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Joining us from new york this morning, antoine hope, hes a Senior Research scholar at columbia universitys center on Global Energy policy. Here to talk about oil prices. While were experiencing these tensions with iran. So, mr. Hope, lets begin with the history of the United States getting its oil from the middle east. Tell us about that. Right. Well, the volumes that are imported from the middle east have decreased dramatically in the last few years with the increase in election. But, in fact, ...

Iran. This event was held at the ol university of michigans ford school of a policy in ann arbor. Hello everybody and welcome. I would like first to add my thanks to the weiser family as well as to the American Academy of diplomacy with which weve been fortunate to partner to bring todays event together. The topic we will address is obviously timely and extremely important. Going to talk about us iran relations, the nuclear deal, politics and security y in the gulf more generally and of course t...

A safe where israel can continue targeting with impunity ok zain well talk to you again in the coming couple of hours i suspect the show in the meantime thanks very much lets get more now by talking to the middle east analysts come all was nate who was in beirut kemal was me welcome to aljazeera. Breakdown of whats going on right now. Basically. Has been known since the beginning of targeting. The fight of hezbollah in syria this will be this will not go without retaliation. Retaliation is to re...

The region levanon syria and iraq and clearly this is a sharp escalation so far iran and its allies have not retaliated they are now threatening retaliation the words of the hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah were quite strong hes saying that these drone attacks will not be left unaddressed and we cant allow israel to continue violating lebanese airspace so a sharp escalation if those retaliation if the if those groups start to retaliate then the situation could spiral out of control still head o...

Its not a joke as to reports it will be an easy task to unseat a president who has a large Approval Rating within his own party. In the United States no one has successfully challenged an incumbent president for his own partys nomination in more than a century and a half and President Trump with his Approval Rating among republicans that 80 to 90 percent has laughed off any suggestion his nomination is in jeopardy but on sunday former congressman joe walsh became the 2nd republican to announce a...

Well this could be a routine naval deployment we know that iran says that this is a new destroyer it has new features its faster but but its also iranian made but the significance is that we know that theres a military buildup in the region the United States has put together this Naval Coalition that they say is to protect the freedom of navigation through the strait of her most in the gulf on the other side of the Arabian Peninsula so far the United Kingdom. Have joined that coalition but the d...

Words like variability in rainfall is that basically what were talking about its absolutely a result of Climate Change these larger. This is without a doubt a symptom of extended drought and Climate Change is absolutely what is causing these larger and longer droughts and how is that impacting then obviously not only the the natural habitat but also communities freshly herding communities. Thats an excellent question herders are really at the forefront of feeling the impacts of. The west african...

Spanning as far east as madagascar and a large number is believed to be due to slash and burn practices by farmers has been compounded by shorter rainy seasons why its orange dinahs Data Scientists and drought specialists who focuses on african agricultural trends he says the lack of rain in the past 3 years is having a huge impact the real issue is that the impact of these brush fires is getting worse if you look at a lot of parts of sani abacha parts of the african continent particularly the w...

Save and all just because we have thunderstorms in the 4 calls the next couple days its a very unsettled picture hold away from texas the southeast the mid atlantic and into the northeast you also notice into central count at canada on terry we have this area of low pressure so that will work its way gradually eastwards taking the rain with it but also the cooler air so for those winnipeg. Hello there we have the heat back in place across much of texas that he devised was in place but to the eas...

Looking for another stronger voice putin has been the strongest voice of the last 20 years. Of good sportsman must stop at the top of his form currently putin is not even able to leave because his popularity is declining. And he wants it to be written in russian textbooks that hes a great man similar to peter the great catherine the great. Because youre. Also coming up possible snap elections in italy after a far right stephanie Prime Minister imitator salvini questions the Ruling Coalition futu...