amid a global energy crisis and soaring gas prices at home. sandra, good to be with you. sandra: and great to be with you, john. the topic of clean energy front center, net 0 emissions by no later than 2050. all of this as the world leaders say they are now working to tap russia s income from global oil sales that are financing putin s invasion of ukraine. john: biden s plan to bring down gas prices in the u.s. with help from two top oil exporters could be in jeopardy. video showing the french president pulling biden aside to tell him the united arab emirates and saudi arabia have already reached their maximum production. sandra: it comes as americans are still feeling the effects of the sky high prices at the pump ahead of the holiday weekend. national average, 4.86 a gallon. john: wow, jacqui heinrich live at the nato summit in madrid, spain. jacqui. jacqui: good afternoon to you guys. u.s. officials do not want to comment on the content of that conversation betwe
Blinken is expected to visit saudi arabia in the coming days. Meanwhile, hamas has posted a new video, which shows two of the hostages captured during its october attack. Keith siegel, and omri miran, both identify themselves. While the video is not dated, there is a reference to the recent passover holiday. Its the second such video that hamas, considered a terror group by the uk and us governments, has published in the past few days. Our correspondent, anna foster is in tel aviv where families have been gathering to again call for the release of all the hostages. Omri mirans father was actually already on the list of confirmed speakers for this event tonight. When he got up on the stage, he talked about the moment, he said he was sitting having coffee with someone and talking about his grandchildren when the man he was talking to held his phone and said, look, they have released a video of omri. What was also interesting was as the crowd were gathered here tonight, is they showed tha
countries around the world today than there was preinvasion? the number is almost the same, it has gone up above there. here it is, may 2022. russian oil sales, $20 billion worth up 1.7 billion from april 2022. and back to levels that it has not seen since preinvasion of ukraine. so it s not the message is we are not going to buy your oil from the west, but he s still selling the oil to china, india, and selling it to europe. price controls on the oil, they ll sell it to a country like india or china that cannot get enough of it. good point, the biggest beneficiary has been china and russia. they are the ones who have benefitted from this. we are financing the war against ukraine with this petroll
of 104 and needed to be emergency picked up and moved across this border to be able to get rproper medical attention. it s extraordinarily desperate and what you really hear here is that a better system needs to be put into place to move people across in a much more effective manner. they can t survive out here. it s very close to freezing in these temperatures and it s unbearable. i m glad you mentioned that, arwa, because folks at home might not realize all this taking place in just arctic-like weather here with all the consequences involved. arwa damon, everyone else, thank you. so here we are. it s 2022. russian forces are invading multiple european cities. it s invaded a country that did not attack it. there are air sirens going off almost by the minute in cities here. there are missile strikes, air strikes, and refugees fleeing war in europe.