Donald Trump asks world leaders to call him directly on his cellphone, raises security concerns

President of the United States of America Donald Trump has reportedly raised a new security concern by asking world leaders to get in touch with him directly on his personal cell phone number.

President of the United States of America Donald Trump has reportedly raised a new security concern by asking world leaders to get in touch with him directly on his personal cell phone number. According to reports, Trump has urged leaders of Canada and Mexico to call him on his cellphone. Former and current US officials reportedly said that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has in fact spoken to Trump directly on his cellphone.

Trump has also exchanged numbers with the newly-elected French President, Emmanuel Macron, when the two spoke immediately following Macron’s victory earlier this month, according to a French official. The French official, as per an Associated Press report, did not comment on whether Macron intended to use the line.

Trump, who had been an easily accessible person, could be reached on his cellphone directly before he became the US President. However, it seems he is finding it difficult to follow the protocols and disciplines of teh President, putting security in a spot.

“If you are speaking on an open line, then it’s an open line, meaning those who have the ability to monitor those conversations are doing so,” said Derek Chollet, a former Pentagon adviser and National Security Council official now at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, as quoted by AP. A president “doesn’t carry with him a secure phone,” Chollet said. “If someone is trying to spy on you, then everything you’re saying, you have to presume that others are listening to

Trump has been in a tight spot when it comes to keeping his conversations with world leaders private. Earlier, his conversations with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and Russian diplomats were all leaked after notes of the conversations were circulated by national security officials.

According to the report, The Presidential Records Act of 1981, passed in response to the Watergate scandal, requires that the president and his staff preserve all records related to the office. In 2014, the act was amended to include personal emails.

While only Trudeau has been the one calling Trump directly on his turnball, it remains to be seen how the new ‘call me on my cellphone’ drill works for Donald Trump as more world leaders are given his cellphone number.

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Zoo tiger death: Victim named as Rosa King

A zoo-keeper who died after a tiger entered an enclosure at a wildlife park in Cambridgeshire has been named as 33-year-old Rosa King.

The passing occurred at Hamerton Zoo Park, close Huntingdon, at around 11:15 BST on Monday. 

Companion Garry Chisholm, a natural life picture taker in his extra time, said she was the "point of convergence" and "sparkling light" of the untamed life stop. 

The zoo said it was an oddity mishap, and police said it was not suspicious. 

Mr Chisholm, 59, of Irchester, Northamptonshire, said the natural life stop rotated around the zoo-attendant. 

"Rosa wasn't only a manager at Hamerton Zoo - she was Hamerton Zoo," he said. 

"She was unquestionably the main issue of it, the point of convergence of it. She was the sparkling light of it. 

"Her energy for the creatures in her care was excellent however her top choices were without a doubt the cheetahs which she would allude to as her pride and happiness. 

"She will be enormously missed, not simply by me, but rather by everybody who came to know her. 

"The main relief I can take from today's sad occasions is that Rosa is presently rejoined with her darling Ares the cheetah, and Blizzard and Ladybelle, her cherished tigers." 

'Heard her shout' 

Subside Davis, who was at the zoo with his family, said he had heard a "bustle" close to the nook where Ms King was assaulted. 

"There was a person at the nook where the occurrence happened and he came running past me. He was taking photos so he kept running off to get some assistance for something, we didn't recognize what. 

"The following moment about six zoo guardians came running down to the walled in area." 

"At that point, one of the young ladies, we simply heard her shout. Furthermore, one of the young ladies yelled 'run'. So a couple of us kept running into one of the zoo managers' little rooms by the conclusion," he said. 

'Tossing meat' 

His gathering was held in that space for around 10 minutes until they were given the all reasonable. 

He stated: "As we turned out, we were kind of introduced away, yet we were all the while taking a gander at what was happening, and you could clearly observe the attendants all bothered, not by any stretch of the imagination recognizing what to do, heads in their grasp. 

"A few them were tossing meat over the walled in area to attempt and tempt the tiger away, yet it was most likely continuing for 10 to 15 minutes." 

Another guest to the zoo, who did not wish to be named, told the BBC: "We got to the zoo at opening time, around 11:45. 

"We were near the tiger walled in area when an individual from staff yelled for everybody to leave the recreation center rapidly and promptly." 

A Cambridgeshire Police representative stated: "A tiger had entered a nook with a manager. Tragically the female zoo attendant kicked the bucket at the scene." 

Guests were driven far from the zoo. At no time did the creature escape from the walled in area, said police. 

Officers researching the demise said it was "not accepted to be suspicious", and that the tiger included was "accepted to be fine". 

Hamerton Zoo Park said in an announcement: "This seems to have been an oddity mischance. 

"At no time amid the episode did any creatures get away from their walled in areas and at no time was open security influenced in any capacity. 

"Every one of our contemplations and sensitivities are with our partners, loved ones at this terrifying time. 

"The recreation center will be shut from tomorrow, 30 May, and we will give more data when we can." 


The natural life stop said an examination was under way.

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Siege gunman shot dead after policeman's killing in Queensland

A man who killed a policeman before holding authorities at bay for 18 hours has been shot dead in Australia.

On Monday, Rick Maddison lethally shot Senior Constable Brett Forte after the cop caught his auto in Queensland. 

He fled to a close-by farmhouse and spent the night in a remain off with police. 

Maddison was executed by experts in the wake of escaping the house and terminating on police, Queensland Police Assistant Commissioner Tony Wright said. 

"He has been tested by police by then - he has let go at those police," he told correspondents on Tuesday. 

"Pro police have returned fire. The male individual has been shot and that male individual has been pronounced perished at the scene." 

Mr Forte was killed in the wake of capturing Maddison, who police had portrayed as a "needed individual", around 14:20 nearby time (04:20 GMT) on Monday. 

Long arrangement 

Specialists had set up an avoidance zone around the ranch and started consulting with Maddison at midnight. 

The encounter happened soon after 11:00. 

On Monday, Queensland Police Commissioner Ian Stewart said he needed to determine the attack "as calmly as humanly conceivable". 

Inhabitants adjacent occupants were requested to clear their homes on Monday evening. 

Tributes for casualty 

Mr Forte was a spouse and father who had been a cop for over 15 years, experts said. 

"It is so upsetting - not simply to the police benefit - but rather to the group, that we have lost a fine cop," Mr Stewart said. 

Queensland Police Union president Ian Leavers said the officer was shot "just attempting to capture a needed individual". 

"It could have been any of us anyplace in Australia," he told the Seven Network. 


"Our musings are with his significant other and his three kids. He has a little girl and two children."

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Cyclone Mora hits Bangladesh with heavy wind and rain

Cyclone Mora has hit Bangladesh, lashing the country's south-eastern coast with rain and winds.

The tempest made landfall on Tuesday morning between the angling port of Cox's Bazar and the city of Chittagong, with winds of up to 117 km/h (73mph), 

Specialists have been moving more than one million individuals to covers. 

India and Myanmar are additionally anticipated that would be influenced. It comes after overwhelming downpours in Sri Lanka created avalanches that murdered no less than 180 individuals. 

It had already cautioned that low-lying ranges of Cox's Bazar, Chittagong and numerous other beach front regions were "liable to be immersed" by a tempest surge of 1.2m-1.5m (4-5 feet) above typical levels. 

A huge number of individuals had been emptied to safe houses, schools and government workplaces starting late Monday. 

Angling water crafts and trawlers have been encouraged to stay in sanctuaries also. 

Following site Tropical Storm Risk figures that Cyclone Mora will move northwards past Chittagong throughout the following 12 hours, debilitating as it moves advance inland and minimizing from a Category One typhoon to a hurricane. 

No losses have been accounted for up until this point, however the violent wind made noteworthy harm exile camps for Rohingya Muslims, people group pioneer Abdus Salam said. 

He revealed to AFP news office that 20,000 houses in displaced person camps were harmed. 

"In a few spots, practically every shanty home made of tin, bamboo and plastic has been leveled. A few people were harmed, however nobody is dead," Mr Salam included. 

Expansive camps have been set up in Cox's Bazar for a huge number of ethnic Rohingya who have fled brutality from neighboring Myanmar. 

The Bay of Bengal is inclined to tempests, and Bangladesh is regularly hit by serious climate amid the storm season from the center to the finish of the year. 

A year ago Cyclone Roanu hit waterfront Bangladesh, leaving no less than 24 individuals dead.

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Mississippi shooting: 8 killed, including Deputy Sheriff, suspect held

"It would be premature to discuss the motive as of now," Mississippi Bureau of Investigation spokesman Warren Strain said.

No less than 8 individuals were murdered and four harmed in Mississippi in a shooting occurrence. Among those slaughtered incorporate the Deputy Sheriff of the city. The suspect was arrested by nearby police. As per reports, the suspect was distinguished as Cory Godbolt, matured 35. 

Godbolt conceded his wrongdoing in the wake of being cuffed by the police, reports Clarion-Ledger. In the video recorded by the site, the suspect is heard saying, "I am not fit to live, not any longer after what I've done." Godbolt said he was addressing his significant other and relatives, when the specialists came to check him. "Why did somebody call the officer? Why did they mediate when it was not required. They cost him (the representative sheriff) his life," he stated, additionally expressing, "I'm sad." 

Mississippi Bureau of Investigation representative Warren Strain affirmed the shooting episode while tending to the press. As indicated by Strain, the shooting was done in three unique homes in country Lincoln County on Saturday night. Washington Post reports two of the homes are in Brookhaven and one in Bogue Chitto. The site of the episode is around 109 kilometers south of the state capital Jackson. 

On being gotten some information about the thought process of the wrongdoing, the police representative said the suspect is right now being grilled to know his plan behind the wrongdoing. "It is untimely to examine the thought process starting at now," he included. The data which police had so far did not make it clear whether the suspect was identified with the casualties. 

Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant communicated distress over the destruction of 8 casualties in the shooting assault. Saluting the valor of appointee sheriff who passed on in the assault, Bryant stated, "Again and again, we lose one of our finest. I thank the law authorization offices required for their diligent work." 

Bryant additionally included that the give up made by law authorization work force to protect the regular citizens would not go futile. 

Media reports guarantee the agent sheriff was going to a pain call when he was shot to death. The character of different casualties have not been discharged so far by the Mississippi police.

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‘Love from Manchester’, writes UK Air Force on a bomb designated to target ISIS

"The sentiment of the message written on the weapon is understandable and such writing has history in the RAF, so the individual concerned will not be taken to task," a source was quoted as saying.

The Air Force of the United Kingdom penned "love from Manchester" on a bomb which is implied for IS. This came after the Ariana Grande show assault. 

A photo, which has been broadly shared via web-based networking media, demonstrated the message "love from Manchester" on a Paveway IV bomb stacked on a British fly doing air strikes from Royal Air Force (RAF) Akrotiri in Cyprus, The Telegraph announced. 

A RAF representative affirmed that the photograph was honest to goodness. 

"The feeling of the message composed on the weapon is justifiable and such composition has history in the RAF, so the individual concerned won't be berated," a source was cited as saying. 

The report comes days after suicide plane Salman Abedi exploded himself at a show by pop star Ariana Grande at Manchester Arena a week ago, killing 22 individuals and leaving 119 harmed. 

Kids as youthful as eight and guardians were among the dead after a great many fans were focused as they cleared out the gig on Monday. 

Amid World War II, armed force men composed messages on bombs made a beeline for Japan after the Pearl Harbor assault. Messages were additionally composed on bombs after the 9/11, with notes originating from New York City police and fire divisions.

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Manchester attack victims abuse Pakistan-origin doctor, says ‘Go back to your country, you terrorist’

Reports suggest that Naveen Yasin, the doctor of Pakistani origin, was heading to Salford Royal Hospital to continue to provide aid to the victims when a man pulled him and started abusing him.

A Pakistan doctor who helped the victims of Manchester terror attack had to face racism due to his skin colour. He was abused and called a ‘terrorist‘ by the locals of United Kingdom. He was also asked to go back to his own country after helping the victims for 48 hours, as per media reports.

Reports suggest that Naveen Yasin, the doctor of Pakistani origin, was heading to Salford Royal Hospital to continue to provide aid to the victims when a man pulled him and started abusing him. The 37-year-old trauma and orthopaedic surgeon was by locals addressed as brown, P*** b******”, apart from being called a terrorist. A racist victim told the doctor “Go back to your country, you ‘terrorist’. We don’t want you people here.”

Yasin was clear that the racism had been plunged on to him due to his skin colour. He said, ” I cannot escape the hatred which exists due to the colour of my skin and the prejudices he had associated with this.” Yasin’s family moved to the United Kingdom in 1960. Born and raised in West Yorkshire, he resides in Old Trafford with wife and 2 children.

Blast:

On Tuesday, May 23, a blast took place in Machester City during the concert of American singer Ariana Grande which took away the lives of 22 people. As per the cops, one of the attackers also died while detonating the device. The blast which was termed as an act of terror also left 50 injured. Reports suggest that blast reportedly went off at the end of the concert near the box office area, however, the young American singer received no injuries.

Later, 8 people were detained by authorities of UK on the suspicion of carrying out the blast. UK Prime Minister Theresa May had confirmed this report saying that despite this the situation still remains critical and security forces are on high alert.

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Egypt: Gunmen attacks bus carrying Coptic Christians; 26 dead, 25 injured

Coptic Christians make about 10 per cent of Egypt's population, out of the 91 million strength the country has. Recently they have been a victim of such attacks.

Unidentified gunmen on Friday took the lives of 26 Coptic Christians, injuring 25 others by attacking a bus. The gunmen opened fire on a bus in which the Coptic Christians were travelling to a monastery in Minya province, which is south of Cairo, the capital city of Egypt. Around 50 ambulances have reached the spot.

Health Ministry spokesman Khaled Mugahed, about this incident, told TV al-Masriya that the gunmen had two cars on a plain field, which is around 100 km west of Minya, reported CNN. The bus had men, women, and children and many of them are reported to be critical. So far, no one has taken the responsibility for this act.

Coptic Christians make about 10 per cent of Egypt’s population, out of the 91 million strength the country has. Recently they have been a victim of such attacks. In December last year, 25 people were killed after an attack was launched at a Coptic church. Coptic churches, homes have been set on fire and the people of the community have been attacked physically in Egypt.

In 2013, a church in Egypt was torched which destroyed its interior completely.

More details, in this case, are awaited.

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Ramadan 2017: Donald Trump urges Muslims to fight terrorism; read full message of US President

Trump said America will always stand with the Muslim world in defeating the scourge of terrorism.

The President of the United States of America Donald Trump wished the Muslims the country over for the propitious month of Ramadan. Encouraging Muslims to join against psychological oppression, Trump stated, "For the current year, the occasion starts as the world grieves the pure casualties of brutal fear monger assaults in the United Kingdom and Egypt, demonstrations of corruption that are straightforwardly in opposition to the soul of Ramadan." Trump included the assault just fortifies the make plans to battle it. 

Specifying his current visit to Riyadh, Trump said America will dependably remain with the Muslim world in crushing the scourge of fear based oppression. He stated, "Amid this time of Ramadan, let us be set out to save no quantify with the goal that we may guarantee that future eras will be free of this scourge and ready to love and cooperative in peace. " 

Full Statement of Donald Trump on Ramadan 

In the interest of the American individuals, I might want to wish all Muslims an euphoric Ramadan. 

Amid this time of fasting from day break to nightfall, numerous Muslims in America and around the globe will discover importance and motivation in demonstrations of philanthropy and contemplation that fortify our groups. At its center, the soul of Ramadan fortifies familiarity with our mutual commitment to reject brutality, to seek after peace, and to provide for those in need who are experiencing destitution or strife. 

This year, the occasion starts as the world grieves the blameless casualties of primitive psychological oppressor assaults in the United Kingdom and Egypt, demonstrations of evil that are specifically in opposition to the soul of Ramadan. Such acts just steel our set out to crush the psychological oppressors and their debased belief system. 

On my current visit to Saudi Arabia, I had the pleasure of meeting with the pioneers of more than 50 Muslim countries. There, in the place where there is the two holiest locales in the Muslim world, we accumulated to convey together a decided message of organization for peace, security, and flourishing for our nations and for the world. 

I repeat my message conveyed in Riyadh: America will dependably remain with our accomplices against fear based oppression and the belief system that energizes it. Amid this time of Ramadan, let us be set out to save no quantify with the goal that we may guarantee that future eras will be free of this scourge and ready to love and collective in peace. 

I extend my all the best to Muslims wherever for a favored month as you watch the Ramadan conventions of philanthropy, fasting, and petition. May God favor you and your families.

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Kushner 'discussed secret line to Moscow' - US media reports

White House aide Jared Kushner is alleged to have met with the Russian ambassador

Donald Trump's son-in-law attempted to set up secret communications with Moscow a month after Mr Trump's election, US media say.

Jared Kushner needed to utilize Russian offices to evade US interference of discourses with Moscow, the Washington Post and New York Times said. 

Mr Kushner, a senior White House assistant, has not remarked. 

He is said to be under investigation by the FBI as a component of its investigation into Russian impedance favoring Mr Trump's win. 

Reports in the US say agents trust he has important data, however he is not really associated with a wrongdoing. 

What did Kushner do? 

The latest reports - which refered to anonymous US authorities as sources - said Mr Kushner had talked with Moscow's Ambassador to the US, Sergei Kislyak, about setting up a back channel utilizing Russian strategic offices in America. 

The meeting was held toward the beginning of December at Trump Tower in New York - Mr Trump's energy base. 

As per both reports, Mr Trump's first national security counsel Michael Flynn was available at the meeting. 

The mystery channel should be utilized to examine Syria and other approach issues amid the move time frame between Mr Trump's race in November and his initiation in January 2017. 

The Washington Post says the proposition astounded Mr Kislyak as it implied Americans utilizing Russian offices at their strategic missions in the US. 

The New York Times said the line was never settled. 

Mr Kushner, along with General Michael Flynn, left, has found his name linked to the Russian investigation

What's irregular about an immediate line to Moscow? 

The US and Moscow have dependably had a hotline - famously alluded to as the Red Phone, despite the fact that it was not a phone. This was intended to empower the two superpowers to keep away from atomic calamity amid the Cold War. 

Mr Kushner seems, by all accounts, to be proposing a comparable set-up. 

In any case, what is abnormal is this would be a channel utilizing Russian equipment. 

So this would have been outside authority correspondences typically utilized by a group going to accept the initiative of the US - meaning US pioneers were utilizing Russian channels rather than their own. 

What's more, altogether, these interchanges would not shape some portion of archived US approach making. 

Is the planning critical? 

Extremely. Keep in mind that Russian assertions of impedance to influence the decision for Donald Trump risen in May 2016 with the principal reports of programmers focusing on the Democratic Party. 

What took after were reports that US insight offices had followed the ruptures back to Russian programmers. In August, Wikileaks discharged 20,000 interior messages of individuals from the Democratic National Convention (DNC), stolen by the programmers. 

Mr Trump's then battle administrator, Paul Manafort, surrendered in the wake of being blamed for tolerating a huge number of dollars in real money for speaking to Russian premiums in Ukraine and US. 

In October, the US insight group discharged a consistent proclamation formally blaming Russia for being behind the DNC hacking. 

In this way, by December when the claimed Kushner-Flynn-Kislyak meeting was held, the Trump group would have had grounds to put stock in the presence of an examination concerning the Russian connections. 

Is Kushner blamed for any wrongdoing? 

The Washington Post had effectively announced FBI specialists were concentrating on gatherings Mr Kushner held a year ago with Mr Kislyak, and also a broker from Moscow, Sergei Gorkov. 

Mr Gorkov is the head of Vnesheconombank, which has been liable to sanctions forced by the Obama organization because of Russia's addition of Crimea and its support for separatists in eastern Ukraine. 

The bank is under the control of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and different individuals from the administration, and has been utilized to reserve real ventures, for example, the 2014 Winter Olympics in the southern Russian resort of Sochi. 

Mr Kushner has said he didn't talk about authorizations with Mr Gorkov. 


His legal counselor has beforehand said his customer would co-work with any request.

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Manchester attack: Police 'not sharing information with US'

Police investigating the Manchester Arena bomb attack have stopped sharing information with the US after leaks to the media, the BBC understands.

The New York Times says this evidence was gathered at the scene of the attack

UK authorities were offended when photographs seeming to show garbage from the assault showed up in the New York Times. 

It came after the name of aircraft Salman Abedi was spilled to US media 24 hours after the assault, which killed 22 - including kids - and harmed 64. 

Theresa May is to raise worries with Donald Trump at a Nato meeting later. 

More prominent Manchester Police would like to resume ordinary knowledge connections - a two-route stream of data - soon however is right now "angry", the BBC gets it. 

The drive - which is driving the examination on the ground - gives its data to National Counter-Terrorism, which then offers it crosswise over government and - in view of the Five Eyes knowledge sharing understanding - with the US, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. 

In all out eight men are presently in care taking after the assault, completed by Manchester-conceived Abedi, a 22-year-old from a group of Libyan root. 

It has likewise developed two individuals who had known Abedi at school made separate calls to a hotline to caution the police about his radical perspectives. 

Pictures of flotsam and jetsam 

Home Secretary Amber Rudd had said she was "disturbed" by the revelation of Abedi's character against the UK's desires and had cautioned Washington "it ought not occur once more". 

In any case, the photos of flotsam and jetsam - which seem to indicate bloodstained parts from the bomb and the rucksack used to disguise it - were in this way spilled to the New York Times, provoking an irate reaction from inside Whitehall and from UK police boss. 

BBC security reporter Gordon Corera says UK authorities trust that US law requirement as opposed to the White House is the imaginable offender for the holes. 

A Whitehall source depicted the second US spill as "on another level", and said it had brought about "incredulity and amazement" over the British government. 

Investigation 

By James Landale, BBC conciliatory journalist 

The one range where Britain's supposed uncommon association with the US is really more than a prosaism is in the sharing of insight. 

Presidents and head administrators may go back and forth however it is the proceeding with engagement amongst UK and US authorities and state foundations that drives the transoceanic relationship. 

Also, it is one in view of a guideline of trust, in particular that in the event that one side offers some knowledge, it is not passed on to outsiders, not to mention the media. 

This is the reason the evident break of this longstanding tradition by some US specialists has created such fierceness in Whitehall. 

The UK's National Police Chiefs' Council portrayed the "unapproved revelation" as a rupture of trust which had conceivably undermined a "noteworthy counter-psychological oppression examination". 

Counter-psychological warfare criminologists have talked in the past about how a deferral of around 36 hours before people in general know who is being researched can enable known partners of the suspect to be captured without being tipped off. 

More noteworthy Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said the holes had stressed him "significantly", and he had raised them with the US represetative. 

Ruler Blair, who was the leader of the Metropolitan Police at the season of the 7/7 bombings in London said knowledge spills by the US were not new. 

"I'm apprehensive it just helps me precisely to remember what occurred after 7/7 when the United States distributed a total photo of the way the bombs in 7/7 had been made up," he said. 

"It's an alternate world in which the United States work as far as how they distribute things and this is an exceptionally egregious rupture yet I'm apprehensive it's the same as some time recently." 

In different advancements: 

Two men were captured taking after a pursuit of an address in the Withington territory of Greater Manchester on Thursday morning, taking the quantity of individuals held to eight 

The administration has reported a moment's hush will be held at 11:00 BST in recognition of the individuals who lost their lives or were influenced by the assault 

The Conservatives and Labor are to resume neighborhood general race battling on Thursday, and national crusading on Friday 

Manchester United fans watched a moment's hush in memory of the casualties of Monday's shelling, in front of the group's Europa League last win. 

What's going on with the investigation? 

Ismail Abedi was detained in Chorlton, south Manchester; his father, Ramadan, was held in Tripoli

Eight men and one lady have been captured in the UK since Monday night, including Abedi's more seasoned sibling Ismail, 23. The lady has since been discharged. 

Abedi's more youthful sibling Hashem, 20, was held by uncommon strengths connected to the inside service in the Libyan capital Tripoli, similar to their dad. 

Talking on Wednesday, Greater Manchester Chief Constable Ian Hopkins stated: "It's evident this is a system that we are examining. 

"Also, as I've stated, it proceeds at a pace. There's broad examinations going on and action occurring crosswise over Greater Manchester." 

As a feature of their examination, police attacked a square of pads close Manchester Piccadilly station in the downtown area, obliging them to do a controlled blast and quickly shut the railroad line. 


Police completed another controlled blast in the early hours of Thursday morning at an address in the Moss Side zone of Manchester.

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Park Geun-hye: S Korea trial of impeached president begins

South Korea's former President Park Geun-hye has pleaded not guilty at her trial for corruption, the latest stage in her dramatic fall from grace.

Ms Park was in handcuffs as she arrived at court in a prison van

The expelled president confronts charges including pay off, manhandling state control and spilling state privileged insights. 

In her first appearance openly since her capture in March, she touched base at court cuffed in a jail van. 

The most extreme sentence for defilement in South Korea is life. 

Ms Park is blamed for intriguing with her companion, Choi Soon-sil, to coerce cash from some of South Korea's greatest organizations, including Samsung, as an end-result of political favors. 

Ms Choi Soon-sil, who is likewise confronting charges, sat close by Ms Park at the opening of the trial. She likewise denies wrongdoing. 

As the trial opened in Seoul, the ex-president's attorneys said there was "no purpose behind President Park to compel organizations to give cash which she was not able use for herself". 

Investigation: Stephen Evans, South Korea reporter 

Toward the begin of the trial which will decide if she finishes a move from the presidential royal residence to a jail cell, Park Geun-hye was asked what her occupation was. She answered "unemployed". 

She now confronts months of attempting to convince the judges that she didn't weight organizations into giving a great many dollars to the deep rooted companion who sits nearby her in court number 417, the two isolated just by an attorney. They didn't welcome each with either a word or even a look. 

Ms Park wore a dark suit as opposed to her jail clothing. On her trunk, worn like a propose: an identification with the number 503 - her jail number. She had a clasp given by the jail since her ordinary barrettes were taken away as conceivably unsafe. 

Ms Park is confronting a sum of 18 charges, with the charge sheet rushing to around 120,000 pages, South Korean media report. 

Prosecutors say she permitted Ms Choi to utilize her presidential associations with weight organizations to offer cash to an establishment she built up, procuring them a huge number of dollars. 

In return, the organizations would get great treatment from the administration, it is asserted. 

Ms Park is additionally blamed for spilling state insider facts by giving Ms Choi access to her work - including requesting that her alter her addresses - and of running a boycott of media figures who were to be banished from getting state bolster since they had been reproachful of her legislature. 

Ms Park is the third South Korean pioneer on trial for debasement however the main equitably chose one. 

The two past cases included previous military tyrants detained on debasement in the 1990s. 

Ms Park's listening ability happens in the exceptionally same court as the past trials. 

Many individuals have now been examined or captured regarding the outrage. All have kept up their honesty. 

Ms Choi, who additionally denies wrongdoing, has been on trial since December, while her little girl, Chung Yoo-ra - charged to have gotten help getting a college position - was captured in Denmark in January. 

Choi Soon-sil's trial because earlier this year

The acting head of Samsung Group, Lee Jae-Yong, and four other Samsung official are on trial for supposedly offering rewards to Ms Park and Ms Choi in return for government bolster for a questionable merger. 

Previous wellbeing priest Moon Hyung-pyo and the central speculation officer of the National Pension Service (NPS) Hong Wan-seon are on trial for supposedly forcing the NPS to acknowledge the merger. 


What's more, a week ago, two plastic specialists who treated the picture cognizant previous president - including one who infused her with human placenta separates - were indicted lying about having treated her.The expelled president confronts charges including pay off, manhandling state control and spilling state privileged insights. 

In her first appearance openly since her capture in March, she touched base at court cuffed in a jail van. 

The most extreme sentence for defilement in South Korea is life. 

Ms Park is blamed for intriguing with her companion, Choi Soon-sil, to coerce cash from some of South Korea's greatest organizations, including Samsung, as an end-result of political favors. 

Ms Choi Soon-sil, who is likewise confronting charges, sat close by Ms Park at the opening of the trial. She likewise denies wrongdoing. 

As the trial opened in Seoul, the ex-president's attorneys said there was "no purpose behind President Park to compel organizations to give cash which she was not able use for herself". 

Investigation: Stephen Evans, South Korea reporter 

Toward the begin of the trial which will decide if she finishes a move from the presidential royal residence to a jail cell, Park Geun-hye was asked what her occupation was. She answered "unemployed". 

She now confronts months of attempting to convince the judges that she didn't weight organizations into giving a great many dollars to the deep rooted companion who sits nearby her in court number 417, the two isolated just by an attorney. They didn't welcome each with either a word or even a look. 

Ms Park wore a dark suit as opposed to her jail clothing. On her trunk, worn like a propose: an identification with the number 503 - her jail number. She had a clasp given by the jail since her ordinary barrettes were taken away as conceivably unsafe. 

Ms Park is confronting a sum of 18 charges, with the charge sheet rushing to around 120,000 pages, South Korean media report. 

Prosecutors say she permitted Ms Choi to utilize her presidential associations with weight organizations to offer cash to an establishment she built up, procuring them a huge number of dollars. 

In return, the organizations would get great treatment from the administration, it is asserted. 

Ms Park is additionally blamed for spilling state insider facts by giving Ms Choi access to her work - including requesting that her alter her addresses - and of running a boycott of media figures who were to be banished from getting state bolster since they had been reproachful of her legislature. 

Ms Park is the third South Korean pioneer on trial for debasement however the main equitably chose one. 

The two past cases included previous military tyrants detained on debasement in the 1990s. 

Ms Park's listening ability happens in the exceptionally same court as the past trials. 

The acting head of Samsung is in jail while standing trial for his alleged role in the scandal

Many individuals have now been examined or captured regarding the outrage. All have kept up their honesty. 

Ms Choi, who additionally denies wrongdoing, has been on trial since December, while her little girl, Chung Yoo-ra - charged to have gotten help getting a college position - was captured in Denmark in January. 

The acting head of Samsung Group, Lee Jae-Yong, and four other Samsung official are on trial for supposedly offering rewards to Ms Park and Ms Choi in return for government bolster for a questionable merger. 

Previous wellbeing priest Moon Hyung-pyo and the central speculation officer of the National Pension Service (NPS) Hong Wan-seon are on trial for supposedly forcing the NPS to acknowledge the merger. 

What's more, a week ago, two plastic specialists who treated the picture cognizant previous president - including one who infused her with human placenta separates - were indicted lying about having treated her.The expelled president confronts charges including pay off, manhandling state control and spilling state privileged insights. 

In her first appearance openly since her capture in March, she touched base at court cuffed in a jail van. 

The most extreme sentence for defilement in South Korea is life. 

Ms Park is blamed for intriguing with her companion, Choi Soon-sil, to coerce cash from some of South Korea's greatest organizations, including Samsung, as an end-result of political favors. 

Ms Choi Soon-sil, who is likewise confronting charges, sat close by Ms Park at the opening of the trial. She likewise denies wrongdoing. 

As the trial opened in Seoul, the ex-president's attorneys said there was "no purpose behind President Park to compel organizations to give cash which she was not able use for herself". 

Investigation: Stephen Evans, South Korea reporter 

Toward the begin of the trial which will decide if she finishes a move from the presidential royal residence to a jail cell, Park Geun-hye was asked what her occupation was. She answered "unemployed". 

She now confronts months of attempting to convince the judges that she didn't weight organizations into giving a great many dollars to the deep rooted companion who sits nearby her in court number 417, the two isolated just by an attorney. They didn't welcome each with either a word or even a look. 

Ms Park wore a dark suit as opposed to her jail clothing. On her trunk, worn like a propose: an identification with the number 503 - her jail number. She had a clasp given by the jail since her ordinary barrettes were taken away as conceivably unsafe. 

Ms Park is confronting a sum of 18 charges, with the charge sheet rushing to around 120,000 pages, South Korean media report. 

Prosecutors say she permitted Ms Choi to utilize her presidential associations with weight organizations to offer cash to an establishment she built up, procuring them a huge number of dollars. 

In return, the organizations would get great treatment from the administration, it is asserted. 

Ms Park is additionally blamed for spilling state insider facts by giving Ms Choi access to her work - including requesting that her alter her addresses - and of running a boycott of media figures who were to be banished from getting state bolster since they had been reproachful of her legislature. 

Ms Park is the third South Korean pioneer on trial for debasement however the main equitably chose one. 

The two past cases included previous military tyrants detained on debasement in the 1990s. 

Ms Park's listening ability happens in the exceptionally same court as the past trials. 

Many individuals have now been examined or captured regarding the outrage. All have kept up their honesty. 

Ms Choi, who additionally denies wrongdoing, has been on trial since December, while her little girl, Chung Yoo-ra - charged to have gotten help getting a college position - was captured in Denmark in January. 

The acting head of Samsung Group, Lee Jae-Yong, and four other Samsung official are on trial for supposedly offering rewards to Ms Park and Ms Choi in return for government bolster for a questionable merger. 

Previous wellbeing priest Moon Hyung-pyo and the central speculation officer of the National Pension Service (NPS) Hong Wan-seon are on trial for supposedly forcing the NPS to acknowledge the merger. 

What's more, a week ago, two plastic specialists who treated the picture cognizant previous president - including one who infused her with human placenta separates - were indicted lying about having treated her.

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