Baiba Braže

It's Brian Kilmeade.

Hey, we're back and we're waiting on Baiba Braze.

She's a Latvia foreign minister and Latvia is in the eye of the storm when it comes to NATO.

So President Trump said, hey, NATO, show me you're serious.

Today, the Latvian government took its next step in trying to thwart that danger by banning the import of books and newspapers from Russia and its close ally, Belarus.

Baiba Braže is Latvia's foreign minister.

Why has the government introduced the ban?

Well, because we regularly look through the, uh, imports from Russia and Belarus and the dynamics of it.

People's private lives are people's private lives.

But at the state level, we consider, with an absolute majority of the parliament, that importing books from Russia or books from Belarus in the current geopolitical conditions is something that is not needed.

The Latvian Foreign Minister, Baiba Braže.

Now, loath as I am to talk about national stereotypes, especially on the BBC World Service, I think you will allow me this, that one thing British people through the ages seem to love talking about is the weather.

They have to do them remotely, might have to use the internet, communications, that sort of thing.

Uh, I had the Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braže on the show last week, someone you worked with at NATO.

Uh, and she said, uh, that while European intelligence services are indeed concerned about these sabotage attacks and the attacks themselves might escalate, there's no immediate military threat to NATO 'cause Russia is bogged down in Ukraine.

Do you think that's right?