State of the Union: a moment of unity dissolves into partisan feuding

Democrats and Republicans come together to condemn Putin - then it's back to politics as usual

Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, has managed to do what Joe Biden could not: bridge the partisan divide and bring, however fleetingly, the US Congress together.

Many Democrats and Republicans who attended the US president's first State of the Union address, on Tuesday night, wore yellow and blue in solidarity with Ukraine, with some holding miniature Ukrainian flags.