In the vast majority of China cities (90 percent), groundwater is either contaminated or their reserves are almost exhausted. This is stated in the report of the State Environmental Protection Office. Experts believe that for the restoration of groundwater reserves, which give China 70 percent of drinking water, it will take centuries.

Oleg Gordievsky The program "Results of the Week" is maintained by Andrei Shari. The political scientist of the Carnegie Center Nikolai Petrov, one of the leaders of the Union of Right Forces, Boris Nadezhdin and the former Soviet intelligence resident in the UK, historian of Soviet and British intelligence services Oleg Gordievsky, take part. Andrey Sharry: We will talk about the loud killings and attempts of the last time.

The 7th Congress of the United Russia party is held in Yekaterinburg. Delegates have adopted a party of party actions for the next 10 years. One of the main tasks of the "United Russia" calls "a cardinal improvement of the quality of life of Russians." The leaders of United Russia performed at the congress in support of the introduction of direct elections of senators. The draft law was recently proposed by the speaker of the Federation Council, the head of the Just Russia party Sergey Mironov.

On the Olympic highway to the City Park (USA), the competitions of men's doubles were held. The first three places were taken by the teams of Italy -1, Germany - 1, Italy - 2. Russian duet Kuzmich - Veselov finished in 13th place with 16 participants.

To the south of Baghdad, about 20 people died and at least 15 people were injured as a result of an incident that could be a terrorist attack. The truck at high speed drove into the crowd of people who were waiting for the bus at a bus stop in Al-Vahad. The police believe that we can talk about a deliberate attack, since there is no evidence that the truck has any technical problems, because of which the driver lost control.

At the final match of the Davis Russia -Argentina Cup, the Russians took 2: 1 in Moscow. This happened after Marat Safin and Dmitry Tursunov won the steam meeting with David Nalbandan and Agustin Kalieri - 6: 2, 6: 3, 6: 4.

One of the leaders of the Iraqi Shiites Abdulaziz al -Khakim rejected the proposal of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan - hold an international conference on the problem of resolving the situation in Iraq. The head of the UN proposes to collect representatives of all leading political parties, religious and ethnic groups of the country outside Iraq - to discuss the ways to the world.

The 7th Congress of the United Russia party is held in Yekaterinburg

The Hague Tribunal postponed the hearing in the case of the leader of the Serbian nationalists Voislav Sheshel, who has been holding a hunger strike for three weeks. The representative of the tribunal expressed serious concern to his health and emphasized the readiness of the doctors to intervene. Sheshel, who was accused of war crimes, announced a hunger strike when a lawyer was appointed against his will.

US President George Bush will meet on Monday with the leader of the largest Shiite bloc in the Iraq parliament Abdul-Aziz al-Khakim. The meeting will discuss the ways to stabilize the situation in Iraq. For January, a meeting of Bush with Vice President Iraq, a representative of the country of the country, Tarik Al-Hashemi, is planned.

Olga Beklemishcheva: Today we will talk about ocheric implantation. This is an operation that allows people to hear, absolutely devoid of hearing. I don’t even know how to name this treatment method - new or old. The fact is that in the world, in particular, in the United States, cochlear implantation has been made for more than 30 years. In Russia, it appeared relatively recently. Two years ago, it was made in a very limited quantity-five to six pieces per year.

Victor Erofeev: Our guests: Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Journalism of the International University in Moscow Alexander Altunyan, journalist Echo of Moscow, Matvey Ganapolsky and journalist and writer Alexander Oblast. The theme of our transmission is hot spots. Once upon a time, about 20 years ago, the Soviet Union was a large hot point for the whole world. Time passed, the Soviet Union ceased to exist, inside the former empire arose its internal hot spots. What is a hot point?

Marina Katys: December 3 celebrates International Struggle Day against Pesticides. How do these pesticides affect people's health and plants? We will talk about this today with a doctor of chemical sciences, president of the Union for Chemical Security by Leo Fedorov. And I will immediately say that Lev Fedorov co -authorship with Alexei Yablokov wrote the book “Pesticides - a toxic blow to the biosphere and man”. This book was published in the series "Lessons of the twentieth century" in 1999.

Thanks to the successful performance of the Ukrainian national team at the World Cup in Germany, several exhibits were added to the House of Football Museum The construction of a five -story building made of glass, concrete and plastic, entirely “stuffed” with equipment and modern furniture, lasted two and a half years. This spent $ 17 million.

Three powerful explosions occurred in Baghdad - at least 38 people died, more than 80 were injured. The mined cars exploded one after another in the center of the capital of Iraq. The authorities fear that there will be many more victims. To the north of Baghdad - in the city of Baakub, American and Iraqi troops are fierce battles with the Sunni rebels. According to the American command, more than 30 militants are captured.