sameer hashmi is the bbc�*s middle east business correspondent.k you for having us. well, good to have you here, spencer. the team and you are here, and, yes, we are here, the uae pavilion. i know, and it's no surprise, really, that it is the most spectacular of all of them. yeah, it's the biggest. it's the largest. and what you see, the design of this pavilion is actually a falcon. the bird in flight, because that's the main bird of the country. so it really reflects the journey of this country from the desert to where they are right now. what should we expect from these kind of world fairs? should we expect the next big invention? or is it more about countries posturing? it's more our posturing, really. i think the uae is very clear that they were not expecting one big idea to come out of the expo, which we have seen in the past, right? and the fact that this would be the first, or one of the first, big in—person events after covid—19 gives them a great opportunity to showcase the world, this new world we live in. what happens to this site after

well, sameer, thanks for having us to your place and we�*ll see you again soon.this show is more about ideas than invention. a chance for a nation to promote its values and its visions. so i was a bit nervous to see how the uk had chosen to represent itself. i shouldn�*t have worried. not a red telephone box in sight. this is a building that embodies an idea from one of our greatest minds — stephen hawking. "the days of a thousand photographs. no—one thought we could actually talk to water. it�*s like looking out the window on a starship. at first, we were trying to make in relations by feeding our fangs." what? "now turning to foods in the shape of letters." that�*s alphabetti spaghetti, isn�*t it? hmm, profound. this is poetry generated by an artificial intelligence, and inspired by professor hawking�*s project to find a universal message that we could send into space in an effort to contact alien life. to learn what kind of phrases go where, the al was trained on thousands of actual poems, and it then creates new verses from words donated by the pavilion�*s th

in saudi arabia known as "davos of the dessert" from where our middle east business correspondent sameerth and energy crisis, these were some of the topics that dominated day one of the fii summit here in riyadh. the top bosses of goldman sachs, blackrock, blackstone in a panel discussion underlined the fact that the world is going through an energy crisis and it's important to recognise that, because that could lead to higher inflation. and they also didn't rule out that oil could touch $100 a barrel, which could be a bigger crisis, especially at a time when there is an energy shortage. the other thing that has been discussed is climate change and talking about achieving net zero carbon emissions. saudi arabia just announced two days ago that they are aiming to reach there by 2060, but at the same time have been highlighting the fact that it's important to recognise, given the scenario right now where there is an energy crisis that fossil fuels cannot be demonised completely because they are needed and they are not going away anytime soon. it is important to adopt a balanced approach, a

sameer hashmi has more from dubai.et, unlike the traditional test cricket or one—day cricket. and it's become very popular in a short span of time, the viewership is quite high, the many multibillion—dollar leagues that have started around this format, and that's why it's one of the most watched tournaments in world cricket today. the matches are going to be played, the qualifiers will start today, will be played in oman, and then the main matches, from the 23rd of this month, will move to the uae. now, the uae has already hosted two big tournaments before this — the indian premier league, which is the biggest league in t20, that was last year, and then just now, which concluded two days ago, so it's not that it's been held... i mean, the uae has held two tournaments since covid—19, and that's why the preparations are in full swing over here. a union representing about 60,000 behind—the—scenes workers in hollywood has reached a tentative deal with producers, averting a strike that threatened to cause widespread industr

here's the bbc�*s sameer hashmi on that.saudi arabia, which is not only the largest producer of oil, export or rather of oil in the world, but also the head of opec, and opec plus which also includes russia, and consistently the commentary that has been coming out of opec is that yes, we need to fight together to transition to greener energy, but at the same time let's be realistic. we cannot expect oil demand to go down, in fact they are expecting oil demand to ramp up or increase in the coming years. and most countries are looking at investing more money to produce more oil. whether it's saudi arabia, the uae, kuwait, all these countries are now investing more money because they think that oil prices are going to stay at these high levels for the next seven to eight, or ten years. so this is the time or you can really make good money, because oil demand may hit a peak after seven or eight years as countries globally try to transition to renewable forms of energy. so that's saudi arabia. the leak also reveals that a senior

well, sameer, thanks for having us to your place and we'll see you again soon. show is more about ideas than invention — a chance for a nation to promote its values and its visions — so i was a bit nervous to see how the uk had chosen to represent itself. i shouldn't have worried — not a red telephone box in sight. this is a building that embodies an idea from one of our greatest minds, stephen hawking. "the days of 1,000 photographs. "no—one thought we could actually talk to water." "it's like looking out the window on a starship." "at first, we were trying to make in relations by feeding ourfangs." what? "now turning to foods in the shape of letters." that's alphabetti spaghetti, isn't it? hmm, profound. this is poetry generated by an artificial intelligence and inspired by professor hawking's project to find a universal message that we could send into space in an effort to contact alien life. to learn what kind of phrases go where, the al was trained on thousands of actual poems, and it then creates new verses from words donated by the pavilion's thousands of