on tuesday, the ministry of defense announced the start of the second stage of exercises of non-strategic nuclear forces, where russia and belarus jointly worked out preparations for the combat use of tactical nuclear weapons. so they released the missiles from the warehouses and hung them under the carrier aircraft. such carriers could be

mik-31 fighters and tu-22 long-range missile carriers. in addition, the personnel of the leningrad military district unit worked out the tasks of secretly advancing the iskander missile system to the designated position area and carried out electronic missile launches on conditional enemy targets. at the same time, russia is conducting naval exercises in the caribbean sea. on june 12 we arrived in cuba. nuclear submarine kazan, equipped with hypersonic zircon missiles, frigate admiral gorshkov, also capable of carrying zircons, academician tanker pashin rescue tug nikolai chikker, from havana to the coast of american florida is less than 200 km. report by alexey petrov. ancient tiled roofs, against which the modern russian submarine kazan passes. it has st. andrew's banner and flag on it.

sailors conduct excursions for local residents and tourists; our colleague, ria novosti correspondent in cuba, miguel fernandez martinez, came on board. this is not the first visit of this kind. in july 2023 , the russian navy training ship perekop arrived in govanna, with more than a hundred guards sailors, who were also received with characteristic warmth by the cuban people. meanwhile, the crew is analyzing past exercises: the frigate and the submarine completed simulated strikes. with high-precision long-range weapons against the ships of a potential enemy, this is how they passed teaching on pottery. surface target number one - bearing 300°. pre-launch preparation has been completed, the launch cycle has begun, launch, there is a launch, the lid is open, there is an entrance to the product, here is the combat alarm on a nuclear submarine, zircons capable of reaching speeds nine times the speed of sound. commander, the submarine is ready for battle. rocket weapons for battle. commander2 launch, there is a launch, then the commander

began the launch cycle, there is a first launch, there is a second launch, there is a starlet device number 10. each such trip requires teams of clear coherence, but this crew and ships are already called unique, because military equipment was tested immediately in the northern, temperate tropical latitudes, here you can check the weapons and technical equipment, tactical and technical characteristics, and their possibility of use. in total, the russian navy detachment has four ships, the main striking force is the multi-purpose frigate admiral gorshkov, it was accepted into the fleet in 2018, its autonomous navigation range is 4,500 miles. the frigate can be armed with all modern russian missiles, including calibers, supersonic onyxes and hypersonic zircons. beneath the surface of the ocean , the submarine kazan, the latest fourth-generation nuclear submarine belonging to the yasen project, performs its tasks. m in a submerged position can

travel at a speed of 31 knots, that is, 57 km/h. capable of diving to 500 m, autonomy 100 days. the submarine is armed with 32 of the latest. professionals call kazan the most secretive submarine in the world. in addition, the detachment includes escort ships, the rescue tug nikolai chikker and a tanker academician pashin. the route of the ships of the northern fleet also attracts attention; it is as if they deliberately passed as close as possible to the us coast, 50 km from the coast of florida, given that the range of zircons is almost 100 km, almost all the southeastern states are in the affected area, and although no one on... .

to mirror measures, that is , the supply of weapons to countries experiencing pressure from those states that are arming ukraine. the message that vladimir putin wants to convey to the united states with the help of these ships is obviously a response to attacks by american weapons on territory of russia. so donald trump is trying to emphasize the vulnerability of america in the biden era. we don't want to see russian ships right off the coast of florida, where they are now, it's unthinkable. for americans. elite signal turned out to be extremely sensitive. the russians have stationed their ships less than 100 miles from our coast and do not feel any threat to themselves. i think from the point of view of the bad guys, our president is incompetent and weak, i think our allies are very concerned that america will not come to the rescue when

they will need her. of course, both russia and cuba have repeatedly emphasized the friendly visit, everything in accordance with international rules. moreover, russian sailors did not even turn off the transponders in the area where there was particularly active activity. just 24 hours after the russian submarine arrived in cuba, southern command announced that their fast attack submarine helena had arrived in guantanoma bay. on board helena there are four torpedo tubes, harpoon and tamohawk anti-ship missiles, but according to its technical characteristics inferior to our kazan, whose main weapon is

hypersonic missiles, which the united states does not have in service. this submarine is deadly. they conduct exercises just like us. russian warships entered the port of havana, bringing back memories of the 1962 cuban missile crisis. this was the closest thing to a nuclear war between the two countries. and now cnn's own correspondent in cuba climbs aboard himself. after we left the ship, we were all counted. so that no one stays on the ship and learns the secrets of the frigate, which is located only 90 miles from coast of the usa. the long voyage of the russian fleet is in the spotlight and latin american channels, which record what is obvious to both americas. russia is flexing

its muscles at the united states. the russians, with this beautiful submarine, can get much closer to america than they imagined. it is already known that russian sailors must stay in cuba until june 17, then they... will continue their long voyage. alexey petrov, miguel fernandez, martinez and vsevaltsychov. news of the week. iran is preparing for early presidential elections, which will take place on june 28. the elections were called after the tragic death of president ibrahim raisi on may 19 in a plane crash. on monday, iran's election committee approved a list of six candidates whose names will appear on the ballot. in total, 80 people nominated their candidacies, but the remaining 74 applicants were unable to pass the selection process of the council of guardians of the constitution. iran is an influential player in the middle east region. russia and iran have close allied relations.

that's why we monitor very closely progress of the election campaign there. from iran. our correspondent, vitaly karmazin. although he is a hammer, he sings about the old times, when he was next to his beloved, like a shadow, but fate separated them, this sad song about love and mohamad riza dedicates to his country, iran, iran.

here is beef, and here is chicken, mushrooms, peppers, onions, tomatoes, very satisfying, try it, now let's try the meat, very tender, very tasty, every day a loaded cart drags past the shops with carpets, an afghan migrant on the move, in one such round of everything market, and this is from ten kilometers, he earns 10 dollars, i get tired, but i have four children in afghanistan, there is not much work there, i have to carry it here.

do not want to give their country to strangers, after the tragic death of president ibrahim raisi during a helicopter crash in may in iran , the election race began this week, out of eighty registered candidates, including four women, which was the first time, the council of guardians of the constitution selected six main candidates, about interest in the presidential elections in iran may the situation at a press conference of one of the candidates is evidenced by the fact that there are more than twenty television microphones here, and the last ones are now in progress. as a result

, so much equipment accumulated that the applicant had to lift the chair. and mir hassein ghazzezadeh hashimi, the former vice president of iran, one of the representatives of the conservative wing, answered our question. if you become president, how will relations between tehran and moscow develop? with friends like russia, we have two-level relations, we have a common position about the united states and western countries that interfere in the internal affairs of other states. in the economy, we interact within the framework of brix and the sco, but we must conclude a mutual strategic agreement so that this results in agreements between our private enterprises, especially in the high-tech sector. the president in iran is, at least, the second person after the supreme leader, aitalihamina, but many issues are within his competence. and this meeting with the people in the mosque.

and then, after three speeches by his colleagues, the candidate comes out. everything is in his program, including rockets for enemies, and economic reforms, and family policy, and even the fight against theft. we must fight corruption, because corruption is the shadow of a tree whose name is weakness. in addition, we are spending tens of billions of dollars unwisely, this needs to stop. and as soon as he finished his speech, the crowd poured to the podium. let's try to ask the candidate a question now. if it works out, of course. he was led out in a circle of guards onto the very street that in iran, regardless of political passions, lives in its own

rhythm. said has a dilemma today, every hour i have to rewrite the price tag on a sheet of grapes. there they sell fog for 160 thousand, but we wrote 150, competition. is there competition in the market? is there competition in presidential elections? inshallah, god willing, the most worthy will win, and they will choose the most worthy on june 28th. vitali karmazin, mikhail devyatkin, tatyana koroleva, news of the week from tehran, islamic republic, iran. this week the first sports games of the brics countries opened in kazan and moscow. brix is ​​a global association of ten countries, the founders of which are: brazil, russia, india, china, south africa, and this year a new five have been added: egypt, iran, the united arab emirates, saudi arabia and ethiopia.

russia currently chairs brix. in october we have a summit of the organization in kazan. brix now represents the world. demonstrates the triumph of the universal values ​​of sport, equal opportunities and fair, uncompromising struggle. all this fully reflects the spirit and character of brix himself. the unification of sovereign countries that are developing dynamically, while maintaining their identity, together solve large-scale

tasks show an example of truly partnership and equal relationships based on trust and strong. friendship and respect for each other's interests. it is interesting that countries of very different cultures united in brix on the basis of these values. the west is now pushing away, and brix, as if smeared with honey, is growing rapidly. there are already two dozen candidate countries. we expect new arrivals in the fall. but what's the secret? modern philosopher and professor alexander dugin talks about this. that's why. this is to be able to understand another, this is the main philosophical problem of our cultural dialogue, the west, how the west understands the other, the west says: the other is me, be like us and no problems, and if the other does not

want to become like us, then we declare war on him. "we declare war on gaza, we declare war on russia in ukraine, we declare war on china with its desire for unification, we blame war on those who do not agree with us, this is the problem of another, and brix must offer a completely different philosophy of interaction, this is ours our proposal to the west to leave humanity alone, but he cannot, because he does not know what the other is. so, these days in russia , the brix sports games are taking place, these are the first such competitions, while for some it may even look naive, but no one took the first olympics at the beginning of the last century very seriously either, for example, they say , as a salesman of some local shop, the main candidate for gold in the marathon, was not released from work, they say there is no point

in running, it’s unclear where? i’m sure the brix games will grow faster than the olympic games in their time, unlike them. modern olympics, everything honestly without politics, about the first historical sports games brix from kazan, stanislav nazarov. the fact that russia is safe, they don’t shoot on the streets here, and +35 in early june is normal weather, many athletes did not know and were there. pleasantly surprised. we thought that in russia it was very cold, we took a lot of clothes. i have 15 sets of warm clothes. of course, we were worried about the safety here. russia is a wonderful country, no one shoots here, everything is peaceful, people are friendly, not at all like shown on the screens. the games in kazan take place

during the year of russia's brix presidency ahead of a political summit to be held in the capital of tatarstan this fall. the participation of a large number of athletes from all over the world is clear and convincing evidence that sport has no boundaries, sport is beyond politics. russia is open and ready for cooperation: armenia, azerbaijan, israel, switzerland, germany, serbia, representatives of countries with very different political positions in kazan are involved in great sports. "we are from different cities in serbia and, of course, russia is close to us, we are happy to be in our native russia, russia and serbia have always been close friends, we feel it here and are glad that athletes from all over came to russia."

i feel incredible pride when we now stood on award ceremony, the russian national anthem played, that is, i directly understand that at this moment i am happy, happy that everything is over, happy that everything is fine, and these international competitions, they are like a fresh breath of air, probably for our guys, a charge the energy is so crazy that well only it now needs to be directed towards showing results, the brix games are held on an olympic scale, with 27 sports. the fact that russia cannot be isolated is evident from the number of participants and flags of france and

germany, athletes from european and african countries, asia, the whole world came to kazan and after the competitions the athletes live in the village, universiade, spend time together in the evenings, more than 90 participating countries and a record number of athletes. we were with the team yesterday.

this is not my first time here for the united arab emirates either. it is a congenial country. we see something very important in kazan, christians and muslims live in friendship and peace. churches and mosques stand next to each other. on the eve of the political summit, russia is hosting a real sports olympics within the framework of brix. in the coming week, 387 sets of medals will be played out in kazan. stanislav alexey urazakin, alkhazipov, valery gorikov. news of the week. tatarstan. next up is a new report from mysterious tibet. our correspondent, grigory vdovin, finally reached lhasa, and i saw with my own eyes the incredibly beautiful

patala palace, which for centuries was home to the buddhist dalailam. the city of lhasa is the capital of tibet. this is what it looks like early in the morning if you climb onto the roof in the center. the height above sea level is 3,650 m, and this does not include the roof. of course, the palace, we climbed in to look at it, this is the very center of the city, but the outskirts are also interesting, high-rise buildings are being built there at an accelerated pace. it’s hard to imagine, but just a few years ago there were fields here where vegetables and livestock were grown. now it is a modern area of ​​dynamically developing big city. construction projects of varying degrees of globality are now underway throughout lhasia, the host of our delegation, the chinese side, is very actively emphasizing that all this is not just that, but very highly technical. logically , the number of servers here is such that an industrial air conditioner is required to cool them, millions of billions of trillions of terabytes, a figure that is somehow unimaginable, this is where artificial intelligence lives.

the main purpose of this computer center is the analysis of what is called big data, big data, especially through the mountains wires were thrown and it was decided to locate the largest and most modern computer center in china here for a number of reasons. we take advantage of shizan's unique climate of low sulfur, low humidity, low temperatures, low oxygen and low pressure, as well as dry air capabilities, using our own world-leading waste heat recovery technology to direct fresh air cooling, this achieves zero emissions carbon dioxide and high efficiency of large data centers, as well as...

an autonomous region, and tibet is history and religion, where this toponym is considered appropriate, one of the main shrines of tibet is the potala palace and one of its main historical architectural complexes, get it’s incredibly difficult to get here, since there are significantly fewer tickets than there are applicants; if you move a little to the side, you can see not the front door. palace, here are the ceilings, which have clearly been preserved since ancient, pre-ancient times, some kind of jurisdictional rooms, the purpose of which can only be guessed at, it is interesting that researchers of the palace still have different points of view on the question of how many rooms there are in the palace, there is a point of view that there are 999 of them, there is a point of view that there are a thousand of them, there is a point of view that there are more than a thousand of them, these premises, apparently

somehow... are included in this number. this is the official residence of the dalai lamas, for more than 1,300 years the palace on the mountain began to be built in the seemingly incredible year 645, now the residence is empty. red the palace, where the main shrines are located, they are very careful to ensure that no one removes anything inside, there are still the graves of lamas who died there, their ashes rest here. in general, this is a room where everything is connected with dalaima, here he lived, worked, received visitors, here, the entire internal economic order of the room is still maintained by the monks, and special police services make sure that no one is filming anything inside. the monastery precisely as active spiritual there are many centers scattered throughout tibet. sera monastery is one of the famous

monasteries. tibet, high up on the mountain, you can see a place for meditation; monks who have achieved special enlightenment go there for solitude. we go inside, and an incredible surprise awaits us here. judging by the noise, it is difficult to guess what is happening here; there is a religious dispute and a kind of memorization of tablets with sayings. in this way , the monks test each other to see how accurately they can reproduce ancient wisdom. the intelligence services of the united states

of america are on the verge of using artificial intelligence technologies to manipulate public consciousness, with the help of the americans, of course, ukraine is very active, you can’t come up with anything new, there’s nothing new in technology, i naturally don’t have any plans to be recruited it happened, somehow i didn’t even suspect that this could happen to me, we’ll tell you about it now, it’s not intelligence services that compete with each other, it’s the state that competes, intelligence and counterintelligence fight each other. but in the end in the end, the result of everything is determined by the quality of state policy. for us, if it’s sports, then it’s with records. if it’s a holiday, then it’s a national holiday. we love traditions. honor. our history, we value

family and strong relationships, we admire how the country is blossoming, even more achievements await us, fall in love with the country more at the russia exhibition.