The representative of the Adas Ein-Kremi hospital said that the state of the head of the Israeli government Ariel Sharon has worsened, so he is now in the operating room, reports Newsru Israel. According to the representative of the hospital, when checking, problems were found in the digestive system of Ariel Sharon. The spokeswoman for Adas Ain-Kreem Hospital, Yael Boem-Levy, stated that there was a threat to Ariel Sharon's life. Information is specified.

On Friday, in the afternoon, a column with a humanitarian cargo from Russia arrived in Alchevsk (Lugansk region of Ukraine) on Friday. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic on Saturday, warm things and mini-stinging with a capacity of 1 MW were delivered to the victims. In addition, the International Red Cross provided material assistance totaling 37.5 thousand hryvnias. Over the past day, heat was served in 36 residential buildings of the city.

The golden award from the fourth set of medals played on the first day of the Olympic Games migrated to Jennifer Hale, who became a champion in Mogul. Having won the qualification, Jennifer Hale left no chance in the final. With an indicator of 26.50 points, she was ahead of the closest competitor of Kari Tra from Norway by almost one point. The arbitrators appreciated the efforts of the Frenchwoman Sandra Laura, who was able to rise so highly with a bronze medallion.

The operation of Ariel Sharon ended. As Israeli radio reports, it went successfully. Now it is placed in the intensive care unit. During the operation, Ariel Sharon was removed part of the gastrointestinal tract, reports Newsru Israel . The reason for the sharp deterioration in the state of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was tissue necrosis, which blocked the blood flow to the gastrointestinal tract, the Haaretz newspaper reports without an indication of the source.

The American skater Cyd Hedrik faster than competitors ran 5000 meters through the ice oval and became the champion of Turin. At the same time, Ched almost rewritten the record of the Olympic Games - 0.02 seconds were not enough. The best of the Russians, Ivan Skobrev showed the 11th result.

The law enforcement agencies of Kabardino-Balkaria with a confession appeared one of the participants in the attack in October last year on the 43rd border detachment in Nalchik. This was reported to ITAR-TASS today in the press service of the Kabardino-Balkaria Ministry of Internal Affairs. "A participant in the attack is a resident of the suburbs of Nalchik, the village of Kenzhe. He is born in 1972," the agency’s interlocutor said.

Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Ivanov expressed gratitude to the authorities and residents of the Italian city of Messin, carefully keeping the memory of the feat of Russian sailors.

About a hundred people took part in the picket organized by the Novosibirsk branch of the public organization of car owners "Freedom of choice" in protest against the sentence Oleg Shcherbinsky, convicted of the accident in which the Altai governor Mikhail Evdokimov died. According to Interfax, the picket passed within an hour on the central square of Novosibirsk (Lenin Square).

The Ministry of Defense of Russia requires official clarifications from Tbilisi on the circumstances of the initiation of a criminal case against three Russian officers detained by the Georgian authorities in Kurt, the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Sedov said on Saturday.

US Secretary of State Kondoliza Rice and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, during a telephone conversation held on Friday, discussed Russia's plans to invite a Hamas delegation on a visit, said the official representative of the US State Department Sean McCormak. According to him, this issue was also discussed with the leadership of the Russian Foreign Ministry was discussed by the Deputy Secretary of State for Political Issues Nicholas Burns.

Georgia is not going to return the documents of three Russian officers until the end of the investigation. The personality certificates seized on the eve of the three Russian officers detained due to violation of the passport regime and already released will be returned as soon as the investigation ended, the State minister for resolving conflicts George Khandrava said on the Saturday of RIA Novosti .

The head of the Agency for Physical Education and Sports Vyacheslav Fetisov is confident that Russian biathlonists will still have medals, but for this it is necessary that luck will turn to face them. As Fetisov stated in an interview with RIA Novosti at the end, "very disappointing for Sergey Chepikov (he took fourth place)." “I have been familiar with him for a very long time, we were members of the same Olympic team, and he earned a medal today,” Fetisov said.

In the city of Zhigulevsk, the Samara region, due to an accident in the water conduit, about 12 thousand people are left without heat for more than a day. According to the Interfax agency, the operational duty of the Volga-Ural regional regional center and emergencies on Saturday, the accident on the main water conduit occurred on February 9 in the morning due to defrosting the shale of the gate.

In Greece, the case of a "bird flu" is confirmed by a variety of H5N1 dangerous for a person. This was reported on Saturday by the Ministry of Agriculture of the country. The samples of three dead swans, taken last Thursday, gave a positive result. We are talking about the first confirmed case of "bird flu" in the European Union. "The EU laboratory in London confirmed the presence of the H5N1 virus in three samples taken from dead swans.

In Tehran, demonstrators protesting against the publication of caricatures on the Prophet Muhammad, on the eve, were thrown by the stones of the embassy of Denmark, Great Britain and France. At the same time, several bottles of incendiary mixture were also thrown towards the French representative office. There were no data on the victims.