which is around 1% of global supplies. opec plus countries which account for around 40% of the world s crude oil said they would cut production by some 1 point 4 million barrels per day from the start of next year. but not all members of the cartel were happy, with nigeria and angola both wanting to raise production rather than cut it. here s our middle east correspondent sameer hashmi on some what can this mean for prices around the world? here s our middle east correspondent sameer hashmi on some of the fissures within opec plus, and the differing priorities of some key members. before the meeting started on saturday, it was widely expected that the whole group would make cuts deeper prices. but that didn t happen. saudi arabia was quite keen that the whole group implements those cuts from july, but as you were mentioning, a lot of members were not in favour of that because if they cut down production, it s going to impact their oil revenues, which is going to impact their
And thank you for joining us on news night. Laura coates live as always starts right now. Hey, laura. Im always live. I love that. As always. Congratulations on a wonderful week. Thank you. You too. A lot of news arriving for both of us, but i know youll be covering it. Good news tonight. Thank you. Well see you again on monday. Thats right. Well, Two American Hostages Released by hamas. Thats the good news. Now, what will happen to the rest . Tonight, on laura coates live. Thankfully, a sigh of absolute relief, at least for one family and this nation. An American Mother and her daughter from chicago who were just visiting family in israel when they were taken by hamas pictured here after their release. The photo from the israeli government. President joe biden spoke with them and promised the full support of the United States government as they recover from their ordeal. The embassy in jerusalem releasing a photo tonight. None of them can contain the smile they have at what is really
julie: more americans coming home, nearly 80 of the u.s. citizens stranded in gaza making it out safely so far. hundreds more, though, are still trapped. the biden administration meantime pushing for what it calls a humanitarian pause, a stop in the fighting to get aid in and out to foreign nationals to get those out. this is the faulkner focus. i m julie banderas. good afternoon. i m in for maris today. blinken met with president netanyahu today. before the meeting he talked about possible pauses as we mentioned and the concerns around them. watch. we believe that each of these efforts would be facilitated by humanitarian pauses. a number of legitimate questions were raised in our discussions today including how to use any period of pause to maximize the fuel humanitarian assistance. how to connect a pause to the release of hostages and secure hamas doesn t use these to their own advantage. julie: senate majority whip dick durbin, the highest ranking democrat to back
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