interrogations on condition that they will not leave latvia that after the journalists were charged with violating e.u. sanctions from cos that have has more to temps. over now at the moment is that they've been accused of violating personal european union sanctions against the c.e.o. of russia's the receipt of the news agency any tricky still for now the russian foreign ministry they have already reacted to what's happening in riga and they said that latvia's crackdown on russian speaking journalists under the pretext of the violation of the u. . sanctions is absolutely unacceptable the foreign ministry said that the e.u. restrictions are all of a personal nature against mr gissin and they cannot apply to just about everyone who cooperates with the news outlets that are under his management and they consider the aggressive actions of. security service a blatant example of violating the foundations for democratic society which is freedom of media and expression it is a completely punitive action which leaves no doubt about the use of 4 big subtext of the fabricated accusations you w

what's happening in riga and they said that latvia's crackdown on russian speaking journalists under the pretext of the violation of a huge sanctions is absolutely unacceptable the foreign ministry also said that the e.u. restrictions are all of a personal nature against mr kissel off and they cannot apply to just about everyone who cooperates with the news outlets that are on there his managements and they consider the aggressive actions of. security service a blatant example of violating the foundations for democratic society which is freedom of media and expression it is a completely punitive action which leaves no doubt about the roof or big subtext of the fabricated accusations now the accused journalists and their colleagues certainly. outraged and mind you this is a criminal indictment against germany against journalists and they're being persecuted for coal parading with a russian news outlets now that crackdown on the russian speaking latvian journalist. well it had all of the intimidating attributes and features and there were searches and homes and places of work there was

after all of that was done the journalists were released but they were asked to stay in latvia enough to leave the country and of course sign a non-disclosure agreement sputnik had a statement about this as well the long term citizens who are accused of violating the sanctions regime because of their work for the risk. civil with news agency because it's a lot of lithuania and estonia the agency subject to the personal sanctions of the imposed on the agency's general director joins ricky sort of in $24.00 scene now russian mission and the sea they also expressed their concern they tweeted out saying this is another flagrant violation by rigo of the o.e.c.d. commitments on freedom of speech and access to information persecution of russian speaking journalists in the baltic countries is not something new for example just the end of last year going into this year sputnik. there journalists were forced to break their contracts with sputnik because this tony and police were threatening them with jail terms of up to 5 years so basically they were forced to resign and the police also cited t

the these outlets themselves they don't appear on any sanctions in this stole what is happening in latvia right now still remains to be determined hopefully will builders and there's a waiting game and i can see what happened thanks for coming in rome on thank you. let's go to a gash now to an hour and a veteran international reporter and political commentator thank you for joining us on the program are you surprised to hear journalists being cianci from violating sanctions against the boss. well you know 1 may argue for and mostly against the very idea of sanctions and boy caught and then secondary boycott this is not a very fruitful measure in international relations but yes once you have such a punitive measure in place then to go ahead and try to punish journalists working for the sanctioned persons this should not be an accepted norm and you know state affiliated media. are all over in the united states in israel in many other places what is the army radio in israel what is the b.b.c. what is the voice of america if one starts treating journalists. other then media persons just becau

journalists from russia link to news outlets are released after questioning in latvia i am told they can't leave the country will tell you why and here reaction after this this is art international. seem wrong will just don't call. me. yet to see a palette these days become educated and in detroit because of the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. the . those in the big community are extremely positive about the future because big coin solves a lot of problems we face because of money because of central banks even though the nation state itself as a unit of governance has kind of outgrown its useful. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. come back czar t. international now employees of 2 russia affiliated news agencies have been released from interrogation on condition they don't leave lot via the journalist from ball to news and sputnik a lot via were charged with violating sanctions or mancow sort of has more. all we

the australian prime minister makes it clear there's a recruiting team going out, get to latvia. why? because the latvians are white, the latvians are protestant, the latvians are reliably anti-communist and the latvians had only arrived unlike the polls and the jews , they had only arrived in germany at the end of the war and they were relatively healthy. they had suffered the ravages of the war. the jewish dividers of the polish forced labor's. and it was felt that they were hard workers. no country on earth one of the jews. and they didn't want the jews again for a variety ofreasons . they weren't reasons, a variety of myths, misconceptions . they regarded the jews as unwilling to do hard manual labor. as scoundrels, as rogues, as thieves and worse yet, as bolshevik sympathizers or operatives. so from 1947 to 1948 as the latvians and estonians were resettled outside of the camps, the jews were left. the only way for the jews to get out of those camps was through illegal immigration. to palestine. the british tried to stop the ships that left from marseille and from italian por

he beat latvia's madars razma 3—1 at alexandra palace. it's so often one of the most spectacular moments of any 0lympic or paralympic games — the opening ceremony. just think about that extraordinary show put on by danny boyle at london 2012. but next summers's tokyo games is going to be a far more low key affair after the current plans were scrapped today, and the number of creative directors working on the opening ceremony cut from seven to one. 0rganisers say it's because an extravagent show wouldn't feel right given the pandemic. i've been speaking to our sports correspondent alex capstick. today was all about the opening and closing ceremonies, and they have announced that there will be one creative director now. there were seven people in charge of the ceremonies. but they got rid of them and now it is just a ceremonies. but they got rid of them and now it isjust a man —— one man. he put together an event injuly, but it was postponed, which is a very sombre, restrained affair. the new version of the ceremonies will be similart

while in america, we don't have that and no one knows where latvia is. according to a new study, dogs can detect the presence of the coronavirus in human sweat so maybe it's best trump didn't get a dog because it would have barked itself to death the cleveland indians baseball team has reportedly decided to change it's name after 105 years. so cleveland is doing it washington's football team is doing it the ball's in your court, indiana. wally, i didn't know they were also changing the name of cleveland. could we look at the card real quick? can we go back one card? >> yeah. >> seth: there we go definitely not the spelling of cleveland. [ laughter ] >> isn't it known for knives >> seth: can we flip back one more card? can we go back one more card >> yeah, sure. >> seth: got it wrong twice. [ laughter ] >> at least i'm consistent >> seth: the consistency is what i respect out of it. and finally -- we got to get an alert for wally. and finally, disney announced last week that actor harrison ford will return for a fifth "indiana jones" movie in july, 2022 i

the 1st place where the specially bred strike of being released catfish along with virus types of to latvia. is called. twice a year there is a 2 month ban on all nics to allow this talks to cover. bet it fishes are also hoping that the fish stocks here will be replenished these also some abolishment of the problems are partly homegrown it was not all fishermen abide by the rules some usenets with the mesh size so find they can be used for mosquito nets they trip everything they come across is a problem but i also think gold purity is have some responsibility they should impose stricter sanctions which are but penalizing the fish porches will not be enough to ensure that leak he will because there has to be a change in overall awareness if the fish populations be caped stable. all children to come to. one joint problems and when you get in on it as she will be curious. to find. a cure if you keep it. how will climate change affect us and our children. mark t. w dot com slash water. to europe now where the lettuce report from the was made to logical going is a sin says the 2020 is said to be

the other 22 members not now, latvia and lithuania are putting out a repatriation flight next monday at 5:30am for those wanting to return home. thank you very much, gather leave. more areas of england could be moved into tier 4, possibly as early as boxing day, because of the spread of the new variant of coronavirus. the communities secretary robert jenrick has said the strain is is now prevalent outside the southeast of the country, and more action may be needed. iain watson reports. have yourself a merry little christmas, says the prime minister. that is, if you don't live in a tier 4 area in england where households aren't allowed to mix indoors, even on december the 25th. the government is unlikely to impose new restrictions before christmas for areas in tiers one to three. but any festive fun could be short lived as there could be changes as soon as boxing day. on monday the chief scientific adviser warned that more areas could face tougher restrictions in due course. just 48 hours later, ministers have been meeting to discuss the next move. we will be looking at the number of

law is opened criminal proceedings against employees of the russian affiliated boat news but nick latvia news agencies for alleged violation of e.u. sanctions you can go live now to rome on kozyrev in the studio with me remonde thank you for coming in very good morning to you what exactly are they being accused of well the accused at the moment they're certainly outraged they feel that they are being persecuted just for the fact that they are called parading with russian media outlets and this is exactly what what they are being indicted for like you said employees of make and use that police come over to their homes they were searched some people were interrogated for as long as 8 hours they had their equipment confiscated so certainly a very difficult 24 hours for them there in the allowed but let's listen to what official news from us putting can't say the law and citizens are accused of violating the sanctions regime because of their work for the receipt civil or the news agency because it's a lot of you know lithuania and estonia the agency subject to the personal sanctions of the i

coming up with maria tadeo, the ectleman from latvia, executive vice president and trade commissioner. he has an important perspective from eastern europe on the brexit negotiations. this is bloomberg. good morning. ♪ ritika: this is "bloomberg surveillance." coming up later today, and expose have interview with -- an exclusive interview with mangrove cio. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> it the moment of truth. we have very little time remaining, just a few hours to work through these negotiations in a useful fashion if we want this agreement to enter into force on january 1. tom: it is interesting. you can get out the calendar, as mr. barnier is doing in europe. but on the brexit debate, it just continues, but there is the calendar. maria tadeo knows the calendar. she is in brussels and knows that december 31 beckons. maria? maria: thank you so much, tom. we are joined by the european union executive vice president valdis dombrovskis, who focuses on trade. i want to ask you about china. there's a lot of speculation that you at the european union and china are going to sign a new trade ar

years old she's also of course a contact person and part of a risk group at bad drinking at st peter's latvia germany's daily coverage faction rate is hitting new records topping 30000 in a single 24 hour period the health minister says e.u. member states plan to roll out a vaccination program on the december the 27th but as a number of hospital cases in germany skyrockets the doctor told the dublin affairs of the coming weeks we'll see more medics making decisions about who gets lifesaving treatment and who doesn't use a look at the die situation in one german hospital. a new covert patient has a drive by ambulance to try birds university hospital he's traveling in a special isolation pod so none of the transport team gets infected the patient is only in his forty's he's transferred to viviane it starts months intensive care unit with 5 members of a team she turns him on his stomach the prone position is an important therapy for seriously ill patients the team make sure the patient is well padded as he will lie like this for several hours afterwards the inflammation sits at the back of the l

latvia, estonia, chile to canada to israel to saudi arabia and kuwait and jordan. the list keeps growing. the restrictions on travel meaning the uk is becoming more isolated, the most pressing one of course are the restrictions being put on transport and freight going from the uk to france. that is being stopped for 48 hours and a knock-on effect for some limited food supplies coming into the uk and that is one of the reasons the government is holding this extraordinary and emergency cabinet session this afternoon. >> nic robertson, thank you very, very much. it's what everyone is talking about this morning, and news of the uk variant has researchers here in the u.s. racing to determine if the corona vaccines will be effective against it. they think it will but looking for proof. elizabeth cohen joins me now. good morning. scientists at walter reed doing analysis right now. >> how does this vaccine and virus mesh? does it look like the vaccine will work? they'll take the genomic sequence that british scientists put online and try to see how well they mesh. does the

is in their talk of repositioning them from poland or latvia? mark: the idea is to take them from germany and continue the buildup we started inside of poland. we have division headquarters there now. we have a significant capacity to work alongside the polish military, which is a good military. that is where the action is. it is not in germany anymore. david: really great to have you, retired breeder general mark kimmit -- brigadier general mark kimmit. we will talk with the former prime minister of ireland and former european union ambassador to the united states about where things stand as we enter the crucial weekend in brexit negotiations. this is "balance of power" on bloomberg television and radio. ♪ david: this is "balance of power " on bloomberg television and radio. boris johnson and european commission president ursula von der leyen are preparing people for the possibility there will not be a deal for the u.k. exiting the eu. the look of the honorable john who served as a european ambassador to the united states. he is now chairman

latvia, the netherlands, belgium, germany, france, all puts restrictions for citizens, most critical the restriction from france, the accompanied freight trucks cannot come from france, and that's where 20% of the supplies come to the uk, including fresh food. so that's where they're spiraling trying to deal with a variant that seems more infectious, although not more deadly, manifests to getting products into the country and allowing people to come and go from the country. the prime minister is expected to address this in a press conference in the next hour, his transport secretary and chief scientific adviser will be with him when he gives that address. >> thank you for that. let me bring back in dr. jha on this opini this. it appears to be more infectious, 70% more transmissable. what does that mean? how worried should people be about this? >> this is a concerning situation, we have to sort this out. the best evidence right now says it is more transmittable. and that is a source of concern. but the good news is nothing so far says it's more deadly if you get infected and nothing h

foremost, there are a lot of countries banning flights from uk, latvia, argentina, colombia, the list goes on. i do agree with dr. fauci not necessarily in saying i'm against banning flights or telling people not to travel right now, but because that's not necessarily the solution. first of all, this variant could be in other parts of the country. other parts of the world. it is identified in the uk because of what they were doing with pcr testing, but it might be all over the place, and also it doesn't matter what we're doing or saying about flights. if people don't change their behavior, and that's what it comes down to, even if you say, hey, don't fly to the united states, we already have enough surges right now. people need to be following all of the restrictions we keep talking about to keep that down. it doesn't matter how many strains are circulating, if people aren't taking the right measures, wee not going to get anywhere. >> now that the vaccine is being given out and today, president-elect biden got his very publicly, i want to ask about this. this morning, you tweeted, it'

he beat latvia's madars razma 3—1 at alexandra palace. england's dave chisnell is also through — after beating keegan brown by the same scoreline. and england's cricketers will be allowed to fly to sri lanka for next month's test series, despite the country's ban on commercial flights from the uk. they will take a chartered flight onjanuary 2nd and be tested for covid—19 before theirjourney and also on arrival. they'll then spend ten days in a bio—secure training bubble before the first of two matches starts in galle on the 14th. england were in sri lanka in march when the series was abandoned because of the start of the pandemic. and that's all the sport for now. thanks for watching. good night. hello. there is a change in weather type in store as we head through the festive period, but it's certainly been another wet day on wednesday. things thankfully turning drier and also colder as we move through christmas eve and christmas day itself. here's the area of low pressure that brought a lot of rain to england and wales on wednesday

austria scotland israel foreigners and moldova angre the netherlands face turkey norway montenegro latvia and gibraltar then is the runners up but last time croatia against slovakia russia slovenia cyprus and multiply and the final page england take on poland hungary albania andorra and summary no will germany will play romania iceland north macedonia armenia and liechtenstein or join us now from london is a piece global sports correspondent rob paris rob for me personally the draw looks pretty much balance so what are the highlights. yes all the major teams were in pot one meant they could come up against each like in the qualifying for the $28.00 team or cup when we had it silly and spain together. it's really missed out on the world cup and they've got a pretty tough draw this time because they've got switzerland in their group and switzerland highest ranked of the number one teams complicated but it's only the top sites that do qualify also my sick leave the runners up of the tank groups then have to go through the playoffs as for you know you look at spain well they've got sweet and

the netherlands to face a turkey in norway montenegro latvia and gibraltar then is the runners up last time croatia against slovakia russia slovenia cyprus and malta and the final page england take on poland hungary albania and dora and san marino while germany will play romania iceland macedonia armenia and extends time. earlier we spoke to a.p.'s a global sports correspondent rob paris who gave us his reaction to the jaw. well the major teams were in hot one meant they couldn't come up against each other like in the qualify for the $28.00 team or cup when we had it's italy and spain together that italy missed out on that woke up and they got a pretty tough draw this time because they got switzerland in that group and switzerland at the highest ranked of the number one seeds it's a bit complicated but it's only the top sites that do qualify also matic leave the runners up of the tank groups than have to go through the playoffs as for you know you look at spain well they've got sweet and in that group excrete in are actually something that did not need place the 2080 woke up and there'

when the pandemic began overwhelming to state, ui technology system, he hired software engineers from latvia. that was really place he could find still using the obsolete code of his ui system is run. when the cares act was being negotiated i went to the hill with the treasury secretary to warn that the state computers were incapable of implementing the new ui programs being considered. secretary mnuchin, the democratic senators and the republicans insisted on the ui system. one consequence of the antique state systems was that the federal plus-up amount could not be individually calibrated to a workers prior wage, the way the underlying statement if it is. programming for this would have taken two months or more. for political, meanwhile, the plus-up amount could not be varied by state. you weren't going to find a lot of senators agreeing that someone who's unemployed in their state should get less from unemployment that if they were unemployed in some other state. so we ended up with a single flat national about. that amount $600 a week when added to the regular state ui benefit resulted i

he beat latvia's madars razma 3—1 at alexandra palace. england's ricky evans is also through after beating michael mansell by the same scoreline. england's cricketers will be allowed to fly to sri lanka for next month's test series, despite the country's ban on commercial flights from the uk. they will take a chartered flight onjanuary 2nd and be tested for covid—19 before theirjourney and also on arrival. they'll then spend ten days in a bio—secure training bubble before the first of two matches starts in galle on the 14th. england were in sri lanka in march when the series was abandoned because of the start of the pandemic we'll have more for you in sportsday at half past six. with a bump of sports. dojoin. look forward to it. the brexit negotiators, the uk's david frost and stephanie riso from the eu commission, are understood there is increasing speculation that a deal could be agreed as early as tonight, but there is still ‘haggling' this afternoon. it's understood the broad shape of an agreement is there but it has not yet bee

he beat latvia's madars razma 3—1 at alexandra palace. england's ricky evans is also through — after beating michael mansell by the same scoreline. england's cricketers will be allowed to fly to sri lanka for next month's test series, despite the country's ban on flights from britain. the entire party will be tested for covid—19 before and after their flight on a chartered plane, due to arrive in sri lanka on the 3rd of january. they'll then spend 10 days in a bio—secure bubble before the first of two matches starts in galle on the 14th. that's all the sport for now. as we have been hearing, further areas of england are to be placed under the tougher set of coronavirus restrictions from boxing day. one of the area moving tiers is southwold in suffolk are our reporter kevin birch is there. kevin, bad news for the folk where you are. were they expecting it? yes, i think they actually were, clive, to be fair. you can see behind me you don't need me to tell you, it has been incredibly quiet, the rain has been torrential. people are abso

litter mania, latvia and estonia are running a joint repatriation service for their citizens to leave britain on december 28, and china's southern ms will suspend direct flights to and from london from the 24th of december to january the 7th. —— china's southern airlines. hgppy happy christmas and a huge hug. happy christmas. and a huge, huge hug. hello, mum. hiya. and hi, just to wish you a very happy christmas, mum. these are just some of the families who won't be together this christmas. i miss you loads, all right? and i really, really would like to see you this christmas, but, unfortunately, due to the covid rules, i am not able to. christmas is a time to say thank you, and for those at this care home, their thanks are more heartfelt than most. as the pandemic began, staff at court house in somerset moved in to keep covid out. 84 days away from their families to keep the people who lived here safe. for chris, that meant being separated from his wife and four—year—old daughter. happy good morning, daddy, i miss you so much. for tina, it meant sleeping in the stockroom. we

confirm now, 15 european countries including czech republic, bulgaria, sweden, estonia, lithuania, latvia all saying they cannot take the risk right now as a precaution, and they are waiting for the outcome of this meeting. do you think the focus on the respective countries will be how to get their nationals home for the holiday period rather than specifically dealing with the issue of freight going from france to the uk and vice versa? and on that particular issue, do you think they will find a key through testing to unlocking this within a relatively short period? listening to the french minister this morning, he made it clear he would like to see a rapid mass testing, particularly for freight for those drivers after 48 hours to be able to go to and from the continent quite freely again. that is interesting what the haulage association is saying as well, that is something they will be pressurising the government in this cabinet meeting room to consider. so there is pressure there. you have there is pressure there. you have the fact that nationally for each government they are aware of w

the two—time champion is safely into round three, after beating latvia's madars razma 3—1 at alexandra palace. he said he was going home to his family before heading back to alexandra palace on boxing day. gary anderson will get his full christmas dinner. he will be all right before it goes back on boxing day. it is essential to get yourself up and running for the darts! thank you, jane. let's look at the situation in downing street. he is a live picture of number 10. who knows what is happening behind that front door? the lights are on upstairs. borisjohnson, we door? the lights are on upstairs. boris johnson, we understand, door? the lights are on upstairs. borisjohnson, we understand, had four conversations last night with the president of the eu commission as they tried to nail the final details of a post brexit micro trade deal between the uk and the eu. all the indications are that that is going to be announced kind of imminently, we think, even as soon as seven o'clock. it is a bit unsure. it could still fall flat. but all sides seem increasingly confident that a deal is about t