Home | 4 Business | 17 Sport | 24 QTA launches Qatar Qatar invests $5.24bn Taylor smashes Business Events in global real estate career best 290 as brand today in first half runs keep flowing The Peninsula Newspaper @PeninsulaQatar @peninsula_qatar TUESDAY 17 NOVEMBER 2015 • 5 Safar 1437 • Volume 20 Number 6617 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Premier meets Paris Mayor RAF’s counselling World traffic portal records over medicine three million hits DOHA: Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah Foundation for Humanitarian Services (RAF) is running a portal in Arabic at www.mostshar-raf.com to provide counselling to people on social, psycho- meet begins logical, health and educational issues. Questions related to personality and skill developments are also being addressed. The portal has registered more than three Health Minister opens ITMA Congress million hits, visited by people of different age groups. Sixty-six experts, including counsellors, are involved in providing free counselling services related to their respective specialisation. Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani with Experts have been roped in from 16 countries the Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo yesterday. They reviewed bilateral relations. See also page 2 keeping in mind cultural diversification of help- seekers. The privacy of people is being guarded. So far, 4,673 regular users have registered themselves for the portal through e-mail. In addition, questions are coming in from more than First phase of Doha Metro 50 countries from across the world. The portal is available on smart mobile phones as a first application for online counselling which is easing the process. to be completed by 2019 The questions that have been asked as part of the counselling services being offered have been published in the form of a book as a reference for DOHA: With completion of the first phase of tions. Completion of the Lusail network is research scholars and those seeking advice. The Minister of Public Health H E Abdullah bin Khalid Al Qahtani and Minister Doha Metro and Lusail Tram, Qatar Rail scheduled for 2020. book contains 21 chapters of selected counselling of Municipality and Urban Planning H E Shiekh Abdulrahman bin Khalifa will offer 600,000 passenger trips per day by The first phase will see the Red, Gold, and in different fields taken from the portal. bin Abdulaziz Al Thani during the 24th World ITMA Congress at Sheraton 2021. Construction work on Doha Metro is in Green Lines opening in 2019, with 37 stations Latest counselling is floating on a page of Doha yesterday. BAHER AMIN full swing and the first phase of the project and 75km of revenue lines. The Red Line will the portal. It is classified in four fields, namely, is expected to be completed in the fourth offer a very convenient and reliable alterna- education, social, psychological and personal quarter of 2019, Qatar Rail said yesterday. tive to driving within the heart of Doha city. development. By Sidi Mohamed to Qatar and the rest of the GCC “Fans attending 2022 FIFA World Cup A trip from the airport to Lusail, where the Questions related to education, for example, region. matches will have the option to travel to sta- venue for the 2022 FIFA World Cup open- are like: “My son is not going to school without DOHA: The 24th World Interna- This Congress is being held for diums on the ultra-modern Doha Metro and ing and final matches will be located, would his mother”, “My grade declined since I changed tional Traffic Medicine Associa- the first time in the entire Gulf Lusail Tram, which are set to provide effi- take 36 minutes. the school”, and “My daughter is very rude”. tion (ITMA) Congress began here region. cient and comfortable journey as Qatar con- The Green Line will take fans to two yesterday under the theme “Traf- The Health Minister opened tinues to make significant progress towards proposed host venues as it runs east from THE PENINSULA fic Medicine and Road Safety in the event and said in his inau- completion of the first phase in late 2019” Al Mansoura to Al Riffa in the west. As it Fast-Developing Countries” and gural address that the Congress said a statement yesterday. passes through Education City, it will stop will continue until tomorrow. will discusses several key issues “Fans’ mobility will be significantly aided at Qatar Foundation Stadium, the proposed The opening ceremony took related to traffic medicine and by the seamless transportation experience host venue through to the quarter-finals place at the Sheraton Doha in the road safety in order to find out which Qatar Rail will offer, with 600,000 of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. There are 11 Bomb threat: Harvard presence of H E Sheikh Adbul- the best practices. passenger trips expected per day by 2021,” stations along the line, including a stop at rahman bin Khalifa bin Abdulaziz Deaths caused by traffic acci- it added. By then, 37 Metro stations will Al Rayyan, the proposed venue for the 2022 University evacuated Al Thani, Minister of Municipal- dents have reached an all-time be completed and there will be an average FIFA World Cup and future home of the ity and Urban Planning, and the high of 1.3 million and injuries journey time of just three minutes between historic Al Rayyan Football Club. Both these BOSTON: Harvard University said on its web- Minister of Public Health, H E total a staggering 20 to 50 mil- adjacent stations. stadiums are currently under construction site yesterday that it had received an “uncon- Abdullah bin Khalid Al Qahtani, lion in the world annually, the Qatar Rail has now completed nearly 60 alongside four others. Also to be completed firmed” bomb threat and was evacuating four and many senior interior ministry Minister rued. percent of the 113km of tunnelling, using 21 before 2019, the Gold Line will take football buildings on its campus outside Boston. officials. Medical rehabilitation services tunnel boring machines (TBM). In total, fans from Msheireb, the main interchange Three classroom buildings — The Science Delegates from different coun- in Qatar have witnessed tremen- over 27,000 people are working on the con- station and a gathering point for spectators Center, Sever and Emerson Halls — and one tries from across the world are dous progress in spite of a stupen- struction of the Metro. near Souq Waqif, to the Sports City in the dormitory, Thayer Hall, were affected, the Ivy taking part in the three-day event dous population rise, the Health The metro network will be built over two Aspire Zone housing the historic Khalifa League school said on its website. to look for solutions to the high Minister said. phases and will include four lines. Phase one International Stadium, a proposed quarter- The threat comes three days after a coordi- incidence of deaths and injuries in Continued on page 3 covers 80km across Doha of which 63km is final venue which will be completed by the nated attack by gunmen and suicide bombers road accidents in fast-developing underground. The Lusail tram network adds end of 2016. killed 127 people in Paris. countries with special reference THE PENINSULA a further 38km and an additional 37 sta- THE PENINSULA REUTERS Israelis kill two Palestinians in Obama rules out US troops on ground to fight IS BELEK, Turkey: US President Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and retake territory and as long as the view of my closest military size of territory over which IS clashes over Barack Obama yesterday ruled Syria would redouble efforts to we keep our troops there we can and civilian advisers.” “There holds sway, handing it over to out a shift in strategy in the fight implement the current strategy hold it. But that does not solve the will be an intensification of the local forces who can hold it and home demolition against the Islamic State despite rather than moving in a new underlying problem of eliminating strategy that we put forward but keep the group out over the long the deadly attacks in Paris last direction, even as the militants the dynamics that are producing the strategy that we put forward term. “That ultimately is what is QALANDIYA, Palestinian week, saying putting US troops on threatened to strike Washington. these kinds of violent, extremist is the strategy that ultimately is going to make a difference and Territories: Israeli forces shot the ground to combat the group “We are going to continue the groups,” he added. going to work,” Obama said. it’s going to take time,” the US dead two Palestinians when heavy “would be a mistake.” strategy that has the best chance The US president said avoid- He said the key was to resolve leader said. clashes erupted yesterday during Obama, speaking after a G20 of working,” Obama told a news ing sending American troops the political crisis in Syria that See also page 7 an operation to destroy the West leaders’ summit in Turkey, said conference. “This is not a tradi- into Iraq and Syria to take on IS has fuelled years of civil war and Bank home of an alleged attacker, the US-led coalition fighting tional military opponent. We can directly “is not just my view, but at the same time to reduce the REUTERS the latest in a series of punitive demolitions. Israeli authorities have moved to expedite the demolitions of Qatar-Bhutan match today suspects’ homes, a controversial measure meant to act as a deter- Raids as France fears more strikes rent.