Look at the us capitol. Beautiful evening, actually, here in washington as we jue just moments awas. Capity fm President Biden and tonights state of the Union Address. Y frompresidengood evening from. Im brad there. Good evening, everybody. Im martha maccallum. Any moment now President Biden will be announced on the house floor with the familiar callilia of the house sergeant of arms. He will make his way down cate, greeted by lawmakers all along the way. There you see mitt romney talking to joe awmakers manchin. Seems like theyre pretty engaged in some conversation ses that happens on the sidelines as you have a lot of lawmakersnh waiting a long time in the chamber. A lot of folkse chambe, you knos expressing themselves different ways. Republicans, some of the more in buttons, die of about the bo. Others dressed in white on the democratic sidemocratic in solidarity. Lets set the stage now with White House Correspondent I Peter Doocy with a preview of the president s speech. Good eveni
ferrari. straight to the pentagon with lloyd austin the defence secretaryjust about to start a news conference. lloyd about to start a news conference. llode austin the third in the pentagon briefing rooms. we ll deliver opening remarks and then take questions. i will moderate this question so i would ask that you raise your hand if you have a question and wish to be recognised and i will call upon you. good morning- and i will call upon you. good morning- it and i will call upon you. good morning. it has and i will call upon you. good morning. it has been - and i will call upon you. good morning. it has been a - and i will call upon you. good l morning. it has been a difficult and i will call upon you. good - morning. it has been a difficult few da 5 for morning. it has been a difficult few days for the morning. it has been a difficult few days for the department morning. it has been a difficult few days for the department of - morning. it has been a difficult few.
calls to stop punishing addicts if it is to end its reputation as the drugs capital of europe. president biden has tested positive for covid. the white house says the symptoms are mild. the bbc has apologised to the former royal nanny tiggy legge burke over a number of serious and false allegations made against her by panorama reporter martin bashir in order to obtain an interview with princess diana. a coroner has said that the five people, including four teenage soldiers, who died in the guildford pub bombings in 1974, were unlawfully killed. and no ordinary telescope for the first time scientists will be able to detect the smashing together of neutron stars good evening. now that the conservative leadership contest has been whittled down to two candidates rishi sunak and liz truss, the focus is shifting to what each of them stands for. it s early days but the battleground appears to be economic policy. mr sunak was chancellor for nearly two and a half years but ms truss sa
nato would increase our shared security. president biden says america must do all it can to end hate filled domestic terrorism, following saturday s mass shooting in buffalo that left 10 dead. and north korea s covid crisis a further 400,000 cases and eight deaths are reported. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the progamme. finland and sweden have announced their intention tojoin nato, in response to russia s invasion of ukraine. we ll get to that in just a moment but first, i want to tell you about this exclusive report. a bbc team have uncovered further evidence of potential war crimes committed by russian forces in ukraine. since russian forces were pushed back from kyiv at the end of march, the bodies of more than 1,000 civilians have been discovered in the bucha region, just outside the capital. now the bbc has learned more than half of the dead were shot, in what has been described as executions. in this special report, the
frustration for somebody democrats is that we re even talking about someone who has been president for four years having to prove he can just do the job. it s really it s reminder he still has control of a nuclear coates. all right. thanks to all of you for joining us this morning. i m kasie hunt. don t go anywhere. cnn news central starts right now standing you buy for a pivotal decision from the supreme court. does donald trump have immunity from the federal election charges against him? the ruling comes this morning, while democrats are doing damage control over president biden s disastrous debate, cnn has learned his family is telling him to keep fighting new details on their frustrations with his team and talks of possibly filing top aides also, a powerful and life-threatening hurricane taking aim of the caribbean hurricane beryl is poison to be the strongest storm the area has seen in two decades. we re tracking its destructive path. i m sarah sign-in with john berm