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,
yale university today. i don t if you read it, paul. but the suggestion is that they ve been looking at russian language research, more unconventional data thanis research, more unconventional data than is widely available and the result is that the russian economy has actually been catastrophically crippled by western sanctions. we don t hear that do we because a lot of people have been saying that from his petrodollars he can ride this out as long as it once and it is suffering the pain. but perhaps that is not the case. is not the case. well, i think it is an invaluable is not the case. well, i think it is an invaluable reminder - is not the case. well, i think it is an invaluable reminder of i is not the case. well, i think it is an invaluable reminder ofjust i is not the case. well, i think it is i an invaluable reminder ofjust how impressed into the sanctions are. they re not like any other sanctions in history. they go to every aspect of a capitalist economy, right down to wh