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Speaker 1: News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now. I'm

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Speaker 1: Brian Curtis in Hong Kong. Buckingham Palace says King Charles

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Speaker 1: the Third has cancer and will postpone public activities while

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Speaker 1: he receives treatment. Bloomberg's Caroline Hyde reports the King will

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Speaker 1: continue with other official duties.

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Speaker 2: He will be overall focusing more on the regular day

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Speaker 2: to day the fact that he will be able to

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Speaker 2: do official papers, they say, state business, so the behind

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Speaker 2: the scenes work will still be there, but of course,

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Speaker 2: from a geopolitical perspective, from being the person who can

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Speaker 2: go out and talk to the public or indeed make

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Speaker 2: trips abroad, that will have to go to the backseat.

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Caroline Hyde. Royal officials say seventy five year old

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Speaker 1: King chose to share his diagnosis to prevent speculation, with

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Speaker 1: the hope that it may assist public understanding for those

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Speaker 1: affected by cancer. As Republican leaders are denouncing a bipartisan

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Speaker 1: Senate deal to impose new US border restrictions and unlocked

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Speaker 1: billions of dollars in Ukraine aid, Bloomberg's Nancy Lyons has

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Speaker 1: the latest.

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Speaker 3: Johnson says the Senate proposal is a waste of time

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Speaker 3: and debt. On arrival in the House, he'd prefer the

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Speaker 3: Senate take up the House Border security bill that was

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Speaker 3: passed last summer.

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Speaker 4: I just don't believe that the Senate bill, as I've

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Speaker 4: explained in all of our statements, meets their criteria that's

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Speaker 4: necessary to solve the problem.

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Speaker 3: GOP presidential front runner Donald Trump opposes the Senate bill,

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Speaker 3: saying it's a great gift for Democrats and a death

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Speaker 3: wish for the Republican Party in Washington. Nancy lyons Bloomberg.

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Speaker 1: Radio Sweden's bid to join NATO is on hold. Lawmaker

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Speaker 1: is in Hungary, the last holdout to Sweden's accession, boycotted

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Speaker 1: a session that could have ended the standoff. Bloomberg News

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Speaker 1: Hungary Bureau chiefs Zultan Simone has more.

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Speaker 5: There's been various excuses on the part of the Prime Minister,

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Speaker 5: victor Orbon as to why Hungary isn't ratifying it. Most

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Speaker 5: recently that was that the Swedish Prime Minister hasn't accepted

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Speaker 5: yet an invitation to come to Budapest to visit and

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Speaker 5: sort of soothe Hugerian lawmaker's feelings after apparently they were

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Speaker 5: hurt by criticism of the back rolling of democracy and.

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Speaker 1: Hungary Bloomberg Sultan Simon reporting from Budapest, the next opportunity

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Speaker 1: to consider a Sweden's bid will come on February twenty sixth.

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Speaker 1: That's when Hungarian lawmakers return from their winter break. Israel

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Speaker 1: says it has destroyed seventeen of Hamas's twenty four battalions,

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Speaker 1: but also says the fight in Gaza is not over now.

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Speaker 1: There are growing concerns that Israel may be pulled into

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Speaker 1: another war with Hesbelah. Israeli spokesman Alon Levy says skirmishes

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Speaker 1: with Hesbolah continue along Israel's northern border.

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Speaker 6: Defense Minister, you have Gala met last night with senior

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Speaker 6: US presidential advisor Amos Houkstein. He reiterated Israel's desire to

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Speaker 6: resolve this crisis by diplomatic means and underscored Israel's preparedness

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Speaker 6: for other scenarios.

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Speaker 1: Israeli spokesman Ilon levie Hesblah is the most powerful militia

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Speaker 1: in the Middle East. Israel estimates it has an arsenal

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Speaker 1: of more than one hundred thousand rockets and missiles.

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Speaker 1: Former Fox News host and Trump's supporter Tucker Carlson arrived

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Speaker 1: in Russia over the weekend, and a source is telling

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg News that the Kremlin is thinking of granting him

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Speaker 1: an interview with President Vladimir Putin. Bloomberg's Greg Sullivan covers

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Speaker 1: Russia's economy and government from Dubai and says if that happens,

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Speaker 1: it could have an impact on the US audience.

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Speaker 7: A to Ukraine has been held up in partisan fighting,

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Speaker 7: and Tucker Carlson has long been a defender of the Kremlin,

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Speaker 7: and A has raised a lot of questions about out

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Speaker 7: US support for Ukraine in that war. So depending on

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Speaker 7: how much sway you could actually have back there, that

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Speaker 7: could complicate things for continued support to Ukraine.

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Speaker 1: That's Bloomberg's Greg Sullivan reporting from Dubai. The first damage

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Speaker 1: estimate has come out for California after the state was

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Speaker 1: bludgeoned by storms. Bloomberg's Ed Baxter has the story.

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Speaker 4: The atmospheric river caused wind and rain that has webbed

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Speaker 4: California for the past several days has caused estimated damage

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Speaker 4: of as much as eleven billion dollars. That's damage and

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Speaker 4: economic losses. This is the preliminary calculation from Acuweather record

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Speaker 4: amounts of rain in both northern and southern California, as

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Speaker 4: well as heavy heavy winds in San Francisco. I'm at

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Speaker 4: Baxter Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: That's news when you want it. With Bloomberg News Now.

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Speaker 1: I'm Brian Curtis. This is Bloomberg