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
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