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| | | Hello. Ahead of US President Donald Trump's State of the Union address to Congress, North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher outlines what to expect from the speech. In the latest episode of From Our Own Correspondent, Sarah Rainsford reflects on the impact of four years of war on Ukraine. And finally, watch the sun create an optical illusion that turns water into lava. | | | | | | |
| TOP OF THE AGENDA | | A vital moment for Trump's presidency | | |  | | Trump's address in 2025 set the record for longest address ever given by a president to a joint session of Congress. Credit: Reuters | | US Supreme Court justices, military leaders and the country's top politicians are headed to the Capitol in Washington DC to hear President Trump deliver his State of the Union address. Here's what you need to know. Trump said the speech will be a long one - after all, much has happened in the year since his last address, which ran for an hour and 40 minutes. Now, as Anthony Zurcher notes, opinion polls "suggest public mood has soured on Trump in his second term". With less than nine months to go before November's midterm elections, "this State of the Union address represents an opportunity for Trump to stop the bleeding at a pivotal time," Anthony writes. | | | | | | | | |
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| | | How Ukraine feels after four years of war |  | | Ukrainians need to constantly innovate to stay in the fight against Russia. Credit: Paul Padier/BBC | | From Our Own Correspondent: It's been four years since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which Sarah Rainsford has witnessed since the beginning. On her latest visit to Ukraine, she met soldiers and civilians who shared stories of grief, resistance and a desire for peace. | | | | | | Sarah Rainsford, Ukraine correspondent | | | | | | Ukraine is still resisting. But on this trip, I realised that the soldiers don’t talk of victory like they used to. It’s more about holding on now, not pushing Russia back. Ukrainians have become masters of coping, because they’ve had to. One morning, when it was minus 17 degrees and felt like my eyeballs would freeze over, we visited a neighbourhood where the homes had had no heating for weeks.
Volunteers were ladling out bowls of stew to people living with frost inside their windows and sleeping in their hats and coats. “It’s much worse for our men in the trenches,” one elderly lady shrugged, her breath creating ice clouds. Another reassured me it was fine. It’d be spring soon. So Ukraine doesn’t feel like a place that’s lost hope, or a society ready to surrender. Its people want peace, more than anyone. But not at any price. | | | | | | | | | - Moscow explosion: Russian officials said the blast that killed a traffic police officer and injured two others on Tuesday was a suicide attack.
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