oft is vincent chaigneau generali insurance asset management. he stays with us. france's reopening is border on the u.k.. christmas is just two days away for how long will it take to clear the backlog? we are live to tell the story. this is bloomberg. ♪ yousef: economics, finance, politics. this is "bloomberg surveillance." i am yousef gamal el-din in dubai. says apple ceo tim cook refused to take a meeting that came in the darkest days of the program when tesla was burning through cash. apple declined to comment on the remarks. citi's fixed income traders are likely to see a 10% bump in. their bonus this year. . they are set to post their this performance in more than a decade with revenue of over one- third this year, but citi has to balance that with $17 billion it is the setting aside for loans. and that is your bloomberg business flash. critical trade between the u.k. and continental europe has reopened. these are live pictures from dover, britain's busiest port come after france shut its border on monday, and that came after covid concerns. those who test n

do you think societe generali will have to do that, or have you already made provision for that?: actually, we are doing that. we also have very stringent accounting rules because the i fs, which actually is pushing atks to upfront provisions the start, so this year we will have a lot more provisions than last year. so it looks like -- i would not say everything is under control, but i would say the instruments to address a crisis like this one have been put in place, and we are doing our part. when you look at consolidation amongst the banking sector in europe, societe generale was recently portrayed as a possible -- what is your reaction to that? well, i don't see that in the picture in banks right issuesnks addressing related to restructuring of the banking system. facing lower interest rates for a long period of time, so we just launched a major initiative to consolidate and merge our brand. we are restructuring our investment banking parts. other banks are doing similar things. consolidation has been put forward for two or three years, and when this will happen, i think soci

. ♪ ♪ president roosevelt visit the the combat area with generali n eisenhower that the principal alliedt the free world were calling the man of the ♪ ♪ >> on the opposite wall of the museum another mural depicks some of the major episode it is in the great crusade which liberated europe. ♪ ♪ the supreme commander's orders from the combined chiefs of staff were quite simple, to land on the coast of france and thereafter to destroy the german ground forces. ♪ ♪ between the order and its execution lay an agony of effort. across the channel, the heavy fortifications lining the coast of france forced the nazis to push invading armies back into the sea. ♪ ♪ >> in france alone, 58 german divisions were waiting, preparing for the invasion was a job without letup. ines incessant and realistic training was of paramount importance. the challenges of morale. the mere details of coordination on every level, all of these were ♪ ♪ >> overwhelming. through those tense months in the early part of 1944, the preparations continued. and finally after being postponed one day because of weather conditions, t

i'm in los angeles in a highly generali gentrified neighborhood.fault of my own. at this point not having a job i owe a ton of back rent and our current tenant protections are expiring at the end of january. so february i will be expected to pay my full rent plus start making mamts plus the back rent to stay here which is just not feasible right now. >> i know you could hear the last segment that i was doing with garrett haake talking about the negotiations in congress, what's your message to congress? >> we're not going to wait around any more, they have been dragging their feet more months. housing, shelters, we're not going to wait anywhere. myself and other families took that bold action to occupy these vacant state owned homes. you know these homes were taken from the community and we believe, you know, it is such a misuse of resources. to let these homes sit vacant, rot, and use statement chp to guard and take people out of vacant homes. it makes no sense. >> how is your daughter? >> my daughter is okay. i think, you know, it has been tough f