The British television radio broadcasting corporation BBC is preparing a program about the Israeli Prime Minister Ariele Sharone in case of his death. The BBC leadership considers the murder of Sharon in connection with the implementation of the plan of the one -way department from the Palestinians. According to the Israeli newspaper Maariv, work on the transfer was secretly started about six months ago and today almost completed.

The crew of the tenth long expedition to the International Space Station (ISS) Salizhan Sharipov and Leroy Chiao will have to grow in space the fourth crop of peas. “We managed to grow the third crop of peas in space.

The salary of a guide policeman can increase almost doubles from January 1, 2005 to seven to eight thousand rubles from the current three to four thousand, the head of the public order of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Russian capital, Alexei Laushkin, said on Wednesday at a briefing in Moscow. According to him, now this issue is being worked out together with the Moscow authorities. “The issue of Moscow has already been practically resolved,” he said.

The Moscow CSKA on Wednesday held his third match at the first group stage of the Champions Football League. At the Stamford Bridge stadium in London, the army team was opposed by the unconditional leader of the group N. The victory guaranteed Chelsea a place in the next circle, and the wards of Jose Mourinho were not going to postpone the solution of this issue in a long box.

The British parliamentarians from the ruling Labor Party made a united front for a mandatory vote in the legislative body on the feasibility of relocation of part of the British military contingent from Basra to the Baghdad region. Such a vote should take place before the Kingdom Government gives an official response to the corresponding US request for military support for its operations.

The State Duma wants to hear from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov, for what purpose the President of Russia signed documents in China on the gratuitous transmission of the PRC of the disputed islands: the islands of Tarabarov and half of the Bolshoi Ussuri island. The deputies decided to find out what price Russia paid for the Russian-Chinese agreements signed in the PRC. Sergei Lavrov today should perform in the State Duma as part of a "government hour".

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili announced his readiness to go to Tskhinvali for negotiations. "We (with Southern Ossetia) need to start a conversation about the legal settlement of the problem. We are not going to organize European trips for this. Tskhinvili nearby, and I am ready to come and discuss all issues," Saakashvili said at a press conference on Wednesday evening.

The religious leadership of the Iraqi Shiites announced the support of universal elections scheduled for January 2005, RIA Novosti reports. As the Iraqi newspaper Al-Mashriq reported, this was stated in the Nezhef by the official representative of the leading spiritual authority among the country's Shiite community Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani Hamid al-Khafaf.

The British writer Alan Holling -Hallingherst “The Line of Beauty” received the Buker Prize for 2004. According to RIA Novosti , the announcement and awarding ceremony of the laureate of the prestigious literary prize of the English -speaking world was broadcast on Tuesday late evening BBC2 and BBC4. The winning novel tells about the life of the young Englishman Nika Gest, who in 1983 settles in the family of a member of the British parliament Gerald Fedens.

The defender of the capital's football club Lokomotiv Vadim Evseev was fined 30 thousand rubles for unethical and incorrect statements to the members of the Bureau of the Control and Disciplinary Commission (KDK), admitted in an interview with Sport-Express newspaper last month. According to the Official website of the Premier League , this decision was made after the next meeting of the Bureau of the Code of Civil Procedure of the Russian Football Union (RFU) in the Premier League.

The Russian premiere of Howard Schora "The Lord of the Rings" will be held on November 17 and 18, 2004 on the stage of the State Kremlin Palace. The presentation will be attended by the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia (artistic director - Vladimir Spivakov) and the choir of the Academy of Good Art (artistic director - Viktor Popov). In the meantime, the symphony "The Lord of the Rings" continues to beat the attendance records.

A difficult way to express respect to the gods was chosen by a follower of Taoism in Malaysia, publicly brewing himself for half an hour with dumplings and corn. According to RIA Novosti with reference to the Internet version of the Malaysian newspaper Star, 56-year-old Lim Bun Dry from the Taoist temple in the city of Pekan Selo, crossing the legs, into the boiler-pairing boiler and was covered with a lid along with products prepared there.

The administration of one of the zoos in Thailand decided to put up to 23 tigers, which had signs of "bird flu". This was announced on Wednesday by AFP by the head of the Thai department for combating this dangerous disease, Sharal Trinvutipong. Such a decision was made after seven tigers were found on Wednesday morning in the zoo, which had previously discovered symptoms of Bird flu.

Established by the Archbishop of Kenterbury Roween Williams Lambetsk Commission for the exit of the crisis in the Anglican community caused by the ordination of the bishop of the homosexual in the United States, spread the so-called Windsor report, where the result of its work was summed up, the Blagovers-Infield reports with reference to the ENI .

In the USA, the longest strike in the world is coming to an end. 600 employees of the world's largest company for the cultivation and processing of walnuts Diamond of California stubbornly went on strike for 13 years, seeking the restoration of the salary cut during the crisis in the industry in 1985. In 1991, when the company's finances improved, employees refused to go to work, hoping that in anticipation of the assembly season they would increase the salary.