This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Janet Gillil, and in the early hours of Wednesday,

the 7th of June, these are our main stories.

Thousands of people are leaving their homes in southern Ukraine

to escape floods caused by the destruction of a huge dam

on a neat pro-river.

Iran has reopened its embassy in Riyadh,

reestablishing diplomatic ties with Saudi Arabia

seven years after they were severed.

The British government has told China that it cannot operate

covert police stations in the UK.

Also in this podcast, new evidence shows that modern

humanities predecessors also buried their dead

and carved symbols on cave walls.

It goes against everything that hundreds of years of humans

trying to understand why we're so special.

I can tell you this, home and late tells us when off that special.

As we record this podcast, thousands of people are being evacuated

after the destruction of a major dam in southern Ukraine

unleashed flood waters across the war zone.

The vast reservoir behind the Nova Kahofka

dam in Russian held territory is a size of a very large lake

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