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, where
the world. a i m john avlon in for kasie hunt. four weeks from today, we ll be waking up to results from the iowa caucus, so this is crunch time in the land of cornfields and presidential politics. donald trump holding a rally there tonight while nikki haley is going on offense. i ve done well over 120 something, 140 town halls. and i never talk about my opponents. but today i am. the former u.n. ambassador and south carolina governor is sharpening attacks against her opponents calling out donald trump last night for his persistent praise of dictators. also the haley campaign and super pac both releasing new tv ads knocking ron desantis and president biden. i ll just say it, biden is too old and congress is the most exclusive nursing home in america. in a world consumed by chaos, ron desantis is another disaster. the desantis campaign, a dumpster fire. his style always trying to outtrump trump. phony and failing. a weaker nominee than trump. armed with those new ads
devices and systems. tonight with the context, sir nigel sheinwald the former uk ambassador to the united states and bryan lanza, who was the communications director for donald trump s transition team. hello and welcome to the programme. the british prime minister says the new post brexit trading arrangements agreed with the european union on monday will address many of the concerns of the democratic unionist party. the dup, who will be crucial to the restoration of the power sharing at stormont, say they are still studying the details of the so called windsor framework. rishi sunak make his pitch to the people of northern ireland at a cocal cola factory. he said the new agreement with the eu could make northern ireland one of the most attractive, investment opoortunities in the world. it does three things. it makes sure the flow of goods around our uk internal market is really smooth with our green lane. it makes sure that northern ireland s place in the union is protected s
at 1 p.m. as opposed to 11 a.m. tomorrow. he not come out after arriving here 4 p.m. he waved at supporters who were waiting for him. take a look at that moment as the motorcade pulled up. he walked in. that is where he will walk out as he s going down for processing and arraignment. he will be fingerprinting and mug shots but no handcuffs. how this shakes out for the former president remains to be seen. he quite literally is fighting for his freedom and political future at once but returns now are positive receiving widespread support from the republican party including from people expected to run against him in the 2024 primary governor ron desantis one of them and his campaign raised $8 million since his indictment on thursday so the arraignment is set for 2:15 tomorrow expected to last about a half hour so the former president sometime around 3:00 is expected to go to the airport and fly back to florida where he is expected to make a speech at mar-a-lago tomorrow night.
gone. us president joe biden back home after meeting with prime minister justin trudeau in canada, why illegal immigration across the u. s northern border was a hot topic. and people all over the world getting ready to turn off the lights to mark earth hour. it s a way to help raise awareness about the climate crisis. from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with leila harare. we begin this hour with extreme weather in the southeastern united states, where multiple tornadoes barreled across mississippi in the past few hours, the national weather service says a large tornado cost significant damage in several towns, including rolling fork and silver city, leaving homes and buildings flattened and trees and power lines down. search and rescue teams and first responders are on the scene in the area northwest of jackson. we spoke with the president of one of the town s hard hit in mississippi should described what she went through. we watched this tornado form. through the lightning