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 these 24 to you sanctions person begins mr he said however the outlets that we've been talking about today none of them have ever appeared on the sanctions list so that's what we have for now. let's go live to luke rivera independent journalist now thank you for joining us on the program luke should journalists be punish

ends and the new rules apply peter wood's heels were prized by his customers in germany sweden and lithuania but now he fears his e.u. customers will look elsewhere for supply after the new breaks rules come in on january 1st the deal involves the vast amount of paperwork we will produce documentation unfortunately our customers have also got a raft of documentation to get used to allow the import to go ahead so why buy from the u.k. might as well buy for the low producer and for those who can deliver to the do no documentation no problem peter wood says he would never have voted for bracks that if he knew he was going to lose his job. the british government acknowledges there will be specific challenges but the biggest obstacles are out of the way. working more intensively with business in order to make sure that everyone is ready for the new opportunities and challenges that come after the 1st of january i think business is broadly in a good place but inevitably with any change with any transition there are occasional bumpy roads the confederation of british industry wants the government i

peter wood's heels were prized by his customers in germany sweden and lithuania but now he fears his customers will look elsewhere for supply after the new breaks rules come in on january 1st the deal involves a vast amount of paperwork. we will produce the documentation unfortunately customers have also got a raft of documentation to get used to allow the import to go ahead so why buy from the u.k. might as well buy for now producer in front you can deliver to the door no documentation no problem peter wood says he would never have voted for abraxane if he knew he was going to happen says john. the british government acknowledges there will be specific challenges but the biggest obstacles are out of the way. working more intensively with business in order to make sure that everyone is ready for the new opportunities and challenges that come off the 1st of january i think business is broadly in a good place but inevitably with any change with any transition there are occasional bumpy roads the confederation of british industry wants the government and london to translate the deal whi

peter wood's heels were prized by his customers in germany sweden and lithuania but now he fears his customers will look elsewhere for supply after the new breaks rules come in on january 1st the deal involves the vast amount of paperwork we will produce a doctor and unfortunately customers have also got a raft of documentation to produce to allow the import to go ahead so why buy from the u.k. might as well buy for no producer and for us who can deliver to the door no documentation no problem peter wood says he would never have voted for if he knew he was going to insist jump. the british government acknowledges there will be specific challenges but the biggest obstacles are out of the way. working more intensively with business in order to make sure that everyone is ready for the new opportunities and challenges that come off the 1st of january i think business is broadly in a good place but inevitably with any change with any transition there are occasional but. the confederation of british industry wants the government in london to translate the deal which is more than a 1000 pag

peter wood's heels were prized by his customers in germany sweden and lithuania but now he fears his customers will look elsewhere for supply after the new breaks rules come in on january 1st the deal involves a vast amount of paperwork. we will produce the documentation unfortunately customers have also got a raft of documentation to produce to allow the import to go ahead so why buy from the u.k. might as well buy for the low producer in front you can deliver to the door no documentation no problem peter wood says he would never have voted for bracks it if he knew he was going to lose his job the british government acknowledges there will be specific challenges but the biggest obstacles are out of the way. for working more intensively with business in order to make sure that everyone is ready for the new opportunities and challenges that come after the 1st of january i think business is broadly in a good place but inevitably with any change with any transition there are occasional but. the confederation of british industry wants the government and london to translate the deal which

it looks like they've done it more or less that in with week —— lithuania, much the same. james, do you want to look at the story on the front of the guardian about wind rush pay—outs, which despite extravagant promises made by the government doesn't try to back down the fires of this particular controversy still don't appear to have been delivered. it's horrifying that we are still talking about this. what you have to rememberat the talking about this. what you have to remember at the core of this scandal is that british citizens were deported from this country. and you know, it'sjust a deported from this country. and you know, it's just a terrible, deported from this country. and you know, it'sjust a terrible, terrible thing, and they need to be brought back. they haven't been already, and they need to be compensated as soon as possible. we shouldn't still be talking about this. it shouldn't be that hard. they need to get the job done. this isjust an that hard. they need to get the job done. this is just an awful scandal and the fact that we are still talking about it

bulgaria and lithuania also won't be straight forward matches, and all this as they perhaps use this qualification campaign to rebuild as their star players approach retirement. they've had a disappointing 2020. and all the home nations know they can't make a slow start in this campaign. you can see just like the international breaks at the start of this season, there'll be three qualifying games in a week for each side in march and september. that means in a fortnight‘s worth of international football, we'll be halfway through the campaign. and for those teams in pot three, they may well be looking at a route to the finals via the play—offs — if they finish as runners—up in their qualifying group they'll get that chance in march 2022, when 12 teams will be split into three play—off paths — that knockout style format will give three nations a world cup place in the same way scotland got their spot at the euros. that's still more than a year off, if we look even further ahead to november 2022, the world cup in qatar kicks off. we've had the first virtual draw today but by

he escaped from a camp in lithuania and was on the loosely for a couple of weeks. again, was caught, this time they said they were going to execute him because he was a little bit problematic to try to keep in. but instead they sent him back to --. while he was in the cooler that time is when the great escape took place. he couldn't participate in the great escape because he was in the cooler at the time. after they executed those 50 men, he decided his career was over as an escape artist. as i was researching him, i couldn't help but think about the hogan's heroes i watched as a kid, and this fun rivalry back and forth. but there were no sergeant schultzs in the real german pow camps. certainly not what was depicted in real life. >> so if there was an award for the prisoner demonstrating the greatest amount of coolness under pressure, that award would probably have to go to george crimson, a british radio operator, shot down july 15th, 1940. the germans transferred him back and forth to a number of different prison camps until he settled permanently at is it a lag

serbia, georgia, croatia and lithuania have the highest infection rates. turkey, russia, germany, italy and the united kingdom have reported the most cases in the past 14 days, with turkey recording more than 400,000 infections. earlier, the netherlands followed germany and announced a nationwide lockdown because of the surge. millions in london are set to be placed under tougher restrictions. >> london's festive preparations, dealt a blow. the capital moving to tighter restrictions that will ban households from mixing and see the hospitality sector shut down again. the health secretary warned a new variant of the virus might in part behind fast rising infection rates. >> the medical advice we have is that it is highly unlikely under this new variant, that it will impinge the vaccine and the impact of the vaccine but we will know that in the coming days and weeks as the vaccine, as the new strand is cultured. >> london joins much of the rest of the country under tier three restrictions eerie the government plant to relax the measures for a few days over ch

country except finland norway ireland and iceland on this highest level serbia georgia croatia and lithuania have the highest infection rates that turkey russia germany italy and the u.k. have reported the most cases in the past 14 days it's recording more than 400000 many european countries are once again tightening restrictions with no sign of those infection rates slowing down another lens is following germany's footsteps announcing a new nationwide lockdown over the holiday period and in london tougher restrictions will come into effect from wednesday as jenna hall reports. london's festive preparations dealt a blow to the capital moving to tighter restrictions that will ban households from mixing and see the hospitality sector shut down again if the health secretary warns that a new variant of the virus might in part be behind fast rising infection rates the medical advice that we have is that it is highly unlikely that this new variant will impinge the vaccine and the impact of the vaccine but we will know that in the coming days and weeks as the vaccine is called as the new strand is

ends and the new rules apply peter wood's heels were prized by his customers in germany sweden and lithuania but now he fears his e.u. customers will look elsewhere for supply after the new breaks rules come in on january 1st the deal involves a vast amount of paperwork we will produce documentation for sure customers have also got a raft of documentation to get used to allow the import to go ahead so why buy from the u.k. might as well buy for the low producer and for those who can deliver to the do no documentation no problem peter wood says he would never have voted for bracks that if he knew he was going to this is job. the british government acknowledges there will be specific challenges but the biggest obstacles are out of the way. working more intensively with business in order to make sure that everyone is ready for the new opportunities and challenges that come off the 1st of january i think business is broadly in a good place but inevitably with any change with any transition there are occasional bumpy roads the confederation of british industry wants the government in london to tr

ends and the new rules apply peter wood's heels were prized by his customers in germany sweden and lithuania but now he fears his e.u. customers will look elsewhere for supply after the new breaks rules come in on january 1st the deal involves a vast amount of paperwork we will produce documentation for sure customers but also got a raft of documentation to get used to allow the import to go ahead so why buy from the u.k. might as well buy for the low producer and for those who can deliver to the do no documentation local peter wood says he would never have voted for breakfast if he knew he was going to lose his job. the british government acknowledges there will be specific challenges but the biggest obstacles are out of the way. working more intensively with business in order to make sure that everyone is ready for the new opportunities and challenges that come off the 1st of january i think business is broadly in a good place but inevitably with any change with any transition there are occasional bumpy mothers the confederation of british industry wants the government in london to transla

and although many of those oidrivers, back to bulgaria, lithuania, romania, they have to go through france, france is going to take the view of its own public health requirements coming first. so that is why we have a solution between britain and france on french citizens returning to france, on british residents of frce going home, for example, but a more difficult decision on road haulage, on what exactly will be requed from truck drivers. that has not been announced yet, and that is becau of that very big difference. if you ask for what sort of pcr tests, that means a sample has to be taken and sent to a laboratory, and that can take 48 hours. that is immensely impractical for truck drivers waitingeh by theirles in theiddle of nowhere in kent, waiting to hear how they can go home. the british side wants much simpler o flow testing, whicht can' lateral flow testing, which can get results in 15, 20 minutes, but it is less accurate. you can seeat thee of the debate between britain and france, and you can see why it has been so difficult. ros: just to emphasize what you said towards the end

ends and the new rules apply peter wood's deals were prized by his customers in germany sweden and lithuania but now he fears his e.u. customers will look elsewhere for supply after the new breaks it rules come in on january 1st the deal involves a vast amount of paperwork. we will produce documentation for sure customers but also got a raft of documentation to produce to allow the import to go ahead so why buy from the u.k. might as well buy for the low producer and for those who can deliver to the do no documentation no problem peter wood says he would never have voted for breakfast if he knew he was going to lose his job. the british government acknowledges there will be specific challenges but the biggest obstacles are out of the way. we're working more intensively with business in order to make sure that everyone is ready for the new opportunities and challenges that come off the 1st of january i think business is broadly in a good place but inevitably with any change with any transition there are occasional bumpy roads the confederation of british industry wants the government in londo

ignaz is not a commercial driver, he's just trying to get home to his family in lithuania for christmas. my kids are waiting for their christmas presents and i'm stuck here in the uk. but for now, he is stranded in a car park. hopefully the government will fix that situation. hopefully. we will wait. we can wait a little bit, but not too much, you know. christmas is coming. 0vernight, part of the motorway down to the coast will be closed as 0peration brock, the new road layout, is deployed to keep traffic flowing. in drizzly and mist—covered dover, many would like to know when the way ahead will be clear. caroline davies, bbc news. british supermarkets were quick to assure customers they have enough food in stock for christmas, although sainsbury‘s has warned there could be shortages of some fresh produce afterwards, if freight routes between france and the uk are not quickly reopened. the british retail consortium says any prolonged border closure will be a problem in the ten days before the uk ends its transition period with the eu. simonjack reports. scottish seafood, one of the

ignaz is not a commercial driver, he's just trying to get home to his family in lithuania for christmas. my kids are waiting for their christmas presents and i'm stuck here in the uk. but for now, he is stranded in a car park. hopefully the government will fix that situation. hopefully. we will wait. we can wait a little bit, but not too much, you know. christmas is coming. 0vernight, part of the motorway down to the coast will be closed as 0peration brock, the new road layout, is deployed to keep traffic flowing. in drizzly and mist—covered dover, many would like to know when the way ahead will be clear. caroline davies, bbc news. the rapid spread of a new variant of coronavirus in southeast england has been blamed for the introduction of strict tier four mixing rules for millions of people, and other countries placing the uk on a travel ban. so why is it causing concern? firstly it is rapidly replacing other versions of the virus, and now accounts for the majority of cases in london and the south east. there have been changes to the spike protein — this is the key the virus uses t

sanctions regime because of their work for the receipt of civil and news agency according to 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 and of course the outrage is not only from colleagues and journalists themselves russian foreign ministry already reacted to what is happening in that regard in latvia they say that the country's crackdown on russian speaking journalist under the pretext of violation of e.u. sanctions is absolutely unacceptable the foreign ministry also said that those e.u. restrictions are over a personal nature against the seal of. a news agency sputnik falls under that as well and those sanctions they cannot apply to everyone who call parades with these news agencies sold it's personal versus professional they also added that it considers the aggression aggressive actions of the state security service a blatant example of violating the foundations of a democratic society and freedom of the media and expression let's take a look at what else foreign ministry sa

peter woods heels were prized by his customers in germany sweden and lithuania but now he fears his customers will look elsewhere for supply after the new breaks rules come in on january 1st the deal involves a vast amount of paperwork we will produce the documentation to unfortunately customers have also got a raft of documentation to get used to allow the import to go ahead so why buy from the u.k. might as well buy for now producer and for us to can deliver to the door no documentation no problem peter wood says he would never have voted for bracks it if he knew he was going to this is job. the british government acknowledges there will be specific challenges but the biggest obstacles are out of the way. working more intensively with business in order to make sure that everyone is ready for the new opportunities and challenges that come off the 1st of january i think business is broadly in a good place but inevitably with any change with any transition there are occasional bumpy. the confederation of british industry wants the government and london to translate the deal which is more than

and although many of those drivers are heading back to bulgaria, lithuania, romania, they have to go through france. france is going to take the view that its own public health requirement will come first. that's why we have a solution between britain and france on french citizens returning to france, on british residents of france going home, for example. but a more difficult decision on the road haulage, on what exactly is going to be required from truck drivers, that has not been announced and that's because of that very big difference. if you ask for a pcr test, that means a sample has to be sent to a laboratory which could take 48 hours. that is a immensely impractical for truck drivers waiting to hear how they can go home. the british side wants much, much simpler lateral flow testing. that can be done immediately — results in 15, 20 minutes — but it's less accurate. so you can see the nature of the debate between britain and france, you can see why this has been so difficult. just before i let you go, just to re—emphasise what you said, they would approach the issue of f

were cancelled and if germany or lithuania follow i won't be able to fly back. and i can't be totally safe but i'm not afraid of traveling i'm just looking forward to go home for christmas. really looking forward to. go it's not not a nice thing to be going home to organize with anyone. on monday the european medicine agency gave the go ahead for the pfizer biotech vaccine to be administered in each country's. visiting a coronavirus vaccination center in berlin germany president. said he was optimistic about the upcoming rollout of the vaccine. because in we are in a difficult situation if we look at the infection rate. but today is also a day of holes and talked. with vaccinations about to start the light at the end of the tunnel. it's getting a little brighter and clandestine head of. germany has set up dozens of vaccination centers across the country it plans to begin administering the jab on december 27th starting with residents in care homes. speaking of which amnesty international has accused spanish healthful thora tis of effectively abandoning residents

regime because of their work for the receipt of civil with news agency because it's a lot of you know 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. and of course reactions from russian officials also followed very quickly the russian foreign ministry said that the us crackdown on russian speaking journalists on the pretext of the violation of e.u. sanctions is absolutely unacceptable they also said that the e.u. restrictions that are in question here they're all personal nature against a c.e.o. all sputnik agency and russia i.c.s.c. board a news agency that's in question to me that he said no if and they said of these sanctions cannot be applied to just about anybody that works for sputnik or for c.s.c. avoidant the. russian foreign ministry also said that it considers the aggressive actions of flat security service a blatant example of violating the foundations of a democratic society freedom of the media and expression they said some more things let's take a look it is a completely puniti

with estonia set to follow in lithuania. with norway considering restrictions on uk arrivals, to stop madrid says it is at strengthening tests at the airport since ports for uk arrivals. further afield, kuwait has banned flights arriving from the united kingdom, and officials and scientists in canada says they are considering what action to take. since the new virus variant was detected in the uk in september, it has also been detected in the netherlands, denmark, italy and australia. this all comes at a bad time, not just for this all comes at a bad time, notjust for britain, days away from the end of its transition period with the eu, but the wider world, days after getting on the front foot with a vaccine rollout, now days later, that link to contain this sting in the tail. mark lobel this sting in the tail. mark lobel, bbc news. and in the last few moments, it has just been announced that canada will also now hold flights from the uk. after months of wrangling, republicans and democrats in the us congress has reached an

ignaz is not a commercial driver, he's just trying to get home to his family in lithuania for christmas. my kids are waiting for their christmas presents and i'm stuck here in the uk. but for now, he is stranded in a car park. hopefully the government will fix that situation. hopefully. we will wait. we can wait a little bit, but not too much, you know. christmas is coming. overnight, part of the motorway down to the coast will be closed as operation brock, the new road layout, is deployed to keep traffic flowing. in drizzly and mist—covered dover, many would like to know when the way ahead will be clear. caroline davies, bbc news. the rapid spread of a new variant of coronavirus in southeast england has been blamed for the introduction of strict tier four mixing rules for millions of people, and other countries placing the uk on a travel ban. so why is it causing concern? firstly it is rapidly replacing other versions of the virus, and now accounts for the majority of cases in london and the south east. there have been changes to the spike protein — this is the key the virus uses t

ends and the new rules apply peter wood's heels were prized by his customers in germany sweden and lithuania but now he fears his e.u. customers will look elsewhere for supply after the new breaks rules come in on january 1st the deal involves a vast amount of paperwork we will produce documentation for sure customers have also got a raft of documentation to get used to the import to go ahead so why buy from the u.k. might as well buy for the low producer and for those who can deliver to do no documentation no problem peter wood says he would never have voted for bracks that if he knew he was going to lose his job. the british government acknowledges there will be specific challenges but the biggest obstacles are out of the way. we're working more intensively with business in order to make sure that everyone is ready for the new opportunities and challenges that come off the 1st of january i think business is broadly in a good place but inevitably with any change with any transition there are occasional bumpy roads the confederation of british industry wants the government in london to trans

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

the swedish government says it will introduce one as soon as possible, with estonia set to follow and lithuania. with norway considering restrictions on uk arrivals, too. madrid says it's strengthening tests at airports and ports for uk arrivals. further afield, kuwait has banned flights arriving from the united kingdom, as has canada. since the new virus variant was detected in the uk in september, it has also been detected in the netherlands, denmark, italy and australia. this all comes at a bad time — notjust for britain, days away from the end of its transition period with the eu — but for the wider world, days after getting on the front foot with a vaccine roll—out. now days later, battling to contain this string in the tail. mark lobel, bbc news. after months of wrangling, republicans and democrats in the us congress have reached agreement on a $900 billion coronavirus relief package. the deal includes increased unemployment benefits and stimulus payments for millions of workers who lost their jobs because of the pandemic. announcing the agreement, the republican leader in the us se

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 imposed on the agency's general director joins ricky sort of in 24 scene and of course this caused outrage and not only among journalists but russian foreign ministry also had something to say about that and before we get to everything else let's hear what foreign minister ministry had to say. it is a completely punitive action which leaves no doubt to ball the roof of 4 big subtext of the fabricated accusations well the statement from the russian foreign ministry he went on further to say that the reference to the violation by this scene is categorically unacceptable and these restrictions from the e.u. all the sanctions were off a personal nature against the general director of make. it off and it cannot apply to everybody as it was in this case and right now we have a bunch of russian speaking journalists. who are not certain what is going to happen next but with us we can see how that plays out thanks for bringing us

were canceled and if germany or lithuania follow i won't be able to fly back. and i can't be totally safe but i'm not afraid of traveling i'm just looking forward to go home for christmas. you're really looking forward to it. we are not not a nice thing to be going home to organize with anyone. on monday the european medicine agency gave the go ahead for the pfizer biotech vaccine to be administered in each country is. visiting a coronavirus vaccination center in berlin germany president. said he was optimistic about the upcoming rollout of the vaccine. because in we are in a difficult situation if we look at the infection rate of the. sun but today is also a day of holes and talked. with vaccinations about to start the light at the end of the tunnel is. it's getting a little brighter. that. germany has set up dozens of vaccination centers across the country it plans to begin administering the jab on the summer 27th starting with residents in care homes. take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world england has found 2 men guilty of

we had an opportunity to go to lithuania as they were desperately trying to get included in nato. i think, mike, you remember driving around -- walking on that little square where people had their signs up, we want in nato. they'd beenan left behind one time, theyt didn't want to be left behind another time. but that's one of many memories i have with mike. another is just mike's incredible capacity to listen. i think without question and by plenty of evidence mike is the bestn listener in the senate. in fact, he has listening sessions in his state where what he does, shocking ily, listen. -- shockingly, is listen. his interest in taking in input from whoever wants to talk, if you can envision mike at the front of the room with his note pad talking notes on what everybody says -- taking notes on what everybody says. and often the move from one speaker to the next is thank you, and let's hear what other people are to say. and he absorbs that in a great way. there are many times when i've come to mike in the senate and said tell me what you're thinking about this. and it's amazing -

we had an opportunity to go to lithuania as they were desperately trying to get included in nato. mike, you remember driving around, walking on the little square where people had their signs up, we want in nato. they'd been left behind one time. they didn't want to be left behind another time. but that's one of many memories i have with mike. and another is just the-- mike's incredible capacity to listen. i think without question and by plenty of evidence, mike is the best listener in the senate. in fact, he has listening sessions in his state, where what he does, shockingly, is listen. his talking is at a minimum in those sessions and his interest in taking input from whoever wants to talk. if you can envision mike at the front of the room with his note pad taking notes on what everybody says and then often the move from one speaker to the next is thank you. and let's hear what other people have to say. and he absorbs that in a great way. there are many times when i've come to mike in the senate and said tell me what you're thinking about this. it's amazing how much you can learn

this man is not a commercial driver, just trying to get home to his family in lithuania for christmas. my kids are waiting for their christmas presents and i'm stuck here in the uk. i don't know, if they get the christmas—time, may be at new year, but hopefully at christmas time we will get there. for now, he is stranded in a car park. hopefully the government will fix this bad situation. we will wait. we can wait a little bit, but not too much, you know. christmas is coming. in drizzly and mist covered dover, many would like to know when the way ahead will be clear. caroline davies, bbc news. with much of the world closing its borders to the uk, there is an inevitable knock—on effect on business. british supermarkets are reassuring customers they have enough food for christmas — though sainsbury‘s have warned there could be shortages of some fresh produce afterwards, if freight routes between france and the uk are not quickly reopened. the british retail consortium says any prolonged border closure will be a problem in the final ten days before the uk leaves the eu. here's ou

country except finland norway ireland and iceland are on the highest level serbia georgia croatia and lithuania have the highest infection rates the turkey russia germany italy and the united kingdom have reported the most cases in the past 14 days with turkey recording more than 400000 infections well earlier the netherlands followed germany and announced a new nationwide lockdown because of the surge in cases and meanwhile millions of people in london are also set to be placed under tougher restrictions as jonah hill reports. london's festive preparations dealt a blow to the capital moving to tighter restrictions that will ban households from mixing and see the hospitality sector shut down again the health secretary warns that a new variant of the virus might in part be behind fast rising infection rates the medical advice that we have is that it is highly unlikely that this new variant impinged the vaccine and the impact of the vaccine but we will know that in the coming days and weeks as the vaccine is as the new strand is cultured. london joins much of the rest of the country under tier 3

every country except finland norway islands nice and is on that highest level so georgia croatia and lithuania they have a. highest infection rates but turkey russia germany italy and the u.k. they've reported the most cases in the past 14 days with turkey recording more than 400000 on the day and baba is watching the situation for us across the continent from brussels nadeem it really seems like janni a fresh start is trying to tackle this on multiple fronts here. that's right we heard earlier on tuesday from the health minister saying that he hopes the country would be able to start vaccinating people by the end of this year he's been calling all the european medicines agency to speed up their approval of the pfizer biotech vaccine now that is going to happen it's being brought forward to december the 21st that has prompted a tweet spike to sort of underlying the president of the european commission based here in brussels she said likely but the 1st europeans will be vaccinated before ends 2020 this is offering a lot of hope for people in countries across the continent who have seen other co

country except finland norway ireland and iceland is on this highest level serbia georgia croatia and lithuania have the highest infection rates but turkey russia germany italy and the u.k. have reported most cases in the past 14 days with turkey recording more than 400000. well we have a team of reporters covering the situation in europe will be speaking in paris in just a moment as france comes out of lockdown general standing by in london which is facing tougher restrictions from wednesday but 1st let's go over to the he's and brussels for us in a wet looking brussels not a team is that our attention to germany it's going into a hard lockdown over the holiday period but also hopeful of starting vaccinations by the end of the year. that's right germany along with many other countries worried about the number of daily cases over 14000 the moment with around 500 people dying every day now the government has said in the last couple of days the health minister the un spawn has said he wants to see approval of this pfizer biotech vaccine by the european medicines agency brought forward from its or

finland norway ireland and iceland is on this highest level and you have serbia georgia croatia and lithuania have the highest infection rates but turkey russia germany italy and the u.k. have all reported most cases in the past 14 days with turkey recording more than 400000 has more from brussels. well we've just heard in the last couple of i was confirmation that the european medicines agency the regulates 3 body for the european union is bringing forward an exceptional meeting from december the 28th to december the 21st so next monday where they will issue approval for this phase or beyond take a vaccine of course that was developed in germany the german government has been expressing its concern in the last 24 hours about the speed at which the mayor is acting saying it was undermining the public search trust in the e.u. to take action they're going to welcome that news yen spahn the german health minister has said that he wants to vaccinate people before the end of the year and they're saying that they're ready to vaccinate between 3 and 4000000 citizens by the end of december so very qu

it also says lithuania has announced similar restrictions, essentially locked down for the next three weeks. police in lincolnshire have arrested two teenagers on suspicion of murder after the discovery a school boy's body. it was found on common land in the village of fishtoft near boston yesterday morning. a boy aged 14 and a 19—year—old man are in custody. 0ur correspondentjake zuckerman has this update from the scene. police were called here yesterday morning after a body, initially believed to be that of a man in his 305, was found on the grassy area just off the street behind me. now today officers have said that the victim, although yet to be formally identified, is now believed to be a boy of secondary school age. they have launched a murder investigation and two young men aged 14 and 19 have been arrested on suspicion of murder and remain have been arrested on suspicion of murderand remain in have been arrested on suspicion of murder and remain in police custody. ina murder and remain in police custody. in a statement detective superintendent martin parker said, this is a

peter wood's heels were prized by his customers in germany sweden and lithuania but now he fears his customers will look elsewhere for supply after the new breaks rules come in on january 1st the deal involves a vast amount of paperwork. we will produce the documentation but unfortunately customized have also got a raft of documentation to produce to allow the import to go ahead so why buy from the u.k. might as well buy it for no producer in size who can deliver to the dole no documentation no problem peter would sense he would never have voted for bracks that if he knew he was going to this is job. the british government acknowledges there will be specific challenges but the biggest obstacles are out of the way. working more intensively with business in order to make sure that everyone is ready for the new opportunities and the challenges that come off the 1st of january i think business is broadly in a good place but inevitably with any change with any transition there are occasional. the confederation of british industry wants the government and london to translate the deal which

peter wood's heels were prized by his customers in germany sweden and lithuania but now he fears his customers will look elsewhere for supply after the new breaks rules come in on january 1st the deal involves a vast amount of paperwork we will produce the documentation unfortunately customers have also got a raft of documentation to get used to allow the import to go ahead so why buy from the u.k. might as well buy for no producer in funds who can deliver to the door no documentation no problem peter wood says he would never have voted for banks that if he knew he was going to this is job. the british government acknowledges there will be specific challenges but the biggest obstacles are out of the way. working more intensively with business in order to make sure that everyone is ready for the new opportunities and challenges that come off the 1st of january i think business is broadly in a good place but inevitably with any change with any transition there are occasional bumpy. the confederation of british industry wants the government and london to translate the deal which is more

ends and the new rules apply peter wood's heels were prized by his customers in germany sweden and lithuania but now he fears his e.u. customers will look elsewhere for supply after the new breaks and rules come in on january 1st the deal involves a vast amount of paperwork we will produce documentation unfortunately customers but also got a raft of documentation to get used to allow the import to go ahead so why buy from the u.k. might as well buy for the low producer and for us who can deliver to the do no documentation no problem peter wood says he would never have voted for breakfast if he knew he was going to lose his job. the british government acknowledges there will be specific challenges but the biggest obstacles are out of the way. working more intensively with business in order to make sure that everyone is ready for the new opportunities and challenges that come off the 1st of january i think business is broadly in a good place but inevitably with any change with any transition there are occasional bumpy roads the confederation of british industry wants the government in london t

the second stream that made up the last million came in 1944- 1944-1945 from latvia, lithuania, estonia, and parts of ukraine. and these were men, women and their children. the men and women who had in one way or another collaborated with the nazi authorities. sometimes that collaboration meant simply working in a post-office that was overseen by a nazi official. in other cases it meant serving in the auxiliary police, rounding up jews pick . in some cases it meant joining the ss division. when he became clear that the red army was on its march and would soon arrive in the baltic states, and in the ukraine, thousands upon thousands of citizens who had collaborated in some way, and citizens who could not abide the thought of living under soviet domination, made their way into germany here the third group were the jewish survivors as the war came to an end, hitler and the german officials realize that they didn't want the fact of the death camps to be discovered by the russians in the world, number one. number two, they needed more labor at home than they were getting from the forced labo

how long they will be struck, and most of these we are seeing, from bulgaria, romania, spain, poland, lithuania, all of them now stuck. there were hopes that the french authorities might lift this 48 our band quite shortly. with just talking to gavin lee in brussels who says he doesn't think that is the case, he doesn't think the french are going to relate, so those truck drivers will be stuck there for a while longer. yes, obviously of these discussions are ongoing on the other side amongst european countries about how they can best manage these. 0ne countries about how they can best manage these. one of the examples, one of the possibilities being floated seems to have been the idea that you could do rapid testing to see if drivers, passengers wanting to cross are negative for covid—19. that would involve of course rapid testing having to be deployed to all of these drivers who are now parked up of these drivers who are now parked up allaround of these drivers who are now parked up all around here, up around the motorways, to any passengers and european countries agreeing that whole process