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
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The region and that is worrisome obviously. In your opinion, do you believe that if we acted in a unilateral manner to impose new sanctions or reimpose existing sanctions, not based on breaking the nuclear dual but based on other activities that we could impose sanctions in the area. Congressman, we believe that the acts on terrorism and destabilization are an area of concern. We have been putting sanctions in place. We reserve the right to put parts delisted on the list again if they are violating terrorism or destabilization provisions. I think that we have powerful tools and i think the world knows we mean to use them and i believe our credibility in doing it has to be for real. We have to be listing people for reasons of terrorism and regional destabilize is. And you feel we have the tools. We definitely have powerful tools. I will yield back the remainder of my time. Thank you. We go to geoff duncan of South Carolina. Thank you. Secretary kerry there are still three or four americ