UNTUK mengubah KEADAAN Menjadi LEBIH Baik KAMI mesti Membuat RUSSIA lebih KUAT - Putin untuk FSB

"Termit" anti-kapal peluru berpandu pelayaran dilancarkan dari bot peluru berpandu "R-123" semasa latihan taktikal daripada Armada Baltik Rusia dengan firings peluru berpandu di Laut Baltik (A "Termit" anti-ship cruise missile launched from the missile boat "R-123" during tactical exercises of the Russian Baltic Fleet with missile firings in the Baltic Sea (RIA Novosti/Igor Zarembo)

tanahMALAyu - Presiden Putin telah memberitahu pegawai-pegawai kanan perkhidmatan keselamatan dalam negara Rusia di sebalik tekanan asing yang sentiasa meningkat, keadaan di negara ini akan bertambah baik - sekali ia berhenti akur kepada musuh dan mula menjadi lebih kuat.

"Tiada siapa yang pernah berjaya mengugut atau mendesak negara kita dan tiada siapa yang akan - kita sentiasa mempunyai dan sentiasa akan mempunyai jawapan yang mencukupi untuk semua ancaman dalaman dan luaran kepada keselamatan negara," kata Vladimir Putin di alamat untuk Collegium FSB pada hari Khamis.

"Keadaan ini tidak boleh sentiasa kekal seperti itu, ia akan berubah dan saya berharap ia akan berubah kepada yang lebih baik, termasuk keadaan di seluruh negara kita," kata pemimpin Rusia. "Tetapi perubahan kepada yang lebih baik tidak akan berlaku jika kita sentiasa menghasilkan, mengalah atau menggunakan ceramah bayi, ia hanya akan meningkat jika kita menjadi lebih kuat", kata beliau.

"NATO sedang membangunkan daya tindak balas yang pantas dan meningkatkan infrastruktur berhampiran sempadan kita, kita mencatatkan percubaan untuk melanggar pariti nuklear dan penciptaan Eropah dan Asia Pasifik segmen sistem pertahanan peluru berpandu sedang dipercepatkan," kata Putin.

Selain daripada kebuntuan tentera dengan NATO, Rusia terpaksa menentang percubaan untuk melemahkan sistem politik, pemimpin Rusia berkata. "Mereka menggunakan pelbagai jenis cara untuk membendung apa yang dikenali sebagai Rusia - Dari cubaan di pengasingan politik dan tekanan ekonomi kepada perang maklumat berskala penuh dan alat-alat yang digunakan oleh perkhidmatan khas"

Presiden Rusia menuntut bahawa FSB berusaha sepenuhnya untuk mengelakkan ketidakstabilan di negara ini.

"Perkhidmatan khas Barat tidak berputus asa percubaan mereka untuk menggunakan kumpulan bukan kerajaan dan kesatuan dipolitikkan untuk menjatuhkan pihak berkuasa Rusia dan menjejaskan kestabilan keadaan dalaman di Rusia. Mereka telah merancang tindakan untuk tempoh pilihan raya akan datang pada 2016 dan 2018, "kata Putin. Rusia pada 2016 akan mengadakan pilihan raya parlimen persekutuan, dan pungutan suara presiden akan datang dijadualkan pada 2018.

Presiden itu menyatakan bahawa pihak berkuasa bertujuan untuk mengekalkan dialog dengan pembangkang dan masyarakat sivil Rusia secara umum, kritikan dan juga mengasaskan dan perkongsian telah terbukti berguna untuk mana-mana negara, termasuk Rusia.

"Tetapi ia tidak masuk akal untuk berdebat dengan orang-orang yang bekerja pada pesanan dari luar, yang menjaga kepentingan bukan negara mereka tetapi sebuah negara asing atau negara," katanya.

Putin berikrar untuk meneruskan amalan itu baru-baru ini diperkenalkan bagi mendedahkan dana asing daripada kumpulan politik dan NGO, untuk memeriksa jika matlamat mengisytiharkan kumpulan itu sepadan dengan aktiviti sebenar mereka dan memotong pendek sebarang cubaan untuk membuat pelanggaran.

Kenyataan Presiden adalah selaras dengan kesimpulan dari badan atas perundingan Rusia mengenai keselamatan negara, Majlis Keselamatan, yang berkata Rabu bahawa 2015 Strategi Keselamatan Negara Amerika Syarikat adalah secara terbuka anti-Rusia dan boleh mempunyai pelbagai kesan negatif terhadap hubungan antara Moscow dan Washington. Dokumen, yang diterbitkan pada awal Februari, adalah berdasarkan kepada prinsip-prinsip Amerika Exceptionalism dan kanan yang dikatakan penguatkuasaan unilateral kepentingan Amerika Syarikat di beberapa tempat di DUNIA, pakar-pakar keselamatan Rusia dituntut dalam kesimpulan mereka.

To change the situation for the better we must make Russia stronger – Putin to FSB

President Putin has told senior officers of Russia’s domestic security service that despite the constantly increasing foreign pressure, the situation in the country will improve – once it stops giving in to its foes and starts becoming more powerful.

“No one has ever succeeded in intimidating or pressuring our country and no one ever will – we have always had and always will have an adequate answer for all internal and external threats to national security,” Vladimir Putin said in an address to the FSB collegium on Thursday.

“The situation cannot always remain as it is, it is going to change and I hope it will change for the better, including the situation around our country,” the Russian leader said. “But the changes for the better will not happen if we constantly yield, give in or use baby talk, it will only improve if we become stronger,” he emphasized.

“NATO is developing its rapid response forces and is boosting its infrastructure near our borders, we are registering attempts to violate nuclear parity and the creation of the European and Asia-Pacific segments of the missile defense systems is being sped up,” Putin said.

Putin: No external pressure on Russia will go unchallenged http://on.rt.com/ap1q93

Apart from the military standoff with NATO, Russia had to oppose the attempts to undermine its political system, the Russian leader noted. “They are using a whole range of means for the so-called containment of Russia – from attempts at political isolation and economic pressure to a full-scale information war and tools used by special services.”

The Russian president demanded that the FSB apply maximum effort to prevent the destabilization of the country.

“Western special services do not give up their attempts to use non-government groups and politicized unions to discredit Russian authorities and destabilize the internal situation in Russia. They are already planning actions for the period of the forthcoming elections in 2016 and 2018,” Putin said. In 2016 Russia will hold the federal parliamentary election, and the next presidential poll is scheduled for 2018.

The president stated that the authorities intended to maintain their dialogue with the opposition and Russian civil society in general, as well-founded criticism and partnership have proved to be useful for any nation, including Russia.

“But it makes no sense to argue with those who work on orders from outside, who serve the interests of not their nation but an alien nation or nations,” he said.

‘Clearly anti-Russian’ – Moscow blasts latest US national security strategy http://on.rt.com/nsw8em

Putin pledged to continue the recently introduced practice of disclosing the foreign funding of political groups and NGOs, to check if the declared objectives of such groups match their real activities and to cut short any attempts at violations.

The president’s statements are in line with the conclusions of Russia’s top consultative body on national security, the Security Council, that said Wednesday that the 2015 US National Security Strategy was openly anti-Russian and could have multiple negative consequences on relations between Moscow and Washington. The document, published in early February, was based on the principles of American Exceptionalism and the alleged right of unilateral enforcement of US interests in various parts of the world, the Russian security experts claimed in their conclusion.

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5 Fakta yang ANDA perlu TAHU tentang Yaman dan Konfliknya . . .

tanahMALAyu - Salah satu negara yang paling miskin dan paling ganas di Timur Tengah, Yaman juga merupakan kawasan yang mempunyai kepentingan strategik untuk peserta serantau - dan beberapa kumpulan pengganas yang paling berbahaya di DUNIA. RT menjelaskan alasan yang mendasari di sebalik konflik negara.

Lokasi Strategik

Wilayah yang terletak di dalam sempadan Yaman adalah salah satu buaian yang paling purba tamadun di Timur Tengah, sekali dikenali sebagai Latin -'Arabia Felix' untuk "gembira" atau "bernasib baik" - pada zaman purba. Dalam negeri-negeri Yaman lebih subur daripada yang lain di Semenanjung Arab, kerana mereka mendapat lebih hujan kerana gunung yang tinggi. Tetapi kerana penurunan sumber semula jadi, termasuk minyak, Yaman dan penduduknya kira-kira 26 juta kini amat miskin.

Namun, negara ini menawarkan lokasi yang strategik di hujung barat daya Saudi. Ia terletak di sepanjang laluan laut utama dari Eropah ke Asia, berhampiran beberapa yang paling sibuk Laut Merah perkapalan dan perdagangan lorong.

Berjuta-juta tong minyak melalui perairan ini setiap hari di kedua-dua arah, ke Mediterranean melalui Terusan Suez dan dari kilang penapis minyak di Arab Saudi untuk lapar tenaga pasaran Asia. Hab pengangkutan Yaman Aden merupakan salah satu daripada pelabuhan paling sibuk di dunia pada abad ke-20.

Utara & Selatan Yaman, ditambah dengan Puak-puak

Walaupun sejarah dalam negeri-negeri Yaman tarikh kembali beribu-ribu tahun, Yemen moden itu sendiri adalah sebuah negara yang muda, dengan sempadan semasa setelah mengambil bentuk pada tahun 1990, selepas Utara dan Selatan Yaman bersatu. Sebelum itu, kedua-dua bahagian adalah terlibat dalam konflik mereka sendiri.

Utara Yaman telah ditubuhkan sebagai sebuah republik pada tahun 1970, setelah bertahun-tahun perang saudara antara royalis dan Republikan, dengan yang pertama disokong oleh Arab Saudi dan yang kedua oleh Mesir. Bekas Presiden Yaman, Ali Abdullah Saleh, meningkat kepada kuasa melalui tentera dan memegang kuasa selama beberapa dekad. Walaupun Selatan Yaman bersetuju untuk bergabung dengan republik utara Saleh pada tahun 1990, mereka tidak lama lagi menjadi gembira bergerak. Utara dan selatan terbabit dengan perang saudara baru, menyebabkan beribu-ribu mangsa, manakala kuasa Saleh menang.

Di luar bandar-bandar besar Yaman, terdapat beberapa kawasan puak yang berkesan yang mentadbir diri. Dengan sejumlah besar orang awam kerana memiliki senjata - ia dipercayai terdapat lebih senjata api di negara ini daripada rakyat - puak militia tempatan sering menindas tentera negara dan memohon undang-undang mereka sendiri, berdasarkan tradisi dan bukannya perlembagaan negeri. Houthis telah meningkat menjadi salah satu militia yang paling berkuasa di Yaman.

Perselisihan Sunni-Syiah

Majoriti penduduk Yaman adalah Muslim, tetapi ia berpecah antara pelbagai cabang Islam - terutamanya Sunni atau Syiah Zaidi. Bahagian-bahagian antara Sunni dan Syiah adalah berdasarkan konflik agama lama berjalan yang bermula sebagai suatu pertikaian tentang pengganti Nabi Muhammad. Sementara Syiah percaya sepupu Rasulullah sepatutnya diisi peranan, Sunni menyokong memetik hampir rakan dan penasihat Muhammad, Abu Bakar, sebagai khalifah pertama negara Islam.

Yang berkata, Syiah Zaidi - yang membentuk kira-kira 40 % peratus daripada penduduk Yaman - adalah satu-satunya mazhab Syiah Islam yang tidak berkongsi kepercayaan dalam pilihan kemaksuman dan ketuhanan imam, sangat dihormati sebagai pemimpin rohani di kalangan Syiah. Ini menyebabkan mereka untuk menyelaraskan lebih dekat dengan golongan Syiah.

Pada masa yang sama, sejak beberapa dekad yang lalu, dan idea-idea Salafi Wahabi yang ketat dan puritanical Sunni Islam - datang dari negara jiran Arab Saudi - telah menjadi semakin berpengaruh di Yaman.

Houthis

Houthis mewakili cawangan Zaidi itu daripada Syiah Islam dari jauh di utara Yaman, bersebelahan dengan sempadan Saudi. Nama kumpulan yang datang daripada keluarga terkemuka suku itu. Anggotanya - seorang pemimpin Zaidi agama dan bekas ahli parlimen Yaman, Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi - dituduh oleh kerajaan sebagai dalang pemberontakan Houthi, termasuk demonstrasi anti-Israel dan anti-Amerika ganas, pada tahun 2004. Rejim Yaman mengarahkan satu pemburuan untuk al-Houthi, yang berakhir dengan beratus-ratus tangkapan dan kematian pemimpin Zaidi, dengan berpuluh-puluh penyokongnya juga dibunuh.

Sejak itu, Houthis telah aktif berjuang dengan kuasa pusat, menuntut pengaruh politik yang lebih besar dan menuduh kerajaan daripada bersekutu dengan terutamanya Wahabi Arab Saudi manakala mengabaikan pembangunan negara dan keperluan suku-suku tradisional Zaidi.

Walaupun Yaman Presiden kini dilanda masalah Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi mendakwa Houthis disokong oleh Hizbullah - militia Syiah Lubnan - beberapa pegawai Barat mendakwa Iran, salah satu daripada negara-negara Islam beberapa cawangan Syiah, kewangan menyokong Houthis dalam usaha untuk mengawal pantai Laut Merah Yaman. Dakwaan ini dinafikan oleh Houthis diri.

Al-Qaeda & ISIS

Sejak 2009, Yaman telah menjadi asas operasi militan Al-Qaeda. Selepas cawangan Yaman dan Arab Al-Qaeda digabungkan untuk membentuk Al-Qaeda di Semenanjung Arab (AQAP), kumpulan yang menjadi salah satu pengeksport terbesar di DUNIA keganasan, dengan Amerika Syarikat memandangkan ia cawangan yang paling berbahaya daripada Al-Qaeda. Keluarga Osama bin Laden tinggal di selatan Yaman sebelum berhijrah ke Arab Saudi.

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5 facts YOU Need to KNOW About Yemen and its Conflicts

One of the poorest and most violent countries in the Middle East, Yemen is also an area of strategic importance for regional players – and some of the world’s most dangerous terror groups. RT explains the underlying reasons behind the nation's conflicts.

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Strategic location

The territory that lies within Yemen’s borders is one of the most ancient cradles of civilization in the Middle East, once known as ‘Arabia Felix’ – Latin for “happy” or “fortunate” – in ancient times. The lands of Yemen were more fertile than most on the Arabian Peninsula, as they received more rain due to high mountains. But because of declining natural resources, including oil, Yemen and its population of about 26 million are now very poor.

Still, the country boasts a strategic location on the southwestern tip of Arabia. It is located along the major sea route from Europe to Asia, near some of the busiest Red Sea shipping and trading lanes. Millions of barrels of oil pass through these waters daily in both directions, to the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal and from the oil refineries in Saudi Arabia to the energy-hungry Asian markets. The Yemeni transport hub of Aden was one of the world's busiest ports in the 20th century.

North & South Yemen, plus the tribes

Although the history of the lands of Yemen date back thousands of years, modern Yemen itself is a young nation, with its current borders having taken shape in 1990, after North and South Yemen united. Before that, both parts were involved in conflicts of their own.

Northern Yemen was established as a republic in 1970, after years of civil war between royalists and republicans, with the first supported by Saudi Arabia and the latter by Egypt. Yemen’s former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, rose to power through the military and held power for decades. Although Southern Yemen agreed to merge with Saleh’s northern republic in 1990, they soon became unhappy about the move. The north and south became embroiled in a new civil war, resulting in thousands of casualties, while Saleh’s power prevailed.

Outside big Yemeni cities, there are a number of tribal areas that are effectively self-governing. With a large number of civilians being in possession of arms – it is believed there are more guns in the country than citizens – local tribal militias often repress the national army and apply their own laws, based on traditions rather than the state’s constitution. Houthis have risen to be one of the most powerful militias in Yemen.

Sunni-Shia rift

The majority of Yemen’s population is Muslim, but it is split between various branches of Islam – mainly Sunni or Zaidi Shia. The divisions between the Sunnis and the Shia are based on a long-running religious conflict that started as a dispute about the Prophet Mohammed’s successor. While Shia Muslims believe the prophet’s cousin should have filled the role, Sunnis support the picking of Muhammad’s close friend and advisor, Abu Bakr, as the first caliph of the Islamic nation.

That said, Zaidi Shias – making up about 40 percent of Yemen’s population – are the only Shia Muslim sect that do not share the belief in the infallibility and divine choice of imams, strongly revered as spiritual leaders among Shias. This causes them to align closer to Sunni practices.

At the same time, over the past decades, strict and puritanical Salafi and Wahhabi ideas of Sunni Islam – coming from neighboring Saudi Arabia – have become increasingly influential in Yemen.

Houthis

Houthis represent the Zaidi branch of Shiite Islam from the far north of Yemen, adjacent to the Saudi border. The name of the group comes from a leading family of the tribe. Its member – a Zaidi religious leader and former member of the Yemeni parliament, Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi – was accused by the government of masterminding a Houthi rebellion, including violent anti-Israeli and anti-American demonstrations, in 2004. The Yemeni regime ordered a manhunt for al-Houthi, which ended with hundreds of arrests and the death of the Zaidi leader, with dozens of his supporters also killed.

Since then, the Houthis have been actively fighting with the central power, demanding greater political influence and accusing the government of allying with mainly Wahhabi Saudi Arabia while neglecting national development and the needs of the traditional Zaidi tribes.

While Yemen’s now embattled President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi has claimed that Houthis are supported by Hezbollah – the Lebanese Shia militia – some Western officials have alleged that Iran, one of the few Muslim nations of the Shia branch, financially supports Houthis in an effort to control Yemen’s Red Sea coast. This allegation is denied by the Houthis themselves.

Al-Qaeda & ISIS

Since 2009, Yemen has been an operational base of Al-Qaeda militants. After the Yemeni and Saudi branches of Al-Qaeda merged to form Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the group became one of the world’s biggest exporters of terrorism, with the US considering it the most dangerous branch of Al-Qaeda. Osama bin Laden’s family lived in southern Yemen before emigrating to Saudi Arabia. 

READ MORE: Yemeni Al-Qaeda says France replaced US as ‘main enemy of Islam’

Yemen’s fight against AQAP has been largely supported by the United States. Since 2007, the US has supplied more than $500 million in military aid to Yemen through programs managed by the Defense Department and State Department, and conducted controversial drone strikes targeting terrorists in the country.

 Al-Qaeda’s ideology is based on radical Sunni Islam and thus is hostile to Houthis, who have also been at war with AQAP militants.

With several forces fighting in the country – including the official government, Houthis, and AQAP – the Yemeni chaos provided a fertile ground for extremism. Extremist groups affiliated with the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) now operate in Yemen, conducting terror acts against both the military and civilians. In the latest March 20 attack, over 100 people were killed and some 250 injured in suicide bomb attacks on mosques in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, with ISIS militants claiming responsibility for the assault.

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SAUDI Saudi BOM Yaman, pemberontak Lancar 
Gabungan Op Terhadap Houthi  . . .

QuestionMORE - Kuasa2 Arab Saudi, disertai oleh 9 negara2 lain, telah melancarkan operasi tentera di Yaman terhadap pemberontak Syiah Houthi, Duta Arab Saudi ke Amerika Syarikat berkata. Serangan yang bermula dengan serangan udara, juga akan melibatkan "aset tentera yang lain."

Menurut Duta Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir, operasi ketenteraan di Yaman bermula pada 19:00 EST (23:00 GMT).

Obama mengarahkan sokongan kepada op Arab yang dipimpin, PBB 'butiran masih memeriksanya'

Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Obama telah diberi kuasa peruntukan sokongan logistik dan perisikan kepada Majlis Kerjasama Teluk (GCC) led operasi tentera di Yaman, White House berkata dalam satu kenyataan, yang mengesahkan bahawa Washington mempunyai komunikasi yang rapat dengan Hadi, Arab Saudi dan negara-negara GCC lain sebelum pelancaran operasi ketenteraan.

"Walaupun tentera Amerika Syarikat tidak mengambil tindakan ketenteraan secara langsung di Yemen untuk menyokong usaha ini, kita mewujudkan Cell Perancangan Bersama dengan Arab Saudi untuk menyelaraskan sokongan Amerika Syarikat tentera dan perisikan," kata kenyataan itu.

Selain itu, White House menggesa Houthis untuk segera menghentikan "tindakan ketenteraan tidak stabil" dan kembali semula ke dialog politik dengan kerajaan Yaman yang digulingkan.

Al Arabiya melaporkan bahawa pesawat perang daripada Arab Tentera Udara Diraja mengebom kedudukan militia Yemen Houthi, menyasarkan pertahanan udara mereka.

Gabungan Arab diketuai telah mengisytiharkan ruang udara Yaman yang "zon terhad." Kapal di rantau ini juga telah menggesa untuk tidak mendekati pelabuhan Yaman kerana operasi tentera yang sedang berjalan.

Lebih daripada 20 orang telah dilaporkan mati dan lebih 30 lagi yang cedera berikut serangan udara Arab Saudi yang dipimpin di Yaman, agensi berita Sputnik yang dinamakan keselamatan tempatan dan sumber perubatan sebagai berkata.

Majoriti mogok sekitar Sanaa melanda kawasan kediaman yang terletak berhampiran lapangan terbang antarabangsa di ibu negara. Bangunan kerajaan dan lapangan terbang juga telah melanda semasa serangan.

Laporan dari tanah menunjukkan bahawa kuasa-kuasa Arab telah mengebom sebuah pejabat milik pemberontak Houthi di kawasan Jiraf Sana'a ini. Saluran TV Houthi yang dikendalikan dilaporkan berpuluh-puluh mangsa serangan udara awam berikut utara Sanaa.

Penduduk berkata pesawat perang disasarkan lapangan terbang di ibu negara, menurut Reuters.

Houthis digunakan berat api anti-pesawat untuk bertindak balas kepada pengeboman.

Satu lagi serangan kapal terbang perang telah dikatakan telah dilancarkan pada Dulaimi pangkalan udara tentera Sana'a ini. Al-Jubair berkata kepada Al-Jazeera bahawa pejuang Houthi berada dalam kawalan senjata balistik dan berat Yaman dan boleh mengambil alih tentera udara negara.

Laporan memetik perkhidmatan keselamatan Yaman berkata, 4 jet Sukhoi ditempatkan di pangkalan udara tentera Dulaimi musnah dalam serangan udara. Sementara itu, satu laporan Al Arabiya mendakwa serangan Arab yang dipimpin memusnahkan pangkalan udara bersama-sama dengan beberapa senjata, serta mengambil kebanyakan pertahanan udara pemberontak '.

Sementara itu, Arab Saudi, Emiriah Arab Bersatu, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait dan mengeluarkan kenyataan bersama mengatakan bahawa mereka "memutuskan untuk menolak militia Houthi, Al-Qaeda dan ISIS (Negara Islam) di negara ini." Negara-negara Teluk berkata mereka bertindak balas kepada "ancaman besar" kepada kestabilan rantau ini, dengan mengatakan bahawa perjuangan mereka adalah untuk "menolak pencerobohan Houthi" di Yaman.

Al-Jubeir berkata gabungan 10 negara telah melancarkan kempen "untuk melindungi dan mempertahankan kerajaan yang sah" Presiden Yaman Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi selepas rayuannya untuk campur tangan.

Pembantu Hadi telah mendedahkan bahawa presiden adalah "dalam semangat yang tinggi" dan kekal di pangkalan Aden di selatan Yaman. "Presiden . . . berterima kasih negara-negara Teluk, Mesir, Jordan, dan Sudan, dan semua negara-negara di rantau ini," pengarah pejabat Hadi, Mohammed Marem, kepada Reuters. Serangan itu telah "dipulihkan penentuan rakyat" untuk memerangi Houthis, katanya.

Arab Saudi merancang untuk melakukan 100 pesawat perang dan 150,000 tentera untuk serangan Yaman itu, menurut Al Arabiya. Emiriah Arab Bersatu, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan dan juga bersedia untuk menyumbang pesawat, manakala Mesir, Pakistan, Jordan, Sudan dan ingin menyumbang kepada operasi darat.

Mesir menyediakan sokongan politik dan ketenteraan untuk menjalani pembedahan, kata media kerajaan negara itu. Kaherah bersedia untuk mengambil bahagian dalam operasi udara, laut dan darat jika perlu, Kementerian Luar Mesir telah diumumkan.

Laporan media berkata, Jordan, Sudan, Maghribi dan Pakistan juga merupakan sebahagian daripada gabungan itu dan telah menawarkan sokongan mereka untuk operasi tentera di Yaman.

Walaupun duta Arab Saudi menegaskan Washington hanya "berunding" Riyadh, seorang pegawai Amerika Syarikat memberitahu Reuters dengan syarat tidak mahu namanya disiarkan bahawa Amerika telah menyokong operasi ketenteraan dengan cara yang tidak ditentukan.

Pemimpin Houthi telah seterusnya berjenama serangan Arab sebagai "pencerobohan" dan memberi amaran bahawa ia akan seret kawasan Teluk keseluruhan ke dalam konflik.

"Terdapat satu pencerobohan dijalankan di Yaman dan kita akan menghadapinya dengan berani," ahli jawatan politik Houthi, Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, memberitahu Al Jazeera. "Operasi Tentera akan seret kawasan yang berperang yang luas."

Sementara itu, timbalan jurucakap PBB Farhan Haq kepada TASS bahawa PBB sedar Arab Saudi melancarkan operasi tentera di Yaman dan sedang mencari maklumat lanjut. Hanya beberapa jam sebelum pembedahan, Haq kepada wartawan bahawa PBB tidak percaya dalam tindakan tentera untuk menyelesaikan konflik di Yaman.

Sebelum pelancaran serangan di Yaman, militan Houthi mendakwa telah menawan pelabuhan selatan Aden, kubu kuat Presiden Hadi. Para pejuang berkata bandar adalah di bawah kawalan mereka dan penyokong presiden telah ditangkap.

Para pemberontak telah mengumumkan 20 juta riyal (US $ 100,000) ganjaran untuk menangkap Hadi, selepas mendakwa bahawa dia lari dari negara itu, yang berpangkalan di Lebanon Al-Manar TV melaporkan.

Pada bulan Ogos 2014, pemberontak Houthi bergerak dari utara dan menuntut pembaharuan ekonomi dan politik. Pada bulan September, mereka merampas pemasangan negeri utama di Sanaa.

Sebagai Houthis mengambil arahan daripada ibu kota bulan lalu, kedutaan Amerika Syarikat menutup operasi di Sana'a, manakala kedua-dua kerajaan saingan di utara dan selatan telah terus bersaing untuk kuasa. Hujung minggu lalu, pemberontak Syiah merampas bandar yang ke-3 terbesar Taiz Yaman.

SAUDI Arabia bombs Yemen, Launches Coalition 

Op Against Houthi REBELS . . .

Saudi Arabian forces, joined by nine other countries, have launched a military operation in Yemen against Shiite Houthi rebels, the Saudi ambassador to the US said. The offensive, which started with airstrikes, will also involve “other military assets.”

According to Ambassador Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir, the military operation in Yemen started at 7 p.m. EST (11 p.m. GMT).

Obama ordered support to Saudi-led op, UN still ‘checking details’

US President Obama has authorized the provision of logistical and intelligence support to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-led military operations in Yemen, the White House said in a statement, confirming that Washington had close communication with Hadi, the Saudis and other GCC states prior to the launch of the military operation.

“While US forces are not taking direct military action in Yemen in support of this effort, we are establishing a Joint Planning Cell with Saudi Arabia to coordinate US military and intelligence support,” the statement said.

Moreover, the White House urged the Houthis to immediately halt “destabilizing military actions” and to return to political dialogue with the deposed Yemeni government.

Al Arabiya reported that warplanes of the Royal Saudi Air Force bombed positions of Yemen’s Houthi militia, targeting their air defenses.

The Saudi-led coalition has declared Yemeni airspace a “restricted zone.” Ships in the region have also been urged not to approach Yemen’s ports due to the ongoing military operation.

More than 20 people have reportedly died and over 30 others were injured following Saudi Arabia-led airstrikes in Yemen, Sputnik news agency cited local security and medical sources as saying.

The majority of the strikes around Sanaa hit residential areas located near the capital’s international airport. Government buildings and the airport were also hit during the offensive.

Reports from the ground indicate that Saudi forces have bombed an office belonging to Houthi rebels in Sanaa’s Jiraf area. A Houthi-run TV channel reported dozens of civilian casualties following airstrikes north of Sanaa.

Residents said that warplanes targeted the capital’s airport, according to Reuters.

Houthis used heavy anti-aircraft fire to respond to the bombing.

Another warplane attack was said to have been launched on Sanaa’s Dulaimi military airbase. Al-Jubair told Al Jazeera that Houthi fighters are in control of Yemeni’s ballistic and heavy weaponry and could be taking over the country’s air force.

Reports citing Yemeni security services said four Sukhoi jets stationed at the Dulaimi military airbase were destroyed in airstrikes. Meanwhile, an Al Arabiya report claimed that Saudi-led strikes destroyed the airbase along with several arsenals, as well as taking out most of the rebels’ air defenses.

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, and Kuwait issued a joint statement saying that they “decided to repel Houthi militias, Al-Qaeda and ISIS (Islamic State) in the country.” The Gulf states said they were responding to a “major threat” to the stability of the region, saying that their cause is to “repel Houthi aggression” in Yemen.

Al-Jubeir said the 10-country coalition launched the campaign “to protect and defend the legitimate government” of Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi after his appeal to intervene.

Hadi’s aide has revealed that the president is “in high spirits” and has remained at his Aden base in the south of Yemen. “The president...thanks Gulf countries, Egypt, Jordan, and Sudan, and all countries in the region,” the director of Hadi's office, Mohammed Marem, told Reuters. The offensive has “restored people's determination” to fight against the Houthis, he said.

Saudi Arabia is planning to commit 100 warplanes and 150,000 soldiers to the Yemen offensive, according to Al Arabiya. The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and Jordan are also willing to contribute aircrafts, while Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan, and Sudan want to contribute to ground operations.

Egypt is providing political and military support for the operation, the country’s state media said. Cairo is prepared to take part in air, naval and ground operations if necessary, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry has announced.

Media reports said that Jordan, Sudan, Morocco and Pakistan are also part of the coalition and have offered their support for military operation in Yemen.

While the Saudi envoy insisted Washington only “consulted” Riyadh, a US official told Reuters on condition of anonymity that America has been supporting the military operation in an unspecified way.

Houthi leaders have in turn branded the Saudi offensive as “aggression” and warned that it will drag the entire Gulf region into conflict.

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“There is an aggression underway on Yemen and we will confront it valiantly,” a member of the Houthi political office, Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, told Al Jazeera. “Military operations will drag the region to a wide war.”

Meanwhile, UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq told TASS that the UN is aware of Saudi Arabia launching a military operation in Yemen and is looking into more details. Just a few hours before the operation, Haq told journalists that the UN does not believe in military actions to resolve the conflict in Yemen.

Before the launch of the offensive in Yemen, Houthi militants claimed to have captured the southern seaport of Aden, President Hadi’s stronghold. The fighters said the city was under their control and the president’s supporters were being arrested.

The rebels have announced a 20 million riyal (US$100,000) reward for Hadi’s capture, after alleging that he fled the country, Lebanon-based Al-Manar TV reported.

In August 2014, Houthi rebels moved in from the north and demanded economic and political reforms. In September, they seized key state installations in Sanaa.

As Houthis took command of the capital last month, the US embassy closed its operations in Sanaa, while the two rival governments in the north and south have continued to compete for power. Last weekend, Shiite rebels seized Yemen’s third largest city Taiz.

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GLOBALLISASI Kejam, SYARIKAT-Syarikat MULTInasional Memerintah DUNIA - Marine Le Pen

Marine Le Pen, Barisan Nasional pemimpin parti politik Perancis (Marine Le Pen, France's National Front political party leader (Reuters/Eric Gaillard)

tanahMALAyu - Globalisasi adalah satu kekejaman, Marine Le Pen percaya, pe-mimpin hak-jauh pihak Barisan Nasional Perancis, sambil menambah bahwa kini DUNIA di tangan syarikat multinasional dan kewangan antarabangsa yang besar.

"Globalisasi adalah kekejaman, ia adalah negara yang harus menghadkan penyalahgunaannya dan mengawal ia [globalisasi]," Le Pen menulis di akaun Twitter beliau.

Masalah syarikat multinasional dan pengaruh mereka di seluruh DUNIA juga telah diketengahkan oleh pemimpin jauh kanan Perancis.

"Hari ini DUNIA adalah di tangan syarikat multinasional dan kewangan antarabangsa yang besar," kata Le Pen.

Imigresen "berat ke atas upah," manakala gaji minimum kini menjadi gaji mak-simum, berkata Le Pen, sambil menambah bahawa kini Perancis adalah "mati dari-pada fizikal, undang-undang dan fiskal tidak selamat."

Le Pen adalah pengkritik lantang daripada transatlantik Kawasan Bebas Perda-gangan (TAFTA), juga dikenali sebagai transatlantik Perdagangan dan Pelaburan Perkongsian (TTIP), perjanjian perdagangan bebas antara Kesatuan Eropah dan Amerika Syarikat. Perancis kini dalam proses rundingan dengan Amerika Syarikat pada perjanjian kontroversi.

GLOBALIZATION is Barbarous, MULTINATIONALS 

Rule WORLD - Marine Le Pen

Globalization is a barbarity, believes Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s far-right National Front party, adding that now the world is now in hands of multinational corporations and large international finance.

“Globalization is a barbarity, it is the country which should limit its abuses and regulate it [globalization],” Le Pen wrote on her Twitter account.

The problems of multinational corporations and their worldwide influence were also highlighted by France’s far-right leader.

“Today the world is in the hands of multinational corporations and large international finance,” Le Pen said.

Immigration “weighs down on wages,” while the minimum wage is now becoming the maximum wage, said Le Pen, adding that now France is “dying of physical, legal and fiscal insecurity.”

Le Pen is a vocal critic of Transatlantic Free Trade Area (TAFTA), also known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a free trade agreement between the European Union and the United States. France is now in the process of negotiations with the US on the controversial deal.

Rakyat membantah pada 11 Oktober 2014 terhadap Perjanjian transatlantik Perdagangan Bebas (TAFTA) sedang dirunding antara Suruhanjaya Eropah dan eksploitasi gas syal di pusat bandar Perancis barat daya Narbonne (People protest on October 11, 2014 against the Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) being negotiated between the European Commission and the exploitation of shale gas in the center of the southwestern French city of Narbonne (AFP Photo)

Pemimpin jauh kanan Perancis mengkritik perjanjian itu kerana kekurangan ketelusan dalam rundingan.

Pada bulan Februari dia berjanji akan menghantar "banyak wakil ke Parlimen Eropah akan mengetuai peperangan menentang TTIP."

Di Perancis terdapat byk pengkritik perjanjian yg mengatakan bahwa perjanjian itu akan meningkatkan kuasa korporat dan membuat ia lebih sukar bagi kerajaan utk mengawal selia pasaran utk faedah awam. Juga, dengan majoriti rundingan TTIP diadakan secara rahsia, ianya tidak jelas sejauh mana keutamaan EU telah dipenuhi.

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Lawan TAFTA juga mendakwa bahawa perjanjian itu akan membawa kemasukan besar makanan yg diubahsuai secara genetik dari Amerika Syarikat, seperti daging lembu hormon dirawat dan jagung yang diubah suai secara genetik.

Pada bulan November, laporan muncul bahawa Perancis tidak akan menyokong TTIP antara EU dan Amerika Syarikat sebagai panjang penetapan kontroversi dimasukkan.

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Ia bukan sahaja orang di Perancis yg menentang perjanjian itu. Demonstrasi ter-hadap perjanjian itu juga telah berlaku di Britain, Jerman, Itali, Sepanyol, Greece, Belanda, Poland, Republik Czech dan Scandinavia.

France’s far-right leader criticized the deal for a lack of transparency in the talks.

In February she promised to send “numerous representatives to the European Parliament will lead the battle against TTIP.”

In France there are many critics of the agreement who say that the deal would increase corporate power and make it more difficult for governments to regulate markets for public benefit. Also, with the majority of TTIP negotiations being held secretly, it’s unclear to what extent the EU’s preferences have been met.

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TAFTA opponents also claim that the treaty will bring a big influx of genetically modified foods from the US, such as hormone-treated beef and genetically modified corn.

In November, reports emerged that France would not support the TTIP between the EU and US as long as a controversial stipulation is included.

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It’s not only people in France who oppose the deal. Demonstrations against the deal have also taken place in Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, Netherlands, Poland, the Czech Republic and Scandinavia.

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