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Speaker 2: from her Dubai Jubani. I think the war coverage, particularly

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Speaker 2: over the weekend is almost wrote almost cursory in the

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Speaker 2: United States. Let us start with the airports. Do you

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Speaker 2: have an airport in Dubai by the you have another

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Speaker 2: airport towards Abu Dhabi being built out as well. The

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Speaker 2: distance maybe it's a forty fifty minute drive to the two.

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Speaker 2: What is a state of tension at the Dubai airports

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Speaker 2: this morning?

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Speaker 3: Hi Tomboll, good morning, Good to be on your show.

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Speaker 3: Let me just run you through what happened specifically with

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Speaker 3: Dubai International Airport DXP. That is the main one that's

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Speaker 3: operational right now. It was hit in the early hours

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Speaker 3: of the morning. A fuel depot exploded into flames. Later on,

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Speaker 3: the Dubai Media Office came out to say that it

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Speaker 3: caused limited damage and no injuries. But for a while

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Speaker 3: the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority moved to suspend flights temporarily.

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Speaker 3: They have resumed now, a lot of them have resumed.

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Speaker 3: Many flights were canceled that the state owned airline Emirates

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Speaker 3: has resumed travel now. But I think what you're referring

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Speaker 3: to is the fact that some of those flights were

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Speaker 3: around forty five minutes away Dubai Mactoom. But again, you know,

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Speaker 3: this is just part of parts of the bigger picture here,

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Speaker 3: which is that Iran continues to strike not necessarily US

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Speaker 3: assets in the region, but key transportation on the dist

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Speaker 2: What is the tension in Dubai, I think within the

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Speaker 2: media coverage in America, do we don't know the tension

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Speaker 2: or is it just a random missile that may come in.

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Speaker 3: Let me tell you that UAE alone have received two

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Speaker 3: thirds of the projectiles that Iran have fired over so

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Speaker 3: more than any other Gulf nation. They have successfully intercepted

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Speaker 3: around one thousand, six hundred drones around three hundred missiles.

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Speaker 3: The interception rates is anything between ninety two percent and

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Speaker 3: ninety four percent, depending on whether you're talking about drones

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Speaker 3: that's not to say that some debris or interceptions of

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Speaker 3: debris is causing a damage to some Skyrise buildings, as

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Speaker 3: you may have seen reports of that. But increasingly, I

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Speaker 3: would say what has happened in the last twenty four

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Speaker 3: this I think is perhaps marks a new chapter in

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Speaker 3: this war, because they have attempted to strike at the

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Speaker 3: That's right. So that was the main us overnight. He's

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Speaker 2: Jaman One final question here into your busy afternoon and

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Speaker 3: Well, let me just point you to a call that

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Speaker 3: for anyone who's been following the news in the region,

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Speaker 3: what you are getting are these United Communicats from GCC

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Speaker 3: all of them at condemning the attacks, the Iranian attacks,

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Speaker 3: and in fact going so far as calling them terrorist

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Speaker 3: But none of them, and I should say, have gone

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Speaker 3: so far as to suggest that they would get militarily

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Speaker 3: emphasizing their right to self preservation and to self defense.

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Speaker 3: And then of course later on down the track they're

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Speaker 2: A terrific brief, Thank you so much. Giovanni Briscacci is

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Speaker 2: shoes of course, driving all of our Middle East coverage

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Speaker 2: with Bloomberg Horizon out of Dubai. Stay with us. More

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Speaker 2: What's the story Julian right now? In oil that's not visible?

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Speaker 6: I think what's not visible at the moment is exports

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Speaker 6: thing I think that's interesting about those vessels is that

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Speaker 6: It could simply mean that the Uranians want to keep

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Speaker 6: a better eye on what's going through Hormos. Most of

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Speaker 2: Paint the window in Singapore, the Straits of Malacca of

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Speaker 6: I think it's certainly coming under strain. You know, this

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Speaker 2: Please stay with us right now. We've got to get

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Speaker 2: with doctor Lee in London, of course, expert on all

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Speaker 7: Christophorus, Thanks so much, Tom, And we had a nice

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Speaker 7: bitcoin at seventy three nine hundred and sixteen dollars. Early

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Speaker 7: after Facebook parent Meta said it's going to pay up

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Speaker 7: to twenty seven billion dollars over the next five years

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Speaker 7: for access to AI infrastructure from the Neo Cloud company.

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Speaker 7: That's your Bloomberg opening bell report, Tom and Paul Alexis.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Right now around

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Speaker 2: the world, across this nation, it is Bloomberg surveillance. Paul

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Speaker 4: Julian, just for argument's sake, let's assume they were ended today.

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Speaker 5: Where would Brent be, would Brent get back to its

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Speaker 5: pre war levels and over what time frame might that occur?

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Speaker 6: Well, you know, fortunately I'm not in the business of

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Speaker 6: price forecasting any longer. I gave that up twelve years

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Speaker 6: I can't give you a forecast. If you look at

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Speaker 6: the closure of hor Moos. We haven't had significant damage

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Speaker 6: so you know, the supply side in time would get

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Speaker 7: Do you have this morning, I went, I went digging,

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Speaker 2: Snow, do they look at it as a one off

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Speaker 5: It was a one off year that so they say,

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Speaker 5: And you know, but we were up there twelve thirteen

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Speaker 5: thousand feet snow is great.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 6: One more?

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Speaker 2: What do you do?

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 7: Oh, this one made me so happy.

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Speaker 2: Tulips.

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Speaker 7: Have you seen tulips? I saw on Park Avenue. I

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Speaker 7: can see they want to come up and they're so

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Speaker 7: confused that it's not warmer yet. But this year, for

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Speaker 7: the first time ever, on the National Mall in DC,

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Speaker 7: this was from the Washington Post, people were able to

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Speaker 7: come out. They got free tickets, over twelve thousand people

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Speaker 7: to come and pick ten tulips and make a little

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Speaker 7: have big tulip celebrations. This was the first one on

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Speaker 4: All right, those free tickets, what like that? Did they know? Okay,

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Speaker 4: what's the Washington Mall. That's the cherry blossoms.

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Speaker 7: Yes, the cherry blossoms. So now they have another thing. Okay, well,

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Speaker 7: the cherry blossoms are happening. They're going to be happening.

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Speaker 7: That haven't happened yet.

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Speaker 2: Can I editorialize please? I love the tulip bulbs on

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Speaker 2: Park Avenue. Yes, that's what they do. Is just building

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Speaker 2: up the charity there. The government services except Park Avenues

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Speaker 2: last six months, all most some of the traffic on

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Speaker 2: Third Avenue Park Avenue for a whole bunch of blocks.

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Speaker 2: Now every day is bumper to bumper yep.

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Speaker 7: But at least you still don't have the stores on

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Speaker 7: Park right, they're free of like the commerce and the

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Speaker 2: You know, that's the way it was, Alexis Christopher's thank

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Speaker 2: you so much the newspapers.

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