almost 50 people were wounded in israel as a result of iranian shelling. currently, buildings are being searched, we are evacuating wounded civilians. one of the rockets hit a hospital in the city of be'ersheva. iranian authorities say that they attacked the israeli army's command and intelligence center. israel's target may be the main site of iran's nuclear program. information.

is kept secret and it is located deep underground. israel, of course, believes that this program was real, has become a real threat to the existence of sovereign state. statement about possible plans of russia to attack one of the european countries. we understand that this is nonsense, you understand, well, those who say this do not believe it themselves. putin assures that it is impossible, european politicians talk about the risks of new aggression. what do you think? residents of the baltic countries, your guarantor has gone off the rails a long time ago, this is a live broadcast on the current time tv channel, today is thursday, june 18, my name is evgenia taganovich, hello! israel and iran continue to exchange missile strikes, the idf reported that they struck factories that produce raw materials and components for air defense missiles, as well as nuclear facilities in natanz and orak. magatta said that a research reactor

under construction was damaged, but there were no nuclear materials there, so there were no radiological consequences. iran, in turn , launched missiles at israel. one of them hit a hospital in the city of beersheba. iranian authorities say they attacked a command and intelligence center the israeli army, which is located near the medical facility. the israeli foreign ministry says that the hospital was the target of the iranian attack. the country's medical service also reports damage to residential buildings in halon and ramatgan. there are 4 in israel in total

good evening, evgeniya, i'll start with the shelling that took place literally an hour ago, an air raid siren sounded in the north of the country in the haifa area and further north, 15 ballistic missiles were fired by iran, there are no casualties, but there are several fires, firefighters are working to eliminate these centers, several cars burned, now i am in tel aviv, here in the vicinity they are summing up the results of the morning shelling, it all happened at... about 7:30 in the morning in israel, and a salvo of fifteen ballistic missiles caused devastating losses and huge destruction, fragments of missiles fell at two points at once, in the vicinity of tel aviv, ramatgan and holon. today i visited one of these points, the scale of destruction there is simply unprecedented, windows were knocked out in houses in several blocks at once, local residents are collecting things are being taken to relatives or hotels, the government is evacuating...

tel aviv hotels are being temporarily removed, business owners will be paid compensation, the situation is aggravated by the fact that literally the night before, relaxations were introduced for businesses and people were allowed to return to... to work, many perceived this almost as a sign of the end of the war, here is what one of the local prikhmakersky employees told me: everyone has a problem, everyone is broken inside and out, and we are in a panic, as if we don’t know, what to do, how to be, i thought, that's it, the war is already over, almost, i thought that i would already go to work for 3, 4 hours, suddenly in the morning i heard, the inspector general of the israeli police, dani levi at the site of the rocket fall. in holon, this is another point near tel aviv, there was a direct hit on a residential building, four people are in serious condition, hospitalized, said that at the sites of the rocket falls there are cases of looting and robbery in abandoned apartments, according to him, all suspects in the robbery have been detained, while it is a small

phenomenon, he warned that the police will act tough and decisively. in the south of the country, an iranian missile hit the building of the soroka hospital in be'ersheva, there was a danger. leakage of hazardous substances, but it was not confirmed. doctors reported that yesterday literally the surgical department of the hospital was evacuated from the floor where the missile hit to the basement floor, while the hospital management did not have any special data about the strike. they acted in accordance with safety measures and simply saved, saved people's lives. iran claims that there was a military base under the hospital, the corresponding infographics are being distributed in pro-iranian telegram channels, however. there is no confirmation of this infographic, and the israeli authorities resolutely reject these accusations, calling them lies, they are simply joked about on social networks. but here is what the head doctor said about the attack on the hospital. this building, since it is old, we evacuated it quite recently, the department

that took a direct hit was empty at the time of the attack, but other departments hospitals where patients were also damaged. we have 40 injured, these are people who were in the hospital. during the strike, the vast majority of them, employees and patients, were injured by glass fragments, a collapsed ceiling and other consequences, all of them were admitted to our emergency department. today, many officials visited bersheva , they commented on what happened, in particular , the prime minister of the country benjamin netanyahu arrived in bersheva, and indeed, one of his statements caused a huge storm of indignation about the price that citizens are paying in this war. let's listen.

with terrorists in the middle east in order to eliminate threats to the state of israel, the shaking of the ayatollah regime. meanwhile, throughout today, israeli aircraft continue to strike targets in iran and israel is waiting for

the united states to join the operation, jerusalem believes that the clock is ticking. evgeniya. we will definitely talk about this during the issue to speak. thank you very much, i was on the line from tel aviv. israel struck the heavy water nuclear reactor in arak this morning, and amid ongoing idf attacks, the country is virtually without internet access, with traffic down to 3% of its usual level. analysts write that the country has probably been cut off from the outside internet, with only services operating inside iran. we asked our iranian colleague, okean sherifi, to comment on the latest developments in the country. israel issued a warning this morning about the evacuation of the area of the heavy water reactor, the only heavy water reactor that iran has in arak, which is in central iran, and then they hit it. we don't know the extent of the damage, but israel says that the target was equipment that could be used

to produce plutonium, plutonium is a very important component of a nuclear bomb. iran, of course, still claims that its nuclear program is peaceful and that there were no plans to produce plutonium. when the 2015 iranian nuclear deal was signed with world powers, iran effectively shut down this particular facility, which didn't sit well with hardliners, but it... in style after trump pulled out of the deal in 2018. iran, of course, says nothing it does in its nuclear program is designed to make a bomb. and even iaea chief grossi said on cnn yesterday that they have no indication that iran is systematically seeking to to build a bomb. it was israel's assessment that iran was weeks, if not days, away from building a bomb. but what's interesting is that the only nuclear facility, the most important nuclear facility.

we have no indication that israel has targeted communications, facilities, and infrastructure in iran. so this appears to be a conscious decision by the iranian authorities to restrict access to information, which is always the case when something serious happens in iran, whether it's protests or attacks. the first thing that suffers is internet access. access to information. we have colleagues who have been unable to contact their families in iran for hours. and even now, they can only get a message saying, "we're ok, the bombs haven't hit us, but it does make it difficult to contact people in iran, and it also makes it difficult for us to access

information in iran because most websites, if not all websites based in iran, are not accessible to people outside the country, it makes it very difficult to understand what the iranian population is being told. we asked iranian political scientist amir chahaki, who lives in berlin, about the current mood in iranian society. " bishopole will replace the government with two or three blows.

many could have said, okay, it will be better later, but it turns out that there is already fear, if, for example, ali khamenei is eliminated, who will be there, what chaos, and what will happen next. the inclusion of america is not perceived very well, because it will strike and ... precisely at, objects that are underground, it produces uranium, uranium enrichment, and we are all afraid, they still live there, and what about radiation, you understand, according to analysts, one of israel's main targets in iran could be the ford uranium enrichment plant, it is considered the main facility of iran's nuclear program, it is located in a mountain, deep underground. practically nothing is known about it, according to israel , uranium can be enriched there for the purpose of producing nuclear

weapons. we talked to our colleague naatan about the importance of the ford complex and whether the united states will help strike it khodjim, the author of an analytical article about iran's nuclear program on the radio liberty website. israeli forces have already successfully struck other iranian nuclear complex facilities that are partially underground, such as the enrichment facility in natanz, but this is of course a more complex, much more complex target than, say, other parts of the nuclear complex, simply because it is located deep underground, there is a very popular, say, version in international media about one type of weapon, which is in the us arsenal,

and it is called a massive ordinance penetrator, well, it is a type of bunker bomb, but it is the most powerful, the most enormous, it is a bomb of enormous weight, firstly, somewhere in the range of almost 14 thousand kg, and the only one that is capable of using this bomb, it is a bomber, invisible b2, of course, the us, at the moment... is not participating in combat operations together with israel, but such types of weapons do not exist in israeli arsenals, so this is just a huge question for specialists, which are considering, of course, this problem, but this is not the only type, the nuclear program is not

only complexes, it is not only production, it is not only a... enrichment plants and so on, this is also, this is science, this is knowledge, these are people, therefore this is a clear part of the israeli strategy, also to strike at people, specifically at those people who actively participated in the development of the iranian nuclear complex at...

there is a lot that we simply do not know at the moment specifically about this program, well, i should just repeat that first of all, america is not actively involved in this, but israel, of course, believes that this program was real, became a real threat to the existence of a sovereign state. donald trump was asked yesterday whether a decision had been made. about us military intervention in the conflict between israel and iran, let's hear what he said: you don't know what i'm going to do, you don't know, maybe i'll do it, maybe i won't, nobody knows what i 'm going to do, i can say one thing: iran has big problems, they want to negotiate. i said, why didn't you negotiate with me before all this death and destruction, why

didn't you negotiate. i told people, why didn't you negotiate with me 2 weeks ago, everything could have been. normal, you would have a country, it's very sad to see this. the head of miderran said that tomorrow in geneva he will meet with his colleagues from leading european countries, namely france, britain, germany and the head of eu diplomacy. details of what will be discussed are cited by the reuters agency, writes that top european officials will try to get guarantees from abas araghchi that tehran's nuclear developments will not be used for military purposes. the european union insists on resolving the conflict by. about possible intervention in it, what do the us think, we will find out from our correspondent in brussels, zaryana stepanenko, you see her on the screens, hello, does europe support the us plans to involve the military to stop iran's nuclear program? hello, zhenya, europe completely agrees, iran should not get nuclear weapons, but believes that this is a task

for diplomacy, not the military, especially the american ones, here they insist in every way on the need to prevent a larger regional. in a joint statement by their top diplomats, france, britain, germany and the european union call for restraint and warn against escalation. the press service of the european commission told journalists that they do not support the so-called regime change in iran and reported the activation of all possible channels to prevent the spread of conflict. the european union will continue to contribute to all diplomatic efforts to reduce tensions and find a long-term solution to the iranian nuclear issue, which can only be achieved through negotiations. that is why intensive outreach efforts are currently underway with the participation of all relevant parties in order to preserve space for diplomacy and create conditions for negotiations. france, meanwhile, is trying to lead the diplomatic efforts. president macron has instructed his foreign minister

to develop concrete proposals for negotiations. tomorrow, the heads of diplomacy of france, britain, germany and the european union. will meet with their counterpart from iran, the goal of which is to obtain guarantees from tehran that its nuclear developments will be used exclusively for civilian purposes. reuters writes that this meeting will be held in coordination with the united states and that it will be followed by a dialogue at the expert level. a number of american media outlets report that donald trump has already approved a plan to attack iran, and that they could allegedly strike on the weekend, but the us president, one of these publications says, doubts whether to give the appropriate command? it is important to him that the strike... enrichment of uranium, the installation of but there is an assumption that the target is located too deep and that only tactical nuclear weapons can cope with it, respectively, the option of using it trump is not considering. many assume that he is still ready for a deal, zhenya. thank you very much, our correspondent, zaryan stepanenko, works in brussels.

putin spoke with journalists within the framework of st. petersburg international economic forum. today is the second day of this congress. if in the past international deals were concluded at the forum, now in the absence of major western partners, the media are discussing memes from this event. in the guidelines for... kremlin-loyal journalists , when covering the st. petersburg international economic forum, they recommended reporting on the connection of the village of beryozka to gas networks. the meduza publication learned of the order. and now, as if on cue, tambov news and the united russia website are publishing notes with the title napmf gave the command to start gas in the tambovsky settlement. and they also advised to talk about the presentation of the new avtovaz crossover, but so far in social networks they are discussing not the car, but the man who manually removed the canvas from the car. for users of social networks, the forum is remembered for memes with toys lab with the faces of russian officials, a robot with a handbag

and t-shirts with quotes from putin and lavrov. on the other hand, it was important for the russian media to emphasize foreign participation. so among the guests of the forum, according to tradition, a delegation was noticed taliban. the taliban are taking part in the pmf for the first time without the status of a terrorist organization in russia. the day before, the forum featured ekaterina tikhonova and maria varantsova, alleged daughters of vladimir putin, as well as his niece anna tseveleva. sergei kiriyenko's son, head of the vk, vladimir kiriyenko, boris ratenberg's son roman rotenberg, the son of the head of the presidential administration anton vaina, alexander vaina, sergei shaigu's daughter ksenia shaigu, as well as the son-in-law of foreign minister sergei lavrov and the son of the former head of the svr mikhail frodkov. pmf-25 became a public presentation of dynasties. not just relatives were brought out into the world, but future curators of industries and persons of state corporations, a closed system with inaccessible social elevators began to reproduce

itself according to the principle of inheritance. a stand with military awards of the president's father vladimir spedonovich putin appeared at the forum. the agency's publication drew attention to the fact that the stand was prepared by a company headed by a citizen of latvia. at the party after the end of the first day of the forum, loyalists spoke. the bank disagreed in their assessments of the state of the russian economy, and the central bank chairman elvira nabiullina criticized the seizure of assets in russia, citing the fact that the key rate also depends on public trust in the state.

one of the russian missiles hit a residential apartment building in kiev, and an entire entrance collapsed. the rescue operation lasted 2 days. according to ukrainian authorities,

28 civilians were killed in the capital of ukraine during this russian strike. today, volodymyr zelensky arrived at the scene of the strike. the ukrainian president paid tribute to the victims. this shelling is a reminder to the world that russia rejects the ceasefire and chooses murder. i am grateful to all our partners who understand that ukraine must become stronger. i am grateful to everyone who is ready to put pressure on moscow so that they feel the real price of war. vladimir putin also said the day before that he is ready to negotiate with volodymyr zelensky, but the russian president doubted the legitimacy of the ukrainian president when it comes to theoretically signing documents. zelensky was legally elected president of ukraine in a nationwide vote, after the start of a full-scale war by russia against ukraine, martial law was introduced in the country, which does not allow. to hold elections, the legitimacy of the powers of the current president of ukraine is recognized by the un and all civilized countries. zelensky has previously repeatedly stated that he is also ready to negotiate with putin on the conditions for ending

the war. despite the fact that the end of the war in ukraine does not seem to be an event in the coming weeks, putin is proposing that russia act as a mediator in the conflict between israel and iran. he recently spoke about this on the phone with us president donald trump. let's hear how trump responded to this idea. he actually offered to mediate . i said, do me a favor. be your own mediator. i said, "vladimir, let's deal with russia first." and you can think about this later. olga kamenchuk, professor at the institute of political analysis , joins our broadcast northwestern university in ilinos state. hello. good afternoon. putin himself said that in order to be a mediator, a country must be neutral. is russia in the conflict between israel and iran neutral? what do you think? well, the russians are trying to maintain relatively working relations with all parties

in this situation. with israel, well, although of course it is known that president putin has much warmer relations with iran, although there have been changes recently, if you know, we'll see literally the latest events of the last few years, and despite the fact that russia has been building relations, strategic relations with iran for a long time, especially in the military sphere, it is of course very dependent on the supply of drones, artillery shells, on the exchange of technologies with it, but nevertheless.

relations with the west in iran, it was also expected that perhaps we would see a cooling of relations with russia in this situation, and relations were indeed somewhat more strained with russia, between iran and russia from this period, but nevertheless , an agreement was signed, as you know, between iran and russia on mutual assistance, military, strategic cooperation, and nevertheless, the supply of weapons and ammunition continued, that is, of course, russia has developed quite such... close relations with iran during this period, with israel the relations are relatively neutral, on the one hand, israel supplies humanitarian aid to ukraine during this conflict, this war, which is now going on between russia and ukraine, but such a bright active support, as for example, is provided by nato countries, is not conducted from the side of israel in relations with ukraine, respectively, it can be said that russia has a relatively

neutral position. support of iran in this situation, and a more reserved policy. russia is trying to declare itself as a possible mediator in the negotiations. here i would like to ask, you told. sympathies that russia obviously has, and i would like to ask the question more sharply, if there is reason to believe, that putin does not want to stand up for iran, before that i simply suggest that you and i, our viewers, listen to putin's words at the international economic forum about a possible solution, as he sees the solution to the conflict between iran and israel, it would be right for everyone to look for ways to stop the hostilities

and... find ways for all participants in this conflict to agree with each other in order to ensure both the interests of iran on the one hand and its nuclear activities, including peaceful nuclear activities, of course, i mean both peaceful nuclear energy and peaceful atom in other areas, as well as iran and russia, it assumes support for each other, but is not obliged,

does not oblige, for example, to enter into a war with ukraine on the side of russia, but also russia is not obliged to enter into armed conflicts there in particular.