health care issues but if you look at the picture of the city the rate the worst in countries like albania and sri lanka this is this is actually not something you can be proud of we're not nor we indicate that we're proud of our numbers we're proud of the effort we're proud of the effort that clevelanders are putting forth to begin to address this. thank you. so much since by the women who are falling outside the net. you. think. after walking out of the interview we were told that the official wasn't prepared for such specific questions even though we've been clear we wanted to speak about infant mortality throughout cleveland well that was a surprising response to some pretty simple questions and the interesting thing for me was that not only do the fishes here in cleveland not seem to want to talk about the citywide rate of infant mortality they also don't even seem to know quite how bad those numbers are. cleveland's economic struggles it's the cave neighborhoods with their rampant unemployment levels and even access to health care have combined to turn the city into america's infant

and not to be in the republik it is in the name of a religion namely islam now he also took aim at albania and macedonia ringback chances to join the e.u. many find that difficult to understand and have suggested the real reason is the large and politically active muslim communities in both countries all of this may not play out well for truly the right may cost him vital votes on the left and leave his party lacking any punch in next month's elections. r.t. paris french human rights activists he has told us president would have lost the muslim vote regardless of this latest rout. boost it will not necessarily support it but you and mark or me they can support mark or they can support people from various authorities and muslims are not i would genius the group in france whether with or without muslim boards emerging with mark or has been this decried of the day we should remember the conditions in which he was elected that the majority of french people did not go to vote majority even less people who want to avoid doing their part of it there are elections that we see not who did that the

the recent controversial decision by france to block the accession process for north macedonia and albaniag their increasingly angry protests to the ministry of agriculture. they say low prices for olive oil and american trade sanctions are causing a terrible situation in rural areas. and later, russia's foreign minister, sergei lavrov, meets his counterpart in cuba to kick off his three—day trip to latin america. afterwards, he will head on to venezuela and mexico. now it's time to get all the latest from the bbc sports centre. hello, i'm tulsen tollett and this is your wednesday sport briefing, where we start with the news that liverpool's youngest ever starting side secured a place in the fifth round of the fa cup after they beat third—tier shrewsbury town 1—0 in their fourth—round replay. after the visitors had earlier seen a goal disallowed for var, it was an unfortunate own—goal which was their undoing at anfield, as the team of youngsters supplied the reds with a spot in the last 16, despite being without their regular first team players and managerjurgen klopp. i've worked with the

the eu may open talks with two nations, north macedonia and albania, which were both disappointed when they were turned down for opening talks in october. some western european nations want to slow eu expansion for nations that may not be ready to take on full commitment on some issues like corruption. global news 24 hours a day, on air and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i am mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. david? up, we willg democratic perspective on president trump's state of the union with representative debbie dingell from michigan. and turn into our live coverage of the new hampshire primary result next tuesday at 7:00 eastern time. we'll be live from manchester, new hampshire. this is "balance of power" on bloomberg television and radio. ♪ president trump: a good life for american families requires the most affordable, innovative health care system on earth. before i took office health insurance premiums had more than double. i moved quickly to provide affordable alternatives. are up to 60% less expensive, a

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president emmanuel macron has previously blocked negotiations with north macedonia and albania. that david cameron's bodyguard left his gun in a toilet on a transatlantic jet. it's claimed a passenger found the weapon together with the former prime minister's passport and raised concerns with staff on the ba flight from new york to london on monday. the met says the officer involved has been removed from operational duties. prince charles yesterday announced that he'd appointed a new ambassador for the british asian trust. another charity, another celeb. nothing to see here, you might think. but it was his choice that's raised a few eyebrows. yes, american pop star katy perry is the woman in question. anyone vaguely familiar with the singer will probably recognise that she is neither asian nor british. the charity sets out to tackle poverty and inequality in south asia, a noble cause no doubt, but her appointment has invited ridicule online. i'm thinking how many people are there who are either british and asian or british or asian whom i have been able to do this job just as we

[applause] president of albania. [applause] and the prime minister of kosovo. [applause] now would like to introduce the head table. please hold your applause until we've introduced the entire group. >> on my far right, mrs. roberta -- [applause] >> congressman david castoff of tennessee. congresswoman small of new mexico. house republican leader kevin mccarthy, and my beautiful wife amy. and we will be joined soon by the president of united states. and the vice president of the united states, mike pence. [applause] the second lady of united states, karen pence. our speaker later today doctor arthur brooks. the speaker of the house nancy pelosi. cc winans, and mr. alvin love the second. let's hear it for our head table. [applause] so were going to have a quick change in your program now. the congressional prayer group will sing another song. only kidding. >> are you ready? >> now we have the winner of ten grammy awards and the best person we could hope to have bring our hearts together. please welcome the great mrs. priscilla love, also known as cece winans. [a

there's disagreement so this is not about not taking our negotiations with north not the journey and albania but i'd like to add one thing that. many countries were opposed to that. and i think it is a major mistake or it was a major mistake. to separate this from the negotiations with one or the macedonia and that was you. before and so i said there is one condition one predict is it but we need to change the rules for what it is it will go expansion it is too. it is not death transparent enough we need to change these rules. so we need to talk about expansion. but this discussion must be clear and reversible so we must be able to advance more quickly with countries that make quick progress this we need to invest in such a candidates that are successful but also we need to be able to walk away from that it once we see it doesn't work. so it shouldn't be a theological system. one of the many. many people don't understand that term we. non-theological country if you will for the whatever it is that if you know the problem you want to. start a good one of enormously the well we need to be able