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Bonanza for Chatg Pt Maker openai it takes in new funding, making it one of the most valuable Start Ups in The World. Will he or wont he show up that is Elon Musk is due to testify to the us Markets Watchdog over his Twitter Buyout after a no show last month. Welcome to business today, im ben thompson. We start in the Middle East where, as weve been reporting, President Biden has said the us does not support an attack by israel on irans nuclear sites in response to tehran s missile strikes on israel on tuesday. The us president said the israelis had a right to respond to the attack, but they needed to do so proportionately. In the latest fighting, israel has bombed a building in central beirut. Oil prices have risen since wednesday over supply fears, with markets regaining ground as investors seemingly come to terms with the escalation. Lets have a quick look at the price of oil. This is the one to keep an eye on, Brent Crude up another 2 today taking it above 75 per barrel. For more o
In terms of iran and the risk to exports directly out of iran, thats about 1. 7, 1. 8 million barrelS Per day. And obviously those, the Export Facilities in iran, are those probably at greatest risk in the aftermath of what happened on tuesday night. But i think, you know, weve had a muted reaction, partly because markets are still focussed on a comparatively weak chinese economy and expectations that the Oil Market more broadly next year is looking like it may head into surplus. So, you know, very much mixed messages at the moment coming out of the crude market. Lets go straight to New York and get the latest from our correspondent there, ritika gupta. We saw there prior to starting to rise once again, particularly off the back of those comments by president biden. Explain what he said. We are seeing biden. Explain what he said. Are seeing Oil Prices spiking after the back of president biden s comments, saying they are considering the possibility of israel launching a counterattack on
Plumes of smoke over the capital still over beirut. In central beirut, a massive overnight Air Strike killed nine people, in a multistorey building, Housing A Hezbollah affiliated health centre, near the lebanese parliament building. Lebanon says paramedics are among the dead. While the World Health Organization says 28 Health Workers have been killed in the past day. As the conflict escalates, more people are on the move well talk in a few minutes to the Un Agency organising aid in beirut. Meanwhile, the Lebanese Army says, that two of its soldiers have been killed, by israel in separate incidents in southern lebanon. I want to return to Whatjoe Biden has been saying because he responded to questions thrown at him yesterday saying of course the us did not support any potential israeli strikes on nuclear facilities. He was asked today whether there are discussions about israel and Irans Oil facilities and his answer was we are discussing that possibility and that resulted in a spike of
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