unable to download bloomberg videos.

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$ ./youtube-dl --verbose -F "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-24/airbus-calls-brexit-process-a-disgrace-threatens-to-leave-u-k"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'-F', u'https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-24/airbus-calls-brexit-process-a-disgrace-threatens-to-leave-u-k']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.01.24
[debug] Python version 2.7.15+ (CPython) - Linux-4.19.0-1-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-buster-sid
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.1-1, ffprobe 4.1-1, phantomjs 2.1.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Bloomberg] airbus-calls-brexit-process-a-disgrace-threatens-to-leave-u-k: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract id; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 793, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 508, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/bloomberg.py", line 58, in _real_extract
    r'BPlayer\(null,\s*({[^;]+})\);', webpage, 'id'), name)
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 983, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract id; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

It seems to fail to parse the page and extract the id.