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MONDAY 10 AUGUST 2015 • 25 Shawwal 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6518 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 US sends six F16s, Online salary 300 personnel to Turkey in IS fight WASHINGTON: The US sent six F-16 jets and some 300 per- payments sonnel to Incirlik Air Base in Turkey on yesterday, after Ankara agreed last month to allow US planes to launch air strikes against Islamic State from August 18 (IS) militants from there. The Pentagon said the “small detachment” is from the 31st Wage protection system to be in place Fighter Wing based at Aviano Air Base, Italy. Support equip- DOHA: Qatar is to launch on transfer salaries of its WPS- ment was also sent but no details August 18 the much-awaited beneficiary workers to its bank were provided. Wage Protection System (WPS) which will check data and whether “The US and Turkey, as mem- whereby all private sector work- the firm has sufficient balance bers of the 60-plus nation coali- ers will be paid salaries online in its account. If not, the bank tion, are committed to the fight through banking channels. would get back to the company. against IS in the pursuit of peace An extensive database of all Otherwise, the bank will credit and stability in the region,” the workers as part of WPS is ready online salaries of workers to their Pentagon said in a statement. with the Ministry of Labour and accounts and the workers will be The ability to fly manned Social Affairs, having been pre- notified of transfers. bombing raids out of Incirlik, pared in cooperation with Qatar It is not known if a company International Committee of the Red Cross President Peter Maurer (left) inspects the scene of the Saudi-led a base used by US and Turkish Central Bank (QCB) and the will have to use its existing bank coalition’s air strike hitting historic buildings in the old city of Sana’a, yesterday. forces, against targets in nearby Ministry of Interior. or would need to open a separate Syria could be a big advantage. Several banking and finan- account with a bank the labour Such flights have had to fly mainly cial institutions are taking part ministry-QCB suggest. It is also from the Gulf. in WPS being implemented by not known if workers will have to Turkey’s decision to allow the labour ministry in coordina- chose banks to open WPS accounts Yemen loyalists retake Zinjibar use of the base follows longtime tion with QCB. The supervisory or the labour ministry-QCB will reluctance by Ankara to become authority is the ministry, which assign them banks. ADEN: Yemeni loyalist forces town of Shaqra with “little resist- loyalists secured Aden in mid- engaged in the fight against IS has set up a separate inspection It is also not clear if exchange recaptured a southern provin- ance” from rebel forces. July and Lahj provincial capital militants. AGENCIES unit with inspectors to moni- houses will be part of WPS but cial capital from Shia rebels Zinjibar residents forced out Huta on August 4. The southern tor WPS. Companies that fail to indications are they might be. and their allies yesterday and a by fighting that devastated their province of Daleh is also control- comply with WPS will be taken After salary transfers, QCB will coastal town as they pressed an city returned to take stock of the led by Popular Resistance fighters 393 building permits to task. provide the ministry with details. advance from second city Aden. damage, but many, including loy- loyal to exiled president Abdrabuh Companies (covered by the The WPS inspection unit will Zinjibar, capital of Abyan prov- alist fighters, lost lives to mines Mansur Hadi. Aden was Hadi’s issued last month labour law, as private firms are) follow up and see which firms have ince, had been held by troops of planted by the rebels before they last refuge before he fled into exile DOHA: The number of building will have to make CSV files to save not complied with the system. the renegade 15th Brigade loyal withdrew. in Saudi Arabia in March. permits issued by all municipal- data in a table-structured for- As part of a promised labour to ousted strongman Ali Abdullah At least 19 people were killed Houthi-linked gunmen ities were about 393 last month mat. The tables will carry work- reform, on February 18 Qatar Saleh allied with the Houthi and 163 wounded in the past two abducted 10 members of Islamist and included commercial and ers’ names and payable salaries in issued a law mandating private rebels. days in and around Zinjibar, Aden Al Islah party, including a former residential premises. serial numbers. firms to pay their workers’ wages Troops entered Zinjibar, some health chief Al Khader Laswar minister and women. Relatives’ A Ministry of Development Companies will also be required on time through electronic trans- 50km east of Aden, after overrun- said. Similar explosions in Aden claims came as International Planning and Statistics report to save CSV files in CDs or what- fer system. They were given six ning the brigade’s barracks with have reportedly killed dozens of Committee of the Red Cross shows Doha and Al Rayan munic- ever other format they and their months to comply with the system support from Saudi-led coalition civilians and wounded hundreds. President Peter Maurer visited ipalities issued 219 permits — Al banks agree. All WPS beneficiary and the deadline ends on August air strikes, military sources said. Zinjibar is the third southern the Old City of Sana’a, a Unesco Rayan Municipality 117 and workers will have bank accounts, 17, hence WPS launch the follow- They deployed tanks to secure provincial capital from which the World Heritage Site, to assess Doha Municipality 102, Al Sharq it is understood. A company will ing day. THE PENINSULA the city and retook the coastal rebels have been driven out since damage to buildings. AFP reports. THE PENINSULA Traffic lane indiscipline to be fined DOHA: The Department of At least 40 of the teams are Traffic says it might soon begin assigned for Doha, he said. imposing QR500 fine on motor- Like cars breaking speed limits, ists who do not maintain lane those driving too slow and in ways discipline and overtake from that obstruct traffic could also be the right. punished. Experts are working to develop Talking of the use of mobile software programs whereby cam- phone by motorists while driving, eras fitted on roundabouts and Brigadier Al Kharji said it is one interchanges would be able to of the major causes of accidents check violations related to lane worldwide. cutting and overtaking. According to him, there was In the next 45 days, the number a proposal from local authori- of devices to detect wrong over- ties that mobile phones used by taking would be increased. one in the front) since narrow motorists while driving could This was disclosed by Brigadier space can lead to accident. There be jammed through electronic Mohamed Saad Al Kharji (pic- are rules and regulations and devices. “But the proposal was tured), Director of the depart- traffic police patrols could impose found to be impractical because ment, in remarks to local fines (QR500) on violators. there are people who can be Arabic daily Al Watan published Brigadier Al Kharji said as for contacted on mobile phones in yesterday. trucks and trailers violating city emergency and they include doc- He said motorists must also entry rules, 50 patrols have been tors who save lives,” Brigadier Al maintain sufficient space between exclusively deputed to monitor Kharji said. THE PENINSULA cars (space between a car and the them. Continued on page 6

Singapore marks 50th year of Independence

A firework display over the Marina Bay during Singapore’s National Day Parade to commemorate its 50th anniver- sary of Independence, yesterday. The island nation separated from the Federation of Malaysia on August 9, 1965. MONDAY 10 AUGUST 2015 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME QC launches water project in Pakistan

A Qatar Charity official discusses the water and reformation project with villagers in the Bannu District.

DOHA: Qatar Charity (QC) Jando Khel. It will fix problems of instructions on the radio. They has started implementing a water supply and toilets in Bannu, also organise workshops and train water and reformation project which arose because of the inabil- health and education workers. The to serve displaced people com- ity to secure the basic needs and project has made many beneficiar- ing from Waziristan and locals maintain infrastructure. ies feel comfortable. Urfan Khan hosting them in the Bannu It is also hard to secure good bin Ahmed Ali, a 25-year-old disa- District, south Pakistan, near drinking water and health facili- bled man, expressed gratitude to the Durand Line. ties as a result of the influx of QC which built for him a toilet in About 140,000 people are hundreds of thousands from his backyard. Seven members of expected to benefit. Waziristan. his family in Sarmatakali village QC’s office in Pakistan will dig The district has a population in Jando Khel also use it. There 40 wells, equip 10 with electric of 1,000,000, while the number are 100 families, mostly poor, in pumps, provide 40 schools with of displaced people coming from Sarmatakali and had to defecate washbasins and water tanks, Waziristan is 840,000. in the open and QC has helped build 300 toilets and another 20 About 40 percent of the dis- them. QC female social workers for disabled people and 16 power placed do not have toilets, forcing also carry out awareness cam- transfer stations. them to defecate in the open. As paigns for women in Sarmatakali. QC will also maintain 12 water a result, the health of women and However, they face difficulties, and sewage networks and provide girls in particular is at risk, espe- especially when they move from health centres and camps for the cially during bad weather. one village to another because of displaced people with water tanks. QC has also coordinated with traditions and customs and the The one-year project will be Unicef to organise awareness small number of literate girls implemented in 60 villages cov- campaigns at schools and in neigh- because most drop out of school ered by three desalination plants: bourhoods. Together, they stage at an early age. Ismail Khel, Bizan Khel, and awareness plays and broadcast THE PENINSULA

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Greeting cables Tickets for Qatar Summer sent to Singapore DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Festival concerts Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday sent a cable of con- gratulations to Singapore President Tony Tan Keng Yam available from today on his country’s National Day. Deputy Emir H H Sheikh DOHA: Tickets go on sale today seeking culture and entertainment in Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani at Virgin Megastores for two live a family-friendly environment suit- also sent a congratulatory cable musical shows in the last week of able for all ages,” said Mashal Shahbik, to the president. Qatar Summer Festival, organised Festivals and Events Manager, QTA. Prime Minister and Interior by Qatar Tourism Authority (QTA). The shows will come at the con- Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Renowned Syrian artist Asala clusion of the month-long festival, Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani sent Nasry and up-and-coming Moroccan which will also host Doha Comedy a similar cable to the president. star Saad Lamjared will perform on Day, featuring a group of stand-up August 28 at Ali bin Hamad Al Attiyah comedy pioneers from across the Deadline for land arena near Al Sadd Sports Club, which Gulf. The comedians include Bader seats up to 7,700 spectators. Fans with Saleh, Ibrahim Khairallah, Fahd Al plots applications a taste for Gulf tunes can buy tickets Butairi, Ahmed Al Shammari and Ali for the preceding concert on August Al Sayed. The event will be hosted by DOHA: The Ministry of 27, featuring performances by half- Qatari comedian Hamad Al Ammari. Economy and Commerce has Yemeni, half-Emirati artist Balqis The festival runs until August 31 said the last date and time for Fathy and popular Saudi artist Rabeh and targets visitors from around the applying for plots of land in the Saqr. Ticket prices for the shows, GCC with a range of entertainment industrial and logistics projects which begin at 9pm range between activities for families in a festive, safe in Southern Al Wakra, Birkat QR199 and QR1,499. Doors open at environment that reflects their cul- Al Awamir and Aba Salil is 2pm 7pm and special seating areas reserved ture and heritage. Some of the officials and Dhreima children and staff at the event. on November 9, and not noon as for women only will be available. This year’s edition is expected to reported yesterday. “We are thrilled to have secured drive up inbound tourism numbers such a star-studded line-up of singers, with new attractions, special hotel Ties reviewed popular all around the Arab world. Our rates and weekly raffle draws with aim is to cater to visitors and residents prizes. THE PENINSULA Awareness day held MUSCAT: Oman’s Majlis Al Shura (Advisory Council) offi- cial Sheikh Khalid bin Hilal Al Mawali yesterday met outgoing Qatari Ambassador Abdullah bin Mohammed Al Khater. for Dhreima inmates Talks dealt with relations between both countries. QNA Ministry gives presentation on consumer rights, Traffic lessons for duties and good shopping habits schools from next DOHA: The Ministry of and highlighted its booklet fair compensation for dam- academic year Economy and Commerce, Read, Compare, Decide to edu- aged products or unsatisfac- in collaboration with cate young consumers on good tory services. Continued from page 1 Qatar Orphan Foundation shopping habits such as read- It also highlighted young Traffic patrols can now use (Dhreima), organised an ing product specifications, consumers’ duties such as cameras fitted on roadside, near awareness programme as determining its benefits and rationalisation of purchases, traffic lights and roundabouts and part of summer activities harmful effects, price, quality, compatibility of their shop- zoom in on motorists using mobile for Dhreima’s orphans and and making the right decision. ping habits with their income, phones, he said. employees. The presentation also cov- awareness of misleading pro- He said a pilot project to assess The aim was to spread ered young consumers’ rights motions and advertisements, the feasibility of introducing traf- awareness among young to know specifications and necessity for reading product fic and road safety awareness people about their rights as standards of products, to be labels, enquiry about refund programmes as part of school consumers and educate them provided with health and and exchanging policies, curriculum has been successful. through simple and interac- safety guidelines, to live in examination of product qual- From the next academic year tive methods. hazard-free environment, ity and production and expiry that starts next month, all schools During the awareness day, freely express opinions and dates. It was part of the min- will be taught traffic and road the ministry gave a presen- be taken into consideration istry’s efforts to enhance con- safety as part of curriculum. The tation on its role and duties to fulfil their basic needs, to sumer awareness and protect schools also include non-Arabic to protect consumers’ rights, knowledge, education, and rights. THE PENINSULA ones. THE PENINSULA McDonald’s campaign collects over 4,000 books DOHA: McDonald’s Qatar con- socially responsible initiatives that cluded community initiative, encourage education and develop- ‘Donate a Book’, launched in col- ment programmes. laboration with ROFAQA (a Over 4,000 books were collected Qatar Charity initiative) during from McDonald’s Qatar outlets in Ramadan. Abu Hamour, Woqod (Al Rayyan), It ended during Eid Al Fitr and Airport, Al Sadd (Suhaim), Mesaieed, McDonald’s team and diners col- Barwa City, Lagoona Mall and Al lected books for the less privileged. Meera (Lagtaifiya). It aimed to encourage early child- McDonald’s Qatar Al Meera hood literacy, and further McDonald Branch Restaurant Manager Victor Qatar’s commitment to support Belarmino presented the books Victor Belarmino, Manager, McDonald’s Qatar Restaurant, Al Meera, presents the books to Jassim Ibrahim Al Monsouri, Marketing and PR Manager, ROFAQA.

to Jassim Ibrahim Al and we take pride in not Monsouri, Marketing and only being a location for PR Manager, ROFAQA, great food but also a plat- who will oversee distribu- form that brings communi- tion to organisations that ties together for important back child development causes. The campaign programmes. reflected the essence of Kamal Saleh Al Mana, the holy month, providing Managing Director, Al customers with an oppor- Mana Restaurants & Food tunity to share warmth Co., owner and operator of with the less fortunate and McDonald’s restaurants in support their development Qatar, said, “The response for national progress and to the campaign from advancement. the community has been “We would also like to overwhelming and we are thank the ROFAQA team thankful to every one for for efforts in making it a support. success and look forward “McDonald’s Qatar has to developing a long-lasting always promoted the well- relationship with them.” being of the community, THE PENINSULA

Safari begins 18 Toyota Camry GL 2015 promotion today

DOHA: Safari is again for their money. This has setting the pulse rising been our prime motive with the latest draw for since the beginning and 18 Toyota Camrys GL reflects in our activities. 2015. This is why when decided “Every month, three this promotion. cars would be won by the “We want to give our luckiest of our customers customers one of the best and this would be repeated rated and performing cars for the next six months,” rather than just any car. said Zainulabideen, “The promotion starts Director and General today and all monthly Manager of the group. draws will be held at “We value our custom- Safari Mall Abu Hamour,” ers and want them to Zainulabideen added. always have the true value THE PENINSULA MONDAY 10 AUGUST 2015 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Ooredoo begins biggest Vodafone takes network network upgrade in Qatar experience to new heights DOHA: Ooredoo has announced Ooredoo has launched ‘Operation the launch of Ooredoo SuperNet Desert’ to significantly improve DOHA: Vodafone yesterday and this is expected to happen in one of the most significant coverage in Qatar’s popular desert announced that it is the first towards this month-end when network evolutions in Qatar’s locations in time for the upcoming telecom operator in Qatar and some mobile phone manufac- history. camping season. one of the first in the world to turers will start offering these As part of the upgrade, Ooredoo As part of the upgrade, have the top speed of up to 375 handsets. is introducing three-band car- Ooredoo will invest in the lat- Mbps live on its network. “All Vodafone 4G+ custom- rier aggregation, building on its est wide band antenna systems, This was completed after it ers can now see improvements position of being the first and which provide the flexibility to tested and rolled out three-band in speed bringing the maximum only company to combine 20+10 smoothly upgrade capacity as per LTE Carrier Aggregation across up to 300 Mbps, an increase over MHz bands on its 4G+ network, customer requirement and meet its sites on Doha Corniche and the existing but substantial 225 enabling the company to reach existing and future capacity needs in Qatar Science & Technology Mbps.” Boctor said. higher maximum top speeds and in the country. Park, with additional sites across In April, Vodafone concluded offer customers faster on-average SuperNet encompasses Doha to be progressively ready the first phase of network evolu- Internet speeds. Ooredoo’s fixed fibre network, by this November. The step tion by upgrading every network The company is expanding to including continued expansion re-asserts Vodafone’s position site in Doha with state-of-the- aggregate spectrum across three clip from a concert in less than a to bring world leading Internet as a leader in technology and art technology which means 65 bands to deliver another evolu- second. speeds to business and residential innovation. investment of over QR500m, percent of the network is new. tion in speed and performance for Sheikh Saud bin Nasser Al customers. Successful trials of up Ramy Boctor, Chief Technology Vodafone achieved increased 3G It also installed 134 outdoor, Qatar’s mobile Internet to provide Thani (pictured), CEO, Ooredoo to and beyond 1 Gbps were com- Officer, Vodafone Qatar, said: and 4G coverage and capacity 42 indoor, 290 4G outdoor and a theoretical maximum speed of Qatar, said: “The SuperNet has pleted earlier this year and the “This is another milestone in which produced a better cus- 25 4G indoor sites. With this, 375 mbps available to customers been designed to give customers company plans to bring additional our plans to continue to offer tomer experience in voice and Vodafone has increased its 3G as and when high-speed devices the smoothest, most streamlined speed options to customers in the our customers enhanced network data services. and 4G coverage, doubled 3G come onto the market. Internet experience, and we con- near future using SuperNet. experience. The ultra-speed of The three Carrier Aggregation capacity, tripled 4G capacity and Ooredoo demonstrated the tinue to deliver technological Ooredoo also plans an all- up to 375 Mbps is achieved by roll-out, which will cover addi- tripled data capacity for better superiority and capacity of its upgrades that offer direct benefits network optimisation to further aggregating 50MHz of Spectrum tional sites in locations such as user experience. network last December when for customers. increase speeds for customers across three bands. West Bay, Katara, The Pearl- Last month, Vodafone began Ooredoo Qatar, Nokia Networks “Our fixed and mobile networks and boost download speeds across “When we launched 4G+, our Qatar and others, is another the second phase of the network and China Mobile achieved a have been designed to be fast. We Doha on its fixed and mobile network provided more than hallmark in the company’s com- evolution which will see the same record-breaking speed of 4.1 were the first company in Qatar networks. The upgrade aims to double the speeds our customers mitment to provide customers improvements achieved earlier in Gbps over TDD-FDD LTE, in an to offer a 4G+ experience deliv- provide a better customer experi- had earlier from Vodafone 4G. with state-of-the-art infrastruc- Doha area to spread across the experiment to demonstrate future ered through aggregating two ence on the Ooredoo network and Today, with three-band LTE, our ture that takes their data and country. user demand. bands on the network. Today, we contribute to the aim of Qatar network provides more than four calling experience to a new level. At the end of the programme, At this speed, even the most have made the leap to three, as we National Vision 2030 to boost times the 4G speeds.” “With the roll-out of three- scheduled for October, Vodafone demanding mobile users would offer a continuous upgrade for our the knowledge-based economy by Following the launch of band Carrier Aggregation, we will have overhauled its complete be able to download a full-length customers.” enabling new customers access to 4G+ network in May 2015 are getting ready for the launch network to offer better network 5 GB high-definition movie in To ensure customers have financial, educational and social and a nation-wide network of newer smartphones which will experience in the entire country. 11 seconds and simultaneously access to next-generation serv- services the Internet can provide. enhancement initiative with an enable such technology levels THE PENINSULA upload a five-minute 30 MB video ices wherever they are in Qatar, THE PENINSULA Qatar to celebrate global youth day on Wednesday DOHA: Qatar celebrates on participate with stories and ideas Wednesday International Youth about their participation in com- Day which recognises efforts of munity activities. Participants at one of the training workshops hosted by Total Research Centre-Qatar. world’s youth in enhancing glo- They can send related com- bal society. ments or images expressing their The Youth Affairs Department thoughts and opinions, tweets at the Ministry of Youth and about the impact of their par- Total senior experts share research experiences Sport will organise more than 20 ticipation in activities, or sending events over three days under the documents and photos showing DOHA: Total Research Centre- He provided insight into what is at forecast them. The centre is one and the future of the oil & gas theme ‘Youth Participation’. how to engage in the promotion Qatar hosted technical presen- stake for preventing pollution by of the eight worldwide research industry. In a statement, the ministry of youth participation. tations by senior international upstream oil and gas activities. He and development facilities of Total “As knowledge-sharing is a key stressed the need for involvement The ministry confirmed that scientists from Total’s head- emphasised constraints for opera- Exploration & Production. to success, we commit to such sci- and participation of young peo- celebrations aim to encourage quarters in Paris. The workshops tors and highlighted techniques to It has become a hub for devel- entific presentations which ben- ple to achieve sustainable human young people to participate in were attended by profession- respond to them. opment of new technologies, efit our partners,” said Dr Philippe development by highlighting their adopting decisions, enhance their als of Total’s Qatari partner In a separate training, Dr research and knowledge-sharing Julien, Director of the centre. efforts to raise awareness about role in human development, put institutions. Gerard Massonnat, owner of 13 with Qatari partners. “The centre has delivered sig- the importance of youth partici- forward challenges and needs of Emmanuel Garland, an environ- patents and author of many sci- It has organised five high-level nificant innovations and we are pation and benefits to individuals youth, promote their participa- mental expert at Total, delivered entific publications on reservoir workshops since the beginning of keen to share our fruitful research and society, including sustainable tion and reduce the gap between a training on the protection of the engineering, shared research expe- the year, focusing on carbonate with Total’s Qatari industrial and development and well-being. young people and officials by environment, particularly atmos- rience in carbonate reservoirs and reservoirs, enhanced oil recovery, academic partners,” he added. It said there is a UN online expanding the scope of dialogue pheric emissions and water usage. explained how to characterise and geochemistry, the environment THE PENINSULA campaign in which youth can and mutual understanding. QNA

Doha Bank, Visa award QR2,000 prizes to 100 cardholders DOHA: Doha Bank and ideal partnership for the Visa have announced the bank. We are confident that completion of their latest together we will be able to promotion which saw cash offer our customers more prizes awarded to 100 win- such offers and promotions. ners who used their Doha “The bank congratulates Bank Visa debit and credit each of the 100 winners.” cards outside Qatar in Rahul Joshi, Visa Country foreign currency between Manager, Qatar, said: “The March 1 and April 30. payments industry in Qatar A total of QR1,000 spent is at an exciting crossroads, overseas at merchant loca- as the nation sees wide- tions or ATM counters spread acceptance of elec- earned customers one tronic payments, faster than chance in the mega draw. ever before. Suresh Bajpai, Head, “According to 2014 results Retail Banking at Doha from VisaNet, our global Bank, said: “The partner- payments processing net- ship between the bank and work, one out of every $3 Visa to award prizes was an spent on a Visa credit card added-value campaign to issued in Qatar is spent reward customers for their internationally, which means transactions abroad. the appetite for cross-border “We hope the cash prize payment solutions is high (equivalent to an air ticket) among Qatari consumers. will help support the win- “Enabling such solutions ner’s future overseas travel is a top priority for Visa, and plans and reinforce trust in we commend the bank for the bank’s commitment to complementing this vision provide additional tangible through a rewarding travel- benefits for our customers. focused campaign.” “The bank is the No. Each winner received 1 issuer of Visa cards in QR2,000 credited into their Qatar. Visa Electron debit accounts on completion of cards are accepted at over the draw held on June 17 1.8 million ATMs and more at Doha Bank Tower in the retail points of sale in over presence of government offi- 200 countries, making it an cials. THE PENINSULA MONDAY 10 AUGUST 2015 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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APAN YESTERDAY observed the 70th anniversary of the catastrophic event that virtually incinerated the city of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. A plutonium Jbomb dropped on the city three days after another nuclear device decimated the city of Hiroshima, initially killed Putin’s failed spy record 70,000 people and brought the Second World War to an end. Hiroshima and Nagasaki have become the monikers for nuclear aggression. The two words bring to mind the horrors that nuclear weapons are capable of and the anniversary of the devastation wrought on the two cities by the United States has and Russia’s decline lessons for the future. BY JIM HOAGLAND disapproval that his Ukraine adventure The survivors of the double catastrophe, of which there are has provoked, traits that befit a drunken still some, vividly recall a close brush with death. A US bomber he ex-KGB officer seated in gambler. When I pressed for details on dropped the first bomb on the city of Hiroshima on August front of me raised his hand to Putin’s time as a spy, I was pointed to There are many 6 that initially killed 140,000 people. Victims recall seeing a interrupt my brief monologue the fact that he was given a backwater reasons for the huge mushroom cloud of smoke and fire envelop the city. Soon, Ton Vladimir Putin’s “hybrid” assignment in Dresden rather than in war in Ukraine. It was clearly the work the East German capital in 1985, and buildings came down and everything was on fire. Burnt people United States to of someone formed by the Soviet intelli- then was sent to do counterespionage walked around in a daze with torn clothing hanging from scalded gence service, I was opining, of someone in Leningrad rather than Moscow at exercise restraint in skin that resembled peels. Three days later, a more powerful expert in covert operations and com- the end of that tour. device was dropped on Nagasaki, which suffered similar damage. fortable with deception as a strategy. “It was a message that he should seek the Ukrainian crisis. The anniversary of the nuclear horror perpetrated by the Wait!” my interlocutor barked. “The another career,” said one of the opera- bombings on the two cities comes amid a fierce debate raging truth is he is not one of us.” I blinked. tives, all of whom insisted on anonymity Expecting Putin to Another veteran of Soviet intelligence and discretion about where and when over the Iranian nuclear deal. The much-vaunted agreement at the table nodded briskly in support our conversations took place. reciprocate cannot be was signed between Iran and US, Britain, France, Russia, of this comment. Putin’s rise from that point — with the China, Germany, and European Union. With insurgencies and That moment led me to other conver- help first of Leningrad Mayor Anatoly one of them. wars raging in several countries sations, over a matter of months, with Sobchakand and then-President Boris and irresponsible non-state actors US and European intelligence operatives Yeltsin — is another story. He has shown make a display of destroying European Seven gaining more power with the who had studied cunning, tactical skill and, at times, food imports that have found their way the Russian presi- statesmanship (in relations with the into Russia despite an embargo adopted decades after acquisition of lethal conventional dent’s 17-year KGB United States after 9/11, for example) to retaliate for sanctions “flies in the weaponry, the nuclear question is career. They too along the way. But he has also shown a face of Orthodox values and the public Hiroshima and even more pertinent today than it Putin today traced a portrait disturbing willingness to bet the farm sentiment traumatised by a history of Nagasaki, the was in the aftermath of Hiroshima displays an open of Putin as a failed even as his plans come a cropper. famine, war and Soviet scarcity,” he con- and Nagasaki. spy who was being The International Monetary Fund tinued. The destruction took place on squeezed out of warned last week that Russia’s economy Thursday, by bulldozer, and was nation- Responsible use of nuclear devices contempt for nuclear threat the KGB when the will contract by 3.4 percent this year if ally televised. remains a has come to practically mean that Russian public Soviet system col- sanctions remain in place. And the Pew The deepening wounds that Russia the powers which possess nuclear lapsed and political Research Center reported that Russia has suffered under Putin are almost potent one. weapons must not use them even opinions and connections sud- is now viewed less favourably than entirely self-inflicted — a reality that in the most trying circumstances. an uncaring denly offered him the United States in most parts of the has important implications for US This has given rise to the theory of a route to power. world. The image gap is 43 percentage policy. There are many reasons for the “He was seen points in Europe (where 69 percent had United States to exercise restraint in mutually assured destruction (MAD) that says two competing disregard for in the system as a favourable view of the United States the Ukrainian crisis. Expecting Putin nuclear powers will desist from nuclear war as it will lead to the economy- a risk-taker who versus 26 percent for Russia) and 42 to reciprocate cannot be one of them. their destruction, implying that having nuclear weapons may had little under- points in Africa (United States 79 per- Nor can policy be built on the fear not be anathema. damaging standing of the cent, Russia 37 percent), for example. voiced by some strategists that we must The issue brings to the fore the concept of a responsible and sanctions and consequences of Most critically, Putin’s regime has accept the permanent neutralisation of irresponsible power. North Korea is believed to have nuclear failure,” one said. reached what Moscow Times columnist Ukraine to avoid pushing a weakened “The KGB of that Vladmir Frolov last week bravely called Russia into a collapse that would endan- weapons, but it could use it irresponsibly, given the way the international era was not keen a “let them eat cake” phase. Recent ger global stability. country is run with power flowing from an individual — the disapproval on risk.” public excesses range from Putin’s Putin’s actions will determine how far controversial leader Kim Jong-un. Iran is a theocratic state. That analysis press secretary’s multimillion-dollar and how fast Russia continues to sink Though it has an elected parliament and an established system that his Ukraine of Putin, rather wedding in Sochi to, as Frolov wrote, into isolation and economic decline. The of government, the country is far removed from following a than one of him as a “legally dubious decision to move the West should adopt a stance of watch- adventure has a master spy, fits 2016 parliamentary elections by three ful waiting and be prepared for Putin’s liberal democratic process with strong state organs. more closely with months [that] gives the Kremlin no risk-taking to create new crises along Hiroshima and Nagasaki shouldn’t only be remembered once provoked. what he has done political advantage while betraying an the way. This is what I conclude from a year. The lessons learnt from the destruction wrought in as Kremlin boss. inner sense of insecurity and weakness my modest inquiry: It turns out that these Japanese cities should keep guiding world powers every Putin today displays an open contempt . . . . The president’s [pursuit of] exces- Putin is not as clever either as I once day against the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Anniversary for Russian public opinions and an sive ratings are turning into a source of thought, or as he seems still to believe. or not, nuclear deal or not, the march against nuclear uncaring disregard for the economy- political instability.” Hoagland is a contributing editor to The damaging sanctions and international Moreover, the regime’s threat to Post. WP-BLOOMBERG proliferation should not lose steam• The other side Quote of Afghanistan: Future uncertain the day HE BLOODIEST 24 hours in clear quite who leaked news of Mullah for the Taliban ahead. Worryingly for the the security goal should be to curb mili- Kabul in years suggest two Omar’s death and why, it does seem Afghan state, it has already lost record tant activity along the Durand Line. things. One, the issue of who that hiding Omar’s death for two years numbers of soldiers and policemen in With the Afghan Taliban, the goal is to succeed Mullah Omar has hurt Mullah Mansour’s credibility. Taliban attacks this year. should be to reaffirm the state’s pref- as T leader of the Afghan Taliban is A new leader who hoodwinked his The government of President Ashraf erence for a negotiated settlement anything but settled. It could be that, fellow militants in an attempt to make Ghani is also hampered in its ability to between the Taliban and the Afghan At 50 years, as as many observers have suggested, sure he inherited the leadership mantle regroup and reassess its security strat- government while simultaneously the weekend attacks in Kabul are the is hardly the kind of figure who com- egy because of internal political divi- encouraging — and this will be a very we stand at a result of factionalism and a challenge pares well to Mullah Omar. sions. Parliament has yet to approve a fine balancing act — the Taliban to to Mullah Akhtar Mansour. The question for the Afghan govern- defence minister. end internal rifts and unite behind the high base camp, The Kabul attacks could also have ment and the outside world, in particu- It is difficult to know whether and if pro-peace faction without seeming to been authorised by Mullah Mansour lar Pakistan, is what next? The facts the Afghan Taliban will stay politically create a new Taliban leadership that is we look back and himself, possibly to demonstrate that suggest a gloomy picture. The possibil- united or how long it will take for the little more than a front for the Pakistani he is not in the pocket of Pakistan or ity of a dialogue process resuming, or present convulsions inside the insur- security establishment. marvel how far desperate to make peace with the starting anew, soon seems low. gency to settle down. Perhaps also the political leadership we have come ... Afghan state. There are also a couple of months at For Pakistan, at least, the political can try and contribute more to Afghan Either way, the succession issue least left of the principal fighting season goal should be to continue improving policy and take a more visible role. Lee Hsien Loong is far from settled. While it is still not this year, suggesting more military gains ties with the Afghan government, while DAWN Singapore’s PM MONDAY 10 AUGUST 2015 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Saakashvili rolls up sleeves in Ukraine

One farmer’s fields were stolen through He took a bulldozer a feat of paperwork. A mother had to pay bribes for a day-care spot for her son. A soldier on crutches watched his dis- to knock down ability benefits drop into the pockets of the officials charged with passing them an illegally on to him. “I thought we had some mis- takes in the system and we could fix the mistakes, and we’d be okay. It turns out constructed wall the whole system is a mistake,” said Yulia Marushevska, Saakashvili’s 25-year-old that blocked off a deputy governor, a political novice who rocketed to international attention for her dramatic video dispatches last year portion of a public from the Maidan, the central Kiev square that was the focal point of pro-European beach at a property protests. Many of Saakashvili’s recruits are sim- ilarly young, Western-educated activists owned by a former who have no previous political experience. He says that he has no idea what the lawmaker. On more than 800 employees of his regional administration do, and he has vowed to fire half of them, along with most of national television, Odessa’s much-hated police force, which he says is “basically a criminal syndicate.” he chewed out the And he has promised to clean up Odessa’s crime-ridden ports, a hub for smuggling, drug trafficking and bribery. head of Ukraine’s So far, he has taken on some broadly popular issues. He took a bulldozer to knock down an illegally constructed wall national airline, that blocked off a portion of a public beach at a property owned by a former law- who was quickly maker. On national television, he chewed out the head of Ukraine’s national airline, who was quickly fired amid charges of fired amid charges corruption. He has vowed a new police force by next month. of corruption. Odessa Provincial Governor Mikheil Saakashvili, left, holds a news conference with local press in his private office in Odessa, Ukraine. But critics say that although Saakashvili has made grand promises, to get it done. Public disillusionment is Saakashvili’s effort, which Western dip- are politically motivated. Saakashvili he has so far done more to change the BY MICHAEL BIRNBAUM building with Ukraine’s new leaders amid lomats say they are treating as a test swooped into Odessa at the end of May, tone than the substance of the system. a rising sense that last year’s wave of pro- case for whether reforms can take hold. taking over a Russian-speaking region Some question whether he will stay long n Ukraine’s last-ditch battle to tests has delivered little but fresh misery. Saakashvili has given himself until the of 2.4 million residents whose alliances enough to make sure that his reforms stamp out official thievery and wrest Citizens say they still face demands for end of the year to overhaul Odessa, one are split between Kiev and Moscow. The actually stick. Others say that his team the nation from Russia’s orbit, an bribes nearly every time they encounter Western diplomat said, speaking on con- surprise appointment provoked fever- is too inexperienced to take on Odessa’s Iunlikely leader is heading the charge. a government official. Many fear that dition of anonymity because he was not ish warnings that he was there to stoke formidable entrenched groups. And he Mikheil Saakashvili, the crusading ex- Ukraine’s leaders will fail altogether and authorised to comment on internal dis- hatred of ethnic Russians, although he can do little to boost the miserly pay that president of Georgia, is trying to upend that the country will fall back into the cussions. If Saakashvili fails, the diplomat has tamped down his old fiery anti- leads government bureaucrats making Ukraine’s most lawless region as the new sphere of Russia. said, “the window closes for 10 years” on Kremlin rhetoric and has won grudg- $80 a month to seek out bribes just to governor of the smuggling stronghold “Ukraine is a big revolution, and in my domestic support for Ukrainian reforms. ing support from members of the ethnic survive. of Odessa. A man who led his own tiny way I am a revolutionary,” Saakashvili The Obama administration sees the Russian community who detest corrup- “He wants to build dreams, but he nation into war with mighty Russia has said in an interview in his office, which is Odessa efforts as so vital that it has com- tion as much as ethnic Ukrainians. doesn’t have the instruments,” said Irina taken up a new fight in a high-profile decorated with a bust of Ronald Reagan, mitted up to $2m in direct assistance and If Saakashvili fails, Ukraine may soon Medushevskaya, an Odessan political appointment in a fellow post-Soviet state the man many in eastern Europe credit has sent a raft of top State Department boomerang back into Russia’s orbit — commentator. that was a slap at the Kremlin. Western with taking down the Soviet Union. officials to visit Saakashvili. US money with gloomy consequences for Georgia, At an Odessa police training academy officials say Saakashvili’s anti-corruption With old habits holding firm, many of is going to foundations that hire top which is feeling the same competing tugs. one morning last week, a crowd of 200 assault will be as crucial in the effort to Ukraine’s international partners, includ- Saakashvili associates to implement “Before if you were involved in gov- new police recruits was practicing hand- break Ukraine free from its ex-Soviet ing the United States, are reconsidering reforms. US-paid lawyers are studying ernance, you were involved in corrup- cuffing each other under the watchful masters as the country’s shooting war the amount of assistance they can pro- the structure of the crime-ridden port. tion. It’s very difficult to be dry when eye of two trainers who had been flown with Russian-backed rebels — and that vide if the nation cannot help itself. Officers from the California Highway you’re in the sea,” Saakashvili told a in from the California Highway Patrol, the hot-headed Georgian has just months That gives an outsized importance to Patrol are training new police officers to crowd this week in Kominternivske, a one more marker of US involvement in replace the detested old ones. village 25 miles outside of Odessa, ril- the region. “Ukraine today is fighting two ing them in staccato but fluent Russian. A total of 400 new trainees, none of wars. One is the war with Russia,” US Many in the town of 7,000 said that who have law enforcement experience, Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt such a high-ranking official had never will hit the streets next month after just said last month. “The other is the war bothered to listen to their concerns seven weeks of practice. The efforts, led against corruption, the war for reform, before, much less travelled there by from Kiev by a Georgian who was once the war to move Ukraine towards the marshrutka, the shuddering, packed a top official in Saakashvili’s presidential standards of modern European democ- minibuses that are the main public administration, mirror those of the first racy that the Ukrainian people have transit of rural Ukraine. years of his rule there. sought.” At the sweltering open-air conclave, Many recruits said they were moti- Odessa “in many ways is the front line held in a dusty square under whispering vated by a desire to build clean new for that second war,” he said. trees, Saakashvili listened while dozens institutions. Saakashvili, a brash Columbia of residents detailed their daily strug- But a Ukrainian trainer said low sala- University-trained lawyer, rose to gles with public officials who sounded ries may still lead to problems. power in Georgia in 2003 and shook his more like marauding bandits than citi- “You should pay enough so that a per- Caucasian nation out of a post-Soviet zen servants. He quickly won the crowd son doesn’t think about how to feed their stupor with a crusade against corrup- to his side with his enthusiastic denun- families,” Stepan Kostev said. tion that rocketed the country to the top ciations of their detested officials. The For now, Saakashvili says he will of international ratings for transparency. event was unusual for Ukrainian politi- keep following the Georgian playbook to His ravenous appetite for politicking is cians, who typically steer clear of such reform his new country. Clintonian. unvarnished back-and-forth with their “There’s a general perception that you But after he launched into war with constituents. cannot transplant politicians. They get Russia in 2008, his country suffered “To get a child in kindergarten, you rejected by national organisms, like a catastrophic defeat within days. Critics have to pay a bribe. If someone dies you heart or a liver,” he said. “But we have say he became increasingly intolerant have to pay even more,” Saakashvili told matching DNAs.” of dissent. He lost presidential elections them, describing the corruption that Washington Post correspondent Natalie New police trainees practise handcuffing techniques at an American-sponsored programme in 2013 and fled the country to avoid drove Ukrainians to twice overthrow Gryvnyak contributed to this report. to introduce Western style police to Odessa’s streets in Ukraine. charges of abuses of power that he says their leaders since 2004. WP-BLOOMBERG Forget 2016...here’s looking at the White House in 2031

like circus performers who fail withering country to a vibrant legendary adage comes to mind: Salazar and former mayor of San 2016 and 2020 vice president and With a strong twice at some daring stunt in manufacturer and energy “The definition of insanity is Antonio and current Secretary of 2024 — and thus 2031 — President order to build the tension for the exporter. Unemployment is down doing the same thing over and Housing and Urban Development Salazar or Castro. Though we are economy third and final attempt. to 5.3 percent and, with two trade over again and expecting differ- Julian Castro. And two white still on the early holes and much So let’s turn to a more grown- agreements expected in the next ent results.” Running essentially males with gubernatorial experi- will depend on the Bush VP selec- up question: Who will be presi- two years to further lower export the same demographic race as in ence from a swing state — former tion, Castro would appear to be supporting the dent of the United States in 2031? hurdles, our economy will remain 2012 under stable economic and Virginia governors, now Virginia’s higher on the leader board, as he It’s down to four. robust until the rest of the world combat conditions yields essen- US senators Mark Warner and provides youth to the seasoned status quo, First, the easy part. Hillary can figure out how to get off coal tially the same result. Correcting Tim Kaine. (Full disclosure: Clinton and is more closely identi- Rodham Clinton will likely win and oil at a reasonable price (thus, slightly for Bush’s sincere run at Both are old law school friends fied with the Hispanic community. by about 3 percent — both in 2016 for the next decade). the Hispanic part of the coalition, of mine.) Yes, Gov Jay Nixon of If Clinton’s advantage with demographics and 2020. There is some legen- And we have almost no combat it’s probably Clinton by 3 percent Missouri also qualifies but diffi- Hispanic voters is holding true to dary historical wisdom explaining boots on the ground anywhere in for the next eight years. culties relating to the Ferguson Obama’s numbers, and Bush does will decide the limits of an incumbent party’s the world. The growing demographic gap, tragedy narrowed the field. not choose a Hispanic for the No ability to hold the White House With a strong economy sup- supported by the status quo of an The pick will be down to one by 2 slot, perhaps going instead with for successive terms. But legends porting the status quo and no energy-advantaged economy and July 21, 2016. one of the 2016 also-rans or Gov presidential often fall to modern reality. wars to challenge it, demographics the change in the nature of war- If as of that date — the end of Nikki Haley of South Carolina, And here is the modern reality. will decide presidential elections. fare (with Sunni countries fighting the Republican convention — Bush then Clinton can ill afford to elections. A Texan named George Mitchell As a matter of modern demo- the extremists of the day instead is running better with Hispanics offer up the first ticket in history taught the United States how to graphics, the Democratic coali- of US Marines) should last long than Romney did in 2012, due without at least one white male. BY HOWARD GUTMAN frack its way to abundant energy. tion (urbanites, women, blacks, enough to carry the 2016 and 2020 either to his family and personal And while focusing on this white Europe decided not to and Japan Hispanics, the queer, the young Clinton veep to the White House life or because he took a shot at male shortfall, Clinton can also lready tired of the 2016 can’t find anywhere to do it. So and the like) beats the Republican from 2025 into 2032. the demographic inequality by address her lack of gubernatorial race? the United States developed an nice-rich-white-guy coalition So the president of United adding a Hispanic woman (New experience and secure help with A So many candidates, so energy advantage to go along with 51 percent to 47 percent. (See States in 2031 is . . . . Mexico Gov Susana Martinez) a swing state. In that case, raise much noise, but ultimately so lit- a labour advantage and, within a Obama vs Romney.) And with Down to four right now. Two to his ticket, then Clinton will your right hand, Warner or Kaine tle true drama. Prognosticators few years, was transformed from Jeb Bush seemingly stepping in Hispanics — former senator and have to bolster her appeal with — now and through 2032. try to create a tough-to-call race an energy-crippled, economically for Mitt Romney in 2016, another secretary of the interior Ken Hispanics. In that case, welcome WP-BLOOMBERG MONDAY 10 AUGUST 2015 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST

Infant mortality US scientists rate in Gaza up for first time in praise Iran 53 years: UN JERUSALEM: The infant mortality rate in Gaza has risen for the first time in more than half a century, a new study by the UN aid agency for nuclear deal Palestinian refugees says. “The number of babies dying before the age of one has consist- Move a shot in the arm for Obama ently gone down over the last dec- ades in Gaza, from 127 per 1,000 WASHINGTON: More than Iran does indeed scale down its live births in 1960 to 20.2 in 2008. two dozen top US scientists, facilities, clearing a path towards At the last count, in 2013, it had among them nuclear research- ending UN, US and EU sanctions. risen to 22.4 per 1,000 live births,” ers and Nobel prize winners, in The White House has mounted a statement from the UNRWA a letter to US President Barack an intense lobbying campaign relief agency said. Obama late on Saturday praised to convince reluctant members “Every five years UNRWA con- the Iran nuclear deal as major of the Republican-controlled ducts a survey of infant mortality security achievement, The New Congress to back the deal. across the region, and the 2013 York Times reported yesterday. Obama told CNN in an inter- results were released this week,” The two-page letter, from some view yesterday that Iran’s it said, adding that because of of the world’s most knowledgeable “nuclear problem” must be dealt the data it would conduct a new nuclear experts, could prove to be with first. He said the agreement Gaza-specific survey this year. a shot in the arm for Obama, who reached last month achieves that It said that neonatal mortal- has launched a major effort to sell goal “better than any alternative.” ity in Gaza, the number of babies the deals to sceptical members of Republican lawmakers largely Protesters shout slogans and carry Iraqi national flags during a demonstration to support Prime Minister Haider who die before four weeks old, the US Congress. disagree with the president’s Al Abadi at Tahrir Square in central Baghdad yesterday. rose from 12 per 1,000 live births The letter tells the US presi- assessment that the deal blocks in 2008 to 20.3 in 2013. dent that the Iran deal “will Iran’s path to a nuclear weapon, The statement quoted Akihiro advance the cause of peace and as do some of Obama’s own Seita, director of the agency’s security in the Middle East and Democrats. Obama says resolving Iraq premier unveils bold health programme, as saying that can serve as a guidepost for future the Iranian nuclear issue makes the sudden upswing was unprec- nonproliferation agreements”. it possible to open broader talks edented in the Middle East. The Iran accord, the scien- with Iran on other issues. He “When the 2013 results from tists said, has “more stringent named Syria as an example. Gaza were first uncovered, constraints than any previously “Is there the possibility that plan to trim government UNRWA was alarmed by the negotiated nonproliferation having begun conversations apparent increase. So we worked framework”. around this narrow issue that BAGHDAD: Iraq’s prime minis- short statement approving of the in recent days over frequent power with external independent There were 29 signatories of you start getting some broader ter unveiled a bold plan yesterday proposed plan, he previously criti- cuts during a heat wave that has research groups to examine the the letter in all, some of whom discussions about Syria, for to abolish three vice presidential cised Al Abadi’s rise to power last seen temperatures reach as high data, to ensure the increase could are physicists who have held top example, and the ability of all the posts and the offices of three year and repeatedly has urged the as 52 degrees Celsius). be confirmed,” he said. “That is level military security clearances. parties involved to try to arrive at deputy premiers, hoping to cut current government to address Iraq, which holds the world’s why it took us so long to release Others have advised Congress, the a political transition that keeps spending amid mass protests the country’s corruption and sec- fifth largest oil reserves and these latest figures.” White House or federal agencies, the country intact and does not against his government as the tarian crises. significant amounts of gas, has He suggested that Israel’s block- on military security. further fuel the growth of ISIL Islamic State group still holds a Al Abadi’s seven-point plan struggled to finance its war with ade of the coastal strip, where Among those who signed the and other terrorist organizations. third of his nation. would dismantle portions of the the Islamic State group due to close to 45 percent of the popula- letter are Leon Cooper of Brown I think that’s possible,” Obama Prime Minister Haider Al top-heavy government created in lower oil prices and high military tion is under 14 years old, could be University; Sheldon Glashow of said, referring to the Islamic Abadi’s Cabinet backed the plan, the wake of the 2003 US-led inva- spending. The consequences have a contributing factor. “It is hard Boston University; David Gross State group by one of its acro- which still needs parliamentary sion that toppled dictator Saddam manifested over Al Abadi’s year to know the exact causes behind of the University of California, nyms. “But I don’t think it hap- approval, but it’s unclear whether Hussein. It would reduce spending in office, with the fallout ranging the increase in both neonatal and Santa Barbara; Burton Richter pens immediately.” it could end the endemic corrup- on personal bodyguards for offi- from worsening electricity prob- infant mortality rates, but I fear it of Stanford; and Frank Wilczek Obama was interviewed by tion in Iraq’s political system, cials and transfer the responsi- lems to the government’s failure is part of a wider trend,” he said. of the Massachusetts Institute of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria last where many senior appointments bility to the interior and defense to keep up with budget payments “We are very concerned about Technology — all Nobel laureates. Thursday, hours before Chuck are determined by party patron- ministries. The plan also calls for to the semi-autonomous Kurdish the impact of the long-term The so-called P5+1 — Britain, Schumer, the Senate’s leading age and sectarian loyalties. the review of all corruption cases government. blockade; on health facilities, sup- France, Germany, Russia, China Jewish Democrat, announced The plan also effectively would by a committee of experts, with While people publicly may plies of medicines and bringing and the United States — signed he would oppose the agreement. push out of government former fresh trials for officials suspected support reform, Al Abadi’s plan equipment in to Gaza.” an agreement last month with Congress is expected to vote in prime minister Nuri Al Maliki, of wrongdoing. noticeably pushes his predeces- Israel imposed its blockade on Iran aimed at ensuring Tehran September on a measure disap- widely criticised for inflaming About a thousand demonstrators sor, Al Maliki, out of office, as well the Gaza Strip in 2006 after the does not acquire a nuclear bomb, proving the deal, which Obama has sectarian tensions and appointing gathered yesterday in support of Al as Ayad Allawi, a former member Islamist militant group Hamas in return for relief from crippling promised a swift veto. Lawmakers loyal, less-qualified senior offic- Abadi in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square. of Saddam’s Baathist government captured an Israeli soldier. It sanctions. As part of the deal, would then have to find enough ers to Iraq’s military ahead of the Despite near-daily bombings and who was named prime minister further tightened controls a year the International Atomic Energy votes to override the president. Islamic State group’s advance last attacks in Baghdad, the square has following the 2003 invasion. later when Hamas consolidated Agency will have to verify that AGENCIES year. While Al Maliki issued a been the scene of peaceful protests AP its rule there. AFP

Saudi traditional excursions Rafsanjani’s son Israel arrests suspects in begins 10-year West Bank arson probe prison term JERUSALEM: Israel yes- It did not identify them or say terday arrested several sus- how many were arrested. TEHRAN: The son of Iran’s pects believed to be linked to Separately, the defence minis- former president Akbar the deadly firebombing of a try said two more alleged Jewish Hashemi Rafsanjani began a Palestinian home and placed two extremists were placed in what is 10-year prison term for finan- more alleged Jewish extremists known as administrative deten- cial and security crimes yester- in detention without trial. tion, which allows suspects to be day, insisting his conviction was The moves came as calls held without charge indefinitely. politically motivated. mounted for a crackdown in the A third alleged extremist was Mehdi Hashemi was in March wake of the July 31 arson attack put in administrative detention handed prison sentences totalling in the West Bank village of Duma, several days ago. The measure is 25 years after being convicted on that killed 18-month-old Ali Saad usually used for Palestinians. three charges in separate cases Dawabsha and his father Saad. One of those interned was Meir involving national security, fraud While the toddler died on Ettinger, a 23-year-old accused of and embezzlement. the day of the attack, his father being a key figure in a loose band The 45-year-old was also succumbed to his injuries on of youths suspected to be behind ordered to pay undisclosed fines Saturday and was buried in an a string of nationalist hate crimes. and financial penalties, and was emotional ceremony attended by Yesterday, the army said a barred from holding public office. thousands, some of whom could be group of Palestinians attacked a A man fires weapons as he dances during a traditional excursion near the western Saudi city of Taif. Saudis He lost an appeal. The trial was heard calling for revenge. 26-year-old Israeli motorist at a usually party in such excursions as they celebrate wedding or graduation. held behind closed doors and Some hurled rocks at Israeli West Bank petrol station, stab- details of the evidence and spe- border police, who responded with bing him in the shoulder and cific crimes has not been released. tear gas. The suspects arrested lightly wounding him. He was sentenced to two terms yesterday were swept up in raids Troops at the scene shot one of 10 years in prison and one of on wildcat Jewish settlement suspect who died shortly after- five years, and in line with Iranian outposts in the occupied West wards of a leg wound, according Bahrain lifts ban Islamist dies in Cairo prison law will serve the longest of the Bank as part of “the investigation to police, and the army said that three sentences. into the events that occurred in troops were searching for up to on pro-oppn daily CAIRO: A prominent leader hospital he started bleeding from Iranian media said he had Duma,” police said in a statement. three accomplices. AFP of a hardline Islamist group the nose, and suffered low blood arrived at Evin Prison in Tehran DUBAI: Bahrain has given that backed ousted Egyptian pressure and breathlessness that where he read a statement to permission to a pro-opposition president Mohamed Mursi has led to his death,” it said. reporters demanding that record- newspaper to resume publish- died in jail in Cairo, the interior Gamaa Islamiya issued its own ings of his trial be released. ing after a two-day ban that ministry said yesterday. statement accusing the prison Hashemi said he saw “political drew criticism from human It said Essam Derbala, a sen- authorities of “deliberately kill- purposes as the main element” of IS battles Syria rebels rights groups, state media said. ior leader in Gamaa Islamiya, ing Derbala by depriving him of the case against him. He said his A statement from the died on Saturday after return- his medicine over the past few conviction was “neither fair nor BEIRUT: The Islamic State group advanced yesterday against Information Affairs Authority ing from a hearing at his trial. months”. “We hold the political legal” but he hoped “to protect rival rebel forces, including Islamists, in a bid to capture a series reported by the official BNA news Gamaa Islamiya blamed the and security apparatus responsi- and defend the integrity of my of key villages in northern Syria, a monitor said. The Syrian agency said that the decision had prison authorities for his death. ble for his death,” it said. honourable and oppressed father”. Observatory for Human Rights said IS jihadists seized full con- been taken after Al Wasat’s edi- Police had arrested the 58-year- Derbala was also an opponent “I demand once again that state trol of Umm Housh, one of four villages in the northern province tors undertook to respect the law old in May on charges of inciting of ex-president Hosni Mubarak television broadcast my court hear- of Aleppo that lie along a rebel supply line from Turkey, which is on publications. violence and joining a pro-Mursi who was forced out in 2011. He ings fully,” he said. “I firmly believe a major backer of Syria’s opposition. Announcing the paper’s suspen- opposition alliance. was jailed for 25 years during that this measure will prevent “IS is trying to seize control of these villages from rebels to cut their sion on Thursday, the authorities A medical check-up showed Mubarak’s rule for his alleged abuses by radicals from harming supply route between Aleppo city and its outskirts, and the town of had accused it of “violation of the Derbala had a fever, low blood involvement in violence in Upper one of the important pillars of the Azaz,” a rebel bastion near the border, said Observatory head Rami Abdel law and repeated dissemination of pressure and diabetes, the min- Egypt when Mubarak’s predeces- Islamic republic,” he added, in an Rahman. He said two IS suicide bombers, one using a suicide belt and one information that affects national istry statement said, adding that sor Anwar Sadat was assassinated apparent reference to the judiciary. in a bomb-laden car, began the assault on the villages on Saturday night. unity and the kingdom’s relation- he had a history of diabetes and in 1981. Derbala was released Rafsanjani served as Iran’s presi- The ensuing clashes, which continued throughout yesterday, left at ship with other countries”. also previously suffered strokes. from prison in 2006. dent from 1989 to 1997. least 37 rebel fighters and 10 IS jihadists dead, Abdel Rahman added. AFP “While being taken to the AFP AFP Another twenty rebels were reported missing in action. AFP MONDAY 10 AUGUST 2015 EUROPE / AMERICAS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Man charged Trump refuses after eight found dead in to apologise for Texas home

WASHINGTON: A man who ‘blood’ remark engaged police in a standoff at a Texas home has been charged with capital murder after the Women are ‘amazing executives’ bodies of five children and three adults were found inside, US WASHINGTON: Embattled on Trump to apologise. media reported yesterday. Republican presidential can- “They were completely inap- The eight people were found didate Donald Trump hit back propriate and offensive comments. on Saturday in the Houston-area yesterday at critics who say he Period,” Fiorina said yesterday on house “after a welfare check was went too far with caustic com- CNN’s “State of the Union”. conducted on the premises,” the ments about a US television Fiorina criticised Trump as Harris County Sheriff’s Office news anchor, insisting no apol- having gotten angry at Kelly for said in a statement. ogy was necessary and defend- asking difficult questions about Deputies from the sheriff’s ing his relations with women. comments he has made about office were called to the residence “I’ve had such an amazing rela- women. “You cannot have a presi- at about 9pm on Saturday (0200 tionship with women in business. dent who is thin-skinned,” the GMT yesterday), spokesman They are amazing executives. former Hewlett-Packard Co CEO Thomas Gilliland told the KHOU They are killers. They are phe- said on CBS’ “Face the Nation”. news channel. A man inside the nomenal,” Trump said on ABC’s Asked on ABC if he thought he house began shooting after depu- This Week. had gone too far, Trump said, “No, ties forced their way in, KHOU The real estate mogul and tel- not at all”. He said he has always Syrian refugee Mohamed from Idlib holds his 2-month-old daughter Malak next to his wife Kawsr moments reported. evision personality, who leads had “a great relationship with after arriving on a beach on the Greek island of Kos, after crossing a part of the Aegean sea from Turkey on a The Harris County Sheriff’s the polls in the race for the 2016 women” and has hired thousands overcrowded dinghy, yesterday. The UN refugee agency UNHCR called on Greece to take control of the “total Office tweeted that the man, Republican presidential nomina- of top-level female employees. chaos” on Mediterranean islands, where thousands of migrants have landed. 49-year-old David Conley, was tion, appeared on news shows to Trump said his comments taken into custody after negotia- rebut the latest wave of outrage about blood coming from Kelly tors convinced him to surrender. triggered by his off-the-cuff talk. were misconstrued as a refer- Conley had been charged with It has been a recurring scene as ence to menstrual blood or hor- capital murder, KHOU reported. 17 Republican candidates vie for monal activity and called that African migrant surge imperils His relationship to the victims attention: Trump makes a offen- interpretation “deviant”. He said and any possible motive were sive comment, incurs a firestorm he meant to say “nose, ears” and unknown at this time, it added. of reaction and critics sound the was implying that she was angry. EU social structure: Hammond AFP death knoll for his campaign. But “She asked me a very, very nasty so far, he has survived the backlash, question,” he said on This Week. LONDON: A surge in migrants are not entitled to claim asylum Britain. Yesterday, police said including Republican anger over Trump has repeatedly attacked from Africa threatens the back to their countries of ori- they had arrested 18 suspected UK, Spain in row his belittling the war hero status his fellow candidates, accusing European Union’s living stand- gin,” Hammond, speaking while illegal migrants found hidden in of US Senator John McCain, the Perry, the former Texas governor, ards and social structure, visiting Singapore, told BBC TV. the back of a lorry in England and over Gibraltar party’s 2008 nominee. of wearing glasses to look smarter British Foreign Secretary Philip “That’s our number one priority.” that its driver, a 40-year-old man This time, Trump is under and calling Graham, a US senator Hammond said yesterday, say- Hammond said EU laws meant from Poland, had been detained. LONDON: The British govern- fire for criticising Fox anchor from South Carolina, an “idiot”. ing the bloc was unable to take migrants were “pretty confident” But the government’s increas- ment yesterday accused Spain Megyn Kelly during and after a Yesterday, he attacked Fiorina in millions of people seeking a they would never be returned to ingly shrill tone on the issue of violating its sovereignty over Republican debate on Thursday. on several shows as a failed execu- new life. their country of origin. — Cameron was criticised for Gibraltar, saying Spanish state Asked about Kelly on a CNN tive who got fired, then lost a bid Hammond’s comments, some “That is not a sustainable situa- referring to migrants as “a swarm” vessels had repeatedly and interview on Friday, Trump said: for the US Senate by a landslide. of his most outspoken on the tion because Europe can’t protect — has upset charities, churchmen unlawfully entered its territo- “You could see there was blood He lashed out at Bush as being subject yet, underscore how the itself and preserve its standard and left-wing politicians. rial waters without notifying it. coming out of her eyes. Blood “negative on women’s health” for British government is ramping of living and social structure, if it Earlier this month, Church of The row is the latest in a long line coming out of her wherever.” his recent comments on funding up its anti-immigration rhetoric has to absorb millions of migrants England Bishop Trevor Willmott of diplomatic spats between Britain The fallout came quickly. for women’s health programmes in response to a spike in migrant from Africa,” he said. told the government not to forget and Spain over the territory, which Trump was barred from an that drew immediate condem- attempts to reach Britain via the Britain’s Conservative govern- its humanity. “When we become was ceded to Britain about 300 years important gathering of conserv- nation from Democrat Hillary Channel Tunnel from France. ment is under pressure to show it harsh with each other and forget ago but which Spanish authorities ative activists on Saturday and Clinton. He took credit for Fox They are also part of a wider is acting to solve what the press our humanity then we end up in now want to reclaim. drew another round of denun- News’ record ratings of 24 million EU trend which has seen Alexis has dubbed “the Calais crisis” these stand-off positions,” he told “These repeated incursions ciations from fellow Republicans. viewers for the prime-time debate. Tsipras say Greece cannot cope with hundreds of migrants trying the Observer newspaper. into British Gibraltar territo- Republican candidates Carly Trump dismissed his critics as with the number of migrants flee- nightly to scale fences around the Hammond said the Calais crisis rial waters are a clear violation Fiorina, Scott Walker, Lindsey beholden to political correctness, ing instability in the Middle East entrance to the Channel Tunnel was far from solved. “So long as of UK sovereignty,” Hugo Swire, Graham, Rick Perry, Rand Paul, a concept he is not encumbered and Africa and German calls for in France. there are large numbers of pretty a British Foreign Office minister, Marco Rubio and George Pataki with, and pointed to opinion polls tighter immigration curbs. That has disrupted passenger desperate migrants marauding said. But Spain denied wrongdo- denounced the comments on as proof he was “winning big all “We have got to be able to and freight traffic and dominated around the area there will always ing. “The waters are Spanish,” Twitter or in statements. Former over the place”. resolve this problem ultimately the summer’s headlines. Some of be a threat to the tunnel’s secu- said an official from Spain’s Florida governor Jeb Bush called REUTERS by being able to return those who the migrants manage to reach rity,” he said. REUTERS Foreign Ministry. REUTERS

Air crash kills 9 outside Moscow Germanwings French family leave child, 3, crash victims’ families plan US at rest stop in holiday rush LYON: A family on their way had been found — that the par- to the French Riviera for their ents called the police and turned lawsuit: Report holidays left their three-year-old around to drive back up the BERLIN: Relatives of victims daughter in a motorway layby motorway. of the Germanwings crash in the yesterday and drove more than “The family had passed Aix-en- French Alps hope to take their 150km before realising they had Provence (150km away) and were compensation claims against “forgotten” her, police said. going towards Saint-Raphael and parent company Lufthansa to They only twigged she was none of them had noticed she a US court, their lawyer said missing when an alert was issued wasn’t there,” the officer said. The yesterday. on French radio, officers said. The parents were being questioned by Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, 27, child was found by other holiday- officers at the police station where has been blamed for deliberately makers in a rest area off the A7 the child was being looked after. crashing the flight on March 24 “Autoroute du Soleil” (Highway “We are going to listen to what headed from Spain to Germany of the Sun) near Loriol in the they have to say and talk to the that claimed the lives of all 150 Drome region of southern France prosecutor at Valence to see if people on board. just after lunch yesterday. this should be taken further,” the “We are preparing a lawsuit in All she could tell them was officer added. Millions of French the USA and see good chances that she had a brother and a sis- families take to the roads during of finding a judicial venue in the ter and that she was “going to the August’s annual holiday rush to United States,” Elmar Giemulla, seaside” when she saw “daddy’s the sea and mountains, putting who represents 39 families, told car pull away”, a gendarme said. often unbearable strain on the An emergency worker carries parts of the wreckage of a helicopter out of the water after an air crash outside the Bild am Sonntag newspaper. It was only when they heard the country’s motorway system and Moscow yesterday. At least nine people were killed after a private Cessna-206 seaplane collided in midair The plaintiffs wanted to know alert — 45 minutes after the child their own nerves. AFP with a Robinson 44 light helicopter in the Istra district of the Moscow region late on Sunday. After the incident “how it was possible that a co- pilot with known mental health both aircraft fell into the water. problems and a corresponding history was allowed to fly at all,” Ferguson shooting anniversary the lawyer was quoted as saying. The newspaper said compensa- tion in air accident cases in the Disorder mars start Argentines vote in primaries United States is usually 10 times BUENOS AIRES: Argentines voted yesterday higher than in Germany. It was in presidential primaries seen as an early indica- not immediately clear on what of Haiti elections tor of who is best positioned to succeed President legal basis the lawyer wanted the Cristina Kirchner later this year. case against the German airline PORT-AU-PRINCE: Long-postponed legislative All 32 million eligible voters are required to cast to be heard in the United States. elections in Haiti got off to a somewhat troubled ballots in one of an array of competing party prima- Giemulla — who told Bild he start yesterday, with at least one polling station ries that will shape the political landscape ahead of was in contact with a New York ransacked and lengthy delays at others in the the October 25 presidential elections. The peculiarly law firm that specialises in aviation impoverished Caribbean nation. Argentine process is less about parties picking can- claims — could not be reached for The polls, the first since President Michel Martelly didates than showing which candidates can garner comment. Relatives of many of the came to power in May 2011, are taking place against enough votes to become Argentina’s next leader. 72 Germans among the dead have a backdrop of fear of violence and expected low voter Polls show three candidates leading a field of 15 turned down Lufthansa’s compen- turnout — and they come months after lawmakers hopefuls: The ruling center-left party’s Daniel Scioli, sation offer and accused the airline left their posts. conservative Mauricio Macri and Sergio Massa, a of ignoring their suffering. In Port-au-Prince, where many voters were forced dissident from Kirchner’s political movement. Scioli, Lufthansa disbursed ¤50,000 Demonstrators march during a Michael Brown memorial protest in to wait more than an hour before they could even the governor of Buenos Aires province, is the only ($55,000) per victim in immediate Brooklyn, New York, yesterday. Demonstrators showed support on the enter polling stations, unidentified assailants ran- candidate for Kirchner’s Front for Victory (FPV). aid. It has offered ¤25,000 more to one year anniversary of 18-year-old Michael Brown, an unarmed black teen sacked one post as voters waited to cast their ballots. The polls opened across the country at 8am (1100 each of the families plus ¤10,000 who was shot and killed in Ferguson, Missouri, by a white police officer, Polls opened at 6am (1000 GMT), and were due to GMT), with many areas battered by stormy weather. to each immediate relative includ- close to 4pm. Results were not expected immediately. They close at 6pm. First results are expected in the ing parents, children and spouses. Darren Wilson, throwing America’s troubled race relations into harsh relief. AFP early hours today. AFP AFP MONDAY 10 AUGUST 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / AFRICA

East Timor’s Typhoon Soudelor kills 12 in China resistance man killed by army Heaviest rains of century cause landslides, bury people under collapsed homes JAKARTA: A former guerrilla leader in East Timor has been BEIJING: Typhoon Soudelor moved further inland. killed in a security operation, killed 12 people in eastern Soudelor left six people dead in the government said yesterday, China and five are missing after Taiwan, where it ripped up trees raising concern about unrest in parts of the country were hit by and triggered landslides, damag- Asia’s youngest nation. the heaviest rains in a century, ing electricity lines and knocking Mauk Moruk, widely con- officials said yesterday. out power supply to a record four sidered a symbol of resistance The casualties were reported million households. against the independent govern- in and around Wenzhou city in Almost half a million homes ment of the gas-rich but poor the province of Zhejiang, where were still without power yester- half-island nation, was killed in a downpours caused mudslides day, Taiwan Power Co. said. joint police and military operation and several houses collapsed last Blocked roads hampered efforts in the Fatulia area. Saturday night. to restore supplies in some areas. “Regrettably the operation It quoted local disaster relief Taiwan’s death toll rose to six was unable to avoid a confronta- officials as saying the dead and after an eight-year-old girl went tion resulting in an exchange of missing may have been washed missing last Thursday. gunfire.” Moruk often confronted away by floods or buried under She was swept out to sea another old guerrilla leader, ruined homes. with her mother and twin sister Xanana Gusmao, the country’s More than 1.36 million people and was found dead. first president and later prime in the city were affected by the Her mother and sister, caught minister, challenging the govern- typhoon, the agency said, esti- in the strong waves on the east ment to do more about poverty mating direct economic losses at coast, were the first victims of the and unemployment. 3.83bn yuan ($617mn). typhoon. Despite gas production worth Nearby Wencheng county saw Some 379 people were injured billions of dollars, about half the downpours of 645 millimetres by the storm in Taiwan, which 1.2 million population live in pov- (25.4 inches) in 24 hours -- the saw rivers break their banks erty, according to the World Bank. heaviest in 100 years -- after under torrential rain and tow- Indonesia invaded East Timor the typhoon made landfall last ering waves that incessantly in 1975 and annexed the terri- Saturday night, it said. pounded the coastline over the tory later that year, maintain- The storm had landed in Fujian last week. ing a heavy and at times brutal province and cut power to more Taiwan has lifted its typhoon military presence. Indonesia later than three million homes there, A man watches floodwaters at a town hit by Typhoon Soudelor in Ningde, Fujian province, China yesterday. warning yesterday, but the allowed elections and East Timor but more than a third had elec- weather bureau has issued an opted for independence in 1999. tricity restored by yesterday the year last week with winds of a legendary Micronesian chief -- Center forecast the typhoon advisory of further heavy rains Independence hero Gusmao morning. up to 230 kilometres (140 miles) has since weakened. would be downgraded to a tropi- in the southern region. stepped down as prime minister Billed as the biggest typhoon of an hour, Soudelor -- named after China’s National Meteorological cal depression by tomorrow as it AFP this year. REUTERS

Seige over, Mali seeks Singapore marks 50 years of independence

SINGAPORE: Singapore answers on attack marked 50 years of independ- ence yesterday with nationwide BAMAKO: Malian authori- Both the army and MINUSMA celebrations including a huge ties yesterday sought to iden- said the death toll could rise. military parade and fireworks tify the perpetrators of a hotel Soldiers could be seen in Sevare display besides paying tribute to siege that ended with the deaths as well as along the road to the founding leader Lee Kuan Yew. of at least 12 people including nearby regional capital Mopti, a Some 250,000 spectators took five UN workers. No one has popular tourist destination. part in festivities from 6:00pm claimed responsibility for the A Sevare resident said in which will include some 2,000 assault, which coincided with a Bamako “People are starting to marchers, 50 military aircraft surge in jihadist attacks in the go about their business.” Sevare and 177 tanks and other security region. is falls on the road to Mali’s hardware. The procession, were The drama began early last desert north which fell to Islamic capped by a fireworks display, the Friday in the central town of extremists in 2012. high point of a jubilee year largely Sevare when gunmen burst into A French-led offensive choreographed and funded by the the Hotel Byblos, frequented by routed Islamist groups from government, which is expected to expatriates. their northern strongholds the call for general elections soon to The Malian army -- along with following year, but entire swathes extend its rule against a divided foreign special forces, according of the desert region remain opposition. to a Malian military source -- lawless. The celebrations kicked off stormed the building, bringing the Jihadist attacks have long been yesterday morning when sirens siege to an end nearly 24 hours concentrated in Mali’s north, but blared at 9:00am before national later. began spreading early this year TV and radio stations broadcast Reports vary on the numbers to the centre of the country, and a 2012 recording of Lee Kuan and identities of those killed. in June to the south near the Yew reading the declaration of The UN mission in Mali borders with Ivory Coast and independence. “At 50 years, as (MINUSMA) said two Burkina Faso. we stand at a high base camp, we The mobile column from the Singapore Armed Forces takes part in a parade during Singapore’s 50th National day Ukrainians, a Nepalese and Two attacks early this month look back and marvel at how far anniversary celebrations at the Padang in Singapore yesterday. a South African were killed in central and northern Mali left we have come,” Prime Minister during the siege and subse- 13 soldiers dead. Lee Hsien Loong said. will be represented by Foreign strengths” and “journeyed from detaining political opponents or quent military operation, as well “No region is being spared,” said The prime ministers of Secretary Philip Hammond and third world to first”. launching punative legal actions as a Malian driver working for an opposition group, the Party for Malaysia and Thailand, along Prince Andrew, while the United The People’s Action Party, against them. a company contracted by the National Rebirth, led by former with Brunei’s Sultan Hassanal States has sent former trade rep- co-founded by Lee, ruled since Lee, a British-trained lawyer, mission. foreign minister Thiebile Drame. Bolkiah and Indonesian Vice resentative Ron Kirk. independence and is credited came to power in 1959 as prime An army officer said “five ter- “The arrogance and audacity President Jusuf Kalla will attend Lee Hsien Loong, who took over with turning Singapore into one minister when Britain granted rorists” were killed in the opera- of the aggressors seem to have no along with officials from China, as premier in 2004, on Saturday of the world’s richest countries. the island a degree of self rule tion as well as five soldiers and limits.” Australia and Japan. said the festivities will “celebrate But it has also been criticised for and stayed as premier until 1990. “two whites”. AFP Former colonial ruler Britain how we turned vulnerabilities into silencing free speech, including by AFP Japan PM rapped on Nagasaki A-bomb Day My son did not kill

TOKYO: Japan yesterday Man”. Thousands of others per- marked the 70th anniversary of ished months or years later from rugby star: Rajapakse the atomic bombing of Nagasaki radiation sickness. that claimed more than 74,000 The attack on Nagasaki came COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s former associates, face a plethora of cor- lives, as Prime Minister Shinzo three days after the US B-29 president Mahinda Rajapakse ruption allegations. They have Abe came under fire for his bomber Enola Gay dropped a yesterday denied his son was rejected the allegations as a politi- attempts to expand the mili- bomb, dubbed “Little Boy”, on involved in the controversial cal witch-hunt. tary’s role. Hiroshima in history’s first atomic death of a national rugby player Yoshitha Rajapakse is accused Bells tolled and tens of thou- bombing. as a magistrate ordered a fresh of ordering the killing of sands of people, including ageing A wall of heat up to 4,000 investigation. Thajudeen because of a bitter survivors and the relatives of vic- degrees Celsius (7,200 degrees Police said the body of rugby dispute over a woman while both tims, observed a minute’s silence Fahrenheit) -- hot enough to melt star Wasim Thajudeen will be men were national rugby stars at 11:02am, the moment the bomb steel -- incinerated that city. exhumed today for forensic tests and represented Sri Lanka at the from a US plane devastated the About 140,000 people are esti- amid allegations of a cover up Rugby Sevens. port city on August 9, 1945. mated to have been killed in the during Rajapakse’s regime. Government spokesman The function was attended by Hiroshima attack, including those Thajudeen was killed over Rajitha Senaratne told reporters 75 countries including US ambas- who survived the bombing but a love triangle that involved last week that three members sador Caroline Kennedy. later died from radiation sickness. Rajapakse’s second son Yoshitha, of Rajapakse’s security contin- “As the only country attacked Gums bled, teeth fell out, hair although police recorded the gent had been identified as the with an atomic bomb in war, I am came out in clumps; there were death as a road accident. “I wel- men who abducted and killed renewing our determination to cancers, premature births, mal- come the investigation that will Thajudeen. lead the global effort for nuclear Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe offers a wreath at a ceremony formed babies and sudden deaths. help us to clear our name,” said His charred body was found disarmament,” Abe said. commemorating the 70th anniversary of the bombing of the city of Nagasaki The twin bombings dealt the former president Rajapakse. along a main road in Colombo in Abe was criticised for failing final blows to imperial Japan, “But the timing of the investi- May 2012, but CCTV footage from at the Peace Park in western Japan yesterday. to mention the three principles which surrendered on August gation suggests that the govern- the neighbourhood suggested that at a ceremony days earlier in Tomihisa Taue also criticised the make an attack on Japan less 15, 1945 to bring an end to World ment is trying to make political he was abducted before his death. Hiroshima. Nagasaki survivor government. likely,” he said. The changes would War II. capital out of it.” Last month, police told a court Sumiteru Taniguchi, 86, lashed “Worries and anxieties are now allow them to engage in combat -- This year’s memorials come Rajapakse, who is standing for that they had fresh evidence and out at Abe’s government for revis- spreading among us that this in defence of an ally which comes days ahead of the scheduled parliament this month after los- wanted to reopen the case. ing the pacifist constitution. pledge made 70 years ago may be under attack -- for the first time restarting of a civilian nuclear ing the presidency in January, is Police had deployed armed “The security bills the govern- now undermined,” he said. since the war. reactor in southern Japan -- the under investigation over allega- guards at Thajudeen’s grave site ment is trying to push through Abe defended the security leg- In the now bustling port city first to go back on line for two tions he syphoned off billions of fearing there could be an attempt would jeopardise our movement islation as necessary for peace. of Nagasaki, about 74,000 people years because of concerns follow- dollars from the state during his to remove the remains before a for nuclear abolition and hopes “It will send a stronger message died in the initial blast near a ing the disaster at the Fukushima nine-year rule. forensic examination could be of hibakusha (atom-bomb survi- to the world that the Japan-US major arms factory from a plu- atomic plant in 2011. Several of his siblings, as well held. vors),” he said. Nagasaki Mayor alliance functions perfectly and tonium bomb nicknamed “Fat AFP as other family member and close AFP MONDAY 10 AUGUST 2015 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13

Stamp duty in Sindh raised on Taliban bomb kills 21 Afghans old buildings KARACHI: The government Afghanistan Interior Ministry says those killed in Kunduz province were innocent civilians of Pakistan’s Sindh province has raised stamp duty on sale KUNDUZ: A Taliban attack death of longtime leader Mullah and purchase of old buildings, killed at least 21 people in Omar. The wave of violence has and on transfer of CDC [central northern Afghanistan, officials underscored Afghanistan’s vola- depository company] shares and said yesterday, after a wave of tile security situation amid a insurance policies from July 1. lethal bombings in the capital as faltering peace process and the Officials of the government of the insurgency escalates follow- potency of the Taliban insurgency, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s Pakistan ing a bitter power transition. despite it being riven by growing People’s Party here say that after The Afghan interior ministry internal divisions. amendment in Article 16-B of said all those killed last Saturday Experts say the growing the Sindh Land Revenue Act, the evening in the Khanabad dis- number of attacks demonstrates value of old buildings will now be trict of Kunduz province were Mullah Mansour’s attempt to determined according to the valu- civilians, although local offi- boost his image among Taliban ation table which earlier did not cials called them anti-Taliban cadres and drive attention away apply on old concrete structures. militiamen. from internal rifts over his Under changes in Article 15, The Taliban claimed responsi- leadership. stamp duty on purchase orders bility for the attack, which comes Sayed Sarwar Hussaini, a police has been raised from 0.20 per cent after a barrage of bombings in spokesman in Kunduz, also iden- to 0.25pc of the value. Similarly, Kabul that killed at least 51 peo- tified the victims of Saturday’s duty has been raised from 0.30pc ple last Friday, the deadliest day bombing as armed militiamen. to 0.35pc on contracts executed for the capital in years. With Afghan forces suffering by banks and commercial firms. "The incident took place (when) record casualties as foreign troops Through amendment in Article a suicide bomber detonated his pull back, Kabul is increasingly 16, relief in stamp duty has suicide vest in Khanabad dis- relying on informal militias as a been provided on sale and pur- trict," the interior ministry said, bulwark against the insurgents -- chase of property by Real Estate strongly condemning the "heinous a gambit observers say is akin to Investment Trust (REIT). Stamp act". fighting fire with fire. duty will be 0.25pc in those cases "The suicide attack... resulted The mobilisation of militias where market value of the unit in martyrdom of 21 civilians and represents a complete departure has been recorded. wounding of 10 others." from previous government efforts However, on values of prop- But Abdul Wadood Wahidi, to disarm these groups, blamed erty determined through the spokesman for the governor A wounded Afghan receives treatment at a hospital in Kunduz province yesterday, after a Taliban attack in the for devastating Afghanistan dur- valuation table, 2pc stamp duty of Kunduz, said 22 militiamen northern Afghan city. ing the civil war in the 1990s and will be charged on sale and pur- -- including four of their com- setting the stage for a Taliban chase of plots and property units. manders -- were killed by an The insurgency has been rap- Afghanistan in December last special forces base, killing at least takeover. Under Article 26, stamp duty on improvised explosive device. idly spreading across the north year, although a 13,000-strong 51 people, officials said. It exposes shortcomings of the all kinds of insurance policies has Kunduz is a volatile province from its traditional southern and residual force remains for train- They were the first major multi-billion dollar US-led effort been raised from 0.25pc to 0.35pc. where the Taliban recently came eastern strongholds, with Afghan ing and counter-terrorism attacks since Mullah Akhtar to develop self-reliant Afghan Duty has also been levied on fire close to overrunning Kunduz city, forces increasingly battling the operations. Mansour was named as the new forces, suffering large daily casu- and health insurance, earlier in the most alarming threat to any militants on their own. The bombings on Friday in Taliban chief last week in an acri- alties and struggling to rein in an exempted. provincial capital since the 2001 US-led NATO forces ended Kabul struck near an army com- monious power transition after ascendant insurgency. INTERNEWS US-led invasion of Afghanistan. their combat mission in plex, a police academy and a US the insurgents confirmed the AFP

Flood havoc in Pakistan’s scenic Chitral Punjab CM orders

CHITRAL: The extent of dev- sub-valleys have remained con- different villages from each other. in the affected areas if the ’line- astation caused by the recent fined to their villages for over About the rehabilitation proc- line’ was not restored on war probe into huge flash floods in Pakistan’s scenic, two weeks as almost all the roads ess in the communication sec- footings. mountainous northern regions and suspension bridges were the tor, he said that roads of only Both Prime Minister Nawaz can be gauged from the fact that worst-hit throughout the valley. valleys had so far been opened Sharif and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa one cannot travel for more than The executive engineer of com- temporarily to traffic, while Chief Minister Pervaiz visited child abuse scandal 15 km on any road in Chitral munication and works division in the three major roads (Booni the district in the aftermath of district. Chitral, Maqbool Azam, says that road, Garam Chashma road and the floods and while addressing The floods caused widespread except proper Chitral town there Bumburate road) were given to the affected people in Kuragh LAHORE: A Pakistani prov- officials carrying out the inquiry destruction throughout the dis- was hardly any village that had Frontier Works Organisation for expressed their ‘determina- ince yesterday announced a were biased. trict, starting from Arandu in not been hit by the disastrous restoration. tion’ to expedite relief work judicial inquiry into a massive It came after parents of the the south to Baroghil in the north flood. He said that the regional chief and restoration of the damaged child abuse and extortion scan- victims clashed with police in stretching over about 400 km. He said that the current spate engineer has opened his camp infrastructure. dal allegedly involving hundreds the town of Kasur near Lahore The floods have brought untold of floods affected all the branch office in Chitral to supervise the The tourism industry was hit of victims amid mounting calls as they staged a protest blasting miseries to the people of Chitral valleys and played havoc with all restoration work and efforts are severely by flash floods as mobility for justice. authorities for failing to prosecute as all types of infrastructure have types of physical infrastructure, underway to make more bridges is not possible anymore without At least 280 children were the criminals. been devastated, limiting mobil- paralyzing life. and roads usable for traffic. restoration of roads. filmed being sexually abused by a Over 20 people were injured in ity of the residents and depriving He said that 50 suspension A retired professor, Shamsun The major tourist resort of gang of 25 men who blackmailed the clashes Tuesday when police them of even drinking and irriga- bridges were either washed away Nizar Fatimi, said that the net- the district the Kailash valley of their parents by threatening to used force to disperse more than tion water besides giving birth to or rendered unfit for use and 20 work of roads, bridges and irriga- Bumburate is among the worst- leak the videos, Latif Ahmed 400 protesters. severe food shortage. roads to different valleys were tion channels was the ’lifeline’ of affected places. Sara, a representative for the The gang allegedly attempted The residents of all the 34 also damaged which disconnected the district. He feared starvation INTERNEWS victims' families, said. to extort money from parents of Children aged mostly under 14 victims, selling clips of the vid- were also forced to perform sex eos locally for 40 Pakistan rupees acts on each other in the more each if they did not pay up. Flag march than 400 videos made in Hussain "They made the video of my son Khanwala village, southwest of in 2011 and we have been paying Experts: N-deal Lahore, since 2007, Sara and local the blackmailers since then," the media reports said. mother of one of the victims, who will make Iran "Around 300 videos of the kids did not want to be named, said. have been leaked and every sec- "I have seen the videos, they are a key player ond child in this village is a vic- disgusting," she said. tim," Sara, a legal activist said. Another woman said she came ISLAMABAD: The historic Chief Minister of Punjab to know about her son's abuse last nuclear deal with global powers Shahbaz Sharif yesterday ordered month when a video of him was is expected to strengthen Iran’s an independent judicial probe into leaked. position as a regional player and the case, amid mounting anger "He was terrified, he had been the lifting of sanctions will give from rights activists and a flurry subjected to sexual abuse for the a big boost to cooperation in the of media attention. past two years, today we went to energy field as well as in other "The chief minister (of) Punjab the police station to file a report," sectors of the economy, experts has ordered a judicial inquiry into the distraught mother told AFP. here say. (the) incident, those involved in "Every child in the village has “Of course, Iran’s position has the case will be punished and the seen the videos, they (the accused) strengthened after the nuclear affected families will be provided had been extorting money from agreement, but Iran is a more with justice at any cost," the parents, threatening to leak the diversified economy unlike some statement from the chief minis- video otherwise," she said. of its regional competitors. It’s ter's office said. Saba Sadiq, chief An AFP reporter who visited not just oil and gas,” says Mahdi of the province's Child Protection the village said young children Kazemzadeh, CEO of UK-based Bureau, described the case as had clips of the abuse on their firm Afraz Advisers. "the largest child abuse scandal mobile phones which they offered Speaking about the Iran- in Pakistan's history". to show journalists for free. Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline, In an initial report ordered by Local police reject the allega- Kazemzadeh said work on the the Punjab provincial govern- tions of abuse. "This is a very old project had not stalled because of ment last week and carried out by incident and those posing as vic- sanctions, but due to the inability police, local authorities described tims are cashing in on the issue of Pakistan to finance its end of Activists of Jamaat-e-Islami party march at a Pakistan Zindabad rally in Karachi yesterday, for the upcoming the allegations as "baseless". to settle a land dispute," Shahzad the project and build the pipeline. Independence Day. It was rejected by media and Sultan, the area's police chief said. Iran wants to attract over rights activists who said the AFP $100bn in its upstream oil and gas sector over the next decade in a new scheme of contracts especially on priority fields in the Pakhtunkhwa’s opposition alliance faces uncertain future country’s west close to Iraq. In the downstream sector, Iran PESHAWAR: A tripartite National Party (ANP) and Fazlur government to resign over alleged problems when it announced a Another disgruntled PPP wants over $62bn to build capac- alliance of opposition parties Rehman’s Jamiat Ulema Islam involvement in rigging, misman- protest on June 16 and a faction leader and former legislator Ayub ity to export 100bn cubic metres in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa prov- (JUI) seems to be uncertain. agement and poor planning in the of PPP-led by the party’s former Shah says the tripartite alliance is of gas by 2020. ince aimed at fighting the rul- Despite the presence of the alli- local body elections warning they provincial president Zahir Shah “unnatural” as its member parties According to Kazemzadeh, the ing Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf of ance in the electoral arena, the would launch a protest movement had kept itself away from the had no common agenda. removal of international restric- Imran Khan in the local elec- ruling PTI emerged as the largest against it if the demand was not strike. The JUI has warned it will tions on Tehran will also reflect tions held in recent weeks hangs party in the May 2015 local body met. PPP’s incumbent provincial leave the alliance if reservations favourably in energy prices as in limbo now that the electoral elections. They had also rejected PTI president Khanzada Khan had are not removed. About the future resumption of Iranian supplies is fight is over. The announcement to launch chief Imran Khan’s offer of re- joined the protest. However, the of the tripartite alliance, Iftikhar expected to put a downward pres- The future of the alliance protests was made by the alliance polling, saying the elections can- party’s president changed his said he would hold a meeting of sure on prices that will persist in comprising Bilawal Bhutto- after complaints of rigging in the not be held transparently till the stand on June 29 and accused the alliance to review its stand the long run. Zardari’s Pakistan People’s Party elections. The three opposition PTI-led government is there. the ANP of ditching his party in against the government. INTERNEWS (PPP), Asfandyar Wali’s Awami parties had asked the provincial The alliance had started facing elections. INTERNEWS MONDAY 10 AUGUST 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA Hunt on for quack who incited mob-lynching Police detain 27 people for killing five women

NEW DELHI: Police in east- out of huts by their hair and her head and she bled to death as ern India were searching yes- beaten to death with sticks, I watched from my room.” terday for a woman described as knives and stones at around last Experts say superstitious belief a “village quack” and suspected Friday night, after being accused in witchcraft and the occult of inciting the mob killing of five of bringing illness and bad luck remains widespread in some other women accused of witch- on the village through witchcraft. poor and remote areas of India. craft. Police said the woman Police said the quack had been Women are sometimes accused of is thought to have stirred up brainwashing the villagers about being witches to settle disputes or an angry mob which lynched the women “casting evil spells”. grievances. the five after blaming them for They said the final attack was In some cases women are recent deaths in Kanjia village triggered by the death of a sick stripped naked as punishment, in Jharkhand state, some 30 17-year-old boy last week. burnt alive or driven from kilometres (20 miles) from the Families of the victims recalled their homes and killed. In July state capital Ranchi. how they watched helplessly as machete-wielding villagers in “She is some village quack and their loved ones, mostly aged the northeastern state of Assam now absconding. She told the vil- between 40 and 55, were hacked dismembered and beheaded a lagers that these five were using and beaten to death by villagers 63-year-old woman after accusing black magic and causing deaths who reportedly chanted “Witch! her of being a witch and casting of children,” Ranchi deputy police Witch!” evil spells on her village. chief Arun Kumar Singh said over “She wore a wig and the vil- According to India’s National the phone. lagers believed the hair had black Crime Records Bureau, around Bharatiya Janata Party supporters hold a cut-out of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he addresses the ‘Parivartan’ “She abetted the whole thing. magic which led to a boy’s death,” 2,000 people, mostly women, were rally in Gaya, yesterday. With the tenure of the current Bihar legislative assembly scheduled to expire on November We are searching for her and Angi Oraon said, referring to her killed between 2000 and 2012 on 29, 2015, elections in the 243 assembly constituencies are likely to be held in October-November. will arrest her on the charge of mother’s fate. As she spoke, she suspicion of practising witchcraft. murder.” cleared the shattered roof tiles Jharkhand accounted for 54 of Kumar added that three more broken over her mother’s head. 160 “witch hunt” murders in 2013, in the village had been arrested Animiha Khalko, 25, said the government data showed. Some last Saturday over the kill- mob “rushed in, pulled out my Indian states including Jharkhand Modi targets Nitish and Lalu, ings, bringing the total number mother and beat her with batons have introduced special laws to detained to 27. and sticks”. try to curb such crimes. The five women were dragged “A final blow with a stone to AFP warns of ‘jungle raj’ in Bihar

GAYA (BIHAR): Prime the state assembly polls. Bihar if his BJP-led alliance was Minister Narendra Modi yes- Modi urged people to bring the not voted to power. “There is a terday said only the BJP-led BJP-led alliance to power in Bihar strong possibility of destruction National Democratic Alliance for the state’s development and to and disaster if jungle raj part-II CPI-M, SNDP spar in Kerala could ensure Bihar’s develop- prevent the return of ‘jungle raj’. returns to Bihar.” ment, and cautioned the people He said people should use the He cited murder of a BJP KOLLAM: Top leaders of the Over the years, even though of any political party. The CPI-M against the return of ‘jungle raj’ upcoming polls as an opportu- worker in Patna a few days ago CPI-M and the Sree Narayana SNDP has always claimed keep- thinks that they can deceive by if the JD-U-RJD alliance won nity to “free themselves from as an example of the likely return Dharma Paripalana (SNDP) ing equidistance from the rival projecting themselves as the in the upcoming state assembly the jungle raj” by voting for the of ‘jungle raj’. Yogam, a powerful social group political fronts -- Left and the saviour of the oppressed. I don’t polls. NDA. “You have suffered their Blaming the years of rule of of the Hindu Ezhava commu- Congress-led UDF -- in the state, understand why some get restless Addressing a gathering of about arrogance, deceit and exploita- RJD chief Lalu Prasad and his nity in Kerala, exchanged barbs it is common knowledge that a when the truth is stated,” he said. 50,000 people in Gandhi Maidan tion for the last 25 years. Do you wife Rabri Devi for Bihar’s back- yesterday about the SNDP gen- majority often used to throw their On his meeting with BJP presi- here, Modi attacked Bihar Chief want such a rule to continue for wardness and under-develop- eral secretary meeting BJP support behind the Left Front. dent Shah, Natesan said SNDP Minister and Janata Dal-United another five years?” ment, he said, “When they ruled chief Amit Shah. The sparring Yesterday, Natesan, speaking will meet anyone to ensure that (JD-U) leader Nitish Kumar and “I am here to appeal to you to the state, hardly any development between the two sides has been at SNDP’s general body meeting the community’s interests are his ally Rashtriya Janata Dal vote for us to develop Bihar and took place.” on since SNDP general secre- in Kollam, however, targeted the safeguarded. CPI-M state sec- (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad. to stop a return of the jungle Recalling that he had once tary Velapally Natesan and his CPI-M, saying no political party retary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, He repeatedly reminded people raj. I am confident of getting the described the RJD as “Rozana team called upon BJP national should try to control SNDP. however, maintained that it was of the likely return of ‘jungle raj’ blessings from the people for a Jungleraj ka Darr”, Modi yester- president Shah in New Delhi “Nobody needs to have any the CPI-M that has taken care of if Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)- change,” Modi said. day called the JD-U “Janata Ka along with Kerala BJP leaders thoughts of controlling the SNDP, majority of the working class in led National Democratic Alliance He warned the electors that Daman Aur Utpidan”. last month. as it’s not a feeder organisation the traditional industries. IANS (NDA) was not voted to power in “jungle raj-II” would prevail in IANS

Know Your Army Heavy rains Two militants, one soldier cause Delhi’s killed in Kashmir clashes worst deluge SRINAGAR: A soldier and two Among them was an attack NEW DELHI: Incessant rains suspected militants were killed on an Indian Border Security yesterday caused waterlog- in Kashmir in two separate Force convoy last week in which ging in many parts of Delhi, gun battles along the de facto two border guards and a militant crippling traffic movement — border that divides the restive were killed. Another militant was But the monsoon showers also territory between India and captured. India said the cap- brought welcome cheer to those Pakistan, police said yesterday. tured militant confessed to be a in a holiday mood. The two militants died when a Pakistani national but Islamabad “It rained for five to six hours group of suspected armed rebels has rejected the claim. in Delhi and till 11.30am around crossed the border into India Kashmir has been divided 35.8mm rainfall was recorded in and were intercepted by soldiers, between the South Asian rivals the city,” said an official with the triggering a gun battle in Keran, since they won independ- India Meteorological Department. 150 kilometres northwest of ence from Britain in 1947. Both People were stranded on Kashmir’s main city of Srinagar. claim the disputed territory in roads due to waterlogging. “According to sources in the its entirety. Since 1989, several Two-wheeler riders took refuge army two militants were killed rebel groups have been fighting under flyovers and foot-over- yesterday morning in the gun bat- hundreds of thousands of Indian bridges to escape being drenched tle,” Javaid Gillani, the inspector forces deployed in the region, in the rain. general of police for the region, for independence or a merger Traffic police officials said they said. An Indian army soldier was of the Himalayan territory with received numerous complaints killed last Saturday night in a Pakistan. regarding waterlogging at vari- similar, but separate gun battle in India often accuses Pakistan of ous places in the city. the adjacent sector of Tangdhar pushing armed militants across “Waterlogging also occurred along the heavily-militarised bor- the border, a charge Islamabad at various metro stations in the der, Gillani added. denies, saying it only provides city including Mundka, Rithala, A girl looks up from an army tank during the second day of the ‘Know Your Army’ exhibition in Allahabad The latest gun battles follow diplomatic and moral support to Laxmi Nagar, Nirman Vihar and yesterday. The exhibition aims to create awareness of the role of the army and its operations and to motivate a recent uptick in cross border the Kashmiri people’s struggle for Welcome,” he said. the youth to join the forces. exchanges of heavy fire between the right to self determination. IANS Indian and Pakistani troops. AFP Modi won’t let ACB AAP leader Alka Lamba attacked in Delhi

NEW DELHI: A 19-year-old Bhandar, where the matter. (AAP) leader Ashutosh tweeted: work, says Kejriwal has been arrested for throwing Jatin works,” Deputy “We were hold- “AAP’s fight (against) drugs will a stone at AAP legislator Alka Commissioner of ing discussions with be intensified. AAP MLA Alka NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Narendra Modi sent paramilitary Lamba during her anti-drug Police Madhur Verma drug addicts as a Lamba was attacked by drug car- Minister Arvind Kejriwal yes- forces and took over our ACB,” drive here yesterday, police said. said. part of the anti- tel. Our fight will continue.” terday took potshots at Prime he said. Teenager Jatin, who works at a “The MLA’s medi- drug drive when In his tweets, he also said that Minister Narendra Modi, say- Taking a jibe at Modi’s “Na sweet shop, was arrested follow- cal reports suggested I was attacked,” Lamba was attacked by a man ing he was not letting the city khaunga, na khane dunga” (Won’t ing Lamba’s complaint. that she had received Lamba later said at working in a sweet shop, which government’s Anti-Corruption take bribe, won’t allow corrup- Police said that Lamba, an simple blunt injury a press conference. he said was owned by BJP legisla- Branch (ACB) function. tion) remark, Kejriwal said the MLA from Chandni Chowk con- on her head. We have “There is defi- tor Om Prakash Sharma. “Either let us (Aam Aadmi central government has now stituency, sustained simple blunt arrested the accused nitely a conspiracy “Locals told us (that the) man Party government) do work, or adopted the policy of “Na kaam injury on her head and was dis- following her com- behind it. I am (who) attacked Alka Lamba was you (Modi) do. Take our Anti- karunga, na kaam karne dunga” charged from hospital after being plaint,” Verma said. hopeful that police working in sweet shop. (The) Corruption Branch (ACB), if you (Won’t work, won’t allow anyone administered first aid. Lamba started an will conduct a fair shop is owned by present BJP wish, but at least do something,” to work). In her complaint to police, anti-drug drive at 5 a.m. from probe and find out who is behind MLA Om Prakash Sharma,” he Kejriwal said at an event in Burari Kejriwal said his government Lamba said that Jatin had lobbed Yamuna Bazar to mark the Quit this attack,” she said. tweeted. area of north Delhi. was working round-the-clock to a stone when she opposed the India Movement Day. “The motive behind this attack “...she was the only one in the “After the formation of our deliver on all its promises, but the encroachment by some shopkeep- The MLA alleged that the inci- was not to target me but to dis- crowd who was hit. It’s deep con- government in Delhi, in three BJP was busy in taking revenge ers in the Kashmere Gate area. dent was a conspiracy against her rupt our campaign and disperse spiracy. AAP will fight back,” he months we abolished corruption on the AAP. “At the time of the attack, anti-drug drive and urged the the crowd,” the AAP leader said. tweeted. from the capital, but on June 8, IANS Lamba was outside Shiv Mishthan police to conduct a fair probe into Fellow Aam Aadmi Party IANS MONDAY 10 AUGUST 2015 FEATURES www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15

Survey between January 2008 and Disrupting the communication between functions properly, but not too much function should be part of the evaluation Higher blood mercury December 2009. the brain and other parts of the body, MS or things start to go haywire,” said of future cardiovascular risk,” Sabayan Analyses indicated that lower blood affects people in unpredictable ways. It may Gerald Weissmann, editor-in-chief of noted. level may increase manganese levels and higher blood mer- impair walking and even cause difficulties The FASEB Journal where the study The study involved 3,926 people with cury levels were associated with greater with concentration, attention, memory, was published. an average age of 75 and without a his- glaucoma risk glaucoma prevalence. and poor judgment. “This report helps shed light on what tory of heart attacks or strokes. ower blood manganese level and No association was found between The researchers noted that dietary salt can go wrong in individuals with genes that The people were also free of dementia. Lhigher blood mercury level may blood lead or cadmium levels or urine is likely just one of the many environmen- make one susceptible to autoimmune dis- Four tests were used to evaluate the increase risk of glaucoma, the leading arsenic levels and a diagnosis of glau- tal factors contributing to this complex ease,” Weissmann noted. participants’ high-level thinking skills cause of irreversible blindness world- coma in the study population. disease, and very much influenced by one’s at the beginning of the study. wide, says a new study. The study published online in the genetic background. The participants were then placed in Abnormal body levels of essential ele- journal JAMA Ophthalmology. “We hope to provide a comprehensive Thinking skills linked groups of “low,” “medium” and “high” ments and exposure to toxic trace met- understanding of how and why environ- based on the results. als have been postulated to contribute mental factors interact with individu- to heart disease risk The participants were then followed to the pathogenesis of diseases affecting High salt intake may als’ unique genetic make up to influence for an average of three years to see who many organ systems, including the eye, autoimmune diseases such as MS,” said one eople with low scores on a test of think- developed heart attacks or strokes. according to background information increase multiple of the researchers Dimitry Krementsov Ping skills required to reason, solve During that time, there were 375 in the article. from University of Vermont in Burlington, problems and plan may be at higher risk heart attacks and 155 strokes. Shan Lin of University of California, sclerosis risk Vermont, US. of heart attacks or strokes, new research People in the lowest group of think- San Francisco in the US, and col- To make this discovery, Krementsov and has found. ing skills were 85 percent more likely leagues investigated the relationship iets high in sodium may be a novel risk colleagues fed a high salt diet or a control “These results show that heart and to have a heart attack than those in the between body levels of five trace metals Dfactor in the development of multiple diet to genetically different groups of mice. brain function are more closely related highest group. (manganese, mercury, lead, cadmium, sclerosis (MS), an autoimmune disease Researchers then induced a disease in than appearances would suggest,” said A total of 176 of the 1,309 people with and arsenic) and the prevalence of that affects the central nervous system, these mice that mimics human MS. study author Behnam Sabayan from low scores had heart attacks, compared glaucoma. suggests new research. In one genetic group, both males and Leiden University Medical Center in with 93 of the 1,308 people with high Researchers analysed data from 2,680 The study found that high salt intake females fed a high salt diet showed worse Leiden, the Netherlands. scores. individuals (19 years and older) par- may influence immune cells that cause clinical signs of the disease. “While these results might not have The study was published online in the ticipating in the fourth Korea National the disease for which there is currently “As is the case with other things, you immediate clinical translation, they journal Neurology. Health and Nutrition Examination no cure. need to get enough salt so your body emphasise that assessment of cognitive AGENCIES

Put a wedge in your summer salad

By David Hagedorn than other lettuce varieties, could endure Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse cross-country travel well and had a long in DC goes that route writ larger, add- ere’s a wedge salad plan of shelf life ensured its hold on the market. ing cherry tomatoes and loading on more attack. Stab the fork at the Other greens gained prominence in the blue cheese and beef bacon. Chef Scott bull’s-eye and extract the ‘80s and beyond, but iceberg still goes Kroener says the place sells about 200 Hdense, yellow-white, bigger- strong, says Jim McWhorter, the vice wedges a week this time of year and con- than-bite-size chunk of iceberg lettuce president of sales for Coastal Sunbelt siderably more in the winter. Another in the center. If that piece isn’t covered Produce in Savage, Maryland. DC steakhouse, Mastro’s, serves a simi- with a swath of dressing, a modicum of Romaine is his biggest seller, at 40 per- lar wedge at dinner, but at lunch offers blue cheese and a crumble of beef bacon, cent, but iceberg is close behind, at 35 to a stunning entree wedge draped with maneuver your knife to make that hap- 40 percent. “It’s the go-to lettuce in the mayonnaise-and-ketchup-based Louie pen. If you can manage to get diced fast-food industry, like McDonald’s and dressing, hard-cooked eggs, avocado, tomato into the equation, so much the Burger King,” McWhorter says. “They diced tomato and prodigious lumps of better. Move your head closer to the may only put a little bit on their sand- crab meat. plate, bring the fork to your mouth and wiches, but they serve a lot of sandwiches. Myriad interpretations play fast stuff it in. Revel in the satisfaction of the And iceberg is having a big resurgence. and loose with embellishments, among cool crunch mixed with tang, creaminess, The wedge salad is everywhere.” them aged Gouda, cured tomatoes, pick- fat and smoke. Repeat with the rest of We noticed. led onions, walnuts, brioche croutons, the salad. It’s not just iceberg that chefs are roasted red peppers, scallions, Granny As a comfort food, the wedge salad is using. On his menu at City Perch in Smith apples, even batter-fried red onion right up there on my list with macaroni Bethesda, Maryland, chef Matt Baker petals. and cheese and fried chicken. Maybe it calls the offering a modern wedge. Instead So when I set out to rethink my own has something to do with growing up in of iceberg, he uses sweet gem lettuce; it approaches to wedge salad, I asked myself, the 1970s, when lettuce meant iceberg resembles a small heart of romaine, but “What is non-negotiable?” For me, it’s and romaine was something fancy used its center has the density and crunch of iceberg, blue cheese and beef bacon. only for Caesar salad. iceberg. To solve a problem that had always A salad was part of dinner every night, To dress the salad, Baker uses gribiche, bothered me, I spread a layer of blue- and the easiest way to make one was to a sauce made with grated hard-cooked cheese cream (in addition to my simple cut the iceberg head into four wedges and eggs, capers and cornichons; blue cheese blue cheese dressing) between the bottom plunk various flavours of bottled dress- foam and crumbles. This time of year, he layers of lettuce to inject flavour where ing on the table: Catalina, French, blue adds colorful heirloom tomatoes. dressing cannot penetrate. cheese, Thousand Island, Russian and At the Arsenal at Bluejacket in DC, Crunch is crucial, so to complement the creamy Italian. Plus the cruet of Good chef Kyle Bailey also uses gem lettuce for lettuce’s texture, I sprinkled small dice Seasons Italian dressing made “fresh” his wedge but takes it in a Southwestern of bright red radishes, English cucumber by mixing a flavour packet with oil and direction. He drizzles zesty, reddish- and zucchini over my dressed wedge, add- vinegar. orange achiote vinaigrette over a quar- ing finely diced red onion. Then I finish In restaurants, creamy dressing, usu- tered head and garnishes it with grilled with diced heirloom tomatoes and lots ally blue cheese, coated head-lettuce corn, tiny cubes of green tomato, dollops of crumbled best-quality smoked bacon. salad. Somewhere along the way, beef of sheep’s-milk ricotta cheese and a pile I also made a wedge for the blue- bacon got added to the mix, and the of fried tortilla matchsticks. cheese-averse. To do that, I smeared wedge salad was born and became a stea- Buck’s Fishing and Camping in Boursin between the bottom layers of let- khouse mainstay. Washington takes the less-is-more tuce. And I took a cue from the Mastro’s Until the 1920s, iceberg was known as approach with its salad: a simple ice- lunch salad but fashioned a dressing from onion, avocado and lump crab approach, by buying already hard-cooked eggs and crisphead lettuce. It came to be called berg wedge with horseradish-laced blue the ingredients found in deviled eggs. (It’s garnishing with more grated egg, chives precooked beef bacon strips. iceberg because it was packed in ice for cheese dressing and abundant beef bacon divine.) and smoked paprika. Considering the The result: no wedge issues. rail shipping. That it was less delicate crumbles. As for toppings, I took the radish, red oppressive summer heat, I cheated a bit WP-Bloomberg

Tarun Tahiliani showcases modern and light creations Style icon tag happened

ctress Lisa Haydon looked Tahiliani said of the collection: “I by default, says Deepika every bit the new age bride want to make everything modern and when she walked the ramp light. My theme is always about drap- eepika Aas the showstopper for ace ing, technology, lightness, sophistica- Padukone fashion designer Tarun Tahiliani at tion and understatement,” he said, and Dsays the ‘style the seventh edition of the BMW India added he “made his first sketch for icon’ tag associated Bridal Fashion Week 2015 here. this event in December”. with her is some- The model-actress, who has featured The colour pallette varied from gold, thing that happened in films like “Aisha” and “Queen”, wore ivory, jade, red, cobalt, soft blush, pow- by default. a “rustic golden-cream” lehenga and der blue and black. Asked about what an off-shoulder choli. The stage was decorated with big it meant to her to be Talking about the creation here on glittery balls and the screens showed a style icon, Deepika Saturday night, Lisa said: “It is abso- a galaxy of stars with blue lights. said: “I think for me, lutely stunning, it’s actually one of my The models were seen in basic it just happened by favourite of his outfits that I have ever make-up but with bold lip colour, default. I just have worn. Also, because of the fit, I feel carrying the outfit made by the amazingly talented the fit is more sexier, bohemian and designer, who has styled the like of people who work light weight. It’s also in a rustic, burnt Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty very and put it together out gold and cream which makes it a effectively. for me and make me stunning wedding outfit.” The fashion gala, which began on look the way I do. I don’t think I can take credit The designer’s showcase, ‘Our August 7, will conclude on August for that.” Electic New World’, features panelled 11 when designer Suneet Varma will Deepika has often stated that her mother veils, jackets, corsets kurtas, sarees, showcase his latest collection called Ujjala is her style icon and she reiterated that lehenga saris and lehenga-cholis, dho- “Couture - A Love Story!”. at an event which she attended to launch an tis and sherwanis. IANS eyewear brand collection. “I don’t think she knows about it. She’s had a big influence on my life. It (dressing) was always simple, minimalistic. She would always stick to white, blue and pastel shades. Even acces- sorizing was very minimal. That’s why my mum (style icon),” shared the 29-year-old. Having started out as a model, the manner in which she carries her style has always been appreciated by fans and the industry. But still, she thinks that she’s incapable of styling some- one else. “I don’t think I know enough about fashion to be styling other people. If anything, I think there are a lot of people out there who can style me,” said Deepika. IANS MONDAY 10 AUGUST 2015 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

Prayer Timings Weather Very hot during the day with slight dust to blowing dust at places Fajr 03.46 am Zuhr 11.39 am Maghrib 06.14 pm Minimum: 34o C Maximum: 44o C Shorook 05.05 am Asr 03.08 pm Isha 07.44 pm by midday and some HIGH TIDE 14:45LOW TIDE 06:45 - 22:00 clouds and hazy to misty by night.

Bent attraction ‘Ha ha’ most used happiness expression on Facebook

NEW YORK: Most people express happiness with “ha ha” followed by emojis, “he he” and “LOL (laughing out loud)”, says a recent Facebook research on e-laughing. The vast majority of people are “haha-ers” (51.4 percent), then emoji lovers (33.7 percent), the “hehe-ers” (12.7 percent) and finally, the “lol-ers” (1.9 percent). For those people who e-laughed, the Facebook team also analysed how many times they actually did. “Nearly 46 percent of the peo- ple posted only a single laugh during the week while 85 percent posted fewer than five laughs,” the team wrote on Facebook’s official research blog. About 52 percent of A Taiwanese and a postman pose for photograph beside two letter boxes bent to one side by recent Typhoon Soudelor in Taipei yesterday. The two boxes have become a tourist attrac- people used a single type of laugh tion with hundreds of people queueing to have their photo taken with them. The Chunghwa Post Co assigned staff to maintain order and plans to erect a sign beside the damaged letter and roughly 20 percent used two boxes to bear witness to Soudelor, and sell related souvenirs. Some Taiwanese have named the two boxes as Hsiao Hong and Hsiao Lu (Small Red and Small Green) respectively, calling different types. The researchers identified them cute, therapeutic, street art, and joke that the two boxes bent on purpose so that people could take photos with them. posts and comments posted on Facebook in the last week of May this year. They did the matching with regular expressions which automatically identified laughter in the text, including variants of “haha” “hehe” “emoji”, and “lol”. Box Office: Fantastic Four bombs Age, gender and geographic- location play a key role in laugh- LOS ANGELES: reviews may have doomed the project. the comic book movie to capture up $7m from 1,603 theatres. Pictures Classics’ coming-of-age ter type and length on the social and an indiscreet tweet left Trank reportedly exhibited first place on the box office charts. The film stars Meryl Streep as drama Diary of a Teenage Girl networking site. “Young people Fantastic Four on the slab, after bizarre behaviour on set that The Paramount sequel earned a an aging rocker re-connecting earned $54,525 on four screens, and women prefer emoji whereas the franchise reboot flopped at was so extreme it cost him his gig strong $29.4m in its second week with her estranged family and with a per screen average of men prefer longer ‘hehes’,” the the weekend box office. directing a Star Wars spin-off. He in theatres, pushing its domestic the hope is that the picture, $13,631, while IFC expanded team said. Both men and women Fox’s hopes of rejuvenating the seemed to acknowledge those ten- total to $108.7m. which appeals to older crowds, World War II thriller Phoenix like “hahas” and emoji followed by comic book characters and turn- sions, blaming studio-mandated It was a crowded weekend at will gradually build its audience from four to 27 screens. “hehes” and “lols”. ing the super-team into a cin- reshoots for the poor critical the multiplexes with four new in the coming weeks. The top five was rounded out by The team found that across all ematic juggernaut to rival The notices in a tweet on Thursday wide-releases. Among the new It cost $18m to produce and is Warner Bros’ Vacation with $9.1m age groups (13 to 70), the most X-Men have flamed out given that he subsequently deleted. entrants, STX Entertainment’s the first release from the rebooted and Disney and Marvel’s Ant-Man common laughs are still “haha”, that the film debuted to a dread- Fantastic Four’s opening is well The Gift fared best, with the Tri-Star, the label Tom Rothman with $7.8m, pushing their totals to “hahaha”, “hahahaha”, and only ful $26.2m across 3,995 theatres. below the $40m-plus debut that thriller picking up $12m across was overseeing before he took the $37.3m and $147.4m, respectively. then followed by “hehe”. The With a production budget of most analysts had projected and 2,503 theatres and nabbing a reins as head of Sony Pictures. Final numbers are still being most common are the four letter $120m, plus millions more in mar- trails the $56m launch of 2005’s third place finish. That’s a solid The final new release, tallied, but the overall box office “hahas” and “hehes”. The six let- keting costs, the film will need to Fantastic Four and the $58m bow debut considering the film, which Lionsgate’s Shaun the Sheep, will be down steeply compared ter “hahaha” is also very common, get a boost from foreign crowds if of 2007’s Fantastic Four: Rise of the Blumhouse co-produced, cost a didn’t make much of a stir, open- to the same weekend a year and in general, the “haha-ers” it wants to avoid being a write-off. Silver Surfer. It’s the worst open- mere $5m to make. ing on Wednesday and earning ago, as none of the new films use longer laughter. “The ‘haha- The studio was banking on a ing for a movie featuring Marvel It marks STX’s first theatrical $4m this weekend and $5.6m in could match the $65.6m debut ers’ are also slightly more open cast of up-and-coming actors Comics’ characters since Ghost release — the studio was launched its first five days in theatres. of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles than the ‘hehe-ers’ to using odd like Michael B Jordan and Miles Rider: The Spirit of Vengeance in 2014 by producer Robert The studio paid roughly $2m or the $42.1m second weekend of number of letters, and we do Teller and a wunderkind direc- debuted to $22.1m in 2012. A C Simonds with the goal of making for the rights along with promo- Guardians of the Galaxy. It’s the see the occasional ‘hahaas’ and tor in the form of Chronicle’s Josh minus CinemaScore means that the kind of mid-budget films that tion and advertising costs. The second straight week of declines, ‘hhhhaaahhhaas’,” the research- Trank to push the Human Torch, word-of-mouth is going to be toxic. studios have abandoned in favour break-even point is at approxi- a sign that ticket sales are slow- ers said. The “lol” almost always the Thing, Invisible Woman, and Fantastic Four’s weakness was of superhero adventures. mately $15m, making it a low-risk ing down entering the dog days stands by itself though some rare Mr. Fantastic into the modern good news for Mission: Impossible Sony’s Ricki and the Flash got investment. of summer. specimens of “lolz” and “loll” were era, but production difficulties — Rogue Nation, which edged out off to a slower start, picking Among art house players, Sony REUTERS also found. IANS

ISS crew to taste food grown in space Seagulls terrorise WASHINGTON: In a pioneer- UK holidaymakers ing feat that will help astronauts on long-duration space missions BRIGHTON: A familiar presence at Britain’s like Mars, the crew members on seaside resorts, seagulls have this summer spread board the International Space fear after ambushing holidaymakers as they tuck Station (ISS) are set to eat into their fish and chips, and even attacking pets. fresh food grown in the micro- The country’s tabloid newspapers have had a field gravity environment of space day, with headlines including: “Seagull stole my iPhone” for the first time. (The Sun), “Moment killer seagull turns cannibal” (The Expedition 44 crew members, Daily Mail) and “Psycho seagulls keep out illegals” including Nasa astronaut Scott (Daily Express). Even the broadsheets have joined in, Kelly, are ready to sample the with The Sunday Times warning that “Gull gangs learn fruits of their labour after har- new tricks to steal your seafront snacks”. vesting a crop of “Outredgeous” The squawking menaces have always had a bad red romaine lettuce from the reputation as scavengers. But the gulls are now “veggie plant” growth system on apparently growing in audacity and rather than the orbiting laboratory. feeding on leftovers, are deliberately targeting peo- The astronauts will clean the ple’s fish and chips, the battered haddock or cod leafy greens with citric acid- combination traditionally eaten by holidaymakers, based, food safe sanitizing wipes Astronauts on ISS are ready to sample their harvest of a crop of as they tuck in. “Outredgeous” red romaine lettuce grown in the orbiting lab. before consuming them. They “They’ve been trained by terrorists, I’m sure,” said Seagulls fight over food on Brighton beach in Brighton, will eat half of the space bounty, Cliff Faires, owner of a seafood kiosk in the historic southern England. A familiar presence at Britain’s setting aside the other half to be Veg-01, is being used to study the 1990s,” Dr Wheeler noted. The south coast resort of Brighton. A sign outside his seaside resorts, seagulls have this summer spread fear packaged and frozen on the sta- in-orbit function and performance purple/pinkish hue surrounding Brighton Shellfish and Oyster Bar warns: “Seagulls after ambushing holidaymakers as they tuck into their tion until it can be returned to of the plant growth facility and its the plants is the result of a com- will snatch your food. Please be aware. We don’t take fish and chips, and even attack pets. Earth for scientific analysis. rooting “pillows” which contain bination of the red and blue lights any responsibility for this action”. Fresh foods such as tomatoes, the seeds. The first “pillows” were which by design emit more light Local witnesses described a common plan of blueberries and red lettuce are a activated, watered and cared for by than the green LEDs. attack used by the birds, whereby a lone assailant and the birds being particularly aggressive in July good source of antioxidants. Expedition 39 flight engineer Steve Green LEDS were added so the pounces on an unsuspecting diner, forcing them to when they have young in their nests. Three pets “Having fresh food like these Swanson in May 2014. plants look like edible food rather drop their food. At this point, hordes of reinforce- have been pecked to death by seagulls in southwest available in space could have a posi- After 33 days of growth, the than weird purple plants. Besides ments arrive to feast on the spilt remains. “They’ll England in recent months: a turtle, a chihuahua tive impact on people’s moods and plants were harvested and returned the nutritional benefits, growing eat everything except lemon and tabasco,” one added. and a Yorkshire Terrier. “Blood was coming out of also could provide some protection to Earth in October 2014. At Nasa’s fresh produce in space may also “I see gulls grabbing food from people three or his head. It was like a murder scene,” the Yorkshire against radiation in space,” said Dr Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, provide a psychological benefit to four times a day, more when it’s sunny,” said Chris, Terrier’s owner Emma Vincent told reporters. Ray Wheeler, head of advanced the plants underwent food safety astronauts. who works at a fish-and-chip kiosk on Brighton pier. Even Prime Minister David Cameron has swooped life support activities at Nasa’s analysis. The second “Veg-01 plant The farther and longer humans “The worst thing I’ve seen is one landing on the into the debate. “I think a big conversation needs to Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. pillows” were activated by Kelly on go away from Earth, the greater head of an old lady who had a hot dog. She obviously happen,” he said. “Reading the papers this morning Nasa’s plant experiment, called July 8 and grew again for 33 days the need to be able to grow plants dropped it and the same gull took it away really fast, about how aggressive the seagulls are now in St Ives, before being harvested. for food, atmosphere recycling and the woman was terrified,” he said. for instance, we do have a problem.” The seeds had been on the psychological benefits. “I think that “It’s never been as bad. This is the worst year,” It is forbidden to kill seagulls, so the only way to station for 15 months before plant systems will become impor- said Jack Messenger, from the Sea Haze Bar, another fight them is to destroy their eggs or release birds being activated. The veggie unit tant components of any long- beachfront restaurant. “It’s probably best for us, of prey to hunt them. Pete Rock, an expert on urban features a flat panel light bank duration exploration scenario,” because when the seagulls eat their food, they (the gulls, called for further study using advanced tech- that includes red, blue and green informed Dr Gioia Massa, pay- customers) come and get more,” he joked. It is not nologies instead of destroying their eggs. LEDs for plant growth and crew load scientist for Veggie system at only seaside towns that are suffering, with inland “They know everything there is to know about observation. Kennedy. The Veggie unit can also cities such as Bath and Bristol reporting problems. their home range, where all the food is, and where “Using LED lights to grow be used by astronauts for recrea- Experts blame a combination of factors for this to go and mate,” he said. “What we don’t know, is plants was an idea that originated tional gardening activities during summer’s Hitchcockian events. They include gulls what they know, and the only way to find that out with NASA as far back as the late deeper space missions. IANS becoming more accustomed to living close to humans is to use satellite telemetry.” AFP Monday 10 August 2015 25 Shawwal 1436 Volume 20 Number 6518 Price: QR2

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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 Saudi plans QInvest profit surges 86pc in H1 up to SR20bn Net profit touches QR88.7m; revenue rises by 40 percent to QR195.6m sovereign DOHA: QInvest, Qatar’s lead- remained absolutely focused on syndicated. QInvest continued to Investments has been reduced sig- ing investment group and one executing our exciting pipeline of actively work on mandates for both nificantly, and this trend continues. bond sale of the most prominent Islamic deal flow, taking advantage of our sovereign and corporate entities, During the period, QInvest financial institutions, reported unique market position to leverage which the team expects to exe- also made a select number of new KHOBAR/DUBAI: Saudi $53.7m (QR195.6m) revenue opportunities and deliver value for cute in the second half of the year. equity investments; in aggregate Arabia could raise up to for the first half of 2015 (H1, clients and shareholders alike.” Moreover, the mergers and acqui- deploying approximately $50m SR20bn ($5.33bn) from 2015), up 40 percent compared Despite these strong results, sitions team remained active, most (QR182m) in three transactions. bonds today, opening its sale to the H1, 2014. The net profit QInvest continues to monitor its notably benefiting from interna- The transactions took the form to commercial banks for the of QInvest surged to $24.4m investments carefully, given the tional transaction flows. of both direct co-investments and first time since it returned to (QR88.7m), up 86 percent form challenges that markets still rep- During H1, 2015, the Principal fund investments; in all cases the the debt market last month a year ago. resent going forward. Investments unit secured and investments were made alongside to fill a budget gap caused by Commenting on the results During H1, 2015, all three of invested in a yielding equity leading investment groups. falling global oil prices. Tamim Hamad Al Kawari (pic- QInvest’s revenue-generating busi- opportunity in the German retail Within the Asset Management Debt-averse Saudi Arabia, tured), Chief Executive Officer ness lines — Investment Banking, market, yielding assets leased to division, the clients continue to the world’s top oil exporter, of QInvest, said: “During the Principal Investments and Asset national government agencies and benefit from the impressive per- highly successful local equity strat- sold bonds last month for the first half of 2015 we generated Management — continued to cul- a hospitality value add opportunity formance and returns which egy, which has annualized returns first time since 2007 and plans strong performance, despite the tivate new business and develop as well as additional mezzanine QInvest has generated across our of above 22 percent since launch more sales to help fill a budget on-going volatility across global existing relationships. debt transactions, all in the US. portfolios. QMAP, QInvest’s pio- in 2013, and is significantly ahead deficit which the International markets. Profits generated in the In the Investment Banking Additionally, the team continues neering open architecture sharia’a of the benchmark and its peers. Monetary Fund estimates at past six months alone exceeded division, the structured finance to pursue residential develop- compliant fund platform, now Whilst previously only offered as a $150bn this year. those in the year 2014. We con- business closed nine transactions, ment opportunities in London on includes an additional regional segregated account, the new Fund Last month’s SR15bn worth tinued to source new opportuni- deploying approximately $260m a co-investment basis. Following equity fund, the Qatar Equity [now] provides access to a broader of notes were sold only to ties, strengthen our brand and (QR946.8m), of which approxi- exits in 2014, the historical port- Fund (the ‘Fund’). Launched in number of eligible investors. quasi-government funds, but deliver positive returns. We also mately $50m (QR182m) was folio of non-real estate Principal the last quarter, the Fund uses the THE PENINSULA commercial banks will now be included. The banks were briefed two weeks ago by the central bank, the Saudi Apple Music on top chart Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA), on its plans. While no firm figure has Qatari stocks plunge on oil, been disclosed for today’s sale, several Saudi-based sources at banks or government bodies said the total value bank, real estate bullish was expected to be between SR15bn and SR20bn, in DOHA: Fresh fall in oil prices after oil prices hit fresh multi- Kuwait Financial Centre (Markaz) tranches issued for five, seven pushed Qatari stocks down month lows, Reuters reported. said Mena markets gave lacklus- and ten years. yesterday. Real estate sec- Crude oil dipped on Friday, post- ter returns during the month of SAMA could not be reached tor recorded the day’s biggest ing a sixth straight week of losses, July 2015. “The celebration of the for comment. The sources losses. The bourse’s benchmark as the approaching end of the US holy month of Ramadan led to the spoke on condition of ano- index lost 1.36 percent, or 160.03 summer driving season suggested a drying up of liquidity in the Mena nymity as the information points, to finish at 11,610.22, due growing surplus in gasoline supply. markets in July, with volume falling was not public. to profit booking by retail inves- Although most listed companies 33 percent and value traded falling The five-year tranche tors. At least QR7bn wiped out in the Gulf have no direct exposure 29 percent..” is expected to be priced to from the market yesterday as the to oil, government spending fuelled Analysts are bullish on Qatar, yield between 33 and 38 basis week opened for trading. On YTD by oil revenues is the main driver particularly on banks and real points more than the equiv- basis, the market is 1.36 percent of economic growth in the region, estate. According to Moody’s alent US Treasuries, while down. the report said. Investors Service, strong spending the ten-year tranche would Blue chips were the main drag. Qatar Exchange (QE) declined by the Qatari government will ena- yield between 45 and 50 bps Heavyweight Industries Qatar (IQ) 3.4 percent month-on-month in ble banks to maintain their robust over US Treasuries, two of the shed 2.47 percent, while QNB fell July after rising 1.3 percent MoM financial metrics, including strong sources said. 0.71 percent and Doha Bank lost1.71 in June, 2015. The index trended earnings and lower non-perform- One of the sources, at a gov- percent. Masraf Al Rayan edged downward for most of the month, ing loans (NPL) in the next 12-18 ernment entity, also said the 1.13 percent down. with intermediate brief gains. months. The Qatari banks hold a seven-year portion would yield Among the sector indices, real Profit booking by the local inves- large proportion of high-quality between 38 and 44 bps more estate was the worst performer, tors led to weakness in the mar- government-related loans, their than US Treasuries. with Barwa losing the most by 3,33 kets. The value traded in July fell asset quality will remain strong. Further debt issuance is percent. Ezdan fell 2.19 percent. 41.2 percent to $0.8bn from $1.4bn The government has approved a planned by the Saudi govern- Mazya plunged 2.13 percent and in the previous month. On YTD draft law for practicing real estate ment on a monthly basis to UDC was down by 0.39 percent. basis, the market declined 4.1 per- brokering in Qatar. The new law the end of the year, although The services sector was the only cent in July on MoM, analysts at has established obligations and estimates vary as to the total gainer after adding 0.07 percent. Global Research noted yesterday. accountabilities for the real estate amount of debt the authorities An advertisement for Apple Music is posted on the streets of Manhattan Most stock markets in the Gulf In a separate report on the per- brokers, the ratings agency noted will sell. REUTERS in New York City. After launching in June, Apple announced it has edged down in early trade yesterday formance of Mena market, the recently. THE PENINSULA attracted 11 million users during its trial period. Swiss banks step up battle for Asia’s super-rich

ZURICH/HONG KONG: UBS’s talk about it as the main strategy.” Asia’s growing ranks of self- management of more than $20bn to giant banner on Hong Kong’s The attractions are obvious, with made millionaires and billionaires be profitable, according to consul- One Peking Road skyscraper, so a recent slowdown in growth still are proving more active in manag- tancy EY. To bulk up quickly, banks big it has drawn complaints for leaving many Asian economies far ing their wealth than Europeans could look to acquisitions. keeping solar panels in the shade, outpacing Western counterparts. living off inheritances, regularly In recent years, Julius Baer has is a testament to the renewed Boston Consulting Group (BCG) playing banks against each other bought Merrill Lynch’s wealth push among Swiss banks to win forecasts private wealth in the Asia to get the best deal. “It’s their own management business outside of business from Asia’s burgeoning Pacific, excluding Japan, will grow money, not the money of the father the United States, while Union ranks of millionaires. on average by 9.7 percent a year or grandfather,” noted ZKB’s Brun. Bancaire Privee has snapped up Switzerland’s wealth managers through to 2019, more than double Asia’s super-rich also tend to Coutts International. Both pur- have long courted Asia’s super-rich the rate in Western Europe. spread their money out over six chases helped the banks beef up amid slowing growth at home and According to the latest Asia banks or so. “Asia is a highly banked their presence in Asia. Leading an international crackdown on its Pacific Wealth Report published market,” said Claude Haberer, head the pack in size at the moment is bank secrecy rules that has made in October by Capgemini and RBC of Swiss bank Pictet’s wealth man- UBS, the biggest wealth manager the country a less attractive place Wealth Management, the region’s agement business in Asia. “Asians by assets globally and in the Asia to keep cash. population of high net worth indi- are willing to try out a bank but Pacific, which BCG estimates will The logo of Swiss bank UBS is seen at its headquarters in Zurich. But the competition has recently viduals — defined as those with you have to explain what you bring overtake North America in 2016 as shifted up a gear, with the new investable assets of $1m or more, to the table.” the world’s wealthiest region. boss of Credit Suisse signalling he excluding primary residence, col- And wealth managers are In 2014, UBS managed $272bn Judging by its giant Hong Kong “For us, it has and will always be wants to embark on a similar path lectibles, consumables, and con- increasingly having to offer inflated in the Asia Pacific region, accord- banner, unveiled earlier this year as an important market.” to cross-town rival UBS, which in sumer durables — grew 17 percent pay packets to poach bankers in a ing to a study from magazine Asian part of the bank’s largest outdoor Koh hopes the Asia Pacific will 2011 chose to shrink its investment to 4.3 million in 2013, while their region where demand for talent Private Banker. Citi’s private bank advertisement in the world, UBS contribute at least one third of bank and focus on the more stable wealth grew 18 percent to $14.2 exceeds supply. “Those who make it and Credit Suisse rounded out the is determined to defend its lead. UBS’s private bank profits by 2017, wealth management business, espe- trillion. in the Asian market are those who top three with assets of $255bn Edmund Koh, the head of UBS’s compared with just under 30 per- cially in Asia. That compared with growth are willing to invest significantly,” and $154bn respectively. But com- wealth management business in cent now. With almost 1,200 rela- “Everybody wants to be in Asia,” rates of 13 percent and 12 percent Haberer said. “There is definitely petition is heating up, with Credit southeast Asia and Asia Pacific hub, tionship managers, according to said Andreas Brun, a banking ana- respectively in the rest of the world. an issue of minimum size, below Suisse’s Asia Pacific CEO Helman said Credit Suisse faced a challenge Asian Private Banker, UBS has lyst at Switzerland’s Zuercher But turning Asian riches into prof- which you just cannot pay the entry Sitohang saying the bank was tar- to catch up. more than twice as many bankers Kantonalbank (ZKB). “It’s not a itable business is no easy task for ticket.” Private banks in the Asia geting the region’s growing popula- “They say Asia is an important in Asia than any other wealth man- sudden thing but they suddenly wealth managers. Pacific typically need assets under tion of entrepreneurs. market going forward,” he said. ger. REUTERS MONDAY 10 AUGUST 2015 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Tesla loses over $4,000 on every car sold Silicon Valley automaker’s losses mount to $359m in cash last quarter Tesla’s cash crunch Electric car maker Tesla continues to pile up losses and cut into its DETROIT: It’s crunch time Motor Co have amassed far cash reserves. for Tesla Motors. The Silicon larger cash cushions as they’ve Valley automaker is losing more rebuilt balance sheets battered OPERATING LOSS CASH than $4,000 on every Model S by the 2008-2009 recession. GM, $ Millions $ Billions electric sedan it sells, using its restructured six years ago in a 0 3 reckoning of operating losses, government funded bankruptcy, and it burned $359m in cash has targeted cash reserves of last quarter in a bull market for $20bn and had more than $28bn luxury vehicles. in cash equivalents as of June 30. 50 The company on Wednesday To be sure, GM sells more than cut its production targets for this 9 million vehicles a year, while 2 year and next. Chief Executive Tesla plans to build between Elon Musk (pictured) said he’s 50,000 and 55,000 cars this year. 100 considering options to raise more Tesla, most of whose cars are built capital, and didn’t rule out selling to order directly, delivered 11,532 more stock. cars in the second period and said 1 Musk has taken investors on a it had an operating loss of about thrill ride since taking Tesla pub- $47m, for an operating loss per 150 lic in 2010. Now he’s given himself car of about $4,000. a deadline, promising that by the Tesla’s narrower margin for first quarter of 2016 Tesla will be error is just one more way in 200 0 making enough money to fund a which it is different from its cen- Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 jump from making one expensive, tury old rivals. 2014 2015 2014 2015 low volume car to mass producing The company said it plans Source: company filings multiple models, and expanding a $1.5bn in capital spending this venture to manufacture electric year, mainly to launch its Model power storage systems. X, battery powered sport utility on options. Musk said this week Tesla who has a sell rating on the stock. different way from the Detroit Tesla’s shares fell almost 9 vehicle with eye-catching, verti- Tesla has signaled capital expects to have $1bn in cash over Musk has steered Tesla out of automakers. Using the gener- percent on Thursday and slipped cal-opening “falcon wing” doors. spending will drop next year the next year, and told analysts tight corners before. In September ally accepted accounting prin- another 2 percent on Friday as Tesla reported $831m in capital because the company won’t be “there may be some value” in rais- 2012, the company faced a cash ciples, or GAAP, used by GM or investors and analysts weighed spending during the first half of spending on a major vehicle ing capital “as a risk reduction crunch, but raised money by Ford, Tesla’s operating losses per the risks of Musk’s ambitious the year, indicating it will spend launch. In 2017, Tesla plans to measure.” selling shares and renegotiating vehicle have steadily widened to plans for expanding Tesla’s auto roughly another $700m. launch its Model 3 line, which Tesla’s stock is still about 70 the terms of a federal loan. The $14,758 from $3,794 in the second and energy storage businesses. During the second quarter, the company says will start at percent higher than it was two Model S started production in quarter of 2014. Tesla had just $1.15bn on hand as Tesla said operating costs and about $35,000 and push total sales years ago, and 8 percent ahead of miod-2012. But Tesla points out in its state- of June 30, down from $2.67bn a research and development spend- toward the goal of 500,000 vehi- its level on January 1. With a mar- Tesla has made moves to ments to investors that its GAAP year earlier. ing rose, while average selling cles a year by 2020. ket capitalisation of $31bn, Tesla expand sales volume, and lure accounting excludes certain rev- Automakers consume cash to prices for the Model S lineup, Barclays analyst Brian Johnson is worth more than Fiat Chrysler people to pay more for its vehi- enue and profits from Model S pay for assembly line equipment, which starts at $70,000 before disagreed with the company’s esti- Automobiles NV, the much larger cles. In addition to adding a lower sedans that customers lease. In including metal dies and plastic federal and state electric vehicle mates, and said he expects Tesla’s maker of Ram pickups and Jeep priced version of the Model S, the second quarter, the deferred molds, as well as testing to meet tax breaks, fell 1 percent as the capital spending will go up in 2016 Grand Cherokees. Tesla last month said it would gross profits from Model S leases safety and emissions standards. mix of sales shifted to less expen- and 2017 as the company ramps “A capital raise, given the way offer performance upgrades for amounted to $61.9m, Tesla said. A typical new car can cost $1bn sive models and a strong dollar hit up its battery factory and Model they’re burning cash today, given its Model S 85 and 85D for $5,000 Analysts say they add back the or more to engineer and bring to revenue generated overseas. The 3 development. “Their small scale the fact that they have future and launched the Model S 90D deferred revenue to make Tesla’s market. Model S comes in several differ- means the cash generation is not investment needs, seems very and P90D high performance cars figures more comparable to the Established automakers such ent versions, ranging in price up as great as they might have hoped likely at some point,” said UBS at a $10,000 price premium. reporting used by other automak- as General Motors Co and Ford to $106,000 or more, depending for,” he said. Securities analyst Colin Langan, Tesla reports its finances in a ers. REUTERS

KPMG names Abu Sharkh as Foxconn plans $5bn India investment over 5 years MUMBAI: Taiwan’s Foxconn, name for Hon Hai Precision He had said in May that new Country the world’s largest contract Industry Co Ltd which also counts Foxconn was aiming to develop electronics manufacturer and Blackberry, Xiaomi and Amazon 10-12 facilities in India, includ- a key supplier to Apple Inc, on as clients, was looking for local ing factories and data centres, Senior Partner Saturday signed a pact with partners for the facility in the by 2020. Local businessmen are Maharashtra to invest $5bn western Indian state. hoping that as Foxconn and other over five years on a new elec- He declined to say if the companies invest in the country, tronics manufacturing facility. Taiwan-based company would suppliers will follow. The announcement was made make mobile phones at the facility. Chief minister Fadnavis said by Foxconn founder Terry Gou India could help Foxconn miti- the Foxconn plant would gener- and Maharashtra Chief Minister gate accelerating wage inflation in ate employment for about 50,000 Devendra Fadnavis after the sign- China, where it makes the major- people. ing of an accord in the state capi- ity of iPhones, and base produc- Foxconn employs about 1.3 tal Mumbai. tion sites closer to markets where million people during peak pro- The Foxconn announcement its key clients want to grow. duction times, making it one of The logo of Foxconn is seen on top of the company’s headquarters in will bolster Indian Prime Minister On Tuesday, Gou said in New the largest private employers in Tucheng, New Taipei city. Narendra Modi’s “Make in India” Delhi that he was looking at set- the world. campaign, which aims to turn ting up manufacturing units in But it has had to improve labour Asia’s third-largest economy into various Indian states and possible conditions following a series of operation. at its Zhengzhou plant in China a manufacturing powerhouse. partnerships in the world’s fastest suicides in 2010-2011, mostly The company on Friday con- which a labour group said was Gou said Foxconn, the trade growing smartphone market. at its Shenzhen manufacturing firmed the death of an employee suicide. REUTERS

DOHA: KPMG in Qatar has Egyptian pound steady at official auction appointed Ahmed Abu Sharkh UK banks go for (pictured) as its Country Senior Partner . Ahmed will CAIRO: Egypt’s central bank pound at 7.5301 for five months bureaus said the pound was chang- manage the firm’s Qatar opera- kept the pound steady at 7.73 per until last month, when it allowed ing hands at rates ranging from tions as well as leading key client dollar at a foreign exchange auc- it to weaken to 7.6301. On July 5, 7.86 to 7.88, almost unchanged mobile makeover relationships and engagements. tion yesterday. The currency was the bank let it slide a further 0.10 from the 7.875/88 per dollar quoted Ahmed brings in over 28 years also steady at exchange bureaus. pounds. last Tuesday. LONDON: With reputations consumers have used a smartphone of experience in consulting and The central bank said it had Letting the pound weaken in a The central bank gave banks tarnished by the financial crisis to access banking services in the auditing large organizations offered $40m and sold $37.8m at a controlled way could boost exports permission in January to trade dol- and a string of scandals, Britain’s past month. That compares with from various industries includ- cut-off price of 7.7301 pounds per and attract further investment, lars up to 0.10 pounds more or less top banks are trying to adapt and 44 percent in the United States, 39 ing financial services, metals and dollar, unchanged from the last but also raises Egypt’s large bill than the official rate, with an extra move ahead by embracing mobile percent in Australia, 32 percent in mining, transport and logistics auction on Tuesday. for imported fuel and food staples. 0.05 pounds for currency exchange technology. France and 19 percent in Germany and the public sector. The central bank held the Three traders at exchange bureaus. REUTERS Four years ago, Lloyds Banking and Japan. He has recently worked as Group did not have a single cus- “It’s an important evolution of Head of Internal Audit Consulting tomer accessing services via a the relation between banks and Services in Russia and Central smartphone, but today there are their customers. This could be and Eastern Europe. Prior to this, Biogas recovery five million using such apps — and the future of retail banking,” BBA he was the Country Managing counting. “This provides huge spokesman Robert Watts said. Partner for a Big 4 firm in Latvia opportunities for how we serve The financial crisis, scandals and has held senior consult- our customers,” said Nick Williams, over rigging the interbank and ing, audit and leadership roles consumer digital director at Lloyds. foreign exchange markets and con- throughout his career. The trend is echoed across the sumer challenges of mis-sold finan- On the appointment, Managing industry. In 2015, Britain’s bank- cial products have undermined Partner for KPMG in Qatar ing industry body BBA expects 427 trust in Britain’s top banks — and and Bahrain, Jamal Fakhro million branch transactions for the hit their balance sheets. said; “Ahmed has had a strong whole sector, compared to 895 mil- Lloyds and other lenders have and vibrant career and we are lion transactions on mobile phones. spent about £26bn alone on com- delighted to welcome him to our British consumers are now pensation for having wrongly sold team. He brings with him expe- among the top users of banking Payment Protection Insurance. rience, knowledge and a proven smartphone applications in devel- The four main banks — Barclays, track record of delivering growth, oped nations. “UK consumers were HSBC, Lloyds and RBS — still building strong client relation- relatively slow in their adoption of dominate the market, holding ships and driving quality services online banking but have embraced about three quarters of all cur- which will benefit our clients and mobile banking thanks to the ease rent accounts in 2014, according our people.” and convenience of managing your to the Competition and Markets Ahmed commented: Qatar is an money on the move,” said Philip Authority. interesting and dynamic place and Benton, an analyst at Euromonitor But their hold is being chal- I am looking forward to support- International. lenged by foreign rivals, notably the ing our clients and the business “It’s understandable that the UK Spanish banking group Santander, community to realize their ambi- retail banking sector is betting on and newer establishments such as tions and contribute to Qatar’s Ryan Rogers checks on a generator at Homestead Dairy in Plymouth, Indiana. The farm invested in a biogas these new technologies.” Metro Bank, Tesco Bank, Virgin vision, growth and success.” recovery system which transforms cow manure and other waste into enough electricity to power 1,000 homes. A recent Euromonitor sur- Money or upstarts like Atom and THE PENINSULA vey found 36 percent of British Fidor. AFP MONDAY 10 AUGUST 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 Delta Air Lines shrinks Dubai service Airbnb gives Paris luxury Competition from three Gulf carriers is hurting business Lufthansa, cabin crew NEW YORK: Delta Air Lines return in the spring of 2016. US airlines to lose market share. hoteliers a Inc has scrapped a number of its Delta said months ago that its Other US carriers such as flights to Dubai this winter in international capacity cuts were JetBlue Airways Corp and the eye pay accord by Nov an apparent nod to how compe- in response to falling crude prices air cargo unit of FedEx Corp have tough fight tition with three Gulf carriers hitting demand in oil-rich mar- backed the Gulf airlines, saying is hurting its business. kets and to the strong US dollar that government action would BERLIN: Lufthansa and the union representing cabin crew say Delta, the second-largest US that has hurt the spending power signal an abandonment of the they are confident they will reach an agreement in a protracted PARIS: Nowhere in the world passenger carrier, will fly non- of foreign travelers. United States’ liberal trade policy dispute over pay and pensions. Talks have been extended until has more accommodation avail- stop to Dubai from its Atlanta Yet the latest news under- in favour of protectionism. November 1. The German carrier has been in lengthy negotia- able on Airbnb than Paris. Now hub between four and five times scores a trade row that is rippling The Obama administration is tions with various staff groups as it tries to cut costs to compete the home-sharing website that per week starting October 1, down through Washington. currently reviewing the issue. more effectively with low-cost airlines and Gulf airline rivals. has transformed budget travel from daily service this summer. Large US unions and air- Delta is the only airline that The cabin crew union, UFO, representing about 19,000 flight to the French capital is giving The airline revised its schedule lines, led by Delta, charge that flies between Atlanta and Dubai. attendants, opposes changes to company pension plans and has for its super-deluxe hotels a fright on Friday to reflect the change, Emirates, Etihad Airways and Its service reduction will leave the more than a year been negotiating with Lufthansa over a new wage too. “The Paris market is going part of a broader 15-to-20 percent Qatar Airways have received Washington-Dubai flights on rival contract. “I’m convinced that we can find constructive solutions,” to get very difficult,” said Didier cut in capacity to the Middle East some $42bn in subsidies from United Continental Holdings Inc Lufthansa personnel chief Bettina Volkens said in a statement le Calvez, managing director of and Africa that Delta announced their home governments in the as the only remaining daily non- published yesterday. “After a lot of back and forth, we all want and the Bristol Hotel. Along with in April. past decade. They say this has stop on a US carrier this winter. need an end to the impasse,” UFO head Nicoley Baublies said in a bosses of the city’s other “pal- “The reduction comes amid allowed the Gulf carriers to start Emirates operates a freighter letter to staff also released yesterday. aces”, he denounces Airbnb as overcapacity on US routes to the dumping capacity into the United service to Atlanta and currently Strikes are still not to ruled out. Baublies said extending the talks a menace that enjoys an unfair Middle East operated by govern- States, driving down prices and flies passengers to nine US cit- is not equivalent to a so-called peace period, during which the union advantage. ment-owned and subsidised air- pushing out competitors. ies from Dubai, with plans to add is obliged by law to refrain from industrial action. A trawl of the Paris region’s lines,” Delta spokesman Trebor The Gulf carriers have denied more. Qatar Airways will launch UFO cancelled planned work stoppages in late June after making 50,000 Airbnb offerings — there Banstetter said in a statement, that they are subsidised and say Atlanta-Doha flights in July 2016. progress in talks with Lufthansa. REUTERS were only 7,000 across the whole noting that daily service would poor customer service has caused REUTERS of France in 2012 — suggests le Calvez and his colleagues have reason to worry. Airbnb offers between 380 and 400 Paris properties at over €500 a night. Of those, about 40 charge over €1,000. Add in the attraction Fed up with waiting, of individuality, anonymity and in some cases extra beds, and that puts them potentially in com- US hike needed to clear petition with the €1,000 a night Bristol and half a dozen other high-end Paris hotels, which have about 1,500 rooms to offer in total. emerging markets air The Paris luxury sector is already worried about a surge in NEW YORK: Emerging mar- director for EM research at competition from newly opening kets have spent more than two Goldman Sachs. hotels. Consultants JLL Hotels & years in a slow-motion crisis “I see the Fed as a catalyst Hospitality reckon that capacity with the threat of a US inter- that perhaps causes some EMs to will be 60 percent greater in 2018 est rate rise hanging over them. make the adjustments they need. than a decade earlier. The Federal Reserve’s first In some places it may force the A downturn in visits from hike in nearly a decade, when adjustment to be a bit faster than wealthy Russians and Brazilians it finally comes, might actually it would have been otherwise,” as the economies there falter, and clear the air. Trivedi said. But “to the extent fears among US visitors of rising An eventual rise in borrowing the Fed move is delayed, it delays anti-semitism in France, are also costs has been anticipated since the inevitable adjustment.” a factor. May 2013 when then-chairman Capital outflows from emerg- The Bristol suffered a 20 per- Ben Bernanke sparked a glo- ing equities are running at almost cent drop in revenue in the first bal emerging market sell-off by $30bn this year, according to half of this year and an occupancy speculating about winding down, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, rate that fell to 61.2 percent from or tapering, of the Fed’s money- which noted “capitulation” selling 69.2. The Four Seasons George V printing programme accelerating as Fed action nears. saw a 5 percentage point drop in As higher US interest rates Currencies from the Brazilian occupancy to 66 percent in the raise the global cost of capital real to the Indonesian rupiah are same period. The Plaza Athenee and depress the price of their at their weakest in over a decade. cut its prices by 20 percent last commodity exports, Fed tighten- Malaysia’s ringgit is at its lowest Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Friday in New York City. winter. ing has historically spelt trouble since the Asia crisis of 1997/1998. At the same time, maid and for emerging economies that still Emerging equities remain some concierge services and other overwhelmingly rely on overseas 36 percent below their peaks of to be extra-sensitive to US yields In fact Narain reckons a sce- But things can change if, as extras are all available along with investment. 2007, with MSCI’s main measure in that sector. nario in which the Fed doesn’t Goldman’s Trivedi says, Fed- some seriously swanky real estate From the ‘taper tantrum’ down 17 percent over the past US consumer inflation at the budge in coming months would be induced volatility forces adjust- on Airbnb, the US-based firm onwards, US tightening — though year and close to its lows of 2013. moment is just 0.1 percent, versus extremely negative for emerging ments. He cites India, which which has been valued at around glacially slow — has prevented a “For EM, the earlier the better. the 2 percent target that guides markets, as it would signal growth slashed its current account gap $10bn. Host owners “Maxime durable investor return to parts It is one uncertainty factor out of Fed policy. Even its favoured is below expectations. after the 2013 shakeout and is and Fanny” present a flat they of the world deemed most at risk. the way, particularly as it is one inflation measure — the index Policymakers seem to agree. now an investor favourite. say was once the home of film But increasingly, policymakers that cannot be avoided,” said Enzo of personal consumption expen- Rising US rates will add Past Fed hiking cycles have star Brigitte Bardot, and whose as well as investors are hoping the Puntillo, a fund manager at GAM. ditures (PCE) — is running at a $1.2bn to Colombia’s annual debt been associated with a sharp rise “140 metre square terrace offers Fed will get a move on. Critically, developing countries scanty 0.3 percent a year. costs, finance minister Mauricio in EM earnings and growth, a you a breathtaking 360 degree Years of easy money pushed may suffer more if delays to Fed But some argue inflation is Cardenas has said. But he expects UBS study found, although higher view of the capital city” — all for investors into emerging markets. action release the dormant infla- artificially depressed by last year’s this to be outweighed by the company and household debt £1,200 a night. Another similarly- That led currencies to become tion genie. That risks a longer and energy price collapse and that higher trade and investment a could drag this time. priced flat has a view of the Eiffel overvalued, widened balance bigger rate-tightening cycle and once these base effects dissipate, faster-growing United States can Rob Drijkoningen, head of Tower from its luxurious-looking of payments deficits, hurt pro- could sharply raise the so-called domestically driven, “core” prices bring. emerging debt at Neuberger bathroom. ductivity and fuelled a surge in term premium — the additional will boost headline inflation back Indian central bank chief Berman, says a timely Fed move Airbnb says it is not in competi- household and company debt — interest investors demand for towards target. “In many respects Raghuram Rajan also says US and clear forward guidance are tion with the palaces. “It’s a totally weaknesses that were highlighted lending over longer maturities. a Fed rate rise now is the lesser of growth will benefit the rest of crucial. “Typically when the Fed different thing,” said Nicolas by the 2013 plunge. A steeper US curve as long- two evils,” UBS strategist Manik the world. With their growth pre- actually starts to hike, emerging Ferrary, director of the company’s With a Fed hike now seen term rates go up strengthens the Narain said. mium to richer peers at 15-year markets’ knee-jerk reaction is on operation in France. A spokes- as early as next month, there’s appeal of risk-free bonds, hurting “If the Fed starts to move, it lows, weak trade, investment and the weaker side which could be a woman added: “These residences at least some hope that a heal- the case for holding lower quality would nip potential inflationary company earnings, and currency buying opportunity,” Drijkoningen are chosen for the unique experi- ing process can begin, includ- emerging debt. Because emerging pressures in the bud, which is weakness fanning inflation and said. “If historic patterns are a ence they offer, but which remain ing via weaker currencies, said bonds increasingly cluster in five- better than waiting and having to default risks, emerging markets guide, the first hike may well pro- very different from what a luxury Kamakshya Trivedi, managing to 10-year maturities, they tend move more aggressively in 2016.” currently have little allure. vide an entry point.” REUTERS hotel can propose.” REUTERS Greece hopes to conclude bailout talks by tomorrow

ATHENS: Greece hopes to conclude negotiations with international creditors by early Tuesday at the latest, a Greek official said as talks continued Police discover no sign of in Athens on a new multi-billion euro bailout. Greece’s finance and economy ministers were locked in negotiations with representatives of credi- Varoufakis tax hacking tors on Sunday. Greek officials have previously said they expect the bailout accord to go to the country’s ATHENS: Police in Greece have He added that on his orders, a small parliament for approval by August 18. “Efforts are found no sign of electronic hack- team had “hacked” into the tax regis- being made to conclude the negotiations, the horizon ing into the tax files of millions of try to create duplicate tax codes for is by Monday night or early Tuesday,” said a Greek Greeks, which ex-finance minister millions of Greeks, in preparation for official who declined to be named. Yanis Varoufakis claimed to have the plan. “When the new bailout comes to parliament for a ordered as part of an emergency plan Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras vote it will be one bill with two articles - one article to deal with an exit from the euro, later defended Varoufakis, telling par- will be the loan agreement and the MoU (memoran- state agency ANA reported. liament that he had authorised him to dum of understanding) and the second article will A police source told the agency that prepare a “defence plan” in case Greece be the prior actions,” the official said, referring to specialist officers had analysed four was forced to leave the euro. measures Greece needs to take for the bailout accord finance ministry hard disks, and found But Tsipras insisted that his admin- to take effect. no signs of tampering with the tax- istration “did not have, and never pre- The negotiations began on July 20. A senior Greek payer registry database. pared, plans to take the country out of finance official told Reuters the aim was for a meeting A parallel investigation is currently the euro.” of euro zone finance ministers to review the accord underway among finance ministry Greece’s creditors had warned that on Friday, August 14. staff. the country could be thrown out of the Athens is negotiating with European Union institu- Flamboyant ex-minister Varoufakis euro when reform talks broke down at tions and the International Monetary Fund for up to in July told a meeting of hedge fund the end of June. €86bn in fresh loans to stave off economic collapse investors that he had been planning Tsipras eventually defused the crisis and stay in the eurozone. The bailout must be in place Greek Economy Minister Giorgos Stathakis arrives for a meeting with representatives a parallel system of liquidity that by accepting a third bailout for Greece by August 20, when Greece has a repayment falling could have been converted to a “new” accompanied by fresh austerity meas- of the International Monetary Fund at a hotel in Athens yesterday. due to the European Central Bank. REUTERS drachma “at the drop of a hat”. ures. AFP MONDAY 10 AUGUST 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Consumer inflation rises to 1.6pc in China Producer prices in July slump to near six-year low

BEIJING: Consumer inflation looming deflation given weakness and counties in the country, the in China rose to 1.6 percent in in other price yardsticks. NBS says. July, the government said yes- The producer price index — a CPI touched 0.8 percent in tereday, as downward pressure measure of costs for goods at the January — its lowest in more than on prices eased further in the factory gate and a leading indica- five years — but rebounded to 1.5 world’s second-largest economy. tor of the trend for CPI — declined percent in April. China’s eco- The reading for the consumer 5.4 percent in July, a near six- nomic growth hit a 24-year low price index (CPI), a main gauge of year low, the NBS said, compared last year, expanding 7.4 percent inflation released by the National with a 4.8 percent retreat in June, amid a steady slowdown from Bureau of Statistics (NBS), was and marking the 41st consecutive years of double-digit expansions. higher than June’s 1.4 percent. monthly fall. The CPI figure com- Growth in gross domestic prod- Moderate inflation can be a boon pared with the median estimate of uct (GDP) has slowed further to consumption as it pushes con- 1.5 percent in a survey of econo- this year, expanding 7.0 percent sumers to buy before prices go up, mists by Bloomberg News. in each of the first two quarters. while falling prices encourage shop- In July, food prices, normally While authorities say that pers to delay purchases and compa- the key driver for Chinese infla- weaker growth is welcome as it nies to put off investment, both of tion, rose 0.7 percent year-on- fits in with their plan to shift the A customer shops for groceries at a supermarket in Fuyang, eastern China’s Anhui province, as the government which can hurt economic growth. year, the NBS said. country’s economic model away announced its monthly consumer inflation figures yesterday. Slowing economic growth and The survey collects prices from from investment and towards declines in commodity prices have more than 63,000 outlets includ- consumer spending, they are on helped keep China’s consumer ing grocery stores, supermarkets, guard that expansion does not China (PBoC) has cut benchmark requirements for how much cash stimulate growth. The PBoC has inflation in check, with some shopping malls and agricultural decelerate too sharply. interest rates four times since banks must keep on their books also seen the measures as tools to analysts raising the prospect of trade markets across 500 cities The central People’s Bank of November and has also loosened in a bid to boost lending and fight deflation risks. AFP Beijing under mounting pressure to ease policy as economy stumbles

BEIJING: China is under growing He said China’s central bank would another 100 basis points, according to a prices, in line with forecasts and slightly an official survey showed this month. pressure to further stimulate its econ- likely need to further cut interest rates poll last month. higher than June’s 1.4 percent. China’s turbulent stock markets, which omy after disappointing data over the again, having already cut four times since The producer price index fell 5.4 per- A cooling housing market, uneven have fallen by almost a third since peaking weekend showed another heavy fall November in the most aggressive easing cent from a year earlier, the National exports and weak investment have cooled in June, also add a new sense of urgency in factory-gate prices and a surprise in nearly seven years. Statistics Bureau said, compared with annual economic growth, which will be for top officials as they try to ensure a slump in exports. The gloom may only deepen in the com- an expected 5.0 percent drop. It was the slowest in a quarter of a century even if stable financial system can fund Beijing’s Producer prices in July hit their lowest ing week with a raft of economic data worst reading since October 2009 and the it hits Beijing’s target this year. efforts to rekindle economic growth. Yet, point since late 2009, during the after- forecast to show renewed weakness in 40th straight month of price decline. A strong yuan policy — designed in part even the central bank has warned that math of the global financial crisis, and factories, investment and domestic spend- Falling producer prices are worrying to support domestic consumption and looser policy may not be effective in less- have been sliding continuously for more ing. The world’s second-largest economy because they eat into the profits of min- help Chinese firms to borrow and invest ening the pain felt by companies. than three years. Exports tumbled 8.3 is officially targeted to grow at 7 percent ers and manufacturers and raise the bur- abroad — is hurting exporters. Trade data Companies are holding back on spend- percent in the same month, their big- this year, still strong by global standards, den of their debts. China’s corporate debt on Saturday showed depressed demand ing amid a reluctance by banks to lend gest fall in four months, as weaker global but some economists believe it is growing stands at 160 percent of gross domestic from Europe and the first drop in exports due to rising bad debts. demand for Chinese goods and a strong at a much slower pace. product, twice that of the United States, to the United States, China’s biggest mar- “Maintaining a growth rate of 7 per- yuan policy hurt manufacturers. “Policy Economists expect the central bank to according to a study of over 1,400 firms. ket, since March. cent in the second half of the year will be focus is definitely the (producer) deflation cut rates by another 25 basis points this In line with the sluggish economy, Chinese firms have laid off workers for a challenge,” ANZ Bank said in a note at at this stage,” said Zhou Hao, economist year, and further reduce the amount of annual consumer inflation remained 21 consecutive months as they slash prices the weekend. “Monetary policy will need at Commerzbank AG in Singapore. deposits banks must hold as reserves by muted at 1.6 percent despite surging pork to a six-month low to attract customers, to become more supportive.” REUTERS

Ukraine economy turning into breadbasket Buffett’s Berkshire MALA DIVYTSA: Oleksandr Verzhykhovskiy slips a crisp stalk nears deal for of wheat through his fingers and surveys the sun-drenched fields that once made war-torn Ukraine the “breadbasket of Europe” — and Precision Castparts now embody its economic hopes. “This is a treasure — if you know NEW YORK: Warren Buffett’s Berkshire how to treat it right,” the 29-year- Hathaway Inc is nearing an agreement to buy old chief executive of the AgroKIM Precision Castparts Corp, in what could be the agriculture company said with a company’s largest purchase ever, according to a wistful air. But the three brand new person familiar with the matter. combines working these fields about The purchase of Precision Castparts, which makes 100 km north of Kiev are integral aircraft components and energy-production equip- elements in the maddening state of ment, could be announced as soon as next week and affairs the crisis-wracked ex-Soviet cost more than $30bn, assuming typical premiums for state faces. mergers, according to the Wall Street Journal, which Verzhykhovskiy’s booming crop first reported the news. Precision Castparts’ market holds the promise of Ukraine regain- value was $26.7bn on Friday. ing its title as one of the world’s main Neither Berkshire nor Precision Castparts returned suppliers of various grains. But the calls and emails seeking comment. nearby hamlet of Mala Divytsa Berkshire is one of Precision Castparts’ largest reflects the far more depressing real- shareholders, with a roughly 3 percent stake worth ity of dilapidated houses and potholed $882m as of March 31, according to securities filings. roads that seem to have last been Though it began building that stake in 2012, it patched up in long-gone communist remains among the smaller investments in Berkshire’s times. portfolio. Such investments are normally picked by The 16-month-long separatist Buffett’s investment managers, Todd Combs and Ted insurgency has shuttered much of Weschler. east Ukraine’s heavy industry and The addition of Precision Castparts would extend claimed more than 6,800 lives. It Buffett’s decade-long push into the industrial sector, has also sent economic shock waves where he has bought such companies as parts maker A stork walks near a combine harvester gathering grain from a field in Mala Divytsa. Ukraine’s total crop production reached throughout the country of more than Marmon, Israeli toolmaker Iscar, and speciality chemi- a post-Soviet record of 63 million tonnes in 2014 and is on course to match that mark this year too. 40 million. cals company Lubrizol. The economy contracted by nearly He considers those companies among his seven percent last year and is pro- particularly hard-hit by a trade war 2012 which Ukraine also hopes to lucrative investment,” Harmash said. “Powerhouse Five” collection of non-insurance busi- jected to do even worse in 2015. with the West that was sparked by extend. Yet foreigners remain wary about nesses that contribute greatly to Omaha, Nebraska- Ukraine depends on Western finan- the Kremlin’s March 2014 seizure of All that machinery would find ploughing money into even the based Berkshire’s bottom line. cial assistance —funds that primarily Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula. plenty of fertile land to plough. peaceful parts of the unsettled east Precision Castparts makes components such as nuts, go to pay off old debts. Factory output It has helped that the fighting has The World Bank estimates that European country. bolts and other fasteners for aerospace companies is down by nearly a fifth from last left most cultivated fields untouched. more than 70 percent of Ukraine’s Transparency International ranks such as Airbus Group SE and Boeing Co, an industry summer and consumers are buying A centuries-old farming tradition territory is arable for farming. The Ukraine 142nd out of 175 nations on that accounts for roughly 70 percent of sales. It also 25 percent less than they did a year also inspires many Ukrainians to feel rate is Europe’s second highest and its corruption index. The court sys- makes products such as pipes and fittings for power ago. But Verzhykhovskiy looks at his special pride in their land. bested only by small and impover- tem’s independence has been suspect and industrial companies. swaying stalks and smiles. But some factors are well outside ished Moldova. for decades and investor rights are The company reported a profit of $1.53bn on net Ukraine’s total crop production Verzhykhovskiy’s control. A strong But economists and the agricul- often ignored. “The judicial sys- sales of $10bn for its fiscal year ended March 29. reached a post-Soviet record of 63 dollar has seen commodities lose ture ministry admit that the sector tem has to function before we see But it has struggled with slack demand in some million tonnes in 2014 and is on value and the price of corn drop by now needs a push that can only come any foreigners come running,” said businesses, and last month missed analysts’ quar- course to nearly match that mark about 15 percent since the start of from private investment. ProAgro consultancy analyst Mykola terly profit forecasts as Chief Executive Officer this year. The battled-scarred nation the year. “Prices are not good,” the World Bank data also shows all Vernytsky. Kiev plans to put up 254 Mark Donegan lamented a “challenging” oil and gas — so eager to wrestle itself away from young farm boss conceded. “We oper- Ukraine’s cultivated land yielding state-held farms and agricultural environment. Moscow and fully embrace the West ate without a profit on most of our about 4,000 kg of cereal per hectare businesses for sale this year. Precision Castparts shares have fallen 29 percent — managed to export an impressive cereals.” — about half the rate of Germany Pavlenko says foreigners already since June 2014, and have lagged the Standard & Poor’s 34.5 million tonnes of grain in 2014. This has cut off foreign invest- and similar to that of Canada. have the right to sign seven-year 500 by close to 30 percentage points over the last five The Financial Times wrote last ments and left Ukrainian farm- Ukraine has potential for high land leases. He also encourages buy- years. month that Ukraine was set to ers reliant on local banks for loans growth not only in the cereals ers to snap up properties before Berkshire shares have also lagged that index over become China’s top supplier of corn loaded with exorbitant interest rates sector but also in areas such as demand and land prices go up. five years, but by a smaller percentage. in the first half of this year. few can afford. fruit and vegetables, said Olena But analyst Vernytsky questions A purchase would likely let Berkshire deploy much The London business daily “Last year was tough on invest- Harmash, spokeswoman in Kiev for whether the privatisation pro- of its $66.59bn of cash, while still leaving the $20bn reported that close to an eye-popping ment,” Agriculture Minister Oleksiy International Finance Corporation, gramme will make the impact Kiev’s cushion Buffett wants. 90 percent of China’s maize imports Pavlenko said. But the minister is the World Bank’s private-sector pro-Western government anticipates. Berkshire’s biggest purchase is the $26.5bn takeover came from Ukraine — and not its placing hope on $1bn in new farming finance unit. “If we open up the agricultural in 2010 of the 77.4 percent of the Burlington Northern direct neighbour and fellow agricul- equipment that has been promised by “Everyone focuses on grain, but property market but do nothing Santa Fe railroad it did not already own. It has more tural power Russia. the United States. Beijing and Kiev the agricultural sector as a whole about the corruption... no one will than 80 operating businesses. REUTERS Moscow’s exports have been signed a $3bn loan-for-corn deal in presents the possibility of very want that land,” he said. AFP MONDAY 10 AUGUST 2015 MARKET www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

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‘Sharing economy’ surge creates labour conundrum

WASHINGTON: They drive for Uber, workers are not independent contractors, can work when they want and how they California professor of public policy, a full-time employee,” Sundararajan said. deliver groceries for Instacart, run but employees entitled to unemployment want.” But he acknowledged that policy- argues the trend is taking us back in “They want the nice things of being errands for TaskRabbit, and rent spare insurance, workers compensation and makers need to set clear rules to avoid time before most countries enacted a full-time employee — income stability, rooms on Airbnb. other benefits. “These firms have ignored disputes and uncertainty. labor standards. “The new on-demand insurance benefits, which have been tied Are these the new, empowered par- the issue because they view themselves as This uncertainty led to the shutdown work shifts risks entirely onto workers, to employment.” ticipants in the “sharing economy,” or a marketplace, not as an employer, and in July of Homejoy, an online platform for and eliminates minimal standards com- One solution is a model enacted in workers being exploited by well-funded now it is biting them in the back,” said home cleaning services which faced liti- pletely,” Reich said on his blog about the the United States for retirement, which technology companies? MBO founder and chief executive Gene gation from workers claiming they should “share the scraps economy.” allowed most employers to eliminate That is an open question as millions of Zaino. be classified as employees. “In effect, on-demand work is a rever- defined-benefit pension plans in favor of people shift from traditional employment Politicians are taking notice. Some analysts say current laws are not sion to the piece work of the 19th century portable savings, known as 401k plans, to freelance “gig” work, giving them more Democratic presidential front-runner adapted to these new models where peo- — when workers had no power and no with tax incentives and contributions independence, but without the social Hillary Clinton said recently she would ple earn money through shopping serv- legal rights, took all the risks, and worked from employers and workers. safety net of employees. “crack down on bosses who exploit ices like Postmates, meal preparation like all hours for almost nothing.” “This good be a good template,” the Some 18 million US workers now earn employees by misclassifying them as Feastly and pet-sitting like DogVacay. MBO Partners founder Gene Zaino NYU professor said. “We have to think a significant portion or all of their income contractors.” Simon Rothman at venture capital said however that his firm’s research about similar structures for the other outside of traditional employment, and “This on-demand, or so-called gig firm Greylock Partners says a key to shows most people who become inde- aspects of the social safety net.” another 12.5 million took on part-time economy is creating exciting economies helping this thriving sector is “unbun- pendent are happy they did so. “It’s con- Sundararajan said finding solutions independent work, according to MBO and unleashing innovation,” she said in dling” benefits such as health care, insur- sistently about control and flexibility” of is key to unlocking the potential for a Partners, a firm which providers services June. “But it is also raising hard questions ance and retirement from the workplace. work, Zaino said. vibrant new economic sector. for independent contractors. about work-place protections and what “Gone are the days of a social contract Zaino said that “it’s not so much about “There are different kinds of work that A separate study by financial software a good job will look like in the future.” with employers for lifetime employment the money,” but noted that “the fastest are productive, but we are still thinking group Intuit found 25 to 30 percent of the Yet without a flexible workforce of — it’s an old model it doesn’t exist any- growing segment is people earning over in a 20th century mindset,” he said. US workforce is “contingent” and that independent contractors, “the sharing more. This is a secular shift that will $100,000 a year.” Zaino said it will take time for new pol- 80 percent of large corporations plan to economy could be stopped in its tracks,” impact everyone,” Rothman said in a This $100,000-plus group has grown 45 icies “because there are so many compet- increase their use of a “flexible work- said Christopher Koopman, a research blog post. percent over the last five years, totaling ing interests” and that the private sector force” in coming years. Inuit said that by fellow at George Mason University’s Rothman said this new sector is likely 2.9 million people, according to MBO. will have to sort out the issues, probably 2020, more than 40 percent of the labor Mercatus Center. to be worth some $10bn in the United Arun Sundararajan, who heads New by adding money to gig workers to allow force will be “contingent.” “We would not see the dynamic, inno- States this year, and if allowed to grow, York University’s Social Cities Initiative, them to get benefits. But cracks have begun to appear in vative environment we have today.” “offers a viable new path to sustaining said policymakers should seek to “decou- “A whole new industry is being born the model developed by Uber and other Koopman said those choosing to work the middle class.” ple” traditional benefits from the work- where we are helping people get those peer-to-peer services. Lawsuits in sev- on these platforms “are getting a ton of But Robert Reich, a former US labour place to help gig workers. types of benefits and services individually eral jurisdictions argue that on-demand flexibility, so there are tradeoffs. They secretary who is now a University of “What they are looking for is not to be and have them portable,” he said. 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aYESTERDAY’S ANSWER MONDAY 10 AUGUST 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23 Leaked doping data Rose joins Furyk in casts doubt over major marathons tie for Firestone lead LONDON: Thirty-two medal organisers said in a statement winners at the world’s six top yesterday: “We continue to be city marathons were among at the forefront of anti-doping the hundreds of long distance measures for marathon runners Englishman races to the top as Spieth struggles to a 72 runners with suspicious blood as we are determined to make test results revealed in a leak, a marathon running a safe haven AKRON, Ohio: England’s newspaper reported yesterday. from doping but we cannot do it Justin Rose rolled in a 38-foot The leaked blood tests have all on our own and rely heavily birdie putt at the par-four jolted the world of international on the IAAF. last to move into a tie for the athletics since a German broad- “We are therefore very con- lead with overnight paceset- caster and a British newspaper cerned by the allegations made ter Jim Furyk after the third first published reports about in the Sunday Times today and round of the WGC-Bridgestone them a week ago. we will be discussing the impli- Invitational on Saturday. Britain’s Sunday Times cations of the allegations with Rose, who has produced stel- and Germany’s ARD say the the IAAF.” lar form this year since tying for results from the database of The Sunday Times and ARD second at the Masters in April, the sport’s governing body, the say their information comes charged to the top with a sizzling International Association of from more than 12,000 blood seven-under 63 in slightly more Athletics Federations (IAAF), tests of 5,000 athletes, 800 of receptive conditions at Firestone show evidence of widespread whom have had at least one Country Club. cheating among long distance “abnormal” result at some point The world number eight bird- runners. in their careers. ied four of the last six holes in Last week, the news organisa- The IAAF, which has defended a bogey-free display to finish tions said the data showed that its drugs testing procedures at nine-under 201, level with between 2001 and 2012 a third strongly and refutes suggestions American Furyk who did well to of Olympic and world champion- it has turned a blind eye to dop- sink a par putt from 11 feet on the ship endurance and middle dis- ing, says it is cooperating with final green for a 69. tance running medals had been the independent World Anti- “I haven’t seen a putt go in all won by athletes who, at some Doping Agency (WADA) in an week from outside eight feet, it point in their careers, had given investigation into the allegations. feels like,” Rose told reporters a suspicious blood test. Sebastian Coe, the former after he celebrated his monster The Sunday Times said many British Olympian and candidate putt on the 18th green with a of the suspect runners had also to be President of the IAAF, said wink to the crowd. won medals in the six most pres- last week the claims were “a dec- “To knock that ball in on the tigious city marathons: in Berlin, laration of war”. last, it was a nice bonus for sure. Boston, Chicago, London, New In a separate development My game’s in good shape. If I look York and Tokyo. Britain’s Mo Farah — who won back at Augusta, that was the Seven of the 24 men’s and Olympic gold medals in 2012 for start of me feeling very confident.” Justin Rose hits a tee shot during the third round of the of the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational at the Firestone women’s winners of the London the 5,000m and 10,000m — is one Rose, who won his seventh Country Club in Akron, Ohio, on Saturday. marathon between 2001 and 2012 of eight athletes who have agreed PGA Tour title in New Orleans were athletes who at some point to release their own blood test in April, has recorded five top- his first victory on the PGA Masters and US Open cham- injury, and eight-times former in their careers had produced a data, the newspaper reported. 10s on the US circuit this season, Tour, was alone in third place at pion Jordan Spieth, who had been champion Tiger Woods. suspicious blood test result, the His coach Alberto Salazar including a playoff loss at the seven-under after carding a five- six strokes off the pace overnight, “It was a poor performance. Sunday Times said. It has not has faced doping allegations Memorial Tournament in June birdie 67 at the elite World Golf tumbled down the leaderboard Didn’t have very good control of named the athletes. but both he and Farah deny any and a tie for sixth at last month’s Championships event. as he struggled to a two-over 72 the ball. I putted it OK, but other Last week, the IAAF wrongdoing. British Open. Australian Steve Bowditch, who that included a double-bogey at than that, very much struggled. stripped Russian runner Liliya “The decision to release my “If I keep knocking on that door, matched Rose with the lowest the last. “I’m going to need to look for Shobukhova of all her medals results is a personal one — I’ve I feel good,” said the 35-year-old score of the week, was a further “Very frustrating today,” said some answers tomorrow and into since 2009, including three vic- always said that I’m happy to do Englishman. “The only tourna- two strokes back with England’s the American, the biggest draw- next week,” said Spieth, refer- tories in the Chicago marathon what it takes to prove that I’m a ment I feel like I’ve let slip this Ian Poulter (65), Swede Henrik card this week in the absence of ring to the year’s final major, the and one in London. clean athlete,” Farah was quoted year is Memorial.” Stenson (68) and American world number one Rory McIlroy, PGA Championship at Whistling The London marathon as saying. AGENCIES Ireland’s Shane Lowry, seeking Bubba Watson (69). who was recovering from an ankle Straits. REUTERS Imhoff hat-trick helps Argentina to first Boks win

DURBAN: Argentina wing landing four conversions and a in Buenos Aires next Saturday on Jager powered over from a five- Juan Imhoff scored a hat-trick penalty. the back of three straight losses. metre line-out to reduce that Juan Manuel of tries as they claimed a first South Africa scored tries “It’s just not good enough, we deficit to eight points. Leguizamon victory over South Africa with through lock Lood de Jager, full- conceded such easy tries,” Bok But when prop Tendai and Agustin a 37-25 success in their Rugby back Willie le Roux and wing captain Jean de Villiers told Mtawarira gave away a soft pen- Creevy (right) Championship match at King’s Bryan Habana, with out of sorts reporters. “It was too easy for alty straight from the restart and of Argentina Park on Saturday. flyhalf Handre Pollard kicking two them. We had to work hard for fellow front-rower Vincent Koch react after The Springboks, who will have penalties and two conversions. our tries and then we conceded his third penalty of the half at the the Pumas plenty of soul-searching to do “We surprised them, starting such soft ones and that costs you scrum, Argentina went into the beat the ahead of next month’s World Cup with the early try,” Argentina games.” break leading 27-13. Springboks in England, were sloppy and dis- coach Daniel Hourcade said. Argentina claimed their first Imhoff went over in the cor- in a Rugby jointed against an Argentina side “We played well and we won the success over the Boks at the 20th ner from a quickly-taken penalty Championship more intelligent in their execu- mental battle. That is the key to time of asking and fully deserved five-metres out for his hat-trick match at the tion and dominant in every facet beating the Springboks, you need their triumph. before Le Roux closed the gap Kingspark of the game. to be mentally tough.” They set the tone with a score again. Stadium in Centre Marcelo Bosch scored After second-ranked South in the first minute as Bosch burst But a drop-goal from Bosch Durban on Argentina’s other try, and added Africa’s slim defeats by Australia past some poor defending to dot kept Argentina in front by 17 Saturday a long-range penalty and a and New Zealand earlier in the down under the posts. points going into the final 15 min- drop-goal, with experienced fly- Rugby Championship, the latest Imhoff grabbed a double to help utes, with South Africa managing night. half Juan Martin Hernandez, setback means they head into the visitors into a 21-6 lead five only a late Habana try. playing his first test of 2015, their final World Cup warm-up minutes before halftime but De REUTERS Proud father Blue Jays ace Price shuts out Yankees

NEW YORK: David Price “That was pretty cool, espe- allowed three singles in seven cially with all the teams and innings while Justin Smoak hitters that have come through became the first Blue Jay to hit Toronto,” Smoak said. a grand slam at Yankee Stadium Shortstop Troy Tulowitzki hit on Saturday in a 6-0 victory his third home run with the Blue over the Yankees. Jays, driving a 3-and-2 pitch from Price (11-4) allowed his first reliever Bryan Mitchell into the two hits in the fourth, giving up left field seats with two out in the a leadoff single to designated hit- seventh. ter Alex Rodriguez and a two-out Catcher Russell Martin added base hit to right fielder Carlos a run-scoring single with two out Beltran before retiring nine in a in the eighth. REUTERS row. “I made better pitches,” said Baseball Results Price. “I got ahead more often. Toronto 6 NY Yankees 0 When I was behind, I was able Oakland 2 Houston 1 to make a better pitch and that’s Toronto Blue Jays pitcher David Price pitches in the seventh inning against Chicago Cubs 8 San Francisco 6 what it boils down, especially as the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in New York on Saturday. pitchers. Pittsburgh 6 LA Dodgers 5 “You’ve got to be able to execute just goes out there and do what The Blue Jays had the bases Texas 11 Seattle 3 and for the most part that’s what he does. We know if we can get loaded after third baseman Josh Tampa Bay 5 NY Mets 4 I did.” a few runs up on the board... . Donaldson walked, Jose Bautista Washington 6 Colorado 1 Price struck out seven, issued After that homer, 4-0 lead, with singled and designated hitter Detroit 7 Boston 6 three walks and threw 71 of 110 Price on the mound, you know it’s Edwin Encarnacion walked on pitches for strikes. He put two pretty much game over.” Nova’s 100th pitch. St Louis 3 Milwaukee 0 This photo taken on August 7 shows Indian basketball player Satnam on in the seventh but ended his Price’s effort helped the Blue Two pitches after Nova hit 100, Atlanta 7 Miami 2 Singh Bhamara (right), who is on the Dallas Mavericks NBA team, hugging second outing with Toronto by Jays (60-52) climb to within 2-1/2 Smoak drove a 0-and-1 curveball Cleveland 17 Minnesota 4 his father Balbir Singh Bhamara at the Ludhiana Basketball Academy in getting second baseman Brendan games of the Yankees (61-48) in into the right field seats adjacent Kansas City 7 Chi White Sox 6 Ludhiana. The 7-foot-2-inch (2.18m) Bhamara, 19, became the first India- born player in the NBA when he was drafted by the Dallas Mavericks in Ryan on a pop-up. first place in the AL East. to the Yankees bullpen. Cincinnati 4 Arizona 1 “He’s been great,” Smoak said. Toronto began getting to right- It was Smoak’s first career June 2015, and said after the pick that he hoped the achievement would Philadelphia 4 San Diego 2 “From day one, I think everyone hander Ivan Nova (4-4) as he grand slam and the first by a Blue kickstart a basketball boom in his cricket-obsessed home country. was excited to have a guy that approached the 100-pitch mark. Jay in 285 games in New York. Baltimore 5 LA Angels 0 MONDAY 10 AUGUST 2015 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Australia coach mocked over Coach Lehmann admits to football ticket tweet

NOTTINGHAM: Australia coach Darren Lehmann got Ashes errors after defeat more than he bargained for when he posted a tweet ask- ing for help in getting tickets I think England played good, aggressive cricket this series: Lehmann to watch an English Premier League football match. England’s innings and 78-run NOTTINGHAM: Australia win over Australia in the fourth coach Darren Lehmann said Ashes Test at Trent Bridge, which both he and selection chief gave them an unbeatable 3-1 lead Rodney Marsh had to shoul- in the five-match series, was com- der “a lot” of the blame for the Australian pleted before lunch on Saturday’s team’s Ashes loss. captain Michael third day of a scheduled five. England’s dominant win by an Clarke (right) Lehmann decided he wanted to innings and 78 runs in the fourth talks with head use the ‘free’ Sunday to take in Test at Nottingham’s Trent coach Darren a match between Stoke City and Bridge ground on Saturday gave Liverpool on the opening week- Lehmann before them an unbeatable 3-1 lead in end of the new Premier League play on the third the five-match series. season. Asked how much responsibil- day of the fourth “Would like to go to Stoke v ity he and fellow former Australia Ashes cricket Liverpool with a couple of people international Marsh, the on-tour Test match anyone help? @stokecity or @LFC selector, bore for the series defeat, against England can you please retweet,” he wrote Lehmann told reporters: “A lot. at Trent Bridge on Twitter. But, almost inevita- As a coach and selectors we’ve in Nottingham, bly, Lehmann’s request in helping got things wrong at certain times, England on source tickets for the match at there’s no doubt about that.” Saturday. the Britannia Stadium was met Lehmann said a particular mis- England defeated by suggestions his time would be take at Trent Bridge had been for Australia by an better spent reviewing Australia’s Australia to abandon their long- innings and 78 latest loss, rather than watching standing policy of fielding five runs to take an football. Twitter user Anthony bowlers, with all-rounder Mitchell unbeatable 3-1 Dutton responded by posting: Marsh dropped to make way for lead in the five- “Aren’t you playing tomorrow older brother Shaun, a top-order match series. (Sunday)...oooops sorry.” batsman. Meanwhile Dave Kinsella said: But Shaun, who made just two “You should be reviewing how you runs in the entire match, fell for lost the #Ashes2015 to one of the a first-innings duck as Australia worst English side in history.” were shot out for a scarcely And with England all-rounder credible 60 on the first day, with Ben Stokes having taken six wick- England paceman Stuart Broad Defeat at Trent Bridge con- batsman Lehmann. “We certainly experience for me,” said Lehmann. ets in Australia’s second innings taking a stunning Test-best eight demned Australia to their fourth didn’t cope with the swinging or “It’s very hard in the schedule now in Nottingham, it was no sur- for 15 on his Nottinghamshire successive Ashes series loss in seaming ball in the last two Test to fit that in for bowlers. That’s prise when Matt Laing tweeted: home ground. England, a run stretching back matches well enough and that’s probably the hardest thing.” “Maybe better off analyzing Ben England, with Joe Root scoring 14 years. something we have to get better Meanwhile Lehmann insisted Stokes not Stoke City.” 130, piled up 391 for nine declared A feature of the series so far has at.” he was relishing this month’s “Probably not the best timing in reply against an Australia been the inability of Australia’s Former Australia captain final Test of the series at The to be sending out a tweet like attack who, in the circumstances, batsmen to cope with the swing- Ricky Ponting has said the Dukes Oval in south London, which will that, maybe take the team with needed all the bowling they could ing and seaming ball on typical ball used in England, which has a mark retiring Australia captain u to learn their defensive game,” muster. English pitches that aid lateral more pronounced seam than the Michael Clarke’s farewell to inter- tweeted Brent McGrath. “I spoke to Rodney and we movement. Australian Kookaburra, should be national cricket. Lehmann responded to the wanted the extra batter and There have been accusations introduced for domestic matches “I’m actually looking forward jibes by tweeting: “Thanks so spoke to the captain about it in that too many Australia batsmen in Australia in a bid to help rep- to the last Test,” said Lehmann. much for the abuse, was asking a this particular game, but we’ve are ‘flat-track bullies’, unwilling licate English conditions. “I think it’s going to be a great question that people might help. always wanted five bowlers, so as much as unable to alter the There have also been calls for last Test match, and very enjoy- Don’t bother now! Thanks again we probably got that selection methods that serve them so well more Australian players to take able for England. But we’ve got England’s Ben Stokes celebrates people for being so abusive.” But wrong,” Lehmann said. on flatter home surfaces. part in English county cricket as to try to get a result there for us. on the pitch after England wrap Stoke themselves suggested yes- “Happy to admit when we’re Prior to the series, both teams Lehmann did with great success You’re on the road a long time, up the game and retain the terday they might be able to assist wrong, you don’t get everything made much of their desire to play for Yorkshire -- now coached by no doubt about that, but I’m still Ashes on the third day of the Lehmann, with a post on their right. “aggressive” cricket. his close friend Jason Gillespie, a cricket nuffy (nerd) and love fourth Ashes cricket Test match Twitter feed saying: “Hi Darren, “We’re really strong on having “I think England played good, the former Australia Test fast watching cricket. against Australia at Trent Bridge can you follow us please. We may five bowlers and we didn’t do that aggressive cricket this series to bowler. “Don’t like watching 60, have some good news for you.” in Nottingham on Saturday. this game.” be perfectly honest,” said former “I think it was a great though.” REUTERS REUTERS Swing bowler Anderson recalled into England squad ‘ Dad’s Army’ Australia must NOTTINGHAM: James Anderson (pictured) could yet fea- ture in the Ashes series finale after being included in a 14-man England squad named yesterday for this month’s fifth Test against wield the axe, say pundits Australia at The Oval. Anderson, England’s all-time leading Test wicket-taker, had to NOTTINGHAM: Australia miss the fourth match of the series at Trent Bridge with a side railed at suggestions their team strain suffered during the team’s eight-wicket win in the third Test resembled a “Dad’s Army” but at Edgbaston. the evidence supplied by the But England still crushed Australia by an innings and 78 runs first four Ashes Tests against in Nottingham on Saturday to take an unassailable 3-1 lead in the England suggests it was not an five-match series, with just the match at The Oval, starting on unfair moniker. August 20, to come. Immediately after a crush- Stuart Broad, Anderson’s longtime new-ball partner, took eight for ing defeat in the fourth test on 15 on his Nottinghamshire home ground as Australia were dismissed Saturday which gave the Ashes for just 60 in 111 balls on the opening day -- the shortest completed back to England, Australia cap- first innings of a match in the 138-year history of Test cricket. tain Michael Clarke announced When Anderson injured himself in Birmingham, there were fears that he will be standing down he might be sidelined from the remainder of the series. after the final match of the series. And with England now in an unbeatable position in the series, it He will not be the only emi- has been argued that they don’t need to nent Australian player to leave risk their prize asset in a ‘dead’ match. the international arena. It was a point acknowledged by All-rounder Shane Watson, 34, England national selector James and wicketkeeper Brad Haddin, Whitaker who said yesterday that 37, were dropped during the cur- Anderson, who has replaced uncapped rent series while opener Chris left-arm seamer Mark Footitt in the Rogers, 37, has already said this squad, would not be rushed back into one will be his last. the side. England’s new-look team had “James Anderson is continuing to too much skill and energy for improve and, with 10 days to go before Clarke’s side in favourable home the Test, may be able to play a part at conditions. the Oval -- although with the series Only at Lord’s were the won, we will not be taking any chances Australians able to thrive after given the cricket we have in the coming winning the toss on a flat pitch months,” Whitaker said in an England that nullified the threat of an England captain Alastair Cook shakes hands with Australian skipper Michael Clarke after the fourth Ashes Test and Wales Cricket Board statement. England attack with less pace but match following England’s series clinching victory at Trent Bridge on Saturday. Meanwhile selector Whitaker hailed more guile than their opponents. the way in which England had bounced At Cardiff, Edgbaston and back from their 5-0 series loss in Trent Bridge Australia were Clarke, Adam Voges, Mitchell Lord’s which propelled Australia in doubt. The laid-back matey Australia in 2013/14. blown away, their batsmen unable Marsh and Shaun Marsh strug- to victory but he failed to make a style that brought much success “Regaining the Ashes is a superb to cope with the swing and seam gled in the middle order and sustained impact at Edgbaston or in the past two years, including a achievement and is down to 18 months of movement generated by James although Peter Nevill made a bat- Trent Bridge and, at 33, his best World Cup victory, was exposed hard work from the players and coaches Anderson, Steven Finn, Stuart tling fifty at Edgbaston, England days must be behind him. in the cauldron of an Ashes series and support from a lot of people since Broad and Ben Stokes. knew that once they were through Mitchell Starc struggled going badly. the last series in Australia,” he said. Rogers started well in Cardiff the top order a collapse was not for control in the first three Former opening batsman Justin England squad: Adam Lyth (Yorkshire), Alastair Cook with 95 and made a superb 173 at far away. Tests before claiming six wick- Langer is favourite to succeed (Essex, capt), Ian Bell (Warwickshire), Joe Root (Yorkshire), Lord’s where Steve Smith con- Australia’s much-vaunted pace ets at Trent Bridge and with Lehmann and it would be no sur- Jonny Bairstow (Yorkshire), Ben Stokes (Durham), Jos tributed a double century. attack also failed to fire. Josh Hazlewood proving steady prise if Cricket Australia opted Buttler (Lancashire, wkt), Moeen Ali (Worcestershire), Stuart David Warner racked up four Mitchell Johnson, the scourge but none too penetrating the for a new coach to build a young Broad (Nottinghamshire), Mark Wood (Durham), Steven Finn half-centuries without going on of England in Australia’s 5-0 Australian attack was toothless. team under Smith’s captaincy, (Middlesex), James Anderson (Lancashire), Liam Plunkett to three figures but the other Ashes whitewash on 2013-14, was Smith looks certain to replace much as England have done since (Yorkshire), Adil Rashid (Yorkshire). REUTERS batsmen failed to adapt to the neutered by the pitch at Cardiff. Clarke as captain and the future their Ashes humiliation just 18 conditions. He did bowl a hostile spell at of coach Darren Lehmann is also months ago. REUTERS MONDAY 10 AUGUST 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25 England find perfect balance Bold captaincy, good bowling and aggression on the pitch do the trick for hosts

NOTTINGHAM: England’s comprehensive Ashes victory Five key moments in the Ashes over Australia was built on NOTTINGHAM: There were plenty of memorable incidents on a purposeful and well-drilled the way to England’s innings and 78-run win over Australia in team that combined the perfect the fourth Test at Trent Bridge on Saturday which gave them an blend of youth and experience. unbeatable 3-1 lead in the five-match Ashes series. Series draws against West Below AFP Sport highlights some of the key moments as England Indies and New Zealand showed regained the Ashes with a match to spare after being whitewashed glimpses of promise but also 5-0 in Australia in 2013/14. worrying inconsistencies which 1. Harris retires suggested stalwarts like Graeme Ryan Harris’s decision to call time on his career on the eve of the Swann, Jonathan Trott, Matt first Test in Cardiff because of a longstanding knee problem robbed Prior and Kevin Pietersen had not Australia of both a wicket-taking and remorselessly accurate fast been adequately replaced. bowler, with a fine record against England, both at home and abroad. The vibrant cricket that won He might not have got through a whole series but could have turned back the Ashes, however, proved the tide in a couple of Tests. Without him, Australia’s pace attack that the new team has come of lacked a steadying influence to support the likes of left-armers age. Mitchell Johnson and Mitchell Starc. Alastair Cook adopted a more 2. Haddin drops Root aggressive approach as captain, The first day in Cardiff saw England experience one of their all too James Anderson and Stuart common top-order collapses as they slumped to 43 for three. Broad led the pace attack, while They should have been 43 for four when Joe Root edged his second Joe Root and Ben Stokes provided England captain Alastair ball from Starc only for wicket-keeper Brad Haddin to drop a div- the youthful energy to deliver at Cook celebrates winning the ing chance. key moments of the series. Ashes with his daughter at Instead of recording a duck, Root -- England’s star batsman this Although he did not make a series -- went on to make 134 and set up a 169-run at Sophia Gardens. century in the first four Tests, Trent Bridge on Saturday. 3. Bayliss pitches in Cook is back to his best at the Before the series started there was much talk about whether England top of the order, a calming pres- would instruct groundsmen to prepare slow pitches in a bid to neuter ence for the players around him. Australia’s pace attack. Anderson produced an inspired England managing director Andrew Strauss denied being the author spell at Edgbaston, taking advan- series-clinching win. Stokes, who place and promoted to number 6-79 and confirm his re-emer- of such a scheme but, whatever the truth of their intentions, the tage of favourable conditions to batted superbly in the first test three, made two half-centuries gence as a test bowler while the fact was the utterly flat surface and lack of lateral movement on complete figures of 6-47 which set against New Zealand, was sub- at Edgbaston, the second guiding livewire Wood claimed three offer at Lord’s played into Australia’s hands as they won the second up an eight-wicket win. dued against Australia before England calmly to a modest vic- wickets in the second innings at Test by the huge margin of 405 runs. England’s leading wicket-taker springing to life with the ball at tory target of 121. Trent Bridge and had the honour It needed the intervention of new England coach Trevor Bayliss, the was ruled out of the fourth test the perfect moment on the second Moeen Ali proved once again of delivering the ball that sealed first Australian to hold the post, to point out that the series ought with a side injury but Broad afternoon at Trent Bridge. what a useful weapon he is at the Ashes. to be played on traditional England pitches, which are known for assumed responsibility, bowl- Chris Rogers and David number eight in the order, a Jonny Bairstow scored a fluent aiding seam movement. ing an inspired spell on the first Warner were compiling a patient quickfire 38 on Friday lifting his 74 at Trent Bridge after being Green-tinged, but not ‘unplayable’ surfaces were then the order of morning at Trent Bridge to com- opening partnership that could team after Australia grabbed five recalled in place of Gary Ballance the day in the third Test at Edgbaston, where England won by eight plete career-best figures of 8-15 have dragged Australia back into early wickets. and the only England player to wickets, and Trent Bridge. and skittle the Australians for 60. the match when the firebrand all- Jos Buttler had a disappointing fail to make a significant contri- 4. Good toss to lose Root, 24, confirmed himself to rounder put his hand up. series with the bat but kept wicket bution was opener Adam Lyth. Both captains said they would have batted first at Edgbaston but it be a batsman of the highest class. Three quick wickets before well, taking a couple of superb He endured a difficult series was Australia captain Michael Clarke who did just that when the His composed 134 set up the tea and a magnificent catch to diving catches at key moments and must be under pressure after coin fell in his favour. first test victory in Cardiff and it dismiss Steve Smith turned the and energising the team. failing to get past fifty, although But England spearhead James Anderson then exploited the over- was the Yorkshire right-hander game firmly back England’s way. Mark Wood and Steven Finn there are few alternatives and he cast conditions to take an Ashes-best six for 47 as Australia were who capitalised on Broad’s Other players made cameo con- also contributed with the ball. will surely get another chance at dismissed for 136 in their first innings, a position from which they heroics with a fluent innings of tributions to the triumph. Finn bowled a superb spell at The Oval to cement his place as never recovered. 130 to lay the platform for the Ian Bell, under pressure for his Edgbaston to complete figures of Cook’s long-term partner. AFP 5. Broadside There were concerns as to how England would cope without the injured Anderson at Trent Bridge as they went in search of their Stylish England batsman first back-to-back Test wins of 2015. But those doubts were allayed when, with just the third ball of the match, Stuart Broad removed Australia anchorman Chris Rogers Root on top of the world to take his 300th Test wicket. It was the start of a stunning return of eight for 15 on paceman NOTTINGHAM: Joe Root has replaced Steven Smith as the Broad’s Nottinghamshire home ground which saw Australia shot world’s number one ranked batsman in Test cricket after playing a out for 60 in just 111 balls -- the shortest-ever first innings of a key role in England regaining the Ashes. Test match. The 24-year-old Yorkshireman struck a superb 130, his second hun- From then on, the only issue in doubt was England’s margin of vic- dred of the series, in England’s innings and 78-run win in the fourth tory. REUTERS Test at Trent Bridge on Saturday. Victory, completed inside three days, gave England an unbeatable 3-1 lead in the five-match series. Root has scored 443 runs in the series, with two hundreds and two half-centuries, at an average of 71.79. The latest edition of the International Cricket Council’s rankings published yesterday saw Root on top of the batting standings, with Australia’s Smith, out for six and five in Nottingham, dropping down to third place. Australia’s Michael Clarke and Shane Warne before the day’s play at Trent South Africa’s AB de Villiers was second in the standings. Bridge on Saturday. England defeated Australia by an innings and 78 runs Meanwhile the equivalent bowling rankings saw England’s Stuart on the third day of the fourth Ashes Test to take an unbeatable 3-1 lead. Broad climb to a career-high second place on the back of a stunning first-innings return of eight for 15 on his Nottinghamshire ground that was behind Australia’s collapse to 60 all out. The 29-year-old pacemen’s ninth wicket of the match, taken in the Collingwood urges Cook to second innings, saw him edge past fast bowling great Fred Trueman into fourth place in England’s list of all-time leading Test wicket-takers. Broad has taken 308 wickets in 83 Tests to date and is 17 behind carry on as captain former England fast bowler Bob Willis. NOTTINGHAM: Paul Collingwood has told England captain A combination of Broad’s form and the absence at Trent Bridge of England’s Alastair Cook and Stuart Broad celebrate after winning the Alastair Cook to carry on in the job rather than step down amid the the injured James Anderson has seen the Lancashire paceman drop Ashes series against arch-rivals Australia at Trent Bridge on Saturday. euphoria of an Ashes triumph. to third in the ICC standings, still headed by South Africa fast bowler Cook was almost in tears after an innings and 78-run win over Dale Steyn. REUTERS Australia in the fourth Test at Nottingham’s Trent Bridge ground on Saturday gave England an unbeatable 3-1 lead in the five-match series. The 30-year-old opening batsman’s emotional reaction was a sign of the mental strain he has to endure in a rollercoaster 18 months that included England being whitewashed 5-0 in Australia, the fall out Beaten Australia skipper from the axing of star batsman Kevin Pietersen, a series loss at home to Sri Lanka and Cook’s own sacking from the one-day side ahead of this year’s World Cup. Cook’s form with the bat dipped alarmingly, while he was heav- ily criticised for excessively cautious tactics in the field, particularly Clarke pleads for patience against Sri Lanka. But the arrival of a group of young players into the Test side, coupled NOTTINGHAM: Australia captain 114 Tests, told reporters at Trent Bridge. “It’s 5-0 whitewashing of England ‘Down Under’. with the appointment of Australian Trevor Bayliss as England coach all Michael Clarke pleaded for patience ahead going to take some time,” added Clarke, the Clarke, one of the best batsmen of his gen- appear to have helped bolster Cook’s enthusiasm for leading England. of what could be a period of major team first Australian in more than a century to lose eration, has reached 25 just six times in his Australia captain Michael Clarke will retire from international duty rebuilding following his side’s tame sur- four successive Ashes series in England. last 30 Test innings. at the end of this Ashes but former England all-rounder Collingwood render of the Ashes at Trent Bridge on This latest defeat inside three days was even He will now bow out from Australia duty said Cook ought to keep going. Saturday. more embarrassing than the eight-wicket loss at The Oval, where the fifth and final Test of “I think he thoroughly deserves to lead the team going forward,” England’s innings and 78-run victory in Australia suffered in the third Test across the this series begins on August 20, having already Collingwood told BBC Radio yesterday. the fourth Test in Nottingham gave them an Midlands at Birmingham’s Edgbaston. retired from one-day internationals after lead- “He’s proven to a lot of people he’s the right man. Being England unbeatable 3-1 lead in the five-match series. Australia were all but beaten in 94 minutes ing his country to World Cup glory on home captain is a tough job, with a lot of critics and you’ve got to have a very Prior to Saturday’s play, Clarke -- in on the first day at Trent Bridge as they were soil earlier this year. thick skin to get through the bad times. the middle of a prolonged batting slump -- dismissed for 60 in 18.3 overs -- the shortest Clarke was adamant the decision was his “This England team have been through some very bad times but announced his intention to retire from inter- completed first innings in Test history -- with alone and not forced on him by a selection responded,” added Collingwood, who played alongside Cook for England. national duty after the Ashes finale at The Stuart Broad taking a stunning eight for 15 panel headed by Australia great Rodney “Australia are a very good side and they were in form but the way Oval later this month. on his Nottinghamshire home ground, a haul Marsh. England have gone about their business has made a very good side look Fast bowler Ryan Harris retired due to a that included the England paceman’s 300th “Selectors did not speak to me at all about mediocre. A lot of that is down to Alastair Cook. longstanding knee injury on the eve of the Test wicket. being dropped or standing down or retiring,” “The way he’s led from the front and directed the guys has been series, with opening batsman Chris Rogers Clarke could only watch from the pavilion said Clarke. “I made the decision late last brilliant. He’s had a really tough 12-18 months, losing the captaincy of having previously said this Ashes would mark on Saturday as Australia, 241 for seven over- (Friday) night with my beautiful wife and the one-dayers, but he’s really got his teeth into the Test captaincy.” the end of his Australia career. night and still 90 runs shy of making England spoke to my family. Durham captain Collingwood said he had noticed a change in the This tour could also be the last time the bat again, lost their last three second-innings “This morning I had a conversation with outlook of his old England colleague. likes of wicket-keeper Brad Haddin, all- wickets for 12 runs in 40 minutes’ play, the (Australia coach) Darren Lehmann and Rod “I was lucky enough to have a quick drink with Cooky at Birmingham rounder Shane Watson, batsmen Adam Voges match ending when last man Nathan Lyon’s Marsh and told them what I was going to and I was really impressed with how relaxed he was,” Collingwood said. and Shaun Marsh and fast bowler Peter Siddle stumps were uprooted after he played on to do. They were both extremely respectful and “He wasn’t putting too much pressure on himself, which I think are seen in Australian colours. fast bowler Mark Wood. thankful for what I’ve given Australian cricket. happened in the past. Obviously there was pressure from the outside “We need to be patient, there’s no doubt “We’ve been beaten by a better team ... we “I don’t feel sad. I’m more disappointed or but he also put it on himself. about it, especially if we lose a few guys in were outplayed in this series,” said Clarke, who sad with the way we played through this series “He looks as though he’s enjoying himself. REUTERS one go,” the 34-year-old Clarke, a veteran of only some 18 months ago led Australia to a and the way I played as captain.” REUTERS MONDAY 10 AUGUST 2015 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Marseille dealt ‘hammer Al Sadd register 1-0 win over Al Wahda

DOHA: Al Sadd registered an reach its full potential,” he said. blow’ as Bielsa quits important 1-0 victory against With regard to the new sea- Emirati side Al Wahda in their son, the former Al Sadd player third and final pre-season pointed out that the new season friendly, which was played in would be difficult with all the Argentinian linked to Mexico national team coach role Munich on Saturday night. teams preparing well. Al Sadd started the match Al Rayyan go down to Al PARIS: Marcelo Bielsa stunned with caution before gaining the Shabab French football on Saturday upper hand and dominating Al Rayyan lost to Saudi side when he abruptly quit as coach proceedings. The team created Al Shabab 1-0 in a pre-season of Marseille minutes after the a number of chances including friendly in the Netherlands on French giants had lost their sea- two memorable opportunities for Saturday. son opener 1-0 at home to Caen. Muriqui and Hassan al Haydous. The only goal was scored by “I have resigned from my Saad Al Dosari was in top Hassan Moaz in the 49th minute post as manager of Marseille,” form in Al Sadd’s goal, deny- of the second half. the Argentine announced at ing Mohammed Al Shehhi in The friendly was broken up the end of his post-match news the last minute of the first half. into four halves, each of which conference. Marseille’s The teams went into halftime was half an hour. Al Rayyan head Bielsa, 60, has been linked to Argentinian goalless. coach Fossati fielded lots the Mexico national team man- manager In the second half, Al of players as well as tink- ager’s role in recent weeks, and Marcelo Bielsa Sadd continued where ering with a variety of Marseille looked every inch a side looks down they left off, with a cou- formations. affected by the off-field uncer- during his ple of attempts at the Al Al Rayyan will tainty surrounding his future. side’s opening Wahda goal. In the 62nd now play Al Khor on Immediately after their lack- Ligue 1 match minute, Abdulkarim Wednesday. The newly- lustre defeat, Bielsa, who only took against Stade Hassan was adjudged promoted side also lost charge at the Stade Velodrome in Malherbe de to have been fouled in their first friendly to May 2014, delivered what captain Caen at the the box and Hassan Al Ajax Amsterdam by one Steve Mandanda described as his Velodrome Haydous dispatched the goal. “hammer blow”. Stadium in resulting penalty to give Al Gharafa beat Al “I have finished my work here, Marseille on the Wolves the lead. Shaab I will return to my country,” said Saturday night. The team continued to Al Gharafa defeated the man who guided the former dominate in the middle of Emirati outfit Al Shaab European champions to fourth the park after the goal, although 3-1 in their first friendly in place in Ligue 1 last season.” Al Wahda managed a few dan- Germany, where the team’s El Loco blamed last minute gerous shots on goal which were overseas training programme changes to his contract for the saved by the goalkeeper. is being held. The match was decision which left Marseille pres- The deputy head of football at played on Friday evening. ident Vincent Labrune stunned. Al Sadd, Jafal Rashed Al Kuwari Abdel Rahman Fayez, Alain “I am, like all the supporters, (pictured), expressed his delight Dioko and Muayyad Hassan dazed by Marcelo Bielsa’s shock with the way the team has ben- scored Al Gharafa’s goals. decision,” Labrune declared in a efitted from the friendly matches The match was played in three statement released on Saturday. last-minute changes to the details posted on the club’s website ques- conference, everything was fine, being played in Austria. segments, with each segment “However we take note of this of a contract he was ready to sign tioned Bielsa’s reasoning. it was all positive,” the France “The Al Ain friendly felt lasting half an hour. decision which places the club in which would have kept him at “I find it hard to understand international goalkeeper added. more like an official game, the Al Khor draw with Sparta a difficult place having started the Marseille until 2017. how a straightforward meeting on “He was an important part of coaching staff managed to get Rhotterdam new season with a home defeat,” To add spice to the drama, Wednesday about the finer points the club, for the team. We are dis- the most out of it. There was a Al Khor drew with the Dutch Labrune added. Bielsa left it to his interpreter to of this contract could be behind appointed. We don’t know the ins good level play during the first team Sparta Rhotterdam He confirmed that one of read out the key phrase of his let- this precipitous decision despite and outs of it, we don’t know what half and Sadd had the majority 3-3 in a pre-season friendly Bielsa’s assistants, Franck Passi, ter of resignation which was sent all his demands having been met.” has happened. But we respect his of the possession. In the second played on Friday evening in the would step up as caretaker to Labrune. Bielsa meanwhile was at pains decision. half, the performance declined Netherlands. coach pending a permanent “We had reached an agreement to point out his abrupt exit “He developed almost the slightly as the team has yet to THE PENINSULA replacement. on a contract extension for 2016- had nothing to do with money, entire squad. And what’s delicate Bielsa in his resignation rocket 2017, which was missing just a revealing he had turned down a about all this, there are players thanked the fans “for always being signature,” he wrote in his letter. new deal multiplying his salary who came here because of him. behind me during games and on a Bielsa said he had met threefold. “We all got on well with him, daily basis”. Wednesday with the club’s chief And he said he’d been patient with a good game plan compared “I am sad and frustrated. I executive Philippe Perez and Igor with the club, despite uncertainty to past seasons. cannot accept the situation of Levin, the lawyer of Marseille in the way they had conducted “But he’s made his mind up, instability at the club,” added owner Margarita Louis Dreyfus. themselves in the close-season and we just have to accept that.” Bielsa, who accused the club of “They wanted to change transfer market. Quizzed on what Labrune had the contract,” the Argentine “I adapted to the numerous told the team Mandanda said: “He complained. changes on the sporting plan, told us he was above all disap- Ligue 1 Results “I took this final decision as I took into account their (the pointed because he’s still a great Saturday’s Matches: Nantes working together requires a club’s) work on this front, it’s coach who made us all grow. He 1 (Sorbon 89-og) Guingamp minimum of trust which we do very hard to bring in players. is remaining composed.” 0; Troyes 0 Gazelec-Ajaccio 0; not have.” But I can’t accept this unstable Teammate Florent Thauvin Montpellier 0 Angers 2 (A.R. And in a direct barb at Labrune situation.” added: “We haven’t seen Bielsa Camara 4, Sunu 79); Nice 1 he concluded: “Even if I don’t Mandanda spoke for his dumb- but we had a chat in the chang- (Germain 7) Monaco 2 (Silva 51, think you wanted this, what’s hap- founded teammates, describing ing room with the president who A moment from the friendly match between Al Gharafa and Al Shaab Kurzawa 62); Marseille 0 Caen 1 pened comes with your authority, Bielsa’s departure as “a massive reassured us, we’re not going in Germany on Friday evening. (Delort 27); Bastia 2 (Ayitée 50, I think you know what’s gone on.” hammer blow”. to dwell on it, we have a season Kamano 69) Rennes 1 (Sio 39) Labrune in his statement “At Thursday’s press ahead of us.” AFP Cockburn wins Megarme Summer League Medal Simon aims for top-10 result as West fine-tunes bike set-up

INDIANAPOLIS: In hot and muggy conditions, QMMF QMMF Racing Team rider Julian Simon settled for 17th place in quali- Racing fying for the Moto2 race of the Team’s Indianapolis Grand Prix on Moto2 rider Saturday. Julian Simon Even though he couldn’t rides during improve his lap time in the cru- qualifying cial final stages of the session, the at the 28-year-old Spaniard was still Indianapolis upbeat about his possibilities in Motor yesterday’s race because he was Speedway in consistent and finished with only Indianapolis, Doha Golf Club member Frazer Cockburn shot a fantastic score of one under par gross 71 to secure the recent a gap of nine-tenths of a second to Indiana, on Megarme Summer League Medal event. His sublime score of nett 67 secured a three-shot win over second- Alex Rins on pole position. Saturday. placed Dong Yoon Kim, who recorded a nett 70. Highlights of Cockburns round included gross birdies on holes “It was not the best qualify- 4,10,11, 16 and 17. The event was well supported with 75 players participating. In Flight B, Stephen Kiy was ing as far as my position on the victorious — winning on countback from Mitsuyoshi Kaneko. His gross total of 78 from a handicap of 11 resulted grid goes but I am still reasonably ten,” he added. My lap time was also quite good in a nett 67 score. In Flight C, Ewan Cameron won on countback from two other players after he scored a nett happy with my lap time because Meanwhile, Simon’s Australian and consistent. Then this after- 73 with some steady golf. William Lochhead placed second. The ladies division was won by Teresa Gow, who we are still quite close to the team-mate Anthony West had a noon it was difficult to get a good continued her excellent summer form with a nett 67 score. front,” Simon said. breakthrough with the set-up of run. We started with the hard “The most important thing is his bike. tyre, but with this compound it’s that I have a good rhythm for the A different linkage for the rear difficult to get good grip. We then race. In qualifying, I had a little suspension made it much easier put the soft tyre in and I expected problem towards the end with for him to get the bike to turn and to go faster, but whether it was Hosszu wins 400m IM world gold strange vibrations that weren’t to find the confidence he needed, the temperature or the tyre itself, normal. It was also difficult for which clearly showed when he I just couldn’t get the grip out of KAZAN, Russia: Hungary’s Overholt of Canada taking bronze for me and now I am more happy me to get a good feeling for the rode to 14th place in the third the turns and I couldn’t turn like Katinka Hosszu completed the at 2.13. than tired.” bike with the settings we had free practice session on Saturday I did in the morning,” West said. individual medley double yes- Hosszu matched her double Meanwhile, Sweden’s Jennie because the bike was moving a morning. “On the set-up, we had only terday with victory in the wom- haul from the 2013 world cham- Johansson was the shock winner lot. I put my best lap in about In warmer conditions in the made a small change that cer- en’s 400m final having already pionships when she also left of the women’s 50m breaststroke halfway through the session, afternoon, he found riding more tainly didn’t make that much of claimed the 200m crown at the Barcelona with both the 200 and gold at the world swimming but I couldn’t push more when difficult again. Unable to get the a difference. Whatever it was, I world championships. 400m IM golds. championships. it counted towards the end. The best out the softer rear-tyre com- couldn’t go any faster than what Hosszu touched the wall at This is her third medal in Johansson clocked 30.05 to team worked very well and I think pound, he eventually dropped I did this morning and I am a four minutes, 30.29 seconds — Kazan after also taking a bronze win on the wall as Jamaica’s I can do a good job tomorrow. The back to 23rd place on the grid. bit disappointed with that. For just under two seconds short of in the 200m backstroke. Alia Atkinson claimed silver at most important thing for me to “The change we made from tomorrow, we will just go back Ye Shiwen’s world record she “I am just really happy to have just 0.06sec back while Russia’s concentrate on is the start — if yesterday to today was a success. to the setting we had this morn- had been chasing — with Maya di done the double again, like I did Yuliya Efimova, the 100m cham- I get a good start and if I can do The bike felt 10 times better this ing and otherwise we hope that it Rado of the United States claim- in Barcelona,” said Hosszu. pion, earned bronze at 0.08. a few strong opening laps, it will morning, it would turn, I felt com- won’t be too hot in the race,” he ing second at 1.32secs with Emily “It’s been a great championships AGENCIES be possible to break into the top fortable and I could ride properly. added. THE PENINSULA MONDAY 10 AUGUST 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27 Nishikori avenges US Open loss in style Japan’s top player beats Marin Cilic in semi-finals

WASHINGTON: Japan’s Kei Nishikori avenged his loss ATP and WTA to Marin Cilic in last year’s US Open final, defeating the Washington Open Croatian 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 Saturday to reach the ATP and WTA Results Washington Open final. WASHINGTON: Results The 25-year-old Asian number on Saturday from the sixth one rallied to oust the reigning day of the ATP and WTA US Open champion and advanced Washington Open (x denotes to today’s title match against US seeding): eighth seed John Isner, who fired 31 aces and saved three match Men Semi-finals: Kei Nishikori (JPN x2) points to edge American Steve bt Marin Cilic (CRO x3) 3-6, 6-1, 6-4; John Johnson 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (11/9). Isner (USA x8) bt Steve Johnson 6-3, 3-6, Fifth-ranked Nishikori 7-6 (11/9). improved to 6-3 all-time against Women Semi-finals: Anastasia Cilic in their first meeting since Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) bt Ekaterina Makarova he missed a chance to become the (RUS x1) 4-6, 6-3, retired, right leg; Sloane first Asian man to win a Grand Stephens (USA) bt Samantha Stosur (AUS Slam title by losing last year’s x2) 7-6 (7/4), 6-0. Flushing Meadows final. “It’s great to have revenge,” Nishikori said. WTA Stanford “Today I was playing very much better against Cilic. It was impor- Results tant to play well. Hopefully I will STANFORD, United States: keep it going.” Results from Stanford WTA Michael Phelps dives to start the Men’s 100 LC Meter Butterfly final Isner beat Nishikori four tournament here on Saturday: during the 2015 Phillips 66 National Championships at the Northside months ago in a Miami quarter- Swim Center in San Antonio, Texas. final in their only prior meeting. Semi-finals: Karolina Pliskova (CZE x4) “Everything sort of clicked for bt Varvara Lepchenko (USA) 6-2, 7-5; me that day,” Isner said. “I played Angelique Kerber (GER) bt Elina Svitolina extremely well. That was my best (UKR) 6-3, 6-1. Swimming: Phelps match of the year. I’m probably going to have to bring that again tomorrow.” LEF: Kei Nishikori of Japan Isner seeks his 11th career ATP returns a shot to Marin Cilic of answers Le Clos with title after winning last week in Croatia during the Citi Open at Atlanta while Nishikori seeks his Rock Creek Park Tennis Center 10th career title after crowns at in Washington, DC. 100m fly victory Memphis and Barcelona this year. “It was a great win for me,” SAN ANTONIO: Michael Phelps sent a clear message to his 2016 Nishikori said. “Overall, I’m play- Rio Olympic rivals after taking gold with another stunning world ing well, very aggressive. The last WTA career final by eliminating Stephens said. “I don’t know how back and I had to concentrate best time in the 100 meter butterfly at the US championships on two sets I was very happy with Australian second seed Samantha it’s supposed to feel. It’s like OK, again.” Isner, the 2007 and 2012 Saturday. my tennis.” Stosur 7-6 (7/4), 6-0. She will what now? Now people can stop Washington runner-up, and The 22-time Olympic medalist delivered his second dazzling per- Despite the defeat, eighth- play for the title against Russia’s talking about me -- I’m really Johnson exchanged lone breaks formance in as many days as he blitzed the field with a time of 50.45 ranked Cilic felt the week was a Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, who happy to do it.” over the first two sets. In the tie- seconds, on day three of the nationals. solid start on the path to defend- advanced 4-6, 6-3 when top- Cilic won the first set in 35 min- breaker, Johnson missed a fore- He also eclipsed the 50.56 time that South African Chad le Clos ing his US Open crown. seeded compatriot Ekaterina utes but Nishikori roared back in hand on his first match point and posted in winning the 100m butterfly at the world championships some “Overall I’m pretty satisfied Makarova retired with a right the second to force a third. After Isner fired the first of four con- eight hours earlier in Kazan, Russia. with the way I was playing,” Cilic leg injury. double-faulting away a break in secutive aces to save the second. Le Clos had marked that victory by aiming some pointed verbal barbs said. “Definitely it has given me Stephens ended her long wait the eighth game, Nishikori broke The drama turned when Isner at Phelps -- who is swimming in San Antonio this week rather than some vision of what I’m going to in her 84th WTA tournament, for a 5-4 lead and held for the charged the net and hit a back- in Kazan because his drunk-driving arrest in September cost him his focus on the next days and weeks. having been the world’s highest- triumph. hand volley winner, then closed world championships berth. “In my next match I will try ranked player without a finals “I started to hit a little more the match with a service winner. As so often in his storied career, Phelps found the trash talking and be more focused on my serve, appearance at 35th, six prior aggressively in the second set,” “My serve bailed me out,” Isner merely motivational. to be more deadly.” semi-final losses including the Nishikori said. said. “I’m so excited to be back in “I absolutely love it,” said Phelps, whose 18 Olympic golds include On the women’s side, American 2013 Australian Open. “I had to change mentally a the final. Hopefully it’ll be third his incredible eight in Beijing in 2008. “It just fuels me. Whatever I do Sloane Stephens reached her first “Finally, the long-awaited final,” little bit. The third set he came time lucky.” REUTERS in the pool will speak for itself.” Phelps’s 100m fly time was also almost a second faster than his gold- medal winning performance at the 2012 London Olympics. “I think that is exactly where I want to be right now,” said Phelps, Kristina Mladenovic who set the world record of 49.82 in Rome in 2009. “Let that swim (left) and partner Belinda make statements.” Bencic celebrate after Phelps easily beat runner-up Jack Conger, who finished in 51.33, their match against while David Nolan was third in 52.15. Lara Arruaberrena and The 30-year-old swimming legend added the 100m butterfly to the gold he won in the 200m butterfly on Friday in another world leading Andreja Klepac (both time of 1:52.94 which he called “close to probably my best 200 fly ever.” not pictured) in the It was faster than the 1:52.96 Le Clos swam to beat Phelps at the doubles final during London Olympics and faster than Hungarian Laszlo Cseh’s 1:53.48 to day six of the 2015 win the world title in Kazan this week. Citi Open at Rock Exactly how much progress Phelps was making in his comeback was Creek Park Tennis a bit of a mystery coming into the US meet, thanks to the suspension Center. Mladenovic and he served for the DUI and the fact that he hadn’t tapered his training Bencic won 7-6, 7-6 to produce his fastest times in any meeting this year. (7). BELOW: Angelique However, Phelps’s performances in the US championships have left Kerber of Germany no doubt he is on course to challenge again at the Rio Games which signs autographs after will run next year from August 5-21. beating Elina Svitolina The long-distance back-and-forth with Le Clos -- not mentioned by of the Ukraine in their name by Phelps -- should spice up the action in the Rio pool. semi-final match at Their rivalry stretches back to the London Games, where Le Clos Stanford University shocked Phelps for the 200m fly gold. Taube Family Tennis Le Clos apparently took exception this year when Phelps observed Stadium in Stanford, that since he had stepped away after the 2012 games, times in the 200 fly hadn’t improved much. California. Phelps insisted he hadn’t meant to needle any potential rival. “I don’t do it to talk trash,” Phelps said. “I do it to state facts. I know my facts about the sport of swimming.” After “two pretty good swims” in the butterfly, Phelps targets the 200m individual medley on Sunday. “I’ve come a long way in the last year, and stuff like this makes me excited and motivated for the year to come,” he said. “I have some Pliskova reaches Stanford final motivation from myself and others, and I’m just going to go and keep doing what I’ve been doing.” REUTERS STANFORD: Rising star and she was playing some really Karolina Pliskova powered her good shots in that game. I’m really Michael Phelps way into the final of the WTA happy to be in another final and Stanford tennis with a 6-2, 7-5 I’ll try my best to win the title.” competes at the 2015 straight set win over Varvara With her semi-final win, Phillips 66 National Lepchenko on Saturday. Pliskova books a spot in Sunday’s Championships at the The 23-year-old Czech, who final against fifth seeded Northside Swim Center will break into the top 10 in world Angelique Kerber. Pliskova will be in San Antonio, Texas. rankings next week, easily took looking avenge a loss to Kerber in down giant-killer Lepchenko, who the final of the WTA Birmingham upset top seed Caroline Wozniacki tournament earlier this year. earlier in the week. Kerber defeated Elina Svitolina “I really enjoyed the semis today 6-3, 6-1 in the first semi-final and I’m happy I’m still improving Saturday. match by match,” Pliskova said. Fourth seeded Pliskova was in “I finally lost my serve in the control for most of the match. second set, the first time I lost my She easily took the first set then serve this tournament, but I think compiled a 4-2 lead in the second. it was just time to lose my serve, REUTERS Monday 10 August 2015 25 Shawwal 1436 Volume 20 Number 6518 Sport Price: QR2 Rose joins Marseille dealt Furyk in tie for ‘hammer blow’ Firestone lead as Bielsa quits

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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 Qatar launch season after West Ham stun Arsenal as summer break DOHA: The Qatari national team is set to launch its new season after a two-month sum- mer break, new coach Jose Daniel Carreno (pictured) said Liverpool edge Stoke City yesterday. Qatar will fly to Switzerland today ahead of the team’s 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying Hammers capitalise on Cech’s debut errors; Geordies draw with Saints matches in the coming weeks. Al Annabi scraped past LONDON: West Ham United midfielder Reece Oxford, were Maldives 1-0 with a late goal in capitalised on mistakes by new deserved winners. FROM LEFT: June to register their first win in Arsenal new goalkeeper Petr “We are all very pleased and Liverpool’s their 2018 World Cup qualifying Cech to secure a surprise 2-0 it is great start for us. Not only English campaign. Premier League victory at the for the three points but points midfielder James Ahmed Mohamed Al Sayed Emirates and leave the Gunners against a team that are the title Milner, Slovakian scored in the 99th minute in deflated yesterday. contenders,” former West Ham defender Martin the Group C encounter to give Philippe Coutinho’s stunning player Bilic said. Skrtel, Brazilian recently-appointed Carreno his late strike gave Liverpool a 1-0 “If you add to that a London midfielder first win as Qatar’s national coach. victory at Stoke City to avenge derby, it makes it an even bigger Philippe The Gulf nation next take on their 6-1 defeat at the Britannia win. This is very special.” Coutinho, Bhutan on September 3 at the Stadium on the final day of last Wenger described the result as German Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium in season. an accident. Doha. midfielder Steve McClaren’s reign as “We know fitness-wise West Soon after playing their game Emre Can Newcastle United manager began Ham were ahead of us, they had at an air-con- with a 2-2 home draw against already played competitive games and Brazilian ditioned Jassim Southampton. (in the Europa League). You midfielder Bin Hamad Arsenal, full of opening-week- never get the same intensity,” the Roberto Firmino Stadium, end optimism, knew the impor- Frenchman said. celebrate after Carreno’s side tance of a good start to the season “Today we have been hurt men- Coutinho’s will fly out to after five draws and a defeat in tally and it is a good opportunity goal against Hong Kong the first eight games of the last to respond.” Stoke City at for their third campaign left them too far behind Humiliated by Mark Hughes’s the Britannia qualifying game eventual champions Chelsea. side in their last Premier League Stadium in at Mongkok Victory over Chelsea in the outing, Liverpool’s return to Stoke Stoke-on-Trent Stadium on Community Shield fuelled hopes was a much calmer affair. yesterday. September 8. that Arsene Wenger’s side could Brendan Rodgers came under Exactly a improve on last season’s third fire from fans after finishing sixth undergoing an operation for a month later, Qatar will brace to place but goals from Cheikhou last term and the Liverpool boss ruptured Achilles this week. host China for their third 2018 Kouyate and Mauro Zarate invested heavily in a wealth of The Saints seemed unaffected Bayern off to winning start as World Cup qualifier at Jassim Bin earned West Ham victory in attacking options tasked with by their manager’s absence and Hamad Stadium on October 8. Slaven Bilic’s first league game increasing the number of goals took the lead in the 24th minute Maldives will also visit Doha in in charge. scored from last season’s paltry when Italian striker Graziano Hamburg crash in German Cup the same week for their return Arsenal were booed off at the 52. Pelle rose highest to plant BERLIN: Bayern Munich got their German Cup campaign off to a clash on October 13. final whistle with Cech culpable Striker Christian Benteke, the a header past Tim Krul but 3-1 winning start over amateur fifth division side Noettingen yes- A little over a month later, in both West Ham goals. pick of the bunch as a $50.4m Newcastle equalised just before terday in the first round which again proved fatal for Bundesliga Bhutan will welcome Qatar The former Chelsea keeper was signing from Aston Villa, was halftime through Papiss Cisse. rivals Hamburg. for on November 17 at the signed during the close season to starved of service but Coutinho REUTERS Hamburg, who open their Bundesliga campaign at Bayern next Changlimithang Stadium in shore Arsenal up defensively but came to Liverpool’s rescue in a Friday, fell 3-2 after extra time at fourth division Carl Zeiss Jena. Thimphu. the experienced Czech had a day match of few chances. Four days after their 1-0 victory over Real Madrid in the Audi The game against Bhutan in to forget in the north London The little Brazilian eased past English Premier Cup, Bayern overran the amateur side, playing at Karlsruhe Stadium. November this year will be fol- sunshine. two Stoke players in the 86th New Chilean signing Arturo Vidal opened the scoring for Bayern lowed by a gap of four months. Just before halftime he came minute before unleashing an League Results with a penalty after six minutes but 10 minutes later Noettingen In March 2016, Qatar will wel- flying out to punch Dimitri unstoppable drive past the Stoke equalised thanks to striker Niklas Hecht-Zirpel, a young student come Hong Kong for the return Arsenal 0 West Ham 2 (Kouyate 43’, Zarate Payet’s free kick but was beaten goalkeeper Jack Butland. of sports and mathematics. game between the two sides. The 57’); Newcastle 2 (Cisse 43’, Wijnaldum 48’) to the ball by the head of Kouyate. As Newcastle boss McClaren Mario Goetze put Bayern back in front just a minute later with game will be played on March Southampton 2 (Pelle 24’, Long 79’); Stoke 0 Twelve minutes after the restart stepped foot in a dugout as a Robert Lewandowski sealing the winner 10 minutes later as Munich 24 at the Abdullah Bin Khalifa Liverpool 1 (Coutinho 86’) Zarate’s low strike sneaked past Premier League manager for the coach Pep Guardiola brought on Dutch midfielder Arjen Robben Stadium. Five days later, Qatar Today’s Match him at the near post. first time since 2006, his oppo- after 55 minutes. Cup holders Wolfsburg eased to a 4-1 win on will visit hosts China for their West Ham, who gave a Premier site number Ronald Koeman West Bromwich Albion vs Manchester City Saturday at Stuttgarter Kickers. AFP return game on March 29. League debut to 16-year-old was nowhere to be seen after (1900 GMT) THE PENINSULA World champion Marquez takes pole for Indy race

INDIANAPOLIS: Two-time world champion Marc Marquez Dani Indianapolis Moto claimed pole position for yes- Pedrosa terday’s Indianapolis MotoGP of Spain GP Grids in qualifying Saturday at the rides during Indianapolis Motor Speedway. qualifying INDIANAPOLIS: Grids for The 22-year-old Spaniard, rid- for the Sunday’s Indianapolis MotoGP ing for the Repsol Honda Team, Indianapolis after Saturday’s qualifying: posted the quickest time with a Grand MotoGP lap in 1min 31.884secs. Prix at the 1. Marc Marquez (ESP/Honda) 1min Marquez, undefeated in Indianapolis 31.884sec, 2. Dani Pedrosa (ESP/Honda) MotoGP competition on US Motor 1:32.055, 3. Jorge Lorenzo (ESP/Yamaha) soil, will seek a third consecu- Speedway 1:32.186, 4. Cal Crutchlow (GBR/Honda) tive victory in the eight-year-old track on 1:32.208, 5. Danilo Petrucci (ITA/Ducati) Indianapolis event. Saturday. 1:32.243, 6. Bradley Smith (GBR/Yamaha) Marquez said he was happy 1:32.269, 7. Andrea Iannone (ITA/Ducati) with Saturday’s performance. Spanish riders will have the Moto2 qualifying capped 1:32.468, 8. Valentino Rossi (ITA/Yamaha) “Looks like here we are able front row for Sunday’s race. Saturday’s action, with another 1:32.511, 9. Maverick Vinales (ESP/Suzuki) to be fast,” he added. “The key of Dani Pedrosa, Marquez’s Spaniard winning the pole. 1:32.571. 10. Andrea Dovizioso (ITA/Ducati) the race, I think on the last laps Honda teammate, posted the day’s Riding a Kalex, 19-year-old 1:32.636. everybody will be struggling with second-fastest qualifying time of Alex Rins qualified in 1:36.549. Moto2 rear grip. 1:32.055 while Jorge Lorenzo of Joining Rins in the first row 1. Alex Rins (ESP/Kalex) 1:36.549, 2. Tito “But we will try to do our best Yamaha starts in the third posi- will be two more Kalex riders, Rabat (ESP/Kalex) 1:36.686, 3. Mika Kallio and try to be there ready for a tion after a qualifying run of Tito Rabat of Spain and Mika (FIN/Kalex) 1:36.865, 4. Thomas Luthi (SUI/ fight. So tomorrow will be an 1:32.186. Kallio of Finland. Rabat’s time Kalex) 1:36.886, 5. Jonas Folger (GER/ interesting race.” Season points leader Valentino was 1:36.686. Kallio, who won Kalex) 1:37.005, 6. Takaaki Nakagami (JPN/ Counting 2011 and 2012 wins Rossi of Yamaha qualified eighth this race in 2014, qualified with a Kalex) 1:37.005. in Moto2, he’s in line for a fifth Saturday, which ties his lowest 1:36.865 lap. Moto3 win at the famed IndyCar circuit. qualifying spot of the season. “I knew I needed to push a little Marquez became the first man In Moto3, Danny Kent of bit more to make a difference,” 1. Danny Kent (GBR/Honda) 1:40.703, 2. to win three consecutive poles in Honda grabbed the pole position said Rins. Miguel Oliveira (POR/KTM) 1:40.791, 3. this event. In ten MotoGP out- with a qualifying time of 1:40.703. “It’s important to be on the pole Zulfahmi Khairuddin (MAL/KTM) 1:40.811, ings this season he’s won five Miguel Oliveira of Portugal and because in this series, it’s very 4. Enea Bastianini (ITA/Honda) 1:40.875, 5. Honda MotoGP rider Marc Marquez of Spain smiles after qualifying in Fabio Quartararo (FRA/Honda) 1:41.062, 6. pole position for the Indianapolis Grand Prix in Indianapolis on Saturday. poles. During his MotoGP career, Zulfahmi Khairuddin of Malaysia competitive. I expect a good race Marquez has 27 poles in 47 races. will round out the front row. (tomorrow).” AFP Brad Binder (RSA/KTM) 1:41.092.