German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in Jerusalem that Iran is a threat not only for Israel, but also for the entire democratic world. Merkel made this statement after negotiations with the acting Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert. The Chancellor of Germany also said that Germany will have no relations with the Palestinian organization Hamas until it recognizes the Jewish state and would refuse to use violence.

Repair work on the Mozdok-Tbilisi gas pipeline is completed. According to Russian experts, during the day, gas will begin to receive consumers in the Transcaucasia. The Minister of Energy of Georgia Nika Gilauri confirmed that he received a notification of the resumption of gas supplies from Russia. However, according to Gilauri, Georgia has already begun to import fuel from Iran.

Moscow regarded the “anti -Russian action” of gas disconnecting at the Russian Embassy in Tbilisi on January 27. The Russian Foreign Ministry says that the Russian side has the right to take adequate measures regarding the heat supply of the Georgian Embassy in Moscow. A week ago, due to explosions on the gas pipeline, the North Caucasus Caucasus, the supply of Russian fuel to Georgia and Armenia ceased. Tbilisi accused Moscow of sabotage.

Today, the term of the five -day imprisonment of Mikhail Khodorkovsky in a penalty isolater expires. The ex-head of the Yukos, serving a sentence in a colony in the Chita region, received a penalty on January 24. During the search, the Ministry of Justice was found in his cell regarding the rights of prisoners. The leadership of the colony considered this a violation - although the papers were officially sent and handed to Khodorkovsky on receipt.

The mayor of Tbilisi ordered to stop the supply of gas to the Russian Embassy and the representative office of the Russian company "Gazekhport". It is better to warm up residential buildings than those organizations that participate in the energy blockade of Georgia, ”said the mayor of Tbilisi Gigi Ugolyava. The supply of Russian gas to Georgia and Armenia was interrupted a week ago as a result of explosions on a gas pipeline in North Ossetia. Tbilisi accused Moscow of sabotage.

At least 10 Iraqis died during an explosion of a bomb laid near the road in the city of Iskandaria south of Baghdad. In the north of Iraq in the city of Tikrit, the suicide bomber blew up a mined car next to the army patrol. Four Iraqi soldiers were killed, six wounded. Yesterday, in Baghdad, an American soldier died with an explosion laid on the bomb on the road, the US command said.

The famous American TV presenter Bob Woodruf and his operator Dag Vogt are seriously wounded in Iraq. According to the ABC television company, both of its employees suffered when the bomb was blown up in the way of the Iraqi military car convoy, with whom they were heading to the town of Taji. Today, in Baghdad and the northern city of Kirkuk, several churches were blown up by six explosives. Four were killed and 16 people were injured.

In the United States, the memory of the astronauts from the Chellenger spacecraft, who died exactly 20 years ago, was honored. On Saturday, a ceremony was held in the Kennedy space center named after Kennedy on Saturday, in which relatives and friends of the dead, employees of the National Aerospace Agency (NASA) participated. On January 28, 1986, the shuttle "Challenger" exploded in the sky above Florida 73 seconds after take -off. 7 astronauts died.

In Serbia, Yovo Jogo was detained, one of the closest assistants to the former army commander of the Bosnian Serbs, Ratko Mladic. As a representative of the Serbian prosecutor’s office in cases of war crimes said on Saturday, Jogo was arrested on Thursday and, according to the law, could stay in custody for up to 30 days. He is suspected of assisting Mladich, hiding from international justice.

At least 20 people were killed and about a hundred were injured in the Polish city of Khizhuv - after the roof of the exhibition center collapsed on Saturday evening. At the time of the disaster, in the building where the postal pigeon exhibition was held, there were from 600 to a thousand people. Many remain under the rubble. Rescue work is underway. According to the correspondent of the RS, the most likely cause of the tragedy is the error made in the design of the roof of the building.

In Baku and a number of areas of Azerbaijan, on Sunday, electricity was turned off. In the capital, the most critical situation was in the subway, where, due to stopping trains, rescuers had to urgently evacuate people from tunnels. On the city’s highways due to the fact that traffic lights did not work, huge traffic jams formed. The reason for the termination of the supply of electricity, presumably, was an accident on the Apheron power line.

At least 26 people were killed and more than 130 were injured in the Polish city of Khuzhv (in the vicinity of Katowice) - after the roof of the exhibition center fell there on Saturday night. At the time of the disaster, in the building where the postal pigeon exhibition was held, there were from 600 to a thousand people. Many remain under the rubble. Rescue work is underway.

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Valery Vinokurov: In Melbourne, the open championship of Australia on tennis ended. Two weeks of the tournament were full, as always, and pleasant surprises and disappointments. The first category, of course, includes the excellent performance of Markos Baghdatis and Martina Hingis. The Cypriot, who once did not know his equal on the youth scene, reached the final and proved that he was capable of a lot and at an adult level.

In the Dagestan city of Derbent, two Mujahideen, natives of Chechnya were detained. One of them is seriously wounded and taken to the hospital, the RS correspondent reports. The militants were blocked in a five -story residential building on Rasulbekov Street. They are suspected of involvement in illegal armed groups.