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QSL action Abu Samra likely Chamber seeks to be coldest, no chances of rains DOHA: There are no chances of rain this week, weather fore- role in tourism casters said yesterday, adding the day will be a bit colder today. The humidity level is expected between 50 and 85 percent. The promotion maximum temperature this week could be 26-27 degrees C. Abu Samra will be the coldest place today, with the night tem- Calls for representation in QTA perature around 16 degrees and day temperature 23, according to DOHA: Emboldened by the said in a report that more than 1.3 the routine forecast. government’s plans to bolster million tourists visited Qatar dur- In Doha, the temperature is the role of the private sector in ing April 2013-March 2014. expected to be around 26 degrees the country’s economic develop- There were 113 hotels in the during the day and 19 at night. Al ment, Qatar Chamber (QC) now country and their revenue in Wakra and Messaieed may have wants representation in the 2013-14 was almost $1bn and hotel maximum and minimum temper- state-controlled tourism pro- occupancy rate was 65 percent. atures around 27 and 18 degrees, motion agency. The report praised QTA and respectively. The day will be hazy The chamber said yesterday said it had begun classifying to misty with scattered clouds. By that if the government really hotels. QTA has done a commend- night it will be relatively cold. The wants to partner with it in pro- able job of promoting tourism in wind direction will be northwest- moting tourism, it must be pro- the country and presenting a erly, changing to northeasterly vided with representation in good image of Qatar overseas as Qatar SC player Mahir Yusuf Bakur (left) and Umm Salal SC player Jawad Akeel Ahnnash in action during a Qatar later, with speed likely between Qatar Tourism Authority (QTA). a desirable tourist destination, it Stars League match at Qatar SC Stadium in Doha yesterday. The match ended in a draw. Report on page 21 five and 15 knots. Sheikh Hamad bin Ahmed said. KAMMUTTY VP bin Abdullah Al Thani, Head of According to the report, QTA Vegetables yard the Tourism Committee of the inspectors visit public parks regu- chamber, said the private sector’s larly, especially those with enter- planned in West Bay involvement in promoting tour- tainment facilities, and check ism is a must. health and safety conditions and 600,000 subscribe to auction website DOHA: The Ministry of Sheikh Hamad represents the report it to the authority for Environment plans to open a local travel and tourism trade action if shortcomings are found. DOHA: An auction website launched by a group use one’s mobile phone to forward the advertisement. winter vegetable and fruit yard in the chamber, which the rep- At a meeting with businessmen of Qatari youth over 15 years ago is making waves, So one must abide by rules as one can be caught in West Bay to cater to the resi- resentative body of the private on December 3 at Ritz-Carlton with over 600,000 subscribers. since website managers coordinate with the Ministry dents there and neighbouring sector. He said so many impor- Doha, the Prime Minister H E ‘Mzad Qatar’ (Auction Qatar) is so popular that of Interior in carrying out its operations, Al Sharq localities. This was disclosed by tant sports events are held in Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin inspired by it, people in other GCC countries have said. Jobs and food are some of the other items fre- the Minister of Environment H the country. “And then, the 2022 Khalifa Al Thani had hinted that launched similar sites with its help. quently advertised on the site, Al Nuaimi said. E Ahmed Amer Mohamed Al FIFA World Cup is to be held plans were afoot to promote tour- “We have similar sites in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, It uses different languages because a large num- Humaidi on Thursday. here, so it would be a good idea to ism in a big way by easing tourist the UAE and Bahrain and Egypt. Those running bers of subscribers are from different nationalities. Opening Al Wakra vegetable directly involve the private sector visa procedures. them are doing so with our help,” Fahad Al Nuaimi, “We launched the website in 1997 and the idea yard, he told the local Arabic in tourism promotion. He said more nationalities were from Auction Qatar, told Al Sharq. was to train Qatari youth in online trading, and the daily Al Raya in comments pub- “The private sector has the being added to the list of benefici- The idea of the site is unique yet simple. Anyone venture has become such a great success,” he said. lished yesterday that the min- keenness to invest in the tourism aries of tourist visa schemes. wanting to sell or promote an item or a service, be “We thought that this was the best way to teach istry will keep opening seasonal sector but the state must provide A draft law with recommen- it a property, car, watch or a special mobile phone Qatari youth the nuances of online trading,” he said. yards across Qatar. Three yards it with incentives and facilities,” dations forwarded by QTA was or car number, can insert an advertisement. The Today, large numbers of transactions take place are operating in the country — in he told Al Sharq. being studied by the Cabinet, he advertisement is free and just about anything not through the site. THE PENINSULA Umm Salal Ali, Al Khor and Al The Cabinet secretariat-general had said. THE PENINSULA forbidden by law can be put for sale. Onedays needs to Continued on page 3 Wakra. THE PENINSULA 40 to go 40 days to you holding your breath 40 days to game changing saves 40 days to the game of fast 40 days to the Handball World Championship

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DOHA: Three films on the in India until activists built the The Bariq screening is at (Canada, 2013) by Allan Harmon impact of education on young first school for them. 11am at Katara Opera House at 2pm at Katara Opera House; people will be screened as the Poet Against Injustice narrates and will appeal to youngsters. Sepideh: Reaching for the Stars main feature of the last day how the director, who emigrated The Bader Shorts screenings (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, of Ajyal Youth Film Festival to the US with her family from are at 8.30pm at Katara 12 – Germany, Iran, 2013) by Berit today. Yemen, has been able to inspire Theatre A. BraveHearts, Bariq Madsen at 2.45pm at Katara Faridullah’s Day Off others through her courage and and Bader screenings are free. 12 – Theatre B; Theeb (Jordan, (Denmark, Afghanistan, 2013), poetry skills. As part of Sony Pop-Up Qatar, UAE, UK, 2014) directed directed by Jens Pedersen; Fire The Closing Night Red Carpet Cinema, the festival will screen by Naji Abu Nowar, at 2.45pm at in our Hearts (India, US, 2013) gala of Kahlil Gibran’s The director Peter Jackson’s The Katara Drama Theatre; #chica- by Jayashree Janu Kharpade; Prophet, a fascinating movie co- Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug goGirl: The Social Network Takes and Poet Against Prejudice (US, funded by Doha Film Institute (US, New Zealand, 2013) at on a Dictator (US, Syria, 2013) 2014) by Faiza Almontaser (DFI), will host actress Salma 8pm. by Joe Piscatella at 5.45pm at will be shown as part of the Hayek Pinault, producer of The screening is free and Katara 12 – Theatre B; and The BraveHearts programme at 5pm the film, writer-director Roger guests can reserve tickets online Tale of Princess Kaguya (Japan, at Katara 12 – Theatre A. Allers, co-directors Mohammed at www.dohafilminstitute.com; 2013) by Isao Takahata at www.swiss-belhotel.com Faridullah’s Day Off charts the Saeed Harib and Joan Gratz and seating is limited and available 9.15pm at Katara 12 – Theatre Tel story of an 11-year-old boy who co-producers Clark Peterson on the first-come, first-served B. dreams of getting an education and Jose Tamez. basis. Tickets can be purchased Fax and opening a restaurant in a Film enthusiasts have the A selection of festival-favour- from Box Offices at festival heartrending clash of reality opportunity to watch a selection ite films will also be screened booth in City Center Mall, DFI and imagination. of compelling shorts showcased today. They include Finn (The Drama Theatre Ticket Outlet Fire in our Hearts highlights under the Bariq and Bader Netherlands, Belgium, 2013) by (Katara Building 16) and Ajyal Tel illegal slavery that had affected programmes from films from Frans Weisz at 11am at Katara Katara Main Box Office (Katara Fax tribes people until the late 1970s around the world. 12 – Theatre B; If I Had Wings Building 12). THE PENINSULA

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Thai King greeted on National Day Falling gold prices lure customers DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has sent a cable of congratu- DOHA: People are rushing to been declining since then. lations to Thai King Bhumibol buy jewellery as gold prices con- Gold prices in Qatar are linked Adulyadej on his country’s tinued to decline yesterday. to global market, mainly the National Day. A gramme of 24 carat gold London bullion market. After a The Deputy Emir H H Sheikh was trading at QR148.5 in Doha bull-run until 2012, the prices Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday, compared to QR154 a started falling, mainly driven by sent a similar cable a King month back. Similarly, the prices expectations of recovery in the Bhumibol. of one gramme of 22 carat gold US economy. The US economy The Prime Minister and declined to QR139.5 from QR145 has started showing signs of Interior Minister H E Sheikh last month. revival and may prompt its cen- Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Gold bars of 116.64 gramme tral bank to raise interest rates. Al Thani also sent a cable of con- of 24 carat were available at Such a scenario, coupled with the gratulations to King Bhumibol. QR17,321 compared to around strengthening of the dollar have QNA QR18,000 a month back. dented demand for gold as global “Our sales are up by around 30 investors have started investing percent this month. It is not a fes- in US bonds and dollar. tive season, the trigger for higher “Demand is also strong from Qatar ‘committed sales is the lower gold prices. investors for gold bars for invest- Customers rush to buy jewel- ment, anticipating an increase in to protecting lery whenever gold prices decline the prices in coming months,” said because the sale of gold is price- a senior official of a bullion house. human rights’ sensitive,” said Dileep Madhavan, Demand for gold jewellery is Regional Manager, Atlas, a gold higher during festival seasons and GENEVA: Qatar is paying jewellery chain. for gold bars when prices drop. increasing attention to the issue The prices have been falling High demand for gold jewellery of business and human rights as since 2012. After touching peak in Qatar is seen around Eid Al well as the UN ‘Protect, Respect in the second half of 2011, the Fitr, Ramadan and during some A file photo of customers at a jewellery shop. and Remedy’ Framework and prices of 24 carat gold showed Indian festivals such as Diwali, Guiding Principles, according some moderation and hovered in Onam and Akhsay Tritya. to Sheikh Khalid bin Jassim Al the range of QR180-QR200 until Gold prices are likely to drop and sap investors’ demand for demand for investments in stocks expect higher sales in coming Thani, Director, Human Rights September 2012. They reached further, experts said, adding the protective assets such as gold. A and bonds that benefit from an days due to lower gold prices. Department, Foreign Ministry. QR210 in October 2012 but have US economy is expected to grow brighter outlook tends to spur expanding economy. Jewellers THE PENINSULA Promotion and protection of human rights is a strategic choice and cornerstone for the compre- hensive reform policy pursued by Qatar, Sheikh Khalid told a SCH to organise meeting of the third session of the Forum on Business and Human College of Pharmacy holds sessions workshop on Rights in Geneva. He said Qatar’s attention is reflected in the establishment biological samples of a national working group to deal with business and human on smoking cessation for students DOHA: The Supreme Council rights, under the Human Rights of Health (SCH) is organis- Department at the Foreign DOHA: Cessation of smoking was the ing a three-day certified train- Ministry, with representatives theme of an inter-professional education ing workshop on shipment of from the Ministry of Labour (IPE) event organised by Qatar University’s biological samples, in coor- and Social Affairs, the Ministry College of Pharmacy (CPH). dination with World Health of Economy and Commerce, the It was the third and biggest in the series Organisation. Ministry of Environment, Qatar of IPE events in which students interacted It will train up to 25 employ- Petroleum, Diar and Ooredoo. with counterparts from other universities and ees from relevant sectors such He said the mandate of the faculty from various departments. as Hamad Medical Corporation, team, which comprises all stake- Led by Alla El Awaisi, Assistant Dean, Primary Health Care Corporation, holders, is to promote and raise Student Affairs, CPH, and Chair, IPE, 60 Qatar University, Animal awareness of UN guidelines students from CPH, College of Arts and Resources Department, Qatar on business and human rights, Sciences Department of Health Sciences, Weill Red Crescent, Qatar Airways and and include them in national Cornell Medical College Qatar (WCMC-Q) others, the SCH said in a state- frameworks. and College of North Atlantic Qatar (CNA- ment yesterday. Sheikh Khalid said Qatar Q) participated in sessions under the theme Participants passing tests organised a training workshop ‘Smoking Cessation’. will receive a certificate from on business and human rights in The sessions were conducted by Dr Ahmed International Air Transport cooperation with the UN Working Awaisi, CPH, and Dr Mohamud Verjee, Association, which is responsible Group and the UN Centre for WCMC-Q. The event was hosted by CNA-Q for shipment of biological sam- human rights training and docu- Pharmacy Technician Programme with sup- ples. The workshop also aims to mentation for Southwest Asia, in port from its Lead Instructor Norman Wong. strengthen global cooperation Doha. QNA Collaborative activities are part of CPH’s with specialised research centres. aims to promote inter-professional learning Representatives of customs and among students pursuing healthcare disci- shipping companies have attended Mzad Qatar plans plines, including pharmacy, medicine, nursing, the workshop and discussed how and public health. to overcome difficulties caused by more websites Dr Awaisi explained the relevance of smok- lack of awareness of shipping reg- Continued from page 1 ing cessation and the need for healthcare pro- ulations and legal requirements. Al Nuaimi said his group was fessionals to join forces for a healthier society. Biological samples are taken now toying with newer ideas and He stressed the role for collaborative care at from patients’ tissues and fluids soon some other website would tobacco cessation clinics as part of strategies for analysis. Since specimen may be launched. He, however, gave to control tobacco use in Qatar. “Learning be infected with diseases, they are Students preparing strategies during one of the inter-professional education (IPE) sessions. no details. together using an IPE model is an opportu- needed to be carefully handled When one posts an advertise- nity to build a strong foundation for future during collection, shipping and ment on the website for sale of an partnership among healthcare professionals.” pulmonary disease patient quit heavy smoking. Education Symposium in February 2015 which analysis to ensure infectious fluids item or service, it is sold to the Employing strategies learned during the They also developed strategies for establish- will include health sciences institutions such do not escape into the environ- highest bidder, he said. session conducted by Dr Verjee, students ing a smoking cessation clinic and discussed its as WCMC-Q, CNA-Q, and University of ment to endanger public health. 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HMC nursing official QRC marks International Day of People with Disability DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent lectures attended by representa- On the second day, a delegation laboratory and first aid courses (QRC) organised lectures and tives of about 80 schools. of QRC’s Social Development for staff. wins Daisy award distributed gifts to children as The lectures were delivered by Department, led by Rashid bin “QRC has done a lot in part of celebrations to mark disability experts, including Adla Saad Al Mohannadi, visited addressing the problem of dis- DOHA: Dr Nabila Al Meer International Day of People Sabri, Manager, Al Tamakon Rumailah Hospital and distrib- abilities as part of Qatar’s (pictured), Deputy Chief, with Disability. for Comprehensive Education, uted gifts to children to help approach towards such special Continuing Care Group and The day is celebrated by Dr Maryam Mostafa Al Hawli, them accept their congenital segments of society, putting in Supreme Council of Health national societies on December 3 Paediatric Specialist, Child problems. place a system of rights and Nursing Affairs at Hamad under the umbrella of the United Development and Rehabilitation In another event, Hanadi responsibilities for them,” said Medical Corporation (HMC), Nations. Section, Rumailah Hospital, and Al Moallem and Latifa Al Al Mohannadi. has received an honorary Daisy QRC hosted lectures for social Adel Al Awni and Al Arabi Al Merekhi visited Al Tamakon for He said the day was an oppor- Award in recognition of her advisers and administrative staff Arfawi, speech therapy special- Comprehensive Education, and tunity to mobilise support for the contributions to the nursing of schools and distributed gifts ists from the hospital. attended a presentation on the disabled. profession in Qatar. to 90 children with disabilities, The event concluded with a centre’s activities and services QRC’s participation in the The award ceremony took place in cooperation with Hamad lecture by Dr Ayesh Ahmed Al for children with disabilities. celebrations was an attempt at Sidra Medical and Research Medical Corporation under the Qahtani, Islamic preacher and They also distributed gifts to to raise awareness about how Center, marking the first time the theme ‘We Are with You’. family/educational consultant, children. to minimise disabilities and distinction has gone to Qatar. On the first day of celebra- who spoke on how to utilise a Al Tamakon officials will coop- enhance potential and morale Established by the US-based tions, QRC’s headquarters handicap for the best interest of erate with QRC on the supply of the disabled, he added. Daisy Foundation, the award is of Texas, US. hosted academic and informative the disabled. of equipment for the phonetics THE PENINSULA presented by more than 1,700 “She is an inspiration for nurses healthcare organisations around as her achievements encapsu- the world as a way of honouring late hard work and commitment nurses. demonstrated by nurses through- Dr Mary Boyd, Chief Nursing out history. We are honoured to Officer, Sidra, said Dr Al Meer’s acknowledge her outstanding Commercial Bank unveils new security feature career and dedication to the leadership in the field,” Dr Boyd nursing profession is a reflection added. DOHA: Commercial Bank has one-time password (OTP) into a their registered mobile numbers, trading are becoming increasingly of Qatar’s welcoming and caring Dr Al Meer was also recognised introduced a new online secu- 3D Secure portal when making and supplementary cardholders popular due to greater choice and culture. with an award in the medical rity feature, ‘3D Secure’, for its any transactions. (such as a spouse) are required convenience. “Throughout Dr Al Meer’s category during this year’s Arab Visa, MasterCard, and Diners Online domains using ‘Verified to link their mobile numbers via “Security is a priority at career, which spans nearly 40 Woman Awards. Club credit and debit card users. by Visa’, ‘MasterCard Secure Internet banking. the bank and we provide lat- years, she has helped restructure The awards were launched in In a statement, the bank Code’ or ‘Diners Club Protect Buy The feature also works overseas est security features to ensure nursing governance, education 2009 to recognise inspirational said the new feature helps pro- sign’ payment systems require following registration of an inter- our customers shop online with and practices within Qatar. Arab women who have made a tect its customers from unau- customers to use 3D Secure. national mobile number online or confidence. The introduction of “She was also the first Qatari positive impact on society. The thorised online transactions in All Commercial Bank credit at a Commercial Bank branch. 3D Secure gives them the peace nurse to obtain a PhD in nursing awards are held annually in the line with global online security and debit cardholders are auto- Dean Proctor, EGM, Retail and of mind to transact quickly and from University of Miami and a UAE, Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi standards. Online shoppers and matically registered for 3D Consumer Banking, Commercial effectively online.” Master of Science from University Arabia. THE PENINSULA traders are required to type a Secure. The OTP will be sent to Bank, said: “Online shopping and THE PENINSULA SATURDAY 6 DECEMBER 2014 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Here and There through art Baher Amin

iverse artwork by 19 Qatari and 23 DBrazilian artists is on display for the public at the “Here There” exhibition which opened recently at Al Riwaq Gallery. The artwork ranges from pieces created using traditional media, such as paintings, drawings and prints, to digital art, installations and interactive works. The exhibition is split into two parts, each dedicated to one of the two countries Qatar (Here) and Brazil (There). The select group of artists includes first- time exhibitors as well as more established and well-known figures. Presented by Qatar Museums Public Art Department, the exhibition, which runs until March 30, marks the culmination of the Qatar Brazil 2014 Year of Culture. SATURDAY 6 DECEMBER 2014 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 QC allocates QR400,000 QRC attends GCC meeting on for Morocco flood victims DOHA: Qatar Charity (QC) has allocated QR400,000 as emergency aid to the flood-hit south-eastern regions of Morocco, in the first phase of a relief package. major humanitarian crises A QC delegation visited Morocco to assess the humanitarian situa- tion in the affected areas. The delegation experienced difficulties in reaching the areas due to DOHA: A delegation of Qatar difficult weather conditions, and damaged roads. QC said it was the Red Crescent (QRC) partici- first non-Moroccan humanitarian organization to intervene. pated in the second meeting of Recent torrential rains reached over 250mm in a few hours, leading the Committee of Red Crescent to unprecedented floods since the 1960s. Many primary and secondary Societies in the GCC to discuss roads were damaged, more than 32 people killed, several injured and major regional humanitarian over 150 homes destroyed. A large number of cattle heads also died issues. and farms destroyed. The two-day meeting was The delegation took around 50 hours to reach the affected areas in the hosted by Kuwait Red Crescent south and inspected the conditions of the injured and evaluated require- in Kuwait City, attended by ments of all those affected. Field visits indicate huge loss of homes and 14 representatives of the GCC infrastructure, agricultural land and livestock, and an urgent need for Secretariat-General and Red blankets, mattresses, heating, food and shelter for those whose homes Crescent societies in Kuwait, were destroyed or damaged. THE PENINSULA Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. They discussed humanitarian issues and the most significant aspects of joint action by GCC national societies, with a focus on the Syrian crisis. They also reviewed the min- utes of the first meeting of the Permanent Working Group on the Humanitarian Situation in Syria, including proposals to be adopted by GCC national societies. Also discussed were matters Officials attending the meeting. including helping the distressed people in Yemen, and the dis- humanitarian action perception the most urgent needs of Syrian Yemeni Red Crescent to identify placed in Iraq amid deteriorat- in GCC countries, field visits, joint refugees, view working projects, the most important needs and ing security conditions, unified training, conferences and work- explore the possibility of having humanitarian action mechanism GCC stances at regional and shops, coordinated emergency a land plot to establish a new for the GCC. international levels, following up appeal response, and restoring GCC refugee camp, and iden- GCC national societies will also on Seville Agreement delibera- family links. tify mechanisms of coordination report to the GCC Secretariat- tions of International Red Cross The meeting recommended and cooperation with concerned General about their humanitar- and Red Crescent Movement, that QRC organise a visit for organisations in the country. ian assistance to displaced Iraqi A flood victim receiving a cheque from officials. international disaster response representative of GCC national The UAE Red Crescent was people. law guidelines, promotion of societies to Lebanon to examine assigned to coordinate with the THE PENINSULA

Cosplay contest Rush for winter clothing

Cosplay (costume play) enthusiasts dressed in their favourite characters from manga, anime, films and video As mercury dropped slightly last week and the weather turned a bit chilly, the sale of woollen clothing for men, games compete at the Cosplay Competition at Katara yesterday. It was organised in partnership with AnimeQtr women and children picked up. Outlets reported brisk sales of sweaters, cardigans, jackets and knitted tunic, as part of the second Ajyal Youth Film Festival. BAHER AMIN among others. BAHER AMIN Qatar Biobank bags ISO certifications DOHA: Qatar Biobank has been awarded two International Organization for Standardisation (ISO) certifi- cations by British Standards Institute Middle East (BSI). As a member of Qatar Foundation for Education, the centre supports QF’s mission to ensure that the country addresses national health pri- orities by enabling research on the causes of diseases prevailing in Qatar. Qatar Biobank is one of the first QF centres to receive ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 for quality management systems and infor- mation security management, respectively. Working with the Supreme Council of Health and Hamad Medical Corporation and sup- ported by scientists from Imperial College London, the centre will enable research on health issues in Qatar. Omar Rashid, General Dr Abdulla Al Kabbi, Member, Qatar Biobank Board of Trustees, receiving the two certifications from Omar Manager, BSI, presented the Rashid, General Manager, British Standards Institute Middle East, as Dr Hadi Abderrahim (second right), certifications to the centre at a Managing Director, Qatar Biobank, and Dr Nahla Afifi, Scientific and Education Manager, Qatar Biobank ceremony at Qatar Foundation look on. Student Center in Education City. The ceremony was having collected health informa- in paving the way for the cen- BSI, Middle East and Africa, attended by the centre’s staff, tion and biological samples from tre to develop innovative scien- Theuns Kotze, I would like to board members, key stakehold- more than 1,700 members of the tific outputs that can be applied congratulate Qatar Biobank ers and partners. local community, the certifica- globally in accordance with on achieving these certifica- As the world’s largest devel- tions represent a milestone, industry best practice,” said Dr tions. I am delighted to be here oper of international standards, enabling the organisation to Hadi Abderrahim, Managing to help mark the occasion, and ISO specifications ensure qual- welcome more participants. Director, Qatar Biobank. praise the centre for leading by ity, safety and efficiency across “As part of our ramp-up phase, Rashid said: “On behalf example, with its commitment various industries. the increase in participants will of our board of directors, to achieve compliance with the With the centre set for wide- be significant. Achieving these Chairman Sir David Brown and two global standards.” scale public launch next year, global certifications is integral Regional Managing Director, THE PENINSULA SATURDAY 6 DECEMBER 2014 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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ALKS on the creation of a no-fly zone along the Syrian border is the best thing to happen on Syria for a long time. The Syrian revolution has Tbeen rumbling on for years now with the world choosing to look the other way. Death and destruction are continuing on the ground, and the Syrian forces and rebels Misunderstood mullahs are locked in a fight which has reached a stalemate long BY ERIC EDELMAN, DENNIS ago – with neither side able to make gains in a way that external nemesis to justify their abso- and the Obama administration should ROSS and RAY TAKEYH can resolve or end this conflict. What has forced the West, lutist rule. focus on mending fences at home while especially the US, to look at Syria again is the appearance Washington’s diplomatic strategies rehabilitating our battered alliances of Islamic State in the war-torn country. The IS militants FTER a decade of patient seemed to be equally uninformed by in the Middle East. It is important for negotiations with Iran over its the changing dynamics of Iranian poli- Tehran to see that there are no divi- have emerged as an irritant, creating its own space contested nuclear program, tics. The fraudulent 2009 presidential sions for it to exploit between the White between Bashar Al Assad’s and the rebel-held Syria-s. Athe prospects of the United election was a watershed event in Iran’s House and Congress. The president The US and Turkish officials are discussing the States and other world powers securing history, as it transformed the Islamic would be wise to consult with Congress creation of a no-fly zone along the Turkish border, perhaps a final deal are not good. The wheels of Republic from a government of fac- on the parameters of an acceptable deal 20 miles deep and 100 miles long, which the rebels could diplomacy will grind on and an exten- tions into just another Middle Eastern and to secure a resolution authorizing hold with the help of US and allied airstrikes and Turkish sion of the talks should be granted. But dictatorship. him to use force in the event that Iran it is time to acknowledge that the policy The forces of reform were purged violates its obligations or seeks a brea- special forces. The border strip, which extends toward of engagement has been predicated on from the body politic, leaving behind kout capacity. the besieged, Kurdish-held town of Kobane, is currently a series of assumptions that, although only like-minded mullahs. While many A new strategy of pressure should controlled by forces from the Islamic State. The fact that logical, have proven largely incor- in the West still view Iran as a country also focus on isolating Iran in its neigh- US officials are discussing this idea is an indication that rect. As Washington assesses its next of quarrelling factions and competing borhood and undermining its clients. Washington is correcting its strategy on Syria, mainly moves, it would be wise to reconsider personalities, the Iranians themselves This will necessitate US involvement the judgments that have underwritten talk of nezam — the system. This is in the region’s many crises. For both under pressure from Turkey. The idea of a no-fly zone was its approach to one of its most elusive not to suggest that there are no disa- humanitarian and strategic reasons, the mooted at the beginning of the Syrian revolution. It was adversaries. greements among key actors, but the United States must be invested in the considered as one of the ways of helping rebels against Two administrations — those of system has forged a consensus on core outcome of the Syrian civil war. A no-fly Assad, and was also proposed George W Bush and Barack Obama — issues such as repressing dissent and zone, at least in the north, could make as a major humanitarian have relied on financial stress to tem- preserving the essential trajectory of a humanitarian, political and military gesture as it would help create per Iran’s nuclear the nuclear program. difference in Syria — and would signal A no-fly zone ambitions. At its The U.S. misdiagnosis of Iran was at to Iran that the cost of backing dicta- a safe zone for the war victims core, this policy its most glaring when Hassan Rouhani, tor Bashar Assad will go up. Similarly, must be created and help in the supply of aid. has argued that a clerical apparatchik, assumed the the Iraqi government must be pres- Turkey has been pushing Iran must face steady economic presidency in 2013. Rouhani’s election sured into limiting Iran’s influence. It along the for a buffer zone to be backed pressure would was considered a rebuke to Supreme is unlikely that Baghdad will move in up by a no-fly zone inside pressure across change the calcu- Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his that direction as long as our campaign Syrian border Syria to provide shelter to lus of the Islamic ideological presumptions, and many in against the Islamic State remains hesi- many fronts, Republic, eventu- Washington convinced themselves that tant and we hint at possible collabora- to help victims refugees of the three-way fight and the Obama ally leading it to by investing in Rouhani they could tion with Iran there. The core of the between President Bashar Al concede the most usher in an age of moderation in Iran. US alliance system in the Middle East of the Syrian Assad’s regime, rebels and administration disturbing aspects Suddenly, an empowered Rouhani would remains our close partnership with Islamic State (IS) jihadists. should focus on of its nuclear make important nuclear concessions Israel. The value of US deterrence is conflict and the The creation of the zone is program. This and even collaborate with the United not enhanced by perceptions of discord was American States to steady an unhinged region. in that essential relationship. one of the conditions set by mending fences rebels. pragmatism at Missing in all this was how the nezam The purpose of this new, robust and Turkey for cooperation with at home while its most obvi- had come together in 2009, consolidated coercive strategy is to signal our readi- the US in the fight against the ous, as econom- its power and destroyed the democratic ness to compete, to show that we don’t IS militants. In return, the US rehabilitating our ics is thought to left. The Obama administration sought need a deal more than Iran does and to warplanes could be allowed to operate out of Incirlik Air battered alliances transcend ideol- to manipulate Iran’s factions at the pre- raise the price to Tehran of its objec- Base instead of traveling from the Gulf, greatly increasing ogy and history cise moment when factionalism was no tionable policies. It is time to press the in the Middle in conditioning longer the defining aspect of Iranian Iranians to make the tough choices that the time they could linger over battlefields in Syria and national priori- politics. they have been unwilling to make. northern Iraq. East. ties. To be sure, Iran will not easily alter its approach. Eric Edelman is a distinguished fel- Though talks are going on, hurdles still remain. White the policy has not If there is any hope of changing the low at the Center for Strategic and House spokesman Josh Earnest said a few days ago that been without its Iranian calculus, its leaders must see Budgetary Assessments and served as Washington was open to discussing a range of options with successes, as it solidified a sanctions that the price — as they measure it — undersecretary of defense during the the Turks but establishing a no-fly zone over Syria was not regime that compelled Iran to change is high. Any coercive strategy still has George W. Bush administration. Dennis its negotiating style. Still, what was to be predicated on further segregat- Ross is a counselor at the Washington under consideration “at this point”. missed was that the Islamic Republic ing Iran from global markets and finan- Institute for Near East Policy and All the differences between the two sides must be is a revolutionary state that rarely cial institutions; at a time of falling oil served as a special assistant to President sorted out, and a no-fly zone must be made a reality. It can makes judicious economic decisions. In prices, Iran’s economy should prove Obama from 2009 to 2011. Ray Takeyh is be the first step towards finding a solution to the Syrian fact, the notion of integration into the particularly vulnerable to such stress. a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign conflict. global economy is frightening to Iran’s But this cannot be the end of it. Iran Relations. highly ideological rulers, who require an must face pressure across many fronts, WP-BLOOMBERG The other side Quote of World Bank on inequality the day GLOBAL conversation has search for a new growth paradigm. none of the findings call into question of the liberalisation that the World Bank been under way on the scale As an example, consider the key assumptions of the World Bank’s has pushed onto countries around the and nature of modern-day debate surrounding the demand to philosophy. world, but it does not make this con- Ainequality as well as the make the reduction of inequality a part Not surprisingly, the approach taken nection between the appearance of best remedy available to tackle it. of the Millennium Development Goals. by the authors of the report is a series billionaires and the liberalisation of This conversation has been running The constituency opposed to allowing of cookie-cutter measurements. For the past three decades. Instead, the I call on you to in parallel to another that began in inequality to deflect the conversation one, what is the utility of adopting a authors prefer to use the maharajas the wake of the 2008 financial crisis: on restarting growth is very powerful, South Asian focus for questions of ine- of an earlier time as emblems of high discard the term how to restart growth in the advanced and very concerned these days by the quality? Regional differences are sub- inequality. industrial democracies of the West, growing demand for equitable reform. stantial when one takes into account It appears the World Bank has not ‘war on terror’ that have been struggling with their When presenting the World social factors as well and it is not clear been listening over the decades as moribund economies for more than Bank’s latest report titled Addressing how a regional focus yields any special more and more voices have pointed and focus on the half a decade now. Inequality: Policy Reforms as insight into this case. out that liberalisation and the reign of Increasingly, these two separate Important as Growth, the chief econo- The report begins by noting the high the market tends to exacerbate ine- real threat which conversations are drawing closer mist behind it, Martin Rama, said the levels of inequality between the maha- quality, that the private sector can act is the rise of this Sheikh Salman bin together as demands are growing authors preferred to take “a very nar- rajas of the 1950s and the rest of the as a motor of growth, but that growth Hamad Al Khalifa that the search for a remedy to ris- row view” of the subject, to make a population. It takes some note of the does not trickle down automatically. evil theocracy. ing inequalities be made part of the few measurements and ensure that billionaires of today, who are products DAWN Bahrain’s crown prince SATURDAY 6 DECEMBER 2014 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Which past is prologue for Putin’s Russia? Russia: an ignored and diminished Like Weimar Germany, post-Soviet nation with the suppressed senti- ments of an empire. Putin, like all Russians, felt Russia is not prepared to accept a these insults (real or perceived) keenly. As president, he has peace settlement that it feels has expertly capitalised on Russian nostalgia for a time when they been forced on it. were respected and feared, and with his “19th-century” style pro- BY HANNAH THOBURN 1930s, can help us understand jection of power, has successfully why Putin’s actions in Ukraine given Russians a reason to be s Russia moved into have been so popular among proud again. Crimea in March, Russian citizens. The West has long hoped that annexed it and then The Allied Powers’ treatment Russia would come and join its Abegan to create, pro- of defeated Germany after World ranks. That Moscow could again mote and support separatist War One is viewed as cause of be a part of the order established movements in eastern Ukraine, Berlin’s determined resurgence. in Western Europe in 1945 and commentators and citizens The international community spread to Eastern Europe after alike worried about a “new Cold blamed Germany and its lead- 1989. War.” Others compared Russian ership for starting the war, but The United States and Europe President Vladimir Putin’s land the Germans themselves did not brought to post-Soviet Russia grab to Nazi Germany’s 1938 feel responsible, nor did they feel many of the same programmes annexation of Czechoslovakia’s defeated. that had helped democratise, lib- Sudetenland. The Great War’s major battle- eralise and capitalise the formerly The current crisis, however, grounds were outside the German Soviet or Soviet-bloc countries of is not a Cold War redux, though Empire’s borders, and most Poland, Latvia and Slovakia. But there are similarities, and Putin Germans never saw the brutal they never took off in Russia, and likely does not have genocidal reality and utter destruction of File photo of pro-Kremlin activists rallying at Red Square in Moscow to celebrate the incorporation of Crimea the West cannot seem to grasp ambitions. Today’s situation needs the war on their soil. They grew into Russia. why. a new analogy. It demands a com- more embittered when the Treaty Like Weimar Germany, post- prehension of the bigger histori- of Versailles that ended the war capitalize on those resentments on Russia, nor was it forced to of stability and the embarrass- Soviet Russia is not prepared to cal and geopolitical picture, of burdened the Weimar Republic with promises of a rebuilt and disarm. But without a shot being ing and ignominious end of 1,000 accept a peace settlement that the internal struggles of coun- with vast reparations, forced it respected Germany. fired, Russians were told they had years of the Russian Empire. it feels has been forced on it. It tries that, like the former Soviet to disarm and denuded it of large The 23 years since the disinte- been defeated, that they had lost For Russians, the experience did what it had to do in a time Union, found themselves suddenly swathes of territory — including gration of the Soviet Union have the Cold War. Where the West of the 1990s only deepened the of weakness, but Moscow is now diminished. an important coal region. seen the growth of similar feel- saw the triumph of capitalism sense of their collective disgrace. announcing that Russia will not Perhaps the best historical The result was a disgraced and ings among the Russian people. over communism and democ- Russian President Boris Yeltsin’s live in a world where it must play parallel is post-World War One frustrated German polity. These For the West, the fall of the Berlin racy over authoritarianism, the drunken antics made him an second fiddle to the West. Germany, known as the Weimar feelings were only exacerbated Wall may have meant the unity Russian people — like Germans in international laughing stock, the Putin is seeking a re-exami- Republic (the 1919 German con- by the hyperinflation that soon of Germany and the eventual 1919 — saw only their humiliation Russian economy went through a nation of the post-1991 rules. He stitution was written in the city of stunned the German economy, independence of all the 15 Soviet on the world stage. currency crisis, ordinary people wants Russia to be considered in Weimar). Examining the dynam- followed by the global Great republics and the seven Soviet The West saw the fall of the struggled to survive. As the crisis the same breath as China or the ics of Weimar Germany, and why Depression that then took hold. bloc countries. But for Russia it Iron Curtain and the freedom in Kosovo demonstrated, Moscow United States. Unless the West its people were susceptible to the To the detriment of the whole meant the end of an empire and and democratisation of much no longer wielded its former clout finds the gumption to push back, chauvinistic and nationalistic fer- world, Adolf Hitler’s National the loss of superpower status. of Central and Eastern Europe, in the United Nations Security he might just get his way. vour that swept Germany in the Socialist Movement was able to No reparations were imposed but Russians saw the collapse Council. It had become Weimar REUTERS Dying to escape crisis-hit Greece Why Eric Garner protests trapped to the underbelly of a unemployment and mounting xenopho- €3,000 for the direct sea or air route, train, 23-year-old Ali Arzin from bia have made Greece an unwelcome, according to Frontex. are gaining momentum SAfghanistan had hoped to cross and frequently hostile environment for “Every day, up to 150 people arrive in the border of crisis-hit Greece into undocumented migrants seeking a better our area,” says local resident Dimitris BY PENIEL JOSEPH justice. They realise that rescuing Wall Macedonia and eventually reach another future in Europe. Ioannidis. Street and Big Banks has come at the EU country. Last week 200 Syrian refugees pro- “They come from Thessaloniki in uddenly, it feels like the 1960s again, expense of not just the precarious middle But the wooden platform he had rigged tested in Athens demanding to be allowed taxis, cars and buses. Smugglers have with swirling movements for social class but the working poor, minimum wage in November beneath the train carriage to leave the country. also moved in the area, promising the Sjustice finding inspiration and a pow- workers, and those mired in poverty. fell apart, and Ali met a gruesome death Yet other migrants, fleeing war and migrants help in crossing the border. erful common denominator in the struggle In many ways the Black Lives Matters on the tracks. poverty, keep coming. Nearly 65,000 have It is a human river that does not stop,” for black equality. Movement is a continuation of not just Hundreds of migrants have perished been held or stopped by the police since he said. Multiracial, multi-ethnic, multi-class, civil rights era demonstrations, but more trying to reach Greece, but Ali is one of January — an 82 percent rise compared Most of the migrants sleeping in the and multi-generational Americans have recent movements — Occupy Wall Street, the first known to have died trying to to same period in 2013 — some 28,000 fields around Idomeni have been given swarmed the streets in vast numbers to Occupy the Hood, Living Wage Campaigns, escape the limbo in which tens of thou- of them Syrians fleeing the war-ravaged temporary residence documents by the not only protest against racial injustice and Trayvon Martin. If this were a mul- sands find themselves there. homeland. Greek authorities. If the Greek police but to expose systemic oppression that has tiple choice test listing most important In recent months, hundreds of refu- Since 2006, nearly 900,000 migrants find them, they are sent back towards been an open secret since the heyday of the causes and concerns, many would check gees from impoverished and war-torn have been arrested in Greece for illegal the interior. late 1960s and early 1970s. all of the above even as they place racial countries in Africa, the Middle East and entry or residence. They face a more hostile reception if The decision by a Staten Island, New and economic justice at the centerpiece of central Asia have been attempting to “I lived in Greece for eight years, they are caught in Macedonia. York, grand jury not to indict Police a panoramic justice movement. leave Greece via its northern border with mostly working as a farm labourer,” says “They treat us not as humans but as Officer Daniel Pantoleo in the choking Grassroots protest from Oakland to Albania but particularly Macedonia. The a 22-year-old Afghan. animals,” said a 24-year-old Pakistani. death of Eric Garner came nine days after Boston have shut down highways, closed same border the Greek government has “I used to be able to live on my salary “They treat us like a ball to be kicked Ferguson, Missouri, erupted into an open down train stations, and clogged major spent years and millions of euros trying to of €30 ($37) a day. But now it is very around.” rebellion following another grand jury’s bridges. Activists have borrowed tactics stop migrants getting into Greece. difficult to live in Greece because of the Greece is bound by European Union decision not to indict former police officer dating back to the social-democratic move- Now they are trying to stop them leave. crisis,” he said. regulations to prevent undocumented Darren Wilson in the shooting death of ments of the Great Depression and World The refugees huddle in makeshift Next to him, a young woman from migrants from crossing its border into Michael Brown, a black teenager. War II era through to the civil rights era camps near the train tracks at the bor- Cameroon breaks down in tears. other EU states. While violence engulfed parts of down- of the 1960s and anti-apartheid activism der post of Idomeni, 65 kilometres north “I left Cameroon because Islamists Every day, Greek police patrols scout town Ferguson, 170 cities staged largely of the 1980s. of Thessaloniki, waiting for their chance. killed my husband. I am a Christian,” she the area and around 50 migrants are sent peaceful demonstrations both in solidarity Contemporary activists and observers Some try to sneak on board pass- says, shivering inside a sleeping bag. back to Thessaloniki on board the train. with the #BlackLivesMatter movement also would do well to recall the pugnacious ing trains from Thessaloniki to Skopje, According to the latest report of EU “Most of these people here have and in demand of a vision of social justice side of those who starred in the heroic while others hope to enlist the help of border agency Frontex, Macedonian already been documented by authorities,” that far surpasses the imagination of most decade of the civil rights movement that Macedonian smugglers. smugglers charge between €120 and €200 said northern Greece police supervisor contemporary politicians and pundits. spanned the mid-1950s and 1960s. “I’ve been here for 20 days,” says a man for passage as far as the Serbian border. Manolis Katriadakis. Thousands of New Yorkers took to the Martin Luther King Jr. made stinging from Afghanistan who declined to give Similar networks have sprung up “Those without papers are arrested,” streets on Wednesday and Thursday nights critiques of American capitalism, argu- his name. on the Greek-Albanian border, owing he said. to express outrage against the political ing, by 1967, that materialism, militarism, “I want to cross into Macedonia and to greater security on ferry crossings According to Frontex, detections of system that allowed a black man to be and racism were the “triple threats” facing head on to Europe. There are no jobs in between Greece and Italy. non-EU migrants on the border between choked to death while screaming, “I can’t humanity. Greece, I want to live in Germany,” he Traffickers also charge half the price Serbia and Hungary rose by 338 percent breathe!” Stokely Carmichael, who popularised said. for the land route through the western between 2012 and 2013. New York Mayor Bill Di Blasio shone the chant “Hell No, We Won’t Go!” and Four years of economic crisis, soaring Balkans, around €1,800 compared to AFP during a press conference, poignantly opposed the Vietnam War before King or recalling warning his biracial son, Dante, Muhammad Ali, did not hold back from how to behave around police officers. He attacking the entire social and political also explained to white New Yorkers why system either. the slogan “Black Lives Matter” was so The Black Panthers, which Carmichael tragically necessary in our own time. had belonged to, argued for a socialist rev- “Black Lives Matter” has become, like olution, offering a ten-point programme an earlier generation’s use of the terms that singled out police brutality as a sys- “Freedom Now” and “We Shall Overcome,” temic evil and advocated for transformed an anthem for contemporary civil and public schools, prisons, “land, peace, bread, human rights activism. The struggle for and justice.” black equality historically and now, offers Decades later, the Obama administra- us all a chance to transform and save tion has still failed to recognise, articulate, American democracy. and combat the larger questions of institu- The dramatic realisation that the Age tional racism, inequality, and violence (in of Obama is also the Age of Ferguson has myriad forms) directed against people of galvanised thousands of Americans to take colour specifically, black people especially, to the streets to both vent their frustra- and Americans in general. tion against state-sanctioned violence and This is not surprising. Radical change to offer up a vision of radical democracy begins from the bottom up. Creatively dis- and social change on a scale that America ruptive, morally passionate, and policy- has never seen. specific demonstrations, rallies, protests, The New Deal’s blend of social democ- and organising helped to change America. racy and capitalism faltered due to insti- From prisons to public schools, play- tutional racism that excluded blacks from grounds and street corners, private homes the burgeoning post-war American middle to shopping centres, black life remains class. The Great Society’s ambitious War under assault almost 150 years after the on Poverty atrophied beneath of the weight end of the Civil War. of America’s imperial mission in Vietnam. Black Lives Matter is a statement that Ferguson has revealed that many are civil rights leaders in the past would have ready to demand a radically expansive most certainly agreed on. vision of social democracy that goes beyond Even as then, like now, they adopted the New Deal and Great Society. different courses of action to make this Activists converge in articulating a tragically haunting phrase more than just Immigrants walk on rail tracks near the border post of Idomeni, some 600km north of Athens, on the Greece-Macedonia border. vision of redistributive social democratic words. REUTERS SATURDAY 6 DECEMBER 2014 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INTERNATIONAL Egypt to probe Mursi detention tapes ‘Fabricated’ tapes go viral on social networking sites

CAIRO: Egypt’s prosecutor to the media, Shahin is heard Mursi’s whereabouts were general yesterday ordered an telling the officials, including unknown, with his supporters investigation into what it said interior minister Mohamed repeatedly asking where he was were fabricated audio tapes Ibrahim, how the authorities did being held. claiming president Mohamed not detain Mursi in interior min- “The military has not con- Mursi had been “illegally” istry-run prisons, and instead firmed where they (Mursi and detained immediately after his held him in a building belonging aides) are currently held,” Human ouster last year. to the army immediately after Rights Watch said on July 8, 2013, Mursi, the country’s first freely his ouster. five days after his ouster. elected president, was ousted on In another tape, Shahin alleg- The taped conversations July 3, 2013 by then army chief edly tells the other officials that went viral on the Internet and and now President Abdel Fattah documents had been “forged” so social networks like Twitter and Al Sisi after mass street protests that the case against the Islamist YouTube yesterday. against the Islamist’s one-year would not be jeopardised. The prosecutor general rule. The authenticity of the record- accused the Muslim Brotherhood Egyptian protesters shout slogans on Abdel Moneim Riad Square in the capital Cairo during a demonstration Several pro-Mursi satellite ings could not be independently of “fabricating” the recordings channels aired yesterday audio verified. and launched an investigation yesterday against a court’s decision to drop a murder charge against ousted president Hosni Mubarak. recordings of a man identified as The authorities have repeat- into it. General Mamdouh Shahin, legal edly said Mursi’s ouster was not The Brotherhood movement security,” it said in a statement. it ordered an “extensive investiga- At least 1,400 have died in adviser to then army chief Sisi, a “coup” as claimed by his Muslim “uses the media supported by This was an attempt to “influ- tion to find those responsible for clashes with police and more than warning other senior officials in Brotherhood, but a decision taken foreign entities ... and uses ence the judges who are reviewing fabricating these recordings”. 15,000 jailed in the crackdown, Sisi’s office that the case against after mass street protests that advanced technology to fabri- important criminal cases against The authorities have been wag- while top Brotherhood leaders Mursi would collapse if certain rocked Cairo and other cities on cate phone calls and attribute the terrorist elements of the ing a brutal crackdown against including Mursi are facing trials documents were not “forged”. June 30, 2013. them to public figures and lead- Muslim Brotherhood.” Mursi supporters since his punishable by death. In one of the recordings leaked For weeks after his ouster ers ... to sow chaos and disrupt Vowing to fight such “crimes”, ouster. AFP

For independence Libyan govt conducts air strikes on border with Tunisia TRIPOLI: Forces allied to one Mohamed El Hejazi, a spokes- “Warplanes attempted to bomb of two rival governments vying man for the army in the east a military place but it seems they for power in Libya conducted air allied to Thinni, said his forces missed the target,” Shinkara said. strikes near the Tunisian bor- had bombed military targets A commander from Zintan in der and vowed to shut the main near the Tunisian border cross- the western mountains allied to land border crossing between ing of Ras Jdir as well as south Thinni said the target had been the two countries, officials said. of Tripoli. a missiles battery. Libya is caught in a conflict “The Libyan National Army On Wednesday, Thinni’s gov- between two governments, one will control the border with ernment said his forces had begun self-declared after a group called Tunisia today,” he said, referring a military offensive to take back Libya Dawn took over Tripoli in to the name of Thinni’s forces. Tripoli. His allies from Zintan, August and the second led by But an official at the border which got expelled by Libya Dawn internationally recognised Prime crossing said a strike had hit a from Tripoli in August, have their Minister Abdullah Al Thinni, civilian building, one person had own air strip. who was forced out of the capital been killed and five were wounded. Libya has struggled to reach and now operates from eastern “There is no military target here,” stability since a Nato-backed war Libya. he said. The Ras Jdir crossing was ended Gaddafi’s one-man rule in There were different accounts working normally, he said. 2011. Former rebel brigades who of the air strikes yesterday, the Miftah Shinkara, head of the once fought side by side have now latest in a series this week, part military council of the town of turned on each other, aligning of turmoil gripping the oil-pro- Gharyan, south of Tripoli, also themselves with rival political ducing country three years after said another air strike had hit a factions in a scramble for control. the ousting of Muammar Gaddafi. female student’s home. REUTERS Govt backs UN talks: Libya FM Yemeni supporters of the separatist Southern Movement wave flags of the former South Yemen (The People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen), during a demonstration demanding renewed independence in the southern KHARTOUM: Libya’s inter- in Khartoum late on Thursday. most of these areas were under his city of Aden, yesterday. nationally recognised govern- “We want the Ghadames administration’s control, “except ment has given its backing to approach to reach a government for some small areas under the UN-brokered talks between of national unity to manage the control of armed military forma- warring factions aimed at halt- transitional period,” Dairi said. tions outside the authority of the ing unrest across the country, Dairi’s government has been state”. US Congress Turkey wants share of its foreign minister said late virtually confined to the remote Dairi was in the Sudanese Thursday. eastern towns of Shahat and capital for talks between Libya’s approves bill on UN Special Representative Tobruk since Islamist-backed mili- neighbours — Algeria, Chad, Bernardino Leon in Libya chaired tia seized Tripoli in August. Egypt, Niger and Tunisia, as well Mediterranean energy a first round of talks between rival Since then, a rival adminis- as Sudan — who have pledged US-Israel ties politicians in the oasis town of tration has been formed in the their support for the UN media- WASHINGTON: Congress Ghadames in September, and will capital. tion effort. has approved legislation deep- wealth, says PM lead a new round of negotiations Dairi said there would be More than three years after ening US-Israeli cooperation on December 9. “another meeting for military for- longtime dictator Muammar after softening a push to grant ATHENS: Turkish Prime ministers here than are left in “As the foreign minister, I wel- mations and armed groups that Gaddafi was toppled in a Nato- Israelis visa-free travel rights Minister Ahmet Davutoglu yes- Turkey,” he joked. come the holding of the second will be separate from the meeting backed revolt, Libya is awash with to the United States even as the terday said his country wanted The talks between Turkey Ghadames meeting and we express for the political parties”. weapons and powerful militias and Jewish state persists in block- a share of the energy depos- and Greece are part of an initia- our support for Bernardino’s Some armed groups have seized has two governments. ing some Arab and Muslim its off the shores of Cyprus, an tive launched in 2010 to improve efforts,” Mohamed Al Dairi said vital oil installations, but Dairi said AFP Americans from its territory. issue that has strained ties with relations between the Aegean The bill, passed by a voice both Nicosia and Athens. neighbours. vote in the House, now goes to “Let us jointly exploit this So far, the talks have resulted President Barack Obama for his wealth,” Davutoglu said at the in the signing of around 50 Baghdad blast signature. start of a two-day visit to Athens accords on immigration, disaster It cleared the Senate with for confidence-building talks with response, tourism, health, trans- unanimous support in September, his Greek counterpart Antonis port, agriculture, immigration, but only after the elimination of Samaras. culture and sport. language that critics saw as an “We can link the natural gas Greek Foreign Minister endorsement of Israeli discrimi- deposit to Greece via Turkey,” he Evangelos Venizelos told report- nation of some Americans. The told a Greek-Turkish business ers that Samaras and Davutuglu bill now calls only for Israel’s forum. had discussed territorial delinea- inclusion in the US Visa Waiver There are an estimated 102-170 tion in the Aegean and the east- Programme when it meets the billion cubic metres of natural gas ern Mediterranean, state news requirements, the most elemen- reserves in an area in the east- agency ANA said. tary of which is reciprocal treat- ern Mediterranean which Cyprus, Ankara opposes the Cyprus ment for Americans. backed by Greece, considers its government’s exploitation of Senator Barbara Boxer, a exclusive economic zone. offshore energy reserves before Democrat who spearheaded Ankara does not recognise this agreement is reached on solving the effort, hailed Congress’ two zone, however, and recently sent a the decades-long division of the houses for speaking “with one seismic vessel to conduct oil and east Mediterranean island. voice” to strengthen ties between gas survey operations until the Turkish troops invaded and America and its closest Middle end of the month, to the conster- occupied the northern third East ally. nation of Nicosia and Athens. of Cyprus in 1974 following an Beyond the visa provisions, the Greece has termed Turkey’s Athens-engineered coup aimed at US-Israel Strategic Partnership actions a “brutal violation” of the uniting it with Greece. The peace Act increases the value of emer- sovereign rights of Cyprus. talks are aimed at reunifying the gency US weaponry kept in Israel Davutoglu said he wanted to island. by $200m, to a total of $1.8bn. It “set a benchmark for friendship The last round of Greek- promotes closer US-Israeli links and cooperation” in regional Turkish talks had been held in in energy, water, homeland secu- relations. Istanbul in March last year. rity, alternative fuel technology “We do not desire tension Greece and Turkey remain and cybersecurity. It offers a ver- in the Aegean or the eastern divided over territorial disputes in bal guarantee of Israel maintain- Mediterranean,” said the Turkish the Aegean despite a rapproche- ing a qualitative military edge premier, who is accompanied by ment in 1999 that followed back- Iraqis inspect the site of a car bomb attack in Sadr City, northern Baghdad, yesterday. At least 37 people have over its neighbours. nine ministers. to-back earthquakes. been killed in a series of bombings targeting mostly Shia areas in the Iraqi capital and Kirkuk. AP “There are more Turkish AFP SATURDAY 6 DECEMBER 2014 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Rich nations slammed over Syria refugees Gulf states’ failure to host refugees called shameful BEIRUT: Wealthy nations have only taken in a “pitiful” number of the millions of refugees IS closes in on Syrian airbase uprooted by Syria’s war, placing BEIRUT: Islamic State jihadists are closing in on the govern- the burden on the country’s ill- ment-held Deir Ezzor airbase in eastern Syria, nearly surround- equipped neighbours, Amnesty ing its beleaguered garrison, a monitoring group said yesterday. International said yesterday. IS fighters seized the village of Al Jaffrah, adjacent to the base, In a statement ahead of a leaving it surrounded except for a narrow corridor to the west, the December 9 donors’ conference in Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Geneva, the London-based rights IS forces control most of Deir Ezzor province, but half of its capital group blasted as shocking the fail- remains in government hands, along with the military airport. ure of rich nations to host more The oil-rich province lies between IS-controlled Raqa province refugees. and the Iraqi border, and is a key prize for the jihadist group, which “Around 3.8 million refugees declared an Islamic “caliphate” straddling the two countries in June. from Syria are being hosted in five IS launched a renewed assault on the military airport earlier this main countries within the region: week. The fighting has killed at least 30 government troops and mili- Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and tia, as well as 27 IS fighters, over the past 48 hours, the Observatory Egypt,” said Amnesty. said. Two of those killed on the government side were captured and “Only 1.7 percent of this number beheaded, the Britain-based group said. have been offered sanctuary by the Further east, at least 15 jihadists were killed in a US-led coali- rest of the world.” tion air strike on an IS convoy near the Albu Kamal crossing on the Highlighting what it called “the border with Iraq, it added. AFP US President Barack Obama speaks with King Abdullah of Jordan in the Oval Office of the White House yesterday. pitiful numbers of resettlement places offered by the international community,” Amnesty noted that particularly shameful,” he added. five percent the following year. the Gulf states, Russia and China “Linguistic and religious ties That would accommodate all of had not offered a single resettle- should place the Gulf states at the approximately 380,000 refu- Bahrain urges ment place. the forefront of those offering safe gees identified for resettlement IS fight a third world And excluding Germany, the shelter.” by the UN because of particular war on ‘evil European Union as a whole has The group said the failure of vulnerabilities, including lone chil- pledged to take in only 0.17 percent wealthy nations to share the bur- dren and torture survivors. war, says Jordan king theocracy’ of the refugees now housed in the den had placed enormous strain “Countries cannot ease their main host countries around Syria. on Syria’s neighbours, which were consciences with cash payouts WASHINGTON: Jordan’s King Arab and Muslim world that have MANAMA: Bahrain urged “The shortfall... is truly shock- largely ill-equipped to deal with then simply wash their hands of Abdullah II warned yesterday had enough, that want to come the international community ing,” said Sherif Elsayed-Ali, the pressure. the matter,” Elsayed-Ali said. that the fight against Islamic and say ‘look enough is enough.’” to focus its efforts on combat- Amnesty’s head of refugee and Amnesty said it was call- “Those with the economic State militants is a “third Obama said the increased US ing the “evil theocracy” of jihad- migrants’ rights. ing for the resettlement of five means to do so must play a greater world war,” as President Barack support aims to boost “political ist groups such as the Islamic “The complete absence of reset- percent of Syria’s refugees by role.” Obama pledged a sizable US aid and economic reforms that are State, at the opening of a secu- tlement pledges from the Gulf is the end of 2015, and another AFP increase to his country. taking place inside of Jordan.” rity conference yesterday. As the two men met at the This would not only that “the “I call on you to discard the White House, Obama promised people of Jordan prosper and be term ‘war on terror’ and focus on to increase US aid to Jordan from self-sufficient, but they can con- the real threat, which is the rise of $660m to more than $1bn per year. tinue to provide an anchor for this evil theocracy,” said Bahrain’s US training of rebels months away He also vowed the United States important efforts that enhance crown prince, Salman bin Hamad would provide the kingdom with US national security over the long Al Khalifa. COPENHAGEN: Western swathes of territory in Syria and end of February or end of March, an additional loan guarantee. term.” “We are fighting theocrats... We plans to train and equip non- Iraq. The West is also opposed to which is a very long time to leave King Abdullah said Jordan, the The US aid is effective from will be fighting these theocrats for jihadi rebels in Syria will not President Bashar al-Assad, though the Free Syrian Army at (its) cur- United States and other countries 2015 to 2017. a very long time,” aid the prince, start until at least late February, he has defied their demands to rent level of assistance”. “had to combine our strategies” King Abdullah expressed grat- whose country is part of a US-led a leading opposition figure said quit since Syria’s civil war erupted Syrian rebels say vetted groups to combat IS, saying he believed itude for the increased financial coalition carrying out air strikes yesterday, depriving them of in 2011. have already received a small it would be a “generational fight.” assistance, which comes at a on the Islamic State group which support they need to counter Hadi Al Bahra, head of the amount of US military support “We really have to have a pan- “difficult” time for his nation as has seized swathes of Syria and both rival insurgents and Syrian Turkey-based Syrian opposition through a CIA-run program. regional approach to this issue. it grapples with its own Islamist Iraq. government forces. National Coalition, said the United Bahra, whose group is widely This is a Muslim problem. We extremists and faces a flood of 1.5 Referring to the jihadists’ harsh The relatively moderate rebels States and its allies needed to find seen as having little influence need to take ownership of this,” million refugees from war-torn and rigid interpretation of Islam, loosely grouped under the “Free ways of increasing help to the on the ground in Syria, said the the Jordanian monarch told CBS Syria who now make up a fifth of Prince Salman said: “The 17th Syrian Army” label are strug- moderate rebels. United States — now focused on television. “It’s clearly a fight Jordan’s population. century has no place in our mod- gling to hold their ground against “The issue is that the developing curbing Islamic State — had “for- between good and evil,” he said, “This will have a tremendous ern 21st.” much more militant groups such policies and procedures of putting gotten” the fight against Assad adding: “I think this is a third impact on Jordanians at all levels. The annual Manama Dialogue, as Islamic State and the Al Qaeda- this program into operation take and was not doing enough to world war by other means.” So from all of us, a very gracious organised by the International affiliated Nusra Front and against a very long time,” he said after address what he called the “cause “The medium-term is the secu- thank you to you and your people Institute for Strategic Studies, is government forces. meeting Denmark’s foreign min- of terrorism and extremism in the rity aspect, but the long term is for this very timely support for our being attended by military officials A US-led coalition is bombing ister in Copenhagen. area”. going to be the ideological one. country,” Abdullah told Obama. and security experts from around Islamic State, which has seized “It is expected to start by the REUTERS There’s a lot of leaders around the AFP the world. AFP

Twin bomb attack in Somali town kills nine MOGADISHU: At least nine exploded as rescuers went to help of the capital Mogadishu. Somalia have targeted key gov- people were killed yester- those who had been wounded. There was no immediate claim ernment and security sites in an day in a twin bomb attack in “A second explosion, a car of responsibility but Somalia’s Al apparent bid to discredit claims the central Somali town of loaded with explosives parked Qaeda-affiliated Shebab rebels by the authorities and African Baidoa, police said, the latest nearby, went off as rescuers have previously carried out Union troops that they are win- in a string of attacks. rushed to the scene, and that repeated attacks in the town as ning the war. Two of those killed were jour- caused most of the casualties,” part of their fight to overthrow On Thursday they wounded nalists and three others were Ali added. the country’s internationally- an MP and killed a former law- among the scores wounded, col- The National Union of Somali backed government. maker in Mogadishu, while on leagues said. Journalists said in a statement Witnesses described a scene of Wednesday a Shebab suicide “A suicide bomber detonated that it was “saddened at the carnage, with bodies of wounded bomber killed four when they himself amongst a crowd of peo- murder of two journalists and victims scattered around the rammed a car packed with ple drinking at a busy tea shop in three others wounded in ... the blast site. explosives into a United Nations the town. We have so far counted latest and biggest journalists’ “I saw the dead body of seven convoy. at least nine civilians, among fatality in a single day in 2014.” civilians including a journalist, The Shebab have also stepped them journalists, who died in the The attack comes a day two other journalists were also up operations in neighbouring attack,” police officer Abdirasak after a new federal regional wounded,” said local resident Kenya, and on Tuesday mas- Ali said. leader took power in Baidoa, Abdirahman Hussein. sacred 36 non-Muslim quarry Minutes later a second blast some 250 kilometres northwest Recent Shebab attacks in workers in a Kenyan town. AFP

Palestinian-Israeli clash Slain Moroccan singer’s driver jailed for life RABAT: A court in the Moroccan city of Casablanca has con- demned the chauffeur of popular traditional singer Abdellah El Bidaoui to life imprisonment for murdering him, a judicial source said yesterday. The source, who named the convict only as Salaheddine C, said the verdict was handed down on Tuesday and that an accomplice to the crime was jailed for two years for handling stolen property. El Bidaoui, 64, was Palestinian protesters throw stones towards an Israeli military water cannon during clashes following a dem- famed at home and in onstration against the expropriation of Palestinian land by Israel in the West Bank village of Kfar Qaddum, France for his renditions near Nablus, yesterday. of Morocco’s traditional Aita music. AFP SATURDAY 6 DECEMBER 2014 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INTERNATIONAL Ashton Carter ICC drops charges against Kenyatta

THE HAGUE: The masterminding post-election vio- International Criminal Court’s lence in the east African country named new chief prosecutor yester- in 2007-08 in which more than day dropped crimes against 1,200 people died and 600,000 humanity charges against were displaced. Kenyan President Uhuru Legal experts said the Pentagon chief Kenyatta, dealing a massive announcement after a mara- blow to the tribunal after a thon four-year investigation, lit- long-running and troubled tered with allegations of witness case. intimidation, bribery and false Nominee has weapons expertise The bombshell announce- testimony, was a severe blow to ment came two days after the Bensouda’s office and the Hague- WASHINGTON: President “But I think you have to know ICC’s judges gave prosecutors based ICC, set up in 2002 to Barack Obama yesterday when to leave, too,” he added. one week to strengthen or drop probe the world’s gravest crimes. named Ashton Carter, a highly A policy wonk with degrees in the charges against Kenyatta, “It’s the court’s biggest set- regarded technocrat, to lead Medieval history and theoreti- saying a trial could no longer be back since its establishment at the Pentagon as the US military cal physics, Carter has gained postponed. the turn of the century,” said embarks on the latest phase in a reputation as an expert on Kenyatta, who has main- Eugene Kontorovich, interna- its 13-year war against Islamic hi-tech weapons and military tained his innocence throughout, tional law professor at Chicago’s extremists. budgets, portraying himself as a reacted by saying he had been Northwestern University. Obama praised the 60-year-old reformer intent on making the “vindicated” in the case linked “The collapse of the Kenyatta Carter, saying that as US defence vast Pentagon bureaucracy more to the country’s 2007-08 post- trial will certainly hurt the secretary he would bring to the efficient. election violence, the worst in its ICC more than it does Kenya,” job “a unique blend of strate- He served as deputy secre- history since its 1963 independ- Kontorovich added. gic perspective and technical tary of defence from 2011 to 2013 ence from Britain. Kenya fought an international know-how.” under former defence secretary “I am very keen to run to my campaign to put Kenyatta’s “All of which means on day Leon Panetta, and in other top wife right now and tell her what trial on hold, as well as that of one, he will hit the ground run- Pentagon posts over the years. is happening,” Kenyatta said in a his rival-turned-partner Ruto, ning,” Obama said, making the But he has less experience over- message posted on Twitter, using who has been on trial at the announcement from the White seeing war strategy and has never the hashtag “vindicated”. ICC on similar charges since House. served in uniform — unlike Hagel, He vowed to fight on until September 2013. Both men reject Carter, who is expected to be a former army sergeant who was two remaining cases at the ICC A surpporter of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta (poster) celebrates in the charges. confirmed by the Senate, was wounded in the Vietnam War. against Kenyans, including one the streets of Nairobi yesterday. African leaders also fre- named to replace Chuck Hagel, He also has a reputation for a against his deputy William Ruto, quently called for the charges to who resigned under pressure hard-charging, blunt-spoken style are dropped. from the horrors of the post- Mr Kenyatta’s alleged criminal be withdrawn, saying the ICC’s last week, criticised by some as that could collide with what his “As they say, one case down, election violence,” she said. responsibility can be proven investigations unfairly targeted too passive in the face of a rapidly predecessors have described as two more to go,” Kenyatta said Bensouda said the charges beyond reasonable doubt.” their continent. Prosecutors, in changing security situation. the White House’s “micro-man- in another message. were being withdrawn in a docu- Bensouda said the withdrawal a last-ditch effort to build a case The US military that Carter agement” tendencies. Chief prosecutor Fatou ment filed at the Hague-based was “without prejudice”, mean- against Kenyatta, asked judges to is expected to inherit finds itself “There are big uncertainties Bensouda however called it “a court. ing that should there be enough postpone the trial and rule that in an air war against Islamist with respect to Carter’s ability to dark day for international crimi- “The Prosecution with- evidence against Kenyatta in the Nairobi refused to cooperate in extremists in Iraq and Syria, a shape US defence policy under an nal justice.” draws the charges against future, new charges could be laid. a request to hand over docu- sharp reversal of course for an administration this centralised,” “This is a painful moment for Mr Kenyatta,” Bensouda wrote, Kenyatta, 53, faced five charges ments which prosecutors said administration that had sought to said Stephen Biddle, a professor the men, women and children adding “the evidence has not including murder and rape may prove his guilt. bring home troops after 13 years at George Washington University who have suffered tremendously improved to such an extent that and deportation for allegedly AFP of fighting. who got to know Carter at He must also oversee the Harvard. withdrawal of US forces from But, Biddle told AFP, “it’s hard Afghanistan, as well as chal- to imagine someone better pre- lenges posed by Iran’s nuclear pared for this job.” France to pay $60m to US for Nazi deportations programme and China’s growing “He’s widely respected among military might. Pentagon civilians and the uni- Carter said he had accepted formed military. He’s a capa- WASHINGTON: In a land- connection with the deporta- deported almost 76,000 Jews to a scheme set up in 1946. And Obama’s offer “because of the ble, experienced manager. mark deal, France will pay tions from France during the concentration camps in French this new deal will not be open seriousness of the strategic chal- He’s breathtakingly smart,” $60m to the United States to Holocaust,” US negotiator Stuart freight cars between 1942 and to French nationals and their lenges we face — but also the Biddle said. be shared among American Eizenstat said. 1944. Maryland lawmakers had survivors. bright opportunities that exist for The White House on Thursday and foreign nationals deported “This is another measure of demanded that SNCF compen- Eizenstat said the deal was America if we can come together sought to play down the ten- to Nazi death camps on French justice for the harms of one of sate the victims before being “recognition” by France that US to grab hold of them.” sion with the Pentagon during trains in World War II. history’s darkest eras,” he told allowed to join a bidding process citizens, Israelis and others had Hagel called Carter after the Obama’s tenure, saying such The agreement, unveiled yes- reporters, adding it was a good on a 25km public-private light not been eligible for the same pay- announcement and promised a friction is “not unique to this terday and which has been at example of the close US-French rail project worth nearly $3bn for ments as French nationals. smooth transition. In a state- administration.” least two years in the making, partnership. Several thousand local projects and introduced bills The deal is due to be signed on ment issued as he embarked on However, spokesman Josh should now remove obstacles to people could now be eligible for to that effect. But the French rail Monday by Eizenstat and French his last foreign trip as secretary, Earnest stressed that the next the French rail firm SNCF seek- compensation, including nation- firm had protested that it had no ambassador on human rights he said he strongly supported defence secretary will “under- ing to bid on major railway con- als of Israel and Canada as well choice as it was simply a “cog in Patrizianna Sparacino-Thiellay. Carter’s nomination. Hagel, a stand that the president of the tracts in the US, including in the as Americans who were deported the Nazi extermination machine.” Eizenstat told reporters yes- Republican, has rejected accounts United States is the commander state of Maryland. from France to the death camps The French government has terday that Paris would pay a that he was forced out and said it in chief and sits atop the chain of “The US and France have some 70 years ago. already paid out some $60m to $60m lump sum to Washington was a mutual agreement with the command.” reached a historic agreement During the German occupa- French nationals who were vic- to compensate the survivors or president. AFP for substantial compensation in tion of France, the Nazi regime tims of the Holocaust under their spouses and heirs. AFP

US spaceship Jury to decide charges completes in New York shooting

flawless NEW YORK: A New York dis- said. He gave no timetable for trict attorney said yesterday the jury to be appointed nor for a test flight he would impanel a grand jury decision to be reached. to consider charges in the lat- “I pledge to conduct a full and est police killing of an unarmed fair investigation and to give the CAPE CANAVERAL: A US black man as the United States grand jury all of the information spaceship designed to one day grapples with nationwide necessary to do its job. That infor- fly astronauts to Mars made a protests. mation is still being gathered,” near-bullseye splashdown in the Akai Gurley, 28, a father of a Thompson said. Pacific Ocean yesterday, wrap- young daughter, was shot dead by Grand juries decided not to ping up a flawless, unmanned a single bullet on a dimly lit stair- press charges against white offic- debut test flight around Earth. case at a Brooklyn apartment ers responsible for the August 9 “It’s hard to have a better day building as he walked with his shooting of unarmed 18-year- than today,” NASA’s Orion capsule girlfriend late on November 20. old Michael Brown in Ferguson, programme manager Mark Geyer The New York police commis- Missouri and the July 17 choke- told reporters after landing. sioner admitted that he had been hold death of black father of six The cone-shaped capsule a totally innocent victim. Gurley’s Eric Garner in New York. blasted off aboard a Delta 4 family has demanded justice for The decision in the Ferguson Heavy rocket, the biggest in the his death ahead of a wake later case sparked looting and arson US fleet, just after dawn from yesterday and a funeral today. in the St Louis suburb, while the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Brooklyn District Attorney Garner case triggered two con- in Florida. Three hours later, it Ken Thompson announced yes- secutive nights of protests in New reached peak altitude of 5,800km terday that he would present all York and other major cities. above the planet, a prelude to the the evidence for a grand jury to Gurley’s family, which travelled most challenging part of the flight, decide whether charges should be from Florida for his funeral, told a 32,000kph dive back to Earth. brought. reporters in Brooklyn yesterday Orion survived a searing plunge A protester, demanding justice for Eric Garner, holds a placard while staging a “die-in” with dozens of others in “It is important to get to the that they wanted justice. through the atmosphere, heating downtown White Plains, New York, yesterday. bottom of what happened,” he AFP up to 2,200 degree Celsius — twice as hot as molten lava — and expe- riencing gravitational forces eight times stronger than Earth’s. Over the next few minutes, a total of 11 parachutes deployed South Africa’s Zuma says China a ‘non-colonial power’ to slow Orion’s descent, includ- ing three gigantic main chutes that guided the spaceship to a BEIJING: South African Beijing has expanded its foot- Zuma, whose African National sisters to do business together, counterbalance to the West. 32 kph splashdown 1,014km south- President Jacob Zuma said yes- print to become the biggest trad- Congress (ANC) led the struggle not because one is a poor cousin.” Beijing has also come under fire west of San Diego, California, at terday that China’s growing ing partner of South Africa and against apartheid, added that in The ANC leader was in Beijing for dealing with regimes with lit- 11:29 am EST. influence in Africa would allow the African continent. African countries’ relations with on an official visit — on the anni- tle regard for their human rights Details of the spaceship’s the continent to free itself from “The emergence of China as “Europe in particular, you are versary of Nelson Mandela’s records. But — to rapturous performance, especially how it “colonial shackles” as he wound a power among others gives or regarded as either a former subject death — during which he has applause from his Beijing audi- weathered surges of radiation as up a visit to Beijing. offers an opportunity to African or a second and third class kind of been hailed by China’s President ence — Zuma said: “If we work it passed through the lower Van Zuma’s government has denied countries to be able to free them- a person”. But “the relationship Xi Jinping as a “good friend”. together, we in a sense represent Allen radiation belt, will come the Tibetan spiritual leader the selves from the shackles that are between China and African coun- Chinese demand for raw mate- a different world than the world after data recorded by more than Dalai Lama several visas in recent really colonially designed,” Zuma tries, particularly South Africa, is rials has seen trade with Africa that has been dominated by the 1,200 onboard sensors is retrieved years and maintains a strongly told an audience of students at different”, he said. boom, and many in the conti- North.” and analysed. REUTERS pro-China foreign policy, while Tsinghua University in Beijing. “We relate as brothers and nent see Beijing as a helpful AFP SATURDAY 6 DECEMBER 2014 ASIA / PHILIPPINES www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Maldives capital hit by severe water shortage India, Sri Lanka airlift water to Male

MALE: India and Sri Lanka “A total of five flights will carry airlifted drinking water to the a total of 200 tonnes of drinking Maldives yesterday after a fire at water today. We will have another a desalination plant led to severe five flights tomorrow. shortages and triggered unrest “We have also made arrange- on the streets of the honeymoon ments for two ships to move to (the) islands’ capital. Maldives.” Authorities declared a “disaster Speaking to reporters in Colombo, situation” after the fire on Thursday a foreign ministry official said that led to a drinking water crisis on the the Sri Lankan government was main island of Male, one of the world’s “sending water as well as equipment most densely populated capitals. needed to carry out urgent repairs to Much of the capital was still with- the water supply system”. out drinking water yesterday and A report in Minivan News, a private local media reported that angry resi- Maldivian website, said the damage dents fought and attacked shops that to the water purification plant could rationed mineral water, while hotels take up to five days to repair. in Male said supplies were rapidly “I think the situation is more seri- running out. ous than the government is admit- Filipinos take shelter inside a gymnasium that was turned into a temporary evacuation centre in Mambaling village, Cebu province, central However, the crisis has not affected ting,” a resident said, declining to be Philippines, yesterday. the atoll nation’s upmarket tourist identified. resorts, located on other islands, “We had water on tap for about an which by law have their own power hour this morning, but that is hardly generation and desalination plants. adequate.” Half million evacuated as typhoon looms India’s air force flew bottled water Security forces were distributing onto the tiny island as authorities water free of charge on the island, MANILA: Around half a mil- suspended sea travel. another storm.” The United should not be complacent,” said scrambled to repair the damage to which measures just one square-mile lion people fled coastal villages “Over 100,000 families are Nations Office for Disaster Landrico Dalida, Jr acting dep- the plant. Neighbouring Sri Lanka (two square kilometres) and is home and landslide-prone areas in already in evacuation centres,” Risk Management in Geneva uty administrator for operations also air lifted 100,000 bottles of water, to some 120,000 residents. the central Philippines yes- said Corazon Soliman, Social said 200,000 people had been at PAGASA. officials said. Activists said only those able to terday, a day before a power- Welfare secretary. “Multiply evacuated in the central island The agency added that the “We have mounted an enormous produce a Maldivian identity card ful typhoon was expected to it by five (persons per family), province of Cebu alone. radius of the storm had nar- effort in our assistance to provide were eligible for the free supplies, hit the island nation where that’s 500,000,” she said, adding “Typhoon Hagupit is trig- rowed slightly to 600km from a... close partner of India in its hour meaning thousands of migrant thousands died in a storm 13 that most of the residents had gering one of the largest evacu- 700km, but said it would still of need,” Indian Foreign Ministry workers from Bangladesh, India, months ago. volunteered to leave. ations we have ever seen in bring torrential rain and 3-to spokesman Syed Akbaruddin told Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka were Typhoon Hagupit weakened The eastern islands of Samar peacetime,” said spokesman 4-metre storm surges when it reporters in New Delhi. being left out. AFP slightly as it churned slowly and Leyte, which are still recov- Dennis McLean. slams into Eastern or Northern across the Pacific, dipping below ering from last year’s super The eye of the storm hov- Samar provinces today evening. the category 5 “super typhoon” typhoon Haiyan, could be in the ered 305km east of Borongan, The weather bureau also level, the Philippine weather firing line again. in Eastern Samar, yesterday said the typhoon had veered bureau PAGASA said, but was “I am afraid and scared,” said afternoon, PAGASA said. Cold, slightly north and was moving likely to remain destructive Teresita Aban, a 58-year-old dry Siberian winds blowing west-northwest towards eastern when it hit land today. housewife from Santa Rita in from the north had sapped coasts at around 13 kph. Philippine Airlines and Cebu Samar province, wiping away some of its strength, but it was More than 7,000 people Pacific cancelled more than 150 tears and trembling. “We’re still packing winds of up to 195 died or went missing when flights to central and south- prepared but still fearful. We kph near the centre, with gusts typhoon Haiyan, known locally ern Philippines yesterday and haven’t finished repairing of up to 230 kph. “Although as Yolanda, tore through today. Ports shut across the our house. It still has tarpau- we said it has weakened, 195 the central Philippines in archipelago after the coastguard lin patches — and here comes kph is still very strong ... We November 2013. REUTERS

Malaysia arrests 15 over killings in Relatives of MH17 crash Maldives security personnel stand on a moving pickup truck as they help distribute tourist destination victims want UN probe bottles of water to residents in Male yesterday. KUALA LUMPUR: Police have detained 15 people from AMSTERDAM: Relatives of MH17 was downed on July 17 fact-finding investigation and Myanmar over a string of grue- MH17 crash victims, angered over eastern Ukraine, killing all the legal framework of the case, some murders in a popular by what they see as Dutch 298 passengers and crew, two- said the letter, sent on behalf Malaysian tourist destination, mishandling of inquiries into thirds of them Dutch. Experts of 20 relatives from Belgium, and believe the killings are the disaster, want a special say the most likely cause was Germany, the Netherlands and linked to ethnic unrest in their UN envoy to launch an inter- a ground-to-air missile fired the United States. native country, reports said national investigation. from territory held by pro- Dutch prosecutors have been yesterday. A letter sent to Prime Russian separatists. unable to access the crash Public anxiety has risen in Minister Mark Rutte yester- The Dutch launched the site, in a war zone disputed by Malaysia’s historic state of day, a copy of which was seen largest criminal investigation Ukrainian troops and Russian- Penang over the past few months by Reuters, said Dutch officials in their history after the crash. backed rebels, or not met inter- as mutilated corpses or severed had failed to build a case. They This week, trucks are carrying national requirements to secure body parts have turned up — with asked that inquiries by the pieces of the plane home, but evidence, the letter said. at least 18 mysterious and unex- Safety Board and prosecution much of the wreckage still lies “Nobody knows who is doing plained murders of Myanmar service be handed over to the in Ukrainian fields. what,” said Bob van der Goen, nationals. United Nations. Dutch investigators, leading a spokesman for the law firm. Authorities had made little Rutte should “request the a case involving 11 countries, “There is no coordination, there comment until now but the state’s UN to appoint a special envoy have not concluded how the is no leadership whatsoever police chief was quoted yesterday to take over,” said the let- plane was shot down or identi- (by) Holland.” Rutte said yes- saying they now believe the kill- ter written by Van der Goen fied suspects. terday the Dutch teams were ings are linked to violent clashes Attorneys. The Netherlands “has returning to the Netherlands. between Muslims and Buddhists Malaysia Airlines flight completely botched” the REUTERS in Myanmar. China asks US to Close watch help trace fugitives BEIJING: China has asked the United States to help it track down more than 100 people suspected of corruption and who China believes are in the United States, a US official said yesterday. The official, who declined to be identified because of the sensitiv- ity of the matter, said those on the list had Chinese names but it was not clear if they were all Chinese nationals. “The majority of them are related to crimes of corruption or economic malfeasance,” he said. “The list is not precisely clear in terms of the details of the nature of the crimes, the evidence or the whereabouts” of the accused. Chinese law enforcement authori- ties have not provided sufficient evidence or background infor- mation for US police to track down the suspects in most cases, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (centre) stands in the snow as he inspects KPA Unit 1313 honoured he said. with the title of O Jung Hup-led 7th Regiment in Pyongyang yesterday. REUTERS SATURDAY 6 DECEMBER 2014 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN Blood banks faulted for infections Transfusions spreading hepatitis: Official

ISLAMABAD: Lax oversight of says 13 million Pakistanis have hep- blood banks means about a fifth of atitis B or C and about 85,000 have patients in Pakistan who get regu- HIV/AIDS. lar transfusions have been infected The government had no plans with hepatitis, a top government to test the hundreds of thousands health official said yesterday. Some of people who may have received also get HIV. infected blood because the problem Pakistan’s dangerously unregulated was too entrenched, Akram said. blood banks are in the spotlight after He said most patients his hospi- a charitable federation said 10 chil- tal saw went to eight different blood dren getting transfusions for a blood banks, on average, for transfusions. disease contracted HIV. Many blood banks buy supplies About 22,000 children with tha- from drug addicts who need cash, German Chancellor Angela Merkel (second left) and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani inspect the guard of honour outside Federal Chancellery in lassaemia, which causes low levels he added. Berlin, Germany, yesterday. Ashraf Ghani is on his first official visit to Germany since becoming president. of protein in the blood, get regu- Pakistan has many private blood lar transfusions, the Thalassaemia banks, but oversight is lax. So chil- Federation of Pakistan said. dren like 12-year-old Waqas, whose Government officials are investi- family asked that his full name not be gating and have not confirmed the used, get infected. He has HIV. Germany vows to keep up support for Kabul cases it cited. “When I don’t go to school and I’m Poor oversight of blood supply is not feeling well, my friends ask me BERLIN: Germany’s The United States and its more important. The German have risen in 2014, the bloodi- a problem for all needing regular ‘where were you?’,” he said, squirming Chancellor Angela Merkel allies intend to keep about parliament voted earlier yes- est year since the war against transfusions, said Javed Akram, head in an oversize pinstripe suit. “I tell pledged yesterday to sup- 12,000 troops in Afghanistan for terday to keep 850 soldiers in Taliban militants began. of the state-run Pakistan Institute of them I had a fever.” port Afghan President Ashraf counter-terrorism and training Afghanistan in 2015 to train Afghanistan is in talks with Medical Sciences. Some banks test for diseases Ghani and his new unity gov- of local personnel after com- local forces, making Germany neighbouring countries includ- In addition to Pakistan’s thalassae- with cheap kits and miss two-thirds ernment after Nato combat bat forces formally withdraw one of the biggest contributors ing China on a regional agree- mia patients, 250,000 kidney patients of infections, said Hasan Abbas troops withdraw from the this year. after the United States. ment on peace and security, need regular blood transfusions, Zaheer, of the Safe Blood Transfusion country at the end of more Merkel told a joint news con- It also agreed to support Ghani said. Akram said. “Of all patients requir- Program. The capital, Islamabad, than a decade of fighting ference with Ghani in Berlin Kabul with annual development “That is all at an early stage. ing regular blood transfusions for is the only place that regularly Islamist insurgents. that Germany would also sup- aid worth ¤430m ($529m), more We are working on a detailed survival, about 20 percent have hepa- inspected or licensed blood banks, Afghanistan’s 350,000-strong port Afghanistan in the longer than any other country. plan,” he added. titis B or C. A few also have HIV,” he he said. military and police forces have term by training security forces As part of the Nato-led mis- Last month Reuters reported said. “They are desperate for blood. Akram said it would be hard to taken over security in most of and providing development aid. sion in Afghanistan, Germany exclusively that China had Most of them can’t get it safely.” As identify banks selling infected blood the country, facing off against “Germany has a responsibil- has had up to 5,000 soldiers proposed setting up a forum many as 20 percent of such patients since patients used so many. the Taliban in their first real ity, especially for security in stationed in the country. Some to restart stalled peace talks had hepatitis B and C, while about 1 “This has been a problem for a long test since the militant Islamists northern Afghanistan,” Merkel 55 German soldiers have been between Afghanistan and percent had been infected with HIV, time,” he said. “The government only were ousted from power in 2001 said, adding that bilateral eco- killed in combat. Taliban insurgents. he estimated. cares about it when the cameras are by US-led forces. nomic ties were also becoming Civilian and military deaths REUTERS The World Health Organisation focused on it.” REUTERS

Pakistan government may start negotiations with Imran’s party

ISLAMABAD: The positive reaction with the consultation of the prime min- The PTI and the government should on the government as senior party to Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan have confirmed of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) ister and opposition leader blaming them shun blame game as to who deadlocked the dispute. This means the atmosphere of that the government was ready to resume on the appointment of new chief elec- for being hands in glove and termed any the talks and who should first move for- extreme confrontation is easing and now dialogue with the PTI team on return of tion commissioner (CEC) has encour- move done by them as ‘muk muka’ has ward since it will be in the interest of the there is an atmosphere of reconciliation the prime minister. Meanwhile, informed aged pragmatic elements in the political uttered no adverse word. country that there is no threat to secu- which the government should realise and sources have revealed that the prime circles and the government has gained PTI’s spokesperson Shireen Mazari rity and peace in the shape of shutdown move quickly, but it is not ready to initi- minister is likely to hold a meeting with confidence to go ahead on resolving though expressed regret over non-con- of the cities and the country. ate dialogue immediately till December 6 all the parliamentary leaders to discuss other issues through dialogue. sultation of her party, she appreciated Political pundits including members when the prime minister is expected to with them possible limits of talks and PTI chief Imran Khan, who was the selection of Sardar Raza who has an of the political jirga have time and again return home from his four-day UK visit. also to take them into confidence on the opposed to the appointment of new CEC unblemished record. put responsibility of reinitiating dialogue Both Ishaq Dar and Interior Minister proposed talks. INTERNEWS

Noble blood

The bloodied shawl and the school uniform put on by Nobel Peace Laureate Malala Yousafzai, when she was shot in Pakistan on October 9, 2012 is unwrapped and prepared for an exhibition in Oslo yesterday. The garments will be shown at the Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo and will be part of an exhibition to honour present and past Nobel Peace Prize laureates as this year’s prize is awarded to Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarth in the Oslo City Hall on December 10. Cameron urges Sharif to treat jailed Briton fairly

LONDON: Prime Minister David had previously raised the same matter. moment is making sure he gets the right Cameron asked his Pakistani counter- Asghar, a Muslim from Edinburgh, was level of treatment and that the case is han- part Nawaz Sharif yesterday to ensure arrested in 2010 and sentenced to death dled in the right way, given his particular a British man jailed for blasphemy is in January after a disgruntled tenant pre- situation.” treated fairly and that his history of men- sented letters he had written saying he was Blasphemy charges, punishable by death tal health is taken into account. a prophet. in Muslim-majority Pakistan, are hard to Cameron raised the case of 70-year-old In September, his lawyers said he had fight because the law does not define what Muhammad Asghar during a meeting in been shot and wounded in jail by a prison is blasphemous. Presenting the evidence London with Prime Minister Sharif, the guard in Rawalpindi, next to Islamabad. can sometimes itself be considered a fresh British leader’s spokeswoman told report- “The PM raised the Asghar case,” said infringement. ers, saying more junior government officials Cameron’s spokeswoman. “Our focus at the REUTERS SATURDAY 6 DECEMBER 2014 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 20 dead as militants storm army camp Eleven soldiers killed in four attacks across Kashmir

URI, INDIA: It was a day of bid for power in Kashmir. deployed in Kashmir to protect terror in Kashmir as 20 people, Modi will address a campaign voters from attacks by militants, including 11 army men, were rally for the BJP, which is staging who have called on residents to killed and at least 11 injured in a a bold attempt to seize control of boycott the state elections. string of brazen militant strikes the Jammu and Kashmir legisla- Most separatist leaders were yesterday, days ahead of Prime ture — a move unthinkable until either arrested or confined to Minister Narendra Modi’s rally very recently. their houses after the elections here for the staggered assembly The Hindu nationalist party were announced. About a dozen elections. has traditionally had no base in rebel groups have been fighting Heavily armed militants the Kashmir Valley, where local Indian forces since 1989 for inde- attacked an army camp and a resentment against Indian rule pendence or to merge the terri- police checkpost, besides hurl- runs high. tory with Pakistan. ing a grenade at a posse of secu- Modi tweeted that the attacks The nuclear-armed neighbours rity personnel at three places. A were “desperate attempts to have fought two of their three smoke grenade also went off at a derail the atmosphere of hope wars over the scenic region, while fourth place. and goodwill as seen by increased years of fighting have left tens of It was the highest number of voter turnout”. thousands dead, most of them security officers killed in a single The defence ministry said the civilians. day in the state since June 2013, “heavily armed and well equipped” Earlier this week a big gun bat- and came on a day of violence militants stormed the barracks in tle caused the deaths of an Indian across Kashmir. the early hours yesterday, trigger- soldier and six militants, while Two rebels died in a gun bat- ing a gun battle that lasted for on Monday suspected rebels shot tle in the residential outskirts of over six hours. dead a village leader. Srinagar, the flashpoint region’s Police said the militants entered Despite the violence, turnout main city. In Tral, south of the high-walled Uri camp, throw- has been high so far in with over Srinagar, a grenade lobbed at an ing grenades and firing automatic 70 percent of the electorate cast- election campaign vehicle missed weapons. By mid-afternoon, ing ballots in 33 constituencies, its target and killed an elderly shooting had ceased and security defying calls by separatist leaders bystander at a bus stop, injuring forces were “defusing unexploded and militants to boycott the polls. six others. grenades”, a police officer said on The BJP is seeking to lever- The violence comes ahead of condition of anonymity. age support from the Hindu- a campaign visit on Monday by The strongly fortified army dominated south of Jammu and India’s new right-wing Prime camp, home to several hundred Kashmir state and the Buddhist Minister Narendra Modi, whose soldiers, lies 100km northwest area of Ladakh as well as from Hindu nationalist Bharatiya of Srinagar. Thousands of extra Muslims tired of years of conflict. Indian soldiers search for suspected militants as smoke rises from a bunker after a gunbattle in Mohra in Uri Janata Party (BJP) is making a paramilitary troops have been AGENCIES yesterday.

Kejriwal rapped over Modi refuses to business class trip to Dubai fire minister for

NEW DELHI: The leader of India’s anti-corruption “Common Man’s Party”, a derogatory remark long-time scourge of the country’s elite, drew wide- NEW DELHI: Prime Minister in the house, when there was a spread ridicule yesterday Narendra Modi yesterday- meeting of my party MPs, I had after being pictured flying rejected demands to fire a sternly instructed against using business class to the Gulf. government minister whose such language, and had expressed Arvind Kejriwal was snapped derogatory comments about my unhappiness,” he said. In by a fellow passenger, sitting in non-Hindus have led to a furore remarks similar to those made in business class and being offered that has shut down the parlia- the Rajya Sabha Thursday, Modi a glass of juice by a flight ment for four days. said the minister was new. attendant on his way from Prime Minister told the Lok “Nobody can approve such Delhi to Dubai where he is to Sabha that minister Sadhvi things. Later, the minister apolo- pick up an award. The picture Niranjan Jyoti has apologised for gised. She is a new minister, we was circulated on social media. her abusive remark and the issue know her social background — The former tax inspector be put to rest, but the stalemate she is from a village — and she made a point of using public in parliament persisted with the has apologised and it is the duty transport rather than use his opposition insisting on a joint reso- of senior members in the house official car during a tumultuous lution condemning her comments. that when a member apologises 49 days as Delhi’s chief minis- Opposition parties, led by the in front of such a big house, then ter earlier this year, including Congress, walked out of the Lok we should also be liberal.” to his own inauguration. Sabha even as the proceedings in The prime minister said he was During May’s general elec- Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj (right) with the family members of Indians trapped in Iraq, in New the Rajya Sabha were paralysed grateful to members of the Lok tion, he also attacked his fellow Delhi yesterday. for the fourth consecutive day. Sabha that they allowed the house party leaders for their jet-set Later the opposition par- to function. lifestyles, deriding what he ties came out with a statement Unlike the Rajya Sabha which called “helicopter democracy” demanding a joint resolution con- has seen repeated adjournments, as he canvassed from the back Centre repeating empty words, demning “the attempts to outrage the Lok Sabha has transacted of a battered and ageing jeep. our constitution by making inflam- business after protests by oppo- Meenakshi Lekhi, a mem- matory speeches aimed at dividing sition members during question ber of parliament for Prime the syncretic, socio-cultural mosaic hour. Modi said members should Minister Narendra Modi’s say kin of 40 abducted Indians of our country’s rich diversity”. accept “maryada (dignity of lan- right-wing Bharatiya Janata “The current impasse in the guage)” and speak within that Party, said that the photo NEW DELHI: Increasing carpenter in Mosul when he along proof of it. Malkit Singh, whose Rajya Sabha is the creation of the — whether they were within the “exposed” Kejriwal as a hopelessness seems to have with the other Indian workers brother Paramjeet Singh is government,” it said. house or outside. hypocrite. enveloped families of the 40 was kidnapped from the site of a among the abducted, said they Congress vice president Rahul He said senior leaders should “This is not how common Indians abducted in Iraq’s Turkish construction company in had asked the minister about the Gandhi and many opposition request members of their par- people live,” Lekhi, who rep- Mosul by Islamic State (IS) June by suspected Islamic State whereabouts of Harjeet Masih, members also protested outside ties to close the issue and move resents Delhi in the national militants six months ago. militants. one of the workers who escaped the Parliament House, saying that forward with their work in the parliament, said. A meeting with External Harbhajan Singh, his face wiz- from the clutches of IS. Harjeet “democratic process” was not interest of the country. “I am not saying it is wrong Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj ened with creases and care, said had said the men have been killed. being allowed inside and pressed Meanwhile, Bahujan Samaj to aspire for a better lifestyle, yesterday saw them venting he has heard nothing from his son “We demanded to meet Harjeet for the minister’s resignation. Party supremo Mayawati took it is a question of pretenses. frustration at the government Kamaljeet Singh, who worked as Masih, but she said we cannot Parliamentary Affairs Minister objection to Modi’s appeal that Don’t pretend to be what you for “repeating old statements” a crane operator in Mosul. meet him. We wanted to know if M Venkaiah Naidu, meanwhile, the minister’s apology be accepted are not. A spokeswoman for and not being able to provide any “Mantri-ji said it will take time, he really has bullet injuries, she urged the opposition to allow keeping in mind her background, the rival Congress party mean- proof that their kin are alive. that is what they have been saying refused to tell us,” he said. normal proceedings of the two saying it was improper as it meant while said that “the real face of “The minister repeated what all along,” Harbhajan Singh said. “Harjeet Masih is supposed to houses. Modi made a statement making “allegations against one the party has been revealed” by she has been saying to us earlier. Thirty-six families of those be in government custody. Then in the Lok Sabha soon after the community”. She said if the min- the picture. There was nothing new to add,” abducted Indian men came to why don’t they know about him,” house met for the day, saying he ister is incompetent or has made While there was no imme- Sardara Singh from Amritsar, meet the minister Friday. another man asked. had expressed his unhappiness at an objectionable statement, then diate response from Kejriwal whose 32-year-old son Gurcharan The minister is understood to “They said they will not allow Jyoti’s remarks during a meeting she should be removed and another himself, some of the top lieu- Singh and the family’s sole earn- have told the distraught fami- us to meet him. How can they do of the Bharatiya Janata Party person from that community tenants in his Aam Aadmi Party ing member was kidnapped, said. lies that the men are known to this?” he added. parliamentary party Tuesday. should replace her. said that the row was a storm Gurcharan was working as a be alive, but there is no concrete IANS “Before the issue was raised AGENCIES in a tea cup. “Delhi is facing problems such as shortage of water and electricity is this the only issue that people are concerned about? “ asked Pankaj Gupta, the party’s national secretary. Doctor held after cataract surgery leaves 20 blind Kejriwal quit as Delhi chief minister in February, only NEW DELHI: Police have the number left blind could be as questioned, but had not been for- unsterile equipment on dozens of Authorities said the problem weeks after his party’s spec- detained two people after at high as 60. mally charged. women. first came to light when victims tacular electoral breakthrough least 20 patients who had free “There are about 20 confirmed The case raises fresh concerns A government doctor who began coming forward this week. in state elections ended cataract surgery at a camp cases of patients from the camp over the quality of medical proce- treated the latest victims said They have since been admitted to Congress’s 15-year rule in the in northern India were left who have lost their eyesight,” said dures in India after the deaths of they had contracted infections a government hospital. capital. blind, local authorities said Manvinder Singh, a senior police 13 women who underwent steri- after undergoing the cataract Ravi Bhagat, a deputy commis- Delhi has since been gov- yesterday. officer in the northern state of lisation surgery at a camp in cen- surgery on November 4. sioner in neighbouring Amritsar erned in the interim by federal Police said at least 157 people Punjab, where the camp was held. tral India. “They came to us in a very district said that the camp was authorities but fresh elections had undergone the surgery at a “We are investigating the rest,” Government officials have bad condition... the infection had operating without government are expected in February when village camp run by a medical he said. blamed contaminated drugs for already spread,” Karanjeet Singh permission and authorities had Kejriwal will try and stage a charity early last month and 20 Singh said that the doctor who their deaths, but an independent told the NDTV news channel, add- registered a legal case against the comeback. confirmed cases of blindness had conducted the surgeries and the report published this week said ing that the “chances of restoring Guru Nanak Charitable Hospital AFP been identified. organiser of the camp had been they had suffered septicaemia. their eyesight” were much lower where the surgeries were con- Media reports have indicated taken into custody and were being Doctors allegedly used the same now. ducted. AFP SATURDAY 6 DECEMBER 2014 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

Qatar’s higher bid for IMF chief in Chile Canary Wharf rejected New QIA, Brookfield bid values Songbird at £2.6bn

LONDON: The owner of However, Canary Wharf’s com- on Nov. 5, the day before the first London’s Canary Wharf yes- plex ownership structure with approach. terday rejected a raised £2.6bn two layers of shareholders, one in Songbird said in a brief ($4.1bn) bid for the financial Songbird and another in Canary response its pro forma adjusted district from Qatar and a North Wharf Group, has tended to leave net asset value was 381p per share American investor saying it was Songbird shares trading at a dis- as of November 27 and there were too low. count to their net asset value. other areas of value within the Songbird Estates said the 350 Songbird owns 69.4 percent company not reflected in that pence per share offer from Qatar of Canary Wharf Group while valuation. It said it would write Investment Authority (QIA) and US-listed Brookfield, which to shareholders with its detailed Brookfield Property Partners LP operates and invests in office and view of the offer in due course. “does not reflect the full value of industrial property, is the second Songbird’s shares were down the company, its unique position largest shareholder in the unlisted 3 percent at 313p by 0950 GMT, and future growth potential”. company with 22.1 percent. after an early rise to 335p fizzled The Canary Wharf financial Meanwhile, Qatar’s sovereign out. zone was established about 25 wealth fund owns 28.6 percent “Whilst we believe 350p is still International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde (right) is greeted by Rodrigo Vergara, years ago on former docks and of Songbird. New York-based too low and doesn’t attribute governor of the Central Bank of Chile, in Santiago, yesterday. is in a Songbird portfolio that investor Simon Glick has almost any value to the future pros- includes part ownership of the 26 percent and China’s sovereign pects or management, ultimately landmark “Walkie Talkie” sky- wealth fund owns 15.8 percent. the shareholders have to decide scraper in the City, London’s tra- QIA and Brookfield made a whether they want to take the Honda expands airbag recall to 6m ditional business area. 2.2 billion pound approach for liquidity now or continue to invest A revival in London’s office Songbird in November sending in the longer-term outlook of property market and Canary its shares soaring as much as 22 what is arguably a unique estate TOKYO: Japanese automaker hundreds of injuries. Honda said some of the world’s biggest auto- Wharf’s expansion plans have percent to 320 pence, but it was at Canary Wharf,” Miranda Honda said yesterday it was it is recalling a further 3.2 million makers, including Honda, Toyota stirred interest in Songbird. rejected. Cockburn, analyst at Oriel extending its US recall nationwide vehicles across the US — this is and General Motors, have already Canary Wharf is preparing to In a hostile move, QIA and Securities, said in a note. on cars with potentially deadly on top of the 2.8 million already been recalled due to the risk its start work on two major develop- Brookfield took their new joint A successful bid would add airbags made by auto parts maker recalled in selected states. airbags can deploy with excessive ments: a 60-storey tower with the all-cash bid directly to sharehold- to Qatar’s significant presence Takata, in a further blow to the “With the expansion of the pro- explosive power and send shrap- first residential property on the ers on Thursday. Announced less in London. The Shard, western embattled firm. gramme, the figure will reach six nel hurtling inside the car. estate and a 20-acre waterside than two hours before a deadline Europe’s tallest skyscraper, and Malfunctioning Takata airbags million vehicles” being recalled in Since 2008, Honda has recalled site with 3,100 homes and office to submit a revised bid, it repre- department store Harrods, are have been linked with five deaths, the US, the automaker’s Tokyo- 9.65 million vehicles worldwide in buildings, as well as a school and sented a 33.6 percent premium among its high-profile properties. including a woman driving a 2003 based spokesman said. connection with Takata airbags. more shops. to Songbird’s closing share price REUTERS Honda City in Malaysia, and Millions of vehicles produced by AFP GM’s recall of pickups affects 2,432 vehicles in US, Canada EU may scrap bank reform plans DETROIT: General Motors GMC Canyon pickups to fix an Co disclosed yesterday that air bag wiring issue. At the time, BRUSSELS: The EU may Michel Barnier fails to gain crisis, when several European insulting and scandalous,” it recalled more than 2,400 it did not say how many vehicles scrap plans to force banks to traction, the project should be governments had to bail out failed Lamberts said. of its new mid-sized pickup were affected and did not elabo- separate risky trading activities abandoned. banks with billions in state funds. The Barnier proposal from trucks in the United States rate on the exact problem. from their core business fol- “We need to see how much France, Germany and Britain earlier this year focused on 30 of and Canada to fix a previously GM said in documents lowing fierce opposition by the progress is made ... on banking — all seeking to protect their flag- Europe’s biggest banks, consid- announced air bag issue. posted online on Friday by the bloc’s most influential states, structural reform, where Member ship banks — were irritated by ered “too big to fail” with outsize The No. 1 US automaker has U.S. National Highway Traffic according to a document. States are pulling in different the proposals, arguing their own balance sheets often bigger than announced a large number of Safety Administration that Axing the plan would be the directions in opposition to it,” Hill national laws go far enough. the yearly GDP of their country recalls this year, mostly due 2,432 trucks were affected. first tough decision for the EU’s writes in the letter, which is dated But the very suggestion of of origin. to the discovery of faulty igni- They contained driver air bag new financial services commis- November 18. withdrawing the plan has drawn The ambitious reform plan tion switches that could cause connections wired incorrectly sioner, Jonathan Hill, and revive “So withdrawal could be an anger from key members of included a ban on banks trading them to slip out of position, during manufacturing which accusations of his alleged close option next year if Member State European Parliament. Top Green on their own account as well as cutting power to air bags, steer- affected the two-stage air bag ties to London’s banking estab- support does not pick up,” he said. MEP Philippe Lamberts revealed forcing lenders to hive off some ing and brakes. Those defec- system by reversing the deploy- lishment that nearly torpedoed Hill adds however that it would the existence of the letter to the of their riskiest activities. tive switches, which led to the ment sequence and disrupting his nomination to Brussels. be “premature” to withdraw media. “Given Mr. Hill’s history Scrapping Barnier’s reform recall of 2.6 million vehicles in the timing of the driver air bag In a letter addressed to the the proposal now and advises as a financial lobbyist, it was fairly would be part of the new February, have been linked to at stages. The issue will cause the commission’s First Vice President Timmermans that more time is obvious that he would work for Commission’s plan to strip the least 36 deaths. driver air bags to not function Frans Timmermans, Hill suggests needed to decide the matter. the weakening of European leg- EU’s vast bureaucracy of policy GM told dealers in October to as designed and potentially that if an ambitious proposal The plans are aimed at avoid- islation on finance,” he said. proposals that have little chance stop selling the newly introduced increases the risk of injury. made by his French predecessor ing a repeat of the global financial Hill’s strategy “is frankly of coming to fruition. AFP 2015 Chevrolet Colorado and REUTERS India kicks off privatisation London Metal Exchange trims drive; sells steel firm’s shares fee increase

NEW DELHI: India’s new million shares, worth over `25bn, partly due to strong resistance to LONDON: The London Metal right-wing government kicked by 2.45pm itself. divestment by employees of some Exchange (LME) yesterday off its troubled privatisation The government currently state-run firms. trimmed a proposed average drive yesterday, selling a five- holds 80 percent stake in the Coal India’s 350,000 unionised increase in transaction fees percent stake in the state-con- company, which will fall to 75 per employees, for instance, are heav- to 31 percent from 34 percent trolled Steel Authority of India cent after this offer. ily against the sale of shares in the after complaints by members. Ltd (SAIL) to generate rev- Analysts originally expected mining giant to private investors. The LME said that it made the enue and plug a gaping budget the sale to take place in July but Modi led his Bharatiya changes following feedback from deficit. the divestment programme has Janata Party to a massive elec- members and because of its com- The offer of shares in the been slow to get off the ground. tion victory in May on pledges mitment to open-outcry trading country’s biggest domestic steel The SAIL offer that was set at of reviving India’s stumbling and to support the price discovery producer is the first in a string a minimum price of `83-a-share, economy. process. The 137-year-old LME of asset disposals planned by represented a two-and-a-half The government has said it had announced the fee increase the government led by Prime percent discount to Thursday’s wanted to accelerate divestment in September as its owner moved Minister Narendra Modi. closing price. to raise badly needed funds to to boost profit from the world’s Government’s share sale offer The government has said the stick to the previous Congress biggest industrial metals market in steel major SAIL got over- SAIL sale, which will reduce the government’s ambitious goal of after a costly takeover. subscribed yesterday by nearly state’s holding in the company to capping the deficit at 4.1 percent The LME’s owner, Hong Kong 1.5 times with almost an hour 75 percent, is expected to raise up of gross domestic product, down Exchanges and Clearing Ltd, had still left for bidding to close and to 17bn rupees ($275m). from 4.5 percent a year earlier. splashed out $2.2bn to buy the ensured at least `1.5bn to the The sale was 27 percent over- “India looks set to miss its fis- exchange, a price that analysts exchequer. subscribed by the afternoon, cal target this year, even in the said was very expensive. But some The offer for over 200 million according to stock exchange optimistic case that the govern- LME members objected to the fee shares of SAIL also received a figures. ment fully delivers on its plans to increase, saying it would be likely robust response from retail inves- Finance Minister Arun Jaitley sell stakes in state-owned com- to force brokers and banks to ditch tors, to whom the government had said in his budget that the panies,” research house Capital some commission-free terms and has offered a five per cent price government aimed to collect a Economics analyst Shilan Shah review their business models. discount and has reserved 10 per hefty `584.43bn ($9.5bn) from the said in a note. The tariff structure included cent or over 20 million shares for sale of holdings in state-run com- The failure of the economy to a significant discount on “ring” Labourers work at a steel factory in the outskirts of Agartala in India’s Tripura them. panies and non-government firms generate more in tax revenues, trading after the LME said in state. The new right-wing government kicked off its troubled privatisation The government is selling 5 during the financial year ending despite a slight pick-up in growth, June it would keep open-outcry drive yesterday, offering a five-percent-stake in state-controlled Steel per cent stake in SAIL through March 2015. has made it even tougher to meet trading, bucking a trend by most Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) to generate revenue and plug a gaping budget this one-day offer, which But the government is likely the deficit target, analysts say. other markets to shift to all-elec- deficit. received bids for more than 300 to fall badly short of that target, AFP tronic operations. REUTERS SATURDAY 6 DECEMBER 2014 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 Oil market slips after Saudi cuts crude price Price fall could delay $150bn worth of projects

LONDON: The oil market fell Saudi Arabia is the biggest and give emerging markets a boost. yesterday after major producer most influential member of the “Oil-intensive economies, Saudi Arabia slashed the price Organization of the Petroleum including the bulk of Asia, would of the crude it sells to Asia and Exporting Countries (Opec), benefit from lower inflation, larger the United States, analysts said. which last week decided to main- monetary leeway to support the Brent North Sea crude for tain output levels despite a global recovery, and lower corporate and delivery in January fell 50 cents oversupply. household costs,” it said. to stand at $69.14 per barrel in Opec’s decision at its November “Against such a backdrop this early afternoon London deals. 27 meeting in Vienna sent oil could support a scenario of a US benchmark West Texas prices tumbling to their lowest slight recovery in emerging mar- Intermediate for December slipped point in five years. They have ket GDP growth in 2015.” 56 cents to $66.25 compared with declined by about 40 percent since Separately yesterday, a Thursday’s closing value. June, faced with cheaper oil being Norwegian consulting firm pre- “Saudi Arabia has just cut the extracted from North American dicted that the continued fall of price of the oil it sells to Asia and shale rock. oil prices could lead to postpone- the US and this is going to have Singapore’s United Overseas ment of $150bn worth of projects a big effect on the market,” said Bank said Saudi Arabia’s move in the sector worldwide. Daniel Ang, an investment ana- was “reinforcing concerns that “Everything will depend on lyst at broker Phillip Futures. the world’s leading exporter is what oil companies decide to Saudi Aramco, the kingdom’s now more focused on defending do, but if they don’t exploit the state-owned oil company, said its market share than increasing fields which break even with the Thursday it had slashed its official price”. barrel above $80, $150bn will go selling price for Arab light grade “Saudi reportedly believes oil down the drain,” chief analyst oil bound for Asia in January by prices could stabilise at $60 a bar- at Rystad Energy, Per Magnus $1.90 a barrel from December’s rel and there is also rife specula- Nysveen said. level. tion that Saudi is also trying to Plunging oil prices, combined It also reduced the price of drive high-price producers out of with high production costs, force Arab light grade oil bound for the the market,” it said in a market oil companies to postpone or even United States by 70 cents. commentary. cancel developments of oil finds in A customer looks at the price before filling the tank of her car at a fuel station in Sint Pieters Leeuw in Belgium “They’re definitely fighting for But French bank Credit order to maintain their cash flow. yesterday. Wholesale petrol prices have slumped by 35.5 percent since reaching their peak for the year in June, market share,” Ang said. Agricole said lower prices should AFP but in more than half of European Union countries prices after tax have fallen by less than half this amount.

Cyprus eases 12 smartphone brands violate privacy rules in Thailand controls on TAIPEI: Taiwan has identi- to its home servers in mainland elaborating. The NCC’s findings the NCC could fine the compa- actively send any private user fied 12 smartphone brands China without users’ permission. will be released within weeks, he nies up to T$200 million ($6.43 information without the users’ capital outflows that do not conform with pri- Hsiao-Cheng Yu, vice chair- added. Smartphones from Apple million) or ban their handsets approval”. vacy standards, and the hand- man of Taiwan’s National Inc, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd from being sold in Taiwan. Taiwan-based HTC said it NICOSIA: Cyprus eased con- set makers could face fines or Communications Commision and HTC Corp were among the The Taiwanese probe under- was working with the Taiwanese trols on capital outflows yes- a ban unless they address the (NCC), did not name any of the top 5 bestselling handsets in scores global concerns about data regulators to improve compliance terday, in another step toward breaches, an official at the tel- 12 brands, but said the investi- Taiwan during the third-quarter, security and the scrutiny Chinese with the required security stand- scrapping draconian measures ecoms regulator said yesterday. gation found that some of the according to industry data firm tech firms are subject to as gov- ards. Samsung said in an emailed imposed last year to avoid a run Taiwan’s government began smartphones could allow manu- IDC. Xiaomi said its phones were ernments become increasingly statement that it “considers the on banks. to review privacy standards two facturers to collect users’ data also among the 12 most popular wary of potential cyber security privacy and security of consum- Businesses will now be allowed months ago after media reports without permission. in Taiwan. threats from the world’s second- ers’ data a top priority”. to transfer up to ¤2m ($1.6m) said smartphones made by Others contained “imperfec- Yu said the government would largest economy. Apple did not immediately abroad per transaction without Chinese firm Xiaomi Technology tions” which do not conform ask the offending brands to mod- Asked about the Taiwan probe, respond to requests for comment. approval, up from one million Co Ltd could be sending user data with the law, Yu said, without ify their handsets. If they refused, Xiaomi said its devices “never REUTERS euros previously, the finance min- istry said. Transactions exceed- ing two million euros will require approval. Individuals will be able to Last despatch transfer ¤10,000 out of the coun- European stocks try each month, double the previ- ous figure. And those travelling abroad can now carry twice as much cash with them — ¤6,000 — per journey. bounce back The authorities closed the banks for two weeks in spring 2013 LONDON: European stock Arabia slashed the price of the as they put the final touches on markets rebounded yesterday crude it sells to Asia and the a ¤10bn bailout by the European following heavy losses the previ- United States, analysts said. Union and the International ous day, as investors closed out Brent North Sea crude for deliv- Monetary Fund. the trading week encouraged by ery in January fell 50 cents to They imposed a raft of meas- a surge in US jobs underlining a stand at $69.14 per barrel in early ures on domestic and interna- strong recovery. afternoon London deals. tional capital movements when The US economy pumped out US benchmark West Texas the banks reopened. 321,000 new jobs in November, Intermediate for December All domestic capital restric- the highest monthly number in slipped 56 cents to $66.25 com- tions were lifted in May, a prohi- nearly three years, the Labor pared with Thursday’s closing bition on opening bank accounts Department said. value. being the last one. London’s benchmark FTSE Sliding oil prices have contrib- 100 index climbed 0.86 percent uted to the drop in inflation to to stand at 6,736.87 points in worrying low levels in the euro- Prada net profit afternoon trading in the British zone, with some countries even capital. seeing outright falling prices. drops 28 percent Frankfurt’s DAX 30 surged Deflation may sound good for 1.69 percent to 10,018.29 points the consumer, but falling prices MILAN: Italian luxury group and the CAC 40 in Paris rallied can trigger a vicious spiral where Prada said yesterday its nine- 1.84 percent to 4,403.58 compared businesses and households delay month profit dropped by 27.6 A car transporter loaded with Opel Zafira models leaves the plant on its final day of production in Bochum, with Thursday’s close. purchases, throttling demand percent to ¤319.3m ($394.9m) Germany, yesterday. European carmaker Opel closed its Bochum plant yesterday. Europe’s equity markets had and causing companies to lay off due to challenging market condi- slumped on Thursday after the workers. tions but expressed confidence in European Central Bank disap- The ECB on Thursday held its the medium-term outlook for the pointed markets eager for cen- main “refinancing” rate steady at sector. tral bank stimulus to revive the 0.05 percent, as expected at its Sales at the group which New coins to help ease stalling eurozone economy, trad- monthly policy meeting, and its also includes brands Miu Miu, ers said. chief Mario Draghi said the bank Church’s shoes and Car Shoe Investors yesterday “responded has stepped up preparations for dipped 0.9 percent to 2.55 billion to reports that emerged after the more anti-deflation measures, but euros in the nine months to the close on Thursday that claimed that these will be reassessed only end of October in its non-stand- Zimbabwe cash crunch the ECB is preparing a broad in January. ard reporting year. based quantitative easing (stim- Prada said the period was HARARE: Zimbabwe’s cen- Indian rupee and the euro, among they could only be used in the ulus) package for January”, said EURO FALLS “characterised also by unfavour- tral bank unveiled special coins other currencies. Eighty percent southern African nation. Craig Erlam, market analyst at The euro fell in yesterday’s able exchange rates trend for yesterday to ease a shortage of of the transactions in the econ- He said the country could not Alpari traders. trading to $1.2303 compared most of the nine months period low denomination cash, which omy are made using the US dollar, import US coins to solve the That was followed by the unex- with $1.2380 late in New York on and spoilt by some still enduring has forced shoppers to accept according to the central bank. shortage due to exorbitant costs, pectedly strong US employment Thursday. The European single geo-political issues” in an earnings sweets or pens in lieu of change. The adoption of multiple cur- but refuted speculation the new report for November showing currency had fallen to a two-year statement. Chief executive Patrizio “The bond coins are going to rencies helped Zimbabwe stem coins were a way of introducing that the US recovery “evidently low of $1.2280 ahead of the ECB’s Bertelli said 2014 turned out to be be issued in denominations of hyperinflation — which struck 231 the discarded Zimbabwean dollar. remains strong... These figures announcements. more challenging than expected. one cent, five cents, ten cents, 25 million percent in 2008, before the “We can never be so careless to bode well for our forecast of con- The dollar reached a new “On top of the ongoing difficult cents and 50 cents,” Zimbabwe’s government stopped counting. bring back the local currency,” he tinued strong expansion,” said seven-year high at 121.39 yen international economic environ- Reserve Bank Governor John Mangudya said the introduc- said. “We have no appetite to do Robert Wood, Berenberg’s chief yesterday. Tokyo stocks closed at ment, the luxury goods market Mangudya said at a news confer- tion of the coins would lower so, and we can’t be careless to do UK economist. a seven-year high — extending is undergoing a certain readjust- ence in the capital Harare. prices, as most businesses had so and we won’t do that.” Wall Street stocks opened their winning streak for a sixth ment, the extent and nature of He said the coins would be rounded up to the next dollar Zimbabwe’s economy has been moderately higher yesterday. straight day — as a falling yen and which is not yet entirely clear,” equal in value to US cents, “trad- during the change shortage. on a downturn for over a decade, Five minutes into trade, the Dow oil prices continue to boost inves- said Bertelli. ing one for one”. “You know that in the shops characterised by high unem- Jones Industrial Average was up tor spirit. However he expressed con- Zimbabwe switched to a multi- you were getting sweets, you were ployment. A liquidity crunch 0.26 percent at 17,946.27 points. The positive sentiment could fidence in the medium-term currency system in 2009 after getting pens as change and that has forced companies to shut The broad-based S&P 500 continue as participants await to growth outlook, which combined hyperinflation rendered the local we cannot have. We want to bring down, downsize or migrate to advanced 0.21 percent to 2,076.32, hear if the Japanese government with the company’s efforts to dollar worthless. decency in Zimbabwe.” neighbouring countries, while an while the tech-rich Nasdaq will on Monday revise upward the increase efficiency and the per- The country now uses the The central bank chief said indigenisation law which forced Composite Index added 0.33 per- July-September GDP figure, with formance of its stores should help US dollar, British pound, South the special coins would be intro- foreign companies to cede major- cent at 4,784.94. many economists expecting it to ensure Prada achieves satisfac- African rand, Botswana pula, duced on December 18 and could ity shares to locals scared off for- The oil market fell yester- be better than preliminary data tory levels of profitability. AFP Japanese yen, Chinese yuan, be exchanged for US dollars, but eign investors. AFP day after major producer Saudi suggested. 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44919213 Mob: 77711129 - www.helplinegroups.com SATURDAY 6 DECEMBER 2014 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Rugby: Hughes casts long Ireland launch shadow over series ‘irresistible’ First Test begins at Sydney Cricket Ground bid for 2023

SYDNEY: The death of Phillip Hughes will inevitably cast World Cup Indian cricket a long shadow over Australia’s delayed series against India when it finally gets underway next week at the former Test player Virat ARMAGH, NORTHERN batsman’s last home ground, Adelaide Oval. Kohli arrives IRELAND: Ireland will bid to There will undoubtedly be minutes of silence and black for the funeral host the 2023 rugby World Cup, armbands to remember Hughes and his death will be still of Australian the Irish and Northern Irish on the minds of his former team-mates, not least those who batsman governments said yesterday, were present at the Sydney Cricket Ground when he suffered Phillip formally launching a politically the fatal blow. Hughes in symbolic proposal to win the The tragedy, however, should not much alter the competi- Macksville right to hold the event on their tive nature of a series which, after Adelaide, will continue in this own for the first time. with the rescheduled Brisbane match before the Boxing Day December Seeking to replicate the suc- test in Melbourne and a delayed New Year’s encounter in 3, 2014, cessful hosting by similarly popu- Sydney. file photo. lated New Zealand in 2011, the bid Australia turned their fortunes around last year on the Hughes died would see games played on both back of a fiercely aggressive brand of cricket nurtured by November 27 sides of an Irish border once beset coach Darren Lehmann as well as the pace bowling of Mitchell from bleeding by sectarian violence. Unlike soc- Johnson, whose bouncer is a key part of his repertoire. cer, the national team is an all- on the brain, They are unlikely to give up any edge lightly as they take Ireland selection. two days on an India touring party, who showed in their final warm-up “Ireland will put together a match they will not be shy about using the short ball. after being winning bid that is impossible Both sides have question marks over their captains heading knocked to resist,” Prime Minister Enda to Adelaide with Mahendra Singh Dhoni joining the tourists unconscious Kenny told a news conference. late after injuring his thumb and Michael Clarke’s recurring by a bouncer “Irish people love our sport. We hamstring problems making him a doubt. during a want to share the Irish sporting India have slumped to sixth in the world rankings after domestic experience with the world.” series defeats in New Zealand and England this year, while match at The hosting of games north of Australia are second despite a 2-0 humbling at the hands of SCG. the border would mark the latest Pakistan in October. in a series of high profile sporting Australia’s showing against Pakistan highlighted their events to visit Northern Ireland shortcomings against spin, while India have rarely thrived likely to get the first crack at the Indians. Ishant Sharma to help it move on from the vio- where the tracks are hard and bouncy, and will be seeking a will lead an inexperienced India attack and left-arm spinner lence that cost the lives of 3,600 first test series triumph in Australia at their 11th attempt. Ravindra Jadeja will be hoping the batting can keep the tour- people prior to a 1998 peace deal. The tourists lack the batting pedigree the likes of Sachin ists in the contests long enough so that he can take advantage This year’s Giro d’Italia race Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman brought three of any late turn. successfully began in Belfast, years ago but the 4-0 whitewash they suffered then illus- The fallout from the tragic death of Hughes could have while it was also announced that trated once again that in Australia, it is the pace bowling an impact on the spirit in which the matches are played, golf’s British Open was set to that matters. preventing any return to the acrimony of the “Bollyline” or return to the province for the The hosts boast up to 10 quicks they can rotate over the “Monkeygate” row which marred the Sydney Test on the first time in over 60 years as early series with the trio of Johnson, Ryan Harris and Peter Siddle 2007-08 India tour. REUTERS as 2019. “Northern Ireland has demon- strated that whatever the event, Kohli, Vijay score whatever the occasion, we deliver,” said Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson, who half-tons as India was accompanied Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, once a leading figure in the Irish draw tour game Republican Army’s (IRA) armed ADELAIDE: India’s batsmen gained valuable fight against British rule. match practice as their two-day tour match Ireland laid out plans for the against a Cricket Australia XI ended in a draw in bid a year ago after winning Adelaide yesterday. the backing of Ireland’s Gaelic The tourists compiled 375 off 90 overs with Athletic Association (GAA), stand-in captain Virat Kohli (66), Murali Vijay (60), meaning it can use stadiums like Ajinkya Rahane (56) and Wriddhiman Saha (51) all the 82,300-capacity Croke Park. scoring half-centuries. Alongside Croke Park, there The local selection finished the match at 83 for are another 10 Gaelic grounds five off 21 overs with Test paceman Ishant Sharma as big or bigger than the second- taking two for eight off five overs in an encouraging largest rugby stadium in the lead in to Tuesday’s opening Test against Australia country, Munster’s Thomond Chris Gayle and Chadwick Walton at West Indies’ training session, at the Adelaide Oval. Park, although many require Johannesburg, yesterday. West Indies will play three Tests, an equal Vijay and Kohli both retired before lunch after major renovation to stage an number of T20 games and five ODIs on their tour of South Africa. reaching their half-centuries and to enable some of international tournament. the other batsmen to get valuable batting practice The GAA, governing body for ahead of the opening Test. Ireland’s unique sports hurl- Clarke faces decision day The CA XI were made to pay for dropping Kohli ing and Gaelic football, had to on Thursday’s opening day, when the stand-in skip- ask its members to allow the per edged his first delivery to Ashton Turner at grounds to be used. Until 1971, ahead of first India Test the first slip. the GAA banned members from Vijay and Kohli shared a 123-run stand, steadying playing or attending so-called ADELAIDE: Australia captain Michael Clarke (pictured) faces a India’s innings after the tourists slumped to 36 for “foreign games” like rugby. The fitness test at training today to check on his chances of playing in two on the opening day. bid also comes as Joe Schmidt’s next week’s first Test against India, coach Darren Lehmann said. In the corresponding fixture at the same venue Ireland team stand third in the Clarke, troubled by a third hamstring setback since August, ran at last week, the opener and No.4 batsman also looked world rankings following their the Sydney Cricket Ground yesterday before heading to Adelaide to a class above most of their teammates. Six Nations triumph earlier this join the Australia squad later in the day. Tasmania paceman Evan Gulbis tested the duo year and a November test series The skipper, who was one of the pallbearers and led the tributes with a series of short-pitched deliveries. sweep that included victories over at the funeral of his close friend and Test batsman Phillip Hughes on Vijay wore one bouncer on the body that flicked Australia and South Africa. Wednesday, will be given every chance of taking the field in the series up and hit the helmet, but composed himself quickly. Italy on Thursday said it was opener against India at the Adelaide Oval on Varun Aaron and Umesh Yadav shared the new also lining up a bid to host the Tuesday. ball in CA XI’s second innings with Aaron follow- event. South Africa, hosts of the “As long as he’s fine to do the running ing up his first innings haul of four for 41 with one hugely symbolic 1995 rugby World and can bat (he’ll play),” coach and selector for 28 off six overs, while Yadav claimed one for 30 Cup, Argentina and France, have Lehmann told reporters yesterday. off five overs. also expressed an interest in the “He flies in this afternoon. We’ll get him “Players will probably be talking about what they 2023 edition. Ireland was one of batting tomorrow and see how he goes. saw and did, which will be passed onto other (Test) the co-hosts of the 1991 tourna- “It’ll be case of if he’s fine, he’ll play. We’ll players,” CA XI coach Troy Cooley said. ment in which they lost to even- just have to wait and see. We’ll be guided by “It’s a great little network of information being tual champions Australia at the medical staff, the captain himself, selectors. transferred. We’ll make sure the most up to date quarter-final stage in Dublin. We’ll get together and assess what the plan information is given to our big brother.” REUTERS is tomorrow.” Assistant coach Ali de Winter attended India’s Clarke and the entire Test squad attended tour game last week, when express paceman Aaron Hughes’s funeral in Macksville in northern sent down some impressive spells. World Cup hosts New South Wales on Wednesday. On Thursday, Clarke attended a pri- “He’s got some notes for Boof (Test coach Darren ARMAGH: The complete list of rugby World vate cremation service with Hughes’ family in their home town while Lehmann) to take away,” Cooley said. Cup hosts since the event was first held in his team-mates began to make their way to Adelaide. “There’s plenty of information for the boys, obvi- 1987. “He’s pretty mentally strong, as you saw throughout the week,” ously India’s series in England earlier this year. 1987 New Zealand and Australia Lehmann said of Clarke should he lead Australia in what is shaping “We’ll just top it up with a little bit of stuff from up as an emotional Test. He held himself together really well and led there.” 1991 England/Wales/Scotland/Ireland/ the team really well.” Injured India captain MS Dhoni was expected to France Batsman Shaun Marsh has been added to Australia’s Test squad as join the tourists today. 1995 South Africa cover for Clarke. Lehmann said it was too early to speculate who would An India spokesperson said it was too early to 1999 Wales be emotionally ready to start the Adelaide Test, given the traumatic say what Dhoni’s chances of playing the first Test lead-in to the series. are, but the wicketkeeper is expected to miss the 2003 Australia “Time will tell, but today we’ll get out there and see how we go,” he game as he recovers from a wrist injury. 2007 France said prior to Australia’s first training session since Hughes was fatally India have won just three and lost 14 of their 23 struck by a bouncer in a domestic game. Tests away from the sub-continent in the last four 2011 New Zealand Hughes, 25, died last Thursday from bleeding on the brain, two days years, enduring 4-0 routs in England and Australia 2015 England after being knocked unconscious by a bouncer in Sydney, throwing the in 2011 and a 3-1 drubbing in England earlier this 2019 Japan cricketing world into mourning. “Now it’s a matter of rallying around year. REUTERS each other, rallying around his family and the whole CA (Cricket ** Several countries have declared their Australia) family,” Lehmann said. He said he wouldn’t expect Australia interest in hosting the 2023 Rugby World to be trained at full intensity for a few more days. Test itinerary Cup, both countries that have already “Probably not today, but certainly by the weekend. By Sunday or Dec 9-13 First Test at Adelaide Oval hosted RWC matches, and countries looking Monday I’d expect them to be going 100 percent,” he said. to host a tournament for the first time. South Dec 17-21 Second Test at Gabba, Brisbane Murali Vijay, stand-in skipper Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma all Africa is considered one of the frontrunners attended the Hughes funeral and were all playing in India’s final pre- Dec 26-30 Third Test at Melbourne Cricket Ground to host the 2023 competition, having bid Test tour game against a Cricket Australia XI in Adelaide yesterday. Jan 6-10 Fourth Test at Sydney Cricket Ground unsuccessfully for the right to host the REUTERS 2011, 2015, and 2019 tournaments. SATURDAY 6 DECEMBER 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 IOC family ‘prepared’ to make swift changes Members are expected to endorse ‘Agenda 2020’

MONACO: When the International Olympic Committee members vote on 40 Retired tennis star Andre Agassi of the US in action against Mark recommendations next week to Philippoussis of Australia during their match of the International Premier change the way the Games are Tennis League (IPTL) in Singapore. awarded and run they will be saying ‘yes’ to the biggest sin- gle overhaul of the Olympics in International decades. Olympic The idea behind the recommen- Committee, dations IOC President Thomas IOC, President Djokovic top Bach has been frantically pushing Thomas Bach, since taking over in September of Germany, 2013 is to breath new life into the attends the world’s biggest multi-sports event opening of that has lost some of its lustre in dog in 2015, IOC Executive recent years. Board meeting The fact that only two cities in Monaco, are left in the race for the 2022 yesterday. The winter Olympics, with four pull- IOC Executive says Agassi ing out over financial concerns or Board (EB) a lack of public support, is clear proof of a need to rethink the con- meeting and SINGAPORE: American leg- recently became a father, could cept of the Olympics. the 127th IOC end Andre Agassi said Novak now stay on top, Agassi said. Rising costs that peaked at a Session are Djokovic could be poised for a “A lot of things can happen, staggering $51bn for this year’s being held in period of dominance in men’s as we know. One minor injury at Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia Monaco. tennis after showing he can rise the wrong time and that tourna- have made it difficult for cities to “a level above” his peers without ment’s gone and maybe that part see the potential advantages of even trying too hard. of the season’s gone,” Agassi said. hosting the Games. Eight-time Grand Slam-winner “I don’t underestimate how A complex system that manages Agassi said barring mishap, the much has to go right, but if every- the Games sports programme and world number one looked set for thing goes right for everybody I’ve allows new sports to eventually a long stay on top of the rank- got to say he’s the one I’ll point be present at the Olympics has ings after moving out in front this to,” he added. also proved obsolete, according year. When Djokovic seeks his fifth to Bach. Bach said it should be “more quicker inclusion in the Games events in other cities or even The 27-year-old Serb won Australian Open title in January, So the IOC’s 100-plus mem- like an invitation” and not a dry as the IOC is keen to maximise countries for reasons of sustain- seven titles this season, including one of his chief rivals could be bers at the session in Monaco on tender application where the their impact in specific territories ability and geography, an issue Wimbledon, and finished with a Japan’s Kei Nishikori, who broke Monday are expected to endorse IOC orders cities to meet their with baseball and softball seen as that was long an IOC taboo for flourish at the World Tour Finals through by reaching this year’s his “Agenda 2020” with changes criteria. likely additions to the Tokyo 2020 fear of watering down the impact in London. US Open final against Marin to the bidding process, the sports Currently bid cities spend as Games, with both sports hugely of the Olympics if there were mul- “I have to (tip) Djokovic head- Cilic. programme, the creation of an much as $100m for a two-year popular in Japan. tiple hosts. ing into the next year or two,” But Agassi said it was imper- Olympic broadcaster and making campaign. Currently sports need to wait The IOC will also vote on the Agassi told reporters at the ative for Nishikori to move the Games cheaper among others. “We want to show with this seven years from being admitted creation of an Olympic broad- International Premier Tennis smoothly through the early The IOC wants to attract more procedure that the IOC is opening to actually making their debut at cast channel that will also ben- League in Singapore late on rounds in Melbourne if he is to cities to bidding, and is eager to up, that we are opening a window the Games. efit by the moving of the Youth Thursday. become Asia’s first male Grand make the process easier, more and we want to have fresh wind In one of the biggest IOC Olympics (summer and winter) “He seems like he just can Slam singles winner. flexible and more in line with the coming in,” Bach said recently. U-turns in years, Games organ- to a non-Olympic year from 2023. hit cruise control and be a level “If he can get through the first cities’ own plans for the future. Sports can now hope for a isers will be allowed to hold some REUTERS above, and that’s a huge luxury,” four matches without tapping he added. too far into his tank, it’ll be a big “He doesn’t have to play lights- difference for him,” said Agassi, out to beat the top guys, he just who played an exhibition with has to play contained which is a Nishikori last month. Rio making progress: Bubka big statement to how well he’s “He works really hard and that playing.” was ultimately what stopped him MONACO: Rio de Janeiro is force because of concerns over Bubka, a former champion pole- next year, Olympic officials said Djokovic had a winning record from winning in New York. Marin making “very good progress” the Rio Games and vice-pres- vaulter and one of the 15 members yesterday. against all of his “Big Four” rivals was playing some serious tennis catching up with delays in prep- ident John Coates said in April of the IOC executive. The studios and other facilities -- Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal but the truth is, Kei went into arations for the 2016 Olympics, that preparations were behind “in “We are very positive, (there should be handed over one year and Andy Murray -- in 2014 and that match with a lot of energy top IOC member Sergey Bubka many, many ways”. was) very good progress,” Bubka before the August 5 start of the he finished ranked top for the spent. said yesterday. Bubka told reporters ahead said of the seventh co-ordination Olympics in Rio. third time in four years. “Any time you have to nego- Some facilities such as tel- of IOC executive discussions on commission visit during which IOC co-ordination commis- With Federer now 33, Nadal tiate a body clock it makes you evision studios for the event the 2016 Games that the last co- President Dilma Roussef showed sion chairwoman Nawal El returning from his latest lay-off play a little bit risky... that was his will still be handed over to the ordination commission visit in the IOC members the Olympic Moutawakel and the Rio organ- and Murray struggling for form, downfall that tournament.” International Olympic Committee September “went very well”. park in Rio. ising committee were to make the seven-time Slam winner, who REUTERS three months behind schedule, “There is very good progress However, Brazil has put back reports to the IOC executive in however, officials said. and everyone is focused for the the handover of the Olympic Monaco later yesterday. The IOC set up a special task preparation of Rio 2016,” said television studios to October 31 REUTERS Popular IPTL to add two more cities next year

SINGAPORE: Founder Mahesh Bhupathi has said the new International Premier Tennis League would add two more cities Lawmakers plan new sports move next year and had been forced to turn down two others as interest grows. ZURICH: A privileged exist- officials with creating hundreds The Indian former doubles player said “I’ve got a line of people wait- ence in Switzerland for some of of jobs and boosting tourism with ing outside my door” after the fast-paced IPTL’s TV-friendly format the largest sports organizations events like the Ballon d’Or award proved a hit with players and fans. in the world and their top exec- ceremony, which last year drew “We’re definitely going to add two cities next year,” Bhupathi told utives including Sepp Blatter, football greats Cristiano Ronaldo journalists in Singapore, during the four-stop tournament’s second leg. president of world soccer’s gov- and Lionel Messi to the city. “We have a lot of interest now, we have about four cities ready to erning body FIFA, may be com- Swiss public opinion, however, sign on the dotted line by the end of next month. We unfortunately ing to an end. has hardened against FIFA and can’t do all four, just for the sustainability of slow and steady growth, Responding to years of cor- its head Blatter, a Swiss native. so we’ll take two and we’ll announce them probably when we announce ruption allegations, lawmakers Ninety-five-per-cent of those our players in the week of February 14.” REUTERS are poised to pass a set of laws who took part in a recent online known as “Lex FIFA” that would poll conducted by Swiss daily tighten oversight of the approxi- 20 Minuten said that he should Serena Williams mately 60 sporting bodies based accept responsibility for FIFA’s of the US in in Switzerland. recent troubles and step down. action Caroline The first of the new laws, which “It has started to be embarrass- Wozniacki of is expected to be approved by par- ing, it’s really bad for the country Denmark during liament next Friday, would treat and it’s not necessary,” Swiss par- their match of Blatter and other top executives liamentarian Buechel said. the International such as International Olympic Water flows over the FIFA logo in front of the FIFA headquarters during The first test comes on Premier Tennis Committee head Thomas Bach as heavy rainfall in Zurich in this July 22, 2011, file photo. December 12, when lawmak- League (IPTL) “politically exposed persons” - a ers are expected to pass the law in Singapore. term justice officials use to define allegations of corruption - denied various lengths of time by FIFA’s defining top sports officials as The IPTL, which those in positions that could be by those concerned - in the bid- ethics committee for corruption, politically exposed persons. features four abused to launder money. ding process for the right to host or have resigned while under FIFA said it supports measures teams made out This would by necessity increase the 2018 and 2022 soccer World investigation. to protect football’s integrity and of a hybrid mix financial scrutiny of sports offi- Cups. Housing sports organisa- tackle corruption. of current and cials because Switzerland’s banks FIFA is based in a $250m tions carries financial benefits “As an international sports former men’s and are legally required to ensure mostly underground headquar- for Switzerland despite their organisation based in Switzerland, women’s players, funds are not of suspicious origin ters in Zurich atop what is known favoured tax status. FIFA is following current political before they accept them. locally as “dividend hill” - so called As non-profit associations, discussions with interest and is is on its second The campaign to increase over- because residents of the exclusive sports bodies pay a far lower available to answer any questions leg in Singapore, sight of major sports bodies has suburb overlooking Lake Zurich tax bill than private-sector cor- from legislators.” after starting in been led since 2010 by lawmaker are reputed to be sufficiently porations. That legal status Other sports organizations the Phillipines, Roland Buechel, who says he is wealthy to live solely off annual puts FIFA, which posted nearly based in Switzerland include the and will continue concerned that negative headlines payouts from stocks and bonds. $1.4bn in revenue last year, on World Anti-Doping Agency, or in New Delhi around these organisations are Since 2010, eight members of an equal footing with community WADA, and the International and conclude in tarnishing Switzerland’s image. FIFA’s decision-making Executive projects, for example. At the same Cycling Union, or UCI. Dubai. The latest scandal involves Committee have been banned for time, FIFA is credited by Zurich REUTERS SATURDAY 6 DECEMBER 2014 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Race ace FIA Annual General Assembly concludes in Doha Nasser Saleh named FIA Middle East Champion

DOHA: The Judicial Committee of FIA during a meeting held on Thursday awarded the title of 2014 FIA Middle East Championship to Qatar’s Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah instead of UAE’s Khaled Al Qassmi, it was announced yesterday. Al Attiyah was named win- ner of the championship after the Qatari submitted ‘a protest with evidence to the committee immediately following the Dubai International Rally that was held last week’. Al Attiyah said. “I dedicate this title win to the Emir, Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. I would like to thank my sponsors Ooredoo. Also, I would like to thank QMMF President Mr Nasser bin Khalifa Al Attiyah who was - and still is - one of the main reasons for my success. I am sure that he seeks the promotion and progress of the sport locally and internationally.” THE PENINSULA H E SaSalahlah bbinin GGhanemhanem bbinin NNasserasser Al AliAli,, ththee MiniMinisterster ooff YYouthouth aandnd SpoSports,rts, iiss seeseenn with NNasserasser bbinin KhKhalifaalifa Al Attiyah, QMMF President and FIA Vice President, in Doha. Kiss, Hertz take the honours at inaugural FIA Prize-Giving H E Salah bin Ghanem bin Nasser Al Ali, the Minister of Youth and Sports, addresses the officials during the FIA General Assembly Meeting in Doha. Challenge

DOHA: Taking place on the eve of the FIA’s glittering annual Prize-Giving ceremony, the unique competition brought together stars from across the FIA’s championships to com- pete alongside FIA member club representatives attend- ing this week’s Annual General Assembly in Doha. The action-packed evening involved four challenges, with delegates and senior FIA figures teaming up with star drivers for two of the activities – a two-per- son go-karting event and a quiz involving motoring and motor sport knowledge. The third ele- ment featured a novel approach Nasser bin Khalifa Al Attiyah, Attiyah QMMF President and FIA Vice President, President during durin the FIA General Assembly Meeting. RIGHT: FIA President Jean Todt is seen with Al Attiyah and Nasser Saleh to a football penalty taking com- petition with the drivers having Al Attiyah, the 2014 FIA Middle East Championship title winner. to ‘kick’ the ball to the net with a speeding go-kart. That just left the go-kart sprint FROM LEFT: races, with a qualifying session Lewis Hamilton, leading to three races. FIA legal the Formula chief Sebastien Bernard took a One champion, comfortable victory in the race is joined by for FIA European Truck Racing Jose Maria Champion and event team-mate Lopez, Anthony Dr Harald Hertz of Austria’s Davidson, OSK grabbed top spot in Doha, Sebastian Buemi as Esteban Ocon won the cham- and Nasser Saleh pions’ kart race. Al Attiyah during a “It’s awesome,” said Kiss of the press conference win. “To be honest I’m surprised. I’m not normally that good in go- yesterday. BELOW karts but we did well in the other (left): Children challenges so very happy.” after one of the Across four hotly contested events staged challenges, the duo saw off strong on Thursday. competition from World Rally BELOW: Petter Cross Championship Touring Solberg and Car category champion Daniel Stephane Lundh and Paolo Lonjomi. In Lefebvre at a the top karting sprint race, first press conference place went to FIA F3 European in Doha. Champion Esteban Ocon, who fin- ished ahead of F1 star and three- time Grand pPrix winner Daniel Ricciardo and FIA World Touring Car Champion Jose Maria Lopez. the slowest 12 qualifiers but race two was a more bruising encoun- ter, with FIA World Rallycross champion Petter Solberg win- ning a race-long battle with FIA Asia-Pacific Rally champion Jan Kopecky. And so to the final race for the 12 fastest qualifiers. On pole was Ocon, but the young Frenchman got away slowly at the start and the lead was seized by World Rallycross Championship star Reiniss Nitis, with Ricciardo seizing third place.The three bat- tled hard in the opening laps, but when Ricciardo and Nittis ran wide, Ocon slipped past to take first place. He went on to build a solid lead over Ricciardo who fin- ished second, with Lopez stealing third place. However, it was Kiss and Hertz who took the overall prize. FIA.COM SATURDAY 6 DECEMBER 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21 Hosszu smashes 2 more records I was not expecting it, says Manaudou after posting a new mark in 50m fresstyle

BY FAWAD HUSSAIN barrier in the category, finishing competitions, smashing five- the race in one minute and 59.23 year-old record by South Africa’s FINA World Championship DOHA: Hungary’s Katinka seconds. She overcame the two Roland Schoeman in the men’s Hosszu savoured another suc- minutes and 00.03 second-record 50m freestyle category. Results in Doha cessful outing at the 12th FINA made by Melissa Franklin of the Manaudou raced to victory in 1. Women’s Medley 4x50M World Swimming Championship United States in 2011. 20.26, just 0.4 milliseconds ahead Denmark (Mie Ostergaard Nelsen, Rikke Moller Pedersen, Jeanette (25m) when she broke two more Emily Seebohm of Australia of the previous record. Ottesen, Pemille Blume) 1:44.04 records in Doha yesterday. took the silver medal with a time “I am delighted at setting the It was another eventful day at of two minutes and 00.13 seconds world record because I was not USA (Felicia Lee, Reaney Emma, Donahue, Natalie Coughlin) 1:44.92 the Hamad Aquatic Center which while Sayaka Akasae of Japan expecting it,” said the French France (Mathilde Cini, Charlotte Bonnet, Melaine Henique, Anna saw five more world records tum- claimed bronze medal in the swimmer. Santamans) 1:45.89 ble with ‘The Iron Lady’ stealing event. “I was just aiming to win the 2. Women’s 100M Freestyle the limelight for the second suc- Just minutes after the tri- gold medal. Now having achieved Femke Heemskerk (Netherlands) 51.37 (Championship Record) cessive day. umph, Hosszu returned to win the world record, I am very satis- Hosszu, who broke world gold medal in women’s 100m indi- fied with my performance.” Sarah Sjostrom (Sweden) 51.39 record in women’s 100m back- vidual medley with a time of 56.7 Marco Orsi of Italy and Ceaser Ranomi Kromowidjojo (Netherlands) 51.47 stroke on Thursday, showed fur- seconds, bettering her own by 16 Cielo Filho of Brazil won the silver 3. Women’s 200M Backstroke ther improvement on the third milliseconds. and bronze medals respectively in Katinka Hosszu (Hungary) 1:59.23 day of the championship setting Siobhan-Marie Oconnor of the event. new world records in women’s Great Britain led the race but Meanwhile, the team events Emily Seebohm (Australia) 2:00.13 200m backstroke and women’s Hosszu gained pace when it was saw the Denmark and the Sayaka Akase (Japan) 2:02.30 100m individual medley. needed to confine Oconnor to sil- Netherlands setting new world 4. Men’s 200M Breaststroke The 25-year-old displayed a ver medal. Seebohm grabbed the records. Daniel Gyurta (Hungary) 2:01.49 consistent show in all the laps at bronze medal. In the first race of the day, the 200m backstroke to become Frenchman Florent Manaudou Denmark bettered their own Marco Koch (Germany) 2:01.91 the first lady to break the 2:00 took the honour in men’s world record in the women’s Kirill Prigoda (Russia) 2:02.38 medley 4x50m with a finish in one 5. Women’s 50M Butterfly minute and 44.04 seconds. Their Sarah Sjostrom (Sweden) 24.58 previous record was one minute Jeanette Ottesen (Denmark) 24.71 and 45.92 second which was set in December last year. Inge Dekker (Netherlands) 24.73 The third day’s proceedings 6. Men’s 400M Freestyle which started with the world Peter Bernek (Hungary) 3: 34.32 record also ended in a similar James Guy (GBR) 3:36.35 fashion with the Netherlands reigning supreme in the women’s Velimir Stjepanovic (Serbia) 3:38.17 4x100m freestyle with a time of 7. Women’s 100M Individual Medley three minutes and 26.53 seconds Katinka Hosszu (Hungary) 56.70 to better their six-year old world Siobhan-Marie Oconnor (GBR) 57.83 record. Apart from the world records, Emily Seebohm (Australia) 58.19 four new championship records 8. Men’s 50M Freestyle were also marked on the day. Florent Manaudou (France) 20.26 Spain’s Mireia Belmonte Garcia Marco Orsi (Italy) 20.69 who broke two world records on Silver medalist of the women’s 200m Backstroke Madi Wilson (left) of the first day, recorded the new Ceaser Cielo Filho (Brazil) 20.88 Australia takes a selfie with gold medalist Katinka Hosszu (centre) of championship record in women’s 9. Women’s 400M Freestyle Hungary and bronze medalist Sayaka Akase of Japan. 400m freestyle finishing the job in Mireia Belmonte Garcia 3:55.76 (Championship record previously held by three minutes and 55.76 seconds, Katie Hoff of US in 2010 3:57.07) Ryan Lochte surpassing Katie Hoff’s (US) Sharon Van Rouwendaal (Netherlands) 3:57.76 feat of 3:57.07 in 2010. In doing of the USA Zhang Yufei (China) 3:59.51 competes so, Garcia bagged her fourth gold medal in the championship so far. 10. Men’s 200M Individual Medley in the Sarah Sjostrom of Sweden reg- Men’s 200m Hagino Kosuke 1:50.47 (Japan) istered the new championship Ryan Lochte (USA) 1:51.31 Individual record in the women’s 50m but- Medley terfly (24.58 seconds) while Peter Seto Daiya (Japan) 1:51.79 Bernek of Hungary created new 11. Women’s 4x100M Freestyle championship record in men’s Netherlands (Inge Dekker), Femke Heemskerk, Maud Van Der Meer, Ranomi 400m freestyle with a time of Kromowidjojo) 3:26.53 three minutes and 34.32 seconds. Peter Bernek of Hungary celebrates after winning the United States (Natalie Coughlin, Abbey Weitzeil, Madison Kennedy, Shannon Dutchwoman Femke Heemskerk gold medal in the men’s 400m Freestyle during the Vreeland) 3:27.70 (51.37 seconds) achieved the feat 12th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) in Italy (Errika Ferraioli, Silvia Di Pietro, Aglaia Pezzato, Federica Pellegrini) in women’s 100m freestyle. Doha yesterday. 3:29.48 THE PENINSULA

Scoreboard Al Sadd down El Jaish in key clash NEW ZEALAND PAKISTAN A Devcich b Hafeez ...... 21 Sarfraz Ahmed lbw b Devcich ...... 1 Ahmed Shehzad b Vettori ...... 33 DOHA: K Williamson b Afridi ...... 32 Al Sadd yesterday beat D Brownlie lbw b Afridi ...... 0 Mohammad Hafeez c and b Devcich ...... 9 El Jaish 3-1 to go five points R Taylor lbw b Hasan ...... 7 Haris Sohail c Latham b Henry ...... 3 clear in the Qatar Stars League Qatar SC T Latham c Ali b Gul ...... 26 Saad Nasim c Browlie b Neesham ...... 19 (QSL) standings. player Khalid L Ronchi c Shehzad b Tanvir ...... 31 Umar Akmal b Neesham ...... 10 Shahid Afridi c Ronchi b Neesham ...... 28 In other games yesterday, Al Saleh Zakiba J Neesham (not out) ...... 7 Anwar Ali c Williamson b Mills ...... 2 Sailiyah beat Al Arabi 2-1 while (center) in D Vettori b Gul ...... 0 Al Shamal and Al Shahaniya Sohail Tanvir c Devcich b Mills ...... 11 action with N McCullum run out ...... 4 match ended in a 1-1 draw. In Umar Gul c Taylor b Mills ...... 0 Umm Salal SC K Mills (not out) ...... 6 Raza Hasan (not out) ...... 0 the fourth match of the evening, Extras (W-10) ...... 10 Umm Salal and hosts Qatar SC players Abdul Extras (LB-7, NB-1, W-3) ...... 11 Total (for 8 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 144 Total (all out in 18.5 overs) ...... 127 failed to score in a 0-0 draw. Qadir Ilyas Fall of wickets: 1-49, 2-50, 3-58, 4-78, Fall of wickets: 1-2, 2-18, 3-24, 4-64, 5-74, Al Sadd yesterday welcomed El and Ismail 5-116, 6-127, 7-127, 8-136. 6-97, 7-104, 8-121, 9-122, 10-127. Jaish to the Jassim Bin Hamad Mahmoud Mardanli Bowling: Ali 2-0-13-0 (1w); Tanvir 4-0-30-1; Bowling: Devcich 4-0-16-2; Henry 2-0-9-1; Stadium for what was sure to be Gul 4-0-24-2 (1w); Hasan 4-0-24-1; Hafeez Mills 3.5-0-26-3 (1w); McCullum 3-0-16-0; (right) during an intriguing clash. 2-0-20-1; Afridi 4-0-33-2 (8w). Vettori 3-0-28-1 (1nb); Neesham 3-0-25-3 (2w). Before the game El Jaish’s offi- a Qatar Stars cials talked about the need to win League (QSL) the match if they still had inten- match at tions of winning the QSL title. the Qatar New Zealand survive Afridi The first five minutes were SC Stadium a nervy affair with neither in Doha assault to level T20 series side managing to get into their yesterday. DUBAI: rhythm. The game had a fast Photo by New Zealand survived Shahid Afridi’s late onslaught to tempo and the first attack on goal KAMMUTTY VP beat Pakistan by 17 runs in the second and final Twenty20 match to came from a cross from the left level the series 1-1 yesterday. for El Jaish. Captain Afridi hit three massive sixes as he blasted 28 off 11 balls Left back Ali Sanad went to but he fell to the final ball of the 18th over and Pakistan lasted five cross but the ball took a wicked more deliveries before being bowled out for 127. deflection off a Wolves defender Later in the half, Lee made a the El Jaish keeper Abunora mis- with a fantastic effort in the 81st Ahmed Shehzad top-scored with 33 but Pakistan never really recov- before landing on the roof of the bad tackle in the 43rd minute and judged his clearance, committing minute. The free kick went up ered from slumping to 24 for three. net. received his fourth yellow of the the infringement. and over the wall and the keeper Jimmy Neesham claimed three for 25, including the prize wicket of In the first 20 minutes, there campaign and will be suspended The referee pointed to the spot was rooted to the spot as the ball Afridi, while Kyle Mills returned three for 26. was plenty of possession but not for round 13. and Al Haydoos obliged with a glided past everyone. Put into bat, New Zealand got off to a strong start with skipper Kane with any real intent as neither In the second half, the goals composed effort into the bottom In the 85th minute, El Jaish Williamson (32) dominating a 49-run opening partnership with Anton side registered a single shot on finally arrived - the first on the left corner. defender Lucas Mendes man- Devcich (21). Off-spinner Mohammad Hafeez triggered a collapse when target. 59th minute, courtesy of a close- In the 76th Abdul Kareem aged to save some pride for the he breached Devcich’s defence with a quicker delivery before Afridi The first attack on target came range Tabata strike, which took came close for the Wolves when Soldiers with a powerful header struck twice to peg back the Kiwis. in the 25th minute when from a a deflection and nestled into the a quick one-two saw him surge from a corner to make it 3-1. Afridi trapped Dean Brownlie leg before for a duck with a delivery Rodrigo Tabata free kick deliv- bottom right corner of the El into the box but keeper Abunora The result means there is now that TV replays suggested would have missed the leg stump. ery into the box. Korean central Jaish goal. stayed on his feet and saved well an 11-point gap between El Jaish The leg-spinner then clean bowled Williamson as the Kiwis, cruising defender Jung Soo Lee rose high Then just two minutes later, the from close range. and Al Sadd and it looks as if the at 49 for nought in the seventh over, slid to 58 for three. and headed a good effort at the Wolves doubled their lead when Then to kill the game off the soldiers may struggle to keep up Tom Latham contributed 26 while Luke Ronchi (31) hit Afridi for goal but El Jaish keeper was posi- Hassan Al Haydoos was brought little Brazilian maestro made it with the Wolves this season. two successive sixes in a 19-ball cameo to help New Zealand chalk up tioned well to gather it up. down on the edge of the box as goal number 3 for the Wolves THE PENINSULA a competitive 144 for eight. REUTERS SATURDAY 6 DECEMBER 2014 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BREAK TIME

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MUSCAT 27/18 Clear 27/18 Clear MAKKAH 35/23 Partly cloudy 36/23 Partly cloudy KUWAIT 25/10 Clear 26/10 Clear BAHRAIN 23/17 Partly cloudy 23/16 Clear ‘Overpaid’ SANAA 19/14 Partly cloudy 21/13 Partly cloudy Nasa’s Orion tests future French film stars RIYADH 18/14 Mostly cloudy 22/13 Partly cloudy DUBAI 30/16 Partly cloudy 30/17 Clear get salary cut BAGHDAD 21/10 Partly cloudy 22/13 Partly cloudy PARIS: French film stars, THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW of manned spaceflight some of the best paid in HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER the world, will be forced to CAPE CANAVERAL: A new take a pay cut if they want ATHENS 18/13 Partly cloudy 18/12 Partly cloudy US space capsule, Orion, circled the movies they make to WASHINGTON 13/05 Rain 09/02 Partly cloudy the Earth twice before plung- receive much-needed state ing into the ocean yesterday in subsidies. SYDNEY 27/19 Thunderstorm 29/20 Chance of storm a flawless test flight that opened The National Cinema LONDON 04/02 Clear 09/01 Chance of showers a new chapter in human deep Centre (CNC), a state entity PARIS 07/01 Partly cloudy 07/03 Chance of showers space travel. that regulates the sector and ISTANBUL 13/09 Chance of showers 13/09 Chance of showers The mission was the first in doles out these aids, decided MANILA 28/22 Cloudy 27/23 Cloudy more than four decades of a new late last month to fix limits DHAKA 28/16 Partly cloudy 27/16 Clear US spacecraft intended to carry on how much actors, direc- DELHI 27/13 Clear 26/10 Clear humans to the Moon, an asteroid, tors and screenwriters can be ISLAMABAD 22/08 Clear 21/08 Clear or Mars. remunerated, business daily “We as a species are meant to Les Echos revealed this week. push human presence into the Frederic Goldsmith of solar system, and this is a first the Association of Cinema step,” said Nasa associate admin- Producers, who was made istrator for human exploration, aware of the decision, said Bill Gerstenmaier. that the salary limit only The unmanned vessel soared applied if filmmakers wanted into space at 7:05 am (1205 GMT) to profit from state aids to atop a United Launch Alliance make their movie. Delta IV Heavy rocket that rum- “We cannot stop a person, bled and roared as it climbed into in France, from earning more the pastel skies over the Florida than a certain amount,” he coast at sunrise, leaving a plume said, but pointed out that if a of smoke in its wake. film star was paid more than “It was just a blast to see how the limit, the movie would not well the rocket did,” said Orion benefit from subsidies. programme manager Mark Geyer, The move comes two years after technical issues with the after one of the country’s rocket and wind gusts delayed the most influential produc- first launch attempt Thursday. ers and distributors Vincent “We really pushed Orion as A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy launches Nasa’s Orion Spacecraft Maraval published a comment much as we could to give us real on its “Exploration Flight Test” from Launch Complex at the Cape Canaveral piece in Le Monde daily slam- data that we can use to improve Air Force Station, Florida, yesterday. ming actors and actresses for Orion’s design going forward.” being highly overpaid, even Pop star Taylor Swift (left) and British soul-pop artist Sam Smith perform The four-and-a-half hour flight the capsule withstood the stress vehicle up in space,” said astro- when their films flopped. during the 42nd American Music Awards in Los Angeles, California. was “picture-perfect” and “a sig- of space flight. Live video images naut Rex Walheim, still grinning “French cinema depends nificant milestone for America’s from the spacecraft showed stun- after the successful test. on an economy that is more space program,” said Nasa com- ningly high views of Earth as well “It has got a lot of pieces of the and more subsidised. Even its Sam Smith, Taylor Swift lead mentator Rob Navias. as the capsule’s dramatic return puzzle to go yet but we are mak- biggest commercial successes “There is your new spacecraft, to the Pacific Ocean. ing tremendous progress,” he said. lose money,” the Wild Bunch America,” he said as live aerial A trio of Nasa astronauts The United States has been founder wrote in December early Grammy nominations images showed the capsule float- watched on large televisions unable to send astronauts to the 2012, to a huge outcry. ing toward the Pacific Ocean at Kennedy Space Center and International Space Station since “Films are too expensive. LOS ANGELES: British soul-pop artist Sam Smith and pop aided by three parachutes. bumped fists when Orion splashed the shuttle program ended in 2011 After films made by US stu- star Taylor Swift were among the early Grammy nominees in the Nasa engineers will carefully down, as the packed press room after three decades, leaving no dios, France holds the world top categories announced by the Recording Academy yesterday. study the data it collected — par- erupted in cheers. option but to pay Russia to carry record in average production Smith, 22, picked up five early nods including the top awards ticularly regarding the perform- “We have kind of turned a cor- astronauts on its Soyuz capsules costs: ¤5.4m ($6.6m), whereas Record of the Year for his song “Stay with Me” and the coveted Best ance of the heat shield — in the ner from the post shuttle period at a cost of $71m per seat. the average cost of an inde- New Artist award, alongside Australian rapper Iggy Azalea, British days and weeks to come to see how and it is nice to see the new AFP pendent US film is around pop-rockers Bastille, country singer Brandy Clark and California ¤3m.” AFP sister trio Haim. Record of the Year nominees also include Taylor Swift’s “Shake it Off,” Meghan Trainor’s catchy summer anthem “All About That Bass,” Iggy Azalea and Charli XCX’s “Fancy” and Sia’s “Chandelier.” Smith also picked up nominations in Song of the Year, for “Stay British Museum lends statue to Russia with Me,” and best Pop Vocal Album nod for “In the Lonely Hour.” Song of the Year contenders also include Swift’s “Shake it Off,” LONDON/ATHENS: A It portrayed the loan as proof Clooney, newlywed wife of movie and display them properly for Trainor’s “All About That Bass” and Sia’s “Chandelier,” alongside British museum spirited one of that Britain was keeping the mar- star George, to make its case. She the world. For all the bluster, Hozier’s “Take Me to the Church.” the world’s most hotly disputed bles on behalf of all humanity, and a was not available for comment, the head of the New Acropolis In an effort to draw younger viewers to the annual Grammys artistic masterpieces to Russia sign of how culture can rise above but has said in the past she wants museum, Dimitris Pantermalis, ceremony, which will be held in Los Angeles on Feb. 8, 2015, the for a loan yesterday, causing an diplomatic division at a time when a friendly resolution. told Reuters the loan could bring Recording Academy chose to announce the nominees in 82 categories outcry in Greece, which says Anglo-Russian relations have frozen Greek Prime Minister Antonis closer the day when the marbles throughout Friday morning on its Twitter feed. the priceless 2,500-year-old to post-Cold War lows over Ukraine. Samaras said the loan to Russia are finally displayed in Greece. Some of the categories were announced by musicians and nomi- statue was looted from Athens “Both institutions believe it is “provokes the Greek people” and “You see, they can be moved,” nees Ed Sheeran and Pharrell Williams on CBS’s “The Morning and must be returned. precisely at moments like this demolishes what he described as Pantermalis said. “In the same Show.” The marble statues from the that the museums have to keep one of the British arguments for way, they can be returned to The final Album of the Year category, the top Grammy, will be facade of the Parthenon, among speaking,” British Museum direc- keeping the marbles: that they Greece one day.” announced at a televised “A Very Grammy Christmas” concert air- the greatest works of ancient tor Neil MacGregor told BBC were too fragile to be moved. Greek officials said they did not ing late Friday in CBS. Greek art, have been the sub- radio. It was the first time any “Greeks identify themselves plan to make aggressive moves to Dierks Bentley’s “Riser,” Eric Church’s “The Outsiders,” Clark’s ject of acrimonious dispute since of the marbles had left Britain with their history and their cul- reclaim the statue while it was “12 Stories,” Miranda Lambert’s “Platinum” and Lee Ann Womack’s they were taken from Athens since arriving two centuries ago. ture, which cannot be parcelled out, in Russia, such as demanding “The Way I’m Livin’” will compete for best country album. by the Earl of Elgin, bought by The decision was not announced loaned or given away,” Samaras said Moscow send it to Athens rather R&B star Beyonce picked up a nomination for best urban con- the British state and placed in until the statue was already safely in a statement. Greek newspapers than back to London. They are temporary album for her self-titled record released last December, London’s British Museum in 1816. in Russia, where it will go on fumed: the leading Ta Nea called the seeking a settlement through U.N. bringing her Grammy nomination tally to 47 throughout her career The museum announced yes- display as part of an exhibition decision a “show of power”. cultural body Unesco. David Hill, and the most-nominated woman in Grammy history, Billboard said terday that it had sent one of the to mark the Hermitage’s 250th Samaras opened a new, chairman of the International on Friday. marbles — a headless, reclining anniversary. state-of-the-art museum at the Association for the Reunification If she picks up one more nomination, she will move past producer nude sculpture of the river god Greece has fought for gen- Acropolis in 2009, which Greece of the Parthenon Sculptures, said David Foster to become the most-nominated person in Grammy Ilissos — to the Hermitage in St erations to have the sculptures says destroys another British the loan to Russia was “highly history. REUTERS Petersburg, home town of Russian returned, in recent years hir- argument, that Greece lacked the provocative” and a “very rude President Vladimir Putin. ing international lawyer Amal facilities to protect the treasures gesture”. REUTERS