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00:00Well, Syrians have taken to the streets of the capital of Damascus to celebrate Donald Trump's decision to lift long-running U.S. economic sanctions.
00:09Residents in Damascus praised Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who advocated ending sanctions dating back to the rule of the deposed Assad government.
00:21Mr. Trump made the announcement in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, where he started his tour of Gulf Arab states.
00:27He also signed a record $142 billion arms deal with the Crown Prince.
00:32Our North America editor, Sarah Smith, is in Riyadh.
00:37This was an extra special VVIP welcome.
00:41And Donald Trump had even chosen a tie to match the lavender-coloured carpet that greeted him as he arrived in Saudi Arabia.
00:49The Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman knows how to flatter a man who'd love to have these royal trappings at his own disposal.
00:57An honour guard of Arabian horses accompanied the presidential limo to the royal palace.
01:04Donald Trump brought along his current best buddy, Elon Musk, and a selection of other top American business leaders, because business is what this trip's all about, securing hundreds of billions of dollars of Saudi investment in American firms.
01:18As you know, we have the biggest business leaders in the world here.
01:22They're going to walk away with a lot of checks or a lot of things that you're going to provide.
01:28And in the United States, it's probably two million jobs that we're talking about.
01:32Donald Trump came here to sign big economic deals he hopes will deliver jobs and prosperity to the US.
01:38Inevitably, the wars in Gaza and Ukraine will be discussed.
01:43He can't avoid global politics.
01:45But mostly, he wants to be seen as a dealmaker who's delivering for America.
01:51He said it is these kind of commercial deals that will create a peaceful future for the Middle East,
01:56as he announced that the US is restoring normal relations with Syria for the first time in over 10 years.
02:01I will be ordering the cessation of sanctions against Syria in order to give them a chance at greatness.
02:11Overshadowing his trip is the gift of this $400 million plane from the state of Qatar, where he's visiting tomorrow.
02:18That's provoked fierce criticism from opponents and friends.
02:22He wants to refit the luxurious interior to use it as Air Force One for presidential travel,
02:27insisting it would be stupid to look a gift plane in the mouth.
02:31By contrast, it is a golf cart that's driving him to dinner with the man he calls his great friend, Mohammed bin Salman.
02:40Donald Trump clearly believes that it is by doing deals with friends like these he can try to reshape the Middle East.
02:46Sarah Smith, BBC News, Riyadh.
02:49Efrat Sofa is chair of the Board of Advisors at the Esri Centre for Iran and Gulf States Research at Haifa University.
02:57She is also a Gulf Nations Specialist.
03:01And talk me through this trip President Trump is making.
03:05What we see in Saudi Arabia and in the wider Trump trip to the Gulf is indeed President Trump's emphasis on the concepts of security and prosperity going hand in hand.
03:21We are seeing this with the $600 billion trade deal, including the $142 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia.
03:33And at the same time, the UAE has declared that there will be a $1.4 trillion deal with the U.S., both for defence and interestingly, an AI deal where the UAE wants to become an AI leader.
03:53So this is the art of the deal personified with Statecraft at the same time.
04:00But also as well, big businesses is really gaining.
04:04Elon Musk's Starlink is getting some really lovely deals.
04:07He was there at the Riyadh Investment Conference, as was the boss of NVIDIA.
04:12They're doing great deals with Humane of Saudi Arabia, supplying all the chips.
04:17It looks like a win-win, doesn't it?
04:19This is the way that the Trump administration is portraying it.
04:24And I think it can be interpreted as a win-win.
04:28And it very much mirrors the policies of the Gulf states, where prosperity and trade are seen as a diplomatic tool.
04:38At the same time, we cannot also ignore the context where the USA is also negotiating with Iran at the same time.
04:49And if we look at Trump's speech yesterday, he did highlight the difference between the constructive vision of Saudi leaders, for example,
04:59versus the collapse and suffering headed and caused by the Iranian regime.
05:07So it's interesting messaging also to the other states that the U.S. is negotiating with at the moment.