If a 51-year-old French specialist agrees to move from England to Southeast Asia, he will become the highest paid coach of the world. Recall that Japan, where he is offered to leave, next year, together with South Korea, will receive participants in the next world championship. The coach of the “gunners” already has experience in the country of the rising sun: in 1996-98. He headed Nagoy Graampus Eit.

Today, Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations in the Egyptian resort city of Taba resumed. After several hours of the break, during which the Israeli delegation consulted with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barack, negotiations continued. The Israelis insist that the break in negotiations is not connected with the next murder of the Israeli in Jerusalem. The delegations began to discuss one of the most acute issues - about the fate of millions of Palestinian refugees.

Today in the program "Voice of the People" for the second time, in addition to the telephone, an Internet voting was also held on the website ntv.ru. The situation was discussed related to the reform of the Russian criminal procedure system designed to prevent unreasonable arrests undertaken by state prosecutors. Recall that last week the President of Russia revoked amendments that limit the possibilities of the prosecutor's office.

The interaction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church "develops in ascending and is changing qualitatively", becoming a spiritual need for employees of the internal affairs bodies. This was stated on Friday at Christmas readings in Moscow at the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the internal affairs of the Russian Federation Vladimir Rushailo, reports Echo of Moscow with reference to Interfax.

Today, journalists of the NTV television company will hold "solemn wires" of the leading information program "Today" by Tatyana Mitkova to the prosecutor's office. According to Echo of Moscow, the action will begin at the central office of Media Most in Bolshoi Palashevsky Lane at about 9:30 Moscow time. Tatyana Mitkova and the first deputy chairman of the board of directors of the holding Igor Malashenko the day before were called by the summons for interrogation to the prosecutor's office.

Charles Aznavour, the Great Chance, moreover, √ the very personification of the French song - recorded his farewell album "Aznavour 2000". The singer seriously intends to rest - at least he officially announced this. Back in 1998, in an interview with the Internet publication Label France, Aznavour said: "To leave the stage? I will die of boredom!

Having been going on for more than five years, the so-called “banana war” between the European Union and the United States has escalated. On January 25, the American company Chiquita filed a lawsuit against the European Union in the European Court.

The Western press finds out new details of how negotiations were on the sale of part of the NTV shares, which was provided for by a settlement agreement between the Media Most and Gazprom-Media. The sale was supposed to be engaged in Doych, which unexpectedly abandoned his participation in the transaction.

In India, Pakistan and Nepal this morning, a powerful earthquake occurred in Moscow time. The force of underground shocks reached 7 points on the Richter scale. The epicenter of the earthquake was in the state of Gujarat in the north-west of India. There, as reported, several buildings were destroyed. However, strong underground shocks were felt even in Bombay and Delhi, as well as in the regions of Pakistan, bordering India.

Barnaul airport was closed today for an hour and a half due to the appearance of an unidentified flying object on the runway. According to the local media, the general director of the Altai Air enterprise Ivan Komarov, in the dark in the area of ​​the runway, an unknown luminous object was recorded. The pilots of the Il-76 cargo aircraft, which belonged to Tesis, who had caught up with a UFO, refused to take off and returned to the parking lot.

“Russia will not unilaterally refuse to pay its debts,” the Russian Finance Minister made this statement at today’s meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, dedicated to the Russian economy. Kudrin emphasizes that Russia intends to act in full compliance with international standards when resolving issues of servicing external debt.

Two Moscow pawnshops at once were closed on Wednesday by employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The press service of the GUBOP reports that these pawnshops were engaged in laundering money received illegally. We are talking about the legalization of three billion "dirty rubles".

The White House flatly refused to comment on the on the eve of the statement of the Cuban leader Fidel Castro about George Bushe Jr.. “We have no reaction to this,” said the press secretary of the White House Ari Flysher. Representatives of the National Security Council also refused to comment. On the eve of Castro made several ulcerative phrases about the intellectual abilities of the new US president.

On Friday, the European Commission announced it had launched an investigation into a possible conspiracy between five multinational audio companies to inflate the prices of CDs. The investigation has only just begun and a spokeswoman for the competition commissioner said only that it concerns EMI, TimeWarner, Sony, Bertelsmann and Universal, which control the lion's share of the CD market. The activities of these record companies were already considered by a US court last year.

Despite the recent shipment of palladium from Russia to Japan, the price of this precious metal again soared to a record high during trading on the London Metal Exchange. The price of a troy ounce of palladium was $1,094, an exchange representative said. However, during trading the price of this metal reached $1,100 per ounce.