afternoon, on the air of the first national channel. special project current microphone, my name is evgeniya mileshkoce again, and i want to introduce guest of our studio sergey rachkov, diplomat, phd, chairman of the standing committee on international affairs, house of representatives of the national assembly of the republic of belarus. hello, sergey anatolyevich, good afternoon, let's start, you probably know where, after all, with the situation in the middle east. the latest events of these days are simply amazing and alarming, extremely alarming, iran launched about 500 missiles at israel, many reached their target, many were shot down, but according to the information that is in the media today, the iron dome failed to cope with this. sergey anatolyevich, what? this cannot but affect neither money, nor the well-being of states and people, i agree with you that there are indeed a lot of problems in the middle east, and i would like to draw your attention to the fact that the escalation of the situation has been going on for more than a year, since october 7 , 2023 and... the escalation is not de