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El Shorbagy retains Qatar Classic title Plan to set up 30 weather New traffic law stations across Qatar DOHA: The Department of Meteorology has plans to set up 30 weather stations across the country to measure temperatures, rain, humidity, wind speeds to take effect and direction. The plans were disclosed by Ahmed Abdullah Mahmoud, Head of Meteorology, during an interview with the police magazine Asshurta Maak (Police with You). The weather stations will be like polls and from January 1 cameras will be fitted to them to transfer weather photographs to the monitoring centres. With 30 more stations, the number of such facili- ties in the country will increase to 50, Mahmoud said. Fines halved if paid in 30 days The new stations will be in Doha, Al Shamal, the south and other parts of the country, including the DOHA: The Traffic Department stipulated for breaching speed coastal areas between Doha and Al Khor. will begin enforcing the amended limits. The new law amending Continued on page 2 traffic law from January 1 next the previous one issued in 2007 year. was issued last August. It is to be THE PENINSULA The new law decreases the made effective 90 days after being fine for violations that are on the published in the official gazette. Support for sportswomen hailed conciliation list by 50 percent if The law also bans vehicles paid by motorists within 30 days. meant for sale from being DOHA: FIA’s Women & Motor Sport Commis- After that, the fines should be displayed in public areas without sion President Michelle Mouton yesterday praised paid in full. permission from the Traffic Qatar’s role in supporting women race drivers. Brigadier Mohamed Saad Al Department. Mouton was visiting a training course for the Kharji, Director-General of the Earlier, the Traffic Department commission hosted by Qatar Motor and Motorcy- Traffic Department, said in a and the Ministry of Municipality cle Federation (QMMF). She said the course was a previous statement and Urban huge success, based on the training session she saw that the 50 percent Planning dealt with Egypt’s Mohamed El Shorbagy in action against Frenchman Gregory Gaultier in the final in Sealine. reduction in fines such violations but of Qatar Classic squash tournament at Khalifa Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha QNA would only be now it is the Traffic yesterday. Report on page 19 applicable to some Department that violations. deals with them. He said the rule The legislation does not apply also decreases the to overtaking period from six from the right months to three New cyclone heading for Yemen: UN side and parking for a motorist on slots reserved whose vehicle for persons with was seized for GENEVA: The UN weather injured in southeastern Yemen problems caused by Chapala... to move further west over warmer special needs, violations to agency warned yesterday that this week, but is expected to slam worse, and it will obviously com- water than is traditionally the in addition to Brigadier Mohamed Saad Al pay the fine and another rare cyclone was head- into or pass close to the country’s plicate what is already a very case, and develop into cyclones, overweight trucks. Kharji, Director-General of the claim the vehicle, ing towards Yemen which would badly hit Arabian Sea island of complex humanitarian operation,” WMO said. The law has Traffic Department. otherwise it will bring more rain to areas badly Socotra tomorrow, WMO spokes- Nullis told reporters in Geneva. The UN’s humanitarian agency raised the fine for be auctioned. The battered by Cyclone Chapala. woman Clare Nullis said. Tropical cyclones are extremely OCHA, meanwhile, said up to overtaking from the right side fine is to be deducted from the The new storm, Megh, is From Socotra, the storm is rare over the Arabian peninsula, 44,000 people had been displaced and parking on spaces reserved sale proceeds after the auction brewing in the Arabian Sea and expected to weaken into a low and having two back-to-back by Chapala, which made landfall for people with special needs from and the remaining amount is to expected to intensify into “a pressure area as it moves towards was “an absolutely extraordinary in mainland Yemen on Tuesday, QR500 to QR1,000. be handed to the vehicle owner. severe cyclonic storm” over the mainland Yemen, but will bring event,” she said. The storms triggering heavy flash floods Those found repeating the The number of traffic violations next 24 hours, with wind speeds of large amounts of rain to areas appeared to be caused by high and mudslides that also injured offence will be liable to be jailed during the first six months of the up to 100kmph, World Meteoro- devastated by Chapala. sea surface temperatures and 34 people. Chapala severely hit and fined. Points are also to be year reached 845,169. logical Organisation (WMO) said. Megh “is not nearly as intense a naturally occurring climate Socotra, forcing the evacuation deducted from the motorist’s Continued on page 2 Megh is not as powerful as as Chapala. It is not as big. But phenomenon resembling El Nino of 18,000 people and destroying points scale for exceeding speed Chapala, which killed eight peo- obviously, the rainfall associated — called Indian Ocean Dipole, 237 homes, OCHA said. limits. No fines are, though, THE PENINSULA ple, including two children, and with this storm is going to make which allows low pressure systems AFP

Kuwait denies cholera outbreak Israeli fire kills Palestinian in the country youth, 72-year-old woman DOHA: Kuwait has denied there is an outbreak of cholera in the country, reports Qatar News GAZA: A Palestinian man was shot dead to ram her car into a group of soldiers, a Agency (QNA). during clashes Friday with Israeli soldiers military spokeswoman said. She was taken Health Ministry’s Assist- along Gaza’s border with Israel, medics to an Israeli hospital, which confirmed ant Undersecretary for Public said. The 23-year-old from the southern her age and said she had died before being Hygiene Affairs Dr Majeda Al Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis was killed admitted. Qattan said other than five cases and nine others injured by gunfire from Medics from the Palestinian Red over the past two weeks, no fur- Israeli troops, said Ashraf Al Qedra, a Crescent who initially attended at the ther cases were detected, accord- spokesman for Health Ministry in Gaza. scene said the woman was shot 15 times. ing to Kuwaiti news websites. Al-Qedra said that 18 Palestinian The violence has been the worst since the She told reporters that all men have been killed and more than 300 2014 Gaza war, with Israeli forces hard-put patients had recovered after wounded in the Gaza Strip since the latest to anticipate often spontaneous attacks by treatment and there was noth- wave of violence between Israelis and young Palestinians unaffiliated to militant ing to worry about. “Cholera is Palestinians broke out on October 1. groups. caused by consuming contami- Meanwhile, Israeli soldiers shot and “My people, country are victims of an nated water or food and Kuwait killed an elderly Palestinian motorist who unjust (Israeli) aggression which includes has special desalination plants, the military said tried to run them over in people and places and does not spare old bottled water and highly devel- the occupied West Bank yesterday. people or children,” Palestinian Foreign oped services,” she said, adding Near the West Bank city of Hebron, Minister Riyad Al Maliki told the Unesco that the epidemic cannot happen Israeli soldiers and undercover security personnel detain a Palestinian protester during clashes Israeli soldiers opened fire and wounded a General Assembly in Paris. in the country. in the West Bank city of Bethlehem yesterday. Palestinian woman, 72, who allegedly tried AFP Dr Al Qattan also stressed that in collaboration with the ministry of interior, the customs depart- ment, and the ministry of health, measures have been taken to pre- vent the entry of people afflicted with the disease or carrying con- ‘Chatter’ supports theory bomb took down Russian jet taminated goods from Iraq. “All hospital and concerned WASHINGTON: British and US spies brought down by a bomb. Britain said there still no hard forensic or scientific evidence Meanwhile, Russia, which was initially entities have been notified about intercepted “chatter” from suspected mili- was a “credible threat” but refused to com- to support the bomb theory. critical of Britain’s assessment of what it how to deal with the disease, tants and at least one other government ment further on the intelligence involved, “We still cannot be categorical but there has called a crash, suspended all flights to starting with diagnosis, treatment suggesting that a bomb, possibly hidden in citing long-standing rules about disclosing is a distinct and credible possibility that Egypt. protocols, observing arrivals and luggage in the hold, downed a Russian air- operational details about live investigations. there was a bomb,” one source said. President Vladimir Putin ordered the preventive measures to be taken liner on Saturday, killing all 224 people on Western intelligence sources said some Two sources said the bomb may have halt to flights after Alexander Bortnikov, with those dealing with patients,” board, Western intelligence sources said. of the assessment about the bomb came been hidden in luggage in the hold of the Head of Russia’s FSB security service, rec- she said, adding that reports of Prime Minister David Cameron halted from intercepted communications from Russian plane. They refused to give fur- ommended that Moscow suspend all pas- the epidemic spreading in Kuwait flights to and from Sharm Al Sheikh on suspected militants and one or more gov- ther details. A US official said the “chat- senger flights to Egypt until it knew exactly were rumours. Wednesday after intelligence shown to him ernments involved in the investigation. ter” intercepted about the bomb includes what caused the crash. See also pages 3 and 5 indicated that it was likely that Airbus The intelligence sources said the evi- conflicting details about whether the bomb THE PENINSULA A321 heading towards St Petersburg was dence was not categorical and that there is was placed on the plane. AGENCIES SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2015 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Qatar’s education initiatives highlighted at Unesco meet Education Minister holds meetings with officials at Unesco HQ in Paris

PARIS: Minister of Education, importance of education and its Higher Education and Supreme mission, highlighting Qatar’s Education Council (SEC) Secre- contributions in support of edu- tary- General H E Mohammed cation at the international level Abdul Wahed Ali Al Ham- through initiatives, including madi met Mali’s Minister of ‘Educate A Child’ for children Higher Education and Scientific deprived of education because of Research Montage Tulle at the conflicts, poverty and different Unesco headquarters in Paris conditions. yesterday. He also highlighted the state’s Dr Al Hammadi, who is initiatives for children and heading a Qatari delegation to young people and education of www.swiss-belhotel.com the 38th session of the general refugees and displaced persons. conference of Unesco, also held Qatar is taking part in Tel separate meetings with Finnish the session which runs until Fax Minister of Education and Cul- November 18. ture Sanni Grahn-Laasonen, Qatar’s delegation includes Pakistani Minister of State for Minister of Education, Higher Education and Supreme Education representatives of the Ministry Federal Education Muhammad Council (SEC) Secretary-General H E Mohammed Abdul Wahed Ali Al of Culture, Arts and Heritage, Tel Baligh Ur Rehman, Swedish Hammadi holding one of the meetings at the Unesco headquarters in the Ministry of Communica- Fax Minister of Education Gustav Paris yesterday. tions and Information Tech- Fridolin, Afghanistan’s Minis- nology, the SEC, University of ter of Higher Education Far- Talks dealt issues of com- They also reviewed issues Qatar, Qatar Museums Author- ida Moumen and Minister of mon interest, particularly in discussed at the conference ity, Qatar National Commission Education Dr Asadullah Hanif the education sector, and ways and member states’ contribu- for Education, Culture and Sci- Tel Balki and Philippine president’s to enhance cooperation and tion to activating Unesco’s role ence and Ali Zainal, Qatar’s Fax Higher Education Office Com- exchange of experiences in the to achieves its goals and objec- Permanent Representative to mission Member Dr Patricia areas of training and scientific tives in the service of humanity. Unesco. Iswanan. research. Dr Al Hammadi stressed the QNA

Tel + 974 44298888 Fax New health 363,523 Tel centre plan radar Fax for Bani Hajer violations in DOHA: A new health cen- six months Tel tre will be established in Continued from page 1 Fax Bani Hajer, Dr Mariam Ali Abdulmalik, Managing Violations varied Director, Primary Health from jumping the red Care Corporation (PHCC), light and radar viola- Tel has said. tions to obstruction of Fax Dr Abdulmalik said traffic movement and PHCC is coordinating with overtaking. www.doha.hilton.com the Public Works Author- Radar violations ity (Ashghal) to design and registered the highest, Tel 44233333 974+ build the centre and work reaching 363,523, fol- is expected to be completed lowed by jumping the Fax 44233000 974+ in 2018. red light at 15,562. She was replying to Wrong and haphazard parking which can obstruct traffic can attract fines. a question by Central THE PENINSULA Municipal Council Mem- ber Mohammad Saleh Al Khayarin. The new centres being built across the coun- try will have more space compared to the old ones to accommodate more 13 films from Qatar for Tel patients. They will also Fax have bigger parking areas and more facilities such as X-ray laboratories, phar- macies, and dental clinics, Al Jazeera festival Tel among others. Fax Global documentary festival from November 26 to 29 Community DOHA: Thirteen films from made it in the Short Films Jazeera Documentary Channel Tel College to Qatar have made it to the short- category while Temsah; Made in Award, Public Liberties and Fax list of films that will take part in Qatar; Top; and Kumar are on the Human Rights Award and Child open branches the 11th Al Jazeera International list of films competing in the New and Family Award will also be Documentary Film Festival from Horizon section. given at the awards ceremony on DOHA : Several branches November 26 to 29 at Ritz-Carl- The festival received 920 November 29 of Community College of ton-Doha. entry forms and 775 films, out of A total of QR600,000 will be Tel Qatar (CCQ) will be estab- The films from Qatar which 148 were shortlisted which given to the winners of various Fax lished across the country. participating in the festival in include 30 long, 50 medium, 47 awards. One branch will be in the Long Films category include short and 20 new horizon films. Organised under the patronage Al Khor and another in A Single Word; Farah and The They will be viewed and of Sheikh Hamad bin Thamer Al Wakrah, CCQ Presi- Betrayed, based on the official judged by a 15-member jury Al Thani, Chairman, Al Jazeera Tel dent Dr Ibrahim Saleh Al list published on the festival’s from different countries who Media Network Board, the festival Nuaimi said in response website. will choose the finest films for carries the theme ‘Horizons.’ Fax to a question by Central In the Medium category, the the coveted Al Jazeera awards, The four-day festival will also Municipal Council Member films shortlisted are People of the including Al Jazeera Golden feature an exhibition in which Saeed Mubarak Al Rashidi. Nile; Wheels of war; Stronger Than Award, Jury Award, Best Director 27 production companies and The main branch of the Words; and Bull Fighting, Farewell. Award, Best Camerawork Award institutes from 14 countries will Tel college will be in Al Mazr- And The Parkour; and My and New Horizon Award. take part. Fax ouah, added Dr Al Nuaimi. Cultural Life - Teens’ Tales have Special awards, including Al THE PENINSULA Survey on low-lying areas Cooling off continues

Tel Continued from page 1 Fax Mahmoud said that studies are being conducted on low-lying areas near the coasts to measure rainfall Tel and ascertain whether Fax water-logging takes place there during the rains. Talking about flood- www.marriottmarquisdoha.com ing, the official said that Qatar’s geography is such Tel + 974 44195000 that even if it rains heavily, Fax + 974 44195100 there would be no flooding but only water-logging in some areas. For flooding, a country must have moun- tains and a typical topog- raphy, he added. Bikers from the Harley Owner’s Group (HOG) pull over at Al Ghariya Beach, Madinat Ash Shamal, to cool off during a morning ride yesterday. QASSIM RAHMATULLAH THE PENINSULA SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2015 HOME / GULF / MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 US First Lady leaves Qatar IS bomb on Russia plane to herald new phase in conflict Frightening change in tactics by jihadists likely, say experts

BEIRUT: There is no hard evidence. But reports from the US and Britain suggesting an Islamic State (IS) group bomb may have caused the Russian plane crash in Egypt are raising the alarm among experts, who say such an act would be a frightening change in tactics by the extremist group. It would also underscore the failure so far of the US-led coalition to deter the jihadis — despite the recent addition of Russia to the seemingly formidable forces arrayed against US First Lady Michelle Obama and her delegation left Doha yesterday them. Russian and Egyptian officials say any morning at the end of a four-day visit to Qatar. She took part in World talk about a bomb is premature, and aviation authorities are working on all possible theo- Innovation Summit for Education (WISE). ries as to why Airbus A321-200 crashed last Saturday in Egypt’s chaotic Sinai Peninsula, 23 minutes after take-off. Still, British Prime Minister David Cam- eron said it was “more likely than not” that Opposition Syrian National an explosive device brought the jetliner down. If that proves to be true, and if the IS group was responsible, it would be the extremists’ Coalition must be central largest act of transnational terrorism by far. While the IS group has claimed responsibil- ity for deadly attacks that struck tourists in Tunisia and Shia mosques in Gulf countries to peace talks: France — claims that have not been proven — it has so far refrained from spectacular Al Qaeda-style A passenger pulls a cart with children and luggage shortly after their arrival from the Egyptian resort PARIS: The Western-backed talks aimed to coordinate posi- attacks on airliners. of Sharm Al Sheikh, at Domodedovo airport outside Moscow, Russia yesterday. opposition Syrian National Coa- tions and assess the Vienna proc- It has focused instead on seizing and lition (SNC) must be the main ess. “We discussed the eventual expanding territory it holds in Syria and Iraq, the plane. However, the official added that if it In recent days, IS for the first time explic- actor to unite all rebel groups in possibility of finding a political and establishing branches in other countries was a bomb, intelligence analysts don’t believe itly threatened Israel, in videos featuring a any future peace talks with the solution,” he said. like Egypt and Libya. IS leaders in Syria ordered the operation, but militant speaking fluent Hebrew. If they make Damascus government, France One of the major sticking points And while some attacks in the West may rather that it was planned and executed by good on this threat, the potential for escala- said yesterday. holding up full-fledged negotia- have been inspired by the group, there has the group’s Sinai affiliate, which operates tion is huge. Key stakeholders in the more tions is the opposition demand, been no clear evidence that any of them was autonomously. The IS group’s insistent series Such ambition underscores the extreme than four-year-old civil war held bolstered by Western supporters, planned or directed by the group. of responsibility claims suggests it is trying to challenge facing the US-led coalition. Part of inconclusive talks in Vienna last that Assad quit office as part of “The Sinai attack would be a first, and boost its global credentials. the challenge is the group’s geographic disper- month to try to narrow positions any peace settlement. Damascus would signal that the IS has become capable Until now, the main advantage it has sal: It has branched out from its base in Syria to eventually bringing together has dismissed the demand. of — and interested in — joining the dreadful claimed over Al Qaeda is its hold over a sig- and Iraq, adding affiliates in Egypt’s Sinai, government officials and opposi- US Secretary of State John ranks of global terrorism,” concluded an analy- nificant chunk of territory in Iraq and Syria. Afghanistan, Libya and Yemen. tion members to the negotiating Kerry and Russian Foreign Min- sis by the Soufan Group, a private geopolitical Aymenn Al Tamimi, an expert on rebel and The US and its allies have been bombing table. ister Sergei Lavrov discussed the risk assessment company. Islamic extremist groups and a fellow at Mid- IS in Iraq since August 2014, extending the Despite having only tenuous peace efforts by phone yesterday, Given the IS militants’ success in creating dle East Forum think tank, said bombing a campaign to Syria a month later. Russia joined links with rebels on the ground Moscow’s foreign ministry said in mayhem in the region through its brutal tac- jetliner becomes a significant “one-up” in the the fray, launching an aerial campaign against and seen as out of touch with the a statement. tics and ferocious fanaticism, such a metamor- rivalry with Al Qaeda. the group in Syria on September 30. Iranian- general population, the National It said the exchange took place phosis would be a major challenge for security “If the IS is capable of conducting attacks backed militias in both countries are fight- Coalition for Syrian Revolu- at Washington’s initiative and services around the world. like this — particularly against a target now ing the group on the ground. Yet IS has not tionary and Opposition Forces that both also debated the battle IS has claimed responsibility for bringing widely reviled (Russia) — this could bolster been pushed back an inch in its strongholds remains one of the main parties against Islamic State insurgents the Russian plane down in written statements, their appeal in the jihadi world,” he said. of Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria. in international talks. and other Middle East militant as well as video and audio messages posted on If a bomb brought down the plane, it would In another incremental step, Obama “The coalition must play a groups. the Internet this week. not be the first time a Russian jetliner was announced last week the US would deploy up central role in bringing together Syrian government forces and It said the attack was retaliation for Russia’s targeted by Islamic militants. Two suicide to 50 special operations troops into northern the moderate opposition,” said allied militia, backed by Russian air campaign against IS — and other groups — attackers brought down two Russian planes Syria to assist in the fight against IS. spokesman Romain Nadal after air strikes and Iranian and Leb- in Syria, where Moscow wants to preserve the over Russia in 2004, killing 89 people — The question is: Whether a bomb planted by the coalition’s president Khaled anese Hezbollah ground forces, rule of President Bashar Al Assad. The group attacks claimed by Chechen rebels. Chechens IS on an airliner will spur serious and decisive Khoja met French Foreign Min- have waged a fierce campaign warned Putin that they would also target him and other militants from the northern Cau- action to destroy the group. An official with ister Laurent Fabius and other for a month in the west of Syria “at home.” casus still have lots of reason to strike at Rus- the US-led coalition in Iraq said a bomb on officials. that the US says has mostly tar- But IS has not offered any details to back sian targets. an aircraft is an isolated incident and would Diplomats say the next round geted foreign-backed or moderate its claim. While releasing specifics would add IS regularly uses high-tech propaganda vid- be hard to replicate, adding that it wouldn’t of international talks are likely insurgents, rather than Islamic credibility, the group may be withholding eos, including those showing the beheadings necessarily demand a change in coalition tac- towards the end of next week. State. either because its claim is false, or because of foreign hostages, as a form of psychological tics. The attack will play into Putin’s narrative France, one of Syrian President But Syrian government offen- doing so would undermine plans for similar warfare. that IS needs to be fought in Syria before it Bashar Al Assad’s harshest crit- sives are going more slowly than attacks in the future — or because the aura Those gruesome videos have sent shock- poses a bigger threat to Russia. ics, was the first Western state to anticipated, senior sources close of mystery might deepen its mystique among waves across the globe and appear to have suc- Putin has regarded Syria as an opportu- recognise the SNC as the legiti- to the Syrian government said, as diehard followers. ceeded in instilling terror outside their base nity to promote Russia’s world standing at mate representative of the Syrian the insurgents pressed a counter A US official briefed on the matter said territory without having to actually attack relatively low cost and risk, but will now be people. attack yesterday. intercepted communications played a role in — although there have been some gruesome keeping a close eye on public opinion at home. Monzer Makhous, the SNC’s the tentative conclusion that the IS group’s killings around the region, including behead- representative in France, said REUTERS Sinai affiliate planted an explosive device on ing a group of Ethiopian labourers in Libya. AP Freed Al Jazeera journalist celebrates return home to Kenya

DOHA: Freed Australian journalist Greste, along with now freed colleagues confinement — by deciding to campaign they were last year sentenced to between chief, said the release of the trio follow- Peter Greste said yesterday that return- Baher Mohamed and Mohamad Fahmy, for press freedom. “I miss reporting,” seven and 10 years in jail. ing the campaign to free them offered ing to his home in Kenya almost two became the focus of a global press free- Greste said, but added he was writing The three journalists were accused of an example that action could help other years after he was jailed in Egypt was dom campaign. a book on how press freedom has suf- “spreading false news” while covering jailed journalists. one of his “happiest moments”, reports Yesterday, he thanked colleagues for fered under anti-terrorist laws. I am still demonstrations after the army ousted “The FCAEA is proud of its efforts that said yesterday kickstarting the campaign in Kenya, technically a fugitive, and as long as that Islamist president Mohamed Mursi in started humbly in Nairobi and grew into The Al Jazeera reporter, who works speaking how usually fiercely rival conviction and sentence hangs over my 2013. Greste was deported to Australia a worldwide campaign,” Gridneff said. “It for the station’s English-language chan- reporters came together with “unanim- head, it is an implicit threat to myself and in February, while Fahmy and Mohamed shows how little things grow and that nel and was deported from Egypt earlier ity of purpose and a common sense of other journalists,” he said. were pardoned in September. grassroots campaigns can make a dif- this year, described his joy at seeing old outrage”. Greste said he got through Greste was detained along with Fahmy Ilya Gridneff, Foreign Correspondents’ ference.” friends — and sleeping in his bed again. imprisonment — which included solitary and Mohamed in December 2013, and Association of East Africa (FCAEA) AGENCIES

World Robot Olympiad opens Kite fun

The world’s brightest young science and engineering students take out a flag parade to mark the opening of World Robot Olympiad 2015 yesterday. WRO is being held for the first time in Qatar under the patronage of Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani. The three-day event at Al Shaqab Indoor Arena will see over 3,000 participants from more than 45 countries compete in four categories of challenges. WRO is hosted by College of the North Atlantic-Qatar, sponsored by Maersk Oil Qatar and endorsed by the Supreme Education Council and Qatar Petroleum. The event, one of the largest in its 12-year history, supports partners’ commitment to build Qatar’s science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) skills and capacity for generations to come. A boy flies kite on the Corniche yesterday. KAMMUTTY VP SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2015 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com GULF / MIDDLE EAST Turkey police Rebels recapture raid business group linked Syrian village to Gulen ANKARA: Turkish police searched offices of a business Russian air strikes kill 42 in IS-held Raqqa association close to President Tayyip Erdogan’s ally-turned-foe BEIRUT: Syrian rebels recaptured a vil- Islamic State-held Syrian city of Raqqa killed Fethullah Gulen yesterday, media lage and surrounding areas in the west of the 42 people earlier this week, including 27 civil- reports said, sustaining a crack- country yesterday, consolidating significant ians, monitoring group the Syrian Observa- down on the Muslim cleric’s sup- advances made the day before at the expense tory for Human Rights said on Friday. porters after Sunday’s election. of pro-government forces, a monitoring group Fifteen Islamic State fighters made up the Anadolu said the raids on the said. remainder of the death toll, the Britain-based TUSKON business confederation Fighters from the Ahrar Al Sham Islam- Observatory said, after a series of strikes on and related groups in Ankara ist group and other rebel forces took over Tuesday that hit the group’s Syrian strong- were part of an investigation into the village of Atshan in Hama province, the hold. the “parallel structure”, a term Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human coined by Erdogan to describe Rights said. CANADA READY TO SETTLE 25,000 Gulen’s followers and their influ- Syrian government forces and allied militia, REFUGEES ence in public office. backed by Russian air strikes and support on Canada’s new prime minister Thursday The investigation included the ground from Iranian troops and Lebanese vowed to make good on campaign promises to TUSKON in allegations of “pro- Hezbollah fighters, have waged a fierce cam- resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees by the begin- viding financing for terrorism”, paign for a month in the west of Syria that ning of next year and bring home fighter jets local media said. the United States says has mostly targeted battling the Islamic State group in Iraq and On Sunday, the AK Party that foreign-backed or moderate insurgents. Syria. Erdogan founded secured a return Russia began its air strikes in support of In his first interview since taking office on to single-party rule in an election President Bashar Al Assad on September 30, Wednesday, Justin Trudeau told the Radio- result he portrayed as a vote for more than four years into a civil war that has Canada network: “The goal is still to have stability but which opponents fear drawn in the world’s major powers. 25,000 Syrian refugees in Canada before Janu- heralds growing authoritarianism. Pro-government forces captured the village ary 1.” A fighter from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which includes Kurds, Arabs and Police detained dozens of people of Ghamam in Latakia province yesterday, Several government ministries have been Christians, monitors the countryside of the northeastern town of Al Hol, in the Hasakeh including senior police officers and the Observatory and Hezbollah’s Al Manar mobilized to achieve this goal in such a short province, yesterday. The SDF said it had launched first operation against territory bureaucrats on Tuesday, alleging TV reported. Latakia, which runs along the time, Trudeau said, adding the federal gov- controlled by the Islamic State (IS) group in the northeast. they were members of a “Gulen- western coast of Syria, is Assad’s heartland, ernment would have to work closely with ist terror group” that had sought a but rebels have a presence inland in the prov- Canada’s provinces and municipalities. “respectful of our allies,” Trudeau said, mustard gas. The Organisation for the purge of the army by engineering a ince’s north from where they launch attacks. The refugees must be given ways to support adding that Sajjan will “look at differ- Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on Fri- 2012 espionage trial. Moscow has said its campaign targets their families once they reach Canada so they ent options to ensure that we keep our day confirmed with “utmost confidence” Gulen’s organisation, which has Islamic State, but the jihadist group has a can benefit their community and the country promise” to stop the bombing. Canada’s that mustard gas was used in August followers across society, including limited presence in the west of the country, as a whole, just like the “waves of immigrants allies “understand very well that this in Syria. the police and judiciary, helped where rebels mostly belong to other groups. and refugees that did so earlier,” Trudeau said. government was elected on a clear A report from OPCW fact-finding Erdogan in the first years after Atshan in Hama is close to the town of He also said his defense minister, Harjit mandate to end the strikes,” Trudeau teams said an infant was “very likely” his AK Party was elected in 2002. Morek, which rebels took in an assault led by Sajjan, was working to bring home Canadian said. killed in the attack on Marea, a town in One of Erdogan’s chief tasks lay the Jund Al Aqsa group on Thursday. warplanes from the fight against IS in Iraq Aside from bringing in refugees, Can- Aleppo province, on August 21. in ending the political influence of Syrian government forces had captured and Syria. ada will provide humanitarian aid in the OPCW said the mustard gas was used the military, which had toppled a Atshan in October, the Observatory said. Canada last year deployed CF-18 fighter region and focus its military mission on by non-state actors, but activists and a series of governments in second Morek lies on the main north-south high- jets to the region until March 2016, as well as training friendly forces instead of fight- monitoring group said it was clear that half of the 20th century, including way that links Syria’s main cities, the capital about 70 special forces troops to train Kurds ing, Trudeau said, emphasizing his coun- IS was behind the attack. one he had supported. Damascus and Aleppo. in northern Iraq. try remained “committed to the fight Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syr- But the two later fell out after Morek’s capture was a blow to the Russian- During the campaign, Trudeau pledged to against the IS.” ian Observatory for Human Rights mon- police and prosecutors seen as backed campaign in the west and northwest of end Canada’s combat mission in the region, Meanwhle, activists accused the itoring group, said “IS used toxic gases sympathetic to the cleric opened the country, where it has had limited success but he vowed to keep the military trainers Islamic State (IS) group of being behind during its attack on Marea in August.” a corruption investigation into in retaking territory gained by rebels early in place. a deadly gas attack in northern Syria He said IS had likely gotten the gas Erdogan’s inner circle in 2013. this year. The fighter jets will be brought home this past summer, as the global chemi- through Turkey or Iraq. Air strikes by Russian warplanes on the quickly in a “responsible” manner that is cal weapons watchdog confirmed it was AGENCIES REUTERS

Gunmen snatch dozens of Turkey detains IS suspects in Antalya ahead of G20 ANKARA: Turkish police in Egypt that the US and Britain be planning to join IS. Islamist rebels fighting both Syr- The opposition accuses Ankara Tunisians in swooped on Islamic State sus- say was most likely brought down About half have already been ian Kurds and President Bashar of colluding with IS — charges pects in the Mediterranean by a bomb. deported and the rest are to be Al Assad but its policy backfired rejected by the government which resort of Antalya yesterday, Turkish police detained 20 peo- expelled Friday, Dogan said. after the emergence of the brutal blacklisted the group as a terror- Libyan capital barely 10 days ahead of a sum- ple in Antalya, the Dogan news Police also caught six people, Islamic State. ist organisation in 2013. mit of world leaders, local media agency reported, adding that the five of them foreigners, attempt- Ankara had long been reluc- IS militants have been blamed TUNIS: Gunmen have kid- reported. suspects, two of whom are Rus- ing to cross into Syria on Friday, tant to take robust action against for three attacks in Turkey since napped dozens of Tunisians in Turkey also deported a group of sians, were “in contact with IS officials said. the jihadists, but after a deadly June and police have rounded western Libya to demand the Moroccans detained on suspicion militants in Iraq and in Syria”. Adding to concerns about IS, bombing in July, Turkey agreed up dozens of suspects in recent release of a Libyan arrested in they were planning to head to Turkey has been on the hunt two sisters aged 18 and 20 have to become a full member of the weeks. Tunisia, families and authorities Syria to join Islamic State fight- for IS extremists since twin been missing since attending an US-led coalition, allowing the Prosecutors said a sleeper cell said. ers, reports said. bombings on a peace rally in Islamist training camp in Istan- Americans to use a key air base carried out the Ankara attacks With Libya caught in chaos as The country, shaken by a string Ankara last month that killed bul late last month, raising fears for air strikes in Syria. in order to disrupt last weekend’s two rival governments struggle of deadly attacks blamed on IS 102 people, the worst such attack they have been recruited by the Most of Turkey’s own firepower crucial election, the second in five for control, armed groups have militants, is on high alert ahead in its history. militants. however has been concentrated months. often kidnapped foreign nation- of the Group of 20 gathering on Foreign Minister Feridun The government says hundreds on Kurdish fighters based in There were also fears that a cell als and even diplomats in the past November 15-16 that will bring Sinirlioglu had said this week of Turks have already joined the northern Iraq, rupturing a 2013 was plotting another major atroc- to demand the release of captured together a host of leaders includ- that Ankara was planning further extremists in Syria although the truce with the rebel Kurdistan ity, such as hijacking a plane. Libyans overseas. ing US President Barack Obama military action against the jihad- actual number could be much Workers’ Party (PKK). The latest crackdown came Tunisia’s foreign ministry con- and Russian President Vladimir ists in the “coming days”, without higher. “It is obvious now that the after Sunday’s election which saw firmed the kidnapping and said Putin. giving details. Police in Istanbul Turkey shares a porous 911-kil- jihadist threat is a very sensitive President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s it was in contact with the Libyan The Syrian conflict and the also detained 44 Moroccans and ometre (566-mile) border with issue in Ankara, but it is also Justice and Development Party authorities to try and secure the international fight against IS are their Syrian guide who flew in Syria, and is hosting more than obvious that PKK remains their (AKP) regain the parliamentary release of its nationals in the set to top the agenda, particularly from Casablanca on Wednesday, 2.2 million refugees from the war. highest priority,” a Western dip- majority it lost in June. neighbouring country. It did not after the crash of a Russian plane after passengers said they might Turkey initially supported lomatic source said. AFP give any details about a detained Libyan suspect. “Gunmen kidnapped my father since Sunday.. they want the release a Libyan arrested in Tunisia,” Yosra Boubaker, the daughter of one Turkish aid agency encourages of the detained Tunisians told local television. Mustapha Abd El Kebir, a refugees to stay in Syria Tunisian human rights activist with contacts in Libya, said as many as 50 Tunisians were being ANKARA: Turkey is encourag- this crisis ... but the entire world A new wave of refugees is held in Washafana, an area west ing displaced civilians to remain including Europe has to open its feared in Turkey as government of Tripoli and the site of recent in Syria and is supporting aid doors for the refugees, it’s not just forces and Russian warplanes fighting between rival armed fac- camps there but it does not intend for Turkey,” Fuat Oktay, director pound opposition-held areas in tions. to shut its borders to those fleeing of Turkish disaster management northern Syria. Officials have Earlier this year an armed the civil war, the head of Turkey’s agency AFAD, told Reuters. warned many will try illegally to group stormed the Tunisian con- disaster management agency said The agency is supporting get to Europe. sulate in Tripoli and kidnapped 10 yesterday. camps for displaced civilians on Turkey is looking for longer- staff before releasing them. Tuni- Turkey is under pressure from the Syrian side of the border and term solutions including giving sia closed the consulate after the the European Union, which it was not actively promoting the Syrians the right to work, plans kidnapping. aspires to join, to keep refugees on services available in Turkey in the which are unpopular with some Armed groups in Libya often its soil and help stem the biggest hope of discouraging more refu- Turks who fear competition act with impunity because of a migration crisis Europe has faced gees from crossing, he said. for labour and which have been security vacuum in which the since World War Two. It has “Any individual would like to delayed by several elections over two rival governments and their offered financial aid and acceler- stay in his or her country... (we) the past 18 months. armed backers fight for control ated membership talks. promote them to stay in their Those under temporary pro- of the North African state four But Ankara is already strug- own country,” Oktay said, adding tection in Turkey are currently years after Muammar Gaddafi’s gling to cope with 2.2 million AFAD has provided aid in Syria allowed to work within the refu- fall from power. Syrian refugees. Although it runs throughout the conflict. gee community, for example as Relations between the North what are widely held to be some of Turkey has long championed doctors or teachers in camps. African neighbors have become the best-equipped refugee camps the creation of a “safe zone” in “There has to be a balance so increasingly tense, with Tunisia’s near the Syrian border, they have northern Syria to protect dis- that the local community does not government worried about spillo- capacity for just 330,000 of that placed civilians, an idea it has feel like the refugees are getting Refugees and migrants disembark from a ferry in the port of Piraeus, ver from Libya’s chaos and the total. again tabled as the EU puts their jobs... so the two communi- arriving from the island of Lesbos, yesterday. Thousands of refugees and flow of Islamist militants training “An open-border policy is the pressure on it to stem the flow of ties can live together in peace,” migrants, who were stranded at Greece’s eastern Aegean island due to in camps over the border. main policy we have been fol- migrants, but the idea has gained Oktay said. a four-day strike of seamen, are taking the ferries to mainland after the AFP lowing since the beginning of little global support. REUTERS strike was called off yesterday. SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2015 GULF / MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Russia halts Egypt flights amid security concerns Turkey also cancels flights to Sharm Al Sheikh; Britain’s attempt to bring back thousands of tourists in chaos

SHARM AL SHEIKH, EGYPT: Rus- gestion of an attack. But US President have continued from the airport. sia ordered yesterday a halt in flights Barack Obama said: “I think there is France and Belgium have warned to Egypt as concerns grew that a bomb a possibility that there was a bomb on citizens against travelling to Sharm Al downed a Russian plane that took off board and we are taking that very seri- Sheikh. and Britain has advised against from the Sharm Al Sheikh resort, as ously,” while emphasising it was too early all but essential travel by air to or from British holidaymakers were being evacu- to say for sure. the resort. ated. In London, where David Cameron The British government authorised President Vladimir Putin called the hosted Egyptian President Abdel Fattah flights to resume from the resort yes- halt to Russian flights in line with a rec- Al Sisi on Thursday, the British prime terday to bring home an estimated 20,000 ommendation from his security chief, the minister told reporters it was “more British tourists. Kremlin said. likely than not that it was a terrorist But thousands were turned away after Turkey also said yesterday it was can- bomb” that caused the crash. Egypt blocked British tour operators celling flights to the Egyptian resort. And The Times newspaper reported from flying in empty aircraft to make Britain, which said a bomb planted yesterday that electronic communica- up the backlog. by an Islamic State affiliate may have tions intercepted by British and US intel- Those passengers who did fly out caused the crash, Ireland, Germany and ligence suggested a bomb may have been were allowed to carry hand luggage the Netherlands, had already suspended carried onto the plane. only, with their check-in bags to fol- regular flights to Sharm Al Sheikh Satellites uncovered chatter between low separately. where the downed Russian airliner militants in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula and Joining a string of airlines in avoiding originated. Syria, it said. Sharm Al Sheikh, the Lufthansa Group Russia’s decision may be the first sign “The tone and content of the mes- announced its subsidiary Eurowings that Moscow, which launched air strikes sages convinced analysts that a bomb had would halt flights between Germany and against Islamist fighters including Islamic been carried on board by a passenger or the Red Sea resort, while Turkish Air- British passengers queuing up to leave the airport at the Red Sea resort of Sharm Al State in Syria more than a month ago, is a member of the airport ground staff,” lines also cancelled two flights. Sheikh in Egypt, yesterday. attaching credibility to the theory that the newspaper reported, without giving If it was behind the attack, it would militants put a bomb on the aircraft. a source. be the first time IS, which controls large However, the Kremlin said the deci- ing, European airlines prepared to bring pening.” Egyptian Aviation Minister Hos- Egypt’s foreign ministry said the anal- areas of Syria and Iraq, has hit a pas- sion to suspend flights did not mean it home thousands of tourists from the sam Kamal said only eight of 29 flights ysis of the black boxes and wreckage was senger plane. thought the crash was caused by a ter- Red Sea resort, which has been a jewel would take off because the airport could still underway. The incident has the potential to rorist attack. in Egypt’s tourism crown. not cope with all the luggage left behind. “Time should be given for the analysis. deeply damage Egypt’s tourism indus- Putin “ordered the government to A first flight finally took off for Lon- In a sign of mounting fears about the The minute that the analysis is ready it try, still struggling to recover from a work out mechanisms” to halt flights and don’s Gatwick airport after a long delay, security of baggage handling in Egypt, will be made public,” spokesman Ahmed turbulent four years following its 2011 to repatriate Russian citizens, Kremlin followed shortly by another plane headed Dutch carrier KLM announced that it Abu Zeid said. revolution. spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. for Britain. had banned check-in luggage on an early Egypt had beefed up security at air- After hearing Putin’s decision to halt At an emergency meeting, the head of But there were angry scenes at the flight from Cairo, mirroring moves taken ports to “give confidence to the British flights, tourism workers in Sharm Al Russia’s FSB security service, Alexander airport as thousands of anxious Britons, by several European airlines. government, but that does not mean we Sheikh reeled in shock at the possible Bortnikov, said it would be prudent to who had also hoped to fly home, were sent The Islamic State (IS) group has concur with any scenario,” he added. blow to their livelihood. halt flights for now. back to their hotels after Egypt blocked claimed responsibility for the disaster, Aviation Minister Kamal said there “It has destroyed the homes,” of those “Until we have determined the true several other repatriation flights. in which the Saint Petersburg-bound jet was “as yet no evidence or data confirm- working in the industry, said Ahmed reasons for what happened, I consider it British Ambassador John Casson was crashed minutes after taking off. All 224 ing the theory” of an attack. Ghobashi, who works in a resort asso- expedient to stop flights by Russian avia- heckled as he announced the news. on board were killed, most of them Rus- There is no global or European blanket ciation to promote tourism. tion to Egypt,” Bortnikov said. “When are we going home?” shouted sian tourists. ban and some flights, including all Rus- With international concerns mount- one Briton. “We don’t know what’s hap- Cairo has sought to downplay any sug- sian ones before Putin’s order yesterday, AGENCIES

Flooded road Iraq cleric warns parliament Iraq gets first batch of Czech not to undercut PM’s reforms military jets KARBALA: Iraq’s top Shia millions and has unmatched by Abadi along with its own cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Al prestige in Iraq, has played series of proposed changes, BAGHDAD: Iraq has received Sistani, warned parliament a key role in supporting but now appears to be trying the first batch of Czech L-159 yesterday against attempt- reforms by calling for the to assert greater control over jets, which can be used for both ing to use constitutional or government to carry them the process. training and combat, the defence legal grounds to circumvent out, giving Abadi the politi- On Monday, parliament ministry said yesterday. reforms aimed at curbing cal cover to move forward said that while it supports The first two L-159s arrived at graft and streamlining the with changes. reforms, it “denies the dele- Iraq’s Balad Air Base on Thurs- government. In a sign of the importance gation of any of its legislative day, defence ministry spokesman The directive from Sis- Sistani attaches to change, he powers to any executive side, Naseer Nuri said. tani came after parliament said earlier this year that if and calls on all authorities to L-159s can be equipped with pushed back against Prime “true reform” is not realised, abide by their work according munitions for both air-to-ground Minister Haider Al Abadi’s Iraq could be “dragged to... to the constitution.” and air-to-air missions, with the reform drive earlier in the partition and the like, God A dispute between parlia- former being the more impor- week, saying its legislative forbid.” ment and Abadi could further tant for Iraqi forces battling the powers must not be usurped In response to popu- hinder reform efforts by the Islamic State jihadist group. during the process. lar protests and calls from premier, who has already It is the latest in a series of “Legislative and other Sistani, Abadi announced struggled to effect signficant aircraft deliveries that have bol- authorities should not take reforms including scrapping or lasting changes. stered the country’s air force the need to protect the con- the posts of deputy premier The endemic nature of since IS overran large parts of stitutional and legal path as and vice president, stream- corruption and the fact that Iraq last June. a means of circumventing lining the cabinet, cutting officials are limiting their Iraq recieved four F-16 war- reform measures,” Sistani salaries for officials and own privileges by imple- planes in July, the first batch said in remarks read by a slashing their huge number menting some changes are of a much-delayed order for 36 representative at Friday of guards. already major obstacles to aircraft. And Baghdad obtained prayers. Parliament approved a reform. Sukhoi Su-25 ground attack jets Sistani, who is revered by reform programme proposed AFP Libyan motorists drive through a flooded road, caused by heavy rain, in the capital last year that it has used to carry Tripoli, yesterday. out strikes against IS. The Czech government approved the sale of 15 L-159s — 13 with one seat and two dual- seaters — to Iraq last March for Michelle Obama heads home Cholera spreads from Iraq to 750m koruna ($30m). from curtailed Mideast tour Blast in Lebanon DOHA/AMMAN: Michelle Obama left Qatar yesterday almost 48 Syria, Kuwait, Bahrain: Unicef hours later than scheduled after bad weather forced her to extend border town her stay in Doha and cancel a planned trip to Jordan. Her plane took off from Doha just after 0700 GMT bound for Wash- ERBIL, IRAQ: A cholera out- religious ritual. 2014 in a bid to establish a mod- wounds 5 soldiers ington, officials said. break in Iraq has spread to Hawkins said Unicef was work- ern caliphate. The US first lady had been scheduled to travel to Amman on Wednes- Kuwait and Bahrain, and risks ing with clerics in the Shia shrine Higher military expenditure BEIRUT: Five soldiers were day for the second leg of a seven-day tour to promote girls’ education. turning into a region-wide epi- cities of Najaf and Kerbala to and other costs associated with wounded in an explosion in the However, flooding in Jordan delayed her departure and on Thursday demic as millions of pilgrims pre- convey information about how the battle against Islamist mili- eastern Lebanese border town of officials announced that she would calling off the rest of her trip and pare to visit the country, Unicef’s to guard against cholera, which tancy has aggravated a cash Arsal yesterday, security sources heading home early to the United States. Iraq director said. is endemic in Iraq and the wider crunch for Iraq, a major Opec said, a day after a suicide bomber An official travelling with Obama said she was “extremely disap- The disease, which can lead to region. oil producer that has suffered killed six people there. pointed”. death by dehydration and kid- The outbreak can be traced to from the drop in global crude “An explosion targeted a small Jordan, Israel and Iraq have suffered sandstorms, followed by heavy, ney failure within hours if left a number of factors including low prices over the past year. army patrol and wounded five sol- rain and resultant flooding. untreated, was detected west of water levels in the Euphrates and A higher proportion of the diers,” a security source said. Amman was still recovering from the severe sandstorm of Wednes- Baghdad in September and has winter flooding that has contami- government budget is also being “The explosive device was day when the rain hit on Thursday morning, causing chaos in some since infected at least 2,200 peo- nated the river and shallow wells spent on security at the expense planted on the side of the road,” areas of the city. ple in Iraq and has killed six. with sewage water. of other services and infra- he added. A second security Mohammed Zreigat, a local resident said: “This weather is abnormal “It (the outbreak) already has The war against Islamic structure such as water supply, source said the blast had struck for the country. It’s an unusual phenomenon, heavy dusts, rainfall laden a regional dynamic and the risk State militants who control Hawkins said. near the site of Thursday’s dev- with mud; this weather causes illnesses in the community. This is the of that can only be increased by large swathes of territory in One in five of the confirmed astating suicide attack. first time we have seen this in the country.” people from all over the region northern and western Iraq cases in Iraq is among chil- Six people were killed Thursday The storm in Amman lasted only 40 minutes, but it was enough to coming into Iraq,” UNICEF coun- has also contributed to the dren, and in large parts of the when a bomber entered a meeting overwhelm the city’s sewer system and leave motorists stranded in try director, Peter Hawkins, said outbreak. country the start of the school of Syrian clerics and “detonated rising floodwaters. Homes were also flooded, in many cases too quickly on Thursday. The conflict has displaced year was delayed by a month an explosive belt, leaving five peo- for residents to react. The flooding killed two Egyptian children, six Hawkins said cholera had more than 3 million people, as a precaution, Unicef said in ple dead and six wounded,” a secu- and twelve years old, according to the local state news agency. spread to Bahrain, Kuwait and with many living in camps where a statement. rity source said. As the rain spread from Jordan to Iraq, Baghdad had its second day Syria but, in a later statement, conditions are conducive to the In response to the outbreak, One of the wounded later died. of floods in less than two weeks; 58 Iraqis died of electrocution during Unicef said the cases in Syria spread of cholera — a bite of Unicef is providing bottled Arsal lies along Lebanon’s heavy rains and flooding last week. were not confirmed: “However, contaminated food or a sip of water, oral rehydration salts border with Syria and is a Sunni The sewer system was overwhelmed by several days of downpours, given the scale of the outbreak in contaminated water is enough to and installing community water Muslim enclave in mainly Shiite leading to widespread flooding in Baghdad and elsewhere in the country. Iraq the risk of cholera spread- cause infection. tanks, but like most humani- eastern Lebanon. It hosts many As more rain fell on Thursday, the electricity ministry issued a ing across Iraq’s borders remains Hawkins said Unicef has only tarian operations in Iraq it is Syrian refugees as well as rebel warning for citizens to “be careful with the distribution networks that high,” it said. limited access to areas control- severely underfunded. fighters in the surrounding coun- include wires, poles and transformers.” Millions of Shias are due to visit led by Islamic State, which swept tryside. AGENCIES Iraq in December for Arbaeen, a across the Syrian border in mid- REUTERS AFP SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2015 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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SUBSCRIPTION / HOME DELIVERY TEL: 44557809 /839 FAX: 44557819 E-MAIL: [email protected] SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ANNUAL QR 675 6 MONTHS QR 340 Editorial Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate The crash aftermath FTER Britain and Ireland, Russia has announced Orban’s ratings rise as the suspension of flights to Egypt after reports that an explosive device might have brought down a ARussian-operated airliner over the Sinai peninsula on Saturday, killing all 224 people on board. The Russian suspension, covering all of Egypt, is more sweeping than that fence deters migrants imposed by Britain, which had halted flights to Sharm Al Sheikh only. There is no doubt that this is likely to trigger a By Krisztina Than chain reaction. Safety is the first priority of the global aviation who spoke up for the country’s interests a retired intensive care nurse. industry and any signs, even the remotest, of lives coming in the EU, Sebok said. With Germany and Sweden strug- under threat can invite drastic reaction. After the Russian ith an anti-immigrant “There was no common European gling to cope with the asylum seekers, campaign and razor- solution, and I believe Hungary needs the European Commission wants EU decision, Washington too imposed new security requirements. wire border fence to protect its own borders,” he said. “A member states to take in a share of the The US Department of Homeland Security announced the new Hungarian Prime few months ago the eastern railway sta- new arrivals. security measures including tighter screening of items before Minister Viktor tion was still teeming with migrants and But this has split the bloc, with Orban WOrban has reversed a slide in his par- now the country is nice and empty, luck- rejecting quotas and accusing govern- they are brought on board aircraft, for flights to the US from some foreign airports in the region. ty’s popularity, emerging at home as a ily, so I think the border fence was a ments which had welcomed asylum winner in the crisis that has divided good measure.” seekers of encouraging the influx. “Who Moscow had previously suggested the UK was pre-judging Europe. Huge numbers of people, many escap- commissioned European leaders ... (to) the outcome of the investigation when it suspended flights Personal approval ratings have also ing the Syrian civil war, tried to get not only let in but ship into Europe by on Wednesday to and from the Red Sea resort of Sharm Al jumped for the man who closed down a through Hungary in the late summer the hundreds of thousands groups that Sheikh. But Russia’s own decision came after the head of major transit route through Hungary on their way to seeking asylum in coun- are culturally different from European the Russian federal security service suggested it would be for hundreds of thousands of asylum tries to the north, notably Germany and culture?” he asked in a speech last week. “expedient” to suspend all flights until an on-going investigation seekers fleeing war and poverty. Sweden. Orban finally halted that flow With the opposition divided and Voters are less willing to give Orban with the border fence. weak, rights groups have been largely brings out the truth. the benefit of the doubt on creat- Wrapped in a striped scarf against left to question his arguments at home. Egypt too has launched a probe into the crash and has ing jobs. But while Hungarians often the autumn chill, Sebok said he voted Zsuzsanna Zsohar, a spokeswoman assured the international community that security at its helped migrants stranded in appall- for Orban’s right-wing Fidesz party for Migration Aid, accepted Hungary airports matches international standards ing conditions last summer, many vot- when it won re-election last year, and had the right to decide who could come Airlines need and requirements. The finding of Cairo’s ers are ignoring criticism that rights would do the same now. in. “At the same time, as a UN member investigation will be the most important; groups and for- An opinion poll by Ipsos put support state it is obliged to help people who to think of eign governments for Fidesz on 37 percent right after the were stuck in conflict zones,” she said. the authorities have already ruled out boosting have directed at 2014 vote but its popularity started to “With its current behaviour, Hungary any Sinai links to the plane crash and if their leader over slide due to perceived corruption and has lost its right to claim solidarity.” security it stands by this argument, they will have The fence on the migration. some unpopular measures, dropping to Despite the gains, support for Fidesz rather than to convincingly counter the charge that Despite accusa- 20 percent in June this year. remains well below where it was after the plane was brought down by abomb. Serbian border tions of xenopho- The fence on the Serbian border was Orban was reelected for another four bia, Orban shows completed this September, and backing years. “He won the migration issue, suspend And if the Islamic State is found to be was completed no sign of moder- for Fidesz rose to 24 percent, according that is clear, but I think it’s too early to flights to behind the crash, it can send shockwaves ating his language to Ipsos. The party solidified its core speculate on what we will see in the next and make things difficult for the entire this September, Sharm Al as he attacks the support and attracted around 300,000 years,” said Csaba Toth, strategic direc- Middle East. The terrorist group, which and backing European Union’s swing voters, mostly aged 30-40. tor of the liberal think tank Republikon. Sheikh after has not generally pursued “spectacular” failure to solve Fidesz was the most popular party Orban would seek new issues to main- attacks outside its base in Syria, has for Fidesz rose the migrant cri- in all age groups except the under-30s tain the political momentum he gained the crash of a sis, and tries to where it fell behind Jobbik, Ipsos said. from the migrant crisis, he added. already claimed responsibility for to 24 percent, Russian plane undermine sup- The ratings rose further in October One of these is likely to be the econ- bringing down the plane. according to port for the far- after the fence was extended along the omy. Growth is expected at a healthy over Sinai. The plane crash comes at a difficult right at home. Croatian border, sealing the southern rate of about three percent this year, time for Egypt. It can seriously Ipsos. Speaking on frontier and forcing migrants to seek with public finances on a solid footing undermine President Abdel Fattah Al state radio, he different routes north. Orban accom- and inflation sub zero. Sisi’s efforts to resuscitate the country’s weak economy. The said Hungary was panied the fence building with rhetoric, However, growth is predicted to now in a “different time zone” from the saying Hungary did not want Muslims slow next year and dissatisfaction with country stands to lose millions of dollars from its vital tourism rest of Europe as it has fended off the in large numbers, and people were not Orban’s record on jobs is common. industry if things spiral downward; the tourism industry “invasion” by sealing its southern bor- coming to Europe to live in safety but Unemployment has fallen sharply but has been showing signs of revival after ther ouster of Hosni ders. rather because they wanted “a German many Hungarians have had to leave the Mubarak. The Sharm Al Sheikh airport especially welcomes This goes down well with many Hun- or perhaps a Swedish life”. country to find work and better pay. thousands of vacationers to the resort. garians, including the young who are Austria likened his policies to those “I’m deeply disappointed with the way often more conservative than their of the Nazis, an allegation Hungary the government handles joblessness,” Egypt must launch a crackdown against the militants peers in western Europe. rejected, while the US ambassador to said Tamas, the retired nurse. With two in its Sinai region and eliminate terrorism through every Not far from Budapest’s eastern Budapest warned against “xenophobic of her three graduate children already possible means. Airlines also must refrain from jumping into railway station, where thousands of characterisation of refugees”. working abroad, she says the govern- conclusions because no official investigation has claimed that migrants slept rough in September, Many Hungarians appear unwor- ment must do more to stem the mass IS brought down the plane. The government in Cairo is quite 21-year-old student Mate Sebok gave ried by such criticism. “The measures emigration. capable of handling and boosting security at its airports. his whole-hearted support to Orban’s tackling the migration crisis were stand. Hungary needed a strong leader very positive,” said Margit Tamas, 62, REUTERS The other side Quote of Factories of death the day

HE COLLAPSE of a factory tures that are dangerous structurally or ditions that are dangerous and a threat duties, with the result that rescue in Lahore’s Sunder Industrial vulnerable to fires, or which are char- to life and limb. teams are digging out our children from Estate, which buried at least acterised by lax safety standards that The principal fault clearly lies with the rubble of a monstrous hulk. The 21 workers and wounded can cause boilers to explode. In only four the owners of these establishments, tragedy is beyond words. Pakistan’s If Europe is not Tmany others, has revealed an important years, Lahore has seen all three: workers who build their premises without any manufacturing sector has been sub- able to solve this reality about the dilapidated state of dying due to smoke inhalation during a regard for worker safety. But the blame jected to some enormous strains over Pakistan’s manufacturing economy. factory fire because there was only one must also be shared by government the years, pushing much of it into the problem (refugee While the search for survivors continues exit, and that was through the genera- authorities who either give permits to informal sector. at the site of the tragedy, the equally tor room where the fire began; a boiler such structures, or turn a blind eye to Over there, things are even worse, crisis) to get back grim search for answers will be a lot exploding in a factory built illegally in a them. The management of the industrial and industrial accidents and hazard- less focused. It is horrifying that the residential area; and now structural fail- estates must also be held accountable, ous working conditions are the norm. some control over factory, which produced polythene ure that caused the building to collapse since they are in a position to ensure Ultimately, this unchecked growth in its external borders, bags, employed a workforce consisting and bury the young ones toiling within. that safety standards are being imple- informal manufacturing has created largely of children, some as young as The more horrifying story yet is the mented, and to either demand enforce- perverse incentives to compromise the Europe of open seven. even larger numbers of workers who ment from errant owners or report them even further on worker safety. borders will be Equally appalling is the ease with continue toiling away in the thousands to government authorities. Wolfgang Schaeuble which factory owners can build struc- of factories across Pakistan under con- All three segments failed in their DAWN destroyed. German Finance Minister SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2015 OPINION www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 AK Party can bring stability to Turkey

n June elections the result was com- pletely different. Now the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) has the majority in the parliament. What The Justice and Development Party of changed in five months? IFirst of all, we should appreciate the Turkey (AK Party) scored a stunning political talent of the President Recep FEYZA Tayyiop Erdogan. He is a very strong electoral victory last weekend. leader. He was able to persuade the Turk- GUMUSLUOGLU ish electorate on several points. The mes- spoke to Yasar Yakis, sage I received from the election result is that Turkey wanted to punish the MHP, former foreign minister of Turkey and a the nationalist party, because of the atti- tude of its chairman Devlet Bahçeli, dur- founding member of the AK Party, about ing the coalition negotiations after the previous elections. the election results and its domestic and In the case of Kurdish Party, the HDP, some of its votes were borrowed from regional implications. the CHP, the Republican People’s Party, and the liberals. The voters who voted for the HDP may have thought, “now the HDP does not need these borrowed votes anymore in order to pass the 10 percent threshold, we can take back our party is going to start from this position it because the Baathist corruption cir- votes.” There were also many terrorist of strength, which is very important. This cle that he inherited from his late father attacks happened in Turkey in the last applies to the question of the democra- would not or did not allow him. Or he also months. This also negatively affected the tisation process or the Kurdish opening. might have made a different assessment. HDP. People wanted to give the message Now the party is in a position of strength, We have to try to figure out under which Former Turkish foreign minister Yasar Yakis (right), during an interview with The Peninsula. to the HDP that “you did not criticise it can do it more easily. conditions he changed his mind. Turkey the PKK. You did not dissociate yourself was doing the right thing in the beginning. from the PKK.” So the voters wanted to What about foreign policy? punish them. The Party, having played It can also take initiative to adjust Tur- When did it begin to go wrong? from the stand-point of international law, this chessboard more skillfully than the key’s foreign policy towards the Middle In my opinion, it began to go wrong sending the Russians troops is legitimate Was the Arab Spring an opportunity for opposition parties, increased its votes. East in general, and Syria in particular when Turkey started acting together because of this official request. The inter- Turkey as well in order to play a bigger role? according to the realities in the field. This with the international community to help vention of other countries like Turkey, If yes, did Turkey miss this opportunity? Do you think whether this strong position is important especially after the arrival of the opposition and supply them arms and however, can be presented as illegitimate. Yes, I think we missed it. After the will help Turkey to move forward with demo- the Russians and a few dozens of Ameri- more importantly when the international But ultimately if you ask my point of view, Arab Spring Tunisia went to poll and cratic reforms and economic development? can soldiers to help Northern Syrians. community, or Western countries found of course, the Russian intervention is not the results were in favour of Islamists It is in the hands of the party to turn This is what they say. But, of course when out that the weapons provided to the legitimate because the Russians are not Annahda Party, Rashed Gannushi said this position into a source of stability. we talk of the Americans supporting the opposition were ending up in the wrong doing it for the sake of the Syrian people, that they were inspired by Turkey’s secu- If the party cannot use this chance opposition in northern Syria, it means hands. So they put on break but Turkey but for their own strategic targets. lar and moderate regime of the AK Party. properly, Turkey may get into more the Kurds. In these new circumstances, did not do so. And Turkey was left, in Then the Arab spring broke out in Egypt crises. Being in a position of strength Turkey has to adjust its Syria policy to football terminology, on the off-side posi- What is Russia’s ultimate target? and Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed is a golden opportunity for the party. It the new realities. tion. Since then, Turkey could not correct Russia did not go to Syria in order to Mursi was elected as the President. can lead Turkey into stability. With this this mistake. save Bashar Al Assad. Russia could use When it finally came to Syria, one could position of strength, the AK Party can As a former foreign minister, how do its intervention as a stepping-stone to expect that again the Muslim Brother- do a lot of things that had been more you see Turkey’s Syria policy from the very If you were the foreign minister now, what establish itself in Syria and then widen hood would be the leading opposition difficult to achieve in the past. It is a beginning? would you do? its position in other countries in the Mid- there. single party, which is a recipe for strong Turkey started by taking the right Turkey could have done the following: dle East. The Russians have been waiting Turkey may have thought that a belt government. step at the very beginning. When Bashar Either the prime minister or foreign for an opportunity to come back to the of the Muslim Brotherhood is forming all But of course it will depend on the al Assad started using military power minister could have gone to TV and say Middle East after the dismemberment of the way from Tunisia to Libya, Egypt and practices of the ruling party. If the party against his own people, Turkey took the “We have based our Syria policy on the the Soviet Union. Syria. Turkey thought, having a better does not continue to divide the society side of Syrian people. It was the right deci- assumption that Bashar Assad’s fall was In the Soviet era, there was a very experience in democracy, it could lead this into segments, it may strengthen the sion at that time. It was also the right imminent. But it will not happen imme- strong Russian presence in Syria. The Muslim Brotherhood minded belt. If it stability. For the establishment of sta- initiative by the Prime Minister Ahmet diately. So we have to adjust now our Syrian army and Russia had very close could have played with soft power, without bility in Turkey, now all conditions are Davutoglu to visit Bashar and advise him Syria policy to the new reality.” If they relations at that time. After the dismem- reference to new Ottomanism, without present. Now it is up to the AK Party to that rather than oppressing the demon- had done this, the AK Party’s votes would berment of the Soviet Union, these rela- putting too much emphasis on religious or capitalise on it. In the June 7 elections, strators, he should initiate a democratisa- rise immediately. If I were the foreign tions have become weaker. But Russia sectarian differences, Turkey could have people showed the ‘yellow card’ to the AK tion process in Syria and lead this process. minister, I would have done this. It is not started to seek an opportunity to come indeed led it and could have preserved its Party. And the party took lessons from When the process ended, he could run changing the policy, it is adjusting it to back to the region as soon as the Ameri- presence there and would not have been this while the opposition parties did not. for presidency; if he won then he could the realities. can image in the Middle East began to pushed into isolation. Now it should do what the voters expect continue as the new president, if he lost tarnish. Turkey fell into isolation because of from them to do. the elections, he would be recorded in the After the Russians, how do you see the The Russians welcomed the Arab several decisions. One of them was giving history of Syria as the person who brought likelihood of Turkey making its own counter spring as an opportunity to play a role. the impression to the outside world that Were you expecting this result? democracy to the country. This would be a military intervention? When the Arab spring spread to Syria, Turkey’s approach was tainted with sec- No, I was not expecting. I was nicely good honour. It is what Davutoglu advised I hope that our authorities do not it was an added opportunity. Having seen tarianism. Whether it is true or not, of surprised since I am one of the founders Assad in their famous six hours conver- consider anything like it. This is because that ISIS could not be destroyed by other course, is not important. In international of the party. It is a very big success. Very sation. Bashar Assad promised that he the Russian intervention in Syria came countries and then receiving Assad’s relations, perception is sometimes more few people in our party did expect such a would do it. But he was not able to keep upon the request from, what some in the request, the Russians must have been important than reality. victory. I hope the party will capitalise on his promise, for reasons that we have not international community regard as the much happier. They could not miss such it. In any initiative it will undertake the discussed much. He could not have done ‘legitimate authority’ in Syria. If you look an opportunity. THE PENINSULA War on the battlefield, peace decided in Berlin

senyuk, and blessed the founding of a bilateral chamber of commerce to stim- ulate German investment into Ukraine. Neither Ukraine nor Russia can She also pledged that sanctions won’t be lifted until the Minsk deal has been muddle through without Germany, the fully implemented. And she reiterated Germany’s support for an EU free-trade main guarantor of the so-called Minsk agreement with Ukraine that comes into effect on New Year’s Day. peace accord. Even as Merkel was praising the Ukrainians’ rocky road to reform, a delegation from Moscow was trying to jumpstart the “Petersburger Dialog,” By Lucian Kim cellor to become the default arbiter of an annual forum that the German side war and peace on the continent. boycotted last year because of Rus- ohn Herbst, a former US diplomat, The Russia-Ukraine conflict came to sia’s military involvement in Ukraine. wasn’t trying to flatter his German Berlin in October, though in suits and ties With regular meetings between the hosts when he took a dig at Wash- rather than combat fatigues. Ukraine, two governments halted, the Russian Jington late last month — he was known for its homespun civic activism, side will take any opening to start just describing a new reality. put on a glitzy investment conference normalizing relations. Russia’s loss of “Berlin is the critical capital in the in an effort to attract German business Germany as a partner was one of the West for settling a just solution to the and shore up its ailing economy. Russia, greatest unintended consequences of the crisis in Ukraine,” he said while intro- where non-governmental organisations Ukraine crisis — and came as a shock to ducing a think-tank panel discussion on are being strangled, held a civil society German Chancellor Angela Merkel. the Kremlin. human rights in Crimea. forum. The symbolism was striking: Of course for Germany, Russia still Outside, the traffic was backed up Ukraine needs money, Russia a sense of in Syria, she is throwing her support mentation of the Minsk agreement — towers over Ukraine in economic signifi- through the Tiergarten, the central park normalcy after Germany froze relations behind beleaguered Ukrainian Prime rather than as a reward for compliance. cance. Last year, Russia was Germany’s that merges into Berlin’s glass-and-steel following the annexation of Crimea. Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, whose The viewpoint is widely shared among 12th-largest trade partner, with a turn- government quarter. Israeli Prime Minis- Neither Ukraine nor Russia can mud- approval ratings are rock bottom amid the Social Democrats in Merkel’s coali- over of 68 billion euros, while Ukraine ter Benjamin Netanyahu was making his dle through without Germany, the main disillusionment over the pace of reform tion government. came in 48th place with 5 billion euros, way to a meeting with Chancellor Angela guarantor of the so-called Minsk peace and allegations of high-level corruption. Putin is betting that in the end busi- according to Germany’s Federal Statisti- Merkel. The next day, US Secretary of accord, which foresees a step-by-step The implicit deadline for implementa- ness — and energy business in particular cal Office. State John Kerry was expected in town, de-escalation of the conflict in the sepa- tion of the Minsk accord is December — will outweigh outrage over his trans- The Kremlin is using Europe’s depend- as well as his European Union counter- ratist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. 31, 2015 — and EU sanctions come up gressions in Ukraine. Germany imports ence on Siberian gas as a way of changing part Federica Mogherini. Putin is trying to persuade Merkel that for renewal in January. Many Ukrain- more than one-third of its natural gas the subject from the dismemberment of Everybody wants to talk to the it’s already time to lift EU sanctions ians suspect that Putin is temporarily from Russia, and the Kremlin is push- Ukraine to the realpolitik of business. Germans — about Syria, Iran, Rus- imposed because of the Russian inter- complying with the Minsk deal so he can ing to expand Nord Stream, a pipeline Less than a week after the Petersburger sia, Ukraine and all the other trouble vention in Ukraine; the Ukrainian gov- focus Russia’s war effort on Syria and bypassing Ukraine via the Baltic Sea. Dialog, Putin hosted Merkel’s Social spots in the world. Without even try- ernment wants to convince her of the sow discord among Europeans on the The Ukrainian government is concerned Democratic vice chancellor, Sigmar ing, Berlin has become the “it” capital exact opposite. need to extend sanctions. about losing up to $2bn in transit fees Gabriel, to discuss the expansion of the of the Western world. Russian President Merkel, who was unequivocal in her Merkel faces mounting pressure to if the expansion goes through. Merkel Nord Stream pipeline. Vladimir Putin will go to war to prove condemnation of Russia’s unilateral relax her position as a fragile ceasefire insists the project can’t be realized at In the current political climate, it’s how important he is, but Merkel, in all changing of borders, pushed through holds in eastern Ukraine. Germany’s Ukraine’s expense. hard to see the project going ahead as her unpretentiousness, has become the the sanctions despite Germany’s close influential business lobby, the Commit- Merkel is trying her best to reas- planned. Whether the additional capacity indispensable leader Putin craves to be. business ties to Russia. In spite of a ref- tee on Eastern European Economic Rela- sure Ukraine that Germany won’t back really goes online in 2019 will be decided The Obama administration’s disinterest ugee crisis that threatens to bring down tions, advocates lifting sanctions against down its support. She opened the recent in Berlin — not Moscow. in Europe has forced the German chan- her government and spiraling violence Russia as a way of facilitating the imple- Ukrainian investor day, met with Yat- REUTERS SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2015 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / AFRICA Suu Kyi eyes poll victory West urges Myanmar Myanmar election campaign ends; govt will accept results, says president to hold fair election GENEVA: Western powers yes- herself. She said last Thursday YANGON: Myanmar’s boister- true,” Tun Tun Naing, 39, said, terday urged Myanmar to hold she would be “above the presi- ous election campaign drew to a explaining his loyalty to the party a fair and transparent election dent” if her party won the elec- close yesterday, two days before pivots on its leader’s star power. tomorrow and pave the way for tion. milestone polls that could finally “Mother Suu” has received a greater democracy, including cit- “A vote that is credible, inclu- propel Aung San Suu Kyi’s pro- rock star welcome by waves of izenship for minority Rohingya sive and transparent and which democracy party to power after red-clad supporters as she cam- Muslims. A senior Myanmar offi- represents the will of the people a decades-long struggle against paigned across the country. cial defended the country’s record would stand as a lasting legacy the military. Detractors say her reputa- during an examination by the for the government,” Britain’s Suu Kyi’s National League for tion as a human rights icon has UN Human Rights Council, held Ambassador Julian Braithwaite Democracy (NLD) is eyeing an diminished in recent years as she every four years and just two days said. outright majority at tomorrow’s plunged herself into Myanmar’s before the historic vote. He said many concerns general election, the first the febrile politics, often choosing “Myanmar is endeavouring remained including “mistreat- party has contested since 1990. hard pragmatism over the steely its best, like any other nascent ment of the Rohingya” and In Yangon yesterday, residents idealism of her house arrest years. democracy, to overcome chal- tensions between the Muslim were removing party stickers and But the 70-year-old remains lenges by using its resources and minority and Buddhist major- flags from cars, anxious to meet a revered by the nation’s pro- strength,” Attorney General Tun ity. The conflict must be resolved midnight deadline on campaign- democracy camp and garlanded Shin told the Geneva forum. through a political dialogue, he ing, in a sign of the nervousness by the international community “(It) is making every effort said. Myanmar does not consider that pervades Myanmar after for her long, selfless struggle. for a democratic society and the Rohingya to be citizens, ren- years of arbitrary military rule. A National League for Democracy supporter trains election scrutineers She served a total of 15 years the international community is dering them effectively stateless, President Thein Sein said yes- ahead of tomorrow’s general election, in Pyin Oo Lwin, yesterday. house arrest under the junta expected to continue their con- while denying that it discrimi- terday that both the military and and steered the party through structive engagement and their nates against them or that they the government will accept the civilian government in 2011. cuss the steps forward. “These repeated violent crackdowns. assistance to Myanmar.” are fleeing persecution. outcome of tomorrow’s historic “I’d like to say again that the political meetings will not only Suu Kyi is barred from the Opposition leader Aung San Sit Aye, presidential senior election, and that he would work government and the military will help the stability in the post- presidency by an army-scripted Suu Kyi’s National League for legal adviser from the office of with opposition parties to ensure respect and accept the results. I election period but will also help constitution, but says she will Democracy is the frontrunner in President Thein Sein, said that a stable transition. will accept the new government to gently transform into a new nevertheless run the government the first national election since the Myanmar Human Rights Thein Sein said a success- formed based on the election political ground,” said Thein Sein. if her party wins. a semi-civilian government took Commission had “investigated the ful election was the key step result,” Thein Sein said. Spirits among Suu Kyi’s sup- The NLD must take 67 percent power in 2011 after nearly 50 complaints of torture of political to continue the reforms he Thein Sein said that after the porters were high yesterday. of all contested seats in order to years of military dictatorship. prisoners and found they were not ushered in after coming to election he would meet the lead- “The NLD is the only party claim a majority. Under the constitution, she is true”. power as the head of a semi- ers of all political forces and dis- that can make our hopes come AGENCIES banned from becoming president REUTERS Patrol by US warship Philippine typhoon survivors still homeless TACLOBAN: Two years after new government-provided house a super typhoon devastated the in a safe place have not come true. harmed trust: China Philippines and sounded a global She lives with her husband, alarm on climate change, a mas- widowed daughter-in-law and six BEIJING: The patrol by a US China hopes the good foun- sive rebuilding programme has grandchildren in a brick-and-tin warship close to islands China dation for ties with the United had big successes, but at least one structure built on the same site controls in the South China Sea States as laid down by President million survivors are still without as their previous home that was harmed mutual trust between Xi Jinping’s visit there in Septem- safe homes. wiped out by the storm surges. China and the United States and ber does not “receive unnecessary In Tacloban, a major coastal “We were poor, but now we’re caused regional tensions, Chinese interference”, Wang said. city that was nearly completely poorer. Life is hard but I have to Foreign Minister Wang Yi told “The acts by the US naval destroyed and where thousands be strong for my grandchildren,” his US counterpart in a call. vessel in the South China Sea died, restaurants and shops are said Bascal, who earns about 20 Wang’s comments to US Secre- harmed mutual trust and pro- bustling again — showcasing the pesos (50 cents) a day selling bis- tary of State John Kerry, reported voked regional tensions. China best of a remarkable resurrection cuits, chips, soap and other daily by Chinese state television yes- is extremely concerned by this,” for many communities. goods from her home. terday, came a week after a US the report paraphrased Wang as But on the city’s outskirts and President Benigno Aquino’s guided-missile destroyer sailed saying. elsewhere, many people endure government launched a 150bn- close to one of Beijing’s man-made “The US side should return as deep poverty as they live in flimsy peso ($3.2bn) reconstruction islands in the South China Sea. soon as possible to the correct new homes that make them Children ride a bicycle at a temporary shelter locally dubbed ‘bunkhouses’ programme for the disaster zones, Beijing has repeatedly path of appropriately managing extremely vulnerable to future for typhoon survivors in Tacloban City, Leyte, yesterday. which the United Nations has expressed its anger with Wash- disputes,” he added. storms that will inevitably whip praised for its efficiency in some ington over the patrol. China US Secretary of Defence Ash in off the Pacific Ocean. Tsunami-like storm surges Mary and Joseph, how are we key sectors. About 60 percent of claims most of the South China Carter flew to a US aircraft car- More than 7,350 people were higher than trees exacerbated going to survive,” Esliba Bascal, that money has been spent on Sea, through which more than rier transiting the disputed South killed or left missing after Super the disaster, demolishing com- 59, who lost her son and home bridges and schools, according $5 trillion of world trade transits China Sea last Thursday and Typhoon Haiyan struck the Phil- munities on central Philippine in the disaster and now lives in to Economic Planning Secretary every year. Vietnam, Malaysia, blamed China for rising tension ippines on November 8, 2013, with islands that were already among a makeshift dwelling just outside Arsenio Balisacan. Brunei, the Philippines and Tai- in the region. the strongest winds ever recorded the nation’s poorest. Tacloban, said last week. Like wan all have rival claims. AFP on land. “I cry almost every night. Jesus, many others, Bascal’s hopes for a AFP Thai ‘Red Shirts’ jailed over grenade attack N Korea wants to be part BANGKOK: Two Thai men were (UDD) — the official name for the Charges against the pair alties, often caused by lightning of ‘comfort women’ deal each jailed for more than 40 years “Red Shirt” movement loyal to included the possession of unreg- grenade and drive-by shootings. yesterday for firing a grenade at ousted premiers Thaksin Shina- istered weapons and premedi- The ongoing unrest and inabil- SEOUL: North Korea has “Japan should admit the state a crowd during street protests watra and his sister Yingluck. tated attempted murder. ity of Yingluck’s government to insisted it should be included in responsibility for all hideous that eventually led to last year’s At the time Yingluck’s demo- The M79 grenade was fired function led to army chief Prayut any deal reached between South crimes committed against the military takeover. cratically elected administration at a crowd of anti-government Chan-O-Cha instigating a coup, Korea and Japan over Korean Korean people... and make repa- The attack on 7 March 2014 was paralysed by protesters, many protesters near the city’s famous the second military takeover in “comfort women” forced to work rations for them in such a man- caused no deaths or injuries, but of whom were calling for and wel- Chatuchak market. under a decade. in Japanese military brothels ner as to be understandable to all was one of a number of tit-for-tat comed the eventual military coup. Last year’s protests were part The military said the coup was during World War II. Koreans,” the spokesman said. assaults during months of often Sentencing the two men last of Thailand’s long-running politi- necessary to restore order and Just days after Tokyo and Seoul South Korean President Park violent street protests that left Friday, a judge said “witnesses cal conflict that broadly pits a end the country’s cycle of vio- agreed to work together to resolve Geun-Hye and Japanese Prime at least 28 dead and hundreds gave concrete evidence” against Bangkok-based middle class and lent street protests. Since seizing the issue, which has dogged their Minister Shinzo Abe said they injured. the pair, adding that their life royalist elite, backed by parts of power Thailand’s generals have ties for decades, Pyongyang sig- would step up efforts to settle the The trial at Bangkok’s Crimi- sentences had been reduced to 43 the military and judiciary, against largely succeeded in curbing pub- nalled that it would seek a slice of “comfort women” issue when they nal Court heard the two men years and four months because rural and working-class voters lic dissent by stamping down on any compensation deal that might met in Seoul on Monday for their belonged to the United front of they “confessed during their loyal to the Shinawatra clan. basic rights. emerge. first ever one-on-one summit. Democracy against Dictatorship interrogations”. Both sides experienced casu- AFP “There are victims of the sexual Their statement offered no slavery for the Imperial Japanese commitment by either side, and Army not only in the south of most observers say the prospect Korea, but also in the north,” a of substantial financial repara- foreign ministry spokesman was tions by Tokyo are slim. Burundi dismisses quoted as saying by the North’s Xi arrives for China-Taiwan summit official KCNA news agency. AFP SINGAPORE: Chinese Presi- US criticism dent Xi Jinping arrived in Sin- NAIROBI: Burundi angrily gapore yesterday for a state visit rejected US criticism of a planned overshadowed by an historic sum- security crackdown, saying yes- mit with Taiwanese President Ma terday that warnings of fresh Hong Kong court limits Ying-jeou at the weekend. violence reflected a bias against The mainly ethnic Chinese President Pierre Nkurunziza. city-state, which also hosted a Nkurunziza has announced a China-Taiwan meeting in 1993 Saturday deadline for people to gag order on media that helped lead to a thaw, is cele- hand over illegal firearms or be brating 25 years of diplomatic ties treated as enemies of the state, HONG KONG: A Hong Kong pro-democracy scholar as pro- with Beijing. Singapore’s national in a bid, the government says, to court yesterday denied a sweep- vice chancellor. broadcaster Channel NewsAsia stem months of violence and pro- ing gag order sought by Hong The university’s council, which showed Xi and his wife Peng Liy- tests over his election to a third Kong University (HKU) after a has a number of members seen as uan emerging from his plane at term in office this year. challenge from media and democ- pro-Beijing, voted against Johan- Changi Airport before full mili- The US ambassador to the racy advocates who described it nes Chan taking the role in Octo- tary honours and a state banquet. Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech during a state banquet held United Nations, Samantha as an attack on press freedom. ber, sparking protests over what Xi will first meet President at the Istana presidential palace in Singapore yesterday. Power, said on Thursday she was The prestigious HKU applied activists said was political inter- Tony Tan and Prime Minister extremely concerned that the for an injunction against “persons ference in the city’s education sys- Lee Hsien Loong, after which he sides since they split at the end of strait relations, including direct arms ultimatum could “trigger unknown” to prevent the publi- tem. When local media published is scheduled to meet Ma at the the Chinese civil war in 1949. Sin- exchanges between the two sides widespread violence” if security cation of content from all coun- the audio of the meetings, HKU Shangri-La hotel at 0700 GMT gapore has consistently upheld a such as the historic Wang-Koo forces started searching homes cil meetings, after local media took out the injunction, which today. ‘One China’ policy and supported talks in 1993,” it added. for weapons and opposition fig- published leaked audio files from was challenged in court yesterday. The Xi-Ma summit will be the initiatives that contribute to the ures. gatherings related to a contro- first meeting between the two peaceful development of cross- AFP REUTERS versial decision to not appoint a AFP SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2015 ASIA / PAKISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09

Bangladesh tells police to Maldives police raid retaliate against Islamist attacks television station DHAKA: Bangladesh has ordered policemen to shoot in self-defence if fired upon, the Main opposition party calls off anti-government rally home minister said yesterday, MALÉ: Police in the Maldives (MDP) said it had suspended an Local media saying dozens of after a policeman was killed in an yesterday raided a private televi- anti-government rally. the country’s citizens have trav- attack claimed by Islamic State sion station in connection with “Because of the state of emer- elled to Syria and Iraq to fight militants. a YouTube video that allegedly gency we will not go ahead with with the Islamic State group and Usually, policemen at check- threatened President Abdulla rally, but we will have it no sooner at least five are known to have points and guarding government Yameen, the network’s manag- (than when) the state of emer- died. Members of the Pakistani armed forces assist rescue workers searching installations have to get permis- ing director said. gency is lifted,” MDP spokesman The honeymoon island nation for survivors in the rubble of a factory that collapsed in Lahore, yesterday. sion from their superiors or a The move came days after Hamid Abdul Ghafoor said. has been in turmoil since the magistrate before they can open President Yameen imposed a state The government denied that country’s first democratically fire. But a wave of attacks on of emergency, giving wider pow- the imposition of a state of emer- elected President Mohamed bloggers and publishers for pub- ers to police and armed forces to gency was aimed at suppressing Nasheed was forced to step down lishing articles critical of religious arrest and suspending freedom of the opposition’s protest, planned following a mutiny in February Death toll in Pakistan extremism as well as the killing assembly and freedom of move- over a week ago. 2012. of two foreigners have raised fears ment. Police yesterday stopped Police had accused Sangu TV of The unrest heightened after that militants are targeting its Sangu TV from broadcasting and uploading a YouTube video which Yameen had Nasheed jailed in secular democracy. searched its studios in the capital reportedly showed three masked March on a charge of “terrorism” factory collapse set “We have asked the police to island Male in a pre-dawn raid, men issuing a death threat to following a rushed trial which the counter any attacks on them. removing computer hard disks. the president with the flag of the UN says was seriously flawed. They can open fire immediately “They have taken all the hard Islamic State group in the back- Last Thursday, Yameen fast- to rise, says official for their safety,” Home Minister drives of all our computer sys- ground. The Maldivian authori- tracked the impeachment of his Asaduzzaman Khan said. tems,” Sangu TV Managing ties had previously dismissed the estranged vice president Ahmed Last Wednesday, two men on Director Ibrahim Waheed said. video as a fake. Adeeb using emergency laws and LAHORE: Rescue crews they will discover more victims. a motorcycle stabbed a police- “The station has come to a The motive for the raid was not ignoring calls from the US and resumed digging through the “We expect to find at least 25 man at a checkpoint in Ashulia, complete standstill.” immediately clear but there are Britain to immediately revoke the rubble of a collapsed factory in more dead bodies in that part of about 20 km north of the capital, Meanwhile, the main opposi- growing concerns about radicali- action. Pakistan yesterday as officials the factory,” Zia said. Dhaka, in an attack that was later tion Maldivian Democratic Party sation in the Maldives. AFP said they expected to find at least It was unclear how many peo- claimed by the Islamic State. The two dozen more bodies, with the ple were in the building when it men fled without the police firing death toll standing at 23. collapsed or how many may still a shot. The US-based SITE Intel- More than 100 survivors have be trapped, but officials have said ligence Group said the Islamic already been pulled from the at least 150 people were in the fac- State had claimed responsibility debris of the four-storey Rajput tory when it came down. for that killing. IMF okays $502m loan to Pakistan Polyester polythene bag factory Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Khan however rejected that near the Punjab provincial capital Sharif has said the factory may claim pointing the finger instead of Lahore after it came crashing have suffered structural damage at domestic political rivals linked ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will SDR 360m (about $502m) will “The mission welcomes the down last Wednesday evening, in the October 26 quake which to Islamist parties. receive the next instalment worth be made available to Pakistan,” authorities’ continued commit- trapping dozens of people inside. killed almost 400 people across “This is nothing but a plan to $502m of its loan from the Inter- Finger said. Pakistan state media ment to their IMF-supported But hopes were fading for any- Pakistan and Afghanistan. destabilise the country and create national Monetary Fund (IMF) said the announcement was made economic reform programme, one left alive as rescuers scrab- Provincial labour minister panic among the police,” he said. in December as part of a three- by Dar and IMF officials at the which has significantly reduced bled through the debris. Raja Ashfaq Sarwar said that an Bangladesh’s government has year economic bailout package, conclusion of talks in Islamabad near-term risks,” Finger said. “We have recovered up to 23 enquiry into the collapse “is being put several leaders of the opposi- officials said. late last Thursday. “Economic activity continues to dead bodies and more than 100 conducted and we will probe all tion Jamaat-e-Islami on trial for The IMF’s Pakistan delega- The IMF has voiced satisfac- improve while challenges remain,” injured so far. There are less angles”, with a report to be sub- war crimes committed during the tion head Harald Finger said in tion with Pakistan’s progress on he said, adding that GDP is set chances of finding more injured mitted within two weeks. 1971 war. a statement late last Thursday reforms, which were required to grow by about 4.5 percent in under the rubble but we are At least 24 people died last year Police said this week that that the decision was taken after under a $6.6bn bailout agreed in 2015/2016. Standard and Poor’s in looking for dead bodies,” Arshad when a mosque collapsed in the a home-grown group called a successful review of Pakistan’s 2013. The loan was granted on May revised the country’s credit Zia, head of rescue services in same city, while more than 200 Ansarullah Bangla Team was sus- economic performance. condition that Pakistan — which rating outlook from stable to Punjab said. Soldiers and res- people lost their lives, mostly due pected of being behind attacks on “The agreement is subject to was suffering an energy crisis — positive and forecast higher GDP cuers were preparing to clear to collapsed roofs, following tor- publishers and writers in Dhaka approval by the IMF Manage- carried out extensive economic growth for 2015 to 2017. the rubble in front of the fac- rential rain and flooding in 2014. last weekend. ment and the Executive Board. reforms, particularly in the tory and move towards the rear REUTERS Upon completion of this review, energy and taxation sectors. AFP of the building where they fear AFP

Afghan protest Afghanistan turns to India for copter deal

KABUL: Afghanistan is poised Afghan National Security National Security Council said in ing the Islamic State, Al Qaeda to acquire four attack helicopters Adviser Mohammad Hanif Atmar a Twitter post. and the Taliban, everyone else from India to help it fight a grow- is due in New Delhi this weekend “We are going to give them is only talking,” the source said. ing Taliban insurgency, a small to finalise the transfer of the Rus- the helicopters, this is a one-off “But terrorism is everyone’s prob- but significant deal marking a sian-made Mi-25 helicopters, said arrangement,” said an Indian lem.” shift in Kabul’s search for allies sources in New Delhi and Kabul security official, speaking on con- Atmar will also be discuss- that is likely to anger Pakistan. who are involved in the plans. dition of anonymity because of the ing a proposal to train Afghan Soon after he took over, Afghan Afghan forces badly need air sensitivity of the matter. Special Forces in counter insur- President Ashraf Ghani held off power to reverse gains by the Tal- The supply of the assault heli- gency schools in India, the Afghan military assistance from India iban and in particular helicopter copters will be the first offensive source said, in addition to about while he courted Pakistan’s politi- gunships that have range as well weapon to Afghanistan since 1,000 Afghan army officers who cal and military leadership to end as firepower, the officials said. India signed a strategic partner- visit India for training each year. years of mutual hostility and steer While the United States has ship agreement with Kabul in Pakistan’s foreign ministry the Taliban, many of who live in agreed to supply Afghan forces 2011 that riled old enemy Paki- declined to comment on the Pakistan, toward negotiations. with light McDonnell Douglas stan. It has donated light heli- Afghan plan to obtain attack heli- But a wave of bombings in MD 530 helicopters, which can be copters, vehicles and provided copters from India, saying it was Kabul that Ghani said were plot- fitted with weapons, many Afghan military training in the past. a matter between those two coun- ted in Pakistan, followed by the officers prefer the bigger, sturdier An Afghan source confirmed tries. Pakistan, bordered by India Taliban encircling major cities Russian machines. the plan to induct Mi-25s from to the east and Afghanistan to Afghan women hold placards during a protest against the stoning of including briefly taking over Kun- Atmar will be discussing with India, saying Kabul was looking the west, has in the past frowned an Afghan woman to death by Taliban militants, in Kabul yesterday. duz in the north, has prompted a his Indian hosts the fight against to regional players to help it fight on Indian military assistance to The public stoning of the woman, who was charged with adultery in scramble to shore up support in terrorism as well as air force the Taliban. Afghanistan. a remote western province controlled by the Taliban, was ‘absurd’, a the region. equipment issues, the Afghan “We are the ones who are fight- REUTERS leading activist said yesterday. Foreign aid workers shy away from Fuel shortages may ground Nepal PM flays Indian remark Afghanistan as violence surges Nepal’s airlines: Official in Geneva KATHMANDU: Fuel shortages from the Indian city of Kolkata. KABUL: Afghanistan was once sured “nobody is blowing them- ties are offering short contracts, may force Nepal’s private airlines Nepal has faced crippling fuel KATHMANDU: Nepal Prime a magnet for foreign aid work- selves up every day in front of sometimes as brief as six months. to stop operating domestic flights shortages since September 24, Minister K P Sharma Oli yes- ers, but surging violence has left our door”. “(They) leave just as they from next week onwards, an offi- when demonstrators from the terday criticised India for rak- NGOs struggling to recruit staff Afghanistan is considered begin to understand the mission,” cial said yesterday, as protesters Madhesi ethnic minority began a ing up human rights abuses in and restricted their ability to the most dangerous country on Patrick, head of a Western NGO block a key checkpoint bordering blockade of the Birgunj trade hub, the Himalayan nation at a UN deliver crucial aid to the coun- Earth for aid workers, according in Kabul who declined to give his India. protesting the country’s new con- Human Rights Council meet in try’s vulnerable. to the Humanitarian Outcomes last name said. Scores of trucks have been stitution which they say will leave Geneva. Plagued by decades of war and research group, which reported The staff shortages combined stranded at a crossing in the them politically marginalised. India, for the first time, raised natural disasters such as last 54 major attacks against NGOs with increased risks means many southern town of Birgunj for Security forces on Monday the issue of war crimes commit- month’s earthquake, which killed in 2014. groups have scaled back work nearly six weeks, cutting off vital broke up the blockade for a few ted during the decade-long con- more than 120 people in the coun- Meanwhile, international outside cities, such as the World supplies and forcing fuel rationing hours, sparking violent protests flict in any international forum try and left thousands homeless, attention has shifted to Iraq and Food Programme (WFP), which across the landlocked nation. and leading to the death of an and urged Nepal to carry out the up until around 2009 Afghani- Syria, says Philippe Bonnet, who withdrew in September from “We don’t have enough ATF Indian man in police firing. transitional justice mechanisms stan was considered a risky but has just completed his tenure as Badakhshan after an attack on (aviation turbine fuel) for air- The movement of cargo across in an effective way. rewarding post for humanitarian Afghanistan head of the French five of its trucks. crafts, unless we are able to source other Indian border checkpoints Oli demanded to know how workers. NGO Solidarites International. “Physically, expats can no some in the next day or so, we will has also slowed to a crawl. Author- India could be ignorant that the But with a resurgent Taliban Crises in South Sudan and the longer go to many places, but not be able to supply domestic ities in Kathmandu accuse New UN was involved in Nepal’s peace leaving Afghan forces floundering Ebola epidemic in west Africa NGOs are trying to find alterna- private airlines,” said Mukunda Delhi of imposing an “unofficial process. He said India had not and forcing Nato allies to extend also soaked up limited humani- tive means,” said Fiona Gall, the Ghimire, spokesman at the state- blockade” to show its dissatisfac- made its position public earlier their presence in the country, tarian resources in the last year, director of Acbar, a group that run Nepal Oil Corporation. tion with the new charter. “Indian on Nepal’s transitional justice increasing attacks are leaving added Guilhem Molinie, country represents more than 130 NGOs “They may have to stop flying customs officials are refusing to mechanisms. would-be volunteers jittery. director for Doctors Without working in Afghanistan. as early as Sunday,” Ghimire said. clear trucks headed for Nepal Without taking any name, Oli Posts now remain “empty for a Borders (MSF). Instead, charities are now There are six domestic airlines saying the central government said, “Some days back, one of the long time” compared to a decade Another Western official in working via telephone or bringing in Nepal, including state carrier has ordered them not to let the leaders from our neighbourhood ago, said Elise, of France’s Acted Kabul said that NGOs “moved in local workers from conflict areas Nepal Airlines. vehicles pass,” said Sishir Kumar publicly warned that India will NGO in Kabul, who declined to five years from a few thousand to where they are based for dis- Ghimire said officials were Dhungana, Director General, show its mettle against Nepal. provide a last name. volunteers to just a few hundred”. cussions. awaiting supplies after request- Department of Customs. Candidates need to be reas- To attract employees, chari- AFP ing Nepal Airlines fly in fuel AFP IANS SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2015 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / INDIA

India-China ties JAM is for better Economy better placed targeting of subsidies: Jaitley NEW DELHI: Explaining the today, asserts Modi philosophy behind the govern- ment’s JAM (Jan Dhan-Aad- haar-Mobile) initiative, Finance Reforms will be pursued in right earnest, says PM Minister Arun Jaitley yesterday said the question was whether to NEW DELHI: Prime Minister growth has also accelerated as along with considerable progress continue subsidies indefinitely Narendra Modi yesterday said inflation has come down. towards ease of doing business in with an unquantified amount almost every key indicator of the “JAM for me is Just Achieving India, was well established. going to an unidentified number Indian economy was better placed Maximum — maximum value, “We have also increased the of people, or target specific cat- today than 17 months ago when maximum empowerment to people pace of awarding new highways egories of people needing them. his government took office, and and maximum technological from 5.2km per day in 2012-13 Speaking at the annual Delhi that reforms will be pursued in penetration among the masses,” and 8.7km per day in 2013-14 to Economics Conclave here organ- the right earnest. he said. He said much work was 23.4km per day.” ised by his ministry, Jaitley said “We have ensured maximum also being done to ensure that He said the view of the the JAM initiative would help bet- value for every rupee spent, the youth of the country get government now was reforms ter targeting of beneficiaries. maximum empowerment for employment. “We have great should be inclusive and broad- “Over the next few years, our our poor, maximum technology entrepreneurial energy. This based and not limited to a few intention is that various other reach to the masses, among other needs to be harnessed so that to standard notions. areas which are on pilot projects things,” the prime minister told become a nation of job creators “Reforming to transform is a should actually enlarge them- the Delhi Economics Conclave, not job seekers.” marathon not a sprint.” selves at a national level,” the adding that more than 19 crore Modi also spoke of government According to Modi, reforms finance minister said. people have been brought under finances. “We embarked on a needed to be undertaken with the He said the country had moved the banking system in 19 months. course of fiscal consolidation and right perspectice. from 58 percent bank connectivity “Today, accounts opened under signed for first time a monetary “But there are two issues... to near 100 percent. Describing Jan-Dhan Yojana have a total framework agreement with RBI reforms for what is it just to the rationalisation of subsidies as balance of almost Rs26,000cr. to curb inflation,” he said at the increase the GDP growth or “unsung reforms”, he said there For me, JAM (Jan Dhan, event, attended by ministers, top bring about a transformation in were 920 million Aadhaar num- Aadhaar, Mobile) vision is just bureaucrats and economists. the society. We must reform to bers with over 900 million mobile about achieving the maximum,” The prime minister said by now transform,” he said. PM Narendra Modi shakes hands with Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao phones. said Modi, and added that India’s the “Make in India” initiative, IANS during their meeting in New Delhi yesterday. Li is on a five-day official IANS visit to India. Rajan brought to Delhi, in CBI custody Mumbai cops brief NEW DELHI: Long-abscond- “Rajendra Sadashiv Nikhalje ing underworld don Rajendra alias Chhota Rajan alias Mohan Nikhalje alias Chhota Rajan was Kumar has been successfully CBI on don’s crimes brought to the national capital brought back to India on depor- from Indonesia yesterday, offi- tation from Indonesia yesterday MUMBAI: A two-member team out its own independent probe. cials said. morning. He is in custody of CBI- of Central Bureau of Investiga- Thereafter, the city police Rajan, who was arrested by Interpol. Legal formalities are in tion yesterday met top Mumbai will not be part of investigations Indonesian police on October process,” the CBI said in a state- police officials including Police into any of the cases against the 25, arrived in a special aircraft ment. Commissioner Ahmad Javed in 55-year old don. around 5.30am at Indira Gandhi Hours after his arrival in the connection with the transfer of Mumbai police may render International Airport here from city in an Indian Air Force Gulf- all cases pertaining to arrested assistance to the CBI sleuths as where he was taken to Central stream-III aircraft from Bali, the mafia don Chhota Rajan who was many of the cases are over three Bureau of Investigation (CBI) security of Rajan, considered as brought to India early in the day, decades old and given the local headquarters, escorted by special a “friendly don” because of his official sources said here. cops’ vast knowledge of Chhota commandos and a SWAT team, earlier tip-offs to Indian security The team is being briefed about Rajan’s intricate crime networks, police said. agencies about the movement of the number of cases — number- his associates and others links. The aircraft carrying Rajan, Dawood and his aides, has been ing between 70-75 according to However, officials declined to along with a team of CBI offices increased. In 2000, there was Javed, the types of cases which comment whether Chhota Rajan and others, departed for India an attempt on Rajan’s life when include murder, extortion, arms would be brought to Mumbai around 8pm from Indonesia’s Bali Dawood’s men tracked him to a running, drug rackets, and status courts for hearing in some of the last Thursday. Police stand guard outside the Central Bureau of Investigation building in hotel in Bangkok but he managed of the sub judice matters like the ongoing cases in which his name Rajan, 55, reached CBI head- New Delhi, where Chhota Rajan is being held in custody. a dramatic escape by jumping journalist Jyotirmoy Dey murder figures. While the Congress and quarters around 6am. All routes from the first floor of the hotel. case of June 2011. Nationalist Congress Party have leading the CBI headquarters Rajan, who has been abscond- his medical examination was con- Once close aide of fugitive Later, as announced by Addi- castigated the move, terming have been sealed by Delhi Police. ing from India for two decades ducted later. The mafia don will underworld don Dawood Ibrahim tional Chief Secretary (Home) it as a blow to the “morale” of Besides, the security of CBI was arrested in Indonesian on a be presented before a special CBI Kaskar, Rajan separated from K P Bakshi last Thursday Mumbai Police, even former top headquarters, which is looked request of CBI in Bali, following magistrate through video confer- his gang before the 1993 Mumbai evening, the Mumbai police will cops like ex-DGP D. Shivanandan after by the Central Indus- a tip-off by the Australian Fed- encing, who will officially hand blasts were conspired. hand over all the documents, expressed his disappointment on trial Security Force, has been eral Police. Rajan was kept in a over his custody to the investi- material evidences and other the transfer. increased. lockup in CBI headquarters and gating agency, sources said. IANS details to the CBI for carrying IANS Plea for law banning Aviation cess to be effective from 2016 NEW DELHI: An aviation cess the cabinet for final approval. We promote regional air connectivity of replacing or modifying the of about two percent on all flights are seeking stakeholders sugges- and viability gap funding for the overseas flying eligibility rules beef sale dismissed will be implemented from Janu- tions and feedback till November operators. for airlines, the secretary said ary 1, next year, which will be 21, couple of weeks after that a “The policy aims at creating an the government has given a set NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Delhi Agriculture Cattle Preser- used for promoting regional con- final draft will be prepared and ecosystem for the growth of avia- of options to the stakeholders to Court yesterday dismissed a plea vation Act. There is prohibition of nectivity, a senior civil aviation presented to the cabinet,” the sec- tion. In this, we have to take care choose from. seeking a law to prohibit cow slaughter of agricultural cattles. ministry official said yesterday. retary said. for the airlines, airport developers “We wanted to get formal sug- slaughter and sale of beef and It covers everything. Five such The cess is proposed under the “The cess is expected to be and passengers. The funds from gestions and feedback from all the its products across the national shelters are there with capacity of new draft civil aviation policy imposed from January 1, 2016. the cess will go into funding the stakeholders before finalisation of capital region (NCR). 23,000 cows and they have 10,000 which was released on October 30. The capital accumulated from RCS scheme,” Choubey said. the policy. We have given some A division bench of Chief Jus- cows there,” the Delhi govern- The policy has been put in public the cess will go to a special fund “The scheme is expected to options regarding the rule. The tice G Rohini and Justice Jayant ment’s advocate said asking the domain to garner feedback and which will be used to promote come into implementation from stakeholders can also give more Nath dismissed the plea saying the court to dismiss the plea. suggestions from all stakeholders regional connectivity.” April 1, 2016 after cabinet gives its suggestions and ways to deal with petition is “misconceived” and the Chakradhari’s plea had also before finalisation. The new draft civil aviation approval, therefore funds should the rule,” the secretary said. Delhi government has informed sought directions to the Delhi The information about the policy calls for levy of two percent be in place, as and when that hap- The draft policy has proposed that it already has an act called government to enact a law simi- implementation date of the new cess on all domestic and interna- pens.” The policy envisages low three ways forward on allowing Delhi Agriculture Cattle Preser- lar to the 1932 Ranbir Penal Code, cess was disclosed by the Civil tional tickets on all routes other tariff of no more than `2,500 per domestic airline operators to fly vation Act, 1994, to prevent such applicable in Jammu and Kash- Aviation Secretary Rajeev Nayan than (instrument landing sys- ticket for each flying-hour with a abroad: One, to continue with the acts. The public interest litigation mir, which states that “slaughter Choubey during a press briefing tem) Cat IIA and RCS (regional host of incentives and other ben- existing norm of five-year opera- was filed by self-proclaimed monk of cows and alike animals” was on the draft civil aviation policy connectivity scheme). According efits to both airport developers tion with a 20-aircraft fleet. Swami Satyananda Chakradhari. punishable. here. to the secretary, the funds from and operators. “Delhi government already has IANS “The policy will be presented to the cess will be used primary to On the controversial the issue IANS BJP starts cow slaughter Colourful lamps ban poster campaign Nurse raped in moving bus BENGALURU: A bus driver allegedly raped a 19-year-old nursing KOLKATA: The BJP has for a nationwide ban on cow assistant in his vehicle on the outskirts of India’s southern technology launched a poster campaign call- slaughter. Except for a few states hub Bangalore before dumping her on a roadside, police said yesterday. ing for a nationwide ban on cow like West Bengal, cow slaughter The attack is alleged to have occurred on Thursday when the woman slaughter in across West Bengal, is banned in most part of India,” boarded the bus to commute to her job at a nursing home in Hoskote, one of the states where the prac- state Cow Development Cell con- 30 kilometres from the city centre. tice is legal. The move has drawn vener Subrata Gupta said. “We have arrested accused Ravi, 26, with bus cleaner Manjunath, 23, strong condemnation from civil Public figures have slammed the under section 376 of the Indian Penal Code on a complaint by the victim society and other parties. BJP for putting up such posters. that she was raped by the driver when she was alone in the bus,” S R The posters, issued under the “They are distorting judicial Ramesh, Bangalore Rural Additional Superintendent of Police, said. banner of the party’s Cow Devel- orders. They are trying to create “The accused asked the cleaner to drive the bus while he raped her opment Cell, claim there are judi- disturbance across the country and dumped her later on roadside,” he said, adding that police had cial orders banning the slaughter as it seems they are going to lose seized the bus. of cows on a particular religious the Bihar assembly polls. Arists, The woman went to hospital and described the alleged attack to occasion of a community. writers, film-makers, historians doctors, who called the police. The posters, in English, Hindi are all returning awards in protest Karnataka’s new Home Minister G Parameshwara said the accused and Bengali have come up in dif- against intolerance. BJP has come An artist decorates earthenware oil lamps or ‘diyas’ at her workshop on would be dealt with strictly. ferent areas of Kolkata and the up with a conspiracy to divert the outskirts of Hyderabad yesterday. Diyas, which are lit and placed “We will not tolerate any incident of rape in any part of the state. districts. people’s attention,” said theatre around homes, are in heavy demand during the Diwali festival, which I have directed the police to take preventative steps and act against “We have come up with these personality Kaushik Sen. marks the victory of good over evil. the guilty strictly,” Parameshwara told reporters later. posters as part of our campaign IANS AFP SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2015 ASIA / INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11

Kerala moves Curfew in Kashmir over Modi visit to regulate shutdowns Police arrest activists to prevent them from mobilising THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala’s notorious ‘hartals’ or SRINAGAR: Authorities damage across the territory. the phone. After Modi’s rally was shutdowns may come to an end ordered a curfew in parts of “Restrictions were imposed to announced earlier in the week, if a bill the government plans Kashmir yesterday after hun- prevent breach of peace before police detained all top separatist to introduce in the assembly dreds of separatist activists were the prime minister’s rally,” a sen- leaders or confined them to their becomes a law. arrested on the eve of Prime ior police officer said. homes, local media reports said. “The government will move the Minister Narendra Modi’s visit Nearly 300 activists have been Authorities denied permis- bill in the assembly session that to the disputed region. arrested to prevent them from sion for a counter-rally, dubbed begins from November 30,” Chief In the main city of Srinagar mobilising, another police officer Million March, called by separa- Minister Oommen Chandy said shops and schools remained shut, said. tist groups today to press their here yesterday. He said this in a university exams were cancelled Security has been beefed up demands for self-determination statement after the weekly cabi- for the day and public transport ahead of Modi’s visit, with the and freedom from rule. Some net meeting. was suspended as hundreds of Muslim-majority region already separatist leaders remained defi- Kerala is notorious for frequent police and paramilitary forces tense following incidents of reli- ant, however. ‘hartals’ called by political parties patrolled the streets. gious intolerance and attacks on “Our Million March will go and trade unions that invariably Modi is scheduled to address a minorities in many parts of India. ahead come what may,” Syed Ali cause inconvenience to ordinary public rally in Srinagar on Sat- “I was not allowed to go to work Geelani, the senior most sepa- people. The proposed bill will urday, where he is expected to because of the soldiers on the ratist leader who called for the make forcible closure of shops, announce economic assistance, street outside my home,” Waheed counter-rally said in a statement businesses and educational insti- more than a year after massive Ahmed, a mason living in the old last Thursday. Paramilitary soldiers patrol near the venue of PM Narendra Modi’s sched- tutions. flooding inflicted $16bn worth of city area of Srinagar said over AFP uled rally in Srinagar, yesterday. IANS

Women’s group for OROP: Retired soldiers to observe ‘black Diwali’

NEW DELHI: Ex-servicemen and dignified manner in each on the issue, said ex-armymen is a serious issue. We wrote agitating for ‘One Rank, One district on November 9-10,” in Delhi would hand over their to Defence Minister Manohar ban on ‘triple talaq’ Pension’ (OROP) scheme yes- Gandhi told reporters here. medals at the arrival halls of T1 Parrikar four times to consider terday said they would return “The district magistrate and T3 terminals at the Delhi our demand to implement OROP NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya the government to initiate urgent their galantry and other medals concerned will collect the medals, international airport between in its true spirit, but he never Muslim Mahila Andolan measures towards reforms in across the country on November and if he doesn’t come to collect, 4pm and 7pm on November 9-10. acknowledged. Parrikar did not (BMMA) yesterday called for a Muslim personal law. 9-10 and observe a “black Diwali”. the medals will be left behind. The “Ex-servicemen living abroad talk to us.” ban on the “triple talaq” divorce A BMMA statement quoted co- “We have unanimously decided DMs will be requested to guard will go to the respective Indian “The government had been system, saying it was un-Islamic founder Noorjehan Safia Niaz as to return our medals across the medals and send these either embassies with their families changing the goalposts from and outlawed in several Muslim saying how India urgently needed India,” said Group Captain V K to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and return their medals to the time to time. They are not issuing countries. a codified Muslim personal law Gandhi (retd), general secretary, or President Pranab Mukherjee,” ambassadors,” he said. the notification. We apprehend “The Quran gives rights to based on the Quranic principles Indian Ex-Servicemen Movement, he added. The government had promised that the government does not Muslim women during marriage of justice and equality. during a protest held at Jantar The threat to return the medals a notification on OROP as soon want to give us OROP as per the and does not recognise triple Zakia Soman, another co- Mantar here. is seen as a way to pressurise the as the Bihar assembly elections definition,” Gen Singh said. talaq,” the group said in a reso- founder, spoke about how an The armed forces’ veterans government to notify OROP as were over, pleading that a model Gen Singh also said the vet- lution passed at its ninth annual Uniform Civil Code was not the decided to intensify their agitation per its definition. The government code of conduct prohibited it from erans would observe a “black convention here. answer to Muslim womens’ quest which continued for 145th day is already under attack from a notifying new schemes during Diwali” this year. “Yet, this evil practice prevails for justice. This can happen only yesterday. number of writers, filmmakers elections. Counting of votes polled “This Diwali we will not go in India. It should be banned like by reform in Muslim personal “The government is willing who have returned prestigious in the Bihar assembly elections home. We will sit at the Jantar several Muslim countries (have law where matters such as age of to provide us OROP, but it is awards to protest against “rising would be taken up tomorrow. Mantar here and raise our voices done),” it added. marriage, divorce and polygamy full of discrepancies and is not intolerance” in the country. Lashing out at the central for our demand. We will not At the same time, the gather- can be regulated, she said. as per its definition. In protest, Maj Gen Satbir Singh (retd), government’s “lax attitude” in light lamps and observe a Black ing rejected the idea of an Uni- all ex-servicemen sporting their who has been spearheading the notifying the OROP in its true Diwali,” Gen Singh said. form Civil Code and called upon IANS medals will line up in a disciplined Indian ex-servicemen’s movement spirit, Gen Singh said, “OROP IANS

Court lets police probe Hardik Shiv Sena ready to go along with NEW DELHI: The Supreme sedition on January 5, 2016. In another case involving a Court yesterday permitted the “No chargesheet in the mat- habeas corpus after Patel alleg- BJP in KDMC Gujarat Police to complete its ter,” the bench told Attorney edly went missing, the court said investigation into allegations General Mukul Rohatgi. the proceedings would go on THANE: After a bitter war of sedition against Patel com- Patel hit the headlines after before the high court. Rohatgi of words, allies Shiv Sena and munity leader Hardik Patel, mobilising hundreds of thou- told the court that the so-called Bharatiya Janata Party are but restrained it from filing a sands of Patel community mem- abduction was stage managed. ready to join hands to adminis- chargesheet. bers seeking quotas in jobs and Appearing for Patel, senior ter Kalyan-Dombivali Municipal Giving the police one-and-a- educational institutions. counsel Kapil Sibal said the alle- Corporation (KDMC) Thane, half month to investigate the Justice V Gopala Gowda and gation of sedition was slapped on around 60km north of Mumbai, 22-year-old Patel, Justice Jag- Justice Amitava Roy had on October 18 for an incident that a BJP leader said here yesterday. dish Singh Khehar and Jus- November 4 referred to another took place on October 3 when State BJP spokesperson Mad- tice R Banumathi directed the bench Patel’s plea seeking the he was caught on camera tell- hav Bhandari said BJP minister next hearing of the Patidar quashing of the FIR accusing ing one Vipulbhai Desai not to Sudhir Mungantiwar and Shiv Anamat Andolan Samiti lead- him of sedition for allegedly ask- commit suicide and instead kill Sena minister Eknath Shinde er’s plea seeking the quash- ing a supporter to kill policemen policemen. would meet to finalise the deal A farmer plucks cotton from his damaged Bt cotton field on the outskirts ing of FIR accusing him of instead of committing suicide. IANS yesterday. of Bhatinda in Punjab, yesterday. The development follows talks between state BJP presi- dent Raosaheb Danve and senior Sena leader and minister Subhash Farmers to shun GM Desai after the November 1 elec- tion results. After the elections Geeta longs to meet her family to the 122-member KDMC, the Shiv Sena emerged as the largest cotton after pest attack INDORE: Visibly happy on her Geeta was aged around 11 when institute director Monica Punjabi group with 52 seats and BJP with return to India after staying in she crossed into Pakistan by mis- that she was looked after well 42 seats, both far away from the BHATINDA: Farmers are for it failed miserably,” said Thana Pakistan for more than a decade, take in 2003. At Lahore, Pakistan here. magic figure of 62. the first time abandoning genet- Singh, 67, whose son died after speech- and hearing-impaired Rangers handed her over to the District collector P Narhari, Presently, both parties have ically modified cotton after a taking poison during a protest Geeta longs to meet her long-lost Edhi Foundation, a social welfare who was present on the occa- staked claim to the KDMC may- devastating pest attack ravaged outside a government office in family. organisation that looked after her sion, said the particulars of all or’s post. The Congress-Nation- their fields, sowing doubts about Punjab. Through sign language, she since then. She returned to India the families which claimed to be alist Congress Party joined hands the crop technology that had been Singh and many other farmers conveyed to journalists yesterday on October 26. related to Geeta were sent to the to run the Kolhapur Municipal hailed as a panacea. plan to switch to food crops such that she still remembers the faces Geeta, who has been lodged ministry of external affairs. Corporation earlier this week. The whitefly attack on the Bt as lentils to rebuild their liveli- of her parents and her native at the Indore-based institute for cotton variety in the states of hoods. home. deaf and dumb, conveyed through IANS IANS Punjab and Haryana has caused a “My son was unable to over- rural crisis: at least three farmers come the stress. We were staring have committed suicide around at massive losses caused either the city of Bhatinda and tens of by the Bt cotton seeds, or maybe Delighting kids thousands protested to demand by fake pesticides,” said Singh, state aid. who choked up with emotion as Call to ban recruitment These are some of the same he walked through a field whose farmers who more than a decade cotton pods and leaves were cov- ago reaped the first bumper har- ered with whiteflies. “I don’t want vest of GM cotton that quickly to touch Bt seeds until I have a of maids for Gulf caught on because it dramatically firm answer.” increased yields and raised living The whitefly outbreak has HYDERABAD: The Telangana being forced to commit suicide standards. intensified a debate over GM government yesterday urged due to the inhuman treatment Cotton output has jumped four- crops just as Prime Minister the central government to ban by their employers. KTR, as the fold since commercial cultivation Narendra Modi’s office reviews a recruitment of domestic maids minister is popularly known, said of GM cotton was allowed in proposal to allow farmers to grow for the Gulf countries. the central government should 2002, transforming India into the GM mustard, an oilseed. State Panchayat Raj and Infor- act firmly in the matter. He also world’s top producer and second- To lift India’s woeful farm pro- mation Technology Minister urged the ministry to take nec- largest exporter. ductivity, Modi has asked scien- K Tarakarama Rao yesterday essary steps to help the work- That run may now falter, rais- tists to work closely with farmers met top officials of the external ers from the state facing various ing the risk of slower sales for to introduce high-yielding crop affairs ministry in New Delhi and problems in the Gulf countries. Monsanto which has sold Bt cot- strains. brought to their notice the plight Andhra Pradesh’s Social Wel- ton seeds to more than 7 million But a farmers’ body affiliated of labourers, especially the exploi- fare Minister R Kishore Babu Indian farmers, mainly through to Modi’s ruling party is bitterly tation of domestic maids from the also met the officials of external Mentally challenged children watch firecrackers burn as part of Diwali local seed firms operating under opposing GM crops and is lobby- state. affairs ministry to bring to their celebrations at Asha School for Development Disabilities in Bengaluru, licence. ing senior officials for a ban on Bt The minister told reporters notice problems faced by workers yesterday. The school, which serves children of army personnel and civil- “We poured all our money into cotton and to block GM mustard. after the meeting that domestic from Andhra. ians, is funded by the Indian Army under the aegis of the Golden Palm buying pesticides and worked day maids were working in pathetic Army Wives Welfare Association. and night to save the crop. But REUTERS conditions and that they were IANS SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com EUROPE / AMERICAS

EU urges Brazil toxic mudslide death toll rises Kosovo oppn to At least 17 killed as village destroyed end parliament

MARIANA, Brazil: Brazilian rescuers Brazil, which operates the site where the disruption searched frantically for survivors yester- disaster struck. day after burst dams unleashed a torrent Samarco said 13 of its employees were PRISTINA: The EU enlarge- of toxic red sludge that killed at least 17 missing in the disaster. ment commissioner urged people and destroyed a village. It said the causes of the rupture were Kosovo’s lawmakers to allow The mudslide erupted on Thursday from not known. parliament to function follow- a reservoir of waste at the partly Austral- George Sandi of the Brazilian seismologi- ing protests in which opposition ian-owned iron ore and minerals mine in cal observatory told CBN radio that two politicians have released teargas southeastern Brazil, ripping the roofs off small earthquakes had been registered in in the chamber to demand the houses and leaving villagers clinging to the region on Thursday afternoon. cancellation of an EU-brokered their roofs. The surface area of mud held back by agreement with Serbia. “It was like a horror movie,” said one one of the burst dams, the Fundao, was The opposition is angry about a anonymous survivor quoted by the Globo equivalent to 10 football fields, said Ronaldo deal to grant ethnic Serb areas of news website. “People were running and Bento, leader of the local miners’ union. Kosovo greater local powers and yelling that it was the end of the world. That dam was staffed by 25 workers and the possibility of funding from Water was coming from all sides.” contained “toxic mud consisting of mineral Belgrade.. Firefighters searched the ruins of Bento waste,” he said. A bloc of opposition parties Rodrigues, a village of some 600 people near Hundreds of rescuers worked through says it will disrupt the work of the southeastern city of Mariana in the the night largely in the dark after the mud- parliament until the deal — and historic mining region of Minas Gerais. slide toppled electrical pylons, cutting off another demarcating Kosovo’s The cause of the disaster was not con- power. border with Montenegro — are firmed, but one seismological expert said Bulldozers were busy clearing blocked rescinded. small tremors had been detected in the roads so that rescue vehicles could reach Even as Commissioner Johan- area on Thursday. the site, said a civil defense spokesman who Debris of a house is pictured at Bento Rodrigues district, which was covered with mud after a nes Hahn was speaking to parlia- By Thursday night, there were 17 people identified himself as Sergeant Damaceno. dam owned by Vale SA and BHP Billiton Ltd burst in Mariana, Brazil, yesterday. ment, opposition lawmakers held officially confirmed killed and 50 injured, He said 122 Bento Rodrigues homes were banners reading “Unjust agree- “but more bodies have been found”, said buried in mud, while 150 local residents onto the roof and jumped from one roof to corps. The president of Samarco, Ricardo ments shall not pass” and “Is eth- Adao Severino Junior, the fire chief in spent the night at a shelter in Mariana, another” to take refuge on higher ground, Vescovi, said the company was “mobiliz- nic segregation an EU value?”. No Mariana. some 23km away. he said. ing absolutely all necessary efforts” to help teargas was released during the He said there could be more than 40 Fifteen-year-old Marcos Junior de Souza He was being housed in a gymnasium in people struck by the disaster. “We are also protest. people missing but he would not release a told the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper that Mariana, where residents donated mat- not sparing efforts to contain the environ- Hahn said the blockade of the new death toll until relatives of the victims he fled his home after a neighbor shouted tresses and bottles of water for the stricken mental damage,” he said in a video message. parliament could have an impact were notified. that a dam had burst. villagers. Minas Gerais has been Brazil’s main on the country’s path towards “There is no way to survive under that “All my life I had heard people saying Mariana and the nearby village of Ouro mining hub since the 16th century. First closer ties with the European material,” he said of the mudslide. that it was going to break but I never Preto sent firefighters and ambulances. came gold, then mining of iron ore, other Union. Most of the village’s inhabitants work thought much of it until the water flooded Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff offered minerals and semi-precious stones. “If there are no decisions, as for Samarco, the company jointly owned my house,” he was quoted as saying. the governor of Minas Gerais assistance the parliament is not able to by BHP Billiton of Australia and Vale of “I climbed out the window, climbed from the army and the national civil defence AFP take decisions, this might have an impact not only in the situation in Kosovo itself but also in other issues that are related to the EU because in some areas we need decisions by the parliament,” France sees progress on UN climate deal, but questions abound Hahn told reporters after meeting Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa. Last month Kosovo PARIS: Governments have such as how to set a long-term butions (INDCs). “Although they be a “sort of dress rehearsal” for for developing nations, he said. signed a trade and political pact made a “very significant first goal to limit warming or how to are insufficient to put the world the summit. “The objective is to Many governments say Paris with the European Union known step” to rein in climate change review national plans for action, today on a path to limit temper- find a path to an agreement on will have to agree a mechanism as a stabilisation and association with national plans for action underscoring how much still ature increase below 2°Celsius, the largest number of options pos- to ratchet up pledges for cuts in agreement which is a required but more than 30 core questions remains to be resolved before the INDCs must be recognised as a sible,” he told a news conference. emissions to reach the 2C goal. step for every country that wants remain unsolved before a summit November 30-December 11 sum- very significant first step forward In May, Fabius had laid out a One of the questions in the to join the EU. on global warming starts in Paris mit. in that direction,” it says. timetable at UN negotiations that background document, for The EU is the biggest financial on November 30, a French docu- Next week’s informal ministe- Almost 200 governments included French hopes a “pre- instance, is: “How to express the supporter of the poor Balkan ment shows. rial meeting, organised by France agreed a goal in 2010 of limiting agreement” on some key issues need for a regular progression country. Hahn said the bloc would The document, prepared for after formal UN negotiations warming to 2C above pre-indus- by October, a deadline that has towards more ambitious national donate another ¤650m until 2020. an informal meeting of about 60 ended last month, will be the last trial times to limit heat waves, been missed. targets and actions?” Kosovo broke away from Serbia ministers from around the world before the start of the summit. downpours and floods that can Fabius said the ministerial Earlier yesterday, a multi- in 1999 when Nato bombed for in Paris next week and seen by The briefing also notes progress disrupt food and water supplies, meeting would divide into four billion dollar fund set up by the 11 weeks to halt the killing and Reuters, highlights problems such because more than 150 nations, as well as a creeping rise in global groups. Ministers would discuss United Nations to help poor expulsion of ethnic Albanian as how to increase finance to help led by China and the United sea levels. how to share action to tackle cli- countries tackle climate change civilians by Serbian forces trying developing nations cope with cli- States, have already issued plans French Foreign Minister Lau- mate change beyond 2020 between approved its first eight projects, to crush a two-year guerrilla mate change. to limit greenhouse gas emissions rent Fabius, outlining hopes for developed and developing nations, worth a total $168m. insurgency. The five-page briefing lists beyond 2020, known as Intended the November 8-10 ministerial the level of ambition in the deal, more than 30 questions on issues Nationally Determined Contri- meeting yesterday, said it would actions before 2020, and finance REUTERS REUTERS

Man stabs EU expects new data deal with US 15-year-old BRUSSELS: The EU said yes- this in three months,” European non-citizens to enforce their data terday it hoped to reach a new Commission Vice-President protection rights in US courts girl to death at deal with Washington within Andrus Ansip, who is in charge under the Privacy Act. “The court three months on data transfers of the digital single market, told ruling will be our benchmark in Bulgaria school which major firms like Facebook a press conference in Brussels. our talks with the United States,” rely on, but demanded “bullet- “But I want to be clear: we need Jourova said. proof” privacy protections. a bullet-proof solution.” She added that she is taking SOFIA: A young man stabbed a The European Court of European Commissioner Vera seriously businesses’ concerns 15-year-old girl to death on the Justice last month ruled that Jourova told the press conference about the legal void following steps of a secondary school in the EU-US “Safe Harbour” the ball was in Washington’s the court ruling. It has alarmed Bulgaria yesterday, then wounded arrangement allowing firms court. “It is now for the US to Washington which says it “put a teacher and another man before to transfer European citizens’ come back to us with their at risk the thriving transatlantic shooting and critically wounding personal information to the US answers,” she said. “It takes two digital economy.” himself, police said. was “invalid” because it did not to do this tango.” The landmark verdict stemmed Chavdar Bozhurski, police properly protect the data from She said she would travel to from a case lodged by Austrian chief in the southeastern town of spy agencies. the United States next week to law student Max Schrems, who Sliven, said witnesses told inves- EU and US officials have since discuss the issue at the highest challenged the deal between tigators that the attacker had held several rounds of talks for a political level, including with Washington and Brussels on been in a relationship with the EU Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality Vera new arrangement. senators preparing to vote on the grounds it did not properly girl and the incident may have Jourova (left) and European Commissioner for Digital Single Market Andrus “I believe Europe and the US key legislation. US lawmakers protect European data. been “a crime of passion”. School Ansip at a press conference in Brussels, Belgium, yesterday. have all tools at hand to achieve have moved to pass a bill allowing AFP violence is rare in Bulgaria. Bozhurski said on national radio that the incident began when a 28-year-old man stabbed another man of the same age in front of the Sliven school. Illinois policeman who killed self Resigned Romania PM The assailant then proceeded to the school’s front steps and stabbed the girl, who died in the spot. plotted to kill official: Investigators Ponta faces court The attacker also stabbed a 40-year-old female teacher before CHICAGO: A northern Illinois administrator. national headlines. Gliniewicz was BUCHAREST: Victor Ponta, media scrum that greeted him at running around the back of the policeman said to have committed “It was nothing we could prove,” initially described as a hero and who quit as Romania’s prime court. school where he shot himself suicide over an audit he feared Covelli said. “We can’t prove that was a decorated, 30-year veteran minister this week after mass Yesterday’s hearing was focused in the mouth with a gas pistol, would expose his embezzlement cocaine in his desk drawer was to of the police department in Fox anti-government protests, made on procedural matters and Bozhurski said. had tried to arrange for the plant on her but it was definitely a Lake, a quiet town about 100 km his first court appearance yester- dealing with lawyers’ requests, a The assailant and the wounded killing of an official, investigators theory that we looked into.” north of Chicago and near the day on corruption charges. High Court spokesman said. No man were hospitalised in critical said. Fox Lake Police Lieutenant The widow and a son of Wisconsin border. The 43-year-old, who resigned date has yet been set for the start condition while the teacher was Charles Joseph Gliniewicz sent Gliniewicz are under criminal On Wednesday, however, on Wednesday after huge street of the trial, which is expected to undergoing treatment for wounds a text about initiating a hit last investigation, media have authorities said the officer protests sparked by a deadly open in the coming weeks. that were not life-threatening, April on a village administrator reported. Melodie and DJ committed “a carefully staged nightclub fire, appeared at the Prosecutors also suspect Ponta medics said. and sought help arranging a Gliniewicz are being investigated suicide” as officials began an High Court of Justice for a of conflict of interest while in Police cordoned off the Sliven meeting with a high-ranking over the embezzlement of funds audit that would have exposed preliminary hearing in his trial government, but that probe was school and alarmed parents motorcycle gang member, Lake from the Explorer programme his embezzlement of public funds. on charges of fraud, tax evasion stymied when parliament — where flocked to it to collect their chil- County Sheriff’s Detective that Gliniewicz ran, the Fox TV Covelli said on Thursday he and money laundering. his Social Democrat party holds a dren. Christopher Covelli said. affiliate in Chicago reported. could not confirm or deny reports The charges against Ponta date comfortable majority — refused to The students were in class Covelli said investigators Gliniewicz, 52, was found dead of Gliniewicz’s wife and son being from 2007 to 2011 when he was lift his immunity from prosecution. at the time of the incident and also found packets of cocaine in on September 1 after reporting under investigation because the working as a lawyer, before he While he is no longer premier, Ponta their lives were not in danger at Gliniewicz’s desk, and recovered that he was investigating three probe was continuing and could became premier in 2012. remains a member of parliament the time, a police spokeswoman text messages in which he suspicious people. His death lead to prosecutions. The former Social Democrat and continues to enjoy immunity. said. mentioned the possibility of prompted a massive manhunt leader, who denies the charges, REUTERS planting something on the for murder suspects and made REUTERS ignored questions from the large AFP SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13

Dollar reaches LNG’s share in gas market to grow 3-month high Environmental, commercial and safety aspects to drive growth: International Gas Union as pre-payrolls By Sachin Kumar energy demand, of which 10 per- unburned residues, particulates Energy Outlook reference case, sulfur oxide up to 100 percent, paralysis sets in cent is supplied in the form of or soot, and releases less green- world petroleum and other liquids nitrogen oxide up to 90 percent DOHA: The share of Liquefied LNG. The share of LNG was just house gas than the other fossil consumption is forecast to grow and particulate matter up to 99 LONDON: The dollar reached Natural Gas (LNG) in the gas four percent in 1990. fuels. by 38 percent between 2010 and percent. The maritime industry is a three-month high yesterday market is poised to grow accord- Qatar is the largest exporter of Its high calorific value allows 2040. This increased consumption the low hanging fruit leading the and world shares headed for ing to International Gas Union LNG in the world and it exported latest-generation power plants will be accompanied by growth in transition to LNG as fuel, prima- their fifth week of gains out of Report (IGU). The growth will nearly 77 million tonnes (MT) of to achieve high energy efficiency associated greenhouse gas emis- rily due to global concern about six, before US jobs data that be driven by environmental, com- LNG in 2014 which was approxi- using cogeneration or combined sions, forecast to increase 45 per- emissions,” said the report. The may nudge the Federal Reserve mercial and safety aspects. mately one-third of global supply. cycle configurations, limiting both cent by 2040. The world is on a On-Road transportation sector, towards its first interest rate “LNG supply has grown faster “Globally, LNG trade reached energy consumption and atmos- trajectory toward long-term tem- which is the largest contributor increase in almost a decade. than any other source of gas, at an 241.1 MT in 2014, a 4.3 MT pheric emissions. On the strength perature increases, far above the to transportation emissions, has Bets on a Fed move in Decem- average 7 percent per year since increase over 2013 levels. This of these advantages, the share of internationally agreed target. As the potential to have the great- ber are back on after the US 2000, and is poised to expand its marked the second highest year natural gas in power generation a result the global climate debate est impact on reducing emissions central bank’s last meeting. share of the gas market to 2020,” for LNG trade on record, just is projected to rise from 20 per- is driving change for cleaner by using LNG as a fuel supply in The dollar’s strength, combined said World LNG Report released short of the 241.5 MT traded in cent in 2004 to nearly 25 percent burning gas and alternate fuels. the heavy vehicle fleet, character- with the highest 2-year US gov- by IGU. “The outlook for LNG as 2011,” said the report. in 2030. “From an environmental emis- ised by high utilisation on defined ernment bond yields since 2011, fuel is very positive and continues LNG boasts a number of There is growing global inter- sions perspective, LNG as fuel is corridors and regular schedules,” showed hopes were high for the to gain momentum,” it added. advantages, which are driving its est to reduce emissions. Accord- a viable mitigant, significantly added the report. jobs numbers. Currently natural gas accounts growth. It is a clean-burning fuel ing to the US Energy Information reducing emissions of carbon The health of US employment for around 25 percent of global whose combustion generates no Agency’s (EIA) 2014 International dioxide by up to 20 percent, THE PENINSULA is a key to the Fed’s thinking. Economists polled by Reuters expect the data at 1330 GMT to show 180,000 jobs were added ExxonMobil faces probe last month and the overall unemployment rate remained 5.1 percent. Robust US jobs report bolsters Investors in both Europe and Asia used the wait for the data to skim off some of the week’s profits in global stock markets. case for December rate hike MSCI’s 45-country All World index is at its highest since WASHINGTON: US job growth month high against a basket of There were improvements in August and Wall Street is near surged in October after two currencies. Futures were implying other labour market measures a record high. straight months of tepid gains, a 72 percent chance of a Fed rate that Fed officials are eyeing as The S&P 500 and Dow with the unemployment rate hike next month, up from 58 they contemplate raising rates Industrial were expected to hitting a 7-1/2-year low of five percent before the jobs report. for the first time since 2006. open lower, although the pay- percent in a show of domestic With speeches from several A broad measure of joblessness rolls outcome may change that. strength that makes it more Fed officials, including Chair that includes people who want to Europe’s main markets in Lon- likely the Federal Reserve will Janet Yellen, suggesting a low work but have given up searching don, Frankfurt and Paris dipped hike interest rates in December. bar for a December rate increase, and those working part-time 0.1 to 0.6 percent after similar Nonfarm payrolls increased economists say monthly job gains because they cannot find full-time moves in Asia overnight. 271,000 last month, the largest above 150,000 in October and employment fell two-tenths of a “The key from the payrolls rise since December 2014, the November would be sufficient point to 9.8 percent, the lowest today is not only the print but Labor Department said yesterday. for the central bank to lift level since May 2008. The ExxonMobil refinery in Baytown, Texas. The New York attorney also whether there is also a In addition, average hourly benchmark overnight borrowing The employment-population general has launched an investigation into whether Exxon Mobil Corp revision to last month’s weak earnings rose 9 cents. costs from near zero. ratio rose to 59.3 percent from misled the public about the risks of climate change or its investors number,” said Chris Wightman, The solid employment and wage Minutes from the Fed’s 59.2 percent in September. But about how those risks may hurt the company’s oil business. a senior portfolio manager at gains added to robust automobile October 27-28 policy meeting the labour force participation Wells Fargo Asset management. sales in painting an upbeat picture and subsequent comments from rate, or the share of working-age “And everyone is going to look of the economy at the start of the Yellen have firmly put a rate hike Americans who are employed or whether we see below five per- fourth quarter. on the table at the central bank’s at least looking for a job, held at a cent (for overall unemployment The unemployment rate fell December 15-16 meeting. near 38-year low of 62.4 percent. Crude set for weekly loss on rate).” The main market action one-tenth of a percentage point Economists had forecast Employment gains in October remained in currencies. The dol- to the lowest level since April nonfarm payrolls increasing were broad-based, though lar was near $1.08 to the euro 2008. The jobless rate is now at 180,000 last month and the manufacturing added no jobs and supply glut, strong dollar for the first time since April. It a level many Fed officials see as unemployment rate remaining mining shed 4,000 positions. held steady at 121.90 yen after consistent with full employment. at 5.1 percent. Manufacturing has been hit LONDON: Crude oil prices 1256 GMT, still on track to fall touching a two-month high of Payrolls data for August and The employment report joined by a strong dollar, efforts by were on track to post weekly more than two percent from the 122.01 on Thursday. September were revised to show October’s strong services sector businesses to reduce bloated losses yesterday as an oversup- previous week. Traders and positioning data 12,000 more jobs created than and auto sales data in supporting inventory and spending cuts by ply of physical oil and a strong US crude futures were trading say money has piled in behind previously reported. views that economic growth will energy companies cutting back dollar bedevilled the market. at $45.45 a barrel, up 25 cents another rally for the dollar over “That was an astounding regain momentum in the fourth on well drilling and exploration Benchmark prices regained from the previous close. the past two weeks. Whether it number. It’s pretty clear that the quarter after braking sharply to in response to lower oil prices. some ground in early trading, The gains followed steep falls can build on a rise of more than Fed would be justified in hiking in a 1.5 percent annual pace in the Mining employment has but any sustained recovery the previous day on climbing US 4 percent in the past month December if the economy doesn’t July-September period. declined by 109,000 since peaking faced strong headwinds. crude inventories, and analysts depends the expectations of a hit another air pocket,” said Last month’s rise in wages, in December 2014. Oilfield serv- “We expect crude oil prices said oversupply would continue December rate move. Brian Jacobsen, chief portfolio which have been almost stagnant ices provider Schlumberger last to remain under pressure in to pressure oil markets. Elsewhere, Britain’s sterling strategist at Wells Fargo Funds despite a tightening labor market, month announced further layoffs the short term as the stubborn Any decline in weekly rig-count was close to a six-month low Management in Menomonee lifted the year-on-year reading to in addition to the 20,000 jobs it global supply glut continues to data from the United States due against the dollar and slipped Falls, Wisconsin. 2.5 percent. That was the biggest has already eliminated. Construc- dominate the market,” Sucden later yesterday could boost prices against the euro, a day after Prices for US Treasuries fell increase since July 2009 and could tion payrolls, however, increased senior analyst Myrto Sokou further as the market looked for it was sent tumbling when the sharply and US stock index give Fed officials confidence that 31,000 last month, the biggest said. indications that US oil production Bank of England put off a UK futures edged lower after the inflation will gradually move gain since February. Brent crude futures had risen would slow. rate increase. data. The dollar rose to a 6-1/2- towards their two percent target. AFP 45 cents to $48.43 a barrel by REUTERS REUTERS

Thousands grounded as Luftansa crew strike Obama rejects pipeline

FRANKFURT: German air- it said. UFO plans to stagger the line Lufthansa said it will cancel walkouts and target different air- from Canada to US 290 flights yesterday, grounding ports over the course of the next 37,500 passengers, as cabin staff seven days, with a repeat of the WASHINGTON: US President ada and the US to bring crude begin a week of walkouts in a stoppages planned in Frankfurt Barack Obama yesterday rejected from Alberta and also some from long-running battle over savings and Duesseldorf today. the proposed Keystone XL oil North Dakota to refineries in Illi- aimed at fending off competition However, Lufthansa’s Munich pipeline from Canada in a victory nois and, eventually, the Gulf of from low-cost rivals. hub would not be affected at all for environmentalists who have Mexico coast. The flight attendants’ union this weekend, given that there campaigned against the project TransCanada first sought the UFO has called a nine-hour strike were still school holidays in for more than seven years. required presidential permit for starting at 1300 GMT, affecting the southern regional states of “The pipeline would not make the cross-border section in 2008 flights to and from the airports of Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttem- a meaningful long-term contribu- but the proposal inspired a wave Frankfurt and Duesseldorf. berg, it explained. tion to our economy,” Obama told of environmental activism that Of the 290 cancelled flights, 23 In addition, “no industrial a press conference. He said the turned Keystone XL into a ral- were inter-continental services, action is planned at all on Sunday pipeline would not reduce gasoline lying cry to fight climate change. Lufthansa said in a statement. since most people travelling that prices for drivers, and shipping Blocking Keystone became a lit- The group’s subsidiaries Ger- day will be doing so in a private “dirtier” crude from Canada would mus test of the green movement’s manwings, Eurowings, Lufthansa capacity,” UFO said. not increase US energy security. ability to hinder fossil fuel extrac- CityLine, SWISS, Austrian Air- UFO had announced on Thurs- The denial of TransCanada tion in Canada’s oil sands. lines, Air Dolomiti and Brussels day that industrial action was Corp’s more than 800,000 barrels “This is a big win,” said Bill Airlines were not targeted by the “unavoidable” after management per day project will make it more McKibben, the co-founder of industrial action. had failed to come up with an difficult for producers to develop 350.org, an environmental group. Lufthansa said it “regretted” improved offer in a long-running the province of Alberta’s oil sands. “President Obama’s decision to the union’s action and apologised dispute over pay and early retire- It could also put the United States reject Keystone XL because of its to passengers, saying the short ment provisions. in a stronger position for global impact on the climate is noth- notice of the strikes made it dif- Lufthansa said it has provision- climate talks in Paris that start ing short of historic, and sets an ficult to inform them in time and ally booked 2,500 hotel rooms in late this month in which coun- important precedent that should enable them to make alternative and around Frankfurt for pas- tries will aim to reach a deal to send shockwaves through the fos- travel arrangements. sengers grounded by the strikes. slow global warming. sil fuel industry.” An information board shows cancelled flights at the airport in Frankfurt “We will do everything possible Keystone XL would have linked am Main, western Germany. to keep disruption to a minimum,” AFP existing pipeline networks in Can- REUTERS SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS KBBO Group VW design chief quits picks London for listing as scandal drags on merged units

EU urges members to widen emission investigations ABU DHABI: United Arab Emirates’ privately-owned KBBO HAMBURG/BRUSSELS: it had rigged US tests for nitrogen biggest direct breach of laws that Group has picked London for list- Volkswagen design chief Wal- oxide emissions. The scandal has I have ever uncovered ... This is a ing its merged subsidiary, two ter Maria de Silva has quit, two since deepened, with the firm say- serious issue, which will certainly sources said yesterday as the firm sources familiar with the mat- ing on Tuesday it had also under- lead to very high penalties”, she pushes ahead with plans to raise ter said yesterday, adding to the stated the fuel consumption and added. over $1bn from a share sale. list of top executives to leave carbon dioxide emissions of about Auto Motor und Sport maga- The family investment firm, the carmaker since it admitted 800,000 vehicles. zine said de Silva, who won Ger- named after Chairman Khalifa in September to cheating diesel That has heaped criticism on many’s highest official design Butti Bin Omeir, is merging sub- emissions tests. the company from lawmakers, prize in 2010 for the Audi A5, sidiaries Centurion Investment The sources gave no reason regulators, investors and cus- would leave at the end of Novem- Audi vehicles are offered for sale at a dealership in Westmont, Illinois. and Infinite Investment LLC this for the resignation, which was tomers, who are frustrated at ber and it was unclear who would Volkswagen, which owns Audi and Porsche, has directed dealers not to year and completing a 40 percent first reported by Auto Motor the time it is taking to get to the replace him. sell certain pre-owned VW, Audi and Porsche models with diesel engines share sale next year, sources told und Sport magazine. Volkswagen bottom of a crisis that has wiped German business daily Han- which do not meet EPA emission standards. Reuters in August. (VW) declined to comment and almost a third off VW’s market delsblatt earlier yesterday cited At the time the sources said de Silva could not immediately be value. “Volkswagen is so far not company sources as saying that Abu Dhabi-based KBBO Group reached for comment. handling the scandal correctly,” VW planned to cut costs in de ronmentalists because on-road to all 28 EU member countries on would list the subsidiary either Italian-born de Silva, 64, has Mary Nichols, the head of the Silva’s department, which spends tests have consistently shown Thursday urging them to widen in London or New York. been chief designer at the Ger- California Air Resources Board around ¤100m ($108m) a year. vehicles emitting more pollutants their investigations into potential “The listing venue will be Lon- man company since 2007, with which is investigating VW in the New CEO Matthias Mueller than official laboratory tests. In breaches of vehicle emissions. don,” the sources with knowledge responsibility for all the group’s United States, said in an inter- has said VW will have to make an open letter yesterday, a group Vehicle testing in the EU is of the matter told Reuters, declin- brands which include VW, Audi, view with German weekly maga- “massive cutbacks” to recover of leading investors urged the EU overseen by national authorities, ing to be identified as the matter Seat and Porsche. zine Wirtschafts Woche. from its problems. to toughen up vehicle testing. and so the Commission is reliant is not yet public. Europe’s biggest carmaker “Every additional gramme of Some analysts have said it But Brussels faces a battle, on each country to enforce rules. “The merger of the subsidiar- has already seen the resignation nitrogen oxide increase the health could face a bill as high as ¤35bn as carmakers have traditionally “Public trust is at stake. We ies is nearing completion and the of long-time CEO Martin Win- risks for our citizens. Volkswa- for regulatory fines, lawsuits and had a strong influence on policy need all the facts on the table and process is moving ahead,” they terkorn and Winfried Vahland, gen has not acknowledged that vehicle refits. in countries such as Germany, rigorous enforcement of existing said. whom it had lined up to lead its in any way or made any effort to The scandal has also piled pres- where they are a major source of legislation,” a Commission spokes- KBBO declined to confirm but North American operations, since really solve the problem,” she was sure on European regulators, who jobs and export income. woman said. a company statement yesterday it admitted on September 18 that quoted as saying. The case is “the have long been criticised by envi- The Commission sent a letter REUTERS said KBBO was assessing a range of strategic alternatives to sup- port further growth and devel- opment of certain businesses, including an initial public offer- ing, without giving details. Iran’s oil return to boost SUMED volumes: Egypt minister Companies from the UAE, including Abu Dhabi’s NMC Health and Al Noor, have listed LONDON: Egypt anticipates a edly announced plans to boost port west of Alexandria. West- production at recent discoveries because you are netting off the shares in London. There has ramp-up in oil volumes through oil production and exports once ern sanctions imposed on Iran’s to fill its energy gap as soon as natural decline in the reservoirs been no IPO in Abu Dhabi since the SUMED pipeline once Iran sanctions are lifted to reclaim its oil sector have brought ship- possible. El Molla said explora- by adding new production of oil,” 2011 due to weak investor con- re-enters the world market — a position as the Organisation of the ments through Ain Sukhna and tion in the Western Desert had he said. “(Increased production) fidence. move that is welcomed by Cairo, Petroleum Exporting Countries’ Sidi Kerir to a virtual halt since enabled Egypt to maintain steady might be in the year 2017, 2018 Guggenheim KBBO Partners, the country’s petroleum minister second-largest producer. “They 2012, compounded by a freeze on oil production as new finds have when gas comes from Zohr and a joint venture between New Tarek El Molla said yesterday. used to work with us through insurance provision. offset declines from mature fields. from the West Nile Delta (fields), York-based investment firm Gug- SUMED, which owns and oper- SUMED. They used to store their The United States last month “Fifty-four to 55 percent of our condensate will come, so by that genheim Partners and KBBO, is ates Egypt’s Mediterranean port crude there at Ain Sukhna (ter- approved conditional sanctions crude is coming from the Western time, it (oil output) may be some- acting as advisor. of Sidi Kerir, is half owned by minal) and Sidi Kerir,” El Molla waivers for Iran, although it Desert, so it is the future and the thing more.” KBBO’s investments range state-run oil company Egyptian said on the sidelines of an Egypt cautioned these would not take potential of oil in Egypt.” El Molla was appointed oil from financial services to defence. General Petroleum Corp. A group investor forum in London. effect until Tehran had curbed its He said oil production would minister in September, succeed- It has stakes in healthcare pro- of four other Gulf Arab countries “It will boost back again the nuclear programme. stay steady at around 700,000 ing Sherif Ismail, who launched a vider NMC Group, foreign — Saudi Arabia, as well as Kuwait, activity of SUMED ... Of course Once an energy exporter, Egypt barrels per day for the next two drive to lure back foreign energy exchange business UAE Exchange the United Arab Emirates and I have no problem. But currently has turned into a net importer years, but may increase after that investors driven away by low and UAE Defence Technology Co, Qatar — owns the other half. we are not talking with them.” because of declining oil and gas because of new wells. prices and debt arrears. among other firms. Since a July nuclear deal with The 320km SUMED pipeline production and increasing con- “Keeping production at the world powers, Iran has repeat- runs from the Red Sea to the sumption. It is trying to speed up level it is now is in itself a success REUTERS REUTERS

Fnac ups bid for Darty Alibaba to take over China’s Takata slashes outlook as YouTube automakers drop its inflators BEIJING: Billionaire Jack Ma’s Chinese e-commerce giant TOKYO: Japanese auto parts air bags. Takata said it expects cash flow perspective.” Alibaba yesterday announced supplier Takata Corp slashed its a net profit of 5bn yen ($41.04m) Takata shares have lost nearly a multi-billion-dollar deal to annual earnings forecast yester- in the year to end-March, just a 40 percent of their value in three take over video streaming serv- day, and said it had yet to deter- quarter of what it estimated three days as automakers have weighed ice Youku Tudou as it seeks to mine the full impact of a global months ago. The Tokyo-based dropping the supplier’s inflators spread its online empire. safety recall as customers began firm booked a combined special after the main US auto safety Alibaba is snapping up Youku ditching its air bag inflators. loss of 17.2bn yen for the April- regulator slapped Takata with a Tudou, China’s equivalent to US auto safety regulators ear- September period to pay a $70m fine and ordered it to stop using YouTube, in the latest of a string lier this week linked Takata’s fine and legal fees. ammonium nitrate in its inflators. of acquisitions as it sets its sights failing inflators to the use of The company said it did not Takata has said it would phase far beyond its core eBay-style ammonium nitrate as a propel- expect any major impact this year out the chemical, used in the transactions business. lant, prompting automakers from from its customers dropping its majority of its inflators, by the end In a “definitive merger agree- top customer Honda Motor Co to products, and had yet to deter- of 2018. Some customers signalled ment”, Alibaba will pay $27.60 in Mazda Motor Corp to say they mine the future effects. Takata a willingness to continue using cash per US-traded American will no longer fit the product in does not disclose how much Takata’s products as long as they depositary share in Youku Tudou, new cars, fanning concerns over inflators contribute to its over- do not contain ammonium nitrate. the companies said in a state- Takata’s future. all business, but air bag products Toyota President Akio Toy- ment, without giving the overall Yesterday, Toyota Motor Corp accounted for 38 percent of rev- oda said the world’s top-selling value. said it, too, would stop using enue last year. Bloomberg News automaker would no longer use The price is 35 percent higher Takata inflators containing reported that Takata had hired Takata’s inflators containing than the share price on October ammonium nitrate, which US SMBC Nikko to draw up a fund- ammonium nitrate, but said it 15 just before the takeover bid was regulators believe can cause air raising plan, but a senior Takata would consider other Takata first announced. bags to explode with excessive executive said the company has inflators as long as they were safe. The agreed price is slightly up force, spraying shrapnel inside the no cash flow or financing issues. “Even if they’re made by from the first bid of $26.60, an vehicle. Regulators have linked “Takata is currently facing no Takata, we intend to take an unbi- offer that had a total deal value them to eight deaths, all in Honda problem in financing,” Yoichiro ased approach (on other inflators) of about $4.6bn according to cars, triggering the recall of tens Nomura, Takata’s executive vice as long as we can confirm their Bloomberg News. The logo of electrical goods company Darty outside one of their store in of millions of vehicles worldwide. president and chief financial safety,” he told reporters. Alibaba already owns more Nice France, yesterday. Books and music retailer Fnac said yesterday Takata is the only supplier to officer, told reporters. “I’m say- than 18 percent of Youku Tudou, that it had raised its offer for Darty in an agreed deal that would create use the volatile chemical in its ing we have no problem from a REUTERS which offers mostly professionally a French market leader in white goods. produced video content licensed from copyright holders. Launch- ing the takeover bid last month, Alibaba’s Ma said he aimed to develop the hugely popular Youku Bank of England’s rates messages not a failure: Shafik Tudou as China’s leading digital entertainment platform. “We are confident that we will LONDON: The Bank of England time was right, in contrast with give the public and the markets a more quickly than it had forecast. limited and gradual, and I think strengthen our market position is not wrong-footing investors the US Federal Reserve which sense of what our best collective Last year, Carney surprised everybody on the Monetary Policy and further accelerate our growth and households with its various has shown it might raise US rates judgment is of what’s going to hap- investors by saying rates might Committee signs up to that guid- through the integration of our signals on when interest rates next month. Carney had previ- pen in the economy than to catch rise more quickly than markets ance and so far that has proven advertising and consumer busi- might start to rise, a deputy ously said a decision on whether people by surprise?,” she said. expected. Then a slump in global to be right,” she said. nesses with Alibaba’s platform governor at the central bank said to raise rates would come into Since he arrived at the BoE in oil prices pushed British inflation Shafik also said the labour mar- and Alipay services,” said Youku yesterday. sharper focus around the turn of 2013 after running the Bank of below zero and took a rate hike ket will start to tighten in the Tudou chief executive Victor Koo Sterling and British govern- the year. Canada, Carney has given various back off the table. Shafik said the coming months as the economy in a joint statement with Alibaba. ment bond yields fell sharply on In an interview on BBC radio messages about what is likely to BoE’s most important message for approaches full employment. “We The deal, unanmously approved Thursday after the BoE surprised yesterday, Deputy Governor happen with interest rates. investors over the last couple of are over time seeing a situation by Youku Tudou’s board, is investors by giving no clear sign Minouche Shafik denied that the In a first version of its so-called years was that interest rates were where there are recruitment diffi- expected to close in the first quar- about when interest rates might Bank’s attempts to give guidance forward guidance, the BoE said likely to go up only slowly and to a culties in many parts of the coun- ter of 2016 subject to approval by go up for the first time before the on its plans for interest rates had it would not think about raising level lower than before the crisis. try, employers are having to bid up shareholders, the two firms said. financial crisis. been a failure. rates until unemployment fell to 7 “I think the consistent mes- wages,” she said. Governor Mark Carney said “I don’t think that’s the case. Isn’t percent. But the jobless rate then sage that we have given is that AFP the BoE would move when the it better that the Bank of England plunged below that level much future interest rate rises will be REUTERS SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15

InterCon Hotels Asian markets eye US jobs report exploring Nikkei riding high on Japan Post’s market debut; Shanghai Composite index gains 6.13pc options

HONG KONG: Tokyo’s bench- start the world’s number-three of the US payrolls data,” Wil- slumped 3.70 percent in Hong the announcement. Sydney and including sale mark Nikkei index closed at its economy. liam Wong, head of sales trading Kong after a Fitch downgrade, Seoul both closed marginally highest level in more than two Hong Kong stocks closed up at Shenwan Hongyuan Group in with the ratings agency citing down for the week overall, though LONDON: InterContinental months yesterday, while traders one percent on the week, though Hong Kong, told Bloomberg News. “unfavourable profitability and the S&P/ASX 200 Index saw a Hotels Group Plc, one of the in Asia were closely watching a slightly down for the day, track- “Trading is very thin in Hong asset quality trends as well as small uptick on Friday. world’s largest hoteliers, is explor- US jobs report that could indicate ing a lower finish on Wall Street Kong. China is more policy-driven its underperformance relative to In currency markets, the dollar ing strategic options including a a Fed move on interest rates. Thursday on the eve of the US so the market is expecting more peers” as the reason for the move. ticked up to 121.86 yen from 121.74 potential sale or merger, Bloomb- The Nikkei 225 shrugged off payrolls report. measures there.” Elsewhere, Singapore Airlines yen Thursday in New York, still erg reported yesterday. a weak lead from US markets to The Dow Jones Industrial The benchmark Shanghai (SIA) announced a full takeover up from rates below 120 yen in IHG is discussing with finan- end 0.78 percent higher follow- Average was flat at the close on Composite Index gained 6.13 per- bid for its struggling budget car- recent weeks. A weaker yen is a cial advisers whether to sell itself ing a week of gains, led by Japan Thursday, while the broad-based cent over the week. rier subsidiary Tigerair on Friday, plus for Japanese exporters. or combine with a competitor as Post’s market debut. S&P 500 lost 0.11 percent and the Chinese firms have rallied vowing to redevelop it as an inte- The euro traded slightly up at the sector consolidates, Bloomb- Japan Post is now worth $36bn tech-rich Nasdaq was the laggard, in Shanghai and Hong Kong in gral part of the group’s portfolio. $1.0885 from $1.0881 and changed erg reported, citing people with more than its government price dropping 0.29 percent. recent days on hopes for economic The airline is offering Tiger hands for 132.62 yen compared knowledge of the matter. tag following the biggest initial Investors are closely watching reforms after the ruling Commu- shareholders a price of S$0.41 with 132.46 yen in US trade. Shares in IHG climbed five per- public offering globally this year, the report after Federal Reserve nist Party issued guidelines for its per share in cash and an option In oil markets, US benchmark cent to a 4-month high of 2,741 with its insurance unit especially Chair Janet Yellen said on 2016-2020 development plan on to subscribe for SIA shares at West Texas Intermediate for pence, valuing the company at in demand among investors. Wednesday that if US economic Tuesday. S$11.1043. delivery in December was trad- about £6.2bn. The stock was the The government hopes the activity remains solid the Fed The proposals included calling Tiger shares closed at Sg$0.31 ing 27 cents higher at $45.47 and top riser on Britain’s FTSE 100 Japan Post sell-off will draw more could decide to increase interest for liberalisation in China’s capi- on Thursday, meaning SIA’s offer Brent crude for December was up index. The company, which runs investment to Japanese firms and rates at its December meeting. tal markets and foreign exchange price carries a 32 percent pre- 18 cents at $48.16 a barrel. over 4,900 hotels under brands provide a lift for Prime Minister “There’s clearly profit-taking regime. mium over that. Both airlines such as Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn Shinzo Abe’s faltering bid to kick- and the market is cautious ahead Standard Chartered shares halted trading on Friday due to AFP and InterContinental, declined to comment on the report. IHG said last month it was con- fident in its outlook after report- ing higher-than-expected growth in its third quarter. The hotelier in July declined it was in deal Human rights take a back seat talks with rival Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. as Britain boosts trade Tata Motors LONDON: Promoting human Experts say much of the shift tional treaties and making Britain rights abroad has become a lower has happened since the ruling complicit in abuses. posts loss after priority for Britain as it seeks to right-leaning Conservative Party The charity Reprieve has boost trade, campaigners have won an outright majority in a May decried the sale of British secu- Tianjin disaster complained, following visits by general election. The party had rity equipment to Egypt, where the leaders of China, Egypt and previously ruled in coalition with in recent years hundreds have MUMBAI: India’s largest car Kazakhstan in recent days. the left-leaning Liberal Demo- been sentenced to death, often maker Tata Motors reported a “The UK prides itself, or has crats, who were seen as acting as after cursory mass trials and for quarterly loss of $65.4m yester- prided itself, on its championing a brake on some of the Conserva- involvement in political protests. day due to a massive one-off hit of human rights globally and holds tives’ more rightist policies. “We are potentially complicit from the Tianjin gas explosion itself up as a protector of the rule Since the election the FCO in the abuses carried out by and weak Jaguar sales in China. of law,” said Karla McLaren from has dropped the previous explicit those countries,” said a Reprieve A container ship of German company Hapag-Lloyd being loaded at the The firm, part of Tata’s sprawl- rights watchdog Amnesty Inter- references to the abolition of the spokesperson. harbour of Hamburg, Germany. ing tea-to-steel conglomerate, national. death penalty and torture preven- “Forging much closer ties when said it had suffered a Rs24.93bn Failing to raise human rights tion in its human rights priorities. these terrible abuses are taking ($378.89m) charge following the concerns “undermines that repu- “Our new human rights themes place, in some cases trying to sell chemical blast in August that tation”, she added. are democratic values and the rule security products to the Egyptian Hapag-Lloyd shares start killed 161 people. “The process for In an unusually frank exchange of law; the rules-based interna- government, is surely storing up finalising an insurance claim may in September, a senior Foreign tional system, and human rights problems for the future and going take some months to conclude,” and Commonwealth Office (FCO) for a stable world,” the FCO said. against the government’s aim to trading after successful IPO the Mumbai-based firm added in official told parliament’s foreign FCO officials and others say promote stability.” a statement. Tata said 5,800 cars affairs committee that human building economic and other ties Amnesty’s McLaren pointed to FRANCFORT: German in late morning. The IPO had had been lost in the explosion as rights had taken a back seat to can help further human rights British arms and equipment sales container shipping company orginally been scheduled a week it reported a Rs4.3 bn loss for the economic concerns. issues, and that in some cases a to Israel and Egypt. Hapag-Lloyd said its planned ago, but was postponed. three months to September, com- This was partly due to a more balance must be struck with eco- “Under the arms trade treaty stock market listing has been a In all, just over 13 million shares pared to a profit of Rs32.9bn in “constrained environment”, the nomic and strategic concerns. and other international treaties success, raising around $300m were bought by investors at the the same period last year. official said, referring to deep cuts “I think we’re more likely to be there is a clear obligation for or ¤265m in fresh funding, as issue price of ¤20, which was at The earnings report also to the FCO budget as part of the effective privately if our relation- the UK to make sure that in any its shares started trading on the the lower end of the subscription showed that a 32 percent slump government’s austerity drive. ship with China is seen as impor- arms transfers there is no risk stock exchange yesterday. price range of ¤20-22. in sales of Tata’s luxury British “Although it is one of the things tant to China. And with a lot of they could be used to commit “The shares of Hapag-Lloyd The proceeds would be used unit Jaguar Land Rover in China. we follow, it is not one of our top these countries, publicly upbraid- human rights abuses,” she said. start trading on the Frankfurt “for investments in vessels and “Weaker China sales and mix, priorities,” FCO permanent under ing them has the opposite of the “And with all of those countries and Hamburg Stock Exchanges containers,” Hapag-Lloyd said. foreign exchange revaluation and secretary Simon McDonald told desired effect,” the head of parlia- we believe there is a clear risk today. The successful initial public The IPO values the company higher depreciation and amor- the committee. ment’s foreign affairs committee that arms sales could fuel abuses, offering marks a milestone in the at some ¤2.3bn. A number of tisation expenses in the Jaguar “I would dispute that it is low Crispin Blunt said. so the UK risks breaking the very history” of the company, it said. stock market hopefuls have had Land Rover business,” had been down, but I would not dispute that However, rights campaigners international treaty it helped to The shares, which had been to postpone or scale back their a factor, the statement said. right now the prosperity agenda say doing business with some gov- champion.” issued at a price of ¤20 apiece, planned IPOs recently. is further up the list.” ernments risks breaking interna- AFP opened at ¤20.05 and hit 20.13 AFP REUTERS/AFP

Sanofi warns of ailing profits Cash-strapped frontier economies rush to bond market LONDON: Dollar bond sales by halt in the third quarter. For the the case in Sub-Saharan Africa.” And Ghana at the start of credit improvements. during smaller, junk-rated emerging first time since the 2008 financial Some of these issuers, like October paid investors a 10.75 “None of the 29 rated fron- countries have sprung back to crisis there was no fresh debt sale copper producer Zambia or oil percent coupon, even though tier-market sovereigns in the life in October following a three- from frontier markets for more exporter Angola, had to pay hefty its $1 billion bond was partially study has seen dramatic credit 2-year revamp month hiatus as governments than two months, according to yields to plug the holes emerging guaranteed by the World Bank. improvements over the past 10 rush to raise much-needed cash Thomson Reuters data. from revenues getting hammered With few financing options, Accra years,” Moody’s analysts said in PARIS: French pharmaceuti- before US interest rates start Yet in October, issuers rushed and fiscal positions deteriorate in wants to return to global bond their recent report. cals giant Sanofi said yesterday rising. back to the markets, selling the wake of tumbling commodity markets before year-end. While some investors harbour that profits would stagnate for Sliding commodity prices and $2.5bn — the heaviest month of prices. Looking at their credit wor- doubts over the economic health the next two years, prompting a political turmoil have pummelled issuance since January. Novem- Zambia, which sells almost 50 thiness, most frontier issuers - of frontier commodity exporters, heavy sell-off of its shares on the many countries labelled as “fron- ber looks set to follow in that vein, percent of its exports to China, like Angola or Jordan - have a the issues got a warm welcome Paris stock exchange. tier” — a fast growing but less having already seen $2bn of issu- issued $1.25 billion in July at 9.375 “junk” rating, meaning govern- from investors, with order books The profit warning came along- developed and higher risk sub- ance via bonds from Jordan and percent. The country has seen its ments have to pay a premium for Angola’s issue bulging to more side an announcement of a major set of emerging economies that Angola. Kwacha currency lose more than over more secure “investment than $7 billion. restructuring drive for the drugs ranges from Angola and Belarus “There are weaker credits that half of its value against the dollar grade” issuers. And little change “Angola was a reflection of company, which includes stream- to Egypt and Pakistan. do need the money for budget since the start of the year. seems to be on the horizon. Rat- a recent recovery in appetite lining its product portfolio and a A mauling for emerging market financing where commodity Angola, which exports more ings agency Moody’s found that towards commodity-sensitive possible spin-off of its animal- assets sparked off by doubts over weakness has opened up financing than 60 percent of its crude to growth potential among frontier emerging markets, they managed health division. China’s economic health and a gaps,” said Mark Baker, invest- Beijing, had to promise 9.5 per- markets was strong compared to take advantage of that,” said Sanofi said it expects “no sig- devaluation in the yuan in August ment director at Standard Life cent when raising $1.5bn on to emerging markets overall, yet Baker. nificant growth” in net earnings saw Eurobond issuance grind to a Investments. “That’s especially Thursday. very few were well placed for AFP per share in 2016 and 2017. In late morning Paris bourse trading, Sanofi shares were down 5.5 percent at ¤88.18. China iron ore trading doubles “The fact that there is no pros- pect of profit growth before 2018 Square seeks up to $403m in IPO is going down very badly with investors,” said Xavier de Ville- pion, a stock trader at the HPC SAN FRANCISCO: Mobile pay- value for Square of just over reading magnetic strips on pay- brokerage. ments startup Square said yes- $4bn — well below the $6bn value ment cards, is among prominent Sanofi said its portfolio revamp terday it will raise up to $403 assigned by private investors in its unicorns in startup rich Silicon was to yield ¤1.5bn ($1.63bn) in million in its stock offering — latest funding found. Some ana- Valley. A total of 23 unicorns were savings by 2018, most of which but it may be valued less on Wall lysts have warned of a tech bub- created in the past quarter bring would be reinvested in the launch Street than by private investors. ble in the private markets, with the total to 58 so far this year. of new drugs. “The group’s busi- The company founded by Twit- dozens of firms getting a value of According to CB Insights, there nesses will remain diversified but ter’s Jack Dorsey — who is chief over $1bn — “unicorns” in Silicon are 143 unicorns worldwide with with a portfolio that is focused on executive of both firms — said in Valley parlance — without enough a combined valuation of $508bn. areas where we can be leaders,” an updated regulatory filing it scrutiny over their financial pros- Square nonetheless “has been Sanofi Director-General Olivier would sell 27 million shares in a pects. a highly anticipated tech IPO Brandicourt said in a statement. range of $11 to $13, with an option Square, which started in 2009 that has the potential to be one Sanofi plans to launch 18 new A worker walks past a pile of iron ore from Australia at a port in Tianjin to sell an additional four million by providing financial transac- of the largest of the year,” said products over five years. municipality, China. Trading volumes for iron ore derivatives have more shares depending on demand. tions software for smartphones a note this week from research than doubled in 2015 from 2014 and are set to climb further. The initial public offering (IPO) or tablets along with free “don- firm PrivCo. AFP price range suggests a market gles” that plug into devices for AFP SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2015 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS VIEWS Maybe financial markets Pfizer-Allergan deal to have been wrong all along By Noah Smith

S the value premium disappearing? The answer to that ques- set up US firm for a split tion could shake the foundations of the asset-management industry. By Bill Berkrot and Ransdell Pierson I First, for the uninitiated, a little background. In the late vative business, including aesthetics such as “All of Brent’s growth areas at Allergan 1970s and 1980s, a lot of investors and researchers confirmed anti-wrinkle treatment Botox and facial fill- would stay at the growth company,” said what market analysts had claimed for a long time — that certain Pfizer Inc merger with Ireland- ers, and opthalmology and neurology brands. Janus’s Summers, referring to Allergan stocks seemed cheap relative to their value on paper. These stocks based Allergan, in addition to At a business review on Wednesday, Aller- CEO Brent Saunders. tended to perform better, on average, than the stock market as a providing tax benefits, would gan highlighted some of its more promising Revenue from Pfizer’s established prod- whole. That was a bit of a puzzle, since basic finance theory says bolster the US drugmaker’s new medicines, including Viberzi for irri- ucts fell 9 percent in 2014, creating a drag that it shouldn’t be that easy to beat the market. If you can just growth prospects should it table bowel syndrome, which the company on overall growth. That has only worsened buy stocks that are cheap relative to their book value, and wait Adecide to sell or spin off its portfolio of prod- believes will be a $1bn drug. this year with the impact of the strong dol- for them to go up, the market isn’t very efficient, is it? ucts that have gone off patent. Allergan could also contribute somewhat lar on overseas sales. The unit’s sales were To beat the market that easily and that consistently, the strat- Many Wall Street analysts believe Pfizer to established products as well, notably the down 16 percent in the third quarter. egy should incur some kind of systematic risk — risk that you will decide to split late next year, after com- Alzheimer’s treatment Namenda, which In contrast, businesses Pfizer would keep can’t get rid of with diversification. In the early 1990s, future piling three years of financial data treating was not included in the $40.5bn agreement were up 13 percent for the quarter, with Nobel-winning finance researcher Eugene Fama and his longtime its “established products” division, which to sell Allergan’s huge portfolio of generic vaccines the biggest growth driver led by co-author Kenneth French came up with a partial answer to the sells generic medicines, and its “innovative” drugs to Teva Pharmaceutical Industries. its current top seller, Prevnar 13, used to puzzle. Some stocks, they said, were so-called value stocks that patent-protected medicines unit, as if they The deal is expected to close early next year. prevent pneumonia. tended to trade at prices below their book values. During certain were separate companies. Oliver Pursche, chief executive of Bruder- Pfizer’s new breast cancer drug Ibrance periods, these stocks all tend to rise in value, but other times Such a split would dramatically boost the man Asset Management, which holds Pfizer will also be a big driver of future growth, they tend to all fall together. Over a long period of time, the rises company’s profitability, because in-patents shares in client portfolios, said a combina- with some analysts forecasting eventual outweigh the falls, so that these value stocks earn a premium. drugs command much higher prices that tion with Allergan “certainly gives Pfizer annual sales in excess of $5bn. But if you invest in value stocks and you get caught in one of the rise every year, as opposed to off-patent more flexibility in terms of how it wants With its huge name recognition, Botox bad periods, you’re in trouble. Hence the value premium persists, medicines, that become commoditized and to execute that strategy” of splitting the would be a crown jewel addition to the inno- because trading against it — by simply loading up on all the value their prices decline. company. vative drug lineup, which includes Viagra stocks you can grab — incurs some risk. “This would be the creation of two com- and nerve pain treatment Lyrica. That answer wasn’t completely satisfying. Why do value stocks panies really, not one huge $350bn Pfizer,” VACCINES A GROWTH DRIVER Botox has about $2.4bn a year in sales, all tend to rise in certain periods and fall in others? One possibility, Andy Summers, co-portfolio manager at Pfizer has annual sales of about $48bn, much of it a cash business that does not described here by asset-management mogul Cliff Asness, is that Janus Capital Group, said of the likely Pfizer with about $27bn from patent-protected require reimbursements from payers. It also value stocks are “crappy companies.” Shaky companies might find split post merger. Janus is the 11th largest drugs, vaccines and consumer products. It has approvals for medical uses, such as for themselves suddenly squeezed for credit under certain conditions, Allergan shareholder with about 6.5 million gets about $21bn from the established prod- overactive bladder and chronic migraine. while other companies are still able to borrow. That might explain shares, according to Thomson Reuters data. ucts, which consist of older medicines that Allergan last Wednesday said the drug the value premium. But it turns out that the times when value Pfizer’s $15bn purchase earlier this year now face competition from cheap gener- has a lot of room to grow, as it undergoes underperforms and outperforms are not clearly tied to the busi- of hospital products maker Hospira, which ics, including the cholesterol fighter Lipitor, tests for a dozen new uses, including as a ness cycle. The mystery remains. sells generic injectable drugs and is devel- once the world’s top-selling prescription treatment for atrial fibrillation, a poten- Fama and French’s model of a risk-based value premium has oping biosimilar versions of top-selling bio- medicine. tially dangerous irregular heart rhythm. become standard throughout the asset-management industry. tech medicines, was widely seen as a move Allergan, which was created in its current Allergan currently has some 30,000 But there’s another, more disquieting possibility. It may be that to make the established products business form in March following its merger with employees, but it is too early to know how the value premium is caused not by risk, but by systematic inef- more attractive ahead of a sale. Actavis, expects revenue of more than $8bn many would lose their jobs if the deal goes ficiencies in the financial market. A combination with Allergan would add in the second half of 2015, not including the through. There are many reasons other than risk why investors might lucrative product lines to Pfizer’s core inno- generic drugs it is selling to Teva. REUTERS choose to avoid cheap-looking stocks. One reason is herd behavior — if investors think that other investors are avoiding a certain stock, they might assume that stock is bad, and similarly avoid it. Some stocks might simply be boring and un-glamorous. Some might be obscure companies in overlooked industries, or infor- mation about them might be more difficult and costly to obtain. These factors all might have been more prevalent in the 1960s and 1970s, when data was sparse and expensive, trading costs were much higher, and the number of professional investors was more limited. As financial markets improved, we may have seen the entrance of more investors who are willing to do the hard work of digging up obscure and boring companies, and who are willing to go against the herd. If the value premium really was a systematic underpricing rather than a true risk premium, then the gradual development of financial markets would be expected to shrink this premium over time. There are signs that this is happening. Although value stocks did well in the early 2000s, they have dramatically underperformed since the crisis, even though the market has boomed. Of course, that might simply be a particularly long period of underperform- ance — we might expect to see value bounce back soon enough. But in fact, the decline has been going on for quite a bit longer than that — the value premium has been falling since the mid-1990s. Coincidentally, that is exactly when the Internet and computerized trading systems made it possible to invest in stocks much more cheaply, and to gather information much more easily. That would mean that markets are getting more efficient -- at least, in this one particular way. But it would also mean that market efficiency takes a very long time to establish itself. If big, systematic mispricings such as the value premium can survive for decades before they are finally traded away, it means that other flaws in the market might be equally long- lived. For example, the momentum factor — another mainstay of standard finance theory — might also be a market flaw that will eventually be shown the exits. If the market is that inefficient, it also means that stock prices are, in some deep sense, “wrong” — that they are not the best available estimate of a company’s value. That would suggest we should be relying on markets less than we do for things like executive compensation. So watch to see if the value premium comes back. If it doesn’t, it means it might never have been about risk in the first place. BLOOMBERG Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

Excessive debt feeds into a financial crisis By Adair Turner banks. That’s certainly impor- assets, and above all real estate. This is dangerously fictitious age and by multiple deficiencies in we restrain the underlying driv- tant, but government bailout costs Debt drives booms and financial because banks don’t lend out the financial system itself. But the ers of credit intensity. One is the HE 2008 financial crash were small change compared with busts. And it is a debt overhang existing money. They create main reason recovery has been increasing importance of real was a self-inflicted, the total harm the financial cri- from the last boom that explains credit, money and purchasing slow and weak is not that the estate in modern economies. In all avoidable economic sis caused. The Federal Reserve why recovery from the 2007–2008 power that didn’t previously exist. financial system is still impaired, advanced economies, real estate Tcatastrophe. It wasn’t has sold all its capital injections crisis has been so anaemic. At the core of financial instabil- but because of the scale of the accounts for more than half of all the result of war or political into banks at a profit, and made a Debt creation is a form of eco- ity in modern economies lies this accumulated debt burden. wealth, most increases in wealth turmoil, or the consequence positive return on its provision of nomic pollution. Heating a house interaction between the infinite If central banks increased and the vast majority of lending. of competition from emerging liquidity to the financial system. or fueling a car is necessary, yet capacity of banks to create new interest rates to slow the credit Another driver is increasing economies. It didn’t derive from Across the advanced economies, the carbon emissions are harmful credit, money and purchasing growth, standard economic the- inequality. Richer people tend underlying tensions over income bailout and support costs will be, to the climate. Lending a family power, and the scarce supply of ory said lower real growth would to spend a smaller share of their distribution or from profligate at most, 3 percent of gross domes- money to buy a house is socially urban land. If debt can be a form result. The same pattern and the income than do middle-income government spending. tic product. useful, but too much mortgage of economic pollution, a more same policy assumptions can now and poorer people. Growing No, the origins of this crisis lay The full economic cost is far debt can make the economy complicated and sophisticated be seen in many emerging econo- inequality will therefore depress in the dealing rooms of London bigger. Advanced economies’ pub- unstable. Debt pollution, like debt creation engine can make mies, including China: Each year, demand and economic growth and New York banks and shadow lic debt on average increased by environmental pollution, must the pollution worse. credit grows faster than GDP unless the increased savings of banks — part of a global financial 34 percent of GDP between 2007 be constrained by public policies The depth of the recession that so that leverage rises and credit the rich are offset by increased system whose enormous personal and 2014. Such losses could hap- that go beyond current regula- followed, however, is explained growth drives economies forward. borrowing among middle- or low- rewards had been justified by the pen again, and neither bankers tory reforms. We must focus on less by the internal features of the But if that is really true, we income earners. These factors supposed economic benefits of threatened by prison nor a no- the most important causes of the financial system than by the sim- face a severe dilemma. We seem result in a growth of debt that, financial innovation and increased bailout regime will guarantee a 2008 crisis and recession. Those ple fact that, after years of rapid to need credit to grow faster than contrary to the textbook assump- financial activity. more stable financial system. A lay in the specific nature of debt credit growth, many companies GDP to keep economies growing tion, doesn’t support produc- Too Big to Fail Many people fixation on these issues threatens contracts, and in the ability of and households were overlever- at a reasonable rate, which leads tive capital investment and new are legitimately angry that few to divert us from the underlying banks and shadow banks to cre- aged. Once confidence in rising inevitably to crisis, recession and income streams with which debt bankers have been punished. causes of financial instability. ate credit and money. asset prices cracked, they cut debt overhang. We seem con- can be repaid. As a result, they Some were incompetent, others The fundamental problem is But debt contracts also have investment and consumption in demned to instability in an econ- drive increases in leverage that dishonest. Post-crisis regulatory that modern financial systems adverse consequences: They’re an attempt to reduce their debts. omy incapable of balanced growth are not required to spur economic reforms also miss the mark. Much inevitably create debt in excessive likely to be created in excessive That attempted deleveraging has with stable leverage. growth, yet will produce severe focus has been placed on making quantities. The debt they create quantities. And the more debt an stymied economic recovery. 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DBQJUBMDMFBOJOH!HNBJMDPN SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 Shorbagy downs Gaultier to retain Qatar title Magnificent Massaro overpowers Egypt’s El Sherbini in five-game thriller to reign supreme in women’s final

DOHA: Defending champion bagy doubled his advantage with Mohamed El Shorbagy claimed relative ease. his second successive Qatar Clas- At 32-years-old, Gaultier is sic, PSA World Series title with one of the most experienced play- an assured 3-1 triumph over ers on the PSA World Tour and Frenchman Gregory Gaultier slowed down the pace of the game while World No.3 Laura Massaro to blunt El Shorbagy and draw continued her stunning recent to the Egyptian into hitting the tin clinch the women’s crown. with his drops. The Frenchman’s Yesterday at the Khalifa Inter- game plan worked superbly as he national Tennis and Squash claimed the third game to unset- Complex, the 24-year-old Egyp- tle Elshorbagy heading in to game tian came into the final without four. dropping a single game and car- Gaultier built up another ried on that scintillating form strong lead after El Shorbagy against Australian qualifier Ryan struggled to deal with the change Cuskelly in the semi-final. of pace but the number one seed Gaultier on the other hand battled back to force the match flirted with elimination against into a tense tie-break. Karim Abdel Gawad in the quar- El Shorbagy ramped up his ter-final after recovering from a punishing backhand efforts to 2-0 deficit to win while he needed edge a hard-fought 11-5, 11-7, 5-11, to show a great deal of experi- 12-10 triumph to capture the title ence to overcome a banana skin in a win that will propel him up fixture against Mazen Hesham the PSA Road to Dubai Stand- in the last round.It looked like ings. Gaultier was feeling the effects “This is my fourth year in a row of playing an extra three games to make it to the final in Qatar in the early stages of the show- (2012 & 2014 World Champion- piece event as El Shorbagy raced ship, 2013 Qatar Classic),” said El into a one-game lead after start- Shorbagy. Dr Thani Abdulrahman Al Kuwari, General Secretary of the Qatar Olympic ing the match with a punishing “I’m just glad I was able to play Committee (QOC) handing over the trophy to Laura Massaro of England, pace. Things looked to be going the whole week here and I’m glad winner of the Qatar Classic women’s title at the Khalifa International from bad to worse for the ‘French I could win the title just one week Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha yesterday. Right: Mohamed El General’ in the second as Elshor- before the World Championship. Shorbagy of Egypt, winner in the men’s section. ANWAR SADATH

For sure, it’s a confidence boost champion he is. I’m really happy for me for that tournament,” he to be able to step on court with a added. champion such as him,” El Shor- El Shorbagy’s victory over bagy said. Gaultier saw him maintain his Meanwhile in the women’s sec- A resurgent El Sherbini came at arm’s length throughout and dominance over the pair’s recent tion, Massaro captured a second out fighting in the second and ironing out her errors to bring the encounters with six of the last successive PSA World Series title managed to level things up on the match level yet again and send seven going in the former’s favour. defeating Egypt’s Nour El Sher- tie-break. Errors began to creep the fixture into an exciting fifth However, El Shorbagy admitted bini in the final. into the young Egyptian’s game game. that Gaultier’s ability to fight for The England No.1 booked her though in the third and Mas- Alexandria-born El Sherbini points is what makes him such an place in the showpiece event after saro took full advantage as she raced into an early lead in the accomplished player. dominating Omneya Abdel Kawy regained the lead. title-decider before a succession “You could see how tired Greg in the previous round while El El Sherbini had mentioned the of lets and strokes halted her was from the first day and, to be Sherbini came through an intense support from the crowd after her rhythm and allowed Massaro to honest, I don’t know how he got to five-game affair with David. semi-final victory over David and find her way back into the match. the final. He fought so hard, each Massaro started the match on her return to the court for the The England No.3 hit a delight- match and even today, when I was the front foot with some typi- fourth game was met with rap- ful volley drop at championship 2-0 up, I didn’t think he could cally powerful drives and well- turous applause from the Egyp- ball to wrap up an enthralling fight back but he kept fighting placed boats setting the scene for tian spectators. 11-8, 12-14, 11-9, 8-11, 11-9 victory . Laura Massaro of England in action against Nour El Sherbini of Egypt. and fighting. That just shows how her victory in the opening game, The 20-year-old used that to strong he is and how much of a which she took by an 11-8 margin. her advantage, keeping Massaro THE PENINSULA

Global Champions Tour: Stage Qatar to field three teams at FIVB set for epic final at Al Shaqab Beach World Tour event in Doha DOHA: Qatar will field three Meanwhile, Qatar national vol- DOHA: The world class line up teams at Doha Open, the FIVB leyball team continued its inten- of horse power for the high stakes Beach Volleyball World Tour sive training sessions ahead of the Longines Global Champions Tour event in Doha, it was revealed Doha Open. final in Doha next week can be here yesterday. The Doha Open will be the revealed. The Doha Open will be held at eighth Open event on the FIVB World No1, Tour reigning the Qatar Beach Volleyball Acad- Beach Volleyball World Tour 2015 champion and current ranking emy courts at Al Gharafa from calendar in a season that extends leader Scott Brash is aiming to November 9 to 13. from late April to mid-December. make history with an extraor- The tournament, originally It will be the second after the dinary third consecutive title in scheduled to be held from Novem- FIVB World Tour Season Final, next Saturday’s Grand Prix at ber 17 to 21, was advanced as per with points from the tournament the stunning Al Shaqab venue in the request of the Qatar Volleyball going towards the 2016 ranking. Qatar. Association (QVA) which wanted The pre-Olympic 2015 season Scott will be bringing his Olym- it to finish one week earlier and row that we’re hosting the FIVB includes five FIVB Grand Slams, pic champion horse Hello Sanctos on a Friday. event. The QVA has an agreement a new FIVB Swatch Beach Volley- to the 15th and final event of the The FIVB-sanctioned event is with FIVB to host the World Tour ball Major Series, a special FIVB 2015 season. Scott has a two-point the eighth of the 10 Open events event till 2016. We’re even explor- Swatch Beach Volleyball World advantage over Luciana Diniz on the 2015 World Tour and are ing the option of hosting a Grand Tour season Final in the United who will arrive in Doha with her part of the 2016 Olympic qualifi- Slam event in future,” said QVA States and six FIVB Opens. Grand Prix-winning horses Win- cation process. General Secretary Mohammed ningmood and Fit For Fun as the “It’s for the second year in a Ali Al Mohannadi (pictured). THE PENINSULA championship race comes down to the wire after one of the most sensational seasons in the Tour’s 10-year history. With the battle for the over- all crown on a knife edge, Rolf- Mubarak wins Göran Bengtsson is the only other rider who can take the title in silver medal at Doha where he will be riding the extraordinary Casall ASK. Rolf Asian Shooting will be looking to keep up the Great Britain’s Scott Brash in action on his horse Hello Sanctos on momentum of his recent emphatic the final day of the Longines Global Champions Tour season at the Al Grand Prix wins in London and Shaqab Arena in Doha in this November 2014 file picture. Championship Rome in what promises to be a nail-biting finale. DOHA: Qatar’s Mohammed The stars of showjumping will €450,000 and a bonus Champion- next weekend, it’s set to be an Al Mubarak clinched the silver come together for a three-day ship prize fund of €1 million to be exciting three days of high cali- medal in the Men’s Rifle 50m feast of top-level sport at the shared among the top 18 finish- bre competition. Other leading event at the ongoing Asian Shoot- spectacular state-of-the-art Al ers in this year’s series, the com- riders confirmed for the event ing Championship 2015 in Kuwait. Shaqab equestrian facility from petition on Grand Prix day will include Ludger Beerbaum, Lauren El Mubarak was delighted with the November 12 to 14. be fierce as riders jostle for final Hough, Daniel Deusser, Edwina the result. “Such championships As excitement mounts, the positions. Tops-Alexander, Kevin Staut help shooters like me to gain prized equine athletes will be Fourth to eighth place riders (FRA), Maikel van der Vleuten, valuable experience and confi- leaving Europe this weekend on Simon Delestre, Christian Ahl- Athina Onassis de Miranda, Pius dence to compete in international specially commissioned flights mann, Sheikh Ali Bin Khalid Al Schwizer, Michael Whitaker, events, said Al Mubarak. with comfortable stalls before Thani, John Whitaker and Péné- Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum, The championship is organised heading to the high quality sta- lope Leprevost will all be in the Ben Maher and Harrie Smolders. under the supervision of Asian bling at Al Shaqab, a member of mix and fired up to achieve their Home riders Sheikh Ali Bin Shooting Confederation and will Qatar Foundation. final positioning - all of which Khalid Al Thani and Bassem Has- end on November 12. There will be fascinating bat- could upset the balance of the top san Mohammed will be looking to Meanwhile the Qatar shotgun tles up and down the ranking three and the final result. continue their strong form this team is due to compete in both leaderboard and especially among With Qlassic Bois Margot, year and will no doubt be boosted Men and Youth events at the the other riders who have made it Taloubet Z, First Devision and by the support of local fans. championship. Qatar’s Mohammed Al Mubarak, silver medal in the Men’s Rifle 50m into the Top 10 overall this season. Flora de Mariposa just some of event at the Asian Shooting Championship 2015 in Kuwait. With a Grand Prix prize fund of the horses who will be in action THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Brilliant Al Rayyan fight Al Attiyah continues domination back to earn eighth win to extend lead at Oman Rally MUSCAT: Qatar’s Nasser bin Saleh Al Attiyah was firmly on course to equal Mohammed Ben QSL: Al Khor pip Qatar SC as Al Sadd edge Al Gharafa Sulayem’s record of 60 victories in the FIA Middle East Rally DOHA: Al Rayyan once again Championship after leg one of the proved why they are the leading 23rd Oman International Rally side at the Qatar Stars League yesterday. (QSL) when they made a brilliant The Qatari and French co- fightback to overcome Al Wakrah driver Matthieu Baumel won 2-1 for their eighth consecutive all six of the day’s gravel special victory in the prestigious event stages to hold a comfortable out- at Al Gharafa Stadium. right lead of 1min 18.6sec in their On the day when, Al Sadd Ford Fiesta RRC. edged out Al Gharafa and Al Ahli They have enjoyed a remark- shocked Qatar SC, QSL points able season thus far and were in leader Al Rayyan got off to a ter- a class of their own over the Sul- rible start, with Mohammed Joma tanate’s testing mountain roads. scoring an own goal in the 29th “No problems at all today and minute. a good clean run on beautiful spe- But the players remained calm cial stages,” said Al Attiyah. Nasser bin Saleh Al Attiyah takes a massive lead into the final day of and were rewarded for their com- “We have a good lead now and the Oman International Rally yesterday in Muscat. posure when first Rodrigo Tabata can control our pace tomorrow equalised in the 45th minute and and ensure that we don’t take any Nathan Otavio clinching the win- risks.” ner in the 50th minute. Abu Dhabi Racing’s Sheikh mate Saeed Bintowq in the two- The win keeps Al Rayyan’s Khalid Al Qassimi, driving a Cit- wheel drive contest. OMAN RALLY POSITIONS perfect start to the season roën DS3 RRC and partnered by Saeed Bintowq was penalised 1. Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah (QAT)/Matthieu intact, with 24 points out of eight Ulster’s Chris Patterson, held sec- five minutes for his engine change Baumel (FRA) Ford Fiesta RRC 1hr 14min matches. Al Wakrah slumped to ond position. after scrutineering and the non- 11.2sec 10th place (with six points) after Despite driving on a flat tyre, arrival of a service vehicle meant the loss. Qatar’s Abdulaziz Al Kuwari that Kuwait’s Meshari Al-Thafiri 2. Khalid Al-Qassimi (ARE)/Chris Patterson Later at the same venue, Al and British navigator Marshall was forced to retire. (GBR) Citroën DS3 RRC 1hr 15min 29.8sec Sadd leapfrogged to second spot Al Rayyan’s players celebrate after scoring a goal against Al Wakrah Clarke were third – 24.8 seconds Al Attiyah set the target time of 3. Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari (QAT)/Marshall Clarke after edging out Al Gharafa 1-0. during their Qatar Stars League (QSL) match at Al Gharafa Stadium behind Al Qassimi - and Khalid 11min 18.3sec through the opening (GBR) Ford Fiesta RRC 1hr 15min 54.6sec Luiz Guilherme Silva scored Al-Suwaidi and Giovanni Bern- 19.8km of the Rusayl stage and it yesterday. Al Rayyan won by 2-1. BAHER AMIN 4. Khalid Al-Suwaidi (QAT)/Giovanni Bernac- the all-important goal of the acchini rounded off the top four. was comfortably quicker than the chini (ITA) Ford Fiesta RRC 1hr 17min 45.3sec match in 59th minute as Al Sadd Kuwaiti Salah Bin Eidan time set by Al-Qassimi and ena- overcame El Jaish in the stand- pressed more and more and Qatar Dawood instead turned into a remains on course to clinch the bled the Qatari to extend his lead 5. Salah bin Eidan (KWT)/Vili Oslaj (SVN) Mit- ings with 18 points. were made to play on the counter comedy of errors as he fluffed Group N championship title in to 21.6 seconds heading towards subishi Lancer Evo X 1hr 23min 00.9sec However, El Jaish (17 points) but hadn’t managed to test the his clearance and the ball fell to Oman and holds fifth position the Misfah stage. After a prop 6. Saif Al-Harthy (OMN)/Salim Al-Abry (OMN) who are yet to taste defeat can keeper at all. Cesar who nodded it in. with Slovenian co-driver Vili shaft change before the start of Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X 1hr 30min 21.0sec regain their second spot if they On the half hour mark Al Qatar didn’t take long to Oslaj. the day, Al Suwaidi benefited from 7. Mansoor Bel Helai (ARE)/Khalid Al-Kendi win against Mesaimeer today. Khor’s pressure finally paid off respond however, they won a “I have been very impressed Al Kuwari driving on a flat tyre to (ARE) Citroën DS3 R3T 1hr 33min 11.5sec Meanwhile, a close encoun- as frontman Julio Cesar scored corner on the far side of the box, with the organisation of the rally,” set the third quickest time. ter at Lekhwiya Stadium saw for the Knights. wingback Ali Shaheen sent an said Bin Eidan. Bin Eidan continued to control 8. Saeed Bintowq (ARE)/Allan Harryman (GBR) Al Khor earn their first win of What should have been a in-swinger into the box and new “Marshals were very evident on Group N and Zakariya Al-Ofi Citroën DS3 R3T 1hr 36min 35.1sec the season after defeating Qatar routine catch for QSC keeper signing Mohassine Iajour rose the stages, you could see ambu- moved ahead in the local contin- 9. Zakariya Al-Ofi (OMN)/Ammar Al-Balushi Sports Club 2-1 yesterday. highest to head in the equaliser lances and this is the first time gent. (OMN) Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 1hr 38min The first twenty minutes saw (39’). I have seen this in the champi- Al Attiyah managed to beat 59.2sec Al Khor slightly edging the game QSL RESULTS The second half followed a onship. They are normally at the Al Kuwari by just two-tenths of 10. Zakariya Said Ahmed (OMN)/Saif Al-Hinai as they held a high defensive line. Al Rayyan bt Al Wakrah 2-1 similar pattern as Khor pushed starts and finishes.” a second through the third stage (OMN) Subaru Impreza 1hr 45min 21.4sec The only chance of note came on Al Khor bt Qatar SC 2-1 forward and Qatar were slow out The rate of attrition was high – where Abdulaziz ran wide on a the 21st minute when Khor’s two Al Sadd bt Al Gharafa 1-0 of the blocks. in the heat on the gravel surfaces corner - and his advantage over Brazilians, Cesar and Madson Today’s fixtures For all of Khor’s early and only 10 of the 14 cars finished Al Qassimi climbed to 23.8 sec- pull away from his rivals and beat combined with the later trying possession it was Qatar with the the day. onds. Al Kuwari by 4.9 seconds to take a Al Sailiya vs Al Ahli 4:15pm at Al Ahli to curl an effort past Mohammed better chances as first Fadhil Saif Al Harthy was the lead- Rashid Al Naimi’s Group N run lead of 38.6 seconds into the mid- Stadium Dawood. Omer sent a volley just wide of ing Omani driver in sixth, after came to an end and only 13 cars day service stop and regroup at With Al Khor yet to win a El Jaish vs Mesaimeer 6:30pm at Al the post and then Iajour had a Zakariah Al-Ofi lost time in the made it to the start of the Saal the Oman Automobile Associa- game, the men from the north Ahli Stadium decent effort deflected around the seventh stage. Mansoor Bel Helai special. tion. post. Madison then came close on headed Abu Dhabi Racing team- The rally leader continued to Al Kuwari and Al-Suwaidi held the 66il minute, a quick one-two third and fourth, Group N leader with team-mate Majid saw the Bin Eidan was fifth and Al-Ofi Brazilian freed down the right. headed the local contingent in From a tight angle, he took a shot sixth. with his weaker right foot but the Mansoor Bel Helai was com- keeper saved well. fortably ahead of Bintowq in the The two teams were evenly 2WD category, despite a punc- matches going into the last twenty ture. Neither Khalid Al-Minji minutes and the next goal would nor former agency photogra- probably be the winner. pher Hamid Al Qasmi managed Al Khor’s Rezah Najafi took a to complete the stage and 11 hopeful shot at goal, and Qatar cars reached the service point SC’s keeper should have done bet- in their allotted time. Al Attiyah ter but instead failed to catch it was three seconds slower on the and Madson pounced from close re-run of Rusayl, but he still man- range to once again put his side aged to win the stage and the gap in the lead (73’). at the front grew to 53.7 seconds. In the 80th minute Qatar’s The three stages will be frontman Iajour came agonis- repeated in the afternoon at ingly close as he received a cross 12.47hrs, 13.20hrs and 13.48hrs, from the left, the ball ricocheted before the finishing ceremony of the defender and the Moroccan brings proceedings to a close at stretched to toe poke the effort in, Oman’s Zakariah Said Ahmed in action at Oman Rally in Muscat yes- the OAA from 16.00hrs. but the ball went just wide of the terday. He held 10th after leg one. far post. Qatar brought on new THE PENINSULA signng Dagano and pressed late on but didn’t really manage to test Al Sadd’s star player Khalfan Ibrahim (left) and Al Gharafa’s Muath the keeper as Khor saw out the Yahya vie for the ball possession during their QSL match at Al Gharafa last ten minutes of the Round 8 Stadium yesterday. clash. THE PENINSULA Qatar Circuit gets under way in Doha

DOHA: The qualifying rounds El Jaish offer of the Qatar Circuit Champion- ship 2015 PSA organised by Qatar Squash Federation (QSF) started no mercy to yesterday at Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex. Mesaimeer The main draw matches will start today for both men and DOHA: El Jaish are eyeing noth- women and the finals will be ing less than a win in their eighth played on November 10, informed round Qatar Stars League (QSL) Gamal Rasmi Technical Secretary clash against Mesaimeer today at at QSF. Al Ahli Stadium. Four players will qualify to the El Jaish’s coach Sabri Lam- main draw from the qualifiers ouchi says his team is motivated El Jaish Head Coach Sabri Lamouchi (centre) speaks at a press confer- and join 12 players who have been and will go all out to earn maxi- ence in Doha earlier this week ahead of his team’s Qatar Stars League seeded directly to the main draw. mum points from the match. (QSL) match against Mesaimeer to be played today. The players who will feature “We have a lot of motivation in the main draw include Jens going into this game,” said El Schoor, Mohamed Reda, Abdulla Jaish’s coach ahead of the match. ful against them. We want to be “We are looking to go into the Al Tamimi, Lance Beddoes, Jole “I told my players that we have satisfied about our performance break with a win. We will prepare Makin, Nathan Lake, Mazen to continue doing what we have and our results,” he said. during the break and it will help Gamal, Ammar Al Tamimi, done so far. We have to keep our The coach also urged his team players who are looking to recover Matias Tuomi, Robert Downer, concentration for the entire 90 to give an improved show. their fitness,” he said. Edmon Moller and Abdulrah- minutes,” he added. “Maybe our performance in our “Rashidov was on the bench man Al Malki. The Arab players Lamouchi, however, said last game wasn’t up to the mark for the last game because it was who competed in the qualifica- Mesaimeer could prove to be but the one aspect that brought a tactical choice. He has started tions include Abdullah Al Muz- tough opponents. me lot of joy is the ambition we in 4-5 games. We are happy that ayen, Ahmed Hussein, Hesham “We are playing a team that showed to come back after con- he’s scoring goals,” the El Jaish Mohamed and Khaled Mostafa, Qatar’s Abdullah Al Tamimi in action against Egypt’s El Shorbagy (not didn’t win a lot of games but have ceding a goal, and getting the vic- coach added. Ahmed Al Tamimi. pictured) at Qatar Classic in Doha last week. Al Tamimi will be seen in showed that they have the poten- tory. I am very happy with this action in the main rounds of Qatar Circuit Championship starting today. tial to win. So we have to be care- reaction by our team. THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

Scoreboard Five-star Ashwin sparks SA collapse Australia (I innings): New Zealand (I innings): J Burns c Watling b Southee ...... 71 M Guptill c Warner b Hazlewood ...... 23 D Warner c Taylor b Neesham ...... 163 T Latham c Lyon b Starc ...... 47 U Khawaja c Guptill b Williamson ...... 174 K Williamson (batting)...... 55 India take lead of 142 runs after dismissing visitors for 184 in Mohali S Smith b Boult ...... 48 R Taylor c Smith b Johnson ...... 0 A Voges (not out) ...... 83 B McCullum c Voges b Johnson ...... 6 MOHALI: Off-spinner Ravichan- kept Pujara company at stumps Extras (LB-7, W-4, NB-6) ...... 17 J Neesham b Starc ...... 3 dran Ashwin battered top-ranked on 11. South Africa missed pace Total (for 4 wkts decl) ...... 556 B J Watling (batting) ...... 14 South Africa with a five-wicket spearhead Dale Steyn, who did Fall of wickets: 1-161, 2-311, 3-399, 4-556. Extras (LB-2, W-1, NB-6) ...... 9 haul to leave India in control of not take the field in the second Did not bat: M Marsh, P Nevill, M Johnson, M Total (for 5 wkts) ...... 157 the bowler-dominated first Test innings due to a “tight right Starc, J Hazlewood, N Lyon. Fall of wickets: 1-56, 2-102, 3-105, 4-114, in Mohali yesterday. groin”, according to Cricket South Bowling: Southee 24-8-70-1 (2nb); Boult 29- 5-118. India, shot out for 201 in the Africa. 3-127-1; Bracewell 27-3-107-0 (3nb, 1w); Bowling: Starc 10-4-30-2 (2nb; 1w); Johnson first innings on a dusty, dry The tourists’ spin bowling coach Craig 31-3-156-0; Neesham 11-1-50-1 (3w, 12-2-52-2 (1nb); Hazlewood 12-2-33-1 (1nb); wicket, hit back to skittle the Pro- Claude Henderson said Steyn was 1nb); Williamson 8.2-0-39-1. Lyon 8-2-22-0; Marsh 3-0-18-0 (2nb). teas for 184 on the second day at unlikely to bowl again in the Test the IS Bindra stadium. as India attempt to build a match- The hosts went to stumps on winning lead on a treacherous 125 for two in their second knock pitch that has already seen 22 to take an overall lead of 142 runs wickets fall on the first two days. Starc, Johnson put Aussies with eight wickets in hand in con- “I think he is struggling,” ditions that are tailor-made for Henderson said of Steyn. “I can’t the bowlers. see him bowling tomorrow.” Murali Vijay followed his top- Henderson said a target of on top against New Zealand score of 75 in the first innings with above 200 will be tough to chase 47, sharing a second wicket part- in the fourth innings. BRISBANE: Australia’s lethal on the board and to bowl well nership of 86 with Cheteshwar “We need early wickets tomor- left-arm double act Mitchell Starc after tea, dry up the runs, create Pujara, who remained unbeaten row to try and create pressure,” and Mitchell Johnson (pictured) chances and take five wickets was on 63 with six fours and a six. he said. “A target beyond 200 will showed how devastating they can a great job.” The pair came together after be challenging but I have seen this be in the series after bowling the Starc is part of a three-man left-handed Shikhar Dhawan team doing some special things. home side into a strong position pace attack with Johnson and bagged a pair, edging Vernon Anything can happen because after just two days of the first Josh Hazlewood and gave an Philander to the slip cordon for there is a lot of time left in the Test against New Zealand. early sign of how big a handful the second time in the match match.” Starc and Johnson took two they will prove for New Zealand without scoring. Vijay fell to a Ashwin proved almost unplay- India’s captain Virat Kohli (left) congratulates team-mate Ravichandran wickets each as the Black Caps in the remainder of the three- brilliant one-handed catch at able as he finished with five for 51, Ashwin (second right) after he dismissed South Africa’s Imran Tahir battled to survive at 157 for five Test series. short-leg by substitute fielder reaching the 150-wicket mark in during play on the second day of their first Test at the Punjab Cricket in reply to Australia’s massive 556 “It’s great to watch and great Temba Bavuma off Imran Tahir, his 29th Test with the dismissal Association Stadium in Mohali yesterday. for four declared. to be in but Indian captain Virat Kohli of last man Imran Tahir. All 10 It was the first outing for the the same pace pair this southern summer team as and they didn’t disappoint with him (John- South African wickets fell to and get five wickets. You have to fearsome spells to unhinge the son). It’s Scoreboard Indian spinners with left-armer work on variations and pitch it Kiwi batting, taking 4-16 in a not great India (I innings): ...... 201 6-136, 7-170, 8-179, 9-179, Ravindra Jadeja taking three for right. South Africa, who started 25-ball spell. to face him South Africa (I innings): 10-184. 55 and leg-break bowler Amit the day at 28-2, lost three wick- “I take a bit of confidence from in the nets, D Elgar c Jadeja b Ashwin ...... 37 Bowling: Ashwin 24-5-51-5; Yadav 6-1-12-0; Mishra taking two for 35. ets in the morning session – all of how I’ve gone the past 12 months, that’s for S van Zyl lbw Ashwin ...... 5 Aaron 8-1-18-0; Jadeja 18-0-55-3 (nb1); AB de Villiers (63) and skipper them to Ashwin – to go to lunch regardless of the colour of the sure. F du Plessis b Jadeja ...... 0 Mishra 12-3-35-2. Hashim Amla (43) were the only on 127-5. ball,” Starc told reporters after “He’s the H Amla st Saha b Ashwin ...... 43 India (II innings): visiting batsmen to offer resist- Elgar and Amla put on 76 for yesterday’s play. leader of A B de Villiers b Mishra ...... 63 M Vijay c (sub-Bavuma) b Tahir ...... 47 ance after Dean Elgar’s 37 as the the third wicket to take the score “To bowl the way I did today, the attack, bowling fantastically, D Vilas c Jadeja b Ashwin ...... 1 S Dhawan c de Villiers b Philander ...... 0 rest failed to reach double figures. to 85-2 before the last eight wick- particularly after last year, was bowling with great aggression, V Philander c Rahane b Jadeja ...... 3 C Pujara (batting) ...... 63 De Villiers was lucky to cross ets crashed for 99 runs. fantastic. It was a great spell by pace and bounce.” S Harmer lbw Mishra ...... 7 V Kohli (batting) ...... 11 seven after television umpire Amla appeared to be finding Mitchell Johnson to bowl fast and He added that it was a pleas- D Steyn st Saha b Jadeja ...... 6 Extras (B-4) ...... 4 Vineet Kulkarni ruled that Jadeja form after a lean patch in the aggressive.” ure to watch Johnson bowl, calling K Rabada (not out) ...... 1 Total (for 2 wkts) ...... 125 had bowled a no-ball when the one-day series before Ashwin He said it was key for them to him an enforcer. Imran Tahir c Pujara b Ashwin ...... 4 Fall of wickets: 1-9, 2-95. batsman was caught in the slips had him stumped as the bats- bowl well together in the last ses- “It’s great to be in the same Extras (B-6, LB-7, NB-1) ...... 14 Bowling: Philander 7-0-17-1; Harmer 10-3- by Kohli. man stepped out of the crease to sion, and he was happy with their team and bowl in partnerships Total (all out) ...... 184 28-0; Elgar 7-1-34-0; Tahir 8-0-33-1; Rabada “I like taking five-wicket hauls,” smother the spin and missed the performance. with him. Hopefully, he can keep Fall of wickets: 1-9, 2-9, 3-85, 4-105, 5-107, 8-5-9-0. said Ashwin. line of the ball. “We were allowed to be aggres- going for a lot longer.” “It’s not a track where you spin AFP sive because we had 550 runs AFP Warne, Tendulkar want to mimic Beckham in the United States NEW YORK: David Beckham is Warne told reporters at a hotel three-hours games in New York, Thursday’s press conference were the millionaire model, sportsman in Times Square ahead of the first Houston and Los Angeles. from overseas. and nice guy credited with helping All-Stars game today. Tendulkar, who offers a softly- New York in particular is home make soccer more popular in the Cricket is second only to soccer spoken bookish counterpart to to the largest concentration of United States. And now Shane in terms of world popularity, he Warne’s tell-it-how-it-is drive, immigrants in the United States Warne wants to do the same for said, no matter that baseball and said their dream was to one day from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan cricket. American football reign supreme see an American team in the and Sri Lanka where cricket is a The Australian spin king has in the United States. World Cup. national obsession. jetted into New York with Indian “We don’t think it’s a gamble, “We’re here to establish cricket Ponting, who led Australia batting great Sachin Tendulkar we think Americans are ready,” in America” he said. to victory at the 2003 and 2007 to embark on an exhibition tour said Warne in a nod to his sideline “The next time we come here it World Cups, said he owed it to designed to get baseball-loving as a poker player. would be nice to find an American the game to help it grow on virgin Americans up to speed with a Warne and Tendulkar will cap- kid with a cricket bat in his hand ground -- not just in the United sport few of them understand, tain two sides – Warne’s Warri- alongside a baseball bat.” States, but also in China. play or ever watch. ors and Sachin’s Blasters – that They will be doing cricket clin- “We’re all hoping we can go out “Soccer wasn’t big. David Beck- will showcase the talents of some ics for young children, interact Australia’s Shane Warne (front left) and his team pose during a press there and do the right thing by ham came over here and suddenly of the greatest stars in world with players as much as possible conference in New York on Thursday. the game and make sure that the the sport is starting to grow,” cricket, playing three Twenty20 and invite women cricketers to American sport-loving public can their practise sessions as well, he enjoy what we do,” he said. said. Shaun Pollock, ex South Africa Among the talent on the Blast- going to win. Simple as that,” said been overwhelming” and if all captain, said he could never have ers are Graeme Swann, Brian Warne. goes well, it could become an imagined one day playing cricket Lara, Curtly Ambrose, Glenn “We’re good friends, but not on annual event. in a US baseball stadium. McGrath, Moin Khan and Shoaib the field,” said Tendulkar. He batted aside suggestions “Americans in general would Akhtar. “We want to go out and not that the rules of cricket were too probably say that our game’s Included in the Warriors are disappoint the fans... We want to complicated for Americans to fol- boring, he admitted. “It’s a real Ajit Agarkar, Matthew Hayden, win the hearts of as many people low. opportunity,” he said. Courtney Walsh, Ricky Ponting, as possible here.” “When you take two minutes “They can come in their own Michael Vaughan and Wasim The ICC-sanctioned matches to concentrate on it, it’s actually stadiums where they usually Akram. will be played on drop-in pitches very simple,” he said. “We’re try- watch the baseball, sit in the same They may not be as quick as at major baseball fields in New ing to hit the stumps and they’re seats, eat the same hot dogs that they were 10 years ago, but these York, Houston and Los Angeles. trying to hit it out of the park. It’s they normally eat and compare retired stars insist they’ve lost A portion of the proceeds will not that hard.” the entertainment and actually none of their skills -- nor their go to the ICC for the develop- But most spectators are widely say to themselves well may be this Retired Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar (centre) and his team pose competitive streak. “We’re going ment of cricket within the United expected to be expatriates from game of cricket is not so bad.” during a press conference in New York on Thursday. to go out there and play as hard States. cricket-loving nations. The vast as we possibly can, and we’re Warne said the response “had majority of the reporters at AFP

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PARIS: Andy Murray reached he comfortably held serve twice. the Paris Masters semi-finals for There were worrying signs the first time yesterday, but it from Murray minutes later as he ‘Crazy’ win puts Svitolina needed a marathon effort to see grimaced in pain after stretching off the last remaining French- for a return, but he then erased man, Richard Gasquet. two break points to hold serve. into Zhuhai semi-finals The second seed, who had Two games later, however, dropped just four games in reach- there was to be no reprise from HONG KONG: Ukraine’s Elina 6-0 defeat to Slovakian alternate ing the last eight, was kept hard the Scot as Gasquet sealed the Svitolina battled back from Anna Karolina Schmiedlova, who at it for two hours 38 minutes break with a superb forehand behind to beat Carla Suarez Nav- replaced Caroline Wozniacki after before edging into the semis 7-6 crosscourt drive off a big first arro in a “crazy” match and grab the Dane withdrew. (9/7), 3-6, 6-3. serve. the last place in the WTA Elite Ex-world number one Wozni- Five times previously Murray Murray broke back imme- Trophy semi-finals yesterday. acki pulled out with a left wrist had fallen in the quarter-finals of diately to level at 2-2, however, The world number 20 narrowly injury caused by being unable to the ATP’s regular season finale and with Gasquet visibly tiring lost a marathon, 80-minute first hold her racquet properly after and he will now play either John he grabbed the break he needed set but she hit back she accidentally Isner or David Ferrer for a place in the eighth game when the 10th to win 6-7 (4/7), cut herself with a in today’s final. seed netted under pressure. 6-1, 6-3 and reach ELITE TROPHY bread knife from The first set was a 73-minute Meanwhile, a long season took the last four in the RESULTS room service. cliffhanger. its toll on Roger Federer on inaugural tourna- America’s Women’s singles Murray stormed out of the Thursday evening as the Swiss ment in Zhuhai. Madison Keys blocks to lead 3-0, but with his was knocked out of the Paris Svitolina, 21, will Group A won the tour- first serve faltering, Gasquet Masters following a 7-6(3), 3-6, play Karolina Plisk- Madison Keys (USA x7) bt nament’s final found a way to work his way back 7-6(5) third-round defeat by big ova today, while top Zheng Saisai (CHN x12) 6-3, round-robin into it, levelling at 4-4 after a serving John Isner. seed Venus Wil- 6-2 group match 6-3, break to love in the seventh game. The third-seeded Swiss held liams faces Roberta Group B 6-2 against Chi- Murray also let slip a 3-1 lead serve throughout but lost two Vinci in the other Elina Svitolina (UKR x8) bt na’s number one, in the tie-break and had to save tiebreaks against his American Britain’s Andy Murray reacts during his quarter-final match against semi-final at a pur- Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP x2) wildcard Zheng a set-point at 5-6, but the second opponent, who will face Spain’s France’s Richard Gasquet (not pictured) at the ATP World Tour Paris pose-built arena in 6-7 (4/7), 6-1, 6-3 Saisai, with nei- seed pushed Gasquet into making David Ferrer in the quarter- Masters 1000 indoor tennis tournament in Paris yesterday. southern China. Group D ther player capa- errors off his forehand side and he finals. “It was such a Anna Karolina Schmiedlova ble of reaching finally edged it 9-7. Federer, who won the Basel crazy match today,” (SVK x13) bt Roberta Vinci (ITA the semis. The It was Gasquet though who title last Sunday, seemed to be ended the contest on his fourth joined by Rafa Nadal in the quar- Svitolina said, x4) 6-1, 6-0 WTA Elite Tro- looked the stronger and a sloppy cruising after breezing through match point with a service win- ter-finals. according to the phy is a new game from a frustrated looking the second set, but Isner pushed ner. Nadal saved a match point WTA website. “I event with a field Murray gave Gasquet a break to him to another tiebreak, using his Federer’s defeat was the before subduing South African was playing really well out there, of 12 and intended as a second- lead 4-2. devastating serve to prevail in first upset at Bercy after world Kevin Anderson 4-6 7-6(6) 6-2. and Carla was playing really well tier version of the WTA Finals That proved to be enough for the deciders. number one Novak Djokovic and as well. Already qualified Vinci between the top eight. the Frenchman to win the set as Isner, who fired down 27 aces, second seed Andy Murray were AGENCIES expended little energy in her 6-1, AFP

PSG leave Ligue 1 rivals fighting for scraps EPL FIXTURES Coe’s silence Today (GMT) AFC Bournemouth vs Newcastle United PARIS: not golden The suspense in the against Saint-Etienne is a match (1245) Ligue 1 title race appears to we have to win.” Angers, who kick already be over, with Paris Saint- off the weekend slate at home to Leicester City vs Watford (1500) amid latest Germain 10 points clear and mid-table Rennes and are tied Manchester United vs West unbeaten after 12 matches, leav- with Lyon, are more concerned Bromwich Albion (1500) ing the rest of the top flight to about avoiding relegation after Norwich City vs Swansea City (1500) doping crisis battle for lesser honours. their recent promotion. Another Sunderland vs Southampton (1500) Laurent Blanc’s PSG side are telling statistic is that apart from LONDON: Sebastian Coe has firmly on course for a fourth PSG and Monaco, the other four West Ham United vs Everton (1500) long been one of the most outspo- straight title, and while they French clubs that have qualified Stoke City vs Chelsea (1730) ken critics of doping in athletics clearly admit that winning the for the Champions League – Lyon, Tomorrow (GMT) yet the newly-elected president Champions League is their main Marseille, Lille and Montpellier – Aston Villa vs Manchester City (1330) of the sport’s governing body has priority, even a 1-0 defeat at Real have won just one match between remained silent this week in the Madrid in midweek was met by them in 22 matches at the top Arsenal vs Tottenham Hotspur (1600) face of potentially its most damn- positive feedback after a proud continental level since 2012. Liverpool vs Crystal Palace (1600) ing drugs scandal yet. performance. It was the capital Monaco have climbed the table Coe, in the top IAAF job for side’s first defeat of the season in after a stuttering start to their LIGUE 1 FIXTURES less than three months, is facing all competitions, but the man- campaign, and come into their Today (GMT) his sport’s second major doping ner in which they dominated the Sunday tie at Bordeaux in sixth controversy in the period, the Celta Vigo vs Valencia (1500) 10-time European champions only place, while Marseille are well most recent of which was labelled underlined their status as one of out of the running with four wins Levante vs Deportivo Coruna (1715) “worse than FIFA” by his former the top teams in Europe. from 12 fixtures and a distant 17 Eibar vs Getafe (1930) British athletics team-mate Daley PSG return to the comforts points adrift, ahead of their clash Rayo Vallecano vs Granada CF (1930) Thompson. of the Parc des Princes today at home to Nice tomorrow. Coe’s predecessor Lamine Diack Malaga vs Real Betis (2105) when Blanc will lead his men out Lille continue to rebuild under and the IAAF’s former doping against second-from-bottom Tou- two-time Africa Cup of Nations Tomorrow (GMT) chief Gabriel Dolle are under louse expecting to take maximum winner Herve Renard, but the Athletic Club vs Espanyol (1100) investigation over allegations that FROM LEFT: Paris Saint-Germain’s Swedish forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Brazilian points from what appears a home- road looks long for the 2011 Barcelona vs Villarreal (1500) they accepted massive bribes to win banker. defender Maxwell and French midfielder Blaise Matuidi warm up before the UEFA champions after just two wins cover up positive doping tests. Atletico Madrid vs Sporting Gijon (1715) Seven-time champions Lyon Champions League group stage match against Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu this season left them three points While the world reels are second and ahead on goal Stadium in Madrid in this November 3, 2015 file photo. above the relegation zone. Sevilla vs Real Madrid (1930) in the face of yet another difference above Angers as well as The Dogues (Great Danes) shocking indictment of sports their arch-rivals Saint-Etienne, host lower-table Bastia on Satur- SERIE A FIXTURES maladministration, however, Coe who visit the Stade Gerland in the gulf in class between PSG and this season,” said Fournier. Lyon’s day on a night when fifth-placed Today (GMT) has yet to utter a word on the the weekend’s feature match one of their closest rivals. key striker Alexandre Lacazette Caen await Guingamp, improv- Verona vs Bologna (1700) matter. tomorrow. However, the fashion “We would have been more added the team would bounce ing Nantes travel to Montpellier, Despite repeated attempts in which Hubert Fournier’s side comfortable, heading into the back for one of the fiercest rivals fresh from their midweek win AC Milan vs Atalanta Bergamo (1945) by and others asking Coe to were all but eliminated from the Saint-Etienne match, if we would in French football. over Nice, Lorient meet Troyes Tomorrow comment, he has declined. Champions League on Wednesday, have won on Wednesday but it’s “We have to just prepare and Reims are at home to GFC Torino vs Inter Milan (1130) A coincidence of timing meant following a 2-0 defeat at home to up to us to recover and rely on the the best we can for Sunday Ajaccio. AS Roma vs Lazio (1400) that an interview he gave to Zenit St Petersburg, again shows things that have working for us (tomorrow) because a derby AFP Britain’s Daily Telegraph appeared Empoli vs Juventus (1400) on Thursday, a day after the news Frosinone vs Genoa (1400) of the Diack investigation was Palermo vs Chievo Verona (1400) released by French authorities. Sassuolo vs Carpi (1400) “The crowds have to know Ronaldo motivated by Lionel Messi rivalry that what they are watching is Napoli vs Udinese (1700) genuine. Parents have got to know LONDON: Cristiano Ronaldo aged to turn because I’ve won domestic success as Messi. Sampdoria vs Fiorentina (1945) that they are encouraging their (pictured) says his fierce rivalry the tables as he three times, I never Even during Jose Mourinho’s children to go into a sport where with Lionel Messi provides all the picked up the thought I would reign as Real boss, the pair won BUNDESLIGA FIXTURES they will not be harmed,” Coe motivation he needs to keep striv- trophy in 2013 win one Golden only one La Liga title in 2012 and Today (GMT) said. ing for even more success. and 2014. Ball, so to win three reportedly clashed over the team’s Mainz vs VfL Wolfsburg (1430) “We will not shy away from Real Madrid forward Ronaldo The supremely is great, gives me cautious style of play. this.” has jousted with Barcelona striker talented duo great motivation But Ronaldo remains a fan of Bayer Leverkusen vs Cologne (1430) One of the four “pillars” of his Messi for the La Liga title, the both possess an to work hard and Mourinho and offered his support Bayern Munich vs VfB Stuttgart (1430) presidential election manifesto Champions League crown and a intense desire achieve more. to the under-fire Chelsea chief. Borussia Moenchengladbach vs FC Ingol- was: “Ensuring integrity and host of individual awards since to be ranked as “I want more and “I would put him at the top, I stadt 04 (1430) trust in everything we do”. moving to Spain from Manches- the very best and more. I still have always say that. He’s a good coach, Hoffenheim vs Eintracht Frankfurt (1430) The double Olympic 1500 ter United in 2009. that, combined many years to play he did many good things and won metres champion pledged that Messi has four La Liga titles with their roles football, and I want many trophies for other clubs,” SV Darmstadt 98 vs Hamburg SV (1730) the newly created IAAF ethics and two Champions League tri- as figureheads of to win more things. While Ronaldo and Messi reign Tomorrow (GMT) Commission would make them the umphs in the period following duelling superpowers Real and “Messi is an unbelievable player supreme as the world’s best, the Borussia Dortmund vs Schalke 04 (1430) “outstanding Olympic federation Ronaldo’s arrival at the Berna- Barca, has prevented them from and maybe it pushes me more, Madrid player still keeps an eye FC Augsburg vs Werder Bremen (1630) in the field of integrity.” beu, while the Madrid ace has one striking up any kind of friendship. harder to be better and better. on the next generation of emerg- While he cannot be held Spanish league success and one Asked how he felt whenever “But the people who know me, ing stars. He regards Real team- ASIAN CHAMPIONS accountable for the actions of his Champions League triumph with Messi got the better of him, Ron- know I’m always like that, I try to mate Martin Odegaard, Chelsea’s predecessor and his son -- who Los Blancos. aldo told BT Sport: “I’m always be the best professional in my job, Eden Hazard, Manchester Unit- LEAGUE FINAL has left his IAAF role while under After Messi won the Ballon disappointed when I lose, it’s nor- I try to be the best all the time. ed’s Memphis Depay, Paul Pogba Main Tournament - Final, first leg investigation -- or the other IAAF d’Or prize given to the world’s mal. I’m not a fake person. I’m Earlier this season, Ronaldo of Juventus and Barcelona’s Ney- officials in the spotlight, Coe’s Today best player four years in a row, not going to hide it when I feel became Real’s leading goalscorer mar as the most exciting talents silence is not going down well in Ronaldo, who also won the award disappointed. with 326 goals in all competitions, to follow. Al Ahli Dubai (United Arab Emirates) vs the sport. while with United in 2008, man- “But I’m not complaining but he hasn’t enjoyed the same AFP Guangzhou Evergrande (China) (1545) REUTERS SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2015 BREAK TIME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23 EASY SUDOKU CROSSWORD 12345 6789 10111213 DOHA PESOS ALAS

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How to play Hyper Sudoku: A Hyper Sudoku Puzzle is solved by filling the numbers from 1 to 9 into the blank cells. A Hyper

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Gender equality in science: Germany Jurassic Museum Archaeologists uncover shows the way 2,300-year-old theatre LONDON: Over the past five years, the number of female researchers in Germany has NICOSIA: An Australian excavating at the UNESCO World grown more rapidly than that of archaeological team in Cyprus Heritage site for two decades. male researchers and female-only has uncovered a theatre dating In September the team con- publications are the most inter- from 300 BC, the oldest struc- ducted a geo-mapping survey of nationally collaborative, finds a ture of its kind yet unearthed the ruins of the town’s Roman new study. on the Mediterranean island, colonnades. The study by Elsevier, launched the antiquities department said Excavations immediately to the ahead of the European Gender yesterday.“The Australian team south of the theatre revealed a Summit (November 6-7) in Ber- has uncovered the oldest theatre Roman paved road, approximately lin, found that the number of in Cyprus: a structure that was 8.4 metres (28 feet) wide, which female researchers in Germany used as a venue for performance was the main traffic thoroughfare has increased by 25 percent over and spectacle for over six-and- to access the theatre, the antiqui- the past five years. For males, this a-half centuries from c. 300 BC ties department said. “The exist- increase has been 9.8 percent in until its final destruction in the ence of this road also confirms the same period. earthquakes of AD 365,” said the that ancient Nea Paphos was laid For Germany, female-only pub- statement. out on a typical Hellenistic grid lications are the most interna- “More recent excavations have plan. The discovery of numerous tionally collaborative, while mixed attempted to position the theatre fragments of granite columns on gender publications are more within its ancient urban context, the theatre site (over 30 to date) inter-disciplinary than the mono- by understanding the surround- confirms the importance of the gender ones, the study found. ing ancient structures including paved road,” said the statement. Female researchers in Germany a second century AD nymphaeum The columns are made from are only slightly less productive (water fountain),” it added. granite from quarries in Troad in than their male counterparts as Excavations at the site of the Turkey and reflect Roman trade measured by publication output Hellenistic-Roman theatre of Nea in monumental architectural (2.07 versus 2.34 publications per Paphos, on Cyprus’ southwestern elements. The largest, and least year). coast, were conducted by the Aus- common, of Troad granite col- Their publications in 2010-2014 tralian Archaeological Mission umns stood 24 Roman feet (over have a lower citation impact (1.68 A woman walks along the Jurassic Museum of Asturias in Colunga, northern Spain, yesterday. The scientific from the University of Sydney. 7 metres) tall. versus 1.75). team of the Jurassic Museum of Asturias (MUJA) presents their latest studies on the fossil of a Ichthyosaur, The Australian team has been AFP AFP which acccording to them is the most complete found in the Iberian Peninsula and one of the few in the world.

Migrant influx By the Sea deemed a big sparks run on Ikea beds yawn by movie critics STOCKHOLM: Several Ikea stores in Germany and Sweden NEW YORK: Angelina Jolie and Mrs. Smith, which brought them But Variety’s Justin Chang have run out of beds and mat- Brad Pitt teamed up for the first together in real life. called the movie “an unabashed tresses due to a surge in demand time on screen in 10 years for By By The Sea — Jolie Pitt’s third vanity project” that is “meander- caused by the influx of migrants, The Sea but Hollywood’s leading directorial feature — could hardly ing and overlong in ways that will the Swedish furniture chain said power couple on Friday got scath- be more different. test the patience of even die-hard yesterday. ing early reviews for the movie, Alonso Duralde of TheWrap. Brangelina fans.” “There is some shortage in sev- which some deemed a laborious com bemoaned the movie’s “We are so honoured to be here eral stores in Germany and Swe- vanity project. “dreary scenes from a dull mar- and open the AFI, we did our best, den due to the refugee situation in By The Sea was written and riage,” adding that it was hard we tried to be honest, to give our- Europe,” a spokeswoman for the directed by Jolie Pitt and inspired “watching these two talented selves out,” Jolie, 40, said after Swedish group, Josefin Thorell, by the grief she experienced over actors play blanks who have no her dramatic red carpet entry said. “In normal times we have the death in 2007 of her mother. chemistry with each other.” along with Pitt, 51. “This movie shortages now and then, but it’s It focuses on the stale marriage Critics praised the cinematog- is inspired by grief and by the loss not dramatic. It’s just happening of former dancer Vanessa (played raphy as exquisite but said the of my mother, but in the end it s a bit more now,” she said. by Jolie Pitt) and her husband, stunning visuals failed to make also about how your surpass it.” Ikea did not give a figure for the blocked writer Roland (played by up for a weak script and a plot At the presentation the AFI number of stores affected, saying Pitt). where nothing much happens. organisers paid homage to Jolie’s its stocks levels tended to fluctu- The Hollywood Reporter’s Todd Scott Mendelson at Forbes.com mother, Marcheline Bertrand, Writer-director-producer-actress Angelina Jolie Pitt (left) and actor-producer ate quickly. McCarthy called it “the kind of admired the film more than he and actress and producer who Brad Pitt attend the opening night gala premiere of Universal Pictures’ By “We’re trying to talk with our vanity project you don’t see much enjoyed it and said it may appeal died in 2007 and was an AFI the Sea during AFI FEST 2015 presented by Audi at TCL Chinese 6 Theatres suppliers about speeding up deliv- of anymore.” He wrote that it was to fans of talky, beautiful to look member for three decades. in Hollywood, California, yesterday. eries,” Daniela Rogosic, a spokes- a languid attempt at European at foreign movies. “For anyone This is only the second time woman for Ikea Sweden, said. arthouse cinema that “will prove else, it will probably come off like that Jolie, whose movies include role. In the film, Pitt plays an a Japanese prisoner camp during Germany and Sweden are once again that even the biggest a feature-length perfume com- “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider” (2001) alcoholic writer lacking inspiration, World War II. among the top destinations of the names in the world won’t draw mercial punctuated by outbursts and “Maleficent” (2014), has while Jolie is a depressed former “Unbroken,” which got mid- migrants streaming into Europe an audience to something that, of emotion and light kink.” starred alongside her husband. dancer who still dresses up as if she dling reviews and no major Oscar to escape conflict and hardship in in and of itself, has no reason for Fred Topel of the NerdReport. The couple, nicknamed “Bran- were about to go on stage. nominations, was a disappoint- the Middle East, Asia and Africa. being.” com, was kinder than most of gelina,” appeared together in the By the Sea is the third feature ment for Jolie. However the film On Thursday, Sweden said it The more than two hour-long the early reviewers on Friday. action-comedy movie “Mr and film that Jolie has produced still made $161m in worldwide could no longer guarantee a roof film, which opens in US movie “Any time you get to see a film- Mrs. Smith” (2005). and directed, following the Bos- ticket sales on a budget of just for all the newcomers. Germany theaters on November 13, reu- maker’s soul on display, if that The glamorous duo shot By the nia war drama “In the Land of $65m, according to the specialty is the biggest market of Ikea, the nites the two actors as a screen doesn’t intrigue you enough for Sea during their honeymoon in Blood and Honey” (2011) and website Box-Office Mojo. world’s biggest furniture retailer. couple for the first time since the two hours, you’re missing out,” Malta last year — the first time “Unbroken” (2014), about a flirty 2005 action comedy Mr.& he wrote. Jolie has directed Pitt in a movie former Olympic athlete held at AGENCIES AFP

Art fair Meet the ‘Dakotaraptor,’ the freaky feathered dinosaur NEW YORK: Imagine an ostrich with US roughly 60 million years before the faster runner than the other big meat- huge sickle-like claws, long powerful Dakotaraptor arrived on the scene. eater at the time, Tyrannosaurus, and legs and a dinosaur’s toothy grin. Now Like many of its relatives, Dako- it may have hunted in packs. The dino- double its height and give it a taste taraptor was feathered. The fossils saur also boasted claws the size of a for flesh. discovered in South Dakota show tiny human hand. This is the Dakotaraptor, one of the “quill knobs” on the lower arm bones; According to the study’s authors, the biggest and likely the freakiest-looking in modern birds, those knobs are where Dakotaraptor filled a key niche in the predators to roam the Midwest 66 mil- feathers attach to the bone. sub-tropical swampy world that was lion years ago. The Dakotaraptor was much too late Cretaceous South Dakota. The newly discovered fossil was large for flight — fortunately for the It was smaller than Tyrannosau- described in a study published by the rest of its late Cretaceous fellows — but rus but larger than most of the other University of Kansas Paleological Insti- the knobs suggest that it descended carnivorous critters at the time, and it tute last week. Fittingly for this mas- from a line that could fly, or was per- was built for longer pursuits, meaning sive frankenpredator, the bones were haps on its way toward evolving to do it could catch fast-running prey that found in a place called the Hell Creek so. eluded other predators. Formation, among South Dakota’s oth- Dakotaraptor is the largest dino- Since the Dakotaraptor fossils date erworldly badlands. saur ever found with true wings, Dis- to the very end of the late Cretaceous, The Dakotaraptor, a cousin of the cover reported, though its not clear the dinosaur likely died during the turkey-sized velociraptor and an ances- why the species hung onto the large extinction event that wiped out the tor of modern birds, was one of the appendages. Dromaeosauridae (the family of feath- largest of its kind, researchers say. The They may have been used to shield ered dinosaurs to which it belonged) creatures were 17 feet long from nose eggs and young from predators, aid and about three quarters of all other to tail and their wings — which were with hunting or attract mates, the life on Earth 65 million years ago. Bad largely decorative — extended three researchers theorize. Or maybe they news for the Dakotaraptor, but good feet from their bodies. just looked intimidating. news for anyone living in South Dakota A visitor looks at an installation by Danish and Norwegian artists Elmgreen and Dragset during The only raptor known to grow big- Flightlessness aside, the Dakotarap- today. the ‘Artissima’ art fair at Oval Lingotto, in Turin, Italy, yesterday. The art fair runs until tomorrow. ger was the 23-foot Utahraptor, which tor would have been a fearsome preda- wrapped up its reign over the western tor. Its long legs made it a better and THE WASHINGTON POST