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UN chief slams 'immoral' oil and gas profits

The UN's Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, has called for a windfall tax on oil and gas suppliers - and accused the fossil fuel industry of 'grotesque greed'.

The UN's Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, has called for a windfall tax on oil and gas suppliers. Amid a global energy crisis, Mr Guterres accused the fossil fuel industry of 'grotesque greed'. We speak to Dr Carole Nakhle, a global energy expert based in Germany, about those comments.

Elsewhere, Bangladesh has asked the World Bank and Asian Development Bank for two billion dollars in order to boost its dwindling foreign currency reserves. Dr Khondaker Golam Moazzem, Research Director at the Center for Policy Dialogue, joins us from Dhaka. As Sudan faces a worsening hunger crisis, we're also joined by Helene Papper from the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

Susan Schmidt has your markets update ahead of an anticipated rates rise from the Bank of England.

We'll also be discussing the new Batgirl movie, which - after 90 million dollars' worth of production time - has been unceremoniously scrapped. Cynthia Littleton from Variety explains why it's failed to materialise.

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