In many countries of the world, anti -war demonstrations continue. About 15 thousand people took today to the streets of Melbourne in protest against the war in Iraq and the participation of Australia in it. Today, two thousand South Koreans took part in the anti -war march in Seoul. Manifestants called on the authorities to abandon the intention to send 700 military doctors and engineers to the Gulf of the Persian Gulf.

France President Jacques Shirak and British Prime Minister Tony Blair believe that the UN should play an important role in solving the problems of the post-war Iraq. As stated in the statement of Shirak’s office, in a telephone conversation, the leaders of the two countries agreed on close cooperation on Iraq restoration issues. The positions of London and Paris in the war in Iraq are diverging radically.

The US Federal Bureau plans to open its representative offices in ten cities of the world, including Kabul and Jakarta, as part of the fight against international terrorism. The number of FBI employees abroad will be increased. After the attacks on September 11, about 500 FBI agents operate outside the United States.

American and British aviation continue to apply Baghdad's missile and bomb. On Friday, the allies bombed a number of military facilities and the positions of Iraqi troops on the southern outskirts of the city. The Iraqi authorities say that the attacks were inflicted on civilian objects. In particular, the rocket fell into one of the Baghdad markets, killing 30 and wounding 47 people.

In the south of Afghanistan, in the province of Hilmain, an attack was made on a group of American military personnel. Two - died, one - wounded. Three Afghan soldiers who, together with the Americans patrolled the territory, were also injured. The attack was made from an ambush, American and Afghan units carry out an operation in this province to destroy the surviving taliban detachments. American aviation inflicts missile and bomb attacks on the enemy.

Marina Efimova: At the beginning of January 1923, one of the talent hunters in Philadelphia, the Bessie Bessie Smith, who had opened in Philadelphia, brought the Bessie Smith open to him in the New Yorking Workshop. It was a huge thick black woman with very dark skin. She did not say hello, did not smile, and on her beautiful harsh face it was written: do not soak.

South Korea urged the United States to take a more flexible position in relation to the North Korean nuclear program. On Friday in Washington, negotiations were held by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Korea Yun En Gwan with US Secretary of State Colin Powell. After the meeting, Powell said that Pyongyang - to establish normal relations with Washington - should abandon the nuclear program.

7 Italian journalists who disappeared yesterday in the vicinity of Basra were detained by the Iraqi police and are now in Baghdad. This was announced today by the head of the Italian Federation of Journalists Paolo Cerengenta Longi. According to him, the correspondents are alive and healthy and, most likely, will be expelled from the country, since they do not have Iraqi visas.

In Moscow on Lubyanskaya Square, activists of Russian left-wing parties and organizations today held a rally of protest against hostilities in Iraq and government reform of housing and communal services. According to the Moscow police, more than 5 thousand people participated in the action. According to Interfax, after the rally, part of the audience headed for the US Embassy building, chanting anti -American slogans.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. The Radio Liberty correspondent Sergei Danilochkin takes part, who is talking with the deputy director of the Free Iraq Kamran al-Karadagi. Andrei Shary: On Friday, Iraqi troops fired on the city of Chamchamal, under the control of the Kurdish militia, but the large -scale military operations in the north of Iraq have not yet been taking place.

In the mountains of Chechnya, the body of one of the two pilots of the Mi-24 helicopter was found, the fragments of which were found on Monday. At the end of last week, two Mi-24 helicopters disappeared at once in Chechnya. The second helicopter has not yet been found.

About two thousand South Koreans participated today in an anti -war march in Seoul. The police blocked demonstrators near the American embassy. Participants of the action called on the parliament to reject the government plan to send 700 military doctors and engineers to the Persian Gulf area. In Malaysia, the police used a tear gas to disperse the crowd gathered at the building of the Australian embassy.

Miryana Markovich - the wife of the ex -president of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevich - fled to Russia, but her whereabouts were known and she was already awarded a summons demanding to return to Belgrade. This was reported today by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia. On Friday, the head of the ministry Dushan Mikhailovich said that the police want to interrogate Miryan Markovich in the case of former president of Serbia Ivan Istanbolic, who disappeared without a trace in August 2000.

Syria rejected the accusations of providing military assistance to Iraq, made by the US Minister of Defense Donaldom Ramsfeld. The statement of the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs claims that Washington seeks to “divert the attention” of the world community from the unsuccessful course of the military operation in Iraq and the mass death of civilians during the bombing of Iraqi cities.

The aircraft of the United States and the UK inflicted new blows to Baghdad, Basra and Mosulia at night and in the morning. In the Iraqi capital, the building of the Ministry of Information and a number of objects in the southern suburbs reached the bombardment. In the south of Iraq, in the Basra, according to the American command, bombs with laser guidance were dropped at one of the supporting points of militarized formations that protect the city from the coalition forces.