Clarence thomas and chaired those hearings. Our coverage of the State Of The Union will continue now with our colleagues. Dont go anywhere. Stay right here. Good evening and welcome to msnbcs State Of The Union coverage. Imtonight President Joe Biden gave a rousing speech just a few feet from where we are now. Noting the country is eyeing a reflection point with democracy under threat at home and abroad. Here is how he opened his speech, invoking fdr in 1941 telling congress that hitler was on the march. President roosevelts purpose is to wake up congress and alert the American People. That this was no ordinary time. Freedom in democracy were under assault in the world. And now its we who face some unprecedented moment in history of the union. Yes, our purpose tonight is to wake up congress and to alert the American People that this is no ordinary moment either. Not since president lincoln and The Civil War Had Freedom Of Democracy and as they are today. What makes our moment rare is t
in a separate development, a us official has told the new york times that american spy satellites detected an explosion at ukraine s karkhovka dam, just before it collapsed. the recordings can be verified. military experts say the area will be the focus of ukraine s long awaited counteroffensive. let s start this hour by looking more detail about what we know about damn collapse. rajini vaidyanathan has been working with the bbc verify team and explained more from the verify hub. as people try and work out what caused the breach of the dam, more and more data is coming into us to help us try and piece what happened. now we ve had some data, as you mentioned, from norwegian scientists who ve been monitoring the seismic signals and they detected seismic signals from romania that suggested, according to their work, that there was an explosion at 254 local time. this is the time in norwegian time. so you can see there on that wave a peak. and that s what they say indicates there
It strengthening after the bank of japan seems to be pairing some of the bonds. Asian equities see a little bit of movement on dollar yen. For also looking at a stock 600. 600. Oxx eurodollar is at 1. 1936. Coming up, we talk Central Banks. With ouriscuss it guests from blackrock. We also have an exclusive conversation with ignacio gallant. Ignore this. This is something from a couple weeks ago. Lets get straight to the first world news. North korea has said it will send athletes and a delegation to the winterland picks and south korea next month and wants to resolve issues on the divided peninsula. Delegates from saul said that south korea wants both nations to march together at the games. The two sides held talks in a village in the joint security area of the heavily fortified border. U. S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has like raise the likelihood Donald Trumps legal team that his office will seek an interview with the president. According to people familiar with the talks, miller
Around. We are waiting for more news. Sajid javid, communities secretary, has gone in, we havent heard what hes got. Justin greening the Education Secretary has gone into. They have all gone in and have come out yet. Ten Cabinet Ministers trooping out Downing Street and an interesting reshuffle of the pack. Thanks for now and we will be back to you very soon. Lets take a look at weather prospects. Well start with the latest Satellite Sequence which shows it was a lovely day. We have sunshine, heavy rain in Northern Ireland and Western Scotland. It will stay wet in Western Scotland in the early hours and further showers another man, scattered showers for western england and well. Try further east and across major towns and cities have 13 degrees, low in rural spot. Into the morning, a breezy day through central scotland, quite gusty and breezy. Showers fading away from england and wales, wetter weather to be had in Western Scotla nd weather to be had in Western Scotland but Eastern Scot