well, salman, salman rushdie is a great example of somebody who has spent the last 30 years defendingmple of, of courage and of resilience. erm, and it's. .. for me, it's a source, it's an inspiration and a source of admiration in many senses. and you will continue to write about your country from inside your country? i have never, except for one book, i haven't written a page of fiction that is not obsessively about my country, about trying to understand its violence and trying to explore it and illuminate it. and as a journalist, i only try to defend our right — our right to peace, to have a peaceful country. which is, you know, hopefully in the making, but not there immediately. juan gabriel vasquez, thank you very much forjoining me on hardtalk. it was a pleasure. thank you. hello there. we've got more strong winds, heavy rain and some snow as we head into the new year. the heavy rain has moved away from scotland, but it's moved further south, and it's across this part of northwest england that we have an amber rain warning from the met office. 100mm of rain in the hills — likely

no—one is talking about them. international mainstream media, are keeping silent professor dr salmanmas—affiliated islamic university, for what he called violating islamic principles and he said hamas had failed in its obligations iam not... i am not aware about your conversation but, again, i can accept that someone here or there might criticise any behaviour of hamas, not only on october 7th — but, again, it is about the main track of this conflict. we are people under occupation. and oppressed our people for 75 years, and we have the right to defend our people by all means. and one of the consequences, of course, according to the palestinian ministry of health. much of gaza flattened — he said, "you're talking about probably "and we just clean out that whole thing. "it could be temporary. without his involvement. and his fascist government. it was a genocide from one party against the other party. the so—called international humanitarian law and killed people without any limitations, to so—called international humanitarian law. by the western countries and by the western media for

salman ravi has more from kolkata. case of a trainee doctor in one of the most prestigious medical colleges of kolkata, has been found guilty by a special designated court. the central bureau of investigation that took up the investigation had submitted its final report in the case onjanuary11th. the court, which assembled today, however, reserved itsjudgment, which has been deferred for monday. the court has asked sanjay roy to be present on monday when they pronounce the judgment. the family members of the victim, however, they are not happy with the cbi investigations and say that there are many loopholes in the investigation and many of the witnesses, they were not produced before the court for their statements to be recorded. another point that they have raised in the investigation is that that the cbi has also failed to establish the motive behind the incident because the cbi had zeroed in onjust one person, sanjay roy, as the main accused of the case. though the principal of the college and the officer in charge

salman ravi has more from kolkata. trainee doctor in one of the most prestigious medical colleges of kolkata, has been found guilty by a special designated court. the central bureau of investigation that took up the investigation had submitted its final report in the case onjanuary iith. the court, which assembled today, however, reserved itsjudgment, which has been deferred for monday. the court has asked sanjay roy to be present on monday when they pronounce the judgment. the family members of the victim, however, they are not happy with the cbi investigations and say that there are many loopholes in the investigation and many of the witnesses, they were not produced before the court for their statements to be recorded. another point that they have raised in the investigation is that that the cbi has also failed to establish the motive behind the incident because the cbi had zeroed in onjust one person, sanjay roy, as the main accused of the case. though the principal of the college and the officer in charge of a loc

el prÍncipe heredero de arabia saudita, mohammed bin salman, ha dicho hoy que su reino quiere invertirren que su servicio sea mucho mÁs eficiente. si le interesa, lo puede hacer mediante su sitio web o a travÉs de la aplicaciÓn de la aerolÍnea. belmont, recordemos, es una plataforma que utilizamos para enviar y recibir dinero. y hablando de dinero, costco estÁ rechazando una propuesta de los accionistas que insta al operador del club mayorista. realizarÁ una evaluaciÓn de los riesgos comerciales que plantean sus prÁcticas de diversidad, equidad e inclusiÓn. los inversores votan hoy sobre la recomendaciÓn durante la reuniÓn anual de la empresa. >> el centro nacional de investigaciÓn de polÍticas pÚblicas presentÓ la propuesta argumentando que estas iniciativas de costco implican riesgos de litigio, reputaciÓn y financieros para la empresa y, por lo tanto, riesgos financieros para los accionistas. >> si usted en casa es fanÁtico del cine como nosotros aquÍ en el estudio, hoy ya se dieron a conocer las nominaciones para los premios oscar de este aÑo y una pelÍcula que lidera con 13 nomina

and so, the conversations with mohammad bin salman within with the saudis, with bahrain, with the potential future in lebanon and, hopefully getting to a postg gaza. we have to. and a final reformed, been hearing that since we worked together, steve, palestinian authority. then there are tremendous opportunities, but it has taken some real bold leadership and as someone who is set across the table from true evil, evil does exist. evil, i've sat across the table who someone said as long as i live i will try to kill you. an al qaeda terrorist. we have to recognize that evil exists and it only respects strength. hopefully can reform the next generation but sometimes you just have to put bombs on f oreheads. >> this is been a rich conversation. unfortunately, we are out of time. i would like to invite the two of you to join me for the ceremonial passing of the baton. i'd like to invite ambassador sullivan to join us as well. everyone wondered whether -- here it is. kept in a box up on the fifth floor. would you please pass it to your successor? all right, thank you. >> i promise not to drop it.

. >> bin salman and president trump reportedly closing a deal that would see the saudis commit $600 billion into expanded u.s. trade and investment over the next four years, according to saudi arabia state news agency. the two leaders spoke on the phone yesterday, but did not comment on whether it would be public or private spending. and they didn't really comment on how that money would be spent. trump has promised his first trip overseas would be to saudi arabia. we'll have much more later on in the hour. all right, turning back to the markets, president trump this week ordering federal workers to return to the office five days. >> a week. >> as part of his return to the white house. >> the president. >> joining jp morgan and amazon, telling their employees. remote work is just a thing of the past. and according to the global real estate services company jll. this year will see a more aggressive move in return to office. christian albrecht is the ceo of jll and he joins us now from davos. christian good morning. it is good to see you. >> good morning frank. >> thank you for having me. >>

don't distinguish between leaders such as vladimir putin, xijinping or saudi arabia's mohammed bin salmano were elected who you may not approve of, the likes of donald trump, javier milei, giorgia meloni. is it not anti—democratic to infer...? well, i suppose the inference from it is that people elected the wrong leaders. no, i think people can elect whoever they want. what i'm looking at is a creep towards authoritarianism and fascism and pushing further and further to the right. and i think what these people are believing and the erosion of human rights — this is a global thing, this idea of being able to protest or speak up, or having any way of kind of countering what is happening. like i said, this is a film based on a feeling and also personal experience. i'm, you know, my family is from india. i've been to india. i've seen what's been happening to muslims in india. i've spoken to journalists from there. i'm a film—maker, but my work has come out of the research, of interviewing and speaking to people who are actually experiencing things, like rana ayyub in india, being in brazil wh

bret: stef, the president confirmed he talked to the crowned prince of saudi arabia mohammed bin salman to invest $600 billion in the u.s. he told him the pledge by mohammed saudi arabia de facto ruler came days after trump suggested he could be willing to visit the kingdom for first substantial investments. try to get them up to $1 trillion of investments. we thought it would be a good time to go back to my interview with mbs the crowned prince in september of 2023 i asked him about this exchange with different administrations. >> bret: is it hard to deal with the u.s. when the administrations change every four to eight years and maybe foreign policy changes? >> well, sometime, you know, change any country always create like says a period of negotiation. so, we are used to that. and change in america reneg katie what we have together, what kind of obstacles we have in that realings. what kind of work on it. and then we each appoint work in the next few years. >> bret: who knows they may get to 1 trillion. >> sounds like those are two people who lo to negotiate. they are definitely seei

quando la cosa di abeer salman kabaeva subito immediatamente. pasquariello tantissimi disputada il trofeo mini. basket. trofeo mini basket. gioacchino squadra di facciamo. giocare kobe a auto anni anche se dewani mille degli altri che sara. mi. inizia la partita prend la palma. kobe non passa la polla. nessuno e iran accor arena. catastro. rivista di la squadra aerea. la squadra la kobe. ramallah. pala e far canistro. questa cosa volante per azione a un certo punto. saranno nuove bambini che piancavallo e che non e la pala. >> kobe believed in himself even at the youngest possible age, to a degree that i think is hard to comprehend. his parents believed in him that much to. james ho plays for four different teams while he's in italy. the family is constantly moving. >> reggio emilia was the last stage of his italian life. emilia is a very safe town, a small town, and you were very independent due to that. >> incontrato kobe la prima volta nella mia classe, quindi a. >> scuola. >> e la gran novita nella nostra class. un ragazzino. americano. wow.

america, said he would demand lower interest rates as well, and then praised crown prince mohammed bin salman of saudi arabia. the united states, says mbs, as he's known, ordered the murder of washington post columnist jamal khashoggi. it's also reported today in the papers that saudi arabia will be investing at least $600 billion in america. but i'll be asking the crown prince, who's a fantastic guy, to round it out to around 1 trillion. president biden called mbs a pariah after the murder, though biden then met with the prince and gave him a fist bump. a few years later, khashoggi went to the saudi embassy inurkey to get a marriage license. he was murdered, decapitated, his body cut into pieces inside that embassy. back here at home, former journalist pete hegseth could get the nomination he's looking for. as soon as today, president trump says he'll make a good secretary of defense. the republican led committee agreed, with the exception of susan collins from maine and lisa murkowski from alaska. and we do expect president trump here in california later today in los angeles to inspect fire

prince mohamed bin salman wants to the invest $6000 billion in trade -- 60 billion, over the next fourident donald trump talked about fixing the the relationship with countries in the middle east. on monday he said he could make the trip to saudi arabia as his first international visit as he did the first time around. >> so first foreign trip typically has been with u.k., but we did it, i did it with saudi arabia last time because they agreed to buy $450 billion worth of our product. i said, i'll do it, but you have to buy american product, can and they agreed to do that. they bought $450 billion. it was the least reported story i've ever been involved in. >> reporter: now $600 billion. the president believes saudi arabia could be entered9 into the abraham accord and normalize relations with israel for the first time. so add that the announcement of 500 bill -- billion over four years from softbank and oracle, and president trump has racked up a huge amount of private investment pledges because he says the ceos see america is open for business. >> cheerily, president trump is ready --

reason why again, easy to get because you don't need that many virus particles to get infected say salman la, you need thousands of bacteria with norovirus, you can get infected with few as 10. >> all right. what's your favorite 22nd song? the next time we're washing our hands literally be singing. >> definitely. since you've been gone by kelly clarkson. forget happy birthday. it's old. >> we've been doing that for so many years now. we need like a new tune to wash your hands, too. >> so, yeah, since you've been but i've got sunshine and happiness for you, folks. take a look at downtown san francisco. it's gorgeous. temperatures are nice. wind is calm. we're so fortunate and so lucky today, right? 60 degrees in san francisco. beautiful out there to nice low to mid 60's all across the bay area. again, putting us in that warmer than we should be category when decisive cobb. that is something obviously to be very thankful for. you can see it's kind of variable directions. we did have a chilly morning this morning and there was no frost advisory. however, there were certainly some frost 31 de

watch what mohammed bin salman, the de facto leader of the kingdom of saudi arabia, has to say aboutuse benjamin netanyahu does have aspirations still for that saudi recognition. the saudis are not going to demand a state for the palestinians. they would have just wanted, you know, sort of lip service. but now it's really a pathway to something because of all the violence in gaza that they have to worry about the arab world as well, and about their populations. and this just seems to me that netanyahu is caught between the ben-gvir, smotrich, you know. coalition leaders or former coalition leaders, but and also his own desires for a broader peace and besides which, any palestinian leadership that could be developed with some of the really extraordinary palestinian people, as i say, who are in the diaspora, you know, fayyad and others are well known to you and to people around the world could not possibly be engaged in gaza if the west bank has been taken over by the palestinians. yeah. exactly. >> right. and we haven't even mentioned really the third piece of all this, of course, is

and he also clearly had his conversation with saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman from yesterday on his mind. he talked about an offer from the saudis to spend some $600 billion in investments in the united states. he said he wants to see that number get up closer to $1 trillion, and said that he's going to be pushing opec to try to lower oil prices, which he sees to unlocking both the inflation crisis in the united states and perhaps helping to end the war between russia and ukraine. russia, of course, been buoyed for so long by high oil prices, so kind of a wide swath of economic and foreign policy issues, mostly within the sort of normal bounds of what we hear from donald trump throughout the campaign and his young presidency. >> and, susan page, this is the first time that that the president in this new term addressed an international audience since being inaugurated. he spoke with the saudi crown prince. as garrett just mentioned, he threatened vladimir putin with new sanctions if putin doesn't end the ukraine war. this was, i think, the toughest message he has sent to vladimir

we're seeing new leadership, even though mohammed bin salman is controversial not only in saudi arabia, but in the west and in israel, he is making extensive and incredible intrinsic changes. and i do think the abraham accords, which are a coup for the trump administration from its first term, will be expanded in this second term of the administration and hopefully will include such important keystone members of the accord, as they hope to include saudi arabia yeah, listen, perhaps a moment of hope, certainly a moment of hope here in israel, in gaza as well. >> and we'll see if more broadly in the region. professor alan podhoretz, thanks so much. coming up, my colleague cnn's bianna golodryga got an exclusive interview with israel's foreign minister, gideon sa'ar. we will have her next hour, as well as sound from that interview. please do stay with us. >> kobe believed in himself at the youngest possible age. >> people who may never even know what a basketball looks like felt his presence. >> he wants the opportunity to make his own mistakes. he's going to end up making them. that's wh

. >> how many decades was it before salman rushdie was grievously injured in an assassination attempttauqua that, you. >> know, blinded him in one eye. >> and caused a great deal of injury? so it's a continuing threat this way. i also want to ask you about the pardons of 1500 people who were charged in connection with the january 6th capitol attack, including those convicted of assaulting police officers, because it's something that the vice president, j.d. vance, had said just a week before the inaugural would obviously not take place because violent people should not be pardoned. >> well, look, i wouldn't have pardoned any of them. frankly, they all look to be adults to me. they know full well that they had no business being on the capitol grounds, and certainly had no business whatever trying to get inside the capitol building. and they acted the way they did. if you if you could kind of erase the trump names, you'd say they were a bunch of left wing demonstrators. and to me, it doesn't matter. it doesn't matter what your political philosophy is this. this was a desecration of the

one, because he was on the phone with mohammed bin salman, saudi arabia's leader.and saudi arabia is really the kind of linchpin of that global oil cartel. they control 65 to 70%, i believe, of the world's barrels of oil. he wants the united states to become to maintain its role as a major producer of oil. they're conflicting on some level, is what i'm trying to say here. and so you can see it. i was i was watching the, the price of, of oil futures. i was. >> going. >> to say tick down. i think it was down, down about a little over 1%, maybe a little. it's been toggling back and forth right now, but trying to figure out what he's going for economically on that, given what he wants domestically, i think is a very interesting thing. people are trying to tease out. more fascinating to me, though, is how he was connecting it to to the war in ukraine. yeah, that was there was a connective thread on that issue, specifically from his economic proposals, from his tariff proposals, from his energy proposals, continually bringing it back to the war in ukraine and russia in a

implied he wanted to raise that to maybe $1 trillion, and complimented his royal highness mohammed bin salman, but at the same time is suggesting that he wants oil prices to come down. and i just don't know or don't think that the two things are necessarily compatible. >> well, it is. >> a difficult thing to square. brian and i do. >> believe that the. first call president. trump made was to the. >> crown prince. >> to emphasize the. >> close u.s. saudi ties. >> that he wants. >> look. >> one thing he's right about. >> is that the. >> saudis and. >> opec plus could lower prices. >> you and i have watched those prices wobble and go lower, even on the hint that the current production scheme wouldn't hold together and there would be increased production, even just noises about. >> that have. >> sent prices lower. just to talk about the russian thing for. >> a second. >> we all know the. russian economy is teetering. >> it's highly. >> dependent on petrodollars. >> to the extent we choke off that supply of. funding to russia, that would that would certainly be a problematic. >> situation for puti

that's sean duffy abeer salman james a part of me that was luther's song.oh, i can't help it. >> no, i've got to move. every. time funky music comes around. >> yeah, this is luther, and that's the name of the group. why? just luther. luther. >> uh, i write the songs, i sing them, you know, some of them, you know, the record company named this luther, by the way. they thought that name would be more recognizable than the others that we had tried. i love singing. >> just give it to me, give it to me, give it to me. please. come on now. come on now. everybody. everybody get up, get up, get up, now! oh, i can't help myself. >> no, no. i love those things, david. you know what? he used to make me do? this was when he first hired me and first heard me singing. he used to have me go on stage and do a half an hour show of only my own material, and the audience was saying, bowie, bowie, you know, they had no idea who i was. you know, i was young and everything, and i came off stage. i said, david, if you're trying to kill me, use an ax. don't don't do it to me like

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you know, he when he was bargaining with the crown prince in saudi arabia, mohammed bin salman, there eco tech ecosystem and masa needed well, 45 billion, right? not chump change. >> and it's incredible. given that the vision fund, vision one hasn't been an incredible performer of vision two, i guess, according to some reports, has lost money and yet he still seems to get capital from the middle east. >> yeah. >> because he's. >> been a you know, his bets have paid off. i mean alibaba yahoo and look aam here i am a brit on this show. he bought britain's best technology company arm holdings for 30 billion. and it's now worth 140 billion. and it's the foundation for what we're going to see. >> he also sold nvidia which if he hadn't sold. >> would be. >> worth about. >> $100 billion. yeah he look that was 2019. and you know it was a 5% stake. so he knows that he lost out there. >> well lionel brilliantly timed book i got it i can't wait to read it. thank you so much for the book and for joining us this morning. >> great to be on the show. good to see. >> you, lionel. great to see you. al

saudi arabian crown prince mohammed bin salman telling president trump that his country wants to invest over the next four years. the saudi state news agency reporting a phone call between those two leaders. that was president trump's first visit abroad in his last administration. we'll see how this shapes up. a quick final check on the markets this morning. dow futures now indicated up by about 32 points. the s&p futures down by six. remember the s&p set a new high yesterday. and the nasdaq indicated off by close to 100 points. andrew wrapping things up in davos. phenomenal last several days that have been there i hope you get some well-needed rest maybe in a little bit. >> it ain't over. we got we got president trump in two hours from now. that's right. i'm actually going to go do an interview right now with the governor, sarah huckabee sanders and andy beshear. so a lot more to come. stay tuned and we'll see you tomorrow. >> that's right. right now it's time for squawk on the street. >> good thursday morning. welcome to squawk on the street i'm carl quintanilla with jim cramer david

the effect of that decision was to cover up the fact that saudi prince mohammad bin salman approved the operation to capture or kill khashoggi. the public only has the facts today because after the 2020 election, then head of national intelligence abe yal hanes -- abriel hanes abided by the law and released the report. while john ratcliffe was director of national intelligence, the saudi leadership, madam president, was protected from public accountability. while he was director of national intelligence, director ratcliffe wrote to multiple members of congress saying that he had completed his review of the intelligence and determined that nothing more could be released. and despite the fact that the congress passed a law, director ratcliffe insisted that there was only marginal public interest in declassification. he said this in three letters to me, to acting chair, chairman rubio, and vice chairman warner and to the chair of the house intelligence committee. so to me, madam president, this raises questions about john ratcliffe's commitment to the law. and basically, i have concerns ab

and look, he persuaded the crown prince of saudi arabia, mbs mohammed bin salman, to hand over $45 billion lot more groundwork done. but there was a kind of convergence of interest. masa needed the money and mbs wanted access to silicon valley and the whole technology ecosystem. >> yeah, so talk about how while he's a folk hero to some in japan, he also is looked upon with contempt by many because he doesn't make anything. >> he doesn't build. >> cars, build cars, doesn't make the perfect knife, doesn't create anything. he he does things that in america would make him a hero on wall street. but in japan, great suspicion of this man who you said is part p.t. barnum, part warren buffett. >> i think there is, frankly, prejudice, racial prejudice. because he's japan, korean, japanese, but also he's seen as a financial engineer. i mean, remember, joe, japan has had record interest rates for literally 30 years. they're just now moving up slightly. but he benefited from those cheap borrowing and then leave it up and made huge bets on the mobile internet he built. he bought just to be parochial. b

. >> salman. >> salman. >> rushdie's book was being. >> rushdie's book was being. >> burnt on the streetsord and sort of. >> left liberal apologists for that. >> at the time. >> at the time. >> were pretty disgraceful. >> were pretty disgraceful. >> i think they have obviously been. >> isolated examples of. >> isolated examples of. >> that since. >> that since. >> but i think that i think actually. >> partly because of the things we talked about on this sofa just. >> last week about the. >> last week about the. >> grooming. >> grooming. >> gangs, etc. >> gangs, etc. >> i think. >> i think. >> that people have now said that we must be. >> honest about what's. >> honest about what's. >> happening in communities, wherever the community is, and we shouldn't pander to any community. but by showing respect. >> for all communities. >> for all communities. >> the shame is it took so long and we've had so many terrible incidences to get to this point, and i really want to reflect on the police's behaviour and politicians behaviour. certain politicians behaviour. certain politicians behave that way