to support steel and other hard hit sectors. more talks about how to tackle rising energy prices will take place today between junior ministers and industry leaders. the government has faced repeated calls from manufacturers and labour to intervene and the trade body, uk steel, said borisjohnson needed to take control before it was too late. the crisis has also sparked a public row between the business department and the treasury. yesterday, an unnamed treasury official accused mr kwarteng of making things up when he said the chancellor rishi sunak was discussing a support package with him. our chief political correspondent, adam fleming, is in westminster for us now. firstly, the substantive stuff, is the government going to intervene to bail out those sectors that have been hit with massive energy costs? the answer is not yet. the energy intensive sectors have been meeting with government ministers and
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of 2016. this doesn t mean an attack is imminent in the united states. they have done this before and surveilling the terrain for years, if not decades now. we have to understand, russia is, right now, engaged in a war against western democracies. they have the u.s. in their sights. we saw this when i was at the pentagon and it continues now. rick, we have the new sanctions from treasury yesterday and the acknowledgement russia was involved in the attempted assassination in the uk. does this signal a change? do you have more confidence the president is going to propel a stronger u.s. response? this junction between what the institutions and the agencies are doing and what the white house is doing. i mean, i think the department of homeland security did with was very strong. i think steve mnuchin s statement was strong. what they don t have is the backing of the white house. i would agree with michael. i mean, we are under attack.
through their statements, our partners in the p5 plus one now moving in accord forward to taking those steps. [question inaudible] you saw yesterday the treasury institute, some sanctions on the irgc, and obviously, the next phase in this that the president talked a few days ago, this is a multi faceted, and there will be more phases to this including the united nations. if i may add, the deadline was the end of of 2009. why should the leaders of iran suffer any consequences for disobeying what the united states and the iaea and the t5 want, given that with the exception of the move by treasury yesterday, they have yet to be look, jake, as you said, the president is working through and with our partners on making that happen. this was not going to happen in times square when the ball hit zero.