In Moscow, the adviser to the US President for National Security of Condolization Rice met with Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov. The details of the conversation, which lasted more than an hour, are unknown, however, according to Rice, the meeting with Ivanov was "very good." According to Interfax, yesterday’s incident with the shelling of the motorcade of the Russian embassy near Baghdad was also affected.

The body of one of the highest Iraqi military leaders Ali Hassan al-Majid was found in the Basra, nicknamed Chemist Ali, ”the British command said. Official confirmation of this information has not yet been received. Al -Majid is a relative and one of the closest associates of Saddam Hussein, who led the defense of the southern regions of Iraq. "Chemist-Ali" received his nickname after in 1988 he ordered a gas attack, the victims of which were thousands of Kurds.

Film director James Cameron again returned to the topic, which, by his own admission, worried him all his life - to the secret of the Titanic. This time he shot the documentary "Ghosts of the Abyss" - about the study of a sunken ship.

In Udmurtia, preliminary results of Sunday elections to the State Council of the Republic were summed up. About half of the 100 deputies of the Legislative Assembly were re -elected. Among the new deputies are 19 representatives of United Russia and 5 members of the Communist Party. The turnout of the voters amounted to a little more than 40 percent. Serious violations during the vote are not recorded.

The leadership of the European Union proposes to create a special center for coordinating the fight against anti -peak pneumonia or the “acute respiratory syndrome” The number of victims of this new dangerous disease has already reached a hundred. More than two thousand seven hundred people in 30 countries are infected, including Europe, the USA and Canada.

Prepared by Leonid Gergei. On April 7, 1906, Lidia Korneevna Chukovskaya was born - daughter of Korney Ivanovich, writer, editor, public figure. During the years of Ezhovschina, Lydia Chukovskaya lost her husband, the famous physicist Matvey Bronstein, arrested by the NKVD, and he was almost in prison. At this time, she wrote the autobiographical story "Sofya Petrovna" - the only literary evidence of the era of repression, created directly on the days of tragic events.

Elena Kolomiychenko: A month and a half ago there were discussions about whether there would be a war in Iraq or not; A week ago, they discussed whether they would storm Baghdad and, if so, how, what forces and whether Iraq will use Iraq with a chemical or bacteriological weapon.

The authorities of Turkmenistan said that almost one hundred percent of voters took part in the elections to the People’s Council - the highest representative body in the country. According to the Central Election Commission, violations during the vote were not recorded. According to Turkmen legislation, the People’s Council is gathering once a year. He does not adopt laws, but discusses the main directions of the country's policy.

US troops almost completely surrounded Baghdad. According to the correspondent of our radio, American tanks and armored personnel carriers can now move freely in almost any areas of the Iraq capital. Almost all departures from the city are blocked. However, it is not yet about control over all Baghdad. On Sunday evening, the first American military transport aircraft landed in the Baghdad International Airport, the US troops captured the city of Karbela at 80 kilometers south of the capital.

The agreement between Russia and the United States on reducing offensive potentials will not be ratified by the Russian side - while the military operation in Iraq continues. According to the head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs of Dmitry Rogozin, Russia is interested in ratification of the contract, but now to take it to the vote is untimely.

The program is maintained by Andrei Sharogradsky. Vladimir Dolin talked with the head of the information department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Alexander Yakovenko. Andrei Sharogradsky: A convoy of vehicles eight kilometers from Baghdad, in which 25 Russian journalists and diplomats, led by Ambassador Vladimir Titorenko, were tried to leave the Iraqi capital to Syria, was fired from small arms. After another 7 kilometers, the column again fell under fire.

In the gas sector, in the area of the Jewish settlement of Netsarim, Israeli soldiers found the body of the Palestinian. According to the military, apparently, he was killed on Monday night when the Israeli patrol opened fire on two unknown people who found himself near the border of the settlement. Today, on the western coast of Jordan, in the camp of refugees under the knitting, Israeli military detained five members of the Islamic Jihad group leadership.

The host of the program “Themes of the day” Andrei Sharia: the person of the Day of Radio Liberty on April 7, on World Health Day - Olusoji Adeii, the head of the International World Bank program in Russia “Prevention, Diagnosis, Tuberculosis and AIDS Treatment, in which Russia will allocate $ 150 million to combat these diseases. Olusoji Adeia is 38 years old. Born in Nigeria.

Hong Kong authorities fear that the number of those sick with "atypical pneumonia" in this administrative region of China will reach 3 thousand by the end of April. On the eve of Hong Kong, 42 new cases of "acute respiratory syndrome" were discovered - in addition to eight hundred previously. The victims of the mysterious infectious disease that appeared in February became 95 people around the world. Over 2 thousand six hundred people are infected.

US President George Bush, who arrived in the capital of Northern Ireland, Belfast, began negotiations with British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The focus of the negotiations is the course of the military operation in Iraq, the post -war restoration of the country and the role of the UN in this process.