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00:00:41Hello, on Channel One, evening news, with you, Andrey
00:00:44Ukharev.
00:00:47There is still time to make your choice. For
00:00:51the people, for the country, for faith, for
00:00:54the future, for your children, for your grandchildren, so that they have
00:00:57everything good.
00:01:34We destroy bridges and logistical centers
00:01:37of the enemy.
00:01:43The Russian army launched a massive strike on the enemy's military rear
00:01:47and the clearing of the cauldron in Kharkiv
00:01:49region continues.
00:01:52The fuel crisis is engulfing the West. Prices at European and American
00:01:56gas stations are growing like crazy.
00:02:15Where fuel riots
00:02:17are already flaring up amidst the crisis?
00:02:21In anticipation of failure.
00:02:24Today the result in the east will most likely be extremely bad,
00:02:27possibly the worst in the entire history of the CDU. In
00:02:30the ranks of the German Chancellor's party, there is panic, Merz himself
00:02:34is not going
00:02:34to leave.
00:02:38I was elected for 4 years and I want us to use these 4
00:02:42years to bring the country out of this difficult
00:02:45period. Forecasts predict a record for him with a minus
00:02:48sign.
00:02:515 years for a project that opened the doors of museums, theaters,
00:02:54and not only, for schoolchildren and students.
00:02:58Quite often. it's very convenient to go to such
00:03:01places, events with the class.
00:03:05Millions of young people now have
00:03:08a Pushkin card.
00:03:11So, in Russia, the big election marathon is coming to an end. In
00:03:15many regions, from the Far East to the Urals, voting
00:03:18has already been completed. At 8:00 PM local time, polling
00:03:22stations will close in the central part of the country. Kaliningrad will
00:03:25vote until 9:00 PM Moscow time. And only after that will we be able
00:03:29to find out the first preliminary results of the elections, but for now we are following
00:03:33the turnout, and in a number of regions it is breaking records, and
00:03:36throughout the country, as already reported by the Central Election Commission, the
00:03:40figures of the past State Duma elections have been exceeded, all data from
00:03:43all over Russia flows into the information center of the
00:03:45CEC.
00:03:48My colleague Anton Vernitsky has been working there all day today, he is on
00:03:52live. So, Anton, we are waiting for details, what are the latest turnout
00:03:55figures and how is the voting
00:03:56generally proceeding?
00:04:00Good afternoon, Andrey, in fact, in most of the
00:04:03country, voting has not just ended, in the Far East, a new
00:04:06day has even begun, in some regions, voting has ended not only in
00:04:10the State Duma elections, but local elections have also been completed, so in Tuva, where the difference
00:04:13with Moscow is 4 hours, the vote count is continuing
00:04:17in the gubernatorial elections, the current governor Vladislav Halyk is leading
00:04:20by a large margin, with more than 90% of the votes, the turnout
00:04:24there was very high, more than 80%, although only a few
00:04:27ballots have been counted, well, in other direct elections.
00:04:32Chechnya, as well as Belgorod, Bryansk, Penza, Tver and Ulyanovsk
00:04:36regions are still voting. I would add that today the local parliaments are electing
00:04:39three heads of regions. In Karachay- Cherkessia, the deputies of the People's Assembly, from
00:04:43among the candidates presented by Vladimir Putin, have already unanimously
00:04:46elected Rashid Temrezov, the current head, to this post.
00:04:50Also, the deputies elected the head of North Ossetia-
00:04:53Alania, Sergey Minyaylo. But in Dagestan,
00:04:56the parliament still has to elect the head of the republic, first the results
00:05:00of today's elections to the local parliament must appear. Throughout the country,
00:05:03the turnout for the elections at this minute, and the Central Election Commission provides it in real
00:05:07time thanks to the Gasvybor system, well, look at
00:05:0954.96.
00:05:51UAV attack on a civilian bus in Kherson region, two people died and one
00:05:54of the dead was our colleague,
00:05:58a member of the precinct election commission
00:06:02of polling station number 220
00:06:04of the Nizhneserginsky district of the Kherson
00:06:08region, Olga Petrovna
00:06:10Demyanenko.
00:06:46I think shame will fall on their heads, each of them will be
00:06:49found.
00:06:52I ask you to honor the memory with a minute
00:06:55of silence.
00:07:00Well, as Ella Pamfilova said, despite the threat to their lives, her colleagues
00:07:04continue to work at the polling stations. Today a drone struck
00:07:08the school building in the Zaporizhzhia region. They purposefully
00:07:11destroyed the polling station that was located
00:07:15in the comprehensive school of the urban-type
00:07:18settlement of Pryshyb, Mykhailivka municipal district of Zaporizhzhia
00:07:22region, very serious damage was sustained
00:07:25by the left wing of the school building, glazing,
00:07:28roof, but this is an operating school, colleagues,
00:07:32an operating school where 170
00:07:35children study, fortunately no children were
00:07:38injured, fortunately at the time of the strike neither in the school nor at the polling station,
00:07:42which was opened in the building, there was no one, the commission worked all these days on
00:07:46the road, the force of the explosion at this
00:07:48school, pay attention,
00:07:52all the bricks are just dismantled, thank God,
00:07:55no one was there, God is on our side, because in our country
00:07:59there is truth, but these bastards, well, everything
00:08:02will be repaid, well, it will be repaid for
00:08:05all, for all tears
00:08:07will be shed, and we will still
00:08:10establish a normal life. I repeat, fortunately, no one
00:08:14died here, but Olga Dimyanina, who died today
00:08:17in another district of Zaporizhzhia, is unfortunately not the first victim of Ukrainian militants. On
00:08:21September 15, also in the Zaporizhzhia region, Alyona Ostanina, chairperson
00:08:25of the precinct election commission, died. Vladimir Putin posthumously awarded her
00:08:29the Order of Courage, on the night of Thursday, a Ukrainian drone flew into the house
00:08:32of Victoria Maximova, another employee of the election commission.
00:08:35Victoria herself was injured. Her husband and
00:08:39child were injured. And also law enforcement agencies found marks at the door.
00:09:12that in the current elections voting is already
00:09:15more active, partly this can be explained by the increased number
00:09:18of regions where it is possible to vote
00:09:20remotely. via mobile phone or computer,
00:09:24that's how I did it, for example. Such voting schemes, along with
00:09:28traditional paper ballots, are available in thirty-two
00:09:31regions of the country, and automatically having voted this way,
00:09:34I would not be able to vote again with a paper ballot,
00:09:37the electronic system would not have allowed it, it must be said that
00:09:41in Moscow, for example, almost 3 million voters voted
00:09:45remotely, this form of voting was liked by many for its
00:09:48convenience. Ella Pamfilova today touched upon provocations
00:09:51on our western borders, recalling that the elections at the Russian
00:09:55embassies in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia in 2024
00:09:59took place under severe pressure from local authorities, when in fact
00:10:02our citizens were hindered from voting, blocking the way to polling stations
00:10:06under various pretexts, checking documents and essentially
00:10:09intimidating them. That is why it was decided to organize
00:10:13mobile polling stations at border crossings in our territories, and the
00:10:16CEC recognized this innovation as very effective, with great
00:10:20respect and attention to the
00:10:23voters, these polling stations
00:10:25were organized, even to the point that mini-buffets
00:10:28were set up in mobile buses, because it was not so
00:10:32easy for people to get there. On the territory of the Kaliningrad region
00:10:35there are four such points: in the Leningrad
00:10:39region, in the city of Kingiseppsky
00:10:43district, a specially formed polling station and equipped
00:10:46premises for voting in the Pskov region
00:10:50opened five points, at which throughout all three
00:10:54days of voting, our voters
00:10:57are already realizing and today will be able to realize their
00:11:01legal constitutional right as citizens of Russia. And also
00:11:05employees of the Central Election Commission are repelling almost continuous attacks on
00:11:09their servers, as well as on all of Russia's telecommunications
00:11:12infrastructure. Thank God, there have been no successful attacks,
00:11:16despite their power and strength. At the same time, the
00:11:19level of impact is assessed
00:11:22as very high. Attacks were
00:11:25carried out by highly professional groups using artificial
00:11:29intelligence tools, attacks were carried out predominantly from
00:11:32abroad, of course, our colleagues blocked
00:11:36them as best they could, well, just imagine
00:11:39where they are coming from? Great Britain,
00:11:42Ukraine, Brazil, Indonesia,
00:11:45youth interference, closed channels, but just think, in
00:11:49the last few hours, more than a thousand
00:11:53such attacks on the Central Election Commission's servers have been registered. It is clear that until the
00:11:56end of the vote count, the CEC employees do not intend to relax,
00:11:59well, and we, from the Central Election Commission, will continue to monitor how the
00:12:03voting is going, the voting in the country is ending. By the way, during our
00:12:06broadcast, the turnout has already grown and
00:12:09exceeds 55%.
00:12:12This is indeed a record for the last 10 years in
00:12:15elections.
00:12:18Yes, thank you Anton, that was Anton Vernitsky. Anton, we will come back to you during our
00:12:22broadcast to find out new data from the CEC. As
00:12:25already noted, for the first time, residents of new regions took part in the Duma elections
00:12:29and people voted very actively. In the DPR, LPR, Zaporizhzhia and
00:12:33Kherson regions, polling stations have already closed due to the operational
00:12:36situation. Thus, in the Donetsk People's Republic, the turnout, according
00:12:40to preliminary data, exceeded 81%. In
00:12:43Luhansk, it was
00:12:4579.33%.
00:12:48In the Zaporizhzhia region, the turnout approached
00:12:5179%. In Kherson, almost about.
00:12:56The Kyiv regime, as you have already heard, tried to intimidate people with bloody
00:12:59terrorist attacks, but nothing came of it, despite the provocations, the elections took place and
00:13:03people voted actively, as our correspondent, Sergey
00:13:06Ponomarev, confirmed. The polling station
00:13:09is closed, voting
00:13:13is over, exactly at 2:00 PM, that is, already at noon,
00:13:16all polling stations in the DPR closed, here at the sixth gymnasium
00:13:20in Donetsk, as in the republic as a whole, the turnout is very high, the ballots
00:13:23barely fit on the large table, most of the voters were there on the first day, before
00:13:27work everyone rushed, tried to
00:13:31make it, today
00:13:34actively went, a stream of people went, first of all
00:13:38she opens safe-packets with ballots of those who participated in early voting in
00:13:41the new regions, it started on September 8, and many voted
00:13:45in advance, commissions specially went to factories, mines, so that as
00:13:49many people as possible had the opportunity to make their
00:13:52choice. Special attention was paid to the liberated.
00:14:25in the yards, the realities of voting in Avdeevka, a mobile polling station
00:14:28was initially planned to be organized in the courtyard of a house that is currently being restored, but after
00:14:32a recent shelling, it was decided to move the point closer to the private
00:14:36sector, under the trees, all for the safety of people, of course,
00:14:39they were notified in advance. Daniil Grigoryev,
00:14:42chairman of the commission, worked in Avdeevka immediately after the liberation
00:14:46in 2024 for the presidential elections, then the front was very
00:14:49close, this time they took body armor, helmets, but decided to
00:14:53put them on only in emergency cases. all the equipment was taken with us,
00:14:56left it all in the car and somehow
00:15:00decided that we would be on equal terms with people, there are many
00:15:03people, those who voted call neighbors, relatives, I
00:15:07want a good life, so that construction starts faster, so that the factory
00:15:11rebuilds us faster, so that our children live well, grandchildren,
00:15:14great-grandchildren, their mandates, future deputies know, it is necessary not only
00:15:18to restore the city, but also to help those who want to return, we
00:15:21are waiting, waiting for this moment when people will
00:15:25start returning, the city will be restored, we will
00:15:29help to contribute to its
00:15:32prosperity and make the city more beautiful than it was, like in
00:15:36Mariupol after the large-scale.
00:16:07Russia, we have been waiting for this for so long. According to preliminary calculations, in the DPR,
00:16:11more than 80% of all
00:16:13voters voted. The republic is among the leaders in turnout in the country, head Denis
00:16:17Pushilin noted both the active position of Donbass residents and the effective work
00:16:20of the election commission. In difficult conditions, non-standard
00:16:24conditions, elections are taking place here, and I
00:16:27express great, great words of gratitude for such
00:16:30preparatory work so that preliminary
00:16:34voting could take place, and of course.
00:17:07and well, so that our region, as they say, recovers, it is already
00:17:11recovering, they made a beautiful embankment, thanks to the region's patron
00:17:14Moscow, thank you for that. This is my country, this is my
00:17:18state, I want order
00:17:20in our country,
00:17:22which means there will be
00:17:26peace, of course, but after victory. These are the first
00:17:29elections to the State Duma in the new regions, so now
00:17:33their representatives will appear there. According to voters in the Zaporizhzhia region,
00:17:36these should be everyone who knows both local problems
00:17:40and ways to solve them, these are people who lived
00:17:42here, live here, and
00:17:46will promote their territories, protect the
00:17:49interests of our territories, what we directly need for the development
00:17:53of schools, roads, infrastructure, everything else,
00:17:56everyone must come and express their desire, otherwise they cannot
00:18:00say that they did something, at the polling stations in LNR these days there are many
00:18:04young people, eighteen-year-old Ilya Dubinsky wants to live, study,
00:18:07and work in his native Kirovsk, I came
00:18:09to vote so that our city,
00:18:13our country, the republic develops, so that new jobs
00:18:17appear, so that we have new enterprises, factories, so that we
00:18:20move forward and
00:18:23become a richer republic, following the example of Donetsk,
00:18:26in the Luhansk People's Republic and Zaporizhzhia region, polling stations
00:18:30closed today earlier at 4:00 PM, so the count
00:18:33is also in full swing, in the Kherson region it was decided to...
00:19:08you need to care about your country with your soul and
00:19:11heart, for the people, for the country, for faith, for
00:19:15the future, for your children, for your grandchildren, so that they have everything
00:19:19good, I think it is very important to do your duty, for
00:19:23stability, it seems to me that when many people go to elections,
00:19:27you feel that we will all cope together, we came to
00:19:30the polling station with positivity, with a good mood, with
00:19:34a good choice, we wish our country peace.
00:19:40And these are shots from the Chechen Republic. The oldest resident of Russia, Yakha
00:19:44Khashagova, took part in the voting. She is over 100
00:19:47years old. Representatives of the election commission came to her home in Grozny. There
00:19:51the woman filled out the ballot and put it in the ballot box. The long-liver
00:19:54was given flowers. The day before she had her
00:19:56birthday.
00:20:00We will return to the topic of elections in our broadcast. In the meantime,
00:20:03a special operation. The Russian army launched a massive strike on military.
00:20:07enemy bodies, explosions thundered in Kyiv and its environs, as well as in
00:20:11Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa,
00:20:14Kirovohrad, Rivne, Zhytomyr, Cherkasy and Poltava
00:20:18regions. So in the Odesa region, a road
00:20:21bridge was hit, through which military cargo from the West was passing. In
00:20:24the port of Chornomorsk, a tanker with weapons. Summary footage from Valentin
00:20:28Gvozdev.
00:20:30The sky over Kyiv was blocked by smoke. Residents were advised not to leave their homes and not
00:20:34to open windows. Tonight the Russian army carried out a combined
00:20:37attack on objects of military, energy and transport infrastructure of Ukraine. In
00:20:41the capital, the Radionix enterprise was hit, which produced control systems for Flamingo,
00:20:45Neptune, FP-7 and FP-9 missiles. In Boyarka,
00:20:48the company's warehouses were hit.
00:20:50where weapons and components for long-range drones were stored, according
00:20:54to the Ministry of Defense, the bmobile data center was hit, which provided
00:20:57data storage, processing and transmission, including intelligence data, as well as
00:21:01the functioning of network equipment in the interests of
00:21:04the Armed Forces of Ukraine. A serious fire raged this night in the Sumy
00:21:08region, warehouses of the Right company in Konotop were hit, where components for Ukrainian
00:21:11drones, as well as weapons and military equipment supplied from
00:21:14the west, were also stored. In Kherson, our Iskander hit a machine-building plant, the premises
00:21:18of which were used in the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a series of strikes on a defense
00:21:21plant in the vicinity of Zaporizhzhia.
00:21:24The naval blockade of Ukraine continues in the port of Chornomorsk. Our Geraniums destroyed
00:21:28a tanker that delivered military cargo, in Odesa, a Nova Poshta
00:21:31terminal was hit, where cargo from Europe was stored and distributed. In the village of Mayaki,
00:21:35drones destroyed a new bridge across the Dniester, through which supplies from
00:21:39the territory of Romania passed. Another bridge was destroyed in the area of Kamyshevakha
00:21:42in the Zaporizhzhia region.
00:21:44Effective strikes on the enemy's military rear
00:21:47contribute to the advance of our troops on the front line. In the Kharkiv region,
00:21:51the militants of the AFU, trapped in a cauldron in the northwest, are being shelled by our artillery and
00:21:55VKS. The encirclement ring is tightening every day, the outer control zone
00:21:58is growing, depriving the enemy of the ability to supply the blockaded
00:22:02group. Attempts to break through are suppressed by unmanned
00:22:05aerial vehicle operators. Within the encirclement ring, enemy manpower was defeated in the
00:22:09areas of the settlements of Varvarivka, Hrachivka, Reznikove, Khysnyakove and
00:22:13Khrepuny in the Kharkiv region. Battles are being fought for the liberation of the settlement
00:22:16of Buzova. Over the past day, the
00:22:20losses of the blockaded armed formations of the AFU amounted to more
00:22:24than thirty servicemen, an armored combat vehicle, a vehicle,
00:22:27and a ground robotic complex.
00:22:31A railway junction was hit in the Vinnytsia region, a strong fire started at the facility,
00:22:35systematic strikes on the railway infrastructure, according to Ukrainian
00:22:38publics, caused massive disruptions in train schedules throughout
00:22:42Ukraine. Train delays reach more than 9 hours. As a
00:22:45result of our strikes, the work of three largest metallurgical plants in
00:22:49Ukraine, which provided the lion's share
00:22:52of metallurgical product production, has been completely stopped. The British
00:22:56Financial Times writes about the destruction of entire industries.
00:22:59Ballistic missiles were aimed at the blast furnaces of three
00:23:02largest enterprises in Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk
00:23:06regions. These factories, which accounted for 90% of steel production
00:23:09in the country, are currently stopped. The shutdown
00:23:13of the largest enterprises, producers of rolled metal and main suppliers
00:23:16of the AFU, may have serious economic consequences for Ukraine. Without
00:23:20the ongoing naval blockade, they can become catastrophic. Valentin
00:23:24Gvozdev, Natalia Labanova and Aleksey Kozlov. First
00:23:26Channel.
00:23:29A fuel crisis is gaining momentum around the world, which Western
00:23:33oil companies have already dubbed "the great one." For more than half a year,
00:23:37that is, ever since the start of the American war against Iran,
00:23:40fuel reserves in different parts of the planet are rapidly decreasing,
00:23:44and strategic reserves are no longer sufficient to cover
00:23:47the deficit. A painful price jump in the States themselves. Just
00:23:54a year ago it was almost twice less. Fuel in Europe is at
00:23:57historical highs, for example in France, almost 2.5
00:24:01euros per liter. Against the backdrop of the crisis, fuel
00:24:05riots are already flaring up. Mikhala Kinchenko on
00:24:07the situation.
00:24:11With fishermen blocking the access roads to the oil depot near the village
00:24:14of Fos-sur-Mer in southeastern France, the police did not stand on ceremony,
00:24:17participants in the protest dissatisfied with rising
00:24:20fuel prices were dispersed with tear gas and batons, in
00:24:24Guatemala, the government even had to involve army
00:24:27units to disperse
00:24:29fuel rioters.
00:24:34For a week now, tires have been burning in major Syrian cities, blocking the country's
00:24:37main highway after the government announced a 40% increase
00:24:41in fuel prices. Protests in Portugal, Peru, and
00:24:45the Philippines.
00:24:49And even in the relatively prosperous United States, although no one is
00:24:52on the streets yet, gloomy forecasts
00:24:56are constantly heard in television news
00:24:58reports. The astonishing jump in gas prices across the United States, and
00:25:02experts warn, will be even worse. Prices at American
00:25:06gas stations are rising not even daily, but hourly. For example, on Thursday night in different states,
00:25:10a gallon of gas, which is slightly less than 4 liters, immediately rose by 20 to
00:25:1450 cents, the average price across the country is getting closer to the record
00:25:17of 2022. But diesel
00:25:21has already pulled far ahead, just look at diesel
00:25:24prices, this morning they set another record, the average price
00:25:28for it is $6.45 cents. According to statistics, since March,
00:25:31when the military operation against Iran began, car owners in the United States
00:25:35have already spent $107 billion more on fuel
00:25:38than in the entire last year, every day another
00:25:42$750 million is added
00:25:44to this amount. This is just ridiculous, everything you
00:25:48buy, starting with groceries.
00:26:02Goods across America now cost an average of $2,000,
00:26:06considering that fuel tank volumes often start at 1,500
00:26:10liters. Such expenses simply proved unaffordable
00:26:13for many. Most likely, some
00:26:17small carriers, who have only one truck or a few,
00:26:21simply will not be able to cope with such rapidly rising fuel
00:26:24inflation. We cannot afford such price increases for food
00:26:28today, let alone fuel. Food
00:26:31prices. I
00:26:43must say, wake up, this is already too serious, you have
00:26:46a food crisis, an energy crisis, everything is not at all
00:26:49like in March, when we discussed what might happen, everything
00:26:53is already happening, I heard in California, diesel already reaches
00:26:57$9 a gallon, but we are completely off topic,
00:27:00think about soybeans, about the fact that... all this will lead to a food
00:27:04crisis, think about wheat, corn, this is not something
00:27:07you can dismiss, and how many times have copper prices hit records
00:27:11in the last couple of weeks, mining,
00:27:13and also sea transportation - that's also diesel, as is
00:27:17heating, in America itself, because a large part of houses are not connected to
00:27:20gas, meanwhile, the cold in the northern hemisphere is getting
00:27:24closer, all obsessed with crude
00:27:27oil prices, but in fact, refined product prices have gotten
00:27:30out of control, we are talking about world diesel prices reaching
00:27:34$215 per barrel, production capacities with a total volume
00:27:38of about 7 million barrels have been put out of operation, almost all as a
00:27:41result of drone attacks, in Russia, the Persian Gulf, and now also in the
00:27:45Red Sea, this is the underlying reason for what is happening. And if we take into
00:27:49account that due to the reduction of strategic oil reserves, oil refineries in China
00:27:52are being taken out of operation, in Europe over the last 20 years,
00:27:56hydrocarbon fuel production has been significantly reduced in favor of the
00:27:59green agenda, then the diesel deficit in the world...
00:28:32Russia, but if now they cannot get it in Russia, then where can
00:28:36they go, they cannot just stop their economies,
00:28:40they start buying the same American diesel, and data
00:28:43shows that the US increased refined product supplies to
00:28:4687 million barrels in just one week. Against this
00:28:50background, proposals have been voiced in America to introduce a moratorium on
00:28:54diesel exports, following Russia's example, but for now the White House rejects this proposal, but, as
00:28:58the media report, the Trump administration is studying the possibility of applying a law
00:29:01from the time of the Korean War, under which the President has the right
00:29:05to order private companies to increase the production of necessary
00:29:08products, but right now this will not yield
00:29:12results. Oil refineries in the United States
00:29:16are working at full capacity, their capacities are loaded to
00:29:1998% to cover the deficit, but that's
00:29:22not enough. Unfortunately, we can't quickly put new
00:29:25oil refineries into operation. All we need to do now is find a solution
00:29:29to the two biggest international crises. The first crisis
00:29:33is the crude oil deficit, the second is the low level of
00:29:36refined petroleum product production, and both are interconnected, but experts say
00:29:39we should start with resolving the situation in
00:29:42the Middle East. From my point of view, the United States
00:29:46has given up and started to go with the flow, continuing to repeat:
00:29:49prices will drop after the midterm elections. However, there is no
00:29:53magic date you can mark on your calendar. You
00:29:57won't just wake up one morning and find the problem
00:30:00solved. It requires action.
00:30:12about the approach of some turning point, which Donald Trump shared with Axios
00:30:15. "I have a significant decision to make, whether I want to destroy the Iranian regime or
00:30:19not, anything can happen to me," President Trump
00:30:22told Axios on Thursday.
00:30:26It sounded ominous and unclear. Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill,
00:30:30despite seemingly all common sense, they
00:30:33only continue to escalate the crisis
00:30:37spiral. The bill, which the House of Congress approved this week,
00:30:40allows the US president to impose 100%
00:30:44duties against the five largest buyers of Russian
00:30:47energy resources, which are China, India, Turkey, Japan, and
00:30:51the European Union. And in Washington, everyone except China on
00:30:54this list is usually referred to as an ally. Theoretically, Trump
00:30:57could, of course, veto the bill, but he didn't
00:31:01and signed it. However, it's not surprising, given the US
00:31:04president's penchant for using duties in disagreements with other
00:31:08countries, Politico writes. The global reaction
00:31:11to the sanctions bill against Russia approved by Congress on Wednesday
00:31:15was immediate and sharp. Moscow stated that it
00:31:19would only prolong the war in Ukraine. India promised to protect its
00:31:22interests, and Beijing opposed what
00:31:25it called an overreach of jurisdiction. But in Brussels,
00:31:29they remained silent, even though before signing the law, Trump threatened to stop
00:31:33all trade with the EU if Canada joined it.
00:31:36The American president now has more than enough
00:31:39reason to do so, because even despite the direct ban on the purchase of Russian
00:31:43oil products, many European countries still do not
00:31:47comply with it, circumventing their own sanctions, and
00:31:50giving up liquefied Russian gas, as planned from January 1
00:31:54next year, will also not be easy: blue
00:31:57fuel reserves in Germany today are only 53%,
00:32:01the lowest figure in the last 15 years, and
00:32:04even if in the next couple of months they manage to replenish storage
00:32:08by another 20%, which is highly doubtful, it may
00:32:12still not be enough for winter, worries
00:32:15Handelsblatt. At normal temperatures, gas storage levels
00:32:18will only drop to 38% by April
00:32:221. However, if winter turns out to be as cold as in
00:32:252010, storage facilities will be empty by the end
00:32:29of January. European governments, as if not hearing,
00:32:32assure there is no cause for concern, saying that there is as much
00:32:36fuel in storage now as was used up in the entire previous
00:32:39winter. But it's not at all certain that the next winter
00:32:42will be the same. Mikhail Akinchek.
00:32:48Meanwhile, Donald Trump abruptly changed his schedule and hastily
00:32:52flew from his Camp David residence to Washington
00:32:55a day earlier than planned. The White House did not give a reason, but leading American media
00:32:59link it to the situation in the Middle East. According to some reports, the
00:33:02administration is discussing possible strikes on Yemeni Houthis, who
00:33:06attacked Saudi Arabia yesterday, including facilities
00:33:09of the oil company Saudi Aramco. At the same
00:33:12time, the discussion requires a message from Iran, which the US transmitted
00:33:16through intermediaries in Qatar, seven conditions for the start of any
00:33:19negotiations, including unblocking frozen assets,
00:33:23ending the war on all fronts and lifting the naval blockade. The
00:33:26Iranian command notes that, according to their information, the States
00:33:30intend to resume hostilities against the Islamic Republic and
00:33:33Tehran will have an answer.
00:33:37Now back to the elections, there's very little time left until the end of the three-day
00:33:40voting at the polling station on the territory of the
00:33:44public headquarters. Vladislav Golovin, Hero of Russia, chief of staff
00:33:48of the Yunarmiya movement, came to observe the elections
00:33:51in Moscow. He filled out an electronic ballot. The leader
00:33:54of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Gennady Zyuganov, preferred the classic method. He marked
00:33:58the ballot in the Tverskoy district of the capital. The head
00:34:01of the LDPR, Leonid Slutsky, came to fulfill his civic duty at school number
00:34:051236 together with his mother. At the polling station, they were met
00:34:09by public figure, grandson of former French president Charles de Gaulle, Pierre de
00:34:12Gaulle.
00:34:15I insist that the new composition of the Duma
00:34:19should primarily be guided by the president's message, world
00:34:22pace, the most modern technologies,
00:34:25a united society, everyone fighting for
00:34:28victory, for me it is symbolic
00:34:31today to cast my vote with my mother,
00:34:34it is a tradition, much depends on how the coming months unfold, not
00:34:38only for our God-guarded fatherland, but also for
00:34:42the entire world.
00:34:45The governor of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov, also personally participated in the voting
00:34:49at the polling station in the Odintsovo city
00:34:52district. He came with his daughters.
00:34:56Today is election day, we came, we are voting according to the
00:34:59traditional scheme, some families vote through
00:35:02public services, so I want to thank
00:35:06everyone who came to the polling stations, who
00:35:09registered in the electronic
00:35:13system.
00:35:16We have elections not only to the State Duma, but also to
00:35:19the regional one, and that is very important to us, so
00:35:23once every 5 years we vote for
00:35:26the regional parliament for our State
00:35:29Duma. Those who are currently
00:35:33abroad are also not left out. According to our Ministry of Foreign Affairs, almost
00:35:3710,500 Russians voted at overseas polling stations. Compatriots could
00:35:41make their choice in 152 states. Some
00:35:44countries made the process more difficult for our citizens. For example, Germany,
00:35:48which closed our consulate general in Bonn just 2 days before
00:35:51the voting. Only one polling station remained at the embassy in Berlin. A report by
00:35:55Pavel Krasnov.
00:35:57The doors of the polling station had barely opened on Unter den Linden in front of the
00:36:01Russian embassy in Berlin, and it was already crowded. Queues at
00:36:04diplomatic missions on voting days are not uncommon, but the German authorities seemed to
00:36:08have deliberately done everything to make voters stand in
00:36:12this queue longer than usual today.
00:37:27polling stations, especially those open in unfriendly countries, today
00:37:31have heightened security measures. All personal belongings must be
00:37:34left before entering the polling station; there is even a storage room organized here for this purpose. You
00:37:38can only bring your passport or any other
00:37:42document. Security is given increased attention here,
00:37:46plus, outside there is police on duty. This is how
00:37:49voting is taking place today on the territory of the
00:37:52Russian embassy in London, and these security
00:37:55measures were clearly not taken
00:38:36for Russia, and although we are very far away in London, 100 km away, it is very important
00:38:40for us to come and vote, to cast our vote.
00:38:43Anastasia also brought her whole large family to the polling
00:38:47station today. We remember from childhood how mom and
00:38:49dad, on early Sunday mornings in our
00:38:53childhood, that feeling of a holiday, all of that is beautifully
00:38:56remembered and... I really wanted the children, when they went with us, to feel
00:39:00the same way, we also prepared them with my husband. One of her sons
00:39:04is voting for the first time today. There is a sense of
00:39:08responsibility in going through all the official
00:39:12procedures for the future of the country, well, and it feels
00:39:15like some contribution is being made.
00:39:18Yes, first and foremost, you make a choice for
00:39:22the country. In total, over 300
00:39:25polling stations are operating outside of Russia in these elections.
00:39:43of our country, which I believe,
00:39:46Armenia and Russia would have a common future, I vote for development, stability
00:39:50and prosperity. In Armenia, voting was also organized on
00:39:53the territory of the Russian military base in Gyumri, Tajikistan.
00:39:57In addition to ordinary citizens, Russian military personnel stationed there
00:40:00also voted. And this is the polling station that opened
00:40:04in Transnistria today, peace, friendship,
00:40:08Russia. Here, voters also line up to
00:40:11cast their vote. The leaders of the Transnistrian Republic
00:40:15also came to the polling station. You know, here we are separated from our
00:40:18historical homeland, but people feel this homeland, so
00:40:22of course, this queue, and when people go,
00:40:25at this second, I...
00:42:40I understand,
00:42:43she, and we have to turn around, and
00:42:46it would also be good to add a photo here. Observers share their experience
00:42:50at the school on Vasilyevsky Island, here is one of dozens
00:42:53of polling stations in their visit program. Each international observer has
00:42:57the right not only to be present at the polling station, but to observe
00:43:01the key stage of vote counting, and also to meet with representatives
00:43:04of political parties, public associations. Afterwards,
00:43:07the international group will present its report.
00:45:23For each foreign observer, these elections are also an opportunity to see
00:45:26for themselves how our country lives. In Kuban, the delegation was met
00:45:30with traditional songs. In Kuban, we
00:45:33live in our native
00:45:36Kuban. They treated them to Kuban bread and watermelon.
00:45:40And they also showed them a children's technopark at a lyceum in Kropotkin, where
00:45:44schoolchildren raise snails, parrots, assemble robots,
00:45:47come up with their own designs, and print on a 3D printer.
00:45:50Here they build dreams for which the country makes its
00:45:54choice. Besides the elections, I was very impressed
00:45:58by the children's science school, where very young children show their
00:46:01skills and abilities, it's just wonderful. Alena Germanova, Andrey Golderev,
00:46:05Semyon Kotenko, Aksenia Ugarova, Elena Shtokov, Natalia Mashtakova and Alexey
00:46:08Klyuchnikov, Channel One.
00:46:11Republic Day is celebrated today in South Ossetia. Vladimir Putin congratulated
00:46:15Marat Kambolov, the head of the republic, on the holiday via telegram. The Russian leader
00:46:18emphasized: relations between the two countries are successfully developing in the spirit of
00:46:21good neighborliness and alliance. Moscow and
00:46:24Tskhinvali cooperate in
00:46:28interacting in the interests of strengthening regional security and
00:46:31stability. Joint work will continue. I remind you that yesterday
00:46:34Vladimir Putin congratulated Marat Kombolov on his victory in the presidential election. He was
00:46:38supported by almost.
00:46:48in Germany, they also have their own elections today, and the Pushkin card, it's
00:46:515 years old, and we'll also find out the latest
00:51:16continue. Panic is growing in the German leadership
00:51:19amid new elections to state parliaments. Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
00:51:23are not voting, and in both places
00:51:26sympathies are with the opposition forces. No sooner had Chancellor Merz's Christian
00:51:30Democrats recovered from the disgrace in Saxony-Anhalt, than the
00:51:33prospect of a new defeat loomed on the horizon, with the risk of not
00:51:37even overcoming the minimum threshold for entering parliament. Yulia Alkhovskaya is
00:51:41on site monitoring the situation.
00:51:44Regional elections, including here in Berlin, are called decisive
00:51:47for the fate of Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Through voting,
00:51:51voters have the opportunity.
00:52:36Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is the least populated of all German states,
00:52:39with just over one and a half million people,
00:52:43mostly small towns, villages, many farmers,
00:52:46the region is mostly agricultural,
00:52:49the future of rural areas, energy and fuel prices, that's what defined
00:52:53the election agenda in this eastern state, which has been governed by
00:52:57social democrats for almost 30 years, but today everything could change.
00:53:01The Alternative for Germany, if polls are to be believed, has increased
00:53:05its number of supporters almost threefold in recent years and is claiming victory,
00:53:08while Merz's party, the Christian Democrats, faces
00:53:12complete defeat, their rating is at 5-7%,
00:53:15and in the worst-case scenario, they may not even get into
00:53:18parliament. the government has done nothing in the
00:53:22last 9 years, I'm having a hard time, I can't use
00:53:25heating in winter, it's cold in the house, it can't go on like
00:53:28this.
00:53:30We need funds for our land, for children, for pensioners, for everything
00:53:34else. All these weapons, why are we sending billions abroad?
00:53:38What do I want? Well, I guess for life to get
00:53:42better. 2 euros 66
00:53:45cents, diesel in Germany has never been so expensive, and the
00:53:49further from Berlin, the higher the price. In recent days alone,
00:53:52fuel in Germany has risen by 30 cents per liter.
00:53:56In the East, harvesting is in full swing, and we constantly encounter huge
00:54:00tractors on the road. These have a fuel tank of 200 liters, and filling them with diesel will
00:54:04cost at least 500 euros. When we came here,
00:54:07we noticed that diesel is very expensive - 2 euros 66 cents. How
00:54:11significant is that for you? This is our ruin, we are not able
00:54:15to earn that much money. A large tractor consumes 300-350
00:54:18liters of diesel per day, and then we get
00:54:21210 euros per ton of wheat, and we get
00:54:24170 euros per ton of barley. I'll just say, that's it, it's over, we're at
00:54:28our limit, we can't do this anymore. European
00:54:32refineries do not produce enough diesel. The EU depends on.
00:56:36And in the outback, they are sure that without Russian gas, the German economy
00:56:40will continue to plummet. On the Baltic coast of
00:56:43Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the more than thousand-kilometer offshore route of
00:56:46Nord Stream ends. In the town of
00:56:50Lubmin, the gas pipeline's land fall. It was here
00:56:53that Russian gas entered Germany's gas transmission system and then
00:56:57all of Europe. Thanks to the infrastructure built as part of cooperation with
00:57:00Russia, Lubmin transformed from a small Baltic
00:57:04resort into one of Germany's most important gas hubs,
00:57:08creating new jobs and hundreds of millions of euros in investment. After the pipeline
00:57:11sabotage, all of that is in the past. The topic became key
00:57:14in the election campaign of several parties at once. The "Alliance of Sarah
00:57:18Wagenknecht" posted posters in the eastern state calling for Russian gas to be launched
00:57:22through the line that survived the
00:57:24terrorist attack.
00:57:27Launch Nord Stream, start importing gas from
00:57:30Russia. Why, do you think, would that lower gas
00:57:34prices? We simply need a mixed
00:57:37supply, meaning an energy balance from various
00:57:41sources. And if Russia were to start supplying energy to
00:57:44our energy market again, I think it would be in any case.
00:59:34Apparently, a very, very difficult result is expected for the CDU in
00:59:38Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Do you have
00:59:41a pain threshold, upon reaching which you would say, if
00:59:44the result is below this, I cannot continue? Today
01:00:25from the Cathedral of Christ the Savior
01:00:28in the capital, the relics of Saint Spyridon
01:00:31of Trimythous were taken away. Before that, a prayer service was held, and outside, hundreds of believers
01:00:35watched the farewell. The right hand of one of the most revered saints in the world
01:00:38was brought to our country from the Greek island of Corfu on August
01:00:4117. The shrine visited several regions, and in a month,
01:00:45about a million pilgrims came to venerate it. 300,000
01:00:49in Moscow alone. Simultaneously, in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the relics of the Holy
01:00:53Right-Believing Prince Dmitry Donskoy were exhibited. The queue was
01:00:56common and stretched along the Patriarch's Bridge all the way to the swamp.