Two journalists from France, captured on Wednesday in Afghanistan, are alive and do not suffer from bad treatment. This was reported by the French television company, whose employees are journalists, referring to the information it received. The sources of this information, as well as the fate of three citizens of Afghanistan, captured with the French, are not reported. Correspondents were captured by unknown in the province of Kapis north of Kabul.

In Brazil, the death of at least 40 people was confirmed as a result of floods and landslides caused by heavy rains on Thursday and Friday. Dozens of people are still missing. Rescue work is complicated by the fact that the weather has not yet changed for the better. Most of all the victims-22-in the Angra-Dus-Ris resort city in Rio de Janeiro, where a small hotel and several residential buildings collapsed due to the landslide.

The Parliament of Afghanistan today is a vote on the composition of the government proposed by President Hamid Karzai. Each new minister is approved separately. Voting was preceded by a discussion of parliamentary candidates. Karzai announced the composition of the government at the end of December. Western countries require the president who was re -elected in the recent election, and from the new Cabinet of Ministers to activate the fight against corruption.

In the east of Tajikistan, as a result of the earthquake on Saturday, several dozen residential buildings were completely or partially destroyed. Two villages suffered from the elements - Roch and Gishkokh - in the mountain -Badashkhan autonomous region. According to RIA Novosti, citing local authorities, about 20 thousand people lived in destroyed houses.

The Caucasian hour is a program about events in the South and North Caucasus. This territory to this day remains the focus of conflicts, the development of the Russian state directly depends on the development of which. Here, in the complex crossroads of cultural, religious, social problems, Russia develop inside the willow policy strategies.

Ekaterina Vertinskaya : At a time when the Russian Siberians were only preparing for the celebration of the New Year, the Belarusian Siberians already celebrated it with might and main. This holiday is called by the Belarusians of Kolyad, celebrate it from December 24 to January 7. About how this holiday was born, we were told by the head of the Irkutsk partnership of the Belarusian culture named after Yana Chersky Oleg Rudakov.

In the north of India, as a result of a railway disaster, 10 people died, at least 40 were injured. 19 victims are in critical condition, ”CNN was told in the leadership of the Indian transport company. In the city of Kanpur, two compositions collided today. According to preliminary data, the tragedy occurred due to strong fog and failures in the supply of electricity.

Alexander Valiev : I met Oksana Chizhova at the picket of large families, which was the other day before the building of the Chelyabinsk Regional Legislative Assembly. The federal law on the support of such families, adopted many years ago, still does not work in our area. People raising three or more children have no benefits. Only those of them who are one of the poor receive a subsidy, which costs large works.

Ski biases. In Oberhof (Germany), a persecution race was held as part of the stage of the World Cup. 1. Hannah Mannin (Finland) 2. Felix Gottwald (Austria) 3. Shapmu Zhason Lami (France) The best time from the Russians was shown by Sergey Maslennikov, who took 25th place.

Basketball. Regular NBA Championship Los Angeles Lakers-Sacramento 109: 108 Minnesota - Orlando 94: 106 Atlanta-New York 108: 112 (in overtime)

Yakov Krotov : Today our program will be dedicated to guilt. In the fourth century after the Nativity of Christ, one of the Goths, missionary, translated the Holy Scripture into his native language, Gotsky, and at the same time released passwords from the text of the Old Testament, the books of the kingdoms, because they described the conquest of the Holy Land. And this translator, St.

In the south of France, about 30 paintings were stolen from a private villa, including Picasso and Rousseau canvases. According to the police, the theft happened when the owner of the villa was resting in Sweden. The insurance value of paintings is estimated at about a million euros.

In Colombia, at least 18 ultra -rebellious rebels were killed as a result of a airstrike. According to the Ministry of Defense, 10 militants were captured during the assault of the camp in the province of Meta, where members of the radical group "Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia" (Fark) celebrated the New Year. A week before the New Year in Columbia, the Governor of the province of Luis Francisco Kuelar was killed. The authorities stated that this was the work of the militants Fark.

In Moscow, they calculated the appetites of the Belarusian side with excessive Official Minsk announces the unprecedented pressure of Moscow on the issue of oil supply to Belarus. The New Year's negotiations ended to no avail, and the Belarusian delegation went home on December 31.