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 said that it is a completely punitive action which leaves no doubt there are also 4 big subtext of the fabricated accusations. now the foreign ministry i'm of the only ones to react to this russian mission at the sea they also expressed their concern and they tweeted this is another flagrant violation. of always sea commitments on freedom of speech and access to information now the persecution of russian speaking journalists in the baltic states is not something very new people they're already gett

foreign ministry official clearly. not tweet out without knowing. if you can respond and you race in here china usually being. in the past 2 years somehow become more sensitive and that is your specialty on twitter. actually children often do want to share them good and 'd feigns with those who need she's i'm sure me of value what you call the shot high off. thank you and she ends 'd up. firewood in a month. after haiyan in the me me. of red shirts and yes australia has clearly. not really let your age russian ship it to in australia and china. shout jan is the chinese official who 1st floated the notion that the covert 1000 fire a switch initially surfaced in the city of han may have been planted by american military personnel who had attended a meeting there shall has been prominent in the messaging fight between beijing and washington over the pandemic. and by wading into the bilateral tussle with canberra shall has turned globalize on to a straight story but that wasn't getting much traction elsewhere an inquiry into the conduct of australian so

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 a huge sanctions is absolutely unacceptable the foreign ministry also said that the e.u. restrictions are of a personal nature against mr get off and they can multiply just about everyone who cooperates with the news outlets that are under his management and they also said russian they consider their aggressive actions of the security service a blatant example of violating the foundations for a democratic society which is freedom of media and expression now that's what else russian foreign ministry said 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 are certainly. outraged and mind you this is a criminal indictment against germany against journalists and they're being persecuted for coal parading with russian news outlets now the crackdown on the russian speaking latvian journalist. well

they've relied on foreign ministry officials for interviews and used the tweeted image knowing it's a fake created by a chinese artist without calling it what it is virus $2.00 whatever the higgs going to be coming on an australian news platforms reflect their government's hostility towards beijing in their own ways the tendency to label coated 19 the chinese fires with the rupert murdoch owned sky news astray stirring the pot not unlike the channel he owns in the us fox news the 2 media spheres conduct their journalism largely or entirely without the benefit of correspondents on the other stern. the biggest problem in my view is. when you are not in china and your reporting on china is very difficult to avoid or you create this thing bias to dominate your analysis and i think the same is true of the chinese media that when there is a political message from house call there are saying that you must report australians this way we don't want good news will it well that. the reporting is not going to sufficiently in full on either the general public or as if you see makers you their coun

even more that it came from foreign ministry official clearly. not tweet out without knowing. respond and you grayson's. china usually being. there. but in the past true here somehow become more sensitive and combat here especially on twitter. is actually charge of the what who should the current who and 'd feigns with his family should i'm sure many are that hear your tune and long for the shanghai after we. thank you all in chains 'd a latino long fire will among. hi jenny mini me. a reference against australia has clearly. not won let's hear a russian ship it or in australia. shall it jan is the chinese official who 1st floated the notion that the covert 1000 fire a switch initially surfaced in the city of han may have been planted by american military personnel who had attended a meeting there shall has been prominent in the messaging fight between beijing and washington over the pandemic. and by wading into the bilateral tussle with canberra shall has turned globalize on to a straight story that wasn't getting much traction elsewhere an inquiry into the conduct of austral

the progress of talks aimed at ending a blockade of qatar by neighboring countries the saudi foreign ministry says all the nations involved are close to finalizing an agreement. u.s. president elect joe biden is urging congress to pass a coronavirus aid bill to help millions of americans struggling during the pandemic he's warning the 12000000 people could lose their unemployment benefits if it's not approved by the end of the month. president donald trump sort of the withdrawal of most american troops from somalia about $700.00 of base there advising local forces in the fight against al shabaab the drawdown as part of tom's plan to reduce u.s. involvement in counter terrorism abroad. a federal judge has ordered the trumpet administration to fully restore an obama era initiative protecting undocumented immigrants brought to the u.s. as children in 2017 the trump white house tried to end the deferred action for childhood arrivals program or daca prompting angry demonstrations the administration's case was blocked by the superior court and in july trump officials tried to stop the scheme from a

russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman brown's u.s. attempts to prevent the construction of a north stream to get pipeline quote another poetical impression. on minute after 10 pm here in moscow this monday december the 7th welcome wherever you're catching us from this hour i'm you know neal. become the 1st russian city to begin a mass covert vaccination program because 3 sputnik job is being made available to the public free of charge front line workers which include hospital school stuff will be the 1st to get the vaccine although at 1st only those under the age of 60 will receive it. were issues dealy infection rates. in $29.00 thaws and cases the numbers have been steadily rising since september so it's hoped the vaccine is going to slow the spread artie's yuliya. this is a company that's readying test batches for mass production. we are the car company it's a fetus in every way i mean the famous being told here that it's being bought this particular line for jay says $6000.00 but our sputnik the is a too short adenovirus based vax

iraq's foreign ministry and surging donald trump to reverse presidential pardons handed out to full military contractors they were convicted of shooting dead 14 civilians in iraq in 2007 the men who were serving long prison sentences for the incident which drew international outrage. the 1st shipment of the pfizer biotech ovid 19 vaccine has arrived in latin america the mexican government officials have posed for photographs with the cargo as it was unloaded in mexico city president andres manuel lopez obrador says health care workers will be given priority when the roll out begins on thursday c.d.'s and people with chronic illnesses will be next in line let's cross over to john pullman john holden who's following events for us in mexico city of all small things important things come in small packages actually john they'll be very pleased it has arrived in mexico city you know you've you've just repeated almost word for word what the foreign ministry representative said as they received it and that's because as you said. this is quite a trial for a list arrival with a ceremony with about 5 p

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 up to date who among cars are. one of 3 small businesses have called time in some us states and one of the most disturbing effects of the pound demick but america's mega 1000000000 as lawmaking unprecedented cash as the rest of the

the chinese foreign ministry spokesperson did not make any list of names.o is going to be sanctioned but they will likely include visa restrictions and the like. in addition, we are hearing the chinese are going to revoke visa free travel for u.s. tip the medic passport holders to hong kong into mechanical. macau. kong and haslinda: still to come on the show, our interview with the managing director for doddridge industries. we will discuss the outlook for the wide-ranging conglomerate and how agricultural reforms could affect the indian economy. this is bloomberg. ♪ haslinda: let's take a look at how one marco -- one multibillion dollar indian consumer conglomerate is doing. it has been operating in the country for 123 years and has a significant presence in consumer products, chemicals, real estate . of agora vat. he covers all of those sectors and is joining us from mumbai for our daily a india -- our daily india focus take me. good to have you with us. i want to start with real estate, which is a good contributor to your revenue. what are the prospects

nothing with clear political aggression that's all russia's foreign ministry's describe u.s. pressure over the north stream to gas pipeline project with europe any russian pipeline no matter where when or how it was constructed a what documents legitimized it has provoked a single reaction from the us for decades political aggression and illegal counter work i would like to tell washington you can just break the rules if you want to be a responsible player in the international economic community you have to abide by the rules you know he said that condoleezza rice in the context of russian guess america's own words have quote out with it. despite washington's attempts to stop the project construction of the pipeline restarted over the weekend and after bottom granted permission for the work in the german waters of the baltic sea more stream too is that almost complete with 94 percent of the pipeline now built. it is close to completion there's not much left to do and that is why i think the sanctions are a load of nonsense and i hope that maybe with the election of the new us

on the world technologically economically and militarily but a chinese foreign ministry a foreign ministry spokesperson says he has different motives for his attack the us practices of integrated military and civilian development dates back to before world war one the us groundless accusations against china are typical double standards its true purpose is to create excuses to justify a high tech market against china and this will eventually damage the interests of china the u.s. and the whole world victor gao of the china national association of international studies says the trumpet ministrations attacks on beijing are misguided. recent to 2 to rishon in china u.s. relations is very much caused by the poisoning by president trump and his followers in the us administration if you listen to what president trump and his government have been saying how much do you really give credit as to what they say how much true there is it whatever they are at 30 i think there is not a lot of policy toward a lot of misrepresentation of distortion because they are afraid of the larger china but the rise o

of russia's a receipt a seaboard a news agency be 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 a huge sanctions is absolutely unacceptable the foreign ministry also said that the e.u. restrictions are of a personal nature against mr kissel off 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 the 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 would think a crackdown on dissent violation of the fundamental principles of freedom of speech were totally incompatible with the status of an enlightened european state but that's the case and the complaint before so dissenting media is gaining momentum now the accused journalists

the russian foreign ministry has accused the u.s. of political aggression over mounting pressure on the north stream to gas pipeline is what spokeswoman maria cultivar to say any russian pipeline no matter where when it was constructed what documents legitimized it has provoked a single reaction from the us for decades political aggression and illegal counter work i would like to tell washington you can just break the rules if you want to be a responsible player in the international economic community you have to abide by the rules you know he said that condoleezza rice in the context of russian guess america's own words have quote out with it well despite all the u.s. attempts to stop the project construction of the pipeline actually restarted home for the weekend permission for work in the german waters off the baltic sea was obtained from the german federal office for shipping and hydrography and it means to you that in order to was close to completion with the pipeline 94 percent ready . it is close to completion there's not much

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 punitive action which leaves no doubt the rueful big subtext of the fabricated accusations. now organization for security and cooperation all for europe always see also expressed their concern now they tweeted that this is another flagrant violation by always see commitments on freedom of speech and axes to information and mind you persecution of a russian speaking journalists who are nationals of. your or other baltic countries like stoney for example it's not something you would just at the beginning of last year actually 1st of january of 2020 sputnik as stony staffers all they were asked to terminate. their contracts with the sputnik and they were receiving threats of jail terms off to 5 years by the police. and they also cited that's when the 14th sanctions that were against. the c.e.o. of sputnik and the receip

well russia's foreign ministry they said that the crackdown on the russian speaking journalists under the pretext of the violation of e.u. sanctions is absolutely unacceptable is that the e.u. restrictions on a personal nature against the c.e.o. of a russian news agency cannot apply to just anybody who coca-cola parades with this news agency they also concluded that they consider the aggressive actions of the security service a blatant example of violating the foundations of a democratic society which is freedom of the media and expression let's hear some more from russian foreign ministry it is a completely punitive action which leaves no doubt about the roof or big subtext of the fabricated accusations now russian mission at the 0 s. c. they've also voiced their concerns and they tweeted that this is another flagrant violation by of always see commitments all in freedom of speech and access to information now this is not the 1st time russian speaking journalists have been accused of something in the baltic states just at the end of last year going into this year in a stony employ iz

in the studio she's following this story for us good morning maria reaction from the russian foreign ministry how do we get to this point yes in this reaction is clearly to be on as well the story is there is an island chain that lies between russia's far eastern peninsula of kentucky and japan's northernmost her carita island that has been a source of tensions between the 2 nations in the last 75 years since the end of the world war 2 there is a territorial dispute between moscow and talk here but it seems that it's all clear for washington they have no questions this is what the official instruction for this year is a green card lottery known also as diversity visa says persons born in the hub of my islands she could land in the shiri and to rove who are chargeable to japan persons born in southern somalia are chargeable to russia. and that's especially ironic given that most of japanese citizens were repatriated from these territories after the end of the war to today the islands is home to around 20000 russians. still in this dispute the only role they play is that they support japan's po

have welcomed kuwaiti and american mediation efforts to end the 3 year blockade of kata agents foreign ministry spokesman said cairo hopes the talks will lead to a comprehensive solution and the minister of state for foreign affairs on what god gushed tweeted saying his country supports saudi efforts on behalf of the 4 countries both countries said they appreciate the mediation efforts from kuwait and the us off to saudi arabia announce progress had been made remember you've got the 4 countries saudi arabia the u.a.e. behind egypt who blockaded qatar in 2017. well the u.s. ambassador to the u.s. has told the head students hudson institute that there are signs the reconciliation is taking place i think there's definitely progress or at least there's seeds of progress. there's a lot of commitments on a lot of artie's numbers of governments decisions that kind of tone things now to stand down if that holds i think it's promising i think there's a chance that you can at least begin a process of the conflict whether that holds whether it doesn't hold whether everyone's on board i think it's still to

allow iran to resume iridium enrichment at levels of 20 percent that the government and the foreign ministry have already announced their thoughts that they don't agree with this action plan. it's not the necessary nor helpful. it's not clear if the parliamentarians get what they seek. unfortunately, they didn't pay attention to our points of view. the united nations wants urgent access to ethiopia's northern tigre, a region where it says that food supplies for nearly $100000.00 refugees has run out. fighting between ethiopia's army and to ground forces has forced thousands from the homes in recent weeks. the final 2 contested u.s. states, wisconsin and arizona, have certified their election results in favor of joe biden. the process took on added significance as president trump continues his baseless claims of election fraud. and president trump's contra coronavirus advisor scott atlas has resigned after just 4 months in the post, plus repeatedly downplay the importance of mosques and described lockdowns as an epic failure. u.s. drugmaker, pfizer and its german popped up by 0 in tech of aus

the spite objections from officials within government, including the foreign ministry spokesperson, who reacted to these events in parliament. let's listen to what he had to say to see the government and the foreign ministry have already announced their thoughts that they don't agree with this action plan. it's not necessary nor helpful. it's not clear if the parliamentarians get what they see. unfortunately, they didn't pay attention to our points of view. the government in response to the events that unfolded on tuesday in parliament, have now released never before seen pictures of the assassinated nuclear scientist who is on the receiving a special order from president hassan rouhani a few years ago for his service and involvement in the go shooting that very nuclear deal in 2015. this was information that was not made public before. and the government has now released these photos to show the role he had in bringing together that deal that they parliament is now opposed to. so there is a lot happening within the country about how to respond. president hassan rouhani said that the ir

>> i don't know how this foreign ministry spokesperson kept a straight face, amara.rall, putin's propaganda machine is in full swing. last week, the russian government levied wildly implausible reasons for why they were not responsible for this cyber attack. they're blaming everybody but themselves. this fits with the russian government's long history of coming up with every excuse under the sun rather than acknowledging responsibility for their own malign behavior. when it comes to our bilateral relationship, various russian officials last week said that they were expecting nothing positive or nothing good from the biden administration. the deputy foreign minister even inaccurately claimed that biden's team is full of russiaphobes. they're trying to blame biden's team for tense times ahead instead of acknowledging the impact their destabilizing behavior has on our bilateral relationship. in terms of impact, remember, this isn't biden's first rodeo. he's familiar with putin's methodology. unlike trump, who had a pavlovian response to putin's propaganda, i think biden

we also heard that the official reaction from the foreign ministry spokesperson. let's hear what he had to say because you seem to the government and the foreign ministry have already announced their thoughts that they don't agree with this action. plan it's neither necessary nor helpful. it's not clear if the parliamentarians get what they seek. unfortunately, they didn't pay attention to our points of view. the government has, and rouhani has also released something never before seen pictures rather of the assassinated scientists who received a special award from president hassan rouhani. there is a lot of dialogue within the country going on at the moment, but it's a very important increaser. now that president assad is intent on trying to salvage this deal with the incoming u.s. administration. later in january, the united nations has appealed to me. theo peanut storage fees for access to thousands of eritrean refugees in the region. prime minister ahmed claimed victory, over the people's liberation front on saturday. but the t.v., alas, leader is warning that