🇰🇵❌🇰🇷🇯🇵 — Japan's NHK TV channel has interrupted its signal to transmit a speech of North Korea/DPRK Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un related to the last missile launched by North Korea, just a few minutes ago.

🇰🇷🤝🇯🇵 — 🇰🇷 Newsis: South Korea's President Yoon: I agreed with Japan's Prime-Minister that South Korea-Japan relationship should be restored to its good old days

Wagner associated telegram channel Grey Zone speculates on potential resignations for Shoigu and Gerasimov.

— AfD's popularity is surging right now in opinion polls, in related news (blue line).

If admin was a betting man (I'm not), I would bet on the party to reach 20% by mid November at the current trajectory.

🇩🇪 German Federal Election | Wahlkreisprognose poll:

CDU/CSU — Centre-right: 25% (–1)
SPD — Centre-left: 21% (–1)
AfD — Nationalist: 16% (+2)
GRÜNE — Green: 16% (–2)
FDP — Liberal: 9% (+1)
LINKE — Left-wing: 5% (+1)

Fieldwork: 3-6 October 2022
Sample size: 1,923

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🇩🇪 AfD's stronghold of East Germany, where its identitarian faction Der Flügel is most prevalent, is expanding outwards with every single poll that comes out.

The number of constituencies where they lead is now 31, compared to 16 in last year's election.

🇷🇺🌉📹 — Hours ago, the Russian State Media RIA Novosti published a video of resumed traffic on the Crimean bridge

However, traffic to trucks remains banned, as expected.

https://t.me/rian_ru/180957

🇷🇺🚄📹 — 🇷🇺 RIA Novosti: The Ministry of Transport showed how the test train passed the Crimean bridge

https://t.me/rian_ru/180969

🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — 🇺🇸 Business Insider: Ukraine hints that it sabotaged a crucial bridge linking Russia and Crimea to spite Putin on his 70th birthday

— "Ukrainian officials have hinted that Ukraine may have sabotaged a crucial bridge linking Russia and the annexed territory of Crimea to spite Russian President Vladimir Putin on his 70th birthday.

A fuel tank explosion on Kerch road-and-rail bridge took place at around 6 a.m. on Saturday while a train was crossing it, causing it to collapse, according to Russian officials.

Putin responded by ordering the government to create a state commission to examine the cause of the Kerch Bridge collapse, TASS news agency reported per Reuters."

Link
https://archive.is/JR4v2

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇻🇦❌🇮🇱🇬🇧 — 🇮🇱 Jerusalem Post: Church of England, British Catholic Church oppose moving UK embassy to Jerusalem
— "Two of the UK's most senior Christian authorities have recently come out against the potential decision of Prime Minister Liz Truss to move the British Embassy to the State of Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

In a letter sent to the prime minister, one of the UK's leading Roman Catholic Church authorities, Archbishop of Westminster Cardent Vincent Nichols has called on Truss to not move the British Embassy to the State of Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

— "A relocation of the UK Embassy would be seriously damaging to any possibility of lasting peace in the region and to the international reputation of the United Kingdom", said Cardinal Vincent Nichols

Cardinal Nichols, who serves as the president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales wrote a letter to Prime Minister Truss earlier this week, expressing his "profound concern" over her call for a review of the location of the British Embassy and the suggestion that she may consider moving it from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem."

Link
https://archive.is/ZZm21

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧📃 — 🇮🇱 Israel Defense Minister Gantz: Israel will move forward with plans to extract gas from the Karish field even without an agreement with Lebanon

The Israeli security establishment gave the green light to start testing the extraction at Karish gas field...tomorrow.

Israel will extract gas from Karish to land and vise verse to test the system.

Production won't start tomorrow.

⋯ Israeli Minister Benny Gantz, in a live interview on Channel 12 now, talks about giving a green light from the Israeli security establishment to activate the Karish platform tomorrow.

"The army is getting ready for escalation."

⋯ The initial extraction for testing is going to happen tomorrow.

Production is expected to start in a week.

Note: Hezbullah is not concerned with testing but rather with production from the field.

⋯ Gantz says the agreement with Lebanon is satisfactory, that even Netanyahu would have signed it.

As in, Netanyahu is only voicing protest against the deal because of the elections. No Israeli official wants war.

⋯ Gantz: "If Hezbullah makes the mistake of attacking Karish, we will break Lebanon. "

Break as a literal translation of the word he used: dismantling

⋯ Lebanon received the Israeli response about the new changes it requested.

Israel is awaiting Lebanon's response.

⋯ Gantz: "I am the one who decided to raise the alert in the north and ordered the forces to prepare, and this came after accurate intelligence information."

"I am not causing concern for the residents, I am speaking seriously and preserving the population."