Putin says Russia won't expel US diplomats

Putin says Russia won't expel US diplomats

Moscow will not engage in a tit-for-tat response to the US decision to kick out 35 Russian diplomats over allegations of interference in the US presidential election, Vladimir Putin has said, in a surprisingly calm reaction that appears to be designed as an overture to the incoming US president, Donald Trump.

The Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said earlier on Friday he was recommending that Putin expel 35 American diplomats, but after a day in which numerous Russian political figures unleashed furious rhetoric in the direction of the US, Putin intervened to announce that the Russian response would be to do nothing, at least for now.

Putin said Russia’s ultimate response would depend on US attitudes to Russia under Trump, who has repeatedly spoken positively of the country and Putin. Moscow is accused of intervening in the election process in support of Trump.

“While we reserve the right to respond, we will not drop to this level of irresponsible diplomacy, and we will make further steps to help resurrect Russian-American relations based on the policies that the administration of Trump will pursue,” the Russian president said in a statement on the Kremlin’s website.

The statement also wished Obama, Trump and the American people a happy new year and invited “all the children of American diplomats accredited in Russia to the new year and Christmas tree in the Kremlin”.

The US move, announced on Thursday, involved the sanctioning of Russia’s GRU and FSB intelligence services, individuals and companies linked to them, and the expulsion of diplomats the US believes are engaging in espionage. They were given 72 hours to leave the country.
Russia plans to send a special government plane to the US to pick up the diplomats, according to state-controlled television. Earlier, a diplomatic source told Interfax many of those affected were struggling to find tickets back to Russia as planes were full because of the holiday season.
Diplomatic expulsions are normally met with reciprocal action. In 2001, the George W Bush administration expelled 51 Russian diplomats it said were spies. Russia responded by telling 50 US diplomats to leave Russia.
“Reciprocity is the law in diplomacy and international relations,” Lavrov said before Putin’s intervention, recommending the expulsion of 31 diplomats from the US embassy in Moscow and four from the consulate in St Petersburg.
Lavrov also suggested that Russia would cut off the use of a warehouse building in Moscow and an embassy dacha on the outskirts of the Russian capital, in response to US moves to deny Russia access to two recreational compounds in the US. Putin said this would not happen, at least over the new year period. “We are not going to make problems for American diplomats. We are not going to expel anyone. We are not going to forbid their families and children from using their usual relaxation places during the new year’s holidays,” Putin said.
US intelligence services believe Russia ordered cyber-attacks on the Democratic National Committee, Hillary Clinton’s campaign and other political organisations, in an attempt to influence the election in favour of Trump.
Obama said Americans should “be alarmed by Russia’s actions”. More actions would be taken by the US, he added, “some of which will not be publicised”.
Overnight, the foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova launched a stinging attack on the outgoing US administration, writing on Facebook: “The people who have spent eight years in the White House are not an administration – they are a group of foreign policy losers, embittered and shortsighted. Today, Obama officially proved this.”
Konstantin Kosachev, the chairman of the international affairs committee in the upper house of the Russian parliament, was quoted by the RIA news agency as saying the US action represented “the death throes of political corpses”.
The Twitter feed of the Russian embassy in London, meanwhile, called the Obama administration “hapless” and attached a picture of a duck with the word “lame” emblazoned across it.
Trump will now have to decide how to calibrate his Russia policy when he enters the White House. Previously, he has praised Putin and dismissed reports of Russian interference in the election. On Thursday, he said: “It’s time for our country to move on to bigger and better things.”

He added, however, that “in the interest of our country and its great people, I will meet with leaders of the intelligence community next week in order to be updated on the facts of this situation”.
In a conference call with reporters, senior White House officials said the president-elect’s transition team had been informed of the sanctions before they were announced on Thursday. Trump and Obama spoke on Wednesday, they said. The officials added that the actions were a necessary response to “very disturbing Russian threats to US national security”.

“There has to be a cost and a consequence for what Russia has done,” a senior administration official said. “It is in a extraordinary step for them to interfere in the democratic process here in the United States of America. There needs to be a price for that.”
Timeline of protests and exclusions

Thursday’s expulsion is only the latest in a long line of diplomatic incidents between Russia and the US since the turn of the millennium.

October 2016
The US government complains to Moscow after two American diplomats allegedly have their drinks spiked with date-rape drugs while attending a United Nations anti-corruption convention in St Petersburg.

July 2016
Two Russian officials are expelled from the US in retaliation for what the state department says was an attack on an American diplomat in Moscow by a Russian police officer. Washington says this is the latest incident in an escalating campaign of harassment against US embassy staff “in an effort to disrupt our diplomatic and consular operations” in the Russian capital. Russia in turn expels two Americans, including the man who was attacked.

January 2015
The US claims to have cracked a clandestine Russian spy ring based in New York. Two accused men, protected by diplomatic immunity, leave the US; a third is arrested.
March 2014
The US and other world leaders decide to exclude Russia from the G8, following its annexation of Crimea. The Russian foreign ministry says the country does not “see a great misfortune” at being expelled.

May 2013
Russia expels a US embassy employee, Ryan Fogle, days after parading him on state TV claiming he was a CIA spy who had been trying to recruit a Russian counter-terrorism officer.
Days later, the FSB names a man it says is the CIA station chief in Moscow, in what appears to be a calculated snub to Washington, weeks after the two countries agreed to share intelligence over the Boston marathon bombers, who had roots in Russia’s north Caucasus region.

January 2013
An anonymous FSB officer reveals in May that four months earlier, in January 2013, Moscow had expelled a suspected spy working undercover at the US embassy.

June 2010
Ten people living in the north-eastern US are arrested and charged as “sleeper” spies, who had assumed deep-cover identities on long-term assignments for the Russian intelligence agencies. Among them is Anna Chapman, who gained British citizenship (later revoked) when she was married to a Briton. All plead guilty to conspiracy and they are handed over to Russia in exchange for four alleged double-agents in a prisoner swap on the tarmac at Vienna airport.

March 2001
Washington expels 50 Russian diplomats following the arrest in a Virginia suburb of Robert Hanssen, an FBI intelligence officer accused and later convicted of acting as a double agent for Moscow for 15 years. Moscow retaliates by expelling a similar number of Americans.

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JESHI LA POLISI LAKABIDHIWA MAGARI 20 NA PIKIPIKI 40 KUTOKA SERIKALI YA SAUDI ARABIA

 

Waziri wa Mambo ya Ndani ya Nchi Mhe. Mathias Chikawe, (katikati) Mwakilishi wa Balozi wa Saud Arabia, pamoja na Mkuu wa Jeshi la Polisi Nchini, IGP Ernest Mangu, wakitiliana sahihi moja kati ya Hati za makabidhiano ya magari 20 aina ya Toyota Land Cruiser pamoja na pikipiki 40 vilivyotolewa na serikali ya Saud Arabia, vitendeakazi ambavyo vitasaidia katika kuongeza kasi na ufanisi katika kupambana na matukio ya uhalifu na wahalifu.(picha na Demetrius Njimbwi wa Jeshi la Polisi ).

 

 

Baadhi ya magari aina ya Toyota Land Cruiser yaliyotolewa na serikali ya Saud Arabia na kukabidhiwa Wizara ya Mambo ya Ndani ya Nchi, kupitia Jeshi la Polisi Nchini, magari hayo 20 pamoja na pikipiki 40 zenye thamani ya zaidi ya Dola Milioni moja huku magari hayo pamoja na pikipiki zikitarajiwa kupelekwa katika baadhi ya vituo vya Polisi hapa nchini ambavyo vinaupungufu wa vitendea kazi vya aina hiyo na kusaidia katika kukabiliana na matukio ya uhalifu na wahalifu.

 

Baadhi ya aina ya Pikipiki zilizotolewa na serikali ya Saud Arabia na kukabidhiwa Wizara ya Mambo ya Ndani ya Nchi, kupitia Jeshi la Polisi Nchini, magari hayo 20 pamoja na pikipiki 40 zenye thamani ya zaidi ya Dola Milioni moja huku magari hayo pamoja na pikipiki zikitarajiwa kupelekwa katika baadhi ya vituo vya Polisi hapa nchini ambavyo vina upungufu wa vitendea kazi vya aina hiyo na kusaidia katika kukabiliana na matukio ya uhalifu na wahalifu.(picha na Demetrius Njimbwi wa Jeshi la Polisi ) 

 

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WASSIRA NAYE AWEKWA KITIMOTO NA KAMATI YA MAADILI YA CCM

Waziri wa Nchi ofisi ya Rais (Mahusiano na Uratibu) Ndugu Stephen Wassira akizungumza na waandishi wa habari baada ya kuhojiwa na kamati ya maadili ambapo alisema hakukuwa na tuhuma zozote zaidi ya mashauriano na alisisitiza yeye kamwe hawezi shiriki kukivunja chama. (Picha na Adam Mzee.)

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UKIMYA WA ALIKIBA WAWASHTUA WENGI, BAADHI WANENA

Posted by Barnabas Jason On Friday, February 14, 2014

Wakati ambapo mashabiki wengi wa Ali Kiba wameendelea kumsubiria hitmaker huyo kwa muda mrefu, tumezungumza na watangazaji na madj maarufu wa Tanzania kutaka kupata mtazamo wao kuhusiana na ukimya wake. Hivi ndivyo walivyosema:
 

Sam Misago (Power Jams – East Africa Radio) Hajapoteza kitu hadi sasa hivi Ali Kiba amekaa kimya tu. Ni kwamba tumezoea kusikia wasanii wanaofanya drama sana na wengine wanataka awe hivyo. Si tunamjua Ali Kiba kwenye muziki na sio mambo mengine ambayo hayahusiki. Abaki huko huko kwenye muziki, kwanini alazimishwe awe amake headlines kwa kitu ambacho hakipo? Kwasababu kama ni muziki atatoa ukiwa upo tayari anakaa kimya kwa muda anatoa wimbo. Anafanya concert anaingiza hela ananyamaza, that’s Ali Kiba tuliyemzoea maisha yote. Mi sijaona kama yupo kimya namuona ametulia, ana nyimbo zipo studio akiamua kutoa atatoa. Wakati huo ama demu mzuri, ana maisha mazuri, ana gari zuri amenunua, ila hajamuita mpiga picha yoyote aje aifanyie exclusive. Ingekuwa ni mara ya kwanza amepotea hivi, ningesema amepotea au ningesema anajishtukia. Lakini haya ndio maisha ya Ali Kiba.
Dj Majay (Xtreem Live DTV, Maisha Club) Inategemea na plans, unajua kuna kimya ambacho kinajenga na kimya ambacho kinabomoa. Kwahiyo yeye kama amekaa kimya kwa malengo, siwezi kusema kama amepotea, lakini kama amekaa kimya ambacho hakina malengo naweza kusema amepotea. Lakini wengi wanafanya vitu kwa mahesabu kwahiyo mahesabu yake ndio yata determine kujua kama anapotea au anajijenga. Kwa mfano mimi kimya chake hicho akikaa halafu akachomoza na kitu kikali, ofcourse kinafutika ndani ya siku moja tu. Kwa mtazamo wangu mimi naona Ali Kiba bado anayo nafasi, inategemea na hesabu zake anazozifanya. Kwasababu muziki ni biashara, lazima ajue anamlenga nani na kwa muda gani. Kwahiyo akijipanga bado ana nafasi kubwa tu sababu bado ni msanii mkubwa.
Dj D-Ommy ( The Jump Off, The Switch – Times FM 100.5) Muziki umebadilika. Ndio maana ukiangalia hata sasa hivi kuna mambo ya management. Kuna mtu ambaye muziki wake hausambazi yeye. Kwahiyo kwa Ali Kiba inawezekana akawa anajipanga kuja kwa style hiyo nyingine ili aweze kutoka maana yake sasa hivi kuna watu wengi sana wanaofanya muziki vizuri kwahiyo mpaka kupenya inabidi ujipange kweli.
  Kwahiyo lazima asome soko la sasa hivi likoje. Ndio maana ukiangalia watu wa zamani wanaofanya muziki wakirudi sasa hivi wanakuwa wanafeli kwasababu hawajasoma soko la muziki la sasa hivi linataka nini na likoje. Na ndio maana tunaona kila siku watu walio on top ni wale wale. Ali Kiba ni mmoja wa wasanii mwenye kitu chake peke yake. Anaweza akaimba hata bridge au chorus lakini yale maneno ambayo ataimba Ali Kiba bado yakawa na nguvu. Kwa mfano Nai Nai watu walikuwa walikishika sana kile kisehemu cha chorus alichokuwa ameimba Ali Kiba. Kwahiyo ni mtu ambaye ana nafasi kama atajipanga na akiwa na nidhamu na muziki wa sasa hivi.
DJ Tass (Dala Dala Beat – Magic FM) Ali Kiba anaweza akarudi, inategemea na management yake na wala sielewi mikakati yake ikoje lakini nadhani ni mtu ambaye anakuwa hayupo wazi na mambo yake na huenda akawa hajielewi yeye anataka awe nani sababu miaka inakwenda. Akishtua kitu kimoja halafu anapotea. Na Ali Kiba ni mtu ambaye hajichanganyi, hawezi kupata hata mawazo. Mtu akiwa anajichanganya na yupo karibu sana na watu labda unaweza kukuta mtu huyu anampa wazo hili mara kesho anafanikiwa. Ukikaa kimya kama yeye unaachia chance wasanii wanaokuchukulia wewe kama role model wao ambao wanafanya copy kama wewe na unakuta utamu wao unazoeleka wewe unasahaulika. Wewe nafsi inakuambia ‘wale si watoto’ hakuna cha watoto, ndio wanakua, unawaachia chance, anakua anakopi style yako mwishowe anakua Ali Kiba number 2.
  Diamond hata umsearch sasa hivi kwenye mitandao yote ya kijamii yupo. Sijaona labda post za Ali Kiba. Vitu kama hivyo vinawainspire watu kuweza kufuatilia mambo yake. Akiona anafuatiliwa zaidi anazidi kuongeza juhudi zaidi. Sielewi Ali Kiba amebase wapi labda ni mtu wa kujifungua ndani. Akichukulia kwamba ‘nakaa kama nilivyozoea’ na management inayokuja ya pili labda na yenyewe itashindwa. Millard Ayo ( Amplifaya – Clouds FM)
Mimi nimepata nafasi ya kukutana na Watanzania mbalimbali kwa mfano kama South Africa nilikuwa naenda mpaka kwenye club ambazo watanzania wapo. Dubai nilipata nafasi ya kuwauliza watu muziki gani wa Tanzania wanaupenda kiukweli Ali Kiba alitajwa zaidi. Kwahiyo inaonesha ni jinsi gani bado ana nafasi. Kuna sehemu kama Dubai, nilienda sehemu nikawa nauliza watu, bado watu wengine hawawajui akina Diamond. Kwa mfano kuna wakenya niliwauliza ‘msanii gani wa Bongo Flava unampenda’ bado wao wapo na wale wasanii kama Afande Sele, Ali Kiba. Kwahiyo bado ana nafasi, Mimi simlaumu kwa ukimya wake kwasababu wakati mwingine mtu anaweza akawa ameamua kuwa kimya kwasababu ya kujipanga kwa mambo yake na anaweza akaja na kishindo kikubwa au akaja na moto mkubwa kwenye kazi yake. So ukimya wake unaweza ukawa sahihi wakati mwingine au unaweza usiwe sahihi. Lakini kama amekaa kimya kwasababu ya kujiandaa na kazi yake hapo inawezekana ikawa sahihi kabisa kwasababu sasa hivi kwenye bongo flava kuna competition sio kidogo. Watu sasa hivi hawako kwa msanii mmoja tu ukija na kazi nzuri watu wanahamia kwako. Wasanii ni wengi na wengi wameamua kuifanya kama ajira baada ya kuona mifano hai kwa wasanii wengine wanaofanikiwa wanajenga nyumba zao, wanaonesha mali zao, wanapata madeal makubwa kwahiyo watu wameamua kuwa serious.

Renetus Kiluvia aka Bizzo (Show Time – Next Chapter, RFA) Binafsi mimi nadhani Ali Kiba anatambua anachokifanya kwasababu kwa level aliyokuwa amefika hakuwa tena msanii mdogo na hakuwa tena msanii wa Tanzania tu kama wasanii wengi walivyo, wanaweza wakawa wanafanya vizuri Tanzania lakini wanafahamika Tanzania tu. Ali Kiba alikuwa ameshafika mbali. Nyuma yake pia kuna jopo la watu ambao wana knowledge kubwa ya muziki na fitina za muziki pia wanazijua, fitina za muziki zipo worldwide hata Marekani pia zipo. Ali Kiba anafahamu anachokifanya na anafanya makusudi kabisa mi naamini kwasababu yeye anajijua ni mkali, analiangalia soko na anajua kabisa kuwa akirudi kesho na kesho kutwa arudi vipi. Siamini kama amepotea, siamini kama amekosa cha kufanya. Kuna nyimbo ambazo nimezikisia nyuma ya pazia, haikuwa rasmi sana, naamini kabisa akisema katika hizo bunduki adondoshe moja kiukweli kabisa kutakuwa na mtafutano mkubwa sana.

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KESI YA KIFO CHA KANUMBA, LULU AKESHA AKIOMBA.

 STAA wa Filamu ya Foolish Age, Elizabeth Michael ‘Lulu’ amesema hivi sasa anakesha akiomba ili mambo yaende vizuri katika kesi inayomkabili ya kumuua bila kukusudia msanii mwenzake, Steven Kanumba.


Lulu amemwambia paparazi wetu kuwa alishaanza kuyasahau matatizo hayo lakini hataweza kupingana na amri ya mahakama iliyopanga kuanza kusikiliza kesi hiyo kuanzia Februari 17, mwaka huu katika Mahakama Kuu ya Tanzania jijini Dar.

“Lazima kesi iendelee na sheria ichukue mkondo wake, pamoja na kwamba nimekaa uraiani kwa kipindi kirefu na kuanza kusahau mambo hayo,” alisema Lulu.

Alipoulizwa anachokitegemea katika kesi hiyo, msanii huyo alidai kwamba hana cha kukitegemea zaidi  ya kukesha akimuomba Mungu.

“Nakesha nikiomba, namwamini Mungu atanisaidia kama alivyosikia kilio changu cha kuomba dhamana,”aliongeza.

Msanii huyo anakabiliwa na kesi ya kumuua bila ya kukusudia aliyepata kuwa msanii nguli katika tasnia ya filamu za Kibongo, Kanumba Aprili 7, mwaka 2012.

Aidha, baada ya kuachana na Lulu, Ijumaa lilizungumza na mama mzazi wa Kanumba, Flora Mtegoa juu ya kutajwa kwa kesi hiyo na mahojiano yalikuwa kama ifuatavyo; 
Ijumaa: Unajisikiaje kuona Lulu akipandishwa kizimbani tena?

Mama Kanumba: Mmmh! Kwa kweli najisikia vibaya sana jamani.
Ijumaa: Unajisikia vibaya  kwa kuwa Lulu anapandishwa kizimbani au...?
Mama Kanumba: Pamoja na hilo lakini kesi hii inanikumbusha machungu ya mwanangu, naona mambo ndiyo yamefufuka upya wakati nilishaanza kuyasahau.

Ijumaa: Unasemaje kuhusu kushtakiwa kwa Lulu?
Mama Kanumba: Binafsi sijamshitaki Lulu ni serikali ndiyo iliyofanya hivyo, tuache sheria ichukue mkondo wake.
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PICHA 10 ZA JAMAA ALIYEFUMANIWA NA MKE WA MTU AKIPEWA KICHAPO

Masikitiko: Mume akiwa na mkewe baada ya timbwili hilo.

Siri ya ndani: Mwenye mali akiwa na masikitiko baada ya kusalitiwa na mkewe.

Majuto: Anjela ‘Mama Anorld’ akijutia kitendo alichofanya na shemeji yake.

Safari: Safari ya kuelekea kituoni ikiendelea.

Karaha: Watuhumiwa wakitembezwa mtaani kupelekwa kituoni.

Aibu: Paulo akizidi kupata hali ngumu baada ya kufumaniwa na shemeji yake.

Kuua soo: Mtuhumiwa Paulo akijaribu kujitetea baada ya kunaswa akijivinjari na shemeji yake.

Mtu na shemeji yake: Paulo na Anjela ‘Mama Anorld’ baada ya fumanizi.

Tanganyika jeki: Mtuhumiwa Paulo akiwa kakamatwa Tanganyika jeki baada ya kunaswa.Picha zote na GPL.

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