the news is now live in the studio pavel lazovik good afternoon important issues of belarusian-russian cooperation contacts along the line, minsk moscow continues and today the president of belarus held a meeting with the minister of foreign affairs of russia sergei lavrov arrived the day before, by the way, the diplomat admitted that he likes to visit minsk the purpose of the visit is not a secret, the joint meeting of colleagues from the foreign ministries of our two countries and the topic for discussion , there are always enough coordinated steps in foreign

policy to advance economic cooperation with the russian federation yes in favor of belarus says that these attempts to strangle us and russia in belarus today have actually failed. we will unequivocally put forward, especially since this is a difficult year in the sense that we will determine the direction in which we must move in order to preserve the sovereignty of russia and belarus, we are very actively moving forward in the import substitution economy. you are, of course, in the know. president putin and i practically from this meeting, we begin, uh, the economy of the foundation. if it will be

everything is fine. we have in the economy. uh, all other questions. we decided your president and called the work of foreign political departments as examples and recalled that in a difficult geopolitical situation, minsk is acting in line with allied agreements and is ready to do everything for security and peace. in the commonwealth biathlon cup, today there was a change of leader for the saturday pursuit race in the yellow jersey, the belarusian prima biathlon will come out. dinara alimbekova smolskaya. today is our titled athlete. failed to win a medal in the cup sprint commonwealth on the starting day of the competition, but getting into the flower ceremony was enough for her to lead the overall standings, respectively. i still win this one. e is in the standings and i am already the leader, so this is important for me and i will not hide it. i got ready to pick up this yellow t-shirt. and that's my

motivation. this is the motivation for me to move forward. and uh, don't give yourself any slack. even today's fourth place. i shows that this is also a good result. and it's all in the fight, so it 's interesting, and of course, it will be nice when saturday i will go out, with the stands filled with the support of the native applicants, and i will come. and the family supports me, so i'm very happy that, uh, i'll have such a bonus other representatives of the men's sprint at 11:00 live broadcast of the race on belarus tv channel 5 street, the french town is filling up, protesters in the country are starting demonstrations from the cars organized by the largest trade unions . the main goal is to abandon the implementation of the pension reform, the country's authorities plan to raise the retirement age, as well as to tie the level of payments to seniority , even schoolchildren, students of one of the high schools in paris, protest against them, the police used

a gas spray against them. millions of french will protest while macron and his ministers are on the run under the pretext of a spanish-french summit, dissatisfaction went to barcelona and great britain, there is another strike protesting health workers and demanding better working conditions and wages against the backdrop of record high inflation, thousands of surgeries and medical procedures have been canceled newspaper intpendent's information strikes involving thousands of people will affect the work of about a quarter of all english hospitals. we are fighting because he is a junior there is no staff for many years there has not been a sufficient salary increase. at the same time, people are leaving, and the demand for medical services is increasing; now the situation has reached a critical point, when the provision of medical care

no longer meets the appropriate standards. the strike of the medical staff promises to become even bigger. it is scheduled for early february. today in belarusian rescuers professional holiday, president alexander lukashenko congratulated the workers and veterans of bodies and divisions today at the museum of the history of the great patriotic war. the best 30 employees were awarded military ranks of the state city of merit medals for the past year, thanks to the work of the ministry of emergency situations, it was possible to reduce the number of deaths in fires and on water, largely due to the strengthening of the technical base. and of course the frame. these are ordinary people. these are simple belarusians who from our villages from our cities from the city of minsk, which were trained, received vocational education or came from other institutions of education and professionally perform their official duties.