a g d p is full and 85 percent since 2011 infrastructure lies in ruins. electricity transport and health services will need to be rebuilt. 90 percent of the population lives below the poverty line. unemployment as high inflation as left most people struggling to get by the new series administration under off mental shara is taking action on the economy. it's raised public sector salaries by 400 percent and taking steps to stabilize the local currency. in the past, oil provided a quarter of serious public revenue reviving. this could be key to recovery if it were possible to revitalize the energy sector, it would not only help address power shortages within syria, but it would provide the government with a much much stronger revenue stream that it could then put to use rebuilding capacity for industry to recover but the reconstruction will be impossible,

so long as the international sanctions remain in place. the new administration is making a diplomatic push to get them lifted, saying they shouldn't be punished for the crimes of the asa era. so we, uh, is that typically the most important thing is to remove the restrictions so that countries and companies can start high level investments, especially in his industry, energy, oil, and other things. if the sanctions remain for a long time, or if they're not frozen, i think that a catastrophe will hit the syrian people. and it was a very and efficient an estimate and copying the seed in economy before that still pull down of the shuttle assets. but now it is to have a very good reputation before the southern end of a 60 percent of the seed and economy was responsible and was fund and basically the results and he's working in trade and manufacturing as well as in logistics a see to remain a very important to us for addition hop and the reason of these media,

terry and the basin. and you can leverage this position again. but it also needs a consistence and investment in roads in energy for in order to to, to pick up manufacturing again. and there is also a lot of work and if it's needed to upgrade the workforce to uh, to build the capacity again, they have been deprived for the last 14 years from the new, the new trends in the ward. and this will take time, how much is reconstruction going to cost? who's going to pay for it and how? how quickly can serious it was the biggest supplier of gas to the you providing more than 50 percent in 2021. but since reducing is dependency after vesting phase and the you impose it just 8 percent in 2023, they are alternatives, but they are a tend to be a bit more expensive than the russian pipeline. guess the impact will be sell,

especially in australia and hungry in slovakia, where the price of gas will likely rise and this could have an impact on the consumer price. it says on the costs of learning, but also on, on, on prices for industry. most rushing guess routes to europe, shots, including the node stream to pipeline, onto the baltic that was blown up in 2022, about the shutdown of the pipeline through ukraine, one stop rushing guess from entering europe. so the 2 extreme pipeline is still operational supply. and guess 1st it took a, the into hungry and sylvia and impulse of russian liquefied natural gas to gas consumption, which is pulling by about a 5th between 20212023. and then full and slightly again in 2024. and the other thing that you or has done is gone out into the global energy market and secured alternative supplies. we've been very lucky the conditions with some more favorable for doing so in 20222023. and those those inputs fell back of 18.

2024. i would anticipate them to rise again in 2025. so your house has managed, in terms of the effect of particularly ukrainian transit. it is, as you earlier report highlighted predominantly going to affect central european countries there. i think it's less a question of any threat to physical shortage. a more just an impact on prices. those countries are well connected to the naples within the you, they can import costs across the board or for example, from germany into the czech republic and australia. and so like you and from italy into austria and those countries and send to you also have quite substantial seasonal gas storage stocks relative to the size of that market. so there's no danger going physically short over the winter, but it is just pushing prices up a little bit and keeping them at that current high level and keeping the market that little bit tighter. does this move? so bring to an end russia's once dominance of the energy market. yes, i think it does. i think this is another milestone on that journey. if you can say

to the side of the russian and gas pipeline gas applies to your peak in 2019, at the shy 180000000000 cubic meters last year, they was 30000000 cubic meters. and with the end of this transfer, if i ukraine in 2025, we would anticipate it to be around 15000000000 cubic meters. so. ready this is an absolutely huge decline in russian pipeline gas supply to you, a decline of over 90 percent and in the space of a few short years. so i think this does really almost bring to a close to the reflection pipeline gas in europe. we do still have russian pipeline gas coming into southeastern europe via the turkey stream pipeline, up through bulk area to greece, almost to serbia, enough as far as hungry. but that's really now the extent of that market. it's a regional, localized se european. if the check has been really good to talk to you today on counting the cost many thanks for being with us. a thank you very much. i'm going,

as government says that it will continue with this plan, is to remove fuels subsidies by the end of 2025. politicians say that removing subsidies will free up money for central public services like transport, health and education. but the move is unpopular. that's how it would cost the reports from the $1.00 to call us. the santos is a high school teacher in angola. his salary isn't enough to ensure he can pay all his monthly bills. but he says government to fuel subsidies, help cushion consumers from rising prices. and that's why he is worried about politicians plans to scrap them laugh at the men's and boss and see that the utah pockets ones that feel subsidies are removed. prices of everything will go up. you to hit to spit right now. and goldens pay about $0.35 for lead to a pedro. and about $0.21 for diesel removing subsidies means the pay more at the pump. life is already a strep,

tough for people already suffering poverty and financial difficulty. oil has helped and going to grow it's economy in the capital. there is a lot of development new buildings keep all the electronics in a bid to encourage domestic spending and to offset the effects of any new us tariffs on its exports. well will wong is a sandy demo price because just right now in the bank, especially for the high end products. so this one, the other thing is about the competitions. so we see comedy shows from wal way and other chinese o u. s. as well, they're introducing more products like personal bootable phones and both so like a futures in china. this is creating social boss and really attracting those consumers in china. so when they're reading this call, social boss is easily attracting those consumers why more price closures and looking for a value in china. but what we see is that at the desk do having a strong customers taking is over there. so dense, strong, cosmetic,

the nose is actually supporting the performance of that. but, but if we look at overall pictures, uh, customer ones, you more size change. and also the company shows is really affecting at the, in china, locally. so this just as a consumer preference, what does apple the need to do to regain its foothold and still in the top 5 in china, be that it has a time slipped out, but what does it need to do to regain? can see of a preference? because they have to win back consumers in china. yeah, it need to create more while factors. so right now what we are looking at is a i, but uh, when it comes to a i, when it comes to china, it needs the approval from chinese government as well. and that is not easy things right now, especially students, there's a, there's a u. s. china tensions over there, so he's still an easy things. so if software, if ever kind of really great walls that goes from the factors from the ad, beatrice and other things you can focus on is creating walls that goes from the

hardware perspective. so from hardware perspective and from a i, this is something desktop i can look at it, it's was use is summer, is creating while factors to an consumers to make then keep spending a poll as also discounts on its products. but china has recently decided to subsidize homegrown smartphones and other electronic, somebody's like to put for the pressure on, on, on apple. in particular, as you say, some samsung isn't really affected here because it's market share so small but, but it's not going to affect awful. we see that the impact will be limited. so 1st thing, this subsidies is salt times. so in terms of the impact and in terms of the type you're, you will bring the impact the impact. well, believe that in some of the time periods. so it's a continuous, that's the subsidies is quantity available in southern provinces or incidence cities. so in terms of scale, it will be looked at as well. and if we come to pepper at brooklyn,

too much usually is in the high and the high end consumers. but uh, we have to look at it is that consumers in china right now, even in the high end, they're looking for discount as well. so even though it is limited to the input from the subsidies, the overall quote economy situations impact is larger. well, as regards to talk to you about an effective date. thank you. apple siri could be listening to use us without the consent. apples agreed to pay $95000000.00 to settle a court case alleging that its voice activated assistant violates it uses previously . i phone is complained that the voice recordings were shared with policies, including advertises. the tex thomas denied any of them doing and the preliminary settlement filed at the oakland, california federal court. and that's a show for this week. if you'd like to comments on anything that you've seen, i'm at a fairly good on x. try to remember to use the hash tag h i c t c o. you can drop us a line counting the cost of the elder 0 dot net is our email address,

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