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>> well hello and welcome. i'm becky anderson coming to you live from abu dhabi, whether time is 7:00 a.m. the world anxiously watching the middle east right now waiting to see how israel will respond to iran's unprecedented, aerial assault, sassy bombardment ended on sunday and all our diplomatic push began aiming to avoid any further escalation in the region. will g7 nations met virtually and regional leaders spoke with their counterparts around the world in an emergency session of the united nations security council, the secretary general called for restraint the middle is, is on the brink the people of the

region are confronting a real dangers of a devastating full-scale conflict. now is the time to diffuse and the escalates >> now is the >> time for maximum restraint >> israel now says about 300 drones, missiles, and rockets well fired from iran, iraq, yemen, and by hezbollah in lebanon carrying some 60 tons of explosives >> nearly >> all were intercepted by israel with help from the us, the uk france, and others, us central command said sunday that its forces intercepted more than 80 drones and at least six ballistic missiles. but the us insists it will not join any retaliatory strikes. >> well, israel's war >> cabinet met for hours on

sunday to discuss a response, but reached no decision. a source told cnn some ministers are pushing for immediate retaliation with a call from us president joe biden convinced israeli prime minister to wait at least for now. israel's president told cnn his country is not seeking war >> i think we're operating in a very focused way and a very responsible way. and i'm sure there will be a decision accordingly that will make sure that we protect and defend the people of israel. and of course serve the idea of this coalition that has emanated all of a sudden in front of our eyes in opposing the aggressive acts and the and the operations of iran in the region imagine for so many years will it mean

time israel has lifted restrictions put in place shortly before the attack ending, limits on gatherings and reopening schools for monday we'll see an international diplomatic editor, nic robertson joining us now from jerusalem, nick, the decision on what happens next will ultimately sit with the five-person war cabinet, weighing pressure from the international community, not least the united states calling for restrained with pressure internally, at least from some senior ministers to go in big, what's the received wisdom on the ground there >> at the moment? >> it >> is, pause and wade to work out the timing and scope that was what came out after that very long war cabinet meeting.

the war cabinet has directed the idf to come up with a number of military options to put on the table. but i but i think that international pressure is what's caused the pores but what will likely cause israel to go ahead because he indications are they will it's not just the right-wing members of the cabinet and their view that israel needs to take strong and decisive action. but perhaps that israel believes that it's secure purity in the region is best served if it shows maximum deterrence. now of course, iran at the moment thinks that it has shifted the, shifted the dial, if you will, and it is showing israel that there's a deterrent factor now that israel cancer strike its interests without consequence of action but it does seem that the moment the intent here will be to have a return strike of some sort on iran, but we

don't know when and we don't know what it will be at the moment, becky this is sold and it was an historic is salts some 350 >> missiles, rockets, drones and missiles raining down at least two wards, if not on israel, that is a significant ratcheting up of effort on the part of tech ron. and this has worried the wider region, not just israelis who feel under significant pressure supported of course by the us and other partners. but around the region, this is really rattled confidence in the prospect for a wider conflict. just how important is that at this point a, where might we see? that wider conflict evidenced

anytime soon >> i think the most >> immediate trigger >> for a rapid escalation would be if israel strikes bag at a huge number of sensitive targets inside of iran, iran has said that it will straight back. it's warned the united states not to support that iran told its neighbors in advance of the strike that it was going to take against israel in an effort to avoid an escalation. but nevertheless, there iran, iran strike into israel really has changed the equation for the israelis and for the region. i think there were a lot of countries here that really feel that since october the seventh, since hamas is attack since israel's response in gaza since the killing now of approaching 34,000 palestinians in gaza? the tensions of slowly, slowly been increasing. israel has had a number of senior iranian

military commanders in the region over the past few months because it believes that they are setting out to work with proxies to destabilise them tag israel. so israel believes that it's been looking after its own national interest. but in the region, looking in there's a sense that this has just been a growing growing escalation and with no off-ramp at the moment, certainly not now we've heard from israel saying that hamas is turning down the current ceasefire hostage release deal. that's on the table. >> a. but i think when you when you look at iran, strike into israel you have to see that as being a quantifiable up step. in the end, the possible escalation as we're looking, as we're seeing the situation let's there is not despite the words from the secretary general of the united nations, despite what we hear from the g7, despite the phone calls

that are going on between secretary blinken and partners region partners in europe there is not an off-ramp to this yet, and that's what that's why people are incredibly worried. because they the steps for de-escalation don't exist at the moment, becky how significant was the involvement of the iranian proxies, the uranium backed groups around this region. we hear that these, these tax we're mostly launched from iran, but we are also reporting hezbollah involvement, involvement in from iraq groups based their yemen and syria. nick that compares with the involvement by some arab partners, certainly of the us, if not, israel, that being jordan for

example saudi arabia there are other sort of split here regionally about clearly what happens next and the concerns about escalation isn't. it >> yeah you can definitely look and see that iran had the help of its proxies. it had always said that it was going to or it was understood that it around was going to strike back from its soil and the principal preponderance if you will, that the larger amount of missiles that were fired did come from iran, but the houthis in yemen, for example, fired some missiles and the belief and understanding is that the saudi arabia, because they, the trajectory would have come across saudi arabia's as space would were involved in alerting f naught intercepting some of those they were missiles that came from iran, from iraq, passover jordanian airspace that we're interested tempted

in the air space over jordan. but i think if you look at iran's proxies that perhaps had played the biggest and had the biggest effect on the ground. and if not firing the big missiles. but in helping frame a slightly more confusing military picture around the northern border with multiple katyusha rockets fired by hezbollah into northern israel. other heavy amounts of missiles fired and on the previous night as well, uh, which, which will have been to iran's advantage, to confuse the picture of what was incoming to israel. we know it was the drones that were slow the cruise missiles that were moderately quicker, and the ballistic missiles which got through the ones that did get through. we've got through were much faster and they were fired from iran. so the proxies played a role, but not a massive role. but again, they

all continue to be he threats for israel and play a de-stabilizing role for iran against israel >> yeah yeah and hence the real concern around the region about the prospect and risk of a wider conflict. many will say that conflict already exists, but certainly significant concerns and called for restraint echoed across this region of the middle east and gulf. nick, thank you in robinson is in jerusalem for you will as israel considers how to respond to iran's attack, other countries as i say in the region, are also calling for restraint on both sides. egyptian foreign minister sameh shoukry spoke with his counterparts in iran and israel on sunday morning any further escalation could destabilize the middle east even more, the saudi foreign ministry issued a statement

expressing concerns over any quote, potential severe repercussions in a social media post, the ministry called on the un council to step up and manage the situation given a threat to international peace and security. that of course is squarely on the file of the united nations security council officials here in the uae responded as well. the ministry of foreign affairs issued a statement saying called for resolving differences through dialogue and through diplomatic channels four, to discuss the possible military options here let's bring in lieutenant general mark hertling, a cnn military analyst and former commanding general of the us army, europe and seventh army. it's good to have you marked. so let's start with what we do know that is that the war cabinet met for hours yesterday in israel, two mole its response because they promised there will be one. the question

is, what will that response look like? just way the calculations that they are considering at this point, if you will truthfully becky. and first of all, it's good to be with you again, truthfully, i don't think we're going to see a kinetic strike. i think the percentage of a kinetic strike more missiles going back toward iran a fighter jets going into the iran territory probably will not happen because israel realizes they have the upper hand right now. they fought off this missile barrage of over 350 platforms coming into their airspace. and they had a lot of error partners with them to fight that off. so right now, they're in a better position truthfully on the world stage. and from a messaging perspective than they were before the attack. so what does that mean? i believe that the israeli defense forces had excelled over the last decade or so in building a very robust cyber capability through

development of a whole nation approach. and what i mean by that is they have connected their educational system the israeli entrepreneurial system, along with the idf, to really get some great cyber capabilities not only in defense, which a lot of nations hi, are putting a lot of attention to. but in cyber offensive operations they've even had a couple of programs where they link university students with the idf. one called i think it's called odyssey, the ethylamine interestingly enough, is called moffett which is called the girls, the cyber girls facility, where they're training women to be cyber experts. so they have put a lot of attention on that. and i think that could be agreed. covert action that they might use against iran joe biden let heavily on the israelis. certainly as we understand it,

in a phone call with benjamin netanyahu, it has been very clear that the us has said that they will not get involved in any i'm offensive operation on the part of the israelis against iran. he called this a win for israel and perhaps understandable in exerting pressure on israel to really consider carefully what they do next, because israel, of course shore, it looked strong and its defense capabilities worked, but they work in conjunction with the, us and other partners, just how much support was it provided. and without that supports would it have been as effective in any way in its defense during that what, five-hour unprecedented, huge wave of incoming fire, some 350 missiles. those be quite clear

about this how much did israel really need to lean into that support >> what i'd say becky is categorically, they had a whole lot of support. now, i'm not going to quantify that other than to say there was an intelligence factor, there were tanker aircraft overhead from from different nations to include the united states. there were early warning aircraft overhead that would guide jet fighters towards specific targets as they were coming across, there was a literally a target stream of, us and others across the areas. nic robertson even mentioned the saudi arabians in a glide path though. anything coming out of yemen, but also the entire carrier battle group that's in the red sea as well as outpost from the united states and the united kingdom in different countries like jordan and in northern syria

and in iraq, i'd even point to that. so you're talking about just a massive amount of a multinational force israel could not have done what happened last night by themselves. and that was a defense of operation with a lot lead time. so when you're turning the tables a little bit and saying about the potential for an offensive strike of that size and capacity, it would be impossible for israel to do that without help from multinational partners. i'm going to give you an example. it was interesting today i was thinking about, i heard someone call all this d is really shock and awe campaign or the iranian shock and off against israel. >> so i >> looked up the figures, the first day of the alleged american shock and awe in iraq in 2003, heads 500 precision weapons going in to the nation of iraq. this had about 380. so this was about the same

capacity of the shock and awe at the start of the iraq war and not that many ground targets were hit. when you're talking about that many weapons coming across, you can't imagine the disaster that would have occurred for two hadn't had maybe even a third of those weapons hit targets inside of israel, there would've been a lot of death, a lot of destruction, and a lot of civilian casualties to your point. >> mark. i'm interested to note for our viewers sake the ukrainian president's words yesterday in the wake of what happened. have a listen >> the way she barhoum the whole world sees what real defenses. but it sees that it is feasible. and the whole world saw that israel was not alone in this defense the threat in the sky was also been eliminated by its allies equal. and when ukraine tells its allies that unity provides the best defense they are already well aware there are bits

effectiveness, they need, they are aware of it. and insurance, it was how many it's clearly a why zelenskyy would take the opportunity to say that isn't it market this point given the holed up in aid and support for ukraine and present, but i just wonder what your perspective of his words are. >> well, i'm going to be accused of excuse making becky, but what i'll say is this, it's a different ballgame. israel has spent the last 15 years establishing an integrated air defense system. not only the iron dome, which is the most famous, but the arrow weapons systems and the david slang they also used to use patriot web weapon systems until they built their own over the last two decades, these are weapons systems and a network that the israeli government has established for their military to fight these kind of combat actions the other thing i would point out israel is about 250 miles along and about 70 miles

wide at its widest point, a total combined area of about 8,500 square kilometers ukraine on the other hand, is 255,000 square kilometers. you can't cover the entire space of ukraine without quadrupling beyond exponentially expanding their air defense capability foreign minister a kaleeba has had a campaign over the last few days where he's claimed he's now no longer going to be a diplomat, and he's going to start demanding the all the patriot missiles that are rusting or have collecting dustin and aren't being used around the world. those weapons systems are part of nature can security. and i think there's been a great deal of effort by secretary austin and the ramstein group to get ukraine as much as they can get, but they started this war without anything, without truthfully the capability to defend

themselves against some of the russian systems they had been given a lot of equipment, but they just want more. that's understandable. i understand. mr. zelenskyy and mr. kalisa is approach toward this but covering their whole system, remember, this attack last night, lasted five hours. ukraine has been in this war for two years. and the amount of money that was spent last night on rockets and systems would probably boggle the mind and we don't know what that is just yet >> fascinating it's good to have you say, well, in the house, thank >> thanks, becky. >> it's still to come. the leaders of fur g7 countries meet virtually in the wake of iran's, unprecedented attacks on israel, groups message to both sides as they vow to quit stabilize the situation that is up next

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>> welcome back. i'm becky anderson. you're watching cnn. this is connect world live for our middle east programming hub here in abu dhabi. >> a >> senior us administration official says iran messaged the us privately while the attack on israel was underway on saturday to say, quoting the us official that they were finished after this for the bear, i should more than 350 projectiles from tehran mostly had the potential to cause great destruction >> the vast >> majority of those strikes well intercepted by israel and its partners. on the uss assess that there was no significant damage within israel itself. the idf says only a few of these projectiles actually made

it inside israel. some landing here at an airbase in the south of the country. and those who's cause two only minor damage will now israel is promising to, and i quote, exact a price from iran for the attack as israel's war cabinet, ways, it's response, its allies, including us president joe biden, are urging restraint or join me now from washington seeing politics, senior reporter, stephen collinson, steven, it's good to have you israel its war cabinet responsible for what happens next suggesting it will exact a price. frankly, the rest of the world while in the west condemning iran for this action, calling for restraint. and that is echoed around this region. what are you hearing stateside? about

>> the assessment of this attack and the sort of pressure that is being imposed on netanyahu and his war cabinet in this period as they weigh their next move? >> i think the president said something very interesting in a public statement after he'd spoken to prime minister netanyahu after the operation last night, he said the success in repelling this multi-front attack showed that there wasn't a threat to israel from iran. this is clearly saying to the israelis that not only does the us have their back, but there's no need for retaliation that could escalate this and cause yet, even greater retaliation from the iranians. today, we saw the present talk to the other leaders of the g7, including some of those leaders who've been increasingly critical of

israel's position in gaza and ics tactics there. that is sending a signal to israel that there's this moment of goodwill towards them. and perhaps they would do best not to squander that as some people think they've squandered some of the sympathy of the october 7 terrorist attacks. so there are a lot of messages going towards the israelis the president really does not need another hot war and other confrontation in the middle east. and award iran of any sort would of course be disastrous >> steven, the g7 released this after that meeting which read in part, and i quote, here we unequivocally condemn in the strongest terms iran's direct and unprecedented attack against israel. we express our full solidarity and support to israel, and its people. and reaffirm our commitment towards

its security israel's g7 allies clearly signaling public support, while calling for restraint. and that restraint is the key line being echoed around this region where i am not least by some significant partners for the us, jordan, for example, egypt and importantly at this stage saudi arabia steven quite right. and i think that message is that if israel does go ahead and inflame the situation as outsiders would see it it could stand to lose a lot of that new support that it's just got. and that's solidarity the issue here though, is that how this conflict looks in washington or london or paris is a lot different than it looks within israel. israel has

had its security now shattered twice. within six months after the october 7 attacks and the fear that this attack last night cause they stopped most of these missiles and drones coming in. but i'm sure it didn't feel very good on the ground for the israelis. and that is going to factor into the political calculations that netanyahu is made. we know how fragile his position is an israel believes it's in an existential fight that perhaps some of his allies don't perceive. so that is the tension here. and that is what we're going to have to watch over the coming days, whether israel can respond in a way that doesn't escalate this or if it goes ahead and takes the next step. i mean the west yes, the united states has been trying to tamp down as conflict to stop it becoming a regional war for six months. while it has taken the now for iran to become involved, it hasn't really worked. there's no real

clear sense that i can see that there's any diplomatic off-ramp here and that this is going to get better anytime soon. >> and, biden. of course will here be significant criticism and certainly from members of congress on the right of the political divide in washington, as you say, he does not need another hot war, six months out less than we are now from this next us election. always good to have you, steven. thank you very much. indeed, discussing the political calculations surface stakeholders across the board here, not least for the israelis still to come israelis slowly getting back to normal life. even call it that as the government disguised it's how to respond to iran's unprecedented attack. you're watching our special coverage.

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bases in the region will be dealt with should the us cooperate with israel in possible retaliatory actions and the commander of iran's islamic revolutionary guard corps echoed those words. >> get if tim k, we decided to create a new equation, and that is if the zionist regime attacks our interests, assets, personalities, and citizens at any point, and we will attack them from the islamic republic of iran the honest promise operation is a prominent and very clear example of this new equation. i'm >> well, joining me now is to trita parsi, author of losing an enemy obama, iran, and the triumph of diplomacy i also executive vice president at the quincy institute for responsible statecraft. we spoke at this time yesterday, 24 hours on an assay dust settles, as it were treated we

heard the commander of the eye talking about establishing a new equation or new military strategy effectively are witnessing a move from the shadow war between iran and israel that we have seen over years into a more overt conflict at this point, or does that exaggerate what we are hearing here >> i think actually becky it's the opposite. it's the fact that this conflict has emerged out of the shower. war and what will happen if this new doctrine ends up being establishes that it will most likely go back into the shadow war, in which the >> israelis will continue to target iran, but it will do so in a much more low level way without any fanfare giving the iranians and ability not to respond because they're not publicly embarrassing the sense of israel taking credit for it. such attacks and the line is,

we'll do the same thing, but probably less successfully. so against israel. that is a situation we were in prior to october 7 and prior to these really started to really go after eye level onion officials in syria and libya. and 11 on in the middle of the day. and the last one of course, at and iranian consular premise, which is a clear violation of international law. and on top of that, iran has been very forceful in its threats to the us and regional countries that >> might aid israel in any retaliation against iran >> do you see this as part >> of its strategy to reestablish deterrence at this point, after all, what we see as the sort of asymmetric

position. with regard, iran in this region is the guard >> then it's >> use of proxies in what others describe as its axis of resistance what's going on here, what's the strategy? >> i think you put your finger on and when you said that, this is about restoring deterrence. >> now, >> of course there's a big bag weakness in the surrounding approach, which is, is you have a say in this suit if the netanyahu government decides to escalate further, than evolves, returns will not have been restore. instead iran will be in an open warfare with israel and we will potentially see a regional war. now, of course, from the us south point, the biden ministration wants to avoid this but what biden has said to the israelis in my view, is rather incomplete because by saying that the united states will not support israel in any offensive action

i understand why the binarization says that, but we have to be clear. once the war starts, there is no difference between offensive and defensive measures, because if the israelis attack iran and the us has no ordinate, the ones will respond to an attack is will then return at that point united states will get involved because it will consider that helping defend israel. needless to say, it doesn't matter. the us will get dragged into the word. if phi and truly wants to avoid this war and truly wants to make sure that these wendy's don't start this next cycle of escalation. i think he needs to be clear and firm with that tiny out, particularly mindful of the trapping you, unlike biden, actually has an interest in escalation >> we have to remember and there will be people watching this who say, have you forgotten that 350 projectiles were launched towards israel last night and without, of course we'll see supportive

the international partners including very specifically the united states. this may have been a completely different story. this was a, a country to all intents and purposes under significant attack last night, the deputy us representative at the un trita, robert wood, issued his own warning to iran at the security council meeting on sunday saying, and i quote, let me be clear. if iran or its proxies take actions against the united states all further action against israel, iran will be held to account. so this is the united states on the one hand, exerting significant pressure. it seems on netanya warning the israeli prime minister that they will not get involved in a in an offensive assault on iran, like you say offense and defense at

this stage goes out the window. but this is the us as well. on the other hand, treated not mincing words absolutely. >> there is a distinction and what they said regarding attacks on us troops, as well as one is old and which has mentioned that any attack on the us at this point hello, of course, the respondent to by the united states. >> you mentioned that as well >> have been on the attack of fiona 50 projector is absolutely true. is of course, something that israel itself initiated by attacking that embassy in the first place. but we should also be very clear iranian choreographed this in such a way to ensure that there wouldn't be any significant damage or any casualties on these ratings side, they gave these rayleigh's and the americans 72 hours heads up before the attack, sarlin, us knew exactly what was held but there's also something else very interesting that happened.

the united states in israel and its other partners were successful is shooting down the overwhelming majority of these vessels and drones, et cetera. but that is largely because a, they were involved with 72 hours heads up and because there were several countries it's doing so what the body is shown in all of this is that next time, if they were to do this without any itself, without the united states having enough time to make itself ready to help israel. israel may end up in a much, much worse situation in that i think the iranians what i think the whole at the message is what has been that evolves the tourist has been restored >> that's all right going to leave it there. we thank you very much, indeed, for joining us trita parsi hey, on cnn. i will be back in about 20 minutes live from i'll be coming up next. my colleague paula newton that has see days other top stores for you, including former president donald trump about to appear in

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underway monday morning, and this will be the first time a former us president think abou it. on trial for criminal charges. trump is accused of falsifying business records to hide the reimbursement of hush money payments to adult film star stormy daniels. now, trump is facing 34 counts of falsifying business records those counts are what are called class ii felonies in new york, what does it mean? it means each are punishable by up to four years in prison. now, trump is pleading not guilty. we remind you and he denies having an affair with daniels security. you can imagine will be tight when the former president appears in court. law enforcement says a sophisticated and multi-layered security plan is already in place, joining us now from chicago is ronaldo mariotti is a former federal prosecutor and host of it's complicated podcasts. and yes, so it begins and so do the complications up.

first, jury selection, how complicated could that get? and do you believe the outcome of this entire trial? >> could >> really hinge on that selection >> well, there's no question. try a lot of cases and jury selection is often where you win or lose trial and really you often don't know whether you've selected good jury for your client or bad jury for your client? so after the trial is over, so there's no question that for trump everything is really riding on that. his best hope is to try to have one or two jurors who just are very favorably inclined towards him and are unwilling to convex so he's gonna be having his legal team trying to find those jurors realistically, i expect him to raise lots of issues regarding the jury, but i expect that most of them are not going to have legal weight.

i think they'll slow down the process and i expect to judge merchan to take that process very seriously. but at the end of the day, we're going to be able to select a jury and move forward with distro. >> and then they're gonna be going through that evidence. now, while the trial itself may end up reading like the anatomy of a scandal, this is really, as you're going to explain to us, a trial about fraud, about allegations the financial crimes. is that really though the former president's best defense here, right? i mean, many have said that this is white-collar crime and that it isn't a case that should have been brought by new york so really the issue here is whether or not there was falsification of business records in >> trump's defense is going to be that he had no idea that those business records are being falsified. in other words, he can admit that he was involved in a scheme to cover up an alleged affair, whether he admits it's true or not.

but he could say that, for example, he had no idea that this these payments to stormy daniels were being reflected in the books and records of the trump organization? as payments for legal services that would be a complete defense and ultimately just comes down to his credibility versus the credibility of the other witnesses that the prosecution is going to be putting out. >> yeah. never mind, everyone. one of the crucial witnesses is michael cole when his former lawyer, who i mean, some have indicated is that times not reliable. i want to ask you your opinion though. you have a lot of experience in these cases is this a tough case, meaning you have to convince the entire jury each and every one of them that he is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. >> it's difficult in certain in certain respects and not others a lot of the evidence here is very straightforward there's really no question that he was trying to hide these allegations. there's no

question that he made payments. cohen, there's no question that cohen made the paint stormy daniels, and there's no question that michael cohen realn't doinmuch in the way of legal services here. and there's no question that there's false statements that ended up in the books and recos so this real comes down to what the prosecution could prove about trump's knowledgrerdg thosfalse prosecution also is really half he has to convcehe jury that this is a caswort bringing as you've alluded to, there have been people who have been vercritical the case. i think one thing that prosecution absolutely, yes. to do is convinced the jury that this is a case that is worth their time. it's also a case in which trump merits a felony conviction and that's why they're very focused on the impact on the election is in the concealment of an election crime versus actually been very focused on the alleged affair

itself. >> and when you talk about this actually being worthy of a felony crime, this could have been tried in other ways, right it doesn't have to didn't have to be prosecuted to this extent that's all right. so the crime of falsifications of business records under new york law is typically and it becomes a felony >> when when the when the prosecution alleges that that falsification is being done to conceal another crime so the prosecution didn't have to charge these this class e felony. they could have just said you know, this this was these or misdemeanor counts. they purposely didn't do that. you can imagine that the defense is going to make light of that and they're also going to try to convince the jury that if they're not going to acquit the former president, that instead they should convict him of a misdemeanor >> it is going to be interesting, as we said, just a few hours from now, we will cover all of it, or an automobile got it. and you will

be helping us really appreciate your time tonight. i appreciate >> thank you. >> now, you can watch cnn's special coverage of the trump hush money trial monday 9:00 a.m. new york, 2:00 p.m. london the time i'm paula newton, i want to thank you for watching our coverage with becky anderson live from abu dhabi continues. >> right after this point.

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