Great to have you with us. How do you think this is going to impact already difficult relations with china . , already difficult relations with china . V. Already difficult relations with china . ,. ,. , already difficult relations with china . ,. ,. ,. ,. China . Thats a great question. We have been playing china . Thats a great question. We have been playing pingpong china . Thats a great question. We have been playing pingpong withl have been playing ping pong with china fork some time now between us export control measures, weve seen china taking matches against us Companies Like macron, and it has imposed recent Export Controls on gallium and germanium, which we need for some of our Technology Sector is. I think that we are already at an increasingly fraught relationship with china. That being said, china in the broader Business Community have been on notice that this measure is likely to come down the pipe and we watch this plant a tenant legislative and administrative disgrac
and our other main story tonight. a special report from bakhmut in eastern ukraine the site of fierce fighting from which almost all the city s residents have fled. we are walking over shards of glass. pretty much every second you hear the sound of artillery fire. you can tell every minute this city is being intensely fought over. sir. tell every minute this city is being intensely fought over. intensely fought over. sir, you do not have the intensely fought over. sir, you do not have the votes intensely fought over. sir, you do not have the votes and intensely fought over. sir, you do not have the votes and it s - intensely fought over. sir, you do not have the votes and it s time l intensely fought over. sir, you do| not have the votes and it s time to withdraw not have the votes and it s time to withdraw. ., ., , ,, ., , , withdraw. chaos in the us congress as republican withdraw. chaos in the us congress as republican rebels withdraw. chaos in the us congress
ambitions. the bd is it never hides them. so the chinese president artie said that he intends to have the largest military force eventually in the world that he did originally planning to be by about 2050, but he probably let that that slip. whichever way you cut it, his ambitions are clear. he wants to make the chinese form of government and life than natural. he thinks that democracy and the free world is an aberration of 250 years, but that the real way of governing is the way that he governs. this is a country guilty of genocide, a country guilty of brutal tearing up of international agreements, threats to taiwan, invasion of the south china sea is. and stealing technology, subsidising business which they do all the time. so this is a country with a significant threat, so i think america is right and many of us should now countries like iran
non domestic users businesses, local authorities, charities, etc, have also had government support with their bills. the budget watchdog estimates that support will cost £18.4 billion by the end of march. so what we do know is that support for business will be significantly lower, from april. today the chancellor said no government can permanently shield businesses from this energy price shock and said the current level of support is unsustainably expensive. itjust so happens that the cost of subsidising business should go down anyway, because energy is much cheaper now than at the height of the crisis. you can see here how far wholesale prices have fallen. that s in recent weeks and months. what we don t know is exactly where prices for businesses will be fixed and whether really heavy energy users industries will get more support than others more detail to come next week. but in those falling prices is a crumb of comfort for domestic bills. under the government s current ene