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Speaker 1: Good morning. It's Tuesday, the ninth of January here in London.

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Speaker 1: This is the Bloomberg Daybreak you at podcast. I'm Caroline Hepkit.

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Speaker 2: And I'm Stephen Carroll coming up today. In another blow

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Speaker 2: to Boeing, United finds loose bolts on multiple seven three seven.

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Speaker 1: Max jets, as Anthony Blinkn warns of consequences for continued

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Speaker 1: attacks in the Red Sea. We have a special report

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Speaker 1: on the sailors risking their lives to make the crossing.

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Speaker 2: Plus picking up the tab. Taxpayers face a ten billion

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Speaker 2: pounds bill for student loans, including those that have already

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Speaker 2: been repaid.

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Speaker 1: Let's start with a round up of our top stories.

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Speaker 2: United Airlines says it has found loose bolts and multiple

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Speaker 2: Boeing seven three seven Max jets during inspections of the planes.

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Speaker 2: The discovery follows a mid air blowout on an Alaska

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Speaker 2: Airlines flight, which prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to ground

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Speaker 2: more than one hundred and seventy jets. Bloomberg Intelligence's senior

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Speaker 2: aerospace analyst, George Ferguson has more.

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Speaker 3: When you look of the way the plug, the sort

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Speaker 3: of that the shots later on and you see where

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Speaker 3: the plug was, and how clean the plug seemed to

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Speaker 3: have left the airplane. It does seem to indicate that

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Speaker 3: either fasteners failed or someone didn't apply the fasteners correctly,

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Speaker 3: and I think the United News kind of confirms that

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Speaker 3: maybe somebody on the manufacturing line didn't understand the right

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Speaker 3: procedure for applying this plug.

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Speaker 2: Thats George Ferguson from Bloomberg Intelligence. The setback comes after

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Speaker 2: a series of manufacturing and quality lapses at Boeing. It

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Speaker 2: Shares suffers their biggest decline in more than a year

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Speaker 2: on the news, dropping by eight percent.

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Speaker 1: In New York, America's top diplomat says that Huthy militants

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Speaker 1: will face consequences if they continue to attack ships in

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Speaker 1: the Red Sea. Anthony Blincoln's warning comes as the US

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Speaker 1: and its allies contemplate strikes on the Iran backed group

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Speaker 1: in Yemen. He told reporters that the principle of freedom

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Speaker 1: of navigation is at stake.

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Speaker 4: We've got forty countries come together to make clear the

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Speaker 4: one who these are doing has to stop, and we

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Speaker 4: have other countries that have made clear that if it continues, there.

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Speaker 5: Have to be consequences.

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Speaker 4: So our strong view, our strong preference is that the

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Speaker 4: Houthis get the message, but they're receiving from countries around

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Speaker 4: the world that this needs to stop, and that's what.

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Speaker 5: We're focused on.

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Speaker 1: Blinken meets with Israel's leader Benjamin Netanyahu late today. He

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Speaker 1: is hoping to contain the conflict in Gaza and potentially

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Speaker 2: Francis Prime Minister Elizabeth Bonon has resigned, prompting a government

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Speaker 2: reshuffle expected to be unveiled today. Bonne said that President

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Speaker 2: Emmanuel Macran told her he wanted to replace her. The

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Speaker 2: French leaders seeking to refresh his government agenda head of

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Speaker 2: European elections in June. French media reporting that Education Minister

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Speaker 2: Gabrielle A Dale is the favorite to replace Bonn as

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Speaker 2: the next prime minister.

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Speaker 1: Samsung's profits have fallen by thirty five percent, amits weak

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Speaker 1: consumer demand in the tech industry. Company six straight quarter

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Speaker 1: of declining operating profit, which missed estimates by about twenty

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Speaker 1: four percent. Tom Kang, who is Research direct at Counterpoint

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Speaker 1: Technology Market Research, says that the results indicate that the

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Speaker 1: sector's revival might take longer than previously expected.

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Speaker 6: The numbers are a bit disappointing, but they are rebounding,

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Speaker 6: so I think this shows that the rebound is going

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Speaker 6: to be if it's slower than we all thought. So

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Speaker 6: the semiconductor market has been starting to recover since the

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Speaker 6: third quarter last year. Prices were rising, but it looks

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Speaker 6: like the pricing the prices are not rising that fast

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Speaker 6: and the demand from certain sectors are not that strong.

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Speaker 1: Kang's comments come after Samsung executives predicted in October twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three that the one hundred and sixty billion dollar

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Speaker 1: memory market would bounce back gradually this year, driven by

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Speaker 1: a boom in AI development. Investors will want to hear

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Speaker 1: about Samsung's long term investment plans when it releases full

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Speaker 1: results on the thirty first of January.

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Speaker 2: Barkley has let go approximately five thousand staff last year.

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Speaker 2: The move is the most visible sign yet of cost

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Speaker 2: cutting at the lender. Bloomberg's Teawa aut of Bio has

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Speaker 2: the details.

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Speaker 7: Barkley has cut about six percent of its global headcount

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Speaker 7: last year during what was described as its quote ongoing

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Speaker 7: efficiency program. According to a company statement, the majority of

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Speaker 7: roles affected were in support functions, reflecting increased automation capacity.

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Speaker 7: The Bank's stock lagged behind piers in twenty twenty three

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Speaker 7: and faces slowing tailwinds from higher interest rates in the

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Speaker 7: UK this year. Despite the cuts, Barkley says it will

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Speaker 7: continue hiring in some business areas in London. To you

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Speaker 1: The UK Treasury is facing a yearly ten billion pound

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Speaker 1: hit due to its student loan scheme. It's a cost

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Speaker 1: that the Institute for Fiscal Studies says is not on

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Speaker 1: the books. Botomberg's James Wilcock explains.

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Speaker 8: The think tank says the government will lose an average

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Speaker 8: of fifteen thousand pounds per student this year. That's because

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Speaker 8: the price of financing new government borrowing is more than

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Speaker 8: three times higher what it was two years ago, and

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Speaker 8: will outpay students inflation tracking interest, the IFS say the

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Speaker 8: spread is not one the Office of National Statistics tracks,

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Speaker 8: and is set across the government ten billion pounds annually,

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Speaker 8: right at a moment when Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is hoping

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Speaker 8: for fiscal headroom in London. James Walcock Blundergradio.

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Speaker 2: And UK Christmas shopping sales fail to deliver a festive

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Speaker 2: boost for retailers. According to the latest data, the British

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Speaker 2: Retel Consort Team and KPMG say that total sales grew

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Speaker 2: by just one point seven percent in December, compared to

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Speaker 2: almost seven percent growth a year earlier. The difficult trading

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Speaker 2: environment for retailers is expected to continue this year as

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Speaker 2: sharpers see little respites from higher living costs. Ongoing week

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Speaker 2: data may also stoke concerns that the UK economy could

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Speaker 2: tip into recession and the possibility of rate cuts by

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Speaker 2: the Bank of England. Now, in a moment, we'll bring

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Speaker 2: you some first hand reporting from those sailing the world's

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Speaker 2: most dangerous shipping lane. Bluebrig's Aaron Clark's going to join

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Speaker 2: us for hot piece about the perils for seafarers braving

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Speaker 2: the Red Sea and sewers Canal as those attacks by

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Speaker 2: Huthy militants have taken place over the past couple of months.

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Speaker 2: But on story that cotterrye this morning, Caroline.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, do you buy branded sports where gear? I should

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Speaker 1: ask should have asked this to Leanne Gerns of great

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Speaker 1: who's in the Middle East of longtime listeners keen sports familiar?

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Speaker 7: Right?

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Speaker 1: Yes? Indeed, I don't know whether you you do. Maybe

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Speaker 1: you were influenced if you did by of course that.

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Speaker 2: I'm very susceptible to influencing.

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Speaker 1: Get Tiger Woods. Twenty seven years, Tiger Woods and Nike

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Speaker 1: have had this iconic partnership, partnership worth six hundred and

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Speaker 1: sixty million dollars. Now, the golf legend that was announced

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Speaker 1: a split, all very friendly, wishing each other well for

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Speaker 1: the future and so. But the relationship going back to

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six, really taking golf to new heights.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, hard to imagine how who Tiger Woods was in

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, fifteen major titles and obviously still playing. But yes,

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Speaker 1: I think this the idea of whether this kind of

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Speaker 1: lots of question marks there about what Tiger Woods might do.

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Speaker 1: He does have his own clothing line apparently, not that

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Speaker 1: I've ever seen it, but you know, the Nike sworsh

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Speaker 2: I mean he was signed up tonight before Lebron James t.

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Speaker 2: I didn't realize I would have sameed that that relationship

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Speaker 2: words of sports sponsorship as well.

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Speaker 1: Now, let's talk about the latest from the Middle East. Now,

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Speaker 1: the U S Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln is in

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Speaker 1: Israel and meeting with the Prime minist of Benjamin Netanya,

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Speaker 1: who this is Israel's longest serving leader, is also facing

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Speaker 1: increasing questions about his leadership after the October seventh attack

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Speaker 1: and the ensuing war in Gaza. Let's bring in Israel

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Speaker 1: Bureau Chief Ethan Bonnet now for more on this topic.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Ethan. First of all, what is Anthony Blincoln

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Speaker 1: hoping to achieve on this trip? Now? I believe his

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Speaker 1: fourth has the tone shifted.

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Speaker 9: I'm not sure how much the toner shifted, but certainly

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Speaker 9: Lincoln's goal here has been to urge the Israelis to

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Speaker 9: move from a more robust form of warfare to a

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Speaker 9: more targeted one, and the Israelis have said that's what

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Speaker 9: they're doing at the urging of the United States. So

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Speaker 9: sure the Israelis say they're pulling five brigades out in

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Speaker 5: So that's part of what they want.

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Speaker 9: And the goal here is to reduce civilian casualties and

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Speaker 9: reduce the risk of starvation and disease spreading and God

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Speaker 9: and to start thinking in some concrete terms about the

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Speaker 5: So that's all of that.

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Speaker 9: Don't forget that Lincoln arrived in Israel from Saudi Arabia

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Speaker 9: and the Emirates, and he comes with a very specific message,

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Speaker 9: which is that the Golf leaders are eager and willing

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Speaker 9: to help rebuild Gaza, but only in the context of

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Speaker 9: the agreement for a Palestinian state. The Israelis are unlikely

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Speaker 9: so we'll have to see where it goes.

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Speaker 2: What about Benjamin Etniau and all of this as well,

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Speaker 2: How has the war with Hamas changed his leadership?

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Speaker 5: Well, first of all, it has deeply threatened it.

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Speaker 9: I mean, he had sold himself and he'd his entire

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Speaker 9: image been as mister Security, a guy who has presided

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Speaker 9: in Israel from around two thousand and six to October seventh,

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Speaker 9: a few skirmishes, but fundamentally a great increase in GDP percapit,

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Speaker 9: That's all over, and his poll numbers are way down.

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Speaker 5: In addition, of course, you know, he's been.

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Speaker 9: Fighting charges of corruption, fraud, bribery.

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Speaker 5: So he's got that going.

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Speaker 9: But there have been basically and then there was this

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Speaker 9: produced weekly demonstrations in the country until October seventh.

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Speaker 5: So there was a lot going on to begin with.

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Speaker 5: And his numbers are down.

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Speaker 9: He is not the most popular leader in Israel right now,

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Speaker 9: Benny Gonsay is. But the system is that he doesn't

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Speaker 1: tied with what happens in Gaza? I mean, might he

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Speaker 1: be forced out before the end of the war. I

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Speaker 1: mean these Raelis are talking about many, many months of

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Speaker 5: They are.

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Speaker 9: The problem is what does it mean to force them out?

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Speaker 9: There is no real legal system to force them out.

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Speaker 9: He has a sixty four member a Kinesset majority out

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Speaker 9: of one hundred and twenty, and as long as he

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Speaker 9: holds his coalition together, there is no way to drive

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Speaker 9: him from power unless he were to be convicted, and

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Speaker 9: that's not going.

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Speaker 5: To happen quickly enough for that to happen.

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Speaker 9: So the idea would be that there's this emergency cabinet

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Speaker 5: If this war shifts into a more.

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Speaker 9: Low level operation and they decide there's no longer a

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Speaker 9: need for an emergency cabinet, then we're back to the

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Speaker 9: old government and you know, they'll probably be weekly demonstrations

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Speaker 9: again calling for him to resign, and people are very

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Speaker 9: angry and eager for the remaining hundred plus hostages to

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Speaker 9: be returned. But you know, there is no specific way

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Speaker 2: Okay, well, a story for us to honoror then Israel

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Speaker 1: We've been reporting in recent weeks though on the attacks

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Speaker 1: it's related to the war in Gaza, to attentions in

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Speaker 1: to some of those aboard these ships, and he joins

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Speaker 1: us now for more Alan, good morning, Thank you for

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Speaker 1: being with us. Just remind us why are Iran backed

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Speaker 10: Yeah, the Huthi militants and you men, they're attacking ships

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Speaker 10: Some of the initial attacks were on vessels that appeared

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Speaker 10: Those connections have begun to look a lot more tenuous

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Speaker 2: And you spoke to sephars whose ships have been attacked

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