all right, charlie robertson, we thank you so much for speaking to us from london. thank you. very much so as we just mentioned, a spike in energy prices bought about partly by the worn ukraine has hit the cost of living for millions and experts. don't see a drop anytime soon. our correspondence in berlin domini came sent us this report on how some parents living in europe, the largest and strongest economy, are going hungry. so their children have something to eat. nicole good, la, prepare as food for her children. they have been at school all day and now back at home, they're hungry, but if their needs are simple, their mother's task is not because putting food on the table is becoming increasingly more expensive. so basically right now with the, the full price is going so high, it's either spending $2.00 or 3 times and, and the, and the amount of food or buying the, the amount that i could afford. and then we have to eat less food. so mainly it means for me buying less food and i'm the one who is going hungry or not eating meal so that the kids can get enough food. and that

and multi $1000000000.00 pledges were made to talk us through the numbers is charlie robertson, he's the global chief economist at renaissance capital and the author of the book, the time traveling economists. he's running us from london. welcome to al jazeera, thanks so much for speaking to us. so mr. robertson, we heard from germany's chancellor, who vowed to keep the cost of running russia's war and ukraine high for president putin. and also what we know is that russia is now making just as much money from energy exports as it was before the war. so the ban hasn't really worked on russia . the g 7 are now looking at imposing price caps on russian crude. what impact do you think that is going to have? yeah, this is, this is got a long history. if you go back to looking to few months after world war 2, again, the west was, was concerned about commodity supplies, supporting nazi germany efforts. and it even led to france and england considering bombing russians, oil fields, and other bizarre to stop them supplying oil to hitler's germany, you are good allies of the soviet union and t