Oil, outages and energy shifts: the global ripples from the Middle East

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  Global energy in shock.

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  It 's the largest energy facility in the world and it 's very vulnerable,

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  as is its offshore gas production.

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  There are queues outside petrol pumps.

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  There's even sort of papered over signs.

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  It's World Business Report from the BBC World Service.

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  This is Andrew Peach on the way the impact of the Middle East conflict on energy markets from Asia

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  to Africa, even if it comes to an end.

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  First markets around the world responding positively to Donald Trump's scaling down of threats

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  against Iran and claims there have been productive talks taking place.

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  Oil prices down more than 10%, both the US and European indices closing up on the day.

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  Here is President Trump speaking in Memphis, Tennessee.

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  They want peace.

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  They've agreed they will not have a nuclear weapon, you know, et cetera, et cetera.

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  And it began when I said we were planning tomorrow on shooting down some of their power plants,

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  and we 're going to hold that up.

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  Hopefully we wo n't have to do it, and hopefully we can make a deal that 's good for all of us,

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  including the Middle Eastern allies that have been very good to us,

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