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SpaceX Launches Most Powerful Rocket Ever, Aiming for Orbit; Pope Leo to Hold Mass at Cathedral in Metz, France; Investigation Reopens on Alleged Gang Rape at Cornell University; Trump Rejects Iran's Proposal to Reopen Strait of Hormuz; Messi Nets Incredible Goal ahead of Argentina Farewell. Aired 9-10a ET
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ELENI GIOKOS, CNN HOST, CONNECT THE WORLD: Right, you're looking at live pictures, live streaming of Starship X, which launched just a few minutes
ago. Really, a fantastic moment that we're sharing with you. The Starship is aiming to make its first orbital flight, an orbit that is set to around
10 hours, is the estimate right now.
We're still waiting to hear news on that and whether it can achieve orbit. It is 05:00 p.m. here in Abu Dhabi. I'm Eleni Giokos. This is "Connect the
World". Also coming up, questions swirl over a suspected terror plot targeting an English air base used in the U.S. war on Iran. The details on
that coming up.
Plus, Pope Leo gets set for the final mass on his historic trip to France. We're live in Paris. Right, we're just 30 minutes away from the start of
trading on Wall Street. I want to quickly take a look at how futures are faring, and as you can see, it's red all round. The NASDAQ down half a
percent, DOW also taking a bit of a knock today.
Oil prices are much higher, so clearly, we're seeing a bit of a negative sentiment that's coming through because of the oil market and geopolitics
still very much front and center. But I want to show you this because we have liftoff, SpaceX, Starship, the most powerful rocket ever made, has
launched its 14th test flight and now aiming for orbit for the first time ever.
It is a massive leap forward for SpaceX and testing again. If all goes according to plan, the rocket will make six laps around the Earth and
deploy dozens of Starlink's internet satellites in space. The mission is set to take 10 hours in total, and this comes as SpaceX faces intense
pressure to get Starship ready for a crucial NASA flight test next year, which could pave the way for the next moon landing.
For more on what we can expect from Starship's launch into orbit, we've got Former NASA Astronauts David Wolf joining us live from Houston, Texas.
David, so good to have you on. What a moment? I mean, you're watching the images while we're watching the images, and I mean, obviously, this launch
passing that crucial test. Now, the big question is, can it get into orbit? What are you seeing? What are you reading into the images?
DAVID WOLF, FORMER NASA ASTRONAUT: Well, it looks good to me. I've just started watching in the last few minutes, but this represents America being
premier in space, the absolute top of the space program in the world, which is with the position we need to retain, both as a battleground and for
peaceful purposes.
GIOKOS: All right. So, we're watching some of the images back, and clearly this is the 14th flight. So, it is to get to orbit to orbit the Earth six
times to launch satellites. So, this is quite significant. Just give me a sense of -- good work that goes into this.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All right, a little more than 35 seconds into the flight. 33 out of 33 engines lit on super heavy. The windows shaking a bit
here as the --.
GIOKOS: All right, David. We're just showing that moment of lift off, that incredible moment. I want you to give me a sense of the work that goes into
the test flights, the effort that goes in to pull something like this off, and the risks involved. Because if it doesn't get into orbit, this would be
ultimately deemed as you know a failure. Need to try again. We don't know just yet. We're waiting.
WOLF: So, it is an enormous effort by a huge team, but you -- they have a philosophy at SpaceX that I like, which is rapid prototyping, rapid
testing, driving the failures out early. So really, even if we saw a total disassembly unscheduled here, it would still have a large success impact.
We play too much on does it explode or not. We want to do all the exploding now, not later.
GIOKOS: Yeah. So, we -- but the aim is to get into orbit and to go around Earth six times, launch satellites into space.
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This would be quite an important feat, and as you were talking about, sort of, you know, the doors that it opens for further space exploration and for
innovation within the sector.
WOLF: Absolutely, it represents our pre-eminence as Americans and with our international partners in space. Space is the next high ground, both for
manufacturing, many purposes, exploration, and even as a battlefield.
GIOKOS: So, we're also expecting to hear from NASA and Boeing later today. We know that SpaceX has basically been facing quite a bit of pressure for a
crucial NASA test flight that's supposed to happen next year. Give me a sense of what you'd be looking for in terms of SpaceX being ready for a
mission of that magnitude.
WOLF: So obviously, we need to -- they need to. I say we because it really is the whole country. Establish orbit and establish re-entry, and it's just
incredible to reuse a vehicle of this size and capability. And that is a total paradigm shift that puts us way out in front in the world stage in
space. We need to retain that position. This represents that these flights that we're watching America attain pre-eminence right here.
GIOKOS: All right. Well, David Wolf, thank you so very much.
WOLF: -- we expect them to land.
GIOKOS: We all be glued to our screens in terms of the next step. Yeah, and that's the expectation. I mean, while you're still on with me, we know this
is the latest. This is the latest that's just come through. SpaceX is still weighing whether to send Starship into orbit.
They're running through extensive checks, as we understand, before committing to firing the Starship spacecraft's engine up for the second
time and heading into orbit. So, we're watching this very closely. They said that that burn is expected to last around 25 minutes into flight.
They're evaluating to see if all the systems are working. David Wolf. Thank you so much for joining us today. As we say, we're keeping close watch on
this significant launch. Much appreciated.
All right, I want to move on to another story we're monitoring. A military air base in South West England is under heightened security, and five men
are under arrest after a suspected terrorist plot was foiled. Officials descended on the area early Sunday morning after receiving a report of
suspicious activity.
The base has been used by the U.S. to launch attacks on targets in Iran. And the men who were detained are being held for questioning. U.S.
President Donald Trump says they were being watched.
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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: The arrest in the UK was fantastic. Working with Britain, it was an amazing job. We had them
under investigation. They were looking to do big damage to our fort.
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GIOKOS: Our International Diplomatic Editor Nic Robertson is on the scene near RAF Fairford. He had this update a short time ago. Take a look.
NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: The base had been on some kind of security lockdown, so that most civilians had left the base.
There wasn't the normal activity in this village. It's normally bustling with people coming off the base to get a bite to eat or a cup of coffee or
whatever it is.
The sort of atmosphere here had changed in the past week. And there was a sense that there was a sort of a raised threat level going on at the base.
The locals around here had seen big diggers put across the base gates to make it impossible for anyone to slam a vehicle and drive into the base
that way.
And I was just talking with a local farmer here, who's the person who spotted this suspicious activity with the three vans and the men and called
it into the police, which is what then triggered the police response. This is how she described the moments of coming home in the early hours of the
morning and discovering this unusual, bizarre scene happening right by her farm.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: One of the vans had some strange sign writing on it, and just because I've had a little bit. If you live in Welford, you will
have had a little bit to do with undercover policing, and I looked at and thought that's not real. Just the way the number was written on the side of
the van.
And my initial reaction then was maybe this is the police under cover because they're trying to watch, and our driveway is such an obvious place
to get right up to the fence of the base. So, I thought that's why the vans are there, because that would be a really good idea to block that access to
the fence of the base.
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ROBERTSON: The British Defense Secretary has said, look, she has a partial picture of what was going on. But UK officials are not revealing what else
they may have known that was happening behind the scenes and nature of any particular threat that may have come, and this is a base that has been
threatened by Iran before, because this is a base used by the U.S. Air Force B-1 Lancer bombers to have those deep strikes inside of Iran.
So, it's drawn attention in that way. It has drawn threats from the IRGC in Iran that they would respond and attack the base, but there does seem to
have been something that was happening in the past week that put everyone here on alert that evening.
But of course, people here, farmers, one of them, saying if there was such a level of alert, why wasn't there more sort of force protection or patrols
outside of the base. Why did it take a farmer to spot something strange and get the police activated?
GIOKOS: Right, Nic Robertson reporting there for us now. U.S. President is sending mixed signals about what comes next in the war with Iran. Donald
Trump hinting at the possibility of more talks this week in an interview with "AXIOS", after he called Iran's latest proposal to reopen the Strait
of Hormuz unacceptable.
The U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. says one issue for the U.S. is lack of clarity on whether Iranian negotiators actually represent the views of
Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who has not been seen in public since the start of the war. Iran's foreign minister says his country is awaiting a
defensive response to its latest proposal and is prepared for any possible outcome. Here is on NBC. Take a look.
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ABBAS ARAGHCHI, IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER: We care about our national interests. We are ready to negotiate as much as we are ready to face any
challenge. We stand firm in the face of any challenge, any aggression sorry. We stand firm in the face of any aggression against us, even it
comes to a doomsday war. At the same time, we are ready for diplomacy.
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GIOKOS: All right, we've got Paula Hancocks with us here in studio in Abu Dhabi, and you've been tracking developments. Really interesting, the
signaling from both President Trump and Abbas Araghchi, the Foreign Minister of Iran, saying we want to get into conversations, but they're so
far apart in terms of what both sides want. How do they come together? What are you hearing?
PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, at this point, we are hearing suggestions that there will be talks this week. I mean, President Trump
himself said to "AXIOS" he's expecting these talks between the two sides through the mediators to continue this week. We saw last week on the
sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly they were talking, and at that point, a U.S. official told CNN it was positive.
It was constructive, and so what we're hearing about talks is heading in the right direction. But at the same time, you also have this proposal that
Iran has put forward, giving the U.S. 7 days to agree to certain conditions, and then they will start to talk properly, and then they will
reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Now we don't have the exact details of that proposal, but we're told it doesn't go much further than the memorandum of understanding, which was
signed in June, and effectively both sides have ignored it since that point, as we've seen this increase in hostilities.
So, you do have positive sounds of talks resuming, but at the same time, you have the U.S. President saying we're not going to agree to that
proposal. It's unacceptable. Maybe a year ago, that would have been what we were looking for from Iran, but Iran has overplayed its hand.
So, I mean, obviously, for those of us living in the region, you want to hear that there are going to be talks rather than there is going to be a
resumption of hostilities. But the two sides are vastly differing in what they want. Iran wants this naval blockade lifted as soon as possible.
The Trump Administration thinks that it's working quite well, and they have managed to prevent Iran getting any oil out into the world since July,
according to Central Command. Iran wants frozen assets unfrozen. It wants sanctions relief, something which the Trump Administration certainly is not
willing to do at this point.
GIOKOS: Yeah, and it just seems that a lot of it sort of leads to the Strait of Hormuz and what happens there, whether it's going to become an
international waterway again. It's one of those hot button issues. But Paula, thank you so much for being on the story for us. Interesting times
as always.
Right, right now Pope Leo the 14th is in the City of Metz, where he's wrapping up his fourth day visit to France. In the next hour, he will
celebrate Mass at the city's Cathedral of Saint Severin before departing for. Vatican. CNN's Melissa Bell is following the Pope's historic visit.
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Melissa, good to see you. Look, Pope Leo wraps up his four-day pilgrimage to France in Metz today. How has he been received by the French people
during his visit? I mean, what is the message that he's trying to send on this tour?
MELISSA BELL, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: I think there were a couple of different messages aimed at different audiences. First of all, to
France's Catholics, we saw the enthusiasm with which they headed out onto the streets. We saw them line the streets of Paris to watch the Pope travel
2.5 kilometers on his way to Notre Dame to see the restored cathedral.
Their exuberance, their enthusiasm. We saw 80,000 of the youths that had been assembled at the Stade de France to hear him on Friday night. Again,
remarkable by their enthusiasm, it was the Stade de France welcoming a pop star really, that's what it felt like when we stood outside and we saw them
arrive, sort of singing and chanting and just really happy that they were going to get their chance to see him.
And then, of course, the big moment was all of those crowds that lined the Champs Elysee on Saturday to hear his mass. 1.3 million people came out in
the end between Paris and Noelle Eleni to hear or see or get a chance of catching a glimpse of the Pope, and that speaks to something that Pope Leo
XIV spoke to while he was here, which is the resurgence in Catholic faith here in France.
So, there's been a growth in the number of baptisms, for instance. We've interviewed a number of young people who hadn't been raised in Catholic
families and have gone back to the Catholic faith. Nonetheless, we've spoken to digital influencers who are managing to lure the young once again
to the pews of a church that had felt for a while more moribund in terms of its numbers.
So, that's something that he celebrated while he was here, and that we definitely felt on the streets of Paris. But this is, of course, Eleni
country that's more famous for its secularism than it is for its religious fervor, and that was his other message. He visited a migrant center, and
just today in Metz for his final step, he had this very important, much more political speech to make about the importance of European integration,
have a listen.
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POPE LEO XIV, HEAD OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: International law and multilateralism emphasize the genuine equality of states in their relations
and constitute the best antidote to the desire for domination, which lies at the root of every conflict. Today, relations between individuals and
states are becoming increasingly uncivilized. The value of keeping one's word is dismissed. Instead, people boast of lies and deceit.
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BELL: It was about essentially how European integration and the ideals and the values that it embodies go back to Christian ideas. And I think it was
important because we've made this point before, Eleni, about Pope Leo XIV. This here is the other big American leader, global leader of the moment,
petting a very different image than we hear from President Trump, not least on the question of European integration and the importance of maintaining
peace and those sorts of values that underpinned it.
So, a couple of different messages for different audiences, and I think it's noteworthy that President Macron, who chosen to welcome the Pope to
receive him at the Elysee but not to attend the big mass on Saturday, did in the end change his schedule to make it to the mass that's to be held in
Metz, the final stop of Pope Leo XIV's historic visit to France. Eleni.
GIOKOS: Yeah, and also just the messaging on multilateralism, so really notable there. Melissa Bell, thank you so much. You're watching "Connect
the World". Still to come, we'll explain how allegations by a former Cornell University student have reopened a criminal investigation, and
spotlight how American universities handle sexual assault claims. We'll explain after this.
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GIOKOS: New York prosecutors are reopening an investigation into an alleged gang rape of a former student at Cornell University in 2024. This comes
after the woman's lawyer filed a civil lawsuit. The woman identified as Jane Doe alleges in the suit that seven of members of Cornell's Chi Pai
fraternity drugged and sexually assaulted her.
None of the seven have been criminally charged. The country's district attorney told ABC his office did not bring charges at the time because the
woman did not include allegations of assault or drugging. However, her lawyer told CNN the police report was not materially different from the
civil complaint.
CNN's Gloria Pazmino has been following the story for us. She's live in New York with the latest. Gloria, really good to have you with us. Can you
start off by telling us about the allegations in the civil lawsuit and what led up to Jane Doe filing the suit?
GLORIA PAZMINO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, Eleni, I think we should start with the last part that you mentioned, right, the DA now saying that he is
reopening the investigation. But also acknowledging that what Jane Doe told investigators at the time of the alleged incident back in 2024 is different
from what she is claiming in this lawsuit.
We should mention that the details of this are disturbing and graphic, and I want to start at the beginning right. Back in 2024, October of 2024 is
when this assault allegedly took place. Now, it accuses seven members of Chi Phi fraternity on the campus of Cornell University, and following an
investigation, students were expelled and others received lesser punishment, including having to write written assignments.
The fraternity was also barred from the campus, but no charges or arrests were made. This is all according to the lawsuit. Now, as I said, the
county, the district attorney for Tompkins County, which is where Cornell University is located, is saying today that he is reopening the
investigation, and I want to start with his statement.
He said that quote, it is our intention to present the case to the Tompkins County grand jury with Jane Doe's cooperation. We want to re-examine
whether there is additional evidence that we were not aware of in November of 2024, that exists now and would change our assessment of the case and
would result in the grand jury finding that there was criminal conduct.
Now let's get to the allegations, right? Because we're learning from this civil suit filed by Jane Doe that she was 20-years-old at the time of the
alleged incident. She started out her night at a party at her own sorority house. She acknowledges she had been drinking, and then she ended at
another party at Chi Phi's fraternity house.
It was once she was inside that house that she alleges seven members of the fraternity gave her alcohol, drugged her, and sexually assaulted her. And
then there is evidence provided in the lawsuit in the form of a group chat, which appears to show the fraternity members talking about the sexual
assault taking place and inviting other members to partake.
Now her attorney says that that piece of crucial evidence was not reviewed or included as part of the DA's initial investigation back in 2024. Let's
hear from the attorney for Jane Doe, who told us in a statement, other than her initial contact with Cornell police she was not contacted by
investigators from the Tompkins County District Attorney's Office, or any investigators trained in interviewing rape survivors.
Now, Eleni, I have to say, in the last few days, this new lawsuit and the details in it have gotten a lot of reaction, both from members of Congress.
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Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez from New York was actually in Ithaca over the weekend, where Cornell University is located. She spoke out about this
case. Celebrities have started weighing in. And this morning we heard from Cornell University, which issued a new statement saying that any suggestion
that the university did not impose consequential punishments for those involved is false.
A continuation of these false narratives that there were minimal consequences in this case is irresponsible. Will make survivors feel safe
and supported, and will perpetuate the underreporting of sexual assault. The last point I'll make, Eleni, is that the Cornell University response
also says that the complainant, so the victim in this case, as well as the respondents, the seven students that were accused, were given an
opportunity to testify as part of their 2024 investigation.
It says that at the conclusion of that investigation, a panel issued a range of sanctions, which included suspensions and expulsions from the
university, Eleni.
GIOKOS: Yeah, I mean, there's as you say, huge reaction to the story. And I just wonder, Gloria, if you've seen if we've seen any response from the
seven fraternity members named in the suit.
PAZMINO: Yeah, we have actually, Eleni. We have been able to reach one attorney for one of the accused fraternity brothers. He tells us that his
client is denying any wrongdoing. And we are still working to determine legal representation for the other accused fraternity brothers.
This is a complicated case, Eleni. And as we have seen over the years, you know this is certainly putting a spotlight back on university campuses and
how they handle these allegations of sexual assault and misconduct on campus.
GIOKOS: Yeah.
PAZMINO: A very complicated case, a disturbing case, and I think we'll be learning a lot more in the next few days.
GIOKOS: Well, Gloria Pazmino, great to have you on the story. Thank you so much. All right, we are a few minutes to go on start of trade, I want to
quickly check in on the numbers. As you can see, a down day will bring you the numbers as the opening bell rings in New York. Don't go anywhere.
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GIOKOS: Welcome back. I'm Eleni Giokos in Abu Dhabi, and you're watching "Connect the World". I want to bring you up to speed on our top story.
SpaceX's Starship is now in orbit around the Earth for the first time. It is a milestone for SpaceX, and if the mission goes to plan, Starship will
complete six orbits of Earth.
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That's going to take around 10 hours. The spacecraft has started deploying dozens of Starlink internet satellites into space. And in the background,
you can hear the start of open up trade in New York. And of course, really important day.
It is Monday, and a very important day indeed because we've had a lot of volatility in markets over the past few weeks. And today we're focusing
again on what's happening on the oil market, geopolitics very much front and center.
DOW Jones is down around seven tenths of a percent, and really tracking what we're seeing with concerns in the oil market as well. U.S. trading day
really going to be contingent on a lot of the economic data that we're waiting for in the rest of the week. That's really going to be driving
market sentiment. You can see S&P and NASDAQ also losing around half a percent.
OK, so moving on from this, I want to quickly take a look. If we've got this, I want to take a look at Brent Crude as well as WTI, and we've been
seeing a rise in both of those indices as we're concerned in terms of what's happening in the Strait of Hormuz.
As you can see, there WTI up just over 2 percent sitting at $94 a barrel. Brent Crude sitting up almost 2 percent. And of course, President Trump
over the weekend said he rejected Tehran's proposal to reopen the key waterway, though he remains confident talks with Iran will continue.
Iran, meanwhile, says it's still waiting for a definitive U.S. response through mediators under the proposal the Strait would reopen within seven
days if the U.S. met certain conditions, including its naval blockade and waiving sanctions on Iranian oil.
I want to take a closer look at all of these developments. And importantly, what we've been seeing in terms of market analysis. There is a concern that
a drawn-out war will create a lot more concern around jet fuel prices, around fertilizer prices, and of course, Brent Crude as well as WTI, which
we just showed you as well.
All right, so let's move on from there. And importantly, we mentioned SpaceX, which of course is one of the most exciting things to focus on
right now. We showed you some of the live images coming through from there as well. And of course, the other big story that we're going to be focusing
on is the oil market.
We're now back on track in fact. I want to welcome Noureldeen Al Hammoury, Chief Market Strategist for Equiti Group, joining us. We've been tick-
talking in terms of the big stories, but we want to talk about what's happening on oil. There is major concern around what happens with the
United States and Iran, whether they can see eye-to-eye.
It seems to a lot of people the Strait of Hormuz, whether it's going to be reopened as an international waterway, has become one of the big hot button
issues. Give us a sense from your analysis in terms of where you see things going and what the markets, importantly, are pricing in?
NOURELDEEN AL HAMMOURY, CHIEF MARKET STRATEGIST, EQUITI GROUP: I think at least the most of the immediate move is still geopolitical risk premium,
rather than just basically a fresh physical change in the oil market in general.
Markets are still pricing in, despite the fact that the U.S. keeps saying that there's millions of barrels are being transited in the Strait of
Hormuz. Markets are still not seeing that, at least from a trading standpoint. If you look also the difference between WTI and Brent Crude,
markets are still pricing in the risk premium, even after also today Saudi Arabia announced that they are basically restarting the east-west pipeline.
Still, the reaction is still considered limited. So, I think it's not about how many barrels now is basically transiting to the market, but it's how
reliable this the situation is. Because as we all know, since the beginning of this conflict, each time we talk about the deal or very close to a deal,
the market used to react to it.
But now it's not about just whether we get into a deal, but how confident are we that this deal will actually continue and will continue actually to
be stable for the foreseeable future?
GIOKOS: Yeah, and I think importantly, you know what the deal entails? And I think Iran has been very clear that time and time again it doesn't want
to see the Strait of Hormuz returning back to what it was pre-war. And we just don't know what that new future would look like.
And I wonder how much of that has really been taken into account in terms of flows through the Strait of Hormuz? And it's not just about oil and jet
fuel. It's about other key commodities, an important and important lifeline for goods coming in to the Gulf region.
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HAMMOURY: Absolutely. I mean, as I said, it's more of a reliability issue more than, than just basically to come up to come up with a deal. We saw an
improvement, yes, over the past couple of -- couple weeks when it comes to exports, and when they say exports, export recovered toward about 12.8
million barrels per day, which is again the strongest the strongest level since the conflict began.
But before the war, also they were closer to 18.8 million barrels per day. So, there's still a very large, still a very large gap. And the key point
is here also that higher export tells us that supply is recovering, but they do not tell us also that the supply system is secure. Availability and
reliability are two different things.
GIOKOS: Yeah. So, as it stands right now, I mean, Brent Crude sitting up 2 percent. It's just over $106 a barrel. WTI just over $94 a barrel. What are
you pricing in, in terms of you know oil as well as WTI, where it seems that it could be justified over the next few months if supply demand
remains the same?
HAMMOURY: If it stays the same, that could be. I mean, if you look into just the initial headlines that we're seeing, I mean, it's basically
bearish for oil. But at the same time, the continuous disruption that happens over the past couple of weeks, it is also bullish.
On the other hand, the idea of the U.S. also banning export of diesel, it was supposed to be just to put some downward pressure on oil, but
unfortunately this is not happening because this would actually increase the idea of the supply shock. You can't just basically contain it in one
country and say that we have enough supply.
So, I think oil prices is still pricing in multiple things. First, it's not or the flow is not reliable enough. We've seen a lot of disruptions. At the
same time, there's no deal in the pipeline, or at least on the horizon, because after the market close on Friday, Trump rejected the proposal
before the market open.
He said also the negotiations will continue this week. So, it is kind of like timing issue, at least for the time being. But we believe, as much or
the more oil prices and bond yields keeps pushing higher, the more that we believe that a deal will be announced at some point.
GIOKOS: OK. So very quickly, President Trump has signalled that they might put a ban on exports of jet fuel from the United States. I mean, this is
creating a lot of concern about jet fuel shortages in the rest of the world. How are you reading into this?
HAMMOURY: That is the same as what we've seen when it comes to diesel. When it comes also to oil in general. At the same time, everybody knows how the
airline or the tourism also sectors suffered over the past couple of months since the beginning of this war.
Yes, it is concerning. But I think at some point we might need to see more pain in order for us to come up to a deal. I think more pain should be
seen, and I think this is not going to take so much time or a long time until we actually feel that pain.
GIOKOS: All right. Really good to have you with us, Noureldeen Al. Much appreciated. All right.
HAMMOURY: Thank you very much.
GIOKOS: So, we're around right halfway through the show in fact, it's just after 09:30. We're going to a very short break. We'll be back right after
this. Stick with CNN.
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GIOKOS: Welcome back. Lionel Messi may be done with international football, but on Sunday he reminded everyone he's still got plenty left in the tank
with another incredible goal to add to his catalogue. We've got Amanda Davis joining us now. I mean, this man never stops. Tell us when it went
down, Amanda.
AMANDA DAVIES, CNN WORLD SPORT: No, Eleni. I mean, as if to rub salt in the wound for Argentina fans. So many of them don't want him to call it a day.
And he is showing them just what they're set to miss. Still being able to do this at 39 years of age, from a virtually impossible angle.
This is the kind of goal and free kick that school children around the world try and do time and time again in the playground, on the pictures in
the park. It is so incredibly difficult to do, but absolutely Leo Messi esque for his 931st goal in the international game for Inter Miami in the
MLS against Columbus Crewe.
I mean, you could watch it again and again and again. We've got plenty more World Sport coming up, though. Just a couple of minutes. There's a big
couple of weeks of international football action, particularly in Europe, we've got some of that coming up.
And of course, Argentina fans have that one final game in just a few days' time against Benin, getting the chance to see him in that famous blue and
white striped shirt for the final time.
GIOKOS: All right, we're going to join you after the short break, for more sports. I'll be back at the top of the hour with more "Connect the World".
Stay tuned.
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