progressive democrats in washington have waged a war against fossil fuels. rather than unleashing american oil production, rather than celebrating american roughnecks, they go to communists and venezuela. sandra: tom cotton slamming the drilling in the wrong places, that the biden administration is considering scaling back sanctions on the oil rich nation of venezuela. they say the white house should be encouraging more drilling here at home. trace: after opec burned president biden announcing it would cut oil production by 200 million barrels a day, and as americans pay more, the tide is turning on the president and his party just five short weeks before the midterms. sandra: larry kudlow is making his way to the studio, he ll join us moments away why it seems biden is beholden to other nations. after the saudis and opec+ snubbed the president and his team, president biden is not admitting, at least not now, that there is a plan for the u.s. to turn to another dictat
the initial focus and got the most attention, but now it would be up to the u.s. attorney in delaware who was appointed by former president donald trump, david weiss to file actual charges in this case. bret baier standing by in new york. at the justice department with the latest on this, high. a significant development, hunter biden for 52-year-old son of president joe biden may face charges after all. this coming in an exclusive report from the washington post. we are calling for sources right now to try to find out what we can about the story. it is interesting because the post tax crimes with the s related to a gun purchase. hunter biden has not been charged with a crime. david weiss, the u.s. attorney in delaware has quite a task ahead of him deciding whether or not to in tight a sitting president s son. the question, what would hunter biden be indicted on? we know that president joe biden kept david weiss on the payroll as a u.s. attorney when he came into the ova
many, many months. the question is does this late afternoon story in the post signal a major movement in the case? correspondent david spunt has the latest information from the justice department. good evening, david. bret, good evening to you. a source with knowledge of the investigation tells fox news it has reached a significant and critical phase also federal investigators are no longer collecting evidence. it s moved past that point and is now in the hands of the united states attorney in delaware. the washington post reported that agents believe prosecutors have enough evidence to charge biden, hunter biden with tax crimes, plural s there. and a false statement related to a gun charge. the investigation moved over the summer from the fbi to the u.s. attorney in delaware. justice department policy is not to file politically sensitive charges in the two months or so before a federal election since biden is not on the ballot. this rule may not apply. we previously re
and foreign minister agree to dissolve parliament, triggering new elections the fifth election there in three and a half years. the european union says russia s blockade of ukraine s ports which prevents millions of tonnes of grain from being distributed across the world is a real war crime . this is a desperate attempt to use the foot to make to create hunger. welcome to the programme. we start here in the uk which is gearing up for the biggest set of rail strikes in thirty years. which is gearing up for the biggest disruption is expected all week. which is gearing up for the biggest there will be rail strikes on tuesday, thursday and saturday. and a london underground strike on tuesday. almost all major lines in england, scotland and wales will be affected. the rmt trade union is striking that stands for the national union of rail, maritime and transport workers. so, thousands of staff are due to walk out staff working at network rail responsible for the rail
visits the white house to speak about the growth in anti asian hate crimes in america. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to bbc news and to our viewers in the uk and around the world. and to our viewers in the uk it s 6am in the morning here in singapore and 1am in ukraine, where it s reported that a russian air strike has hit a chemical plant in the embattled city of severodonetsk, releasing a cloud of dangerous gas. residents have been told to stay in bomb shelters to avoid the fumes. the ukrainians say russian forces now control most of severodonetsk, the main focus of the russian offensive in the donbas region. the local governor said the city wasn t surrounded, but continuous shelling was making it impossible to bring in supplies or evacuate the remaining civilians. and russian troops are pushing deeper into the region. this is the city of slovyansk, where three people have been killed in a russian missile strike. ukrain