In the city of Gidda, in Saudi Arabia there is a fierce shootout between the police and Islamic militants, the Reuters agency reports. The details of what is happening are still unknown. The police and the Saudi Arabia troops have been in a state of full combat readiness since last week, when the terrorists killed more than 20 people, mainly foreigners in the city of El Hubar.

Presidents of France and the USA Jacques Shirak and George Bush - despite their disagreements on Iraq - expressed hope for the speedy coordination of the project of the new UN Security Council to restore the sovereignty of Iraq. Both leaders said this at a joint press conference after negotiations in Paris. Bush arrived in France to participate in celebrations on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the landing of allies in Normandy.

Dmitry Volchek: On Tuesday, Gazi al-Javr was appointed President Iraq the first after Saddam Hussein. Officially, he will take office on June 30, after the transfer of power to the transition government. The new Iraqi president was born in the city of Mosul 45 years ago. Gazi is Sunnit and the head of the largest tribe in Iraq - the Shamarov tribe, whose representatives are in neighboring Saudi Arabia and Syria. One of the wives of the Crown Prince of the Saudi kingdom from this tribe.

Today is World Environment Day. In a statement on the occasion of this date, the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called for the protection of the oceans from pollution and predatory fishing. Annan called the countries of the world to quick actions - in the name of saving the sea fauna. The UN Secretary General noted that industry waste leads to the death of not only fish, but also marine mammals and birds.

In the explosion, which occurred yesterday in the clothing market in Samara, according to the latest data, 10 people were killed. 38 people are injured and are in hospitals. Medical assistance was provided with another 17 lightly wounded. According to the authorities, an explosive device with a capacity of about a kilogram of plastid worked on the market. The investigation does not exclude the possibility of "criminal disassembly" between criminal groups.

According to the UN, the Afghan peasants engaged in the production of narcotic raw materials are looking for patronage from the Taliban detachments. As the head of the UN Department of Crime and the drug business, Antonio, Maria Costa, who visited Afghanistan, said in the country, the cultivation of opium poppies is still flourishing. According to experts, new poppy plantations appear in mountainous areas, where there are bases of the Taliban and militants of Al-Qaeda.

The new representative of the United States at the UN President George Bush appointed a former senator from Missouri and his special messenger in Sudan John Danfort. In this post, Danfort will replace John Negroponte appointed by the US ambassador to Iraq.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. The Radio Liberty correspondent Mikhail Salenkov takes part. Andrey Shary: 41 Russian employee of Interenergoservis arrived today in Moscow by an airplane of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. Earlier, the company's management announced the evacuation of all personnel. However, about 30 Russian experts remained in Iraq. A few inaccurate numbers were presented to our correspondent and representative of Interenergoservis.

The program is conducted by Kirill Kobrin. Oleg Vakhrushev worked on the topic. Kirill Kobrin: 3 years ago, an experiment began in the Alapaevsky district of the Sverdlovsk region to introduce general medical practice instead of traditional medical institutions. During this time, there was not a single precinct hospital left in the area; instead of them, brigades of general practice doctors appeared.

The program is attended by: adviser to the President of Kazakhstan Yermukhamet Ertysbaev, Director of the Kazakh service of the Radio Liberty Merkhad Sharipjan and the Kazakh Service Employee Yerzhan Karabek.

In the American town of Grenby, Colorado, a local resident destroyed many buildings with the help of a bulldozer, after which, apparently, committed suicide. According to the police, Marvin Himaeer, the owner of the car carrier, had a conflict with the local authorities about the land plot. Himayer had a gun with him, but no one was injured from his random shooting. When the police opened a bulldozer, sheathed with metal sheets, his driver was dead.

In Sochi, negotiations between the presidents of Russia and Belarus Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko are held. The meeting program includes issues of economic cooperation and coordination of the actions of the two countries in the international arena. Putin and Lukashenko are also discussing the problems of creating the Union State of Russia and Belarus. A meeting of the Council of Ministers of this state will be held in Minsk on June 8.

Editor Irina Lagunina The program participates in: Olga Popova - art critic, Moscow State University Viktor Zhivov - historian, philologist, Russian Language Institute named after academician V.V. Vinogradov RAS Gratitude Mikhail Subbotin , USA A linear prospect - the image of objects on a plane as they seem to the eye in space, was developed by the masters of the Italian Renaissance.

Tension in relations between Georgia and Southern Ossetia is growing. Yesterday, the authorities of the self -proclaimed republic did not miss the Autonomy of the Minister of Agriculture of Georgia and the motorcade with fertilizers for farmers. The Abkhaz public movement "Akhiyats" proposed the political forces of the republic to consider the possibility of creating a committee of volunteers to help South Ossetia.

US Secretary of Defense Donald Ramsfeld said that the struggle with Islamic terrorist organizations is in the initial phase, and terrorists will still make themselves felt. Ramsfeld made this statement in Singapore, where a meeting of the heads of law enforcement agencies from more than 20 countries of the world takes place. Ramsfeld noted that terrorists cannot be appeased, all civil societies of the world should be mobilized to fight them.