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Flight to Tel Aviv Diverts to Saudi Arabia After "Violent Incident"; Flight Descended 5,300 Meters in Two Minutes; Bloodied Passenger on Flydubai Flight Appealed for Help; Israeli Sources Suspect Co-pilot Was Trying to Hijack Plane; Premier League Finds Man City Guilty of Financial Breaches. Aired 9-10a ET

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BECKY ANDERSON, CNN HOST, CONNECT THE WORLD: Well, a live look at Ben Gurion Airport, a Flydubai flight bound for Tel Aviv is forced to make an

emergency landing in what Israeli sources say may be an attempted terror attack. Going to get you the very latest. It is 04:00 p.m. there in Tel

Aviv.

It is 05:00 p.m. here in Abu Dhabi from our Middle East Broadcasting headquarters. I'm Becky Anderson. You're watching "Connect the World". Also

coming up this hour, President Trump and some of the biggest names in U.S. AI signed a voluntary safety pact.

Can Big Tech be trusted to police itself? And high school students across France protest over large class sizes and not enough teachers. I'm going to

get you live in Paris for an update. We're about 30 minutes away from the start of trade on Wall Street, and it does look as if we're going to get a

relatively flat, a slightly stronger open.

We've got some key U.S. data releases still to come this week. More on that in 30 minutes. Right, I want to start with new details on a terrifying

episode aboard a plane bound from Dubai to Tel Aviv. Two Israeli sources telling CNN they suspect the co-pilot was trying to hijack that plane after

stabbing the captain.

The Flydubai flight descended 5300 meters in just two minutes, then transmitted at least one emergency signal that sent Israeli fighter jets

scrambling. Eleni Giokos in Dubai following the story for us. Eleni, a lot of new information coming in, quite confusing to begin with in the first

few hours as we learnt about this flight landing in Saudi.

What more are we hearing about the incident at this point, and indeed the condition of the pilots?

ELENI GIOKOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: You're right to say. I mean, over the last few hours, we've been getting more and more information about this

harrowing incident involving a Flydubai flight that took off from Dubai this morning and then headed to Israel, to Tel Aviv, to Ben Gurion Airport.

Now, Israeli sources say that a fight, an altercation that turned violent between the pilots ensued, and we also this is one of the most dramatic

things, and you can see it on flight radar data, and it shows just the dramatic descent of this plane from around 34,000 feet, Becky, to 16,600

feet.

That is an enormous drop, and it just shows how dramatic it must have been on the plane as well. I spoke to an aviation expert from Osprey a little

earlier, and he said that kind of drop in two minutes could cause severe injury. Now, Flydubai, for their part, have not said it was a violent

incident between the pilots.

They say an incident occurred, and they say that everybody's safe and accounted for. Now, the plane takes a route. You can see on your screen

there. Eventually, lands in Saudi Arabia in Tabuk. So, the passengers are there now. We're starting to hear a little bit more about what the

passengers experience.

And I want you to listen to a mother that was expecting her child to arrive in Tel Aviv. Take a listen to her account.

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YASMINN ABUKASIS, DAUGHTER WAS ON FLYDUBAI FLIGHT: The plane starts to lose control, so all the people, they scream, the things they are going. After a

few minutes, two other pilots they took the -- the control. And few Israeli, they run away to the guy, he took a knife and tried to kill the

pilot.

They take his hand and put him on the floor. There was a lot of blood around.

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GIOKOS: So, this is important, Becky, because there are accounts of altercation in the cockpit. Eventually, the pilot and the co-pilot come

out. They are covered in blood, from what we understand in terms of accounts. Israeli sources and officials say that the co-pilot stabbed the

pilot.

More information again from Israeli sources and officials that the co-pilot was Omani, which is important.

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And then this, perhaps one of the most important developments, is that the Israeli government is viewing this as an attempt at terror attack. We're

waiting to hear more of this because what is important here is how this all transpired. What happened in those two minutes when the plane plummeted by

17,400 feet.

And then of course eventually landing after it released an emergency signal that prompted the Israeli government to get into a security meeting with

cabinet. Jet fighters from Israel were then scrambled. So, a lot happening around this story. But here is the point, you've got these passengers that

are currently in Tabuk.

We know there's a lot of effort right now to get them into Israel, and Israel says that they're considering sending a military plane or a

passenger plane to get people home.

ANDERSON: Understood. All right, Eleni, thank you. I want to get you to the daughter of a passenger on that plane. Noa Shpigel is also a reporter for

the Israeli newspaper "Haaretz". Noa, it's good to have you. Thank you for giving us your time. First, I've got to ask, how is your mum?

NOA SHPIGEL, HAARETZ REPORTER: Thank you, Becky. My mum is -- she sounds all right. We spoke with her a few times since the morning, and she sounds

all right.

ANDERSON: So, what -- well, I'm glad to hear that. What she told you about what happened on the flight?

SHPIGEL: Well, I just going to say she was traveling to Nepal. She was there for two weeks with a friend, and she was supposed to fly from Nepal

to Dubai, and from there to Tel Aviv. We spoke with her last night when she flew -- when she was in the airport in Kathmandu, and we catch her this

morning.

I've understood quite quick that it's the same flight by the flight number. She said --

ANDERSON: Oh, I think -- nervous --

SHPIGEL: -- in the air, and then it starts diving down very quick.

ANDERSON: I got you back.

SHPIGEL: You hear me well?

ANDERSON: Sorry, Noa. Can you just repeat what you've learned about what she told you about the flight? We just lost your microphone.

SHPIGEL: Yes. So, she said that the airplane was kind of start jumping in the air and then it starts diving very quick to the ground. And she said

she it was stressful, but she felt that somehow that everything going to be OK. You know, my mom is not a very young girl.

She has experience. So, she wasn't very stressful. She said that they actually saw something that looked like a terror attack. That someone was

trying to stop the pilot and the co-pilot, and there were a bunch of young Israeli guys in the front of the airplane, and they were the one who

actually jumped into the corner and took control over the guy who started - - who was trying to stop the pilots.

ANDERSON: Right.

SHPIGEL: She said those Israeli guys actually save the situation, and after that, they start to land the airplane safely.

ANDERSON: Right. So, Noa, what is it? Did she describe what it was that made her describe this as it feeling like a terror attack?

SHPIGEL: I think the situation because you know in Israel usually when you see people with taking the knife and start to stab, we assume that it's a

terror attack. You know we have our background, but she said it felt like a terror attack. We still don't know actually what was happening.

No one actually was talking to us, and we got no, you know, like information. So, we're still waiting to know, you know, what was really

happened there, but it's very, very stressful --

ANDERSON: And you're a journalist yourself, yeah. I mean, very stressful, very stressful. You're a journalist yourself, of course.

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You will be, and your colleagues will be, I'm sure, gathering sort of testimony and accounts from other passengers as well as you'll be aware,

Israeli officials are telling CNN that this may have been an attempted terror attack. Is there anything that you and your colleagues have gathered

from any of these accounts that can shed light on the very specific terror aspect of this situation and what the motive may have been?

SHPIGEL: I don't actually know. You know, we didn't get details, confirmed details. I am a journalist, but I usually, you know, in daily life, I'm

cover politics. We've got an election in a month, so I'm in the political area.

ANDERSON: Understood. Got it. All right.

SHPIGEL: -- I didn't get any information by you know by sources from the country. As a journalist, we also understand that it might be something

that connected to a terror, but still, we don't know yet the details.

ANDERSON: Understood. Listen, Noa, it's a busy time on the at the best of times for you. You're right. You're a month out from the Israeli elections.

I'm really pleased to hear your mum is OK. Stressful and traumatic as this experience must have been, but that's good to hear.

And it's really, we very much appreciate you spending some time with us today. Thank you very much indeed. Folks, we are seeing video from inside

that plane with a blooded passenger appealing for help. I want you to have a look at this and to hear what we can hear.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We are here on the plane right now. We have taken control of the terrorists. We are about to land. Anyone who hears me, we

need help. We are landing in Tabuk, probably in the Saudi Arabia area, an unknown and unfamiliar area. Everyone on the plane is healthy and whole

except for the pilot. We need help.

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ANDERSON: I want to bring in CNN's Jeremy Diamond in Jerusalem, and you will have seen that video. Jeremy, what's been reaction there? And what

more are you learning about what happened in the air over Saudi Arabia this morning?

JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN JERUSALEM CORRESPONDENT: Well, Becky, we've just spoken to two Israeli sources who say that they currently suspect that the co-

pilot of this Flydubai flight was trying to hijack the plane after initially stabbing the captain in the cockpit.

That is, of course, what led to this dramatic nosedive, more than 17,000 feet in just two minutes. A terrifying moment for the passengers aboard

that plane, who initially had no idea, it seems, what was happening in the cockpit that led to all of that. But at some point, it appears that the

door to the cockpit was opened, and passengers were able to subdue the co- pilot, who was the apparent assailant in this case and the would-be hijacker of this flight. Now, a lot is still unknown.

What the intention of that co-pilot was, what his motivations were, but Israeli officials are telling us right now that they are investigating this

incident as an attempted terrorist attack. But again, so much, very much still unknown. Beyond that, what we are gathering is testimony from

passengers aboard that flight who described again the terrifying nosedive that the plane made, the sounds of people screaming, and then the cockpit

opening and passengers seeing both pilots bloodied in the aftermath of that stabbing attempt here.

We know as well from Saudi authorities that both the pilot and the co-pilot are have been taken to hospital with injuries. We have not yet gotten any

reports of any additional injuries aboard the flight. We did see images of at least one passenger who was bloodied in the aftermath of all of this,

but no indication that, that was his blood.

So, a very complicated incident, and clearly also, you know, the bravery of the passengers on board that seemed to have prevented this incident from

being something that could have been far, far worse, Becky.

ANDERSON: Yeah. Well, we continue to follow this, talking to our sources. The reporting will be available, of course, here on TV and on our digital

platforms. Jeremy, for the time being, thank you.

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All right. More on that as we get it. A voluntary safety pact, talk of self-policing. Well, I'm talking about artificial intelligence at a big AI

meeting at the White House. Leaders of OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google, Nvidia all made their way to Tuesday's meeting with President Donald Trump.

The president says they signed a new commitment aimed at self-policing their AI models more vigilantly, he says. Have a listen.

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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: It's almost like a constitution in a way, and the biggest people in the world signed that, and

I signed it as president, and it really is a form of protection.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Is this accord that everybody signed, is it binding in any way?

TRUMP: I think it's morally binding. Yeah.

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ANDERSON: Well, Shelly Palmer is Professor of Advanced Media at Syracuse University, regular guest on this show, and I'm happy to say he joins us

now from New York. Donald Trump, there, Shelly, and thanks for joining us. Saying he is seeing quote, tremendous self-policing in AI.

There are laws against hacking to government websites and companies, but no accountability out of these rogue events, these incidents that we have been

reporting now for weeks. What do you make, firstly, of what you've heard coming out of that meeting?

SHELLY PALMER, CEO OF PALMER GROUP: Well, first of all, I think the media has done everybody a disservice because this has been sensationalized to a

point of insanity. And when you say go rogue, you are missing the actual technical definition of what happened because it's a much better headline.

To be fair and frank, rather than give everybody a technology lesson, I'll just say that the frontier model builders who were in the room at the White

House are the only people who can throttle up or throttle down the pace of innovation, and they're the only people who can protect us against the

product.

They're building a product. They have product liability. They've just basically said, OK, we'll police this voluntarily. There's nothing that a

government can do that's going to protect from the things people are afraid of. These are the frontier builders. They are for the most part building

for pay models that you and I need to subscribe to.

ANDERSON: Really?

PALMER: They're not building the open weight, open-source models that will end up on a server in a hostile nation state and go rogue because someone

will have programmed them to do so. So, we have to be very careful when we say AI is going to do something. We have to be very careful about who is

made that AI and where it's going to come from.

ANDERSON: Yeah -- and I do understand, and I sympathize with your sort of you know sense of frustration in the way that this story has been

described, perhaps. And I use the word rogue because you know there are technical terms here. Misaligned, for example, these models, these agents,

you know, there's a lot of really technical jargon that, frankly, you know, people around the world who have a right to understand what's going on

because AI will have a massive impact on their lives.

But the language around this, the understanding around these models and what's being done in development is very, very difficult to understand,

which is why we rely on people who do understand these things to come on and explain them.

PALMER: No, actually, no --

ANDERSON: Of course, you know.

PALMER: It's actually quite simple. It's actually very, quite simple.

ANDERSON: Go ahead.

PALMER: There are some things that are terrifying about AI. There really are. We don't know what this technology is going to do to society? That is

a valid argument. We're sharing the planet with an alien intelligence for the first time in human history, and nobody can predict what that means.

Not the foundational builders, not the open weight or open-source builders. Nobody knows what this is going to do to our societies, to our economies.

And if that was the argument, I would and I am heartily behind that. What I am averse to, is when someone sensationalizes the kind of experimentation

that worked.

They realized what happened. They were testing models, models that were unreleased. These are not models that are out in the wild. The models

didn't go rogue. They're building what's known as agents, and agents' English language definition an agent works on your behalf.

It has agency on your behalf. These agents have exhibited some really unusual tendencies, and everyone's trying to understand them. But the

danger is people, not rogue models. The danger is when we use these, when bad actors use good tools, bad things happen.

ANDERSON: Right. So --

PALMER: So, look, I'm very happy that the president got this signed. I'm very happy that everybody volunteered. But it's kind of its politics and

it's theater. It's there's nothing real happening here.

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ANDERSON: That's kind of where I wanted to get to, and thank you. And listen, you know, it's always good to have you on because you know if we

need to kind of you know course correct on some of these conversations, it's important that people like you help us do that, Shelly.

Good to have you. Thank you very much indeed. All right, still to come, protests are heating up in France with students blockading schools and

setting fires. We're going to take a closer look at that, after this.

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ANDERSON: Protests are growing in France with students blockading dozens of high schools and public sector workers walking off the job over planned

budget cuts. Now student protesters set fire to bins outside a high school in Lille earlier today as school blockades continue.

Let me tell you why. This is over a lack of resources, according to CNN Affiliate BFMTV. Public sector workers also angry over the government's

plan to freeze their base pay. They say they are already struggling to keep up with the rising cost of living. These protests come as the government

prepares to unveil its 2027 budget on Thursday.

CNN's Melissa Bell joining me now. And Melissa, we're talking about high school students here protesting. We're talking about public sector workers.

How significant is the action that we are seeing, sort of across the divide, as it were, ahead of this budget?

MELISSA BELL, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, look, we spoke yesterday, Becky, from that protest that involved public sector workers

marching through the streets of Paris, a nationwide strike, because of that issue that they have about the fact that the government will not raise

their salaries in next year's budget.

But alongside that, and preceding that, and apparently continuing on after that, are these protests like at this one at this school in Saint-Denis,

which is the north of Paris. And you've seen those pictures from so many of the schools. Very dramatic. It's been spreading. It's been growing in

violence.

It's been growing in a kind of chaos that we're seeing outside of some of these blockades. And what the students are asking for is better resources.

They're complaining about funding, overcrowding, what they have to work with, they say inside their schools, and that's something that's being fed

over the last few months on social media, with students complaining about what was at their disposal.

That really flared up over the course of the last week, and in particular at this school, where you saw students protesting. We just spoke to a

teacher here who's protesting alongside them, but also the Mayor of Saint- Denis, who is of the far left LFI party out here supporting the students.

This has now taken on a very political turn, with the government accusing the far-left party of fanning the flames of this protest, the far left

insisting on the students' right to protest and on the fact that they will continue to back them.

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I think what's important here, Becky, is that we are heading into this election race for 2027. All of the parties are vying for air time, for

debates to seize on ahead of that election. And what you're likely to see, even beyond the question of the 2027 budget and whether the French Prime

Minister manages to get it through, is a lot more tension around these kinds of protests as a result of that, Becky.

ANDERSON: Good to have you. Thank you, Melissa. Right up next on "Connect the World", the start of the training day, and your business news headlines

are coming up. Stay with us.

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ANDERSON: Welcome back. I'm Becky Anderson in Abu Dhabi. You are watching "Connect the World". Here's your headlines this hour. Two Israeli sources

tell CNN they suspect that the co-pilot of a flight from Dubai bound for Tel Aviv was trying to hijack that plane earlier today after stabbing the

captain.

The co-pilot was eventually restrained, and the Flydubai plane landed safely in Saudi Arabia. It was diverted there. Both pilots reportedly taken

to hospital locally with injuries. Well, a new White House agreement puts the responsibility of regulating artificial intelligence in the hands of

the companies that make the AI models.

Some of AI's top leaders joined President Trump on Tuesday to sign a voluntary agreement vowing to better self-police the advanced tech. British

media report that one of the five terror probe suspects detained over the weekend called police before his arrest, and that the call came in before a

tip from a local farmer about suspicious activity near an air base used by the U.S.

No explosives were found on the scene. I want to get you back to our breaking news here in the Gulf region. The Flydubai plane from Tel Aviv

that had to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia earlier today. Matthew Borie joins us now. He's the Chief Intelligence Officer for Osprey

Flight Solutions.

It's good to have you. You will have seen the reporting, much of which is coming from Israeli sources. We have to be clear at this point. I wonder,

given that reporting, what insight you can share with us at this point about what you believe may have happened.

MATTHEW BORIE, CHIEF INTELLIGENCE OFFICER FOR OSPREY FLIGHT SOLUTIONS: Well, thank you for having me on today. Osprey has analyzed social media

footage from passengers on the plane that's been publicly released.

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We've read through traditional media reporting that's cited some of the Israeli sources that you mentioned. We've also taken a look at the ADS-B

data of the specific flight and the transponder codes that were transmitted that indicated a 7700, which was an in-flight emergency, and then a 7500,

which is an act of unlawful interference, typically associated with potential hijacking incidents.

The traditional media reporting at this time indicates that, through Israeli sources, that a pilot intentionally tried to take control of the

aircraft to either crash it or to bring it onto the ground for some other sort of cause. Now there are reports that the pilots engaged in an

altercation, including one of the pilots stabbing the other.

There is also reporting that passengers and an additional flight crew on board the aircraft were able to subdue the pilot who was attempting to take

control of the aircraft. Now, this was likely caused because one of the pilots opened the cockpit door, the one that was likely trying to subdue

the other pilot and needed assistance in doing so.

The aircraft did drop significantly in altitude over 14,000 feet from cruising altitude over 30,000 feet to about 17,000 feet.

ANDERSON: Yeah.

BORIE: And during that descent, it appears that damage was caused to a tail section of the aircraft. It's really a miracle, to be honest, that this

plane was able to be safely landed, and the passengers and crew members, as well as the pilot that do the other pilot, all deserve a hero's welcome for

their efforts.

ANDERSON: Let's just hear from one passenger who witnessed this. Stand by.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Everything is OK. We landed probably in Saudi Arabia. There is a pilot here who is severely wounded. They are evacuating him.

Another terrorist whose condition we don't know, but he is tied up. It was tough. It was tough. Probably in a few more hours we'll get home.

I need to change my clothes. Everything is covered in blood.

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ANDERSON: A remarkably sanguine passenger, extremely calm, given what we understand that the flight and its passengers went through an altercation

of some point of some sort that started in the cockpit. I mean, that is rare at the best of times. Correct? Just walk us through.

You know, it's a very contained space. What we understand is that there were reportedly two other pilots on this flight, and others who may have

experience in security situations who were able to intervene. Again, you know, just let's walk through what we understand might have happened, and

your sort of experience and intelligence about you know that situation. How rare that is?

BORIE: It is rare that there are altercations in the cockpit between crew members. It's not unprecedented. There have been instances where this has

occurred. Typically, it's related to workplace type violence or decision making around the flight. It's typically not associated with a potential

hijack type scenario.

Now, obviously, while pilots are both in the cockpit, there will be access to the flight controls, and so if one decides to do something that is

outside the norm of the planned flight operation, that will obviously lead the other to question that activity. And then, if it is a potential act of

unlawful interference.

In this case, as would be expected, the secondary pilot would attempt to stop that activity from occurring. Now, remember these types of situations

where cockpit security is typically at risk has been in hijacking scenarios where passengers are attempting to take over the aircraft.

They're not typically associated with the involvement of an insider, i.e. a pilot looking to take the aircraft on an unplanned flight route. There are

instances of pilot suicide, in particular, in the past that have occurred where pilots have committed suicide within the aircraft and taking it down,

unfortunately.

And there have been instances where pilots have been a part of extremist plots to conduct acts of terror. However, again, these incidents are

exceedingly rare, and cockpit security in general is designed to keep people outside of the cockpit with the assumption that inside the cockpit

the situation's secure.

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This leads to, however, airlines and national security bodies being the most important entities in identifying potential insider threat issues,

whether it's a mental health concern, a workplace violence concern, or something associated with extremism, pilots are vetted. They are evaluated

for their fitness.

They do receive extensive background checks. But in today's day and age, there are more and more digital footprints that need to be evaluated, and

that can cause some things to potentially be missed due to the sheer volume of information that would need to be collected and monitored on an entire

duty roster of pilots within an airline.

ANDERSON: Got it. Understood. It's really good to have you on, sir. Thank you very much indeed. And we've been saying all hour. I mean, this is a

developing story. As we get more, of course, we will get it to you both on TV and on our digital platforms. Well, Iran appears to be losing some of

its leverage over the Strait of Hormuz.

Oil flows through the critical waterway are now back to nearly 80 percent of pre-war levels, or at least the oil getting out the Persian Gulf and

into the seas to the south of it are. U.S. military escorts through the strait helping, but global stockpiles shrinking, fuel prices remain high,

and Iran is stepping up attacks on tankers.

CNN's David Goldman joining us with more. And David, the tracking data certainly showing a significant increase in exports getting out of the

Persian or Arabian Gulf, not Iranian oil. Let's be quite clear about that. How is this happening? I mean, you know, what's the sort of process here to

ensure that those exports are getting out, and how sustainable is it?

DAVID GOLDMAN, CNN BUSINESS SENIOR REPORTER: These are all very, very important questions. The first answer is really just the U.S. military is

escorting a shuttle service that goes back and forth, back and forth, in and out of the Strait of Hormuz, taking Gulf oil out of the strait, and

then these tankers just do a U-turn, come right back in, and they are escorted by the U.S. military.

Now, here's the thing, though. We have an inordinate amount of oil that is getting out, 13.1 million barrels, as you mentioned, every single day. That

is 76 percent of what we had before the war. How sustainable is this? Well, there's a couple things that you need to understand.

First of all, crude in general getting out of the Middle East, in addition to the Strait of Hormuz, is back up to 98 percent of its pre-war level,

according to JP Morgan, that is extraordinary. That includes things like getting it out through the Red Sea and the you know piped across Saudi

Arabia.

We know that that East West pipeline is back operating again. But look at this petroleum products, and this is what we fill our vehicles with, our

airplanes with, our factories with. This is not anywhere close to normal. Normal doesn't mean safe, and that is why insurance costs are higher than

the cost to build a tanker, Becky.

We have had 68 attacks from Iranian -- from Iran on vessels, and that is why we have gas and diesel up 50 percent and 75 percent This is not a

resolved situation to your point.

ANDERSON: Yeah, understood. Good to have you, David.

GOLDMAN: Thanks.

ANDERSON: Always a pleasure. Thank you very much indeed. David, at the Magic Wall. Up next in sports, sham contracts and secret funding.

Manchester City found guilty of financial breaches. More on that. What the English Premier League is saying, and indeed what the club is saying. Up

next.

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ANDERSON: Welcome back. I'm Becky Anderson. The newspaper headlines around Manchester City, today are pretty damning. The club, though, is standing

its ground. All of this after Manchester City were found guilty of systematically breaching Premier League financial rules from 2009 to 2018.

Amanda Davies joining me now. Everybody has an opinion on this, including the club, of course, who says or say that this is an unsafe decision,

Amanda.

AMANDA DAVIES, CNN WORLD SPORT: Yeah, the club Manchester City talking about a Premier League conspiracy and very much saying that they will fight

this, saying they've got irrefutable evidence. But of course, the people, the questions are if they have irrefutable evidence, why was that not

brought into the case, which was obviously a very long hearing, wasn't it?

The ramifications of the numbers that are talking about here, the systems that we're talking about here, what it means not only for Manchester City,

for the club's owners, very much of course based where you are in the region, Becky, and what it means for the rest of football.

So many questions left to answer. We've been hearing from Pep Guardiola for the first time, a Former Manchester City boss.

ANDERSON: Yeah.

DAVIES: We've got that coming up in just a couple of minutes as well.

ANDERSON: Good stuff. Thank you, Amanda. That's "World Sport" after this. I'm back with more "Connect the World" in 15 minutes' time. Stay with us.

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