i am the first one in this studio to always say that parents should not be given chances at the expense of their children, here, in my opinion, the situation is completely different, you personally proved to me by your deeds, by your life, that you really want to become a mother, i believe you at this stage, there is a law that she should have been grateful to no one, she should have owed nothing to her children, she proved that she wants to be. this is enough for me at the moment, and as it turned out, not only for me, but also for the court, imagine, that's it, everything is very simple, further, further, let him proves that he is the dad, let's see if he has the strength for it,

why did you rush at the man with a knife, i say give it to my father. wait, it is

this knife in your hands, not his. sergey will come up, something splashes on him, right on his hands, i did not pour anything on him. there was a bayonet knife, there was, there are witnesses to the fight, there are, her name is zulfiya, she came to our studio, let's invite her. good evening, there is a big game live on air, and i am now.

national projects, well, as experience shows, new national projects, as the previous ones are the main stimulus for the leapfrog development of russia, they have always really brought results in those industries, in those areas that were participants in these national projects, and of course the draft federal budget is already awaited in the state duma, it opened its autumn session today, the chairman of the state duma vyacheslav fikovich volodin made an opening speech, named the main priorities of the duma work, connected primarily with improving the well-being of our citizens, with ensuring special military operation and spoke specifically about international affairs, including about the plans of london, washington, to provide the alleged ukrainian armed forces with the opportunity

to use long-range weapons to strike the territory of our country, that's what volodin said about... about these plans , our possible response. today, the united states is not embarrassed to discuss the possibility of striking the territory of the russian federation. they are discussing it with the heads of european states, they are discussing it with ukraine, although there is no one to discuss it with in ukraine these questions. the president of ukraine has long been illegitimate, sent his parents to israel, his family to london, he doesn't care at all what's going on in ukraine, the parliament has withdrawn, although it should have taken responsibility for itself, therefore the responsibility lies entirely with the united states

of america, so they themselves are discussing the issue of striking, and what is striking? military people know, satellite groups. belong to the usa, nato countries, guidance and bringing replenishment of commands will be in this case from high-precision weapons in conjunction with satellite groups to be executed by nato servicemen, and this means nato in its entirety.

stands ready, it is extremely important that the parliaments of the united states of america, european states, understand and are aware of what may happen. this is such a sharp statement, dmitry vitalyevich, i think , not unexpected for you. well, naturally, not unexpected, i would like to explain here, perhaps, a little, the main instigators of these attacks from the west are here, as it were now... who are shouting that it is necessary at the level of, i think, five ministers defense of the former, including boris johnson, that it is necessary to beat, what is the problem, the british, it seems, take and shoot, the missile is yours, and the problem, in my opinion, is precisely in these tricky satellite data, the fact is

that the shtorshadow missile and the scalp have several guidance systems, that is, it is inertial using gps, but gps is, so to speak, an open system, a navigation system. according to the terrain profile, they have their own development, this is the development of the mbda concern specifically, well, these maps, but the thing is that i assume that the french and the british don't have maps of russia, but the americans most likely have these maps thanks to radar reconnaissance satellites, that is , this is the terrain profile that they take, without these maps these missiles become, well , a difficult, but not a difficult target, because we are putting pressure on gps, the poles cannot bypass the areal... that is why this discussion is developing, that is, yes, indeed, the main obstacle to this situation is the us, to create a corresponding counter-threat, as is correct said the state duma speaker, it is necessary for the americans, well, and as he rightly noted, in fact

, these are the key words, we will respond, we have something to respond with, and more powerful weapons are at the ready, so it looks like this is the message from us in the west to hear after all. in any case, in the united states they have clearly backed down a little, so let's listen to what matthew miller, the press secretary of the united states department of state, said. as of today, i am not ready to announce any changes in our policy. we continue to interact with our ukrainian partners on how best to support them to ensure that they win this war, how best to provide them with the capabilities that they need.

guidance systems are critical to the accuracy of the missiles. the uk government believes that the us is likely to give the green light at the un general assembly in new york, although there are still differences of opinion within the biden administration on this issue. well, it's clearly a bit of a step back, they've clearly heard our president, other statements by our officials, but for some reason they associate some hopes with the united nations. from the general assembly, what could happen there? and vyacheslav alekseevich,

in this case i would suggest that we are not talking about a link specifically to the united nations, but a link to the time of the high-level week that is being held in new york, at the united nations, when heads of state and foreign ministers from many countries come, and it seems to me that this temporary... binding, then the question: what could it be in essence? in essence i would like to remind you of the statement that was made yesterday by the leadership of the russian foreign intelligence service regarding the fact that the ukrainian side is preparing a large-scale provocation, quite temporary characteristics of such a provocation, as described. or maybe with some other components can be connected precisely with the time when

a major international event will take place in order to try to organize this such a large-scale wave in the international community to cover up their decision with this, i draw attention to the fact that miller's words are so unclear, he mumbles something, but still the key thing, i'm not ready yet...

further, if there is retaliation, but i would not rush to say that they will reconsider this decision in principle for escalation, that's what they are marking time and don't know how to move , that option with provocation that was discussed yesterday, it may, they may try to use this in order to get through this stop. this decision after all to push it in such a way that they do it, and they say the russian federation has no right to respond, well, if they haven't made a decision yet, then the russian federation has made a decision, this is already obvious, therefore here in washington and london they should give an account of themselves, that well , the response will definitely be guaranteed. boris aleksandrovich rozhen, our military expert, is currently monitoring the progress of the special military operation. what new will he tell us now, boris aleksandrovich, good evening, and good

evening, the events on the font continue develop quite intensively, against the background of successful actions of our troops of the kursk region, where we continue to advance and liberate our settlements, in other sections of the front our troops also continue to operate actively, if we go from the south to the north, then in the zaporozhye direction our troops continue to operate actively to the north of verbovoye and rabotin, on the vremyevsk salient our troops continue.

slowly retreat to the west, our troops have completely cleared the area of ​​the first desired, while in addition to the liberated village itself cleared out parts of the terrain, to the west and east of it, now the battles are already going on for the second desired. and the loss of which can lead to very serious consequences for the armed forces of ukraine. also, the battles for ukrainsk continue, where more than half of the city is under our control, the battles on the outskirts of gornyak continue. at selidovo, novogrodovka and grodovka , fierce battles continue, the enemy is trying to stop our advance with reserves, but he has not succeeded so far, the enemy's resources admit this. in the dzerzhinsky direction, our troops continue to advance in the central part of the city, we also occupied part of the southern quarter in zerzhinsky, having advanced there, and the battles for nelepovka continue and there are small advances to the west of

novgorodsky. in the shasofyarsky direction there are serious advances, our troops, in addition to the battles in the city itself. and small advances to the north of kalinovka, and have already secured a foothold behind the canal in the direction of the stupochki, there are battles there, we are advancing, the enemy tried to push our troops beyond the canal, had no success, suffered losses, accordingly here we we are trying to bypass already from the south, on the northern ledge without significant changes there were battles for the crossing and in the area of ​​the ivano-daryevka cutting, in the krasnolimansk direction there are movements, today our troops advanced in the direction of... nevskaya up to 2 km, which means that in the okupiansk direction our troops had success in the pechannoye area, there are about 2 km left to the road that runs along the river, the situation for the enemy continues to seriously deteriorate here, battles for the northern part of makiivka in the area also continued stolmakhovka to the south of senkovka, well, in

the kharkov direction , positional battles were going on without any particular changes, as we see, in most directions the initiative is completely... a bright reaction of the armed forces, and we have already reported very signed a decree on increasing the number of ours on this from the side of a prominent ukrainian aidar soldier and blogger stanislav bunyatov, i will remind you of his blog. now. we must think about what methods we will use to destroy the new batch of meat, without finishing the work with the old one. i think it's high time to restore biological laboratories that were captured in mariupol. according to the plan, these laboratories were supposed to destroy a third of russia's population in 10 days, unfortunately, it didn't work out, it was a good prospect. a third of russia's population in 10 days. in this regard, we

remembered how semyon pegov's report about this laboratory was broadcast on our program at one time. let's take a look, let's remember. nato's biological laboratories were located directly on the territory of this state institution, which was subordinate to the ministry of health ukraine. this is the donetsk laboratory center. according to local residents, this laboratory was set on fire by the employees themselves, or by the security service. immediately on february 24, as soon as the start of the special operation to denazify ukraine was announced, they were taking out a huge number of some test tubes from here, well

, they set fire to the main base themselves, they say that this is where animal experiments were conducted, including on rats, all these samples that were collected here were evacuated directly to kiev. the fact that kiev even before the storming of mariupol, that is, at the very the first day of the war, these samples were evacuated from here to study, well, it says a lot in my opinion. about many things, it was a priority task, well, it’s not very clear what this folder is, what does cholera have to do with it, in general, there are also some obviously valuable data,

the exclusivity of this object is indicated by the fact that... such firing points were equipped, here is an observation post, a machine gunner or sniper was located here, here is another point, it is clear that shooting was carried out, most likely from an svd, in general, there was a post at each window, they worked intensively here, everyone secret documents that were found here have been examined and will certainly be carried out. all necessary investigations in order to find out what kind of experiments were conducted here and against whom, well, against whom, of course, against the russians, it was here within these walls that biological weapons were made, these are not ukrainian laboratories, these are laboratories that belong to the pentagon, there are many of them on ukrainian territory, not

a single dozen, it must be said that there are still people here who ask the question, why was a special military operation needed, here among other things, and maybe first of all. because of this, because there was a really serious threat of the destruction of a large number of our population with the help of weapons of mass destruction, i assure you, this danger still exists, in any case, it certainly lives in the minds of washington strategists, who are ready for literally anything, for any crime. let's continue on... advertising in the new season on the first, today we

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and this knot seemed very massive, although it was quite easy to pick up. you are worthy of great honor, moles, honor and trust of the reich, remember this, after the war i was looking for my son's comrade-in-arms, i was interested in what was happening there at the end of the war, and anything could have happened there , if you don't have a photo, it's strange where they are, they were here. lord, how

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children all by name. but today, against the backdrop of talk and threats from israel to launch an armed action against lebanon, unusual things began to happen in lebanon: first there was an idf airstrike on a suburb of beirut, more than 100 people were injured, including 20 people killed, but then al jazeera began to report on the explosion of communication media that members of hisbollah had with them in a number of areas of lebanon, and moreover, this... was used by hezbollah personnel for internal encrypted communication, skynews arabia reports. lebanese media reports that israel was able to hack into the portable pagers of the radios that hezbollah uses for internal communications, causing the batteries to explode , simultaneously killing and wounding several hezbollah members, are coming in now.

minutes now lebanon's health ministry is making very serious statements, asking citizens to donate blood, if reports are confirmed that iran's ambassador to beirut has also been wounded, and these reports are already coming in, then it means that all efforts to remove tensions between iran and israel, let me remind you that iran has not cancelled

its. retaliation for murder on its territory, it has merely postponed them, the americans were very hopeful that they had been postponed until at least their. their image, that is, it turns out that any hacker can blow up any person, well, to be honest, i have not seen a lithium polymer battery explode in this way, they light up here, flare up, but there are no such powerful explosions, on the other hand, if you just fantasize, it is possible imagine that in a certain batch

of devices, due to betrayal, due to some other influence, let's say, of the special services, some blocks of explosives were introduced, as we remember, smartphones are now inseparable and many devices are inseparable, that is, they were mined in advance and at some point... they were waiting for their time, now such mass use, not targeted, can cause a really big panic, that everyone is under attack from the all-seeing eye of israel. i will only allow myself to clarify, hezbollah militants have recently did not use smartphones, they did not use mobile phones, especially being in the south of lebanon, since it was precisely by the t-shirts of mobile phones, starting this year, that the israelis tracked down commanders and...

terrorism, although it really, apparently , works, because here we see how simply in stores some devices explode in people's hands, against the background of very militant statements from israel, both from the government and the opposition, regarding the beginning of military actions against hezbollah, here is eov galaland, the israeli defense minister, let's listen, at a meeting with the special adviser to the us president amos.

of the old administration, it seems to me, it is obvious, it is clear that the relations between america and israel are very complicated, but ultimately, america will stand up for israel under all circumstances, right now it was not possible to provoke iran, now there is an attack on lebanon, and in the end they will achieve that a war will begin from all sides against israel. and the us will immediately intervene, but as for, returning still, to this wonderful incident with a smartphone, i remember a story that happened many years ago, when a special virus was introduced into a laboratory in iran, and

the centrifuges slowly, slowly slowed down, then eventually, unnoticed by the staff, all the centrifuges for enriching uranium broke down. here, too, some stories are possible, when the charge in this battery slowly accumulates, it heats up. we all hold phones near our faces, in fact, we have entered a new age of these digital wars, which are waged not with the help of information, some, so, subversive subversive content, but simply directly with the help of these very exploding electronic devices. well, it must be said that information also has a fairly large subversive value, yes, so be careful with your mobile devices. ukraine has crossed another red line, they ukrainian special services have begun to actively operate in syria in idlib, and the newspaper has already officially reported. post with reference to intelligence sources that

they are using special strike drones there in order to, to strike at russian forces, and with reference to the official main intelligence directorate of kiev, which is allegedly engaged in this, we note that on the day of this attack, september 15, the syrian newspaper... syria and is developing a plan for secret attacks on russian troops in syria. and here is today's report from riya news. let's listen. a group of instructors from the armed forces of ukraine arrived in the province of idlip in northern syria to train militants from the terrorist group hayad tahrir-asham.

the ukrainian special services have some special interest in islamic radicals, coming from different regions, including the middle east, but those who adhere to radical interpretations of islam and are inclined to terrorist activity. it should be said that there were conversations on this subject in the expert community, but i still haven’t seen any good studies on this subject, apparently. the information was closed, but

apparently there was something like that, but in this case it seems to me that something a little more important is, vyacheslav alekseevich, you recently drew attention to the fact that for kiev regime, they are showmen there, the management comes from show business, pr is very important to them, apparently the element that the kiev regime is allegedly fighting with russia almost all over the world, so to speak, is important to them, like, what are you doing here? the kiev regime is retreating in donbass, but we are trying to get russia in syria, although perhaps these are just weak attempts by the americans to somehow hide behind, because they are getting more and more in syria and nothing more because they are there illegally, but the main thing in all this to me is it seems in another, here is a message that the ukrainian kiev sabotage units. kiev regime are operating in different parts of the world, here we

saw not so long ago that in africa sabotage units of the kiev regime, in fact terrorists who worked for the kiev regime, were involved in attempts at coups d'etat three african states at once, african broke off with them, broke off diplomatic relations with ukraine, in fact, what am i talking about, that the kiev regime is turning into no longer turned into an international terrorist group, they will definitely lose in the conflict that is going on, the special military operation will achieve all its goals, so the kiev regime will continue to act and live in some parts as an international terrorist group, however, as was the case with the hitler regime, some of its parts continued to live, work on...

have already been established for a long time, this is a fact, on the territory of ukraine, on the side of zelensky, several such non-governmental armed formations are fighting, which in... are recruited from among people from the countries of the middle east, so even thanks to these connections, contacts can be established there with the terrorist organization front support jabhat nusra, and this is the backbone of this league for the liberation of syria, which is being discussed, well, moreover, now, when

the assassination attempt on trump and the story of ryan ruto are being discussed in america, the americans themselves are writing about the fact that he was in... but the americans are not leaving syria yet, but without the americans, of course, such things that he could not do, after this, of course, there are the united states of america, which is now being asked to finally leave... from iraq, in any case, followed the statement of the prime minister of iraq mohammed al-sudani. let's listen. my government initiated a program that was proposed to the parliament and put to a vote after it was presented by the cabinet of ministers. everything is in accordance with the provisions of the constitution. today, iraq is not the same as

it was 10 years ago. thanks to our sacrifices , the resilience of the iraqi people, and the support international community, we have managed to defeat isis. we believe that there is no need for coalition forces to be present in our country now. we have moved from a period of wars to a period of stability. isis no longer poses a threat to the state. they may still pose a security threat due to drug trafficking and other crimes. but nothing more, they are now just a group of scared people hiding in caves, in the desert or in the mountains. they no longer pose a real threat to our stability and security. they will go away americans. they leave in such a way that they remain everywhere, unfortunately, i know the prime minister of iraq, muhammad sudani, well, and i also talked with him, with the minister of foreign affairs, hussein, who is now negotiating the withdrawal of american troops from

iraq, but according to my information, the americans are stubborn, firstly, even the time frame testifies to this, the thing is... that the iraqi parliament demanded, not just asked, but demanded and adopted a resolution corresponding to the withdrawal of american troops at the beginning of the year, and before that also there were corresponding requests, but it didn't move, now something has moved, but again my information says that they want to leave a significant part of military advisers, instructors, private military formations, security structures, all this will be under...

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they just reported that the number of victims after the explosion of communication devices in lebanon has already exceeded 1,500 people , the number of victims is expected to continue to rise. it is reported that among the wounded are those who had their fingers torn off. the hand pierced the stomach, that is , in fact, this is a very serious terrorist attack using cyber weapons by israel, the situation in the region will clearly escalate sharply now, well, and the european union, after several months of negotiations, formed such a european commission, this is supposedly a european government, although in fact from little depends on it, and in order to be successful in european politics,

they considered the government's work a failure, but this turned out to be a sufficient argument for kaja kallas, a russophobe, just well , at the genetic level, by the way, in the literal sense of the word, uh, to become the head of european diplomacy, an estonian russophobe, no, well, part of her soul is somewhere in the soviet union, where she was born, she

was a pioneer, probably something like that remained, or maybe she just...

to say that they really are absolutely irresponsible, they enjoy zero support in their countries, the countries of european society, and european leaders are very unpopular, for example, scholz, one of the most unpopular leaders in europe now, went to central asia to persuade them to be friends against russia, but it didn’t work out very well, if we look at the headlines of today’s german newspapers, we see that

they are all absolutely the same, they sound like this: president of kazakhstan scholz, russia is invincible. kasym shamart takayev made it clear to the germans that they can handle russia will not succeed. well, scholz started talking about finding ways to peace. let's listen. germany, like many other countries in the world, supports ukraine. it has been so, and it will be so in the future. it is also obvious to us that at the same time it is necessary to continue to look for ways to develop the situation peacefully. we have promoted this idea at many conferences around the world, including at the recent major conference in switzerland, which ended with a consensus on the need to hold another conference with russia's participation, now is the best time to see what will this work? scholz has a very interesting situation, because he tried to build an image of a cautious politician who avoids

extremes, well... there was something in common with his predecessor merkel, that he drags, drags, drags out some decisions to the last, but in general, all this supposed caution and the fact that he is not inclined to radical decisions led to the fact that the americans dragged him on a leash, all these years the americans dragged him on a leash, if he does not go there at all, well, they pull even harder leash and he still drags faster, so this is german. his some kind of caution, it did not lead to the fact that he conducted an independent, independent policy, now he has changed the language, because in those elections that are taking place in germany, in the elections in the lands that took place over the last year, well, in the elections to the european parliament, those parties won, a good result, showed, an alternative for germany, a new left party, which

spoke out against the party.

audi in this country, in france is real a wave of bankruptcies, they are in general, the number of bankruptcies of enterprises is the highest in the entire history of france, and japan is simply now selling off french government bonds. and at the same time the european union wants to allocate 40 billion euros to ukraine, though as a loan to cover a hole in the budget and that's it, just throw away european money, and dombrovsky, who, well, until yesterday, at least, was ursuly's first deputy, said that 1.4 billion dollars in weapons will be allocated at the expense of the funds that...

buys a lot, it turns out in the united states, more than it should, well, in fact, all those funds that europe is now increasing, spending on its defense spending, go to buying american

weapons, europe ended up in the american trap, they announced sanctions against us, but lost cheap gas, cheap oil, fertilizers and the market, our tourists, and got what they got. ursula fondern and kaja kallos, our cause is just, the enemy will be defeated , victory will be ours. let's pass the floor to the news. the big game will return at 23:00 skip. hello, evening news on channel one, with you andrey ukharev. military trickery, details of the liberation of the settlement of snagost, we will tell you what helped russian fighters drink the enemy and news from the ministry of defense about our progress.