Free-to-air news on November 19th
It is snowing heavily in Latvia today.
It will snow heavily and for a long time during the night.
Most of the snow will fall in Latgale and Vidzeme.
Forecasters are forecasting the deepest snow in Kolkata.
Drivers should be very careful.
Snow makes driving difficult.
The responsible services claim that the streets and roads are being cleaned and watered.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak today visited Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.
It’s his first visit to Ukraine since he became the UK’s head of government.
Sunak promises his government will continue to support Ukraine until his victory.
Passenger train traffic between Kiev and Kherson liberated from Russian troops has been restored.
The first train from Kiev with 200 passengers arrived in Kherson this morning.
The passengers and their companions wept with joy.
The restored rail traffic confirms that Ukraine is regaining its territories.
It has a symbolic meaning.
The Polish leadership will not allow Russian Foreign Minister Segey Lavrov to come to Łódź for the meeting of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
The meeting will be held next week (1st and 2nd December).
Lavrov is on the sanctions list, so he is banned from entering the European Union.
Poland’s decision angered Russia.
Russia has claimed that Poland is behaving very badly and causing imminent damage to the OSCE.
The investigation into former US President Donald Trump will be overseen by an independent prosecutor.
It will be war crimes prosecutor Jack Smith.
This was decided by the US Minister of Justice.
Smith currently works in The Hague.
He investigated crimes committed in Kosovo.
Trump’s actions are currently being investigated in two cases.
One is related to trying to interfere with the transfer of power to the new president, Joe Biden.
The second case is related to secret documents found at Trump’s home in Florida.
The documents weren’t supposed to be there.
A plane collided with a fire truck on the runway of the airport in Lima, the capital of Peru.
Two firefighters died.
The aircraft caught fire in the collision.
20 passengers were injured, two of them seriously injured.
There were 102 passengers and 6 crew on the plane.
Investigators are now explaining why the fire truck hit the runway during takeoff.
A major gas pipeline exploded and caught fire today near St. Petersburg.
The explosion occurred in a gas pipeline in the Vsevolozhsk district of the Leningrad region.
The flames were very high and could be seen from several kilometers away.
Officials report that there are no casualties.
Weather forecast
A variable amount of cloud can be expected in Latvia on Sunday.
At night it will snow heavily in many places, the snowpack will increase by 5-9 cm, but in some places, especially in the east, even by 10-12 cm.
Also in the morning and in the evening some snow in some places.
The roads will be slippery in some places.
At night Light wind 2-5 m/s.
During the day, south, southeast wind 3-8 m/s.
Air temperature at night -3…-8°, in the south -7…-12°. During the day -1…-6°.
It will snow heavily in Riga at night, the snow cover will increase by 5 cm.
At night, light wind 2-5 m/s, during the day wind from south, southeast 3-7 m/s.
Air temperature at night -5…-7°, during the day -3…-5°.
Type of weather at night 3. – unfavorable, during the day 2. – favorable
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