so let s get started, and we begin with the latest meeting of the world s major oil producing nations - 0pec+. world leaders, including president biden and the uk prime minister, are hoping the group will agree to pump more oil and ease energy prices that is fuelling inflation. in a bid to increase pressure, joe biden is headed to saudi arabia next month for meetings. but so far the signs are the oil producers group, which includes russia, is unwilling to budge. opec nations produce around 30% of the world s crude oil, about 28 million barrels a day. let s talk this through with spencer welch oil analyst with s&p global. good morning to you. in the last month they had agreed to increase production a teeny tiny bit. but what is their argument for not increasing it more now? more now? good morning, actually more now? good morning, actually they more now? good morning, actually they have - more now? good morning, actually they have been - actually they have been increasin
today have said that they are done. they ve been looking into this since january. and so we have the figures for the final count. after a bit of back and forth, it s a bit confusing. where they confuse fines and people. but we now know that they issued 126 fines to 83 people. so most of those fined got one fine. and we know that the prime minister was one of those, as was the chancellor and the prime minister s wife. we know that 28 people got between two and five, so at least one person got five! yeah. so who is the party animal? i ve no idea. but, yeah, at least one person getting five. and, yeah, when you speak to ministers, you can hear the relief in their voice because there was a lot of talk, wasn t there, at westminster about does the prime minister get more than one? does he wallpaper an entire wall with them by the end of it? and what does that mean, after that boiling anger from conservative mps for a couple of months ago? that anger has long since dissipated. i don
reported across 11 countries. there will be a full roundup of the day s news at ten o clock. first, it s newscast. welcome to the newscast studio this week. and we re going to bejoined by all sorts of interesting people who will be popping in and out throughout this episode. but first, chris, you ve had a busy old day covering what you could describe as maybe the beginning of the end of the downing street party story. yeah. so the metropolitan police today have said that they are done. they ve been looking into this since january. and so we have the figures for the final count. after a bit of back and forth, it s a bit confusing. where they confuse fines and people. but we now know that they issued 126 fines to 83 people. so most of those fined got one fine. and we know that the prime minister was one of those, as was the chancellor and the prime minister s wife. we know that 28 people got between two and five, so at least one person got five! so who is the party animal? i ve
passed a resolution to censure squad member jamal bowman for pulling a capitol building fire alarm back in september. it forced an evacuation of the building. it also created quite a chaos as congress rushed to head off a government shutdown. the new york democrat is now the 28th lawmaker ever censured in history. you are watching the faulkner focus. i m julie banderas in for harris today. it was caught on video and why he pled guilty. he got caught. bowman a former middle school principal said he was simply trying to open a door clearly marked as off limits. he pled guilty to a miss demeanor charge and paid a $1 thousand fine. the max fine. bowman continues to deny he was trying to delay the spending bill vote. jim jordan confident the censure motion would pass. i think it is in a more broader and how crazy things have gotten in the biden administration. an f.b.i. that says if you are catholic you re extremist and members of congress pulling a fire alarm to disrupt a vot
about is ridiculous. i m in this race because the truth needs to be spoken. he is unfit. this is a guy who just said this past week that he wants to use the department of justice to go after his enemies when he gets in there. i mean, the fact of the matter is he is unfit to be president, and there is no bigger issue in this race than donald trump, and those numbers prove it. that s republican presidential candidate chris christie addressing the lack of direct criticism for donald trump at last night s gop debate. we ll have much more from that heated yet perhaps not relevant event straight ahead. meanwhile, on capitol hill senate republicans are stalling a critical aid package, which includes billions of dollars in funding for ukraine. we ll explain why and what could happen next. and also ahead we ll bring you the latest from gaza. israel says its forces are closing in on the hamas leader is believed to be the mastermind behind the october 7th terror attacks. good mo