drumming up support ahead of next week s crucial nato summit in lithuania, calling for membership and more weapons. explosions all through this war, western weapons have been vital for ukraine but there is sometimes frustration that they ve not come as quickly as kyiv wants. cluster bombs have now been promised but their arrival could prove controversial. gordon corera, bbc news, kyiv. let s go to washington now and speak to our correspondent gary o donoghue. gary, president zelensky is very pleased that the us has agreed to supply cluster bombs, but they are not without controversy, are they? no, sophie, and the us has been thinking about this for a very long time. i think many of its salads, two thirds of the nato members, have banned their use, so they know this is going to be a difficult one for the coalition members to go along with so they have been putting a lot of effort into persuading other
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christine romans. it s memorial day here in the u.s. glad you re with us. let s get going. we begin this morning with president biden defending the deal he made with house speaker kevin mccarthy to raise the debt limit for two years. it takes the threat of catastrophic reform off the table. protects our hard-earned economic recovery. and the agreement also represents a compromise which means no one got everything they want. mccarthy agreed to raise the debt limit in explain for cuts to the budget. even though, the president insisted to reporters he wasn t actually negotiating on the dead limit. want to try to make it look like i made some grow myself in the debt ceiling, i didn t. i made a compro 3450is on the budget. that s what they wanted a compromise on the budget, that s what you ve done, even though you haven t gone as far as you wants, in that right? sure, can you think of an alternative? the president praised
mccarthy, although he avoided predicting whether the speaker actually had enough republican votes to passion the agreement which, of course, is the next major hurdle here. i think he negotiated with me in good faith. he kept his word. he did what he said he would do. i have no idea if he has votes, i expect he does or i don t think he would have made the agreement. for more on the efforts to persuade lawmakers to prove the deal, let s go to washington. reporter: president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy moving to sell this debt ceiling agreement to lawmakers but so far pushback. congressman chip roy of texas and ralph norman of south carolina. they both sit on the powerful house rules committee that ultimately plays a role in shepherding legislation to final passage. and progressives, they re pushing back as well, congresswoman pramila jayapal