In the capital of Nepal - Kathmandu there were stormy clashes between demonstrators and the police. Thousands of opposition supporters came to the manifestation despite the ban of the authorities who extend the day of commandant hour. The police shot at the demonstrators with rubber bullets and used tear gas against them. Dozens of people are arrested. Mass protest demonstrations took place in other cities of Nepal.

Russian tennis player Nikolai Davydenko will not be able to play today against Richard Gasuke in the quarterfinal match of the Davis Cup, which ends in the software (France). Due to the injury, Davydenko will give way to Dmitry Tursunov. In the second duel of the day, Marat Safin will meet with Arno Cleman, although it is possible that Sebastian Grozhany, who was not at first, also did not speak due to injury, will be able to play the French team.

In Italy, parliamentary elections began. Polling stations opened on Sunday early in the morning. Voting will take place until Monday evening. The struggle for power is conducted by two main political forces - the legalist coalition of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and the Left -Gentric opposition led by the former chairman of the European Commission Romano Prodi.

The head of the UN Department of Refugees, Antoniu Gutherrish, will visit Ingushetia and Chechnya today as part of a trip to the North Caucasus. On Sunday in North Ossetia, Guterrish met with the president of the Republic Taimuraz Mamsurov and refugees from South Ossetia and Georgia. According to Mamsurov, the republic requires 3 billion rubles to provide housing and work of 19 thousand refugees.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia Saud al -Faisal said that in Iraq there is a civil war and this threatens the region of disaster. The Minister called on the League of the Arab states to resolve the conflict between Iraqi Shiites and Sunnis. On Saturday, the President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak made a similar statement.

Georgia today celebrates the day of the restoration of independence. The relevant act was adopted on April 9, 1991 by the Supreme Council of Georgia on the initiative of its chairman Zviad Gamsakhurdia. On Saturday, the parliamentary majority of Georgia refused to accept the conditions of deputies from the opposition, which from the end of March will boycott the meetings of the parliament in protest against the authoritarian - in their opinion - the course of President Mikhail Saakashvili.

How is a polygraph used in judicial practice, is it a lie detector? Is it possible to prove it that the driver is innocent in the commission of a crime? About this - in the program "Time behind the wheel". Our guest is the General Director of the Polygraph Institute Olga Belyushin and human rights activist Viktor Travin.

In some areas in northern Germany, the water level in Elbe rose on Sunday to a record level - above 9 meters. Most of the ancient town of Hitzaker is flooded in the land of Schleswig-Holstein. Serious damage threatens the houses of 16-17 centuries. Rescuers and the military continue to fight water. The city is waiting for the arrival of the German Chancellor Angels Merkel.

In our studio, People's Artist of the USSR, chairman of the State Duma Culture Committee Joseph Kobzon. Questions will be asked by Roland Fritche, the second German television (CDF), Germany, and Oleg Ptashkin, NTV television company.

Tamara Lyalenkova: Sometimes in a socio-cultural life there are unexpected situations, however, naturally logical. Say, in most traditional cultures, the standard male image has always been endowed with the features of a strong manufacturer. This is such a familiar, wiped stereotype that recently they have not even ceased to be mentioned.

Parliamentary elections in Hungary are very active. In the first two hours, more than 10 percent of voters voted. The main rivals in the elections are the ruling coalition consisting of the SocialCtic Party and the Union of Free Democrats and the Opposition Conservative Party of the Phidist. The current elections are the first from the time of joining the country to the European Union. Today is the first round. The second will be held on April 23.

On April 10, 1945, the day after the fall of Koenigsberg, Soviet gunners were located in the Koenigsberg Castle, and two days later in the northern wing of the building, where the Amber Room was taken by the Germans, which destroyed its fire. This became known from the notes of the former Amber Room Obstar, Anatoly Kuchumov, who died in 1993. The document is stored in the Central State Archive of Literature and Arts in St. Petersburg.

Lilya Palveveva : An open letter appeared on the Museums of Russia website, the authors of which are employees of the All -Russian Museum of Decorative and Applied and Folk Art. Text is like a scream for help. We read: “We turn to all related institutions of Moscow and Russia! Dear colleagues! Let's confront the arbitrariness of the authorities together, otherwise the encroachment of officials on Russian culture will achieve their destructive goal! ” The end of the quote.

After the news of the news - the "Historical Calendar", then the program "Workshop of Sound" dedicated to the film music of Boris Tchaikovsky. In the second half of the hour - the magazine "Popular Mechanics" visiting the program "Read the magazines." At the end of the hour: what did Geisha silent about in his memoirs? “Happy End” for “Aida” and “Don-Juan”. These are topics of the program "City of the Big Apple".

The chapters of even those states that congratulated him on the election victory did not come to visit Lukashenko In Minsk, a ceremony of official entry as president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko was held, who was declared the head of state for the third time. True, for this, Lukashenko had to rewrite the Constitution twice, having previously initiated referenda about endless trust in himself.