# Trump Signals Possible End to Iran War, Stocks Rebound, Oil Plunges

An episode of [Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia Edition](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1663863437), 10 Mar 2026, 21 min.

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Business and finance news from the Asia-Pacific. President Donald Trump said he would waive oil-related sanctions, have the US Navy escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz and predicted on Monday that the war with Iran would resolve "very soon" as he confronted mounting economic and political pressure and days of dramatic fluctuations in oil markets. The president said he didn't believe the conflict would be over this week, but insisted the operation was ahead of schedule and looked to shore up investors increasingly concerned about energy prices. He vowed bombing "at a much, much harder level" if Iran disrupted oil supplies. For more on the impact Trump's remarks had on the oil market, we spoke to Stephen Stapczynski, Bloomberg's Asia Energy Team Leader. Plus - Australia has granted humanitarian visas to five Iranian female soccer players who sought asylum, citing fears for their safety after the team declined to sing the national anthem during a match on the Gold Coast last week. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Tuesday that the government is willing to provide similar assistance to the rest of the Iranian women's team, the Lionesses, noting that "this is a very delicate situation and it is up to them" to decide. Craig Foster is an Australian retired soccer player and a human rights activist. He spoke to Bloomberg's Haidi Stroud-Watts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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[0:02] Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio News.
[0:11] Speaker 2: Welcome to the Daybreak Asia podcast. I'm dok Krisner. There
[0:14] Speaker 2: certainly have been tremendous swings in the oil markets over
[0:17] Speaker 2: the last twenty four hours.
[0:19] Speaker 3: Now.
[0:19] Speaker 2: The situation in terms of the war with Iran has
[0:22] Speaker 2: been dynamic in both words and actions. Early in the
[0:26] Speaker 2: Asian session on Monday, WTI crude oil rose to nearly
[0:30] Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty dollars, and that in turn prompted
[0:33] Speaker 2: G seven finance ministers to say they were ready to
[0:36] Speaker 2: take any steps necessary to support global energy supply.
[0:41] Speaker 4: Well.
[0:41] Speaker 2: Then, Monday afternoon, in the US, President Trump told CBS
[0:45] Speaker 2: News the operation with Iran is very far ahead of
[0:49] Speaker 2: its initial four to five week timeframe, and Trump went
[0:52] Speaker 2: on to say he's considering taking over the Strait of
[0:55] Speaker 2: Hormuz now. The president's remarks to CBS came after the
[0:59] Speaker 2: oil market closed in New York. However, the equity market
[1:02] Speaker 2: was still open and share prices staged a pretty dramatic turnaround.
[1:07] Speaker 2: The S and P five hundred ended higher by around
[1:10] Speaker 2: eight tens of one percent after having been down one
[1:12] Speaker 2: and a half percent. For a closer look, let's bring
[1:15] Speaker 2: in Bloomberg Steven Stepchinsky. Stephen is team leader for the
[1:19] Speaker 2: Asia Energy Group and he joins us from Singapore. Give
[1:23] Speaker 2: me your sense of what you've been observing in the
[1:25] Speaker 2: oil market lately.
[1:28] Speaker 4: You know, I think what we've seen is a lot
[1:30] Speaker 4: of anxiety, a lot of anxiety because we're in unknown territory.
[1:33] Speaker 4: The straight of horm moves has never been shut for
[1:35] Speaker 4: this long before. It's been over a week. Likewise, we're
[1:39] Speaker 4: starting to see output cuts from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia as
[1:44] Speaker 4: well as the uae AD NOx they're large producers also
[1:48] Speaker 4: adjusting supply. So all of that together is putting us
[1:51] Speaker 4: into an area where the market has never had to
[1:53] Speaker 4: deal with this before. And the big unknown is how
[1:56] Speaker 4: long does this conflict continue for. It's really unclear even
[1:59] Speaker 4: after Trump's statements, whether this is going to be a
[2:02] Speaker 4: quick reversal or if this is something that could continue
[2:05] Speaker 4: for several more weeks or a month. Now the market
[2:08] Speaker 4: is betting that Trump is going to perhaps be able
[2:11] Speaker 4: to wind this up relatively quickly. He made some comments
[2:13] Speaker 4: over the last twelve hours stating that lots of the
[2:17] Speaker 4: operations are done and effectively the US has won, and
[2:20] Speaker 4: there's more winning to be done, but he also wants
[2:23] Speaker 4: to provide some guarantees for the market as well. All
[2:26] Speaker 4: that together is a lot of lip service, whereas the
[2:30] Speaker 4: market is waiting for actual action. Brent opened this morning
[2:34] Speaker 4: in Asia ten percent lower, which indicates that there is
[2:37] Speaker 4: some of that anxiety has been easing. But as long
[2:40] Speaker 4: as the straight up Hormove's mirians shut, it provides about
[2:43] Speaker 4: one fifth of global seaborne oil supply, and if that
[2:46] Speaker 4: doesn't open again quickly, then potentially you could see oil
[2:50] Speaker 4: prices rise again if this doesn't get resolved.
[2:53] Speaker 2: Is it not important to point out, in terms of
[2:55] Speaker 2: the context of this story that right now there's essentially
[2:58] Speaker 2: a global glow in oil.
[3:02] Speaker 4: That's a really good point, and I think that's part
[3:05] Speaker 4: of the reason why it's only been in the last
[3:08] Speaker 4: few basically in the last twenty four hours where we
[3:10] Speaker 4: saw that spike in oil prices and then fall again.
[3:13] Speaker 4: Last week the market was relatively subdued while prices were rising,
[3:17] Speaker 4: there was some anxiety. You do have to remember it,
[3:19] Speaker 4: like you said, that we are facing a glunt opek
[3:21] Speaker 4: plus is has been adding more supply. US oil output
[3:24] Speaker 4: has been very strong. There have been other producers outside
[3:27] Speaker 4: of the Persian Gulf area that has been adding more
[3:30] Speaker 4: oil and barrels into the market. And because of all
[3:32] Speaker 4: of that, you're seeing a much different sort of market
[3:35] Speaker 4: today than potentially wood was seen if it were twenty
[3:38] Speaker 4: twenty two. For example, in twenty twenty two you saw
[3:41] Speaker 4: a really large reaction to Russia's invasion of Ukraine because
[3:45] Speaker 4: the market was much tighter. Now there is an expectation
[3:49] Speaker 4: that they would be able to weather this, if they're
[3:52] Speaker 4: able to make resolution or if this war and you were,
[3:55] Speaker 4: in a ran word, end relatively quickly, but again unsharted tear.
[4:00] Speaker 4: It's unclear how long the straight of woor moves will
[4:03] Speaker 4: may shut, but at least in the short term the
[4:05] Speaker 4: market will be able to weather it. The only issue
[4:08] Speaker 4: is some of the people have to pay for it,
[4:10] Speaker 4: are those in the emerging world. They're paying higher prices
[4:12] Speaker 4: that they usually can't afford, and also to some degree
[4:15] Speaker 4: energy shortages.
[4:17] Speaker 2: So, Steven, is it your sense then that volatility is
[4:20] Speaker 2: likely to continue. We're not out of the woods so
[4:22] Speaker 2: to speak yet.
[4:24] Speaker 4: Oh absolutely. I mean, I think when you talk to
[4:26] Speaker 4: the traders, when you look at the market action over
[4:28] Speaker 4: the last few days, volatility has come back, and it's
[4:31] Speaker 4: actually I would say that the volatility in the market
[4:35] Speaker 4: had been subdued or getting more subdued over the last
[4:38] Speaker 4: few years. There was a lot of volatility in twenty
[4:40] Speaker 4: twenty two with the war in Ukraine. That sort of
[4:42] Speaker 4: began to ease as more oil into the market as
[4:45] Speaker 4: the market became more balanced. Now we're back and basically
[4:49] Speaker 4: the volatility era that we saw about four years ago.
[4:53] Speaker 4: And if you just look at what happened over the
[4:55] Speaker 4: last twenty four hours, oil prices spiked WTI. The US
[5:00] Speaker 4: benchmark spiked to almost one hundred and twenty dollars a
[5:03] Speaker 4: barrel and then fell down into the eighty dollars barrel range.
[5:05] Speaker 4: It was a thirty eight dollar range, which is quite
[5:09] Speaker 4: unheard of, and hearkens back to some of the swings
[5:13] Speaker 4: we saw four or five years ago, and also during
[5:16] Speaker 4: the COVID era when oil prices went negative very briefly.
[5:20] Speaker 4: So I think, because there is so many unknowns, you're
[5:24] Speaker 4: going to see people latch onto Trump's statements in words
[5:27] Speaker 4: and also perhaps his deeds and what he actually does
[5:30] Speaker 4: and how the US acts, and you're going to see
[5:33] Speaker 4: not just people bet on that but also you know
[5:36] Speaker 4: algorithmic trading people who are our fear of missing out
[5:40] Speaker 4: the fomo trade where they see prices right and they
[5:42] Speaker 4: want to jump into it. So I think volatility definitely
[5:44] Speaker 4: is in the cards, at least for the foreseeable future.
[5:47] Speaker 2: Do we have a sense of whether or not oil
[5:48] Speaker 2: infrastructure in the Gulf has been impacted at all. A
[5:52] Speaker 2: lot of what we've been describing here has to do
[5:54] Speaker 2: with the flow of energy on tankers, but I'm wondering
[5:57] Speaker 2: about the infrastructure per se.
[6:01] Speaker 4: That's a really good question because we have spent a
[6:03] Speaker 4: lot of time talking about the straight or war moves,
[6:05] Speaker 4: which is really important. But theoretically if that were to
[6:07] Speaker 4: you know, if there was a pea steal, traffic could
[6:10] Speaker 4: resume through the strait rather quickly. Now, if there's any
[6:14] Speaker 4: infrastructure that's been intacted, if there is any damage to facilities, suddenly,
[6:19] Speaker 4: this isn't just a quick fix. You can't just restart everything.
[6:22] Speaker 4: This takes more time. You have to have maintenance, You
[6:24] Speaker 4: how to bring in new parts, spare parts, cruise or
[6:27] Speaker 4: overseas to do the repairs. Now, the good news is
[6:29] Speaker 4: that there doesn't seem to be any major damage to
[6:33] Speaker 4: key facilities. There have been attacks on facilities. The world's
[6:36] Speaker 4: largest loquified natural export facility in Qatar had been attacked
[6:40] Speaker 4: and they had to shut that plant last week, but
[6:42] Speaker 4: Bloomberg analysis of satellite photos shows that the main facility
[6:46] Speaker 4: remained intact and there was no meaningful damage that we
[6:49] Speaker 4: could see. Likewise, there has been a large refinery in
[6:52] Speaker 4: Saudi Arabia that was shut, and there have also been
[6:55] Speaker 4: attacks over the weekend, strikes on Iranian oil infrastructure, the
[7:02] Speaker 4: storage in particular, which again these are small depots that
[7:07] Speaker 4: don't necessarily affect the flow of oil. So the market
[7:10] Speaker 4: I think is still weighing everything. But the risk, the
[7:13] Speaker 4: fact that there are still tit for tat retalatory strikes
[7:16] Speaker 4: between Iran and its neighbors, has slowed over the last
[7:18] Speaker 4: twenty four hours, but it's still that risk still exists.
[7:21] Speaker 4: The market is going to be worried that maybe one
[7:23] Speaker 4: drone or one attack does take out a pipeline, a
[7:26] Speaker 4: significant one does take out an export facility, and that
[7:29] Speaker 4: could cause damage that would last for weeks and months
[7:33] Speaker 4: and not something that can be quick fixed.
[7:35] Speaker 2: Rather quickly in today's session, Asian equities are breathing, I
[7:39] Speaker 2: think a collective sigh of relief and moving higher. Talk
[7:42] Speaker 2: to me a little bit about the vulnerability of many
[7:44] Speaker 2: of the economies in the Apac region that are heavy
[7:48] Speaker 2: oil importers and the risk of higher inflation if this
[7:52] Speaker 2: were to reverse course oil prices were to move higher
[7:56] Speaker 2: once more and remain at elevated levels.
[8:00] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[8:01] Speaker 4: No, I mean Asia is the biggest buyer of the
[8:04] Speaker 4: oil and gas that comes out of the Gulf. Now
[8:06] Speaker 4: we're talking about global market, but when we're actually talking
[8:08] Speaker 4: about barrels and ships moving the fuel, a lot of
[8:11] Speaker 4: them go to Asia. And while there are countries that
[8:15] Speaker 4: are better place to whether the storm, China has diversified
[8:18] Speaker 4: their supply enough both domestically and from other trade partners
[8:22] Speaker 4: that they are able to handle this at the moment.
[8:25] Speaker 4: And the developed world, I'm talking Japan and South Korea,
[8:29] Speaker 4: they've got large oil reserves and they have systems where
[8:32] Speaker 4: the government can subsidize to some degree oil and energy purchases,
[8:35] Speaker 4: or they passed the cost down to consumers who are
[8:38] Speaker 4: able to deal with it because they're richer than the
[8:41] Speaker 4: developing world, which cannot necessarily take on that cost. So
[8:47] Speaker 4: the shortages and those who are likely to feel The
[8:50] Speaker 4: biggest pain even now with oil prices in the eighty
[8:52] Speaker 4: dollars range are nations in South and Southeast Asia. I'm
[8:57] Speaker 4: talking Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Pakistan and Bangladesh. And
[9:04] Speaker 4: you know, those countries are in particular very dependent on
[9:08] Speaker 4: oil and gas from the region. Pakistan, I know, I
[9:11] Speaker 4: said it twice, but it's just that important. They import
[9:15] Speaker 4: ninety nine percent of their loquified natural gas from Katar
[9:18] Speaker 4: and they've that supply has stopped, which means that they've
[9:21] Speaker 4: had to curb supply to fertilizer plants. There are also
[9:25] Speaker 4: fears that LPG prices are rising quite quickly. LPG is
[9:31] Speaker 4: a fuel used for cooking and households, so it's a
[9:33] Speaker 4: really key commodity. And on top of that, you know,
[9:36] Speaker 4: you just have the general higher petrol prices. People are
[9:39] Speaker 4: running to the running to the pumps to get their gasoline.
[9:43] Speaker 4: And while there are no shortages because of the way
[9:46] Speaker 4: that the Brent prices and the oil prices globally are rising,
[9:48] Speaker 4: it just means higher costs for these consumers. And these
[9:51] Speaker 4: consumers don't have the disposal income that that those in
[9:54] Speaker 4: the developed world had, and that it has a real
[9:57] Speaker 4: strain on the consumer and the economies for these countries.
[10:00] Speaker 2: So at around six pm, all straight time Monday, President
[10:04] Speaker 2: Trump spoke with reporters in Miami and he said he's
[10:07] Speaker 2: planning to waive oil related sanctions. And I'm wondering whether
[10:11] Speaker 2: that's code for Russia and what impact might a little
[10:16] Speaker 2: bit more Russian oil have on global markets.
[10:19] Speaker 4: You know, we actually already saw them wave some some
[10:23] Speaker 4: sanctions on Russian oil. They waved basically, they gave waivers
[10:28] Speaker 4: to India for oil Russian oil that has been sanctioned,
[10:33] Speaker 4: that's already on the water. It's a one month waiver,
[10:35] Speaker 4: and they were able to provide basically an opportunity for
[10:39] Speaker 4: India one of these part hit countries kind of suck
[10:42] Speaker 4: up this floating oil that had already been out there,
[10:45] Speaker 4: kind of you imagine it as like a floating storage
[10:47] Speaker 4: sort of situation and suck that up. Now, that was
[10:50] Speaker 4: helpful for India, but it's a bandage, yes, providing you know,
[10:56] Speaker 4: with Russian oil pochentially flowing to other countries with that
[10:59] Speaker 4: being not impeded. It does provide some relief, but it
[11:02] Speaker 4: is a bandage when you look at the amount of
[11:06] Speaker 4: oil that travels through the Strait of Hormuz, and the
[11:09] Speaker 4: amount of oil that's being cut from the major producers
[11:12] Speaker 4: in the Gulf, that just is so much larger than
[11:17] Speaker 4: the waivers that the US can give or what Russia
[11:19] Speaker 4: can provide, at least in the short term. So again
[11:23] Speaker 4: it's a short term solution, but it doesn't remove the risk,
[11:27] Speaker 4: the volatility, and quite frankly, it's just still the elevated
[11:31] Speaker 4: prices eighty dollars. Yes, we've dropped from the highs of
[11:35] Speaker 4: earlier in the session on Monday, but still above where
[11:38] Speaker 4: we were before the strikes US and Israel strikes on
[11:42] Speaker 4: Iran began about more than a week ago.
[11:45] Speaker 2: That's a very good point, Steven, Thank you so very much, Bloomberg.
[11:48] Speaker 2: Steven Stepchinsky. He is team leader for the Asia Energy Group.
[11:52] Speaker 2: Joining us from Singapore here on the Daybreak Asia podcast.
[12:02] Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Daybreak Asia Podcast. I'm Doug Krisner.
[12:05] Speaker 2: The Australian government granted humanitarian visas to five members of
[12:09] Speaker 2: the Iranian female soccer team. These players sought asylum citing
[12:14] Speaker 2: fear for their safety after they declined to sing the
[12:17] Speaker 2: national anthem during a match on the Gold coast last week. Now,
[12:21] Speaker 2: Iranian state television reportedly labeled these players as traders. That's
[12:26] Speaker 2: where we began our conversation with Craig Foster. Craig is
[12:29] Speaker 2: a human rights activist and former captain for the Australia
[12:33] Speaker 2: men's soccer team. Craig spoke with Bloomberg's Heidi stroud Watz.
[12:37] Speaker 1: Craig, you've been speaking out on behalf of these women
[12:39] Speaker 1: for some days now. Tell us about your experience in
[12:42] Speaker 1: terms of how this all transpired, particularly over the last
[12:45] Speaker 1: twelve to twenty four hours.
[12:48] Speaker 3: Yeah, last day, Hadi has been really very quickly evolving
[12:53] Speaker 3: situation which often happens once it becomes not just public
[12:57] Speaker 3: but very visible around the world. That generally does two things. One,
[13:03] Speaker 3: it can provide some form of level of protection to
[13:06] Speaker 3: the athletes because that notoriety means that you know, you've
[13:11] Speaker 3: got more people who might be able to access them. Also,
[13:14] Speaker 3: if they do leave Australia, are either forcibly removed or
[13:20] Speaker 3: decide to return back to Iran. We're hoping as well,
[13:23] Speaker 3: which is why these interviews are important, that that notoriety
[13:26] Speaker 3: and the eyes of the global football community will be
[13:28] Speaker 3: on them, which might hopefully afford them some level of protection.
[13:33] Speaker 3: So in the last few days we've been calling on
[13:35] Speaker 3: the Asian Football Confederation and FIFA to step in. It
[13:38] Speaker 3: was very clear that at least some, if not all,
[13:42] Speaker 3: of the women were being placed in an environment of coercion,
[13:46] Speaker 3: silencing and a lack of safety and lack of security
[13:52] Speaker 3: and very high risk. So the AFC had a responsibility,
[13:55] Speaker 3: that's the Asian Football Confederation. They should have stepped in
[13:57] Speaker 3: immediately several days ago to satisfy themselves that that wasn't
[14:03] Speaker 3: the case. We've seen this too often with women athletes
[14:06] Speaker 3: across a whole range of sports, and particularly in football,
[14:09] Speaker 3: and it's clear that we don't have the systems and
[14:11] Speaker 3: protocols in place to ensure that any of these women
[14:15] Speaker 3: could have made an SOS claim, if you like, through
[14:20] Speaker 3: a trusted and confidential and private source.
[14:23] Speaker 5: So this is where we've landed.
[14:24] Speaker 3: We've landed in an environment where the Australian government has
[14:27] Speaker 3: had to intervene, has been encouraged to intervene because of
[14:32] Speaker 3: the risk factors that are obvious. We also know the systematic.
[14:37] Speaker 5: Persecution of high profile athletes.
[14:41] Speaker 3: Have spoken out against the Ranian government in over a
[14:44] Speaker 3: course of many years, a lot of human rights campaigns
[14:47] Speaker 3: have been run. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty and others
[14:50] Speaker 3: have identified those systematic patterns. So that's why we've been
[14:53] Speaker 3: so concerned about the group, and thankfully an intervention by
[14:57] Speaker 3: the Australian government allowed five of them to not only
[15:00] Speaker 3: understand their rights but exercise them.
[15:02] Speaker 5: The urgent and immediate situation today.
[15:06] Speaker 3: Is to ensure that the rest of the group are
[15:09] Speaker 3: not removed from Australia before having an opportunity to understand
[15:14] Speaker 3: their rights and to make a personal decision about whether
[15:19] Speaker 3: they would like to exercise them.
[15:22] Speaker 1: In terms of what transpired overnight, how useful, influential, impactful,
[15:27] Speaker 1: or just a matter of good timing, was that conversation
[15:30] Speaker 1: with President Trump?
[15:35] Speaker 3: Well, their stony government was very aware of the situation
[15:38] Speaker 3: prior to, was already working on the situation, and was
[15:42] Speaker 3: actually on the ground at least forty eight hours ago.
[15:45] Speaker 3: So I can't answer to that it wasn't on the call.
[15:48] Speaker 3: What I would say about these situations is we need
[15:52] Speaker 3: to be a little bit careful in the over politicization
[15:57] Speaker 3: of them. What's clear with these women is that they've
[16:00] Speaker 3: already been in a deeply politicized environment by the Iranian
[16:05] Speaker 3: government and the Iranian Member Federation, and of course, in
[16:09] Speaker 3: the context of this conflict in which Iran is directly involved,
[16:15] Speaker 3: so too is Australia and the US. These women can
[16:20] Speaker 3: very easily be placed in a situation where the primary
[16:24] Speaker 3: consideration is not their safety, it can be actually using them,
[16:29] Speaker 3: you know, as media.
[16:32] Speaker 5: Tools if you like.
[16:33] Speaker 3: We've seen this multiple times throughout football history and sporting history,
[16:39] Speaker 3: you know, the intersection of sport and politics. Well I
[16:42] Speaker 3: shouldn't say intersection, they're basically one and the same, that's
[16:45] Speaker 3: you know, and we've seen that in the way this
[16:47] Speaker 3: Iranian women's team have been silenced, effectively held hostage in
[16:51] Speaker 3: their hotel in order that they couldn't speak to the
[16:54] Speaker 3: media or even access external support. So from our perspective,
[16:58] Speaker 3: you know, as a former player, former chair of our
[17:00] Speaker 3: Players Association here in Australia, the only consideration should be
[17:04] Speaker 3: the welfare and safety of this entire group. That's what
[17:07] Speaker 3: we're really focused on. I think there was no question
[17:11] Speaker 3: in Australia was going to offer the women assign them anyway,
[17:14] Speaker 3: independent of any phone call. It's the women who've shown
[17:17] Speaker 3: the courage here. It's the activists around the hotel who've advocated,
[17:22] Speaker 3: you know, courageously for their rights. You know, it's those people,
[17:26] Speaker 3: I think, you know who are at the center of
[17:28] Speaker 3: this story.
[17:30] Speaker 1: Greig, You've done so much activism and within this space.
[17:35] Speaker 5: Has it surprised you.
[17:36] Speaker 1: That this sort of path to bipartisan political support, to
[17:41] Speaker 1: public support has been easier to garner that attention and
[17:45] Speaker 1: that broader support because we know that matters of asylum
[17:48] Speaker 1: seeking of refugees of immigration can be quite difficult for Australia.
[17:54] Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a really good question.
[17:56] Speaker 3: Australia, like many countries, has had a kind of tortured
[18:00] Speaker 3: relationship with the concept of seeking asylum and of the
[18:04] Speaker 3: protection of vulnerable and persecuted people, and so you know,
[18:09] Speaker 3: we've had a lot of you know, public kind of
[18:12] Speaker 3: angst around those issues, and our record on providing protection
[18:18] Speaker 3: to people who seek it is very checkered, if you like.
[18:23] Speaker 3: What we do see repeatedly is a wonderful sense of
[18:27] Speaker 3: compassion and care from Australians when particularly we see women
[18:31] Speaker 3: in trouble, and that's important. We should be very proud
[18:35] Speaker 3: of the response of the Australian community to this moment.
[18:38] Speaker 3: Of course, we did grant asylum as well and evacuated
[18:40] Speaker 3: the Afghan women's national team. Again, there was some political
[18:44] Speaker 3: considerations around that because Australia was involved in that actual
[18:47] Speaker 3: conflict and the like. Nonetheless, sport is so powerful in
[18:52] Speaker 3: countries like Australia that it can provide a different context
[18:56] Speaker 3: to a group. We saw this with the Hockey mal
[18:59] Speaker 3: Aabi campaign back in twenty eight and nineteen. What saved
[19:02] Speaker 3: his life was not the fact that he was in
[19:05] Speaker 3: a TI prison and we were able to secure his freedom.
[19:08] Speaker 3: He was saved largely because he played football and so
[19:12] Speaker 3: he was seen as something more than just an asylum
[19:15] Speaker 3: seeker or more than just a refugee.
[19:18] Speaker 5: That's certainly the case here again.
[19:20] Speaker 3: So my hope is always that Australians and other people
[19:23] Speaker 3: around the world can respond to these situations by saying, well,
[19:27] Speaker 3: if we feel strongly about this group of women, we
[19:29] Speaker 3: should feel strongly about the rights of all women. That
[19:32] Speaker 3: includes other asylum seekers and refugees, but it also includes
[19:35] Speaker 3: all women in conflict. And it's a good opportunity for
[19:39] Speaker 3: us in time because it's still a live, critical situation.
[19:43] Speaker 3: But in time we should reflect on all of those
[19:46] Speaker 3: issues international law. Where we sit in respect to that
[19:49] Speaker 3: with Australia, because we should put no people at harm.
[19:53] Speaker 3: But it is fantastic that Australia has responded to this group.
[19:56] Speaker 3: We still need to make sure that the remaining members
[19:58] Speaker 3: are safe.
[19:59] Speaker 2: However, it was Craig Foster, former captain of the Australian
[20:02] Speaker 2: men's soccer team, speaking with Bloomberg's Heidi Stroud Watts bringing
[20:06] Speaker 2: you their conversation here on the Daybreak Asia podcast. Thanks
[20:12] Speaker 2: for listening to today's episode of the Bloomberg Daybreak Asia
[20:16] Speaker 2: Edition podcast. Each weekday, we look at the story shaping markets, finance,
[20:20] Speaker 2: and geopolitics in the Asia Pacific. You can find us
[20:24] Speaker 2: on Apple, Spotify, the Bloomberg Podcast YouTube channel, or anywhere
[20:28] Speaker 2: else you listen. Join us again tomorrow for insight on
[20:31] Speaker 2: the market moves from Hong Kong to Singapore and Australia.
[20:35] Speaker 2: I'm Doug Chrisner and this is Bloomberg

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