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Trump to Tour Texas Flood Zone as Death Toll Hits 121; Hamas Accuses Netanyahu of Obstructing Ceasefire Deal; Former Bangladeshi PM Charged with Crimes Against Humanity; U.S. President Threatens Canada with 35 Percent Blanket Tariff; Anisimova Stuns Sabalenka to Reach Maiden Major Final. Aired 9-9:45a ET

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BECKY ANDERSON, CNN HOST, CONNECT THE WORLD: Well, President Trump set to get a firsthand look at the extent of the damage in flood ravaged Texas. It

is 09:00 a.m. in Washington, it is 05:00 p.m. in Abu Dhabi. I'm Becky Anderson, this is "Connect the World".

Also coming up, the U.S. will send more weapons to Ukraine ahead exactly what is headed there and who will foot the bill. Another migrant raid

rattles Southern California, the latest clash between protesters and ICE agents and the dizzying back and forth over tariffs continues. The latest

U.S. President threatens a 35 percent levy on Canada.

Well, the stock market in New York opens about 30 minutes from now, and futures suggesting a lower open at present. Further tariff talk, it seems

spooking investors somewhat more at 09:30 Eastern Time. We start with U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, heading to Central

Texas today to visit areas that suffered in last week's disastrous floods, meet some of the survivors and first responders there.

This comes as the Trump Administration defends itself against criticism its policies are weakening government responses to natural disasters. The

Senate Democratic Leader raising questions over whether efforts to reduce staff at the National Weather Service hampered forecasting of these flash

floods.

The White House Press Secretary pushing back on that accusing Democrats of trying to politicize the tragedy, which has killed more than 120 and left

150 other people still missing in Kerr County. CNN's Julia Vargas joins us on the scene in Kerrville in Texas, where the president will visit later

today. And she talked to my colleague John Berman a little earlier.

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JULIA VARGAS JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I just wanted to start by setting the scene here what the president will see when he gets here later with the

First Lady. This is the Guadalupe River just past and we're between the Guadalupe River and Route 39 which is what we heard in that dispatch there

this entire area where we are standing now, John, I could not have been standing here just a week ago.

All of this was submerged, and this is one of those vacation destinations that you were just talking about. There was an RV park here. Now this park,

the owner also owns a restaurant here. It's become a bit of a spot for first responders to collect and collect the materials and dispatch from

here.

But this is also someone who lost, not only their source of income, she also lost an employee who worked here. Now, just if you understand how high

the water came here, these trees that you see behind me, those notches on those trees, that is where cars were hitting as the floods reached their

peak here, John.

Now, the question that we're looking forward to understanding today is whether the visit from the president will actually help this community

heal, this community come together. You know, there has been growing criticism about the response, both on the federal level, with how long it

took for FEMA to authorize certain responses here?

But also, at a local level. You know, we're hearing about a report that was sent by Kerr County authorities to FEMA back in October that already was

raising alarms about exactly this kind of situation. We know that the president will be, as you mentioned, meeting with those local officials and

getting briefed by them.

But also, he will be meeting with families, John, who have lost their loved ones, some of those 121 people. Now today, the efforts here on the ground,

they remain on those 160 people who are still missing. Now we're not sure if that number will continue to go up or not.

But what I'm hearing from one of the volunteer rescuers that we spoke with this morning is that now, after that first pass of searches, they're going

back and looking deeper, removing some of the debris, looking under some gravel, as the currents have really pushed rocks around here, that search

effort now doubling down, getting even more difficult as time goes on.

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ANDERSON: Well, that was Julia Vargas Jones reporting. Leigh Waldman is also in Kerrville. It's good to have you. What sort of reception can the

president and his wife expect later today? OK, I think she's just struggling to hear me, so let's see if we can fix that and get back to her

shortly.

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Have we got her back? Hi, and I was just asking -- thank you. I was just asking what sort of reception the president and his wife might expect later

today.

LEIGH WALDMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We know members of this community are eager to hear more from the leaders of this community, but also from the

president himself. He'll be traveling alongside with Governor Greg Abbott and Senator Ted Cruz, touring the damaged area, meeting with those first

responders.

We asked some people here in this community over the past few days, what are they hoping to hear from President Donald Trump and their visit?

They're honestly hoping to hear about what life will look like moving forward? What those recovery efforts will look like? What the ongoing

support will look like moving forward?

And Becky, I do want to gesture and show you the crosses that are behind us here. This is a growing Memorial right alongside the Guadalupe River. We

spoke to the artist behind this mural here and behind the memorial here, he says that he's going to place one cross for every single life that is lost.

This is obviously just a small part of this display. The crosses keep on going up all the way across the river here. He hopes to place over 100 of

these crosses so that people in this community have somewhere to go, where they can remember those who were taken one week ago today, where they can

honor their lives. He's hoping this sends a message of feeling of grief to this entire community.

ANDERSON: How are they coping at this point?

WALDMAN: I think it's hard for anyone to try and cope with something like this Becky. We spoke to a man named Ricky Ray (ph) yesterday, and he lives

up the road from where we are, and he says on his property, they own the land on this side, but also on the other side of the river here.

He says they found several bodies, six to seven bodies now on his property, and his heart breaks. You know, he lost his home. We only saw the

foundation left behind because of the flood waters that moved through here. But he says so many other people have it so much worse than he does.

The people who are searching his land. He spoke to a couple. He asked them what they were doing, and he said, we're trying to find our daughter. Don't

think they'll find her, but they can't just sit around and wait to see if someone does at some point. So that's what people are dealing with in this

community.

Another 91-year-old man named Charles, he was out here picking up debris in the heat of Texas, and he says, I haven't lost anyone, so I'm doing this to

help the people who can't come out here and do this, who are dealing with that unimaginable loss. That's his contribution to this.

ANDERSON: Seven minutes past 8 in the morning on the day that the U.S. President and his wife will visit the area. Good to have you. Thank you.

Well, Ukraine continues to fend off mere nonstop Russian attacks. Officials say at least 10 people were killed and dozens wounded and Russian strikes

on Ukraine over the past 24 hours.

Kharkiv's Mayor says a maternity hospital in the city was evacuated after that was struck overnight. A new U.N. report shows that June saw the

highest number of civilians killed or injured in Ukraine in three years, all this casting a shadow on this year's Ukraine Recovery Conference that

is underway, right now in Rome.

CNN's Senior International Correspondent Ben Wedeman, live for us there. You and I have been talking over the past couple of days about what might

be expected to come out of this conference. Can you just explain where we are at?

BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, Becky, we're in the second day. Today really, the focus is on business, business

opportunities in Ukraine after the war comes to an end, whenever that's going to be.

Now. So far, what we've heard is that there have been about $10 billion in pledges for that recovery effort, although it must be pointed out that the

actual price tag for the rebuilding of Ukraine when the war comes to an end will be at least $500 billion.

Now what we've seen is that this is really the focus of this conference has really been about Europe's role in supporting Ukraine and integrating

Ukraine, eventually into the European community. Now, what we have seen, for instance, is that there's been all sorts of there's been a huge

presence of business people from Ukraine, from Europe at this conference, looking for opportunities.

And it appears that really the focus of much of that attention of those businessmen is on the defense industry, given that, for instance, Ukraine's

defense production has increased 35 times since the beginning of the full- scale Russian invasion in February of 2022.

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And we've seen, for instance, it's been announced that there is going to be a joint EU Ukraine program with 50 million euro from the European Union, 50

million from Ukraine to develop defense technology. So, it does appear that there is momentum.

And certainly, the impression one gets after two days of this conference is that the Europeans understand that at the end of the day, they need to

depend on themselves and stop depending on the United States, particularly under this current administration in Washington, Becky.

ANDERSON: Yeah, and that's interesting, because it did feel this week if you're watching this sort of minute by minute, but this U.S. administration

at least coming back on side somewhat in terms of offering sort of short- term support to Ukraine. You know what's been the sense of what of these developments this week from Washington, for those gathered in Rome?

WEDEMAN: Well, for instance, President Trump has said that he is ready for a deal whereby the United States will sell patriot missiles, the anti-

missile defense system, to NATO countries, and that they will be authorized to either sell or give them to Ukraine. This represents somewhat of a

softening of his position.

Clearly, President Trump is increasingly frustrated over his failure to make good on his vow to end the Ukraine, Russia war on the first day of his

presidency. Now that we're six months into that. So, it does appear that that loss of patience is translating into something of a more readiness to

provide the kind of assistance Ukraine needs.

But fundamentally, I think there is a fear that President Trump, being a fickle and unpredictable individual, could very well, for reasons unknown,

change his position and suddenly turned hostile to Ukraine, or specifically President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

So certainly, there is a certain amount of cautious optimism that perhaps Washington's position on Ukraine is softening, but there is no confidence

that that is a permanent change, Becky.

ANDERSON: Good to have you, Ben, thank you. Well, as the Israeli Prime Minister left Washington on Thursday, he announced that Israel would seek a

permanent end to the war in Gaza if a 60-day truce was struck with Hamas. Just hours after that, Hamas accused Benjamin Netanyahu of creating

obstacles to reach any such temporary deal.

Well, CNN Jerusalem Correspondent Jeremy Diamond has been closely tracking these developments. Jeremy, you and I have been speaking all week. U.S.

officials had voiced optimism that we would see a deal struck in Doha by week's end. Any evidence that that is likely to be the case at this point.

JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN JERUSALEM CORRESPONDENT: At this point, it certainly does not appear that way, Becky. The Israeli Prime Minister, has now landed

back in Israel after a week of meetings in Washington with senior Trump administration officials and other senior U.S. lawmakers, including two

meetings with President Trump neither of which emerged with any kind of a ceasefire deal.

And this certainly is raising questions about the extent of President Trump's willingness to pressure Netanyahu into sealing this deal. U.S.

officials are still expressing optimism about the status of these negotiations, and Prime Minister Netanyahu himself has said that he

believes that a deal can be reached within days.

But we understand that the primary, last remaining sticking point here in terms of reaching a deal has to do with Israel's insistence on maintaining

some Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip. Two key corridors have been the focal point of those discussions in terms of the timetable and the lines

for the withdrawal of Israeli troops.

And that is the Philadelphi Corridor, which is right along Gaza's border with Egypt. And then there is this Morag Axis, which Israel has created in

order to divide the City of Rafah from the northern part of the Gaza Strip lying right between Rafah and Khan Yunis.

And it seems that Israel's insistence on maintaining some troop presence along those corridors seems to be one of the impediments here to reaching

this 60-day ceasefire. Of course, beyond that, you also have the kind of rhetorical impediments here as Prime Minister Netanyahu is balancing

between.

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On the one hand, you know U.S. pressure to strike this 60-day ceasefire deal and ultimately lead to an end of the war in Gaza. And Netanyahu's own

political considerations, including his right-wing allies, who want him to hold fast to his promises of complete victory over Hamas.

And so, this week, even as Prime Minister Netanyahu said that Israel would enter negotiations to end the war in Gaza during this 60-day ceasefire, he

also made clear that his conditions for ending that war have not changed, meaning that Gaza must be completely demilitarized, that Hamas must

surrender and have zero military or governing capabilities inside the Gaza Strip.

And he made clear that if those objectives cannot be achieved through diplomacy during that 60-day ceasefire, then Israel will return to the war

in Gaza. That is obviously very much at odds with the U.S. assurances, the assurances that the United States has sought to provide to the mediators

and to Hamas, specifically about how this temporary ceasefire would result in an end of the war in Gaza, and that could also be another hold up in

terms of reaching this deal and convincing Hamas to get on board, Becky.

ANDERSON: Jeremy is in Tel Aviv for you today. Jeremy, thank you. Still to come, we're closely following an intense standoff between protesters and

U.S. immigration agents and marijuana farms in Southern California that is coming up. And detained by ICE for more than 100 days without charge, what

Palestinian Student Activist Mahmoud Khalil told my colleague Christian Amanpour?

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ANDERSON: Well, in Southern California, a confrontation erupted between angry protesters and U.S. agents carrying out immigration raids on legal

marijuana farms. Have a look at this. Well, authorities using tear gas and smoke canisters to disperse the crowd. Dozens of migrant rights activists

showed up to oppose Thursday's raids after video of them spread on social media.

Reports say ICE offices were accompanied by National Guard troops it comes -- Trump Administration continues to flip flop on whether farm workers

should be protected from its campaign to deport undocumented immigrants. A short time ago, CNN's Kate Baldwin spoke to Correspondent Veronica Miracle

about what is this developing story.

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VERONICA MIRACLE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We're learning this morning that 10 people under the age of 18 were found at that farm, eight of them

unaccompanied. And so now the Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott says this is also turning into a child labor violations case.

A spokesman for Homeland Security said that they were conducting criminal warrants at glass house farms.

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There's a marijuana facility there. Two different locations, and there were raids happening at both of those locations. And then what happened is

protesters quickly descended upon those farms when word got out, this lasted four hours. There were people who were well into the night, being

taken away, detained.

We don't know at this hour how many people have been arrested, but here's what protesters had to say about what unfolded at the scene.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They started throwing pepper balls, tear gas, smoke, everything, just trying to disperse us because they're scared. They know

that we're going to push back against it.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We're here united. We're not like -- we're not letting ICE agents in. We're not letting ICE agents out. We've been trying to block

in since we're not giving them what they want.

MIRACLE: And this devolved very quickly. It got out of control. The FBI says that a man is actually they're looking for information for a man who

may have fired a gun towards officers. They're offering the $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of this person, and there were all

kinds of chaos.

At one point, protesters actually blocked the entrances into the farm, and so there was a massive standoff. This went well into the night. We're still

waiting to learn exactly how many people were arrested, but we did see, from aerial footage, busloads of people being taken away. We saw people

lined up detained at the facilities. So as soon as we get more information, we'll bring it to you.

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ANDERSON: All right, Veronica Miracle there. Palestinian Activist Mahmoud Khalil is speaking out in his first CNN interview since his release from

ICE custody. He just filed a $20 million lawsuit against the Trump Administration, and he spoke with CNN's Christian Amanpour.

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CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: I just spoke to Mahmoud Khalil in the first interview he's given to CNN since being

released from detention. He was arrested in March, as you know, as part of the Trump agenda against elite universities, against freedom of speech,

also its immigration and deportation agenda all couched in combating anti- Semitism.

Khalil told me about the conditions of his ICE detention cell in Louisiana, and they were pretty bad. He also told me about what it was like to miss a

key moment in anybody's family Life.

MAHMOUD KHALIL, DETAINED BY I.C.E. FOR 104 DAYS: The moment you enter such facilities, such ICE facilities, you would -- your rights, literally stay

outside on the inside, as you would expect, the food was as close as could be too inedible. I had to switch to vegetarian because the meat was -- I

threw up like after I ate the meat there. It was so cold we had to ask for more blankets. But no one would answer our requests.

AMANPOUR: You missed the birth of your first child, a boy. Everybody was very concerned about your wife, who is an American citizen, there without

you. What was that like? And then, what was it like when you were first able to hold your child for the first time?

KHALIL: Missing the birth of my child, I think that was the most difficult moment in my life, especially because like this could have been avoided. We

put so many requests to be able to attend that moment. And I will not -- I don't think I would be able to forgive them for taking that moment away

from me.

AMANPOUR: So, Khalil was never charged. He is concerned about his future, of course, but he keeps talking up for the rights of Palestinians,

especially with the focus of what is happening and has been happening in Gaza. He also insists that amongst the protesters that he was with, there

was a Jewish contingent, of course, based on what he said, their Jewish values, he denied absolutely any charges of anti-Semitism. You can watch

the full interview online at cnn.com/Amanpour back to you guys.

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ANDERSON: All right, and a reminder that you can catch an interview at a special time, noon, Eastern Time today, that is 05:00 p.m. in London. Let's

get you up to speed and some of the other stories that are on our radar right now.

And a son of Mexican Drug Lord El Chapo is expected to plead guilty today in a U.S. drug trafficking case. Court records indicate that of video of

Guzman Lopez intends to change his plea as part of a deal with federal prosecutors. The first time one of our chapels Sons has struck such an

agreement.

Lastly, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheik Hasina has been charged with crimes against humanity. The indictment relates to a fierce crackdown on

protests last year some 14100 people are thought to have been killed in that violence. Hasina will be tried in abstention.

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Thousands of people gathered in Bosnia Herzegovina to mark 30 years since the Srebrenica Massacre, there more than 7000 Muslim boys and men were

killed by Bosnian Serb Forces in 1995. victims are still being found and identified. Several were set to be buried today.

You're watching "Connect the World" with new Becky Anderson. Markets set to open in New York couple of minutes from now, futures indicating they will

open slightly weaker today. We will discuss how investors are reacting to Donald Trump's latest tariff threats, more, and that is after this.

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ANDERSON: Welcome back. I'm Becky Anderson in Abu Dhabi, and you are watching "Connect the World", these are your headlines. Within the next few

minutes, U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump will leave the White House for a visit to flood impacted areas in the U.S. State

of Texas.

His administration is defending itself against criticism of efforts to downsize federal emergency preparedness. The floods have killed at least

121 people, with 160 still missing. Ukrainian officials say at least 10 people were killed and dozens wounded and Russian strikes on Ukraine over

the past 24 hours.

Kharkiv's Mayor says a maternity hospital there was evacuated after it was struck overnight. New U.N. report shows that June saw the highest number of

civilians killed or injured in Ukraine in three years. Hamas accusing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of obstructing a ceasefire deal

as negotiations continue in Qatar.

Those comments come hours after Netanyahu said Israel was ready to seek a permanent end to the war if it could reach a temporary truce with Hamas.

United Nations says more than half a million Afghans have been expelled from Iran in 16 days in what may be one of the largest enforced movements

of popular this decade. The deportations are part of a program that was announced by Iran in March, but increased rapidly since the end of the

conflict with Israel.

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Well, that is the bell on Wall Street. It is Friday, July the 11th, the last trading day of what has been a very busy week. It is 09:30 in the

morning there, and markets certainly on the futures side, indicating a slightly weaker opening today. That's certainly what we are seeing at the

outset on the DOW Jones here.

We'll let these markets settle for 30 seconds before we get you the sort of overarching picture. It has been another roller coaster week for watches of

these markets and of the U.S. economy, with President Trump stoking up his trade war, anew. On Thursday, he threatened to hit goods from Canada with a

steep tariff of 35 percent on the heels, he threatened 50 percent levy on Brazil.

He fired off letters to more than 20 countries spelling out what tariffs they would face if they don't strike new trade agreements by August 1st.

Now, there was some good news from Wall Street with tech stocks rallying the AI Chip Designer Nvidia becoming the world's first company valued at $4

trillion.

Paul Donovan is Chief Economist of UBS Global Wealth. He joins us now from London. What do you make of what we have seen this past week? We've had

equity markets hit record highs. They're off, somewhat off those highs now.

Amidst, you know, an uptick in rhetoric from Donald Trump, which must be confusing for investors, and the moving of a very definitive date on

tariffs from mid this week, which you would have been watching out for, until August 1st. How to pick apart what we've learned this week and what

your view is going forward?

PAUL DONOVAN, CHIEF ECONOMIST, UBS GLOBAL WEALTH MANAGEMENT: Well, let's start with the delay to August 1st. I mean, I think this was inevitable. It

was by any stretch of the imagination, unrealistic to do a large number of trade deals with a large number of countries in an extraordinarily complex

global trading system in so short a space of time.

Not sure, adding an extra couple of weeks here and there is going to make a huge amount of difference. But, you know, the date is now at least more

flexible. As a consequence of this, though, there is an interesting possibility, which is that the tariffs that we're now going to be saying so

not the 10 percent tax that consumers are already starting to pay, but the next wave of tariffs may not actually work their way through to the

consumer in America until early next year.

So, what we may be seeing just by a few weeks delay is it just pushes out that hit to consumer spending power into the start of next year. With

regards to the general moves that we've been seeing in the markets we're now in, what I would call the retreat paradox.

That is to say, markets believe that U.S. President Trump, will retreat from their more aggressive trade rhetoric. Because, frankly, that's what

Trump always does. At the same time if markets say, well, Trump's going to retreat let's rally. That then reduces the pressure on the president to

retreat.

So, we're in a rather difficult situation. Markets are doing very well because they don't believe the president, which is giving the president the

confidence to go around in closing ever more draconian taxes on U.S. consumers.

ANDERSON: That was fascinating. What I failed to mention, because we were just looking back at this past week, was that on Friday last week, we had

the signing of the big, beautiful bill, of course, and you and I have talked about how you might see its impact going forward. So, let's get your

assessment then for the second half of the year for the U.S. economy, and further out at this point.

DONOVAN: Well, up until September, the fiscal tightening that is embedded in the budget is going to act as a bit of a break on the economy. But then

from September, you start to get the tax cuts, and it's not until 2027 that you start to see another wave of spending cuts. So short period of fiscal

drag, then some fiscal stimulus, then fiscal drag again.

Now of course, the stimulus is geared towards higher income earners. Traditionally, they are assumed to have a lower inclination to spend.

Frankly, I'm not so sure that that's quite as true as it used to be, but there is a tendency there. So, you know, it's an -- it's a moderate boost

to the economy.

But then you've got to offset that with everything that's going on with the trade, tax is which are just a sales tax with a clever bit of rebranding.

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So, the sales tax that the tariffs are representing is going to be a drag. As I said, the impact of the taxes that have already been imposed on trade

that's going to be showing up in consumer baskets in July and August. That's the first we're going to be feeling the effects in the United

States.

With regards to the latest announcements, they're being pushed out into the future, so that's less of a drag. So, I think we've got a fairly sluggish

economy, a rather mediocre economy in the United States in the second half of this year, inflation will be ticking up.

I think unemployment will probably be ticking up. I think it already is; to be perfectly honest, it's just the official data isn't very good quality.

It's not properly picking up on what's happening there.

ANDERSON: Right. So, sounds like you don't see an argument for further cuts in rates anytime soon. Jerome Powell, the Fed Chairman under an awful lot

of pressure to do exactly that from this U.S. administration. He's received a letter from Donald Trump, as if he didn't already know how U.S. President

felt about him.

He certainly knows now, just give me your sense of where you see the sort of you know the rate outlook at this point, and again, you know how that

might impact things going forward?

DONOVAN: Well, I would not claim to be Fed Chair Powell's greatest supporter by any stretch of the imagination. But I think that the chair is

in a rather difficult position, because what you have got at the moment is just wave after wave of uncertainty about how the U.S. economy is going to

react. So how big are the tariffs actually going to be?

Do you -- do we get the retreats that everybody is expecting? And if so, where does Trump retreat to? So, there's that whole confusion. We've got

confusion about how U.S. manufacturers respond. Do they raise their prices because their foreign competitors are being taxed.

Do we see retailers engaging in profit led inflation? And we've seen, certainly some warning signs that that may be happening, where they expand

their profit margin, putting up prices and say, no, no, it's not us, its tariffs, even if it's actually just then increasing profit.

So, all of these factors come in, and it creates this uncertainty, uncertainty over the labor market. We know companies are slowing the pace

of hiring. Are they going to start firing? So, Trump's policy uncertainty, unpredictability, creates a real dilemma for the Fed.

I think that if we see the labor market weakening, the Fed could then cut rates, even though inflation will be going up, because the Fed will be

saying yes, but look, in 12 months-time, the inflation story is going to be over, and we're going to be looking at a weak labor market, weak consumer

spending, and that's going to be the focus.

But if you get too much of what we would call the second-round inflation effect. So that's things which have been spurred on by the tariffs, but

aren't directly the tariffs themselves. Then the Fed's in a real quandary, because second round inflation is not a good thing, and the Fed might be

then inclined to delay on any rate cuts. On balance, I think we probably do get a couple of rate cuts in the latter part of this year, but it is a

tricky position, frankly.

ANDERSON: That's fascinating. Paul always good to have you. Paul Donovan is Chief Economist of UBS Global Wealth joining me today from London. Thank

you, sir. More news after this.

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ANDERSON: Well, the Wimbledon men's semifinals are today out first American, Taylor Fritz right now on center court against two-time defending

champion Carlos Alcaraz. Meantime, a huge upset on Thursdays American Amanda Anisimova defeated world number one Anna Sabalenka. Don is with us

now. Let's start with the women's. There will be somebody who is very tired of facing Americans at this point.

DON RIDDELL, CNN WORLD SPORT: Yeah, world number one Aryna Sabalenka Becky must be absolutely sick and tired of the sight of American players in major

tournaments. Remember, she lost to Madison Keys in the final of the Australian Open, she lost to Coco Gauff in the final of the French Open.

And now, with what seemed like the tournament there for the taking, she was knocked out by the 13th seed Anisimova in the semis on Thursday. And

Anisimova is an incredible story. She has been highly regarded for many, many years, but she took a mental health break in 2023 she became an artist

for a brief period, and she was criticized for that.

A lot of people thought she would never get back to this level. And here she is into her first major final. We'll tell you more about that on World

Sport.

ANDERSON: Well, that's a terrific story. Thank you, sir, always good to have you. Don's back with "World Sport" after this short break, I'll be

back top of the hour.

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