The International Energy agency has revealed that lng now makes up 35 of europes energy supplies, not far off the 40 contribution that russia made before it was sanctioned over ukraine. Joining me now is ben mcwilliams, whos an Affiliate Fellow at bruegel. Thank you very much for being with us today. What are your concerns about where gas prices could go if these workers do indeed strike . This is certainly a concern, but to be clear up front, nothing comparable to last year. The position we are in is that, as you mentioned, as russian Pipeline Supplies have been cut over the last 12 months, the eu and uk have become more dependent on liquefied national gas. Natural gas. Australia typically supplies asia. If it were cut to asian consumers, we would see asian consumers turning around and looking to qatar and competing with european buyers there, which would in turn have some Knock On Effect on prices. As it had last week, 40 increase from around 30 to 36 euros just nothing like close to
Military intervention. News being reported by afp news agency, dozens of Coup Supporters have gathered near french basis in niger, you might remember at the start of the coup the French Embassy was attacked by supporters of the coup which will be of concern, thousands of supporters gathering near the french base in niger. Russia seeing Military Intervention would quote destabilisation, quote. Interesting, their take on it. Russia prepared to take maximum advantage, and the wagner group, all the worries about them in the whole region. A lot of new is dropping in on the last while, we are keeping an eye on the constantly moving story and will return to it. The government are calling the hawaii fire is the states largest ever natural disaster. My gosh the scale of what has happened on the Island Of Maui has stunned all those living here. Unbelievable. And the thousands of tourists who were on holiday. The wildfire is fanned by destroying almost everything in their path. And taking many li
us more vulnerable. that is the reason why we have been so clear on the following, that ukraine has the right to choose its own path and what kind of security arrangement it once. that is the first line in the paragraph today. and this is a fundamental right. therefore, you can other allow that moscow started to decide who can or cannot be member of nato. russia has been against every part of nato. it is for nato allies and ukraine to decide when to become a member. moscow doesn t have a say on. we are moving ukraine closer to membership, we make the decisions today, which is the most united message on the path towards membership. and of course, we do it knowing moscow will protest, as they did when finland, sweden or north macedonia joint. ukraine has the right to choose their path, allies will decide, not moscow. , ., , . . . , moscow. just one sentence. what is very important moscow. just one sentence. what is very important is moscow. just one sentence. what is very i
this post in 2017. he is also a registered republican. but that did not matter to the gop members who used today s hearing to go after him personally. when the court says the fbi misled, but it s a nice way of saying they lied. the american people fully understand that there is a two tiered justice system. that has been weaponized to persecute people based on their political beliefs. and that you have personally been worked to weaponize the fbi against conservatives. i would disagree with your characterization of the fbi. and certainly your description of my own approach. the idea that i m biased against conservatives seems somewhat insane to me given my own personal background. your job is to review what they do, your job is to protect the american people from tyrannical fbi, storming the home of an american family. i could not disagree more with your description of the fbi s tyrannical. you seem deeply and curious about, it don t you? almost suspiciously i m c
report on inflation was better than ever expected, prices rose just 3% in june, which is the lowest increase we have seen since march of 2021. there is so uncertainty out there about what this means long term, we are gonna hash all of that out later in the hour. but inflation was not at the top of the agenda for some lawmakers on capitol hill today. the republican-led house judiciary committee spent about six long hours questioning fbi director chris wray. the house gop along with former president trump had been hammering ray and the bureau for months. the attacks of course have intensified and made the trump classified documents case and after hunter biden took a plea deal. keep in mind that christopher wray is not a democrat he is not a joe biden crony, he was appointed by donald trump to this post into thousand and 17. he is also a registered republican. but that did not matter to the gop members who used today s hearing to go after him personally. in the court, they say