In South Korea, the TEGU court sentenced the man who arranged a fire in the subway in February this year. 56-year-old Kim De Khan, suffering from a mental disorder, tried to commit suicide. In the metro car, he set fire to a cardboard box soaked in gasoline. The fire quickly spread throughout the train and spread to the neighboring platform. The prosecutor demanded for Kim de Khan - the death penalty. In a fire in the subway, 198 people were killed.

18 supporters of Saddam Hussein were detained last night during the operation of American troops north of Baghdad. According to the representative of the command, among the arrested - a person who was looking for the forces of the coalition. His name has not yet been disclosed. As it became known today, the Iraqi police arrested and handed over to the American military brother one of the bodyguards of Saddam Hussein. He is suspected of organizing attacks on US military.

The author of the program Alexander Genis Alexander Genis: For more than 20 years I have been associated with the American academic world. I am in organizing the highest Slavic research. Sometimes I give lectures, print in a special press, print in collective collections. Recently released a monograph on a fairly narrow topic. All these years I have regularly visited regional and international scientific conferences, where I spoke in all conceivable qualities.

Italian scientists cloned the horse for the first time in the world. According to Professor Cesare Gally, the head of the laboratory of reproductive technologies in the Italian city of Crees, - the foal named Prometheus was born on May 28. The history of the birth of a cloned horse is described in the last issue of Nature magazine. Recently, American biologists managed to clone a mule - a cross between a horse and a donkey.

Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev, who was treated in Turkey for the last month, flew out of Ankara in the USA today, where American doctors try to help him. The representative of the presidential administration Ali Khasanov, who informed about this, added that Aliyev feels good, but needs an additional medical examination. The Turkish media, meanwhile, argue that 80-year-old Aliyev is connected to the apparatus of artificial breathing and only occasionally comes into consciousness.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. Radio Liberty correspondents Julia Ostroukhova take part, Natalya Golitsyna is talking with the British intelligence analyst, a former KGB resident in London Oleg Gordievsky. Andrei Shary: The head of British intelligence "Mi-6" Richard Dialav announced the other day about the decision to resign in August next year, a year earlier planned.

At least 35 people became victims of unprecedented heat and forest fires in Europe in Europe. Most of the victims (28) in Portugal and Spain, where the temperature is above 40 degrees even in the shade. In Portugal, covered by catastrophic forest fires, 26 people were arrested on suspicion of intentional arson. According to the authorities, a third of all fires is the case of human hands. More than 50 thousand hectares of forest burned out. Forest fires are raging in Spain, Italy and in Croatia.

US President George Bush ordered to send a small American contingent to Liberia, which will have to prepare the ground for delivery to the country of humanitarian aid. Bush repeated, however, that - before any significant American forces are sent to Liberia - the country's president Charles Taylor must leave its limits. On board the American warships cruising from the coast of Liberia are 2 thousand naval infantrymen.

Andrei Shary: We continue to introduce you to the reports of the special correspondent of Radio Freedom Andrei Babitsky, who returned from a business trip to Chechnya. In accordance with the principles of lighting military conflicts that our radio adhere to, Andrei visited both sides.

The “Safety Wall”, which Israel is erected along the western coast of Jordan, is a serious obstacle to peace and mutual understanding with the Government of the Palestinian Autonomy, ”said US President George Bush. According to Bush, he handed over to the Israeli authorities his concern about this. On Wednesday, Israel, following the plan of the Middle Eastern settlement, released the first group of Palestinian prisoners from prisons - 345 people.

Tengiz Gudava , Prague: I remember when in 1972 Eduard Shevardnadze became the communist ruler of Georgia, the Georgian security forces said: Edward is that, here Heydar is power! In fact, Heydar Aliyev showed such a triumph of Gabism, in comparison with which the cult achievements of his Russian colleague look like children's toys. Heydar Aliyev in the NKVD since 1941.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. Radio Liberty Correspondents Svetlana Tolmacheva and Jan Runov participate. Andrei Shary: In Yekaterinburg, work is underway on an unusual art project: "Long stories of Yekaterinburg." Young artists participate in his preparation. They were instructed to paint 15 concrete fences with a total area of 6 thousand square meters on the central streets. The work will be completed by August 16 - on this day, Yekaterinburg will celebrate the anniversary.

In the Spanish province of Segovia in the unfinished railway tunnel, where there are about 40 workers, a fire broke out - one of the construction vehicles caught fire. Firefighters managed to penetrate the tunnel and establish contact with people. Rescue work is underway. Helicopters are called to the rescue.

New York immunologists identified the previously unknown offensive weapon of the immunodeficiency virus. The human body fights this pathogen using the Ref-1 protein, which also protects cells from malignant degeneration. The molecules of this protein settle on the outer surface of the virus and prevent its penetration into the blood cells.

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