Thursday, 14 December 2017

"Donald Trump" wagging the dog on "Jerusalem"

Donald Trump's  impulsive, undisciplined and unorthodox leadership style has to be taken into consideration. "Trump" style is reactive and news cycle driven, which means that one has to look at the various issues at hand and what are the events or narrative that he is attempting to change. on the same day that Donald Trump made the announcement about Jerusalem, his son, Donald Trump Jr. was facing eight hours of closed door testimony in the house intelligence committee responsible for examining the claims of collusion with Russia. Whether a link to this can be established is not clear, but diversion strategies are a hallmark of this reality TV president who understand the power of changing the headlines and driving the narrative
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"Gayle hits record sizes in BPL final"

NEW DELHI Records and Chris Gayle are synonymous to each other when it comes to Twenty 20 cricket and explosive West Indies batsman on Tuesday went on to better his plethora of records he made in the shortest format of the game. Gayle, who smashed an uneaten 146  off just 69 balls for Rangpur Riders in the Bangladesh Premier League final against Dhaka Dynamites in Dhaka become the first batsman to cross the 11-000 run mark in T 20 cricket. Nest in the list is Brendan Mccullum with 8526 runs in 309 matches. During the course of this belligerent knock, Gayle also became the first batsman to hit 20 hundreds in T 20 which was studded with 18 towering sixes and five fours He has also scored two hundreds in T 20 for West Indies. The number of sixes hit by Gayle is also a world record in  an innings in the format. His sixes count in T 20 cricket reached who ping figure of 819. In the process, Gayle become the first Batsman to hit 100 sixes in BPL. Gayle who got a life when he was dropped by Shakib-al-Hassan on 22, shared an unbeaten 201 run stand with Mccullum a highest partnership in T 20 final to power Rangpur Riders to 206/1

"Russia" decides to attend "OIC" summit on "Jerusalem"

ANKARA ( Monitoring Desk): The purchase of the S-400 missile defense system from Russia will be finalized "this week" President Recap Tayyip Erdogan said Monday. Our colleagues will come together this week to conclude this work, Erdogan told a news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ankara. The S-400 is Russia most advanced long range anti aircraft missile system and can carry three types of missiles capable of destroying targets including ballistic and cruise missiles. The system can track and engage up to 300 targets at a time and has an altitude ceiling of 27 kilometers (17 miles). On trade, Erdogan said cooperation between Ankara and Moscow was getting stronger day by day Our bilateral trade volume with Russia increased 30 percent as of the first 10 months of 2017, he said. We have a harmonious working environment at the political level. The two leaders have meet eight times this year. Underdog said Ankara and Moscow would hold a seventh High Level Cooperation Council meeting in 2018. Putin, meanwhile, said obstacles to trade and economic ties had been removed. Within the first eight months of 2017 Turkish agricultural exports to Russia increased by 1.8 percent, he said. Moscow imposed sanctions on Turkey following the shooting down of a Russian jet over the Turkey Syria border in November 2015. Turning to the Middle East, Erdogan said Russia and Turkey were in agreement on the issue of Jerusalem. We have seen the same approaches with Putin he said We agreed to continue our contacts in this regard. The Turkish President added that Israel saw the US recognition of Jerusalem as its capital as a chance to increase oppression and violence against the Palestinians. It is not possible for someone who possesses conscience, morals, principles, values to ignore these murders he said. The shift in US policy sparked demonstration across the Muslim world and Putin said the US decision destabilized the Israel Palestine dispute rather than contributed to its settlement. The status of Jerusalem should be addressed through direct contacts between Israel and Palestine, he said Erdogan has called an emergency meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation for Wednesday and Putin said Russia would attend as an observer. The leaders also discussed Syria. Russia, Turkey and Iran are the guarantor states that. brokered a cease fire in Syria in December 2016. leading to the Astana peace talks. Erdogan said the three nations would soon hold a repeat of talks held in the Russian resort of Sochi last month. The trio had consulted on a political process in Syria, Erdogan said. As the guarantors of Astana, we will make a significant contribution to the process carried out in Geneva to find a permanent political solution to the Syrian conflict, he added referring to the UN backed peace talks. Putin, who earlier confirmed the Russian military withdraw from Syria had begun said almost all of Syria territory had been cleaned of terrorist. I would like to appreciate Erdogan persona efforts and contributions to the solution works for Syria, he added another important topic was energy and Erdogan described energy ties as being at a new stage with the Turk-stream and Akkuyu Projects. The TurkStreeam pipeline will carry Russian gas to Turkey and Europe while Russia Rosatom is planning to start building Akkuyu, Turkey firs nuclear power plant on the Mediterranean coast next year. Erdogan said both Ankara and Moscow were willing and resolute to realize the projects as soon as possible. Putin said Turk Stream would increase Turkey energy security as well as expanding Russian gas routes. 






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