US President Donald Trump denied reports of his doubts about the loyalty of the vice president Mike Pence, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the White House. “No, I have no doubt about his loyalty. It is 100% loyal. It was false information ... a typical false story from New York Times, ”Trump said. Earlier it was reported that Trump was several times interested in his advisers, whether he was given a penalty, and received various answers.

The Chairman of China Xi Jinping called on South Korea to speed up negotiations under the free trade agreement, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the central television of China.

Xi Jinping - General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China The United States and China continue to exchange attacks in the field of trade, investment and security, this time at the Summit of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in Papua-New Guinea. China insists on the inaccessibility of trade wars, and America assures his intention to agree, but refuses to soften the policy regarding the Chinese side.

The collision of a bus and a freight train in the Saratov region, which claimed the lives of five people, occurred due to the fact that the driver went to move to the approaching train, the press service of the Volga Railway said. “The cause of the accident is a gross violation by the driver of the road of traffic rules when crossing the railway crossing,” the report said. Another victim in the accident died, and the number of victims of the accident increased to five people.

Bloomberg experts built an economic model that showed how the Russian economy could develop if there were no sanctions. Since 2014, it could grow by an additional 6%. According to experts, the forecast of Russian economy growth from the end of 2013 to the present, excluding the effect of sanctions, would be 10% more than the actual growth. In part, the indicators are also associated with the state of affairs in the hydrocarbons market - the drop in oil prices affected negatively.

At least 40 people died as a result of an air strike by the US Coalition in the Syrian village of Al-Bukaan in the Province of Deir ez-Zor, the Sana agency reports. According to the agency, most of the dead are women and children. The coalition has repeatedly struck the settlements of Deir-Ez-Zor this week, making sorties almost every day. During the bombing of November 12, 60 people died in the village of Shafa.

A freight train and a regular bus collided at a railway crossing in the Ozin district of the Saratov region, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the regional traffic police department. Four people died, three were injured. The incident occurred at about 12.00 local time (11.00 Moscow time). “According to preliminary information, in the Ozinsky district there was a collision of a bus along the route of Saratov-Uralsk, with a freight train on an unregulated railway crossing.

The police of the Saratov region detained a bus driver in the case of an accident with five dead, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia reports.

Maxim Russo One of the copies of the standard of the kilogram Wikimedia Commons On this Friday, at the 26th General Conference on Measures and Libra, which was held in Sevra near Paris, the final decision was made to change the definition of four basic units of measurement: kilogram, ampere, Kelvin and pray, so that their size was determined on the basis of fundamental physical constants. The changes will officially enter into force on May 20, 2019, on World Metrology Day.

The US Central Intelligence Department believes that the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Muhammad Ben Salman Al Saud ordered the opposition journalist Jamal Khashoggi, writes The Washington Post . “The accepted position lies in the fact that the murder of a journalist could not happen without his [hereditary prince of the kingdom] of knowledge or participation,” said a source familiar with the conclusions of the CIA.

The system of preferential provision of drugs that exists today in Russia is unproductive and does not take into account the needs of a particular person - now President Vladimir Putin also says about this. The head of state at a meeting on the topic of improving the efficiency of the drug support system in Russia stated that it is necessary to put things in order with the register of preferential categories of citizens, and with a list of drugs for them.

Two activists of Magomed Mutsolgov and Ruslan Yandieva, who opposed the agreement on the Chechen-Ingush border, were detained in Ingushetia, RBC reports with reference to the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in the city of Nazran. “Yandiev has an administrative offense, Mutsolgov has resistance to the authorities,” the OMVD on duty reported.

US President Donald Trump doubted the loyalty of Vice President Mike Pence, whom he asked his advisers, writes The New York Times with reference to Trump's entourage. The President did not talk about the dismissal of a pence, but his doubts caused the concern of some members of the administration. Advisers were not from among the White House’s employees that someone could be more effective at the site of the pence.

Former senior investigator for the investigation of especially important cases of the State Property Committee of St. Petersburg, Nikolai Vorobyov, was arrested in the case of the embezzlement of 11 kg of cocaine from the camera storage, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the vessels of St. Petersburg. According to investigators, Vorobyov stole about 11 kg of cocaine drug, which was in the storage room since 2014.

The Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested a minor on January 14, 2019 in the case of a fabric of a schoolgirl, writes RBC with reference to the press service of the city courts of St. Petersburg. The court refused the request to transfer the suspect in causing grievous bodily harm (part 1 of article 111 of the Criminal Code) of the guy “for supervision of parents and grandmother”.