Embassy extended its closure to the public until early next week because of an unspecified threat. Prime Minister Tony Blair and Environment Agency officials toured flooded areas of the country by air. Weather forecasters warned that flooding probably would get worse over the next 48 hours with more rain on the way.įourteen severe flood warnings were in place for nine rivers, with those in Yorkshire in northern England and the Severn River in the west the chief areas of concern. LONDON-More rain swept across Britain, swelling rivers already at the bursting point as the country's worst floods in 50 years showed few signs of abating. Meanwhile, the court rejected a request by Pope's lawyer for a comprehensive medical examination for his client. Prosecutor Oleg Plotnikov told reporters that while specifications for the Shkval were published by Military Parade, a Russian arms export magazine, the technology and fuel remain secret. Pavel Astakhov, Pope's lawyer, quoted Shakhidzhanov as saying in the closed-door trial that information about the Shkval had been fully declassified. "This technology itself is still unique, of its kind, and is worth a fair sum of money." "We did not hand over any secrets to him," he said of Pope, who is accused of trying to buy information about the design of the Shkval torpedo. Yevgeny Shakhidzhanov, director of the Region State Research and Production Enterprise, a leading designer of bombs and missiles, spoke to reporters outside the courtroom after testifying. MOSCOW-The director of the Russian military bureau that designed a high-speed underwater torpedo said the organization did not hand over secret materials to Edmond Pope, the American businessman and retired intelligence officer on trial here for spying. Here is a list of the compartment staff, who are in the ninth and will try to get out. We will hope that at least someone will read this. It doesn't look as if we have any chance. It is too dark to write here, but I will try and do it by touch. Next to his coffin was displayed a plaque with part of the text of his note that was not made public last week: "15.45. Petersburg after a memorial service in the Admiralty building. Dmitri Kolesnikov, who left a note in his pocket describing how 23 surviving sailors huddled in the ninth compartment in the rear of the sub after the blast, was buried in St. The explosion was thought to have originated in the nose of the sub, the torpedo room, but there were signs of fire all the way to the stern. The third compartment held key command posts and there was speculation that it would yield more bodies, but Navrotsky said divers would turn to the fourth compartment instead. The new data reinforced the theory that a major explosion ripped through most of the vessel's watertight compartments before it sank Aug. Damage was so great the divers could not move around, he said. Video pictures from a camera inserted on a pole showed that the compartment "was very badly damaged as a result of a powerful explosion," Northern Fleet spokesman Vladimir Navrotsky said. MOSCOW-Russian divers discovered that the third compartment of the sunken nuclear submarine Kursk was so badly damaged that they could not explore it further, navy officials announced yesterday.
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