something that belarus is a part of the russian world most rusher itself forget it belarus is a sovereign and independent state. it's a difficult dilemma for look at how to be an independent state last remaining all the favorable terms with russia if you want to get up to do so you need to give something back the kind of a trade or if you don't want to get up to this you may be very independent but in this case economic wonder will disappear and maybe we will face some kind of political disaster or oil like it was in ukraine this is one way bellaver used to sweeten the relationship. in twenty seventeen russia staged joint military exercises code names meeting west a clear message for nato ukraine has since accused russia of using the exercises as a pretext to station troops in belarus the kremlin denies this one thing moscow is wary of though is the attraction of europe for many young belorussians is the only leader they've ever known it's led to pro e.u. anti-government protests but currently any challenge to look at those twenty four year leadership is quickly silenced. walking a geo po

something that belarus is a part of the russian world and most rusher itself forget it belarus is a sovereign and independent state. it's a difficult dilemma for. how to be an independent state last remaining on the favorable terms with russia if you want to get up to do so you need to give something back the kind of a trade or if you don't want to get this you may be very independent but in this case economic wonder will disappear and maybe will face some kind of political disaster or oil like it was in ukraine this is one way bellaver used to sweeten the relationship. in twenty seventeen russia staged joint military exercises code names meeting west a clear message for nato ukraine has since accused russia of using the exercises as a pretext to station troops in belarus the kremlin denies this one thing moscow is wary of though is the attraction of europe for many young belorussians is the only leader they've ever known it's led to pro e.u. anti-government protests but currently any challenge to look at those twenty four year leadership is quickly silenced. walking a geo political tightrope

something that belarus is a part of the russian world in most rusher itself forget it belarus is a sovereign and independent state. it's a difficult dilemma for look at how to be an independent state whilst remaining on favorable terms with russia if you want to get up to do so you need to give something back the kind of a trade or if you don't want to get up to this you may be very independent but in this case economic wonder will disappear and maybe you will face some kind of political disaster or oil like it was in ukraine this is one way bellaver used to sweeten the relationship. in twenty seventeen russia staged joint military exercises code names meeting west a clear message for nato ukraine has since accused russia of using the exercises as a pretext to station troops in belarus the kremlin denies this one thing moscow is wary of though is the attraction of europe for many young belorussians as the only leader they've ever known it's led to pro e.u. anti-government protests but currently any challenge to look at those twenty four year leadership is quickly silenced. walking a geo poli

arsenal are away first to bate borisov of belarus, celtic take on valencia and chelsea face malmo, with in the swedish city. from those three, you have to say celtic‘s draw looks most interesting — manager brendan rodgers says he'll be strengthening his squad next month and they'll be in a really strong position by the time they come to face valencia. kherredine idessane has more. celtic fc. .. celtic fc. the club says it is delighted to be in europe after christmas again, so how do they feel about their next opponents? valencia. it is a club i studied a lot from when i was a young coach, the last time i was there was with chelsea. that was my last time there. a pretty famous stadium. a wonderful atmosphere. would you be keen to stress this is a spanish side who have just come out of the champions league, so would you say let's be realistic here or...? it is very difficult here to present reality. there are other very good teams and nations. listen, it is a game that will be exciting when it comes around. like i say... you know, they are a good side. it is valencia on valentine's day fo

ronald crewman's side in the nation's leak the group also features northern ireland stone nia and belarus the top two teams in each of the ten groups will qualify for the tournament finals. with. germany in the group. the strongest team in dissent components. we played just against and we know them they know us. to the bundesliga now where the light safe proved too strong for berisha on sunday german international team event scored twice to give the hosts a two nil victory in sunday's of the game. fell to a home to st against all spoke and the pick of saturday's match is so brief scored twice as by in munich return to winning ways in the bundesliga that up and post leave a crew on monday. heading to the table after the end of match day thirteen and we see that the rich of development have extended the lead up to seven points off the base in freiburg on saturday stay second while like they climbed to at the other end. of the relegation places following home defeats this match day. you're watching the news from but thanks so much for your company. nico in germany to learn german. published

there's a really tough group for northern ireland, in with the netherlands, germany, estonia and belarusles's toughest opponents are croatia. slovakia, hungary and azerbaijan make up group e. tricky one for scotland, belgium, russia, cyprus, kazakhstan and san marino. all these matches will be played between march and november next year. the top two go through to the euros but remember england and scotland have that insurance policy of a play—off spot should they need it, after winning their nations league groups this year. the first of today's three derbies in the premier league is underway at stamford bridge. chelsea taking on west london neighbours fulham 1—0 after pedro scored in the fourth minute. a win will ensure that chelsea stay in the top four. fulham are currently bottom of the table. liverpool host everton later and it's the north london derby at 14.05 at the emirates. tottenham are on a good run at the moment after beating chelsea last weekend and keeping themsleves alive in the champions league by beating inter milan in the week. it is a special game. it is tough to play th

. >>> some thrill seekers in belarus took a plunge into icy water. this pool here is carved out of a frozen lake, and the tempaturs above freezing. you see the contestants there, young and old, competed in races from short sprints to 450 meter swims. the competition is the second stage of the international winter swimming association world cup. >> people who do that, i have to tell you, time and time again, every year, wow. >> heart attack central. just jump right in. i hear you. so polar bear plunge continues this morning in areas of virginia and north carolina after the big snowstorm. 26 degrees in richmond, currently. we went above freezing in many areas briefly and then got the refreeze. black ice is a problem. just about all of the snow and rain showers are almost over with. because of the black ice we do have slick roadways for the morning. we do have winter weather advisories and a lot of schools that are going to have delays or cancellations. we're not going to see the temperatures going above freezing untildl of the country. no problems what

in belarus to have a very popular app. i don't know that they had that popular app for their cell phones unless they had platforms on which to develop them. so in the world of e-commerce that sort of the alexander hamilton notion of industry protection work. i don't think so. but it deserves some attention because the cry on the lips of a number of folks from the south in the southern hemisphere is we need policy space, which means don't put obligations on us. let us do whatever we want. the soviet union and its member countries had policy space for 80 years and its economy collapsed. it depends what you do with policy space. somehow the koreans had policy space in the japanese did and it worked very well in a number of other countries who opposed the policy space that didn't work well at all because domestic policies actually matter. next to last, mind the gap. this can be very brief. the u.k. treasury said in its memorandum to list secret but not -- now not so much, if the u.k. get an agreement like norway, we lose 2% of

roll of rubble has increased to sixty or even seventy percent in the settlements between russia and belarus in non-cash transactions but in cash it's smaller the role of the ruble in this particular segment is going to become stronger because that is reliable and it doesn't make us and any additional costs especially the ones. and dollar denominated transactions we know very well that wherever such transactions happen they are always channeled through the banks and if there are restrictions introduced there is a natural desire to try to carry around these restrictions. this is comprehensible and there are some issues of uncertainty and instability involved in dollar denominated settlements right now but in order for ruble to strengthen as at least a regional reserve currency several. issues have to be tackled the first one estie to tackle volatility the currency exchange rate of the ruble has to be stable and recently we have been more or less been able to do that thanks to the actions taken by the central bank by the government of russia as you can see the currency exchange rate is more st

arsenal will play bate borisov of belarus, while 2013 champions chelsea take on swedish side malmo.f fixtures is on the bbc sport website. manchester united are just an average side — just a decent cup team — that's according to former captain roy keane, after they were beaten 3—1 by liverpool at anfield. xherdan shaqiri came off the bench and scored twice to consign jose mourinho's side to another defeat. it's been the worst start manchester united have ever had to a premier league season. but mourinho prefered to focus n the strengths of the opposition. every one of their players is fast, their transitions are phenomenal, but with our qualities, we managed to balance the game, and in the second half was when the game was progressively dying, was when i think probably a huge percentage of those in the stadium were starting to feel this is going to end i—i. fantastic game. the whole 93, 95 minutes was just, we were in charge of the game and dominated it and they came up, we had to stay in the game, so we did, and second half just do it and do it, be kind of annoying, do it and do it

the measure was in force in 10 regions along the black sea and the borders with russia, belarus and moldovawas declared after the capture of three ukrainian naval vessels and 2a sailors by russian forces in november. russia says that reported israeli air strikes on syria overnight directly threatened two civilian aircraft. the defence ministry in moscow says one of the endangered flights had been landing in damascus, and the other in beirut. syria said earlier its air defences had intercepted missiles, fired by israeli aircraft close to the capital, damascus. an arms depot had been damaged and three soldiers wounded. stock markets in the usa have made a remarkable rebound after days of losses, including their worst ever christmas eve. the dow index posted its biggest ever daily point gain, surging by more than 1,000 points in a single trading session. 0ur reporter kim gittleson is here to add some analysis. roaring back to life, all the main indices. a fun fact. in the snp 500 there are more than 500 companies at all of them except on closed up today, a mining company having the dubious hon

cold air that means snow we certainly don't snow running up to from the eastern side of ukraine and belarus but to the west where billions up to sixty degrees the incoming potential rain could end up as being freezing rain that lands on the ground as ice pretty poor stuff but you end up with a much milder day i'm in berlin is up to eleven but sammy get to sunday afternoon and to the west of that it's just wet and windy and really quite mild fifty in paris eighteen zero bestow on the southern alps and that's about it otherwise right but this cold stays kids at minus six and book rest at minus two part time to get to monday we haven't really seen the cold that much but we have if the temperature in vienna to for maybe some snow for the mountains in sudden germany and the middle of austria now listed in the center of the mediterranean is seasonal developing system try and produce yet more big showers for southern italy but more especially catching tunisia and libya that circulation of course will move east towards eventually end up probably again in the levant. ard. hello again the top stories

martial law was in force in ten regions along the black sea and the borders with russia, belarus andcapture of three ukrainian naval vessels and 2a sailors by russian forces in november. judges in france have dropped a long—running investigation into the shooting down of a plane carrying the former rwandan presidentjuvenal habyarimana. his death in 1994 was a trigger of the genocide. the french inquiry began four years later at the request of relatives of the french crew who died. president putin says russia has acquired a new type of strategic weapon, after observing the final tests of a nuclear—capable hypersonic missile. mr putin claimed the weapon could penetrate any existing or next—generation missile defence system. the russian military says the avangard missile, launched in the ural mountains, hit a target 6,000 km away in kamchatka. last week, russia blamed the united states for the breakdown of international arms control. mr putin said the new avangard system was invincible. translation: the new avangard missile system is invincible for today's and future air defence systems

the measure was in force in 10 regions along the black sea and the borders with russia, belarus and moldovaapture of three ukrainian naval vessels and 2a sailors by russian forces in november. judges in france have dropped a long—running investigation into the shooting down of a plane carrying the former rwandan president juvenal habyarimana. his death in 1994 was a trigger of the genocide. the french inquiry began four years later at the request of relatives of the french crew who died. russia says that reported israeli air strikes on syria overnight directly threatened two civilian aircraft. the defence ministry in moscow says one of the endangered flights had been landing in damascus, and the other in beirut. syria said earlier its air defences had intercepted missiles, fired by israeli aircraft close to the capital, damascus. an arms depot had been damaged and three soldiers wounded. israel hasn't commented on these reports. president putin says russia has acquired a new type of strategic weapon, after observing the final tests of a nuclear—capable hypersonic missile. mr putin claimed t

there's a really tough group for norhern ireland, in with the netherlands, germany, estonia and , belarus slovakia, hungary and azerbaijan make up group e. tricky one for scotland, belgium, russia, cyprus, kazakhstan and san marino. all these matches will be played between march and november next year. the top two go through to the euro's but remember england and scotland have that insurance policy of a play—off spot should they need it, after winning their nations league groups this year. the first of today's three derbies in the premier league is under way at stamford bridge chelsea taking on west london neighbours fulham. 1—0 after pedro scored in the fourth minute. a win will ensure that chelsea stay in the top four. fulham are currently bottom of the table. liverpool host everton later and it's the north london derby at 14:05. tottenham are on a good run at the moment after beating chelsea last weekend and keeping themsleves alive in the champions league by beating inter milan in the week it isa it is a special game. it is tough to play this type of game because it is more than a gam

arsenal will play bate borisov of belarus, while 2013 champions chelsea take on swedish side malmo.ip tonight — the east midlands derby. derby county are in with the chance of going third if they beat nottingham forest at home. with over half an hour gone, the score is 0—0. there is also action in the fa cup. the winner of tonight's second—round replay between southport and tranmere rovers has the exciting prospect of meeting spurs next. it isi-o it is 1—0 currently two tranmere rovers. it is 1—0 currently to tranmere rovers. ireland will be without forward iain henderson when they begin their six nations title defence in february. henderson, who scored twice for ulster in their champions cup win over scarlets on friday, is expected to miss the next 10—12 weeks after having surgery on his thumb today. there was plenty of spice and confrontation in the second test between australia and india, with both captains, tim paine and virat kohli, clashing in perth. the two squared up to each other with paine overheard saying to kohli's team mate murali vijay, "i know he's your captain, "but

germany but the cold blocks that is coming in from russia exists through at least parts of ukraine belarus and poland and most of the action is going on in turkey is going to wane as quiet day for you let me ask is eighteen ankara so a bit warmer than it was to you but it's still i think you probably call it mild in the western side of europe double figures it was needed in the teens were in two places yesterday and the wind is still blowing in strongly from the atlantic so not a burst of rains coming in overnight friday's pretty wet and mild picture very windy too for british isles and france snow in the outs staring across to southern germany as well and a bit of a kick in the temperatures for the positives in warsaw now as of the warmth has pushed a bit the relative wind has pushed a bit further into eastern europe so all the actions overland there is quiet of the measure and in less of breeze in the walls the rain stopped falling in the levant and that car that you see over morocco algeria is probably just going to be cabin onshore breeze so we're talking about teens rather than twenty

a gap here which is just getting colder and colder snows falling through potent trying to get to belarus but by the time we get to friday will all the wausau has warmed up here it's gone that a minus two so this in a strip is still cold and that cold air is interacting with what's happening over the black sea in the eastern med misses but a very wet area recently south and turkey and cyprus wetter than the passing right which is given rather miserable conditions for the northwest corner so in the mediterranean it would be to the east you look at recent days when very nasty weather is for eastern libya that's improving as you can see but the cloud has been quite deep quite white so those thunderstorms in cyprus and turkey is still there during say moving eastwards into the rest levant during friday. the weather sponsored by cattle and please. read on line for you looking at you know wildlife and how the solutions come together to benefit all parties involved that's where we're going to need long term for that or if you join us on sat if you could take me around the content what would you

belarus's president accuses russia of using its oil and gas supplies to deepen its control over the country and then sport river plate makes a spectacular return the point is that this is they celebrated their new trophy with ferns. hello there is pretty cool for many of us in europe at the moment we take a look at the satellite picture we can see this huge area of cloud here and that's the leading edge of the cold air that's really digging down into the southeastern parts of europe at the moment as we head through the day on tuesday we're going to see that push further and further into parts of turkey through into greece is well heavy downpours here and a lot of wintery weather over the mountains as well that system and sweeps its way back around and works its way across ukraine for ukraine and for many of us in the western parts of russia the temperatures will be below freezing over the next few days elsewhere we just above freezing but it's really not that warm around six in berlin and only around five in paris even down towards the southwest for madrid we're looking at a top temperature

decide the government or lot there are a special interest for so many companies on ten ukraine russia belarus are some other countries the plan steam powered electricity generators will soon contribute seventy megawatts to the nation's grid it will become one of africa's biggest deal plans producing up to ten million tons of steel each year while this massive plant lay dormant a south korean company with a similar sized plant built a year later by the same soviet union engineers has grown to become one of the four largest two producers in the world with revenues of about fifty billion dollars a year but after more than three decades corrupt government officials and their lobbyist make sure but there is still a company never took off. the machine tools section is the busiest here engineers are designing and producing machine spares but customer demand especially from government on factories is for externally though most facilities including the conveyor belt need an overhaul of the rail system including the locomotives and trucks are still waiting to be used although the bridge riverport two h

and by the way, back then, some of them, ukraine and kazakhstan and belarus had nuclear weapons and itsident bush who helped guide all of those sides to this peaceful transition. and by the way, also help to get rid of a lot of those nuclear weapons, another part of his legacy. >> just a few months ago, i was in your office ambassador and we were talking about the start treaty having to do with the nuclear stockpiles in both of those countries. it's worth noting today that this is something this late now president pioneered, the creating of the signing of start and start to. >> without question. the most important nuclear arms control agreement in the history of the world. and the new start treaty that i was a part of the team that helped to negotiate, this was an improvement on the remarkable historic treaty that president bush did. so, you know, he did that. he also unification of germany, you talked about in your earlier segment with nick burns. that also could have been a complete disaster, could have gone a different way. you know, the liberation of eastern europe in 1989, that al

in belarus, they have a very popular app. i do not know if they have it for their cell phones unless they had platforms on which to develop them. the world of e-commerce, does the alexander hamilton no shary -- notion of industry protection work? i don't think so, but it deserves some attention, because the cry on the lips of a number of folks in, from the south, of this southern hemisphere, is we need policy space, which means, don't put any obligations on us. let us do what we want. the soviet union and its member countries have policy space for 80 years before it disappeared. and its economy collapsed. it depends on what you do with policy space. the koreans have policy space and the japanese did, and it works very well. there are number of other countries who had lots of policy space and it did not work well at all, because domestic policies actually matter. gap.to last, mind the this can be very brief. the u.k. treasury said in its memorandum that was originally secret and now not so much, if we get, we, the u.k. after b

arsenal will play bate borisov of belarus, while 2013 champions chelsea take on swedish side malmo.rward iain henderson when they begin their six nations title defence in february. henderson, who scored twice for ulster in their champions cup win over scarlets on friday, is expected to miss the next 10—12 weeks after having surgery on his thumb today. there was plenty of spice and confrontation in the second test between australia and india, with both captains, tim paine and virat kohli, clashing in perth. the two squared up to each other with paine overheard saying to kohli's team mate murali vijay "i know he's your captain but you can't seriously like him as a bloke." australia's conduct is in the spotlight with this the first home test series since the ball tampering scandal. australia need five more wickets to level the series. another heavyweight match—up in the boxing ring this weekend. dillian whyte takes on derek chisora at the 02 in london. victory could earn whyte a shot at a world title fight against anthonyjoshua, but he says he's expecting to be overlooked. it isa it is

for arsenal it's bate borisov of belarus.ries of the day: no sooner had jeremy corbyn tabled a motion of no confidence in theresa may, then number 10 moved to dismiss the vote, saying ministers would not go along with playing "silly political games". what we want to talk about now is this labour party pledge, can you tell us about that? we have a rising homelessness price -- crisis we have a rising homelessness price —— crisis that has risen every year since 2010, we have an emergency now, people are dying homeless, and not just now, people are dying homeless, and notjust in big cities but towns like peters broke, maidstone, barnsley. what is needed it now is extra emergency shelter as the weather gets extremely cold. —— peters bra. and helping people to keep up the streets of —— peters —— peterborough. it beggars belief that it —— peterborough. it beggars belief thatitis —— peterborough. it beggars belief that it is not required and it beggars belief that the government does not know what areas required as emergency support

arsenal will play bate borisov of belarus, while 2013 champions chelsea take on swedish side malmo.kat, lovely to chat. see you later. new research has shed light on the possible causes of chronic fatigue syndrome, also known as me. scientists from kings college london believe the condition — in which sufferers experience extreme tiredness — is linked to an over—active immune system. their conclusions are based on a study of patients with hepatitis c, in which those who experienced a bigger immune response to standard treatment developed lasting fatigue. i'm nowjoined by professor carmine pariante from the research team at king's college london. before we start, can you explain what me, and chronic fatigue syndrome, barclays that either the same thing? similar. debilitating chronic sense of fatigue, much worse than you and i could ever feel —— are they the same thing? it lasts for weeks or months. it is accompanied also by things like a difficulty with concentration, memory, headaches, pain, everywhere in the body, and also the classic feeling of malaise or suffering physical exerti

examples of what we have done in malta, what we have done in slow volcano yeah, what we have done in belarus, and the list goes on and on and on. i therefore ask the trump administration and my colleagues in the senate to redouble their efforts to protect the freedom of the press both at home and abroad. we must lead by example as the very foundation and legitimacy of a democratic republic is at stake. america's leadership is essential to protect the freedom of press, an essential institution for a democratic state. we must lead by first setting an example by our commitment to the freedom of press here at home. we must demand that freedom of the press be a priority in our global affairs, recognizing it's important to our national security. mr. president, "time" magazine got it right by naming the guardians and the war on truth as persons of the year. with that, i yield the floor. mr. lee: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from utah. mr. lee: mr. president, the senate is currently considering senate joint resolution 54. i'm proud to be a cosponsor of this legislation, the lead