The Russian national team lost to the Belgian team the qualifying match of the European Football Championship - 2020. The match, held in St. Petersburg, ended with a score of 1:4. The only goal of the Russian team was scored by Georgiy Jikia in the 79th minute. Team Belgium scored Thorgan Hazard (19 minutes), Eden Hazard (33, 40) and Romelu Lukaku (72). The previous match with the Russian national team, held on March 21, the Belgian team also won. Then the score was 3:1.

Ivan Golunov has become a laureate of the Profession is a Journalist award established by Open Russia, a Meduza correspondent reports. The names of the 2019 award winners were announced on November 16 in Berlin.

Residents of one of the houses in Yekaterinburg locked the emergency team in the basement of the house, refusing to immediately eliminate the breakthrough of hot water. The brigade, Nikolay Gordeev, head of the legal department of the management company of the Oktyabrsky district, was told E1.ru, was summoned to one of the houses on Bazhov Street. The basement of the house was flooded with hot water due to a break in the heating system.

In the Ryazan region, the latest Orion unmanned aerial vehicle crashed. The drone crashed during a test flight near a residential building in the village of Listvyanka, Ryazan Region, told TASS Sergey Bubenev, an investigator for especially important cases of the Moscow Interdistrict Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee on Transport, . There were no casualties or damage. According to the preliminary version, the investigator said, there was a failure of equipment.

On November 12, The Walt Disney Company launched the Disney+ streaming service. In the online cinema, in addition to new products and exclusives like the Star Wars spin-off about the Mandalorian bounty hunter, there are also classic cartoons. The Simpsons also came out on Disney+. The company presented the series in a modern 16:9 format, adapted for wide screens.

Yoan Valat / EPA / Scanpix / Leta in Paris on November 16, a protest of “yellow vests” was held. To accelerate the demonstrators, the police used tear gas, and 113 people were detained, according to 20:00 in Moscow. On Saturday, the action of "yellow vests" took place in Paris for the 53rd time. For the past few months, such shares, which collected up to 300 thousand people previously became less massive.

The Investigative Committee will check the information that the St Petersburg University teacher Oleg Sokolov, accused of murder, used force against one of the listeners of his lecture. The student told Alexander Bastrykin about the incident at a personal reception that the head of the Investigative Committee held in St. Petersburg on November 16.

Update: The representative of the Security Service of Ukraine Olena Gitlyanska confirmed that the head of Ukreximbank has been detained. According to Gitlyanskaya, Gritsenko was detained as part of a case of embezzlement and money laundering by a criminal group. Law enforcement officers detained in Kyiv the head of one of the largest banks in Ukraine - Ukreximbank - Oleksandr Gritsenko, Interfax reports, citing sources.

Sanjiv Nayak / Unsplash French zoologists have found that city pigeons are more likely to lose their fingers of paws in areas where the most hairdressers are located. This may indicate that damage to the limbs in birds is primarily connected with the infection, as was considered before, but with the fact that the paws of pigeons are confused in human hair. This is stated in the work published in the journal Biological Conservation. Briefly reported by New Scientist.

In Paris, police have arrested at least 33 participants in a Yellow Vests protest. The police used tear gas to disperse the demonstrators, according to The Guardian. Protesters, according to Reuters, also tried to block traffic on the ring road in the French capital, but the police prevented this. The action in Paris on November 16 takes place exactly one year after the protests of the “yellow vests” began in France.

A private plane made a hard landing in the Vsevolozhsky district of the Leningrad region, Interfax reports, citing the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. The message about the plane that landed near the village of Myaglovo was received by the Ministry of Emergency Situations at about 13:30. Firefighters were on the scene. The Ministry of Emergency Situations does not have data on the victims.

Manuel Silvestri / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Saint Mark. November 14, 2019 In Venice, the strongest flood over the past 50 years. The area of ​​St. Mark is covered with an almost meter layer of water, the city authorities were forced to close it and a number of other popular attractions for tourists. At the peak recorded on November 13, the water level rose to 1.87 meters - only 7 centimeters less than a historical record recorded in 1966.

Holograms are similar to flying cars: both for at least half a century are an integral attribute of science fiction, futurists are constantly talking about them, although there is still little chance of meeting something similar in real life. Nevertheless, development in these areas is conducted. This week, the Japanese-British group of physicists introduced a new type of three-dimensional displays.

Update: On November 21, Navalny's Krasnodar headquarters announced that YouTube had removed the block from the investigation. The blocking, as it turned out, was imposed on the complaint of Remezkov's nephew. YouTube has blocked an investigation into the former vice-governor of the Krasnodar Territory, State Duma deputy Alexander Remezkov. An investigation film about Remezkov was prepared by Navalny's Krasnodar headquarters.

Lionsgate is in talks to make a film that will star Nicolas Cage as Nicolas Cage, according to The Hollywood Reporter. According to the script, Nicolas Cage, whose recent films have been box office failures, is trying to get a role from Quentin Tarantino. The actor is experiencing financial difficulties and is forced to accept an invitation to the birthday of a Mexican billionaire who is his fan.