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Headlines: Putin feels the heat on crude oil · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. Donald Trump is tightening the screws
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  Speaker 1: on Russia, and some of Vladimir Putin's allies are moving too.
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  Speaker 1: Trump laid into Putin earlier this week, venting his frustration
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  Speaker 1: that the war in Ukraine is still raging, and imposing
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  Speaker 1: fresh sanctions on Russia's giant oil producers Rosneft and look Oil. Now,
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  Speaker 1: both Chinese and Indian oil refineries Moscow's biggest customers have
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  Speaker 1: revealed dramatic cuts in imports of crude oil from Russia
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  Speaker 1: in a bid to comply with the sanctions. That will
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  Speaker 1: have a direct effect on Vladimir Putin's treasury, and it'll
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  Speaker 1: mean prices go up around the world as refineries look
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  Speaker 1: for new sources of crude oil. Already, oil prices are
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  Speaker 1: up and it's likely to flow through to petrol bowsers
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  Speaker 1: if the trend continues. President Putin basically said today that
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  Speaker 1: Russia is a muse from US sanctions. He said that
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  Speaker 1: it would not impact the Russian economy in any serious way.
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  Speaker 1: Is here. I'm I'm glad he feels that way. That's
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  Speaker 1: good I'll let you know about it in six months
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  Speaker 1: from Okay, let's see. Let's see how it all works out.
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  Speaker 1: Trump's trying to get Vladimir Putin back to the negotiations
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  Speaker 1: that have fallen flat since that much heralded peace summit
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  Speaker 1: in Alaska. At the same time, UK Prime Minister Sakis
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  Speaker 1: Starma is trying to find new sources of revenue for
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  Speaker 1: Ukrainian President Voladomi Zelenski. Starmer's idea is that European countries
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  Speaker 1: could unlock hundreds of billions in frozen Russian assets, which
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  Speaker 1: could be liquidated into cash and funneled to Ukraine to
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  Speaker 1: pay for more weapons. True Conservatives should embrace climate action,
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  Speaker 1: says Climate change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen, and he
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  Speaker 1: says Margaret Thatcher would agree with him. In a speech
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  Speaker 1: to the Conservative Center for Independent Studies, Bowen, who's driving
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  Speaker 1: the government's net zero agenda, says coal is now an
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  Speaker 1: unreliable source of energy because the power stations are old
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  Speaker 1: and poorly maintained. Bowen cited Thatcher's history of raising awareness
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  Speaker 1: of pollution, including acid rain and global warming in the
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighties when she was trying to fend off a
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  Speaker 1: rise in popularity for the UK Greens Party. Bowen said
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  Speaker 1: true conservatives believe in careful, evidence based approaches and must
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  Speaker 1: accept that climate change is caused by humans, just as
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  Speaker 1: cancer is caused by tobacco. VI is Thatcher addressing the
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  Speaker 1: United Nations General Assembly in nineteen eighty nine.
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  Speaker 2: It is mankind and his activities which are changing the
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  Speaker 2: environment of our planet in damaging and dangerous ways. Every
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  Speaker 2: country will be affected, and no one can opt out.
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  Speaker 2: We can't just do nothing.
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