All demonstrative flights at the international festival of pilot groups on Saturday are canceled according to weather conditions. This was reported to "Interfax" by the head of the flight and research institute named after Gromov Vyacheslav Bakaev. “You see what the weather. In this weather, the planes can only make a passage over the runway, and the height of the aisle will be about 200 meters, this is the minimum critical permissible mark for the flight,” Bakaev told reporters.

The Russians Vera Ilyina and Julia Pakhalina won silver medals in synchronous jumps in water from a three -meter springboard at the Olympic Games in Athens. For six attempts, Russian athletes scored 330.84 points and won the third silver for the Russian national team on the first day of the Olympiad. Chinese athletes Minya Wu and Jinjin Guo, who scored 336.90 points, won gold awards.

The leader of the Italian cycling team Paolo Bettini won the gold medal in the men's group race along the roads of Athens. The second place was taken by the Portuguese Sergio Paulino, who is in the world ranking in the 279th position. The third place and the bronze medal were brought by Belgium by Axel Merks, who is the son of the five -time winner of "Tour de France" Eddie Merks. Meanwhile, another winner of the "big loop", the German Jan Ulrich remained only the fourth.

The Progress-M50 space truck at 09:01 Moscow time was successfully attached to the Russian MKS "Zvezda" module. It was not required to transition to manual control - the ship "Social" to the station in automatic mode, RIA Novosti from the NOVETO COMPANIE DIRECTION OF MECHIETS. The ship delivered to the ISS the fuel supply for orientation engines, water, containers with Russian and American products, scientific equipment, and parcels for the ninth permanent expedition.

This morning, in Moscow, at the Kursk station, a skirmish occurred between taxi drivers and police, the Echo of Moscow radio station reports. According to the radio station, traffic police officers, who were on duty in front of the station building, tried to drive one of the drivers of the largest metropolitan taxi company from the parking lot. In this, they were actively helped by taxi drivers. Nevertheless, the taxi driver refused to leave.

On the first day of the Olympics, the Japanese team received two gold medals. Both awards of the highest dignity went to representatives of the Land of the Rising Sun in judo. In women in the category up to 48 kilograms, Ryuoko Tanya won, and for men, Tadakhiro Nomura became the first three -time Olympic champion in the history of this sport. Recall that Nomura received gold medals at Games in Atlanta and Sydney.

Georgia and South Ossetia confirmed the unity of positions on agreements on the ceasefire in the conflict zone. This was announced today by the co -chair of the mixed control commission from North Ossetia Taimuraz Kusov. The meeting is held in the Georgian village of Ergneti a few kilometers from Tskhinvali.

On Saturday morning, in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict from the sniper bullet, one Georgian peacemaker received a wound to the head. As reported to reporters in the Ministry of Defense of Georgia, the wounded helicopter was transported to Tbilisi and was placed in the National Medical Center named after Gudushauri. "The condition of the wounded is critical. He received a through bullet wound to the head. Brain tissue and blood vessels are damaged.

According to updated data, 14 people were killed in an accident in Tatarstan, two were seriously injured and are in a coma, RIA Novosti was told in the traffic police department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tatarstan. Due to the fact that the bodies of the dead were badly damaged in the fire, the traffic police are still abstained to talk about the exact number of accident victims.

The main oil pipeline is closed, which feeds the bulk terminals of the port of the bassra, Reuters reports. “The Basra has a bad situation, in this regard, a decision was made to close the oil pipeline,” a source in the government said. Through the main oil pipeline, 1.5 million barrels per day are pumped. The second oil pipeline is still operating, through which up to 1 million barrels per day are supplied to Basra.

The tropical hurricane "Charlie" was assigned to the American state of Florida is awarded the 4th category of danger on a 5-point scale. The speed of gusts of wind "Charlie", as the weather forecasters of the National Center for Observation of Hurricanes located in Miami reported today, reaches 230 km per hour. A state of emergency has been declared in Florida.

Over a year in Italy, 46 people were arrested on charges of ties with Islamic terrorist organizations and their Italian cells. This is stated in the "report on the situation with security in Italy", which will be published on Sunday, the Minister of the Interior Giusepei Pisan. Some data from this report were distributed on Saturday by ANSA.

Today in Krakow, at the age of 93, the famous Polish poet and writer, Laureate of the Nobel Prize, Cheslav Milos, died. His death was reported by the poet's relatives. According to the information received, in recent years the writer suffered from the disease of the circulatory system, ITAR-TASS reports. Cheslav Milos was born in 1911 on the territory of modern Lithuania.

Starting from 00:00 Saturday, a preliminary agreement on the ceasefire between South Ossetia and Georgia entered into force. An agreement on the ceasefire was reached on the meeting in Tskhinvili on Friday late in the evening of a meeting of the mixed control commission (SCC) to resolve the Georgian-Ossetian conflict.

The Australian Ian Torp successfully defended his title of the Olympic champion in 400 meters by free -style, winning the championship at his comrade in the national team of Grant Haucket. Hacket received the silver medal of the Olympics, bringing the Australians the first awards in Athens. It should be noted that the torp, who won the three previous world championships at this distance received a serious opponent in the person of the Hacket. The bronze medal was won by an American Cell Keller.