you turn if you want to, the lady s not for turning . this week, the woman who would be her successor u turned. america s third lady, nancy pelosi, did not, going ahead with a visit to taiwan, despite chinese warnings beforehand and missiles after. nor did the bank of england u turn, going ahead with the half point rise in interest rates. the governor had said the bank was minded to impose the largest single hike in a quarter of a century. here to discuss all that are marc roche, an economist and journalist who was born in belgium, and writes from here for the french news magazine, le point. isabel hilton, who s been a foreign correspondent and broadcaster she founded china dialogue, an independent organisation concerned with the environmental challenges facing that country. and with us in spirit, if not in person because a family member has covid yasmin alibhai brown. she was forced to flee her native uganda by idi amin the 50th amnniversary of the expulsion of as
Program, you went to court to fight for that. If this is such a problem, building 20 miles of wall, why not just go to court. We went to congress. Congress appropriates the funding, we asked them to not use the funding for that particular purpose they denied it and now we are complying with the law. If you have to build a border wall but you dont think its going to work, once its done are you going to tear it down . Im not getting into hypotheticals from here. Im just telling you what i can tell you from here, the facts are, that dhs is complying with the law. This is from fiscal year under fiscal year 2019, under Republican Leadership and dhs is required to do this. The president asked multiple times of congress to reappropriate, they did not. And we are not complying by the law. Thanks, everybody. Sandra clearly peter doocy getting questions at the end. If he had the chance, you know, she has obviously left the room. If the president continues to believe the border wall is not effect
Car sharing. So in other words, no mention of making it compulsory. In the final one here, this is insulation. Rishi sunak says we are stopping insulation upgrades. The Prime Minister has said that homeowners and landlords will no longer have to upgrade homes to an Energy Performance certificate grade c by Energy Performance certificate grade c by 2035. Energy performance certificate grade c by 2035. Flannels have welcomed their say that they wont have to pay for expensive upgrades, but bodies representing tenants a rep and his will have to pay much more in energy bills if they live in poorly insulative properties. What can we say having seen all of this . The Prime Minister says that he has blocked things that will help families up and down the country. A lot of things he has blocked has come from the Climate Change committee and just a quick reminder, its an independent body. It was set p its an independent body. It was set up 15 years ago to give advice to the government on Climate
reconnaissance drones. germany was reluctant to deliver weapons to kyiv in the early stages of the war, but it later made a policy u-turn, becoming a major arms supplier to ukraine. for more, salma aziz joins us from london. president zelenskyy on his first visit to germany since russia s invasion of ukraine. what kind of reception is he getting? reporter: you re going to receive the reception of an ally, friend, close partner in this war. germany has been pivotal to ukraine s fight against russia. it is germany, really, that became, if you will, the center of this debate around tanks just a few months ago. germany initially seemed reluctant to provide those tanks. i know you describe it as a u-turn, but really at the beginning of this conflict, most western allies were highly concerned about providing any weapons that might seem to be offensive, that might escalate