if you have just joined if you havejustjoined us, good to have you with us. we begin with the soaring cost of energy. as governments and central banks grapple with rising inflation and a cost of living crisis, the world s biggest oil company announces record breaking profits. the saudi oil company aramco revealed it made more than $48 billion in profits in the second quarter of this year. the eye watering sum marks a 90% year on year increase and the biggestjump in earnings for the world s largest energy exporter since its public listing three years ago. but what is the outlook for oil prices this year and beyond? the war in ukraine caused a significant spike in the price of energy worldwide prices have come off the highs reached earlier this year and now with fears of recession on the horizon in europe and other key economies globally, there are differing views out there as to where the price of the oil is headed. let s talk this through with craig erlam senior market an
Since the Black Sea humanitarian corridor opened in August, 200 ships have passed through it, carrying 7 million metric tons of cargo from Ukrainian ports, including almost 5 million tons of Ukrainian agricultural products, Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said on Dec. 4.
fertiliser plant up to 100 containers are loaded onto the ship. here in the dock, this looks like an ordinary cargo ship but under the deck there is no engine or diesel. it is powered instead by batteries. there is a capacity of almost a seven megawatt hour, and to power 90 tesla cars and that is supplied with clean hydro energy. and, if everything is shipshape, to years from now, there won t be any crew on board at all. th there won t be any crew on board at all. there won t be any crew on board at all. in the beginning, i will be driving board at all. in the beginning, i will be driving the board at all. in the beginning, i will be driving the ship, - i will be driving the ship, more or less, as i do today, and more and what will be taken over by electronics, robotics. data collected will train an algorithm and eventually radar sensors and artificial intelligence cameras will help the vessel navigate by itself. docking, loading cargo, recharging batteries will also be automated.
chairman scott on the education committee and that committee will do a lot in terms of drafting to make sure that four grant programs like kind universities will compete against each other. a source tells cnn that a source is considering whether to deploy the national guard to ease the issues we have by loading cargo and driving trucks. if this backlog is so detrimental, why not send them now? well, that would be news to me and i m certainly not here to make an announcement that we ll use the national guard in the supply chain. all right. senate republicans just blocked another key vote on legislation that democrats offered on voting rights. there are republicans on capitol hill who have seemed very willing to work with democrats and who seem very willing to talk about the threat to democracy that donald trump
suspect is behind bars. a reckless driver nearly killing a young girl after ignoring a school bus warning signal. here is what is happening. a pickup truck just missing the 11-year-old when the bus driver blasts his horn saving the girl s life, the incident happened last december but minnesota police i just releasing it as a reminder to drivers. terrifying video showing the moment a cargo loader burst into flames just feet from an american airlines flight. a machine operator at hong kong international airport with loading cargo onto the plane when flames ignited. he was that seriously injured. american airlines blames it on faulty loading equipment. coming up your comments pouring in to the harvey weinstein