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Father Emir attends Longines Global Tour US-backed Qatar aiming at Syrian alliance seizes town self-sufficiency in near Iraq border BEIRUT: A US-backed Syrian rebel alliance yesterday captured the town of Al Houl in Hasaka date production province, which had been held by Islamic State militants, a spokes- man for the Kurdish fighters, part of the grouping, said. Plan to plant nine types of new palm trees It was the first significant advance against IS by the Demo- DOHA: With plans to plant at least nine families to get natural and traditional food cratic Forces of Syria, which was types of new date palm trees, Qatar aims back on their dining tables and encourage formed last month. to be self-sufficient in date production them to discard junk and risky food. Redur Xelil, who is in the sooner rather than later. The idea behind holding date festivals town, close to the Iraqi border, A pilot project which has already been during the harvest season in the summer said Islamic State fighters had launched with the above objective in mind, months is to highlight the nutritional and fled. Britain-based monitoring is yielding encouraging results, says a sen- medicinal values of dates. Father Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser group the Syrian Observatory ior environment ministry official. Statistics for the year 2010 suggest that attended the final day of the Longines Global Tour in Al Shaqab in Doha yesterday. The for Human Rights confirmed the The agricultural affairs department in- there were an estimated 145,000 date pro- three-day event sees a host of the best riders competing in 15 rounds all around the world. takeover. charge of the pilot project is part of Qatar’s ducing palm trees in the country covering See also page 19 “The Syrian Democratic Forces Ministry of Environment. total area of 335,000 hectares. took control on Thursday of the Massoud Jarallah Al Marri, head of The Qatar Foundation-funded research village of Al Houl on the IS sup- agricultural research division at the agri- initiative has ensured the trial and use of ply route for arms and equipment cultural affairs department, said that over new technologies to boost date production from Iraq,” SDF spokesman Colo- the next four years date production in the in the country and improve the quality of Israeli troops shoot three nel Talal Ali Sello said. country will go up substantially. the produce. Al Marri said that projects “The streets are filled with bod- The production of dates here will be have been launched to bolster animal fod- ies of jihadists, and other jihadists bolstered so much so that self-sufficiency der production as well, with the aim of are fleeing towards Ash-Shadadi” is achieved, he said. “As of now too, local increasing production and improving the Palestinian youths to death to the southwest, he said. production meets a lot of demand.” quality of the fodder locally produced. “We have cut the supply route” Plans are afoot to tremendously improve It is a new technology of fodder produc- HEBRON, Palestinian Territories: An Israeli father and son were also killed for IS, said Sello. the quality of the locally produced dates as tion in which the use of water for irrigation Three Palestinians were shot dead in in clashes yesterday. “This is the biggest strategic well, the official pointed out. purposes is minimal, he pointed out. Hebron and Ramallah yesterday. Along the Gaza border, 17 people were victory, and it was achieved in Qatar Foundation, according to Al Marri, The new produce will gradually replace A Palestinian was shot dead during hit when Israeli soldiers shot at demonstra- complete coordination with the has funded a QR15m date palm research the fodder which is being currently culti- clashes yesterday with the army in Hebron, tors inside the enclave, emergency services (US-led) international coalition, initiative to help improve the genetic traits vated here. Also, the production technol- Palestinian medics said. there said. Altogether, more than 270 Pal- which carried out intensive (air) of the local varieties of dates. ogy being used is fit for hot climates like Hassan Al Bo, 21, died after being hit in estinians were treated during clashes on strikes,” he said. Al Houl has been Al Marri said that nine new types of date the one which obtains here, said Al Marri. the heart by live ammunition, an official at Friday, the Palestinian Red Crescent said, the focus of a two-week-old cam- palm trees will be planted in the country He said that livestock resources of Al Ahli Hospital said. around 100 with bullet and rubber bullet paign by the alliance to flush out to boost production and as part of plans to the country are also being raised and Soldiers also shot dead a man near the wounds and the rest after inhaling tear gas. Islamic State from northeastern develop Qatar’s own brand of dates. improved. West Bank city of Ramallah yesterday, the Violence since the start of October, areas. The GCC states are large producers of For example, livestock are being vac- Palestinian health ministry said. including a wave of Palestinian knife, gun The Democratic Forces of dates and Qatar is fast catching up with its cinated and being given hormonal treat- A statement announced “the death of a and car-ramming attacks, has killed 81 Syria, which joins together the neighbours in date production. ment for diseases. He hinted that these young man, Lafi Yusuf Awad, 22 years old, people on the Palestinian side — includ- US-backed YPG and several Syr- Dates contain essential nutrients and initiatives will ensure that Qatar emerges, from the village of Budrus in the district of ing one Israeli Arab — and 12 Israelis. ian Arab rebel groups, announced are a major source of dietary potassium. sooner rather than later, a regional leader Ramallah, (killed) by a bullet from Israeli The violence was originally focused in and its formation in Octo ber, and A date festival has become a popular in sustainable and improved date produc- forces”. around Jerusalem but has recently shifted launched an offensive against IS annual event in Qatar, with agricultural tion systems and animal husbandry. Earlier, a Palestinian teenager in Hebron to Hebron and its surrounding areas. in Hasaka later that month. development officials insisting that the succumbed to his wounds after being shot event is part of a campaign to convince THE PENINSULA by troops a day earlier. AFP REUTERS/AFP

British IS leader Kurdish forces recapture Iraq’s Jihadi John ‘probably’ killed Sinjar town from Islamic State NEAR SINJAR TOWN: Kurd- declared victory in an offen- operation began. But it was still in air strike ish peshmerga forces backed by sive that could provide critical not clear if most IS militants had US air strikes seized the Iraqi momentum in efforts to capture carried out a tactical withdrawal. BEIRUT: The United States tar- town of Sinjar from Islamic State the western provincial capital Kurdish forces, backed by US air geted British Islamic State leader yesterday, a witness said, in one Ramadi, and Mosul in the north, strikes and volunteers from Iraq’s “Jihadi John” in an air attack in of the most significant counter- an Islamic State bastion. “The lib- Yazidi minority entered Sinjar northern Syria which Britain attacks since the militants swept eration of Sinjar will have a big yesterday after cutting it off from said would “strike at the heart through the north last year. impact on liberating Mosul,” Bar- east and west. of Islamic State” if the militant’s “ISIL defeated and on the run,” zani told reporters atop Mount The Kurdistan council said death is confirmed. the Kurdistan regional security Sinjar, overlooking the town. peshmerga forces had entered British Prime Minister David council said in a tweet, using an In the Sinjar area itself, the Sinjar “from all directions” to Cameron said the death of acronym for Islamic State. It said operation severed vital supply begin clearing remaining insur- Mohammed Emwazi, who was the peshmerga had secured Sin- routes used by IS to move fight- gents. A correspondent saw known as Jihadi John after jar’s wheat silo, cement factory, ers, weapons and oil and other hundreds of peshmerga fighters appearing in videos showing the hospital and several other public illicit commodities that provide walking into the town and along a killings of US and British hos- buildings. funding for its self-proclaimed main road without facing immedi- tages, could not yet be confirmed Members of the Kurdish peshmerga forces gather in the town of Sinjar, Iraqi Kurdish regional Presi- caliphate. Civilians appeared to ate resistance. and the Pentagon said it was still Iraq, yesterday. dent Massoud Barzani also have fled the town before the REUTERS assessing the effectiveness of the strike. But a US official said Thurs- day’s attack in the town of Raqqa, Islamic State’s de facto capital, probably killed Emwazi and the Trump unleashes rant against rival candidate Carson Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group, quoted sources in Raqqa as say- WASHINGTON: Republican utive “Carly whatever-the-hell- up and down, ridiculing Carson’s fumed. “How stupid are the peo- per, quoting directly from Car- ing he had been blown to pieces. presidential frontrunner Donald her-name-is” Fiorina. claim in his 1990 autobiography ple of Iowa? How stupid are the son’s book, adding that it equates “A car carrying four foreign Trump has unleashed a stunning The billionaire real estate Gifted Hands that the boy’s belt people of the country to believe to the sickness of a child molester. Islamic State leaders, including verbal assault on his nearest com- tycoon pulled no punches during buckle prevented the knife from this crap?” Hours later, Trump doubled one British Jihadi was hit by US petitor Ben Carson, saying US a Thursday night stump speech entering his body. The criticism was a world down on the comparison at the air strikes right after the gover- voters were “stupid” to believe that devolved into a 95-minute “Anybody have a knife? Want apart from Trump’s restrained rally in Iowa, where Trump and norate building in Raqqa city,” the doctor’s moving personal rant in Fort Dodge, Iowa, the to try it on me? Believe me, it demeanor during Tuesday’s Carson are running neck-and- Rami Abdulrahman, Director of narrative and comparing him to state that votes first in the presi- ain’t gonna work,” Trump said, Republican primary debate, neck. the UK-based Observatory said. a paedophile. dential nomination process. indicating that a buckle would where he issued no attacks on “That’s like, I could say, you He initially quoted sources in It was Trump’s most aggressive He reserved his harshest criti- provide no protection. Carson. don’t cure, as an example, a child Raqqi as saying the body of “an campaign speech yet in his bom- cism for Carson, already under Trump, in retelling the story, But it was a different story molester,” he told the crowd. important British Jihadi” was in bastic run for the 2016 Republican scrutiny for details of what he has said Carson had plunged the knife Thursday as Trump turned “If you’re a child molester, the town’s hospital. nomination, hurling sharp insults said was a violent adolescence in “into the belt and, amazing, the brusque. a sick puppy, you’re a child See also page 5 against several rivals includ- which he claims to have tried to belt stayed totally flat and the During an interview with CNN, molester. There’s no cure for ing “weak-like-a-baby” Senator stab a classmate. knife broke.” he repeated his accusation that that.” REUTERS Marco Rubio and business exec- Trump flipped his belt buckle “Give me a break,” Trump Carson had a “pathological” tem- AFP SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2015 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME QU students launch ‘It Pays’ campaign for healthy lifestyle Importance of daily physical exercise highlighted

DOHA: A group of students from Qatar Uni- If their projects are selected, they will versity College of Business and Economics present their research findings and creative (QU-CBE) designed and produced a health ideas on December 8 in front of a jury of repre- awareness campaign that aims to highlight sentatives from Qatar Supreme Committee for the importance of daily physical exercise to Delivery and Legacy and the Josoor Institute. prevent life-threatening diseases, and encour- CBE assistant professor of marketing and ages youth to adopt a healthy diet and lifestyle Chair of the Student Outreach & Support by adding simple things to their daily routine. (SOS) committee Dr Dalia Abdelrahman Far- Themed ‘It Pays,’ the campaign is in the rag said: “This is an invaluable opportunity for Oman’s Ruler H M Sultan Qaboos bin Said receiving the credentials from form of a competition in which the students our students to enhance their learning experi- Qatar’s envoy Ali bin Fahad Al Hajri in Muscat. from the Management and Marketing Depart- ence and introduce their ideas into the Qatari ment will compete against teams from 25 uni- market. It also serves to advance their skills versities and secondary schools in Qatar. to be professionals, solid team players and Sultan Qaboos receives In this regard, the CBE students developed good communicators. With sports, fitness and a real advertising agency with various com- healthy lifestyles becoming a national pastime munications and marketing departments, and especially in the lead up to FIFA World Cup credentials of Qatari envoy launched ‘My Walk’ , ‘Stop Soda’ and several 2022, it is a timely campaign for our students other initiatives that are part of the campaign. to demonstrate their skills in developing inno- MUSCAT: H M Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Sultanate of Oman received QU President Dr Hassan Al Derham and vative and motivational messages to impact the credentials of Ali bin Fahad Al Hajri as Ambassador of Qatar to CBE dean Dr Nitham Hindi were on hand to societal change.” Oman. support the students at the ‘Stop Soda’ booth, Fourth year marketing student Shaed Al Ambassador Al Hajri conveyed to Sultan Qaboos bin Said greetings and signed a pledge to stop drinking soda for Rumaihi said: “It Pays” promotes the idea that and best wishes of Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani of one week. a small change can really make a big differ- good health and happiness and for the Omani people continued progress The competition which is organised by Ed ence in our lifestyle. The initiative ‘My Walk’ and prosperity. Venture Partners, requires participants to encourages our QU colleagues to get involved For his part, Sultan Qaboos asked the ambassador to convey his work on real life projects, get hands-on expe- in sporting activities and motivates them to greetings and best wishes to Emir of good health and wellness, and rience based on local market needs, design and consider walking as one of their important Qatar University President Dr Hassan Al Derham the Qatari people further prosperity and progress. execute an integrated marketing communica- daily exercises.” signs a pledge to stop drinking soda for one QNA tions (IMC) plan, and analyse results. THE PENINSULA week.

Over 9,000 attend ‘Beat Diabetes Walkathon’ Japan Cultural Week held

DOHA: The Sixth annual Beat open to welcome all those who DOHA: The Japanese Embassy ated especially for the event. Diabetes Walk saw the over- are keen to maintain a healthy recently organised “Japan Cul- Touching upon the deep bilat- whelming participation of more lifestyle.” tural Week” to celebrate the eral relations between Japan and than 9000 residents (including Starting at 3pm in afternoon, growing cultural exchange Qatar, Japan Ambassador Shingo 3500 kids from various schools) Aspire park buzzed with partici- between Qatar and Japan. Tsuda said: in a bid to raise awareness about pants in blue T-shirts and caps. Held in cooperation with Junko “Japanese cuisine has been the condition and promote the The emcees for the walkathon, Sushi & Japanese Dining restau- attracting the world’s attention benefits of a healthier lifestyle. stepped up the momentum with rant, the event was held from for a long time, and Qatar is not Commenting on the Sixth edi- live music and entertainment spe- November 10 to 12 featuring different. Japanese food, so called tion of the walk, Saikat Mishra, cially curated to support diabe- daily soba –Japanese noodle- “Washoku”, has been inscribed on General Manager Landmark tes awareness. The release of blue making events and showcasing the UNESCO list as intangible Group Qatar said: “We are grate- balloons, symbolic of the global of traditional crafts and prod- Cultural Heritage in December ful to the people of the Qatar and color for diabetes awareness, sig- ucts of Nishimeya Village located 2013. I am very glad to see more the wider region who stepped out naled the start of the walkathon. at the heart of the UNESCO and more people in Qatar expe- of their homes to join the Beat Complementing the mood, Natural World Heritage site of riencing Japanese food.” Diabetes Walk. This year, over Fitness First hosted spot fitness Shirakami Mountains known Many dignitaries were present thousands of people in India and challenges at the Fitness Zone, as for its verdant fertile lands and at the opening of the event includ- across the GCC region will walk well as Zumba. Participants were fresh water. ing the ambassadors of Kenya, to show their support for diabetes also provided with education on The main event was the cut- Singapore, Pakistan, Bulgaria awareness and we hope each one beat diabetes. ting of a huge tuna fish in the and Korea. of them is inspired to make small The morning included sev- traditional Japanese style. The event attracted many lifestyle changes to either prevent eral fun components to create a The three-day event also wit- Qataris and residents who or manage the condition.” carnival like atmosphere. At the nessed a celebration of the cul- enjoyed sampling Japanese “We thank the Qatar Diabetes Funville Kids Zone, children were tural convergence between Japan dishes and sweets as well as tak- Dr Abdulla Al Hamaq, Executive Director of QDA, with Saikat Mishra, General Association & local authorities entertained with fun sporting and Qatar through a display of ing pictures while trying out the Manager Landmark, opening the sixth Annual Beat Diabetes Walkathon at for encouraging and wonder- activities and flash mobs which kimono and an exclusive abaya kimono and the Japanese style fully supporting suchcommunity Aspire park yesterday. KAMMUTTY V P was also conducted Fitness First. fashion tailored from kimono tex- abaya. events, particularly Aspire Zone At the arena the participants tile with Japanese patterns cre- THE PENINSULA Management. could check their sugar levels free Dr Abdulla Al Hamaq , Director of cost & also educated through Qatar Diabetes Association: “The the key aspects of diabetes man- Qatar edition of the walkathon agement, including the impor- supports QF’s mission to foster a tance of regular blood glucose progressive society while address- testing and monitoring. In addi- ing immediate social needs. Dia- tion, the experts offered insightful betes is a lifestyle condition that nutritional advice on diabetes. can be managed if detected early. Organisations that supported We look to emphasise the impor- the Sixth edition of the walkathon tance of regular check-ups and a include Jhonson & Jhonson and Al healthy lifestyle. Abeer Medical Centre. “As this condition can impact The Beat Diabetes initiative is any member of the family at any of particular significance to the age, it is important to be alert and GCC countries and India with take the right step to safeguard both regions ranking high in the health. Landmark is an integral International Diabetes Federation part of the community and we (IDF)’s list of countries for preva- engage with millions of people lence of diabetes. every day. We are proud to play Landmark Group is the only a pivotal role in enabling the com- retail and hospitality conglomer- munity to beat diabetes through ate to lead diabetes related edu- a planned, comprehensive cam- cational and community-focused paign. We are pleased with the activities across six GCC coun- involvement of The “Landmark tries and India. In November Group” and we cooperate together becoming an destination for ath- lifestyles through being active. 2014, Landmark Group’s walka- to beat diabetes for the last six letes from around the world, we We continually support activi- thons held across UAE, Oman, year” also have an even more important ties and programmes that aim Kuwait, Bahrain and India drew Abdulla Al Khater, Events role towards the local community. to inspire people and positively an overwhelming response. Manager at Aspire Zone Founda- This involves encouraging the encourage them to stay healthy tion, said: ““While Aspire Zone is people of Qatar to follow healthy and fit. Our facilities are always THE PENINSULA Cutting of tuna fish in traditional Japanese style.

Austrian President meets NU-Q report cites year of growth and achievements Arab delegation DOHA: Northwestern University in Qatar Petroleum, and Qatar Airways. ‘Market Research on Mobile-Based, Educa- unparalleled opportunities and outreach (NU-Q) has released its ‘Charting a Course Another highlight of the year was tional Digital Tools.’ NU-Q’s Liberal Arts initiatives - not only offered, but utilized for Growth,’ a report details the growth Northwestern’s ranking among the top program also continued its efforts to build a by students - speaks to the power of an VIENNA: Austria’s Presi- across the campus’s instructional, research, universities globally. It was ranked 12th foundation for all students, integrating fresh NU-Q education.” dent Dr Heinz Fischer has and outreach missions, highlighting the among thousands of US colleges and uni- thinking and theory from a broad range of Also this year, NU-Q won major grants met with delegation of Arab academic and professional achievements versities in national rankings, and within subject areas. Following an international for institutional and faculty projects, includ- ambassadors in Vienna led of the 2015 graduating class. the top 25 in the world, which makes it search, the university also added eight new ing a National Priorities Research Grant by Qatar’s Ambassador Ali Among the achievements cited are the the top-ranked undergraduate university faculty members, four full-time appoint- (NPRP) from the Qatar National Research Khalfan Al Mansouri, who number of NU-Q alumni who have gone in Education City. ments and four adjunct lecturers, with the Fund (QNRF). In parallel, a series of glo- is also Chairman of the Arab on to pursue graduate studies at top inter- Critical to the university’s continued suc- last two rounds for renewals resulting in bally-recognized thought leadership endeav- Group. national institutions including Oxford, cess and growth were new investments to 100 percent reappointment. ors such as ‘Media Use in the Middle East Discussions dealt with ways Harvard, London School of Economics and strengthen the academic curriculum and Everette E. Dennis, dean and CEO of 2015’ and the ongoing ‘Qatar Media Indus- to develop Arab-Austrian New York University, as well as the con- expand NU-Q’s faculty. Several new courses NU-Q, said, “As our institution grows, tries Forum,’ seized a critical opportunity relations, as well as the cur- tinued pattern of job placements in major were added to each the communication and develops and stretches, we must take a to shape the developing industries of media, rent situation in the Middle media and communication positions at journalism programs, with heavy empha- moment to acknowledge and celebrate communication and journalism in Qatar. East. organizations including the Amiri Diwan, sis on digital content production and the the many ideas that came to fruition QNA Al Jazeera Network, Total Energy and intersection of media and society, including and flourished this year. ….The record of THE PENINSULA SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03

SEC urges Qatari doctors can licensees to work in more than implement new standards

DOHA: The Supreme Educa- one pvt hospital tion Council’s education author- ity has called licence holders and DOHA: The Supreme Council of principals of Independent schools Health (SCH) has allowed spe- to implement the updated profes- cialist Qatari doctors to practice sional standards for teachers and in more than one private sector school leaders starting the year institutions in the country. 2015-16 as the authority carries The Qatar Council for Health- on with a process of development care Practitioners (QCHP) at and revision of educational policies. SCH has issued a circular in this The national standards include regard. planning for the development of “The permanent licensing com- students’ performance, improv- mittee at SCH in its meeting held ing theme as learners, providing on October 14 has approved a new them with a safe, supportive and policy for Specialist Qatari Doc- challenging learning environment, tors (physicians & dentists) to assessing their learning and using practise in more than one insti- evaluation data to improve their tution in the private sector in The permanent performance, showing high qual- Qatar” said the circular, adding licensing committee ity professional practices, par- that the permission is subject to ticipation in constant professional at SCH has approved Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) President H E Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani with officials of Turkey’s national certain conditions. football team. development, and maintaining an The specialist Qatari Doc- a new policy for effective partnership with parents tor should have a valid medical Specialist Qatari and the society. Reviewed profes- licence and must be working at sional standards for school leaders least for five years as a specialist. Doctors (physicians & also include strategic leadership, The doctor concerned should dentists) to practise Minister lauds Qatar-Turkey ties education leadership, leading get an official written permit in more than one individuals and teams, and the from the current employer. This institution in the DOHA: Minister of Youth and management of relationships. permit is renewable and valid for Sports H E Salah bin Ghanem two years unless it is cancelled private sector in Qatar” Al Ali lauded bilateral relations before that. said the circular, between Qatar and Turkey. UN condemns An official request must be sub- adding that the During a ceremony hosted mitted to the registration depart- permission is subject by Turkish Ambassador Ahmet Beirut attack ment from the management of Demirok and attended by Presi- the new institution seeking the to certain conditions. dent of Qatar Football Association NEW YORK: United Nations specialist’s service. There should Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa bin Secretary General Ban Ki-moon not be a conflict between duty Ahmad Al Thani along with Sec- and his Special Representative hours in the different institutions. retary-General for the Supreme in Lebanon, Sigrid Kaag, have The doctor will only be con- Committee for Delivery and Leg- strongly condemned the terrorist sidered as part of the permanent ticing in other institutions will acy Hassan Al Thawadi, the Min- attack on Thursday in the Beirut staff of the main institution he/ be cancelled and the doctor will ister described relations between suburb of Burj Al Barajneh. she is licensed to. not be allowed to submit a new the two countries as historic and “Secretary-General is deeply The approval issued from the request before six months, said outstanding in all areas and are saddened at the reported high registration department is valid the circular. receiving support and political numbers of fatalities and injured, as long as the medical licence is The doctor can issue elec- will accorded by Emir H H Sheikh and extends his condolences to valid and will be renewed with the tronic sick leaves (E-Jaza) under Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Minister of Youth and Sports H E Salah bin Ghanem Al Ali with other officials. the families of the victims and medical licence’s renewal. the name of any institution that President of the Turkish Republic to the people and Government If there is a breach in the said the registration department has Recep Tayyip Erdogan. friendly match between Qatar and strengthen relations between the of Lebanon. He wishes a speedy conditions, a warning letter will granted approval to work with. Minister’s meeting with Turk- Turkey at Abdullah bin Khalifa two countries in youth and sports recovery to those injured, said a be issued to the doctor. In case of ish Ambassador comes within a Stadium, Lekhwiya Sports Club. field. statement yesterday. repetition, the approval for prac- THE PENINSULA framework of preparations for a Their talks focused on ways to QNA QNA Kuwait minister visits QIBS

DOHA: The Kuwaiti Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammed Al- Khaled Al Sabah, paid a surprise visit to the third edition of the Qatar International Boat Show (QIBS). Kuwait is being represented at QIBS this year by three of the country’s companies – Gulf Mas- ter Boats, Sea Line Group and Seas & Deserts. The Sea Line Group for Marine Contracting provides special mar- itime solutions, including consul- tancy, system design, equipment procurement, installation and maintenance. The company also offers com- munications systems, marine electronics, navigation systems and seabed scanning. Sea Line also runs well-equipped work- shops with trained engineers, and Boats line up at the Qatar International Boat Show. has also recently taken delivery of four passenger boats to provide bining strategic planning with Sheikh Mohammed Al Khaled fast transportation within Kuwait highly-qualified personnel, main- and was delighted in the con- territorial waters. taining a reputation for efficiency, fidence that he had shown in Gulf Master Boats is one of reliability and professionalism. making his visit. Kuwait’s pioneering companies It imports, exports, distrib- This edition has been dedicated specialising in the construction of utes, supplies and carries out to the memory of Essa Al Mannai, pleasure, commercial and military after sales services of utility the conceptualiser and Chairman fibreglass powerboats. ships, mega yachts, yachts, boats, of the Qatar International Boat From initial design concepts all terrain vehicles, navigational Show, who passed away just over to state-of-the-art manufactur- electronics, marine/land equip- a week ago. ing processes, “Gulf Master” has ment and special equipment. It was Essa’s vision of Qatar maintained its leading position in Faysal Mikati, the founder staging its very own boat show, the fibreglass powerboat manu- and CEO of Snow Comms together with his determination, facturing industry. Conceptual Communications that led to the staging of the first The Seas & Deserts Group is a & Events, which is responsible edition of QIBS in 2013. premier Marine & Land Equip- for staging the show, said that ment Company in Kuwait, com- QIBS was honoured to receive THE PENINSULA

Crackdown on illegal labour camps: Rayyan Municipality books 143 violators

DOHA: In crackdowns on ille- drive and at least 125 encroach- Meanwhile, health inspectors gal labour camps and encroach- ments have been asked by the from Al Shamal Municipality ments, inspectors from Al civic inspectors to be removed. have raised a cleanliness aware- Rayyan Municipality have caught At least 20 cases of illegal ness campaign in barber shops or 143 violators and referred at least building excavations and breaches men’s salons. The need for those 66 cases of illegal excavations and of building safety regulations were who man these salon to maintain other breaches of building safety reconciled to. personal hygiene and keep their rules to higher authorities for Some 16 labor camps from fam- razors and other occupational further action. ily residential areas were removed paraphernalia clean was under- Some 32 cases of encroach- and 18 administrative decision lined during the awareness cam- ments on public property were were issued to remove occupants paign. detected during the inspection from buildings. THE PENINSULA SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2015 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com GULF / MIDDLE EAST Assad staying a non-starter in Syria talks: Kerry Vienna to host today the second round of Syrian peace talks in 15 days WASHINGTON: The US and its allies state institutions intact, but he didn’t use that.” Unlike an initial Vienna meet- remain firmly opposed to any role for the word “transition.” ing held on October 30, Iranian Foreign President Bashar Al Assad in Syria’s That’s a key word that must be defined Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif won’t future, Secretary of State John Kerry as transferring power from the Assad attend, according to Iranian media. said, drawing a sharp line of disagree- family and its powerful allies because Kerry believes frequent meetings will ment with Iran and Russia before talks “otherwise it’s meaningless,” said Andrew inevitably produce progress, according in Vienna resume. Tabler, a fellow at the Washington Insti- to British Foreign Minister Philip Ham- Asking the Syrian opposition “to trust tute for Near East Policy. mond. Kerry is using “a philosophy based Assad or to accept Assad’s leadership is “Unless we are very careful about what on momentum,” Hammond said. simply not a reasonable request,” Kerry we are negotiating about here, Wash- “You get people together, you force said. “It is literally, therefore, a non- ington could get caught in a Potemkin them to make some forward move- starter.” He acknowledged that the US process that only strengthens Iran and ment just by keeping their noses to and its allies are “still working through” Russia’s hand and the partition of the the grindstone, keeping them locked the question of Assad and his role with country,” Tabler said in an e-mail after in a room.” Russian and Iran. Kerry spoke. The aim, Hammond said, is to “get this The top US diplomat spoke at the Progress toward a diplomatic solu- starting to feel like an ongoing process United States Institute of Peace, a tion in Syria would be the best possible where everybody says at the end, ‘When’s policy center in Washington funded by boost for the international fight against the next meeting?”’ Congress, before departing for talks in Islamic State terrorists that have seized Fred Hof, the State Department’s Vienna today seeking a political settle- a swath of Syria and Iraq, Kerry said. former adviser on Syria, says that ment to the civil war that has claimed He said that an international coalition approach is misguided at best. “The around 250,000 lives and triggered the has “significantly degraded” the group’s Vienna initiative seeks to substitute worst refugee crisis since World War leadership. a process for acting against rampant II. Kerry argued that Islamic State has regime criminality,” said Hof, now a Despite the rising human cost, dip- a symbiotic relationship with the Assad senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, a lomats say reaching a political solution regime. “They even do business with each Washington policy group. Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz (right), welcoming the Foreign Minister of Oman, for Syria will be a long, difficult proc- other,” Kerry said, “buying and selling A second round of the Vienna talks ess because the countries gathering in oil.” He said they “are enemies far more Youssef Al Alawi Abdullah for the upcoming Syrian Conference in Vienna, yesterday. shouldn’t take place until the Assad Vienna are at odds over how to proceed. in theory than in fact, and neither has regime stops bombing attacks and sieges Russia and Iran back Assad, while the shown any interest in bringing the kill- nothing in the Russian plan indicates mechanics of a cease- fire after a brief- against civilians, Hof said in an interview. US and its allies in the Gulf and Europe ing to an end.” he’d be barred from staying on or from ing from United Nations Special Envoy Before engaging in further talks, the US demand that he step down sooner or Nothing would do more to bolster the running in a presidential election that Staffan de Mistura, as well as confidence- and its allies should establish “a compre- later. fight against the terrorist group more, would follow a referendum on a new building measures to encourage parties hensive, collective strategy,” he said. Kerry delivered the speech “to be Kerry said, “than a broadly supported constitution. to put down their guns. These include Kerry acknowledged that “there transparent in what we’re trying to pur- diplomatic process.” The officials gathered in Vienna — prisoner exchanges and an end to the remains much work to do” and said that sue” at the meeting, according to Mark In Vienna, Russia will present an including foreign ministers from France, regime’s barrel bombing. the US message in Vienna will be that Toner, a State Department spokesman. eight-point plan calling for the creation Britain, Saudi Arabia and Turkey — will “We feel some momentum coming out “we all have a responsibility, not to dig When Kerry listed areas of agreement of a constitutional reform commission begin discussing which opposition groups of the last meeting at Vienna where we in our heels, but to take the next for- with Russia and other nations, he men- made up of opposition and regime fig- should be permitted to participate and had all the various stakeholders around ward step so the bleeding can stop and tioned inclusive governance in Syria, free ures. While Assad wouldn’t be permit- which should be banned as terrorists. the table,” Toner said Wednesday. “We’re the building can begin.” and fair elections, and the need to keep ted to serve as chairman for the talks, The diplomats will also discuss the looking to continue to make progress on BLOOMBERG

Russia bans Russia has no right to ask Assad to leave: Putin MOSCOW: President Vladimir time raised the issue of him leav- solely by the implementation of claimed responsibility for the EgyptAir flights Putin (pictured), said in an inter- ing power? this goal,” Putin said. attack in an apparent act of view released yesterday that Rus- “Syria is a sovereign country, The Russian president also revenge for Russia’s Syria inter- from today sia has no “right” to ask Syrian Bashar Al Assad is a president said the “possible risks and con- vention. leader Bashar Al Assad to leave elected by the people. So do we sequences” of Russia’s Syrian Sources close to the probe have MOSCOW: Russia has banned power. have the right to discuss with intervention have been addressed said that experts involved in the incoming flights by Egypt’s state- His remarks came just days him these issues? Of course not,” multiple times. investigation “strongly favour” owned airline, a senior Rus- before leaders from the world’s Putin said in an interview with On September 30, Russia the theory of a bomb on board sian diplomat and an official of top 20 industrial powers gather in the Interfax and Anatolia news launched a bombing campaign the plane but Moscow has not Moscow’s Domodedovo airport Turkey for a summit which begins agencies. in Syria, saying it needed to tar- yet given any definitive cause for said yesterday, two weeks after tomorrow and is likely to be dom- World powers are to hold get Islamic State jihadists, but the disaster. a Russian jet crash in Sinai inated by the Syrian conflict. another round of talks on the the West has accused Moscow Separately, the Russian mili- that militants claimed to have But Putin, who hosted the Syrian conflict in Vienna this of seeking to prop up Assad’s tary said on Friday that its war- caused. embattled Syrian leader for sur- weekend. regime and hitting moderate planes had struck 289 “terrorist” The aviation agency Rosavi- prise talks at the Kremlin last Putin reiterated that Rus- rebels. targets in 107 sorties over the past atsia declined to comment when month, said Russia could not and sia’s bombing campaign in A month later, an Airbus A321 two days. contacted by Reuters and Egypt’s would not ask him to quit. Syria would last for the dura- charter plane carrying 224 people, Moscow said it had destroyed civil aviation minister Hossam “Let’s think just how legal and tion of an offensive by the Syr- mostly Russian tourists, crashed 34 terrorist command centre Kamal said Russian authorities ethical our behaviour would be if ian army. over Sinai, killing everyone on and three training camps, among had not officially informed Cairo we invited to Moscow the head of “So the duration of our mili- board. other targets. of the decision. a friendly state and at the same tary’s stay will be determined The Islamic State group AFP Russia’s ambassador to Cairo, Sergei Kirpichenko, told a local television channel there that can- cellations of EgyptAir flights to Policeman’s funeral Russia were “temporary security measures”. He did not elaborate. The airport official, who Kerry in Tunisia to help requested anonymity, said the ban on EgyptAir flights would take effect from today. The move comes a week after bolster fledgling democracy Russia suspended passenger flights to Egypt in the wake TUNIS: US Secretary of State of the Sinai crash, for which a John Kerry stressed Washing- group affiliated with Islamic ton’s support for Tunisia’s young State has claimed responsibility. democracy during “strategic The Metrojet Airbus A321 was dialogue” yesterday aimed at bringing holidaymakers home strengthening the partnership from the Red Sea resort of Sharm between the allies, including on Al Sheikh. the economic front. All 224 people on board were “The eyes of the world are killed in what the militants on Tunisia and America wants described as revenge for Russian Tunisia to succeed,” Kerry said air strikes in Syria that began in at a joint press conference with late September. his Tunisian counterpart Taieb The United States and Britain Baccouche. “The US remains have said it appeared that a bomb deeply invested in strengthening brought the airliner down. Tunisia’s economy,” he added. The relatives of a Jordanian police officer Anwar Abu Zaid, shot to death The United States had given the REUTERS after killing five and injuring others at a training facility, shout slogans North African country more than during Zaid’s funeral in the village of Rimon, north of Amman, yesterday. $700m since its 2011 revolution. Baccouche said the dialogue, after initial talks last year, involved military, security and US Secretary of State John Kerry (left), with his Tunisia counterpart, Taieb economic cooperation. Baccouche, in Tunis, yesterday. Rebel will attend peace summit: Juba A US State Department official said earlier that Kerry’s visit was The Quartet comprises the the 2011 revolution that toppled expected to examine a request Tunisian General Labour Union; veteran strongman Zine El Abi- JUBA: South Sudan’s govern- ing has often followed the ethnic ring to Ethiopia’s Hailemariam from Tunis for an additional the Tunisian Confederation of dine Ben Ali, Tunisia has seen a ment said it would meet rebel fault line between Kiir’s Dinka Desalegn who has hosted other $500m in loan guarantees. Industry, Trade and Handicrafts; rise in violence that has targeted leader Riek Machar at a regional and Machar’s Nuer people, and regional peace talks. Baccouche told reporters that the Tunisian Human Rights security forces as well as the key peace conference in its capital Machar has not been seen in the Facing heavy international a letter of intent had been signed League; and the Tunisian Order tourism industry. Juba next week, almost two years capital since. pressure and the threat of sanc- to this effect, adding that Tunis of Lawyers. It was formed in 2013 Militant attacks in Tunis and since he left the city at the start South Sudan will host the tions, Kiir and Machar signed a was seeking a “five-year aid pro- as the process of democratisation the seaside resort of Sousse in of the civil war. meeting of leaders from the peace deal in August. gramme”. was facing huge challenges amid March and June killed 60 people, There was no immediate com- regional IGAD grouping - which Since then both sides have Unlike other regional countries social unrest, threatening to drag all but one of them foreign holi- ment from Machar’s camp on includes South Sudan’s neigh- accused one another of attacks, plunged into chaos by the Arab Tunisia into civil war. daymakers, dealing a heavy blow whether he would attend the bours Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and humanitarian groups have Spring, Tunisia has managed its Before flying to Vienna for to the industry which accounts meeting to discuss implementa- and Sudan — on November 19, pulled out of parts of the oil- political transition, and Wash- an international conference on for almost 10 percent of GDP. tion of a peace deal, which has presidential spokesman Ateny producing country where heavy ington sees this as a response to Syria, Kerry also met President Earlier this year, Tunisia joined already been marred by accusa- Wek Ateny told a news confer- violence has been reported. those who claim that Islam and Beji Caid Essebsi, Tunisia’s first the US-led coalition fighting the tions from both sides of ceasefire ence. More than 2 million people democracy are incompatible. democratically elected head of Islamic State jihadist group that violations. “The prime minister of Ethi- have fled their homes in the coun- During his short visit, Kerry state who visited Washington in claimed the two attacks. Tunisia, The world’s newest nation opia will be accompanied by try, which seceded from Sudan also met members of the National May seeking more military aid to which has thousands of citizens in plunged into conflict in Decem- the opposition leader Dr Riek in 2011. More than 10,000 people Dialogue Quartet who won the counter a jihadist threat. the ranks of organisations such as ber 2013 after a political row Machar, who is the head of the have so far died, humanitarian 2015 Nobel Peace Prize for their During the May visit, the IS, is particularly concerned about between President Salva Kiir and rebel movement, to participate in agencies say. role in promoting a democratic United States designated Tuni- the chaos in neighbouring Libya. his former deputy Machar. Fight- that summit,” Ateny said, refer- REUTERS transition after the revolution. sia a major non-Nato ally. Since AFP SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2015 GULF / MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Violence continues US has contained IS: Obama Air strike targeting ‘Jihadi John’ an act of self-defence: Cameron

WASHINGTON/LONDON: regional strife will persist “until US media reported that it was a low US hostage Steven Sotloff was The United States has halted the we get the Syria political situation drone strike. killed in the same manner, again course of the Islamic State (IS) resolved.” “Emwazi, a British citizen, on camera and by the same execu- group, President Barack Obama “Until Assad is no longer a participated in the videos show- tioner. Sotloff’s mother, Shirley, told said in remarks broadcast yes- lightning rod for Sunnis in Syria ing the murders of US journalists NBC News that she had not been terday, calling for a stepped up and that entire region is no longer Steven Sotloff and James Foley, informed about Thursday’s strike drive to “completely decapitate” a proxy war for Shia-Sunni con- US aid worker Abdul-Rahman and even if it were confirmed, “it the militants’ operations. flict, we’re going to continue to Kassig, British aid workers David doesn’t bring my son back”. The ABC News interview was have problems,” he said. Haines and Alan Henning, Japa- Bethany Haines, whose father recorded on Thursday at the “I would distinguish between nese journalist Kenji Goto, and a David was killed, told ITV News: White House, hours after the making sure that the place is per- number of other hostages,” the “After seeing the news that ‘Jihadi start of a major operation by fect — that’s not going to happen Pentagon said in a statement. John’ was killed I felt an instant Iraqi Kurdish forces, backed by anytime soon — with making sure He was last seen in the video sense of relief”. US-led strikes, to drive IS out of that ISIL continues to shrink in showing Goto’s execution in Janu- But she added: “As much as I the northern town of Sinjar. its scope of operations until it no ary. Emwazi, a London computer wanted him dead, I also wanted “I don’t think they’re gaining longer poses the kind of threat programmer, was born in Kuwait answers as to why he did it, why strength,” said Obama. “From the that it does.” to a stateless family of Iraqi ori- my dad, how did it make a dif- start, our goal has been first to gin. His parents moved to Brit- ference.” contain, and we have contained COMBINED EFFORT ain in 1993 after their hopes of Raffaello Pantucci of the Royal them. They have not gained Meanwhile, Britain’s Prime obtaining Kuwaiti citizenship United Services Institute think ground in Iraq.” Minister David Cameron said yes- were quashed. tank in London said Emwazi’s “And in Syria — they’ll come terday that a US strike on Syria Dubbed “Jihadi John” after death would make little strate- in, they’ll leave. But you don’t see that targeted British militant hostages nicknamed a group of gic difference and could create a this systematic march by ISIL “Jihadi John” was “an act of self- IS guards The Beatles, he first “martyr culture” around him. across the terrain,” he said, using defence”, while acknowledging his appeared in a video in August But Charlie Winter, an aca- Palestinians run for cover from teargas shot by Israeli troops during an alternate acronym for IS. death was “not yet certain”. 2014 showing the beheading of demic who focuses on IS activi- clashes that followed the funeral of Mahmoud Shalaldeh, in the West Obama gave the interview Cameron said the operation Foley, a 40-year-old American ties, said it could be a “big blow”. Bank city of Hebron, yesterday. Shalaldeh died of his injuries after he before news broke of a US air on Thursday against Mohammed freelance journalist captured in Emwazi was six years old when was shot by Israeli troops during clashes the previous day. strike in Syria targeting “Jihadi Emwazi, who appeared in a string Syria in 2012. his family moved to London. He John,” a masked British mili- of graphic videos showing the exe- Foley is seen kneeling on the grew up in North Kensington, a tant who appeared in a string of cution of Western hostages, was a ground, dressed in an orange out- leafy middle-class area where a graphic execution videos. combined British-US effort. fit resembling those worn by pris- network of Islamist extremists IS has seized large chunks of In a statement delivered out- oners held at the US naval base was uncovered in recent years. Turkey detains suspected close territory in Iraq and Syria. side his Downing Street office, at Guantanamo Bay. Emwazi is As a child he was said to be a “What we have not yet been Cameron said that, if confirmed, dressed entirely in black. fan of Manchester United football associate of ‘Jihadi John’ able to do is to completely decapi- Emwazi’s death would be “a strike Foley’s mother Diane told ABC club and the S Club 7 pop group. tate their command and control at the heart” of the IS group. News that if Emwazi’s death were He later went on to study infor- ANKARA: Turkish authorities have detained a suspected close asso- structures. We’ve made some Analysts said the impact of confirmed, it would be “small sol- mation technology at the Univer- ciate of the Islamic State (IS) group militant known as “Jihadi John” progress in trying to reduce the Emwazi’s death would likely be ace” to his family. sity of Westminster. Court papers who Washington believes was likely killed in a drone strike in Syria, flow of foreign fighters,” Obama symbolic rather than tactical for She referred to “this huge published by British media con- a Turkish official said. said. “Part of our goal has to be the jihadist group which controls effort to go after this deranged nected Emwazi to a network of The official said that Aine Lesley Davis, like “Jihadi John” a Brit- to recruit more effective Sunni swathes of Iraq and Syria and is man filled with hate when they extremists known as “The Lon- ish citizen who guarded foreign prisoners in Syria, was believed to be partners in Iraq to really go on known for widespread atrocities. can’t make half that effort to save don Boys” that were originally among several Islamist suspects detained in a swoop in Istanbul and offense rather than simply engage The Pentagon said Thursday’s the hostages while these young trained by the Shebab, Al Qaeda’s was now being held by the Turkish authorities. in defense.” air strike hit Raqa, the group’s de Americans were still alive”. East Africa affiliate. AFP The president warned that facto capital in war-torn Syria. Two weeks after Foley, fel- AFP

OIC condemns PM holds emergency meeting as Beirut blasts JEDDAH: The Organization of Lebanon mourns bomb victims Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has strongly condemned the two BEIRUT: Lebanese Prime disputes between parties, factions coordination with all the parties blasts on Thursday at Beirut’s Minister Tammam Salam held and sects have stopped the gov- on the ground.” Ministers have Burj Al Barajneh area, which an emergency meeting with his ernment taking basic decisions urged politicians to put all rival- left 44 civilians killed and security cabinet and military and left the country without a ries aside and work towards elect- injured. chiefs yesterday as the nation president for 17 months. ing a president and bolstering In a statement issued yester- mourned 44 people killed in a The army established a heavy the government and parliament. day, OIC Secretary-General Iyad double suicide bombing claimed security presence around the State institutions are paralysed Madani described the explosions by Islamic State (IS). scene of the blast, which yester- by political deadlock. as a “terrorist act that aimed to The blasts late on Thursday hit day was still littered with debris, Beirut residents expressed con- compromise Lebanon’s security a residential and commercial area damaged cars and motorbikes and cern after the violence, saying it and stability and terrorise unsus- in a southern suburb of Beirut, shattered glass. Medical sources raised the spectre of civil strife. pecting innocents.” a stronghold of Shia group Hez- raised the death toll yesterday- “It’s been a year... with no He called on Lebanese political bollah, in the latest spillover of from 43 to 44, with more than 200 explosions. We thought we were and civil components to exercise violence from the war in neigh- people wounded. done with this, but were proved wisdom and restraint and work to bouring Syria. Funerals were held in Beirut wrong yesterday,” said central Lebanese municipality workers clear debris from the site of a twin suicide overcome differences and support The first attacks in more than a for several of the victims later Beirut resident Rajaa, who gave attack in the Bourj Al Barajneh suburb of Beirut, yesterday. At least 43 the constitutional institutions in year on a Hezbollah bastion inside in the day, with coffins draped in only her first name. civilians were killed and over 235 wounded when two suicide attackers blew the country so as to foil attempts Lebanon came at time when the the flags of Hezbollah and Amal, “This explosion targeted Leba- to drag the country into a cycle group is stepping up its involve- another Shia movement. non as whole, not only Beirut’s themselves up near a busy market outside a mosque on Thursday evening. of violence and tension. ment in Syria’s civil war, now in Defence Minister Samir southern suburbs,” she said. OIC reiterated its principal its fifth year. Moqbel said the armed forces Hezbollah warned on Thursday the past year.” The White House playing out as a proxy battle and firm stance in rejection of Iran-backed Hezbollah has sent were on high alert across the of a “long war” against its ene- pledged to support the country as it between regional rivals, includ- all forms of terrorism. troops over the border to support country, and trying their best to mies. UN Secretary General Ban worked to “bring those responsible ing Iran and Saudi Arabia which Syrian President Bashar Al Assad keep a fragile calm. Ki-moon urged Lebanon’s secu- for this attack to justice”. Hezbol- support opposing sides in the against Sunni Muslim insurgent “To tell you the security forces rity services and state institutions lah’s political opponents in Leba- conflict. The two adversaries also groups including IS. can control things like that 100 “not to allow this despicable act non, including Sunni politicians, back opposing political forces in IS claims attack on Lebanon is also suffering from percent of the time, I’d be lying,” to destroy the relative calm that also condemned the attacks. Lebanon. Baghdad funeral its own political crisis in which he said. “We’re doing our best in has prevailed in the country over Syria’s civil war is increasingly REUTERS

BAGHDAD: Islamic State (IS) said one of its militants blew himself up at the funeral of a pro-government Shia fighter in Baghdad yesterday, killing Three Turkish soldiers, at least 18 people and wound- ing 41. A statement distributed online by supporters of the ultra-hard- 11 Kurdish militants killed line Sunni group said the tar- get was “a group of rejectionist SILVAN: Three Turkish soldiers tricts of the town of Silvan for covered in bullet holes. Blood Hashid”, as the group refers to were killed yesterday in the mainly an 11th day, even after security was splattered across the facade the Shia militias fighting against Kurdish southeast of the country, regained full control of the areas of one bullet-riddled building. it in the country’s north and west. the latest casualties in a tide of vio- after operations targeted PKK Streets had been dug up by lence engulfing the region since the rebels, security sources said. members of the PKK’s armed breakdown of a ceasefire between On Thursday, police fired tear youth wing and water supplies Two killed in blast security forces and militants in gas in Silvan at a group of law- were cut, officials said. Security July. makers from the pro-Kurdish forces were continuing their near Yemen mosque Two of the soldiers died when Peoples’ Democratic (HDP), who searches and defused 22 bomb- their vehicle hit a buried explosive wanted to enter the districts laden booby traps, they added. SANA’A: Two men were killed in the town of Lice, the military under police lockdown amid con- Video footage shot on Thurs- in an “accidental” blast yester- said in a statement. cerns over food shortages. day in Silvan showed troops day near a mosque in a region A third was killed and three Prime Minister Ahmet Davu- armed with automatic rifles, their of northern Yemen controlled more wounded in clashes in the toglu dismissed criticism of the faces concealed by black scarves, by Shia Houthi rebels, witnesses Ercis district of Van province dur- operations, saying all “humanitar- advancing along empty streets said. ing a dawn operation by security ian measures” were in place and and inside damaged school build- The men were killed in the forces acting on a tip-off that mili- vowing to continue the operation ings apparently used by militants. Mahwit region when a bomb car- tants were holed up in a house, the until “every street is safe. Armoured vehicles were deployed ried by one of them exploded “by military said on its website. “We are taking precautions to on a hill overlooking the town, the accident”. Authorities also said security make sure this operation would video showed. The PKK took up It was unclear why the man forces had killed 11 militants of be completed as soon as pos- arms against the Turkish state had the bomb outside a Shia the banned Kurdistan Workers sible. Important progress has in 1984, and more than 40,000 mosque, many of which have been Party (PKK) on Thursday in been made,” he told reporters in people, mostly Kurdish militants, targeted by Sunni militants dur- Policemen secure the area at the security check point prior to the G20 clashes in the towns of Cizre and Ankara. “God willing, there will have died in the conflict. The PKK ing this year’s conflict in Yemen Summit in Antalya, Turkey, yesterday. The two-day summit will begin Silopi, near Turkey’s borders with be a return to normal life.” is listed as a terrorist organisa- pitting the Houthis against gov- tomorrow. In additional to discussions on the global economy, the G20 Syria and Iraq. Residents had completely tion by Turkey, the United States ernment forces. grouping of leading nations is set to focus on Syria including the refugee A round-the-clock curfew deserted those parts of Silvan, and European Union. AGENCIES crisis and the threat of terrorism. remained in force in three dis- where apartment blocks were REUTERS SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2015 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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YANMARESE are finally starting their journey on the road of democracy which will take them to stability, peace and prosperity. MAfter some uncertainty, the results of the Suu Kyi’s victory masks landmark national elections were announced yesterday. As expected, Aung San Suu Kyi’s party has won with a staggering majority, ending half a century of dominance by the military. The election commission said the National League for Democracy (NLD) party has won 348 seats power of Myanmar army across the lower and upper house of parliament, 19 more By Chris Blake and Kyaw Thu than the 329 needed for an absolute majority. Myanmar has tary in Asia. “Unlike in 1990, when the spending in 2014 and 4.3 percent of then military-regime failed to hand gross domestic product, according to been moving toward a civilian-led government since the t’s been a long time coming. Aung over power, this time round key con- the Stockholm International Peace election of current President Thein Sein in 2011. Sein was a San Suu Kyi has been waiting for stitutional architects have had several Research Institute. While parliament member of the military junta that had ruled Myanmar for this for more than a quarter of decades to plan.” gets to approve the official budget for decades, but he implemented many reforms. a century, the jubilant crowds in At midday in Rangoon, the election the Tatmadaw, as the armed forces are Winning the election is likely to be the easiest part as Rangoon and across Myanmar commission’s latest count made it clear: known, it has no control of off-budget Ihave sensed it over the past weeks of The NLD had won a significant major- military spending from the sale of natu- Suu Kyi faces several daunting challenges. The question campaigning, and now the electoral ity, securing 348 seats so far across ral resources, allowed under a special that will haunt many minds is how smooth the transition commission has confirmed it: Myanmar the two houses of parliament, enough law. to democracy is likely to be. The Nobel laureate does not is returning to democracy. to choose the next president without “The resources of the country remain have complete power and the army generals, who have Yet behind the people chanting Suu needing the backing of another party. in the hands of the military and their amassed billions of dollars in wealth, will still control the Kyi’s name in the streets, the spectre of The news will be cheered by Suu Kyi’s cronies,” said Robert Lieberman, a sen- most powerful ministerial portfolios – interior, defence and the military remains. Having controlled supporters, but the task of winnowing ior lecturer at Cornell University and the Southeast Asian nation for more away the military’s influence may take the director of the 2012 film “They call border affairs. Despite all the assurances they have given, than five decades, and with its careful decades. How she handles that is impor- it Myanmar,” shot clandestinely over a the generals can seize power if they want. In 1990, the NLD opening up to the west in recent years, tant to the foreign investors who have four-year period. “Myanmar is a coun- also won an election but the generals annulled the result, it’s been preparing for this moment, too. piled into the country and for neigh- try rich in natural resources: oil and imprisoned her colleagues and placed The armed forces and its political bours like China, Myanmar’s biggest gas, minerals including jade, rubies and her under house arrest. It’s for this wing, the Union Solidarity and Devel- trading partner with a keen interest in diamonds, plus rich agricultural lands Aung San reason that she has been proceeding opment party, saw the country’s natural resources. and timber. The big question now is who the writing on The key to the junta’s foothold is in is going to benefit from the sale of those Suu Kyi has cautiously this time. In her first the wall and took the constitution it rewrote in 2008. This resources.” won with a speech a day after the elections, Suu steps to ensure includes provisions for military influ- The Tatmadaw, which was founded Kyi warned her supporters not to The incoming they retain a ence in parliament — a guaranteed 25 by Suu Kyi’s father, controls two of the staggering target the losers. “I want to remind strong presence percent of seats; a role in choosing the country’s biggest conglomerates, the majority, but you all that even candidates who government will throughout the president; a clause that bans Suu Kyi Union of Myanmar Economic Hold- country — from from gaining that position; and the ings and the Myanmar Economic Corp, didn’t win have to accept the winners the challenges need to “make parliament to the right to seize power again under cer- which invest in everything from min- ahead are but it is important not to provoke the everybody, legal system to tain conditions. The constitution can’t ing to banking. Both companies are on candidates who didn’t win to make the economy and be changed without 75 percent of parlia- US blacklists. “The Tatmadaw has been more daunting them feel bad,” she told cheering including the even the constitu- ment’s approval, effectively giving the involved in virtually every part of Myan- than winning crowds from the balcony of the NLD military, feel tion. military a veto. “These constitutional mar’s economy,” Chambers said. With headquarters. That’s a result guarantees are what gives the military the prospect of the removal of more an election. that they have of the last time the confidence to allow for the return sanctions and increased investment, While the generals will be they allowed a full of the NLD into the fold of ‘disciplined “economic growth in Myanmar will watching her closely, Suu Kyi will a stake in the election, in 1990, democracy,’” said Lemahieu. make the Tatmadaw much wealthier.” have a tough job of fulfilling her new future of when Suu Kyi’s The generals also retain manage- The incoming government will need promises and keeping several ethnic groups happy. She will National League ment of the defence, interior and border to “make everybody, including the mili- have to overcome distrust from leaders of ethnic minorities Myanmar. for Democracy affairs portfolios, giving them control of tary, feel that they have a stake in the and solve the long-simmering conflicts along the country’s also triumphed. the nation’s security apparatus. new future of Myanmar,” said Razali Then, the army “Myanmar’s military machine in Ismail, former United Nations special borders. For millions of Myanmar voters, she would be a wasn’t ready to cede power. They 2015 is almost completely insulated envoy to Myanmar. “It’s not going to natural choice for president, but she is barred from the annulled the result and kept Suu Kyi from elected civilian control,” said Paul be easy.” post by the constitution -- a legacy of the former junta. under house arrest for most of the next Chambers, director of research at the After an election in 2010 that the To circumvent this Suu Kyi has said she will rule “above 20 years. Suppression, sanctions and Institute of Southeast Asian Affairs in NLD boycotted, the military-backed the president”, a legally uncertain position that she has economic slump were the result. Chiang Mai. “Military leaders are still government led by President Thein Sein This time, they were prepared. comfortable. The enshrined powers of opened industries such as energy explo- not elaborated on. The world will expect her to solve the “The incumbent USDP party the military in today’s Myanmar make ration, banking and telecommunications Rohingya crisis. Rohingyas are suffering persecution at embarked on a transition process know- the 2015 NLD electoral victory still to foreign participation in a bid to end the hands of the majority Buddhists. This will not be easy. ing that the opposition would likely be rather superficial in terms of challeng- Myanmar’s economic isolation. It also The country has witnessed the dangerous rise of hardline able to repeat its 1990 victory,” said ing military might.” relaxed controls on media and demon- Buddhist nationalists who have been stirring anti-Muslim Herve Lemahieu, a research associate The civilian government will have lit- strations and freed political prisoners. bloodshed, which has hit the Rohingya minority hardest. at IISS in London who studies transi- tle oversight of defence expenses, which tional politics and the role of the mili- amounted to 13 percent of government BLOOMBERG The other side Quote of Real estate no longer leading growth driver the day

HE GROWING overstock in Chinese consumers are showing more of which hit a record high by the end to stabilize the development of the real China’s property market certainly potential than ever to be a key growth of October, up more than 50 percent estate sector should not amount to calls for immediate policy engine. After the downturn in 2014, the from October two years ago. backpedalling on the transformation of support to prevent the cooling cooling of China’s property market has This is the result of the relatively strict China’s growth model from investment- Until Assad is no Treal estate sector from becoming too continued in 2015, with both sales and controls over house purchases in a few led growth toward consumption — and heavy a drag on the Chinese economy. prices falling and investment slowing. top Chinese cities, which already rank innovation-driven growth. longer a lightning rod However, Chinese policymakers Latest statistics show that the coun- among those with the highest property Alibaba, China’s leading e-commerce for Sunnis in Syria should also make clear that real-estate try’s property investment grew by only prices around the world, as well as slug- company, reported record sales of investment will no longer continue to be 2 percent year-on-year in the first 10 gish demand in other cities. Policymak- ¥91.22bn ($14.33bn) from the Singles and that entire region a leading driver of economic growth. months of this year, the slowest pace ers have cut interest rates six times in a Day online shopping gala. The nearly is no longer a proxy Although China’s ongoing urbaniza- since the 2008 global financial crisis. year to help property developers battle 60 percent volume rise on last year’s tion provides ample room for steady More alarmingly, new housing con- the cooling economy. But more govern- record figure speaks volumes about war for Shia-Sunni growth of the once all-important prop- struction stood at 1.27 billion square ment support may be needed to quickly the potential of domestic consumption, erty sector in coming years, it is both meters, down almost 14 percent year- arrest the sharp deceleration in real- which deserves more government sup- conflict, we’re going unnecessary and undesirable for the on-year. Such slumping investment in estate investment which, in turn, could port than it has so far received. to continue to have country to keep relying excessively on new houses is largely a result of the exacerbate the slowdown of the overall Barack Obama real-estate investment growth when surge in unsold homes, the floor area economy. Yet the expedient measures CHINA DAILY problems. US President SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2015 OPINION www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 GOP elite worried Carson or Trump might win

By Philip Rucker and Robert Costa

ess than three months before the kickoff Iowa caucuses, Trump’s counterpunches have been there is growing anxiety bordering on panic among withering, while Carson’s appeal to the Republican elites about the dominanceL and durability of Donald base is spiritual, not merely political. Trump and Ben Carson and widespread bewilderment over how to defeat them. If someone was able to do significant Party leaders and donors fear that nominating either man would have nega- damage to them, there’s no telling to whom tive ramifications for the GOP ticket up and down the ballot, virtually ensuring a their supporters would turn, if anyone. Hillary Rodham Clinton presidency and increasing the odds that the Senate falls into Democratic hands. The party establishment is paralysed. Big money is still on the sidelines. No thinking went, after seeing the outsid- he believes the 2016 contest “will eventu- consensus alternative to the outsiders ers share a stage with more experienced ally fall into the normal pattern of one has emerged from the pack of governors politicians at the first debate. Or when outsider and one insider, and historically and senators running, and there is disa- summer turned to fall, kids went back the insider always wins.” greement about how to prosecute the to school and parents had time to assess Black said he was briefed on the find- Presidential candidate Donald Trump (centre) speaks while Senator Marco Rubio (left) and case against them. Recent focus groups the candidates. Or after the second, third ings of two recent private focus groups Ben Carson look on during the Republican Presidential Debate at the Milwaukee Theatre of Trump supporters in Iowa and New or fourth debates, certainly. of Trump supporters in Iowa and New in Wisconsin. Hampshire commissioned by rival cam- None of that happened, of course, leav- Hampshire that showed these voters paigns revealed no silver bullet. ing establishment figures disoriented. knew little about his policy views beyond want to write checks unless they think just that it could be somebody Hillary In normal times, the way forward Consider Thomas H Kean Sr, a former immigration. “Things like universal the candidate has a chance of winning.” could destroy electorally, but what if Hil- would be obvious. The wannabes would New Jersey governor who for most of his health care and other more liberal posi- He said that his job as a mega-donor “is lary hits a banana peel and this person launch concerted campaigns, including 80 years has been a pillar of his party. His tions he’s taken in the past will all get out to figure out how we get people on the becomes president?” television attack ads, against the front- phone is ringing daily, bringing a stream before people vote in New Hampshire,” edge of their chairs so they start to give Angst about Trump intensified this runners. But even if the other candidates of exasperation and confusion from fellow he said. Black said the focus groups were money.” week after he made two comments that had a sense of what might work this year, GOP power brokers. commissioned by two rival campaigns, Many of Romney’s 2012 National could prove damaging in a general elec- it is unclear whether it would ultimately “People usually start off in the same but he was not authorised to identify Finance Committee members have sat tion. First, he explained his opposition accrue to their benefit. Trump’s counter- way: Pollyanna-ish,” Kean said. “They them. out the race so far, including Peter A to raising the minimum wage by saying punches have been withering, while Car- assure me that Trump and Carson will One well-funded outside group, the Wish, a Florida doctor whom several 2016 “wages are too high.” Second, he said son’s appeal to the base is spiritual, not eventually fade. Then we’ll talk some Club for Growth, has aired ads attack- candidates have courted. he would create a federal “deportation merely political. If someone was able to more, and I give them a reality check. ing Trump in Iowa and more recently “I’m not a happy camper,” Wish said. force” to remove the more than 11 million do significant damage to them, there’s no I’ll say, ‘The guy in the grocery store likes came out against Carson as well. “Donald “Hopefully, somebody will emerge who immigrants living in the United States telling to whom their supporters would Trump. So does the guy who cuts my hair. Trump and Doctor Ben Carson are in will be able to do the job,” but, he added, illegally. turn, if anyone. They’re probably going to stick with him. over their heads,” said Club for Growth “I’m very worried that the Republican- “To have a leading candidate propose “The rest of the field is still wishing Who knows if this ends?’ “ President David McIntosh, labeling both base voter is more motivated by anger, a new federal police force that is going upon a star that Trump and Carson are South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, candidates as “pretenders.” distrust of DC and politicians and will to flush out illegal immigrants across going to self-destruct,” said Eric Fehrn- herself an outsider who rode the tea party Still, the party establishment’s greatest throw away the opportunity to nomi- the nation? That’s very disturbing and strom, a former adviser to 2012 nominee wave into office five years ago, explained weapon — big money — is partly on the nate a candidate with proven experience concerning to me about where that Mitt Romney. But, he said, “they have to the phenomenon. shelf. Kenneth G Langone, a founder of that can win.” The apprehension among leads Republicans,” said Dick Wadhams, be made to self-destruct. . . . Nothing has “You have a lot of people who were told Home Depot and a billionaire supporter some party elites goes beyond electability, a former GOP chairman in Colorado, a happened at this point to dislodge Trump that if we got a majority in the House and of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, according to one Republican strategist swing state where Republicans are trying or Carson.” a majority in the Senate, then life was said he is troubled that many associates who spoke on the condition of anonymity to pick up a Senate seat next year. Fehrnstrom pointed out that the gonna be great,” she said in an interview in the New York financial community to talk candidly about the worries. Said Austin Barbour, a veteran opera- fourth debate passed this week without on Thursday. “What you’re seeing is that have so far refused to invest in a cam- “We’re potentially careening down tive and fundraiser now advising former any candidate landing a blow against people are angry. Where’s the change? paign due to the race’s volatility. this road of nominating somebody who Florida governor Jeb Bush: “If we don’t Trump or Carson. “We’re about to step Why aren’t there bills on the president’s “Some of them are in, but too many frankly isn’t fit to be president in terms have the right [nominee], we could lose into the holiday time accelerator,” he said. desk every day for him to veto? They’re are still saying, ‘I’ll wait to see how this of the basic ability and temperament to the Senate, and we could face losses in “You have Thanksgiving, Christmas, New saying, ‘Look, what you said would hap- all breaks,’ “ Langone said. “People don’t do the job,” this strategist said. “It’s not the House. Those are very, very real Year’s, then Iowa and a week later, New pen didn’t happen, so we’re going to go concerns. If we’re not careful and we Hampshire, and it’s going to be over in with anyone who hasn’t been elected.’ “ nominate Trump, we’re looking at a race the blink of an eye.” Before Tuesday’s debate in Milwaukee, like Barry Goldwater in 1964 or George According to other Republicans, some Republican National Committee Chair- McGovern in 1972, getting beat up across in the party establishment are so desper- man Reince Priebus and Wisconsin Gov- For months, the GOP professional class the board because of our nominee.” ate to change the dynamic that they are ernor Scott Walker had a reception at the George Voinovich, a retired career poli- talking anew about drafting Romney — Pfister Hotel with party leaders, donors assumed Trump and Carson would fizzle tician who rose from county auditor to despite his insistence that he will not run and operatives. There was little appetite mayor of Cleveland to governor of Ohio again. Friends have mapped out a strat- for putting a political knife in the back with time. Voters would get serious, the to US senator, said this cycle has been egy for a late entry to pick up delegates of either Trump or Carson, according to vexing. “This business has turned into and vie for the nomination in a conven- one person there. Rather, attendees sim- thinking went, after seeing the outsiders show business,” said Voinovich, who is tion fight, according to the Republicans ply hoped both outsiders would go away. backing Ohio Gov. John Kasich. “We can’t who were briefed on the talks, though There are similar concerns about Sen- share a stage with more experienced afford to have somebody sitting in the Romney has shown no indication of ator Ted Cruz of Texas, who is gaining White House who doesn’t have governing reviving his interest. steam and is loathed by party elites, but politicians at the first debate. experience and the gravitas to move this For months, the GOP professional class they are more muted, at least for now. country ahead.” assumed Trump and Carson would fizzle Charlie Black, who has advised presi- with time. Voters would get serious, the dential campaigns since the 1970s, said THE WASHINGTON POST Islamic State in Libya fights to emulate Iraq, Syria success

By Patrick Markey controlling the city of Sirte, and sources, reported that Abu Ali tially be harnessed to eliminate and Ahmed Elumami worrying Western governments Al Anbari, believed to be Islamic Islamic State.” Events in Sirte are who fear it can only become State governor for Syria directly hard to verify. But as in Iraq and he attack bore all the traits stronger in the post-revolution Far from the battlefields of Iraq and under Islamic State leader Abu Syria, Islamic State appears to be of Islamic State in Iraq. A mess. Bakr Al Baghdadi, had arrived in slowly imposing its vision on the Tsmall unit of militants, They have left their mark on Syria, Islamic State has steadily Sirte by sea. city, carrying out punishments armed with Kalashnikov rifles the North African state. They “They control the whole city such as crucifixions and public and suicide belts, hit the Tripoli have massacred Christian Egyp- grown in Libya’s chaos, controlling and the suburbs. No one can fight floggings, residents say. prison just before sunrise. tians on a Libyan beach, pub- back there now,” one Libyan secu- Taking over city institutions Blasting though a wall, four licly flogged criminals in Sirte, the city of Sirte, and worrying rity source said. “They are Suda- and banks, Islamic State forces fighters worked their way through stormed oilfields, and attacked a nese, Egyptians and Tunisians in merchants and shopkeepers to the heavily guarded compound five-star Tripoli hotel. Western governments who fear it large numbers.” pay a tax that would normally before firing a rocket-propelled But while Libya’s turmoil and Tunisian gunmen who attacked go to the state, and an Islamic grenade to breach the cells inside. history of jihadism offered fertile can only become stronger. foreign tourists at a hotel in court is in place. Barbers are Their target, security sources ground, Islamic State has run up Sousse and the Bardo museum banned from shaving off beards say, was a jailed Libyan Islamic against the heavily armed fac- in Tunis this year were trained and smoking Shisha pipes in State militant. Clashes erupted. tions and rival Islamists already at camps in Libya. Islamic State cafes has been stopped. Female Two of the attackers, a Moroccan in place. claimed both attacks, though they students have been forced to wear and a Sudanese, detonated suicide Even as they lay claim to Sirte, ambassador there. ruary and March, taking a radio may have been tied to another one-piece robes. belts and shortly afterwards all Libya’s Islamic State followers As in Iraq and Syria, Islamic station and other important group. A former bank employee four, and the militant, were dead. have been ousted from Derna city State draws recruits from local buildings. So far, Islamic State has carried and other residents said the The prison break failed. But it by local fighters, and have shown groups, security sources and local Forces from Misrata — a port out mostly hit-and-run strikes local Islamic State organisation was another illustration of the they cannot hold ground or mus- residents say. But Derna also city that is home to one of the or high-profile attacks such as appeared to be struggling to man- tactics employed by an Islamic ter the finances and oil resources showed their limits. country’s more powerful military the Tripoli prison assault or the age the city financially. Prices of State front determined to emu- they benefit from in Iraq. Even after Islamic State lead- factions — arrived to take back attack on the Corinthia hotel in local goods are rising and other late the success of the group’s “They clearly want to expand ers arrived to recruit in July, Sirte. But fearing large-scale the capital, which killed nine peo- products are disappearing. founders in Iraq and Syria. from Sirte,” one Western dip- fighting erupted as Derna Islam- casualties and blaming a lack ple including a French national “Life in Sirte is almost non- “When we see them fighting, lomat said. “They continue to ists and citizens fed up with for- of support from Tripoli, they and an American. existent,” one resident said. they are well trained. There were maintain the ability to carry out eign jihadists drove Islamic State retreated, although hostilities The group has also targeted “People do not have enough only four, but they destabilised one-offs outside their main area, out. But in Sirte, security sources may be resumed at some point. the oil industry. It attempted money to flee the city.” the whole base,” said Muaad Kha- but they are still small.” and residents say, they found a Security sources in Tripoli and to breach the defences of the Es Twice in the last month, lil, a spokesman for forces at the Libya has a long history of more suitable base by tapping into Misrata estimate Islamic State Sider oil port, but failed. Its fight- though, residents in Sirte say Maitiga base. “Who would have jihadism. Men from the Libya frustrations in Gaddafi’s home has at least 500 fighters inside ers overran oilfields south of Sirte, they saw unidentified warplanes thought to attack this base, but Islamic Fighting Group fought town, where many felt sidelined Sirte, and numbers are growing kidnapping several foreigners, attacking districts controlled by they did.” in Afghanistan. Later, Libyan Al after the revolution. thanks to the arrival of foreign but without taking control of the Islamic State. Neither of Libya’s Four years after the overthrow Qaeda militants were accused in “Daesh saw Sirte as the perfect recruits. fields. “The Islamic State in Libya two governments acknowledged of Muammar Gaddafi, Libya is the US embassy bombings in Tan- place. Some Gaddafi followers are Most of Islamic State’s leaders doesn’t have comparable revenue responsibility though both they locked in a conflict between two zania and Kenya in 1998. now Daesh members,” said local are Libyan, some who spent time streams — no oil sales, no size- and foreign countries, including rival governments — an offi- After the fall of Gaddafi, and military commander Ismail Al in Abu Salim prison during the able population to tax and extort,” the United States, have carried cial one in the east, and a self- with the steady fracturing of Mjaree, using an Arabic name for Gaddafi era or had ties to Ansar said Geoff Porter, a North Africa out such raids in the past. “We declared one controlling Tripoli Libya between rival brigades of the group. “In Derna, they didn’t al Sharia. One top leader, secu- expert at West Point’s Combating don’t have night vision for those — and the many armed factions former rebels, the Islamist mili- have that environment.” rity sources said, is Hassan Al Terrorism Centre. kind of strikes,” said one security that back them. tants among them found room to Targeted assassinations of Karami, a Benghazi native once “In Libya, there is a superabun- source in Misrata. “But you know, Far from the battlefields of grow. One group, Ansar Al Sharia rivals and security officials began jailed for Islamist militancy. dance of armed groups. For the the whole world is against Islamic Iraq and Syria, Islamic State has in Benghazi, was blamed for the last year, and Islamic State forces The SITE jihadi monitor- most part they are busy fighting State now.” steadily grown in Libya’s chaos, 2012 attack that killed the US moved in force on Sirte in Feb- ing service, citing Libyan media each other, but they could poten- REUTERS SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2015 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / AFRICA Suu Kyi secures majority in parliament Ban lauds Myanmar elections; China avoids congratulating NLD chief YANGON: Myanmar democ- Results have trickled in since for decades been close to neigh- China frequently congratulates racy champion Aung San Suu the weekend, and yesterday the bouring Myanmar’s authoritar- other countries on their success- Kyi’s opposition party yesterday election commission announced ian military leaders, who voters ful elections, even ones whose clinched enough seats in parlia- the latest batch of seats that overwhelmingly rejected in his- democratic credentials are ques- ment to elect a president and pushed the NLD over the thresh- toric polls. tioned in the West. form a government when incom- old to secure an absolute majority “China will continue to extend Right on China’s doorstep and ing lawmakers convene next year. in parliament. its assistance and continue with a key source of natural resources, Results from the country’s elec- United Nations Secretary-Gen- its friendship and all-around Myanmar is a sensitive case for tion commission confirmed the eral Ban Ki-moon and US Presi- mutually beneficial cooperation” the one-party state, which itself thumping victory that Suu Kyi’s dent Barack Obama had already with Myanmar, Hong Lei said fol- has long resisted calls to embrace National League for Democracy congratulated her on the victory. lowing the victory. democratic elections. (NLD) had claimed after the In a call with Suu Kyi, Obama Asked if Beijing had extended The NLD will make national first free nationwide election in “commended her for her tireless congratulations to Suu Kyi, Hong reconciliation its priority, as well 25 years on Sunday. efforts and sacrifice over so many did not answer directly. as putting an end to decades of The confirmation came five years to promote a more inclusive, “We sincerely wish that Myan- conflict between the army and years to the day since the junta peaceful and democratic Burma”, mar can have political stability rebel ethnic groups in the coun- released Suu Kyi from house the White House said. and that it can achieve national try, said Win Htein, a senior arrest. She had been confined for Obama and Ban also praised development,” he added at a regu- NLD leader. While the election the best part of two decades. Thein Sein for successfully stag- lar briefing. and two months of campaigning The triumph of the charismatic ing the historic poll, with the UN China was a key backer of the in the run-up were largely peace- Nobel peace prize laureate sweeps chief acknowledging his “courage country’s brutal military junta, ful, global leaders stressed that a out the old guard of former gener- and vision” to organise an elec- which kept Suu Kyi under house large number of people, estimated als that has run Myanmar, also tion in which the ruling camp arrest for more than 15 years, by some rights activists at around known as Burma, since President was trounced. Such unambiguous while it was under Western sanc- four million, were unable to cast Thein Sein ushered in a raft of endorsements of Suu Kyi’s victory tions. their ballots. democratic and economic reforms could smooth the lengthy post- China has taken a pragmatic “He is regretfully aware that four years ago. election transition ahead of the approach to Suu Kyi since it a large number of voters from Despite the landslide, Suu Kyi last session of the old parliament, became clear that the party she minority communities, in partic- cannot become president herself which reconvenes on Monday. leads would likely take power. ular the Rohingya, were denied under a constitution drafted by China on Thursday avoided The ruling Communist Party the right to vote and some were the military before the end of congratulating Myanmar democ- invited her for a China visit in disqualified as candidates,” Ban nearly 50 years of rule. She has racy champion Aung San Suu Kyi June, where she met President Xi Ki-moon’s spokesman, Stephane said she will run the country any- for her party’s election victory, Jinping at the Great Hall of the Dujarric, said in a statement. way, through a proxy chosen by which has the potential to strain People, the traditional greeting A man walks past a graffiti depiction of Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung her party. ties with Beijing. Beijing has place for foreign leaders. AGENCIES San Suu Kyi outside the NLD headquarters in Yangon, yesterday. Nigerian troops rescue US bombers fly near China’s islands WASHINGTON: Two US the Spratly Islands, but did not tional law, harming China’s sov- 61 held by Boko Haram B-52 strategic bombers flew come within the 12-nautical- ereignty and security interests,” Japan spots near artificial Chinese-built mile zones that China claims as he added. ABUJA: Nigerian troops killed Islamists in April last year in Chi- islands in the South China Sea territory around islands it has Last month, a US warship Chinese spy ship four suspected Boko Haram bok town, Borno state, was among this week and were contacted built in the chain, said Com- challenged territorial limits suspects and set free 61 people, those rescued so far. by Chinese ground controllers, mander Bill Urban, a Pentagon around one of China’s man- mainly women and children, held Meanwhile, Lithuania yes- but continued their mission spokesman. made islands in the Spratly near disputed isles by the jihadist group in the flash- terday said two Lithuanian and undeterred, the Pentagon said “The B-52s were on a rou- archipelago with a so-called TOKYO: Japan said yesterday it was point northeastern Borno state, two Ukrainian sailors kidnapped on Thursday. tine mission in the SCS (South freedom-of-navigation patrol, monitoring waters near islands dis- the army said last Thursday. off Nigeria from their ship last The latest US patrol in the China Sea),” taking off from the most significant US puted with China in the East China In an operation, troops under month had been released. disputed South China Sea and returning to Guam, Urban challenge yet to territorial limits Sea after it spotted a naval intelli- air cover cleared Boko Haram Lithuanian foreign ministry occurred in advance of Presi- said. Chinese ground controllers China claims around its new gence ship from the country operat- camps “and in the process res- spokesman Kestutis Vaskelevicius dent Barack Obama’s visit to contacted the bombers, but the islands. China reacted angrily ing in a new area for the first time. cued 61 persons abducted and declined to say how the release the region next week to attend aircraft continued their mission to the patrol. Japan’s Defence Ministry said held captive by the Boko Haram was secured or whether a ran- Asia-Pacific summits where he unabated, Urban said. White House spokesman Josh on Thursday a P-3C patrol aircraft terrorists,” the army said. som had been paid for the safe is expected to reassert Washing- “We conduct B-52 flights in Earnest said he did not know observed the Dongdiao-class intelli- “The rescued persons were return of the four men who had ton’s commitment to freedom of international airspace in that whether the South China Sea gence vessel near territorial waters mainly women and children,” the been held in southern Nigeria’s navigation and overflight in the part of the world all the time,” would be on the formal agenda of the Senkaku Islands, which Japan military said, adding that troops oil region. In a statement, the area. Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook at any of the three Asia summits administers but China claims as the also “killed four terrorists and government said the sailors were China claims most of the told a news briefing on Thurs- Obama is to attend, but added it Diaoyus. The ship repeatedly moved arrested one.” taken to a local hospital and were South China Sea, through day. would be “on the minds and lips” back and forth in the area until The Nigerian army had last in good condition. which more than $5tr in glo- In Beijing, asked about the of the gathered world leaders. Thursday evening before departing, October 28 also said it freed more The cargo ship Solarte was bal trade passes every year, and case, Chinese Foreign Ministry Obama’s first stop will be never breaching Japan’s 12-nautical- than 330 people, mostly women attacked on October 19 near the United States has said it will spokesman Hong Lei said China Manila, for the Asia-Pacific Eco- mile territorial waters. and children, from Boko Haram’s Nigeria’s oil hub, Port Harcourt. continue conducting patrols to respected all countries exercis- nomic Cooperation forum sum- At a regular press conference yes- Sambisa forest stronghold in an A total 19 sailors were aboard assure unimpeded passage. Viet- ing freedom of navigation and mit, at which Chinese President terday, Japanese defence minister Gen operation in the volatile north- the ship, comprising three nam, Malaysia, Brunei, the Phil- overflight in the South China Xi Jinping will also be present. Nakatani said the defence ministry east. Of the survivors, 192 were Ukrainians and 16 Lithuanians. ippines and Taiwan have rival Sea in line with international The US president will then go will keep up monitoring of the Chi- children while 138 were women. The other crew members man- claims in the region. law. “We resolutely oppose any to Kuala Lumpur for Asean and nese navy and “make utmost efforts in There has also not been any aged to evade their attackers. In the latest mission, on the country, in the name of freedom East Asia summits. patrolling the sea and air surrounding indication that any of the more night of November 8 and 9, the of navigation and overflight, Japan”. than 200 schoolgirls seized by the AFP bombers flew “in the area” of harming and violating interna- REUTERS AFP

Apec security Indonesian fires Cambodia opposition Resolve ‘comfort could return women’ issue, in February chief faces arrest Park urges Abe JAKARTA: Indonesia’s forest PHNOM PENH: A Cambodian cally motivated” and said it was SEOUL: Japan’s prime minis- fires, which this year sent vast court yesterday issued an arrest not clear if he would return on ter must heal the wounds over plumes of smoke across the region warrant for opposition leader November 16. “comfort women”, most of whom described by climate officials as a Sam Rainsy in connection with The warrant was issued a day were Korean and forced into “crime against humanity”, could an old defamation case as tension after self-styled strongman Hun prostitution in Japan’s military return as early as February, the rises between Sam Rainsy and Sen threatened in a speech broad- brothels before and during World forestry minister said yesterday, Prime Minister Hun Sen after a cast to launch a lawsuit against War Two, South Korean Presi- but on not such a large scale. political truce collapsed. Sam Rainsy for comments he dent Park Geun-hye said yester- Slash-and-burn agriculture, There are three years to go made abroad about the election. day. much of it clearing land for palm before a general election in Cam- Sam Rainsy called on the inter- The neighbours have strug- oil crops, blanketed Singapore, bodia, but acrimony between the national community to ensure gled to find common ground over Malaysia and northern Indonesia two is threatening to plunge the that Hun Sen sticks to the elec- Japan’s 1910-1945 colonisation of in a choking “haze” for months, Southeast Asian nation back into tion timetable and does not use Korea, particularly the issue of pushing up pollution levels and Philippine navy personnel board a patrol boat as they prepare to patrol political conflict. Former finance the deteriorating political situa- “comfort women”, as they are disrupting flights, as it does every near the venue of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in minister Sam Rainsy was abroad tion to delay the vote. euphemistically known. year. But this year was unusually Manila, as part of the security preparations ahead of the summit next yesterday. A party colleague “As the Japanese prime minis- severe. week. More than 18,000 police are being drafted in to guard the summit denounced the warrant as “politi- REUTERS ter and I agreed to expedite con- Indonesian efforts to halt the venues, hotels and routes. sultations for the early resolution fires, often deliberately set by of the issue ... I believe now is high plantation companies and small- time to make a decision to attend holders, have come to nothing to the wounds from the past and and the air has cleared over the heal them,” Park said yesterday in region in recent days only because China probes CSRC chief on graft suspicion an interview with news agencies,. of heavy rain. “Dragging on without acknowl- “In the third week of Febru- edging the problem goes against ary, hotspots will emerge again, NAIROBI: The EU decided to continue functioning normally”. over the legality of such a move. UN Security Council unanimously the sentiment commonly shared so indeed there won’t be a break,” evacuate staff’s families from In a sign of nervousness At least 240 people have been adopted a French-drafted reso- by all peoples around the world,” minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar told Burundi and former colonial abroad over months of violence killed and more than 200,000 have lution calling for urgent talks to she said. Park and Japanese Prime Reuters on the sidelines of a haze power Belgium advised nation- and increasingly inflammatory fled the country since the opposi- pull the country back from the Minister Shinzo Abe met as lead- conference. “We are going to put als to leave, a day after the UN political rhetoric, former colonial tion took to the streets to protest brink of “possible genocide” fol- ers for the first time on November in a better early warning system warned the country was on the power Belgium yesterday advised the incumbent’s refusal to give up lowing killings, arbitrary arrests 2 and they agreed to resolve as and improve our contact with pri- brink of “mass violence”. its around 500 citizens in Burundi power. and other rights violations. soon as possible the dispute over vate concession holders. Before, “We have decided to evacu- to leave unless they had an essen- The official who confirmed the Burundi’s government and the women. South Korea has it was not really working.” Bakar ate temporarily the families and tial reason for staying. evacuation of EU staff said the opposition yesterday welcomed urged Japanese leaders to issue a also said the government would part of the non-essential staff,” Burundi descended into vio- decision had been taken after a the resolution. “To us, it is quite formal apology and offer compen- increase the number of firefight- a European Union official said lence in April after President new risk assessment found the favourable,” Foreign Minister sation acceptable to the surviving ers and equipment on the ground. on condition of anonymity, while Pierre Nkurunziza launched situation to be “clearly danger- Alain-Aime Nyamitwe said of the women and the Korean people. adding that the bloc’s mission in a bid for a third consecutive ous”. UN plan. REUTERS the central African country “will term in office, despite concerns The move came a day after the AFP REUTERS SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2015 ASIA / PAKISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Pakistani farmer sues govt, demanding action on climate change LAHORE: Asghar Leghari had fundamental rights by neglecting the most serious threat facing ble, even though the nation has Leghari’s petition argued that response to Leghari’s petition, had enough. The farmer was to tackle the impacts of climate Pakistan,” the judge said. had a climate change policy and the government is obligated to Sajjad Ahmad, joint secretary of tired of watching his family change. Quoting the objectives of Leghari, who is studying law in framework in place for over three implement the policies it laid out the Ministry of Climate Change, fight against the unpredictable the country’s 2012 National Cli- Lahore, said his family relies on years. in 2012, including practical steps said that the government has put weather that threatened their mate Change Policy, he accused the income it gets from its more “The circumstances that mer- needed to adapt to the effects of policies in place but many have crops in Rahim Yar Khan Dis- leaders of failing “to ensure water, than 500-acre sugarcane farm in ited the filing of this petition climate change and to limit the not been implemented. trict, in Pakistan’s South Punjab food and energy security in the Rahimyar Khan. do not affect only me, but are country’s own emissions that con- Leghari’s advocate in court, region. face of the challenges posed by But water scarcity and tem- endemic,” Leghari said. The case tribute to the problem. Mansoor Usman Awan, said that He was also disheartened by the climate change.” perature changes in the Punjab “does not deal with an individual Those include things like pro- government departments that fates of many small-scale farmers In response, Justice Syed region are stressing crops and grievance, but seeks to address moting crop irrigation practices might be required to act on cli- around him, whose struggles with Mansoor Ali Shah ordered the making it impossible for some a larger public interest matter.” that waste less water and new mate change had failed to deliver weather shifts have ended in pov- formation of a Climate Change farmers to continue to make a The law student said his family crop varieties that require less effective adaptation and mitiga- erty. And he was angry at Paki- Commission to push forward the living. Leghari said he felt it was farm has struggled in particular water, and urging farmers to use tion measures. Hameed Naqi, stan’s seeming inability to protect policies the government promised. time to hold the nation’s leaders with access to water as supplies biogas and manure digesters to director general of WWP-Paki- its people against the devastating That commission, made up of accountable. dry up and rainfall becomes more generate green energy. stan, said that even if the group effects of climate change. officials from key ministries — “My petition aimed to compel unpredictable. Leghari said he isn’t demand- manages to implement only the So Leghari decided there was including the Ministry of Climate the concerned departments and According to the Ministry of ing compensation. What he wants priority actions set out in the only one thing to do: he took the Change and the Ministry of Water ministries to take action and con- Climate Change, in 1950, water from the government, he said, is 2012 National Climate Policy that government to court. and Power — as well as heads of sider climate change an impor- availability in Pakistan stood at action on the broader problem. would make huge strides toward In August, Leghari, 25, filed a other government departments tant issue before it is too late,” 5,300 cubic metres per person “Direct relief would be insuf- addressing the country’s climate petition with the Lahore High and international organisations, he said. per year. By 2011, that figure had ficient in scope to compensate and environmental problems. Court claiming that the govern- has now begun meeting. He believes government action dropped to under 1,000 cubic me or other farmers against ment of Pakistan was violating his Climate change “appears to be on the problem has been negligi- metres and is still shrinking. future grievances,” he said. In REUTERS Lanka Tamils Thousands attend Afghan Hazara funerals KABUL: Thousands of people “Around 5,000 people took part province, which is under Taliban The demonstrators chanted attended the burials of seven in the funeral ceremony under control and has been the scene of slogans against both the Taliban Hazaras in Afghanistan tight security,” 45-year-old Jafar clashes between rival militant fac- and the Islamic State group, yesterday, witnesses said, nearly Haidary said. tions. Officials have yet to confirm while calling for both President protest to free a week after their decapitated The coffins were covered in a who is responsible for the killings. Ashraf Ghani and the country’s bodies were found, with the green shroud, while most of the The macabre discovery galva- chief executive Abdullah Abdullah gruesome discovery spurring women were dressed in black nised protests in both Ghazni and to resign. The protest, unusual massive protests, including in according to their tradition, Kabul to demand the government for Afghanistan in its scale and Kabul. worker Zia Ahmady said. take action in the face of a recent organisation, prompted Ghani to The coffins of the four men, two The seven people from the wave of violence against the Haz- call for calm and vow to avenge prisoners women and one young girl, named mostly Shiite Hazara ethnic ara. Last Wednesday thousands the dead. The three million- as Shukria, were flown by Afghan minority were kidnapped from of people, mainly Hazara, poured strong Afghan Hazara community military helicopters from Kabul Jaghuri by unknown gunmen in into the rainy streets of Kabul has been persecuted for decades, Jaffna witnesses total shutdown to their home district of Jaghuri October this year. to carry the coffins of the seven with thousands killed in the late COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Tamil pected Tamil Tiger activity during in central Ghazni province, a local Their bodies were found last victims to the gates of the presi- 1990s by Al-Qaeda. provinces staged a shutdown the country’s bitter 37-year war. tribal elder said. week in neighbouring Zabul dential palace. AFP yesterday for the first time since They halted their protest fol- the crushing of the Tamil Tiger lowing an assurance from Presi- rebels six years ago, protesting dent Maithripala Sirisena to at the government’s failure to expedite their legal procedures. release prisoners jailed over sepa- But instead of the blanket ratist violence. amnesty for nearly 200 Tamil Tamil political and civil society Tiger suspects, which protesters China to help secure Pakistan trade corridor groups organised the shutdown had demanded, authorities opted in the island’s northern and east- to grant conditional bail to about ISLAMABAD: Beijing will back while countering US and Indian ern regions after the government 30 prisoners on Thursday. Pakistan to ensure the security influence. rejected their demands for a uni- “There is someone who has of a new special economic corri- India has expressed wariness versal amnesty, instead releasing spent the last 26 years in jail dor providing access to the port about the project in the past, 30 prisoners on bail. without being charged. He was of Gwadar that aims to create though analysts said recently that The northern capital Jaffna just 19 when he went to jail,” Dr direct links between China and concerns would only arise if there ground to a halt, residents said P Sathyalingam, Health Minister the Arabian Sea, a top Chinese are “defence related matters”. by phone, with businesses, schools in the Tamil-controlled northern general has pledged. Fan, who headed a high level and state offices closed and public provincial council said. Fan Changlong, vice chair- Chinese military delegation, transport halted. Tamil groups are also demand- man of China’s Central Military last Thursday met Sharif at “Everything came to stop. No ing the government repeal the Commission, told Pakistan army Pakistan army headquarters in one was seen on the road, no anti-terrorism law implemented head Raheel Sharif last Thurs- Rawalpindi to discuss “matters of buses were running,” Govindan during the civil war used to arrest day that Beijing looked forward mutual interest, regional security, Kumaravel, a shop worker in many of the prisoners. to close cooperation “to ensure steps for regional stability and Jaffna, said. President Sirisena was pre- proper management and secu- enhanced bilateral defence col- Mavai Senathirajah, a Tamil vented from attending a planned rity of China Pakistan Economic laboration”, the statement said. lawmaker in Jaffna, said the shut- opening of a court complex in the Corridor (CPEC),” according to a Fan said China “deeply appreci- down was a “very useful protest” eastern town of Batticaloa yester- Pakistan military statement. Fan Changlong (left), vice chairman of China’s Central Military Commission, ates” Pakistan’s efforts to elimi- adding that it was “the first such day because of the shutdown, the The CPEC is an ambitious and Pakistan army chief Raheel Sharif during a meeting in Rawalpindi. nate militancy, particularly by the (protest) in the north since the Justice Ministry said. $46bn project giving Beijing East Turkistan Islamic Movement war ended in 2009”. The decades-long conflict killed greater access to the Middle nese general of his seniority in 11 dar as part of the project. (ETIM), which Beijing says is More than 100 Tamil prisoners more than 100,000 and ended in East, Africa and Europe through years, came two days after Paki- The development is part of active in China’s Xinjiang region, went on hunger strike last month 2009 when government forces Pakistan, via a new highway to stan handed hundreds of hectares China’s ambition to expand its on the border with Pakistan. in protest at being held for years, moved in to crush the rebels. Gwadar port on the Arabian Sea. of land over to China for develop- trade and transport footprint many without charge, for sus- AFP Fan’s visit, the first by a Chi- ment of a free trade zone in Gwa- across Central and South Asia AFP

Bangladeshis held over killing of Japanese Bangladesh garment

DHAKA: Bangladesh security After arresting them for an assailants who shot Hoshi Kunio Rahim said. The police detective forces yesterday arrested three unrelated firearms offence, offic- dead.” leading the investigation into factories must improve suspects wanted over the mur- ers became suspicious and inter- The suspects, named as Rajib Kunio’s murder confirmed the der of a Japanese farmer who rogated the men over Kunio’s Hossain, Kala Rubel and Kajal arrests and said he expected the was shot dead last month in an murder, leading them to admit Chandra Barman, were found in suspects to be handed over for attack claimed by the Islamic to their “involvement” in the kill- the hideout armed with machetes questioning. The arrests take the fire safety, says ILO State group. ing, a spokesman for the elite unit and handguns, the force said. The total number in custody to five, The Rapid Action Battalion said. officers were initially acting on a after police last month detained DHAKA: The International had been found to be safe, citing (RAB) said the three youths had “We have confirmed these men tip-off about known criminals an opposition party activist and a Labour Organisation (ILO) said improvements made after the been detained early yesterday in are wanted as fugitive criminals carrying illegal weapons. businessman in connection with yesterday 80 percent of export- 2013 disaster. a hideout 210km from Rangpur, from Rangpur,” said senior RAB “During primary question- the murder on a dirt track on the oriented readymade garment Ahmed, asked about Reddy’s where 66-year-old Hoshi Kunio commander Mobasshwer Rahim. ing they’ve admitted they were outskirts of the northern city. (RMG) factories in Bangladesh assessment yesterday, said more was gunned down in a rickshaw “Their appearances also match involved with the killing and needed improvement in fire and than 80 percent of factories were last month. the description of the unknown since then they became fugitives,” AFP electrical safety standards despite structurally sound though he a government finding most were acknowledged that many needed safe. work on fire safety and electrical A spotlight was thrown on systems. A garment factory fire Bangladesh’s garment sector, the in 2012 killed 112 workers. world’s second biggest which sup- Following the 2013 disaster, Scientists battle to save Taiwan’s Queen’s Head plies many global brands, after the government met employers, the collapse of a factory complex unions and the ILO and agreed in 2013 in which more than 1,100 that all export-oriented RMG YEHLIU: Scientists are battling years, if nothing is done,” warns people were killed. factories needed to undergo to save Taiwan’s ancient “Queen’s Hsieh Kuo-huang, a professor at Despite a programme of inspection for structural, fire and Head” rock from erosion — but the Institute of Polymer Science inspections since then, Srinivas B electrical safety. the island is split over whether and Engineering at National Tai- Reddy, Bangladesh country direc- Ahmed said about 1,500 facto- technology should be used to pre- wan University. Researchers say tor of the ILO, said most facto- ries had been assessed under the serve the precarious natural mas- the circumference of the neck is ries needed to improve fire safety programme, supported by the terpiece. More than three million shrinking by 1.5cm-1.6cm each and electrical systems before they ILO. people visit the coastal landmark year, making it harder to support could be declared safe. “What has happened in Bang- in northern Yehliu each year, the 1.3-tonne head. “Eighty percent of factories, ladesh is unique, nowhere else named for its supposed likeness “The shape of ‘Queen’s Head’ almost all of them will require has an entire sector undergone to England’s Queen Elizabeth I. today looks most elegant,” says fire and electrical remediation,” inspection,” Reddy said. The tilting “head” is an impos- Helena Tang of Neo-Space Inter- Reddy said. “We are only now at the mid- ing sweep of sandstone which national Inc, which manages the “There is a need for every fac- point. There are still residual risks mushrooms out of a slender stem. geopark where the rock stands. tory to come up with a corrective and all of the inspection reports Honed by sea water and strong Hsieh’s team have been exper- action plan,” he said. show what needs to change.” winds the head tapers up to a imenting with ways to save the Syed Ahmed, the inspector Thirty-seven factories have point, likened to the piled-up Tourists walk behind Taiwan’s ancient ‘Queen’s Head’ rock in Yehliou yesterday. formation, which stands eight general of factories, said last been closed and 36 partially closed curls of the eponymous royal. metres tall from its base. Monday more than 80 percent after failing their inspections, he But at 4,000 years old, means it may soon topple. to support the head and might of Bangladesh’s garment facto- said. exposure to the elements “The neck may become too thin break off within the next five to 10 AFP ries supplying global retailers REUTERS SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2015 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / INDIA Power for 18,000 villages soon: Modi 24-hour power supply to all by 2019: PM; Cameron says Britain will one day have a British-Indian premier

LONDON: Prime Minister Narendra interacted with a group of schoolchildren style of greeting: “Namaste Wembley!” Modi yesterday said that 18,000 villages of Indian origin who had performed in “It won’t be long before there is a Brit- in India that are not connected with elec- the cultural extravaganza that preceded ish-Indian prime minister in 10, Downing tricity will get this basic facility within Modi’s speech. Britain is home to a 1.5 Street,” Cameron said, citing the con- the next 1,000 days. million-strong Indian diaspora. tributions of British-Indians in various The pace and direction of progress in “India is full of diversity. This diversity fields. He said that “India-UK ties are India is such that the fruits of develop- is our pride and our strength,” Modi said about people and about prosperity”. ment will be seen very soon,” Modi said in his much-awaited address to 60,000 “PM Modi and I govern in challenging in Hindi in his much-awaited address to wildly cheering British-Indians at the times but we are united by the scale of 60,000 British Indians at the iconic Wem- iconic Wembley Stadium here. our ambition,” he said. bley Stadium here. “Kabir and Rahim have been our inspi- He also backed India’s claim for per- “As many as 18,000 villages need rations. The Sufi tradition is the best manent membership in the UN Security electricity. There are not even electric- antidote to terrorism,” he said. Council. ity poles. In the next 1,000 days we will “India has no reason to remain poor. “When it comes to the UN, we know ensure they get it,” he said on the second I can say that after my experience dur- what needs to happen - India with a per- day of his three-day visit to Britain. ing the last 18 months,” Modi said in his manent seat at the UN Security Council,” He said that there were places in India much-awaited address to 60,000 wildly Cameron said. where there was electricity but not for cheering British Indians at the iconic Stating that Prime Minister Naren- 24 hours a day. The Indian prime minis- Wembley Stadium here. dra Modi has proved his critics wrong, ter said that by the year 2019, the 150th “Such a youthful nation like India the British prime minister said, “They birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, he cannot lag behind in development,” said said a chaiwallah can’t govern the world’s would ensure that there was 24 hours of Modi, who is on a three-day visit to Brit- largest democracy and he proved them electricity all over the country. ain. wrong.” “We will harness solar, wind and “A country which has the power of Soon after Prime Minister Narendra renewable energy. We will generate 175 youth cannot be stopped,” he said. PM Narendra Modi greets British PM David Cameron after Cameron’s speech on stage at Modi had lunch with Queen Elizabeth II gigawatts of power one day,” he said. “Whenever I meet the prime minister Wembley Stadium in London yesterday during a welcome rally for Modi. yesterday, the royal officials announced Earlier, British Prime Minister Cam- (Cameron), I find that he is very proud of Prince William and his wife Kate to visit eron and his wife Samantha, dressed in the Indian community in UK,” Modi said and acknowledge the affection he has a British-Indian prime minister. India early next year. It will be the royal a sari, welcomed Modi as he arrived at in his address as 60,000 British-Indians towards India,” he said. Addressing 60,000 wildly cheering couple’s first visit to India, but it is not Wembley Stadium. chanted “Modi Modi” at the Wembley British Prime Minister David British-Indians awaiting to listen to vis- clear whether their two children will After Modi met with organisers of Stadium here. Cameron yesterday said a time iting Indian Prime Minister Narendra accompany them. the much-hyped event, the two leaders “I want to thank the prime minister will soon come when there will be Modi, Cameron began with an Indian IANS

Celebrating Kerala Outlawed group Saudi woman receives award claims Shillong for promotion of Urdu language explosion SHILLONG: An outlawed HYDERABAD: Sameera Aziz, Working in Urdu literature ducer and writer in Bollywood. militant organisation yesterday a media personality and writer, since her childhood, she is also The film is being produced by claimed responsibility for the has become the first woman from said to be the first Saudi novelist her own production house ‘Sana RDX blast in the state capital of Saudi Arabia to be recognised of Urdu. Solkar Production’ and it is based Meghalaya. It said the blast was for her work for the promotion A writer of many works of fic- on a story written by her. a warning to Nepalese and other of Urdu language. tion, short stories and poetry, she Sameera is also a radio pre- non-tribals of Shillong trying to She has been bestowed with is also active in Urdu and English senter of her weekly show interfere in the affairs of Hyn- the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad journalism for the last 15 years. ‘Marhaba with Sameera Aziz’ niewtrep. special award by the Telangana Coming from a multicultural in Asian Radio Live, based in Though no one was injured government in recognition of her background, Sameera is aiming Britain. in the blast near Jeevan Ram work to promote the language in to do academic research into She was associated with Eng- Goenka Memorial Hospital at Saudi Arabia. the practice of Urdu language by lish daily Saudi Gazette as sen- Them Mawbah last Thursday The 35-year-old received the Saudi nationals in Saudi Arabia. ior international editor and is night, two vehicles and a road award on November 11, the birth She believes the research will currently the president of Asian roller parked nearby were par- anniversary of India’s first edu- be a milestone for the promotion Information Agency (AIA), a tially damaged. cation minister Maulana Abul of Urdu language in an interna- worldwide news service. Meghalaya DG Rajiv Metha Kalam Azad, which is celebrated tional arena and a bridge between She also worked for various said that the bomb disposal squad as Minorities’ Welfare Day by the Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Urdu and English newspapers in had collected material from the state. world. Pakistan. Born to Pakistani expa- blast site. “They (HNLC) can Sameera, who is also a novelist, The Jeddah-based media per- triate parents in Saudi Arabia in make claims; anyone can make poetess, filmmaker and radio pre- sonality is currently in Mumbai 1979, Sameera is also an activist, claims, but let us wait for inves- senter, is excited. “I am humbled working on her maiden Bollywood working against the evil of child tigations to be completed,” Metha by this exceptional honour and movie ‘Reem’. She also claims marriage. said. recognition,” she said. to be first Saudi director, pro- IANS IANS

Sisters meet don Russian scalded in acid attack An artist performs on stage during a cultural event marking the 60th during festival LUCKNOW: A 23-year-old Rus- “The accused will be nabbed in Uttar Pradesh alone, according foundation day of Kerala state, in Bhopal yesterday. More than 60 art- NEW DELHI: Two sisters of sian suffered severe burns in an soon,” Chaudhary said, adding the to official figures. ists performed during the event. mafia don Rajendra S Nikhalje acid attack yesterday while she suspect had been on the run since There were more than 300 alias Chhota Rajan met him here was sleeping in the Indian holy the attack. acid attacks last year, the Indian at the CBI headquarters yester- city of Varanasi, the latest in a Yesterday’s attack is the latest Express newspaper reported in day evening on the occasion of series of attacks on women tour- in a series reported by foreign April based on provisional data ‘Bhai Dooj’ festival. ists. women visiting India. from India’s National Crime George disqualified Sunita Chavan and Malini Darya Yurieva, who had been in An American tourist had Records Bureau. Sakpal met Rajan after Special Varanasi for about four months, accused two men of raping her in But experts say those figures CBI judge Vinod Kumar gave the was rushed to hospital after the popular Himalayan hill sta- are likely to represent only the permission. The sisters had met her landlord’s son allegedly tion of Dharamsala in northern tip of the iceberg, leaving scores as Kerala legislator Sessions Judge O P Saini at his attacked her in a home-stay India in September. of acid attack survivors who face Gurgaon residence last Thursday accommodation, according to In February, a Japanese woman lifelong scars and social stigma. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: his party had submitted a petition night. They had moved an appli- police in the northern state of accused a tour guide of drugging The Supreme Court has repeat- P C George was disqualified as that he has violated the rules and cation before Saini at the Patiala Uttar Pradesh. and raping her in the historic city edly warned state authorities to a Kerala assembly member by his disqualification comes through House Court seeking clearance to “He threw a bottle of acid on of Jaipur. enforce restrictions on the sale Speaker N Sakthan yesterday. all the procedures,” said Sakthan. meet him. Chavan and Sakpal live her early on Friday morning Attacks on women have been of acid, but campaigners say it The development came a day George, 65, a six-time legislator, in Maharashtra. while she was still asleep,” Daljeet on the rise in India with 132,000 remains easy to purchase and after the estranged Kerala Con- is currently suspended from his Chaudhary, additional director cases of sexual offences against inexpensive. gress (Mani) legislator submitted party for his constant attack on IANS general of police, said. women in 2014, and some 12,400 AFP his resignation. The Kerala Con- party chief and former finance gress (Mani) is a member of the minister K M Mani. George, who ruling Congress-led United Dem- hails from Poonjar in Kottayam ocratic Front. George submitted district, began his political career Kashmir protest his resignation last Thursday, the through the student movement in speaker told reporters here. the early 1970s. Rain disrupts normal “He was disqualified because IANS life in Tamil Nadu

CHENNAI: Normal life was rainwater entered homes. Firecracker devastates thrown out of gear in Tamil Nadu “There was knee-deep water yesterday as incessant downpour around my house. There was since Thursday evening lashed also threat of sewage entering the state. In the state capital the house. I have now shifted NGO’s Delhi office Chennai, people in many areas to my mother’s place with my woke up to find their houses in daughter,” V Nitya said. NEW DELHI: Anshu Gupta, the tenders. “Here I was asking you to knee-deep rainwater. The flooding Many office-goers managed founder of NGO Goonj, yesterday spread the message against (fire) also affected public transport to reach bus stops and railway posted pictures of a devastating crackers and there a cracker did buses and trains. stations, but could not go fire at a centre of his NGO here this to Goonj’s centre in Delhi. Incoming trains were delayed further to their work places as on Diwali night and claimed it Seven hours of unmanageable fire, by several hours while many public transport services were was caused by a firecracker. 10 fire brigades till 2am on Diwali flights were rescheduled due suspended. In many places, Gupta posted on Facebook the night. 3000sq ft of area, tonnes of to the downpour. People living uprooted trees disrupted traffic. pictures of the fire at the NGO’s material, where we all had put in in waterlogged areas were In rural areas, power supply Kashmiri protesters hurl stones at policemen during a clash in Srinagar Sarita Vihar centre and wrote our days and nights turned into forced to shift elsewhere due was cut as a precautionary yesterday. They were demonstrating against the killing of a 22-year-old that the fire lasted about seven ash!!” to accumulated rainwater. measure. man who died during clashes with the security forces on November 7. hours and was doused by 10 fire IANS In some pockets in the city, IANS SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2015 ASIA / INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11

Untreated waste BJP frets over rising dissent against PM will no more flow Party leadership reaches out to veterans critical of Modi’s centralised leadership style into Yamuna,

NEW DELHI: Senior leaders with comments made by party world’s largest democracy into a The BJP has asked those lead- A second BJP leader said says Kejriwal from the ruling party are grow- elders earlier this week ques- global power and close the devel- ers not to embarrass the party there was little chance of an ing uneasy about an internal tioning Modi’s stewardship, after opment gap with China. further and to discuss the issues attempt to unseat Modi, who NEW DELHI: To reduce pollu- rebellion against Prime Minister a second straight regional election “Modi needs to delegate more in private, the sources said. remains by far the party’s most tion in the Yamuna, Delhi Chief Narendra Modi’s leadership style, setback. responsibility, otherwise there “It would have been better popular leader. Minister Arvind Kejriwal yes- which has punctured his aura of Last Tuesday’s statement by will be more and more problems,” if these issues were raised in But the recent election defeat terday announced that untreated invincibility and threatens to four party elders zeroed in on said S Chandrasekharan, director the party forum rather than in means the BJP is unlikely to be water, including industrial and weaken him further. the centralised leadership style of the South Asia Analysis Group public,” Parliamentary Affairs able to secure control of parlia- domestic sewage, will not be While the 65-year-old, who of Modi. in New Delhi. Minister Venkaiah Naidu said ment in this five-year term. allowed to flow into the river. swept to power last year on a He has been accused of under- “He needs to undergo a course yesterday. This is significant, because Speaking on the occasion of wave of optimism over economic mining politicians in his party correction, or the resentment will A federal minister acknowl- Modi’s economic reform agenda is first Yamuna Aarti, organised reforms, lunched with Queen by acting as chief campaigner start to build, and have an impact edged that Modi needs to listen being blocked in the upper house, by the Delhi government here at Elizabeth during a high-profile, in local elections, and bypass- his ability to govern.” to more voices to avoid a widening where his party is in a minority, Gita Ghat, close to Kudesia Ghat, three-day visit to Britain, his lieu- ing cabinet colleagues by making BJP sources said the leader- rebellion. and seat allocations are depend- near the Inter-State Bus Termi- tenants are working to keep a lid decisions for them. ship was reaching out to party “There is a logic in what the ent on parties’ strength in the nus (ISBT), he said, “Discharge on problems at home. “It is clear that the unrest is veterans, including former deputy elders of the party pointed out,” states. of all effluents into the river shall One is a revolt among a hand- more widespread,” said one BJP Prime Minister L K Advani, who the minister said. “The party Reforms thwarted so far be monitored round the clock. ful of senior members of his leader, who asked not to be named publicly demanded that leaders be realises the value of their obser- include the biggest overhaul of Untreated water, including indus- nationalist Bharatiya Janata because of the sensitivity of the held responsible for their election vations and we started a discus- taxes since independence in 1947 trial and domestic sewage, will Party (BJP), the first time allies matter. defeat in the pivotal and populous sion to find solutions.” and a business-friendly land bill. not be allowed to enter Yamuna.” have openly questioned the direc- “The problem is Modi has been state of Bihar. Modi will be out of India for “This election brings a sense of Cultural performances like tion of a leader who captured governing this way for so long, he Advani was one of four former much of the remainder of Novem- realism. You should never think dance, music and an all-religion power to a degree last seen when probably can’t, and won’t change ministers to author the strongly- ber as he travels to the G20 sum- you are invincible,” the second prayer by singers, preachers and Indira Gandhi ruled India with a that style.” worded statement, indirectly mit in Turkey this weekend and BJP leader said. the leaders of each major faith in firm hand. Doubts around Modi’s leader- accusing Modi and party Presi- then has trips planned to Malay- “It is going to be a tough road India were organised on the occa- A cabinet minister and two ship raise questions about the via- dent Amit Shah of holding too sia, Singapore and finally France ahead.” sion. BJP leaders said they agreed bility of his plans to transform the much power. for a climate change summit. REUTERS He said Yamuna Aarti would now be held daily at Gita Ghat. The Yamuna will see massive celebrations on special festivals, Awareness drive to be aided by the Delhi Govern- ment. Stating that the Yamuna river Encourage children to dream has been part of the collective memory of Delhi for a long time but this lifeline is dying, Kejriwal said: “We will ensure 100 percent big for the nation: President collection and treatment of Del- hi’s sewage through an extensive NEW DELHI: President Pranab and humanity,” the President said. and National Award for Child sewer network and construction Mukherjee yesterday said chil- “Children should have the Welfare, 2014. of new sewage treatment plants.” dren should be encouraged to opportunity to receive education, “On this occasion, I congratu- He also made a public appeal to dream big about the country’s acquire comprehensive knowledge late all award winners and extend connect with the river and help in future and explore their full and develop in a child-friendly my best wishes and blessings to keeping it clean. potential. environment so that they turn all the children of this country,” “People should ensure their “We should encourage children into good human beings with a Mukherjee said. personal commitment to clean to dream big about the future mission in life.” The awards ceremony is held it (Yamuna). Let’s take a pledge of our nation and explore their In a message to the ministry every year to recognise the today to clean our river Yamuna potential to the full,” Mukherjee of women and child develop- achievements of children and the and ensure that we never make said in his message on the eve of ment, the President said he was services of individuals and insti- it dirty.” Children’s Day. happy to know that the ministry tutions working for the welfare Water Minister Kapil Mishra, “The future of our nation would celebrate Children’s Day on of children as well as to pay trib- who was also present on the occa- depends on our children. When November 14 by conferring the ute to late prime minister Pandit sion, said the government was provided adequate opportunity National Child Award for Excep- Jawaharlal Nehru. Children wear tiger masks as they take part in a ‘Save The Tiger’ campaign committed to clean Yamuna in and guidance, they have immense tional Achievement, 2015, Rajiv during Bhai Dooj festival in Kolkata yesterday. Underprivileged children 36 months. potential to contribute to society Gandhi Manav Seva Award, 2015, IANS are taking part in the awareness campaign to draw attention to the threats IANS tigers are facing due to habitat loss and poaching. Maharashtra to move Burning medals an insult to nation: Parrikar

CHENNAI: Attempts by war sensors and other sophisticated the eight aircraft was accepted by “The union government has SC to keep Maggi ban veterans to burn their medals state-of-the-art equipment on India last month. cheated the army veterans by as a protest to the “One Rank, board and their capabilities. The P8i is equipped for long- implementing a diluted OROP One Pension” (OROP) scheme is He said the aircraft would range anti-submarine warfare, scheme,” Kejriwal said. MUMBAI: Maharashtra is plan- by the apex court, the state plans an insult to the nation and the provide the Indian Navy the anti-surface warfare, intelligence, Supporting the ongoing protest ning to move the Supreme Court to build up “a solid case” against armed forces, Defence Minister necessary reach and flexibility surveillance and reconnaissance of ex-servicemen, the chief min- to challenge the lifting of the ban Nestle India to seek reversal of Manohar Parrikar said yester- to undertake extensive surveil- in support of broad area, mari- ister demanded reconsideration on Nestle India’s Maggi noodles, the Bombay High Court relief. day. lance as also to respond swiftly time and littoral operations. of the changes made by the gov- Food and Civil Supplies Minister Following the successful test Parrikar was at INS Rajali in and effectively to contingencies The induction of all eight air- ernment in the implementation Girish Bapat said here yesterday. results claimed by Maggi, the Arakonam, around 70km from in the country’s areas of interest. craft has reinforced the long- of the OROP scheme. “Our legal department is Bombay High Court had lifted the here, to dedicate the P8i air- According to him, even in the range maritime reconnaissance Kejriwal said the OROP scheme examining all aspects, the pros ban on August 13 and the product craft to the nation. The induc- short phase of trials and testing, and air anti-submarine warfare should be implemented in its orig- and cons and depending on their hit the markets just before Diwali. tion of the long-range maritime the P8i aircraft had achieved a capability of the Indian Navy. inal form as demanded by the ex- (legal) opinion, we plan to chal- On October 16, Maggi patrol P8i aircraft will enable the number of operational milestones It will also provide enhanced servicemen. lenge the issue in the Supreme announced 100 percent successful Indian Navy to undertake exten- which include participation in maritime surface and sub-surface Aam Aadmi Party legisla- Court,” Bapat said. laboratory tests and on Novem- sive surveillance and swift action, the search effort for Malaysian surveillance in the entire Indian tor from Chandni Chowk Alka Justifying the move, Bapat ber 4, it said results from three he stressed. Parrikar said medals Airlines Flight MH 370, the first Ocean Region. Lamba, Delhi Cantt MLA said that certain batches have labs accredited to the National were recognition for the sacrifice successful firing of air-launched Several dignitaries, including Surender Singh, Bijwasan MLA been tested and there is a pos- Accreditation Board for Testing made by the armed forces and not Harpoon Block II missile in the the Chief of Naval Staff, Admi- Devendra Sekhawat and party sibility that other batches could Calibration Laboratories, man- connected with the service condi- world, torpedo firing and active ral R K Dhowan, and flag officer leader Raghav Chaddha also cause health issues among the dated by the Bombay High Court tions. He said those aggrieved by participation in major naval exer- commanding-in-chief eastern expressed solidarity with the consumers. also were cleared. the scheme notified by the gov- cises. The defence ministry said naval command, Vice Admiral ex-servicemen. Meanwhile, the “Accordingly, we want the ban In June, the Food Safety and ernment can put their demands the P8i aircraft was a variant of Satish Soni, attended the func- ex-servicemen protesting at the on the noodles to continue and Standards Authority of India before the judicial commission, P8A Poseidon aircraft from Boe- tion. Meanwhile, Delhi Chief Min- Jantar Mantar in central Delhi shall take a decision on moving (FSSAI) had ordered a pan- which has been formed to review ing as a replacement for the US ister Arvind Kejriwal yesterday said they would continue with the Supreme Court soon depend- India ban on the company’s noo- the OROP scheme’s shortfalls. Navy’s ageing P-3 fleet. met ex-servicemen protesting their protest as they were fight- ing on the legal opinion, as pub- dles on the ground that these Parrikar flew in to INS Rajali, a The Indian Navy in 2009 against the notification on ‘One ing for their rights. They said the lic health is of utmost concern,” were “unsafe and hazardous” for premier naval air station, aboard became the first international Rank, One Pension’ (OROP) and armed forces veterans would not Bapat added. human consumption. a P8i from Port Blair in the morn- customer for the aircraft, sign- said the Centre “cheated” the accept a “diluted” OROP scheme. In order to ensure that the ing. During the flight, Parrikar ing a $2bn worth contract to armed force veterans by announc- government plea is not rejected IANS was given an exposure to various acquire eight aircraft. The last of ing a “diluted” scheme. IANS

Torching waste Anurag Sharma appointed first Elderly couple killed in Delhi police chief of Telangana NEW DELHI: An 86-year-old man and his 80-year-old wife HYDERABAD: The Telangana three names from a panel of six Inspector General of Intelligence. were found murdered, apparently government yesterday appointed Indian Police Service (IPS) offic- Sharma, who holds a Master’s by robbers, at their south Delhi Indian Police Service officer ers sent by the state government. in botany from Rajasthan Uni- home, police said yesterday. Anurag Sharma as the first reg- Thanking the chief minister, versity, received advanced profes- Manohar Lal Madan, a retired ular Director General of Police Sharma said he would work to sional training in Britain, Israel Punjab National Bank employee, (DGP) of the state. fulfil the responsibility entrusted and the US in security, intelli- and his wife Vimla Madan were Sharma was serving as DGP in- to him. He said public cooperation gence and policing. found dead at their East of Kai- charge since June last year when to police was a must to ensure On return to the state after lash residence here. Telangana was formed. peace and law and order in Tel- serving in the Central Industrial “The couple might have been Chief Minister K Chan- engana. Security Force and National killed last Thursday night. Prima drasekhar Rao picked Sharma A 1982-batch IPS officer, Industrial Security Academy, facie, it seems the miscreants from a panel of three names Sharma began his career as Sharma held the coveted posts strangled them,” a police official shortlisted by the Union Public superintendent of police of Ranga of chief of Greyhounds and com- said. Service Commission (UPSC). Reddy district in the erstwhile missioner of police before he was Police said the couple were Sharma was preferred over A united Andhra Pradesh. appointed the DGP in-charge. in the national capital to spend A labourer looks for reusable items at a garbage dump where waste from K Khan, director general of Anti- He has worked in several key He has been decorated with a Diwali with their eldest son, who firecrackers was dumped following Diwali celebrations in Ahmedabad, Corruption Bureau (ACB), and posts, including police commis- host of medals and honours for was in the first floor of the house Gujarat, yesterday. After picking up his stuff the labourer later sets fire Aruna Bahugana, director of SVP sioner of Hyderabad, chief of anti- his meritorious service. when the incident occurred. to the accumulated garbage. National Police Academy. Maoist force Greyhounds, Deputy The UPSC last week suggested Inspector General and Special IANS IANS SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com EUROPE / AMERICAS

Captured inmate Police find bodies of eight dead babies in German flat pleads guilty in MUNICH: German police said decorations could be seen taped A neighbour described her as yesterday that they had found to the windows on the first floor. a “nice person” and said that she daring New York the bodies of eight babies in an Newspaper Bild reported that always cared very well for her apartment in the southern state the female former resident of the children, according to the daily prison escape of Bavaria, in what could be one apartment lived there with her Sueddeutsche Zeitung. of the country’s worst post-war husband for 18 years, and that the Wallenfels mayor Jens Korn PLATTSBURGH: A convicted infanticide cases. couple had three children. expressed shock over the dis- killer yesterday pleaded guilty to Police said they were alerted on But the woman also had four covery, telling news channel N24 escape charges for using hack- Thursday afternoon by a resident other children from other rela- “this little town where everyone saw blades hidden in frozen ham- from the small town of Wallenfels, tionships, it said, adding that she knows each other is asking ‘could burger to break out of an upstate who found a body of an infant in had sought to hide her frequent we have done something?’.” New York prison, triggering a the apartment. pregnancies. It also quoted an Germany has seen several massive three-week manhunt. When officers arrived at the unnamed source saying that the infanticide cases in recent years. David Sweat, 35, pleaded guilty site, they uncovered several other woman had four miscarriages. Last May, a woman was sen- to two counts of escape and a bodies, wrapped up in hand towels She moved out at the end of tenced to three years and eight single count of promoting prison and put in plastic bags. September after a row with her months in prison for killing two contraband in the June 6 brea- Police are looking for a 45-year- husband, Bild said, adding that of her children and hiding them kout from Clinton Correctional old woman who previously lived while drunk, she had told him in a freezer. Facility, a maximum security in the apartment. “She is sought that she had hidden bodies of In October 2013, in Bavaria, prison in Dannemora, New York. at least as the possible mother of babies at home. the bodies of two babies from the Appearing in court in a green the children,” said a police spokes- The claim was overheard by a 1980s were found during con- prison jumpsuit, his wrists hand- woman, who would not say if the Investigation officers stand in front of a house where police had found the tenant on the same property, who struction works. cuffed, his head shaved and his woman is considered a suspect. bodies of eight babies in an apartment in Wallenfels, southern Germany. began looking for the bodies and And in what was until now Ger- reddish goatee streaked with grey, Forensic investigators are cur- finally alerted police when she many’s worst post-war infanticide Sweat was asked by Judge Patrick rently examining the corpses, before the beginning of the com- uncovered. Yesterday morning, made a macabre find, according case, a 42-year-old woman was McGill if he understood the police said, adding that the proc- ing week,” said police. investigators announced that pos- to Bild. convicted in 2008 of killing eight charges against him. “Yes, your ess could take some time “due to Investigators had first revealed sibly seven bodies had been found, The woman sought by police of her newborn babies, whose bod- honor,” he said in a quiet voice. the poor condition” of some of the the grisly find late on Thursday, before saying in the late afternoon reportedly worked at a newspaper ies she hid in buckets, flowerpots Clinton County District Attor- bodies. with the local press reporting that an eighth had been discov- kiosk, and in the summer was also and an old fish tank. ney Andrew Wylie reminded “A result is not to be expected that two babies’ bodies were ered in the house where children’s a lifeguard at a swimming pool. AFP Sweat of the Son of Sam law, which would enable New York state to seize any proceeds he earned from recounting the sen- sational crime in a book, movie, television show or other depiction. Sweat was shot and captured on June 28 about two miles from Austria to build fence the border with Canada. Days earlier, an inmate who escaped with him, Richard Matt, 49, was shot and killed by a federal agent. The pair had broken through on Slovenia border their cell walls and cut into and out of a steam pipe to make their escape through a manhole onto Blow to Schengen pact as migrant crisis escalates the streets of the sleepy upstate New York town. At the time, VIENNA: Austria announced since World War II. Germany, of the Spielfeld border crossing Sweat was serving a life sentence yesterday that it would erect which expects up to one million point in the southern state of Sty- for killing a law enforcement a metal fence along its border arrivals this year, said it would ria will be 2.2 metres high, offi- officer after a robbery. with Slovenia, in a new blow to extend temporary border controls cials revealed yesterday. He is now being held at the the EU’s cherished open-border implemented in September until The government had initially Five Points Correctional Facil- Schengen accord. mid-February. planned to install a 25km fence ity in Romulus, New York, built The 3.7km barrier, due to be Earlier this week, Sweden also but “our Slovenian colleagues to house the state’s toughest completed in less than six weeks, reinstated temporary checks, have asked us to not do this Migrants and refugees cross the Greek-Macedonian border near Gevgelija. inmates, and will in solitary con- will be the first fence between while Slovenia rolled out razor immediately,” said Mikl-Leitner. finement for seven years, said his two members of the passport-free wire along its frontier with non- However Austrian authorities lawyer, Joseph Mucia. zone, as Europe grapples with a Schengen member Croatia. were ready to unfurl the entire UN warns of Lesbos chaos At his February 3 sentencing, record influx of migrants. Denmark also unveiled tough 25km fence within 48 hours if prosecutors will ask the judge to Barbed wire would be stored new measures to deter refugees Slovenia’s reinforced border GENEVA: More than 800,000 the Greek island which still has order Sweat to pay a yet unde- in nearby containers ready to be including a three-year wait for measures and police patrols failed migrants and refugees have the capacity to accommodate only termined portion of the $79,841 rolled out along the frontier if the some family reunion claims and to control the influx, she stressed. crossed the Mediterranean to a fraction of the people pouring in in damages from the break-out. situation escalated, officials said. a plan to house people in tents. Both countries, which share Europe this year, the UN said by the thousands. Two Clinton Correctional Austrian Interior Minister Fellow bloc member Hungary a 330km border, have become yesterday, warning the Greek “With winter approaching, employees were charged in con- Johanna Mikl-Leitner insisted already sealed its southern bor- key transit spots on the Balkan island of Lesbos especially was reception conditions and capacity nection with the escape. the “fence conforms to the Schen- der with razor wire last month, migrant trail. Most travel on overstretched, with thousands there remain overstretched and Training supervisor Joyce gen accord”, adding it was part diverting the influx toward Slov- toward Germany but Austria still forced to sleep outside. inadequate,” spokesman Adrian Mitchell, 51, was sentenced to of temporary measures aimed at enia. The government in Buda- expects a record 95,000 asylum Since January, 806,000 people Edwards said, pointing out that 2-1/3 to seven years in prison “channelling” the human flow. pest, whose hardline stance on claims this year, making it one have made the perilous sea jour- many people, including women, after admitting to supplying the The move came a day after migrants has earned it heavy of the highest recipients on a per ney to Europe, with some 660,700 children and even new-born babies men with the break-out tools. She European Union President Don- criticism, yesterday accused the capita basis. of them arriving in Greece and were stuck out in the open. also was ordered to shoulder a yet ald Tusk warned that Schengen — EU of “hypocrisy” after fellow Top EU officials have expressed 142,400 landing in Italy, new fig- More than half of all those to be determined portion of the one of the bloc’s most important bloc members began building unease over individual countries ures from the UN refugee agency arriving in Greece this year have repair costs. achievements — was on the brink fences too. fencing off their borders. “Saving showed. Around 3,460 people have landed on the island. Some 16,000 Correctional officer Gene of collapse because of fallout from More than 800,000 migrants Schengen is a race against time died trying to reach the continent. refugees and migrants are cur- Palmer, 57, has pleaded not guilty the migration crisis. have landed on Europe’s southern and we are determined to win While the overall number of rently on the island, which still to charges, including an accusa- Austria’s decision is the lat- shores so far this year, the UN that race,” Tusk said at the end arrivals is high, the numbers only has the capacity to accom- tion that he helped Matt and est in a series of tough measures said, with many fleeing conflict of an EU-Africa summit in Malta moving through Lesbos are stag- modate 2,800 people at a time, Sweat get behind prison walls to taken by countries to tackle the in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. on Thursday. gering, UNHCR said, describing UNHCR said. hide contraband. continent’s worst refugee crisis Austria’s mesh fence either side AFP a continuing chaotic situation on AFP REUTERS

Storm hits northern Britain US hospital to offer uterus transplants MIAMI: A leading US hospital Cleveland Clinic lead investigator said on Thursday that it is prepar- Andreas Tzakis. ing to offer women uterine trans- The approach “is still consid- plants, a technology that has been ered highly experimental,” said proven in Sweden and could help Tommaso Falcone, an obstetrician those struggling with infertility. and chair of the Cleveland Clinic The Cleveland Clinic said it will Women’s Health Institute. be the first hospital in the United “Cleveland Clinic has a his- States to offer transplanted uter- tory of innovation in transplant uses to 10 women beginning in the and reproductive surgery and An illustration made in Paris shows a globe and a half. Today humanity next few months. will explore the feasibility of uses the equivalent of 1.5 planets to provide the resources we use and Waves break in front of the South Pier on Blackpool Promenade, absorb our waste. northern Britain, yesterday. Abigail, the first named storm to hit Britain, The clinical trial is open to this approach for women in the women of childbearing age who United States.” whipped up winds of up to 84 miles per hour and cut power to 12,000 are unable to become pregnant Infertility due to uterine prob- home according to local media reports. “because they were born without lems affects thousands of women Al Gore hopeful of Paris a uterus, have lost their uterus, or around the world, and until now have a uterus that no longer func- few options have existed other tions,” said a hospital statement. than surrogacy or adoption. climate summit success The transplants will come from The hospital has already begun Madrid sets speed, parking curbs deceased donors and will be tem- screening potential candidates, PARIS: Nobel laureate Al Gore learned the lessons of the past porary. Each organ will removed ranging in age from 21 to 39. said yesterday that a shift in glo- and are preparing for a bright MADRID: Madrid city hall yesterday for the first time imposed speed after the recipient is able to bear Women accepted into the study bal attitudes and well-advanced future,” he added. limits and banned parking in the centre of the Spanish capital in an one or two children. face rigorous medical and psy- negotiations boosted hopes of Gore, who was awarded the effort to reduce air pollution levels. Sweden’s University of Gothen- chological evaluations, and must success at a UN climate summit Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his The city council, led since June by an alliance of leftist groups, said burg achieved its first birth via a agree to have her eggs retrieved, which opens in Paris in just over work on climate change, spoke it decided to apply the restrictions since Friday morning after several transplanted uterus in Septem- then fertilized and the embryos two weeks. before launching a 24-hour global days of excess levels of nitrogen dioxide which has left an almost per- ber 2014. “To date, the Swedish frozen until they are ready for “I think we already know event featuring performers like manent pall of brown fumes hanging over the city. group has performed nine uterus transplantation. enough to predict that the out- Elton John and leaders includ- Parking in the streets of central Madrid was banned for non-residents transplants, achieving five preg- “One year after transplant, the come in Paris is going to be suc- ing French President Francois and the city imposed a speed limit of 70km per hour on access highways, nancies and four live births,” the frozen embryos are then thawed cessful. Even the text that they Hollande to beat the drum for down from the usual limits of 80-90km per hour. The authorities urged Cleveland Clinic said. and implanted, one at a time, into are working on, it’s light years urgent climate action ahead of the residents of the city of 3.1 million people to use public transport. Organ rejection during preg- the patient until she becomes ahead of any previous negotia- summit meant to forge a pact to The measures sparked criticism, especially from the conservative Popu- nancy has been a key problem. pregnant,” said the hospital. tions,” the former US vice presi- limit global warming. Gore said lar Party which ruled the city for nearly a quarter century and which “The exciting work from the The babies will be delivered by dent-turned climate activist said a critical mass of social mobilisa- governs at the national level. The Spanish capital is the sixth most investigators in Sweden demon- Cesarean section, and the uterus in the French capital. tion bode well for the 195-nation polluted city in Europe, according to a ranking published in 2014 by strated that uterine transplanta- removed after one to two babies. “The French have done an UN summit from November 30 to French environmental organisation Respire. tion can result in the successful excellent job in organising it, but December 11. AFP delivery of healthy infants,” said AFP nations all over the world have AFP SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13

UK’s oil capital Aberdeen reels from global price slump ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND: In the Kozlowski works for US oilfield equip- sioned report on North Sea oil, said pro- keep operating there “out to 2030 and National Party, could successfully go it boardrooms, hotels and high streets of ment provider National Oilwell Varco Inc. duction could last at least another 30 beyond”. Aberdeen’s relationship with oil alone. the Scottish city of Aberdeen, there is On Saturdays he now washes cars in a years if companies become more efficient. has changed from when fisherman first During the campaign for a 2014 ref- one question on most people’s lips: How multi-storey car park. Over the last five decades oil has sup- laid down nets to provide the brawn for erendum, at which Scots rejected inde- do you survive a global oil price slump? “The oil price has affected everyone in planted almost all of Aberdeen’s other drilling rigs in the 1970s, to exporting pendence, oil became a central point of Oil firms are scaling back their opera- Aberdeen,” he said, explaining that his industries. Aberdeen is hoping to ride technical expertise. contention, with Scottish government tions in Britain’s oil capital as the tum- monthly income has dropped from £4,500 out the crisis by learning from previous “This is important in giving a cushion- estimates of the potential oil revenue far bling value of the estimated 16.5bn barrels ($6,926.85) to £2,500. oil crashes in the 1980s and 90s. ing effect because in some parts of the higher than British ones. of oil left in expensive-to-reach undersea Oil companies have shed around 6,000 “The city ... has to regenerate itself world like the Middle East, they are not Despite rejecting a split last year, the fields off the British coast, makes explo- jobs, according to Scottish Enterprise, the if it is to survive,” said local politician cutting back, they are expanding,” said SNP wants to build public support for ration and drilling unprofitable. region’s economic development agency. Willie Young, highlighting the need for Alexander Kemp, an oil economist at the a new independence bid in the coming The price crash has cost thousands of This amounts to roughly 2 percent of improved road and rail links to keep oil University of Aberdeen. years. “Scotland’s economy is not depend- workers in Aberdeen their jobs, threaten- the working-age population of Aberdeen firms in the city. For now, Aberdeen’s municipal finances ent on oil and the case for independence ing the future prosperity of the city and, and its surrounding area, a figure that “We used to be so reliant on Shell and are insulated because almost all of the wasn’t dependent on oil either,” said SNP for some undermining the economic case experts say is likely to be much higher if BP and all the rest that when they said money it raises from local business taxes leader Nicola Sturgeon. for Scotland breaking away from the rest the impact on flexible labour is included. ‘we’re stopping exploration’ the phones is pooled nationally and redistributed by But, between 2008 and 2012 oil rev- of the UK. “There’s just no jobs. Customers aren’t just stopped ringing,” said Young who central government. But the longer the enues made up an estimated 16 percent The keenest edge of the crisis is being placing contracts,” said Norman Ross, helps run the city’s £450m annual rev- oil price stays low, the more money drains of Scottish tax receipts. “In the short to felt by the workers who were drawn to an unemployed contractor in the skilled enue budget. “We’ve got the (oil) service away from the city and the harder it is medium term the collapse in the oil price the remote Scottish city in boom times field of measuring the value of oil as it industries here now, so the phone is still to recover. would have posed a significant threat to by the lure of plentiful work and high is pumped out. The knock-on effect is ringing.” The oil price slump comes as Scot- the finances of an independent Scotland,” wages, but now find themselves accepting hurting the restaurants, hotels and shops A spokesman for BP, whose North land’s 300-year union with England is in said David Bell, an economist at the Uni- pay cuts and chasing increasingly scarce which depend on oil workers spending Sea headquarters are located in Aber- question, fuelling one of the main disa- versity of Stirling, in a recent research employment. their money. Oil market veteran Ian deen, said the firm had probably become greements over whether the country, paper. From Monday to Friday, Marcin Wood, author of a government-commis- smaller in the region but expected to currently run by the separatist Scottish REUTERS Unsold oil stuck on IEA sees bear oil market tankers threatens Stockpiles of oil at record 3 billion barrels; demand growth slowing

LONDON: The world is awash showing their largest excess, rela- world market gridlock with oil having built record stock- tive to the five-year average, in at piles in recent months and slow- least 10 years. A stock overhang LONDON: As land storage sites Shipping and port sources, ing demand growth combined with that first developed in the United worldwide reach brimming point pointing to full onshore storage, resilient non-Opec supply could States due to soaring production due to a supply glut, tens of mil- said up to 20 supertankers were worsen the glut well into next year, has now spread across developed lions of barrels of oil are sitting held up in Iraq’s Basrah terminal, the International Energy Agency nations as well as China and on tankers looking for homes — with vessels experiencing loading (IEA) said yesterday. India, the IEA said. threatening logistical paralysis. delays of up to 12 days. “Stockpiles of oil at a record 3 “This surplus crude provides The International Energy One port source said at China’s billion barrels are providing world some relief, with Opec’s spare Agency said stored oil has hit Qingdao port, one supertanker markets with a degree of com- production buffer stretched thin 3bn barrels. Traders say the was stuck at anchorage since fort,” the IEA said in a monthly as Saudi Arabia - which holds the excess of crude is leaving tankers August and another since last report, adding brimming stocks lion’s share of excess capacity - queuing at major ports worldwide, month. “There are delays across offer an unprecedented buffer and its Gulf neighbours pump at lengthening waiting times to days, the board as a lot of cargo is being against geopolitical shocks or near record rates,” the IEA said. weeks and even months. put through the system. Port unexpected supply disruptions. “The shock absorber pro- The lack of space to unload oil delays in Basrah and China in Oil prices have more than vided by oil stocks is no longer is tying up the tankers needed to particular but also in many other halved in the past 18 months with restricted to just crude. As refin- Excess gas is burnt off at a pipeline at Zubair oilfield in Basra, Iraq. keep oil moving, and wells run- areas. This is tying up capacity.” supply bolstered by US shale oil eries ran flat out to meet soaring ning. The bottlenecks could force Shipping consultants MSI said output and Opec’s refusal to cede demand for petrol in top consum- Russia, non-Opec supply is fore- Europe is intensifying. Iraq has oil suppliers into quick, cut-priced the near-term outlook for crude market share. ers the United States and China, cast to contract by more than overtaken Saudi Arabia as the sales just to free space, add- tankers was positive. “Storage The IEA said global oil supplies distillate inventories ballooned as 600,000 bpd next year. second-largest seller and Iran has ing more pressure to oil prices space in China and Europe is breached 97 million barrels per day a consequence.” US light tight oil, the driver of already lined up buyers for its oil already close to six-year lows. dwindling, leading to extended in October, up 2m from a year ear- High stocks could protect the non-Opec growth, is expected to for when sanctions are lifted. The cost to hire a supertanker discharge times. Couple this with lier, as non-Opec output recovered market from a supply crunch decline by 600,000 b/d next year, The IEA cited market sources — each capable of carrying 2 mil- ongoing high load waiting times in from lower levels in the previous should there be a lengthy spell of versus previous expectations of as saying Tehran would be able to lion barrels of oil — recently hit Iraq and Turkish Straits delays month. And even though lower oil cold temperatures. “But the cur- contraction by 400,000 b/d. sell at least an extra 400,000 b/d its highest level since 2008 at and (tanker) availability is tight.” prices will lead to a decline in US rent forecast is for a mild winter “Record-high output in Russia to buyers in Asia and Europe once over $100,000 a day last month A problem for oil players is that tight oil production next year, it in Europe and the US. If it turns provides a partial offset. Russian sanctions are lifted, including to and currently remains at over tankers have not been booked on will take months to clear the mar- out to be true, bulging stock levels producers are favouring develop- refiners in Italy, Greece and Spain $70,000 a day. “We’re alarmed,” long-term charters. This is in ket’s glut, the IEA said. will add further pressure and oil ments that boost output in the who prefer to use Iranian crude as said Eugene Lindell, senior crude contrast to the floating storage “This massive cushion has market bears may choose not to near term, while the rouble’s their baseload feedstock. market analyst with JBC Energy. play seen earlier this year, when inflated even as the global oil hibernate,” the IEA said. depreciation and Russia’s oil taxa- “For this reason, produc- In the US Gulf, more than 50 ships were parked at sea until market adjusts to $50 per bar- Meanwhile, world demand tion system are neutralising the ers are likely to grow still more commercial vessels were anchored prices recovered and were then rel. Demand growth has risen to growth is forecast to ease closer impact of lower prices and spend- competitive on pricing,” the IEA outside ports near Houston at sold by oil traders for a profit. a five-year high of nearly 2m b/d. to a long-term trend of 1.21m b/d ing curbs,” it said. said. “Sour crude markets appear the end of last week, of which 41 Sources said the current build But gains in demand have been in 2016 from a very high 1.82m The IEA raised its forecast especially oversupplied with dis- were tankers. Trade sources said up was parked on vessels hired outpaced by vigorous production b/d this year. for 2016 call on Opec supply by counts versus sweet grades wid- there were seven aframax tank- for shorter journeys, meaning oil from Opec and resilient non-Opec “The impact of oil’s steep price 200,000 b/d to 31.3 million. It sees ening. Europe is awash with ers — each capable of carrying suppliers will have to unload soon supply — with Russian output at plunge on end users is unlikely to the call on Opec in the second half competing sour crudes from the up to 700,000 barrels of oil — sit- or face more freight expenses. a post-Soviet record and likely to be repeated and economic con- of 2016 rising by 1.4m b/d from FSU (former Soviet Union) and ting outside Rotterdam waiting “Those holding stocks will either remain robust in 2016 as well,” the ditions are forecast to remain the first half to 32m b/d, which is Middle East and US sour crudes to unload. There was also nearly have to dump their cargoes at IEA said. problematic in countries such as higher than the group’s current remained depressed by refinery 15 million barrels of unsold West cheaper prices or pay those higher On Thursday, Opec said in its China,” the IEA said. production. maintenance,” the IEA said. African crude oil either loaded on freight costs,” a trade source said. monthly report that inventories The IEA said that despite the A market share battle between tankers or waiting to be loaded in in developed economies were resilience of producers such as Russia and Opec producers in REUTERS the next two weeks. REUTERS

Eurozone growth slows Lufthansa cabin crew union threatens more strikes FRANKFURT: Lufthansa’s main cabin strikes in 18 months. Lufthansa’s chief finan- BRUSSELS: Growth in the 19-nation eurozone slowed to 0.3 percent crew union threatened further industrial cial officer and head of personnel visited the in the third quarter, official data showed yesterday, with the economy action yesterday as workers protested at demonstration in front of the airline’s head- in powerhouse Germany cooling as France returned to expansion. Frankfurt airport at the end of a week-long quarters at the airport, joining Baublies on a The quarterly growth was below the analyst estimate of 0.4 percent strike which grounded nearly all of the main small stage to speak to the several hundred for the period and will fuel speculation the European Central Bank airline’s flights. workers waving banners, blowing whistles will expand its vast stimulus programme next month. “This strike will end tonight, but if man- and chanting “We are Lufthansa”. The Eurostat agency said the eurozone economy expanded more agement doesn’t change, then strikes will be Lufthansa says structural cost cuts are slowly than the 0.4 percent seen in the previous quarter and is in line possible again at any time,” Nicoley Baublies, necessary for it to compete in the long term to grow by 1.6 percent over the next 12 months. head of the union, told staff. with fast-growing budget carriers in Europe The slight slowdown was accentuated by a stalling Germany economy Relations between the two sides have and leaner Gulf rivals in its all-important which also grew by a slower 0.3 percent, caught by falling demand become increasingly bitter in the negotia- long-haul markets. “For us it is clear, the from China and the Volkswagen pollution scandal. Export-dependent tions over early retirement benefits and pen- enemy is without, not within. We want to Germany has seen weakened investment and a spike in uncertainty sions, which have dragged on for two years. find solutions, and we will find them, but after a huge emissions scandal engulfed Volkswagen. A big sticking point in the negotiations is we should make Lufthansa strong together,” As questions arose over the health of the German economy, neigh- that Lufthansa wants to introduce a cheaper personnel head Bettina Volkens said. bouring France posted a return to growth in the third quarter with an early retirement and pension scheme for new However, Chief Financial Officer Simone expansion of 0.3 percent after having earlier stalled. Finance Minister employees, while the union wants the same Menne gave no indication that there was Michel Sapin said the latest figures meant France had “exited the deal for both current and future staff. room for compromise. “What we have offered period of extremely weak growth that had lasted too long”. Since they started strike action last Fri- is what we can afford,” she said adding that Of the big eurozone countries, Spain grew the fastest with a 0.8 day the union has forced the cancellation the strikes would not lead to the airline percent rate in the third quarter, though this was a slowdown from of about 4,700 Lufthansa flights, disrupting changing its profit forecast for this year. 1.0 percent in the previous three-month period. Greece contracted the travel plans of 550,000 passengers. Other Last month Lufthansa said it expected sharply by 0.5 percent in the third quarter as the debt crisis and capital group airlines such as Swiss, Austrian and to report record profits in 2015, boosted by controls this summer threw the economy into disarray. Germanwings were not affected. lower fuel costs and strong demand, but More worryingly, the economy in recovery standout Portugal slowed “What we’ve seen is that no matter what Chief Executive Carsten Spohr has said its unexpectedly to a standstill as domestic demand fell sharply. Across you do, you just can’t reach a resolution with costs are continuing to rise and need to be the whole 28-nation EU, the economy expanded by 0.4 percent in the Lufthansa employees march during a strike by cabin this management,” Baublies said. His com- cut now as competition intensifies. quarter, on course for 1.9 percent growth over 12 months. crew union at Frankfurt airport yesterday. ments were echoed by Ilja Schulz, head of AFP the pilots’ union that has staged over a dozen REUTERS SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS US retail sales edge up 0.1pc in October Inflation pressures remain subdued

WASHINGTON: US retail sales rose less quarter. A separate report showed the than expected in October amid a surprise University of Michigan’s consumer senti- decline in automobile purchases, sug- ment index rose to 93.1 in early November gesting a slowdown in consumer spend- from a reading of 90.0 in October. ing that could temper expectations of a The survey showed an improvement in strong pickup in fourth-quarter economic buying plans for large discretionary pur- growth. chases, especially vehicles. Lower income Other data yesterday showed a second households also were upbeat about their straight monthly decline in producer prospects in November. prices as the cost of services fell. Weak A third report from the Labour Depart- inflation and signs of slowing consumer ment showed its producer price index fell spending could complicate the Federal 0.4 percent last month after dropping 0.5 Reserve’s decision next month whether percent in September. In the 12 months to raise interest rates. through October, the PPI fell 1.6 percent, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi posing for a picture with around 30 chief executives at the UK-India CEO Forum in London yesterday. “Even though we continue to expect the largest decline since the revamped personal spending to remain a key source series started in 2009 and following on the of support for economic activity this quar- heels of a 1.1 percent drop in September. ter, this report does point to a very weak October also marked the ninth straight India and UK are economically start to the quarter,” said Millan Mul- 12-month decrease in the index. The soft raine, deputy chief economist at TD Secu- spending and inflation data did not signifi- rities in New York cantly shift expectations that the Fed will The Commerce Department said retail raise interest rates next month in the wake made for each other: Modi sales edged up 0.1 percent last month after of October’s robust employment report. being unchanged in September. Econo- US rates futures implied that traders mists had forecast sales increasing 0.3 saw a 66 percent chance of a rate hike LONDON: After assuring global inves- was particularly keen that the global A statement issued after the meetings percent. Sales at auto dealerships fell 0.5 in December, compared to 70 percent on tors on how welcoming India was as the investment community participates in between the two prime ministers said percent last month after rising 1.4 percent Thursday, according to CME Group’s Fed- preferred investment destination, Prime India’s infrastructure projects. “We want they looked forward to the first meet- in September. The decline was surprising Watch. The US central bank has kept its Minister Narendra Modi yesterday said to develop our railway stations in the ing of the reconstituted India-UK CEOs given that automakers reported strong benchmark overnight interest rate near that it was for industry captains to push public-private partnership mode,” Modi Forum, and had tasked it with advis- sales for October. Economists said heavy zero since December 2008. bilateral ties with Britain as the political said, adding: “Defence manufacturing is ing them on the trade and investment discounting to attract buyers was likely Prices of US Treasuries rose after the will of the two nations was well estab- also the backbone of our ‘Make in India’ opportunities as also challenges faced by to blame for the discrepancy. data, while US stocks fell. The dollar was lished. initiative.” the two sides. Retail sales excluding automobiles, trading higher against a basket of cur- “India and the United Kingdom are Modi also said India was looking at the Bharti Airtel Enterprises Chairman gasoline, building materials and food rencies. Economic growth slowed to a 1.5 economically made for each other. This global stage now. “We are confidently, Sunil Bharti Mittal, Tata Group Chair- services rose 0.2 percent after a 0.1 per- percent annual pace in the third quarter relationship has to be driven by private consistently and ceaselessly working to man Cyrus Mistry, Lulu Group Chair- cent gain in September. These so-called as businesses worked through an inven- sector CEOs now,” Modi said on the sec- integrate our economy with the world,” man Yusuff Ali MA, Tata Consultancy core retail sales correspond most closely tory glut and energy companies continued ond-day of his engagements here during he told the meeting, held at Lancaster Services CEO and Managing Director with the consumer spending component to cut back spending in response to lower his address to the UK-India CEO Forum. House, close to Buckingham Palace. N Chandrasekaran and Bharat Forge of gross domestic product. The lackluster oil prices. “People of UK and India are easily com- The Indian prime minister also Chairman Baba Kalyani were the prom- report suggests that savings from cheaper But a fourth report from the Commerce patible. This is in itself is a big advantage.” referred to initiatives such as “Make in inents members on the Indian side. gasoline are being used to pay rents, which Department suggested the drag on third- British Prime Minister David Cam- India” and said a special emphasis was The UK side was represented by have increased substantially over the past quarter growth from inventories was eron, who also addressed the forum, on sprucing up infrastructure, further Standard Chartered Bank Chairman year. The weak October retail sales could probably not as large as initially thought. articulated a similar position at the opening up of the economy to foreign Sir John Peace, Vodafone CEO Vitorioa raise concerns about the upcoming holiday Retail inventories excluding autos, which meeting, attended by around 30 chief capital, building 50 million new houses by Colao, BP Chief Executive Bob Dudley, shopping season. go into the GDP calculation, increased 0.5 executives from the two sides. “We both 2022 and generating 175 GW of renew- HSBC Chairman Douglas Flint, and Still, a strong labour market, which is percent in September after a similar rise have the political will to take our eco- able energy. Rolls Royce CEO Warren East among expected to push up wages, is likely to in August. nomic relationship forward,” he said. “British companies in India will be a others. support consumer spending in the fourth REUTERS The Indian prime minister said he win-win partnership for both countries.” AGENCIES

EU officials blew whistle on VW ‘Shadow banking’ hit $80trn UK sells $19.8bn last year, says regulator book of Northern Rock loans to emissions scam: US authorities ZURICH,: The value of unregu- England, is also tasked with iden- lated “shadow banking” rose to tifying potential weak points in BERLIN: EU officials tipped off and Porsche — down 3.5 percent some $80 trillion (¤74 trillion) the global financial system. Cerberus a US environmental group about to 831,300. And for cars bearing last year, according to a report on The FSB said it has devised a LONDON: Britain has sold Volkswagen’s emissions cheating the VW badge, sales fell 5.3 per- Thursday by the Financial Stabil- monitoring framework to track £13bn ($19.8bn) of loans once scam, an American official told cent for the month. ity Board (FSB), which advises shadow banking developments to held by former mortgage lender German media, as the embattled “The Volkswagen passenger G20 states on banking reform enable the identification of sys- Northern Rock to US private company said the widening scan- cars brand is experiencing chal- and oversees regulation of the temic risks, “initiating corrective equity firm Cerberus, marking dal had hurt sales. lenging times. We not only face global financial system. actions where necessary.” the biggest ever sale of a book of “Officials from the EU informed the diesel and CO2 issues but also The report, issued ahead of The organisation said this year loans in Europe. the US environment group ICCT tense situations on world mar- the upcoming G20s summit in it has added a more narrowly- Northern Rock, which was about the possible cheating on kets,” said Juergen Stackmann, Antalya, said shadow banking focused “economic function” nationalised after nearly collaps- nitrogen oxide emissions,” Mary Karima Delli in a joint statement. chief of the Volkswagen brand. transactions not subject to regula- overview of shadow banking for ing in 2007, came to symbolise Nichols, who heads the California Volkswagen is struggling to “In western Europe, the tem- tory oversight grew by $2 trillion its annual monitoring of the non- the financial crisis in Britain and Air Resources Board, told Wirt- cope with the biggest crisis of porary sales stops for vehicles across 2014 on a broad measure bank financial sector in order to the sale of the 125,000 loans rep- schaftsWoche. The weekly reported its history over its admission affected by the diesel issue had covering 26 jurisdictions and the devise policy responses aimed at resents the latest stage of the that the European Commission had in September that it had fitted an impact on sales,” he added. euro area as a whole, representing risk mitigation. British government’s push to sell been told by a Volkswagen supplier 11 million vehicles with devices Deliveries of VW-brand cars some 80 percent of global GDP The FSB, which works in assets to help to pay down the of the cheating as early as in 2011. designed to cheat pollution tests. slipped 1.3 percent in western and 90 percent of global financial conjunction with national and national debt. But the commission failed to The so-called defeat devices Europe compared to a year ago, system assets. international financial regula- “Today marks another major act, prompting frustrated officials turn on pollution controls when with weakening demand seen in The FSB, which advises G20 tors, estimated that under the milestone in clearing up the mess to pass the information on to US- the car is undergoing testing, and Germany, Spain and Italy. And countries on banking reform and new, activity-based, narrow left by the financial crisis,” finance based environmental group The off when it is back on the road, for the group, sales for western was set up six years ago after the measure of shadow banking, the minister George Osborne said. International Council on Clean allowing it to spew out harmful Europe were down 1.2 percent. implosion of Lehman Brothers, sector was worth $36 trillion in The loans were sold for £280m Transportation which in turned levels of nitrogen oxide. VW group’s sales were however publishes annual reports into the 2014, from $35 trillion in 2013 — ($426m) more than their book informed US authorities. The revelations sparked inves- lifted by its biggest market China, parallel banking system under its equivalent to some 30 percent of value, recouping money for tax- “If this information is con- tigations in several countries but where deliveries rose 1.6 percent remit to promote internationally overall non-bank financial sec- payers. Osborne is aiming to raise firmed, that means that the they turned out to be only the to 312,200 cars for the month. The transparent financial stability. tor assets and 60 percent of more than £30bn over 2015-16 by former and current industry com- beginning as Volkswagen admit- emissions cheating revelations have Shadow banking involves the GDP of the 26 participating selling off publicly owned assets, missioners, respectively (Antonio) ted that it also understated carbon come at a heavy cost for the group, transactions outside traditional jurisdictions. By comparison, and he said proceeds have now Tajani and (Elzbieta) Bienkowska, emissions, for 800,000 vehicles. which booked its first quarterly loss banking, including hedge and the traditional banking sector reached over £24bn since April 1. had hidden the facts and lied The company said the revela- in more than 15 years as it set aside investment funds. was last year worth $135 trillion, In the past few months, the before the European Parlia- tions have had an impact on car ¤6.7bn to cover the initial costs of The Switzerland-based body, 6.4 percent up on 2013. British government has sold ment,” said two Greens European sales, with demand for the group’s the scandal. chaired by chairman Mark Car- more of its shares in Lloyds lawmakers Yannick Jadot and 12 brands — including Audi, Skoda AFP ney, governor of the Bank of REUTERS Banking Group and started to sell off part of its stake in Royal Bank of Scotland. Cerberus will sell £3.3bn of the loans, or a quarter, to TSB, the British bank that was bought this year Britain to charge ex-Deutsche trader, nine others over rate rigging by Spain’s Sabadell. The sale of the Northern Rock LONDON: Britain’s Serious were expected to attend West- lion of financial contracts, from on behalf of Mr Bittar is that he years in a British jail in August. portfolio, dubbed “Granite”, Fraud Office (SFO) said yester- minster Magistrates’ Court derivatives to student loans. intends to fully contest the crimi- Two former traders from Dutch cements Cerberus’ position as the day that it would charge former voluntarily on January 11, 2016, Those who once worked or still nal proceedings started today by bank Rabobank have also been biggest buyer of loans that are no Deutsche Bank star trader Chris- where they would be formally work for Deutsche Bank were the SFO.” found guilty by a jury of Libor- longer wanted by European banks tian Bittar and nine others in a charged. named as Bittar, Achim Kraemer, “It emerged that Hauschild rigging in the United States. In which are shrinking in the wake of new phase of a global investi- Authorities have been work- Andreas Hauschild, Joerg Vogt, will be charged with involvement the meantime, six interdealer the financial crisis. gation into alleged benchmark ing to lay more charges against Ardalan Gharagozlou and Kai-Uwe in the manipulation of Euribor. brokers are currently on trial in In the first nine months of this interest rate rigging. those they allege fixed rates such Kappauf. Former Barclays bankers He is not guilty of this offence London and a fourth trial, that of year, it bought eight loan portfo- The 10 individuals will face as Libor, the London interbank were named as Colin Bermingham, and will vigorously contest these another group of former Barclays lios in Europe with a combined the first criminal proceedings for offered rate, and its euro equiva- Carlo Palombo, Philippe Mory- allegations at his forthcoming employees, has been scheduled for face value of ¤7.7bn ($8.29bn), alleged manipulation of Euribor lent Euribor. The criminal trials oussef and Sisse Bohart, a woman. trial,” said Andrew Katzen, a next January in London. more than any other firm, accord- benchmark interest rates, part that have already taken place They will be charged with conspir- partner at law firm Hickman The trials are taking place ing to real estate brokers Cush- of a global investigation that has have shed light on banker prac- acy to defraud. & Rose Solicitors. Lawyers for three years after Barclays became man and Wakefield. already led to big financial insti- tices before, during and after the Bermingham, known to col- the others were not immediately the first bank to strike a deal Most of the loans bought in tutions being fined billions of dol- 2007-2009 financial crisis. leagues as “The Professor”, is available for comment. with US and British authorities, recent years have been at knock- lars and 22 men being charged. Designed to estimate the costs the only individual currently in The latest arrests come after admitting its traders had tried down prices, but the premium The traders are all former or at which banks will lend to each Britain. Others are in Singapore, Tom Hayes, a former UBS and Cit- to manipulate Libor and Euribor paid for the Granite portfolio current employees of Deutsche other, benchmark rates such as Germany and Denmark, among igroup derivatives trader, became from 2005 through 2009, and that was because most of the loans are Bank or Barclays and the SFO Libor and Euribor are central other places, the SFO said. the first man to be convicted by it had low-balled rates during the being repaid and there was stiff said it planned to file further cogs in the global financial sys- A lawyer for Bittar, Eliza- a jury of conspiracy to defraud by crisis. It was fined $450m. competition for the assets. criminal charges in due course. tem and a benchmark for interest beth Robertson of law firm K&L manipulating yen-denominated The nine men and one woman rates on an estimated $450 tril- Gates, said: “Our only comment Libor. He was sentenced to 14 REUTERS REUTERS SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2015 BUSINESS VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15

Morgan Stanley turns to How rich investors use all dull banks to boost profit By Olivia Oran that cash from buybacks ORGAN Stanley, better known for underwrit- ing bonds than for retail banking, plans to offer By Justin Fox savings accounts and certificates of deposits next flowed out of long-established big compa- ing still flows into the economy, but it is year to wring more profit from its wealth man- nies and into the technology sector. But it likely to go to less productive use than if it agement clients, executives. The bank has offered IG US corporations have given doesn’t seem to be happening lately. Among were being directed into investment. Mchecking accounts and credit cards for years, but it is launching tons of money to shareholders publicly traded companies, the technology On the corporate side, one explanation more consumer banking products and giving brokers bonuses if in recent years, mostly in the sector’s share of overall investment has been for what’s going on could be that perverse clients use them. form of stock buybacks. That you falling since 2000. And while billions of dol- incentives are leading chief executive offic- The goal is to win more of the assets that customers keep at already knew. But where does the lars have flowed to closely held tech startups ers to give money back to shareholders even rivals such as JPMorgan Chase & Co or Bank of America Corp. Bmoney go after that? — the unicorns, in particular — this actually when they stand a good chance of earn- Right now, just 1 percent of Morgan Stanley’s more than 3.5 This turns out to be pretty hard to answer, doesn’t amount to much in the great scheme ing high returns by investing it internally. million wealth management clients actively use its retail bank- but it’s fair to say that the dominant view of things: Total shareholder payouts in 2014 There have been many examples over the ing products. Morgan Stanley has no plans to build retail bank since sometime in the 1990s has been that were more than $1.2tr, but money moving decades of corporations that turned out branches, and will instead rely on its 16,000 brokers to sell the wherever it’s going, the money is being put from investors to businesses in the form of to be good at more than one thing, after new products. The effort may leave it looking a little more like a to better use than it would if the corpora- IPOs and venture capital is less than $200bn. all. Still, those returns on internal invest- conventional bank, a move that regulators have been encouraging tions hadn’t given it to shareholders. That’s J W Mason, an economics profes- ment are likely to be years off, while activist since the crisis. Its chief rival, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, took The basic reasoning behind this was laid sor at City University of New York’s John investors are clamoring for buybacks. Even a similar step in August, when it agreed to buy General Electric out nicely in the “simple dumb model of Jay College, writing in a recent report from more important, those buybacks can boost Capital Bank’s online deposit business. corporate finance” that my colleague Matt the Roosevelt Institute titled “Understand- CEO pay right now. In a companion report The move is also likely to boost the bottom line — clients who Levine offered up a few months ago: ing Short- Termism.” Mason also shows that to Mason’s, the Roosevelt Institute recom- actively use Morgan Stanley’s banking products hold on average 7 1. Each company is good at one thing. 2. overall capital investment has been growing mends buyback limits and CEO pay reforms percent more assets at the firm than those who don’t. The annual Early in the company’s life, it asks inves- more slowly than in any other post-World as a way to counteract this. fees that customers pay are often based on a percentage of the tors to give it money, which it invests in War II recovery: But why have rich people been putting client’s assets at the firm. doing the thing. 3. Later in the company’s Instead of being invested, Mason figures, their buyback windfall into private jets, That fee income tends to be relatively stable over time compared life, the thing is profitable, and the company much of the cash being handed to investors expensive real estate, political campaigns with many investment banking businesses. The importance of generates more money from doing the thing is going into increased consumption by the and the like instead of investing it in busi- stable results was driven home for the bank’s investors last month than it needs to reinvest in doing more of wealthy. “Stock ownership is significantly ness enterprises? Even people with lots and when it released third quarter earnings that showed the thing. 4. The company has a choice of concentrated,” he reports, “with just 4 per- lots of money generally want to have more revenue in its bond trading business plunging 42 percent, what to do with the extra money. 5. It can cent of households owning a majority of all money, don’t they? excluding an accounting adjustment that investors often ignore, invest it in doing different things, which — shares.” Meanwhile, recent research from One possibility is that it’s mainly peer while revenue in its wealth unit, which includes brokerage fees, in this simple dumb model — it is bad at. Barry Z Cynamon of the Federal Reserve pressure: “Look, I have a new apartment interest income, and other items, fell just 3.5 percent. This reinvested money mostly disappears, Bank of St Louis and Steven M Fazzari of with a view of Central Park.” “Well, that’s Morgan Stanley’s fee income and commissions have been falling and shareholders are sad and angry. 6. Or Washington University in St Louis, shows nice, but I have my own presidential candi- since the beginning of 2014, which the bank has made up for by it can give the money back to shareholders. that households in the top 5 percent of date.” Another is that these people expect generating more revenue from areas including lending. If you look at it that way, big, profitable the income distribution went from spend- low returns from business investment, at After multi-billion dollar trading losses brought Morgan Stanley corporations should of course be giving lots ing just over 80 percent of their incomes least compared with investment in real uncomfortably close to failure during the financial crisis, the of money to shareholders. Those sharehold- in 1989 to 88 percent in 2012 (for the rest estate or political access. In any case, we bank agreed to buy Citigroup’s Smith Barney business in pieces ers, one would expect, will then reallocate of households, the consumption-to-income are living in a really strange world at the starting in 2009, turning its retail brokerage business from being that money to more promising investments. ratio actually declined slightly during those moment. an afterthought into the source of about half the bank’s revenue. This happened in the 1990s, as money years). Obviously, that consumption spend- BLOOMBERG Goldman, by contrast, remains much more heavily reliant on bond trading, stock underwriting, and other traditional invest- ment banking businesses to drive its bottom line. Investors seem to be siding with Goldman Sachs now — its shares trade at about 1.15 times their book value, an accounting measure of their net value, while Morgan Stanley’s trade at about their book value. In addition to fee income, banking products offer more deposit funding for Morgan Stanley, which regulators view positively. During a financial crisis depositors are less likely than corporate bond investors and other lenders to flee when trouble is brewing in markets or at a bank. When rates rise, deposit funding is often cheaper than other forms of borrowing. Morgan Stanley now has around $139bn of deposits in its bank unit and is aiming to get up to $200bn in the next several years. To help its effort, it has assembled a team of card and payment executives, many of who led similar businesses at Merrill Lynch. Tom Duffy, who heads banking services within wealth manage- ment, says his product development team has more than doubled to around 34 since he joined the bank in 2011. Morgan Stanley’s overall deposits, at around $147bn, fund a much smaller portion of its balance sheet than most other banks — its deposits equal about 18 percent of assets, compared with more than 50 percent for both JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America. Winning more client assets may not be easy, analysts noted. Some financial advisers also question whether they will be able to push their clients, who may prefer to conduct their everyday banking at a traditional bank branch, into changing their daily behaviour. Boosting retail banking products will help to expand wealth management’s profit margins. Last quarter, the pre-tax margin in the wealth business rose to 23 percent, at the lower end of the bank’s long-term goals, and in line with Bank of America’s wealth unit over the same period. In addition to adding executives to Duffy’s product development team, Morgan Stanley hired eight cash management specialists and sent them to 60 wealth management offices around the coun- try earlier this year to train financial advisors and their support staff about the firm’s different cash management products. Interest income at Morgan Stanley’s wealth management unit in the third quarter was $777m, compared with $1.38bn at Bank of America’s global wealth and investment management unit, which includes Merrill Lynch wealth management, US Trust and related businesses. REUTERS Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate Why fuel firms call for action on climate change By Bob Dudley the transition to a lower carbon each particular situation the most exceed the 2 degrees threshold. impossible, but unnecessary. Stud- It will involve greater energy economy. And we can see that oil economical options will emerge. To devise a workable route for- ies such as the widely cited Inter- efficiency, significant growth in HIS year many of us and gas are part of that transi- This is vital when the technolo- ward we need to understand the national Energy Agency’s ‘450 use of renewables and gas gain- have increased our tion. With the UN-led confer- gies need to be deployed at mas- starting point and particularly scenario’ show that oil and gas ing share from coal in the power advocacy on this issue. ence on climate change in Paris sive scale and affordability is key. the scale of the world’s reliance can and will be part of the journey sector. Fossil fuels have driven our TAnd last month, com- approaching, it’s important that A price that treats all carbon on fossil fuels. Today the world to a more sustainable future. The economies and built prosperity panies responsible for a fifth of we explain our view. emissions equally, whether from uses the equivalent of around first is energy efficiency reduc- in societies for two centuries in the world’s oil and gas supply in In BP we believe the best mech- a refinery smokestack or car tail- a quarter of a billion barrels of ing emissions by using energy which we have seen life expect- the Oil and Gas Climate Initia- anism to drive a shift to a lower pipe, will make our operations energy every day. Of that, 32 per- more effectively. A carbon price ancy double. They provide the tive (OGCI) threw their support carbon future is to put a price and products more costly in some cent of energy comes from oil, 30 would encourage smart buildings, energy that fuels our vehicles, behind a new global agreement on carbon. That can be done via cases. We accept that. If it has the percent from coal, and 24 percent advanced industrial plant, home powers our homes and lifts mil- at the forthcoming UN talks in taxes or by cap-and-trade sys- same impact on everyone, we are from gas so 87 percent from fossil insulation, higher fuel economy lions out of poverty. Paris. For oil and gas compa- tems. Either can be effective if keen to compete. A carbon price fuels in total. This global energy and the myriad of other ways to In BP we want to be part of a nies to take such a stance has well-constructed. creates opportunities as well as system, with its huge reliance on use energy more efficiently. solution that will work. Already, been described as “unusual” and There are many ways to reduce risks. Others take different views. hydrocarbons, has evolved over There is plenty of potential we are increasing the ratio of gas even “unprecedented”. However, carbon emissions: greater energy Some call for the rapid phasing two centuries as societies have here. Europe has been a leader to oil in our portfolio from 50/50 in fact, in BP we have publicly efficiency, renewable energy, gas out of fossil fuels now. Some ask used fossil fuels to support the in energy efficiency but the US, towards 60/40. We have a large acknowledged the risk and have displacing coal, carbon capture shareholders to sell their fossil world’s growing population and China and others are catching up. biofuels business in Brazil and been working to address it since and storage, nuclear power and fuel holdings, arguing that some raise global living standards. Second, gas is very much part enough wind turbines to power the 1990s. many others. Of these, energy reserves are effectively “unburn- Global energy needs to continue of the solution because it emits a city the size of Munich. We So why do companies that pro- efficiency is generally viewed able” or some company assets to play that role over the next 50 around half the carbon of coal are pursuing greater energy effi- duce oil and gas want to see more as being “good for all seasons”, “stranded” if the world is to limit years, as some of the world’s poor- when used to generate power. ciency in operations and provid- done to tackle climate change? whereas the rest have their sup- the global temperature rise to est countries grow and hundreds So replacing coal with gas in ing increasingly energy-efficient The first reason is simply that we porters and their detractors. the widely recognised goal of 2 of millions of people are lifted out power stations can make a mas- products to customers. want the planet to be sustainable The benefit of a broad-based, degrees Celsius on pre-industrial of fuel poverty, but it needs to do sive difference, given that coal We want to do more and a in the future. 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ZURICH: Acting FIFA president Turan and Tosun score for the visitors in Doha friendly Issa Hayatou has undergone a “successful” kidney transplant, but the veteran administrator DOHA: Second-half goals from will continue in his post, the Arda Turan and Cenk Tosun world football governing body earned Euro 2016 qualifiers Tur- announced yesterday. key a come-from-behind 2-1 “Issa Hayatou has never hid- victory over Qatar in a friendly Hungary’s Laszlo Kleinheisler reacts after scoring against Norway in den the fact that, for several years yesterday. the 2016 Euro qualifiers on Thursday. now, he has been suffering from Ali Asadalla scored against the a renal insufficiency, a situation run of play in the 26th minute that has not, however, prevented when he raced from the halfway him from fully performing his line and shot past keeper Vol- duties at the heart of world and kan Babacan from the edge of Hungary edge Norway African football’s governing bod- the penalty area. Turkey upped ies, without interruption,” said a the pressure on Qatar midway FIFA statement. through the first half with a series in 2016 Euro play-off “He will continue to fulfil his of efforts on goal. Mehmet Topal role as acting FIFA president as went close when his shot from intended.” the edge of the area was saved OSLO: Grief-stricken Hungary despite being under great pres- The 69-year-old Cameroonian, by keeper Amine Lecomte who edged closer to their first inter- sure.” who is also boss of the African tipped the ball around the post. national tournament in 30 years Norway had the better confederation, has been running The visitors failed to capital- when they defeated Norway 1-0 in exchanges in the first half and FIFA since Sepp Blatter was sus- ise on their chances and Qatar the opening leg of their Euro 2016 should have been ahead as early pended for 90 days last month. could have doubled their lead in play-off yesterday. as the third minute. Ironically Blatter too has been the 60th minute when Babacan On the day that Hungarian Markus Henriksen sped down undergoing medical treatment for blocked a close-range effort from international goalkeeper Marton the left before cutting the ball stress. Hassan Ali Haidous. Fulop lost his battle with cancer back to Per Skjelbred who had The 79-year-old had been in Turan became an increasing at the age of 32, his teammates been left in space inside the pen- hospital for several days with a threat for Turkey in the second honoured his memory with a alty area. condition that was not considered half, hitting the crossbar in the crucial victory ahead of Sunday’s But his close-range drive was serious, his spokesman said, and 66th minute after firing a free return in Budapest. spectacularly parried away one- he was discharged late Wednes- kick from a narrow angle on the Midfielder Laszlo Kleinheisler handed by 39-year-old goalkeeper day. left. He eventually equalised in marked his international debut Gabor Kiraly who was making his Blatter has been at the centre the 70th minute when the ball with the game’s only goal in the 100th international appearance. of the worst scandal to ever hit fell to him in the middle of the first half before Hungary, whose Hungary, wearing black arm- world football, which kicked off penalty area and he shot past last major event was the 1986 bands in memory of the 24-capped in May when 14 ex-FIFA officials Lecomte. World Cup in Mexico, soaked up Fulop, made the most of their and sports marketing executives Three minutes later Turan constant pressure from the home escape by snatching the lead after were charged by the US justice turned provider by sending in a side to preserve their advantage. 26 minutes. department over decades of graft cross from the right that Tosun “We must not forget that we Kleinheisler played a smart and bribery. headed in. Last month Turkey have a huge 90 minutes still to one-two with Akos Elek and the Blatter was elected to a fifth snatched automatic qualification play on Sunday,” said Hungary 21-year-old Videoton midfielder term as FIFA’s president days for Euro 2016 as the best third- coach Bernd Storck whose team buried his chance with a left- later, but he has since been Qatar’s Ali Asadalla all set to score against Turkey their friendly match placed team after a last-gasp goal failed to win a single corner com- footed shot on the turn. engulfed by the scandal. at Lekhwiya Stadium yesterday. BAHER AMIN helped them beat Iceland 1-0. pared to the home side’s 15. REUTERS “We played with discipline AFP AFP Champ Djokovic to face Federer at Tour Finals

LONDON: Defending champion the River Thames when he faces and Ivan Lendl as five-time Tour Since losing to Federer in the never won the Tour Finals, but has decided to participate, but it Novak Djokovic has been handed Swiss great Federer in the 43rd Finals winners. Cincinnati final in August, Djoko- he may not be too concerned if will be intriguing to see how he an early showdown with Roger instalment of their rivalry. Also in Djokovic’s group are vic has embarked on a 22-match he makes an early exit on home reacts if his troublesome lower Federer as the world number one They are tied at 21 wins each, Japan’s Kei Nishikori, his first winning run that has brought him turf this year as he has made the back injury flares up over the launches his bid for a fourth suc- with Djokovic defeating Federer opponent when the event gets the US Open, the China Open and Davis Cup his number one prior- coming week. Federer, mindful of cessive ATP Tour Finals title. in the Wimbledon and US Open underway on Sunday, and Czech Masters 1000 titles in Shanghai ity in recent months. Switzerland’s looming Davis Cup Djokovic arrives in south Lon- finals this year. world number five Tomas Ber- and Paris. Murray has led Great Britain final appearance, pulled out of last don hoping to win the prestigious Federer is no slouch at the dych. The other group in the round- in their first Davis Cup final in 37 year’s Tour Finals final against season-ending event for a fifth Tour Finals either, having won “This has been, by far, the most robin tournament, which features years and his country will bid for Djokovic due to injury. time to cap another remark- the tournament a record six successful season of my life and the world’s top eight players, sees a first title since 1936 when they “I feel fresh and hopefully I can able year that saw him win three times, but not even he reeled off I just try to better it,” Djokovic Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray, Stan face Belgium in Ghent less than play some good tennis this week,” Grand Slam crowns and cement four successive titles and Djokovic said. Wawrinka and David Ferrer pit- a week after the end of the Tour Murray said. his position on top of the world would become the first player to Despite having won so much ted together. Finals. After previously hinting “I feel good about the Davis rankings. achieve that impressive feat if he over the last 11 months, 10-time Most of the interest in that he might pull out of the Tour Cup final. I have been practising The 28-year-old Serb will get lifts the trophy on November 22. Grand Slam champion Djokovic group will focus on former Wim- Finals to give him more time to at Queen’s on clay for the past a quick test of his appetite for If Djokovic triumphs he will has shown no signs of easing up bledon champion Murray. adapt to the clay surface chosen four days.” further success on the banks of also draw level with Pete Sampras as the season winds down. The world number two has for the Davis Cup final, Murray AFP

German pair of Fluggen and Bockermann reign supreme in Qatar

DOHA: Lars Fluggen and of the podium, after their com- the Fuzhou Open and then won Markus Bockermann ended a long patriots won the inaugural event silvers at the Rio de Janeiro and season in the best way possible by in 2014. “It was very, very tough,” Xiamen Opens. winning their second FIVB Beach Fluggen said. Gold in Doha means that they Volleyball World Tour gold of the “I think these two guys are the have now book-ended the year on year, at the Doha Open yesterday. best team in the world right now. top of World Tour podiums. The German pair defeated Nick They won three out of five of the “This year is the first time Lucena and Phil Dalhausser 2-1 last tournaments and it just feels we’ve reached a semifinal and (21-18, 16-21, 15-13) to secure awesome to beat them.” that experience was important,” their first victory in three Fluggen and Bockermann Bockermann said. “We’ve learned attempts against the American have truly made their mark on to get it right and we need to keep pair this year. the World Tour in 2015. They it going.” In doing so they succeed Tim won their first World Tour med- John Hyden and Tri Bourne Holler and Jonas Schroder on top als together by winning gold at ended their long wait for a return to the World Tour podium when they defeated Edouard Row- landson and Youssef Krou in the bronze medal match. The American ensured that there would be two US teams on the podium by beating the French duo (21-15, 20-22, 15-12). The bronze is their first World Tour medals since they claimed gold at the 2014 Berlin Grand Slam. “I thought it was one of our best performances of the year,” Hyden said. “It was really fun and both teams were making great plays and I’m just glad we came Action from the Doha Open FIVB Beach Volleyball tournament at Qatar Beach Volleyball Academy courts at out on top.” Al Gharafa yesterday. Earlier, Fluggen and Bock- ermann needed to dig deep to defeat USA’s John Hyden and Tri long season and started in April,” it feels good.” Lucena and Dal- been working.” Bourne 2-1 (21-14, 16-21, 15-12) in Bockermann said. hausser also needed three sets to The FIVB Qatar Open is last the first of the semifinals. “I’ve never played such a long reach their fifth final of the sea- of three open events on the 2015 Reaching the final means that season and it going to be a tough son, but rallied from losing the portion of the 2016 FIVB World the pair keep up their stellar form match at the end of a tough sea- first set to beat Rowlandson and Tour calendar and started on in their best season together. They son. “It was so hard. It was really Krou 2-1 (15-21, 21-16, 15-7). Monday at the Qatar Beach Vol- German pair of Lars Fluggen and Markus Bockermann celebrate their opened the season by winning gold hot and we struggled in the side- “We started off pretty bad leyball Academy in the Al Gharafa win at the Doha Open FIVB Beach Volleyball tournament at Qatar Beach at the Fuzhou Open and followed out a little, but we had a good plan and we missed about 10 serves,” Sports Club in Doha. Volleyball Academy courts at Al Gharafa yesterday. up by twice winning silver. to break the Americans. We lost Lucena said. “Phil took over in “It was so tough, it was a really the last time and now we won and the third and that is how we have THE PENINSULA SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 Brash guides Hello Forever to win Briton triumphs in 1.50/1.55m class on penultimate day of season’s finale By Rizwan Rehmat

DOHA: Show jumping icon Scott Brash of Britain yesterday issued a warning to his rivals by guid- ing Hello Forever to an emphatic win on the penultimate day of the season’s final event of the 2015 Longines Global Champions Tour. Scott Brash Brash, who will be one of three of Britain riders eyeing the world title at Al receiving Rashid Towaim Ali Al Marri from Qatar in action on the second day of Shaqab Arena today, produced the trophy the prestigious Longines Global Champions Tour at Al Shaqab Arena a sublime run with trusted ally from H E in Doha yesterday. Pic: Kammutty VP Hello Forever to nail victory in Sheikh Thani the 1.50/1.55m class. bin Hamad Hello Forever clocked a time of Al Thani at 44.78 seconds giving a convincing Al Shaqab Top trio upbeat ahead of title win to Brash in the jump-off. yesterday. Sweden’s Rolf-Goran Bengts- Pic: Lotfi Garsi son, astride Clarimo ASK, sealed showdown at Al Shaqab the second spot in a time of 45.42secs. DOHA: The three leading con- class. It was super, super close - Balermo, ridden by Marco Kut- tenders – World No.1 Scott Brash, it couldn’t be more close! Casall scher of Germany, finished the multiple Grand Prix winner ASK has been tremendous this hotly-contested event in third showing such performances,” the horse and about the event.” Ear- RESULTS ON DAY TWO Luciana Diniz and Olympic silver season again, all the time in the spot. Balermo clocked a time of Briton added. lier, Qatar’s Hamad Nasser Al Results: Read under as rider, horse and medallist and European Cham- second round - he’s very good. 46.85secs. “He’s got that little bit of Qadi continued with his fine time. pion Rolf-Goran Bengtsson – for [Casall’s consistency] shows his Italy’s Francesco Franco guided cheekiness about him. He’s spooky form, guiding to top honours in Doha 2015 Invitational 1.20/1.25m the Longines Global Champions quality; I’ve been trying and have Banca Popolare Bari Cassandra about certain things. But he has the 1.20/1.20m class at Al Shaqab Table A: Against the Clock with Jump-Off Tour crown are upbeat ahead of equalled the points, but not hav- to fourth spot (48.78secs) while been very good. And hopefully he Arena. Al Qadi astride Azucar, Hamad Nasser Al Qadi, Azucar, 34.60secs the amazing title showdown at Al ing the wins enough to get the Colombian Carlos Lopez com- is going to be an even better horse clocked a time of 34.60 seconds. Shaqab today in Doha. nose in front. To be here again in Salman Mohammed A S Al Emadi, Lucky Lady, pleted the top five with Prince de next year,” Brash, 29, said. Salman Mohammed Al Emadi The trio gathered together this position that’s strong - I feel 35.73 la Mare (43.24secs). “He’s a winner and goes real powered to the second place with ahead of the knife edge €1.4m very happy about my horse, and Brash, who last year became fast as he did in the jump-off,” Lucky Lady, finishing in a time Fahad Abdulaziz Al Eid, Unlimited, 36.16 Tour final. to be here.” the first rider ever to win three Brash said. of 35.73secs. Abdulrahman Al Nassar, Cassander van het The three top riders, who have Riders also spoke about the LGCT Grands Prix in the same “He’s very competitive and Fahad Abdulaziz Al Eid paired Bremhof, 37.39 collectively won seven of the 15 Global Champions League, the season, yesterday picked up the that’s a great feeling to have,” up with Unlimited to emerge Awad Al Qahtani, Santos, 38.73 Grand Prix this year, gave their new team-based competition top prize of Euros 50,490 while Brash, who won the Team Gold third best in the against the clock Doha 2015 Invitational 1.40m insight into today’s epic sporting that will herald a new era in show Bengtsson walked off with Euros at the Olympic Games in London, class in a time of 36.16secs. Table A: Against the Clock with Jump-Off climax to the sensational 2015 jumping, launching in 2016. The 30,600. said. In the 1.40m class, Faleh Faleh Suwead Al Ajami, Come Soon, 33.81 secs season and their excitement about new format will trigger fascinat- Third-placed Kutscher got When asked about Hello Sanc- Suwead Al Ajami produced a neat Mubarak Yousuf A S Al Rumaihi, Vivaldi K, 34.52 the new GCL Team Competition ing new tactical battles and ener- richer by Euros 22,950. Brash was tos’ run today, Brash said: “He’s run with Come Soon to take the Rashid Towaim Ali Al Marri, Beyonce, 37.81 starting next year. gise the sport by creating new pleased with the performance of feeling good. He had a day off honours in a time of 33.81secs. Ranking leader Scott Brash rivalries and alliances. Already Saeed Nasser Al Qadi, St. Lucia, 66.89 Hello Forever, who will give way today,” he said. Vivaldi K, ridden by Mubarak (GBR) confirmed he will be com- riders are looking ahead to the to London Games gold medal “I will try my best tomorrow Yousaf Al Rumahi, finished sec- Saoud Nasser H.M Al Kubaisi, Apple Bee, 68.37 peting on his Olympic gold medal transformational new format horse Hello Sanctos for today’s (today).” ond (34.52secs) while Rashid Class 03: Doha 2015 CSI5* 1.50/1.55m horse Hello Sanctos and said: “I which will inject fresh excite- main event. “You just have to do your job,” Towaim Ali Al Marri, who was Table A: Against the Clock with Jump-Off think it’s very tight; down to the ment for fans and TV audiences “I am really chuffed with his Brash said when asked about feel- astride Beyonce, clinched the Scott Brash, Hello Forever, 44.78 seconds wire again, as it always seems to worldwide. performance,” Brash said. ing the pressure ahead of today’s third spot (37.81secs). Rolf-Göran Bengtsson, Clarimo ASK, 45.42 be in Doha. I think we’re looking Brash said of the new team “I keep thinking of him what season finale. Marco Kutscher, Balermo, 46.85 forward to great sport on Satur- competition: “It’s very very good he will do next year and he keeps “You should just focus on your THE PENINSULA day night here and we’re all happy and very interesting; I think it Francesco Franco, Banca Popolare Bari Cas- sandra, 48.78 to be here. I’m very lucky that is the next step for our sport Sanctos likes jumping in Doha, it and if we can follow football and Carlos Lopez, Prince de la Mare, 43.24 seems to be a lucky ring for us. Formula 1 it is going to be very Gregory Wathelet, Egano van het Slogenhof, It’s nice to be coming in as Tour healthy for our sport. I am very 43.38 leader, but [Luciana and Rolf] are happy to be involved in our sport Khalid Mohammed A S Al Emadi, Tamira IV, hot on my heels so we’re going to at this time.” 45.43 have to try and produce another In another interview about Ramzy Al Duhami, Bayard van de Villa Theresia, great performance in Doha.” the new team competition Scott 46.57 His closest rival Luciana Diniz added: “Next year it will be very, Ondrej Zvara, Cento Lano, 48.17 (POR) also spoke about the very exciting. It brings our sport John Whitaker, Ornellaia, 48.15 intense battle for the champion- to another level. I think it will Lauren Hough, Royalty Des Isles, eliminated ship crown: “I’m very happy to be make a difference to fans because Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum, Fibonacci 17, here. Last year I helped [Scott] it become even more popular. retired by being second, so maybe this Hopefully our sport can one day 8:55 CSI5* - Table A - with jump off, year he will help me to win - that be along with the likes of tennis 1.50/1.55m (jump off) would be the greatest present he and Formula 1 and this is really Today could give me! We will all ride for exciting.” [the win], but also it depends on Rolf-Göran Bengtsson com- 10:45 National Competition 1.20/1.25m Two phases the day, the performance of the mented: “I think it is good for our day, how the horses are feeling, sport to involve more people. I am Following National Competition 1.35/1.40m how we are feeling and who has looking forward to it, it can be a Two phases the most luck. For sure all of us great thing.” In another interview 2:30 CSI5* - Table A – no jump off 1.50m will do our best.” Rolf also spoke of the impact of (€61,500) Bengtsson, who narrowly the new team-based League and 5:15 CSI5* Longines Global Champions Tour missed out on winning the title the attraction for fans.” Qatar’s Bassem Hassan Mohammed in action on the second day of the prestigious Longines Global Champions Grand Prix of Doha, 1.60m two rounds against last year, said: “We had a real bat- Tour at Al Shaqab Arena in Doha yesterday. the clock with jump off (€ 450,000) tle last year and it was a great THE PENINSULA

Becker backs James sparkles as Colombia snatch draw Beckenbauer in MONTEVIDEO: Real Madrid shot into the path of Martinez, Cup graft row star James Rodriguez returned WORLD CUP who jabbed home the rebound to snatch a draw for Colom- QUALIFYING RESULTS to trigger wild celebrations in bia against Chile on Thursday Quito’s Atahualpa Stadium. BERLIN: German tennis legend as Argentina and Brazil’s long- Results from South American qualifying matches Ecuador will now aim to secure Boris Becker yesterday lent his awaited World Cup qualifying for 2018 World Cup on Thursday: a fourth consecutive victory when support to Franz Beckenbauer, clash was postponed by torren- At La Paz they travel to Venezuela next who is under pressure over cor- tial rain. Bolivia 4 (Ramallo 19, 45, Arce 23-pen, Tuesday. ruption allegations surrounding Rodriguez, who missed Colom- Fernandez 48) Venezuela 2 (Rondon 31, Venezuela, who lost their Germany’s hosting of the 2006 bia’s opening two 2018 World Cup Blanco 55) opening two matches last month, World Cup. qualifiers last month through At Quito suffered a third defeat earlier “One knows who his friends are injury, pounced in the 68th minute Ecuador 2 (Caicedo 23, Martinez 59) Uruguay Thursday when they slumped to in difficult times! Franz Becken- to help give his team a precious 1 (Cavani 49) a 4-2 defeat to Bolivia in La Paz. bauer is one of the most impor- point in a 1-1 draw with the Copa At Santiago But the most eagerly tant Germans... I worship him as America champions in Santiago. Chile 1 (Vidal 45+1) Colombia 1 (James awaited match of the day, ‘Kaiser’!”, tweeted Becker. Chile, who dominated posses- Rodriguez 68) the “Superclasico” between Beckenbauer, 70, headed up sion for long periods but strug- South American heavyweights Germany’s organising committee gled to break down a disciplined Quito, some 9,000-feet above sea Argentina and Brazil, was a for the 2006 World Cup finals, the Colombian defence, had taken the level. Ecuador took the lead on 23 washout. awarding of which has become the lead on the stroke of half-time minutes through Felipe Caicedo, Torrential rain pounded Bue- subject of a police investigation through a headed Arturo Vidal the Espanyol striker coolly tuck- nos Aires for hours prior to kick here after magazine Spiegel made effort. ing away a low cross from Juan off, leaving the pitch at River allegations that FIFA votes were In other games Thursday, sur- Paredes on the right flank. Plate’s famous Monumental Sta- bought in 2000. prise package Ecuador defeated But Uruguay levelled four dium heavily waterlogged with no At the centre of the scandal is Uruguay 2-1 to maintain their minutes after half-time through chance of play possible. a $7.2m payment, which is alleged 100 percent start to the qualifying returning striker Edinson Cavani, “The bad weather made it to have been used to purchase the campaign after three matches. the Paris Saint-Germain forward impossible for the match to be support of FIFA’s executive com- Ecuador, shock winners over heading home from Nicolas played. Heavy rain is still falling Colombia’s James Rodriguez celebrates after scoring against Chile mittee. The scandal took a dra- Argentina in Buenos Aires last Lodeiro’s perfectly flighted free- on Buenos Aires so the match during their Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup South American Qualifiers matic twist last week when police month, secured all three points kick. But Ecuador regained has been postponed,” a state- match, in Santiago, on Thursday. carried out raids at the Frank- through Fidel Martinez’s second- the lead only 10 minutes later ment from the Argentine Football furt headquarters of the German half winner. however through an opportunistic Association (AFA) said. Football Association (DFB) and Uruguay, missing suspended strike from Martinez. The match was called off Brazil are welcoming back point from their first two matches led to Wolfgang Niersbach resign- superstar Luis Suarez -- still Swansea City forward Jefferson approximately 40 minutes before superstar striker Neymar from last month. Argentina are with- ing as DFB president on Monday. serving a ban for his infamous Montero was the catalyst, cutting it was due to kick-off at 9pm local suspension after his four-match out an array of key players, with ‘The Kaiser’ has remained bite at the 2014 World Cup -- in purposefully from the left flank time (0000 GMT). ban at the Copa America. Argen- captain Lionel Messi and strikers silent publicly, saying he reserved struggled to contain a vibrant and unleashing a fierce low shot Argentina and Brazil were tina meanwhile are looking to bag Sergio Aguero and Carlos Tevez his comments for investigators. Ecuador side, comfortable in the towards Fernando Muslera. scheduled to face each other on their first win of the qualifying all injured. challenging thin Andean air of Muslera could only parry the Friday, weather permitting. campaign after taking only one AFP AFP SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Scoreboard Warner puts Kiwis to sword ENGLAND Babar Azam lbw Willey ...... 4 J Roy c Malik b Riaz ...... 54 Mohd Hafeez c Buttler b Willey ...... 0 A Hales st Ahmed b Iftikhar ...... 109 Iftikhar Ahmed c Willey b Woakes ...... 5 Opener unbeaten on career-best 244 as Aussies score 416-2 on first day J Root b Riaz ...... 63 Shoaib Malik c Taylor b Woakes ...... 13 E Morgan c Azam b Irfan ...... 29 Mohammad Rizwan b Rashid ...... 17 PERTH: J Buttler b Riaz ...... 11 Sarfraz Ahmed c Buttler b Woakes ...... 64 Opener David Warner by 208 runs at the Gabba, the J Taylor (not out) ...... 9 Anwar Ali c Woakes b Moeen ...... 23 continued his love affair with New Kiwi bowlers gained little assist- Moeen Ali (not out) ...... 2 Wahab Riaz c Buttler b Willey ...... 5 Zealand’s bowling and the WACA ance from the pitch and were Extras (LB-3, W-3) ...... 6 Yasir Shah (not out) ...... 16 Ground by notching a career-best again on the wrong end of the Total (for 5 wkts in 50 overs) ...... 283 Mohammad Irfan b Topley ...... 0 double century as Australia took decision review system. Fall of wickets: 1-102, 2-216, 3-256, 4-270, Extras (B-7, LB-8, W-4) ...... 19 total control and records tumbled Warner cashed in to notch his 5-274. Total (all out in 45.5 overs) ...... 188 on the opening day of the second 15th Test century in 45 matches Bowling: Irfan 10-0-46-1; Anwar 9-0-48-0; Fall of wickets: 1-5, 2-10, 3-24, 4-46, 5-50, Test in Perth yesterday. and went on to post his highest Shah 9-0-70-0 (2w); Riaz 10-0-43-3 (1w); 6-80, 7-145, 8-163, 9-181, 10-188. After winning the toss and score. Malik 6-0-42-0; Iftikhar 6-0-31-1. Bowling: Willey 8-0-25-3; Topley 9.5-1-33-1 electing to bat, Warner’s third After narrowly surviving a PAKISTAN (1w); Woakes 8-0-33-4; Rashid 10-0-32-1 century in as many innings saw decision review on 78, he reached Azhar Ali b Woakes...... 22 (1w); Moeen 10-0-50-1 (2w). the home side reach a command- triple figures with his 12th bound- ing 416 for two at stumps against ary, having faced 118 balls. the demoralised Kiwis in what is It was also his fourth succes- shaping up to be a disappoint- sive century against New Zealand, ingly lopsided three-Test Trans- making him just the fifth batsman Hales leads England to Tasman series. in history to score four hundreds At stumps Warner was in a row against the same oppo- unbeaten on 244, having notched nent. the highest score by an Australian The others in the select group big win over Pakistan in a single day on home soil, with are South Africa’s Alan Melville captain Steve Smith on five. and Hashim Amla, West Indian ABU DHABI: Alex Hales ship for the first wicket with The Australian total was the Everton Weekes and Pakistan’s smashed a maiden hundred and Jason Roy (54) and another 114 highest on the first day of a Test Shoaib Mohammad. Chris Woakes ended his wicket for the second with Joe Root (63) at the venue. Warner went on to post his drought with four victims as Eng- as England put up a challenging Usman Khawaja posted his sec- maiden Test double century late land beat Pakistan by 95 runs to total. ond century of the series before in the day, having faced 236 balls win the second one-day interna- England got off to a confident falling just before stumps for and hit 17 fours and two sixes in tional yesterday. start on a pitch used for the sec- 121 to end a 302-run stand with reaching the milestone. Hales’s 109 was the cornerstone ond match in a row, as Roy and Warner. Left-handed Warner has scored of England’s challenging 283-5 Hales lifted the tempo after the That set a new second-wicket 676 runs against the Kiwis at a before Woakes – wicketless in his first ten overs. partnership mark for Australia, formidable average of 169, and has last six games – took 4-33 to help Roy smashed two boundaries surpassing Arthur Morris and 638 runs at 127.60 at the WACA dismiss Pakistan for 188 in 45.5 off paceman Wahab Riaz to bring Don Bradman’s 301-run effort at in four Tests. overs at Sheikh Zayed Stadium. up his third one-day fifty off 53 Headingley in 1948. His total is the second biggest The victory levelled the balls but four runs later miscued Already down 1-0 in the three- individual score at the ground Australia’s David Warner (right) celebrates with team-mate Usman Khawaja four-match series at 1-1 after a drive and was caught by Shoaib Test series after being thumped behind Matthew Hayden’s 380 after reaching his double-century during the first day of the second Test Pakistan won the first game by Malik off Riaz who finished with against Zimbabwe in 2003 and against New Zealand at the WACA ground in Perth, yesterday. six wickets – also in Abu Dhabi 3-43. Warner also passed 4,000 Test – on Wednesday. Pakistan were Hales continued in his aggres- Scoreboard runs during his innings. 40 before chopping a ball on from the ball was hitting the bails, leav- out of the hunt after losing half sive style, improving on his previ- Australia (I innings): Warner and fellow opener Joe the bowling of recalled seamer ing the decision as umpire’s call their side for 50 in the 19th over ous best of 67 made against New J Burns b Henry ...... 40 Burns put on 101 for the first Matt Henry (1-51). and the visitors without any more as Woakes, wicketless in his last Zealand at Nottingham earlier D Warner (batting) ...... 244 wicket – their third century Warner and Khawaja then reviews. six matches, ripped through the this year, clobbering two sixes off U Khawaja c Latham b Bracewell ...... 121 opening stand in as many innings broke Kiwi hearts as the visi- Khawaja was then given not out middle-order. leg-spinner Yasir Shah. S Smith (batting) ...... 5 together. The feat emulates the tors toiled without reward in the caught behind from the bowling of But it was David Willey who He successfully challenged Extras (LB-1, W-1, NB-4) ...... 6 great Australian partnership of searing heat on a day where even spinner Mark Craig for 38, with removed opener Babar Azam Pakistani umpire Shozab Raza’s Total (for 2 wkts) ...... 416 Hayden and Justin Langer, who skipper Brendon McCullum had replays showing he clearly edged (four) and first match centurion decision of caught behind off Riaz Fall of wickets: 1-101, 2-403. passed centuries in their first a rare bowl. it to add to Kiwi frustration. Mohammad Hafeez (nought) when 48 and paddle-swept Ift- Bowling: Southee 19-1-73-0, Boult 17-0-99- three outings together in 2001 and The Kiwis wasted an early Without addition to his score, in his first three overs before ikhar for two to reach the three- 0 (1w), Henry 16-0-75-1, Bracewell 16-0-57- went on to become the fourth- decision review on a leg-before- Khawaja survived another close finishing with 3-25. figure mark off 111 balls. 1 (4nb), Craig 14-0-77-0, Williamson 3-0-11- highest scoring partnership in wicket (lbw) appeal when a replay appeal for lbw by the unlucky Woakes had debutant Iftikhar He was finally stumped off Ift- 0, Guptill 3-0-7-0, McCullum 2-0-16-0. Test history. showed a clear inside edge from Southee. Ahmed caught for five, Shoaib ikhar by Sarfraz Ahmed in the New Zealand: Tom Latham, Martin Guptill, It also takes Australia to a Test Burns from the bowling of Tim Khawaja was also dropped on Malik (13) caught off a miscued 39th over. Kane Williamson, Ross Taylor, Brendon McCul- cricket world record of five suc- Southee. the boundary on 62 just before pull and then had skipper Azhar Root added 40 for the third lum (capt), BJ Watling, Mark Craig, Doug cessive century opening partner- Their second review was much tea, with the ball deflecting for Ali bowled after a laborious wicket with Eoin Morgan (29) Bracewell, Matt Henry, Tim Southee, Trent ships, including Warner and Chris more marginal, with Warner six to compound Kiwi misery. 45-ball 22. before Riaz returned for his sec- Boult. Rogers’s last two innings together given not out lbw and the replay Sarfraz, who top-scored with ond spell to take out Root’s leg in this year’s Ashes. Burns made showing fractionally less than half AFP 64, added 30 with Mohammad stump with a slower one. Root hit Rizwan (17) for the sixth wicket three boundaries off 77 balls. and 65 for the seventh wicket with Jos Butler was cleaned up by Anwar (23) but it only delayed Riaz for 11 as England managed Pakistan’s defeat. just 27 runs in the last five overs. Steyn, Philander out of second India Test Sarfraz fought a lone battle, Pakistan had brought in Ift- hitting three boundaries during ikhar and Rizwan as two changes BANGALORE: South Africa ther rain over the next five days his 76-ball knock before falling to from the first match but England suffered a crushing double blow will make both teams re-think Woakes in the 45th over. remained unchanged. The third ahead of today’s second Test their plans. It was Hales’s superb knock match will be played in Sharjah against India as both pace spear- “Let’s see what the weather that set up England’s match. on Tuesday. heads Dale Steyn and Vernon tomorrow is like,” said Amla. He shared a 102-run partner- AFP Philander were ruled out with “These type of conditions suit injuries. seam bowling. Hope our bowlers Philander twisted his left ankle will do a good job for us.” during practice in Bangalore on Kohli said the different con- Thursday and will miss the rest of ditions from Mohali where the the four-Test series as MRI scans Indian spinners claimed 19 of the showed he may be out of action 20 wickets, are bound to affect the for up to eight weeks. home side’s strategy. On Friday, South African skip- “It (the weather) does play a per Hashim Amla confirmed that part especially knowing that you Steyn had not recovered from a might not have full game time,” groin strain he suffered during the Indian captain said. “It does the first Test in Mohali last week. sort of bring about a few changes “Both Dale (Steyn) and Philan- as far as the team combination is der are ruled out of this match,” concerned. Amla told reporters at the Chin- FROM LEFT: South African cricketers Faf du Plessis, Dane Vilas and JP “We will make the necessary naswamy stadium as the tourists Duminy watch their team-mates during the net practice session on the changes according to the condi- prepared to bid for a series-lev- eve of the second Test against India at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in tions. It is very important to keep elling win. Bangalore yesterday. all the factors in mind before “Obviously, losing Dale – one picking a squad for a Test.” of the best bowlers in the world in the first match in Mohali that Abbott, who has taken 13 India will welcome back pre- – and Philander - one of the best as they found Indian spinners wickets in three Tests so far, will mier fast bowler Ishant Sharma, all-rounders in the world - cer- unplayable on the dry, dusty pitch. be ready to play despite landing who missed the Mohali match tainly changes the dynamics of The Proteas flew in seamer in Bangalore on Thursday night. to serve out a one-Test ban for the team. Kyle Abbott to replace Philander “Yes, he is ready,” the skipper misconduct during the recent Sri “But the guys who will replace and fast bowler Morne Morkel said. “Kyle has been one of our Lankan tour. them are quality cricketers. We will also be available after miss- outstanding reserve bowlers in Sharma is likely to replace are fortunate to have great depth ing the Mohali Test due to a leg the last couple of years. When- either Umesh Yadav or Varun in our side, especially in the bowl- injury. ever he has got an opportunity in Aaron -- unless India prefer to ing. We still have a potent bowling But the absence of Steyn and all formats he has done exception- play three seamers -- but Kohli attack to back it up.” Philander will hurt the tourists ally well.” said a final call on the playing XI The tourists, the world’s top- since bad weather in Bangalore Both Amla and his Indian will be taken just before the toss. England’s Alex Hales smashes a boundary during the second ODI against ranked Test side, crashed to a over the last few days is certain to counterpart Virat Kohli said the Pakistan in Abu Dhabi yesterday. 108-run defeat inside three days spice up the pitch. Amla insisted damp weather and forecast of fur- AFP Scoreboard T20: Bangladesh outplay Zimbabwe in opener ZIMBABWE Mahmudullah 3-1-18-1; Jubair 2-0-20-2. S Raza c Liton b Mortaza ...... 4 BANGLADESH DHAKA: R Chakabva c Rahim b Al-Amin ...... 0 Tamim Iqbal lbw Cremer ...... 31 Malcolm Waller and including two wickets in one over, game. Mortaza won the toss and the next over by Nasir and S Williams b Nasir ...... 15 Anamul Haque (run out) ...... 1 Graeme Cremer starred with but they were not good enough for elected to bowl first. The decision completed his 50 off just 20 balls, E Chigumbura b Mortaza ...... 0 Sabbir Rahman e Ervine b Chisoro ...... 18 bat and ball respectively but the visitors to end their dismal bore fruit as he and Al-Amin Zimbabwe’s quickest in Twenty20 C Ervine b Mahmudullah ...... 20 Mushfiqur Rahim c Raza b Cremer ...... 2 Zimbabwe still fell short in the run in the tour. Hossain struck early to reduce internationals. M Waller c Liton Mustafizur ...... 68 Nasir Hossain lbw Cremer ...... 16 first Twenty20 international Bangladesh won the Zimbabwe to 10-3 inside three Waller, who hit a total of four L Jongwe lbw b Jubair ...... 0 Mahumdullah (not out) ...... 22 against Bangladesh in Dhaka preceding three-match one-day overs before Sean Williams (15) fours and sixes, was eventually N Madziva c Nasir b Jubair ...... 1 Liton Das c Cremer b Chisoro ...... 17 yesterday. international series 3-0. and Craig Ervine (20) offered dismissed by Mustafizur Rahman T Chisoro (not out) ...... 7 Mashrafe Mortaza (not out) ...... 15 The hosts bundled Zimbabwe Tamim Iqbal scored highest some resistance. as Liton Das took a catch at deep A Cremer b Al Amin ...... 3 Extras (LB-4, W-8, NB-2) ...... 14 out for 131 runs in 19.3 overs with 31 runs for the hosts while Waller joined Ervine after midwicket. T Panyangara lbw Mustafizur ...... 4 Total (for 6 wkts in 17.4 overs) ...... 136 in a docile wicket before easily Mahmudullah added an unbeaten spinner Nasir Hossain bowled Mustafizur claimed 2-16 while Extras (B-1, LB-7, W-1) ...... 9 Fall of wickets: 1-6, 2-45, 3-54, 4- 79, 5-80, reaching 136-6 in 17.4 overs to go 22 to take Bangladesh home. Williams to leave Zimbabwe Mortaza, Al-Amin and Jubair Total (all out in 19.3 overs) ...... 131 6-118. 1-0 up in the two-match series. Mashrafe Mortaza, unbeaten tottering at 38-4. each grabbed two wickets by Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-8, 3-10, 4-38, 5-105, Bowling: Panyangara 3-0-25-0 (nb2; w1); Waller struck 68 runs off 31 on 15, hit Luke Jongwe a straight Waller launched an immediate giving away 20 runs each. 6-106, 7-108, 8-122, 9-126, 10-131. Madziva 3-0-24-0 (w6); Jongwe 1.4-0-24-0; balls as Zimbabwe recovered from to six to end the game with more counter attack to take 17 runs The second match of the series Bowling: Mortaza 4-0-20-2; Al-Amin 4-0-20- Chisoro 4-1-15-2; Cremer 4-0-29-3 (w1); Wil- a disastrous start to get a decent than two overs to spare. off debutant leg-spinner Jubair will be held at the same venue on 2; Mustafizur 3.3-0-16-2 (w1); Nasir 3-0-29-1; liams 2-015-0. score. Mortaza, the Bangladesh Hossain’s first over. November 15. Cremer then finished with 3-29, skipper, was relieved to win the He then scored 20 off AFP 21

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MONACO: Russia, accused of meeting that Moscow was ready Although Russian officials are race for the organisation’s top job, mal reply to the allegations ahead reached as far up as Russian “state-sponsored” doping, have to reform or “create a new anti- expected to offer an olive branch warned that it would be wrong to of Friday’s meeting. Acting presi- President Vladimir Putin who said they are ready to establish doping organisation” if the IAAF by admitting to some cases of punish innocent athletes for the dent of Russia’s athletics federa- ordered officials to launch their a new anti-doping agency hours or the World Anti-Doping Agency cheating, the IAAF is under huge transgressions of others. tion Vadim Zelichenok said that own internal investigation and before world athletics chiefs meet (WADA) demanded it. pressure to take strong action “All those involved, officials, it had produced the response “in cooperate with international anti- with exclusion from the 2016 A simple majority is all that less than a year out from the Rio managers or coaches, must pay such a way as to try to prove our doping authorities. Olympics a potential long-term will be needed to confirm a sus- Olympics. Of the 26 members on the price,” Bubka told the AIPS innocence”. “We must do everything in consequence for Moscow. pension for Russia who were the IAAF Council, nine are Euro- world sports journalists associa- “How many pages is it? One Russia to rid ourselves of this Sebastian Coe, the recently- accused of widespread doping by pean. tion. or 100, it’s not important,” he problem,” said Putin, an avid elected president of the Inter- an independent commission set “Europe will support Sebastian “But ordinary athletes, those added. In another development, sportsman who led Russia’s bid national Association of Athletics up by WADA in a report which Coe. We have full confidence in who have nothing to do with this Russia’s Olympic Committee to host last year’s Winter Olym- Federations (IAAF), will not be has shaken track and field, one him. We are all on the same page,” matter, should not have to miss a president Alexander Zhukov flew pics and the 2018 football World at the organisation’s headquarters of the Olympic Games’ flagship Svein Arne Hansen, the president single competition.” into Lausanne in Switzerland Cup. in Monaco but will preside over attractions. of European Athletics, told Brit- The IAAF, he said, needed to Thursday evening for talks with However, he added: “This prob- a conference call of the body’s 26 The 335-page report also ain’s Daily Telegraph. live up to its responsibilities as International Olympic Commit- lem does not exist only in Russia, members from London. blasted Russian officials for However, one leading IAAF an important player on the world tee chief Thomas Bach, R-Sport but if our foreign colleagues have Russian sports minister Vit- blackmailing athletes to cover up council member, legendary sports stage but it must take it reported. questions, we must answer them.” aly Mutko told R-Sport news positive tests as well as destroying Ukraine pole-vaulter Sergei “case by case, person by person”. The fallout from the WADA agency hours before the IAAF test samples. Bubka who lost out to Coe in the On Thursday, Russia sent a for- report’s damning conclusions AFP

Warriors move Rose stalls at BMW as to franchise best 10-0 start

Bjerregaard takes lead LOS ANGELES: The Golden State’s perfect start to the season is now the best in franchise his- Race to Dubai hots up at BMW Masters in Shanghai tory as Stephen Curry scored 46 points and the Warriors beat the SHANGHAI: Justin Rose may BMW MASTERS SECOND at one stage was sharing the lead Minnesota Timberwolves 129-116 need to overtake Lucas Bjerre- with Bjerregaard after three on Thursday. gaard again on Chinese soil if he is ROUND SCORES birdies on his front nine. But the Curry scored 21 of his game to seize pole position in the Race SHANGHAI: Leading scores after the second Spanish world number 11 went high total in the first quarter To Dubai after the Dane moved round of the BMW Masters tournament bogey-double bogey on 12 and 13 as Golden State improved to a three shots clear at the BMW at Lake Malaren Golf Club, Shanghai, on to drop back to eight-under par franchise-best 10-0, surpassing Masters yesterday. Thursday (par 72): before clawing back a shot which the 1960-61 Warriors who opened Bjerregaard, who was pipped 132 Lucas Bjerregaard (DEN) 66-66 left him with 71 and a share of at 9-0. That Warrior side was led by Rose to the Hong Kong Open 135 Thongchai Jaidee (THA) 67-68, second place on nine-under 135 by the legendary Wilt Chamber- title last month, carded a second Sergio Garcia (ESP) 64-71 with Thongchai Jaidee, who lain when the club was based in successive 66 at Lake Malaren in 136 Ian Poulter (ENG) 68-68, Paul Casey carded a 68. Three players are Philadelphia. Shanghai to move to 12-under for (ENG) 67-69, An Byeong-Hun (KOR) tied for fourth place on eight- Curry had 25 points at halftime the $7m event. 65-71 under -- English duo Paul Casey as the Warriors looked like they Rose, currently fifth in the 137 Peter Uihlein (USA) 71-66, Ross (69) and Ian Poulter, who shot a were going to run away with the European Tour standings, needs Fisher (ENG) 66-71 second successive 68, plus South game early at the Target Center at least a second-place finish to go Korea’s An Byeong-Hun (71). arena in Minneapolis. 138 Victor Dubuisson (FRA) 65-73, above Rory McIlroy at the top of “Sergio has dropped back a He shot 15-of-25 from the field Francesco Molinari (ITA) 68-70, the Race to Dubai with one event bit. It is not easy out there,” said on the night, including eight- Martin Kaymer (GER) 69-69 left, the DP Tour Championships Rose. “I just need to play a great of-13 from beyond the arc for next week. 139 Matthew Fitzpatrick (ENG) 68-71, weekend and forget a little bit Golden State, the lone remaining But the English world number Soren Kjeldsen (DEN) 72-67, Justin about today. One of the next two unbeaten team in the NBA. six endured a difficult day in cold Rose (ENG) 67-72, Kristoffer Broberg days I’m going to have to go low.” It also marked Curry’s third 40 and windy conditions and stood (SWE) 69-70, James Morrison (ENG) Bjerregaard’s six-under round point game of the young season still on five under after a level-par 70-69, Chris Wood (ENG) 70-69, matched the best of the day along as the Warriors have picked up 72, seven behind the leader with Julien Quesne (FRA) 70-69, Henrik with his playing partner on Fri- right where they left off last year two rounds to go. Stenson (SWE) 68-71 day, Peter Uihlein of the United when they won their first NBA “Tough day and I didn’t play States. It has been a patchy sea- championship in 40 years. well either,” Rose said after his standings. son for the Dane, who lies 55th in Curry had been held to under round. Rose was surprised that, with the Race to Dubai. 30 points in three consecutive “It was a day you would like the exception of Bjerregaard, “It was nice in Hong Kong to games heading into Thursday’s to have had your A-game, but nobody got away from him on a prove to myself and to everyone contest after averaging 35.5 I really struggled which made difficult day in Shanghai. else that I can still compete up points in his first six games. the whole day feel like a bit of a “I was encouraged when I got there,” said Bjerregaard. Guard Andrew Wiggins led grind.” to the last hole and saw I was still “Hopefully I can do that again Minnesota with 19 points. Center McIlroy is sitting out the BMW in 12th spot. I felt I was like about this week and just come up one Byeong Hun An of South Korea plays a shot during the BMW Shanghai Karl-Anthony Towns finished Masters, leaving last year’s Euro- 30th,” said Rose. place better than last time.” Masters golf tournament at the Lake Malaren Golf Club in Shanghai, with 17 points and 11 rebounds, pean number one vulnerable at Overnight leader Sergio Gar- yesterday. and reserve forward Shabazz the top of the Race to Dubai cia started in great fashion and AGENCIES Muhammad added 16 points.

NBA RESULTS Park returns from finger issue to lead in Mexico Miami 92 Utah 91 Golden State 129 Minnesota 116 Phoenix 118 LA Clippers 104 MEXICO CITY: Park In-bee put LORENA OCHOA ico, among seven players tied for down her golf clubs for eight days fifth at one-under 71, had no need NHL RESULTS INVITATIONAL SCORES after withdrawing from her last for her putter on the par-three Colorado 3 Boston 2 MEXICO CITY: Leading scores after Thursday’s start due to a cyst in her finger fifth. NY Rangers 6 St Louis 3 but showed no ill effects as she first round of the $1m Lorena Ochoa Invitational “I hit a 170-yard shot perfect Washington 5 Philadelphia 2 took the opening-round lead at at the Club de Golf Mexico (USA unless noted): and it landed like three paces on Minnesota 3 Carolina 2 the Lorena Ochoa Invitational on 68 Park In-Bee (KOR) and jumped and landed just right, Thursday. 69 Suzann Pettersen (NOR), Angela Stan- right into the cup,” Lopez said. Ottawa 3 Vancouver 2 The South Korean world ford, Lee Min-Jee (AUS) Meanwhile, Australia’s Aaron Tampa Bay 3 Calgary 1 number two fired a four-under- 71 Pernilla Lindberg (SWE), Mariajo Uribe Baddeley got off to a solid start at Buffalo 3 Florida 2 par 68 at Club de Golf Mexico in (COL), Jaye Marie Green, Sydnee the US PGA Tour’s OHL Classic Toronto 2 Nashville 1 Mexico City for a one-shot lead Michaels, Azahara Munoz (ESP), Gaby at Mayakoba, firing a six-under- New Jersey 3 Chicago 2 over Suzann Pettersen of Nor- par 65 to tie for the lead with Lopez (MEX), Ryu So-Yeon (KOR) Dallas 6 Winnipeg 3 way, Minjee Lee of Australia and three others after Thursday’s 72 Carlota Ciganda (ESP), Pornanong Arizona 4 Edmonton 1 American Angela Stanford, the Phatlum (THA), Jennifer Song, Sakura first round. 2008 winner. Yokomine (JPN), Brittany Lincicome The 34-year-old from Mel- Los Angeles 2 NY Islanders 1 Park, who had the cyst on her bourne is tied with Americans middle finger drained, made up OHL CLASSIC AT Justin Leonard, Shawn Stefani for lost time with five birdies in MAYAKOBA SCORES and Derek Fathauer after the her first eight holes. LOS ANGELES: Leading first-round scores on first round at the El Camaleon “I was a little bit worried about Thursday in the US PGA Tour’s OHL Classic at Golf Club course in Playa del Car- not practicing for a few days, but Mayakoba at Playa del Carmen, Mexico(USA men, Mexico. I had a good day today, especially unless noted, par-72): The four leaders finished one the front nine,” Park said. 65 Aaron Baddeley (AUS), Shawn Stefani shot ahead of a group at five- “It was a good putting day. (USA), Justin Leonard (USA), Derek under 66 that included Michael Obviously on the back nine I Fathauer (USA) Thompson, D.J. Trahan, Patton could’ve shot a little bit better 66 Patton Kizzire (USA), Charles Howell Kizzire and Charles Howell. but I have three more days to go (USA), Michael Thompson (USA), D.J. The first round was suspended and I just got to work on my ball Trahan (USA) because of darkness with 21 play- striking.” ers still on the course. They will 67 Mark Wilson, Colt Knost, Boo Weekley, Park needs at least an eighth- return early Friday morning to Cameron Beckman, Keegan Bradley, Ben place finish to keep the Rolex complete the first round before Crane, Brice Garnett, Patrick Rodgers, Player of the Year race alive Scott Brown, Johnson Wagner, Graeme starting the second. against frontrunner Lydia Ko. McDowell (NIR), CamiloVillegas (COL), Wind and rain caused an ear- Stanford used a hot putter to Will MacKenzie, Erik Compton lier delay that suspended play for get into contention after endur- more than an hour. ing a bad bout of jet lag travelling Baddeley made seven birdies Buffalo Bills running back Karlos to Mexico City after losing in a the rest of the week. and one bogey, arriving in Mexico Williams (29) celebrates after three-way playoff on Sunday at “I was putting really well again after a fourth place finish at last scoring a touchdown in the 2nd Aaron Baddeley of Australia hits his first shot on the 18th hole during the the Japan Classic. today,” she said. “Had 24 putts week’s Sanderson Farms Cham- half at MetLife Stadium yester- first round of the OHL Classic at the Mayakoba El Camaleon Golf Club The American said she felt like again today and did that two pionship. day. The Bills defeated the Jets she had been “hit by a train” but times last week in Japan.” in Playa del Carmen, Mexico on Thursday. 22-17. did not think it would be an issue Amateur Gaby Lopez of Mex- AGENCIES SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2015 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BREAK TIME

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LOS ANGELES: When Star cuts. There’s a lot of rhythm, a memorable space battle scenes. tography and digital graphics — Wars audiences were blown away lot of pace,” Lucas recalled in a Dykstra and his team landed a technique that would later be Ice sculpture festival four decades ago by its thrilling documentary several years ago. an Oscar for best visual effects. used by Cameron to bring to life battles in space, they were also “There’s a lot of movement on the For Fink, the first Star Wars film the world of Pandora in Avatar. witnessing a big bang in special screen. I want it to be very cin- “really revolutionised things by Now, the industry is watching effects that is still felt today, as ematic, and at that point in time, (having) machines operate other closely to see what innovations fans await the next installment that was impossible,” he added. machines and using that to con- director J J Abrams will bring in the blockbuster saga. The creative impasse led him in trol cameras that make pictures.” to the table in Star Wars: Episode The original 1977 movie — 1975 to found Industrial Light and The adventures of Skywalker VII - The Force Awakens opening which introduced the world to Magic (ILM), devoted to modern- and Han Solo opened the door to a around the world next month. Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader izing the special effects industry’s golden age in science-fiction film- Die-hard fans are hoping for and a mysterious power known techniques. The company is now making, a decade that included major surprises, but so far, trail- as The Force — changed the way the standard-bearer in the sector. Alien, Blade Runner, The Termina- ers for the film have given lit- science-fiction films were made, A group of young engineers and tor, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and tle away in terms of the special paving the way for innovations in students worked day and night in Back to the Future. effects to come. “I don’t know if the field. “It woke up the visual a warehouse north of Los Ange- Later on, Jurassic Park, Titanic, he’s going to revolutionise the effects industry,” Mike Fink, a les, letting their imaginations Independence Day and Avatar way visual effects are created,” Hollywood effects heavyweight run wild. Engineers worked from directors such as Steven Anthony Breznican, an Enter- who won an Oscar in 2008 for his with mock-ups and miniatures Spielberg and James Cameron tainment Weekly critic and Star work on The Golden Compass, said to bring to life the space epic pushed the boundaries of what Wars expert, said of Abrams. of the first film. that Lucas had envisioned. They could be achieved. “He’s trying to go back to the “One of the things that’s always experimented and came up with In 1999, Star Wars: Episode I - way they were used to be made. been true in films is that the story new animation, photography and The Phantom Menace, also written I think really what he’s doing is drives the technology. It took a graphics techniques that resulted and directed by Lucas, made new taking glossy state-of-the-art film like Star Wars to show that,” in cutting-edge effects. headway in technological achieve- digital technology and giving it a Fink said. The script for the first Among the most revolutionary ment. The team had a rough sense of realism and texture that film set “in a galaxy far, far away” breakthroughs was the computer- time recreating the surface of the old models used to have,” he confronted creator George Lucas controlled robotic “Dykstraflex” the planet Tatooine. At the time, said. The suspense will be over for with seemingly insurmountable camera system. standard operating procedures fans in mid-December. Fink how- technical challenges. Named for its lead developer, would have been to make giant ever cautions: “If you don’t care “With Star Wars, I want to do John Dykstra, it allowed for seven models, or matte paintings. But about the characters, it doesn’t an action picture. I want to do axes of motion and the creation of neither was good enough. matter how good the effects are.” something where I can pan the flawlessly synchronised compos- In the end, it came down to a An ice sculpture depicting Star Wars character Yoda (top) and Darth space ship. I want to do quick ite images — fantastic for those method that blended real pho- AFP Vader at the ice sculpture festival in Liege, Belgium, yesterday.

Katniss finds her ending as The Hunger Games closes with war Rio’s favelas

LOS ANGELES: The guns warrior that she becomes,” Law- sacrifice that come from war,” invaded... by are loaded, the arrows sharp- rence said of playing Katniss. the actress said. ened and the gauntlet has been “In Mockingjay 2, it’s really While the films are not cen- thrown down - war is coming to the first time that she embraces tered on romance, Katniss does book lovers the Capitol in the final install- being the symbol of this revolu- have two love interests, Gale ment of The Hunger Games, and tion.” (Liam Hemsworth) and Peeta RIO DE JANEIRO: Rio’s poor Katniss Everdeen is going out LionsGate’s “The Hunger (Josh Hutcherson), that are neighbourhoods are used to see- with a bang. Games” films tapped into the bur- severely affected by the war. ing heavily armed police burst in The Hunger Games: Mocking- geoning young adult market and “It’s not about a boy and girl to search for drug traffickers, but jay — Part 2, out in theatres on have grossed more than $2.3bn crushing on one another. It’s a this time the invaders came bear- November 20, takes place in worldwide with the tale of teens bond created through trauma and ing only books. the dystopian futuristic nation forced to compete in annual tel- needing comfort in these horrible Bruno Silva de Fonseca, 21, was Panem, and concludes the story evised death matches. situations,” said director Francis one of a group of story tellers and that began when Katniss (played The final film centers on the Lawrence. book lovers from the University by Oscar-winning Jennifer Law- brutality of war, where a bruised The key to the franchise, the of Rio de Janeiro who visited the rence) volunteered in place of and battle-worn Katniss and her director said, all comes back to Babilonia favela near Copacabana her younger sister in a fight to team enter the nation’s Capi- Katniss. recently to win over residents. the death. tol, which President Snow has “Having a girl that feels like Entering a damp, dark alley, Based on Suzanne Collins’ “The turned into a live games arena, a real person in this world of Fonseca reached the house of Hunger Games” trilogy, the films with deadly obstacles from flesh- superheroes, that just feels like Aurea Elis da Silva, 12, where follow Katniss, the ‘girl on fire’ FROM LEFT: Cast members Liam Hemsworth, Jennifer Lawrence and Josh dissolving liquids to mutant car- she doesn’t want to be a hero or a he was greeted by the sound of with her bow and arrow, as she Hutcherson pose at a red carpet event for the China premiere of “The nivorous creatures. leader ... and just wants to survive a blaring television. But when becomes the ‘Mockingjay,’ a bea- Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2” in Beijing yesterday. “We try hard not to glorify and protect her sister and family. Fonseca began to recite a chil- con of hope for the oppressed and any of the killing or glorify any I think we could all relate to that,” dren’s poem, even the family dog the reluctant face of the rebellion dent Snow (Donald Sutherland). ney in these movies is watching of the battles, but just show the he said. “Floquinho” (“Little Snowflake”) against the megalomaniac Presi- “The greatest part of this jour- her grow and develop into this gravity and the dangers and the REUTERS seemed to calm down. “I love the rhymes,” Aurea said. Favelas are not alone in being infertile ground for readers in Brazil. Almost eight percent in the country of 204 million are fully illiterate and almost 18 per- Autism rate doubles in US cent functionally illiterate. A survey by Ibope in 2011 found that 85 percent of Brazil- ians watch television during their to one in 45 kids: Survey time off, but only 28 percent read the press or books. The poll said MIAMI: Autism affects one in 2.24 percent. When the survey do not suggest there is a wors- 68 percent of Brazilians had never 45 children in the United States, was given in 2011-2013, one in 80 ening epidemic of autism in the seen their father reading and only almost twice the rate from a few children was diagnosed with ASD United States. 63 percent their mother. years ago, said a survey yester- (1.25 percent). The prevalence of A study out earlier this year In the Babilonia favela, Ana day that uses a new approach to autism in the US was just one in led by Santhosh Girirajan, assist- Livia Farias, 11, admitted to being assess the frequency of the devel- 5,000 in 1975, and has been rising ant professor of biochemistry and part of those statistics. “I don’t opmental disorder. steadily in recent years. molecular biology and of anthropol- like reading. I prefer watching The latest figures may reflect a Autism spectrum disorder is a ogy at Penn State, found that the TV,” she said. However, when the more accurate picture of autism developmental disability that may rising rate of autism seen in recent bookworm brigade gave her a spectrum disorder, said the report cause a person to have difficulty years resulted from reclassifying A Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) at the oyamel firs (Abies religiosa) chance to browse through several by the Centers for Disease Con- behaving, learning, communicat- individuals with related neurologi- forest in Temascaltepec, Mexico, yesterday. wooden boxes of donated books, trol and Prevention’s (CDC) ing and interacting with people. cal disorders. His study analysed she seemed intrigued. “I am going National Center for Health Sta- It is believed to be influenced by 11 years of special-education to read!” she said. tistics, and so does not necessarily genetic and environmental fac- enrollment data on an average of Monarch butterfly count set Julia Sabina, also 11, picked up mean that there is a ballooning tors, though scientists do not fully 6.2 million children per year, and “Minha Querida Assombracao” autism epidemic. understand all its causes. found “no overall increase in the (“My Dear Haunted House”) by In fact, the study found that There is no known cure, but number of students enrolled in to rebound in Mexico Reginaldo Prandi and “O Beco de while autism spectrum diagnoses early intervention in toddlers as special education.” Sete Facadas” (“The Alleyway of are more frequent than in the young as two can sometimes help. Asked for comment on yester- SAN MATEO ALMOMOLOA, about 35 million two years ago, Seven Cuts”) by Carlos Mero. “A past, the overall number of people Officials changed the order of day’s figures, he said that the CDC’s MEXICO: After a staggering compared with a peak of roughly friend knew I wanted to read and affected by neurodevelopmental the questions posed in the latest latest approach is an improvement. decline over the past two dec- 1 billion in the 1990s. set them aside. I have started the problems has not risen, but has survey, completed by more than “When people say (there is an) epi- ades, the population of the iconic During the current season, first one today. I am hooked on remained steady over time. 11,000 parents, a process that may demic of autism, I am not really monarch butterfly is expected which started earlier this month, reading, I devour books,” she said. “What we call an autism spec- have resulted in more of them sure,” he said. “It is true that they to recover following coordinated authorities expect up to a four-fold On this occasion, the team trum disorder now is a much acknowledging a diagnosis of are identifying more individuals efforts across North American increase of the delicate-winged visited 450 houses in the favela. wider group of symptoms than ASD. “The question wording was with autism because autism is governments, Mexico’s environ- insects in the pine and fir forests of But the books outreach program, what we called autism in the past expanded to include more specific occurring with other disorders,” ment minister said. central Mexico, where they arrive known in its Brazilian acronym so I think that captures a larger details on what constituted an he added. Better diagnoses — and The monarchs, unique among after a nearly 4,000km journey that as FLUPP, works throughout number of children that might autism spectrum disorder,” said improved strategies for estimat- butterflies for the length of their stretches as far north as Canada. Rio favelas, including in those have received other diagnoses in the report. ing prevalence — may be useful to annual migration, are a major The butterflies numbered 56.6 targeted by “pacification” police the past,” said Katie Walton, an Since the United States does parents who want to get improved tourist draw to the temperate for- million last year. attempting to squeeze out deeply autism researcher who was not not maintain national health treatment for their children at an ests of central Mexico where mil- The butterflies’ ability to navi- embedded drug gangs. involved with the CDC survey. registries, telephone surveys are early age, added Walton. lions hunker down for the winter. gate their epic migration remains As well as providing books, “There have been some signifi- among the ways that experts “I think people should under- The black-and-orange insects a mystery. While they are known FLUPP has encouraged new cant changes in the way that they assess the rate of autism. stand that autism is a relatively have been damaged by illegal log- to orient themselves by the position authors such as Raquel de are asking the questions,” added School and medical records common condition at this point ging and pesticide use that have of the sun or the planet’s magnetic Oliveira, who has just published Walton, a psychologist at the have also been used to project a and if you are concerned about destroyed the milkweed plants field on cloudy days, it is unclear an autobiographical novel based Ohio State University’s Nisonger nationwide autism rate of one in your child... there are an increas- they depend on for food and to how new generations find their on her marriage to a drug traf- Center. The report found that 68 children, according to another ing number of services out there,” lay their eggs. As a result, mon- way to wintering sites they have ficking boss killed by police. in 2014, one in 45 children had CDC report issued in 2014. Some she said. arch populations plunged almost never seen. autism spectrum disorder, or experts agree that these surveys AFP 90 percent to a record low of REUTERS AFP