talking of ai, we will speak to the ceo of swiss engineering firm abb, orders surging on data centervations of deepseek in china pose a challenge for the buildout of energy and data centers going forward. we will speak to the ceo in the next three minutes. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ three little birds ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ tom: looking back to bloomberg "daybreak europe," abb's orders rose in the third quarter as demand for data centers drives the elective acacian business great i am joined by the abb ceo morten wierod. good morning, the orders and demand you are seeing in the fourth quarter, to what extent did they set you up for momentum in 2025? what is the picture looking like in terms of demand as you put forward? morten: thanks tom, it was a good quarter for us especially on the orders side, but also the revenue that came out on a record high level for the quarter and the year. with that momentum, we are positive now for 2025 as well, and coming out with a guidance of mid-single digit growth for the year. and continue to improve on that record level performance we had in 2024. we believe w

attorney abbe lowell, defense counsel for hunter biden, wrote.ngs, david weiss 27 page report continues to ignore some of the major mysteries of his seven year investigation. mr. weiss conveniently omits his proposal to resolve this investigation in 2023. with a pair of misdemeanors and a diverted gun charge recommended by career prosecutors. mr. weiss also fails to explain why he reneged on his own agreement, a reversal that came at the 11th hour in court as he and his office faced blistering attacks from republicans and his then filing an unprecedented charges of his then filing unprecedented charges for someone with no aggravating factors, who had paid his taxes in full years before the charges were filed. finally, and most curious, mr. weiss fails to clarify why he and his prosecutors pursued wild and debunked conspiracies about hunter biden by a russian agent that prolonged this investigation and ultimately cost taxpayers millions of dollars. joining our discussion now is andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel and an msnbc legal analys

tune into each other and synchronise with each other and sam was saying, you know, think about what abbto the baby all the time come here as this guy, here is my mum, here's a small, hearsay noise, and reading with the child really slows everything down and makes the world that bit more navigable. with someone you love see you, it's a moment of control of the baby, if you think about what you read to babies, they have agency but they don't have anywhere else, they tried to turn the page back, they try to boot turned the book upside down, and chew it, they're making decisions. scientific research, that was for me one of the best days, incredible thing. so that thing we're talking about, this tool, it is notjust nice, it's notjust advantageous, it fundamentally happens at a biological level. this is a stage of becoming a human. �* , ., , this is a stage of becoming a human. �*, ., , ., ., this is a stage of becoming a human. 3 ., , ., ., ., human. it's lovely to read to our human. it's lovely to read to your children, _ human. it's lovely to read to your children, too. - human. it's lovel

learned that andrew had a house for abby's sister she says i can't recall having you stopped calling abb mother. oh, i can't recall. and she admits, didn'your deteive quit when he learned about the breast journey burning? and she admits that is true. but in closing arguments, the defense they're going to say no director evidence, nobody saw anything. we don't even have a true word, a murder weapon. and whatever you think of lizzie relationship with her mother, she loved her father and you're claiming that this victorian sunday teacher acts murdered in face with 11 horrific blows? father. she's a respected member of the christian community to find her guilty, you must believe her a fiend. does she it? and of course she's, dressed perfectly in victorian upper middle class, respectable 80. for the prosecution, they say that borden was of a sex that all high minded minded men revere. and he admits he was slow to believe that lizzie borden killed her father. but when you look at the facts, there's no other explanation for the intruders. theater theory is ridiculous. she's the only one with mo

. >> abbe lowell. >> dear people of israel, today we received a sign of life from leary.saw a video that was difficult to watch. this isn't the leary we know. >> we demanded from the prime minister and defense minister that the negotiating team must not return without an agreement. we understood from their words that they are willing to make a deal and bring all the hostages home. i want to tell leary if she sees this. leary, we are fighting for you. we aren't giving up on you. and you're coming home alive. >> meanwhile, in a new interview with the new york times, u.s. secretary of state antony blinken says israel has offered hamas members safe passage out of gaza on one condition the release of all the hostages. >> israel, on various occasions has offered safe passage to hamas's leadership and fighters out of gaza. >> where is the world? where is the world? and saying, yeah, do that. end this, stop the suffering of people that you brought on. now, again, that doesn't absolve israel of the way of its actions in conducting the war. but i do have to question how it is. we h

moving on to abb, the company has reported a beat on the bottom line, citing strong appetite for electricals used by ai data centers. the swiss industrial tech firm posted an 8% rise in operational. ebitda in the fourth quarter, which. >> came in. >> at $1.43 billion. shell has announced a share buyback of $3.5 billion, the energy giant's 13th consecutive quarter with at least $3 billion of buybacks. this despite fourth quarter profit. >> falling more. >> than expected, coming in at $3.66 billion amid low refining margins and lower lng trading, ceo. >> wael. >> sawan told cnbc there will be lots of uncertainty in the year ahead. >> we're looking. >> for. >> most importantly, a conducive investment. >> environment and secondly, we. want to look for. >> stability in the. overall investment climate. >> i think this is one of the key things we. >> will look. >> at. >> whether it's here in the uk or. >> beyond. >> and therefore the allocation of that capital will go into the most attractive areas. the us. >> has been one. >> of those in. >> recent years because. >> of some of the incentives that

and that was abbe's biggest drug. and that started facing biosimilar competition in 2023.w it looks like they have an answer. scott. >> angelica, thank you for that. pippa stevens on these moves in energy today. what do you see? >> yeah. scott. >> well, profits have come down substantially for exxon and chevron amid softer oil and gas prices. but a bit of a divergence for the two. exxon beating on the bottom line helped by strength in its international upstream notably guyana as well as cost cuts. cost cuts a miss for chevron. however, thanks to weakness in the refining business, which did also impact exxon. now, exxon ceo darren woods was asked about deep seek on the call, saying it hasn't impacted the conversations to date that they're having with their customers, adding there is still a lot of interest in gas and carbon capture for data centers and for chevron. the hess acquisition is still an overhang, with ceo mike wirth telling squawk box today that he remains confident hess will prevail in the arbitration, saying there is a line of sight to resolution later. >> this

and i will say, as a criminal defense attorney, abbe, those people, though, who were incarcerated, they faced some horrible humanitarian conditions during their period of incarceration. >> that's what. >> the. >> prosecution is. to be clear. >> hold on. oh, god. >> hold up. first of all. >> i'm just going to address what you. >> just said. >> part of it. yeah. >> jail is not nice, okay? and it's not nice for january 6th prisoners. it's not nice for anybody else. >> who's there. >> there are different. >> kinds of. >> jd vance said earlier that that it's not a good idea to pardon people who were convicted of crimes, especially the ones involving assaulting police officers. now, as a result of that, here's what trump said to reporters today when he was confronted with what jd vance had said. >> jd vance, he said, if this is a week ago, he said, if you committed violence on january 6th, obviously you should not be pardoned. why is your vice president wrong? >> well, only for one reason. they they've served years in jail. they should not have served. excuse me. and they've served years in j

point but i doment to recognize as i mentioned, i do want to recognize all of us that work together abbrk we are continuing to do i'm grateful for the opportunity to be the sheriff and to continue this work with all of you. i do want to recognize every person every member of the sheriff's office. and the sworn staff professional staff, regardless of assignment or work; there is a sense of love this i feel for all of you. which carries me through the challenging times. which helps me to make the hard decisions that sometimes are adheres to core value and not pleasant to have to do. and i think frank took half my speech. so i will reference back to what he said about what our guiding princims of how we do our job. what you are inside or outside the sheriff's office is committed to making sure that you are safe to making sure we as a community work together. help each other. if you are in a moment where you are at your lowest point, which is usually jail. or juvenile in the the justice system we are here not just to protect people but to give people opportunity for change. to give people o