The program is conducted by Tengiz Gudava. Radio Liberty correspondent Yuri Vachnadze is talking with the Georgian director Gigiga Lordkipanidze. Tengiz Gudava: In the history of television of the Soviet Union of its last stage, there were several milestones - works that, one might say, entered the blood and flesh of our generation. This is the "seventeen moments of spring", this is "a meeting place cannot be changed" and a number of others.

Israeli military personnel subjected to shelling a motorcade, which was followed by the leaders of the Palestinian security services. Two Palestinians received slight injuries. The Israeli military said that the fire was opened in response to shots that were heard from the column. Palestinians claim that the shelling was intentional. Employees of the Palestinian Security Services followed in Gaza after negotiations with the heads of Israeli special services on the cessation of violence.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway turned to the Russian authorities for clarifications in connection with the reports that appeared that there was nuclear weapons on the Kursk atomic submarine that had sank in the Barents Sea. The day before, this information was published by the Norwegian NTB news agency with reference to one of the members of the Russian State Commission for the investigation of the Kursk disaster.

The British actress Charlot Rampling will open this year the international film festival in Cannes, which will be held from May 9 to 20, and she will also give prizes before its end. The chairman of the jury of the competition of full-length films will be the Swedish-Norwegian actress and film director Liv Ulman. In Moscow, the prince of the contest "Press photo of Russia" were announced .

One Palestinian died and at least 10 were injured. Today in the clashes in the gas sector. At the Jewish settlement of Netsarim, the Israeli military opened fire when they could not disperse a crowd of teenagers who threw the soldiers with stones and bottles of incendiary mixture. Another skirmish occurred at the Erez checkpoint. In the city of Enin, one of the leaders of the Islamic Jihad group Iyad Hardan was killed on the western coast of Jordan.

US Secretary of State Colin Powell will take part in Paris next week a meeting of the contact group in the former Yugoslavia. This was announced on Wednesday by a representative of the American State Department. According to him, on the agenda of the meeting scheduled for April 11, there is a discussion of the latest events in Yugoslavia, Macedonia and Kosovo, including the arrest of the former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevich.

The Council of Europe expressed concern to the fate of independent media in Russia in connection with the situation around the NTV television company. The President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Lord Russell-Johnston, emphasized the decisive importance of independent media for young Russian democracy. Russell-Johnston called on the Russian leadership to refrain from any actions that could lead to restriction of freedom of speech.

Irina is worthwhile, Rome: Special forces of the Italian police arrested 5 people on Thursday morning and search for five more citizens of Algeria and Tunisia, suspected of belonging to a terrorist organization, subordinate to the billionaire from Saudi Arabia, Bin Ladena.

For all smokers with perennial experience, the chances of getting the bladder cancer are supervised , but for women this risk is almost twice as higher than for men. Doctors from the University of South California, who revealed such a trend, published these conclusions in the last issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Yesterday, in two quarter -final matches of the Champions Football League, English clubs met with Spanish . “Lids” in its field confidently won the La-Korunya champion 3: 0. The balls were held by Jan Hart, Alan Smith and Rio Ferdinand. The Arsenal in London defeated Valencia 2: 1 - in the first half, the guests opened an account after Roberto Ayla, and in the second half of the meeting, the hosts achieved victory thanks to the balls Thierry Henry and Ray Parlor.

The French court sentenced a serial killer on Thursday to a life -based conclusion. The 38-year-old Guy Georges, nicknamed the "killer of East Paris" in the press, raped and killed 7 women in the 90s.

The total number of refugees from Chechnya this year will be from 300 to 340 thousand people , said the Minister for Affairs of the Federation, National and Migration Policy Alexander Blokhin. To create the conditions for the return of refugees, their move and arrange the Ministry of Feda, it allocated 500 million rubles. The State Duma adopted amendments to the legislation regarding delay from the draft of citizens for military service .

US Secretary of State Paulin Powell expressed regret about the death of a Chinese fighter pilot, who ran into an American military aircraft on Sunday. The head of the American Foreign Ministry did not apologize to China for this incident. Powell said that both parties need to move on and find a decision of the dispute. Beijing insists on an apology from Washington.

The company Gazprom-Media refused the proposal of the media-Moscow holding to establish a three-month moratorium to replace the leadership of the NTV channel. As the press secretary of Gazprom-Media, Aelit Efimova, said today, the company fears that during this time the financial condition of NTV will deteriorate. Efimova once again confirmed the intention of Gazprom-Media to maintain an editorial policy and the team of the channel.

The host of the Liberty Live program Andrey Sharogradsky: Radio Liberty correspondent Andrei Babitsky spoke yesterday in Strasbourg before the largest fraction in the Council of Europe - the Party of People's Democrats. A fragment of his speech dedicated to the situation in Chechnya, we bring to your attention: Andrey Babitsky: European leaders are responsible for what is happening in Russia, including for the deterioration of the situation in Chechnya.