to a, what is the most immediate measure? it is exactly to follow the 5 presupposed which was laid out by director of general

international atomic energy agency. mr. mariano grossey last week at the un security concept. not too short from untrue to the nuclear power products. that's one of the most important thing. the other thing we need to make sure that we have cost and 3 live upside poverty to the nuclear plant because the tool, lifeline of a nuclear plant is electricity and water. and we need to make sure that the nuclear plant, but they're operational or in shut down, mod, done of it, cost and reliability, sorts of upside down a tricity and access to watson. natural name is scottie, the university of southern california. how many? thanks. thank you. the air and much of the us north east has turned into fake red smog from hundreds of wild fires, burning and canada. officials and many cities are urging residents to stay in doors as pollution levels turn hazardous. the white house calls the fire as an alarming

example. of climate change in upstate new york fuel kelly is blanketed by the keys. smoke from hundreds of wild fires burning neighboring canada . a few 100 kilometers further south. the smoke is triggered unprecedented air health alarms in new york city, affecting millions of the bugs. sounds like i'm through the mid roofing difficult new yorkers or advice to where face masks went outside to filter out high levels of polluting particles found in near new yorkers or smelled something that has never impacted us on this scale before we had dangerously high levels, a wildfire smoke from thousands of miles away, thousands of miles away. the elderly and people with health conditions have been

told to stay in doors. like today, i'm not going to go to the park. i usually go to the park in the morning. stay home or not. i have to go because i want somebody that's there, but otherwise i stay home with over 400 fires still burning across canada, the pollution will likely continue to impact bordering us states. as canadians experienced their worst, ever early season fires, many see the trail of smoke as a sign of the climate crisis, which can include more frequent and even more extreme wild fires. and for a closer look, we can now speak to matthew a computer. he's a meteorologist based in washington, dc. there is now air quality alerts for major us cities. you are outdoors, you're not wearing a mask. i hope we're not making you defiant. and the official order is there. what's it like where you are? the most definitely said it was worth earlier on here in the nation's capital. i

could actually smell the smoke about 3 or 4 hours ago. now visibility is improved a little bit. i can just barely see the watching the monuments in the background earlier on. i couldn't, when disabilities were below about 3 to 4 kilometers in new york city, though a very different story. they're seeing their worst air quality ever observed in the biggest city united states, the big apple, up to about 379. that's the official number. remember anything over 50 because as reduced anything over 100 is hazardous for the general population. so in new york, this guys are orange. you can hardly see the kilometer if that. and in fact, they have to ground airplanes because something golfer land given how bad the visibility is. now the area affected is, is very vague and it's very far away from where these fires are actually taking place. so how do we get here and are you expecting for things to get even worse? yeah, i do think things will get worse before they get better. unfortunately,

you know, about 4 or 5 days ago we had a big speed for ridge of high pressure over a central canada that rocked the floods, thinking air, and that's a breeding ground for fires. so lot of fires propped up and like get back. but here's the thing. there was a counter clockwise swirling, low pressure over like health, ex, nova steel shaft. that is rolling all this and smoke south. and as a result is spreading from the arctic down towards near the gulf of mexico and the carolinas united states. and the thickness of it is walking over the most populous portable of the us, causing really bad air quality concerns. so unfortunately, things will get worse for it gets better, i think until like friday evening we'll have more smoke coming down only then what we started the ship with the winds and better visibility. matthew, this is an unusually early and very intense start to the fire season. how much of it can be linked to climate change here? yeah, most of like the lease expires every year. but to somebody lake me only to. well, it's pretty much i'm president. yep. how many have cropped up? about 3 and a half 1000000, hector suburban canada. so far this year,

the copernicus, climate monetary service says that the northern hemisphere has had a record fire emissions and the conditions that give rise to these big fires, those details we talked about, well, they're getting more frequent in text. do they do is climate change. we think a pretty big need them so far this year, and it's likely this kind of episode. well sir, again and again, and urologist mounting a computer in washington. thank you. always great speaking to you. thank you. and here's a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. the tally and coast guard says it's rescued over $1400.00 microns from overcrowded vessels in the mediterranean sea. in the last few days, dozens of people including 2 children needed immediate medical care. italy has been cracking down on irregular migration which has increased significantly since last year. the americans, espo frances, has successfully undergoing abdominal surgery to treat her new pain as, as a 3 hour operation passed off without complications. the 6 year old pontiff is

expected to remain in hospital for several days. the bill of routing and president has pardoned an active is to was arrested in 2021. sophia pago was pulled off a flight that was diverted to bella. ruth, along with her partner the disciplined journalist rum on protests, of which he was pardoned last month. felice in so long as capitol colombo, fired tear gas, and water candidate, student protesters. the demonstrators want the release of activists arrested, an anti government rallies. they called for support with the rising cost of living in the country, which remains in the grip of it's a worst economic crisis to the united nations is carrying out a delicate operation to drain over a $1000000.00 barrels of oil from a decaying tank or off yemen. the ssl sat for has been abandoned for years, threatening an ecological disaster. but after years of fundraising,

a salvage mission is finally getting underway. a roasting wreck of 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 tanka was being used as a floating storage facility for oil. when the m and civil war breakouts in 2015 since then is being 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 resting through a smooth adult from space. the stuff could have a big environmental impact, a spilling the red sea would depth of states. why would life leave fishing

communities destitute and would disrupt trade? 3 of us who is canal you people have been talking about it and kind of been 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. and so 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. it used sort of a proceeds to buy his own time to go on to the north. fis on a nation show, use the plan for north it moves in close adults with the stuff the engineers board and gain access to its tanks. a low a pumps and transfer the oil to the nautica. once its empty, the tank 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 view and saves you a ton to see if could be the biggest oil spill the world has ever seen. earlier i spoke with a huge sign of the head of the united nations development program, who we just saw on the report. and i asked him if he was confident that the mission would actually succeed. but we are confident to have taken all possible steps to trust or recognize the risk. secondly, to mitigate them. and certainly to put in place the kind of measures from contingency plans for an oil spill or security plans in case somebody were to happen to one of the crew that is undertaking this operation. at the end of the day, we have done everything to be confident that we are wherever you can be, but you're not complacent. things can always go wrong and we try to be as prepared as possible. how are you preparing for complications or even

a worst case scenario here? but right now we're trying to eliminate the charges of a worst case scenario pairing. that's why the contracted one of the leading solvers companies in the world. it is now with its technical vessel packed right next to the ssl, a sofa for a number of days. now technicians have been just all assessing and the state and condition of the sort of software. i'm taking tests in order to measure the build up of explosive gases in the tangs, preparing the pumping of enough gas into the times to reduce the risk of explosion . preparing essentially a series of steps that will make the ship to ship trumps the name of the pumping audio from one restroom to another. as smooth as possible, there will be problems that will be inserted into each time individually. we will continue to monitor this operation. we have a number of international experts that are on the rest of right now, monitoring every step and validating all the precautions we have taken. and we

don't want to be overly present mistake here. but i do want you to give us a sense of the magnitude of, of the ecological risks here. if something does indeed go wrong in this mission. absolutely, and to this is actually the reasons why we are there right now in the red sea on behalf of the international community. the united nations took the decision to step in to a conflict zone and to try and facilitate 1st of all, to our un resident coordinator and his team. and you have an agreement between deposit is technically to be able to do and defeat the contract. that was eating experts to try and i'm gonna take this operation, but the 1st i'm clear messages should be not do this. it is almost inevitable that the worst case scenario will occur. the breaking up of the tanka and with that over a 1000000 barrels of oil spilling into the red sea with catastrophic consequences not only for marine lives, but for hundreds of thousands of people for the tourism sector, for the southern nation plans for the fisheries industry. because fish docs will

take up to a quarter century to even begin to recover. so it just gives you a sense of the magnitude and again, for those who may remember one of the great catastrophes with an oil tanker the exxon valdez. this tank guy has 4 times the amount of oil on board and therefore where it to break apart. it would indeed be a catastrophe, perhaps in terms of an oil spill without precedent. yeah. so an unprecedented environmental catastrophe of possible global repercussions. why did it take until now to act and why did this rescue mission have to be ground funded as well? first of all, yemen tragically has been in a state of conflict for over 7 years now. which means that in such a situation where the internationally recognized government formerly owns the oil companies, which are i ones they all talked about, the tank itself is actually more off the cost of that part of the i mean that is under the control of the district the authorities, as we refer to them at headquarters in the town of negotiating access in

a very conceptual situation, took a long time. and secondly, trying to mobilize the international community to essentially funding a major operation like this took longer than expected. and then in the midst of almost being ready at the war and you're creating the suddenly led to a massive explosion of prizes fault um oil tank is because we had to purchase a very large crude carrier as the cold in order to bring it alongside the sofa, so again, we had to go out and fundraise and as i speak to you and we took the very daring decision to actually proceed with this operation, we have still 14000000 showed off this emergency funding operation. so as i speak to you, we have a crew right next to the f as of software, and we're still working the phones in order to raise the remaining amount of money that i needed to be able to conduct this operation. an operation that is in all of our interests understand ahead of the u. n. d p. thank you so much for your insight

. and best of luck. some sports now ours and dime, superstar luna and massey has confirmed he will join major league soccer side, enter miami. after leaving paris sandra around the world cove winner has turned down a more lucrative offer from saudi arabian club. lo, this is the 1st time the 35 year old will play for a club outside europe since joining barcelona in 2000 must the 110 league, a titles with bars that as well as for champions league trophies. you move to pay a say 2 years ago and one to domestic lake titles there as well. and doing bellingham will be heading to real madrid after the spanish club reached a deal with, but we'll see it off months after spending his youth career at birmingham city. this year's been is like a player of the season. move to doc month at the age of 17. and it's 3 years there . bellingham became a superstar on the radar of the top clubs in europe and

a regular on the english national team. and one of sports most acrimonious battles has come to a sudden end with goals. p g h were merging with us on a back live tour saga announcement comes after a year of fines of unprecedented disruption that has split the sports of golf. for the last 12 months, the world of professional goals had become the scene of a morality play. nearly a year ago to the day. so the already be a finance leave golf hosted its 1st ever event with the field full of former p g a to a golf is who defected to the new lucrative fleet. since then, the 2 had been involved in a bid, a fight that a split the sport. now the stunning back flip, pga and leave goal for merge and form one unified commercial entity. the announcement comes as an even bigger shot given pga tour commission o j mono, hence, previous stands that the pga would never ever associate with lift gulf. this is

i recognize that people are going to call me a hypocrite. and any time i said anything, i said it was the information i had at that moment. and i said, i said it based on someone that it's trying to compete for the pga tour and our players. and so i accept those criticisms. but circumstances do change. critics, the live goals, i saw these attempt at sports washing in the face of criticism of its human rights or i called the new agreement between the 2 parties also allows for lift gulf plants to reapply for membership on the pga tour following the 2023 season after pga initially bend every player involved with list that being one of the big talking points throughout this year and a half from the commissioner about how these guys will never play on the pga tour again to um it'll be interesting,

pga tour commissioner j monahan. revealed the decision was 7 weeks and the making the plays were less completely in the dark finding out the same time as the media want. i'm kind of finding out as just like you guys said there's, there's not a lot of detail, you know, so i don't really know much about it yet. so hopefully in the next few days we'll, we'll here as things kind of gone roll. all tardies will work in the months to come to finalize terms of the agreement with details to be announced in due course. circumstances have certainly changed in the world of gulf. not here news update. i'll be back in a few minutes to take you through that day and take a closer look at some of the biggest stories today helps either the

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