In Iraq, international experts need to give the time necessary to complete the work, ”said France President Jacques Shirak in Paris after meeting with the head of the UN Commission on the disarmament of Iraq with Hans Blix. The president repeated again that a military operation against Iraq could only be carried out with the approval of the UN Security Council.

France President Jacques Shirak said that only the UN Security Council on the basis of a report by international inspectors can authorize a military operation against Baghdad. According to Shirak, UN experts must be provided with the time necessary to complete the work. Russia and the UK called for carefully and in no hurry to examine the 11 warheads for chemical weapons discovered yesterday in Iraq, which Baghdad was not reported by the UN.

The author of the program is Oleg Budnitsky Herzen, as Lev Tolstoy said of him, is 40 percent of Russian prose. If there is some exaggeration, then very small, from my point of view. I am sinful: Herzen is one of my favorite writers, and, from my point of view, one of the smartest Russian people not only of the 19th century, but also for the entire time of the existence of Russia. And some strange paradox is that no one reads Herzen. Almost no one reads.

The positions of Russia and China on the crisis around the nuclear program of Pyongyan coincide, ”said Alexander Losyukov, special envoy of the Russian President, after a meeting with the deputy head of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Yang Wenchan, in Beijing. Today, the Russian diplomat will continue consultations with Chinese officials, after which he will fly to Pyongyang.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko and the head of the state building Nikolai Koshman are today in the State Duma with a report on the actions of the government to eliminate mass accidents in heat supply systems. The deputies will also be addressed by the board of the RAO UES of Russia Anatoly Chubais.

All Afghan employees of foreign organizations working in Afghanistan should now register. According to the Ministry of the Interior, this will help to disclose crimes against foreigners. The same registration procedure existed in the Taliban regime.

The program is the program Peter Weil. Correspondents of Radio Liberty Musa Khasanov, Oleg Kusov, Andrei Shragradsky are participating with Andrei Babitsky. Peter Vail: According to information received from the press service of the head of the Chechen administration Akhmad Kadyrov, the head of the Chechen government, Mikhail Babich, was reprimanded for violation of labor disciplines. Our North Caucasian correspondent Musa Hasanov says.

American General James Jones led the joint command of NATO forces in Europe. He will also command the US forces on the European continent. Previously, these posts for almost three years were occupied by US Air Force General Joseph Rolston. Under the leadership of Jones, in the coming months, a combination of two strategic command centers of NATO - in Europe and the staff of Virginia should occur.

The newly elected president of South Korea, RO MU MUN, urged the United States to start a dialogue with North Korea - to avoid war on the Korea Peninsula. According to the South Korean president, who will begin to perform duties in February, the problem of the Nuclear program of the DPRK is subject to diplomatic permission. North Korea recently announced the withdrawal from the contract on non -proliferation of nuclear weapons and the resumption of nuclear developments.

The Minister of Justice of Russia Yuri Chaika does not see the reason for refusing the parole of the military journalist Grigory Pasko, convicted of charges of espionage. The journalist, sentenced in 2001, to four years in prison in a maximum security colony, left two-thirds of the term and, by law, has the right to parole. The court in Ussuriysk will consider this issue on January 23.

Oleg Kusov , Moscow: According to the director of the International Helsinsky Group Aaron Roads, the political situation in Chechnya does not allow a free referendum there. Representatives of international human rights organizations called on the Russian authorities to the speedy solution of the Chechen problem through negotiations. According to Aaron Roads, the results of the referendum in Chechnya will be nullified, since human rights are not respected in the republic.

The Israeli warship today destroyed the explosive raft, discovered off the coast of the gas sector. There were no people on the raft. Today, on the western coast of Jordan, Israeli troops arrested nine Palestinians. Three of them were wanted for attacks on the Israelis.

On September 14, at the Opera Los Angeles Theater, the premiere of the opera of the Deborah Dobel "Nikolai and Alexander" will take place. The main actors of the opera are Nikolai Second and his wife. The author of the libretto is Nicholas Van Hoffman. The conductor is Mstislav Rostropovich. The party of Rasidutin will be performed by Placido Domingo, the head of the theater. Russian film director Alexander Sokurov will be awarded the Filip Morris Freedom Prize.

Iraq must present all the necessary data on his weapons of mass destruction if he seeks to avoid “very serious” consequences, said the head of the UN inspectors Hans Blix. Today it will discuss the Iraqi problem with the leaders of France and the UK in Paris and London. Yesterday, UN experts found 11 empty chemical warheads in Iraq, which are not mentioned in a report on military programs previously submitted by Baghdad.

In today's issue of the program, we will talk about the game, more precisely, about mass games, the beginning of which was laid inventive Bolsheviks in the early 20s of the last century. My interlocutor, Lyudmila Vasilievna Byleeva, the oldest mass of the mass for today, took a direct part in organizing the so -called mass work, and since the end of the 30s taught at the Department of outdoor games in the State Order of Lenin the Institute of Physical Culture and Sports.