welcome to the programme. in a week s time, it will be one year since russia invaded ukraine, and world leaders are gathering in europe. us vice president kamala harris has arrived in germany for the munich security conference, which starts tomorrow. european leaders rishi sunak, olaf scholz, emmanuel macron will all be there, as will nato secretary generaljens stoltenberg and a vast array of key defence and intelligence officials. discussions in munich will be accutely focused on the danger of a further offensive from russia, especially after the leader of belarus, alexander lukashenko a key putin ally spoke to members of the western media, including our russia editor steve rosenberg. few people know vladimir putin as well as he does alexander lukashenko, the authoritarian leader of belarus. he s agreed to take questions about the war in ukraine and his role in it. one year ago, i say, you let russia use your country as a staging ground for invading ukraine. are you
the faulkner focus. all the white house talk, the prices for food, energy, getting a haircut, everything going up still consumer price index for february up 6% from last year, coming off that high of 9.1% last june. so this is really slow with housing prices sky high, the fed threatening to ep coo raising interest rates to cool down inflation. new word the fed is using today, maybe they ll do that. who is to blame for america s second largest bank collapse in history and the deep economic mess we re in right now? the old go-to, our democratic president is pointing a finger at former president trump. president biden: thanks to quick action of my administration, americans can confidence the banking system is safe. during the biden administration we put in place tough requirements on banks to make sure the crisis of 2008 would not happen again. the last administration rolled back some of the requirements. harris: republicans demanding accountability and raising concerns th
the same to declare a climate emergency. here we are. we don t know why the white house stopped short of making this emergency declaration on climate today with of course president biden standing in front of a once-fired coal powered plant being converted into an offshore wind manufacturing facility. there s speculation a tough time to roll out that announcement amid high gas prices and recession fears and since can it be used as a legal basis to drop oil and gas drills. congressional republicans say pain at the pump is the point. i think the administration does want us to suffer. the secretary of transportation said yesterday you don t like the cost of gasoline, buy an electric vehicle. so some announcements did come from the president s remarks plan to propose wind mills in the gulf of mexico and a record of amount of fema funding for infrastructure, neil. jackie, thanks for that. let s go to jeff block right now. he s in philadelphia. witnesses this for himself. the
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