Vladimir Abarinov , Washington: The American command considers the military operation in Iraq mainly completed. The US administration expects that the overthrow of the Saddam Hussein regime will have a beneficial effect on other countries of the region, in particular on Syria. The liberation of the last stronghold of the Saddam Hussein regime, the city of Tikrit, actually ended the active phase of hostilities in Iraq.

In the coming days, the strongest flood is expected in the Chelyabinsk region. The four main reservoirs of the Southern Urals - Shershnevskoye, Argazinskoye, Kyshtym and Dolgodskoye - are recognized as limitedly working. About a third of their 443 hydraulic structures in the reservoirs of the Chelyabinsk region pose a potential threat to settlements by some rivers frozen to the bottom, and this may lead to a mug.

American tanks are located in the center of Tikrit - the hometown of Saddam Hussein. The last stronghold of Iraqi forces was taken almost without resistance. In the morning, allied aviation struck the outskirts of the city. The shootings flashed only in a few blocks. In Baghdad, order is gradually restored. Two thousand Iraqi police officers took to the streets. Hundreds of plumbers and electricians are ready to start work, local police help the British patrol city areas in the Basra.

The court of the Pakistani city of Karachi today sentenced four Islamic militants on charges of organizing a terrorist attack. Two of them are sentenced to death, two more - to a life imprisonment. In June last year, a group of Islamic militants laid explosives in a car parked at the building of the American consulate in Karachi. As a result of the attack, 12 people died

In Irkutsk, with suspicion of atypical pneumonia, a young woman who returned from China is hospitalized. According to the regional center of the state-owned-season, a passenger with signs of a strong cold arrived with a flight of Shenyan-Irkutsk. At the airport, the patient was met by specially equipped doctors. Now she undergoes an examination in an infectious diseases hospital. Pre -diagnosis is a conventional viral infection.

Evgeny Bovkun , Bonn: in Germany, the bankruptcy of the largest electronic concern "Grundig" was announced, whose trademark for several decades served as a symbol of the reliability of German production. Previous attempts to save the Grundiga technological core and its subsidiaries were unsuccessful. The ninth bankruptcy shaft continues to roll around Germany. Now he swept over Grundig.

In Hevron on the west coast of Jordan, the Israeli military exploded the house of the Palestinian militant last night. 11 people - arrested, including five activists of the extremist group "Hamas". Over the past six months, the Israeli army has destroyed more than 200 houses of Palestinians accused of organizing terrorist attacks against the Israelis. International human rights organizations have repeatedly criticized the Israeli command for this method of combating terrorism.

Maryana Torocheshnikova: On March 11, 2003, the Board of Criminal Affairs of the Alma-Ata Regional Court upheld the sentence to the journalist Sergei Duvanov, who was accused of raping a minor. For this crime, the court sentenced - 3.5 years in prison with a colony of general regime. With all the desire, this business is difficult to name. Firstly, not so often journalists are held accountable under such a piquant article of the Criminal Code.

New Zealand recognized seven Islamic organizations terrorist, declaring any support of their activities illegal. In the list, in particular, there are three Chechen radical groups and extremist organization "Ansar Al Islam", operating in the north of Iraq according to special services, all Islamic organizations included in the list are closely related to al -Qaeda.

Editor: Sergey Yuryenen Igor Martynov: The theme of our conversation is “Russian Cosmos”. The Russian cosmist - or, as it now turns out, the Ukrainian cosmist - Vernadsky is the developer of the idea of the noosphere, and Vladimir Martynov, a Minimumnist composer, is the founder of the theory of information. I would like to know what it is. Vladimir Martynov: You see, here we are talking about. If we take all the traditional religious concepts, whether it is eastern or western ...

Major General of the US Armed Forces Stanley McCristal said that the main battles of the coalition forces with the troops of Saddam Hussein were almost completed. Speaking on Monday at the Pentagon, the general said that Iraqi troops could not create a coordinated defense, and all military operations in Iraq will now be limited to small clashes. According to McCrystal, two American aircraft carriers out of five - the Persian Gulf of Persian recently leave with escort ships.

The program involves the President of the Russian Effective Policy Fund Gleb Pavlovsky, rector of the Russian State Humanitarian University Yuri Afanasyev, Radio Journalist Andrei Babitsky. Tengiz Gudava: The propaganda war, which Russia for some reason waged against the United States, while the war in Iraq was going on, overshadowed the issue for Russian society no less important for him.

In Chechnya, in the village of Petropavlovskaya, Groznysky rural district, a local resident was blown up on a mine. In the same area, in the village of Berkat-Jurt, a teenager died from wounds, who came under fire during the collection of non-ferrous scrap metal. Over the past day, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya, 5 people were stolen in the republic.

In Italy - a one -day strike of pilots, dispatchers and other employees of airlines and airports. Al Italy, a leading airline in the country, canceled 320 flights, half of which are international. The airlines of other countries were canceled or detained or detained to Italy. More than 30 thousand passengers stuck in Italian airports. Bastulars require the reduction of working hours and mitigating hard savings.

Canadian scientists completely deciphered the hereditary structure of the mutant strain of coronavirus, which is considered the causative agent of an acute respiratory syndrome, or atypical pneumonia. This work was performed in the Center for Michael Smith Genoma Studies in Vancouver. The project manager Caroline Astell said that in a few days a diagnostic test can be expected, which will reliably identify acute respiratory syndrome.