a small country between romania and ukraine moldova has a long and rich wine making tradition and it is making a push to boost awareness of that outside the region. this is the famous creek over a winery near the moldovan capital now the conditions in the limestone caves are ideal and the temperature is constant or year round the wine is a huge business and moldova it is little known in the world outside but even thirds are now in a push to make their products more familia outside the region. so the good you look at there where you have to try all wine ones and you will buy it but we're working hard and travelling a lot so that people can taste moldovan wines at least once but that takes time and . these days china is the biggest export market followed by romania russia was a key customer is way down the list business has been better. has much more capacity than it currently meets the international wine market is tough to crack and the company's culture still contains remnants of its socialist past is reflected in its market position you see the friends here in france and venues can

if you think of wine countries you might say spain or france but have you thought about moldova they have a small country but they have a surprisingly long wine making tradition small country that is located between rumania and ukraine once the world to know it's ones. this is the famous winery here the moldovan capital now the conditions in the lines to the caves are ideal and the temperature is constant all year round the wine is a huge business in moldova it is little know in the world outside but even thirds are now in a push to make their products more familiar outside the region. so you look at it when you have to try it all wine ones and you will buy it working hard and travelling a lot so that people can taste moldovan wines at least once but that takes time and . these days china is the biggest export market followed by romania russia was a key customer is way down the list business has been better. has much more capacity than it currently meets the international wine market is tough to crock and the company's culture still contains remnants of its socialist past is reflecte

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from partition to bricks the irish government and northern ireland now joins us from chisinau in moldova via skype good to have you with us live on al-jazeera i mean there are many factors that are being suggested as to the causes of the current uncertainty an upsurge of violence that we're witnessing in london darian across the province let's just begin with direct rule from london because the northern ireland assembly as needs that has not been in session for some time and isn't in control of the province politically. that's true that's in large part the result of the political arithmetic in westminster the g.d.p. which is about a third of the vote in northern ireland are propping up the british government and therefore have the immense just proportion leverage and influence at this critical juncture in the brics a process essentially you have two hundred thousand people are the voters that voted for the two thousand for the g. dictating the pace and indeed character of the brakes a process that does leave a vacuum in northern ireland and without overestimating the threat at this very

now moldova runner has completing a stunning feat of physical injury and running fifty kilometers through the siberian boldness in minus sixty degrees cold he took on the grueling challenge to raise awareness about south poles and to help youngsters suffering from the disorder. look. through the course of. a little. work. news for now i'll be back in around thirty minutes with more updates but first is crosstalk. perfect there's someone else living inside of me or controlling my body. the byproduct. the drug that is the cause like some fear depression. because it will warn anyone to zombie it's crazy. you know and we don't have to do anything it's not our fault you know she is crazy and all that. took years to come that it takes a long time to get rid of. what politicians do so. we put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to be. the two going to be cross with a white woman for three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of our. first city. the country has gone into a nihilistic fever that's why i thi

to create similar clusters include latvia estonia portugal sweden belgium canada armenia ukraine moldova malta czechia countries of the middle east and north africa poland slovakia rumania belgariad georgia hungary cyprus austria switzerland turkey finland iceland denmark and the usa joining me now is one of german corbin's close as parliamentary allies criswell in.

to create similar clusters include latvia estonia portugal sweden belgium canada armenia ukraine moldova malta czechia countries of the middle east and north africa poland slovakia rumania belgariad georgia hungary cyprus austria switzerland turkey finland iceland denmark and the usa joining me now is one of german corbin's close as parliamentary allies chris williamson has raised the issue of the integrity initiative in the smearing of the left in britain in the house of commons because they are coming back on so why do you believe aside from the focus obviously on bricks of the mainstream media just isn't particularly interested in your concerns about a taxpayer funded organization but that's a very good question and one wonders whether or not these clusters of journalists who are apparently associated with the integrity initiative has any. thing to do with it because there are a number of people who have been named problem journalists have been named in the documents which have been released one has to ask the question therefore is it because of their involvement that they are not. co

to create similar clusters include latvia estonia portugal sweden belgium canada armenia ukraine moldova malta czechia countries of the middle east and north africa poland slovakia rumania belgariad georgia hungary cyprus austria switzerland turkey finland iceland denmark and the usa joining me now is one of german corbin's close as parliamentary allies chris williams and has raised the issue of the integrity initiative in the smearing of the left in britain in the house of commons because that's for. coming back on so why do you believe aside from the focus obviously on bricks that the mainstream media just isn't particularly interested in your concerns about a taxpayer funded organization but that's a very good question and one wonders whether or not all these clusters of journalists who are apparently associated with the integrity initiative has anything to do with it because there are a number of people who have been named problem journalists have been named in the documents which have been released one has to ask the question therefore is it because of their involvement that they ar

o's promises to make ukraine, georgia, moldova members, you could have been drawing the man but to have in but to have made that pledge. areacedonia joins, there more and more people inside nato who are taking a more pro-russia line. nato is getting wobbly internally. alvini.got so bee francine: thank you so much. we will have more great interviews here. coming up next, william morneau. we will ask him about trade, about trump. this is "bloomberg." ♪ tom: good morning. from the world economic forum, francine lacqua and tom keene as we discuss the ability of the toronto maple leafs to catch the tampa bay lightning. you do this with the finance minister of canada. i'm going to talk about your colleague and crime. she showed up at davos. every other politician in the lens of global tension did not show up. she showed up to represent canada on china, on u.s. and on the huawei issue. what did you listen for? we speak on almost a daily basis so i did not have to come here to talk to her. are going through a diplomatic moment with china, a challenging moment. , making sure here that our allies