The program is maintained by Andrei Sharogradsky. The Radio Liberty correspondent in London Natalya Golitsyna takes part. Andrei Sharogradsky: In London for more than three hundred years, there has been a unique Chelsea House of War Veterans. He became a kind of British National Institute, part of English history and English tradition. Lonely and elderly veterans of war and military disabled live in it. Natalya Golitsyna says how in England they care about military pensioners.

The number of victims of the tragedy in Moscow exceeded 50. According to the latest data from the Ministry of Emergencies, 56 people died during the collapse of the roof of the basman market, over 30 were injured. According to eyewitnesses, dozens of people can remain under the rubble. Rescuers are trying to break through to them. Rescue work will continue at night - until the blocking of the rubble.

In Moscow, during the collapse of the roof in the Basmann market building, according to the latest data, 12 people were killed. 17 people are saved. According to the Ministry of Emergencies, several dozen people remain under the rubble. The collapse area is about 3 thousand square meters. According to the preliminary version, the cause of the collapse of the roof was snowfall.

At least 2 people died as a result of an earthquake in Mozambique. The strength of the underground shocks was 7 and a half points on the Richter scale. The epicenter was in the north of the country, on the coast of the Indian Ocean. The shocks were felt in the neighboring Zimbabwe.

The Ministry of Information of China has issued new rules for standardizing the provision of email services. The main goal, which is declared by the ministry, is the fight against spam. The rules require email providers to unify the technical standards and address registration systems. Any advertising legally sent by e -mail should be specially marked. Today in China 111 million Internet users and, on average, each of them receives 16.8 letters per day, of which almost 60% are spam.

The Japanese space agency successfully brought to orbit a new infrared telescope Astro-F. The diameter of the main mirror of the telescope is 68.5 centimeters. The device is cooled by liquid helium to a temperature of only 6 degrees above the absolute zero. This is necessary that the own thermal radiation of the device does not interfere with the reconnaissance signals of space sources.

The finalists of the men's Olympic Kerling Tournament were the prefabricated Finland and Canada. In the semifinals, the Finns won the British - 4: 3, and Canadians - the Americans - 11: 5.

The program is conducted by Arslan Saidov. Correspondents of Radio Liberty Danila Halperovich and Mumin Shakirov take part. Arslan Saidov: In Moscow this morning, the roof of the Basmann market at the Baumanskaya metro station collapsed. There are dead and wounded. A radio correspondent of Radio Liberty Danil Galperovich works at the scene. Danila, what last data about the number of victims of the tragedy you have, what rescuers say, how many people can still be under the rubble?

The collapsed roof of the Basmann market is the Nodar Kancheli project An expert in the field of construction, architect Andrei Gozak is inclined to consider the cause of today's tragedy in the Basmann market in Moscow a violation of operation rules. In an interview with Radio, Freedom also noted that such structures in Moscow are usually in poor condition.

In the city of Basra in southern Iraq, a group of armed people attacked a local prison and shot 10 prisoners. According to Reuters, the dead were Sunni rebels. However, the Al Arabia television company stated that it was the Egyptians and a resident of Saudi Arabia. It is believed that the attack was an act of revenge for the destruction of the Shiite shrine in the city of Samarra.

Sergey Seninsky: Exactly 50 years ago, on February 23, 1956, at a closed meeting of the XX Congress of the CPSU, Nikita Khrushchev came up with his short -lived secret speech that exposed Stalin's cult. Half a century later, supporters and opponents of Khrushchev, Stalinists and anti -Stalinists, historians and unhistorics continue to summarize the results of the struggle for the finalinization - both the country and the world. About this - the material of my colleague Vladimir Toltz.

In Moscow, the Bauman market building collapsed. According to the Ministry of Emergencies, four people died, about 10 were injured. There are people under the rubble. The collapse area is about 3 thousand square meters. According to the preliminary version, the cause of the collapse was snowfall.

The head of the administration of the upper house of the Parliament of Kazakhstan, Erzhan Umbaev, was arrested on suspicion of organizing the murder of one of the opposition leaders, the ex-Minister of Information of the Altynbek Sarsenbaev. The other day, two special services employees were detained in the same case, after which the head of the security service of Kazakhstan resigned.

At the tournament in Dubai in the match of the second circle, the former first racket of the world, Switzerland, Martin Hingis, won Anastasia Myskina, the Russian one, 6: 4, 6: 3.

The automatic deep -sea apparatus found large deposits of metangidates at the bottom of the Japanese sea. This is a mixture of methane with water, which at high pressure is in a solid state. According to preliminary estimates, methane reserves at the bottom would have been enough to ensure that Japan's needs in natural gas for 100 years. The problem, however, is that so far there are no technologies for the extraction of solid metangidrates from a depth of about 900 meters.