迪拜塔是迪拜经济的转折点吗?

...look marvellous. The Burj Khalifa opened to a rock star's entrance just a few hours ago in the United Arab Emirates. After all, it's not everyday you get to open the world's tallest tower. Our Mohammed Jamjoom is in Dubai. And Susan Lisovicz, the New York Stock Exchange with, of course, the money angle. But let's go ahead and start with you Mohammed. Quite a spectacle.

Oh, absolutely. This was opulence on a grand scale today. This is, of course, the tallest building in the world. It's about half a mile up into the air. And everybody that we saw today who came here and thousands of Emiratis gathered, and they were cheering, and happy, and singing, and clapping at almost any event that they noticed. But when the fireworks display happened, they were just awestruck by that. That was a spectacular display. Earlier in the day, we actually took a tour inside the Burj Khalifa as it’s now known. We went up to the observation deck which is the tallest observation deck in the world. It's up on the 124th storey. I can tell you that the panoramic views of Dubai from inside that room were just spectacular. You saw all around, all around what surrounded Dubai, all around what surrounded this emirate. And everybody here believes, even though, even though Dubai has seen tough economic times recently and they faced a real major credit crisis, the people here believe that this will make them turn a corner, that this is a real symbol of what the government is investing in this emirate, and how they are gonna turn this corner and how they are gonna make everything better. Kyra.

Alright, so Mohammed, stay with me. Let's talk more about the dollars-and-cents. I mean it's a massive undertaking of debts. Susan Lisovicz, the New York Stock Exchange, what do you make of this?

Well, the timing is not good, Kyra. Because less than two months ago, we were talking about how the financial markets were shocked that Dubai basically had to be bailed out when it said it needed to freeze 26 billion dollars of debt owed by one of its largest government-owned groups. It's actually a name that we know well here in the US--Dubai World. And it took its neighbour Abu Dhabi to bail it out. There is a real estate crisis in Dubai and there is a credit crunch as well. So the timing is not particularly well. But Dubai is very anxious and very ambitious. And these kind of projects, as massive as they are, are started years ago when things were very much different, Kyra.

Glossary

Emirati: The Emirati people are citizens and ethnic group of the United Arab Emirates

awestruck: filled with feelings of admiration or respect

turn a corner: to reach a better point in your business or relationship

undertaking: a job, business or piece of work