Foreign newsreels № 5900 (1979)

Algeria – Election of a new candidate for the presidency.

Sri Lanka, Colombo – Indian Prime Minister Desai is in Sri Lanka on a visit, speaking in Parliament.

Tanzania, Dar es Salaam - The statement of the President of Tanzania Nyerere that his troops will invade Uganda if necessary.

England – The World Squash Championship.

Senegal, Dakar – Discussion of the "New order of information" at the 19th session of the Union of National Radio and Television Organizations of Africa.

England, Scotland – Curling.

South Africa – Two of the 4 repressed, released by the partisans, arrive in Johannesburg.

Germany, Dusseldorf – Critical pollution of the Rhine waters is discussed at the symposium on environmental protection.

Iraq, Tehran – Demonstration of Bakhtiar's supporters and Bakhtiar's press conference, rally of Khomeini's supporters.

Portugal – Flood, flooded crops.

Pakistan – The appeal of former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on the abolition of the death sentence, removed: the Bhutto family at the walls of the prison.

Italy, Rome, Vatican City – Protest demonstration against the Lateran pact on church-state relations, the Pope holds Mass for the sick and crippled.

Pakistan, Rawalpindi – Meeting of President Zia-ul-Haq with the Chief of Staff of the Indonesian army.

Pakistan – Celebrating the birthday of the Prophet Mohammed, demonstrations for and against the death sentence imposed on former Prime Minister Bhutto.

Rhodesia – The leader of the provisional government Sithole begins the election campaign according to the formula one person – one vote.

Italy – An epidemic of an unknown disease in Naples, more than 60 children died.