makes up 40% of the weight of the entire structure, the height of the tower is 540 m, at that time it became the tallest in the world, 145 steel cables are held together inside it. during construction and installation , we used the latest technical achievements, including the world’s only self-lifting mechanism weighing about 300 tons. broadcasting from the nikitin tower began in 1967, marking the era of color satellite television in our country. ostankino tower is. founding member of the world federation of tall towers, formed in eighty-nine, today there are already 49 participants, but the stankin tower remains the tallest in europe. on april 22, 2010 , one of the largest environmental disasters of the 21st century occurred. the deep water horizon oil platform sank in the gulf of mexico after a fire exploded. it belonged to the transnational corporation british petroleum. the reasons are technical

malfunctions, personnel errors, and platform design errors. eleven people were killed, 17 were injured, and at least 5 million barrels of crude oil spilled into the ocean. oil slick covered 75,000 km. a huge number of fish, dolphins, birds, and sea turtles died, coral reefs were destroyed, and the coasts of several american states were damaged. today, the ecology of the gulf of mexico has been largely restored. however, due to the disaster , the golf stream became colder and, perhaps, this is what led to severe frosts in europe, more frequent and powerful hurricanes, snowfall and flooding in the united states. this is what this day in history was like.

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battle, taste were observed in almost every region of the country, floods, storms, snowfalls, we will tell you about the causes of weather anomalies immediately after reviewing the flood situation, and then we will find out what other surprises to expect from the heavenly office. russian satellites are closely

monitoring the spring floods in the country. pictures from the kanapus-v spacecraft hydrological situation in the tyumen, orenburg and kurgan regions. it is these regions that are the last. the days are most affected by flooding. in the trans-ural region , the water level in the tabol river exceeded 10 m as of friday. according to forecasts, the water will continue to remain, and is expected to reach 11 m. rescuers are continuously on duty along the dam. in areas of landslides and ground movements, bank protection work is carried out using heavy equipment. sandbag barriers are also being erected. water-filling dams are being deployed. in the ministry of emergency situations delivered additional supplies to the most flooded areas. motor pumps for pumping out water, afi, look how it’s hidden, you hear, this is some water, it’s no good, something all came up there, in the tyumen region on ishim , work continues to strengthen the increase in the height of the dam in several settlements, ministry of emergency situations specialists are erecting temporary

earthen embankments, they are helped by volunteers, the evacuation of residents from areas of potential flooding has been organized, the feeling that we are insignificant in the face of such a natural and... another point of tension orenburg region, here the situation has stabilized, commissions are working in the region to assess damage from floods, in orenburg itself water is being pumped out from the entrances of houses, the water level in local rivers has noticeably dropped, but many areas are still flooded. at the end of the working week , residents of the central regions of european russia also had a hard time. a force nine storm hit moscow, the wind tore off roofs and the lining of buildings, many trees were hit, cars were damaged, and garbage containers and road surfaces were carried away in gusts. barriers, it blew heavily throughout the central region, for example, the following

shots of chairs. well, winter has unexpectedly returned to the north-west of the country. snowfalls on the wings of the novgorod and leningrad regions. in st. petersburg , many accidents occurred amid worsening weather. in the tver region , the m11 highway was covered with snow. due to snow charges, visibility in some places deteriorated to 700 m. the trigger of the current storm is the collision of heat and cold on the russian plain. air masses from the subtropical zone broke through to the east of the region. in result. here, the end of the working week turned out to be the hottest in the entire sesquicentennial period of meteorological observations, and the north and north-west were frozen by the arctic invasion. this time of year has never happened before in the entire era of global warming. such a powerful cold snap

reorganized weather processes into a winter pattern. imagine, at the end of the working week on the territory of european russia, snow cover remained only north of the line. petrozavodsk, sektefkar, and by saturday morning its border had moved south by 800 km, right up to the upper reaches of the dnieper, and in some areas quite december snowdrifts with a height of 5-10 cm have formed. however, the gaining strength of the april sun will very soon put everything in its place. already at the weekend, the arctic air, which has captured the northwest and the extreme west of the russian plain, will begin to warm up little by little; at the beginning of the new week , another cyclone will break into european russia, trapping air masses warmed by the gulf stream in its area, so that only the northeast of the region will remain in the power of the arctic, true because of influence

cyclones, a rare day will pass without rain, for example, in moscow on the weekend there will be light showers at +13-16. on monday, chances of precipitation are low, fluorescent. thermometers will rise to +20, which is almost 9° warmer than usual, but then rain clouds will appear again over the megalopolises, and the air will gradually become a little clearer. cool down, and, of course, we cannot ignore the most extraordinary cataclysm of the week, a powerful cyclone, for no apparent reason, hit the united arab emirates, and then drowned other countries of the persian gulf in rain. shower in dubai turned out to be so anomalous that around this event there even appeared... logical theories trying to give at least some explanation of what happened: whether a person could

have had a hand in this cataclysm, we will definitely figure it out, but first let’s see how the emirates went under the water. the strongest storm in the last 3/4 century hit the united arab emirates on tuesday, april 16. the cataclysm led to the collapse of the largest air hub in the middle east, dubai international airport. for takeoff the landings went under water, because of this the air harbor stopped receiving and sending aircraft until weather conditions improve. thousands of people, including russian citizens, gathered in the airport terminals waiting for departure. a similar situation has developed at other airports in the emirates. in total, about 3.00 of our compatriots were stuck on the arabian peninsula during the storm. since yesterday lunch we have not been able to get to the airport, everything is in the water, cars are floating, services are floating. food delivery, taxi, uh, all this doesn’t work at all, we sat on

the plane from 9:00 to 12:00 almost nights, then we were dropped off with and then with the force of tourists who would be picked up at the airport. airports returned to normal operation only a few days later, and this is not surprising; the emirates do not remember such a battle against the elements. due to heavy rains , major highways and streets were flooded in dubai. traffic in the city came to a standstill, cars suffered water hammer and drivers simply abandoned them on the roads. throughout the country, as such, i repeat once again, there is no storm sewer system, i think that in the future it’s probably worth think about the urban planning and engineering complex, in order to provide, at least for such an emergency, a situation that will allow it not to lead to collapse, the world champion in winter swimming, mark mordovtsev, who at...

precipitation here, of course, from time to time fall out, but so that such, the extreme nature of the latest downpour has given rise to a discussion in the expert community.

but a few cloud seeding missions. a powerful cumulonimbus cloud up to 15 km high, with a 95-97% probability, can pour up to 50 mm of rain. in the affected dubai , there was three times more rainfall. however , there is a technology that can significantly increase the intensity of rainfall. when introducing clouds of reagents into the array, for example, particles of silver iodide. water vapor begins to quickly condense on them, that is , there are more droplets in the cloud, gradually

merging, they increase in size and fall to the ground with heavier rains. the last thunderstorm will certainly go down in the history not only of the united arab emirates, but of the entire planets. such downpours are rare even in the humid regions of the equatorial belt, let alone in arid arabia. it's been updated here in just a day. all kinds of rainfall records, for example, in dubai, the previous extreme daily rainfall in april was exceeded by almost nine times, and the maximum of the entire year (by more than twice. experts are confident that the main cause of the cataclysm is not attempts to cause rain, but global changes a change in one parameter immediately entails a change in other climate parameters . systems. well, for example, an increase in temperature leads to an increase in the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere;

water vapor is the engine of all atmospheric processes. the reason for the violence of the elements, a sharp aggravation. section stretching in the middle latitudes of arabia. on monday , colder air masses from transcaucasia began to break into this hot region. as a result , temperature contrasts in the front zone increased to 12-15°. this activated cloud formation processes. individual masses of cumulonimbus clouds made their way even into stratosphere. by tuesday, the whirlwind reached the persian coast. bay, where it was additionally saturated with moisture, so that the rainfall in its zone intensified even more. now the atmosphere has calmed down, but it is not a fact that this will not happen again, so urban planners in dubai should not delay the issue of storm drainage.

independent energy problems are turning into a headache for the entire european union. where, by the way, not everything is going smoothly with energy either, the ukrainian minister of energy goloshchenko admitted that the state of affairs is catastrophic. on this week, the kiev regime urgently imported electricity from poland and romania, and then a powerful cold snap arrived. the topic will be continued by my colleague evgeniy tishkavets. evgeniy, how much has the generation volume in ukraine decreased? vadim, the ukrainian generation has lost. about 7 givit of power, this is more than a third of the total volume. the figures were announced by the minister of energy of ukraine hermann galushchenko, when he came to brussels for a meeting with his european colleagues, complained that several high-voltage autotransformers had been destroyed, in kharkov , regional energy production was almost completely destroyed. but on the other

hand, due to the mass exodus of citizens and the closure of enterprises after february 2022. daily electricity consumption in the country has fallen from 415 mw to 250, plus three nuclear power plants are still operating in ukraine, but nuclear power plants have one significant drawback, they must always operate at the same level, so they are not suitable for balancing the system during peak loads. nuclear power plants are not shunters, they are not adapted for peak covering, and until recently, peak covering has been carried out.

in addition, it is trying to urgently purchase electricity from poland and romania, as, for example, it happened on monday evening, also for the sake of passing peaks, but there is an obvious flaw in this scheme. often, the europeans themselves cannot supply the required amount of electricity, because many countries from which ukraine pumps. have a fairly high share of renewable energy, the same romania, but if there is sun and wind, then they have a surplus plus electricity it becomes cheaper, so ukraine imports it, and if the opportunity becomes smaller, then it is no longer profitable for ukraine to import it and it’s easier to just leave the population without electricity. surprisingly,

despite the fact that green technologies have already shown their unreliability many times in europe, square is persistently introducing them. on its territory, according to estimates at the beginning of the twenty-second year, the kiev regime has set up 4 g of wind turbines and solar panels, and the head of ukrenergo, oily western public opinion, assures that ukraine will be the first in europe to make a green transition, they say the russians don’t hit wind turbines, so you can bet on them, but the fact is that you don’t need to hit them, they will stop on their own, the renewable energy itself must be reserved for it to build balancing power - what it will happen that if the weather is windless and sunny, your electricity generation will immediately drop; for this case, as a rule, for example, a gas power plant is built, which will be turned on and off in case of emergency. here is such a sad picture: for 30 years of independence, ukrainian the authorities managed to turn the once

most powerful energy system in europe into ruins. robots, platforms for evacuation of the wounded, multifunctional sleeping modules, portable automation and artillery fire control systems. promising military developments, tatyana belova will tell you more about them. tanya, when might new equipment appear at the front? vadim, in the near future, especially since many samples have already been tested in their zone and are ready to be launched into serial production. this week the minister of defense russia sergei shaigu visited the exhibition center in patriot park. there he was presented with more than thirty samples. military and special equipment from eighteen enterprises. the robotic medical module attracted the special attention of the head of the military department. its main task is to evacuate the wounded from the

battlefield. sergei shaigu noted that the ground medical robot is a very promising development and , most importantly, is in great demand on the front line. the wait for the car is absolutely incredible, how this car itself should go to grouping to start working. uh-huh, there is nothing more expensive than human life, which means, based on this, we need such a machine as quickly as possible, yes, as quickly as possible and as much as possible, uh-huh, and as cheaply as possible, today we need to ensure the evacuation of the wounded from the front line, do this is as safe as possible, as quickly as possible, the attitude towards wounded soldiers in the russian army is fundamentally different from the approach that is common in the ranks of the armed forces of ukraine, for example, terrible footage proving that... the kiev regime perceives its military personnel as consumables. after an unsuccessful offensive in the zaporozhye direction, the ukrainian nazis, instead of saving their wounded comrade, finished him off and burned him.

another graphic episode: a wounded ukrainian soldier abandoned on the battlefield, in order to save his life, tried to crawl to russian positions with broken legs. our fighters threw him water and pain-relieving chocolate bars, but 50 meters from rescuing him they finished him off with a drone... but let’s return to the latest military developments of russia, here is another multi-purpose robot, produced on a wheeled and tracked, it can be used not only to evacuate the wounded, but to install weapons on it, so it turns into a combat unit, the closer we get, not only in the air, this is assistance using drones, but on the ground to enemy strongholds, defense lines , strengthening areas and so on and so forth, the better it will be, and most importantly there will be no losses among personnel

. the army general was also informed about the development of a promising wearable artillery fire control automation system, which allows for multiple increases in speed of transfer of targets to our artillerymen. at the end, the minister of defense was shown the latest equipment for organizing everyday life. space weather forecast, which we compile together with our colleagues from the iran space research institute. the sun quickly restores energy and becomes covered in spots. the increase in solar activity has reached a level where it has become noticeable on earth. on the night from tuesday to wednesday, the first

magnetic storm in april was registered; its duration was about 4.5 hours. outrage magnetospheres caused a series of auroras in high latitudes, bright flashes appeared in the sky over surgut, khantemansiysk and yakutsk, as well as in kareli. a weak... aurora was recorded over chelyabinsk, perem and yekaterinburg, then the geomagnetic situation stabilized after such activity in march, but it needed some rest, however, even when it was just beginning, we said that it would last this is no more than two weeks, well, this is approximately what happened, approximately starting from april 13-14 we began to record quite sharp changes in the sun, which are currently continuing, on the surface of the star... huge centers of activity have settled down, and right now opposite the earth there is an area with a group of spots the size of almost

a quarter of the sun, in such a situation even.. without complex model calculations, we can say with confidence that a geomagnetic impact on our planet is guaranteed, so the forecast for magnetic storms for the coming week is unfavorable; the main disturbances of the magnetosphere are expected from monday to monday. wednesday, energy continues to accumulate in the spots, it is possible that soon we will witness new x-class flares. that's all, "enjoy the weather, whatever it may be, goodbye, democracy, glasnost, listen, in a word, perestroika, we went to visit these people, went out and among ourselves they said, nothing for themselves, but they say something that everything equal, the speed with which this restructuring took place

showed that soviet society, in principle , was also now shaking, this scale of russia, there is something about you russians that europe doesn’t understand, stand by, who are they, new guys, this is with me a passenger, a reporter, a director, i came for my brother, i’m a battalion commander, call sign trigger, everyone has call signs, adam, and why adam and not adam, i’m a chechen, an artist,

can you do a white rose? i can, you can sing something, friends, lively, we don’t need names, don’t bother her, or whatever, don’t bother, not yours, well, you blunder, god’s light, what to do, commander, shoot, call sign passenger, call sign passenger i suggest changing call sign rebina, no, i'm my brother's pose, you remain a passenger, that's for sure.

we begin with the progress of the special military operation: jet hurricanes, groups of russian troops to the west struck an enemy concentration in the kupinsky direction of the special operation. second.