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BECKY ANDERSON, CNN HOST, CONNECT THE WORLD: Well, a record-breaking heat wave with deadly consequences steams through Europe. It is 03:00 p.m. in

Paris, and it's 40 degrees there. It is 05:00 p.m. in Abu Dhabi. From our Middle East programming headquarters, I'm Becky Anderson.

You're watching "Connect the World". Also coming up, America's top diplomat is in region, Marco Rubio, working to get Gulf nations on board with the

agreement the U.S. is right now trying to negotiate with Iran. And a stark intelligence warning, the next major cyber-attack could be just months

away, and it could overwhelm governments and businesses across the globe.

More on that is coming up. Well, the stock market in New York opens about 30 minutes from now, and it does look like a mixed open. Tech stocks

recovering somewhat after a couple of pretty bruising sessions for poorly timed and meaningless. That is how President Donald Trump is responding to

a U.S. Senate vote limiting his war powers in Iran, saying the vote would quote, comfort the enemy.

Four Republicans joined all but one Democrat in passing the resolution. It doesn't carry the force of law, but it is a strong rebuke to the U.S.

President, who has faced bipartisan criticism over his Memorandum of Understanding that he signed with Iran to stop the war.

Mr. Trump's top diplomat is on day two of his tour of this region, where I am. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was in the UAE, is now in Kuwait. He is

trying to sell the U.S.-Iran agreement to skeptical allies here in the Gulf. The State Department says before leaving Abu Dhabi, Rubio met with

the President of the UAE and discussed the safety of shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

We've got Alayna Treene with us this hour. She's at the White House. Eleni Giokos is in Dubai. Alayna, let's start with you. Secretary of State

Rubio's tour of this region does seem to have a very specific goal, and that is to ease concerns about this MOU. What are you hearing from the

White House at this point?

ALAYNA TREENE, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, look, that's exactly right, Becky. His goal in this three-day tour of the Gulf region is really

to ensure that allies who this White House and administration recognize are a bit wary of that Memorandum of Understanding that was signed last week.

And of course, the technical talks happening now, they recognize that many Middle Eastern allies are kind of worried about how this is all going to

play out, especially given, of course, the retaliation that they really had to face and take on throughout this entire war from Tehran.

Now, Rubio, as you mentioned on Wednesday morning, he was meeting with top Emirati officials, really again seeking to reassure them about this deal.

And what's been interesting, something I know that I'm watching for is Rubio has not really been, at least publicly, the face of this U.S.-Iran

agreement.

We've really seen the Vice President, J.D. Vance, Steve Witkoff, of course, one of the president's Middle Eastern envoys, and Jared Kushner, his son-

in-law, really take on that role, both in these private negotiations with the Iranians and mediators, but also publicly, and so there's been some

questions about what would Rubio's involvement look like.

Well, this is a key part of it. I'd also remind you that Rubio is also really taking the lead on in trying to ensure that one of the key parts of

this Memorandum of Understanding and ultimately, a final deal between the U.S. and Iran is about a permanent ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah

in Lebanon.

So that's another part of this as well, that we know he is trying to go and share what the conversations and the meetings that the U.S. has had with

these Gulf allies in the region again to ensure that they feel like they are moving forward on the right path. Now, one of the things, as well, what

we heard Rubio say when he was landing in the Middle East.

He told reporters, quote, that the disquiet on the accord would most certainly come up in these discussions. He also said that they would also

discuss issues not covered by the Memorandum of Understanding. In addition to the UAE, Becky, he's also planning to visit Kuwait and Bahrain, all

three nations, of course, host U.S. bases, very strategic bases, which is part of the reason that Rubio has selected these different locations.

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But look, we're going to have to see whether or not this is successful. I think a key thing that I know people here at the White House have been

hearing privately from these partners is, and particularly throughout the ceasefire, when negotiations were still ongoing, was that they didn't want

to be left behind in these talks.

That they didn't want the United States to move forward with major decisions on how to end this war without having their interests in mind

specifically because of the retaliation that they've had to face throughout this entire war. So, Rubio's presence there is really going to be key.

And also, of course, ensuring that they are basically on board, because part of this agreement between the U.S. and Iran does rely, in some part,

on these different Gulf partners for being involved, for working to help keep the Strait of Hormuz open, the discussions over unfreezing assets, all

of that will come into play eventually.

So, a key important thing that the administration is hoping Rubio can deliver on, Becky.

ANDERSON: It's interesting, isn't it? Eleni, let me bring you in. The UAE, of course, has been absolutely categoric about Iran's leverage of the

strait over the past what, four, five months, calling it economic terrorism period. You've been following developments in the Strait of Hormuz. What's

happening there today? What's the picture?

ELENI GIOKOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, and it's one of the biggest levers that Iran has been using, not only to inflict pain economically here in the

Gulf, but also importantly around the world. When I look at tanker traffic, and I look at vessel traffic, and when I want to show you this image that

Kpler sent me today about marine traffic over the last few days, in fact, since Monday.

And you're seeing increases that we haven't seen in quite some time. We haven't seen this kind of movement, you know, for many weeks now, and in

fact possibly since the beginning of the war, but here's the reality, and I'm looking at the numbers, on average since Friday they've been 35 vessels

transiting per day, that is a pretty good number.

If I compare that to the previous weekend where there was an average of 10 vessels per day, it's fantastic news, but the prognosis is that we'll see

incremental increases of vessel traffic in the coming days, because the Strait of Hormuz is frankly not fully open. You've got the northern route,

the Iranian route, where vessels still need to apply for a permit to transit.

You've got the U.S.-controlled route in southern parts. And maritime risk operators tell me that this has caused a lot of confusion from an

operational perspective. Keeping in mind, Becky, there were 100 vessels per day transiting pre-war levels. Are we going to return back to the Strait of

Hormuz being an international waterway?

That is the big question, and we're not seeing signals of that right now. In the meantime, the U.N. Maritime Organization says they're making plans

to evacuate 11,000 seafarers that have been trapped in the Persian Gulf since the start of the war, and that means trying to get vessels out as

quickly as possible.

In the meantime, Iran has started this hotline, they say better communication with the United States. Oman is included in that. Oman and

Iran have come up with potential mechanism for future navigation within the Strait of Hormuz. How that's going to materialize remains to be seen.

But experts that I've spoken to say they are really focused on one line in that joint statement, where it says the services that will be offered and

the costs that will be associated with that, is that bringing into question another fee, not named a toll, but some kind of fee for future navigation.

In the meantime, we're seeing major increase of Iranian-linked vessels carrying Iranian crude transiting through the strait with AIS on, because

we're seeing a waiver on Iranian oil products for the next 60 days, and of course, Iran capitalizing on this moment, Becky.

ANDERSON: Yeah, good to have you. Good to have you both. Thank you. Well, we'll do more on this as we move through the next couple of hours.

Meantime, a powerful heat wave continues to bake much of Western Europe, with France bearing the brunt of what are these extreme conditions?

France recording its hottest day ever on Tuesday. And forecasters say temperatures could be even higher today. The World Health Organization is

urging governments to treat the intense heat as a public health emergency, and it's calling for renewed global action to limit climate change.

CNN's Clare Sebastian, following this for us from London's Victoria Station, where I understand it is pretty hot as well. Just explain how

conditions are where you are.

CLARE SEBASTIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, it's definitely very warm, Becky, but I think what we're seeing here at Victoria Station, which is one of the

sorts of big London stations of transport hub, not only for the rail network in and around London and beyond, some of it taking people today to

the south coast to the beaches there, but also to Gatwick Airport.

There's a critical train there, which is currently suspended, also the London Underground.

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So, there's a lot of people trying to get places, most people are staying pretty calm, it's manageable, but there is a fair bit of disruption, and

sort of a real view into how the infrastructure in this country just really isn't prepared for this kind of heat. The rail tracks are overheating.

I've even spoken to a couple of bus drivers who are having to work through some pretty difficult conditions. Take a listen.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We've not prepared for this, not at all. Like 35 degrees, the AC is not working.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm going to finish now -- take this hour.

SEBASTIAN: Yeah.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's not easy, and I think the busses are not prepared as well.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So, these particular busses are not prepared.

SEBASTIAN: Yeah.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But they have new busses, which they are prepared already.

SEBASTIAN: OK.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Some other routes, I believe the busses are better.

SEBASTIAN: OK.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And we can drive in better conditions.

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SEBASTIAN: A little bit of hope there at the end. There has been some investment already in sort of efficient air-conditioned busses, but they're

just not widespread here. And so, these drivers are having to power through, and there's disruption that goes beyond transport.

Hundreds of schools are having to close or tell parents to pick up their kids early in this country. Some 6000 or so schools closed in France, which

has been the epicenter so far of this heat wave. And I think the biggest concern at this point, certainly from the Met Office, the weather authority

here, and the World Health Organization, is the risks to health.

It's not just the heat, it's the humidity that presents a major risk here, and that is where we're getting the warnings. People are being urged to not

travel unless they absolutely have to, to stay cool, to stay hydrated. It's a real risk, and not only, according to the UK Met Office, to those

vulnerable populations, the elderly and children that are usually most at risk here.

ANDERSON: Good to have you. Thank you very much indeed. An important story, and Clare Sebastian on it for you. Well, Britain's Keir Starmer has faced

Prime Minister's Questions or PMQs, as they are known, just days after, of course, announcing his resignation, confronted by a packed House of Commons

for his weekly question and answer session with UK lawmakers.

The outgoing PM defended his record and his finance minister against an onslaught of criticism from the Conservative opposition leader. Have a

listen.

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KEIR STARMER, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: The Chancellor and I picked up our party six years ago for the worst defeat since 1935. We turned it around

and we made it face the country and we won a landslide general election, giving them the biggest drubbing in their history.

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ANDERSON: Well, it's worth noting new MP Andy Burnham is seen as the front runner to take Mr. Starmer's place in number 10 within a month. CNN's Anna

Cooban has the very latest for you from London. And look, it looked like a very uncomfortable session for Keir Starmer, quite frankly.

I mean, you wouldn't have expected anything less. I mean, the opposition leader is pretty good at this. Take us through what happened.

ANNA COOBAN, CNN BUSINESS & ECONOMICS REPORTER: Well, Becky, understandably, he's out here now, he's not going to be prime minister is

to defend his record, and I think he did that. He really emphasized the fact that there was this landslide victory for the Labor Party just a

couple of years ago.

Now that party hasn't had many of those in its history. And then he went into the specifics. He talked about how in the first three months of the

year the economy grew by the fastest rate compared with its peers in the G7, NHS, the National Health Service wait times are down, but there is one

litmus test that he himself has used to judge the success of his own premiership in parliament, and he described it as such.

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STARMER: The test for every prime minister is handing over the country in better shape than you found it. I know I can do that, which is more than

can be said for her predecessor, her predecessor's predecessor, and her predecessor's predecessor's predecessor.

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COOBAN: So, Keir Starmer there really saying that he thinks he's left the country in a better shape than which he found it, and well, it seems that

voters in his own party maybe disagree, and there have been policy missteps, U-turns really turning off many of parts of Labor's voter base,

and clearly, they have all just lost the confidence in Starmer.

ANDERSON: Yeah, they had a real mandate for change in a landslide election not two years ago. Question is, what happens next, of course, is Andy

Burnham heading for a coronation at this point, or will he need to go through a Labor leader election process, Anna?

COOBAN: Well, he'll need to go through that election process. It's not a coronation in the literal sense of the word, but I think figuratively we

might be forgiven for thinking that, because really, he won this special election in the North of England a few days ago, so he could -- so his path

could be cleared to become the leader of the Labor Party to then become the next prime minister.

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So, he is seen by many people as the only thing stopping or in the way of there being a victory for reform this hard right party in the next general

election, but there's quite a lot of time between now and then, and a lot of time for Burnham, quite frankly, to become just as unpopular as Starmer,

and some of the challenges he faces are not insignificant.

ANDERSON: Yeah.

COOBAN: He's going to inherit a weak economy, weak productivity, and 3 trillion pounds worth of debt that's severely going to limit what he can do

in terms of spending, Becky.

ANDERSON: Absolutely. Anna, always good to have you. Thank you very much indeed. Well, a new global ranking is out. The world's most livable cities,

up next. Why Tokyo tops the list, and what rising heat means for cities in the future. Plus, an urgent warning from the world's top intelligence

agencies.

They say AI could breach governments and business defenses in only a matter of months.

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ANDERSON: Monocle is out with its annual rankings of the best cities to live in, and this year it's not just about policy or infrastructure. The

survey zeros in on cities with real urban ambition, places that are vibrant, livable, and importantly, where you can grab a decent meal and a

drink past 10:00 p.m.

It is an attempt to shift the conversation about livability away from metrics on paper and towards what genuinely moves people. Well, Tokyo at

the top of that list this year, with Copenhagen coming in second and Lisbon in third place. Well joining me now is Tyler Brule, Monocle's Editorial

Director and Founder.

He is live from Paris today, and we'll talk about where Paris stands, if at all, in those rankings. Let's start with Tokyo, though. I want you, Tyler,

if you will, to talk us through how you build these rankings and why Tokyo came out top this year.

TYLER BRULE, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR OF MONOCLE: I think the reason, Becky, you would know. And good afternoon, and good evening, by the way. People are

always fascinated over dinner tables in airline lounges, sitting across the aisle on planes, always sort of maybe looking for sort of greener pastures.

And we started this almost 20 years ago. There are, of course, some very, very famous ones out there, but they're always very expat driven, and we

wanted to maybe correct it, because sometimes you find that place that you love for life and you're going to stay there forever, and that's, I would

say, sort of really was sort of core of how we sort of looked at it.

And when we think about why Tokyo, as you said at the start, we -- you know, a city has to be safe, it has to have good medical, it has to have

all of us. I would say sort of the basics to have a sort of a friction-free life. But we looked at two things this year. Our city is ambitious, but are

they joyous?

And I say sort of joyous, that means, you know, as you said at the opening, you know, can you get a drink after 10?

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Can you get a, you know, can you get a good drink at one o'clock in the morning, can you go out and have a fantastic run, a swim at the start of

the day? All of those things were sort of factors, and of course, that means vibrant neighborhoods, and it means great infrastructure to get

between them.

It means a critical mass that you're surrounded, of course, by people who are challenging, like-minded, et cetera. That's all part of it, and that's

why Tokyo came out number one this year.

ANDERSON: So, notably, no American cities on the list. Vancouver is the only city from the Americas to make the cut. Australia has got three cities

in the top 20. London, New York, and cities from the Middle East also not making the cut. So can you just walk me through some of the thinking there.

BRULE: Listen, safety is a huge issue, so I think you know we sort of say at the start of it, look at if you are in -- you know, in a North American

city, but primarily U.S. city, it's going to ruin your day if there is sort of a major incident, and that is that -- that's just that is why the U.S.

cities get sort of knocked off of it, and some of some Canadian cities as well.

And then I think when we look at, you know, what sort of works well, a lot of it is, of course, you know, infrastructure connectivity. There's a lot

of great, you know, North American cities, Becky, but you know, they're not hubs, and I think the other sort of main thing that we look at with this

ranking as well.

ANDERSON: Got it.

BRULE: Is that, are you globally connected too? So, this is also a huge part of it. So, you could say there's a lot of cities in the U.S. Southwest

which are wonderful beyond Atlanta, but they're not globally connected either.

ANDERSON: Know, fascinating. And I would expect the cities of the Middle East to come up through these rankings pretty rapidly as we look to the

future, because much of what you've just suggested you feel here in some of these cities of the Gulf and Middle East.

You're in Paris, it's the middle of a record heat wave. I'm sorry about that. Going forward, how does --

BRULE: This is the hottest studio --

ANDERSON: -- climate fitting gone? Yeah.

BRULE: No, I just going to say no, it is. It is bloody, it's bloody hot in the studio right now, and not, we're on the top floors, you know, in your

bureau in Paris, and it is toasty.

ANDERSON: Yeah.

BRULE: And listen, I think this needs to be a new part of the ranking, actually, that when we look at, sort of, you know, heat is an issue, it

makes railway tracks buckle, it makes runways, you know, crumble and start to bubble up as well. And it's a huge issue that, of course, this continent

is dealing with right now.

I say there should be something, maybe we call it the Daikin Index, like Daikin, as in the biggest air conditioning company. You know what cities

actually understand how to sort of cool off properly.

And in many ways, actually, I think that is why a Copenhagen does well. And this fan is actually not just for effect, it is very, very warm up in this

-- in the studio right now.

ANDERSON: Sorry. I'm going to let you go in a moment. I do, though, want to get your thoughts on the following, because you're an absolute expert when

it comes to what makes a city livable. I've known you for 30 years. You've always been the best source to go to when one's thinking about where one

wants to travel for a long weekend or whatever.

So how about the following? Tyler, I've got four questions for you. Best city for a first date.

BRULE: OK, I think. Listen, I'm in, you know, number eight city right now. So, Paris ranked number eight, Becky. Really, I think hard to beat, because

you know when you think about everything that you can do here, whether it is, of course, cultural retail. Hey, listen, and also its first date, it's

a city with some good hotels as well.

ANDERSON: Got it. OK, running out of time. So just give me a city, best city for what it is, over 40 degrees.

BRULE: Best city -- is over 40 degrees. Listen, has to be a city that understands air conditioning and how to cool down. So, on that front, I

would probably say Bangkok. I think Bangkok has got to be the city.

ANDERSON: A best city for a sushi, and I mean a sushi karaoke bar.

BRULE: Oh, listen, I mean, we might have to go back to the number one city, but listen, if you find some time, Becky, I think we'd have to go to Kyoto,

or I think we would maybe end up in Fukuoka.

ANDERSON: Yeah.

BRULE: But Tokyo would be good, but I think a little Kyoto moment would be best for a sexy evening with a microphone.

Stay hydrated, love. I'm going to let you go, so you can get off that seat and take yourself and your fan off somewhere air conditioned. Thank you,

Tyler as ever.

BRULE: Thank you. Thanks Becky.

ANDERSON: Tyler Brule -- in the house for you.

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Right, let's get you up to speed on some of the other stories that are on our radar right now. And North Korea has commissioned its largest ever

warship, a 5000-ton destroyer. It is not releasing details of the ship's armaments, but it is expected to carry missiles for anti-ship and land

attack operations.

Leader Kim Jong Un says it marks a new chapter in the country's military development. Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates said he didn't witness any of

Jeffrey Epstein's crimes, but may have been in the presence of some of the sex offenders' victims. That transcript of Gates' answers in what was his

closed-door interview with lawmakers released on Tuesday, in it he insisted his three-year relationship with Epstein was strictly professional.

Clean sweep for New York's Democratic Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The three candidates he was backing for the U.S. House of Representatives just

won their congressional primaries. Mandani's show of force is a preview of battles to come as Democrats look to win control on Capitol Hill in

November's midterm elections.

Oil markets do seem to be cheering shines of more ship traffic moving through the Strait of Hormuz, but there could be another wrinkle. President

Trump thinks bulging oil reserves could explode. More on that is after this.

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ANDERSON: Welcome back. I'm Becky Anderson in Abu Dhabi. Time just before half past five here. You're watching "Connect the World". These year

headlines this hour. U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, is in Kuwait on the second stop of his tour of Gulf States.

He is trying to ease concerns in this region about the U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding to end the war. Earlier today, in Abu Dhabi, Rubio and

President of the UAE discussed the safety of shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, amongst other things. NATO Chief Mark Rutte is in Washington, D.C.

to meet with President Trump later today.

He is trying to ease tensions over the Iran war and U.S. threats to reduce troops in Europe. Before that meeting, though, Rutte will appear by video

link for talks on Ukraine with European leaders in Berlin. Well, a major heat wave has people sweltering across Western Europe, with France at the

epicenter of what is this extreme weather.

France had its hottest day ever recorded on Tuesday. Forecasters say temperatures could be even higher today.

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The extreme heat being fueled by a large area of high pressure known as a heat dome that traps hot air. Well, it's not likely to be a sizzling start

to the trading day on Wall Street. In fact, markets looking pretty mixed, I have to say, on the opening, this is the ringing of the opening bell by

Roads to Success, an organization promoting education and youth development.

So, good for them. Glad to see them ringing in the Wednesday trading day today. We are midway through the trading week, and the big board, well, you

know, pretty much not moving. It has to be said. And we will get you the picture on the NASDAQ and the S&P.

Certainly, what we are not seeing is watch that NASDAQ. I don't think it's going to say that in a second or two. I don't think that is a realistic

represent. There you go. So, that is what the markets are doing. Apologies for bringing the hubs slightly early. It does take some time for these

markets to settle down.

We are not seeing this, the same sort of tech sell-off that we've seen over the past couple of sessions, which is why the NASDAQ is in better shape

today, but it has been a bit brutal out there. Oil prices down to around pre-war levels, Brent at 73 spot 84, WTI the U.S. index at 70, so those are

significant moves.

It has to be said. I mean, given that we were as high as 125 on the international index, the Brent crude index, 107 -- 125 at one stage during

the conflict. Obviously, lots of talk about the Strait of Hormuz now. Traffic beginning to move, nothing like the sort of pre-war levels at this

point.

But the exercise in getting vessels through the strait is obviously one that is a work in progress, but there is oil moving through, and there is

certainly an indication or an expectation by investors that things are going to improve. Well, with that agreement in place to reopen the Strait

of Hormuz, and with traders hoping oil shipments from the Gulf region will return to normal.

We are seeing some shipping, with shipping not the only problem here. There is damage to facilities from the war and a pause in production, which could

cause a whole other set of issues. In fact, President Trump has been warning for months about what he calls exploding oil.

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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: When you have, you know, lines of vast amounts of oil pouring through your system, if for any

reason that line is closed, because you can't continue to put it into containers or ships, which has happened to them, they have no ships because

of the blockade.

What happens is that line explodes from within, both mechanically and in the earth.

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ANDERSON: Well, CNN's David Goldman has been looking into this. I mean, it's -- I have to say, it wasn't just Donald Trump he was warning of this

from the outset of this war, and into, you know, only halfway through the first week. I remember hearing stories about what's going to happen when

these storage facilities are maxed out.

David, what is the big picture here as far as shipping and production is concerned in the Gulf region?

DAVID GOLDMAN, CNN BUSINESS SENIOR REPORTER: Well, there's certainly a lot that needs to happen before we get the oil market back to normal. I mean,

you were talking about these oil prices, this is extraordinary. Look at this, in the U.S., oil just fell below $70 for the first time since before

the war started.

This Brent, this is the international standard that is the lowest that we've seen since before the war. So, an enormous milestone. It has to be

said that oil has now returned to levels that we hadn't seen since before Iran was attacked. That is undoubtedly good news, but to your point, there

may be some excitement happening in the market that isn't meeting the reality on the ground just yet.

And just let's talk a little bit about exploding oil, because the president said it, you heard him. He said it actually three times that oil would just

explode underground when the wells were shut in. Now, remember, the wells were shut in, in the Middle East because there was literally no place to

put it, and so they had no choice but to just turn off those spigots.

And now they're turning them back on for the first time in months, and as I've always said, oil wells are like a box of chocolates, you never know

what you're going to get when you turn them back on. And the thing that you need to remember is that lots of physics is involved with turning an oil

well back on.

You need to shoot a ton of water and gas down into the well, and that can disrupt it a little bit.

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President Trump is probably not right that there were explosions underground, although that can happen. But there is certainly a lot that we

don't know that was going on underground that can create some problems when you turn it back on, you might not get 100 percent of the production you

had before.

So, is that the only problem? Well, no, there's barnacles, there's all kinds of seed gunk that's built up on the cool coolant intake valves and

the propellers, it's really disgusting under these ships that have been anchored for a long time. All of that needs to be cleared before they can

get out. It's the law, actually, Becky.

ANDERSON: Yeah, absolutely. Always good to have you, David. Thank you very much indeed.

GOLDMAN: Thank you.

ANDERSON: Interesting times. Well, intelligence agencies from around the world are sounding the alarm about artificial intelligence. They are saying

that AI models capable of launching major cyber-attacks are evolving so quickly. They could overwhelm defenses put up by governments and businesses

not in the coming years, but within just a few months.

The so-called Five Eyes Group, which is U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, is urging governments and corporations to act right now to

improve their cyber security. CNN Tech Reporter Clare Duffy is in New York. This is a really stark warning. Tell us more about it, and who is most at

risk at this point.

CLARE DUFFY, CNN TECH REPORTER: Yeah, Becky, this is a really stark warning. Essentially, what they're saying here is it is not a matter of if,

but when AI models will become capable of launching these really damaging attacks that we are just not prepared for at this moment.

And we have heard escalating warnings of this type over the last few months. You had just a few weeks ago Anthropic's Co-founder saying that the

world should agree to a way to pause AI development if the risks get too far ahead of our ability to deal with them.

Then you had the U.S. government directing Anthropic to remove access to its most advanced models, Mythos and Fable, for foreign actors. The company

then just shut down access to those advanced models entirely. But we are seeing these growing concerns around the pace of improvement and

advancement of these AI models.

And of course, this is not just a single company problem. You have many companies that are on the frontier here, not just in the U.S., but around

the world. And you also have really non-sophisticated actors that have gained access to really advanced technologies in a way that could pose

major risks to small and medium businesses that are not prepared for this risk.

In this warning, the Five Eyes cyber security agencies said frontier AI models are anticipated to exceed current industry expectations,

fundamentally transforming both offense and defensive cyber capabilities, saying the timeline is years, it's not months. And Becky, this was not just

a warning, but it's also really a call to action.

They are asking businesses and government leaders to take action within the next couple of months before these capabilities get so advanced, doing

things like monitoring AI evolution, developing layered security protection, so doing things like upgrading old systems, patching faulty

software, and also limiting who has access to sensitive systems.

They're also urging business leaders to use AI for cyber security and not just for efficiency, like we've heard so much talk about over the last few

months, Becky.

ANDERSON: Lovely to have you. Thank you very much indeed. Clare Duffy in the house for you. And we are back after this quick break. Stay with us.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Come on, man, nil-nil. Outrageous. No shots on target, like two shots on target. Trash. How are you going to win that?

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ANDERSON: Deep disappointment for England fans, after the three lines failed to break Ghana's defense in their second World Cup appearance,

forcing them to settle for a nil-nil draw. Expectations were high in Boston following what was a thrilling opening victory against Croatia.

It's not the result England wanted, but it does place them well enough to move on to the next phase of the tournament. A game to go, though, of

course. Before that, Ronaldo, no stranger to critics, and that is an understatement. But he responded in emphatic fashion on Tuesday, making

World Cup history in Portugal's five-nil win over Uzbekistan.

Amanda Davies joining me now. I'm doing him and Messi, and we always talk about those who don't. We as use the goat, I mean, these guys are what, 39

today, Messi, 41 Ronaldo. I mean, talk about middle-aged magnificence at this World Cup. I'm loving this, aren't you?

AMANDA DAVIES, CNN WORLD SPORT: Yeah, but I mean, if England's players need any motivation, and how to bounce back from criticism? They should just

take a look at Cristiano.

ANDERSON: Yeah.

He was a man on a mission heading into this game against Uzbekistan. Yes, it was Uzbekistan, you're the first ever Central Asian team to make it to a

World Cup in their first ever World Cup finals. But he went out and knew exactly what he needed to do.

And you know, he scored 975 goals in his career now, Cristiano Ronaldo, but he hadn't scored one in 10 matches at major international tournaments for

his country. So, to say he needed a goal was an understatement, and he went better than that, he got to, and very much made his feelings known, didn't

he?

Afterwards, stepping up not only for himself but for his country. Yes, we've got more on that, and what it means for Cristiano and Portugal in

just a couple of minutes. And then, of course, we look ahead to the big one, Scotland against Brazil, party from all sides in Miami.

ANDERSON: Good stuff. More on that in "World Sports". Stay with us.

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