www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS | 22 SPORT | 29 QP awards contract Saez double fires to supply jet Al Wakrah to fuel to HIA victory SUNDAY 14 FEBRUARY 2016 • 5 Jumada I 1437 • Volume 20 • Number 6706 thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar Emir meets Abdullah Gul Palestinians Business centres plan satellite TV can divide space sports channel AFP among firms RAMALLAH: A new Palestin- ian satellite sports channel is to carry out a pilot transmission on Wednesday, with plans to start and facilitate procedures for the regular broadcasts in the summer, Qatari investors issuance of construction licences of one of its founders said yesterday. business centres. The purpose of the Wael Romana, director of the welcome move initiative is to provide businessper- Palestinian Sport Channel, told sons, investors and entrepreneurs AFP it would cover Wednesday’s with a comprehensive and integrated friendly between the Palestinian range of investment solutions,” said and Algerian Olympic football a statement. teams in Algeria. The Peninsula Qatari investors were quick “Then the channel’s offi- to hail the move. Ahmed Khalaf, cial launch will be in four or five a prominent Qatari businessman months,” he said, adding he has described it a “right decision at the already hired about 40 staff and DOHA: In a major initiative to sup- right time” saying it will help indi- hopes to expand. port Qatari investors, businessmen vidual investors establish several “The goal is to have coverage and small and medium enterprises companies in the same premises. of Palestinian sport in all disci- (SME), the Ministry of Economy and “One person may have many plines,” he said. Commerce has allowed owners of companies functioning in different Palestine was recognised by business centres to partition their buildings. The law will now allow FIFA in 1998. facilities and lease office space to him to bring them together in one Palestinian Football Asso- one or more companies. place,” Khalaf told The Peninsula. ciation president Jibril Rajoub, a The initiative launched in col- He said the initiative will espe- constant critic of Israeli restric- laboration with the Ministry of cially help companies providing tions on the movement of Municipality and Environment offers various services and small busi- Palestinian athletes, welcomed business centre owners several nesses, since they can hire office the initiative as a “historic turning advantages including transform- space at lower rents. point” in the history of Palestin- ing offices into open workspaces or Today an office space costs ian sport. dividing them into closed ones, sep- between QR15,000 to QR30,000, A Communications Ministry arated by barriers that offer more said Khalaf. spokesperson said the Palestinian privacy. The initiative will also help Authority had bought 18 broadcast It permits owners to lease office international companies set up rep- frequencies on the Egypt-owned space to one or several companies in resentative offices at lower costs. Nilesat satellite and Saudi-based addition to representatives of local Earlier they had to hire an inde- Arabsat which it could license to companies, businesspersons, SME pendent apartment for that. Many any broadcaster it selected. owners and startups, the Ministry companies can now function in a Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani offered condolences to former Turkish President Abdullah Eighteen local television chan- of Economy and Commerce said single building. Gul on the death of his father-in-law, Ahmet Ozyurt, in Istanbul yesterday. nels operate in the West Bank and yesterday. Gaza Strip alongside nearly 90 The move “aims to streamline → Continued on page 6 radio stations. Russia premier warns of Turkey and Saudi could send troops to fight IS in Syria: Ankara new Cold War AFP “If there is a strategy (against IS) the most concrete proposals,” he said. coalition operations against IS, with Al Assad as essential for ending Syria’s then Turkey and Saudi Arabia could Cavusoglu added that Saudi planes from Britain, France and the civil war and are critical of Iran and enter into a ground operation,” For- Arabia, which has become an increas- United States carrying out raids inside Russia’s support of the Syrian regime. Reuters eign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was ingly close ally of Turkey in recent Syria from the base. Asked if Saudi Arabia could send ISTANBUL: Turkey and Saudi Ara- quoted as saying by the Yeni Safak months, is also sending planes to “They (Saudi Arabia) said ‘If nec- troops to the Turkish border to enter bia could launch a ground operation and Haberturk newspapers after the Turkish base of Incirlik to fight essary we can also send troops’. Saudi Syria, Cavusoglu said: “This is some- MUNICH: Violence in eastern against Islamic State (IS) jihadists in taking part in the Munich Security IS. “They (Saudi officials) came, did Arabia is showing great determination thing that could be desired but there Ukraine is intensifying and Rus- Syria, while Riyadh is also sending Conference. a reconnaissance of the base. At the in the fight against terror in Syria,” is no plan. Saudi Arabia is sending sian-backed rebels have moved war planes to a Turkish base to fight “Some say ‘Turkey is reluctant to moment it is not clear how many said the Turkish minister. planes and they said ‘If the necessary heavy weaponry back to the the extremists, the Turkish foreign take part in the fight against Daesh planes will come,” Cavusoglu said. Saudi Arabia and Turkey both see time comes for a ground operation front line, international moni- minister said yesterday. (IS)’. But it is Turkey that is making Incirlik is a key hub for US-led the ousting of Syrian President Bashar then we could send soldiers’.” tors warned yesterday as Moscow responded by accusing the West of dragging the world back 50 years. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev described East-West World Around You After Zika, rare disorder relations as having “fallen into a new Cold War” and said Nato was “hostile and closed” towards Rus- sia, in the latest sign that peace hits five LatAm nations efforts have made scant progress almost two years since Moscow annexed Crimea. Reuters “The cause of the increase in “I sometimes wonder — are we GBS incidence observed in Brazil, in 2016 or 1962?” Medvedev asked Colombia, El Salvador and Suri- in a speech at the Munich Security name remains unknown, especially Conference. GENEVA: A neurological disorder as dengue, chikungunya and Zika suspected of links to the mosquito- virus have all been circulating simul- → See also page 17 borne Zika virus is on the rise in taneously in the Americas,” it added. Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Suri- Investigations continue to deter- name and Venezuela, the World mine the cause, WHO said, noting Chill grips US Health Organization (WHO) said that there was no laboratory confir- yesterday. mation of Zika virus in patients with northeast The rare Guillain-Barre syn- GBS in Colombia and El Salvador. drome, in which the body’s immune Venezuela has reported 252 system attacks part of the nervous cases of Guillain-Barre occurring BOSTON: A dangerous cold snap system, causes gradual weakness in at the same time and place as Zika gripped the northeastern US yes- the legs, arms and upper body and infections, it said. “Zika virus infec- terday, with temperatures in some sometimes leads to total paralysis. tion was confirmed for three of the areas set to fall below zero and “In the context of the Zika virus GBS cases, including one fatal case.” Boston facing its coldest period of outbreak, Brazil, Colombia, El Sal- Venezuela’s President Nico- An artwork on display at the ‘Looking at the World Around You: Contemporary Works from Qatar February in almost four decades. vador, Suriname and Venezuela have las Maduro said on Thursday that Officials warned people to stay Museums’ exhibition at Santander Art Gallery in Financial City, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid. The exhibition reported an increase of GBS (Guil- three people had died of complica- H indoors away from “life threaten- by Fundacin Banco Santander, in partnership with Qatar Museums and under the patronage of its lain-Barre Syndrome),” the WHO tions linked to Zika virus and that ing” cold. Chairperson, H E Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, will continue till June 19. said in a weekly report on Zika suspected cases of Zika had risen → See also page 2 virus now circulating in 34 coun- to 5,221. → See also page 18 tries, including 26 in the Americas. → See also page 18 02 SUNDAY 14 FEBRUARY 2016 HOME QM artworks on show in Madrid FM meets counterparts Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani yesterday separately met his counterparts Edward Nalbandian (Armenia, pictured), Pavlo Klimkin (Ukraine) and Borge Brende (Norway) on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference. Talks dealt with means of enhancing relations between Qatar and their countries and matters of mutual interest. Two of more than 160 artworks on display at the Santander Art Gallery in Financial City, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid until June 19. The Peninsula breathed life into them. Echenique said: “The Santander The exhibition explores the Art Galley exemplifies the bank’s Quality and Safety in ‘Looking at the connection between art and his- interest in building a more pros- World Around You: tory through multiple works, from perous community through culture, DOHA: A major exhibition ‘Looking at René Magritte’s vision of the Orient creativity and education — hence our the World Around You: Contemporary Contemporary Works in Shéhérazade to the reflections of commitment to bring the best con- Healthcare forum in May Works from Qatar Museums’ is open from Qatar Museums’ today’s most dynamic, engaged Arab temporary art collections in the world for the first time at the Santander Art is open for the first artists — Hatoum, Amal Kenawy, to this gallery.