Participants of the anti -government action passing near the buildings of the Polish parliament blocked the exit from the Sejm of the ruling party "Law and Justice" (ZIS). Among the "hostages" of the demonstrators was the head of the ZIS Yaroslav Kachinsky, but on the morning of Saturday, he managed to get out of the siege with the help of the police who used the protesting tear gas, the Reuters agency reports.

The Russian Sanger Roman Repilov took first place at the fourth stage of the World Cup in the American Park City. The 20 -year -old athlete in the sum of two attempts showed the result - 1 minute 32.254 seconds. “The successful performance of Roman Repilov can be explained by the good work of the coaching staff and the unmistakable races of the athlete himself,” said Albert Demchenko, head coach of the Russian national team.

Destroyed at Seoul Airport for violation of migration legislation , two dozen Russians leave the country: the majority returns to Russia, and one to Vietnam. Citizens of the Russian Federation were suspected of incorrectly indicating the purpose of the visit when filling out visa documents. The Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Korea updated the data on the morning of December 17.

In the Midan area in Damascus, an explosion occurred near the police station, where about 100 people were - mainly officers and sergeants of law enforcement agencies. RIA Novosti reports that the explosive device was assigned to the girl 7-8 years old. "The girl's body is in the building. Presumably, the device that was on the child was driven remotely. The girl could be used blindly," the local police say.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino expressed the hope that the video replacement system will be used at the World Cup in 2018 in Russia. “We have received many questions and critics from football federations,” the AS official quoted the words. “Video recovers previously tested in friendly matches, but the World Cup is a different level. We continue to eliminate some errors in the system.

The Moscow CSKA on its floor with a score of 92:76 (24:11, 20:31, 27:23, 21:11) defeated the Spanish Barcelona in the match of the regular Euroliga championship. The most productive player in the army was the American defender Kory Higgins, who scored 23 points. “In the second half, many added in the game, and we coped with a very good team, having won the next victory during the marathon,” the official coach of the Moscow club Dimitris Itdis quotes the official website of the capital's club.

In the Orenburg region there was a serious accident on heating systems: four microdistricts of the Buzuluk district center, almost 20 thousand people, remained without heat in the 30-degree frost. The Volga Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergencies said that the accident occurred early in the morning: "At 05:50 (MSC) there was a violation in the work of the boiler room at the address: Orenburg region, Buzuluk, the Magistral Magistralian 2".

The UN Commission completed an investigation into an attack on the humanitarian convoy in Syria in September this year, which was previously accused by the Russian VKS. The report is confidential, it was transferred for study by the General Secretary of the World Organization Pan Hi Muna, the UN press service said. The day before, Aleppo fired at a column that evacuated the militants, after which the process was interrupted.

The Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe, following the visit to the country of Russian President Vladimir Putin, announced the "boundless possibilities" of the development of relations. A “big step forward” was made on the issue of smoking and concluding a peace treaty between countries, Abe said in an interview with TASS.

The elected US President Donald Trump called the “subertain” act by the Chinese by the Chinese of the American underwater apparatus . The typo was adjusted after almost an hour and a half. Employees of the explanatory dictionary "Merriam-Vebster" noted the achievement of a billionaire, although they did not choose it "word of the day." To comment on the incident with the capture of the underwater drone, Trump used his Twitter account.

China admits the probability of a trade war with the United States because of the policy of the elected President Donald Trump, but hopes to avoid this, the Deputy Minister of Finance of China Chju Guanjao said on Saturday. In the event of an exacerbation, China may take measures that will lead to a decrease in the number of jobs in the United States, he warned. Guanjao played at a conference on the prospects for the development of the Chinese economy in 2017.

In Belgium, ten teenagers were detained, who planned terrorist attacks at Christmas fairs, the Laatste Nieuws newspaper said. Teenagers received instructions from extremists, and not everyone was ready to go to real attacks, said the representative of the federal prosecutor's office of the kingdom Eric van der Sipt. According to him, the detained teenagers "were recruited by terrorist organizations for the preparation or committing terrorist attacks." Among them there are both boys and girls.

In Moscow, in the "Arena of Legends" hockey players of the Russian national team with a score of 5: 1 beat the Czech Republic in the match of the second stage of Eurotour - Channel One Cup. As part of the winners, Sergey Plotnikov (6 '), Pavel Datsyuk (9'), Vladimir Tkachev (12 '), Ivan Telegin (43') and Ilya Kovalchuk (60 '), who also made two assists, were noted as part of the winners. The only puck at the guests was abandoned by the Amur hockey player Tomash Zagorn (28 ').

In Oceania, an earthquake of magnitude 8 occurred, after which there was a threat of large -scale tsunami in the region. The US Geological Service appreciated the magnitude of the earthquake in Papua - New Guinea at 7.9, the Pacific warning center about the tsunami in its first report - at 8.0. The warnings about the tsunami were released for emergency services of eight islands of micronzia and countries, including Indonesia.

The Canadian boxer Bermain Steiver told the R-Sport agency that the Russian Doping test before the fight with him Russian Alexander Povetkin should be disqualified for lifelong. “On the one hand, I am surprised, although in fact it is not, he had been caught in a doping for the second time. But I don’t regret that I came to Russia. I looked at Russia, this is a very beautiful country. I believe that Povetkin should be disqualified for life, I repeat, it was the second time.