ambassador to lithuania. and just ask how these issues have become part of your you reachutreach, how out to even hostile audiences, while being respectful to the culture, your hosts, and the environment you work in? >> i want to thank you for giving a shout out to that organization. tremendousave a amount of respect and admiration and i think it is an organization that any people do not know much about. as an openly gay ambassador, i think what i have learned in my five months here so far is that i have to be who i am. i speak openly about my sexual orientation. i have spoken openly about my activism and what i have done. i have met with organizations. at the same time, i think i demonstrated firmly that my goal is to be a strong and effective ambassador advocating for american interest but also working in a way for lithuania as well. for me, not to compromise on my am, and look at ways that i can perhaps be a role model for others. those who may to have homophobic ideas that an american ambassador can be qu

today the united states joins estonia, latvia, and lithuania in remembering this declaration and recommittingurselves 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 by and requiring her continuous improvement, calling out when our policies or practices didn't live up to the words written in our constitution. and never giving up on the pursuitf freedom and equality for everyone in our country. he committed l for civil rights

currency over the next 3 years it paves the way for the 1st enlargement of the euro zone since 2015 lithuania join the currency bloc as its 19th member. european union has launched a probe into a trade deal with the medicals or group of south american countries after complaints about its environmental impact activists said the deal cutting tariffs on farm products would have a devastating impact on the global climate. the german meat processing company at the center of the country's largest virus outbreak now says it will change its labor practices tourney's will stop using sub contracting firms and begin hiring employees directly it was already facing government pressure. to near said it intended to directly employ 1000 stuff by the end of september as part of a plan to end all sub contracting in its business before next year. the move is voluntary but comes as german lawmakers consider legislation enforcing direct hiring for meat packing plants turn ears and other slaughterhouses to face criticism for this of contracting practices as well as the living conditions of workers meanwhile tourne

abc 7 news was in alameda, where mama papa lithuania has been on park street for years. the owner is running for a parliament seat in lithuania and says he wouldn't trust anyone else with the restaurant when he moves, thus the decision to close. >> no rides. no games. to exhibits. but you can still get fair food this weekend in the north bay. kettle corn and corndogs, along with funnel cakes and much more are now available in drive-thru form. it's designed to give people a taste of the marin county fair which was cancelled because of the pandemic. a food fair is proving pretty popular with long lines of people last night waiting at the veterans memorial parking lot. veterans say this new concept could help save them from financial disaster. >> we started in february. we got one fair in. then, we went on to the rest of the season, which everything's been cancelled out. we've lost about, oh, 30 fairs, so far. >> the fair food drive-thru runs from 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., through tomorrow. then, again, next weekend, starting friday. and the weather certainly feels like it's

abc 7 news was alamay do, mama papa lithuania has been on park street for years.er is running for a parliament seat in lithuania and says he wouldn't trust anyone else with the restaur you can g weekend, speaking of food, in the north bay. kettle corn, corn dogs, funnel cakes and more are available in a drive-through experience. it's designed to give people a taste of the marin county fair which was canceled because of the pandemic. it is proving to be popular. long lines of people waiting at the veterans memorial auditorium parking lot there in san rafael. the new concept could help save them from financial disaster. >> we start off in february, we got one fair in. we went on to the rest of the season which everything's been canceled out. we've lost about oh, 30 fairs so far. >> the fair food drive-through runs from 11: p.m. today and next weekend starting on friday. >>> happening today, some service changes start for golden gate transit. service on commute routes to and from san francisco will be cut in half. service will rise in what they call basic routes wher

a number of the european countries involved in the renditions italy poland romania macedonia and lithuania i declare all public hearing on the admissibility and merits in the case of enough of them god this is it. today most european countries involved admit what happened. only remaining it continues to deny involvement. 12 years after the publication of the 1st dignity report its accuracy and foresight is no longer in doubt. it is just an overcorrection thing they did with the water no purer pay him a racist and so on. are you discouraged by the fact that there are still secret prisons. doesn't this suggest that ultimately it's all a bit pointless. man sat. there cheering a lot of. yosi do is see if the cheated in the city they call pitching. it would be a phillies good deal in the in the chad egli that it in an essay called the chip to subpoena door key early door mat and he said in a big book. it does also sequel looking for an energy set up in question is it i'm equipped to joke with cause i saw sequel ok i don't know about doing this last year that there are that it that it is 11 or c

abc 7 news was in alameda, mama papa lithuania has been on park street for years. the owner is running for a parliament seat in lithuania and says he wouldn't trust anyone mos d ith the restaurant when >>> ar a fan of the fair and disappointed you're missing it this year? you're in look. you can get the food in the north bay. kettle corn, corn dogs, funnel cakes and more are available in a drive-through experience. it's designed to give people a taste of the marin county fair which was canceled because of the pandemic. it is proving to be popular. long lines of people waiting at the veterans memorial auditorium parking lot there in san rafael. the new concept could help save them from financial disaster. >> we start off in february, we got one fair in. we went on to the rest of the season which everything's been canceled out. we've lost about oh, 30 fairs so far. >> the fair food drive-through > hag toda some a.m. to 8:00 ar seicon from san francisco will be cut in half. service will rise in what they call basic routes where ridership has increased in recent weeks.

the 2nd point it is proved again that blood and it's the same in a stone and to a lesser extent in lithuania have a chip on the shoulder they have a problem concerning their minority in latvia russian speaking population is 35 percent of the population it's enormous it's huge and these people must have the right to educate their children russian and to have a cultural life to have access to russian media etc but of course the european union considers r t as the little stolen in the shoes you know it annoys them because many informations that obsolete truant put forward by r t not in the european press you know the appalling way the e.u. and the european commission dealt with the coronavirus crisis for example that doesn't please them that r.t. says in a different light and many people like r.t. precisely in europe because it's a different way of looking at things you know because pro europeans were all pro european leader in europe and that are things that are not acceptable and where you laugh you up treats its minority 35 percent of the population the russian speakers is an acceptable are

0ne statistics firm say that britain is the fourth fattest country in europe, only malta, latvia, lithuaniaell 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 much weight de

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 about the u

that cadigan say it's beginning to accumulate a little bit more than that a me walk across into lithuania some very nice sunshine these children cooling down and these fountains now 1st of all across the u.k. there is more rain across is the tickle region that will sing south as we go through the weekend damages not see bad on saturday but there's quite a change on sunday meanwhile the rain pushing across into southern areas of norway and then to areas that system across the southeast it really is quite a cloudy picture through much of central europe sunny warm out across the southwest and then through sunday that front sings southwards taking the cloud the rain with it a look at that drop in temperature for london meanwhile rather more unsettled through denmark and across into scandinavia and the shadows as well all the way from the coastal areas of poland right there down towards the south these when you put the temperatures on you can see why is it a bit cold across the north and the northwest warm elsewhere all say we've got a slight warming trend in the next few days london not too b

to sunderland so not a bad sun set the quite a lot of clouds up there and meanwhile across into lithuania very warm very sunny said these children enjoying cooling off in the fountains now across the u.k. this ash that line of south has it will take the rain with it push across towards denmark again into areas of scandinavia and then really just very unsettled to the southeast some heaviest rain on it towards romania and then on in sumanda say that rain across the north that will work its way through germany and some heavier downpours across much of poland and again you can see that line of rain certainly impacting much of sweden but some clear skies out across the west and we put the time which is on you can see where the warm weather is not really very woman told across the northwest across scandinavia plenty of red coloring elsewhere some of the better weather of course in portugal and spain so madrid warm and sunny for the next few days it'll stay drive course as well in london not too bad clouding over pretty good in berlin. from fossil fuel. to modern day renewable as societies deve

. >> his parents had, from immigrants in europe and lithuania and russia. >> he was known as somewhateny. gifted mast student at the age of five he started playing pia piano. >> there is some question about whether he was abused himself as a child, that has not been proven but that's a very common problem among sexual predators or rapists or pedophiles that they have had a history of trauma in their own past. >> we don't see that necessarily so far in the background of epstein but certainly something within him said i need to have sex with teenage girls. exactly what led him there, we don't know. >> interestingly enough, for all the allure over never graduated with a college degree. in 1931 he went to cooper union which is a private college elite school in manhattan and he dropped out and after that he went to new york university current institute of medical sciences and also dropped out. >> i think the first of the mysteries about him is somehow he became a teacher at a very exclusive new york city private school, dalton, despite not even having a ba. nobody seems to understand how h

but really the fine weather is across the south particularly the southwest but not too bad into lithuania somebody has. you can see here and all the more in the way of dark skies across into moscow there's been some very severe storms as well as they'll be more of those as we go through the day on wednesday you can see this line here working its way actually away from moscow heading up towards the north but the have been reports of hail between 2 and a half and 5 centimeters that that will likely have done some damage now as we go through wednesday as a fairly unsettled picture through much of mainland europe plenty of cloud areas of rain as you can see and then another system working its way gradually across from the atlantic that will head across the u.k. on thursday heavy amounts of rain at times same pushing cross the low countries germany and again across into western and central areas of poland but all the while across the south it is mostly fair and dry it is pretty good across into athens on thursday 31 degrees celcius some good sunny skies then want to showers likely through cent

lithuania has followed latvia as the and band of the transmission of our teacher and also in the country 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 predeces

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

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

up to sunderland so not a bad sunset the quite a lot of clouds up there and meanwhile across into lithuania very warm very sunny said these children enjoying cooling off in the fountains now across the u.k. this ash that line of things south has it'll take the rain with it push across towards denmark again into areas of scandinavia and then really just very unsettled to the southeast some heaviest rain on it towards romania and then on in sumanda say that rain across the north that will work its way through germany and some heavier downpours across much of poland and again you can see that line of rain certainly impacting much of sweden but some clear skies out across the west and we put the time which is on you can see where the warm weather is not really very woman told across the northwest across scandinavia plenty of red coloring elsewhere some of the better weather of course in portugal and spain so madrid warm and sunny for the next few days it'll stay dr course as well in london not too bad clouding over pretty good in belin. what is the relationship between culture religion and a de

i also said they should look outside britain and take evidence from the baltic states, lithuania, ore recent experience in dealing with this. that was the main thrust of my evidence. i was particularly worried about the political system and i said we should treat the political system, whether it is constituency, political headquarters, think tanks or mp's offices as part of our critical national infrastructure. there is a lot of evidence that russia and also china, sees this as a soft target and tries to penetrate it with either sex, money or any other influence. thank you very much, edward lucas, security expert and times columnist and witness to the enquiry. ten minutes to go and it will be published. after four days of difficult and sometimes acrimonious talks — all 27 member—states of the european union agreed a massive coronavirus rescue package worth 750—billion euros. the talks saw a split between nations hardest hit by the virus, and so—called "frugal" members who were concerned about costs. alanna petroff has the details. after days of tense talks and uncomfortable late—nigh

it is the naturalization certificate of my mother who was brought here at the age of it 2 from lithuania. she lived long enough to see me sworn into the united states senate and i'm proud of the fact that i stand here today as a son of an immigrant. that's my story. it's my family's story. it is america's story. i believe that immigration has made america the nation that it is today. immigrants are an integral part of our economy, our culture and our soul. in the midst of this deadly coronavirus pandemic, we should never forget that one in six health care and social service workers, that's 3.1 million people out of 18.7 million are immigrants. risking their lives every day in the midst of this pandemic for the good of this nation. immigrants are playing this critical role in the battle against covid-19 and yet our broken immigration laws do not allow many of them to fulfill their dreams of finally becoming americans. thousands of immigrant workers, including many health care workers are suffering because of a serious problem in our immigration system, the green card backlog. what is a gr

it wasn't the kind of movie star looked i was hoping for. 0r wasn't he the most famous man in lithuaniaial distancing and advised wearing face coverings to avoid a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. the prime minister also urged people to act responsibly. seven police officers have been injured after they attempted to break up an illegal party in west london. videos posted on social media show dozens of metropolitan police officers retreating as missiles were thrown at them by party—goers in white city. so far, no arrests have been made. let's speak to commander bas javid from the metropolitan police. let's talk about the incident in white city. what happened? so we had an unlicensed music event. these events a re an unlicensed music event. these events are illegal, and they pose significant health risks. so, yesterday, there was one in west london. initially, we attended and through engaging with the crowd and the people who were there, we see is the people who were there, we see is the sound equipment and the event was moved on quite peacefully, start with. but then later, it re