We're gonna turn now to The Middle East. We're gonna go to Bloomberg News deputy UAE

bureau chief, Abir Abu Omar, because one of the things we've been talking about, Abir, is

how Gulf countries are reacting to this conflict. Not only how they're taking fire from Iran,

how they're dealing with that, but how they're reacting, how they're dealing with The US, and

whether or not they're trying to make moves to handle security on their own. Can you

just kind of walk us through what's going on in the region and how the GCC

countries are feeling?

Good morning, Christina. So, yes, you're absolutely right. Gulf countries aren't focused when it comes to

this widening parameters of this conflict. You mentioned that the Houthis, had, reacted this morning joining,

the conflict. They've not part of it for the past month or so, but are now

part of it. So we're seeing the conflict really taking different shapes. When it comes to

Gulf countries, including the biggest two in the region, is The United Arab Emirates and Saudi

Arabia, those countries we reported earlier are considering possibly weighing, options to come in militarily. Now

this will only be the case if Iran attacks some vital infrastructure, including desalination plants, for

example, in Saudi Arabia or The United Arab Emirates. Iran has continued its attacks against Gulf

countries into the early hours of this morning, including, as you mentioned earlier, a base in

Saudi Arabia, but also, the KZAT facility in close to Abu Dhabi on the way from

Dubai to Abu Dhabi, but also Kuwait's airport and a facility in Oman as well, which

has been a mediator. But Gulf countries are secretly telling reporters, we also reported earlier, that

Gulf countries are starting to get really frustrated and angry at Iran and Iran's relentless attacks,

but also the lack of objectives or the lack of clarity on the objectives from the

American from the US administration, from president Donald Trump's administration. And they really fear a scenario

here where the Trump administration reaches a deal with Iran, but it doesn't really dictate what

it could be like in the future. Now I mentioned earlier that Gulf countries, including UAE

officials, have told us in the past that they were really anxious over Iran crossing red

lines. Iran has done so now. It's crossed those red lines. It's attacked them directly. And

so that is something that they're gonna need some guarantees over when it comes to future

purposes.

Abir, help us understand the way that the attacks that we saw yesterday are reverberating around

the region. So they were preceded by the president saying that he was gonna put in

place this pause on attacking power plants, energy infrastructure. Seems Israel did that on the heels

of that announcement from from the president. How is that more degradation of infrastructure playing out

across the the region?

Look. I mean, the the president did say that he's not gonna attack plants and until

the deadline of April 6, comes through. You mentioned earlier that he's given that deadline of

April 6 until 8PM, where no no plants are gonna be attacked and for Iran to

come back to the negotiation table. But we've seen attacks from both sides. Israel attacked a

attacked a heavy water reactor facility in a nuclear plant in Iran yesterday. That led to

the Houthis this morning attacking Israel. And so, you know, what is happening in the region

is what I've been hearing from a lot of officials over the past week is this

whiplash effect where you get a lot of these geopolitical headlines from president Trump, but also

from Iran saying we're coming back to negotiating table with Iran to counter saying that's actually

not gonna happen. The the plans or the proposals that have been thrown by both sides

have been, by some people, nicknamed as a wish list. Uh-huh. But it is a starting

position by both Iran and The US. But the attacks have been continuing, possibly not on

nuclear plants or wider, energy facilities, but they have been going on across all the Gulf

Arab nations and others.