The Chinese government is ready to finance the transfer of the English “Manchester United” football player Zlatan Ibragimovich to one of the local clubs in order to increase the popularity of the Chinese Super League. Daily Mail reports that the annual salary of the Swede can be about 120 million euros per year.

Chelsea players visiting 1-0 defeated Crystal Palace in the London derby, which took place as part of the 17th round of the championship of England. The author of the only ball was Diego Costa (43 '). For the "aristocrats" this victory was the 11th in a row in the championship of the country. The London club repeated its own achievement of 2009 in the number of victories won in a row. The record for this indicator belongs to Arsenal (14). “11 Victories in a row are fantasy.

In Syria, evacuation from East Aleppo was resumed: Reuters , citing data from state media, Syria reports that on Sunday afternoon, the quarters controlled by the militants again went buses. On Friday, the process stopped after shelling the convoy with Shiite militants: they sought to evacuate their fellow tribesmen from two villages in the province of Idlib. On Saturday, a humanitarian convoy was sent there, which made it possible to resume negotiations.

In the Czech Nove Mesto, at the Biathlon World Cup in the race, from a general start, the leader of the season, French Martin Fourcade, who, despite the missing on the first “lying”, finished the first. Russian Anton Babikov, having passed the distance with one mistake at the last fire line became a bronze medalist, losing 9.4 seconds to the winner. Silver of Mass Start at the German Simon Shempa, who allowed one miss at each line when shooting lying down.

Syrian authorities transferred the International Mission to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to evidence of the use of Ipat militants. This was told by the official representative of the National Syria body for the implementation of the Convention on the prohibition of chemical weapons Samer Abbas. “We presented the missions all the documents, they were checked and accepted.

A rescue operation undergoes on Elbrus: they try to return the Russian climber with frostbitten legs from the mountains, who cannot go down on his own. The operation takes place in difficult conditions, the weather spoils, and rescuers hope to be in time until dark, Interfax reports with reference to the information of the Elbrus high-mountain search and rescue detachment (EVPSO).

The players of Madrid Real Madrid only in extra time beat the Japanese club Kasim Antlers in the final of the club World Cup, which was held in the Land of the Rising Sun. The Sunday match in Yokogam ended with the victory of the European Grand in extra time with a score of 4: 2. Karim Benzema (9 ') scored shortly after the starting whistle, but even before the break, Gak Sibasaki (44') restored equality, and in the 52nd minute he brought Kashima forward.

The rating of the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sharply decreased after a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin: the Japanese poorly appreciated the modest progress of negotiations on the conclusion of a peace treaty between countries. A survey conducted by the Kyodo National Agency showed that the ABE government lost 6% of support. Republic reports that the negotiation results negatively estimated more than half of the respondents - 54.3%. Positive - only 38.7%.

The workers of the Eiffel Tower, who announced a strike this week, agreed to resume work. The strike on pre -holiday week lasted five days. TASS reports about the agreement with the employers with reference to AFP. According to the French agency, the decision to stop the strike was made on Sunday morning by voting at a universal meeting of workers. During the day, the personnel and the administration of the Eiffel Tower must sign a reconciliation document.

The Investigative Chamber of the Ethics Committee of the International Football Federation (FIFA) began an investigation against the Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation and the head of the Russian Football Union (RFU) Vitaly Mutko, reports Daily Mail .

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in an interview with NTV said that import substitution in Russia took place - at least on his New Year's table. He spoke about domestic products in the program "Results". “On my New Year's table, there will certainly be fish, meat, and vegetables that were produced in our country, and at those enterprises that were created literally in the past few years,” he said in an interview with the leading program of Irada Zeynalova.

Rescuers evacuated and handed over to the doctors of the Russian climber, who, due to frostbite, could not go from Elbrus. The rescue operation took place in difficult weather conditions at an altitude of 5300 meters. "Rescue work was completed at 16:00. The victim was delivered from the Elbrus saddle to the village of Terskol, " Interfax told the operational attendant of the Elbrus highland search and rescue detachment.

Eyewitnesses shot a shootout on the video in the capital of Chechnya Grozny, which occurred on Saturday evening. According to the head of the region, Ramzan Kadyrov, four bandits were killed, two were hospitalized with injuries. According to Kadyrov, the bandits attacked a police officer and took possession of his car. After that, they entered the house of another law enforcement officer, but there was nobody there. The militants tried to hide.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish colleague Recep Erdogan during a telephone conversation discussed the situation in Syria, as well as the problems that arose during the evacuation from Aleppo, Reuters reports with reference to the Erdogan administration. According to the interlocutor of the agency, the leaders of the two countries agreed that it was necessary to make every effort so that the Aleppo evacuation process would no longer interrupt.

Four American senators on Sunday, December 18, advocated the creation of a special two -party committee to investigate the cyber attacks, which took place during the past presidential elections. The US authorities suggest that Russian hackers who acted by order of the leadership of the Russian Federation are behind hacking.