this is the russia 24 tv channel, right now the main facts of this day. vladimir putin will hold a meeting on the rocket and space industry today. the topic of missile development has been actively included on the president’s agenda in recent days. the day before, the head of state observed the training of nuclear deterrence forces, which took place. he

will hold a meeting with young scientists and space rocket specialists, after a detailed conversation with these very young scientific specialists, he will already hold a meeting on development issues rocket and space industry. development of the space industry in the country. among the latest tasks outlined by the president are the construction of a domestic orbital station, the creation of a super-heavy launch vehicle, as well as the development of orbits up to 200 km. vladimir putin holds an annual meeting on cosmonautics day on april 12, and also regularly meets with industry representatives throughout the year. this year, the head of state, together with his colleague from the dprk kimchen, visited the vostochny cosmodrome. in

the amur region. tel aviv and several other israeli cities were fired at today by rockets from the country's gaza strip. the iron dome air defense system was not able to intercept all the shells. some fell in residential areas, there were no casualties, but there was destruction and casualties. with the latest information, our special correspondent, alexey konopko. six people were injured in hashi fella district, four in one of the largest cities. licensing has been resolved in israel, here last night a rocket from the gas sector hit the wall of an apartment on the third floor, there were no residents inside, and the neighbors were saved by the fact that managed to reach a public bomb shelter on the street, there were no protective premises in the house, a woman was injured by glass fragments, a shropnel man. around the same hours, the israeli defense forces carried out a new special forces raid on the territory of gaza; this is not yet a ground operation, but it is, the prime minister says, close. netanyahu addressed the nation and spoke about six.

self-defense units created in 2 weeks that politics does not affect the resolve of the military. we are preparing for ground operations. i won't specify when, as much as it should be, for the sake of saving the lives of our soldiers. all hamas terrorists are doomed to death on the ground, underground, in the gas beyond. another goal of israel, in addition to the liquidation of hamas, is the release of hostages. according to sources, there is progress in negotiations, but so far there are no lists of names or numbers. it is known that. well, for at least 138 foreign citizens , qatar acts as an intermediary. priority will be given to women, children, the elderly, but it is emphasized that contacts on such a deal do not cancel the ground operation, it will carried out. israel understands that once the assault begins, the likelihood of reaching a broad deal will decrease dramatically. however, the ground operation, which is dangerous for the hostages , is most likely postponed. the wol street journal writes that tel aviv agreed not to start it until the united states increases military power in the region. he is hastily

deploying about a dozen air defense systems in the region, including for american troops serving in iraq, jordan, kuwait, saudi arabia and syria and the united arab emirates, to protect their soldier from rocket shells. american officials have so far urged the israelis to hold off on sending tanks and infantry into the gaza strip until those units are stationed in the region. perhaps this is exactly what defense minister galland and pentagon chief osin discussed this night in their eighth telephone conversation in 2 weeks. my own, almost daily now. axus was alarmed by reports of attacks by extremist settlers on palestinians in the occupied west bank, which appears to be escalating the conflict, at least washington doesn't want to say anything yet. alexey konopko, konstantin pionov and polina fedorova, vesti israel. since the start of the confrontation in the gas sector. over

7,000 people died, according to the local ministry of health. the palestinian foreign minister called on israel for an immediate ceasefire. we learn about the situation in the region from stanislav bernwald. contact us directly, stanislav, hello, tell us what you know up to this minute? yes, natasha, hello, well, indeed the situation is still in the gas sector, as in everything else the region is very unsettled, all tory attacks on gas continue, aviation, the idf are working almost non-stop, they are hitting residential buildings, unfortunately, hospitals, unfortunately, markets, unfortunately, there are already a lot of dead, and as they say, in palestine, as they say... hamas manages to respond, but today retaliatory strikes were carried out on several israeli cities, and they are not rare, but nevertheless, somehow they are trying to respond, the islamic resistance of iran again, by the way, announced today that , what

attacks on air bases of the united states of america in syria are their doing, joseph biden hinted at how to respond. it will have to be quite serious. my warning to iran is that if they continue to confront american forces, our response will be: iran must be prepared. our bases have nothing to do with israel. the large number of dead, as i said, is a little higher, this sad list is replenished every day, and a third of all the dead are children, here they are. see all this, what can i do, fix everything, i'm only 10 years, this is simply unbearable, i just want to be a doctor or something else to help my people, but i can’t, i’m just a child, i’m very scared, i’m ready to do

anything for my people, but i just don’t i know what to do, i'm only 10, when i see all this i always cry every day, why do we deserve this, what have we done to them, my family says they hate us because we are muslims. catastrophic situation in the humanitarian sector in gaza, indeed, the assistance that comes sporadically from on the egyptian side, the rafah checkpoint, there is a catastrophic shortage of it, there is not enough binding materials, most importantly, there is not enough fuel that powers the same generators in hospitals, so many hospitals stop their work, they simply physically cannot work, but here is the main character , of course, in this terrible tragedy, doctors who simply sometimes do the impossible, but unfortunately, doctors are also people and also lose to their family,

i think that a comment is unnecessary here, the doctor found out, literally in a moment, that his family... died in another israeli shelling. macron, the president of france flew to jordan, but he was not expected there at all, people gathered at the french embassy for a rally, unflattering words were spoken towards the french president, absolutely everyone was unhappy with him, but nevertheless, this meeting with abdullah ii with king, jordan took place, and israeli protests took place there in oman. the embassy has only one demand - to remove the israeli ambassador from jordan as quickly as possible, and the situation is the lebanese-israeli border is constantly tense, shelling is coming from both sides, and the israeli army is hitting hezbollah’s positions

, and hezbollah is responding; in an exclusive interview with our tv channel, the russian ambassador to lebanon explained what function the hezbollah group performs. khazwala has taken it upon itself to act as a center of resistance to the israeli occupation, since part of lebanese territory is still under israeli occupation in accordance with international law, and naturally, it draws a line of defense here for the lebanese population, lebanon. we continue. monitors the situation in the region, here in the middle east, all the latest news is on our air. natalia. yes, stanislav, thank you, stanislav bernwalt told us about the situation around the gas sector. the un is under attack from israel, they are very dissatisfied with the statements of the organization’s secretary general about the reasons

for the hamas attack, they are demanding his resignation, they are not accepting explanations. let me remind you that during the debate in the security council on tuesday, antonio guterres sharply condemned the hamas attack. on israel on october 7, but at the same time stated that happened, the quote is not out of nowhere, they say israel has been occupying the palestinian territories for almost 60 years and is strangling the palestinian people, the reaction is predictable, first the country’s official representative to the un, then the head of the foreign ministry, then a number of officials, politicians from across the political spectrum demanded an apology from guterres, retraction of his words and, preferably, resignation. guterres tried to explain himself, he said in no way justified the actions of hamas, as the israelis are trying to present it, but this the israelis were even more angry, demanding that the secretary general leave his post for “justifying terrorism and refusing to apologize, well, here’s another statement by the un secretary general at the cairo

summit on the situation in palestine, antonio guterres reiterated that the hamas attack cannot serve as a justification for the actions of the israeli army , attacks on peaceful neighborhoods, indiscriminate bombings, killings of thousands of civilians. previously, the same thing was said in the un special report on the situation in gaza. the actions of tsakhal were directly called war... crimes, and they were only described events that occurred before october 2023. and since then there have been attacks on the hospital, on the al-ahly hospital, on the market in the center of gaza, the destruction of the church of st. porphyry, the demolition of dozens of multi-storey buildings. guterres said the un is now stretched to the limits of its capacity to deliver humanitarian aid to the gas sector. and israeli strikes continue. for the un, a big role is to influence the middle east conflicts on other conflicts in the world. and at the same time, with such influence in

principle, it must be based on the principles of the un charter, they are absolutely, clearly they talk about this in this regard, so in my opinion, the un has the potential to stop, conflict and bloodshed in the middle east, specifically in the palestinian-israeli confrontation and not only... this, but to go to the root problems that are the root causes of this conflict that have not been resolved, the crisis in the gas sector is the focus of attention of the european union leaders who are meeting today in brussels. according to preliminary data, they prepared a draft statement calling on israel to organize so called humanitarian pauses, so that water, food and medicine could be delivered to the enclave without problems. what else will be discussed, we’ll find out from our european correspondent regina sevastyanova, she ’s getting in touch with the facts, regina,

hello, what do you know about the agenda of this meeting? and hello, the main task of this two-day summit, which starts in brussels, will be to demonstrate that the european union can cope with two crises at the same time, of course, we are talking about gas sector in ukraine, while demonstrating unity, but the last days before this summit showed that just... unity is a more than debatable issue, at the moment, first the foreign ministers of the european union countries, and then the permanent representatives of the alliance countries were unable to agree on the project the communiqué, with opinions divided over the language countries are willing to use, continued late on wednesday as spanish prime minister pedro sanchez says the eu should call for humanitarian regime of ending the day, as the un did, the federal chancellor of austria on... during his visit to israel spoke out against such an opinion, in his opinion, this will only play into the hands of hamas,

whose militants will get a break, he said, this was a quote : together with austria, against any call for a pause, this is precisely the formulation of a humanitarian pause, proposed by josep borel, and whose, prague believes that such a call could cast doubt on the possibility of israel’s right to fight with terrorism, finally, italy today, before the summit, announced that a ceasefire in the middle east is now impossible, but the parties could still agree on a temporary suspension of hostilities . the president of the european council, charles michel , confirmed that this issue will be primarily in the focus of attention of the leaders today. we have an important european council in difficult times. it is important to once again demonstrate the unity of the european union, unity in the desire to protect. that's why we support israel and its right to self-defense in accordance with international

laws and international humanitarian law. we condemn hamas and its brutal terrorist attack, and we will discuss how to ensure access to humanitarian aid in gaza. we think that civilians should be protected always and everywhere. demonstrating unity for the european union is becoming even more difficult in the council of the european union, which returns. was appointed prime minister of slovakia after winning the parliamentary elections with his election promises, he has already refused from military assistance to ukraine in favor of humanitarian assistance, use of influence. for a call for peaceful negotiations, and finally, a review of the sanctions policy, taking into account the interests of european economies. the brussels fear that fitz may form some kind of tandem with viktor orban, who at the moment is often the main problem for pan-european negotiations. and today the prime minister of hungary is going to be interrogated about his handshake with

russian president vladimir putin, even the media are talking about that not... leaders from the countries of the baltic region intend to express this claim directly to the face of the prime minister of hungary, how do you explain the meeting with vladimir putin? do you mean the president of russia? okay, russia and hungary have the same neighbor called ukraine. we have approaches to achieving peace, and we would like to keep the channels of communication open. hungary is proud to remain the only country in europe that continues to keep open channels for negotiations with russia, viktor orban said. he believes that budapest continues to adhere to the peace program and not the war program, like other european countries, he told reporters about this before the start of the summit.

in preparation for the two-day meeting, the head of the external diplomacy of the european union, bare, admitted in connection with the events in the middle east that ukraine has disappeared from the information field, it remains in reality, he said, and now the eu countries will have to wait for the decisions of the leaders, since the heads of the european union mid-countries are the permanent representatives of the countries the european union failed to agree on the allocation of a new new package assistance for military supplies to ukraine, today the european commission intends to propose a revision of the budget for assistance, including to kiev. decisively, we provide ukraine with ongoing assistance in accordance with its needs so that it can resist russian aggression, we provide vital humanitarian aid to the civilian population in gaza, we work very hard together with eu countries to cope with the problem of migration, on all of this we need funding, that's why i proposed revising the eu budget, we

let's discuss this. however, it is expected that this decision will not be made today; hungary stated that it will block the proposal to increase financial assistance before receiving an explanation for the need for such a measure. i will add that today the financial times wrote that, apparently , the european commission forgot 16 billion euros somewhere; they remained undistributed, despite the fact that brussels is now proposing to allocate even more money from the budget. natalya, well, let's see, thank you, regina, i was from brussels regina sevastyanova. the vtbb team is with you at vtb - the best application for paying for housing and communal services without commission. wondering what to do? someone who wants to surround those closest to them with warmth and comfort every day. well done daughter. we came up with the vtb debit card and improved vtbon online as for ourselves, so that your life becomes more comfortable. switch to vtb right now.

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a supporter of former president donald trump; the former head of the house, kevin mccarthy, was removed from his post. 220 voted for johnson legislators. these are all republicans present in the hall. his opponent was democratic majority leader hakeem jeffries. 209 votes were cast, after his victory , mike johnson called the voting results a message to the rest of the world, he said quote: the house of representatives is back in business. mike johnson is 51 years old, a certified lawyer , specialized in constitutional law, was twice elected to the louisiana house of representatives, and then in 2016, the politician was first elected to the us house of representatives. johnson is a member republican research committee. he is also vice chairman of the house republican conference . mike johnson is not the most media person, so many people

knew nothing about him until this election - the speaker of congress, although he occupied a rather important position. as for foreign policy, he has not been so active here, although it is known that he has a rather negative attitude towards china and the koran, like most other republicans in general. here, but as for ukraine, here. mike johnson has been consistently voting against kiev’s new tranches since about may 22 , so he believes that it is necessary to deal with the domestic american agenda. it is known that mike johnson adheres to the views of the right conservative wing of the us congress. in the democratic party, he is called, quotes, a nicer version of the trumpist jim jordan. mike johnson, like many of his party colleagues, is skeptical about the issue of financing ukraine. although at the beginning of twenty-two johnson supported the provision of both money and weapons to kiev, but at the end of the year he reconsidered these views; in order to help ukraine, the politician

named two conditions. the first is full accountability, and the second is the clarity of purpose that the white house must provide. however, the kremlin believes that the reshuffle in the house of representatives will not change the us position on ukraine - this opinion was expressed by dmitry peskov. joe biden at a joint press conference with the prime minister of australia once again made us think about his mental health, although he it could very well have been a dream at some point, but he did, so much so that he himself believed it. i have met with xijenping more than any other world leader, over 68 hours of private meetings, just him and me, plus synchronous.

china, i traveled 1,700 miles with him, subsequently in addition to these 68 hours, i also had, as i was told, a total of 12 or 15 hours of negotiations, just him and me, your son, uncle ball, however, these are his ... the words somehow do not correlate with the statistics of the white house protocol, and biden, of course, does not care about this, but how they read american journalists, he has made this fantasy statement more than 25 times. a similar incident, for example, took place in june in chicago, during a meeting about the us economy, biden stubbornly repeats the supposed fact, 17,000 miles, that is, almost 30,000 km on the way, sometimes this path... for some reason also runs on tibet, the white house press service was repeatedly forced to call these reservations; in november last year, the washington post compiled a rating of

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konstantin will tell you more. the meeting of the heads of government was filled with specific ideas, the main thing is to implement everything; the prime minister of the state council of the people's republic of china quoted a chinese proverb on this matter: adherence to the original goals allows you to bring the matter to the end. so, in order for cooperation within the sco to develop, it is necessary to remove barriers and build a common payment system. this russian proposal. for mutual benefit. cooperation, it is necessary to further eliminate legal and administrative barriers and at the same time build a modern payment infrastructure. we are increasingly using our own currencies in payments; it would be worth thinking about creating an independent regional payment and settlement mechanism, as well as ensuring the conversion of our currencies on national exchanges. a common payment system for the sco would allow for an even greater increase in trade, as mikhail

mishustin said, in just... 7 months of this year russia's trade turnover with other countries of the organization amounted to about 16-3 rubles, despite the fact that last year the trade was 18.5. well, to understand, all trade transactions between the sco states last year amounted to 500 billion dollars, that is, translated into rubles - this is approximately 50 trillion, so we have a significant contribution to trade turnover. among other tasks that the russian prime minister spoke about, cooperation in the field of energy and the development of transport corridors, here... proposals were made recently accepted into the shanghai cooperation organization of iran. the prime minister of the islamic republic said that his country is ready to become part of the north-south corridor, and he also proposed creating a joint oil and gas fund. we propose to establish a fund for joint financing of oil and gas projects between interested countries. we are also ready to export technical and engineering tools at the first stage of creating oil and gas

equipment. i propose to found it. a regional hub for shanghai energy for the purpose of trade and energy security. purpose of the shanghai organization cooperation to ensure sustainable development for countries, despite new challenges and instability in the global economy. in this regard, the participants in the current meeting talked about the same thing, albeit in different languages. the overall priority is to ensure the resilience of our countries to global challenges and to reliably protect citizens and enterprises in the conditions. increased competition and turbulence, as well as tightening protectionist measures and illegal sanctions that lead to disruption of supply chains for goods and services to the whole world. the goals of our association can be outlined in the simplest words, namely to keep the fate of the region in the hands of its states, to resolve regional issues through coordination, without outside interference and machinations. the sco today is no longer a group of five

states,