and a desert rose: justin rose's great britain and ireland team win the team cup in abu dhabi.ello there. welcome along. it has been a gripping day in the third round of the fa cup. the two most successful sides in the history of the competition were facing each other with the 13—time winners and holders manchester united knocking out 14—time winners arsenal on penalties. that's after the game finished 1—1. they won the shoot—out 5—3 withjoshua zirkzee scoring the winning kick after united's turkish keeper altay bayindir had saved from kai havertz. he also saved a penalty from martin odegaard in normal time. the united captain bruno fernandes, he'd given them a second—half lead, but united then had diogo dalot sent off on the hour mark for a second booking, and though gabriel equalised a few minutes later, arsenal couldn't make that extra man count, united hanging on to win those penalties. we have to compete no matter what, no matter what the situation we compete in today. i think they had more chances, but i think we deserved the win. it is not personal, they didn't deserve t

paula hancocks in abu dhabi. don't go anywhere. let's see if we can get some insight added to the conversation here. also, from ambassador alon pinkas. he's a former israeli consul general in new york. joining us live at this hour via skype via from tel aviv. ambassador, thank you so much for for joining us. i'm curious if you could just tell us a little bit about your reaction as you see these pictures coming out of gaza city. as paula just reminded us, this is just one pocket in a in a large city. and yet the presence of hamas fighters is quite significant. so as we get ready to to hopefully see these four young soldiers get turned over, what do you think that how important do you think is some of that messaging from hamas right now that they're trying to convey? >> good morning paula. well, you know, your correspondent jeremy diamond correctly pointed out a few moments ago that this is their way of saying we're still standing on our feet, and this goes to the to the very definition of what constitutes a win or a victory. israel

paula hancocks in abu dhabi, thank you so much. i want to bring in now jeremy diamond, who is live at hostage square in tel aviv. jeremy, the sight of so much emotion as the images of those four hostages being released was shown to the people there. take us through what you saw. >> again. yeah. people here have been following every twist and turn of. >> this release. >> from the moment when we. >> saw those first live images inside palestine square in gaza of hamas, you know, setting up the stage, setting the scene for this very dramatic, clearly propaganda filled release of these four captive israeli soldiers. we then saw as those four captives were released by hamas, were put on a stage first smiling and waving at the crowd that was there, clearly still very much under duress in their final moments of captivity. and then, as they were taken into those red cross vehicles and as the news broke here that they had crossed into israeli territory, we heard people once again erupt in cheers. moments ago, the crowd here was listening to

and a desert rose: justin rose's great britain and ireland team win the team cup in abu dhabi. it has been a gripping day in the third round of the fa cup. the two most successful sides in the history of the competition were facing each other with the 13—time winners and holders manchester united knocking out 14—time winners arsenal on penalties. that's after the game finished 1—1. they won the shoot—out 5—3 withjoshua zirkzee scoring the winning kick after united's turkish keeper altay bayindir had saved from kai havertz.

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matthieu pavon has impressed on the second day of the ryder cup—style team cup in abu dhabi.—11. the contest�*s main purpose is to allow europe ryder cup captain luke donald to cast his eye over potential team members for the clash with the united states in september and gael monfils has made history by becoming the oldest and gael monfils has made history by becoming the oldest winner of an atp tour singles title with victory over belgium's zizou bergs at the asb classic in auckland. at 38 years and four months old, monfils takes the record from swiss great roger federer who was 38 years and two months old when he won the basel title in 2019. staying down under, the australian open gets underway overnight. britain's sonay kartal will playjessica bouzas maneiro of spain at around 3am. while tomorrow morning, two time defending women's singles champion and number one seed aryna sabalenka will take on 2017 us open winner sloane stephens in the first round. sabalenka is looking to become the first player to win three straight australian open women's singles titles since switzerl

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paula hancocks in abu dhabi, thank you so much. now, the ceasefire agreement is remarkably similar to one israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, shot down nearly a year ago. it included a multi-stage cease fire, a phased withdrawal of israeli troops and the release of hundreds of palestinian prisoners. now, at that time, netanyahu said israel had not, quote, committed to any of the delusional demands of hamas, his extremist allies in the israeli government supported him then, but now many of them seem unhappy about this deal that was just approved. and those allies are key to netanyahu staying in power. meirav zonstein is a senior analyst for israel at the international crisis group, and she joins us live from tel aviv. before i get to the to the politics, i just want to start. you will presumably have heard those air raid sirens after those missiles were launched from yemen. i imagine the idea of the cease fire going into into effect and and not having to fear that anymore. i mean, there must be a lot of a sense of relief in

great britain and ireland's golfers wrapped up victory over continental europe in the team cup in abu dhabithree day competition. it gave the englishman, who also claimed the winning point at the 2023 ryder cup, a 100% record this week. and that's all the sport for now. i the sport for now. will be back in an hour in another i will be back in an hour in another update. studio: we will see you then. the leader of sudan's paramilitiary rapid support forces has admitted losing a key city to their army rivals, one of its biggest setbacks since the civil war began. these images are from wad madani, where celebrations broke out after the sudanese army officially announced the capture of the city. but in an angry audio message, the rsf�*s general mohamed hamdan dagalo vowed to continue fighting until victory, even if it took another twenty years. the group had held wad madani for the past year. since the start of the war in april 2023, tens of thousands of people have been killed and more than eleven million people displaced. opheera mcdoom is the former reuters head of office in sudan and now run

in terms of that rub, prussia mall with this side regime, but certainly different seems today in abu dhabi width as a new administration and being entertained of the as i say, they try and get more of funds and international support. extractions issue. they all international sanctions, most countries put sanctions on syria. the key to that. so i think is the united states and the meeting coming up and becoming days the us secretary in states is tossing a tool, he'll be in asia, but then he'll be going to europe. and there's a key meeting going to take place in italy between the us secretary state and his european town to pots. i think that going to try and come up with a joint position with regard to what to do both with regard to sanctions. when to lift them and then potentially in the future when to actually provide assistance with this new government. but for the moment they see this issue is an issue of a leverage because they want to make sure that what's coming next in syria is going to be fully democratic. and fully inclusive of all the different, different political i'm ethnic grou

yes, uh, as you say, arrived in abu dhabi the next stage of this trip by this high level delegation from the new administration here in syria. the all idea to try and get regional support to try and continue the stability that we've had for a month since the full many, a months now since the full of a side. and they know the key to that is trying to prop up the finances of this country because it is in a desperately poor state right now to reconstruct this country. some people estimate it's going to be about $400000000000.00. that may well be an underestimate, considering the destruction the economy is just 85 percent as dropped by 85 percent from what it was at the sides of the war in 2011. and people really here is suffering. that's one of the reasons the new administration is now going to pay salaries for the 1st time to govern. well, cuz many of those government workers, you'll get a pay rise, a massive pay rise, but not massive, but in terms of these people who've been suffering. so much and having to have a pay rise for such a long time. it's 400 percent that they both of them are

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already been to saudi arabia now to catch a oven straight on to the united arrow that roots next up, abu dhabi and then to jewel. now, why are they going to those countries? well, i think there are too many names for from this new administration here in damascus . one is international recognition, but the other i think is much more important. it's about money. it's about trying to stabilize this country and the only way to do that is to try and improve the economy and start rebuilding the country. and the, and these are important our plans. they are also our plans that have deep pockets that could potentially help in the rebuilding try to, i think is particularly important and interesting because like hulu of the out of countries, it had normalize relations with syria until 2011. but then the capture, the government decided what was going on when they saw the brutal crack down bike present. the sides was totally unacceptable. they cut diplomatic relations as the many other countries in the region. but cattle event never did the ro, approachable. so many other countries did bringing your site b

erica. >> paula hancocks in abu dhabi, thank you. take you now to bahrain, where i'm joined by hassan al hassan, a senior fellow for middle east policy at the international institute for strategic studies. good to have you with us at this hour, as we look at where things stand two days in to this ceasefire. there are questions about next steps. but overall, how are you feeling about these first two days? >> well, i think it's very difficult not to feel a very significant degree of relief and elation that the ceasefire deal has finally materialized, that the suffering of innocent civilians is finally coming to an end. let's remember that the toll of this war has been extremely significant, unprecedented in many ways. over 46,000 palestinians killed, many hundreds of thousands displaced, maimed, injured. and i think the most tragic aspect of this war has been the fact that it's been children who have been disproportionately targeted and affected by the conflict. so i think the there is an overwhelming sense of relief. but there's at th

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but those people could all be in singapore, they could all be in israel, they could all be in abu dhabi, and we will drive that whole class offshore. reihan: added earlier on, you noted earlier that you saw the trump presidency as a shrewd adaptation of the reagan era playbook for the 21st century. i wonder if you could elaborate on that. when you think about the ways in which a selective departure, the way in which he did reaffirm the reagan playbook, talk to us about the parallels. scott: let's go back to where we were in 1980. reagan came in with high inflation and the great malaise and the soviet union. trump came in, it wasn't malaise, but the recovery post-gfc had not been strong. they both immediately went for tax cuts. they both focused on the biggest external threat. reagan spent the soviet union into oblivion. i think trump had a different idea for how to deal with china, and makeup for a lot of bad trade, historical trade agreements. and kind of pushed things forward. i think that once trump was in office -- and even make america great again, it was a reaganesque set. it's an

we will hear from the dutch prime minister and ceos of lseg and abu dhabi.cks off live on cnbc international youtube page. >>> i want to take you to breaking news from the chinese commerce ministry. we are just obtaining flashes on this. they are saying they will initiate anti-dumping and subsidy investigation into the u.s. subsidies in the chip industry at chinese chip industry request. they obtained a request here to look at u.s. subsidies to its chip industry and chinese commerce ministry now actually initiating an investigation here. of course, this is particularly important after the recent moves from the united states in terms of export restrictions for chip makers as well. all in all, it just highlights, really, how chipmakers, how this sector has become also heavily politicized to some extent because of their importance, really, for the industry and for global economy as well. >>> speak of chipmakers, tsmc posted record profits in the fourth quarter with net profit rising 57% on the year. revenue from the high performance computing rose on the quarte

abu dhabi's going to come in southbank ceo sold his entire position.w that money is raised. paul: the bigger news, at least to my mind and if you agree, trump is repealing the ai executive order of the president divided which led to regulation, more regulation of ai. trump seems to be saying look, we need to compete with china we need to unleash our companies to do that. what do you make of that decision? >> look, we are on record when biden signed the executive order with guard rails are only allowed to use a certain number of chips and all of that stuff. it's the stupidest thing ever. let's unleash the innovation. let's let all parties play around this stuff. it's too early for guard rails. there's plenty of other ways to protect the technology. >> you agree with that avon other people out there with ai experts in dealing with this technology saying we need those guardrails because what happens when it becomes too powerful? don't we need the human guardrails? >> i think you can build a kill switch into all ai systems so they do not run amok. that is

paula hancocks, cnn, abu dhabi. jeremy fraga rahel solomon for more perspective on the reality on the ground in gaza. >> we do want to go to juliette touma. she's the director of communications for the u.n. agency for palestine. palestine refugees. she's joining us from amman, jordan. juliette, thank you very much for for taking time to to check in with us. >> thanks for having me. >> and certainly on a very, very eventful last hour and a half or so. i wish we were talking about a current active ceasefire. your organization publicly welcomed this ceasefire, and hostage deal that is, at least for now, on pause. and we also heard from your commissioner general that called for and i'll read this directly from him for a rapid, unhindered and uninterrupted humanitarian access to those suffering in the war. one thing is to provide that level of passage when it's possible. but what about the logistics of getting all that aid distributed in gaza? what authority is even capable of doing it in war ravaged gaza? >> yeah, well,

as we are watching this unfold live here, i want to go to paula hancocks, who's watching from abu dhabi. paula, just emotional scenes, as you can imagine, on both sides, as we expect those israeli hostages to be released any minute now. and as well, the families of those palestinian prisoners who will also be released, what more can you tell us? >> well, kim, this is absolutely an emotionally charged day, as you say on all sides. what we're seeing at this point in palestine square in gaza city does appear to be the final preparations before the handover of four female israeli hostages who were taken into gaza on october 7th, 2023. now you can see fairly sizable crowds in this area. certainly, there is a very strong militant presence. we've been seeing flags of hamas, of palestinian islamic jihad, who have also, as we understand it, been holding some of the hostages since that day. now, the hostages themselves will be handed over to the international red cross. they will then be taken to the israeli military. they will be taken into israeli custody and into israeli territory, where they

saudi arabia is looking at the miracles of dubai and abu dhabi and we want a piece of that. and rest in the middle east and the region on fire does not bring us to that goal. how do you see this unfolding in the years ahead? >> no question. i'm cautiously optimistic that this cease-fire agreement and the release of the hostages is going to go through. i don't think they can overstate the importance of president trump coming in and forcing a reset here. forcing both our allies and hamas to understand the consequences of failure. but ultimately, abraham accords is critical. that is why i introduce special envoy for the abraham accords. we need to go after lissette wailed trade with iran and crackdown on funding of terror proxies and get saudi arabia to the table. that is the next steps as we move forward to. >> sandra: congressman hutch a thank you for sticking with us through the breaking news. >> john: appreciate it. to make major headlines this afternoon any cease-fire particularly dangerous situation with wildfires in california and a trio of high-stakes confirmation heari

announced that he'd received another $1.5 billion from government controlled funds in qatar and abu dhabi, on top of the billions of dollars he already got from government controlled funds in saudi arabia. because you know how republicans are very sensitive to the ethics of any presidential son doing any kind of international business. this is the transition where the president elect appears to have just randomly picked people off the tv for almost every imaginable government job. he picked a syndicated daytime tv doctor to run medicare. the one who says, your horoscope is very important to understanding your health. like literally, what's your sign, baby? that determines your health? he picked fox news contributors or fox news hosts or their relatives for secretary of transportation, national security advisor, fda commissioner, counterterrorism director, ambassador to israel, surgeon general, ambassador to the dominican republic, border czar, ukraine envoy. and did i mention defense secretary? all of those people he just picked off the tv. he just picked them off of fox news. he tried to

this is an abu dhabi based investment firm launched back in march as a joint venture between sovereignon ai, and it has been in some of the hottest deals we've seen in silicon valley in the past year. openai, databricks xai and then $100 billion partnership back in september with blackrock and gip on ai infrastructure. the emirates region has been on an investing tear lately, especially in ai. the emirati sovereign funds, including mgm, spent almost $30 billion across 52 deals in the past year. that was the highest across the region, according to s w f a research firm. it does highlight foreign demand overall to get into some of these deals, but especially in infrastructure. so these middle eastern countries, they're looking to diversify these oil rich economies. and i've been talking to sources who work closely with mgm. they say the team is highly technical. and those who know the playbook and are familiar with it, they say the goal is for this fund to really learn about how to build these types of mega data centers in their own backyard. now. >> kate, is there any sense amongst the

situation right now on the ground in the middle east, as is cnn's paula hancocks, who joins us live from abu dhabiwhat we know right now as we see these live pictures out of gaza city. paula. yes, paula. so this. >> certainly shows that. >> there is activity. this is in the in. >> the. >> palestine square. >> of gaza city. and what we are seeing is potentially dozens, maybe more of hamas fighters that have gathered in this particular area. you can see them that they are masked, they are armed as well, many of them holding the hamas flag. and it appears as though they are preparing for this hostage release. now, this is just happened in the last few minutes or so. they are in this particular square. you can see the white cars there, the white trucks, they are believed to be hamas cars are some of them have the flag on as well. and certainly it appears as though this is the preparation for the release of those four female israeli soldiers that you mentioned there. the four soldiers who were at the nahal oz military base back on october 7th, 2023, when they were taken hostage. now, we also saw them b

will host our fourth annual 3050 summit in abu dhabi, and it is shaping up to be our most impactful eventuential leaders and innovators for unprecedented networking and mentorship in intergenerational, cross-cultural ways. so many opportunities are had and doors are opened at this event with us for some special speaker announcements. we have, of course, the vice chair of the 3050 summit, huma abedin, and the editor of forbes women, maggie mcgrath. so, huma, we'll start with you. one woman who we will be hearing from is an incredibly talented actress who's dedicated her life to uplifting women and girls. and she will actually be playing you in an upcoming tv series. who is she? >> well, that incredibly talented actress and activist is freida pinto. >> and beautiful and beautiful. >> agreed. >> i think the world remember her when she burst on stage with slumdog millionaire. >> since then, she has appeared in films like rise of the planet of the apes, desert dancer, hillbilly elegy, mr. malcolms list, my mother's wedding. to each of those roles, she brings a combination of vulnerability, str

entrepreneurs everywhere and opened our offices in the middle east last year and opened up an office in abu dhabihat region of the world for the first time and that's exciting for us. >> we're now at the point of the interview where it gets a little complicated. let's talk about the issue du jour which is tiktok. i'm on it. my kids are on it. they still want to be on it. you're on the board of bytedance. you've been watching this play out. >> for awhile. >> what can you tell us about where things stand? >> well, we're first of all grateful the president intervened to keep it over the weekend so that was great news and now he's issued an executive order as of yesterday that you know about that gives us 75 days to work a solution that meets the national security of the united states but allows tiktok to keep operating and i can say this, that the company is prepared and ready to engage with the trump administration, has been looking forward to the opportunity to basically find a solution that complies with the law and meets the security of the united states and at the same time keeps tiktok availab

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