the who's who's this is the w news, the live from berlin, trying to head lucas shank where it hurts the you expand sanction to target sectors of spell that will see that cause me to tighten the thumb. screws on the alex, dan shank. could these finally loosen his iron grip on power? also coming up if you had to the poles in an election long delayed by the corona,

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versus economy including its tobacco industry hurting major revenue sources for alexander lucas shackles regime. and for more or less bringing correspondence, alexandra phenomena who was standing by with a view from luxembourg. so i was told a little bit more about what the e u has agreed to. lot of foreign minister in kevin was the for us to take to twitter to announce that the risk and agreement for ministers has agreed to impose a 4th package of sanctions on belie ruth. and that means that as you just mentioned, more than 80 individuals and entities will be added to the sanction list. but that's not the most important thing that it's happening here. i think what is more important more crucial is that the foreign ministers agree in principle, that the european union needs to target whole areas of economy. we're

talking here about the financial sector, possible ban on you banks preventing them from providing new loans to be a la roof. then a ban on imports of protests from b c in the 3rd biggest potash producer in the world. and there will be also restrictions on imports of to baker to tobacco and on on imports of oil products. and this is really something that has the potential also of hurting and lucy and economy. alexandra, we also know, of course, russia the most important ally of bella roost. the foreign ministers are also discussing a new strategy on russia today. what's plaid there? while there is a broader agreement of that to the european union needs and use strategy to deal with russia. but at the moment we don't think we don't see anything real new. and

those discussions according to foreign policy chief.