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. Theres so much money going in that its 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, doesnt it . Yes, and theres some conscious echoes of that. Indeed, where i was in kent
it s been handled. ukraine s president zelensky has sacked the head of the armed forces we ll bring you the latest on that. and we re still waiting for early results from pakistan. the votes are being counted at the end of a very tense few days. good evening. back in 2015, the world leaders gathered in paris to agree a target, to limit the global average temperature rise to 1.5 degrees celsius above pre industrial levels. that target was seen as crucial in preventing the worst effects of global warming. today, the eu s climate service copernicus, revealed that last year that 1.5 degrees limit was met or exceeded every single month. in fact, these past eight months have been the hottest on record. and, what s more, the sea temperature, has been rising every single day since april although that has been driven in part by the current el nino effect. here s our climate editorjustin rowlatt. this is where the electricity company sse plans a £2 billion water battery. the hydro
iran, while already existing domestic politics had a lot to do with iran s shift in government, many experts say that trump s pressure campaign hoisted the hard-liners to the front and the top of the iranian regime. so, when president biden came into power, negotiated with iran was nearly impossible. it wasn t for lack of trying. for the first year of biden s presidency, his administration attempted a resurrect the 2015 nuclear deal, but tehran refused to engage directly with u.s. diplomats. talk about stop and go for several years, then, something happened in 2022, which made matters even worse. the war in ukraine. you see, the original nuclear deal depended on cooperation between the west and russia. but once russia invaded ukraine, any collaboration with moscow was off the table, and now, iran is helping russia in its war. iran s attack drones are a common feature in russia s campaign against ukraine. the 2015 iran nuclear deal built at least a little good faith between ir
the january 6th case that could be approaching its end game. plus, in the classified documents investigation, previously unreported details on a subpoena for surveillance footage, not from mar-a-lago this time, but from donald trump s bedminster golf club. first, though, something exciting to share that s a little closer to home. tomorrow on this very program at this very time, president joe biden will join us in what will be his first live sit-down interview since becoming president. we don t have to tell you there is a ton to ask him about and talk to him about. you won t want to miss it right here at 4:00 tomorrow. but after i pick my job off the floor that i just actually read that, we ll go back to our top story, rudy giuliani, mr. four seasons total landscaping himself met with special counsel prosecutors in recent weeks. nbc news confirmed that he did that with his own political adviser, ted goodman after earlier reporting in the day from cnn. crucially, goodman insi
military and civilian functions within the city of ras of on the on have been blocked. putin vowed to take decisive action to put down what he and the kremlin are calling it quote undertaken by progression who they are calling a traitor. putin also vowed to not let the rebellion become a civil war at the end of world war one. now, here s what we know. multiple reports indicate that there has been some small fighting along the major highway in the area as well as reports of convoys of military equipment being moved along that highway. russia also moved military equipment in and around moscow. that s what you re looking at right now, and other major cities across russia. this all comes after progression, yesterday, heavily escalated his public feud with russia s defense minister, sergei showing you and the head of russia s armed forces, valerie grass above. both of whom prigozhin publicly hates and blames for rushes failures in ukraine. for the beginning of the invasion, bu