LAMAN web berita Sputnik Rusia tiba-tiba disekat di Turki selepas 'pertimbangan undang-undang' . . .

JamaliahYusofYacob - Laman web Rusia agensi berita Sputnik telah ditutup oleh Turki tanpa pemberitahuan terlebih dahulu di bawah "langkah-langkah pentadbiran" yang dikenakan oleh pihak berkuasa di negara ini. Turki baru-baru ini menyelar di Parlimen Eropah kerana melanggar kebebasan akhbar.

"Selepas analisis teknikal dan pertimbangan undang-undang berdasarkan undang-undang Nr. 5651, langkah pentadbiran telah diambil untuk laman web ini (sputniknews.com) menurut keputusan Nr. 490.05.01.2016.-56.092 bertarikh 14/04/2016 jawatan Presiden Telekomunikasi dan Komunikasi, "kata mesej ralat yang dipaparkan di laman utama sputniknews.com untuk mana-mana pengguna cuba untuk mengakses laman web ini dari Turki.

Ketua Biro Turki Sputnik ini Tural Kerimov berkata, pihak berkuasa Turki telah gagal untuk memberitahu agensi mana-mana pelanggaran yang dikatakan lebih awal daripada menyekat mendadak.

"Kami tidak menerima sebarang pemberitahuan, amaran atau mesej lain daripada pihak berkuasa berwibawa. Tiada komunikasi telah diterima sejak menyekat, "katanya. Masalah dengan sputniknews.com pertama kali dilaporkan pada kira-kira 19:50 waktu tempatan.

Russia’s Sputnik news website abruptly blocked in Turkey after ‘legal consideration’ . . .

Russian state news agency website Sputnik has been shut down by Turkey without prior notification under “administrative measures” imposed by the country’s authorities. Turkey was recently slammed in the European Parliament for violating press freedoms.

“After technical analysis and legal consideration based on the law Nr. 5651, administration measure has been taken for this website (sputniknews.com) according to decision Nr. 490.05.01.2016.-56092 dated 14/04/2016 of the Presidency of Telecommunication and Communication,” says an error message that appears on the sputniknews.com homepage for any user trying to access the site from Turkey.

Sputnik’s Turkish bureau chief Tural Kerimov said that the Turkish authorities had failed to notify the agency of any alleged violations in advance of the abrupt blocking.

“We received no notifications, warnings or other messages from the competent authorities. No communications have been received since the blocking,” he said. The problems with sputniknews.com were first reported at about 7:50pm local time.

Jabatan Telekomunikasi dan Komunikasi balas kepada permintaan laman web untuk mendapatkan penjelasan dengan mengatakan bahawa "kerana ia sudah lewat dan tidak ada orang yang bertanggungjawab [ada], kami tidak dapat memberikan komen mengenai isu ini." Komen lanjut dijangka datang pada Tarikh kemudian.

Langkah yang tidak dapat dijelaskan datang pada tumit daripada resolusi EU pada Khamis, yang mengecam apa yang mereka namakan "backsliding serius terhadap kebebasan asasi," termasuk pertumbuhan pertempuran di tenggara Turki dan kerajaan "ganas dan menyalahi undang-undang pengambilalihan beberapa akhbar termasuk Zaman."

The Department of Telecommunications and Communication responded to the website request for clarification by saying that “because it is already late and there are no responsible persons [available], we cannot provide comment on this issue.” Further comments are expected to come at a later date.

The unexplained move comes on the heels of an EU resolution on Thursday, which denounced what they called a “serious backsliding on fundamental freedoms,” including the growth of clashes in the southeast of Turkey and government’s “violent and illegal take-over of several newspapers including Zaman.”

Read more: ‘Backslide on fundamental freedoms’: MEPs want Turkey migrant deal untied from EU accession talks (Baca lebih lanjut: 'menyimpang pada kebebasan asasi': Parlimen Eropah mahu Turki perjanjian asing membuka ikatan dari rundingan kesertaan EU)

Kerajaan Turki Presiden Erdogan telah mengetatkan kawalan ke atas beberapa media Turki mengkritik dasar-dasar kerajaan  Ankara, bagaimanapun, ini adalah kali pertama sebuah agensi berita antarabangsa telah disenyapkan.

Turki telah banyak menyekat Twitter dan Facebook lebih daripada sekali, menahan wartawan asing menuduh keganasan mereka, namun salah satu episod yang paling mengejutkan penapisan Turki setakat ini telah serbuan ke atas ibu pejabat Zaman Hari ini pada bulan Mac, yang digambarkan sebagai "satu tindakan yang sama sekali tidak bertamadun "oleh bekas ketua pengarang Bulent Kenes.

"Kuasa kerajaan [di Ankara] boleh digunakan untuk menyekat apa-apa pendapat, termasuk Sputnik atau pendapat dalam negeri, kerajaan tidak mahu mendengar," profesor sejarah sosial dan politik di Universiti Michigan Ronald G. Suny memberitahu RT, yang menerangkan "kempen keras" terhadap wartawan di Turki.

"Terdapat kempen keras sebenar akhir-akhir ini terhadap wartawan, terhadap aktivis politik, terhadap ahli akademik, orang-orang yang telah menandatangani petisyen itu cuba untuk mendapatkan kerajaan Turki untuk menghentikan perang kejam mereka terhadap orang Kurdis di Tenggara Turki," kata Suny. Majlis menandatangani petisyen itu oleh wartawan, ahli akademik dan intelektual "telah dilihat oleh kerajaan, dalam satu langkah yang melampau dan sangat ruam, kerana pengkhianatan . . ."

The Turkish government of President Erdogan has clamped down on a number of Turkish media outlets critical of Ankara government’s policies, however, this is the first time an international news agency has been silenced.

Turkey has more blocked Twitter and Facebook more than once, arrested foreign journalists accusing them of terrorism, yet one of the most shocking episodes of Turkish censorship so far has been the raid on the Today’s Zaman headquarters in March, described as “a totally barbaric act” by its ex-editor in chief Bulent Kenes.

“The government power [in Ankara] can be used to supress any opinion, including Sputnik or domestic opinion, the government doesn’t want to hear,” professor of social and political history at the University of Michigan Ronald G. Suny told RT, describing the “harsh campaign” against journalists in Turkey.

“There’s been a real harsh campaign lately against journalists, against political activists, against academicians, people who have signed the petition trying to get the Turkish government to stop their brutal war against the Kurds in Southeastern Turkey,” Suny added. The signing of the petition by journalists, academicians and intellectuals “has been seen by the government, in an extreme and very rash move, as treason…”

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Presiden Turki adalah salah satu daripada pemimpin-pemimpin yang menolak sebarang kritikan dan "rasa dihina olehnya," Suny percaya, dengan mengatakan bahawa aduan jenayah Erdogan sebagai tindak balas kepada puisi menyindir mengenai beliau ditulis oleh pelawak Jerman hanya membuktikan kes itu.

"Setiap ahli politik perlu mengambil pukulan, yang datang dengan wilayah. Fikirkan Presiden Obama - betapa dia teraniaya, atau Putin juga. Jadi Erdogan adalah tidak berbeza tetapi dia bertindak balas begitu garang. Satira ini, lagu ini lucu yang benar-benar menakjubkan dan agak kelakar . . . baginya ia terlalu dekat dengan tulang."

"[Erdogan] telah reaksi berlebihan, memanggil Duta Jerman, meletakkan tekanan ke atas Canselor Merkel entah bagaimana menarik balik perkara ini . . . Itu akan menjadi bertentangan dengan Perlembagaan Jerman. Ia bukan cara kerajaan-kerajaan demokrasi berfungsi dan ia tidak akan berlaku."

The Turkish President is one of those leaders who reject any criticism and “feel humiliated by it,” Suny believes, saying that Erdogan’s criminal complaint as a response to a satirical poem about him written by a German comedian only proves the case.

“Every politician has to take blows, that comes with the territory. Think of President Obama – how much he is abused, or Putin as well. So Erdogan is no different and yet he’s reacted so fiercely. This satire, this funny song which is really amazing and quite hilarious… it’s too close to the bone for him.”

“[Erdogan] has overreacted, calling in the German ambassador, putting pressure on Chancellor Merkel to somehow withdraw this thing…That would be against the Constitution of Germany. It’s not the way democratic governments work and it’s not going to happen.”

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Erdogan menyambut Raja Saudi dengan perarakan tentera Rusia (VIDEO) . . .

Apabila Presiden Turki Erdogan disambut tentera menjelang ketibaan Raja Saudi di Ankara, orkestra adalah di tangan. Tetapi bukannya memainkan tune Turki, pemuzik membuat pilihan yang agak mengejutkan untuk melaksanakan perarakan tentera Rusia.

Rakaman video yang menunjukkan tentera beruniform perbarisan sebagai Erdogan berjalan di permaidani biru dan menuju ke arah mikrofon. Muzik live bermain sebagai presiden membuat pintu masuk - tetapi lagu yang sangat jelas pra-revolusioner mac Rusia "Toska po rodine" (Kerinduan akan rumah).

Erdogan greets Saudi King with Russian military march (VIDEO) . . .

JamaliahYusofYacob - When Turkey's President Erdogan greeted soldiers ahead of the Saudi King's arrival in Ankara, an orchestra was on hand. But rather than playing a Turkish tune, the musicians made the rather surprising choice to perform a Russian military march.

Video footage shows uniformed soldiers lined up in formation as Erdogan walks down a blue carpet and makes his way towards a microphone. Live music plays as the president makes his entrance – but the tune is very clearly the pre-revolutionary Russian march “Toska po rodine” (Longing for Home).

Walaupun terdapat perdebatan pengarang muzik, ia adalah tidak dapat dinafikan ianya Rusia. Rekod menunjukkan beberapa komposer Rusia, manakala ramai ahli sejarah muzik mengatakan melodi pertama kali direkodkan oleh F.E. Kroup di St Petersburg pada tahun 1905.

Although there is debate over the authorship of the music, it is undeniably Russian. Records point to a number of Russian composers, while many music historians say the melody was first recorded by F.E. Kroup in St. Petersburg in 1905.

Muzik ini akan menjadi pilihan yang mengejutkan di bawah mana-mana senario, tetapi pilihan itu amat mengherankan memandangkan ketegangan semasa antara Moscow dan Ankara. Hubungan menjadi tegang apabila jet Turki menembak jatuh pengebom Rusia beroperasi dari pangkalan udara Syria November lalu.

Lawatan rasmi Raja Saudi, yang bermula pada hari Isnin, telah termasuk mesyuarat dengan pegawai-pegawai Turki di Ankara. Beliau juga menghadiri Pertubuhan 2 hari sidang kemuncak Kerjasama Islam (OIC) di Istanbul pada hari Khamis dan Jumaat. Turki dan Arab Saudi telah membangunkan hubungan rapat dalam tahun-tahun kebelakangan ini, terutamanya mengenai isu-isu mengenai konflik yang berterusan di Syria dan Yaman.

Persediaan untuk ketibaan Raja adalah apa-apa yang utama tetapi rendah. 300 pegawai keselamatan Arab telah dihantar ke Ankara untuk bersedia untuk ketibaan beliau, dengan detail keselamatan tempahan setiap bilik di JW Marriott hotel 5 bintang. Tingkap suite raja telah ditutup dengan kaca kalis peluru dan tembok telah ditampal dengan simen bom tahan dengan kos US $ 10 juta, menurut media tempatan. Kira-kira 500 kereta mewah telah diupah untuk mengangkut rombongan raja.

The music would be a surprising choice under any scenario, but the choice is particularly baffling considering current tensions between Moscow and Ankara. Relations became strained when Turkish jets shot down a Russian bomber operating from a Syrian airbase last November.

The Saudi King's official visit, which began on Monday, has included meetings with Turkish officials in Ankara. He is also attending a two-day Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit in Istanbul on Thursday and Friday. Turkey and Saudi Arabia have developed close relations in recent years, particularly on issues regarding ongoing conflicts in Syria and Yemen.

Preparations for the King's arrival were anything but low-key. Three-hundred Saudi security officials were sent to Ankara to prepare for his arrival, with the security detail booking every room in the five-star JW Marriott hotel. The windows of the king's suite were covered with bulletproof glass and the walls were plastered with bomb-resistant cement at a cost of US$10 million, according to local media. Around 500 luxury cars were hired to transport the king's entourage.

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BRICS bergabung kuasa pada IMF pembaharuan formula kuota . . .

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JamaliahYusofYacob - Brazil, Rusia, India, China dan Afrika Selatan telah bersetuju untuk mengambil pendirian yang bersatu di Tabung Kewangan Antarabangsa (IMF) semakan sistem kuota.

"Kita perlu mengambil kedudukan yang bersatu mengenai kajian semula kuota. Ulasan tersebut perlu di tempat pertama adalah berdasarkan kepada angka-angka KDNK, dikira dengan pariti kuasa beli (PPP) ... Semua orang telah bersetuju untuk ini," kata Menteri Kewangan Rusia Anton Siluanov pada hari Khamis selepas mengadakan pertemuan dengan menteri-menteri kewangan BRICS.

BRICS join forces on IMF quota formula reform

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa have agreed to take a unified stance on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) quota system revisions.

"We need to take a united position on the quota reviews. Such reviews should in the first place be based on GDP figures, calculated by purchasing power parity (PPP)... Everyone has agreed to this,” said Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov on Thursday after a meeting with BRICS finance ministers.

Read more: BRICS gets greater say in IMF (Baca lebih lanjut: BRICS mendapat hak bersuara dalam IMF)

Formula kuota semasa adalah purata wajaran daripada KDNK (berat 50 % peratus), keterbukaan (30 % peratus), kepelbagaian ekonomi (15%  peratus), dan rizab antarabangsa (5 % peratus). KDNK diukur melalui campuran daripada KDNK berasaskan pada kadar pertukaran pasaran (berat 60 % peratus) - dan pada kadar pertukaran PPP (40 % peratus).

Menurut Menteri Kewangan Rusia, KDNK adalah salah satu petunjuk utama, dan berat badan yang lebih besar dalam formula akan mengambil kira kepentingan negara-negara membangun, yang kini kurang diwakili dalam IMF, kerana ekonomi mereka sedang membangunkan dinamik.

Pembaharuan IMF telah diterima pakai pada tahun 2010, tetapi telah ditangguhkan sehingga Disember 2015 kerana kedudukan Kongres Amerika Syarikat, apabila ia mengesahkan apa yang dipanggil 14 Kuota Kajian Besar.

Di bawah peraturan baru, kuota China telah mencapai 6.4 % peratus; Rusia dan India kini mempunyai 2.7 % peratus masing-masing dengan Brazil dan Afrika Selatan masing-masing mempunyai 2.3 % dan 0.6 % peratus. Ini memberikan sejumlah 14.7 % peratus berbanding 11.5 % peratus sebelum ini. Amerika Syarikat adalah ahli terbesar daripada IMF dan adalah satu-satunya untuk mempunyai kuasa veto, kerana 15 % peratus adalah bahagian menyekat.

Kini, negara membangun sedang mencari untuk mengubah formula kuota. Sesetengah daripada mereka ragu-ragu bahawa petunjuk seperti keterbukaan dan kepelbagaian ekonomi perlu memainkan apa-apa peranan yang besar dalam formula.

The current quota formula is a weighted average of GDP (weight of 50 percent), openness (30 percent), economic variability (15 percent), and international reserves (5 percent). The GDP is measured through a blend of GDP—based on market exchange rates (weight of 60 percent)—and on PPP exchange rates (40 percent).

According to the Russian Finance Minister, GDP is one of the key indicators, and its greater weight in the formula will take into account the interests of developing countries, which are now under-represented in the IMF, as their economies are developing dynamically.

The reform of IMF was adopted back in 2010, but was delayed until December 2015 due to the position of the US Congress, when it ratified the so-called 14th General Quota Review.

Under the new rules, China’s quota has reached 6.4 percent; Russia and India now have 2.7 percent each with Brazil and South Africa having 2.3 and 0.6 percent, respectively. This gives a total of 14.7 percent against 11.5 percent before. The US is the biggest member of the IMF and is the only one to have a veto, as 15 percent is a blocking share.

Now, the developing economies are looking to alter the formula of the quota. Some of them doubt that such indicators as openness and economic variability should play such a big role in the formula.

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CHINA menyeru diplomat G7 selepas kumpulan2 melahirkan 'kebimbangan' ke atas keadaan di Laut China SELATAN . . .

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JamaliahYusofYacob - China telah memanggil wakil-wakil dari Kumpulan 7 (G7) negara untuk menyatakan kemarahan selepas negara berkata mereka "bimbang" mengenai keadaan di Timur dan Laut China Selatan.

"China memanggil utusan diplomatik negara-negara berkenaan," Lu Kang, jurucakap Kementerian Luar China, berkata semasa taklimat media.

Ia datang selepas negara-negara G7 - Amerika Syarikat, Kanada, UK, Perancis, Jerman, Itali, dan Jepun - mengumumkan dalam satu kenyataan bersama: "Kami mengambil berat tentang keadaan di Laut China Timur dan Selatan, dan menekankan kepentingan asasi pengurusan aman dan penyelesaian pertikaian."

China summons G7 diplomats after group expressed 'concern' over situation in South China Sea . . .

China has summoned representatives from the Group of Seven (G7) nations to express anger after the countries said they were “concerned” about the situation in the East and South China Seas.

"China summoned the diplomatic envoys of relevant countries," Lu Kang, a spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry, said during a press briefing.

It comes after the G7 countries – the US, Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan – announced in a joint statement: “We are concerned about the situation in the East and South China Seas, and emphasize the fundamental importance of peaceful management and settlement of disputes."

Read more: Philippines, US launch large-scale naval drills ‘without China in mind’ (Baca lebih lanjut: Filipina, US melancarkan latihan tentera laut secara besar-besaran 'tanpa fikir dalam China')

Kenyataan itu dibuat semasa mesyuarat 2 hari di Hiroshima, Jepun.

Negara-negara G7 juga menggesa "semua negeri-negeri untuk menahan diri dari tindakan seperti tebusan semula tanah" dan "membina pos-pos . . . untuk tujuan ketenteraan." Beijing telah membina pulau buatan di Laut China Selatan, ada yang dilengkapi dengan landasan 3000 meter panjang. Ia juga telah menggerakkan peralatan ketenteraan ke kawasan ini.

Walaupun komen yang tidak secara khusus menamakan China, Beijing meletakkan tuntutan kepada hampir seluruh Laut China Selatan - dipercayai kaya dengan minyak dan gas - walaupun bercanggah tuntutan daripada Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan, dan Filipina. Jepun juga mempunyai pertikaian dengan Beijing alih pemilikan pulau-pulau Senkaku di Laut China Timur.

Selain penyata, Lu berkata, "seorang pegawai kanan salah satu daripada negara-negara G7 menyebut bahawa China perlu mendengar suara [yang] G7." Komen Itu dipercayai bertujuan Jepun.

Kesimpulannya, Lu berkata Beijing percaya G7 tidak harus membuat kenyataan itu, sambil menambah bahawa negara2 "hanya cuba untuk menghiburkan diri mereka dengan mengeluarkan kenyataan seperti itu."

Pemanggilan oleh orang Cina datang sebagai sumber tentera mengumumkan bahawa pegawai-pegawai pertahanan dari Filipina dan Vietnam akan bertemu minggu ini untuk meneroka latihan bersama mungkin dan rondaan tentera laut di Laut China Selatan. Kedua-dua negara bersetuju dengan perkongsian strategik pada bulan November untuk meningkatkan hubungan keselamatan, China terus berkembang kehadirannya di perairan yang dipertikaikan.

Pada hari Selasa, Fox News melaporkan bahawa China telah mengerahkan jet pejuang baru di Pulau Woody Laut China Selatan, memetik imej satelit dari awal bulan ini. Pulau, sebahagian daripada Kepulauan Paracel, sebahagian besarnya dikawal oleh China, walaupun Taiwan dan Vietnam juga telah meletakkan tuntutan ke atasnya.

Awal bulan ini, Amerika Syarikat dan tentera bersekutu berkumpul di Filipina untuk latihan ketenteraan bersama sebagai tanda kekerasan terhadap China. Lebih 5,000 tentera mengambil bahagian dalam latihan tahunan, yang akan berlangsung hingga April 16. Tentera Amerika Syarikat telah menghantar kapal perang Amerika Syarikat untuk mengadakan latihan di rantau ini sebanyak 2 kali sejak musim luruh lalu, kritikan tajam dari Beijing.

The comment was made during a two-day meeting in Hiroshima, Japan.

The G7 nations also urged “all states to refrain from such actions as land reclamations” and “building of outposts...for military purposes.” Beijing has built up artificial islands in the South China Sea, some of which are equipped with runways 3,000 meters long. It has also deployed military equipment to the area.

Although the comments did not specifically name China, Beijing lays claim to almost all of the South China Sea – believed to be rich in oil and gas – despite conflicting claims from Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan, and the Philippines. Japan also has a dispute with Beijing over ownership of the Senkaku islands in the East China Sea.

In addition to the statements, Lu said “a senior official of one of the G7 countries mentioned that China needs to heed the voice of [the] G7.” That comment is believed to be aimed at Japan.

In conclusion, Lu said Beijing believes the G7 shouldn't make such remarks, adding that the countries are “just trying to amuse themselves by issuing such statements.”

The summoning by the Chinese comes as military sources announced that defense officials from the Philippines and Vietnam will meet this week to explore possible joint exercises and naval patrols in the South China Sea. The two nations agreed on a strategic partnership in November to boost security relations, as China continues to expand its presence in the disputed waterway.

On Tuesday, Fox News reported that China had deployed new fighter jets in the South China Sea's Woody Island, citing satellite imagery from earlier this month. The island, part of the Paracel Islands, is largely controlled by China, although Taiwan and Vietnam have also laid claims on it.

Earlier this month, the US and allied forces gathered in the Philippines for joint military exercises as a show of force against China. More than 5,000 troops are taking part in the annual drills, which will run through April 16. The US military has sent US warships to conduct exercises in the region twice since last autumn, drawing sharp criticism from Beijing.

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'SERANGAN agresif simulasi': Pentagon mengutuk pesawat Rusia zoom atas USS Donald Cook (VIDEO) . . .

A Sukhoi Su-24 jet makes a low altitude pass by the USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) April 12, 2016 (Jet Sukhoi Su-24 menjadikan laluan ketinggian yang rendah oleh USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) April 12, 2016) © US Navy/Reuters

JamaliahYusofYacob - Aerobatik kemahiran juruterbang Rusia ke atas pemusnah Donald Cook Amerika Syarikat di Laut Baltic meninggalkan Pentagon dan pegawai Amerika Syarikat lain bertempiaran lari atas di Washington "interaksi rapat agresif" dengan jet pejuang Rusia.

Melepaskan rakaman flybys jet Rusia di persekitaran pemusnah, Tentera Laut Amerika Syarikat berkata bahawa kapal itu telah menghadapi pelbagai "manuver penerbangan agresif . . . terletak berdekatan dengan kapal itu," beberapa sehampir 30 kaki (10 meter) pada isnin dan selasa.

Set kejadian berlaku ketika kapal Amerika Syarikat, yang telah belayar dari pelabuhan Poland Gdynia, telah menjalankan latihan dengan sekutu NATO Poland di Laut Baltik. Tentera Laut mengumumkan bahawa SU-24 pertama terbang ke atas Donald Cook pada hari Isnin sebagai kelasi Amerika Syarikat membacakan "latihan pendaratan dek dengan bersekutu helikopter tentera"[Poland]. Pelbagai jarak dekat, pertemuan ketinggian yang rendah telah disaksikan pada 3:00 petang waktu tempatan, memaksa komander kapal untuk menggantung helikopter mengisi minyak di dek sehingga jet Rusia berangkat kawasan itu.

‘Aggressive simulated attack’: Pentagon decries Russian jets zooming over USS Donald Cook (VIDEO) . . .

The aerobatics skills of Russian pilots over the US destroyer Donald Cook in the Baltic Sea left the Pentagon and other US official running for cover in Washington over “aggressive close interactions” with Russian fighter jets.

Releasing the footage of Russian jet flybys in the vicinity of the destroyer, the US Navy said that its vessel has encountered multiple “aggressive flight maneuvers ...within close proximity of the ship,” some as close as 30 feet (10 meters) on Monday and Tuesday.

The set of incidents took place as the US ship, which had sailed from the Polish port of Gdynia, was conducting exercises with its NATO ally Poland in the Baltic Sea. The Navy announced that the SU-24 first flew over Donald Cook on Monday as US sailors were rehearsing “deck landing drills with an allied [Polish] military helicopter”. The numerous close-range, low altitude encounters were witnessed at 3:00pm local time, forcing the commander of the ship to suspend helicopter refueling on the deck until the Russian jets departed the area.

Donald Cook kebetulan berada sekitar 70 kilometer dari sebuah pangkalan tentera laut Rusia apabila pesawat Su-24 yang diluluskan, menurut jurucakap Kementerian Pertahanan Rusia Mejar Jeneral Igor Konashenkov.

"Pada 13 April, juruterbang Tentera Udara Rusia pesawat Su-24 mengambil bahagian dalam latihan di perairan antarabangsa di Laut Baltik. Laluan mereka membawa mereka ke kawasan di mana USS Donald Cook hadir, sekitar 70km dari sebuah pangkalan tentera laut Rusia, "katanya, seperti yang dipetik oleh TASS.

Konashenkov menambah bahawa semua penerbangan yang dijalankan oleh Tentera Udara Rusia ketat ikut semua peraturan antarabangsa apabila berjalan di atas perairan berkecuali.

"Setelah terletak kapal dalam zon penglihatan visual, juruterbang Rusia menjalankan manuver itu adalah mengikut semua peraturan keselamatan yang diperlukan," katanya, sambil Kementerian Pertahanan Rusia mereka mempersoalkan mengapa Amerika telah membuat apa-apa masalah besar tentang kejadian.

Keesokan harinya, Tentera Laut berkata, Rusia menyebabkan kebimbangan di kalangan kelasi Amerika Syarikat apabila helikopter KA-27 Helix Rusia terbang 7 kali ke atas kapal itu pada ketinggian yang rendah di perairan antarabangsa pada kira-kira 5.00 petang. Kira-kira 40 minit kemudian, 2 buah jet SU-24 Rusia didakwa membuat lagi 11 "jarak dekat dan ketinggian yang laluan rendah".

"Pesawat Russian terbang dalam profil serangan simulasi dan gagal untuk bertindak balas kepada nasihat keselamatan diulang dalam kedua-dua bahasa Inggeris dan Rusia. pegawai pemerintah USS Donald Cook dianggap beberapa gerakan ini sebagai tidak selamat dan tidak profesional, "kata Navysaid.

Berdasarkan video yang dikeluarkan oleh Tentera Laut Amerika Syarikat, pelayar telah sekali kebingungan oleh kemahiran aerobatik Rusia. Mereka berkumpul di bahagian atas dek pemusnah untuk menonton juruterbang Rusia.

The Donald Cook happened to be around 70km away from a Russian naval base when the Su-24 planes passed by, according to the Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov.

“On April 13, the pilots of the Russian Air Force Su-24 planes took part in a training exercise over international waters in the Baltic Sea. Their route took them to an area where the USS Donald Cook was present, around 70km from a Russian naval base,” he said, as cited by TASS.

Konashenkov added that all flights undertaken by the Russian Air Force strictly follow all international rules when traveling over neutral waters.

“Having located the ship in a zone of visual sight, the Russian pilots undertook a maneuver that was in accordance with all the necessary safety rules,” he said, while they Russian Defense Ministry questioned why the Americans were making such a big deal about the incident. 

The next day, the Navy said, Russia caused concern among US sailors when a Russian KA-27 Helix helicopter flew seven times over the ship at low altitude in international waters at around 5:00pm. Some 40 minutes later, two Russian SU-24 jets allegedly made a further 11 “close-range and low altitude passes”.

“The Russian aircraft flew in a simulated attack profile and failed to respond to repeated safety advisories in both English and Russian. USS Donald Cook’s commanding officer deemed several of these maneuvers as unsafe and unprofessional,” the Navy said.

Judging by the videos released by the US Navy, the sailors were nonplussed by the Russian aerobatic skills. They gathered on the top deck of the destroyer to watch the Russian pilots.

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#USNavy's #USSDonaldCook encounters aggressive Russian aircraft in #BalticSea. More to follow. (# USNavy ini #USSDonaldCook menghadapi agresif pesawat Rusia di #LautBaltic. Banyak lagi utk diikuti)

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"Dia di dek bawah lorong jambatan . . . Ia kelihatan seperti dia akan datang di seluruh dek penerbangan, akan datang di peringkat rendah, jambatan sayap . . . Lebih busur, belok kanan, lebih tunduk . . . "suara latar di negeri-negeri rakaman dalam apa yang kelihatan seperti nasihat seorang pengajar mengenai bagaimana untuk bergerak di lautan terbuka, dan bukannya panik bahawa arahan pusat dibentangkan ia menjadi. Sekurang-kurangnya pada video tidak ada yang dapat dilihat bertempiaran lari.

Menurut seorang pegawai pertahanan Amerika Syarikat yang bercakap dengan Pertahanan News, kelasi kapal Donald Cook mendakwa ketinggian yang rendah jet Rusia 'kacau perairan dan dicipta bangun bawah kapal. kakitangan Amerika Syarikat ke atas kapal Amerika, juga mendakwa Su-24 adalah "sayap bersih," yang bermakna tidak persenjataan hadir pada jet Rusia yang boleh menjadi ancaman kepada operasi Amerika Syarikat di Baltik.

Namun, pada masa yang sama, pegawai itu berkata, insiden minggu ini adalah "lebih agresif daripada apa-apa yang kami telah lihat dalam sedikit masa," sebagai SU-24 kelihatan terbang di "Profil serangan simulasi."

“He is on the deck below the bridge lane...It looks like he’ll be coming in across the flight deck, coming in low, bridge wing level...Over the bow, right turn, over the bow...” the voiceover on the footage states in what looks more like an instructor’s advice on how to maneuver in open waters, rather than the panic that the central command presented it to be. At least on the video no one can be seen running for cover.

According to a US defense official who spoke with Defense News, sailors aboard the Donald Cook claimed that the Russian jets’ low altitude stirred waters and created wake underneath the ship. US personnel on the American vessels, also claimed that Su-24 was “wings clean,” meaning no armaments were present on the Russian jets that could have posed a threat to US operations in the Baltic.

Yet at the same time, the official noted, that this week's incidents are “more aggressive than anything we’ve seen in some time,” as the SU-24 appeared to be flying in a “simulated attack profile.”

Read more: US recon aircraft intercepted by Russian fighter jet over Baltic - Pentagon (Baca lebih lanjut: pesawat recon US dipintas oleh jet pejuang Rusia ke atas Baltic - Pentagon)

Ruang udara Rusia telah menyebabkan panik dengan Washington, dengan jurucakap White House Josh Earnest memanggil tindakan juruterbang Rusia "provokatif" dan "tidak selaras dengan norma-norma profesional tentera."

"Saya dengar Russia sehingga helah lama mereka sekali lagi dalam EUCOM yang [Command Eropah Amerika Syarikat] AOR [kawasan tanggungjawab]," kata jurucakap Operasi Menyelesaikan Yang wujud Kolonel Steve Warren semasa taklimat pada hari Rabu, sambil menambah bahawa Amerika Syarikat adalah "bimbang dengan tingkah laku ini."

"Kami mempunyai kebimbangan yang mendalam tentang gerakan penerbangan yang tidak selamat dan tidak profesional Rusia. Tindakan ini mempunyai potensi untuk tidak perlu menyebabkan ketegangan antara negara, dan boleh mengakibatkan salah perhitungan atau kemalangan yang boleh menyebabkan kecederaan serius atau kematian, "berkata, Kawasan Eropah Amerika Syarikat dalam satu kenyataan.

Dalam pada Adm. John Richardson, ketua operasi tentera laut, mengucapkan terima kasih kepada anak-anak kapal Amerika Syarikat untuk menjaga dingin mereka semasa keadaan tertekan.

"Bravo Zulu kepada anak-anak kapal USS Donald Cook untuk inisiatif dan keliatan mereka dalam bagaimana mereka mengendalikan diri mereka semasa kejadian ini," kata laksamana itu di Facebook.

Rusia masih belum mengulas mengenai insiden tetapi kemungkinan besar kraf udara Rusia terbang dari rantau Kaliningrad, bersempadan Poland. Kaliningrad adalah ibu pejabat Armada Baltik Rusia, yang juga termasuk pangkalan udara Chernyakhovsk, Donskoye, dan Kaliningrad Chkalovsk.

The Russian overflights have caused panic over in Washington, with White House spokesman Josh Earnest calling the actions of the Russian pilots “provocative” and “inconsistent with professional norms of militaries.”

“I hear the Russians are up to their old tricks again in the EUCOM [US European Command] AOR [area of responsibility],” Operation Inherent Resolve spokesman Col. Steve Warren said during a briefing on Wednesday, adding that the US is “concerned with this behavior.”

“We have deep concerns about the unsafe and unprofessional Russian flight maneuvers. These actions have the potential to unnecessarily escalate tensions between countries, and could result in a miscalculation or accident that could cause serious injury or death,” the US European Command said in a statement.

In the meantime Adm. John Richardson, the chief of naval operations, thanked the US crew for keeping their cool during the stressful situation.

“Bravo Zulu to the crew of USS Donald Cook for their initiative and toughness in how they handled themselves during this incident,” the admiral said on Facebook.

Russia has yet to comment on the incidents but most likely the Russian air craft flew from the Kaliningrad region, bordering Poland. Kaliningrad is the headquarters of the Russian Baltic Fleet, which also includes the Chernyakhovsk, Donskoye, and Kaliningrad Chkalovsk air bases.

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LAPORAN Emirates keletihan menunjukkan syarikat penerbangan UAE menolak krew kepada had (RT EKSKLUSIF) . . .

JamaliahYusofYacob - RT telah mendapat bukti baru juruterbang UAE dan krew sedang diarahkan ke ambang keletihan. Rungutan mengejutkan oleh Emirates tarikh anak kapal dari awal April dan echo akaun tanpa nama dikongsi oleh kakitangan Flydubai berikut maut pertengahan Mac nahas kapal terbang.

Beberapa Laporan Aviation Safety kesilapan berkaitan keletihan di tempat kerja oleh krew kabin Emirates Airlines, disemak oleh RT, mengandungi aduan juruterbang mengalami keletihan, tidur mikro yang bertepatan dengan kesilapan prosedur, "kecerdasan rendah 'dan' sikap acuh tak acuh" manakala di udara.

Emirates fatigue reports show UAE airlines pushing crews to limits (RT EXCLUSIVE)

RT has obtained new evidence of UAE pilots and crews being pushed to the brink of exhaustion. The shocking grievances by the Emirates cabin crew date from early April and echo anonymous accounts shared by Flydubai staff following deadly mid-March plane crash.

A number of Aviation Safety Reports of fatigue-related errors on the job by Emirates Airlines cabin crews, reviewed by RT, contain complaints of pilots experiencing fatigue, micro sleeps which coincided with procedural errors, “low alertness” and “indifference” while in the air.

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'Where are you flying? Stop! Stop!': Argument, panic in cockpit before #Flydubai #FZ981 crash - leaked recorder data (Ke mana anda terbang? Stop! Stop!: Hujah, panik dalam sebelum kokpit #Flydubai # FZ981 kemalangan - bocor data perakam!) http://on.rt.com/78c8

"Penerbangan malam dalam ke-3 berturut-turut bagi Capitan. Pelbagai kesilapan panggilan radio termasuk hilang daftar masuk dengan Muscat [nampaknya rujukan ibu negara Oman]. slip prosedur Pelbagai termasuk gagal untuk menghidupkan lampu pendaratan di cek dengan 10,000 kaki. Sekiranya acara bukan biasa berlaku pada peringkat akhir penerbangan, prestasi kapten akan telah terjejas. Nasib baik, pegawai yang pertama tidak pada corak jadual yang sama dan ditangkap paling slip, "kata seorang kakitangan Emirates 'menulis dalam yang dikemukakan" bentuk keletihan".

Dalam kes lain, hampir dalam setiap satu daripada bentuk-bentuk yang serupa, krew penerbangan yang disebut sama ada "bersama" atau "digabungkan" hari rehat bersama-sama dengan deprivations tidur sebelumnya, gabungan yang akhirnya membawa kepada prestasi yang lemah.

“Third deep night flight in a row for the Capitan. Multiple radio call errors including missing check-in with Muscat [apparently referencing the capital of Oman]. Multiple procedural slips including failing to switch landing lights on with 10,000 ft checks. Should a non-normal event have occurred during the latter stages of the flight, the captain’s performance would have been impaired. Fortunately, the first officer was not on the same roster pattern and caught most slips,” one of the Emirates’ staffers wrote in the submitted “fatigue form”.

In other cases, almost in each of the similar forms, flight crews mentioned either “shared” or “combined” rest days together with previous sleep deprivations, a combination that eventually led to poor performance.

Read more: 60 Flydubai, Emirates pilots tell RT of fatigue, intimidation, misuse of authority (EXCLUSIVE) (Baca lebih lanjut: 60 Flydubai, Emirates juruterbang memberitahu RT keletihan, ugutan, penyalahgunaan kuasa (EKSKLUSIF)

Semua ini "laporan keletihan" Petugas Emirates mengemukakan sebelum April, minggu semata-mata selepas 19 Mac Flydubai tragedi di Rusia Rostov-on-Don membunuh semua 62 orang di atas kapal.

Hari selepas kemalangan maut FZ981, juruterbang bekerja untuk syarikat penerbangan UAE mula mendekati RT dengan syarat tidak mahu namanya disiarkan selepas bekas kapten Flydubai meniup wisel pada syarikat penerbangan itu ‘overworking’ krew penerbangannya "mati." Beliau berkongsi log penerbangan Alejandro Cruz Alava, bersama kapten pada FZ981 yang terhempas di selatan Rusia. Dokumen-dokumen lain yang beliau berikan menunjukkan juruterbang dan juruterbang junior khususnya ditugaskan perubahan penerbangan pelbagai berturut-turut.

Syarikat penerbangan di UAE adalah "berazam untuk melakukan apa sahaja untuk terus terbang kapal terbang ini, walaupun berbahaya," kata seorang Aviation Eksekutif UAE memberitahu RT dengan syarat tidak mahu namanya disiarkan selepas krew mula berkongsi akaun mereka. "Jika anda cuba untuk membimbing mereka melalui dengan cara yang teliti berdasarkan piawaian penerbangan antarabangsa dan peraturan-peraturan, anda akan menjadi musuh mereka. Mereka terlibat dalam perjuangan yang besar ke atas langit terbuka dengan syarikat penerbangan DUNIA di Eropah dan Amerika Utara, "katanya.

RT secara peribadi telah bercakap dengan bekas anak kapal kabin Emirates, salah seorang daripada mereka telah berkata bahawa beliau melihat beberapa kali "juruterbang tidur semasa tempoh kritikal penerbangan mereka."

All of these “fatigue reports” Emirates staff submitted earlier April, mere weeks after the March 19 Flydubai tragedy in Russia’s Rostov-on-Don killed all 62 people on board.

Days after the deadly FZ981 crash, pilots working for UAE airlines began reaching out to RT on condition of anonymity after a former Flydubai captain blew the whistle on the airline overworking its flight crew “to death.” He shared flight log of Alejandro Cruz Alava, co-captain on the FZ981 that crashed in Russian south. Other documents he provided showed pilots and junior pilots in particular being assigned multiple flight shifts in a row.

Airlines in the UAE are “determined to do whatever it takes to keep flying these airplanes, even dangerously,” an UAE Aviation Executive told RT on condition of anonymity after crews began sharing their accounts. “If you try to guide them through in a conscientious way based on international aviation standards and regulations, you will become their enemy. They are engaged in a huge fight over open skies with the world airlines in Europe and North America,” he added.

RT has personally spoken to former Emirates cabin crew members, one of whom has said that he saw several times “pilots sleeping during critical periods of their flights.”

Read more: Pilots ‘worked to death’: Flydubai whistleblower says fatigue-related crash predicted (RT EXCLUSIVE) (Baca lebih lanjut: Juruterbang bekerja setengah mati ': Flydubai pemberi maklumat berkata kemalangan yang berkaitan keletihan meramalkan (RT EKSKLUSIF)

"Sebagai senior Saya telah melihat banyak-banyak peristiwa di mana kita akan pergi ke dalam kokpit dan melihat juruterbang tidak tidur pada waktu rehat mereka, tetapi hanya tidur semasa tempoh kritikal penerbangan mereka, seperti semasa pergolakan, semasa pendaratan - hanya melihat mereka tidur nyenyak, "kata seorang bekas pramugari untuk Emirates kepada RT, mengingatkan ketakutan. "Ini akan menjadi pada penerbangan jarak jauh lebih 10 jam, dalam penerbangan ke banyak destinasi yang berbeza. Kita telah melihat bahawa pada kejadian biasa."

Bekas pramugara juga teringat bahawa atendan penerbangan sesama juga akan jatuh "tidur di tempat duduk mereka."

"Selalunya dalam laporan kejadian yang datang melalui terdapat anak-anak kapal yang sering membuka pintu ketika pesawat berada di atas tanah hanya kerana keletihan. Kerana mereka begitu letih, mereka tidak tahu apa yang mereka lakukan, "katanya, sambil menambah laporan seperti itu akan muncul setiap bulan lain.

Walau bagaimanapun, Emirates didakwa disiarkan untuk mengabaikan aduan.

“As a senior I have seen many-many occasions where we would go into the cockpit and see pilots sleep not on their breaks, but just asleep during critical periods of their flights, like during turbulence, during landing – just seen them fast asleep,” a former flight attendant for the Emirates told RT, recalling fear. “This would be on long haul flights over 10 hours, on flights to many different destinations. We have seen that on regular occurrences.”

The former steward has also recalled that his fellow flight attendants would also fall “asleep on their seats.”

“Often in the incident reports that came through there were crew that were often opening doors while the planes were on the ground just due to the fatigue. Because they were so tired, they did not know what they were doing,” he said, adding that reports like that would appear every other month.

However, Emirates allegedly opted to disregard the complaints.

Read more: ‘Modern day slavery for pilots’: More disturbing accounts of rules bent at Flydubai (Baca lebih lanjut: 'perhambaan hari moden untuk juruterbang: Akaun Lebih membimbangkan peraturan terbengkok di Flydubai)

"Ini adalah sesuatu yang Emirates akan sekali-kali mengaku," tambah bekas pramugara itu.

Seorang lagi bekas anak kapal bagi Emirates memberitahu RT bahawa syarikat itu akan meletakkan kesalahan untuk keletihan dan penyakit dengan pekerja.

"Ada apa-apa budaya ugutan dalam syarikat yang mereka akan membuat ia bunyi seperti ia adalah kesalahan anda, bahawa ini adalah tanggungjawab anda," katanya. "Sebagai contoh, jika saya memanggil sakit, jika saya memberitahu mereka bahawa saya keletihan [d], mereka akan membuat ia bunyi seperti . . . anda adalah orang berbuat demikian. "Ia tiada kaitan dengan syarikat itu, tidak menyalahkan syarikat. Kami tidak mahu mendengarnya."

Oleh kerana ayat-ayat RT menerima ala kadar, lebih ramai juruterbang mula mendekati mengadu tentang keletihan. Sesetengah daripada mereka berbanding keadaan kerja Flydubai kepada "perhambaan zaman moden".

Kurang daripada seminggu selepas ayat-ayat pertama, juruterbang dengan syarikat penerbangan Emirates yang juga berhubung dengan saluran melalui telefon atau e-mel untuk memberitahu tentang apa yang mereka tahu.

“This was something that Emirates would never ever admit,” the former steward added.

Another former crew member for Emirates told RT that the company would place the blame for fatigue and sickness with the employees.

“There is such a culture of intimidation in the company that they would make it sound like it’s your fault, that this is your responsibility,” he said. “For example, if I call in sick, if I tell them I’m fatigue[d], they will make it sound like ... you are the one doing this. ‘It has nothing to do with the company, don’t blame the company. We don’t want to hear it.’”

As the revelations RT received snowballed, more pilots started reaching out to complain about fatigue. Some of them compared Flydubai work conditions to “modern day slavery”.

Less than a week after the first revelations, pilots with the Emirates airline also reached out to the channel by phone or email to tell about what they know.

Read more: Black boxes of crashed Flydubai plane decoded, no onboard system malfunctions found – investigators (Baca lebih lanjut: kotak hitam pesawat Flydubai terhempas dinyahkod, tiada kerosakan sistem di atas kapal dijumpai - penyiasat)

Seorang bekas pilot Emirates berkata syarikat penerbangan itu telah menyimpan wang dengan mengupah kurang juruterbang daripada yang diperlukan untuk menampung beban kerja.

Satu lagi juruterbang masih bekerja di Emirates bersetuju, mengatakan bahawa syarikat itu "tidak dapat menggaji juruterbang yang cukup untuk membuat untuk kerugian."

Dalam komen baru-baru ini, Emirates berkata ia tidak akan "menyokong" mana-mana tuduhan tanpa nama yang dilaporkan oleh RT, menekankan bahawa sistem Pengurusan Risiko Pilot Keletihan yang "secara berterusan mengkaji corak jadual krew penerbangan dan mengkaji sebarang maklum balas yang diterima daripada juruterbang kami."

Walau bagaimanapun, berikutan beban aduan keletihan, Emirates sebahagiannya disemak semula polisi mereka. Menurut e-mel dalaman RT dikaji semula, bermula 1 Jun 2016 ia melanjutkan berhenti sebentar untuk penerbangan Chicago untuk "kira-kira 50 jam."

"Ia adalah keputusan yang baik tetapi mengapa menunggu sehingga Jun untuk melakukan perubahan itu. Ia adalah didorong keselamatan tetapi kemudian mereka perlu bertindak balas serta-merta! Dengan perubahan yang mereka mengakui bahawa ada sesuatu yang salah dengan berhenti sebentar ini, "kata seorang bekas juruterbang memberitahu RT.

One former Emirates pilot said that the airline was saving money by hiring fewer pilots than necessary to cover the workload.

Another pilot still working at Emirates concurred, saying that the company was “not able to employ enough pilots to make up for the losses.”

In a recent comment, Emirates said it could not “substantiate” any of the anonymous allegations reported by RT, stressing that its Pilot Fatigue Risk Management system ”continuously examines flight crew roster patterns and reviews any feedback received from our pilots.”

However, following a load of fatigue complaints, Emirates partially revised their policies. According to an internal email RT reviewed, starting June 1, 2016 it extended a layover for a Chicago flight to “approximately 50 hours.”

“It is a good decision but why wait till June to do the change. It is safety driven but then they need to react immediately! With the change they admit that something was wrong with this layover,” a former pilot told RT.

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