yes, a very warm welcome to all the business news. and we start here in the uk, where skyrocketing inflation is causing big problems for retailers. just how big will be revealed in a few hours when we get those retail sales numbers forjuly. if we look back, sales fell 0.1% month on month injune, and that was a better than expected result as rising energy and fuel prices dented consumer confidence. now that inflation is topping 10%, the british independent retailers association is calling for 100% rates relief to be introduced for smaller retailers, and an energy price cap for businesses. let us get more. andrew goodacre, ceo, british independent retailers association. good morning. thank you for joining us. you are calling for the smaller retail, rate relief and an energy price for business in general. just talk about energy, energy prices have gone through the roof stop how much is it hurting our retailers? how much is it hurting our retailers? ,., ., ., , retailers? good m
texas elementary school that left 19 students and two teachers dead. and yesterday, if you are people were killed in that tulsa medical office shooting when a patient went after his doctor. take you both places live. the president has been under increasing pressure to do something about gun violence, but he has consistently deferred to congress where talks are continuing. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. good evening, bret. it s only been two and a half years or so since president biden referred to saudi arabia as a pariah with little redeeming social value out of concern about potential human rights abuses. but, here at home, gas prices have apparently gotten high enough that he is reportedly set to visit saudi arabia to ask them to pump some more oil. that is brand new. it s unclear what in the president s speech about guns tonight will be new. he going to renew his call for action. renew our ban
mmp they want to diversify and even ramp up domestic production. at}! ramp up domestic production. of course one part of the war we know is this energy crisis that many in europe are certainly facing, and other parts of the world. do you think the trade alliances will be linked to energy supplies?- energy supplies? yes, definitely. energy supplies? yes, | definitely. international energy supplies? yes, - definitely. international trade was always characterised to a large extent by energy transfer from one country to the other, but energy used to be a dirty industry, it is still a dirty industry, it is still a dirty industry, but increasingly, it is getting more importance, and we realise that the green energy and a green economy is taking longer than expected, and we need supply of energy, notjust and we need supply of energy, not just from and we need supply of energy, notjust from time to time, but we need every year, and we will look out for new suppliers, and to some extent, redu
fuel and fertilizer if you can get it. we don t mine anything, and the potash and the national gas. and the other things that the president could do that would allow american agriculture to set free. mostly stay out, let american agriculture prosper. everything needs to be on the table because everything is set for an arab spring here come next march and april. jacqui: and i assume i know the answer to this already, but the biden administration releasing barrels from the strategic petroleum reserve hoping to bring down gas prices and last two times they did that it didn t make a dent. what do you want to see the administration do in order to ramp up domestic production. they need to stop doing what they are doing. they ve declared all of government war on american oil. everyone knows about the keystone pipeline being shut down. it should have been producing right now a million barrels a day equivalent to what the
security colony. he has been sentenced to nine years of strict regime. what does that mean for him? unfortunately, it means way less public access, stricter conditions under which he will be held, less freedom, essentially inside of the colony. most importantly, the public lawyers, journalists will have very limited access to him. every week at this time we take a look at the climate crisis, bringing you stories with big implications for our planet. this week, after a month of war in ukraine, we focus on energy security how the world can replace its so called addiction to russian coal, oil and gas. many countries are urgently looking to strike fossil fuel deals elsewhere or ramp up domestic production. just this