Bendera ISIS & bom ditemui semasa serbuan rumah di Brussels - PENDAKWA . . .

JamaliahYusofYacob - Negara Islam (IS, yang sebelum ini ISIS/ISIL) bendera dan bom yang ditemui di sebuah rumah di kawasan Brussels semasa penggeledahan yang dijalankan oleh polis Belgium berkaitan dengan letupan pagi Selasa, kata pendakwa raya.

Bahan letupan ditemui di sebuah rumah di perbandaran Schaerbeek yang terkandung kuku, kata pendakwa raya Belgium. Sesetengah bahan kimia juga dijumpai semasa carian.

Serbuan sedang dijalankan di seluruh negara berikutan serangan pengganas pagi ini, pendakwa persekutuan Belgium Frederic Van Leeuw diumumkan pada sidang akhbar. Pegawai itu berkata, sambungan mungkin di antara letupan Brussels dan serangan Paris masih dalam siasatan.

BACA lagi: 'Europe adalah berperang': Pemimpin bersuara menentang pengganas maut serangan di Brussels http://on.rt.com/77so

3 suspek lelaki telah ditangkap oleh CCTV di Lapangan Terbang Brussels sebelum letupan maut, kata pendakwa. Imej yang menunjukkan 3 lelaki telah dikeluarkan.

2 daripada mereka, yang boleh dilihat memakai baju panas hitam dan apa yang kelihatan seperti sarung tangan hitam, mungkin menyembunyikan pencetus untuk bom dan "seolah-olah mempunyai serangan berani mati," menurut pendakwa, manakala lelaki yang ke-3, yang memakai bercahaya jaket-colored dan topi, "sedang giat dicari."

BACA lagi: serangan Brussels menunjukkan ISIS adalah 'menang' - bekas CIA # 2 http://on.rt.com/77ul

Polis telah mengeluarkan satu notis dikehendaki suspek ini, dengan Reuters melaporkan seorang pegawai kerajaan sebagai berkata, lelaki itu dilihat berjalan dari bangunan lapangan terbang.

Peranti banyak letupan ditemui di lapangan terbang pada waktu petang, agensi berita Belga melaporkan, memetik sumber polis.

Baca lebih lanjut: Lapangan terbang Brussels dan Metro pengeboman selepas TERKINI LIVE http://on.rt.com/77nz

Menurut sumber penguatkuasaan undang-undang lain, objek yang mencurigakan telah dineutralkan oleh juruteknik bom di lapangan terbang, yang masih dikepung.

Pihak berkuasa Belgium mengesahkan awal hari ini bahawa peranti tidak meletup yang ke-3 telah ditemui di lapangan terbang itu dengan berkata ia telah dimusnahkan oleh perkhidmatan keselamatan.

Letupan berkembar pergi dalam balai berlepas yang sibuk di lapangan terbang Brussels pada pagi Selasa pada masa sekitar 08:00 tempatan dan meragut nyawa sekurang-kurangnya 14 orang. Satu lagi serangan di ibu negara Belgium disasarkan Metro Brussels', membunuh sekurang-kurangnya 20 orang di stesen Maalbeek, yang terletak berhampiran dengan institusi EU di Brussels.

Sekitar 230 orang cedera dalam serangan, Pusat Krisis Kementerian Dalam Negeri Belgium itu telah melaporkan, sambil menekankan bahawa angka-angka tidak muktamad.

3 hari berkabung negara telah diumumkan di Belgium.

IS telah mendakwa bertanggungjawab bagi serangan Brussels, menurut agensi AMAQ, yang bergabung dengan kumpulan militan.

Baca lebih lanjut: Pembunuhan beramai-ramai di jalan-jalan Eropah: 12 tahun keganasan (GAMBAR, VIDEO) http://on.rt.com/77s0

Letupan Selasa datang hanya beberapa hari selepas Salah Abdeslam, suspek yang masih hidup perdana dari pembunuhan beramai-ramai Paris pada bulan November, ditangkap di ibu negara Belgium. Kebangsaan Perancis Belgium kelahiran berusia 26 tahun itu ditahan dalam satu serbuan pada 18 Mac dan secara rasmi dituduh membunuh pengganas. Beberapa orang yang lain telah ditangkap dalam serbuan itu dan didakwa terbabit dalam pembunuhan pengganas, menjadi anggota sebuah pertubuhan pengganas, dan membantu dan bersubahat dengan penjenayah.

BACA lagi: 'Banyak lagi serangan Paris sejenayah yang masih bebas' selepas penangkapan Abdelsam ini, Hollande berkata http://on.rt.com/77ga

Peguam itu suspek memberitahu media bahawa defendan beliau telah bekerjasama dengan pegawai-pegawai keadilan Belgium. Paris pendakwa Francois Molins berkata Abdeslam memberitahu penyiasat bahawa dia pada mulanya merancang untuk meletupkan dirinya dalam serangan Paris IS-dirancang, tetapi kemudian "berundur." Menteri Belgium hal ehwal luar, Didier Reynders, kata Salah Abdeslam telah mengaku merancang serangan pengganas baru, dan mengesahkan bahawa pasukan keselamatan telah menemui banyak senjata semasa dia ditangkap. Beliau telah dilaporkan telah diletakkan di dalam sebuah penjara keselamatan yang tinggi di Bruges.

People leave the scene of explosions at Zaventem airport near Brussels, Belgium, March 22, 2016 (Orang ramai meninggalkan tempat kejadian letupan di lapangan terbang Zaventem berhampiran Brussels, Belgium, 22 Mac 2016) © Francois Lenoir/Reuters

ISIS flag & bomb found during house raid in Brussels - prosecutors

An Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) flag and a bomb were found at a house in a Brussels district during a search conducted by Belgian police in connection with Tuesday morning blasts, prosecutors said.

The explosive device found at a house in the Schaerbeek municipality contained nails, Belgian prosecutors said. Some chemicals were also found during the search.

Raids are being conducted all across the country in the wake of this morning’s terror attacks, Belgian federal prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw announced at a press conference. The official added that a possible connection between the Brussels blasts and the Paris attacks is still being investigated.

READ MORE: ‘Europe is at war’: Leaders speak out against deadly terrorists attacks in Brussels

Three male suspects were captured by CCTV at Brussels Airport before the deadly blasts, the prosecutor said. An image showing the three men has been released.

Two of them, who can be seen wearing black jumpers and what looks like black gloves, possibly hid a trigger for a bomb and “seem to have committed suicide attacks,” according to the prosecutor, while the third man, who was wearing a light-colored jacket and a hat, “is actively being sought.”

READ MORE: Brussels attacks show ISIS is 'winning' - former CIA #2

Police have released a wanted notice for this suspect, with Reuters reporting a government official as saying that the man was seen running away from the airport building.

More explosive devices were found at the airport in the evening, the Belga news agency reported, citing a police source.

Read more: Brussels airport and Metro bombings aftermath LIVE UPDATES http://on.rt.com/77nz

According to another law enforcement source, a suspicious object was neutralized by bomb technicians at the airport, which is still cordoned off.

Belgian authorities confirmed earlier in the day that a third unexploded device had been found at the airport, saying that it was destroyed by security services.

Twin blasts went off in a busy departure hall at the Brussels airport on Tuesday morning at around 8 am local time, claiming the lives of at least 14 people. Another attack in the Belgian capital targeted Brussels’ Metro, killing at least 20 people at the Maalbeek station, which is located close to EU institutions in Brussels.

Around 230 people were injured in the attacks, the Belgian Interior Ministry’s Crisis Center has reported, while stressing that those figures are not final.

Three days of national mourning have been announced in Belgium.

IS has claimed responsibility for the Brussels attacks, according to the AMAQ agency, which is affiliated with the militant group.

Read more: Carnage on the streets of Europe: 12 years of terror (PHOTOS, VIDEO) http://on.rt.com/77s0

The Tuesday blasts came just days after Salah Abdeslam, the prime surviving suspect from the Paris massacre in November, was arrested in the Belgian capital. The 26-year-old Belgian-born French national was detained during a raid on March 18 and formally charged with terrorist murder. Several other people were arrested in the raid and charged with involvement in terrorist murder, being members of a terrorist organization, and aiding and abetting criminals.

READ MORE: 'Many more Paris attack accomplices still at large' after Abdelsam's arrest, Hollande says

The suspect’s lawyer told the media that his defendant was cooperating with Belgian justice officials. Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said that Abdeslam told investigators that he had initially planned to blow himself up in the IS-orchestrated Paris assault, but later “backed down.” Belgium’s minister of foreign affairs, Didier Reynders, said Salah Abdeslam had confessed to planning a new terror attack, and confirmed that security forces had found many weapons during his capture. He has reportedly been placed in a high security prison in Bruges.

READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/77ui

JURUTERBANG ‘berkerja Setengah mati': Flydubai pemberi maklumat berkata keletihan meramalkan kemalangan yang berkaitan (RT EKSKLUSIF) . . .

JamaliahYusofYacob - Kemalangan yang melibatkan pesawat Flydubai tidak dapat dielakkan, bekas kapten Flydubai memberitahu RT dengan syarat tidak mahu namanya disiarkan. Beliau mendedahkan bahawa juruterbang terpaksa bekerja semasa habis, sambil berkata dia telah "bekerja setengah" walaupun aduan.

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Bercakap kepada RT di Doha, bekas juruterbang berkata pihak pengurusan tertinggi FlyDubai sedar isu ini, tetapi telah melakukan apa-apa untuk menyelesaikannya. "Semasa saya masih di syarikat itu, salah satu perkara yang terakhir saya kepada pengurusan adalah bahawa akan ada kemalangan kerana keletihan juruterbang," katanya.

Sebab untuk keletihan adalah mudah - juruterbang sedang berulang kali bekerja terlalu keras dan tidak diberi masa yang cukup untuk tidur antara penerbangan.

Pemberi maklumat yang disediakan dokumen yang menunjukkan bahawa juruterbang, juruterbang muda khususnya, bawa balik syif penerbangan pelbagai berturut-turut. Beliau berhujah bahawa anak-anak kapal yang sering tidak mempunyai masa yang cukup untuk penyesuaian semula tidur.

"Semua orang di syarikat itu mempunyai ini perubahan berbahaya dari penerbangan hari untuk penerbangan malam, dan kemudian kembali kepada penerbangan hari, dan kemudian kembali ke penerbangan malam, dan ia pasti menjadi satu isu besar untuk masa yang lama."

'Keletihan satu faktor yang menyumbang kepada kemalangan Boeing FlyDubai di Rostov-on-Don'

Bekas ketua pasukan berkata beliau pasti bahawa kekurangan tidur menyumbang kepada kemalangan FlyDubai penerbangan FZ981 di bandar Rusia selatan Rostov-on-Don, yang mengorbankan semua 62 penumpang dan anak kapal.

"Cara yang [FlyDubai] ... membina jadual tidak mengambil kira irama circadian ... mereka tidak membenarkan juruterbang untuk mendapatkan jumlah yang tepat rehat, atau rehat yang betul sebelum penerbangan, dan itulah apa yang kedua-dua juruterbang ini adalah, di keadaan yang mereka berada, yang pasti, "kata juruterbang.

RT juga diperolehi log penerbangan daripada bersama kapten FZ981 penerbangan, yang mendedahkan bahawa Alejandro Cruz Alava telah bekerja selama 11 hari dengan hanya satu hari cuti sebelum kemalangan itu. pemberi maklumat mengulas mengenai dokumen, yang menyatakan bahawa Alava telah dipindahkan dari penerbangan sehari untuk penerbangan malam tanpa diberi masa yang cukup untuk menyesuaikan corak tidurnya.

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"[Alava] telah bekerja 11 hari berturut-turut kecuali satu hari cuti, iaitu Selasa 15 Mac," kata bekas juruterbang. "Ada ada keraguan beliau penat dan letih untuk penerbangan ini . . . yang pasti adalah faktor penyumbang, tidak kira berapa [FlyDubai] boleh cuba untuk menafikannya."

Selain itu, kapten penerbangan, Aristos Socratous, dilaporkan telah memfailkan kertas kerja yang mengandungi peletakan jawatannya kerana jadual yang tidak tertanggung, dan hanya mempunyai beberapa minggu meninggalkan untuk terbang, menurut rakan-rakan yang tidak dinamakan si mati.

"Alasan bahawa kapten telah meletak jawatan adalah kerana jadual, dia hanya tidak boleh melakukannya lagi. Dia terlalu letih, pergi ke tempat kerja penat, dan itulah sebenarnya kenapa beliau meletak jawatan."

Laporan Keselamatan Air (ASR) daripada September 2015 dilihat oleh RT menunjukkan bahawa ramai juruterbang dilaporkan muncul untuk perasaan kerja letih dan bekerja terlalu keras.

Salah satu serahan berbunyi: "Saya dipanggil penat hari ini untuk laporan tempatan 0125. Sebelum ini saya mempunyai tanggungjawab 10 hari dengan satu hari cuti. Tugas-tugas tersebut terdiri daripada 2 tempoh 18-30 jam berehat, berhenti sebentar, 2 laporan awal dan 2 hari sektor panjang double. Gabungan ini bermakna bahawa saya mempunyai tidur yang berkualiti sangat sedikit sepanjang tempoh jadual ini. Saya juga akan menyumbang jadual bulan sebelumnya, di mana saya adalah jadual untuk 92 jam, satu faktor yang menyumbang kepada keletihan yang saya rasa."

Penyerahan lain berkata: "Dipanggil penat . . . tidak mampu untuk mendapat tidur yang mencukupi sebelum bermulanya siap sedia, walaupun semua usaha-usaha yang dibuat . . . Issue jika saya dipanggil Off siap sedia untuk bertugas yang panjang . . . itu berpotensi lebih daripada 24 jam tidak tidur operasi penerbangan."

FlyDubai dirujuk kepada juruterbang yang mengadu sebagai 'prima Donnas'

Masalah keletihan telah dilaporkan baik dalam syarikat penerbangan itu, dan kebanyakan juruterbang meramalkan kemungkinan kemalangan kerana terlalu keletihan. Bekas juruterbang memetik kajian dalaman yang bertanya "Adakah anda fikir ada akan menjadi kemalangan?"

"Lebih 80% daripada juruterbang yang mengambil bahagian . . . berkata ya, akan ada kemalangan di FlyDubai. Dan ia sukar dipercayai, makna saya mereka tahu ini datang, mereka benar-benar tahu dan sudah tentu mereka akan menyalahkan juruterbang."

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Daripada cuba untuk menyelesaikan masalah, FlyDubai dilaporkan mencipta satu budaya yang memalukan juruterbang untuk rasa letih, memanggil mereka "prima Donnas" jika mereka mengadu.

"Saya tahu ketika saya masih dengan FlyDubai terdapat mesyuarat setiap 2 minggu dengan ketua juruterbang . . . Dalam kebanyakan mesyuarat mereka [kurang tidur] sentiasa dibesarkan dan sebenarnya dalam salah satu mesyuarat, ketua juruterbang dirujuk kepada kami sebagai sekumpulan Donnas prima, seperti kita mengadu terlalu banyak, yang betul-betul apa yang dikatakannya. Beliau berkata, 'anda semua hanyalah sekumpulan Donnas prima."

Lebih buruk lagi, adalah bahawa ini jenis jadual sibuk secara teknikal undang-undang. "Banyak perkara undang-undang yang hanya salah, jadi [syarikat penerbangan itu] memang mempunyai jadual undang-undang tetapi ia tidak jadual yang sihat," kata pemberi maklumat.

Selain itu, budaya keselamatan dalam syarikat penerbangan itu buruk, katanya, memetik kejadian apabila FlyDubai dihantar penjana oksigen kimia dengan pesawat dari asas penyelenggaraan mereka ke Dubai dan kemudian sehingga ditutup.

Laporan juruterbang tidur semasa terbang

Tidur semasa terbang telah berlaku sebelum ini di FlyDubai, dan kadang-kadang tidak dilaporkan.

"Saya masih ingat satu laporan, apabila saya masih bekerja di sana, juruterbang membuat laporan keselamatan mengatakan bahawa dia dan juruterbang lain tertidur setelah berlepas dari salah satu stesen keluar dan mereka pun mungkin tidur selama kira-kira 8 minit . . . Saya tahu bahawa bunyinya gila tetapi ia adalah amat mudah untuk tidur. Ia tahap bunyi yang sama dan ia agak membosankan, dan autopilot dihidupkan, "kata bekas kapten. Di samping itu, terbang keletihan membuat mana-mana juruterbang lebih mudah terjejas, katanya.

Akibat untuk tidur pada FlyDubai adalah tidak sama sekali, menurut bekas kapten.

"Ada orang melaporkan [ing] bahawa mereka telah benar-benar jatuh tidur di kawalan di FlyDubai dan syarikat mereka tidak berbuat apa-apa," katanya.

Pada syarikat penerbangan lain, laporan tidur semasa penerbangan yang biasanya membawa kepada pemeriksaan perubatan, dengan doktor terutamanya pada mencari untuk keletihan kronik dan apnea tidur.

Dalam memberikan sebab-sebab beliau bercakap, bekas juruterbang itu berkata rakyat perlu sedar apa yang sedang berlaku di belakang tabir di FlyDubai.

"Ia tidak masuk akal bahawa ada menjadi industri penerbangan untuk sekian lama dan perkara ini masih berlaku. Dan anda mendengar tentang orang-orang yang bekerja mati. Saya mempunyai beberapa bulan di FlyDubai di mana saya benar-benar merasakan seperti saya sedang mati bekerja. Dan saya tidak boleh melakukannya. [Komuniti] membeli tiket kapal terbang dan mereka menganggap bahawa mereka adalah selamat di dalam pesawat, tetapi cara yang sebuah syarikat penerbangan seperti FlyDubai senarai nama juruterbang mereka, ia tidak selamat. Ia tidak selamat sama sekali, "katanya.

Pakar penerbangan memeriksa perakam penerbangan dari Boeing 737-800 Penerbangan FZ981 terhempas dikendalikan oleh syarikat penerbangan tambang murah yang berpangkalan di Dubai Flydubai, di Moscow, Russia, March 20, 2016. (Aviation experts inspect the flight recorder from the crashed Boeing 737-800 Flight FZ981 operated by Dubai-based budget carrier Flydubai, in Moscow, Russia, March 20, 2016) © Interstate Aviation Committee/Reuters

Pilots ‘worked to death’: Flydubai whistleblower says fatigue-related crash predicted (RT EXCLUSIVE)

An accident involving a Flydubai plane was inevitable, a former Flydubai captain told RT on condition of anonymity. He revealed that pilots are forced to work while exhausted, while saying he had been “worked to death” despite complaints.

READ MORE: Pilot error, lost fuel, terrorism? Experts discuss possible causes of Flight FZ981 crash

Speaking to RT in Doha, the former pilot said Flydubai’s top management was aware of the issue, but had done nothing to resolve it. “When I was still at the company, one of the last things I told management is that there would be an accident because of pilot fatigue,” he said. 

The reason for fatigue is simple – pilots are being repeatedly overworked and not given enough time to sleep between flights.

The whistleblower provided documents showing that pilots, junior pilots in particular, are being assigned multiple flight shifts in a row. He argued that the crew often does not have enough time for sleep readjustment.

“Everybody at the company has these dangerous shifts from day flight to night flight, and then back to a day flight, and then back to a night flight, and it has definitely been a big issue for a long time.”

‘Fatigue a contributing factor to Flydubai’s Boeing crash in Rostov-on-Don’

The former captain added he was sure that sleep deprivation had contributed to the Flydubai flight FZ981 crash in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, which killed all 62 passengers and crew on board.

“The way that [Flydubai] … builds the schedules does not account for circadian rhythm … they do not allow pilots to get the right amount of rest, or the proper rest before a flight, and that is exactly what both of these pilots were, the situation that they were in, for sure,” the pilot said.

RT also obtained the flight log of the co-captain of flight FZ981, which revealed that Alejandro Cruz Alava had worked for 11 days with only one day off prior to the crash. The whistleblower commented on the documents, stating that Alava had been transferred from day flights to night flights without being given enough time to readjust his sleep pattern.

READ MORE: ‘She’s not coming back, but I keep hoping’: Families & friends grieve for Flydubai crash victims

“[Alava] was working eleven days in a row with the exception of one day off, which was Tuesday March 15th,” the former pilot said. “There’s is no doubt he was fatigued and exhausted for this flight ... that definitely was a contributing factor, no matter how [Flydubai] may try to deny it.”

Moreover, the captain of the flight, Aristos Socratous, had reportedly filed paperwork containing his resignation because of the unbearable schedule, and only had a few weeks left to fly, according to unnamed colleagues of the deceased.

“The reason that the captain was resigning is because of the schedules, he just couldn’t do it anymore. He was too tired, going to work fatigued, and that is actually why he had resigned.”

An Air Safety Report (ASR) from September 2015 seen by RT shows that many pilots reported showing up for work feeling exhausted and overworked. 

One of the submissions read: “I called in fatigued today for a 0125 local report. Prior to this I had 10 days duty with one day off. Those duties consisted of two 18-30 hour rest periods, a layover, 2 very early reports and 2 long double sector days. The combination of this has meant that I have had very little quality sleep throughout this roster period. I would also contribute the previous month’s roster, where I was roster for 92 hours, a contributing factor to fatigue that I am feeling.”

Another submission said: “Called fatigued … Was unable to get sufficient sleep before start of standby, albeit all efforts made … Issue is if I am called off standby for a long duty … that’s potentially well over 24 hours no sleep operating a flight.”

Flydubai referred to pilots who complained as ‘prima donnas’

The problem of fatigue has been well reported within the airline, and most of the pilots foresaw the possibility of a crash due to over-exhaustion. The former pilot cited an internal survey that asked “Do you think there’s going to be a crash?” 

“Over 80% of the pilots that participated … said yes, there will be a crash at Flydubai. And it’s unbelievable, I mean they knew this was coming, they absolutely knew it and of course they will blame it on the pilots.”

READ MORE: ‘No worries, they were Russians’: Latvian police officer under fire over Flydubai crash ‘joke’

Rather than trying to fix the problem, Flydubai reportedly created a culture that shamed pilots for feeling tired, calling them “prima donnas” if they complained. 

“I know when I was still with Flydubai there were meetings every two weeks with the chief pilot … In most of those meetings [sleep deprivation] was always brought up and in fact in one of the meetings, the chief pilot referred to us as a bunch of prima donnas, like we complain too much, that’s exactly what he said. He said, ‘you guys are just a bunch of prima donnas.’”

Even worse, is that this type of hectic schedule is technically legal. “A lot of things legal that are just wrong, so [the airline] did have a legal schedule but it was not a healthy schedule,” the whistleblower said.

Moreover, the safety culture within the airline was poor, he said, citing an incident when Flydubai shipped chemical oxygen generators on an aircraft from their maintenance base to Dubai and then covered it up.

Reports of pilots falling asleep while flying

Falling asleep while flying has happened before at Flydubai, and sometimes even went unreported.

“I remember one report, when I still worked there, a pilot filed a safety report saying that him and another pilot fell asleep after taking off from one of the out stations and they were probably asleep for about eight minutes … I know that sounds crazy but it is extremely easy to fall asleep. It’s the same noise level and it’s quite boring, and the autopilot is on,” the former captain said. In addition, flying fatigue makes any pilot more vulnerable, he added.

The consequences for falling asleep at Flydubai are none at all, according to the former captain.

“There have been people report[ing] that they have completely fallen asleep at the controls at Flydubai and their company doesn’t do anything,” he said.

At other airlines, reports of sleeping during a flight usually lead to medical examinations, with the doctor particularly on the lookout for chronic fatigue and sleep apnea.

In giving his reasons for speaking out, the former pilot said people need to be aware of what is going on behind the scenes at Flydubai.

“It’s ridiculous that there’s been an aviation industry for so long and this stuff is still going on. And you hear about people being worked to death. I had some months at Flydubai where I really felt like I was being worked to death. And I just couldn’t do it. [People] buy an airplane ticket and they assume that they are safe on the airplane, but the way that an airline like Flydubai rosters their pilots, it’s not safe. It’s not safe at all,” he said.

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13 mati, 35 cedera dalam SERANGAN berani mati di lapangan terbang Brussels . . .

JamaliahYusofYacob - 13 orang terbunuh dan 35 cedera selepas 2 letupan menggegarkan Brussels Airport Zaventem.

Pautan pengganas telah disahkan oleh pendakwa diraja Belgium. Beliau telah mengumumkan bahawa letupan lapangan terbang adalah serangan berani mati, mengesahkan jumlah kematian awal 13, serta 35 cedera.

BACA lagi: Ketakutan pengunjung lapangan terbang Brussels melarikan diri bangunan terminal selepas letupan berkembar (VIDEO) READ MORE: Terrified Brussels airport visitors flee terminal building after twin blasts (VIDEO) 

Polis Brussels telah memberitahu Sputnik yang dewan besar Zaventem telah disasarkan dalam letupan itu, tetapi mereka tidak dapat mengesahkan bilangan mangsa dalam serangan itu.

"Ada letupan, tetapi kita tidak boleh menyatakannya lagi," kata seorang jurucakap polis.

Seorang pengebom berani mati bertanggungjawab untuk salah satu daripada letupan, kata penyiar Belgium VRT. 3 tali pinggang diri penuh dengan bahan letupan telah ditemui di lapangan terbang Brussels oleh polis, TV tempatan melaporkan.

TERKINI LIVE: Pengeboman lapangan terbang Brussels LIVE UPDATES: Brussels airport bombing 

Laporan juga menunjukkan bahawa pertama terdapat satu pukulan dilepaskan dalam balai berlepas, maka ada sesuatu yang dipanggil di dalam bahasa Arab, dan hanya selepas itu, 2 letupan menggegarkan kemudahan itu.

Laporan mencadangkan bahawa salah satu letupan berlaku berhampiran meja masuk American Airlines. Satu sumber kerajaan disahkan VRT penyiar bahawa ia adalah serangan, manakala Anke Fransen, jurucakap Lapangan Terbang Brussels, berkata terdapat pelbagai kecederaan. "Kami boleh mengesahkan bahawa terdapat 2 letupan di balai berlepas Kami memanggil perkhidmatan kecemasan di atas tanah - Mereka [sedang] kini provid [ing] pertolongan cemas kepada mangsa yang cedera."

Niels Caignau, turut menunggu penerbangan di Swissport, memberitahu Radio 1 bahawa dia mendengar letupan di masa sekitar 08:00 tempatan.

"Tingkap di luar balai berlepas itu habis berkecai. Ramai orang telah diakhiri dengan air mata di mata [mereka]. Kami telah dinasihatkan untuk tinggal di dalam rumah."

Bahan letupan lain telah ditemui di lapangan terbang, RTBF wartawan Laurent Henrard dinamakan anggota bomba sebagai berkata.

Rail trafik ke lapangan terbang itu telah digantung, laporan Reuters.

Tiada pesawat yang mendarat di Lapangan Terbang Brussels yang dalam kuncian, dan pesawat itu disalurkan terus ke Antwerp. Kapal terbang berputar-putar di atas bandar Liege.

Wartawan Sky News Timur Tengah Alex Rossi, yang berada di lapangan terbang dalam perjalanan ke Tel Aviv, telah menulis sebarang tweet bahawa dia boleh "rasa bangunan bergerak."

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3:12 PM - 22 Mar 2016

13 dead, 35 injured in suicide attack at Brussels airport

Thirteen people have been killed and 35 injured after two blasts rocked Brussels’ Zaventem Airport.

The terrorist link has been confirmed by the Belgian royal prosecutor. He has announced that the airport blast was a suicide attack, confirming the preliminary death toll of 13, as well as 35 injured.

READ MORE: Terrified Brussels airport visitors flee terminal building after twin blasts (VIDEO)

Brussels police have told Sputnik that Zaventem’s great hall was targeted in the blast, but they couldn’t confirm the number of the victims in the attack.

“There was an explosion, but we cannot say more," a police spokesperson said.

A suicide bomber was responsible for one of the blasts, Belgian broadcaster VRT said. Three suicide belts packed with explosives have been found at the Brussels airport by police, local TV reported.

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Reports also suggest that first there was a shot fired in the departure hall, then something was called out in Arabic, and only afterward, two explosions rocked the facility.

Reports suggest that one of the explosions took place near the American Airlines check-in desk. A government source confirmed to VRT broadcaster that it was an attack, while Anke Fransen, spokeswoman for Brussels Airport, said there were multiple injuries. "We can confirm that there have been two explosions in the departure hall. We called the emergency services on the ground – they [are] now provid[ing] first aid to the injured."

Niels Caignau, flight watcher at Swissport, told Radio 1 that he heard an explosion at around 8:00 a.m. local time.

"The windows outside the departure hall are completely shattered. Many people have run out with tears in [their] eyes. We were advised to stay indoors."

Other explosive devices have been discovered at the airport, RTBF correspondent Laurent Henrard cited firefighters as saying.

Rail traffic to the airport has been suspended, Reuters reports.

No planes are landing at Brussels Airport which is in lockdown, and planes are being diverted to Antwerp. Planes are circling over the city of Liege.

Sky News Middle East correspondent Alex Rossi, who was at the airport en route to Tel Aviv, has tweeted that he could "feel the buildings move."

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JERMAN mahu Emas DIKEMBALIKAN . . .

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JamaliahYusofYacob - Bundesbank telah mengumumkan rancangan untuk menghantar pulang sebahagian daripada rizab emas di Jerman dari luar negara. Sekurang-kurangnya separuh daripada emas negara akan dipindahkan ke Frankfurt pada tahun 2020, menurut Bundesbank Presiden Jens Weidmann.

Weidmann berkata 366 tan emas bernilai € 11.5 bilion telah dihantar ke Frankfurt setakat ini. "Kini terdapat kira-kira 1,400 tan atau 41.5 % peratus daripada rizab emas di sini," kata bank itu.

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Pada bulan Oktober tahun lepas rizab emas Jerman berjumlah sekitar 3,384 tan metrik, bernilai kira-kira € 120 bilion, yang merupakan kedua terbesar di dUNIA selepas Amerika Syarikat.

Weidmann berkata seluruh emas akan kekal di New York dan London, yang katanya adalah selamat seperti Jerman. Dalam kes kecemasan, rizab ini akan cepat hendak ditukar di pasaran di bandar-bandar ini, kata bank itu.

Bundesbank telah dikritik di dewan untuk menjaga sebahagian besar daripada rizab emas Jerman di luar negara. Pengkritik menuntut pulangan lengkap emas kepada negara. Mereka menganggap emas sebagai insurans jika krisis datang, dan ketersediaan fizikal serta-merta akan menjadi kriteria penentu.

Apabila cuba untuk bergerak emas dari New York pada tahun 2014, Bundesbank bertemu halangan daripada pihak berkuasa Amerika Syarikat apabila pegawai-pegawai cuba untuk memeriksa emas Jerman disimpan dalam bilik kebal Amerika Syarikat.

"Saya bukan ahli teori konspirasi, tetapi Bundesbank akan dapat untuk mengaudit emas sekali setahun seperti yang dilakukannya terhadap rizab dalam Frankfurt," Hans Olaf Henkel, ahli Jerman Parlimen Eropah, memberitahu RT.

Ada juga yang meragui emas Jerman adalah masih hidup secara fizikal di sana.

"Kami masih hilang . . .. diterbitkan senarai nombor bar emas, walaupun rizab Persekutuan Amerika Syarikat menerbitkan senarai ini untuk emas mereka sendiri," kata Peter Boehringer, pengasas menghantar balik Kempen emas kami.

Germany wants its gold back

The Bundesbank has announced plans to repatriate some of Germany’s gold reserves from abroad. At least half of the country’s gold would be transferred to Frankfurt by 2020, according to Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann.

Weidmann says 366 tons of gold worth €11.5 billion have been delivered to Frankfurt so far. "There are now about 1,400 tons or 41.5 percent of our gold reserves here," the banker said.

Read more: ​Germany's failed attempts to get its gold back from the US 'opens question of its sovereignty' http://on.rt.com/eyb4ae

In October last year Germany’s gold reserves stood to around 3,384 tonnes, worth about €120 billion, which is the second largest in the world after the US.

Weidmann added the rest of the gold will remain in New York and London, which he says are as safe as Germany. In case of emergency, these reserves would quickly be converted on the markets in these cities, the banker said.

The Bundesbank has been criticized at home for keeping a major part of Germany’s gold reserves abroad. Critics are demanding the complete return of the gold to the country. They regard the gold as insurance if a crisis comes, and the immediate physical availability would be the decisive criterion.

When trying to move gold from New York in 2014, the Bundesbank met obstacles from US authorities when officials tried to inspect the German gold kept in US vaults.

“I’m no conspiracy theorist, but the Bundesbank should be able to audit the gold once a year like it does with reserves in Frankfurt,” Hans Olaf Henkel, a German member of the European Parliament, told RT.

Some even doubted the German gold is still physically there.

“We are still missing … published lists of gold bar number, even though the US Federal reserve publishes this list for their own gold,” said Peter Boehringer, founder of the Repatriate our Gold Campaign.

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