The UN Security Council - at the insistence of the United States - gathered in full force to discuss the new American resolution on Iraq. According to the representative of the White House, Ari Flyisher, the debate entered the final stage, but it is difficult to say whether the resolution will be adopted. The United States emphasizes that the discussion cannot reach endlessly.

5 people were detained in the Philippines on charges of involvement in three explosions in the city of Zamboang last week, as a result of which 8 people were killed and at least 170 were injured. As the President of the Country of Gloria Arroo said today, all detainees - presumably, members of the Islamic extremist group "Abu Sayyaf" - were captured in the preparation of a new terrorist attack.

Afghanistan and Pakistan agreed to the proposal of the United Nations - to promote the voluntary return to their homes of one and a half million Afghan refugees. The UN statement states that the agreement, the details of which were discussed within 9 months, was signed yesterday in Kabul. According to the document, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the UN take on the obligation to help refugees return to Afghanistan. The return process should take three years.

Jan Runov , New York: Patience of the Bush administration is clearly in the outcome due to the fact that France and Russia did not adopt a new draft UN resolution on Iraq, proposed by the United States. The Russian Foreign Minister made it clear that the American project does not meet the requirements of Russia, and the French Foreign Minister said that a resolution needs to work a lot on the draft resolution.

The Hague tribunal for war crimes appealed to the UN Security Council with an official complaint against the authorities of Yugoslavia, which do not fulfill their international obligations. The letter, which the President of the Hague Tribunal Claude Zhord sent a security council, contains a request - to force the Yugoslavia authorities to detain and transfer to the Hague 11 people suspected of war crimes. The warrant for their arrest was already sent to Belgrade for a long time.

In the Altai Territory, five thousand inhabitants of the Svetlovsky district have been living without light for the second week, as local energy cannot eliminate a large accident on the power line. The hospital and the maternity hospital are transferred to energy from the diesel generator, classes in schools are held only on the first shift. In the Krasnodar Territory, 27 children and six adults were hospitalized from the kindergarten of Belorechensk with a diagnosis of salmonellosis.

Lilya Palvelieva , Moscow: In Chechnya, the census took place in two days. As soon as it ended, as the head of the republican government Stanislav Ilyasov said with a suspicious haste: 1 million 88 thousand people constantly live in Chechnya. For comparison, the population of the Chechen-Ingush Republic in 1989, at the time of the previous census, amounted to 1 million 270 thousand people.

Aya Kuga , Belgrade: deliveries in violation of the UN embargo. Two companies from the Republic of Bosnian Serbs and the Union Republic of Yugoslavia were engaged. The Yugoslav government at an extraordinary meeting on Tuesday at the evening of the assistant Minister of Defense General Dzhakovich and the director of the state foreign trade company Yugoimport, General Chekovich, shifted.

Foreign Minister Denmark Per Steig Maller said that if until Friday there was not a compromise on the issue of financing the expansion of the European Union, then this process may be in jeopardy. This problem will be discussed tomorrow at the European Union summit in Brussels. Inside the European Union, there are acute disagreements on the distribution of agricultural subsidies between EU member countries and Kandadata to join this organization. Currently, Denmark presides in the European Union.

The laureate of the Buker Literary Prize, one of the most prestigious in the world, was the Canadian writer Jan Martel this year for the novel “The Life of Pai” about the adventures of the boy who grew up in the zoo. There were three Canadians in a short list of six candidates for this year.

The host of the St. Petersburg hour of the Liberty Live program Tatyana Valovich: today a meeting of the State Council of Russia will be held, at which the next reform of local self -government will be discussed. To date, we can say that so far the local government in Russia has not received proper development. 70 percent of the Russian region do not have bodies of the ISU, and where they are, they practically do not work.

The Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia, General Koba Narchemashvili, said that, by order of President Eduard Shevardnadze in the Pankisi Gorge, near the border with Chechnya, the most important phase of the anti -criminal and anti -terrorist operation begins, the purpose of which is the evidence of Chechen fighters who remained in the gorge after the departure of the Ruslan Gelaev detachment.

Eight matches of the fourth round of the Champions League were held on the football fields of Europe. Moscow "Spartak" accepted Liverpool on its field and lost - 1: 3. Michael Owen answered the goal of Alexander Danishevsky with three precise strikes. Thus, having lost all four matches, Spartak became the first team to lose the chances of access to the second stage. In another match of the group "Basel" and "Valencia", they tied - 2: 2.

The program is conducted by Peter Vile. Radio Liberty correspondents in the United States Vladimir Abarinov and Jan Runov participate - he talked with an expert from the Heritage Foundation James Filps. Peter Vail: The US government believes that the draft resolution on Iraq, presented by the Security Council, removes all the objections of other regular members of the council and do not see obstacles to its approval.

Indonesian pirates, Middle Eastern terrorists and militarized somali groups pose the greatest threat to sea shipping. This is stated in the current report of the International Maritime Bureau, which tracks the activities of pirates. The document notes that this year - from January to September - criminals attacked the vessels more than two hundred seventy times.