The government controlled national television newscast in the Soviet Union carried news on the day’s events in the nation’s 15 republics, including the meeting between Soviet President Gorbachev and Russian President Yeltsin on the independence of Soviet republics. The news extensively covered the day’s meeting of the Soviet parliament, in which Soviet President Gorbachev urged the adoption of a new treaty to prevent the complete dissolution of the Soviet Union. Translation from the Russian is by voice over.