take over the capital tripoli now on this map you'll see tripoli in the west and general huffed as pollard based in the east each side is backed by different militias and adding to the mix a number off foreign policy with various interests in the via. one country 2 governments numerous militias. ongoing fighting that the situation in libya it's triggered a flurry of diplomatic meetings in the last days the un backed government of national caught us in brussels for talks why the government's main rival generally for have was an italy was foreign access increasing involved in libya another diplomatic meeting attracted special attention talks between russia and turkey the 2 countries who back rival sides in libya have called for an end to military excellence. our president. and russia's president putin are calling for a cease fire in libya starting january the 12th at midnight the night slinking saturday to sunday. which is all on those that you. for now the fighting in libya continuous general have to us forces say the government is amping up its recruiting. we appeal to international organi

from auschwitz birkenau pollard the personal numbers of holocaust prisoners were usually sewn on their uniforms bars as the number of executions grew it actually being hard to identify bodies after the clothes were removed corpses were sometimes marked with indelible ink and metal stamps auschwitz was the only camp to tattoo prisoners numbers on their arms and more than $400.00 a 1000 serial numbers were created and that does not include those never stamps but sent erect to the gas chambers uniforms had badges primarily triangles to identify why the prisoner was there ranging from their political views criminal pasts or even homosexuality jews had a double triangle resin being the star of david in 75 years on the memories of those who survived a still painfully fresh. at the bull is a boy nazi soldiers and it was in the winter i did it the prince mama did the mom and i were in the village at that moment the nazi soldiers started drinking and beat trying to the point that they began to pull the children from the 2nd floor and it did seem mighty kill that task it was and shoot them like

in the middle that is no small thing and the iraqi who died was also an important figure in iraqi pollardat mean for the irg c and quds force force, will they respond? they will certainly start thinking about it. i'm not sure that that's sophisticated. but there will be other commanders, that is the thing about a state—sponsored terrorist organisation likely iranians revolution regard quds force. the iranians state will continue to back it and there will bea continue to back it and there will be a new leader but soleimani had had thejob for decades be a new leader but soleimani had had the job for decades and had built upa had the job for decades and had built up a network of people, people who like to work with him and he worked with, who knew him, he was hugely respected among the iraqi, lebanese and syrian militias with whom he worked. you would see selfies of him out on the front lines against isis. this was a guy who had lots of blood on his hands but i will give him credit for being courageous. and so replacing somebody like him will not be easy. does this new surprise you? you work

so-called peace talks with the taliban having in his head or in his mind of the taliban have some pollard that would be good for him and you could you feel like he was when he is legitimate the. open up about that the taliban or people we can do business with and trust i mean sure. he wanted to step back a little bit and i asked him directly so how close are you with the taliban and i don't want to get out of this and said well we did all a deal with the americans but i mean i think this is pretty obviously and he wouldn't deny that he still has close bonds to the taliban or the kashmir i mean do you think that pakistan would really let kashmir go it's a referendum that you know that people basically want to be independent he offered that in this interview i was quite surprised by that is that he would not 1st of all it's really not his call it's the call of the military that is absolutely clear now doug has said in the military would never agree to that why because that's kind of the reason why they exist that's why they get so much money. so nice try i would say it's politics talk but i

before we go to the break but it's russia's fault and china's fault that assad is still in heaven pollard enemy and damascus you know inject just one thought. without western support on without the need from the west was 'd in yemen and in syria would not have begun it was not saudi arabia that started that it was the west that kind of pushed salad day and other states into doing this ok we're going to jump in here we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our program on cross talk fanmail stay with r.t. . but politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to press. you to go right to the press it's like the full 3 of them will be good. i'm interested always in the logs in the house. they need a good dentist and bad deadens the bad dentist said those in yemen who the united states deems to be a threat to look at it is those who work in syria the cia and the u.s. military were engaged in covert actions really throughout the world. where they were assassinating populi

shades of 2016 all over again we all know the story by mal a populist outsider with a growing mass of pollard's takes surprising command of a shocked and flabbergasted party's presidential not. the nation except this time my friends know it is not just the jeb bush led republicans and donald trump no this time it's the joe biden led democrats and independents senator bernie sanders sanders now leading recent iowa new hampshire polls by substantial margins matt bennett cofounder of 3rd way told politico the republican money people were laughing at trump when he came down the escalator and they kept laughing at him for way too long until holy crap he's winning primaries what i fear is one will emerge too late is what happened with trump so is this the year bernie sanders and his army of progressive followers finally prize the presidential nomination from the corporate democratic party bosses or will this be 2016 all over again where party leaders steal the nomination away from the firm on medicare for all wielding senator amidst a cross joins me to break this down amazing fascinating what's going

keisha pollard order -- keshia pollack porter.se statistics are really incredible, and in some cases, people just miles from one another have exorbitantly different outcomes when it comes to life expectancy, health care, outcomes. where do we begin to change policy to try and fix it? methank you for having today. one thing we can do is prioritize health equity. we are inmeans is during the conditions through which every single person can be as healthy as possible. that means looking at what we think of as a social factor, that may contribute to these differences in health outcomes. that relates to access to health care, access to education. we know how important education is for polity of health. access to good jobs, transportation. thatgeting policies address these factors, i believe we can make a difference in closing those caps. vonnie: what are the two or three things that hit home the most when it comes to the data that you have access to, what you see from it? we have been focusing a lot on physical activity, particularly fo

nejra: simon french from panmure gordon staying with us and thank you so much for joining us, monique pollardill speak to the ceo of novartis as the company reports its full-year earnings. don't miss that interview at 7:30 a.m. london time. this is bloomberg. ♪ nejra: this is "bloomberg daybreak: europe." i'm nejra cehic in london. manus: to the world's biggest pharmaceutical company dealing with the coronavirus. novartis has reported core eps for the fourth quarter that missed the average analyst estimates. annmarie hordern has a cracking day ahead of her. taken away -- take it away. >> good morning. outside of the earnings and the 2020 outlook, we want to get his insight on the coronavirus. is there anything in the novartis pipeline are anything they can do to help with this response? what does it mean for novartis and really the pharmaceutical industry as a whole's supply chain? what about devices, medical devices? what is the impact on the supply chain? finally, novartis has exited their vaccine unit. the chief executive officer is a medical doctor who graduated from harvard medical schoo