any safety risks because there was an urgency here. this balloon is not armed, it does not pose some physical threat to the united states, even from an intelligence perspective. the chinese have much more effective ways of picking up intelligence from the satellites and otherwise. the fact that the president said what he said about taking care of it. now we have the physical fact that the balloon is heading towards the atlantic. these airports in north and south carolina are being closed for the moment. it does seem to set the stage and present an opportunity to have this shot down. it is really not a reversal. i think they ve been preparing for this and contingency planning. once it is not overland, it changes the calculus. general, weigh in for me if you will, you heard the presidents words there, we are going to take care of this. from your estimation, what is taking care of this look like and what are the risks and calculations going into that decision? i think what
can biden do anything to unlock the current political crisis? wouldn t that be amazing? laughter tonight, a change of tone as president biden crosses the border into the republic of ireland in search of his irish roots. the other top stories tonight. prince harry will attend his father s coronation next month but meghan, won t be leaving california. billionaire twitter owner elon musk sits down with the bbc. he defends sacking thousands of staff and summed up an eventful six months as boss. well, it s not been boring! it s been quite a roller coaster. there s the shooting chance, it s in! and the european champions, real madrid, beat a ten man chelsea in their quarterfinal first leg match. and coming up in sport, the uk and the republic of ireland submit theirjoint bid to host euro 2028, but two of the proposed stadiums aren t even built yet. good evening from stormont, on the day that president biden has been in northern ireland to mark the 25th anniversary of the signing of
prolonged and heavy and thundery. temperatures still below average for april but it shouldn t feel bad in the sunshine. a big change this weekend and next week, as south westerly winds start to move in and high pressure moves in, bring a long spell of settled weather and next week, for the first time this year, we should see temperatures hit the low 20s. thanks, chris. that s it. there s more analysis of the day s main stories on newsnight with kirsty wark, just getting under way over on bbc two. but the news continues here on bbc one, as wejoin our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are. have a very good night. on northern ireland, celebrating 25 years of the good friday agreeent, and promising $6 billion of us investment if the dup gets back to power sharing. but is a return to stormont any closer following the visit? the president has had his say and left time bit without any return to power sharing how long can the status go on for? nick s at
weather. and this afternoon as his predecessor prepares for his day in court, president biden headed to minnesota to tout his economic agenda. he stayed quiet on trump s indictment could that change today? and later this hour, we re looking ahead to tonight s big game in houston. the university of connecticut, san diego state will face off in the final matchup of a march madness full of twists and turns. so in just about an hour from now, former president donald trump is expected to start his journey from here in florida to new york to be arraigned on charges connected to a hush money payment made to an adult film actress before the 2016 presidential election. these are live pictures coming to us. there is the airplane, the trump airplane in palm beach airport i want to bring in my colleague yasmin vossoughian, who is on the other side of this story, outside the district attorney identifies in lower manhattan where trump will appear tomorrow, yasmin yeah, a lot of actio
it s 10:00 a.m i m lindsey reiser at msnbc headquarters in new york we re following a lot of breaking news on this busy monday morning, including president biden assuring the country our financial system is safe amid heightened fears of a banking crisis after the collapse of both silicon valley bank and new york-based signature bank americans can rest assured that our banking system is safe. your deposits are safe let me also assure you we will not stop at this we ll do whatever is needed. the government is taking extraordinary new steps to ensure customers will have full access to their money, a major move by the treasury and the federal reserve to shore up the banking system and prevent the panic from spreading to other banks. plus, a promise no losses will be shouldered by taxpayers and officials will hold the people responsible fully accountable. more on this in moments and what you need to know about your money. plus, no-show. donald trump s lawyers say he wi