Are running for president in a democratic primary and should they feel comfortable and confident what you are saying now will be a policy moving forward? i think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed. You mentioned the deal. I always you mentioned the deal. I always believed and i have worked always believed and i have worked on it that the climate crisis worked on it that the climate crisis is worked on it that the climate crisis is real, it is an urgent matter crisis is real, it is an urgent matter to crisis is real, it is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics matter to which we should apply metrics including holding ourselves to deadlines around time ourselves to deadlines around time we ourselves to deadlines around time. We did that with the inflation reduction act, we have inflation reduction act, we have set inflation reduction act, we have set goals for the united states
Goods, what we re going to do to invest in america s small businesses, what we re going to do to invest in families, for example, extending the child tax credit to $6,000 for families for the first year of their child s life, to help them buy a car seat, to help them buy baby clothes, a crib. There s the work that we re going to do that is about investing in the american family around affordable housing. A big issue in our country right now. To india now, the world s most populous nation, but also for some time nowthe world s fastest growing major economy. In the next few hours we ll find out whether that is still the case, as india publishes official gdp growth numbers for the three months to june. So what are we expecting? according to a reuters poll of more than 50 economists, india s economy is expected to have grown at an annual rate of 6. 9% between april and june. If that proves to be correct, it will be a marked slowdown from the 7. 8% rate seen between january and march. India
The us vice president, has promised to turn a page and offer a new way forward. Speaking to the american network cnn, the democratic candidate defended her shift in position on key political issues. She insisted her values had not changed. She appeared alongside her running mate, tim walz, in the battleground state of georgia. Generally speaking, how should voters look at some of the changes that you ve made, that you ve explained some of here in your policy? is it because you have more experience now and you ve learned more about the information? is it because you were running for president in a democratic primary? and should they feel comfortable and confident that what you re saying now is going to be your policy moving forward? dana, i think the the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed. I have spent my career inviting diversity of opinion. I think it is important to have people at the table where some of the
Andris spruds, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. It is a pleasure to have you. Now you are defence minister in a baltic nation, which is one of ukraine s strongest supporters inside the eu and nato. So what do you make of ukraine s risky gambit, this offensive inside russian territory? it was just recently in ukraine, and what i see in ukraine, it s a resolve. It s a determination. It s a resilience. It s a willingness also to take initiative. And what we ve seen right now is that ukraine is in a position to take this initiative, that it shows also that the war, of course, is a war of wills, the war of the mindsets. And here, we can see that ukraine also shows and proves that russia has its vulnerabilities. But did you, in kyiv, also get a sense of deep ukrainian frustration with its allies? because it s become clear in the last couple of weeks that ukraine didn t feel able to share any information about this surprise offensive with its closest allies. There was a sense, i