US Congress passes legislation on climate change

A key piece of legislation has passed the US Congress aimed at tackling climate change. and despite compromises, environmental campaigners say its effects will be felt around the world.

Also, the writer Salman Rushdie is on a ventilator in hospital after being attacked with a knife while on stage in New York State. We'll have the latest on his condition and on the attack.

Plus, how close are we to getting a result in the Kenyan presidential elections?

And the man who ran across Ireland in under 24 hours.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other issues are Professor Chandrika Kaul, professor of history at St Andrew's University specialising in India and British colonial history; and Dr Fuad Musallam, a political anthropologist specialising in Lebanon at the London School of Economics.

(Image: House Democrats pose for photos after Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi signed the Inflation Reduction Act after the House passed the legislation. Credit: Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)