amendments from us china trade to something about the us mexico border and an attempt to scrap a particularly unpopular energy project. as we have been watching through the evening, it was all moving pretty slowly and just roll calls of names as the amendments were bought through but this was actually the senate going pretty quickly, the expedited the process to get the bill before them tonight, they were being hurried along to try and get to the real deal, the final vote, they have done that, 63 to 36 and now we move on to possibly the only not unpredictable part of the process. i m surejoe biden will sign this into law very shortly. they will therefore avert this potential crisis which was looming on monday. crisis which was looming on monda . ., , crisis which was looming on monday- crisis which was looming on monda . .,, ,., ,. monday. there was some descent on both sides monday. there was some descent on both sides for monday. there was some descent on both sides fo
linton kwesijohnson, welcome to hardtalk. nice to be here. so you were 11 when you came over from jamaica in 1963 tojoin your mother, who was already working here. how formative was that experience for you? it was a bit of a shock when i arrived. it wasn t what i had expected. in my childhood imagination, you know, you literally imagine the street of london paved with gold and palaces and carriages with kings and queens and that sort of thing. well, it has that sometimes! they chuckle. so it took a bit of getting used to. but when you re young, it s easier to adjust to a new environment than when you re old. and once i started school, you know, i settled down and, um. i did rather well at school because the education i had injamaica i went to an elementary school was in some ways superior to what i was confronted with at my secondary school, tulse hill secondary school. for example, they didn t teach grammar in english, which i did injamaica. mm hm. and it took a couple o
over the years we ve had long discussions about what happens around the way. it was very difficult. you don t repair a relationship overnight but i think we are in a very different place. how difficult and different was it to deal with rishi sunak to somebody like borisjohnson? the to deal with rishi sunak to somebody like boris johnson? like boris johnson? the former prime minister was like boris johnson? the former prime minister was not like boris johnson? the former prime minister was not the like boris johnson? the former prime minister was not the easiest, - like boris johnson? the former prime minister was not the easiest, and - minister was not the easiest, and i ve been diplomatic, but what you have to look at is not the past but the future, but also i think the uk realises, as we do, that we are not alone when it comes to dealing with the horrors of climate change and dealing with russia. we are united and working together. i think that realisation that we ca
britain? linton kwesijohnson, welcome to hardtalk. nice to be here. so you were 11 when you came overfrom jamaica in 1963 tojoin your mother, who was already working here. how formative was that experience for you? it was a bit of a shock when i arrived. it wasn t what i had expected. in my childhood imagination, you know, you literally imagine the street of london paved with gold and palaces and carriages with kings and queens and that sort of thing. well, it has that sometimes! they chuckle. so it took a bit of getting used to. but when you re young, it s easier to adjust to a new environment than when you re old. and once i started school, you know, i settled down and, um. i did rather well at school because the education i had injamaica i went to an elementary school was in some ways superior to what i was confronted with at my secondary school, tulse hill secondary school. for example, they didn t teach grammar in english, which i did injamaica. mm hm. and it took a
hello, i m carl nasman, thanks forjoining us. we start injapan, where a weekend of diplomacy and solidarity among some of the world s most powerful political leaders has come to a close. ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky departed the g7 summit injapan with a pledge of unwavering support as well as more military equipment from his allies. on sunday, president zelensky and japanese prime minister fumio kishida each laid a wreath at the hiroshima peace memorial park. it was a moment of deep symbolism two leaders of countries that both know the very real and very painful scars of war. russia s invasion of ukraine dominated talks at the g7 summit. us presidentjoe biden confirmed that the us and its allies will help train ukrainian pilots to fly western fighterjets like the f 16, which president zelensky had long called for. biden also promised to support ukraine with more ammunition and armoured vehicles, partly as a demonstration of western resolve. we will not waver