But as the ukraine war drags on, western countries, especially the us, are starting to think that it might be better to lessen their dependence on china as well, which has made everything for us, from beach balls to Nuclear Power stations. Almost unnoticed by the outside world, President Biden has been pushing ahead with wide ranging plans to replace chinese goods with American Made ones. The bbc s economics editor, faisal islam, has been investigating the extent of this new America First policy. I was astounded by the scale and the speed of the transformation in terms of the deployment of public, government, Taxpayer Subsidy into Strategic Industries, particularly green industries. Theres so much money going in that its transforming the economic fabric of a whole belt of america. We used to talk about the rust belt. They are now talking about a battery belt. It sounds rather sort of roosevelt years, doesnt it . Yes, and theres some conscious echoes of that. Indeed, where i was in kent
and the ukrainecast presenter vitaliy shevchenko has been following developments. he gave me some background on the general who s been dimissed. valerii zaluzhnyi, to put simply, he was in charge of the ukrainian army. and as such, he was the architect of ukraine s initial counteroffensive backin ukraine s initial counteroffensive back in 2022. he is the face of ukraine s relative military success. he is credited well with the fact that ukraine s still there, still fighting, and yet he has been sacked. it s a move that will not go down particularly well with some parts of the military and the public in ukraine. general valerii zaluzhnyi has been very well thought of, respected and revered by many, so questions have been asked and are being asked about why this has happened. there s a lot of talk about a personality clash between the two leaders, between volodymyr zelensky and valerii zaluzhnyi. i keep presidential adviser in ukraine said that one important reason why a reshuf
Theres increased security in with whats being called anti terror measures. The m4 which links the russian capital with cities in south, such as rostov, is closed because of a military convey that is moving along it. The kremlin has called for prigozhin s arrest with top russian generals telling wagner forces to stand down and the russian president Vladimir Putin has given a tv address and said russia is facing a betrayal. Heres mr putins Television Address to the russian nation. Translation any actions that split us are a betrayal of your people, a betrayal of the comrades that are fighting on the front line, a knife in the back of our people. This struck russia in 1917, when russia was waging the first world war, victory was stolen from us. Politicking behind the back of the army and the people turned into huge upheaval, the destruction of the army and the state. The loss of huge territories. As a result, it was tragedy, russian killing russians, civil war. And benefit was derived by
in charge around here. waiting for vladimir putin, 2500 soldiers and guards, and the defence minister the wagner mutineers wanted sacked. having survived it a time to say thank you. translation: you have saved our motherland from upheaval. - in fact, you have stopped a civil war. in fact, the reality was rather different. the wagner soldiers, who had been cheered on the streets of rostov, had only stopped their rebellion out of the kremlin did a deal with them, promising not to press charges against them and their leader yevgeny prigozhin. still, kremlin spin is presenting this as a triumph for their president. the uprising is over and the kremlin is trying to reframe the optics as what happened as a victoria to reframe the optics as what happened as a victory bought the president and for russia. but where is yevgeny prigozhin? under his deal with the kremlin, he agreed to leave russia for belarus. today, the leader of belarus, alexander lukashenko, said yes, he is here, bu
caught on tape, donald trump s right-hand man, walt nauta seen in surveillance video, according to the justice department. the boxes full of classified documents prosecutors say he moved and hid on trump s property before the fbi arrived. this hour, 2024 trump challenger chris christie is here with his reaction to the latest trouble trump might be in. a raid in russia. the kremlin sending in their officers to sniff out yevgeny prigozhin, guns, cash, gold, wigs found when the world thought he was hiding in belarus. and federal charges for the man who had weapons outside of barack obama s home. see the letter that gave him the obamas home address. we start today with the law and justice lead. the unprecedented criminal charges against the former president for allegedly mishandles classified documents and today s not guilty plea from the aid accused of helping trump hide those documents from the government. walt nauta appeared in a miami courtroom today after his first two