'BARAT terlupa untuk MENGUNCI pintu belakang, menolak RUSIA ke dalam perjanjian gas dengan CHINA' . . .

tanahMALAyu - Walaupun Barat mengenakan sekatan ke atas Rusia  Rusia membuat perjan-jian dengan China sebagai masing-masing mempunyai sesuatu untuk menawarkan yang lain, David Kuo, Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif Motley Fool laman web kewangan Singa-pura, memberitahu RT.

RT: Kami tidak pernah melihat kertas ditandatangani. Kita boleh menyaksikan kelewatan mungkin. Apakah isu-isu yang anda fikir boleh berada di belakang ini?

David Kuo: Akhirnya, harga bergantung kepada harga yang ditawarkan antara kedua-dua belah pihak. Perjanjian ini 10 tahun dalam membuat dan akhirnya apa yang ia benar-benar datang ke pada akhir sangat berapa banyak China bersedia untuk membayar untuk gas.

Kami meninjau tempat antara $ 350 atau mungkin kurang sedikit untuk 1,000 meter padu gas. Kami sedang meninjau perjanjian yang bernilai sekitar $ 400 bilion dalam tempoh masa 30 tahun. Kami meninjau sesuatu yang boleh menjana untuk Rusia kira-kira $13 billion setahun.

RT: ini telah dipanggil perjanjian yang bersejarah. Mengapa kita melihat China dan Rusia menjadi begitu banyak lebih dekat pada banyak peringkat?

David Kuo: Saya fikir ia benar-benar bisul ke sekatan ini bahawa Barat telah megenakan ke atas Rusia. Ada satu pepatah, "Jika anda mengunci pintu depan memastikan bahawa pintu belakang dikunci juga."

Dalam kes ini, Barat telah lupa untuk mengunci pintu belakang. Jadi sementara mereka sebenarnya mengenakan sekatan ke atas Rusia, Rusia mengatakan ke seluruh DUNIA, "Anda dikunci pintu depan, tetapi saya mempunyai pintu belakang juga." Dan pintu belakang dalam kes ini di China.

Barat sebenarnya telah menolak Rusia ke dalam melakukan perjanjian dengan China. Maka pada satu tangan, ini adalah satu perjanjian ekonomi. Tetapi di sisi lain, ia juga adalah masalah politik di mana Rusia mengatakan ke seluruh DUNIA, " Jika anda tidak mahu membeli barangan saya, ada orang lain di luar sana yang bersedia untuk sebagai juga membeli barangan saya."

Dan kita perlu melihat perjanjian ini dalam konteks kedua-dua buah negara. Rusia mem-punyai sesuatu yang China mahu - gas. China mempunyai sesuatu yang Rusia mahu - tenaga bersih. Apabila anda meletakkan kedua-dua perkara bersama-sama, kita bercakap tentang situasi menang-menang antara kedua-dua negara.

RT: India, Jepun, Korea Utara dilaporkan berbaris untuk menjadi orang-orang yang akan datang untuk menandatangani tawaran ekonomi dengan Rusia. Berbincang dengan kami mengenai peralihan dalam keseimbangan ekonomi global?

David Kuo: Ia agak ketara. Apa yang kita lihat adalah kuasa-kuasa besar di sini di Timur mengatakan mereka mahu melakukan tawaran dengan seluruh DUNIA. Jika anda melihat India, India juga mahu apa Rusia tawarkan [dan Rusia mahu sesuatu yang India boleh menawarkan].

Jadi, anda sedang melihat jenis negara-negara utama di sini di Timur, terutamanya China yang merupakan ekonomi yang ke-2 terbesar, tetapi juga India. India keperluan pertum-buhan yang sangat teruk. Satu masa India dan China berjalan leher ke leher dari segi ekonomi dan perluasan tetapi itu telah perlahan dalam kes di India, tidak dalam kes itu di China.

Dalam kes di India pertumbuhan ekonomi telah menjadi perlahan kepada 4, 6 - 4, 7 % peratus, yang tidak mencukupi untuk mengekalkan ekonomi India. Oleh itu India mengatakan "Saya memerlukan seseorang untuk membantu saya merangsang pertum-buhan ekonomi ini," dan ianya sedang ke Rusia dalam kes ini dan Rusia boleh membantu.

RT: Apakah jenis tindak balas yang anda harapkan dari Amerika Syarikat dan Eropah untuk rundingan ?

David Kuo: Itu adalah sesuatu yang amat menarik. Barat perlahan-lahan akan mula menyedari bahawa sekatan tidak berhasil, jadi oleh itu mereka perlu memikirkan semula strategi mereka dan lihat jika ada cara yang lebih baik di mana mereka boleh mendapat apa yang mereka mahu dari segi penyelesaian di Ukraine.

Kerana akhirnya ini benar-benar bergantung kepada Ukraine, dan apa yang mereka perkatakan ialah sama ada mereka boleh mencari jalan di mana mereka boleh mencari penyelesaian yang lebih baik untuk negara itu. Oleh kerana sekatan tidak akan bekerja.

RT: Mengapa, pada pendapat anda, adakah China memilih Rusia sebagai rakan kongsi bagi apa-apa perjanjian yang besar ? Telah terdapat pesaing lain sebelum ini.

David Kuo: Masalahnya ialah bahawa China memerlukan tenaga bersih hari ini. Apabila anda melihat pada jarak Rusia dan China - mereka agak rapat dari segi geografi - dan juga untuk membina saluran paip dari Rusia ke China ia adalah lebih mudah untuk ber-buat demikian, daripada membina kemudahan simpanan yang besar.

Kita tahu bahawa dalam kes Australia akan ada bekalan gas baru akan bermula. Saya fikir dalam beberapa kes kita bercakap mengenai yang mendesak keadaan. Rusia mahu menan-datangani perjanjian dengan cepat, dan ia adalah bersedia untuk bergerak pada harga.

Setakat China adalah berkenaan jika ia boleh mendapatkan harga turun ke tahap yang dianggapnya mampan dalam jangka panjang, maka kita akan mempunyai perjanjian ini dimeterai antara kedua-dua negara. Masa yang menarik untuk pelabur.

‘WEST forgot to lock back door, pushed Russia 

into gas deal with CHINA’ . . .

While the West imposes sanctions on Russia, Russia is making a deal with China as each has something to offer the other, David Kuo, CEO of the Motley Fool Singapore financial website, told RT.

RT: We have not seen the papers signed just yet. We could be witnessing a possible delay. What issues you think could be behind this?

David Kuo: Ultimately, price hinges on the asking price between the two sides. This deal has been 10 years in the making and ultimately what it really comes down to at the very end is how much China is willing to pay for the gas. 

We are looking at somewhere between $350 or maybe slightly less for 1,000 cubic meters of gas. We are looking at the deal that is worth around $400 billion over a 30-year period of time. We are looking at something that could generate for Russia approximately $13 billion a year.

RT: This has been called an historic agreement. Why are we seeing China and Russia become so much closer on many levels?

David Kuo: I think it really boils down to these sanctions that the West has imposed on Russia. There is a saying, "If you lock the front door make sure that the back door is locked as well." In this case the West has forgotten to lock the back door. So whilst they actually impose sanctions on Russia, Russia is saying to the rest of the world, “You locked the front door, but I have a back door as well.” And the back door in this case in China.

The West has actually pushed Russia into doing a deal with China. So on the one hand, this is an economic deal. But on the other hand, it is also a political deal in which Russia is saying to the rest of the world, “If you don’t want to buy my stuff, there is somebody else out there who is willing to buy my stuff as well.” 

And we have to look at this deal in the context of these two countries. Russia has something that China wants - gas. China has something that Russia wants – clean energy. When you put these two things together, we are talking about the win-win situation between the two countries.

RT: India, Japan, North Korea are reportedly queuing up to be the next ones to sign economic deals with Russia. Talk to us about the shift in the global economic balance?

David Kuo: It is quite noticeable. What we are seeing is major powers here in the East saying they want to do deals with the rest of the world. If you look at India, India also wants what Russia has to offer [and Russia wants something that India can offer]. 

So you are looking at the sort of the major countries here in the East, particularly China which is the second-largest economy, but also India. India needs growth very badly. One time India and China were running neck and neck in terms of economic and expansion but that has slowed in the case of India, not in the case of China. 

In the case of India the economic growth has slowed to 4.6-4.7 percent, that isn’t sufficient to sustain the Indian economy. Therefore India is saying “I need someone to help me spur this economic growth,” and it is looking to Russia in this case and Russia can help.

RT: What sort of reaction do you expect from the US and Europe to the talks?

David Kuo: That is a very interesting point. The West will slowly begin to realize that sanctions do not work, so therefore they will have to rethink their strategy and see if there is a better way in which they can get what they want in terms of a solution on Ukraine. 

Because ultimately this really hinges on Ukraine, and what they are saying is whether they can find a way in which they can find a better solution for that country. Because sanctions are not going to work.

RT: Why, in your opinion, did China choose Russia as a partner for such a huge agreement? There had been other contenders before.

David Kuo: The thing is that China needs clean energy today. When you have a look at proximity of Russia and China - they are quite close geographically - and also in order to build a pipeline from Russia to China it is much easier to do so, than to build big storage facilities. 

We know that in the case of Australia there will be new gas supplies coming on stream. I think in some cases we are talking about the urgency of the situation. Russia wants to sign a deal very quickly, and it is willing to move on price. 

As far as China is concerned if it can get the price down to a level that it considers to be sustainable over long-term, then we will have this deal inked between the two countries. Exciting time for investors.

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Rusia mengadakan latihan KeTENTERAan utk menangkis SERANGAN Nuklear . . .

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tanahMALAyu - Presiden Vladimir Putin telah diselia latihan tentera pada menangani serangan nuklear. Latih tubi yang dirancang datang menjelang 9 Mei sambutan khusus untuk kemenangan dalam Perang DUNIA II.

"Kami menjalankan ujian kesediaan angkatan tentera Rusia. Ia diumumkan November lepas. Latihan akan melibatkan semua cabang angkatan tentera di seluruh negara," Putin kepada pemberita di Kementerian Pertahanan.

Cabaran moden dan ancaman kepada permintaan keselamatan negara di negara ini bahawa tentera dan armada dikekalkan dalam kesediaan untuk tindakan balas yang cepat dan berkesan dalam apa-apa syarat, Menteri Pertahanan Rusia dan am tentera Sergey Shoigu memberitahu Putin dalam satu laporan.

Semasa latihan, ia menunjukkan bagaimana kor peluru berpandu, meriam, penerbangan dan pertahanan anti-pesawat boleh digunakan - misalnya, untuk memusnahkan tentera di darat atau untuk melawan peluru berpandu secara besar-besaran, penerbangan atau serangan nuklear oleh musuh.

Selain itu, ia telah ditunjukkan bagaimana untuk mengenakan serangan pelancaran –melalui - serangan dengan peluru berpandu nuklear.

Latihan latihan, yang disebabkan oleh termasuk tentera darat dan meriam serta tentera udara, telah diadakan sepanjang sidang kemuncak ketua kerajaan dari blok keselamatan terdiri daripada negara bekas Soviet.

Yang diketuai oleh Presiden Rusia Vladimir Putin, tentera pertahanan aeroangkasa Rusia telah berjaya mengatasi serangan peluru berpandu nuklear besar-besaran, wakil rasmi Kementerian Pertahanan Rusia kepada agensi berita RIA Novosti.

"Di kawasan latihan Priozersk (Kazakhstan), pemintasan yang berjaya sasaran balistik oleh jarak dekat countermissile telah dilakukan. Sebuah roket serangan nuklear besar-besaran telah ditolak oleh satu unit pertahanan peluru berpandu balistik tentera pertahanan udara dan peluru berpandu," agency berkata.

Wakil tersebut juga diperincikan bahawa krew tempur Tentera Pertahanan Aeroangkasa telah menemui dan disertai sasaran balistik dengan pelancaran pemintasan peluru berpandu jarak dekat kompleks Amur itu.

"Sistem anti-peluru berpandu berjaya melanda sasaran yang ditiru roket balistik," tambah agency.

Syarikat penerbangan senjata strategik Tu-95MC dijalankan pelancaran enam peluru berpandu mensasarkan pada sasaran di atas darat di kawasan latihan penerbangan daerah tentera Barat, sebagai sebahagian daripada latihan.

Sasaran simulasi adalah kemudahan utama infrastruktur tentera musuh yang dibayangkan.

Semua sasaran yang telah melanda seperti yang dirancang, disahkan Kementerian Pertahanan Rusia.

Presiden-Presiden Belarus, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan dan Tajikistan memerhatikan latihan dari Pertahanan Negara Command Center Rusia.

Pesawat pengebom strategik dan pembawa peluru berpandu laut di Pasifik dan Utara armada terlibat dalam latihan. Selain itu, sistem peluru berpandu mudah alih berasaskan tstrategik darat, serta kor peluru berpandu satu daerah tentera Selatan dan Tengah, mengambil bahagian dalam ujian.

Russia holds military drills to repel Nuclear Strike

President Vladimir Putin has overseen military drills on countering nuclear strike. The planned drills come ahead of the May 9 celebrations dedicated to victory in World War II.

"We are carrying out tests of the readiness of the Russian armed forces. It was announced last November. The exercises will involve all branches of the armed forces across the country," Putin told reporters at the Defense Ministry.

Modern challenges and threats to the country’s national security demand that the army and the fleet are maintained in readiness for quick and effective retaliation in any conditions, the Russian Defense Minister and army general Sergey Shoigu told Putin in a report.

During the drills, it was demonstrated how the missile corps, artillery, aviation and anti-aircraft defenses can be used – for instance, to destroy troops on the ground or to counter massive missile, aviation or nuclear strikes by an enemy.

Plus, it was shown how to inflict a launch-through-attack strike with nuclear missiles.

The training exercises, which are due to include ground troops and artillery as well as the air force, were held during a summit of heads of state of a security bloc made up of former Soviet states.

Led by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian aerospace defense troops have successfully overridden a massive nuclear missile strike, an official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry told RIA Novosti news agency.

"At the Priozersk training area (Kazakhstan), a successful interception of a ballistic target by a short-range countermissile was carried out. A massive rocket nuclear strike was repelled by a ballistic missile defense unit of air and missile defense troops," the representative said.

The representative also detailed that the combat crews of Armies of Aerospace Defense have discovered and accompanied the ballistic targets with the launch of a short-range interception missile of the Amur complex.

“The anti-missile system successfully struck the target that imitated a ballistic rocket,” the representative added.

The strategic weapon carrier Tu-95MC conducted launches of six cruise missiles aiming at targets on the ground in the aviation training area of the Western military district, as part of the drills.

The simulated targets were key facilities of military infrastructure of a hypothetical enemy.

All the targets were hit as planned, Russia’s Defense Ministry confirmed.

The presidents of Belarus, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan observed the drills from the Russian National Defense Command Center.

Strategic bomber aircraft and underwater missile carriers of the Pacific and Northern fleets were involved in the drills. Also, strategic land-based mobile missile systems, as well as the missile corps of the Southern and Central military districts, participated in the tests.

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‘Pertahanan MATA’ penempatan tentera NATO kekal berhampiran sempadan RUSIA . . .

Troops from Canada's 3rd Division, composed with a platoon of 3rd Battalion and Princess Patricia's Light Infantry, participate at a NATO-led exercise "Orzel Alert" held together with the U.S. Army's 173rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team and Poland's 6th Airborne Brigade in Bledowska Desert in Chechlo, near Olkusz, south Poland May 5, 2014. (Reuters/Kacper Pempel)

tanahMALAyu - NATO mungkin stesen tentera kekal tambahan di Eropah Timur, koman-der tertinggi tentera persekutuan itu sambil menambah bahawa ia akan menjadi langkah pertahanan. Beliau menyebut "satu paradigma baru" ditunjukkan oleh Rusia di Crimea dan Ukraine.

Pada masa ini perikatan telah menganjurkan putaran pesawat dan kapal-kapal perang di Eropah Timur dan rombongan kecil tentera darat untuk latihan tentera ke Amerika Baltik, Poland dan Romania. Tetapi penggunaan tetap harus dipertimbangkan, Tentera Udara Amerika Syarikat Ketua Philip Breedlove Selasa.

"Kita perlu melihat responsif kita, kesediaan kita dan kemudian kedudukan kami tenaga untuk dapat menangani paradigma baru ini bahawa kami telah dilihat menunjukkan di Crimea dan kini di sempadan timur Ukraine, " katanya.

NATO may station permanently additional troops in Eastern Europe, the alliance’s top military commander said, adding that it would be a defensive measure. He cited “a new paradigm” demonstrated by Russia in Crimea and Ukraine.

Currently the alliance has organized a rotation of aircraft and warships in Eastern Europe and sent small contingents of ground troops for military drills to the Baltic States, Poland and Romania. But permanent deployment should be considered, US Air Force General Philip Breedlove said Tuesday.

"We need to look at our responsiveness, our readiness and then our positioning of forces to be able to address this new paradigm that we have seen demonstrated in Crimea and now on the eastern border of Ukraine," he said.

Ahli NATO adalah untuk berkumpul untuk sidang kemuncak di Wales pada awal bulan September, tetapi dalam jangka sehingga ia komander NATO, menteri-menteri pertahanan dan menteri-menteri luar akan melihat "soalan sukar" kira-kira sama ada pakatan itu mempunyai jejak yang betul di Eropah, Breedlove memberitahu sidang akhbar di Ottawa.

"Kami mengambil langkah-langkah yang perlu dengan mudah dilihat sebagai pertahanan dalam alam semula jadi. Ini adalah mengenai memastikan sekutu kami, tidak memprovokasi Rusia, dan kami berkomunikasi yang di setiap peringkat, "kata Breedlove, yang sebelum pada hari Isnin berkata beliau tidak berfikir Rusia akan menyerang Ukraine.

NATO members are to gather for a summit in Wales in early September, but in the run-up to it NATO commanders, defense ministers and foreign ministers would look at "tougher questions" about whether the alliance had the right footprint in Europe, Breedlove told a news conference in Ottawa.

"We are taking measures that should be very easily discerned as being defensive in nature. This is about assuring our allies, not provoking Russia, and we are communicating that at every level," said Breedlove, who earlier on Monday said he didn’t think Russia would invade Ukraine.

Paradigma Breedlove merujuk kepada nampaknya penggunaan yang dikatakan tentera operasi khas Rusia di rantau Donetsk Ukraine. Tuduhan kerap disuarakan oleh Kiev dan beberapa negara-negara barat, termasuk Amerika Syarikat, tetapi setakat ini semua bukti yang dikemukakan terbukti tidak meyakinkan atau palsu.

Wartawan yang meliputi kegawatan yang berterusan di Ukraine melaporkan bahawa dalam militia bersenjata menentang Kiev di timur Ukraine mempunyai hubungan etnik, budaya dan agama yang kukuh dengan Rusia, mereka mendapati tiada bukti 'no evidence' bahawa mereka ialah tentera Rusia.

Rusia menyuarakan bantahan terhadap NATO membina tingkatan tentera di Eropah Timur di tengah-tengah konflik Ukraine. Pegawai-pegawai berkata bahawa penggunaan tetap hanya akan membuktikan penilaian Moscow tindakan NATO sebagai hostile.

"Saya percaya keputusan ini akan diambil dan ia akan menimbulkan ancaman sebenar kepada keselamatan kami. Ia akan menjadi, skandal antarabangsa yang serius yang besar, tetapi saya tahu mereka akan melakukannya, "kata Frants Klintsevich, timbalan pengerusi Jawatankuasa Pertahanan Rusia Negeri Duma ini. "Amerika mengambil semua pertaruhan luar, dan Ukraine adalah hanya alasan. Mereka tidak mengambil berat tentang rakyat, tentang apa yang berlaku di Ukraine."

"Kenyataan yang bermakna topeng kini benar-benar di luar. Ia adalah jelas walaupun sebelum bahawa penggunaan sistem peluru berpandu anti-balistik di Eropah Timur menunjukkan penerusan perkembangan perikatan ke arah timur," bersetuju Russia Senator Dmitry Sablin, yang merupakan seorang ahli Jawatankuasa Pertahanan dan Keselamatan Majlis Persekutuan.

Setiausaha Amerika Syarikat awal Negeri John Kerry berkata bahawa krisis Ukraine menimbulkan ancaman kepada kepimpinan global 'global leadership' Barat dan Amerika Syarikat dan Eropah mesti bergabung tenaga untuk menentang mereka dengan sekatan dan penurunan taraf hubungan perdagangan EU dengan Rusia.

The paradigm Breedlove was referring to is apparently the alleged use of Russian special operation troops in Ukraine's Donetsk region. The accusations are regularly voiced by Kiev and some western countries, including the US, but so far all evidence presented proved to be unconvincing or false.

Journalists covering the ongoing turmoil in Ukraine report that while armed militias defying Kiev in eastern Ukraine have strong ethnic, cultural and religious ties with Russia, they found no evidence of them being Russian troops.

Russia voiced objections to NATO's build-up of troops in Eastern Europe amid the Ukrainian conflict. Officials say that a permanent deployment would only prove Moscow's assessment of NATO's action as hostile.

“I believe this decision would be taken and it would pose a real threat to our security. It would be a big, serious international scandal, but I know they would do it,” said Frants Klintsevich, deputy chair of the Russian State Duma’s Defense Committee. “Americans are taking all bets off, and Ukraine is just a pretext. They don't care about people, about what happens in Ukraine.”

“Those statements mean that masks are now completely off. It was clear even before that the deployment of the anti-ballistic missile system in Eastern Europe indicated the continuation of the alliance expansion eastwards,” agreed Russian Senator Dmitry Sablin, who is a member of the Federation Council’s Defense and Security Committee.

Earlier US Secretary of State John Kerry said that the Ukrainian crisis poses a threat to West's global leadership and that the US and Europe must join forces to oppose them with sanctions and a downgrading of EU's trade relations with Russia.

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'Kami tidak ada air, kehabisan makanan:' puteri Arab TEBUSAN dengan Raja di ISTANA mereka sendiri . . .

tanahMALAyu - Puteri Arab yang telah dikunci oleh bapa mereka - raja Arab Saudi - selama kira-kira 13 tahun untuk bercakap menentang penindasan di negara wanita ini, memberitahu RT mereka berada di mod kelangsungan hidup dalam istana mereka sendiri.

"Kami kehabisan makanan dan air. Kita berada di mod terus hidup. Kami makan beberapa makanan yang telah tamat tempohnya. Semua yang kita boleh mencari," Sahar dan Jawaher Al Saud, anak-anak perempuan Arab Saudi Raja Abdullah, memberitahu RT.

Adik-beradik yang disimpan, sebagaimana yang mereka katakan, supaya mereka dalam 2 buah rumah-rumah besar di dalam sebatian diraja di bandar Jeddah bersama-sama dengan 2 saudara perempuan mereka yang lain - Maha dan Hala. Mereka yang berumur antara 38 dan 42 antara, dengan sekurang-kurangnya satu dikatakan mengalami masalah psikologi.

"Kita ingin tahu apa yang kita sedang didakwa. Kami ingin tahu bahawa . . . Ini dipanggil kurungan dan kurungan adalah haram mana-mana sahaja di DUNIA. Ini salah, "tambah Sahar dan Jawaher.

Adik-beradik berkata mereka sedang menunggu untuk badan-badan antarabangsa untuk bertindak balas terhadap keadaan mereka.

"Kami sedang menunggu untuk mendengar daripada beberapa yang dipanggil ma-syarakat antarabangsa, semua orang yang mempertahankan hak asasi manusia dan jelas memang-gil pertubuhan hak asasi manusia untuk keluar dan sebenarnya memegang raja dan anak-anaknya ke akaun," Sahar dan Jawaher memberitahu RT.

Sebelum itu, dalam wawancara yang jarang berlaku kepada media, adik-beradik berkata, mereka tidak mempunyai apa-apa pasport atau ID dan raja juga telah mengharamkan mana-mana lelaki untuk mendapatkan bantuan anak-anak perempuannya dalam perkahwinan.

Dalam temu bual itu kepada New York Post pada bulan April, adik-beradik berkata mereka mengalami dehidrasi dan bilik mereka dipenuhi dengan pepijat. Air dan elektrik telah ditutup secara rawak, kadang-kadang selama beberapa hari atau beberapa minggu, kata mereka.

Menurut ibu mereka, Alanoud Al-Fayez , yang berkahwin dengan raja Abdullah kembali di tahun 1970-an apabila dia hanya 15, "kes anak-anak perempuan beliau 'adalah kecil daripada bilangan itu."

"Mereka bercakap tentang memandu. Ia agak melucukan . . . wanita di Arab Saudi memerlukan lebih daripada memandu, mereka perlu hak-hak mereka yang pertama, "Al- Fayez, keturunan keluarga Jordan baik-untuk-melakukan, memberitahu RT.

"Anak-anak saya telah dizalimi psikologi, ada yang didera secara fizikal, kadang-kadang oleh saudara-saudara mereka, bapa, ya nasib anak-anak saya 'menonjolkan ini," tambah beliau.

Abdullah yang mempunyai lebih 30 isteri, dan telah menjadi bapa kepada lebih 40 kanak-kanak, bercerai AlFayez pada 1980-an. Pada tahun 2001 dia pergi ke London.

Pada tahun 2002, kurang daripada satu tahun selepas Al-Fayez melarikan diri, Abdullah mula menyeksa anak-anak perempuannya.  Gadis-gadis memberitahu ibu mereka bahawa dia sekat makanan dan air mereka untuk memastikan mereka jinak apabila adik-beradik secara terbuka bercakap dalam pembangkang untuk wanita yang haram ditahan dan diletakkan di wad mental.

Pada bulan Mac, Al- Fayez bertanya Barack Obama, yang melawat Riyadh, ibu negara Arab, untuk membantu melepaskan anak perempuannya.

"Mereka perlu diselamatkan dan dibebaskan dengan segera. Encik Obama perlu mengambil peluang ini untuk menangani pelanggaran kubur yang dilakukan terhadap anak-anak perempuan saya, "katanya, dilaporkan AFP.

Pihak berkuasa Arab Saudi, bagaimanapun, menolak dakwaan itu dengan berkata puteri dibenarkan bebas bergerak Jeddah, selagi mereka ditemani oleh pengawal peribadi.

Sementara itu, pada bulan April Sahar menggesa perlu ada revolusi popular terhadap bapanya dalam mesej video beliau.

"Salam sejahtera kepada orang yang mati syahid dan orang-orang bebas dalam penjara! Ia merupakan satu penghormatan bagi saya untuk mempelajari erti kebebasan, hak dan maruah daripada anda orang revolusi . . . Tuhan akan berada di atas kami, "kata beliau.

Wanita di SA tidak boleh pergi ke sekolah, perjalanan, buka mana-mana perniagaan atau mendapatkan rawatan perubatan tanpa kebenaran lelaki. Ia adalah satu-satunya negara di dunia yang melarang wanita daripada memandu.

Percubaan untuk menentang peraturan ini adalah sedikit dan jarang berjaya. Protes terbaru terhadap pengharaman wanita memandu pada bulan Oktober 2013 menyaksikan 60 aktivis mengambil untuk roda Sekurang-kurangnya 16 wanita telah dihalang oleh polis semasa protes ini; mereka telah dikenakan denda dan dipaksa tunduk kepada undang-undang negeri. Banyak ulama Arab mengutuk perbuatan itu.

'Tiada pembaharuan sebenar di Arab Saudi'

Menurut Naseer Alomari, penulis dan pengulas politik, "yang lambat laun menjadi keras kritikan" ke arah SA telah meningkat dilihat daripada media sosial.

"Sistem undang-undang di Arab Saudi adalah tidak diturunkan. Tidak ada pembaharuan sebenar berlaku di Arab Saudi dan Saudi memahami ini lebih daripada pada bila-bila dalam sejarah mereka," Alomari memberitahu RT.

Alomari menambah bahawa pentadbiran Obama "berpaling mata" kepada pencabulan hak asasi manusia yang telah pergi sekian lama di negara ini.

"Anda tidak boleh mempunyai seorang pegawai Amerika pada rekod sebagai berkata bahawa" kita tidak menerima pencabulan hak asasi manusia. '. . . Orang-orang Arab di Timur Tengah boleh melihat kepura-puraan dan bercakap 2 kali apabila ia datang kepada pelanggaran manusia di Arab Saudi dan seluruh DUNIA Arab, " katanya.

Pada bulan Mac, semasa lawatan Obama ke negara itu, tertakluk pada undang-undang anti-pengganas kontroversi baru tidak dibangkitkan, menurut seorang pegawai Amerika Syarikat walaupun memuncak kebimbangan pencabulan hak asasi manusia di negara ini.

Sebelum itu, kumpulan hak asasi manusia menggesa Obama lagi undang-undang anti-keganasan baru kontroversi dalam kerajaan Saudi bahawa apa-apa perbuatan yang menjejaskan keselamatan negara boleh dianggap sebagai tindakan keganasan .

Kumpulan hak asasi manusia seperti Amnesty International dan Human Rights Watch (HRW) telah sangat vokal dalam tuntutan mereka bahawa Arab Saudi melembutkan Kawalan ketat ke atas aktivis hak asasi manusia di negara ini.

'We have no water, running out of food:' Saudi princesses kept hostages by king in their own palace

The Saudi princesses who have been locked up by their father - the king of Saudi Arabia - for about 13 years for speaking out against the country's oppression of women, told RT they are on survival mode in their own palace.

“We are running out of food and out of water. We are on survival mode. We are eating some expired food. All that we can find,” Sahar and Jawaher Al Saud, the daughters of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, told RT.

The sisters are being kept, as they say, against their will in two mansions inside a royal compound in the city of Jeddah along with their two other sisters - Maha and Hala. They are between the ages of 38 and 42, with at least one said to be suffering from psychological problems.

“We’d like to know what we are being charged with. We’d like to know that. ... This is called captivity and captivity is illegal anywhere in the world. This is abuse,” Sahar and Jawaher added.

The sisters say they are waiting for international bodies to react to their situation.

“We are waiting to hear from some so-called international community, everyone who is defending human rights and obviously call human rights organizations to come out and actually hold the king and his sons to account,” Sahar and Jawaher told RT.

Earlier, in rare interviews to media outlets, the sisters said they don’t have any passports or ID and the king has also forbidden any man to seek his daughters’ hands in marriage.

In the interview to the New York Post in April, the sisters said they were suffering from dehydration and their rooms were full with bugs. Water and electricity were shut off at random, sometimes for days or even weeks, they added.

According to their mother, Alanoud Al-Fayez, who married king Abdullah back in 1970s when she was only 15, “her daughters’ case is a tip of the iceberg.”

“They speak about driving. It’s funny… women in Saudi Arabia need more than driving, they need their rights first,” Al-Fayez, a descendant of a well-to-do Jordanian family, told RT.

“My daughters were mistreated psychologically, some are physically abused, sometimes by their brothers, father, yes my daughters’ plight is highlighting this,” she added.

Abdullah who has had over 30 wives, and has fathered more than 40 children, divorced AlFayez in the 1980s. In 2001 she left for London.

In 2002, less than one year after Al-Fayez escaped, Abdullah began tormenting his daughters. The girls told their mother that he drugged their food and water to keep them docile when the sisters openly spoke in opposition to women being illegally detained and placed in mental wards.

In March, Al-Fayez asked Barack Obama, who visited Riyadh, the Saudi capital, to help release her daughters.

“They need to be saved and released immediately. Mr Obama should take this opportunity to address these grave violations committed against my daughters,” she said, reported AFP.

The Saudi Arabia authorities, however, rejected the allegations, saying the princesses are allowed to freely move about Jeddah, as long as they are accompanied by bodyguards.

Meanwhile, in April Sahar urged there should be a popular revolution against her father in her video message.

“Greetings to martyrs and to free men in jail! It is an honor for me to learn the meaning of freedom, rights and dignity from you revolutionary people … God’s hand will be above us,” she said.

Women in SA can’t go to school, travel, open any business or get medical treatment without male permission. It is the only country in the world that prohibits women from driving.

Attempts to resist the rules are few and rarely successful. The latest protest against the ban on woman driving in October 2013 saw some 60 activists taking to the wheel At least 16 women were stopped by police during this protest; they were fined and forced to obey state laws. Many Saudi clerics condemned the act.

'No real reform in Saudi Arabia'

According to Naseer Alomari, writer and political commentator, “the crescendo of the criticism” towards SA has increased judging from social media.

“The legal system in Saudi Arabia is not even written down. There is no real reform going on in Saudi Arabia and the Saudis understand this more than at any time in their history,” Alomari told RT.

Alomari added that the Obama administration “turned a blind eye” to these human rights violations that have gone on for so long in the country.

“You can never have an American official on record as saying that ‘we do not accept human rights violations.’ … Arabs in the Middle East can see the hypocrisy and the double talk when it comes to human violations in Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Arab world,” he added.

In March, during Obama’s visit to the kingdom, the subject on the new controversial anti-terrorist law wasn’t raised, according to a US official despite mounting concern over human rights abuses in the country. Earlier, human rights groups urged Obama to mention a controversial new anti-terror law in the Saudi kingdom that any act that undermines the security of the state may be treated as an act of terrorism.

Rights groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) have been extremely vocal in their demands that Saudi Arabia soften its clampdown on human rights activists in the country.

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