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ukrainian military sources have told the bbc their forces are carrying out a series of small scale armoured attacks against russian occupiers and shifting to offensive actions in some areas along the front line. we ll take a look at claims from moscow that a full ukrainian counter offensive has begun. joining me on my panel tonight for the next hour, is the writer and broaddcaster chris morris and stephanie bolzen, washington correspondent for the german newspaper die welt. we will say hello to both in just a moment. also tonight, prime minister rishi sunak announces that two new barges have been bought to house up to 1,000 migrants. he says his plan to stop small boats crossing the channel is working. we ll ask a migration expert if she agrees. and more peoplejoin the race to be the next us president. former vice president mike pence files his papers to run, putting him in direct competition with his former boss, donald trump. but first the war in ukraine. look ....
the economic fabric of a whole belt of america. can we believe anything we re told about the war in ukraine? in this fog of war, where you basically can t trust anyone or anything that you see, it s so important to bring people the truth, whatever that truth is. and are the weird creatures who we re only now discovering in the depths of the oceans threatened with destruction by deep sea mining? the scientists would say until we actually know what s there and we study the ecosystem better, then we just cannot understand the risks. it took russia s invasion of ukraine for germany and other european countries to realise it might not be an altogether good idea to be quite so dependent on russian oil and gas. but as the ukraine war drags on, western countries, especially the us, are starting to think that it might be better to lessen their dependence on china as well, which has made everything for us, from beach balls to nuclear power stations. almost unnoticed by the outsid ....
but as the ukraine war drags on, western countries, especially the us, are starting to think that it might be better to lessen their dependence on china as well, which has made everything for us, from beach balls to nuclear power stations. almost unnoticed by the outside world, president biden has been pushing ahead with wide ranging plans to replace chinese goods with american made ones. the bbc s economics editor, faisal islam, has been investigating the extent of this new america first policy. i was astounded by the scale and the speed of the transformation in terms of the deployment of public, government, taxpayer subsidy into strategic industries, particularly green industries. there s so much money going in that it s transforming the economic fabric of a whole belt of america. we used to talk about the rust belt. they are now talking about a battery belt. it sounds rather sort of roosevelt years, doesn t it? yes, and there s some conscious echoes of that. indeed, ....
the mehdi hassan show, divided they fall. as a republican five repeal colors to expand, i can help but wonder are we about to see a 2016 repeat, with trump gliding to the gop nomination? blas, former labor secretary and top economist robert reich is here to help us understand the new debt limit deal, and whether democrats can get behind it, whether they should get behind it. and, democratic presidential candidate marion williams will also join us live to discuss her 2024 run, pushing president biden to the left and what she thinks this candidacy will and differently for her. good evening, i m mehdi hassan. crisis averted, or so they say. earlier this evening, president biden addressed the nation detailing the debt limit deal brokered in principle between his administration and top congressional republicans. the agreement prevents the words possible crisis, a default, for the first time in our nation s history an economic recession, retirement accounts devastated milli ....
a winner, because that s what we ve done in the state of florida. and that s exactly what we would conationally not only in the election do nationally, not only in the election, but bringing all these great policies to bear. charles: let s bring in our panel, columnists dan dan henninger kim strassel along with editorial board member kyle peterson. kim, you know, the media had a field day with all those glitches. beyond that, though [laughter] do you think there ll be anything else to remember about the announcement? well, the glitches are totally forgettable, charles. i think what s going to matter is what desantis does in the weeks and months ahead in terms of message. and you re already beginning to see the opening of that message, at least when it comes to his approach to donald trump which is going on the something along the lines of this, which is donald trump, you know, he had a lot of good ideas, big ideas, but because he is who he is, he couldn t get it d ....