mustafa.tafa, i want to ask you where you see things going forward here, because as harvey was describing, it is, for better or worse, going to be very hard for an israeli government to accept the idea of a total israeli withdrawal from from gaza. it could result in bibi netanyahu's government collapsing. is there a scenario in which arab troops could come in and maintain peace, to a degree to which both sides would would find that comfortable? i ask you this because the arabs have played an unusual role in recent years, which is they have spoken about palestinian rights and palestinian liberty and the palestinian state, but done very little about it and in fact, been, you know, many of the gulf states have been trying to cut deals with israel, normalized relations under the abraham accords. saudi arabia apparently wants to do this. so is there a is there is it possible that you could get a coalition of of arab countries? would the palestinians accept that kind of a presence as a, as one way o

that was doctor mustafa barghouti speaking to me earlier.son is injerusalem and hejoins me now. good morning, jon. is in jerusalem and he “oins me now. good morning, 10m— is in jerusalem and he “oins me now. good morning, jon. morning. we are exectin: good morning, jon. morning. we are expecting a — good morning, jon. morning. we are expecting a meeting _ good morning, jon. morning. we are expecting a meeting later _ good morning, jon. morning. we are expecting a meeting later today, - expecting a meeting later today, just remind me what we are expecting to hear following that meeting in israel. basically there are going to be two meetings, we think, starting this morning. 0ne meetings, we think, starting this morning. one will be the israeli security cabinet, and then the full israeli government. both of those bodies need to vote to approve this deal, which we are expecting them to do so, given that prime minister netanyahu's office now say that the negotiation team say the deal has been finalised. you will be aware that there are two hardl

mouaz mustafa in new york, welcome to hardtalk., you've had roughly six weeks to take in what has happened to your native land. i know that you flew into syria in the early days after assad fled to moscow. you've had a chance to really reflect on it. do you think the country is truly on a new path? 100%. absolutely. mouaz mustafa in new york, welcome to hardtalk. now, you've had roughly six weeks to take in what has happened to your native land. i know that you flew into syria in the early days after assad fled to moscow. you've had a chance to really reflect on it. do you think the country is truly on a new path? 100%. absolutely. on a new path that i think isn'tjust important for syria itself. it's a geopolitical earthquake for the better in the middle east. its reverberations on europe will be incredibly positive. and it's rare, you know, in this time and day, in this world, where we see so much darkness and war, to see good triumph over evil. absolutely, syria is on a new path. yeah, it's interesting, you're even talking with a

tom: palestinian authority prime minister mohammad mustafa speaking exclusively to bloomberg's ethan. what else to think about today as we lead up to the european central bank decision, before that 10:00 a.m. u.k. time euro area fourth-quarter gdp after the number for france was offer the next -- than expected -- softer than expected. the ecb fellow by the press conference which will be ardently more important. that is because traders are fully pricing a 25 basis point cut by the european central bank. at 1:30 p.m. u.k. time, still on the macro front, we get fourth-quarter gdp for the u.s. that is the first reading. jay powell referencing the strength of the u.s. economy which is allowing the fed to stay on hold yesterday. after the market, we will get apple earnings after we got the number from meta, microsoft and tesla. concerns from some analysts as they downgrade that stock particularly when it comes to sales of the iphone and what apple can offer on ai. talking of ai, we will speak to the ceo of swiss engineering firm abb, orders surging on data center demand but the innovations

mustafa zine was important figure in the world of intelligence. he was high level intelligence operative yasser arafat and. he was also the intermediary between the plo and the cia. so he, in his unpublished memoirs, he makes a very interesting about it. i don't think it conclusive, but it's very interesting and i think there you know, there it's something worth pursuing. interesting. that one, at least is is kind of still yet to be determined. yeah. there still are some key unanswered questions mean. i think another big unanswered question there. there is a lot of evidence that, george h.w. bush, who was president during. a during a when bob and i were investigating it back in 91 and 92. and he was running, of course for reelection. bill clinton beat him back then. of course. but of course, was part of the reagan bush ticket. and he was a former cia director and he knew a lot of cia operatives who were involved with the october surprise. so i think there are a lot of unanswered questions about his role as well. interesting and i know i want to go

in to what hamas —— as well as everyday gazans might want from an agreement, i'm joined by tahani mustafaom antony blinken that if hamas agreed the deal is there will stop i think some of the sticking points are very much the usual that they have been over the last year, which is the geographical markers in terms of where israel is going to be withdrawing.— to be withdrawing. whether israel is actually _ to be withdrawing. whether israel is actually going - to be withdrawing. whether israel is actually going to i israel is actually going to militarily draw down, whether this campaign is going to come to a total and permanent end. also the release of hostages on both sides of our prisoners on both sides of our prisoners on both sides of our prisoners on both sides and the guarantee of a lease from the palestinian side that the people release won't be rearrested afterwards. there's also a concern about what comes after once hostages and prisoners are released. and once we see a pause in the fighting, whether they will be sufficient amounts of aid allowed in and whether were talking about se

assistants with really good long—term memory are about a year away, according to microsoft's head of ai mustafaonversations, projects and problems will encourage users to invest more time, and share more of their personal history with them. some critics have concerns about this level of integration — including privacy, and the possibility of the ai tools giving wrong information, or displaying in—built bias towards the user. scientists at the university of montreal have found new ways to help cats suffering from chronic pain. instead of having to sedate the felines, they've been able to scan their brains while they're awake using electrodes hidden under specially knitted hats. in the past, the cats tended to shake off or chew the wired electrodes used in testing — well, they're cats, that's what they do — but now, the cats in hats are cute and cosy. and its happy birthday to comic sans. yeah, love it or hate it, this font has been around for 30 years! it was originally designed as part of microsoft bob — a piece of software designed to make windows more user—friendly. it was released in 1994 an

let's hear now from dr mustafa barghouti, a palestinian political leader based in the west bank, whoo my colleague lukwesa burak. here's what he had to say about the ceasefire deal and the conditions surrounding it. it's a relief that finally we have an agreement. it's a big relief for especially the population of gaza. we are talking about 2.2 million people who are taken hostages practically by israel. they are suffering from starvation. they've suffered huge losses. we're talking about maybe at least 70,000 people killed, according to the lancet, and more than 109,000 people injured. it's almost 10% of the population of gaza. that's a huge number. if it happened in the united states, you would be talking about 32 million people killed in 15 months. so the people of gaza are feeling relief, hoping that there will be a true ceasefire that could last. and of course, there will be release of israeli captives and palestinian prisoners, which is also very, very useful. but i also feel very sad because all of this could have happened exactly six months ago, on the 3rd ofjuly. this agreem

"we are carrying aid like food and medication for our brothers in gaza," says mustafa al qadri. deed." "we are happy to be part of this operation." we can travel with this convoy as far as the israeli border, but since the war began, israel does not allow the foreign media to enter gaza and report independently. but our bbc colleagues, living in gaza, have been filming every day, including today — the first real moment of hope. they're waiting for today's meagre charity. little wonder that tired tempers fray... ..when you've lived this struggle every day. the aid from jordan is the tiniest fraction of what's needed here. but it does say to the people of gaza, by your neighbour, at least, you're not forgotten. translation: | used to shop| and go to school, and my mum used to cook for me, and when i got back she would tell me to come eat. i dream every day about the ceasefire. i want to go home, and for my father to return to us. home — a word that holds so much in any language. a word that means dignity, for lamees al mizar�*i, aged 16. translation: i never thought i'd be fed by

he said, you know, mustafa and sam don't love each other.r the sort of dynamic. >> the days of our squawk box. >> yeah, the days of squawk no. and the question is longer term, whether you think microsoft's going to ultimately have to build its own frontier models. obviously satya right now is saying that he doesn't want to basically double up and replicate what openai is doing. >> yeah. that's correct. they want to focus their compute on one. they have a very good partnership with openai. mustafa wants to build the best models to power the best agents for billions of people around the world. that's mustafa's goal. it's how he gets. >> there. while we're just in the microsoft land. let me just ask one other related question. president trump commenting recently that he would like to see microsoft, or he says that microsoft is in negotiations to buy tiktok. you're a linkedin guy, social media guy. does that make sense to you? there was a period of time where microsoft and if i remember oracle and walmart were all together in the old trump admin

now i put that question to doctor to doctor mustafa barghouti, who is the secretary general of the palestiniannitiative movement. his answer? he believes that israel is laying the groundwork, preparing for the annexation of the west bank under a trump administration that he believes will just give the israeli government the green light to do whatever it wants. and it's not just in jenin. there's been a heightened presence of idf soldiers all over the west bank. more checkpoints. and i can tell you ourselves, the nbc crew just on sunday wanting to come back to our hotel, what should have taken 15 minutes took us four hours. let's just give you a glimpse of what palestinians in the west bank have to go through on a daily basis. >> jose daniele hamamdjian, thank you so very much, joel. boy, this what we're seeing in this israel-hamas situation. 471 days. finally a pause. three people out. yes. how fragile is this? >> well, jose, thank goodness this is moving forward. this is in many ways the low hanging fruit of the conflict, though unfortunately, this phase one six week period. and so this looks

ali mustafa is back with me now. so take us through what you called in the nation.y bad day in court. >> so tiktok wants us all to talk about this case as if it's a free speech case, right? that tiktok has a free speech right to partner with the chinese government if it wants to. right. people want us to talk about tiktok creators and their free speech, right? to use the platform of their of their choice to promote whatever content they feel like promoting. and i am all for that. i completely agree with the speech rights of tiktok and tiktok content creators, but in this case, gave me an opportunity to do something that, as a lefty, progressive, woke liberal i love doing. it gave me an opportunity to change my mind when i got more facts right. and the facts of the law here are that this country, historically speaking, prevents foreign governments, foreign entities from owning tv and radio stations. that's just the law, right? and so if you think of the free speech rights here, not as of tiktok's free speech, right, but as the free speech right of tiktok's owner, the

you know, under mustafa suleyman, who you remember was at google, who started deepmind, and then he hadunning their ai efforts, building their own frontier models. this is a huge advancement again, for the industry. another model. >> right. but i mean, at the same time, i mean, maybe copilot becomes more of a pilot, maybe, you know, maybe an astronaut. what do you say? come on right now, just say it's going to get better and that we should stop making fun of microsoft on mad money. >> look, jim, you know that microsoft's the number one software company in the world for enterprises. salesforce is number two. it's important that we paint the clear differentiation between copilot, which has not been able to deliver these results for customers, and agent force, that is. and look, we can see it in in right on my own company that this is a tremendous platform. and i just spoke with hundreds of customers last week at davos. i didn't find a single happy copilot customer there. >> all right. well, we didn't get exactly that hatchet burying moment. but that's okay. that can happen some other time

doctor mustafa barghouti, _ world. doctor mustafa barghouti, thank - world. - barghouti, thank you very much and just to reiterate, israel would deny that they are responsible for the day is like they deny any accusations of genocide. let's get some of the day's other news now. firefighters battling two fires that have wreaked destruction across los angeles for nine days now have had some respite from the weather. the near hurricane—strength winds that initially fanned the flames and hampered rescue efforts have weakened into much lighter gusts. the former governor of the bank of england, mark carney, is running to replacejustin trudeau, as leader of canada's governing liberal party. mr carney launched his bid from an ice rink in his hometown of alberta. mr trudeau announced his intention to resign as prime minister earlier this month. the incoming white house national security adviser says donald trump will try to save tiktok before a ban comes into place. the supreme court is due to rule on a law that gave the apps owner until sunday to sell its us operatio

warsi, let's bnng >> okay, mustafa warsi, let's bring you in at this point, in which case, what's theint of them if they if they are, you know, beneath british law in terms of the, the legal hierarchy, which they should be, then why do they even exist at all? surely it's time just to get rid of them. >> it is important to recognise that there are lots of different you know, britain is an incredibly diverse country. there are lots of different people that hold a whole, a whole host of moral and social views, have a range of beliefs about how best to organise their own lives and the lives of their families. most meaningfully, a significant section of those people believe that sharia courts or sharia councils rather do in fact provide a service insofar as it helps them organise their lives in a way that best accords with their deepest held beliefs. now, while it might be the case that this results in injustice at times, that by itself the fact that there exists injustice, or the fact that there exists particular instances where bad things have happened does not contradict the general pri