live news in the studio elizaveta lokotko. good afternoon and briefly about the topics of the issue. armor and swords, music and dance, quests and competitions. minsk celebrates the city day. let's dive into historical, cultural and sports events. make a choice in favor of the lesser of two evils. criticized trump and

harris for their positions on migrants abortions. dialogue on the model of the future unity preservation of historical truth, youth forum for the union state in smolensk. through fire and mud, extreme running. kopyl flight, testing the strength of spirit. ours youth is the pride of the country. smart, energetic, talented and creative, ready to continue.

are interested in increasing the mutual tourist flow, this was discussed in minsk at the first joint tourism forum, so almost 290 citizens of uzbekistan used the services of belarusian sanatoriums last year, while more than 2,500 uzbek tourists received medical care. in 2024, the numbers are expected to be several times higher. special attention to cooperation in the field of education is the training of personnel for tourism industry, student and teacher exchange, in addition, our country can offer its experience in the development of historical and cultural tourism, great prospects also in agroecotourism. we see that now in the world in the republic of belarus there is a diversification of markets, and today we have switched to working with our main markets, this is working with the regions, the russian federation and the cis countries. today uzbekistan occupies a worthy. place in

the development of tourism between our countries, last year 32 thousand citizens of uzbekistan visited our country, this is a record. belarusian-uzbek cooperation in tourism for 2025-26. by the way, this joint tour forum is planned to make the signing of the roadmap for development an annual event, it will be held in each of the two countries in turn. russian media do not give the americans peace. washington imposed more sanctions against the media group russia today. the us secretary of state accused russia today of participating in covert operations to interfere in the affairs of other countries and military purchases. as

part of expanding its capabilities the russian government has created a unit within рrt with cyber operations capabilities that have links to russian intelligence. the enterprise is managed by the russian government structures have embedded the cyber capabilities of this unit within рrt, which has been focused mainly on covert influence operations around the world. as the us politician noted, the uk and canada are launching a diplomatic campaign against russia today and are urging that the actions of the russian the media as intelligence. in his opinion, the work of the media has become one of the reasons why... ukraine does not enjoy such great support in other countries. the germans can follow the example of the americans, as the financial times reports, scholz's fellow party members intend to do to him what the democrats did to biden. politicians are seriously considering excluding his candidacy in the national elections in

2025. the whole point is that voters have lost confidence in the government, which is unable to cope with problems such as illegal migration. according to the in 1990 , scholz had the lowest approval rating in germany. pope francis has made a surprising comment on the debate between us presidential candidates trump and harris. the pontiff usually does not make statements on political issues, but he made an exception for them. in response to a question, the pope said that both people are against life: one wants to win by expelling migrants, the other allows abortions. he added that voting is still necessary, but one must choose the lesser of two evils. how many trillions of dollars

is ukraine worth? the americans have already calculated the price, but are they ready to raise the stakes in a heated confrontation, experts and guests of the editors' club are discussing, while the embezzlement continues. european economy, the us schemes that have been worked out for decades are only now beginning to yield results. note what the americans did in the seventies, as soon as the germans began to build a large number of nuclear power plants, they immediately calculated on a calculator that in a few dozen years they will overtake the united states of america, great britain in terms of cheap electricity, and immediately began to push through the green. industries, they began to engage in petrochemistry, with something else, but not nuclear nuclear scientists were thrown out on some expensive physics, and as a result, naturally,

led to the fact that the germans were forced to actually switch electricity production to gas, and then, naturally, well , buy gas from russia and ... as well as information independence and security, for which the belarusian media space is preparing why will next year be another big test? watch the full release of the editors' club on the youtube channel of the television news agency. world first aid day is celebrated today in his honor a number of events, so the day before the traffic police and belarus. first aid saves lives, where they reminded drivers how to help accident participants, the list of tasks includes artificial respiration, wound dressing, fixation of fractures, necessary information, that is, even in a stressful situation you can

get confused, but some knowledge, they are all will remain the same, and you will most likely do everything correctly, i believe that it is important for every person to be able to provide first aid, in my life i have never... a trained person with the appropriate certificate. after the drivers

provided assistance, the red cross volunteers explained to them what was done correctly and what needed to be improved. the drivers were also given memos with the basic rules for providing first aid. a birthday only happens once a year, and the capital celebrates its with special pomp. 957 confessions to a beloved city and more than a hundred holidays. ilya has the floor, happy holidays. good afternoon,

colleagues, minsk continues to celebrate its birthday. today the capital turns 957 years old. over more than 9 centuries, minsk has acquired completely different forms, it has shrunk, expanded, transformed and eventually turned into the flower metropolis that we know so well, that's what our city was like all... the location near stella minsk, the hero city at the intersection of pobediteley avenue and masherovo, will tell us about the centuries, and what will happen here at the location minsk starozhitny will be told to us by the main reenactor igor usenko, igor, hello, happy holiday to you, happy city day, well first of all tell us please about your costume, what it is, the costume of the minsk principality, prince minsk, therefore here the white-headed colors are the old coat of arms. the city of minsk, which stood at the very confluence of two rivers and was

on trade routes, and of course the madonna after minsk was awarded the great in the grand duchy of lithuanian-macdeburg law, we received the madonna on the coat of arms, therefore this colors of our city. excellent, please tell us a few words about the program, what will be happening here all day. all day long there will be all kinds of reconstructions of the entire thousand-year history of our city. this is the early middle ages, which you see now, this is the polovtsian and minsk principalities, then we will have the high middle ages, armored knights, this will be a foot tournament, an equestrian tournament, then there will be the era of the reformation, then the age of enlightenment, the empire, these will already be the wars of 1812, and the first world war, and naturally, the great patriotic war, and a special highlight, an obsessive feature of this festival is that we have made a whole block dedicated to.

with the counts of the middle ages on a large scale and even a little dangerously, yes, that's how it happens, but in general a huge number of locations are planned in the city, these are musical performances in the upper city, these are exhibitions and workshops throughout the city, in all areas of the capital, a visit by the delegation of our memorial complexes of the capital, and of course the fireworks at 23:00, and while we are here.

as well as medical training, which we have ensures that every child in any critical situation can provide medical assistance to his comrade, brother, but in principle to a person who could fall into a frill simply, and as if this is quite a lot and very significant, and in addition to all this we have competitions, military field training together with a tent camp, which we have been holding for 2 years now on the basis of military unit 3310 okolitsy, there we even have master classes on journalism, filming, cinema, tactical actions, in addition to all this shooting from ak74 with live ammunition with obtaining certain knowledge, disassembly

and assembly of weapons, tactical work specific to fire training. i realized that there are a lot, yes, you personally, you are already 17 years old, yes, where will you apply? i plan to apply in the interests of the internal troops, a military academy to be an ideologist, well, in general , predictable, yes, well, in principle, yes, in general, the olympic day is picking up speed, promises to be very bright, truly sporty, our film crew continues its work on the scene, will keep you informed all the most interesting events, colleagues, you have the floor, thank you colleagues, beautiful, clean. sunny minsk, brightly celebrates the city day, i need to take a walk too. sports atmosphere, today in kopula, one of the most extreme races of belarus kopol race has started there. participants will undergo real trials by fire, climb the royal mountain and even crawl through the mud under barbed wire. by the way, many believe that

kopol mud is therapeutic. our film crew is working at the scene of the event, in touch with... in the studio olesya chichura, olesya, hello, this is is it true about the beneficial properties of the local mud? good afternoon in the studio, of course, i haven't been able to check the healing properties yet, but it's not evening yet, but i can say, and the organizers, the participants assure that the race is healing. by the way, a few words about it, while my colleagues are showing these wonderful atmospheric shots, kopel race has always been famous. what innovations await the participants, tell us,

what's new? we will ask, but we did exactly this difficult, complex route, tell us too, they say kopal mud, it is so healing, athletes will run on this mud, tell me, is it really so? well , yesterday we, so, here are the reeds, so, this is a swamp, i personally climbed through it myself, firstly,

the reeds grew by 2.5 m, a whole forest of such, so, so, well, this is really, so, mud liche. the main distance of 10 km started a few minutes ago, but much earlier, young running enthusiasts tested their strength on a distance of one and a half kilometers, their own obstacles awaited them too. so, smarat is next to me now.