vodafone. why are you so bullish? what is your grand plan here?think the stocks overall of european tell comes, most of them are dividend-paying stocks in an environment where interest rates are very high. always you get a lot of pressure on these type of stocks. interest rates will not remain high forever. we believe there is a lot of value there. also for us it chris diversification in terms of currency income for us. we have exposure to dollar linked currencies pes in our market in saudi arabia. some emerging markets currencies like egypt, pakistan, south africa. it is good to have that mix. we believe it will see gloat growth in the coming years. >> are there any plans of a takeover of vodafone? >> clearly as we have indicated we do not have plans beyond having a strong minority. we constantly look at the market. european telecoms to increase the stake in minority there are not lots of approvals needed and we continue to work on updating the approvals. when thr done based on the market conditions, we might increase our stake. >> what about the

the proposed merger between vodafone and three is to be investigated by the uk's competition watchdoghe cma, will look into whether the deal could harm consumers by leading to reduced choice or higher prices. the combined group would be the uk's biggest mobile network with about 27 million customers. the number of foreign workers injapan has topped two million for the first time, as the country grapples with severe labour shortages and an aging population. the largest single group were vietnamese workers, who make up a quarter of the total. foreign employees also come from china, the philippines and nepal. previously, japan has been slow to allow in foreigners, but that's now changing. let's be frank, they had to change, didn't they? a federaljudge in brazil has ordered the mining giants bhp, vale and their samarco iron ore joint venture to pay over nine billion dollars in damages over a deadly dam burst in 2015. the collapse of the fundao dam in the south east of the country caused a giant mudslide that killed 19 people and polluted the rio doce river. that's it for now. follow me on

should we, um, what's going on with vodafone ? yeah. going on with vodafone?ggest shareholder, is now the uae , the shareholder, is now the uae, the united arab emirates, which has prompted this intervention from oliver dowden, the deputy prime minister. um, he has referred to this as a threat to national security, not least because of the fact that vodafone own the fact that vodafone also own a critical infrastructure a lot of critical infrastructure under cables things under c cables and things of that um, vodafone that nature. um, is vodafone sort of previously seen as a british company? um, i don't think it's a british company originally, but think it's originally, but i think it's something um, as with something which, um, as with many firms, obviously many of these firms, obviously so not just so many of the kind, not just their kind of services, but their own kind of services, but their own kind of services, but the sort of general infrastructure is something which relied upon more which is relied upon more broadly so is raised broadly. and so this is r

. >> and vodafone teaming up with microsoft.65 premium can now subscribe to copilot for $30 a month. microsoft overtook apple on friday as the highest rated company. >>> and elon musk is uncomfortable growing the business without approximately 25% of the stake musk owns 411 million of tesla's 3.2 billion shares that is roughly a 13% stake. >>> uber is shutting down drizly in a statement, uber says it will stop operations in march as they streamline business into one single app. >>> the dolphins and chiefs game setting a record with the average of 23 million viewers on peacock. the numbers blowing past the previous record of 15.3 million during the game last november with the sea walkhawks and cowb. >>> and what to watch this morning is aa and taiwan semi. in d.c., a potential government shutdown looming with the funding expiring on friday night. the big event this week is the davos world economic forum we will have live coverage with the interviews with the ceo of bank of america, intel and chevron and qualcomm starting in a few

she cited the case of vodafone, the sale of vodafone . the government vodafone.rvened on that, she said. why can't they? on this? also, there should be a national security investigation into the sale of the telegraph and the spectator to, i believe julia lopez. did say that the competition and marketing authority authority will be looking into it. so there you go. what do you make of that? should a uk publication ever be sold to the uae? >> and is the cma , uh, a body >> and is the cma, uh, a body thatis >> and is the cma, uh, a body that is meant to be arm's length from government really going to come to the same conclusions as the government? how influenced will it be? big questions there. yes indeed. >> now, in other news, commuters across the country are facing rail disruption all this week as the main train drivers union, aslef , staged fresh strikes and aslef, staged fresh strikes and bans on overtime. >> yes, the prime minister has called the walkouts disappointing outing as train operators fail to enforce these new minimum service levels that the strikes

i take it they're partnering with vodafone, right? lauren: u.k. telecom.a.i. to more than 300 million businesses and consumers in europe and africa. here in the u.s. they're also selling their co-pilot pro to regular people, individuals who want access to the a.i. for $20 a month. so you see microsoft widening their a.i. appeal. more exposure means more revenue. that revenue then pays the bills of developing all the artificial intelligence. stuart: i love it. the stock's up $4 at 392 today. you're well kohl. -- welcome. much of the country is cover under a blanket of snow. i have to believe that that's a pop for ev owners. lauren: especially in the midwest. the cold weather very bad for the battery of an electric vehicle. you saw these lines to charge up at tesla charging stations in chicago. drivers were complaining that they ran out of juice while they were waiting to charge their vehicle. the stations themselves often didn't work, and some of them had to tow their teslas. go to norway. norway is cold. they have a head start on evs. they're a much bigger

stake in vodafone, known as vodafone british, was , i as vodafone british, was, i don't know, the sellic in the house of commons. >> here's conservative mp alicia kearns yet we see a situation where a paper of record, the daily and the daily telegraph and the spectator, the longest run magazine in the world, and my personal podcast of choice will be purchased by a foreign state. >> but the concern here is not foreign ownership. it is foreign state ownership. and in this situation you cannot separate, shake and state shake and state and you separate those. >> this even concerned isabel. at the start of the week, she opened up her daily telegraph newspaper and she was the times. was it the times? and what did you find out? >> it was a sunday times. >> it was a sunday times. >> oh, well, it was all about the ivy chain. um, obviously the original ivy in the centre of soho's sort of showbiz soho's big sort of showbiz hangout, come as hangout, but it's come out as a franchise and it's very popular up down country. got up and down the country. got the ivy. the ivy ivy. you've got the ivy rest

all right, i won't win, but mine's the broadband companies, including and three, including vodafone andtion. >> okay. all right. um, the winner of our union jack has today is fujitsu. mainly because they have to decide these before we go on air. and i didn't know which way the vote was going to go. there we are. look. thank go. so there we are. look. thank you much. wonderful panel . you very much. wonderful panel. it's roaring show. it's been a rip roaring show. this we've a of this evening. we've got a lot of live stuff. do go back and watch the moment that it broke the exact moment that it broke that bill had passed. that the rwanda bill had passed. there an ongoing there will be an ongoing fallout from headliners will up from this. headliners will be up next with more in—depth next with their more in—depth look of tomorrow's front look at all of tomorrow's front pages and what's the for pages and what's inside the for book well. so there's book you as well. so there's no need go anywhere make book you as well. so there's no needyou go anywhere make book you as well. so there's no ne

um, we sold it to a subsidiary of vodafone at the time. >> how much you sell it for? we can >> absolutely. i think we can all sit and say, oh, we're good at what we do . um, but the truth at what we do. um, but the truth of the matter is, we do need a little bit of luck, but persistence and consistency create it's luck. >> are you very disciplined and organised? i think so, yes. >> yeah. i try to be very organised in what i'm doing. if you look at my desk , i have you look at my desk, i have every paper laid out correctly. reason being , i like to see reason being, i like to see what, what each job that i'm doing . i have what, what each job that i'm doing. i have a list of jobs what, what each job that i'm doing . i have a list of jobs the doing. i have a list of jobs the night before when i come into work. do you love a list? >> yes, i love a list . >> yes, i love a list. >>— >> yes, i love a list. >> do we have a tick list? >> do we have a tick list? >> oh, it's great, it? >> oh, it's great, isn't it? >> oh, it's great, isn't it? >> it you get >> well, it helps you