but a huge breakthrough on the president s agenda with news that democrat senatorjoe manchin will finally support a bill that injects billion into key climate policy. and in ukraine the counter offensive is on with progress to report around the city of kherson but will the supply of weapons from the west come quickly enough to sustain the momentum? tonight with the context, the republican strategist rina shah and chief political commentator for the i paul waugh. hello, welcome to the programme. it has been a while. four months in fact, sincejoe biden and xi xinping spoke, on the phone. today the two leaders talked for two hours 17 minutes. a long time. but let s be honest, there s plenty to talk about. the war in ukraine, china s behaviour in the south china sea, trade embargoes, nuclear proliferation, taiwan. and specifically the planned visit of the house speaker nancy pelosi, who is heading there next month. that has infuriated beijing. ms pelosi would be the highest
appearances. translation: in peaceful time i am not used to such excessive attention but now in ukraine everyone is fighting at their own front and i am prepared to be more public in order to reach out to more people and to tell them the information, tell them the truth about ukraine. so here they couldn t be any sentiments that is work and i have to do that. paul, this is the first lady on the front of vogue magazine. she s been at the white housein magazine. she s been at the white house in recent weeks and speaking to congress. she has been photographed in a number of publications. how much of this do you think is deliberate? i mean, she is obviously reluctant to be the face of the conflict but she is playing bigger role in recent weeks. is that because the ukrainians are trying to keep the war in the public consciousness here in the west, do you think?
war on the ground because the war on the ground relies on those weapons. andrei, you are not exact. she played a key role for ukrainians abroad? flit played a key role for ukrainians abroad? . ., , played a key role for ukrainians abroad? , , , , abroad? of course. our president cannot travel. abroad? of course. our president cannot travel. he abroad? of course. our president cannot travel. he stays abroad? of course. our president cannot travel. he stays in - abroad? of course. our president cannot travel. he stays in his i cannot travel. he stays in his office cannot travel. he stays in his office all the time so the fact that she is office all the time so the fact that she is travelling for him and for all ukraine, of course it is a massive all ukraine, of course it is a massive signal. and also shows that everybody massive signal. and also shows that everybody in ukraine is working hard for defence everybody in ukraine is working hard for defence and for the victor
legacy and her wanting to frankly just exert her own power.- just exert her own power. yeah, because of just exert her own power. yeah, because of course just exert her own power. yeah, because of course she just exert her own power. yeah, because of course she will be i because of course she will be conscious with the mid term is upon us that the democrats lose the house and she loses her position. paul, can we talk about sir stephen lovegrove, the uk national security adviser, who has been in the united states this week and has made some red comments. he has been talking about the risk. he says the cold war s to monolithic blocks of the ussr and nato, though not without alarming bumps, were able to reach a shared understanding of doctrine thatis shared understanding of doctrine that is today absent. today we do not have the same foundations with others who may threaten us in future, particularly with china. now, it has takenjoe biden for months to set up a phone call with beijin