what does the integrated part of society mean, the feeling of being a citizen of latvia?l wants to speak here you are ours or now you are not ours for us - this is a language, that is, we are a small state if there are russians, a ukrainian, a chinese, an american, it doesn't matter if he speaks to us in latvian, then in principle we i admit that he is our uh, and the problem we had was due to the fact that basically 30 years had passed. the hotel speaks simply in latin in our country. and you understand the situation. where i live, how do you pay and my children, who have learned russian, they are going somewhere, for example, i don’t know, yes, i drank, yes, and they can’t speak the swallow’s language there. but they cannot get service in theirs state in its own language and this is definitely more impossible, that is, if people want to integrate, they must be loyal, they must learn and speak this language, and if they must choose between latvia and russia, they must choose latvia and not russia, if they choose russia, i you have nothing to do here, but you see, in fact

and if they must choose between latvia and russia. they must choose latvia and not russia.incidentally related to the topic of people who are now coming to latvia from russia, and this is to say, there are also questions about integration, yes, there is such a moment that this is a great culture . a great culture is so great. i don't know. well, you probably already know a lot, you know, i'm not statistically living in latvia. well, in general, historians are political scientists according to their dedication, yes, and i somehow don’t want to, in principle, mmm, mmm, mmm, they will choose positions that are big , there is a culture or a small one. the main thing is because uh, for a small state, even if you have a very good movie theater, a very good one, there are poets, a very good writer, of course, if you have 2-3 million inhabitants , it is very difficult in the world to say that they are so important. someone is coming there listens for a state whose 100 million is 500 million, of course it is much easier , but this does not mean that these 500 million , uh, there is

we begin in latvia, war and co. they'd have put a favourable trading relationship with russia on hold. now, residents face in uncertain future every day yarn us rosen, towns uses around 8 meters of linen to produce 6 scarves, which he sells with his wife laila. janice has been running the business for 20 years, but doesn't know how much longer he can continue. the war in ukraine has changed everything. the way i'm very worried about everything to do with the war. part of a he don't know how much you will is going to cost at the filling station bands. i think one think and even just turning the lights on, it's up money. a perfect is gabrielle now in the rosen townslee, in a small village in western latvia, set in beautiful countryside. youngest takes the children to school each morning and brings them home again later. but all is not as idyllic as it seems with a population of just to 1000000 latvia is one of the poorest countries in the european union. it's economy traditionally closely linked to russia's. the war h

the war and ukraine has been polarizing latvia more and more since it began with it. anyway, we're losing our friends. we're losing our neighbors. it heard the propaganda is like a poison that divides our society. clue where is 66 year old maria and her son janice, have lots of russian friends and acquaintances. russian media is blocked in latvia, but russian speakers have found ways to listen in. and since the invasion of ukraine, a war of information has been raging full blast, they say. a music video by deputy to the duma dennis my down of on russian sate television, extols the power of the smart missile, able to deliver nuclear warheads as far as the united states usually came to bring it to you. she knew you all at once. president vladimir put in, turns up with a direct threat to use them. yes. for human kind, it will be a global disaster. well, for the world, it will be a disaster in you or what we need the world for. if there is no russia, when he's with them going to pursue a demonstration of russian power is directed at nato. there are many people in eastern

marat kasem came to latvia for family reasons. is information that they are ready to present to him charges under an article under which a journalist can face up to twenty years in prison, there is information that there is a charge in two directions under two articles. this is the first non-compliance with economic sanctions and the second, which, of course, is much less pleasant for the championship , so nonsense by definition, because it is clear that marat was not involved in any spies. he worked for a satellite, was the editor-in-chief of this satellite, he conducted his own programs on the radio sputnik lived in moscow , it is important to understand here that marat is a citizen of latvia it is important. that is, this is not a russian citizen, a citizen of latvia who was chained. close attention from the special services of the baltic states, for example, was an episode when he was interrogated for almost 6 hours at the airport. vilnius , marat kasem spoke about this case at the site of the st. petersburg economic forum. he

well, miranda casem, he's himself is citizen of latvia. he also a headed editor in chief of fer sputnik latvia. and he had worked as the editor in chief of student, gladly for years now he himself had earlier spoken about feeling persecuted, politically persecuted by authorities in latvia, which are some of those rapidly, russo phobic, and to russian. they had previous, you know, in 2016 they had blocked spook, our online, or what followed after 2016 was a systematic system of persecution against the workers and the organization itself . for example, we, we had a lateral authorities harassing work, so threatening them with jail, with the prosecution if they continued to work for for scrutiny. they threatened them, as i said with jail time, but also told them that if they continued even to work for the organization, even from russia, that they could, could face consequences back who and this is, this is years ago. this is years before the courage, ukrainian conflict. then we had special services talking to the various people who worked for

the rosen tells house in western latvia to the border with russia in the east. the 2 countries have a long shared history. but to day latvians feel threatened by russia. ah. in more atanya, the government uses a longstanding tradition to detect and combat terrorist threats early on. they hit the road on a camel patrol. this is the latest approach, and the fight against jihad is terrorists in mauritania. a traditional solution to a modern problem. the mahari national guard are a police unit recruited from local nomads. there camels are their most important tool there. the best way to get around the vast border region between mauritania and molly g. hottest groups linked to al qaeda, have gained ground nearby, and authorities fighting them. need the kind of intelligence that only locals can offer. rosara this is emma allison, i agents go under cover in the market unless they spy on the traders. for example, if we see a know med buying large quantities of fuel, we know that is not normal shipper and no matter the box is to see the bodies went up their work and it i

and here in lithuania or maybe in latvia to work for our local media.w the latvian language perfectly. come on, just put your hand on your soul. well, that's why say but i say, listen here, the way you are behaving now. this is one more time. e causes me opposition. he's such a character. if you were rather anti-semitic, for example, i would designate myself as jews in front of you. that's how you are zealous russophobes, then this causes me such a counter emotion, therefore, if i continue to lead as i go, he said well, right? well, you know, you're lucky that you're not a russian citizen. we would deal with you differently now. so we will just throw you out of here for 5 years, we will close you, eats in the local media, as if on command, he creates the image of an enemy of the state, apparently, the country's authorities cannot forgive participation in the elections to the sejm, it is reported that his lawyer has not yet received the case materials to appeal the decision legally assigned 10 days of what is happening now. i'm sure it's the seat of thos

marat kasem came to latvia for family reasons.are ready to bring charges against him under an article under which a journalist can face up to 20 years in prison, there is information that there is a charge in two directions under two articles. this is the first non-compliance with economic sanctions and the second, which, of course, is much less pleasant. espionage, which is nonsense by definition, because it is clear that marat was not involved in any spies. he worked as a satellite editor, a satellite of this hosted his own program on sputnik radio. lived in moscow here it is important to understand that marat is a citizen of latvia, this is important. that is, this is not a russian citizen, a citizen of latvia who was chained. close attention from the special services of the baltic states, for example, was an episode when he was interrogated at the airport for almost six hours. vilnius, marat kasem told about this case speaking at the st. petersburg economic forum. he said borderline latvia why are you working for them? well, l

perfect is gabrielle now in the rosen townslee in a small village in western latvia, set in beautiful countryside. youngest takes the children to school each morning and brings them home again later. but all is not as idyllic as it seems, with a population of just 2000000 latvia is one of the poorest countries in the european union. it's economy traditionally closely linked to russia's. the war has had a disastrous impact on business owners like yon us, m. o 's board. we've always worked closely with business partners in russia and people there always wanted our products back now that's all gone. got such a sad way. so me. anees about lat fears. big neighbor to the east has risen sharply since the start of the war. latvia declared independence from the soviet union more than 30 years ago. but the invasion of ukraine has brought back traumatic memories . lest the hud via apo, it feels like the apocalypse, say with him, please him to normally you wake up completely confused. oper old things like ask and why you read the news and wonder what the hell is going on in the world with failure

we begin in latvia. the baltic state has closed its borders to russian citizens. yet some russians, fearful of being drafted into the war with ukraine, are still making it into the neighboring e u country. now she couldn't breathe again. it's danny islov, but she love has finally been formally recognized as a refugee from russia in law. it was a long process. at the end of it, stanislaus is relieved to have cut ties with a country that started a war of aggression in the middle of europe. the british battle, i fled to the 1st best country, so i wouldn't have to go to jail or be sent to war. i don't want to fight against the ukrainians. i have many friends there. the 1st best country, as stanislaus said, was latvia, and you, you member state with a 300 kilometer common board, a with russia when they will start at more than 10 months ago, stun, his love decided to protest. they foam. a policeman found himself in the midst of a peace rally in st. petersburg, where hundreds of protesters were arrested. but wh

said that you, your grandmother was latvian, but you live there in siberia, then you could come to latviaet benefits and get citizenship. even if you didn't speak latvian there, you didn't know anything . there are, for example, also baltic germans who could leave for germany, that is, we are now stopping this law because we think that 30 years was already enough so that if someone else wanted to move to latvia, let's say yes to their hearts, they could do it now, i don't want this opportunity to be used by people who, somehow , want to do it only because of the war, or simply go west to us, that is, i think that this law will cease to exist , people all- still latvians, that’s it, that’s a check latvian, he lived and lived and then he wanted to join a historical family well, in general, how do we define that he is latvian, yes but if he didn’t want to do it in 30 years israel exists . even in the 48th year, people are going and i and you are not they end with what we differ from, well, the state of israel has palestinians as our neighbors, we have russians, that is, that is, of course, t

lithuania and latvia has an expl°5i°"-_ lithuania and latvia has an explosion.huania and latvia has an exlosion. f . . . explosion. they've launched an investigation. _ footballer benjamin mendy is found not guilty of six counts of rape and one of sexual assault. but he faces a retrial on two other counts on which the jury failed to reach a verdict. also in the programme, how the world cup may have given a much—needed boost to the uk's economy. hello and welcome. russia says its forces have completed the capture of soledar, a salt—mining town in eastern ukraine that's been the focus of intense fighting. these are the latest aerial shots of the town. as you can see, it has been completely flattened from the relentless pounding by russian forces. after six months of russian military setbacks — it would be the first ukrainan town to be captured sincejuly. but ukraine's military denies that soledar has fallen and says that the fighting is still going on. the defence ministry in moscow said the capture of soledar would allow russian troops to cut off ukrainian forces

and this pipeline is connecting lithuania and latvia.moment, there are no injuries, or no significant damages for the surrounding buildings. at the moment, the gas supplies towards latvia, they are restored via the pipeline. also, the consumers of natural gas in lithuania will not be affected. that is what we know at the moment. and, there was an explosion in one of the pipelines. 0k, is there a possibility that this could affect supplies to people, given that we are in the middle of winter in northern europe? how many people could potentially be effective is this gas pipeline is damage for a certain amount of time? at the moment, we are working that our clients will not be affected by this explosion, because we have pipelines. also, we have several inlet points towards lithuania, so we might use gas from different terminals. the manchester city footballer — benjamin mendy — has been found not guilty of six counts of rape and one count of sexual assault, after a six month trial at chester crown court. jurors failed to reach verdicts on t

no 3 states, latvia, stoney, in the through a near is russian. how do you think this case fits into the big picture of holly bo 2nd? are they each countries have been tracing the media? this goes back way before the special military operation that russia launched in 2022. this, this goes back to 2015 at which is when this, this pressure started to build in 2016, for example, lithuania blocked. sputnik locked the channel, the network on line that they pulled their domain names after that that the pressure just began to build and build. so employees journalists, were what threatened with prosecution. they were also persecuted, so they were pulled out. they were, they were arrested, taken for talks by our state security agents urged to her follow inside their resignations to stop working for sputnik then you had people arrested. you have journalists arrested for working for russian news networks. this is all in the face of a fact that the european human rights, charter, least the freedom of expression. and the freedom of expression is defined. it is

and how much is latvia, the question is, what else has lesos done so much?science is generally ready for such a possible development of events. similar provocations can happen. whatever. these are the options you are considering. to be honest, when you spoke with 40 parents and the armed forces, you considered such options, or this one is not considered possible at all, well, of course we are we are considering all options in the ministry of defense and in politics in general, but i would like to say that this is the scenario you were talking about, anyway. i wouldn't want to fully believe him. 10 years ago even before the attack on ukraine well, i have to say that over the last 10 years, we have invested a lot in the first part of our defense, and i have to say that we are not afraid, yes, even though we are of course small states, but we already have a lot of tincture they are now integrated into nato concrete time, too, now we already have it. let's say yes, well, a more or less serious contingent, too, of our friends from the alliance, that is, in princi

but nick, lithuanian use agency by authorities in latvia. we heard from the communications director of sputnik parent, company, welsh glucose unit of the baltic states or a testing ground for lawlessness. the act either on direct instructions or in the ordination of their superiors and the european union and in the you with an anti russian sanctions backfire as the u. k. face is rising extra. as charities, rewards storing energy cost meet household face like cold winter, with no central heating with hello. good morning for mark, international studios in moscow, and from wherever you may be watching. welcome to this hour's top news stories from around the world. i'm theory, elizabeth president. putin's order of a 36 hour cease fire in the ukraine. conflicts own for orthodox christmas is set to begin in 2 hours. but the start of the truth looms heavy as cap has rejected moscow's proposal to temporarily hold fire. ortiz romano calls that are, brings us the details from the conflicts orthodox christmas is coming, and russian president vladimir p

if you any achieved by authorities in latvia. we heard from the communications director of support next parent company roaches because you know, the baltic states are a testing ground for lawlessness. the act either on direct instructions or in coordination with their superiors in the european union. and in the u. s. a memoir, the you case friends harry reveals, he killed 25 taliban fighters during his mission in afghanistan. thing that just chesapeake is removed from the board with the russian capital to the rest of the world. you're watching all t international monies peter scott, and welcome to the proven program where be joining us from her short story this our ukranian forces have shell done yet several times. shortly after russian troops halted hostilities. as part of a russian proposed orthodox christmas cease fire, that is according to local officials, but there is no information yet on any potential damage or casualties. ortiz, roman cost of brings more details, is to cease fire was ordered by president vladimir putin in

put make lithuania news agency file force. ethan latvia. we've heard from the communications director of sputnik parent company espionage charges against merits are complete nonsense. the baltic states are a testing ground for lawlessness. the act either on direct instructions or in coordination with their superiors and the european union and in the us. in crane refuses to stop shooting for the ropes. christmas off the vladimir putin orders a 36 hour russian things fired to begin on friday. and the un chief scraps a fruitless mission to investigate the mass killing of ukrainian military prisoners in the don. yes, were public despite previously pledging to get to the bottom of the atrocity. a very room. welcome to you. this is our see international with the late as well news out date is good to have you with us as up, sorry. this are the editor in chief of the lithuanian branch of this book, make news agency has been detained in the lafayette cap as a weaker. my cousin who holds the latvian passport, is reportedly being accused of espionage

and this pipeline is connecting lithuania and latvia.e moment, there are no injuries, no significant damages for the surrounding buildings. at the moment, the gas supplies are restored by the federal pipeline. the consumers of natural gas in lithuania will not be affected. that is what we know at the moment. there was an explosion in one of the pipelines. >> is there a possibility it could affect supplies to people given are in the middle of winter in northern europe? how many people could be affected if the gas pipeline is damaged? >> at the moment, we are working that our clients would not be affected by this explosion. we have several inlets points. so we might use gas from lng terminal and poland, also. >> that was the chief executive of amber grid speaking to me. -- is being found not guilty of six counts of rape and one count of sexual assault after a six-month trial. jurors failed to reach verdicts on two other charges, meaning he will face a retrial later this year. another man who was found not guilty of three counts of rape rel

ukrainian refugees inna came to latvia with her son in april.year she lives with relatives and got a job as a baker's assistant. my family came to me because the garden was on the third day of march. we didn't have to leave because our city had been occupied since march 3. russian soldiers felt like masters in our city. it was unbearable. everyone is doing their job. our men are at the front. women. can they help? they send those who ca n't leave. we don't have the opportunity. someone was left homeless. this is not even discussed. time came and helped, they came and worked among latvian volunteers oleksiy, 20 years old he works in riga as a driver of public transport oleksiy not only helps to load aid, but he himself will sit behind the wheel of one of the buses and go to ukraine via the bus, we will drive the buses through poland to the ukrainian border, we also help download the help collected by the residents of latvia, including our employees, and we brought participated in it, we actually sincerely want to help ukraine in such a difficult

their proximity to their big neighbor yan is frozen towels from latvia. we've 7 meters of linen by hand a day on average. he uses it to make around 8 scarves. in the winter, janice and his wife layla build up their stocks in the summer. they sell their goods on market across europe. they've been in business for 20 years and it's been going okay. but the kobe crisis hit them hard as the war and ukraine has made things even tighter as booking bands. i think once i never know what to expect at the gas station these days. and when i turn on the lights, i see money disappearing, bookkeeping, ga, ga. but those are just practical concerns. but once much worse is how we're losing our humanity long now busied felt they put villa. luckily yanis rosen towels has friends and family helping him to build his house. the price is for construction materials have skyrocketed by over 20 percent and the completion date just keeps getting pushed back further and further. the rose and health live in western la in the tiny village of above. cm's janice, enjoys the picturesque s

here they were blinded to make latvia who never had lithuanians. yes, they had a state, but what a pagan until the 14th century. this is a pagan. they are still snakes, we worship snakes. it's like a civilized people, so the reasoner was drink here with these anti-baltic e mood prejudices, therefore, he did not see a future for them, what is it? in the extreme case, the peoples of the mongrel, who will now help the triumph of germany, but in order to seriously consider them equal, these are not thoughts. today estonians, latvians and so on are grateful, after a while. they will again demand their own state, as if germany exists only to risk its skin for any meta once every 20 years. the ambitious colonial projects of rosenberg began to collapse already in the first months of the war it turned out that he still did not know russia well and did not understand russian psychology at all. september 1941 , he will write in his diary with bewilderment and confusion. but we agreed that resistance would be followed by panic, but otherwise the soviet russian

her fire occurred on friday evening on the main pipeline connecting latvia-lithuania flames.ing to the height of a 15-storey building, the glow was visible beyond several kilometers of local authorities evacuated the lives of the surrounding villages, and the injured in the unreported police are on duty around the entire perimeter. on this section , two lines run in parallel, the gas pipeline, through which gas is provided to part of lithuania and latvia. the second line is not damaged, according to preliminary data, under sabotage is unlikely. the power of the scandinavian cyclone hit the european part of russia , dozens of flights were delayed in st. petersburg, zero visibility blizzard and minus 60 in yakutia, record frosts in siberia from irkutsk region alexey kilogram. it is cold outside, as today we have more than 40 degrees. the inhabitants of the irkutsk region survived the coldest night since the beginning of the year, even in the southern regions, where hard frosts sometimes hit people without a hat. we save ourselves with mittens in scarves so that the face is cove