i think we will only become stronger from this. stage of the war in the gaza strip and expanded ground operations, the goal of which is the complete elimination of hamas and the release of hostages. this was announced by the prime minister of israel. about the situation in the conflict zone, alexey konopko and alexander belibov. the unprecedented violent attack on gaza did not deprive hamas of its fighting potential. after a night's respite, in the morning the iron dome again worked at full strength, but was not able to close the israeli sky at all. palestinian rockets hit bersheva's residential building and received two hits each. home and

ashkilona is very close to the borders of gaza. and a few hours before , thousands of idf fighters and entire tank columns entered the northern sector under flare bombs. all this after a massive missile and bomb attack. the same coordinated strike from sea, air and land that was talked about all week was demonstrated by the israeli army for the first time last night. only underground targets, tunnels, headquarters, warehouses, according to the ministry of defense in the gas.... destroyed one and a half hundred in a few hours. this is stated still not a large-scale invasion, but now they are not going to leave. infantrymen, engineering troops, and artillery take part in this activity, providing cover with massive fire. troops are still on the ground and continue to fight. regarding the events of last night, there are no casualties among our forces. we will make every effort to protect our troops with heavy air fire. underground, apparently, the main targets of the idf, it is there, new york times,

that the militants store up to a million liters of gasoline , a supply of food and weapons for 4 months war. there are 40,000 personnel stationed in the tunnels. and the headquarters, according to israeli intelligence, was set up in hamas right under the shifa hospital, where more than 5,000 people work and are treated in peacetime. the hamas communications control center is located under the largest hospital in the gaza strip. the operation is necessary on the ground surgically to avoid civilian casualties. but for now. obviously , there is no question of selectivity; everyone who did not follow the tsakhal’s demands to leave north gaza comes under rocket fire, and if while the army draws a line between civilians and hamas militants, this is more difficult for politicians. the palestinians are subject to collective responsibility, as far as this is fair, as well as the total deprivation of their food, water and fuel. i don’t understand your reaction and empathy for these terrible animals when 11 happened in the usa. none of the ukrainians

worried whether the russian soldiers had enough food when russia invaded ukraine. according to anonymous sources, the escalation of the current conflict might not have happened until recently. on the contrary, israel was supposedly ready for a daily ceasefire subject to the release of all hostages. the army calls this one of the main goals of the war, but according to the aksus publication, negotiations reached a dead end on thursday night, and it was then that the idf headquarters decided to expand to ground raids. bbc sources talk about a different chronology, but the same meanings. they discussed the possible release of the hostages and a possible humanitarian pause in the fighting over the next few days. negotiations stalled in the afternoon over seemingly minor details, and after announcements of a new israeli offensive seem to have stopped. there doesn't seem to be much hope of them gaining strength again while this offensive continues. among the military successes over the past night were the liquidation of two high-ranking officials at once. in hamas, abu rakaba

led the movement's air group and participated in planning a raid by armed paragliders on kibbutz on october 7. the naval commander coordinated the failed landing attempt on zequim beach earlier this week. i have completed my daily assessment of the situation, the results of our efforts on the most important lines of action, military, efforts to free hostages and humanitarian efforts. we have moved to a new stage of military operations. tonight , the earth is in gas. faltered, we attacked above ground and underground, we attacked terrorists at all levels, everywhere , the instructions for the army are clear, the operation will continue, in other sectors we are ready to protect the citizens of israel, we do it in the north, in the center and wherever necessary , well, the reaction to a full-scale invasion of gaza from all other parts of israel may to be unpredictable, while clashes with the army are taking place on the west bank, 11 people were detained there overnight, who, as israel believes, are involved in hamas,

are carrying out new strikes... all day long in southern lebanon. all previous raids in gazukhal were carried out after dark. it is at night that israel now most of all waits for reports of new steps by its army, and waits for strikes. hi, rockets from the sector most often arrive in the morning and from 8 to 10 pm, in 3 weeks almost 8,000 of them were fired, the total hamas arsenal is estimated to be twice that. alexey konopko, konstantin pionov, and anna lvova, lead israel. in the completely de-energized gaza sector, on saturday night it was as bright as day, from the flashes of hundreds of israeli bombs exploding on the territory of the palestinian enclave. that it was the most powerful. and bombing since the beginning of the escalation have been claimed by both sides of the conflict. already mostly turned into ruins, the residential areas of the sector were subjected to unprecedented blows. and again about the selectivity of these strikes,

despite the statement of the israeli side, there is no need to say that it only attacks military targets and hamas infrastructure. it is reported that several bombs fell in the immediate vicinity of an indonesian hospital in northern gaza. there is evidence of israeli air force strikes on houses located in several refugee camps in the enclave. according to the palestinian ministry of health, over the past 24 hours alone, 377 civilians have died in the enclave , and the total number of victims in the 3 weeks since the start of israeli attacks on the sector is already almost 8,000 people. more several thousand that are listed as missing are most likely buried. under the ruins of bombed buildings, only a few manage to save them from under the rubble, which they are raking with their bare hands in the absence of fuel for heavy equipment.

there is a collapse in the healthcare system, in overcrowded hospitals, where beds have long since run out, and there is an acute shortage of medicines, there may soon be no doctors left, 110 medical workers have already become victims of non-israeli strikes, and patients continue to stay in the hundreds. i woke up and found that i was in hospital, wrapped in bandages and connected to tubes, i hope i get better soon. we were sleeping when the rocket hit our house. hamza was wounded and his younger brother was killed, as were six family members including his mother. his father was also wounded, the house was simply razed to the ground, and we were miraculously pulled out from under the rubble. to all possible types of blockades in which the gas sector is already located, an informational one has also been added; the night before, the internet and wired communications stopped working throughout the enclave, israeli strikes disabled telecommunications capacities sectors, the only means of communication remained loudspeakers, through which

the call to prayer is usually broadcast, and now also such messages. now the internet has only been partially restored, so information from the conflict zone continues to be received in fragments, and journalists take advantage of every opportunity to convey a message to the outside world. now we are in the hospital, we will broadcast live via satellite as long as possible, so please, if you can hear us, tell the whole world that we are here under gas, under blockade, now there is something to tell correspondents about, last night, for the first time since the beginning of the escalation of the conflict, israeli... ground forces, with the support of tanks and armored vehicles, entered the territory of the gaza strip. the israeli army itself called it a large-scale raid, but reconnaissance in force, apparently, did not bring the desired results. according to hamas representatives, the enemy's plans were thwarted, and an attempt to attack gaza from three sides failed. israeli units

were ambushed and forced to leave the territory of the enclave, while, according to palestinian resistance, the enemy suffered losses both in equipment and manpower. if these data are correct, then they indicate that the destructive strikes of the israeli military on gas have little effect on the combat capabilities of hamas and such news, of course, raises the morale of the lebanese hezbollah fighters, who continue to fight on the border with israel. the footage shows the destruction of the israeli merkava tank, at the beginning of the conflict, the israeli defense forces have already lost three dozen such combat vehicles, and half of them just on the border with which it continues to fire with artillery and which it attacks with aircraft, but these attacks cannot be compared with what is now happening in the gas sector, where it seems that the most acute moment has arrived, first of the escalation of the conflict. experts and journalists are now arguing whether the events

of the last 24 hours in the gaza strip can be called the beginning of a full-fledged ground operation by israeli forces in the enclave? but one thing is clear, the confrontation has reached a new stage of escalation, which will inevitably lead to an even greater number of victims of this conflict. alexandrov, sergei eliseev and maria balatvina. news: african bureau. russia is a country of which we are proud. we are proud. that we bring light and warmth throughout the world, we look forward with pride, paving new paths in the oceans and overcoming gravity, we are proud of our successes, but we never stop there, discover the achievements of our country, come to the exhibition forum russia, time spent with family is priceless, you can do sports and creativity together, or you can all take part in a competition together, this is a family affair for us and you can win great prizes,

details on it's family. rf. we will discuss the draft federal budget for the next three years and other important issues right now with the leader of the fair russia for truth party, sergei mironov, he is in direct contact with the facts. sergey mikhailovich, hello, thank you for taking the time for this interview. if i may, first of all, i would like to ask, of course. you on the information agenda, on the situation in the gas sector, the situation in israel, footage transmitted by our reporters from the field it’s simply impossible to watch without tears, impossible, really, very hard, but what do you think, we just said that the number of people wounded on the palestinian side is already 16,000, the death toll is 6,000, what do you think the world community can do to so that, well, if... not to stop, then at least somehow stabilize this conflict, and what is the role of our

country, russia, here? natasha, i hope you know that last week the state duma adopted a special appeal to parliamentarians of the world, calling on them to stop immediate military action, stop this medieval barbarity, because today we see absolutely inhumane... towards people, towards children, towards women, striking at hospitals, at religious buildings, at water supply, at electricity supply, this is barbarity, this is a crime against humanity, and we are absolutely convinced that the main culprit is not even israel, israel, without the support and direct patronage of the united states of america, would have taken some other actions long, long ago; in this regard, we are aware

that today the united states of america seems to be flaunting that they provide assistance to ukraine, provide assistance to israel, they are generally such cool guys who supposedly restore democracy in the world, they bring death, they bring horror, they bring grief, in this regard, russia: just demonstrates a completely different approach, russia has always demonstrated and demonstrated morality in its foreign policy, in this regard, i am absolutely convinced that with the mediation of russia, we can achieve a stop to these military actions, but most importantly, we are great we understand that for many decades the united nations resolution on the creation of an independent palestinian state has not been implemented, so israel was created, and according to the resolution

an independent palestinian state should have been created in the same way, it still does not exist, someone believes that it shouldn’t exist , and is trying to solve this problem by force, through blood, through the suffering of people, it will never be solved by force, moreover, when the united states of america tries to stir up the heat with its own, someone else’s hands, then they do it in their own way... are getting their hands on, i mean, an attack on their military bases, there in the middle east , and something tells me that if this bloodshed is not stopped, this is only the beginning, because the islamic world is rising, we see protests and demonstrations in in europe, in america, everywhere, support for palestine is a very dangerous trend. the sooner the world community understands that the main thing is to stop hostilities and still solve the problem peacefully, the sooner this will all end,

and here i am really sure that russia can act as a real mediator and the country that believes, which will decide on the merits, without thinking about any of its preferences. and if we remember about ukraine in this regard, nevertheless, it is clear that the situation between israel and the gas sector is very acute, but nevertheless, we know that you mentioned, and help from the west. yes, the participation of the west in this conflict too, and we know that in ukraine there is a huge participation of the united states, and western allies in general, in the escalation of the ukrainian conflict, what do you think is now the opinion is raging that, well, against the backdrop of the gas sector, everyone will forget about ukraine and, in general, that military assistance from the americans will be cut off, is that so in your opinion? well, this comedian-puppet, supposedly president zelsky, he is very worried about this, that oh-oh-oh , all the attention is on the middle east, and the help

of the united states of america, be it financially, be it militarily, is directed there, but this is his problems, the fact is that here we need to be realistic and when we suddenly find out that the missiles promised there in 2 months have already been on the territory a long time ago - ukraine, the promised abrams tanks are also there, and moreover, the fact that pilots are supposedly training somewhere in arizona , everything will be much faster there, because the united states of america really wants, again, to strangle, with the wrong hands, as they call on russia, it will not work, in this regard, i want to wish our soldiers a speedy victory , and it will definitely happen, because our cause is just, and no matter what they supply there, no matter what they do, nothing will ever

work out there, and what we call new russia will always be freed from nazism, in the end, i have no doubt, this will be the territory of the russian federation , as now four new russian entities have appeared, and more will appear, no matter what they dream of, no matter what they dream of in the united states of america, and no matter what this unfortunate comedian mr. zelsky, whose regime must necessarily be liquidated, but if the president set the task of de-denocifying ukraine without eliminating the zelsky regime, this task will not happen. well, yes , they probably said very important words to our fighters, about support. let's talk now about on the agenda of the state duma this week, consideration of the draft federal budget in the first reading, how do you overall assess this document, what amendments would your faction like to make to it?

the overall assessment is unsatisfactory, the only thing that satisfies us and that we agree with is spending... on our defense, here we see that naturally it is necessary to do this, we do not have any reflections, but if we see that we have, for example, spending on our economy is the lowest since 2007, social spending is the lowest since 2011, and we understand that this is not the budget that should be today, when we want our country to develop. and so that people live with dignity , to put it briefly, we are not satisfied with our satellite party of a fair russia patriot for the truth , this is what we see in our budget, which the government introduced social injustice, we see that again only 0.9% internal product for

healthcare, and we know we understand that we need to spend at least 7% just like on our education and on our culture, these there are no figures in this budget, so we, as always, prepared an alternative budget, by the way, i cannot help but say that a year ago, just a year, when the budget for the current 2023 was considered, we prepared an alternative budget, which was 9 trillion, let’s say the richer in income was equal to 35 trillion rubles, and what we heard from the minister of finance from the financial and economic block of the government laughed that this is generally populism, this is unrealistic, a year has passed, and what year? a year under sanctions, a year in the context of a special military operation, and what do we see? the government submits a budget where the same amount of income is 35 three rubles.

in a year it means it’s possible, but why did we lose a year, why are we marking time, why are we not investing money in what will be the pride of our citizens and healthcare and education, and most importantly social protection, so that our pensioners, including including those working received indexation of pensions so that pensions would grow, but by the way, please note that we will have from 1 january there is an 18.5% increase in those payments, but when inflation is assumed to be 7.5%, and this is this year’s inflation, but our pensioners will spend money in 2024 and go to stores and we understand perfectly well what will happen there another inflation, moreover, now, if we talk about inflation, this is general inflation, it includes durable goods , trips, trips to somewhere abroad, i don’t know, and if we judge only by food inflation, there is a double-

digit figure, this is all just an idea financial economic block of the government, they are worth nothing, people are getting poorer, it’s very hard for people, and i can’t help but remind you that our citizens, 80% of the citizens of the russian federation support the president, support the conduct of... a special military operation, but isn’t it time to say thank you to our people and show them care about them from the state, it is precisely from these considerations that we formulate and prepare an alternative budget, and we will vote against the government budget. well, you are very, you are saying very correct things, but the budget is not rubber, there are resources to this is to implement everything, to support the svo participants and their families, everything that you mentioned and pensioners. natasha, more about the government budget, about citizens, as if in general, you know, we have no poverty, we are all

well-fed, happy, we have all our problems solved, the main concern in this budget is about oil and gas exporters, about our bank speculators, about those who export resources abroad, at the same time exporting our capital, guys, think about what you are doing, because people need... help, so we introduced a bill on the need two pensions for children, disabled people who have lost their parents, today they are entitled to only one, well, imagine, a child has been disabled since childhood or he has become disabled , his parents died, he was left an orphan, but would it be unfair for them to receive two? pensions, approximately 4,000 such unfortunate children in our country, but it’s okay that we

pay approximately 2.2 billion rubles, or rather 2.2 rubles, in the form of value added tax to oil and gas exporters, so who cares about you, you don’t have 2 billion you found it too rejected our bill, or you care about oil and gas exporters, but still understand that they, to put it mildly, are not the poorest in our country, so we see here very... great social injustice, more about the despair of our citizens, for some time ago in russia there was an increase in the cost of fuel, and of course, a number of other goods, you already mentioned this, the dollar to ruble exchange rate increased, now the situation seems to have stabilized, the exchange rate has rolled back a little towards the ruble, and the ruble is strengthening, but how do you think how long these forces will last for the ruble in general, and what needs to be done to eliminate such price hikes? jumps in the national currency, it is clear that citizens of the oil-producing power, yes, russia, of course, always look with pain at these growing

price tags, in particular for gasoline? natasha, we need to call a spade a spade, in the world, no matter what happens with the price of oil , no matter what the exchange rate of our ruble is, let’s say oil becomes more expensive or cheaper, the ruble exchange rate strengthens, or it... weakens, we always have - both gasoline and diesel are only becoming more expensive, i’ve never seen, for example, oil suddenly became cheaper, let’s make it cheaper, when just recently , a few weeks ago, the government finally banned the export of fuels and lubricants abroad, and raised export duties, of course, the situation began to stabilize, but temporarily . two weeks passed and the government felt sorry, god, how poor they are, how will they earn money, the margin is very small, again everything returns to normal, now i’ll give one figure,

the amount of oil processed into fuels and lubricants, without fuel and gasoline, at all oil refineries in our country, doubles the demand of russia , everywhere, everyone completely, twice, but we have a shortage, we... the price is rising, but because it is profitable to sell it all abroad , and we say, but let’s set high export duties, let’s make it so that it’s not profitable to sell abroad, but it’s profitable to sell flammable lubricants on the stock exchange here, especially gasoline, and diesel fuel, they don’t want to, they again flow to these exporters, again they flow unpervaded enterprises, but by the way, again i can’t say, as soon as spring sowing comes, and then summer, the peak of the tourist season , the load increases, there are more and more motorists, then we have two, three,

five oil furnace plants undergoing scheduled repairs. guys, was it actually impossible to repair it in winter? and this, because this is nothing more than a real cartel conspiracy. moreover, when they see permission from the government, they even see that yeah, you banned us for two weeks, but we’re here they got a little worse, in fact, they didn’t throw a lot into the domestic market, but now they’ve released everything back, now let’s send everything again. abroad, but here, even if the grass doesn’t grow, but the grass doesn’t grow, but prices are rising again due to fuel and gasoline, serious order needs to be put in place here, unfortunately, i can’t help but say that our antimonopoly service is apparently sleeping sweetly and sees good dreams, how good everything is, how there is a lot of gasoline and diesel fuel at gas stations, everything is cheap, but these are dreams, and the realities are completely alas for others, well, yes, there is something to work on,

to wake up in the end. you already mentioned during our conversation about the indexation of pensions for working pensioners, recently your faction began collecting signatures for an appeal to the constitutional court on this topic, and your colleagues supported you, how did they generally perceive this initiative? natasha, let me remind you that in 2021, we have already appealed to the constitutional court on this issue, and i will explain why, when there were amendments to the constitution in the twentieth year, we, our faction, achieved what is now the norm of the constitution is as follows: pensions are indexed in the russian federation at least once a year , and pay attention, pensions are written there like that, there is no division, pensions are for working pensioners or non-working pensioners, any pensions must be indexed, but we have pensions for working people pensioners are not indexed, this actually leads to an outflow

of our pensioners into the gray zone. well, that is , they do everything, or for example, you know what pensioners do, they take, if they work, they kind of stop working, 2 months they begin to receive a pension, how not to work a pension, and then quietly returns to work, yes, if the state is dishonest with you, well, our pensioners are also forced to act dishonestly, in this regard, in the twenty-first year we collected 89 signatures, let me remind you for the respected viewers of the russian tv channel 24 that there is a law according to which, if 90 deputies sign an appeal to the constitutional court, the constitutional court is obliged to consider this appeal on its merits, we were missing one signature, these were the signatures of the faction a fair russia for the truth and the cpr faction, then we turned to the dissent, they said

that they had other important things to do, they refused, but now i see that the ldpr faction was actively involved, it was concerned with the problem of indexation of pensions for working pensioners, in this regard we are now collecting signatures again and i have already officially addressed mr. slutsky, the leader of the faction, the leader of the ldpr party, well, then let’s collect these signatures, let the constitutional court have its say, this is the approach government. when pensions for working pensioners are not indexed, although the constitution stipulates mandatory indexation at least once a year. therefore, we are now collecting these signatures and i hope that we will still collect 90 signatures, and the constitutional court will essentially consider our appeal. we don’t have much time left, but i really want to ask you about healthcare. recently, the ministry of health stated that in russia as a whole there are enough doctors, but there is a shortage in certain regions and in

certain areas. what is your opinion on this countdown? is it possible to eliminate this imbalance? well, if we talk about numbers , we have 26,500 specialists, doctors, different specialties, 5,000 nurses short across the country, we really have problems with florists, ophthalmologists, we have a problem with oncologists, we have few infectious disease specialists, in this regard , we are absolutely convinced that the main solution to the problem is a decent salary for our doctors, but if we have federal subjects, for example, their borders run along the river, across the most river, moreover, there is even one city, half a city in one subject of the federation, half of the city in another, here is a doctor who lives - on one half of the river, on the city, in one subject, and across the bridge from him...