european perceptions i'm joined now by and suzy denis and suzy is one of the authors of that survey report which was conducted for the european council on foreign relations who joins me from france tonight. susie it's good to have you on the day as i was reading through the report today there was one passage that caught my eye i want to share that with our viewers in it you write in a frightening world one looks around for friends but europeans and we're going to see that there we go. one looks around for friends but europeans are uncertain who they could rely on the coded 19 crisis has shown the european public a reality that european leaders have glimpsed for years europe is ultimately alone and vulnerable. and see this is a disaster is condition i would say both for the us and for europe what do you say . i'm very sorry that is a very bad connection and i'm struggling to hit a question but i think if i met you correctly and about the sense of feeling alone in the weldon and vulnerability it was very much their own 3 level. sense that. that was the disappointment in many member states way that they go home and handling of the crisis but nevertheless an

research fellow on yemen at the european council for foreign relations in washington d.c. in the united states now bill hoary senior researcher at the atlantic council for studies he's also a former u.s. deputy chief of mission in yemen and also in london elizabeth kendal senior research fellow in arabic and islamic studies at the university of oxford a warm welcome to you all i want to start in london where rhyme and. not only by any terms of international law is this a effectively a coup but it's an occupation who's behind this and why did it happen now. it's a very good question and it's very difficult also called the next station or a coup because the acts have been committed on the ground by a proxy so the southern transitional council which is a u.a.e. backed group or non group 2 or non-state actor whichever you'd like to call them has basically announce their takeover of the island of sokoto and this has been done almost not violently but through an agreement that the governor of sokoto would leave the island and with the auspices of saudi arabia to try to sort of n

council on foreign relations president. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> it is time for the bloomberg business flash. starting off with europeand delivery service -- concerns it is an advanced talks with grubhub about an all stock combination. fell as mucht eat as $.15. cnbc report uber is pulling up -- pulling out of talks with grubhub. the commodities business at goldman sachs is discovering its old touch. -- much of thed boost came from goldman''s oil trading desk. deutsche bank warns provisions bankrise -- the german provisions aren a threat to a deutsche bank's restructuring plan. but to restore profits after five years of losses. that is your bloomberg business flash. alix: thanks so much. we want to stay with the banking story. what caught my eye is u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo is blasting hsbc on china's move to impose national security legislation and hong kong. -- a browbeating of hsbc should serve as a cautionary tale that fealty seems to have earned hsbc little respect in beijing and continues to use the bank for political leverage against london. i was surprised at this from pompeo. guy: pompeo is also putt