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Hello, im sally bundock. It all sounds a bit fishy, we will get to that a little later stop. Lets get down to business, and we begin with the rising price of oil which is pushing up the cost of living globally. With tensions on the Ukraine Russia border not easing, markets are betting demand for oil could go up, and, recently, we saw the price of the black stuff hitting its highest level for 7 years, and this impacts everything from fuel to food bills. Today, the members of the Oil Cartel Opec and other oil producers, will meet. So will they change their Decision Making on Oil Production . And what pressure are they under as well. As you can see from this graph, though, oil has been on a steep upward trajectory over the past year with some analysts now predicting ....
Speaker emerita and democratic congresswoman from california, nancy pelosi. Speaker pelosi, thank you so much for joining us. We appreciate it. So i have to say this was this may have been the highest stakes speech of President Bidens long career in politics. It may have been the highest stakes state of the Union Address that ive ever seen. I think he met the moment. Oh, i think he did definitely. Actually, i should quote him and just say, maybe i should go home right now because i think what he did was spectacular. He did it with vigor. He did it with vision, with patriotism. And i think it was one of the finest state of the Union Addresses i have seen. And ive seen many. So obviously a lot of republicans are critical of it. One of the things that theyre criticizing it for is for being political. And it was a very politi ....
That you might have missed. The hthousep of representatives passed a set of Funding Bills needed to avoid a partial government shut down. House speaker johnson said he is pleased with the legislation because it allowed him to make spending cuts. We also advanced as you seen the surgery cuts to some of the agencies that we believe are really overreaching. And have been turned in some ways against the American People. We are going soto cut 3 from doj, 7 from the atf, 6 from the fbi, and 10 from the epa. And thats a start. We have a lot more priorities and things we need to advance but the reality is we have to grow the house majority, take back the senate and win the white house and i am hear to tell you the reason we are optimistic is because we believe the things will happen in november. What happened to my former party. You got a speaker who bragging about defunding the poli ....
Are scared to death that donald trump is going to get a second term and he is going to clean house in america. We need to think much more cleverly about how we produce food and how were going to sustain those systems. Weve got to remember that the planet is on fire. Im telling you, theres. Going to be a revolution. We are using ai in a way to subjugate people, reduce their autonomy, reduce their agency, reduce their contribution to production. In the spirit of your title of hardtalk, youre completely wrong. Welcome to this special year ending edition of hardtalk with me, stephen sackur. Welcome to this special year ending edition of hardtalk with me, stephen sackur. Its our chance to look back on some of the most telling and compelling encounters of 2023. How will this past year be remembered . Well, a grim new phase in an intractable conflict will loom large. On october the 7th, hamas the Islamist Group which controls gaza and is ....