in the territory such programs have no place in latvia or elsewhere in the e.u. personally i've looked all over fairbairns watched r.t. arabic with subtitles tried r.t. spanish i even checked behind attorneys and know nothing just cables the very evidence that latvia has the literally made up then didn't try very hard perhaps it was just before the end of the working day that everyone iching to go home see there's a number of news agencies and russia hauled but i see a civil order which translates to english as russian today and this organization is led by a fellow who's on european sanctions list this organization by the way has nothing to do with r t that's been our name for more than a decade we're r t and they're right here seaboard even our names are in different languages but the latvian special agent or official is other than easily scared apparently a lazy thing given that conciliar over is subject to sanctions throughout the u. the national electronic media council will inform media regulators in other e.u. countries of the decision taken and considers t

channels pulled off air in latvia which claims the network is controlled by someone on the blacklist even though he actually heads up a completely different news agency as we explain. good morning my name is kevin over here in moscow is just to learn when you're watching r t international and it's news from russia this dominating our coverage this hour is just mentioned it is the final day of the week of voting that's been taking place across russia on proposed changes to the country's constitution while many of already had their say by voting online today president putin has declared this day a national holiday so low voters who haven't yet done so a chance to cast their ballot. so it's a package of more than $140.00 of moments is pretty complicated many adding social legal and economic guarantees to the constitution now one ensures the minimum wage would not be lower than the cost of living another secures no new law just meant to maintain the value of pensions and allowances and that also be tougher requirements too for civil servants such as burning key officials from having fore

speaker, this declaration here refused to recognize the soviet annexation of estonia and latvia.his lasted five decades this. declaration enabled the baltic states maintain free diplomatic missions, and with this protected baltic financial assets. today the united states joins estonia, latvia, and lithuania in remembering this declaration and recommitting ourselves to peace, democratcy, freedom, and the rule of law. subsequently their entrance into nato and the european union assures them of being part of the family of western democracies. thank you, mr. speaker. ie. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from massachusetts, miss strahan, for five minutes. mrs. trahan: thank you, mr. speaker. walking the halls of the united states capitol this week has felt different. like a piece of what makes this institution great is msi he is. that this body and our country will never be the same without our guiding light, our moral compass, congressman john lewis. i have never known someone to be more devoted to our nation than john lewis. he demonstrated that devotion

latvia said the reason was e.u. sanctions being aimed at dimitri kissel of who runs the russia today news agency that's lot r.t. despite the similarity in names at the lithuanian regulator confirmed the decision was not about violations made by r.t. but because of is under sanctions because love him self is said the ban by latvia makes no legal sense and the authorities are blinded but russophobia more news after a short break. ah no team no crowd. no shots. action just felt. no 1st. points your thirst for action. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe from. isolation or community. are you going the right way or are you being led. to direct. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or a maid in the shallows. britain has announced it is resuming arms exports to saudi arabia that's despite admitting they are sometimes used in war crimes in yemen. the undertaking that my predecessor gave to the court that we wo

important. 0ne statistics firm say that britain is the fourth fattest country in europe, only malta, latviand we are well ahead of those countries are the other end such as italy and cyprus. the implications of that longer term on the nhs on on the health service more generally are going to be enormous, so this provides an excellent opportunity to create chances for people to change their behaviour, as we know many have done because of the lockdown. the difficulty is that some people have exercised less. that's the problem comments gone either way, some people found lockdown and inspiring period of time and an opportunity to change their lifestyles, but others felt rather overwhelmed by it and did not do that. but in the past borisjohnson has talked about the nanny state and hasn't wanted to go down that road but we will see restrictions on advertising for the types of foods the government wants us to avoid. 0ne the government wants us to avoid. one can stand back in admiration of this campaign but i do actually question exactly how it's going to work. because in being able to lose that muc

effective there are 6 other countries that have magnitsky act so united states canada the baltics estonia latvia lithuania russia always huffs and puffs but at the end of the day what they do is they they apply sanctions to u.s. officials for example so they can travel to russia but most of them don't want to travel to russia and they certainly don't want to keep their money at the national bank or spare bank and so it's kind of an asymmetric retaliation or actually it's a symmetric retaliation that doesn't have any impact and they try to asymmetric. metrically retaliate there's really not that much they can do and so it's. you know it's something which which really puts big western countries like the u.k. u.s. and canada in the driver's seat. the u.s. now has more than 3000000 corona virus infections and president donald trump is being accused of enabling it spread new york governor andrew cuomo is urging him to acknowledge the outbreak as a major problem infectious disease expert on funny she says the u.s. has still need deep in the 1st wave with more than $50000.00 new cases a day but it is a

he is the most interesting politician company former prime minister of latvia, providing great leadershipgs hisrovskis duties as european commissioner afternancial services exhausting meetings in europe. i have to broaden out the conversation right now to how europe approaches these new tensions with the united states and new tensions with china. is there a european foreign policy? mr. dombrovskis: first of all, as regards international intentions, including international trade tensions, eu's policy has been very clear. we are supporting and defending multilateral, rules-based system. this is the approach which we litigations with u.s., with china. that is why we are not supporting unilateral moves of u.s. in the area of trade. but at the same time, we share a number of concerns regarding china, including questions on intellectual property rights, forced technology transfer, reciprocity in our trade and investment relationships, so there are a number of issues which we need to addressed, but we think those should be addressed while respecting the international rules. tom: how do you adapt

how do they square some of the circles here because they've got the baltic countries latvia lithuania estonia plus poland saying look you've got to really address where you spend it and which country gets how much money. yes it's a classic e.u. challenge of one how to horse trade your way to an agreement the problem you mention the central needs to european countries are saying we're relatively poor is the more the money should come to us the northern bloc known to some of the frugal 4 or 4 countries which are opposing this because they don't like some of the terms in which is exactly 0 and any of the southern european countries plus friends in germany pushing for an ambitious successful creation of a new recovery forms in all of this the horse trading can go in very strange directions for example it's being done in parallel with the negotiations on the e.u. budget for the next 7 years one component that is whether some of the countries get what's called rebates money back from what would otherwise have to pay. off or in the duction the danes a rebate is the way to get them to agree t

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united states canada the baltics donia latvia lithuania russia always huffs and puffs but at the end of the day what they do is they they apply sanctions to u.s. officials for example so they can travel to russia but most of them don't want to travel to russia and they certainly don't want to keep their money at the nest for bankers their bank and so it's kind of an asymmetric retaliation or actually it's a symmetric retaliation that doesn't have any impact if they try to asymmetric asymmetrically retaliate there's really not that much they can do and so it's. you know it's something which which really puts big western countries like the u.k. u.s. and canada in the driver's seat took to mean for instance one of the the russian sanctions is sending in kids alexander estrich in close ally of the tennant head of russia's investigative committee and he was sanctioned already by the u.s. understanding in 2017 how much difference as it made to him and is he one of these people who turned up in london and had property and money and stuff it. i'm not sure if he has property or money in londo

estonia, latvia, switzerland and the grenadines and others are now on the safe list just repeat grenadinest was going to commit a root and branch investigation into how save maternity services are. this comes after a series of revelations by the bbc which has highlighted port maternity care in shropshire and kent. there is an independent review into 862 cases, the vast majority of the last 20 years. also there is a review going into care at the east kent hospital nhs trust after a series of preventable deaths. so a maternity safety inquiry launching today to look at how safe maternity services are and what needs to be improved. the headlines on bbc news... three teenagers are convicted of killing police constable andrew harper — who was dragged along a road by a car , as they tried to avoid being arrested the car's driver — henry long — admitted manslaughter, but was found not guilty of murder at the old bailey. his passengers — albert bowers and jessie cole — were cleared of murder but found guilty of manslaughter. in other news. face—coverings become mandatory in shops, banks and take—aw

from tuesday of next week, the baltic states of estonia and latvia will be on that list, along with slovakiayear — and to the hotels, bars a nd restau ra nts which were hoping to welcome them. we can speak now to the portuguese ambassador to the uk, manuel lobo antunes. good morning. thank you for talking to us. can you give as your reaction to us. can you give as your reaction to the fact that portugal is not on the list of safe countries for the uk? thank you for inviting me. you said that many british would be disappointed at not being able to travel to portugal maybe this summer. we share that disappointment. my government was disappointed. i was disappointed as ambassador. also, our community, we have a large portuguese community here in the uk. they are also disappointed because they obviously would like to travel to meet their family, theirfriends, would like to travel to meet their family, their friends, and would like to travel to meet their family, theirfriends, and the fact that portugal is under quarantine, so to say, makes us more difficult for them. a deep disappointment. expla