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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 ....
best a sizable percentage of the employee population that felt sympathetic to the group that stormed the capitol and said it was no different than the black lives matter of last summer. some lament that the only reason this activity is getting more attention is because of quote, political correctness. this e-mail went on to flag a number of incredibly alarming examples of comments being made in different fbi field offices including one official saying this. quote, over 70% of his counterterrorism squad and roughly 75% of agent population in his office disagreed with the violence, but could understand where the frustration was coming from which led to the protestors getting carried away. the fbi declined to comment on the e-mail when it became public last week then the fbi agents association told nbc news that it does not comment on ongoing investigations. added this, quote, fbi agents understand the importance of separating their own personal views from their profession ....
Kilometre radius of the dam. now, we ve spoken to them since they published that. and they also say that they detected weak signals from what they describe as an earlier event at 235 local time, so about 20 minutes before that. and they say that those weaker signals originated from the direction of the dam. let s fast forward 20 minutes. before that, we ve been monitoring the local telegram chats. and people were talking 2:18, 2:19 and onwards about explosions, things that they say maybe being the sound of a drone explosions and loud noises. so reports on the ground that people could hear something, perhaps an explosion even 20 minutes before norwegian scientists say there were those two explosions, one that was quite a big one. and we lastly come to this. ....
There and i think another sort of a key to seeing where that window may be coming from or where it may be going to was the fact a senior french diplomat went to tehran last week with what appeared to be the signoff from president trump, several conversations with the french president about that before that trip took place, so maybe we are seeing this window open right now, don t overread, i would say, what the iranians are saying, we ve had nour different statements from different people in leadership positions today. the bottom line is they re still putting the pressure on europe to make good on the rest of the deal. so, the window, this is what s key, we re only a couple weeks removed as you know from iran shooting down a u.s. drone explosions on western tankers in the persian gulf. is it your understanding that the window is not just between iran and europe, but between iran, europe and the u.s. that trump giving the okay to the french diplomat going to tehran, does that indicat ....