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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 h ....
to get them all a sap. meantime the new york times reporting a right-wing lawyer suggested trump declare marshal law to overturn the 2020 election. president biden returning from his controversial trip to the middle east where energy and security alliances may have been overshadowed by the murder of the washington post journalist jamal khashoggi. with respect to the murder of khashoggi i raised it at the top of the meeting making it clear what i thought of it at the time and think of now. the u.s. has made its own mistakes. with covid cases and hospitalizations on the rise, los angeles likely reinstating indoor masking. with these very high rates unless we start seeing a slow down in spread, a slow down in what s happening in our hospitals in two weeks we will do a universal indoor masking here. londoners being urged not to travel as a heat wave engulfs europe. other cities now seeing all-time records as blistering temperatures bake the continent. i ....
are gathering on the streets on london for pride as the lgbt+ community marks 50 years since the first march. now on bbc news, the media show. hello, and welcome. this week, we re talking about the return of q. and if that doesn t mean anything to you, don t worry. you ll be hearing a lot more in this programme about one of the world s most notorious conspiracy theories. we re also looking at white bristol s mayor is facing a boycott of his press briefings and what it says about the often fractious relationship between councils and journalists. among our guests on that topic are martin booth, editor of bristol 24 7, and charlotte green, who s a local democracy reporter with the manchester evening news. martin, welcome to the media show. what s your big story in bristol today? so, today i ve been visiting bristol s newly repainted rainbow crossing, just painted in time for our city s pride celebrations. so we ve got a brand new rainbow crossing on wine street. sounds f ....
keilar. pat cipollone the former top lawyer at the white house has been subpoenaed by the january 6th committee. the committee clearly feels he is a central figure in their investigation. witnesses have testified that he pushed back on the fake electoral college scheme. cassidy hutchinson testified that cipollone warned if trump went to the capitol, quote, we re going to be charged with every crime imaginable. cipollone did meet with the panel informally in april but has been reluctant to do more. now a source tells dana bash he might agree to at least a limited transcribed interview. first on cnn, cassidy hutchinson stands by her testimony in the face of push back from the secret service. the former top aide to chief of staff mark meadows told the committee that trump was so determined to join his supporters at the capitol that he tried to grab the wheel of the beast. the presidential armored vehicle which was an suv that day. and lunged at an agent s throat. commi ....
hearing takes new turns. the january 6 committee accusing donald trump of scamming his supporters out of $250 million. laying 0 out the case that trump solicited money from backers by using lies as a fundraising tool. adding that he sent up to 25 emails a day, soliciting donations for illegal funds that simply didn t exist. but is it potentially criminal and will attorney general merrick garland pursue or prosecute it as such? those are the key questions emerging from the hearings overall. and there seems to be a new rift emerging from the january 6 committee itself on the very subject. whether they will make a specific criminal referral to the justice department. as for witnesses, some of the most stark testimony is coming from trump s former attorney general william barr who offered a line-by-line debunking of some of trump s ongoing lies about fraud. and he calls trump detached from reality after the election. cnn is live with the new reporting, trump s supporter ....