🔥World News 05.04.2018🔥

•  Italian Navy Helicopter Crashes Into Mediterranean Sea.
•  Kremlin to Look For Alternative to Telegram If App Blocked in Russia.
• Former South Korean President sentenced to 24 years in prison
• The National Guard will be on the border with Mexico until a wall is built
• 12 million dollars in 13 months. So much was to spend on consultants former US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson

1.Italian Navy Helicopter Crashes Into Mediterranean Sea.

The helicopter of the Italian naval forces, participating in Operation Mare Sicuro ("Calm Sea"), fell into the Mediterranean Sea last night during the exercises, as a result of which one of the five members of the crew died, the press service of the Navy said on Friday.

According to media reports, it was the SH 212 helicopter of the military ship Borsini. The reasons of the helicopter crash are currently being clarified.

 "All five crew members of the helicopter were rescued from the sea, the condition of four servicemen is good, while one of the crew members Andrea Fazio was taken aboard Borsini unconscious and died during resuscitation," the report said. 

 The Operation Mare Sicuro has been carried out by the Italian authorities in the Mediterranean from March 2015 to control migration flows. Since January 1, 2018, the tasks of this operation have been expanded to counter illegal migration. Up to six ships of the Italian Navy have been involved in the operation. 

2. Kremlin to Look For Alternative to Telegram If App Blocked in Russia.

 

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia’s media watchdog Roskomnadzor said Friday that it filed a lawsuit with a Moscow court to restrict access to the information resources of Telegram messenging app in Russia.

The Kremlin considers the Telegram messenger convenient and uses it, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday.“You know that there are a lot of messengers. Telegram is very convenient, indeed, we use it, including for communication with journalists. It will be very unfortunate if the consensus is not reached, but for now, as far as we understand, it has not been achieved. The law is the law, and if it is not complied with [by Telegram] and relevant measures are taken, we will look for an alternative that best suits our needs,”

 Peskov told reporters, commenting on the issue.“Under the Article 15.4 of the Federal Law ‘On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection’, on Friday, April 6, Roskomnadzor filed a lawsuit with the Tagansky District Court of Moscow requesting to restrict access to the information resources of the Telegram Messenger Limited Liability Partnership … on the territory of Russia,” the watchdog’s statement read.Earlier, Telegram lawyers challenged FSB's decree number 432 that provides for "organizers of the dissemination of information" to grant data required for decoding to security agencies.In December 2017, Telegram was fined for $13,600 for its refusal to provide Russian security services with information to decode the messages of those accused in the case of a terrorist attack in Russian city of St. Petersburg.

3.Former South Korean President sentenced to 24 years in prison.

The Seoul court convicted on Friday the former South Korean President Park Geun Hie for 24 years in prison for abuse of power, corruption and extortion. The 66-year-old Park last year was finally removed from office as a result of a corruption scandal.

The court also imposed a fine of 18 billion won (13 million euros) on the former head of state. The sentence was issued more than a year after Park's arrest in March 2017.

"She forced the company to pay the foundation's money"

The prosecutor's office demanded 30 years in prison for her and 118.5 billion won (89 million euros).

"The accused is guilty of abuse of power," said judge Kim Se Jun, adding that former head of state forced the largest South Korean corporations to donate billions of won to two foundations controlled by her friend Chaa Sun Sil, with whom she "knew her for 40 years".

- Accused illegally, she used her presidential power at the request of Ms. Choi to force companies to pay money to foundations - said the judge. He added that the Park allowed Czoi to "control the foundations, although she did not have the right to do so." - The sums which the accused has received or demanded in cooperation with Ms. Choi, amount to more than 23 billion won, "said Kim.

"I was a victim of political revenge"

According to the court, both women also accepted bribes from certain companies, including more than 7 billion won from Samsung in exchange for government support for a smooth change in company management. In addition, Park and Choi were to collude with high-level government officials to blacklist artists criticizing the then president and refusing to support them. The park was also convicted for transferring the Four Documents with confidential information through one of its advisers.

Both the Park and the prosecutor's office have a week to appeal against the court's Friday sentence.

The park, which is being held in custody near Seoul, refused to take part in the trial claiming she was ill. She maintains that she fell victim to "political revenge" and she did not appear in court in October 2017.

The third South Korean leader condemned for corruption

Park took power in 2013, becoming the first woman in the highest position in South Korea.

On December 9, 2016, as a result of the scandal, the parliament supported its withdrawal from power. On March 10, 2017, the Constitutional Court of South Korea decided to uphold the decision on the institution. Thus, the Park became the first elected president in the election, who was then removed from power, and is now the third leader of South Korea convicted of corruption.

The corruption scandal has led to the arrest, prosecution and conviction of several high-level representatives of the government and business leaders. Choi is serving 20 years in prison, while the deputy head of the Samsung Li Dze Jong was sentenced to five years in first instance, but then he heard a sentence of two and a half years suspended, and the head of Lotte Shin Dong Bin was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison.

4.The National Guard will be on the border with Mexico until a wall is built.

President Donald Trump told reporters on Thursday that soldiers of the National Guard, which, according to the decision they made on Wednesday, had been delegated to the border with Mexico to strengthen the Border Guard, will remain there until a wall is created.

The US president also declared that he would like the dislocation of the National Guard on the border with Mexico to cover 2,000. up to 4,000 soldiers. He added that he asked for a precise calculation of the costs of their stationing.

On Wednesday, the White House informed about consultations with state governors bordering Mexico on the possible strengthening of their border security. Then it was reported that the decision of President Trump to strengthen the National Guard troops of the southern border security was supported by the Republican governors of the three border states: Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.

"Unlawfulness on the southern border"

The President justified his decision to strengthen the Border Guard with the personnel resources of the National Guard to stop illegal immigration.

The consent of the governors was necessary. The US president can not independently mobilize the National Guard troops during the peace period, because they are subject to the governors of the states.

- The lawlessness on our southern border is a fundamental denial of security, peace and sovereignty of the American society - the president wrote in a memo on planned dislocation. - We had no other choice.

5.12 million dollars in 13 months. So much was to spend on consultants former US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

Rex Tillerson spent 12 million dollars on private consultants during the short period of office of the secretary of state of the United States. Some were paying the fees of $ 300 an hour, Politico said.

Tillerson, who had many years of experience as the head of ExxonMobil, one of the largest in the world, hired private advisers to restructure the US diplomatic ministry.

This restructuring was caused by President Donald Trump's plan to cut the US State Department budget by 30 percent from about $ 60 billion in the last years of President Barack Obama's White House office to about $ 40 billion.

These actions were dictated by the fact that Tillerson wanted to adjust the bureaucracy of the ministry to private sector standards - Politico quoted on Thursday, citing State Department documents that were in possession of the portal.

As part of the consultation, most of the money was received by the private consulting company Deloitte. The value of the former Deloitte contract with the State Department during the Tillerson government period was increased from USD 145 million to a potential USD 265 million.

Tillerson, as part of the "slimming down" of American diplomacy, managed to liquidate just a dozen positions of "special envoys", but these savings - according to Politico journalists - had nothing to do with the activities of consultants.

In addition, instead of using expensive and low-priced consultants Deloitte, the former secretary of state could use for free from existing, dictated by "common sense" analyzes and plans to reform the State Department - say Politico journalists citing the statements of employees of the department.

He managed American diplomacy almost 13 months

The costs of the "lost State Department reform," Senator Robert Menendez said, the highest-ranking Democrat in the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, will surely be the topic of this committee meeting to approve US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who until now has been the US Secretary of State. he was the director of the CIA.

Tillerson, who never had good relations with President Trump, was dismissed from his post as secretary of state on March 13 after less than 13 months of managing American diplomacy. Of his dismissal, Tillerson was not informed directly by Trump, but by the head of the White House office, John Kelly.

source: polsatnews.pl,sputniknews.com