Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon again stated that the head of the Palestinian autonomy Yasir Arafat is the main obstacle to the world in the Middle East and it must be removed from the political arena. Speaking on Monday in parliament, Sharon said that Israel would accelerate the construction of the barrier wall along the western coast of the Jordan. At the same time, he emphasized that the wall is not a political border between Israel and Palestinian autonomy.

Since the beginning of the year, about 300 people have been stolen or missing in Chechnya, ”Movsar Khamidov, deputy head of the Chechnya, told Interfax. Russian human rights activists say that there are much more missing. According to them, only from March to August 250 people were stolen. These data were not received from all of Chechnya, but from half of the districts.

The Israeli Air Force twice in three and a small hour inflicted missile strikes today in the gas sector. Two activists of the radical group "Hamas" and a random passerby were killed. At least 14 people were injured. The first blow was inflicted on the house of the leader of the extremist group "Islamic jihad" Abdullah Shami. The house is destroyed. Shami himself was not injured. The second aimed blow was destroyed by a machine in which the members of Hamas were located.

After 6 rounds, the Juventus and Milan are leading in the Italy championship, which scored 16 points each. The players of the Turin club achieved such a result after the victory over Ancona - 3: 2, and Milan prevailed over the Roman Lazio - 1: 0 on Sunday evening. 14 points at Roma, who won the fourth place Parma - 2: 0. Inter ended the match with Breshia - 2: 2. The head coach of the Milan Club Eector Cooper filed in the resignation after this match.

Last week, it turned 15 from the day from the day when the first series of "slave Isaur" was shown on the air of Soviet television, and the word "Fazenda" forever entered the life of Soviet man. Thus began the era of the television “soap” and, since the 90s, the television series became one of the main dishes in the daily telephone of the Russian viewer. It was this type of programming that has undergone the most sharp changes over the past 10 years.

The program is maintained by Melanie Bachin. Radio Radio Freedom, Veronika Ostrinskaya and Andrey Shary, and deputy chief editor of the Banner of Natalya Ivanova, participate. Melanie Bachin: Last Sunday in Germany, a wonderful Russian writer George Vladimov died at the 73rd year of his life. Briefly about him - Veronika Ostrinskaya: Veronika Ostrinskaya: He has not been in Russia for twenty years. But he wrote about her until the end of his life.

In Romania, a two -day referendum was completed on constitutional reforms necessary for the country's entry into the European Union. The Central Election Commission said that more than 54 percent of voters participated in the vote. The referendum is recognized as being held. Opposition parties are accused of the Government of Substation of Results. Romania hopes to be admitted to the European Union in 2007.

The United States offered North Korea a security guarantee of trying to convince Pyongyang to refuse the development of nuclear weapons. According to US Secretary of State Paulin Powell, guarantees were proposed during today's private meeting of President George Bush with the head of the Chinese state Hu Jintao, who plays the role of an intermediary between Washington and Pyongyang. Today, Bush met with the president of South Korea but Mu Hen.

The American illusionist David Blain finished his experiment, spending 44 days without food in a glass box suspended in the center of London. Last night, a 30-year-old American, whose well-being in the last days of the voluntary "post" was noticeably deteriorated was delivered to one of the London hospitals. According to the doctors, for some time, Blane will make strengthening injections, and only after a couple of days he will be able to take ordinary food.

In the German city of Dortmund last night, a mass rally of Iranian dissidents and their supporters was held. Its participants - according to the organizers, up to 20 thousand people - demanded a referendum in Iran on the political structure of the country. According to representatives of the opposition organization National Iranian Resistance Council, which arranged a rally, it was time for the Iranians to abandon the power of religious conservatives and decide their fate themselves.

The Supreme Military Court in Belgrade found three former Yugoslav military guilty of the murder of two Kosovo Albanians. The convicts are sentenced to deprivation of liberty for terms of seven to nine years. The murder was committed during the armed conflict in Kosovo in 1999.

In Afghanistan, the American military and local police detained one of the Taliban field commanders, who is suspected of organizing missile shelling of the anti -terrorist coalition troops in the southern province of Uruzgan. According to the US military, Mullah Janan was arrested on Sunday near the American base in Uruzgan.

The General Prosecutor's Office of Russia intends to re -interrogate the head of the Yukos oil company Mikhail Khodorkovsky. According to the First Deputy Prosecutor General Yuri Biryukov, during the investigation of criminal cases regarding the activities of the Yukos, the investigation has new questions to the head of the oil company. Khodorkovsky expressed his readiness to answer all questions.

Nikita Tatarsky , Moscow: in the next Thursday, in the Oktyabrsky District Court of the Chechen Republic, a preliminary meeting in the criminal case against an employee of the Khanty-Mansi riot police Sergey Lapin will be held. Many Russian human rights activists call this matter extremely important for residents of Chechnya. The scandal around Sergei Lapin has been going on since 2001.

October 14 - All -Russian Day of Reserves and National Parks. Since 2000, not a single reserve and not a single national park has been created in Russia. In 2001, the Government of the Russian Federation approved a list of state natural reserves and national parks in Russia, which were supposed to be created over the next 10 years. In 2003 alone, 7 reserves and national parks should have been organized.