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BECKY ANDERSON, CNN HOST, CONNECT THE WORLD: Well, this is the scene live in Davos, where leaders in politics, business and tech, are gathered for

the Annual World Economic Forum. It is 03:00 p.m. there in Switzerland. The focus now very much on Greenland and how European allies can talk the U.S.

President down from his demand for control of that Arctic Island.

It is 06:00 p.m. here in Abu Dhabi. I'm Becky Anderson, you're watching "Connect the World". As we mark one year of Donald Trump's return to the

U.S. presidency. World leaders are gathered in Davos seeking clarity about the foreign policy shake ups that he has introduced just in the first weeks

of 2026.

Over the next two hours, we will explore how the global norms have shifted over the past year, and even the past week. Messages between leaders that

would have once remained private are now driving the headlines. The latest President Trump's screen grab of French President Emmanuel Macron's message

to him asking for a G7 meeting just after Davos that message emphasizing the progress they could make if they worked together.

Mr. Macron addressed the forum last hour, offering some not so veiled criticism of what he is calling a rise in authoritarianism.

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EMMANUEL MACRON, FRENCH PRESIDENT: -- shift towards a world without rules, where international law is trampled underfoot, and where the only law that

seems to matter is that of the strongest and imperial ambitions are resurfacing.

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ANDERSON: Well next we will bring in geo-economics into focus as Davos begins in earnest and leaders await Donald Trump's arrival there. Tomorrow

his Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent warning Europe against retaliatory measures tied to the president's 10 percent tariff threat over Greenland.

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SCOTT BESSENT, U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY: Europe is an ally. The U.S. NATO membership is unquestioned. We are partners in trying to stop this tragic

war between Russia and Ukraine. But that does not mean that we cannot have disagreements on the future of Greenland.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yeah, but if there's a protected trade war between the U.S. and Europe --

BESSENT: But again, you say, if there's a protracted trade war, why are we jumping there? Why are you taking it to the worst case? Calm down the

hysteria, take a deep breath.

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ANDERSON: Well over the course of this show, we will also look at where the U.S. and the world stand with key stories that we have been following.

Before demanding the U.S. acquire Greenland, President Trump said he would effectively lead Venezuela after a dramatic military operation that saw the

capture and arrest of Nicolas Maduro.

And the threat of U.S. military action against Iran following a deadly crackdown on protests, still looms with American battleships stationed in

the Middle East region and amid all of this.

The stock market in New York opens in just under 30 minutes from now. We are looking at a significant futures sell off, an indication the markets

will open lower today.

This will be the first market open after Trump's latest tariff threats, because U.S. markets were closed for Martin Luther King Day yesterday, and

we will return to these when they do open at the bottom of this hour. So, we've got an awful lot to unpack here over the next two hours.

Here on "Connect the World" with me Becky Anderson, our International Diplomatic Editor, Nic Robertson with us from Greenland. CNN Politics

Senior Reporter Stephen Collinson, good friend of this show is in Washington. And also joining us, Mohamed El-Erian, Chief Economic Advisor

for Allianz.

Thank you, all of you for joining us on what feels like a really, very important day.

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Nic, let's start with you that Macron message we read isn't the only private message being made public. A NATO official has just confirmed the

authenticity of the Secretary General Rutte's message to Trump, also congratulating him on Gaza and Syria. I'm looking for a quote way forward

on Greenland.

What message, Nic, are European leaders sending to Trump, both publicly and privately? And do you believe at this point it is likely to make any

difference?

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: It's a united message we've just heard from the Greenland Prime Minister speaking here in the

last hour, thanking European partners and allies for a united message, a message the United States that reinforces a willingness and a friendliness

to do to talk about the future of Greenland.

The prime minister here saying that both the United States and NATO are good friends, or Greenland is good friends the United States and NATO, but

the key phraseology that's being used coming from European leaders is about the United States needing to respect the sovereignty, territorial

integrity, self-determination of the people of Greenland.

So, a united message coming from the Europeans, and a very strong message coming from the Danish Prime Minister, saying that if the continued threat

of tariffs remains, then they're prepared to go all the way on that respond. We've heard from a Greenlandic Opposition Prime Minister,

opposition member here saying today that if the United States were to attack their people here would fight back very sort of fiery rhetoric,

which I think reflects a change here, the frustration and a level of anger, if you will that's happening.

But there's also a level of reality. Yesterday, Denmark sent significantly more troops to here and another base further north in Greenland. The Danish

government, at the request of the Greenland government, has sent emergency responders here to Greenland, and their job is going to be to secure

communications points, secure critical infrastructure, prepare an early warning system.

So, there is a lot that is being prepared on the ground that is out of the ordinary. No one is linking these measures today, per se, with what the

United States is doing and what President Trump is saying, but it very clearly gives the feeling to people here the ground is shifting under their

feet.

Denmark has sent people that it wouldn't typically send here to prepare for emergency type scenarios.

ANDERSON: Nic, stand by for me. I want to bring in Stephen, you have written an analysis quote, Europe may need to adopt Trump's brass knuckle

methods to save Greenland. What do you mean? And doesn't that risk a transatlantic escalation at this point?

STEPHEN COLLINSON, CNN POLITICS SENIOR REPORTER: Yes, I think it does risk escalation, but I think that's where we are at this point. It was

interesting to listen to the Treasury Secretary there say, OK, everyone needs to calm down. We don't need to talk about a trade war. Well, it

appears that the president has initiated a trade war against the Europeans by threatening these new tariffs if they don't simply hand over some of

what is ostensibly European territory.

So, I think the lesson of the first year of the Trump term is that until there are consequences and potential pain, President Trump will continue

barreling ahead. We saw that China really is the only country that was able to change the president's behavior, at least in the trade war context, when

it used the card of rare earth metals.

Obviously, Europe is a significant economy. It's part of the biggest trading relationship in the world with the United States. It does have the

capacity to impose some political pain on Americans, and therefore the president, and I think, to build pressure by doing so on the president

among Republican Senators on Capitol Hill, which could be crucial for the future of the alliance.

I think the question becomes, does Europe have to show some steel in order to stop this kind of behavior from the president now and in the future?

Obviously, it's well outgunned militarily, but if it is going to allow the United States, a fellow NATO member, to take European territory above the

wishes of its sovereign peoples.

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Then what certainty can we have that the United States would defend a NATO country in the event that it was attacked from outside?

ANDERSON: Stephen, we are a year into this Trump presidency today, on this anniversary, he is traveling to Davos tonight to take center stage in sort

of global geopolitics as it were. How is this playing with American voters. For instance, the most recent poll we have says 75 percent of voters oppose

the idea of the U.S. taking control of Greenland. I mean, why is Trump so focused on this?

COLLINSON: Well, Trump is actually under water on pretty much every single issue, domestic and foreign, there was not an appetite, for example, to go

after Maduro in Venezuela. There is no burning wish among Americans to go and add another piece of territory that will potentially cost billions of

dollars.

It doesn't seem to make a lot of sense politically, but I think this is a president who now believes that the United States and he are all powerful,

and he can do exactly what he wants, and he can pursue his personal agendas, and he's a 79-year-old president in a hurry.

Three years today, there will be another president inaugurated, and I think there are people in the White House who, for ideological reasons, are

seeking to so transform the world and the United States that it will be impossible for a new Democratic president, if that's what happens next, or

even a more conventional Republican, to come in and take the world back to the place it was before Trump arrived for his second term.

So, this is a president and an administration unleashed, and I don't think they are being constrained by the normal rules of politics and popularity,

even though this is a mid-term election year and voters will get to have their say in the United States in November.

ANDERSON: Yeah, Stephen, it's good to have you. Let me bring in Mohamed at this point. Mohamed, you heard Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent this

morning telling everyone to take a deep breath, and I quote him here. So, Mohamed, Bessent saying that this doesn't have to be a trade war.

Do you follow that logic? What chance do you give a transatlantic trade war in light of Trump's latest Greenland related tariff threats?

MOHAMED EL-ERIAN, CHIEF ECONOMIC ADVISER OF ALLIANZ: So, Becky, in the short term, it doesn't need to be a trade war. However, Europe has woken up

to the fact that the U.S. can repeatedly whip up whatever agreement they've had on tariffs and threaten more tariffs due to not economic reasons, but

other reasons. So, Europe, I think, is realizing that the world is -- Stephen's word is transforming from above by policies that don't respect

norms and from below, by AI.

And Europe is vulnerable to both it doesn't have the resilience, it doesn't have the agility, and if it's not careful, it will be a loser on both

counts.

ANDERSON: Yeah, and I want to come to AI, and before I do, I do want to keep an eye on the futures markets today. Let's bring those up as we keep

one eye on these markets, which will give us an indication as to where the U.S. markets will open at the bottom of this hour, in about 15 minutes

time.

You got to wonder, Mohamed, whether there is a sense of rinse and repeat here. Trump threatens tariffs over a weekend. Same thing happened on China

last year. Markets sell off at the first opportunity, although given an opportunity, investors have mulled the idea over the weekend, then Trump

strikes a deal before tariff deadline day, and the markets take off again.

You see a Trump playbook developing here, sell off by investors who've got a bit of concern, then buy the dip.

EL-ERIAN: Maybe. And I say maybe, because what's remarkable about today is that everything in the U.S. is selling off. Stocks are selling off. U.S.

Treasury Bonds are selling off. The dollar is selling off. There are three reasons for this. One is just what's happening between the U.S. and Europe.

Two, is what's happening in Japan, where there's an almost disorderly bond market over there. And three, something that was illustrated by -- fund

coming out and selling. We're going to sell our U.S. Treasuries. The rest of the world is massively overweight the U.S.

So, the thing that I'm watching and others are watching, is it going to be simply sequential resets, as you said, or is this more a cumulative

process, a little bit like a mound of sand, you keep on adding particles of sand, nothing happens, and then suddenly the shape of the mound changes

completely.

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We don't know Becky, but this is becoming a really important issue.

ANDERSON: Yeah, that's fascinating. Let's turn to AI, still a massive topic at this year's World Economic Forum, leaders, though, seem to be looking

more at scaling it, applying it, making money from it in 2026. Last year, when I was there, it literally was about its sort of emergence on the sort

of public stage, as it were, but it's a different message this year. Take a listen to what the CEO of Anthropic said just earlier today.

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DARIO AMODEI, ANTHROPIC CEO: As we've built better and better models, there's been a kind of exponential relationship, not only between how much

compute you put into the model and how cognitively capable it is, but between how cognitively capable it is and how much revenue it's able to

generate.

So, our revenue has grown 10x in the last three years, from 0 to 100 million in 2023, 100 million to a billion in 2024 and 1 billion to 10

billion in 2025. And so those revenue numbers, you know, I don't know if that curve will literally continue. It would be crazy if it did, but those

numbers are starting to get, not too far from, you know, the scale of the largest companies in the world.

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ANDERSON: So, to this point, Mohamed, you've written quote, high deficits and ballooning debt will prove far less forgivable in a world where the AI

narrative is no longer loud enough to drown out lagging policies. So, do you agree with the Anthropic CEO's optimistic outlook when it comes to AI

revenue going forward?

EL-ERIAN: So I agree with him, when it comes to a few firms, a handful of firms that are working on AI, there's the bigger issue, which is working

with AI adoption, and that is proving to be uneven, and if we're not careful, it will become an economic and political and social headache,

because working with AI has two components, the easy one for companies, which is labor displacement.

You simply become more efficient by having AI do what people were doing before. But much more promising is labor enhancing you make your existing

labor force more productive. That's harder to do. You need an adoption policy, and unfortunately, we've been lagging behind because we've been so

captivated by the incredible progress that a handful of firms have been making on these foundational models.

ANDERSON: That's absolutely fascinating. It's always good to have you on thank you. It's busy. It feels chaotic out there. It's a critical time, so

important to get the sort of analysis and insight we get from you and from Nic Robertson, and indeed, from Stephen Collinson as we opened up, what is,

you know, a very busy two hours. Thank you, Mohamed.

We've got a wealth of information online about Donald Trump's demand for control of Greenland and Europe's response. CNN also taking a step back to

consider the big picture of one year in this new Trump era. Tom Foreman is exploring that in his analysis the peace president's busy year of gunboat

diplomacy.

In it, he dives into the concept of the Donroe Doctrine, the idea that the U.S. must be preeminent in the Western Hemisphere. It's worth taking a

moment to review everything that has happened in the last three weeks, as well as, of course, the last 12 months. I'm Becky Anderson.

Still to come a manhunt in Northeastern Syria after dozens of ISIS fugitives, excuse me, escape from a prison. We have a live report in that

class. We will examine a major theme that defined the first year of President Donald Trump's second term, his controversial immigration record.

That after this.

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ANDERSON: Well, a manhunt is underway in Syria after dozens of ISIS fugitives escaped from a prison in the Northeast over the weekend,

government forces wrested control of the area from the Kurdish led Syrian Democratic Forces once a key U.S. partner in the fight against ISIS.

Despite a ceasefire announced on Sunday, both sides have reported clashes, and both accuse each other releasing the prisoners. Our Senior

International Correspondent Ben Wedeman, is live from Erbil for you. And Ben at this point, is it clear what sort of numbers of escapees we're

talking about here?

BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: No, the different versions of events between the government in Damascus and the SDF, the

Syrian Democratic Forces is rather large. The Syrian Democratic Forces say that 1500 ISIS detainees were able to escape from the Shaddadi Prison,

which is south of Hasakah in Eastern Syria.

For its part, the government in Damascus, rather, the Ministry of Defense says that 120 prisoners escaped ISIS prisoners, and that 81 have been

recaptured. Now that's out of a total, according to CENTCOM, of approximately 9000 ISIS detainees that were held in more than a dozen

facilities that were managed or run by the Syrian Democratic Forces.

But given the current chaos in the region at the moment, it's not at all clear how secure those facilities are. In fact, it doesn't appear that

they're secure at all. And we've also heard that the SDF has pulled out and pulled away from Al-Hawl camp, which is east of Al-Hasakah, also in Eastern

Syria, where there are 40,000 individuals, many of them the wives and children who actually at this point, are no longer children of those ISIS

detainees.

And so, they have pulled out of that camp, the SDF, and put out a statement rather pointed toward the U.S.-led international coalition against ISIS,

which is also in Eastern Syria. This statement says, in part, due to the international indifference toward the issue of the ISIS terrorist

organization, and the failure of the international community to assume its responsibilities in addressing this serious matter, our forces were

compelled to withdraw from Al-Hawl.

So really, it seems the situation in eastern, northeastern Syria is chaotic. An agreement was reached between the SDF and the government in

Damascus, in the presence of U.S. envoy Tom Barrack, but it appears that, that agreement, which would have involved integrating the SDF, its fighters

into the Syrian army, relinquishing control of all the borders that the SDF currently holds to the government in Damascus.

It appears that agreement is in shatters, as is the ceasefire that was part of those that agreement made in Damascus on Sunday evening, Becky.

ANDERSON: Well more as we get it from Ben. Ben, appreciate it. Thank you very much indeed. To the United States now and the latest legal battle

surrounding the immigration crackdown in Minnesota. The U.S. Department of Justice asked a federal judge on Monday to reject a bid by Minnesota

leaders to block President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement policies and to allow the surge of immigration agents in the state to move forward.

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Officials in Minnesota filed their lawsuit last week and have until Thursday to file their response to the DOJ's filing. I know this sounds

complicated, but it goes on. The DOJ also appealing a separate judge's order limiting the crowd control tactics that can be used by I.C.E. agents

towards protesters in Minneapolis.

What is happening there is the latest and most high-profile example of Trump's aggressive actions against illegal immigration. A defining aspect

of course, of his second term. I want to look now at how the recent polls have reflected how the U.S. feels about this, his efforts.

52 percent of people believe the Trump Administration has gone too far in pursuit of this campaign promise. Only 31 percent a third of voters, think

Trump is right with deportation. But when you look at the breakdown by party, Trump does still have massive support from Republicans.

A majority, 54 percent of Republicans, think Trump is correct on this issue. Well, CNN's Jeff Zeleny covering all of this for us. Jeff, good to

have you. You believe it is perhaps just a year since the beginning of this second term for Donald Trump. It is the one-year anniversary January the

20th, 2026 today.

There is no doubt that Trump's immigration crackdown has been a defining aspect of his second term. Our polling suggests that his party is still

behind him, and it remains a key driver for those who support him. Can you just sort of fill us in more, if you will?

JEFF ZELENY, CNN CHIEF U.S. NATIONAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: Sure. I mean, Becky, what a decade this last year has been. Certainly, it has been a head

spinning year in many respects. And the through line to all of this, as you were just talking about the Minnesota case, is power.

I mean, what we have seen in the first year of this Trump Administration is an extraordinary use of executive authority, executive power really

stretching from immigration onward, but specifically on immigration. Yes, there is no doubt that a majority of Republicans support what the president

is doing.

But I still think those numbers are a bit striking, and here's why, only 54 percent of Republicans say he's about right. Well, that means just slightly

under 50 percent about 46 percent or so of Republicans think he's not. So, the reality here is these remains, immigration remains one of the most

controversial and questionable things he's done.

Yes, there is no doubt that closing the U.S. southern border has been dramatically popular, but there are many allies of the president who tell

me all the time that they aren't quite sure why he didn't declare success. We've closed the borders and we've moved on. If that were to be the case,

his numbers on immigration would almost certainly be far, far higher.

It is the number among independent voters that really are questioning some of these immigration tactics. The images we are seeing on the screen day in

and day out, that really is giving some people pause. We will have to wait a while to see how the politics of this all shakes out.

But many Republicans who I speak to are slightly worried that this is going to be detrimental for them, at least politically speaking, in the mid-term

election year ahead.

ANDERSON: An immigration, of course, was a massive issue during the campaign, big mandate for Donald Trump, as far as he is concerned.

ZELENY: Right.

ANDERSON: But the more or most important issue the economy to the U.S. voter. And how are people grading Donald Trump on that a year in?

ZELENY: Look on the economy, I mean, that is one of the top issues that brought him back to power, affordability and cost. And for all the

president's proclamations that the economy is hot, the U.S. economy is the hottest in the world, voters aren't seeing it. I mean, voters simply are

not seeing the economic success that they hope.

Look at those numbers right there, very good or somewhat good is 57 percent of Republican leaning voters say but very or somewhat poor. 67 percent of

all voters, that's of both parties, are saying that, look, the economy is not very good, and overall, about 6 in 10 voters say that the first year of

Trump's return to office has been a failure, largely because of the economy.

So, one of the challenges here, going forward and the burden of the president is to talk more about the economy. Of course, affordability is a

word that is used again and again, but that is something that is likely to affect him politically much more than any of the other broader issues on

his plates.

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So, as he heads to Davos, where he'll be speaking tomorrow, we're told he is going to be talking about affordability, a bit of an ironic message when

he's delivering it from a Davos. We'll see what else he says, obviously Greenland hanging over it as well. But from the economy, as the bell opens

right there.

Yes, the stock market has been doing well, but the economy overall is one of his biggest challenges heading into year two, Becky.

ANDERSON: Yeah. Well, you teed up that bell beautifully for me. Thank you, Jeff, always a pleasure. That is the bell on Wall Street. As if to

underscore those economic issues investors around the world really trying to figure out how tensions between the U.S. and Europe might play out.

Let's have a look live at the DOW for You. We'll take a break. Back after this.

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ANDERSON: Welcome back. I'm Becky Anderson in Abu Dhabi. This is our Middle East programming headquarters, and you are watching "Connect the World".

These are your headlines. U.S. Treasury Secretary is trying to downplay a looming trade war with Europe, as if braces for new U.S. tariffs over

President Donald Trump's move to acquire Greenland at the World Economic Forum in Davos, in Switzerland.

Scott Bessent described the U.S. and Europe as allies and said differences can be worked out. Well French President Emmanuel Macron spoke at Davos

last hour, warning about a shift to a rise in authoritarianism and what he calls a world without rules. He also referenced the Trump tariff threat,

calling the use of tariffs to challenge territorial sovereignty, quote, fundamentally unacceptable.

Let's have a look and see how these stocks are getting on at the open, the futures markets were indicating a drop in reaction to these tariff threats.

Wall Street then in its day at the beginning, responding significantly, it has to be said, to these flaring trade tensions between the U.S. and

Europe.

We'll keep an eye on those for you. But all these three major markets are lower. It is the streets first day back, of course, after the bank holiday,

after the U.S. stock market was closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday. Well, those numbers reflecting the uncertainty investors

are feeling at the moment at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

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CNN's Richard Quest has been talking to European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde about the perils of this unpredictable environment. Have

a listen.

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RICHARD QUEST, CNN ANCHOR, QUEST MEANS BUSINESS: We now have been thrown into the Maelstrom again, because it's not just tariffs. It's the whole

future of the transatlantic alliance, the whole future of transatlantic business.

CHRISTINE LAGARDE, EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK PRESIDENT: And what people need to know is that that business is huge. It's huge in terms of trade of goods

and services. It's big in terms of investment. It's big in terms of security and bond holdings. So, the intricacy of this link between the U.S.

and Europe is very deep.

And to jeopardize that, to put it into question, is not conducive to good business policies. And I think corporate America should be thinking about

it, but as European corporate is thinking about.

QUEST: But I guess, the issue, you know, talking here, everybody seems to think it's just sort of going to go away. Everybody seems to think it's not

a game, but it's it, people are playing out their roles. And what I question is whether something has fundamentally changed. There is no going

back. The trust has gone.

LAGARDE: I think the trust is undermined when you keep repeating the same pattern of undermining the rule of law, undermining the contract,

undermining what has been agreed between parties, then parties begin questioning, Is that for real? Is that going to change again? And that's

when uncertainty looms large.

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ANDERSON: Well, that is Christine Lagarde, and that full interview will be on "Quest Means Business" later. And before that, we will hear from Richard

himself, who is in Davos, of course, and that's in about 30 minutes time. Well, it's worth noting, AI, a major topic at Davos.

You wouldn't be surprised to hear that. And just before the World Economic Forum kicked off, the IMF made this warning, quote, reevaluation of

productivity growth, expectations about AI could lead to a decline in investment and trigger an abrupt financial market correction, spreading

from AI-linked companies to other segments and eroding household wealth.

Well, for his part, Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella has been telling Davos, you need to make AI work for society. Have a listen.

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SATYA NADELLA, CEO OF MICROSOFT: The Zeitgeist is a little bit about the admiration for AI in its abstract form or as technology. But I think we as

even a global community, have to get to a point where we are using this to do something useful that changes the outcomes of people and communities and

countries and industries.

Right otherwise, I don't think this makes much sense, right? In fact, I would say we will quickly lose even the social permission to actually take

something like energy, which is a scarce resource, and use it to generate these tokens. If these tokens are not improving health outcomes, education

outcomes, public sector efficiency, private sector competitiveness across all sectors, small and large, right? And that, to me, is ultimately the

goal.

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ANDERSON: Well, even as the world focuses on Davos, economic action in this region marches on AI, very much. Part of that it took just a couple of

hours on a special visit this week for the Leader of the UAE, for example, to seal the deal to double trade with India.

Sheik Mohammed bin Zayed admits with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Monday to boost ties. The bilateral agreement that came out of

this trip spans energy trade and defense. India will buy Liquefied Natural Gas from the UAE and a $3 billion deal making that the Emirates top

customer.

Both sides also plan to double trade to $200 billion by 2032 and launch a Strategic Defense Partnership. Well, tennis, first major of the year is

underway down under. And Naomi Osaka made sure no one could miss her arrival. More on that after this.

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ANDERSON: Two-time Australian Open Champion Naomi Osaka had the crowd buzzing down on and that was even before she struck a ball, a custom

outfit, the talk of Melbourne on Tuesday. Amanda, what do we make of this?

AMANDA DAVIES, CNN WORLD SPORT: Well, you know that saying every day is a cat walk. Naomi Osaka is embodying that. I don't think we've ever seen an

entrance onto a tennis court like it? The Australian Open her most iconic look, yeah, and I don't know whether we can bring back the pictures.

I don't know what it reminds you of, Becky. Do you want to hazard a guess what it was based on? I mean, I thought when I saw it initially, I was

like, maybe -- Apparently, it's based on jelly fish.

ANDERSON: Yes, yes, yes.

DAVIES: Jelly fish.

ANDERSON: Oh, I would never have got there --

DAVIES: No --

ANDERSON: -- way, way beyond any thoughts. I would have had.

DAVIES: There's a --

ANDERSON: -- suggesting she was getting married again. I mean I don't know.

DAVIES: No, there's a butterfly which is related to her victory in 2021 but what you have to say is, if you're going to make a statement like that.

ANDERSON: Got it.

DAVIES: You've got to back it up on court, haven't you? And she did have a little bit of a wobble in her first opening round.

ANDERSON: Yeah.

DAVIES: But she got there, she won through in three sets. So, we look forward to see what is coming in in round two, and we've got more on day

three, where both of the defending champions made their debuts in Melbourne. That is coming up in just a couple of minutes.

ANDERSON: Excellent stuff. Can't believe it's the Australian Open once again, it is that time of the year. Good to have you. Good to have the

tennis. "World Sport" is up after this short break. We are back in 15 minutes for the second hour of "Connect the World". Stay with us.

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