The Palestinian authorities claim that the British journalist Alan Johnston stolen in Gaza is alive and healthy. The representative of the Palestinian Government Gazi Hamad said on the Sky News television channel that he has confirmation of this information. Hamad also expressed hope for the quick liberation of the journalist. The BBC correspondent in Gaza Alan Johnston disappeared on March 12. In early May, the little -known Islamist group said that Johnston was killed.

Elena Fanailova: Freedom in the club "apartment 44". The Kyiv Lavra festival, which was held in May in the city of Kyiv today, will discuss with the poets Arkady Shtypel, Maria Galina, Mikhail Aizenberg, Stanislav Lvovsky, Konstantin Swarovsky and one of the organizers of this festival from the Russian side Yuri Tsuriov. The poet and critic Dmitry Kuzmin should join us. For five days, more than 100 poets from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia performed at six, if my memory serves me, festival venues.

In the vicinity of the capital of Italy, at least 400 people were blocked in the train due to the fire. The fire covered the first carriage of the passenger composition. Is there any victims is still unknown. Firefighters and police work on the spot. The train costs 50 kilometers from Rome.

In the Kemerovo region today there will be a funeral of four miners who died in the explosion of methane in the Yubileinaya mine. Yesterday 34 dead miners were buried, mourning was announced in the region. There are 7 miners in hospitals who were injured in an explosion on Thursday, two of them are in serious condition. The causes of the explosion are still unknown - the commission cannot go down to the mine due to the high concentration of methane.

During the shelling of the Israeli city, one person was killed, the second was wounded. In the cut, several missiles fired from the gas sector exploded this morning. The responsibility for the shelling took over the combat wing of the Hamas group. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert immediately made a statement that the attacks of Hamas objects would continue. No one will escape retaliation, ”he emphasized.

The city of Deotor in the south of Israel was again subjected to rocket fire from the gas sector this morning. Two people were injured, one in critical condition. Last night, Israeli aviation inflicted new blows to the objects of Hamas group in the gas sector. There is no information about the victims. Since mid -May, Palestinian extremists launched at least 250 missiles to the south of Israel.

In Novokuznetsk, 4 miners were buried today, who died on May 24 during the explosion at the Yubileinaya mine. 34 miners were buried yesterday Today it became known that another Shakhtar died in the hospital - 33 -year -old Eduard Lyakh. Thus, the number of victims reached 39. Specialists of the State Commission investigating the causes of the accident were able to get down to the mine today - the concentration of methane in the face has decreased significantly.

The Golden Palm Branch - the main prize of the 60th International Film Festival in Cannes (France) - was awarded to the Romanian film "4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days." The film directed by Christian Munjiu is a tragic story from the life of a Romanian society in an era of a communist dictatorship. The best actress of the jury called Lee Shin E - for the role in the film "Secret Light" director Lee Chan Don, in the past - the Minister of Culture of South Korea.

A four-year-old girl, whose searches continued in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in the early morning, was found by a dead. According to Interfax with reference to the regional prosecutor's office, the girl’s body was found on the shores of Lake Medvezhye, not far from the place where the oppressed car in which the child was previously found. What caused the death of the child, has not yet been reported. The mother said about the disappearance of the police, who, on Sunday night, was on duty.

The court in Libya removed the accusations of slander from five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor who had previously been sentenced to death on another charges. All six have been in custody for 8 years. In 2004, the court found them guilty of intentional infection of more than 400 children of the AIDS virus when blood transfusion in the Benghazi Libyan City Hospital. Doctors claimed to admit their guilt under torture.

The Taliban freed three Afghan hostages captured on April 3, along with the French - employees of the Humanitarian organization Terr D “Anfans”. As the representative of the Taliban announced, all three were released on Saturday at the request of Afghan elders and without any ransom. It is still impossible to check this information. The French were released from captivity earlier.

82-year-old Paul Newman is leaving the cinema. The famous American actor, the Hollywood star announced this in an interview with Ay Bi See. The acting career of Newman began more than half a century ago. He starred in 50 films and was nominated for Oscar 9 times. He was awarded the highest cinema award in 1986.

Alexey Kuznetsov: I outlined the theme of today's program in the most general way - the latest trends in the Russian blogosphere, not without irony, I’ll say that I was a little laughing at this name, but, oddly enough, we will have to highlight some trends today, and now Catherine, please introduce the guest and specify, let's still, this wide topic.

The championship of the Italian series "A" ended. In the final round, the winner of the Inter tournament defeated Torino - 3: 0. “Roma” defeated “Messin” - 4: 3, “Lazio” lost to “Siene” - 1: 2, “Milan”, who recently won the Champions League, was defeated by Regina - 0: 2. “Inter” and “Roma” will perform mainly at the Raunde of the Champions League, and “Lazio” and “Milan” in the qualification. The UEFA Cup will take part in the Fiorentina, Palermo and Empoli Cup.