The United States, Great Britain and the European Union sharply condemned the missile blow of the Israeli troops on the building of the extremist Islamic Hamas Islamic Group in the city of Nabluz on the western coast of the Jordan, which resulted in victims among the civilian population. As a result of the attack - in addition to the two leader of Hamas - six Palestinians were killed, including two children.

Giovanni Bensi, Prague: From the first of August, the Azerbaijani language has officially switched to Latin graphics. True, this is not the first time to make such a decision in Baku. The non -communist president of Azerbaijan Abulfaz Elchibei has already ordered the transition to the Latinitsa by Latin. Then a new alphabet was developed, created according to the Turkish model with some changes: the Azerbaijani alphabet more accurately conveys the nuances of Turkic phonetics than Turkish.

Belarus officially invited the delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the European Council to participate in observing the preparation and conduct of the presidential election. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus Mikhail Khvostov said that in the near future the OSCE would receive such an invitation. On Monday, five OSCE observers were not allowed to the country - they did not receive a visa from the Belarusian authorities.

The Turkish security forces detained 55 illegal immigrants trying to penetrate Greece. The detainees are citizens of Afghanistan, Georgia, Iraq, Syria, as well as Palestinians. Every year, thousands of illegal immigrants from Asia countries penetrate to Western Europe through Turkey.

The votum of distrust of the Minister of Internal Affairs of Italy Claudio Skyola did not pass in the upper house of parliament. The question of the resignation of the minister was raised due to the scandal around the actions of the police in Genoa during the July summit of the leaders of the Greater Seven countries and Russia. During the dispersal of demonstrations of opponents of globalization, one person was killed and dozens were injured.

In Ingushetia, law enforcement officers dispersed the participants, the campaign of the Chechen refugees “Marsh of the World” began today. According to Radio Liberty correspondent, a column of more than 20 demonstrators was stopped a few minutes after the start of the procession. Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs selected posters and banners from the participants in the action. Five people are detained.

Japan today protested due to the fact that the fishing flotilla of South Korea began the fishing of Saira at the southern smoking. Tokyo called the actions of South Korean fishermen an invasion of Japanese territorial waters. Japan seeks the return of the four southern islands of the Kuril ridge occupied by the Soviet Army in 1945, and considers the water area adjacent to them. Last year, South Korea entered into an agreement on fisheries in this area with Russia.

The program is conducted by Dmitry Volchek. Radio Liberty correspondents in Bonn and London participate - Evgeny Bovkun and Natalya Golitsyna. Dmitry Volchek: From today - August 1 - in some lands of Germany, a new amendment to the Civil Code entered into force. From now on, same -sex citizens will be able to register their marriage relations in the registry offices. The first public marriage of homosexuals and lesbians attracted great attention to the Germanic public.

In Indonesia, on the island of Nias, landslides caused by heavy rains collapsed into five villages. The tragedy occurred when people were sleeping. According to official figures, 60 people were killed. The authorities, however, express their fears that all eight hundred inhabitants, so far on missing, also died.

The Russian government has reduced export duties on oil from 30 and a half to 23.4 euros per ton today. According to the Minister of Economic Development and Trade German Gref, the reason for reducing duties was a drop in average oil prices in world markets. The decision will enter into force a month after the relevant decision is published signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov.

Dmitry Volchek talks about the election situation in Belarus with the observer of the Belarusian Radio Service Freedom Marat Dimov. Dmitry Volchek: Marat, did pre -election polls of public opinion in Belarus, and what are their results? Marat Dymov: Polls are carried out constantly, and it is worth saying that the overall picture is quite monotonous. She is as follows: the rating of the head of state Alexander Lukashenko ranges somewhere in the range from 35 to 45 percent.

Leading Marina Katys From the moment of the death of the Kursk nuclear submarine, it has passed for almost a year, but the circumstances of that disaster still remain unclear. Last summer, Igor Arkhipenko worked as a replaceable engineer of the Cosmic Communications complex of the Northern Fleet and about the events of August 12, when 118 Uda Kursk submariners were almost instantly, he knows firsthand.

Israel will continue to destroy terrorists threatening the security of the Jewish state. Tough course - reports Israeli radio - was confirmed at today's meeting of the office of the Prime Minister of Israel, Ariel Sharon. The meeting discussed the negative reaction of the West to yesterday's events in the city of Nabluz on the western coast of the Jordan, when, as a result of a missile blow, two leaders of the Hamas extremist group and six more people, including two children, were killed.

The Minister of Culture of Romania fired four museum workers for offering visitors to the brochures of 20 years ago with photographs of the communist dictator Nikolai Chaushey. The scandal erupted after one of the Romanian newspapers published an article about the museum in the city of Baya Marie in the northwest of the country. Yesterday, all the materials containing information about Chausko were burned. Nicholas Chausko was overthrown and executed in 1989.

US President George Bush ordered the extension of economic sanctions against Iraq. The sanctions were first imposed 11 years ago in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. In contacting Congress, Bush emphasizes that Baghdad continues to carry out shares hostile to the interests of the United States in the Middle East and violating stability in the region.