In the south of the Czech Republic in the Pilsen region, due to incessant rains, a flood began, RIA Novosti reports. Some of the roads are flooded. Rescuers remove fallen trees from the roads, pump out water from cellars and cellars. In the village of Oplotets, all residents were evacuated due to the threat of flooding. In Nyrzhany, water flooded the boiler house, which heated two-thirds of the city.

The Hydrometeorological Bureau of Moscow and the Moscow Region reported on Friday morning that snowfall and a blizzard will continue throughout the day, snow growth will be 6-8 cm. Ice is possible. The temperature in Moscow will fluctuate from -4 to -2 degrees Celsius, and in the region - from six to one degree below zero. The wind is expected to be southerly, 5-10 m/sec. with gusts up to 15 m/s, Interfax reports.

An earthquake hit central Indonesia on Friday, AP reported. Tremors of 5.4 magnitude were recorded on the island of Sumbawa, the epicenter of the earthquake was on the southern coast of the island. Tremors were also felt in the resorts of Bali and Lombok. There are no reports of casualties or damage yet.

One of the leaders of the Islamic Jihad extremist group, Iman Kaposi, who was responsible for the terrorist attack in Otniel, was detained in Hebron, Kursor-info reports. The terrorist was placed in a car and taken out of the Arab part of the city. As a result of the terrorist act committed on Friday, December 27 in the Jewish village of Otniel, four Israeli citizens were killed.

Former hostages who suffered during the seizure of the Dubrovka Palace of Culture and relatives of the victims are filing 10 new lawsuits against the Moscow government. According to Ekho Moskvy, citing a statement by lawyer Igor Trunov, the lawsuits will be filed with the court on Saturday, January 4.

In the Far East, four villages were left without heat, RIA Novosti reports. As the head of the press center of the Far Eastern Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Tatyana Popkova said on Friday, in Yakutia an emergency situation has developed in two villages at once. In the village of Guorakyuele on January 2, a boiler house burned down. As a result, 4 houses, a school, a kindergarten, an outpatient clinic and a club were left without heat supply.

Two girls were killed and two more were injured during a New Year's Eve party at a hairdressing salon in the English city of Birmingham. According to Reuters, the police who arrived at the scene of the crime found a car riddled with bullets parked outside the salon. There were three girls in the car. Two of them, aged 17 and 18, died on the spot. The third was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

The government of Chechnya will be temporarily housed in a trailer town that was built next to a demolished complex of government buildings. According to ITAR-TASS, electricity is supplied to the trailers, communication issues are being resolved, and water supply is being established. The town should begin work on Saturday, January 4th. The government complex damaged by the terrorist attack is being restored. The work is expected to be completed in three months.

In Moscow, on Friday, the car of the economic attache of the French embassy was robbed, a source in the police department of the capital said on Friday, Interfax reports. On January 2, at 9:45 pm, a citizen of France, the economic attache of the embassy of this country, Walter Gilles, turned to the police. He said that from 18.30 to 19.30 unknown people got into his Peugeot-206 official car, from where they stole a mobile phone. The amount of damage amounted to 5 thousand rubles.

On the night of Thursday to Friday, a fire broke out in Veliky Novgorod at the ZAO Stroysnab enterprise. According to RIA Novosti, the watchman of the enterprise, 49-year-old Sergei Nikulin, died. According to preliminary data, the 3-story building caught fire due to the fact that Nikulin was "careless when smoking." The area of ​​the fire exceeded 300 square meters. It was extinguished by about 30 firefighters, they were able to completely extinguish the fire only after more than four hours.

Germany. Moselle floods the city of Cell. Photo by ar A new flood in Europe began. According to Reuters, hurricanes and showers passed throughout Germany, France, England, Portugal, Belgium, Austria, Holland and the Czech Republic. The rivers came out of the shores, thousands of houses and roads are flooded, a railway message is difficult. At least six people have already died. In Germany, the Main and Moselle rivers almost emerged from the coast.

In Moscow, an apartment thief, fleeing from the police, jumped out the window from the second floor and ended up in intensive care, a source in the police department of the capital told Interfax. On Friday, a resident of the capital, who lives on Efremov Street, turned to the duty unit of the Khamovniki police department and reported that there was a stranger in her apartment.

In Moscow, the Emerald City was built from ice at the All-Russian Exhibition Center, NTV reports. The ice composition is based on the characters of the fairy tale of the same name by Alexander Volkov. Approximately half of the 60 figures are almost human-sized, the rest are much smaller. An ice wall was built around the small figures, in which about forty holes were made. Through these holes you can look at the figurines. The composition also includes a lighting system in the dark.

Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held in the Ofer prison near Rafah began a protest on Thursday. According to Ha`aretz, this resulted in riots. Prisoners, most of whom are in prison on charges of plotting terrorist attacks in Israel, began to throw various objects at the guards. Some Palestinians went on a hunger strike. To stop the unrest, the guards were forced, according to official Israeli sources, to use tear gas.

The well-known theater critic, teacher, widow of Anatoly Efros - Natalya Krymova died today in Moscow from a stroke. "Her opinion was always listened to and her appearance in the theater was always treated with great respect," actor Lev Durov said in an interview with Ekho Moskvy. “With the departure of Natalia Krymova, the era of Russian and Soviet theater has gone,” says Anatoly Smelyansky, rector of the Moscow Art Theater School. Natalya Krymova will be buried on Saturday, January 4th.