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White House Reporter Eli Stokols on What It Was Like to Cover Another Trump Year Community Community Nawalparasi Founder of Welfare Campus P6Society P16 and Student organises first general Life in Qatar talks about assembly to elect establishing the idea and new members of bringing students together managing committee. under one platform. Tuesday, December 31, 2019 Jumada I 5, 1441 AH Doha today: 170 - 280 COVER Breathless STORY White House reporter Eli Stokols on what it was like to cover another Trump year. P4-5 BOLLYWOOD HOLLYWOOD Amitabh Bachchan receives Efron escapes deadly bacterial Dadasaheb Phalke Award. attack whilst fi lming in PNG. Page 14 Page 15 2 GULF TIMES Tuesday, December 31, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 4.57am Shorooq (sunrise) 6.21am Zuhr (noon) 11.38am Asr (afternoon) 2.36pm Maghreb (sunset) 4.56pm Isha (night) 6.26pm USEFUL NUMBERS Good Newwz in-vitro fertilisation and wait for their upcoming babies. DIRECTION: Raj Mehta Trouble ensues when they fi nd that there have been some CAST: Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor, Diljit Dosanjh confusion in their records at the hospital. SYNOPSIS: Two couples with the same surnames pursue THEATRES: Royal Plaza, Landmark, The Mall Emergency 999 Worldwide Emergency Number 112 Kahramaa – Electricity and Water 991 Local Directory 180 International Calls Enquires 150 Hamad International Airport 40106666 Labor Department 44508111, 44406537 Mowasalat Taxi 44588888 Qatar Airways 44496000 Hamad Medical Corporation 44392222, 44393333 Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation 44845555, 44845464 Primary Health Care Corporation 44593333 44593363 Qatar Assistive Technology Centre 44594050 Qatar News Agency 44450205 44450333 Q-Post – General Postal Corporation 44464444 Humanitarian Services Offi ce (Single window facility for the repatriation of bodies) Ministry of Interior 40253371, 40253372, 40253369 Ministry of Health 40253370, 40253364 Hamad Medical Corporation 40253368, 40253365 Spies in Disguise a pigeon, he must rely on his nerdy tech offi cer to save the Qatar Airways 40253374 DIRECTION: Nick Bruno, Troy Quane world. CAST: Karen Gillan, Rachel Brosnahan, Will Smith SYNOPSIS: When the world’s best spy is turned into THEATRES: The Mall, Landmark, Royal Plaza te Unqu uo ot Q “All our e dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney Community Editor For movie timings and Kamran Rehmat further details please scan e-mail: [email protected] the QR code above with your Telephone: 44466405 mobile phone camera or visit qatarcinemas.com Fax: 44350474 Tuesday, December 31, 2019 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY WHEN: January 15 – July 1 TIME: 6:30pm – 9pm Get trained by experts to be a good speaker. Smedley Toastmasters is conducting a six-month speech-craft programme that teaches new members to speak confi dently and develop leadership skills. For more information, 66053485, 33232490 or visit www.SmedleyToastmasters.org Hobby Classes WHERE: Mamangam Performing Art Centre WHEN: Saturday – Friday Mamangam is an art and performance centre started with a vision of spreading our knowledge, interests and experience in various disciplines in arts across diff erent countries for children and adults. Mamangam has become the favourite The Colour Run 2020 water sports, Winter Dragon Boat Festival centre for learning. We off er regular classes WHERE: QNCC is back to show us their fast rowing skills. in the following disciplines like traditional WHEN: January 25 Dragon boating is a canoe-sport and was classical and folk dance forms, art and TIME: 7am – 10pm originally a traditional festival game dating craft, drawing and painting, personality Your Health First is a fi ve-kilometre, back 2,000 years throughout Southern development and public speaking, Bollywood untimed event. At each kilometre mark, China. 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Once the 5k is over, Mamangam has also come up with chess and the fun continues at the Finish Festival, a robotics in regular batches in an attempt to larger-than-life party equipped with music, give a better learning experience, as they dancing, photo ops, activity booths, vendors, sharpen their minds and brains too. and more massive colour throws, which For those who wish to register for more create millions of vivid colour combinations. details, visit www.mamangamqatar.in Gems and Jewels Exhibition NYE – Countdown in the desert WHERE: Museum of Islamic Art WHERE: Al Bahar Camp, Inland Sea WHEN: Ongoing till January 18 WHEN: Today TIME: 9am onwards An exclusive getaway this New Year’s Eve to The exhibition comes in celebration of avoid the crowd. Join us in the Qatari Desert the Qatar-India 2019 Year of Culture and and camp under the starry sky by the beach at presents a look at magnifi cent gems and the most beautiful waterfront camp. Wake up jewellery from India. Set in Stone: Gems and to the most stunning sunrise over the dunes Jewels from Royal Indian Courts showcases and make your New Year’s resolutions. For more than 100 pieces from across Qatar Metro Street Food After School Activities further information, call 3339 3323 or visit Museums’ (QM) collections, including many WHERE: DECC Metro Station WHERE: Atelier www.365adventures.me masterpieces that have never been displayed WHEN: January 2020 onwards WHEN: Ongoing before. TIME: 12:30pm Music and arts activities for students Spring Festival 2019 Street Food is the ideal venue for a leisure taking place after they fi nish their day in WHERE: Souq Waqif experience for the whole family off ering over school includes Group Music lessons, Hip- WHEN: Ongoing till January 4 20 dine-in options and 18-hole World Mini- hop, Ballet, Drawing and Painting, Drama TIME: 4pm – 10pm Golf setup. Theatre & Taekwondo. Ages between 5 and 10 The third edition of the Spring Festival at years old after school hours. features an array of cultural programmes and entertainment activities. Around 60 games Ballet Lessons and rides are open. Circus shows will be also WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier staged. WHEN: Ongoing TIME: 4pm – 8pm For more info e-mail at registration@ atelierqatar.com or call on 33003839. Winter Dragon Boat Festival 2020 WHERE: Museum of Islamic Art WHEN: January 24 Public Speaking Classes for Adults Row, paddle, hurry up! Qatar’s largest WHERE: Sharq Capital, C Ring Road Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Tuesday, December 31, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY In The Donald’s den With so much being packed into 12 months — a Mueller report, trade talks, tweet storms, rally tirades, terrorist raids and impeachment testimony, as a White House reporter, I often can’t recall what the story was two days ago, admits Eli Stokols year of President Donald Trump is better measured in dog years, with so much being packed into 12 months A— a Mueller report, trade talks, tweet storms, rally tirades, terrorist raids, impeachment testimony. As a White House reporter, I often can’t recall what the story was two days ago. Thinking back to January is overwhelming. For the fi rst 25 days of 2019, the federal government remained shut down as the president tried and failed to pressure Democrats into approving money for a border wall. At year’s end, we interrupted our nonstop coverage of impeachment hearings to bring you the president’s decision to overrule the Secretary of the Navy in order to halt disciplinary action against a Navy SEAL who was convicted of posing with the corpse of a prisoner in Iraq. And then we interrupted that to inform you that the Supreme Court might or might not weigh in to settle the matter of whether Congress has a right to the president’s closely held fi nancial disclosures. The fi re hose of news, or what seems in the moment to qualify as “news,” is relentless. The constant, of course, is Trump. That I can remember. I also remember being in the West Wing in February the day after Attorney General William Barr held a news conference to prebut the report by Robert S Mueller III, informing the public that the special counsel, after a 22-month investigation, had found “no collusion” between FLUSTERED: US President Donald Trump speaks to the media about the impeachment hearings on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington before the president’s campaign and the his departure to Austin, Texas in November 2019. Russians who meddled in the 2016 election. When the report actually became public, the reality proved diff erent — Mueller had opted not to make a decision about whether the president had obstructed justice. But on the day Barr released his advance spin, the mood inside The fire hose of news, or the White House was something akin to a winning team’s locker what seems in the moment room minus the celebratory to qualify as “news,” is spray. Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley had cut out and relentless. The constant, was annotating a newspaper cartoon depicting the president’s of course, is Trump. That most ardent critics in a “Mueller I can remember Madness” NCAA-style bracket. Kellyanne Conway crowed in the White House driveway, telling reporters that all who’d suggested —Eli Stokols, wrongdoing by the president owed him an apology. White House The president, relieved to be off reporter the hook politically, immediately ‘ ’ Tuesday, December 31, 2019 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY found another fi ght, telling a surprised group of Republicans that he wanted to try again to repeal Obamacare.
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