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also have two bring in some new investment. the president of hungary is a nalliah president putin s as well so there are some raised about that but they do want the eu the president of hungary is an ally. the compromise means other measures can also take effect. through some of those measures as well. ., ,, , as well. one of russia s largest as well. one of russia s largest tanks as well. one of russia s largest tanks or - as well. one of russia s| largest tanks or russia s largest tanks or russia s largest bank indeed will be banned from using the swift payment system and we are also going to see other sanctions on individuals, travel bands as well and also some of the russian casters that were broadcasting into the eu, more of them will be adding to the banned list and they can t broadcast there, and russian services for example insurance on russian ships will be banned or re ensuring russian ships. let s get some of the day s other news. presidentjair bolsonaro has
live to pittsburgh now. dr amesh adalja is a senior scholar at the johns hopkins university center for health security. let s begin with president biden s moved to knock these eight southern african countries off the banned list, as it were. a good move? definitely. this was a move that should never have been needed to be made, because we should not have initiated a travel ban. it was an ill advised ban that really punished countries that were aggressive at finding a variant, and letting the world. we already knew this was spreading outside of south africa and the southern african countries well before it was described, so this was not something that we should have done. many countries in the world kind of followed suit. it is a bad practice. travel bands do not work and they give people a false sense of security and have lots of negative consequences. bans.
main point is that we are still subject to travel bands from france and germany and, as a result, for instance, easyjet at gatwick have cancelled a number of services to places like berlin, bordeaux, nice and leon and british airways taking and leon and british airways taking a number of lights out. and lyon. the airports are ten to 15% quieter. we are not allowed to go over to france or germany. we are not allowed to go over to france or germany. simon, as ever, really helpful france or germany. simon, as ever, really helpful advice. france or germany. simon, as ever, really helpful advice. he france or germany. simon, as ever, really helpful advice. he is - france or germany. simon, as ever, really helpful advice. he is always i really helpful advice. he is always clued up. simon calder, the travel editor of the independent. he is in the knowfor editor of the independent. he is in the know for travel editor of the independent. he is in the know for travel things. - editor
christmas 2020, millions had plans to travel, notjust by plane but also by car, and that s now been all upended because of this variance, and as you heard that, some people are trying to be cautious about it and there are lots of restrictions backin and there are lots of restrictions back in place, but it does look like this christmas will be a repeat of last christmas. last christmas. absolutely. disappointing last christmas. absolutely. disappointing for last christmas. absolutely. disappointing for many - last christmas. absolutely. i disappointing for many people last christmas. absolutely. - disappointing for many people who thought, well, we got past the disruption caused by restrictions and travel bands, now we are allowed to travel again, but then we have got this spanner in the works. do we have a sense of how much longer this disruption will continue and when people can feel that it is not at risk of their travel plans being upended. it’s risk of their travel plans bei