live, top news at noon, in the studio sergey lopanitsyn, hello, briefly about the topics of the issue: socio-economic development. results for

the first half of the year, gdp growth above forecast indicators. new developments of the belarusian military industry at the international military-technical forum in kubinka. development horizons. the goals of the attack on the kursk region are unknown, but at the same time the use of american weapons there is in line with us policy. the pentagon says that kiev did not announce its intentions in advance. cold, as well as hurricanes and storms, what is happening to our climate and should we expect drastic changes? the results of the country's socio-economic development for the first half of the year are on the government's agenda today. the meeting of the council of ministers is a reconciliation of the opposition and who still has to work towards the planned targets. our film crew is currently working in the government house. what indicators are in the green zone and what industries are among the drivers, we will find out from alina lopo. hello, colleagues,

the results of the first half of the year are the best time to calculate how much we earned domestically, abroad, that is, on export. the meeting of the council of ministers is precisely to understand in detail where, perhaps, they did not work up to the target parameters, and most importantly, what is the reason. in general, the government evaluates the past half of the year positively, the gross domestic product has increased by 5% with a target of 3%. the drivers of development are traditional, they are known, firstly, this is industrial production, according to the results of six. months the result is slightly more than 7%. even higher than the industrial growth, the rates in agriculture here are plus almost 10%. the most the national indicator is also within the forecast: inflation in june to december last year is 3.4%. and as prime minister roman golovchenko noted, the measures taken by the government and the national bank allow ensuring macroeconomic stability in the country. all expenditure obligations of the social budget are fulfilled.

constant dynamics. from what else work, therefore this direction we have well in noted by the head of the government, the situation on the currency market is stable, confidence in the belarusian ruble is growing. so since the beginning of the year bank deposits in national currency grew by 17.5%. in rubles, it is almost 1.5 billion. as for the country's gold reserves, as of august 1, the total amount was 8.5 billion dollars. over the past six months , gold and foreign exchange reserves have grown by 400 million dollars. so, to summarize in general. according to the results of the first half of the year, the economy has gained momentum above target parameters, four out of five key indicators are ahead of schedule. by this hour, i have all the information, the studio gives you the floor. thank you, the council of ministers is meeting at this moment. food security is the key to stability. ear by ear, farmers are approaching the planned indicators, gradually completing the mass harvest. as of today, 7,282 tons of grain have been threshed, including rapeseed. leader. minsk, grodno, brest

regions. the largest contribution to the general piggy bank was made by the central region, almost 2 million tons of the new harvest. 1,688 thousand tons were harvested by farmers of the grodno region. breza region, the grain grower of the gomel region has less than 7% of the area left to cultivate, more than 715 million tons of grain and rapeseed have been threshed here. vitebsk region is approaching the threshing of 600,000 tons. agronomists, drivers, machine operators, everyone contributes to the loaf of bread. each district and farm strives to show the best result. there are those who have achieved their four-digit value. the day before in the bobruisk district of the estate. two machine operators from the youth crew, they harvested more than a thousand tons of grain, here the bar of 2,000 was conquered by two drivers of the farm. nevertheless, more than thirty people work in the fields every day and six combines work, young people also join in the harvesting. there are traditional approach, that is, we look at

the family, we are interested to a greater extent, it means the children of those workers who are currently involved in all types of work, including livestock farming, this is a kind of... contribution to the family piggy bank and in order for the most important thing for our youth to understand at what price not a penny is given, these works are planned within 5 days, this year the harvest is pleasing, here the average grain yield is 65 centners per hectare, compared to last year, already received 500 tons of grain more, which will increase the production of meat and dairy products. and once again the european union has provided assistance to belarus without even suspecting it, trying to strangle us with a noose of sanctions, another package of packages, european officials, in fact, helped to settle the existing issues in the industry. this opinion

was shared by the journalists of the tv news agency by the analyst of bc. the eu, introducing sanctions against secondhand, has actually confirmed its helplessness. the union currently understands perfectly well, that sanctions will no longer work, but we can definitely say that as long as the eu countries are under pressure or under complete control from great britain, the united states of america, they will not be able to do anything peaceful with respect to us, with respect to russia, they will continue to go through all sorts of sanctions. the ministry of economics also believes that the decision taken by the union is not a problem for us, but rather the opposite. thousands of light industry manufacturers and plus take other global brands and competition from even

eurasian union, so there is absolutely no failure in the market, someone will not have enough of something, we do not see. the ban for the good: today belarus has huge opportunities. in industry, substitution within the union of increasing the volume of production of light state, as well as in cooperation with friendly partners. the belarusian military industry is a brand known throughout the world. this is the opinion of russian experts who are visiting the patriot park in kubinka these days. it is already the tenth time that the international military-technical forum army 2024. belarus participates in the forum every year traditionally presents the military-industrial potential. of our country with a separate large exposition. in one place it united more than two dozen belarusian enterprises. of the new products, the manul observation device is a binocular that sees at a distance of 8 km. now they are planned to be installed on special tracked platforms, which will be controlled remotely. such

a reconnaissance robot literally becomes a person's second vision. also presented model of the twin-engine aircraft asvey. this is an allied product, a joint development of belarus and russia. tests.

performers of the russian state defense order, this will benefit everyone, in this regard, of course, we must strengthen our cooperation and joint work in foreign markets is also more ... this year , delegations from 83 countries and more than 120 foreign companies are participating in the army 2024 forum. in addition to belarus , iran, india and china presented their separate expositions. an unbeknownst foray overseas owners. the pentagon is still trying to figure out the goals of the ukrainian armed forces' attack on russia's kursk region. they continue to do so.