Irans Oil Industry after comments by President Biden. Welcome to business today, live from new york, i m ritika gupta. Share prices in the us have been searching after great news regarding the us economy. The strike on the East Coast ports has also been suspended. It is not all positive news, though. Oil markets are still reeling from a comment by President Biden on thursday that the White House is discussing whether to support an attack by israel on Irans Oil facilities. This is how one of the key benchmarks Brent Crude was trading in the last 15 minutes if it stays at these levels it will be up around 10 per cent this week. One Oil Market Watcher told us he is astounded by the president s comment. In over 15 years of covering the energy markets, reporting them and dare i say, trading on the markets as well, i have never seen anything. This is quite unprecedented. Whether its off the cuff or not, for a sitting us president , just a little over four weeks from the american president i
Asking, where is the aid. People need so much in lahaina, they need food and Drinking Water and shelter, they lost everything and as we see that aid coming in, gradually getting particularly to hard hit areas, there is some frustration. It remains to be seen how that response is received in the coming days and we as it continues to come onto the island. We as it continues to come onto the island the island. Thank you for that u date. The island. Thank you for that update we the island. Thank you for that update. We will the island. Thank you for that update. We will keep the island. Thank you for that update. We will keep an the island. Thank you for that update. We will keep an eye l the island. Thank you for that l update. We will keep an eye on the area where that Press Conference is supposed to be happening with the governor, josh green in a short while. We will bring that to you as it happens. As we have been discussing with each passing day, hearing more stories of survival from
rival military factions have announced a new ceasefire, but are showing few signs that they will honour it. that they will honour it. air strikes continued to pound the capital of khartoum on saturday, as more than 500 deaths have been reported, though the true number of casualties is believed to be much higher. the united nations has warned that the humanitarian crisis in sudan is at a breaking point. world leaders, including the african union, are calling for a humanitarian pause in the fighting. martin griffiths, the un s emergency relief coordinator, is being sent to sudan along with a special envoy to coordinate humanitarian operations. it s understood many of the aid agency s warehouses were looted by fighting military factions. thousands of people are evacuating on ships to the saudi arabian port city ofjeddah. our africa correspondent andrew harding has recently arrived injeddah, and gave us this update. as the fighting intensifies again in khartoum, people fleeing
hello, and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. washington has accused beijing of acting irresponsibly after a chinese surveillance balloon was detected over the united states. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, has postponed a much anticipated trip to beijing over the incident. for its part, china says the balloon is a civilian airship which had deviated from its planned route. however, us defence officials argue the balloon, seen above sensitive areas in recent days, was a high altitude surveillance device. our security correspondent, gordon correra reports. i.have no idea what this thing is. a strange object in the sky, filmed by a member of the public in rural montana. and for those of you who think this mightjust be the moon, it is not the moon, the moon is off to my right, i can see it. it s not the moon, nor a ufo, but, us officials claim, a chinese spy balloon. it seemed so brazen and just so insane to me, it wasjust, like, this thing is so vis
the pentagon has confirmed that they are seeing reports of a balloon transiting over latin america. brigadier general patrick ryder says that the us department of defense now assesses that it is another chinese surveillance balloon. this comes after washington accused beijing of acting irresponsibly after a first such balloon was detected over the united states. secretary of state, antony blinken postponed a much anticipated trip to beijing over the incident. china says that balloon was a civilian airship which had deviated from its planned route. we ll have more on the second balloon sighting in a moment, but first this report from gordon correra. i.have no idea what this thing is. a strange object in the sky, filmed by a member of the public in rural montana. and for those of you who think this mightjust be the moon, it is not the moon, the moon is off to my right i can see it. it s not the moon, nor a ufo, but, us officials claim, a chinese spy balloon. it seemed so br