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EU Ministers Approve New Sanctions Against Iran; EU Expected to Place IRGC on Bloc's List of Terrorist Organizations; Putin Tells UAE President He Wants to Discuss Iran; U.S. Federal Reserve Holds Interest Rates Steady; Oil Prices Rise as Trump Ramps Up Threats Against Iran. Aired 9-9:45a ET

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BECKY ANDERSON, CNN HOST, CONNECT THE WORLD: Well, hello and welcome to what is continuing coverage of the situation in Minneapolis in the States,

here on CNN. This is "Connect the World". I'm Becky Anderson here at CNN's Middle East programming headquarters in Abu Dhabi.

We will have all the international headlines in just a moment. First, I do want to have a look at what was just said and seen in Minneapolis. The

deadly U.S. immigration crack down there has a new chief. The Trump Administration's Border Czar is on the ground, and he is taking control.

Tom Homan just held a news conference. He says he's not in Minneapolis for show, and he's vowing to, quote, regain law and order in the city.

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TOM HOMAN, TRUMP ADMINISTRATION BORDER CZAR: In my meetings with folks so far, most importantly, governor and the AG, the Mayor Frey. We didn't agree

on everything. I didn't expect to agree on anything. I've heard many people want to know why we're talking to people who they don't consider friends

administration.

Bottom line is, you can't fix problems if you don't have discussions. I didn't come to Minnesota for photo ops or headlines. You haven't seen me. I

came here to seek solutions, and that's we're going to do. And we come a long way, and we got some good wins for the people of Minnesota, I think,

and for the administration and for the safety security of this city.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

ANDERSON: Well, Reuters reporting that new internal guidance from I.C.E. is directing officers to avoid engaging with what it refers to, as agitators.

They're being told to focus on targeting undocumented immigrants with a criminal history. It would mark a stark change in the agency's tactics

after the recent killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

I want to bring in CNN's Senior National Security Analyst, Juliette Kayyem who is also a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and was

a Homeland Security Official under the Obama Administration. Based on what we just heard, Juliette, it's good to have you. What do you think I.C.E.

operations will look like under Tom Homan?

JULIETTE KAYYEM, CNN SENIOR NATIONAL SECURITY ANALYST: Well, at least from what Homan is saying, they will look different. This was a drawback. This

was a change of philosophy in Minnesota, you know, it I don't think it's from a change of heart from the White House.

I think it's because they're looking at the criticism and various other -- and the reaction by even the Republican Party. It means that I.C.E. will

change its tactics. And I want to be clear that the tactics that Homan is discussing are the tactics that most people agree with. He sorts of, you

know, said, well, we're going to do this.

That is most people would agree that an unlawful immigrant in jail should be taken out and that has been ongoing. I also think them getting off the

streets, I.C.E. getting off the streets -- is a key concession regarding this.

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I -- will say there was a politics -- the Secretary of Homeland Security was never mentioned. And I think that's telling.

ANDERSON: He was asked about Alex Pretti in this, and what did you make of how he responded to that question?

KAYYEM: So, he is taking a very different approach than Stephen Miller, the sort of, you know, the Deputy Chief of Staff, then, and sort of the

immigration lead in the White House, then Secretary Noem, the Secretary of Homeland Security. He is being quiet and letting an investigation go

forward.

I put that in quotes or air quotes, because, of course, the big fight is, why isn't there a federal investigation, a criminal investigation, that's

working with state and locals, as would be normal in any case like this, to determine whether there is culpability by the I.C.E. agents who killed Mr.

Pretti.

That has not been promised by the federal government yet. I think, unfortunately, you're going to see parallel investigations on three fronts,

the federal investigation that's being done by the very department that's being accused of aggressive tactics. A state or local investigation, and

then, of course, Pretti's family has hired lawyers they will clearly do a civil investigation or against the department.

ANDERSON: So, Tom Homan acknowledging Americans right to protest, a departure from other officials who have called the demonstrators or

protesters, agitators or rioters. Well, that change in rhetoric, and let's be quite clear about this, policy has not changed. We certainly that was

underscored by what we heard from Tom Homan today.

But there is a change in rhetoric here. Will it help at this stage?

KAYYEM: I hope so. I you know, I do worry this is a little bit of window dressing in response to the antagonist or the legitimate criticism of what

happened last weekend. There are two things here. One is, I'm going to be honest with you, Homan was not honest about what was going on the streets

of Minnesota.

He would have had our audience believe that these were targeted immigration raids, that no one else was being swept in. And we certainly know in the

weeks leading up to Pretti's killing that was not true, that these were basically street sweeps, and we -- and I.C.E. sort of admitted that under

Bovino.

So, he wasn't telling the truth about what was happening in the past. I do believe that, that there will be a draw down, that there will be a change

in tactics, because this is not sustainable, and the department knows it. What I do, again, believe was interesting from the politics of this, is

Homan talks directly to Trump, and if you want significant changes in immigration enforcement.

It will need to occur by sidelining Stephen Miller or replacing Secretary Noem. And I believe that those shoes may still yet drop as the White House

assesses how it gets, how it aligns its immigration policy with the vast majority of Americans, including Trump supporting voters.

ANDERSON: So, let's be clear about this. We've just heard from Tom Homan, who was taking over the file in Minnesota. The goal has not changed with

regard Donald Trump's policy on illegal migrants, nor has the strategy, indeed, but certainly, we've heard talk there of a change in tactics.

Stephen Miller, and you've name checked him, Deputy Chief of Staff for Donald Trump, is widely seen as the mastermind of the president's

immigration policy.

KAYYEM: Yeah.

ANDERSON: Sources says that Miller is known to call Homeland Security Chief Kristi Noem, who of course, taken a lot of heat for her handling of

Minnesota multiple times a day. What are you hearing, Juliette?

KAYYEM: Same thing. And I've been, you know, I have friends still in the department. Listen.

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Stephen Miller is now throwing, you know, this is inside politics for international viewers, but is now throwing Secretary Noem under the bus.

You are seeing because he clearly was driving a narrative that both Ms. Good and Mr. Pretti, that the two Americans who were killed were, in some

ways, domestic terrorism.

She comes out and says that she is now saying that was directed by Stephen Miller. Stephen Miller's tone now is a little bit of face saving, and I

only smile because this is his MO is that he pushes the agencies, and then when they get into trouble, he wipes his hands clean of it.

I think the White House is somewhat on to him. I thought it was interesting that Homan directly, said he reports directly to the president and not to

Stephen Miller, that the Secretary of Homeland Security is not mentioned anymore. And I do think that there is going to be an assessment.

But Stephen Miller is, you know, one, one person described him as a snake. He will try to survive his mistakes, but he has taken Trump's promise, if

you believe it, to only go after the worst of the worst, and completely flipped it on its head. If you look at immigration numbers, deportation

numbers, anywhere from 50 to 80 percent of those people have no criminal -- have no other criminal indictment.

They may be unlawful, but they're not violent, and a lot of them have been here a while. Only about 5 percent were violent criminals. So maybe people

you know had drug crimes or something else. So, Stephen Miller has pushed what Trump promised, and maybe Trump agrees with Stephen Miller, into a

realm of just immigration sweeps.

And this is what the American public, across the board, does not like. They want secure borders. They want the worst of the worst out of the country,

and then we're quite complicated about what we think about everyone else, but we don't like forced, aggressive, cruel deportations of mothers or

grandmothers of four or the father of a military service member.

And we're complicated that way. I'm willing to admit it, but this is not the way most Americans want immigration enforcement to be. Stephen Miller

has represented that aggressive, cruel strategy, and I can't say whether he survives yet another round of attempts to keep himself in the White House,

but we'll see.

ANDERSON: Yeah, nor, of course, do Americans want, as some are describing the scenes of late executions by I.C.E. officials.

KAYYEM: Yeah.

ANDERSON: Those words other people's not mine, but I mean, it's, you know, it has become a really hot topic of debate. It's good to have you. Tom

Homan was asked a question about Alex Pretti by my CNN colleague. Let's just listen to that portion of the news conference that happened just

moments ago.

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SHIMON PROKUPECZ, CNN SENIOR CRIME AND JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT: Homan, how did we get here? In terms of you had Greg Bovino, who was the face of this

immigration operation, the mission, as you say, to having Border Patrol agents in the interior of this country stopping U.S. citizens, asking them

for ID, creating this fear in places like Chicago and now here.

And then finally, it took really the death of Alex Pretti for us to get here. How did that happen? Who made the decisions to allow this kind of

operation to proceed in this way and to create such view.

HOMAN: Well, like the Border Patrol last four years Joe Biden, we have an open border, or 10, 12,000 people a day to come across the border. Border

to get overwhelmed, which means we send thousands of I.C.E. agents down there to help deal with a humanitarian crisis, to help secure the border.

Now we have millions of people released in this nation, many unvetted. Now, we got to find them before the big, beautiful bill, we had a total just

under 5000 deportation officers to look for millions of people, many in public safety threats. So yes, we needed more patrol to come and help on

our mission now.

And reason for a massive deployment is because of the stress, because of the violence our officers need protected. If I'm operational arrest team,

I'm going to a house, I got to be busy with that guy, the dangerous guy, and I can't keep looking on my shoulder what's happening outside the house.

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So, we brought extra resources in to provide that security. And as I said, as we drill down on these great agreements, we got this great understanding

we have means less. So, we can draw down those resources. When the violence decreases, we can draw down those resources, but based on the discussions

I've had with the governor and the AG, we can start drawing down those resources.

As far as those looking for public safety choice being released and do it in the jail with much less people. So, the draw down is going to happen

based on these agreements, where the draw down can happen even more if the hateful rhetoric and the -- will stop. So, border show I was a border --

These men and women were patriots. God bless them. They're here to help us. And the draw down will come soon, depending on when this actually, I see

this in play, but the agreements have alone, it's going to cause a significant drawdown. So, you can see a draw down.

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ANDERSON: That's Tom Homan speaking just moments ago at a press conference there in Minnesota. My next guest is CNN Politics Senior Reporter Stephen

Collinson. If you are a regular viewer of this show, you will know Stephen in his latest for CNN, Stephen writes, and I quote here, what happens now

in Minnesota depends on whether President Donald Trump concludes he simply has an optics problem, or whether he's ready to change unpopular

deportation policies that are central to his political identity.

Well Stephen joining me now live from Washington. What do you then make of what we have just heard from Tom Homan with regard your article there and

your words?

STEPHEN COLLINSON, CNN POLITICS SENIOR REPORTER: I think that Homan there is staging a tactical political retreat, but it remains unclear, in a

nationwide sense, at least, whether the president is willing to moderate his immigration policies. Clearly, it's become politically unsustainable

after the two shootings of American citizens for this type of policy to be implemented in Minnesota with this level of federal personnel.

And that when he talks about drawing down, I think you're going to see less of a presence. Now, the issue, however, that's underlying all this has not

gone away, and that's that the federal government, the Trump Administration, wants to impose what it sees as immigration law on

democratic states who are unwilling to work with the government for broad sweeps.

What Americans were worried about was not necessarily agents going to the homes of dangerous people, as described by Homan. It was the sweeps that

were taking place on the streets people just being picked up when they were dropping their kids off at school.

American citizens of minority descent who were being asked for their papers on the streets in a violation of their constitutional rights, it was

military style assaults on buildings like the one in Chicago a few months ago. That's what made this unpalatable to many Americans.

So, has the Trump Administration decided that it will no longer try and impose its power in the states run by Democrats to deport any undocumented

migrant? Or is it stepping back here, and then we could see this emerging again in another city in New York, for instance, or somewhere else?

ANDERSON: Yeah, I have to say, What I heard was no shift in policy, no shift even in strategy, but a shift there in tactics, which I -- you know,

I guess, begs the question, what happens next? Like, where do we go from here, Stephen?

COLLINSON: Yeah, and I think that is the issue. You could see this move on from Minnesota. Clearly, there is intense pressure on the White House from

Republicans in Washington to stop this. Where Homan was complaining about the rhetoric, he basically argued that the people who were killed, Renee

Good and Alex Pretti, died because of rhetoric from Democratic politicians, which he said, therefore raised the temperature that it seems to me,

absolving the federal officers for their actions.

It wasn't just simply a consequence of protests that these people were killed. It was much more to do the aggressive tactics that were imposed by

the Department of Homeland Security.

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So that's why I think that we need to look very carefully to see whether the policy has really changed what may not be sustainable anymore in

Minnesota could be much more sustainable, at least to begin with slightly different tactics in another American city that is run by Democrats, where

there are a lot of undocumented migrants.

So perhaps this episode is cooling to some extent, although I don't think it would take very much for it all to blow up again in a few weeks. But the

underlying issue of immigration is not solved, but the political pressure could, as it did in the first term, force Trump and his allies to step back

and at least try to do it in a less public and inflammatory way.

ANDERSON: Yeah, it's always good to have you, Stephen. Thank you very much indeed.

COLLINSON: Thanks.

ANDERSON: Stephen Collinson is in Washington view. All right, still to come here on CNN. European officials approved new sanctions against Tehran

targeting those responsible for the deadly crackdown on protesters. More on "Connect the World" with me Becky Anderson, after this short break. Stay

with us.

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ANDERSON: Well, European officials in Brussels have approved new sanctions against Iran. Now these target those responsible for the deadly crackdown

on protesters. Reuters reporting, European Ministers are also expected to place Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or the IRGC on the blocks

list of terrorist organizations. Here's more.

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JEAN-NOEL BARROT, FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER: The extraordinary courage of the Iranian women and men who have been targeted by this violence cannot be in

vain. That is why we will today impose European sanctions against those responsible for this repression, government officials, prosecutors, police

unit chiefs, members of the Revolutionary Guard Corps and those responsible for blocking the internet.

More than 20 individuals and entities will have their assets frozen and will be banned from entering European territory.

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ANDERSON: Well meantime, tensions between the United States and Iran are soaring to new levels. Iranian state media reports that Tehran has added

1000 strategic drones to its military stockpile. That move, according to one top Iranian general, was made due to the threats of U.S. military

action against Iran by President Donald Trump if Tehran doesn't sign a nuclear deal.

I want to show you an interview CNN's Fred Pleitgen conducted with Iran speaker of parliament about Tehran's escalating tensions with Washington.

And we must note, CNN is reporting from Tehran this week, operating only with the government's permission. Take a look.

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MOHAMMAD BAGHAR GHALIBAF, IRANIAN PARLIAMENT SPEAKER: How can we given all these actions and reactions again, trust President Trump.

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FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Are you still willing to negotiate with the Trump Administration.

GHALIBAF: If there is genuine talk to reach a deal within the framework of international regulations, then yes, but that's not the kind of talk the

U.S. President is after. He just wants to impose his will on others. He ripped up the JCPOA and threw it in the bin two days before the new round

of talks.

He torpedoed the talks by giving the green light to Israel to attack Iran. In my opinion, if Trump is really honest and telling the truth and seeking

peace and wants to have the Nobel Peace Prize. He needs to go toward real peace, and his first action must be to get free of the war mongers and

those seeking Iran submission.

The whole world knows that even the people of the U.S. that negotiating under the threat of war won't solve anything.

PLEITGEN: The United States says it's building up these forces because it's reacting to the mass killing of protesters during the recent protests that

happened here in Iran by Iranian security forces. What is your response to that?

GHALIBAF: In just two days of skirmishes, they martyred close to 300 security officers with weapons. This behavior, as I described, was a scheme

that was entirely designed outside the country in order to try and carry out a terrorist pseudo coup. These crimes need to be prosecuted and will be

pursued inside the country, and legal procedures will take place.

We will never back down from seeking revenge for the blood and pursuing different aspects of this crime. We do not deny the issue that certainly

part of the economic issues could be and are a result of weak management. Where is the main root of these economic pressures?

They are only the tyrannical pressures which U.S. sanctions have imposed on our nation.

PLEITGEN: President Trump was threatened massive force if no agreement is reached. What do you think that that would mean for Iran and what would

that mean for the region?

GHALIBAF: Maybe Mr. Trump can start a war, but he doesn't have control over the end. Thousands of American soldiers who are being deployed several

thousands of kilometers from home are definitely going to be harmed, which is not a good thing. The Iranian nation throughout history, has shown that

it will never submit to foreigners.

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ANDERSON: And Fred Pleitgen reporting from Tehran this week for you. Let's turn now to Capitol Hill, where U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio made a

starting admission on Wednesday about Iran's future. He told lawmakers that no one knows who would be next in line to lead Iran if Supreme Leader,

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was removed from power.

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MARCO RUBIO, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: I don't think anyone can give you a simple answer as to what happens next Iran if the supreme leader and the

regime were to fall other than the hope that there would be some ability to have somebody within their systems that you could work towards a similar

transition.

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ANDERSON: Well, Rubio also acknowledged that the potential change in leadership in Iran would be a far more complex situation than that of

Venezuela. Well, Russian President Vladimir Putin is hosting his counterpart from the United Arab Emirates at the Kremlin today.

Putin told President Mohammed bin Zayed he is closely monitoring the situation in Iran. Moscow has said any use of force against Tehran could

lead to chaos in the region. Putin's meeting with the UAE President comes on the heels of peace talks between Russia, Ukraine and the U.S. held in

Abu Dhabi here last weekend.

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The second round of negotiations is set to take place in Abu Dhabi on Sunday. Well, coming up, the fed held interest rates steady. The dollar is

dropping, gold and silver soaring. A lot to work through in the financial markets today. Stock market set to open that bell in New York being rung

today by John Borthwick, CEO of Betaworks. More on the financial markets after this.

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ANDERSON: Well, you heard the opening bell on Wall Street just before the break. And I want to get a view on where stocks are headed. It was a very

mixed session in the futures markets, and pretty much the same story here as far as see DOW the NASDAQ and the S&P are concerned.

That's the story as far as the equiti markets that are concerned in New York. I've got Noureldeen Al-Hammoury joining me now in the studio. He is

the Chief Global Market Strategist at the Equiti Group. And it's really good to have you here with us today. Thank you very much indeed for joining

me.

NOURELDEEN ALHAMMOURY, CHIEF GLOBAL MARKET STRATEGIST AT THE EQUITI GROUP: Thank you --

ANDERSON: I really want to step back and try and understand more about what is going on with rates in the U.S. Obviously, that has a knock-on effect on

the dollar, but I think there's more going on than just a rate move as far as the U.S. dollar is concerned. And what's going on with regard gold,

silver and oil?

So, let's start with the fed. It held the line against the White House effectively.

ALHAMMOURY: Yeah.

ANDERSON: I think we can honestly say that yesterday, keeping rates steady. Statement pointed to a low job's gains and elevated inflation. They did

note it. They noted that employment and the unemployment rate had actually shown signs of stabilization. What's your view on the fed and where

interest rates ahead in the U.S.?

ALHAMMOURY: I mean, it was very obvious that the Federal Reserve will take a pause. This is after basically three times of cutting rates in September.

At the same time, you still have all the uncertainty regarding tariffs, but at the same time geopolitical tensions is still ongoing.

At the same time all the policies this administration, or the U.S. Administration has done is still needs more time to basically materialize.

A deficit is still high. Rates are still high. If you look at the bond yields, also one of the most important things that we're watching is that

the bond market is not reacting with how the Federal Reserve basically moved.

ANDERSON: Yeah.

ALHAMMOURY: Usually, when you expect, when the Federal Reserve basically cut rates by 75 business points in three meetings, you would expect the

yield curve to basically, kind of just ease back down.

ANDERSON: Yeah.

ALHAMMOURY: But so far, if you look at the 10-year yields today, it's basically for 25.

ANDERSON: Yeah, it is fascinating. Isn't it?

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ALHAMMOURY: So, it is basically -- it's despite what the Federal Reserve trying to do, which I think they succeeded with stabilizing the markets,

trying as much as possible to keep things calm, but they still need more data.

ANDERSON: Yeah.

ALHAMMOURY: And data is not there because of what happened in the government shutdown, which basically put a dent on the data set.

ANDERSON: We've seen quite a significant drop in the dollar. What do you put that down to?

ALHAMMOURY: The decline in the dollar, first of all, one of the most important things is basically, it's more like of a future expectation, not

what is basically happening. Now, it's always that the market will always price in the future, the future in advance.

Now the question would be, what is the worst-case scenario, if also it's not always good for Trump Administration right now, he's looking for a

weaker dollar. But on the other hand, he's saying, look, we need a strong dollar too. Weaker dollar would -- maybe we inflate inflation.

ANDERSON: Yeah.

ALHAMMOURY: And this is going to be against what the Federal Reserve wants to do, which basically to cut rates orderly and to keep on holding the

prices or price balance. Now for how long this is going to continue? I don't think so, for a long time, because this would basically inflate

inflation from one time, from one side, and also would complicate the debt issue.

ANDERSON: What we are seeing in the gold markets might often be explained away by just a flight to safety at a time of sort of uncertainty and

instability. You say it's more than that.

ALHAMMOURY: I mean, when you see everything going up except the dollar, this is a situation that you don't want to see at any given time, but at

the same time, I mean, you have a lot of from one side you have flight of safety. You have geopolitical tensions. Everybody is talking about a

possible confrontation or a strike on Iran.

You have also even oil today, despite the fact that a few days ago, the Trump Administration announced that there will be a new 300,000 barrels

from Venezuela that did not even cap the prices from going down.

ANDERSON: And it's really fascinating, because we have seen a push on the oil prices. We've seen them as high as 70, by the way, that's in that high

since.

ALHAMMOURY: Yeah.

ANDERSON: And what's so interesting is, you know, I've been following these markets for 35 years now. So, I've probably forgotten more than most people

know. And what I do, you know, what is very familiar to me is any talk of war or any instability in this region, and prices go high, except that, and

we are seeing that today.

We haven't seen that actually, as a trend over the past couple of years, and we've had a lot of fears about what happens in this region. Do you

still -- do you see these numbers continuing to push at this point?

ALHAMMOURY: If the situation continues this way, the Trump's Administration policy continues this way, which means, I mean, one of the most important

things, also, everybody is saying that, or the general consensus saying, you know, inflation will pass because it's just one thing, and it's going

to pass after these tariffs.

But can we actually guarantee that there's no more tariffs coming in? It's almost impossible, because every single day, we wake up on a new

announcement by the president --

ANDERSON: I want to take advantage of you being here and based here in this region, because of times on this time of the day, on this show, we go, sort

of, you know, to London or to New York. Fantastic to have you here doing the job that you are doing here, in your position as global strategist.

ALHAMMOURY: Thank you.

ANDERSON: With your sort of Gulf based view, what are you watching as we move through this first quarter and into the second quarter of this year?

ALHAMMOURY: The most important thing is definitely geopolitical tensions. We need more of a de-escalation, because markets don't like uncertainty,

whether if it's a local market or we're talking about global markets. Despite that, so far, we're still seeing that stabilization, because maybe

the general consensus has a little bit of optimism that this war might not actually happen, or it might be limited and might pass in very quickly.

That's from one side, the other side, also that this region over the past, let's say over the past 10 years, it basically proved that it is definitely

a hub for the financial markets. And it's actually pouring in again, if you look at Saudi Arabia now, on the first of February, they opened their

markets to everybody.

ANDERSON: Yeah.

ALHAMMOURY: It's not going to be like just basically for a selective, selective sector. So, from that, the safety that we're seeing in the

region, that's, I think it's going to help it even more going forward, even if the war basically --

ANDERSON: Short term, there is some -- Yeah --

ALHAMMOURY: Yeah. It's a short-term -- but long term, so positive.

ANDERSON: -- It's good to have you. Thank you very much indeed.

ALHAMMOURY: Thank you for having me.

ANDERSON: My guest here will be well aware that we sit here at the in the Gulf, at the center of you know, how we see, you know, capital, trade and

energy connecting, and that is -- it's a fascinating story here. Thank you.

ALHAMMOURY: True.

ANDERSON: Well, just when you thought football had delivered all it could. A last second ahead of from an unlikely source secures Champions League

qualification for at least this one keeper and his team more than that's coming up.

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ANDERSON: Well, the final night of Champions League phase of the Champions League phase concluded last night, and it had it all. Amanda Davies joining

me from London. Are you recovered? I mean, I watched some amazing games last night. This topped it all.

AMANDA DAVIES, CNN WORLD SPORT: It did. This is exactly why this Champions League, league phase was built as it is, to have a night like that. 18

matches all kicking off at the same time for that, those top eight automatic qualification places. But this is Jose Mourinho in days gone by,

isn't it?

The epic celebration after yes, his goalkeeper, no less, in the 97th minute, scored the decisive goal that gave them the goal difference they

needed to go through to the playoffs at the expense of Mourinho's, former club, Real Madrid. Just one of the talking points, and we've got so much

more coming up in just a couple of minutes, Becky.

ANDERSON: Right. Amazing. I have to say, it was quite a joy to see Jose Mourinho last night responding as you did, it's a bit of a throwback, isn't

it? More from Amanda after this.

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