Morning briefing: February 5

The Turkish Prime Minister reproached Russia for “criminal actions” in Syria, a hungry sea lion entered a restaurant in San Diego - and other discussed news of these hours.

In the photo: a toy horse in a square in Pyongyang, North Korea.

Türkiye VS Russia

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmed Davutoglu commented on the statements of the Russian defense department about preparations for Turkey’s military invasion of Syria - he said that Russia itself is committing certain crimes on the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic.

The day before, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said that there are “serious reasons to suspect Turkey’s intensive preparations for a military invasion of the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic.” In particular, such suspicions were caused by unusually accurate shelling in the areas of Latakia and the refusal of Russian observers to conduct a flight over Turkish territory.

"Attack" on the Empire State Building

An American accidentally rammed a drone used for photography into the Empire State Building at a height of 40 floors. On this matter, he will have to explain not only to the police, but also to the FBI.

Hungry sea lion

Employees of a beach restaurant in the Californian city of San Diego discovered an eight-month-old sea lion cub in one of the premises. The visiting specialists noted that he was clearly suffering from malnutrition and was underweight.

Expensive sanctions

In 2014-2017, sanctions and falling oil prices could cost the Russian economy about $600 billion. At the same time, losses from financial sanctions will amount to about 170 billion, and lost revenues from oil and gas exports will amount to about 400 billion dollars, calculated Evsey Gurvich and Ilya Prilepsky from the Economic Expert Group.

Hot plasma

Chinese scientists heated the plasma three times hotter than the solar core - to a temperature of 49.99 million degrees Celsius, which they managed to hold in a magnetic field for 102 seconds. The next goal of the researchers is to maintain plasma heated to 100 million degrees for 1 thousand seconds.

What will happen today

in Paris . will begin The seventh European Days of Russian Books and Russian-Language Literatures

It is also expected that today the UN working group on unlawful deprivation of liberty will announce a response to the complaint of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange against Sweden and the UK, which decided to detain him.

in Sapporo, Japan And the 76th Sapporo Snow Festival starts .

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