and the hard yards that we need to undertake to get this right. hello and welcome to the programme. we will be live in ireland tonight, asjoe biden makes the journey south to his ancestral home. we will be finding what came of his brief visit to belfast today, and what unionists made of the speech he delivered. we ll bring you more of that extraordinary conversation between the bbc s james clayton and elon musk. plenty to disect in that, including musk s confession he only went through with a takeover at twitter, because the judge would have forced him to do it anyway. and who controls the distribution of the abortion pill in america? the us government is in court this next hour, to appeal a decision in texas to suspend the licence. we will get reaction. lets start first with president biden and the speech he gave today marking the 25th anniversary of the good and friday agreement. a speech in which the us president held out the promise of huge us investment if and when stabl
supply to finland the latest escalation of an energy payments row with the west. russia s gas giant gazprom confirmed it had completely halted exports to finland at 0a:00 gmt on saturday. finland says there will be no disruption to customers. today the 28th world gas conference starts in daegu, with 12,000 participants from 90 countries descending on the energy city of south korea. topics on the table for discussion will no doubt focus on russia and europe s energy supply or lack of it. meanwhile, the uk is apparently experiencing a gas glut, with surplus supplies of natural gas pouring into britain s re gasification terminals. the glut has squashed gas prices on the spot market in britain, but will this lead to prices dropping for consumers? joining me now is michael stoppard, global gas strategy lead, s&p global. read gasification terminals, where they store the gas until it is needed, if those are full, there is a glutton the supply of gas, will people watching at home
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