Performance dividend. Live now to our middle east Business Correspondent sameer hashmi. Samir, Rhe Saudi State remains overwhelmingly aramco s biggest shareholder, so they remain the big winner in the aramco story. Well, thats right. They own around 90 of the company and the payout, the bulk of it, will go to the saudi government. If you look at aramco, every quarter they have been paying about 19. 8 billion of dividend. This time they have added another amount to that amount, because they said the cash flows are healthy and thatis said the cash flows are healthy and that is why they have decided to increase that overall dividend, which will be beneficial for the saudi government because it relies heavily on the Aramco Generating revenues for it, and that will help them in their Oil Diversification programme. They are these mega infrastructure projects, new tourist destinations. All this is being done keeping in that oil demand will decrease in years to come and they will have to come
fewer than five hours out from the cnn republican presidential debate and nikki haley and ron desantis facing off five days before iowa voters set the race, is this a fight for second place? else on capitol hill when hunter biden shows up unexpectedly crashing a hearing holding him in contempt of congress. you are the epitome of white privilege, coming into the oversight committee and spitting in her face. we can hear from hunter biden. you should have the courtesy and don t act like nimrods. hunter biden abruptly walked out. a judge says not so fast on donald trump taking the stand. welcome to the lead, i am pamela brown, jake tapper is out, he will moderate the republican presidential debate with dana bash between ron desantis and nikki haley, the two candidates searching for a breakthrough that could position them to become the one and only viable challenger to donald trump who is the favorite to win his search straight republican nomination. nikki haley trails d
what comes next for israel? we re going to discuss with a former member of the knesset. the true story behind the ousting apartments first black president. spoiler alert, it wasn t about plagiarism. we will discuss the conservative effort to get claudine gay removed. another hour of velshi begins right now. good morning it is sunday, january the 7th. it is orthodox christmas. i m ali velshi. if you paid any attention at all to the u.s. jobs report at any point over the next three years, there s a good chance you heard the phrase, better than expected. you probably heard it again over the past few days, following the latest report for december. 216,000 net new jobs were created. much better than expected, per cnbc. in the old days, we d say than 150,000 or more jobs created in one month was good. there are now one point 42 open positions for every job seeker in america. while every available job is not matched to every available job seeker, mathematically, america has more j
my innovation journey starts inland, south of morocco s major cities and mighty atlas mountains, just north of the sahara desert, near the quiet outpost of ouarzazate. this part of saharan morocco is known as the door of the desert. the landscape out here, it s almost like it s from another world. feels like we could be on mars. these plains receive three times the sun as parts of northern europe. ..and are home to a world leading project of staggering scale. this is noor, a solar power station, putting morocco at the forefront of pioneering renewable technology. i m used to feeling small, but this makes me feel even smaller. hello, abed, salam. hello, my friend, salam. nice to meet you. nice to meet you, too. this is incredible! and lots of sun. lots of sun, yeah. which is what we want for something like this. yeah. this is not an ordinary solarfield. panels with over 7,000 mirrors follow the sun. and i can hear lots of sounds at the moment. it s quite eerie. is that the pan
we will start in saudi arabia where the syrian president is due to address the arab league summit shortly. it is his first appearance at the gathering of more than 12 years after syria was thrown out of the block in response to its suppression of pro democracy protests. basher al assad was formally welcomed back by the saudi cramping is who said he hoped his presence would help notjust the stability of syria but the wider region. president zelensky also made an unannounced visit. he urged arabic leaders not to ignore the reality of what was happening in ukraine. anyone how defence has had to learn from invaders, and anyone can defends children of his nation from enslavement, the search query is on the part ofjustice. and i m proud to represent such warriors and the entire ukrainian people. ukraine has never chosen i would choose did not go to other lengths. we do not engage in annexations and plunder of other nations resources, but we will never submit to any foreigners were