us and eu officials are meeting today to discuss energy cooperation. the focus? according to the us, joint efforts to blunt russia s attempts to weaponize energy, bolstering energy supplies for the coming winters. this comes as eu member states consider extending restrictions, or even outright banning, russian natural gas imports. the bloc has also imposed a $60 a barrel cap on purchases of russian crude oil, something that the us has supported. joining me now is olga khakova, deputy director for european energy security at the atlantic council s global energy center. on the committee that looked into their trade relationships. has russia been able to weather the international sanctions issued against its energy exports? i think overall, the price caps have been a win, a lot of analysts actually were hesitant to implement or support but anything and the overall goal was achieved. key pressure on energy supplies on the market while minimising how much money russia is making
the former conservative cabinet secretaryjustine greening, the is chief political commentator paul waugh and the republican political analyst doug heye. good evening, welcome to the programme. by the 5th september we will know who is to become the next prime minister of the united kingdom. currently, we have 11 candidates, the hope is that by next week, 11 will become two. in the last hour, the 1922 committee of conservative backbenchers has set out the rules by which they will eliminate candidates. here is the chair of that committee sir graham brady. we tried to find a balance where we are not making it impossibly difficult for serious candidates to enter the contest but we don t want to have a cast of thousands of people who don t really have great prospects of progressing in the election. so the first round will be held on wednesday, by which time candidates will require the support of 20 mps. a second on thursday, in which they will need the support of 30. another round
there s always talk about it being so unpolitical but ijust don t see how it is. tonight with the context, lord bilimoria president of the confederation of british industry and founder of cobra beer and ron christie former senior advisor to president george w bush. welcome to the programme. after weeks of dicussions, eu leaders have agreed on a partial embargo of russian oil imports. the plan is expected to affect up to 90% of russian oil imports by the end of the year. it will only affect oil that arrives by sea that s around two thirds of imports. but not pipeline oil, following strong opposition from hungary. first, this is the eu s foreign policy chief. we were in versaille bursae a few weeks ago, not many observers would ve thought it would ve been possible for us only in a few weeks to take such a concrete and historic decision. we have decided to sanction russia by banning russian oil, this is extremely important and we will succeed in the following months to i
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Russia said it would protect oil refineries better after several were struck by Ukrainian drones. Ukraine continues to hit the facilities, despite U.S. warnings against such attacks, as it launches larger and larger drone swarms. Beyond a morale boost for Ukraine, the effects are moderate so far.