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SATURDAY 18 JULY 2015 • 2 Shawwal 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6495 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Four Qataris Emir performs Eid Al Fitr prayers DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday morning performed die, one critical Eid Al Fitr prayers, along with officials, at Al Wajba praying ground. Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani, the in road mishap Emir’s Personal Representative H H Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani, sons of Father Emir 90 accidents on first day of Eid H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, sheikhs and ministers DOHA: At least four Qataris colour SUV in flames at a fully also performed the prayers. died and one was critically packed parking lot. Dr Thaqeel Sayer Al Shammari, injured in a road mishap in the Although no official infor- Judge at Court of Cassation and Industrial Area in the early mation was released about the Member of Supreme Judiciary hours of the first day of Eid Al incident, it was evident from Council, led the prayers and deliv- Fitr yesterday. the video that a parked vehi- ered the Eid sermon. He urged The injured is receiving treat- cle caught fire soon after Eid Muslims to do good deeds, work ment, while the bodies have been prayers in the morning as the in line with God’s directives, visit kept at Hamad General Hospital video was posted at 6.4am. each other and maintain ties with (HGH) morgue. Meanwhile, the General kinship as good traits of believers. Details, including the cause Directorate of Traffic concluded He also urged Muslims to follow a of the accident, were not imme- Ramadan traffic awareness cam- moderate approach in implement- diately available. Emergency paigns on the Corniche and in ing divine jurisdictions neither services rushed to the scene and other areas of Doha. with intolerance nor negligence. moved the injured to HGH. The campaign under the Dr Al Shammari highlighted Three died on the spot and one theme ‘Ramadan with Safe manifestations of corruption and after reaching HGH Emergency, Driving,’ focused on speed lim- called on Muslim national to unite Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, along with other officials, performs Eid Al Fitr prayers at Al Wajba while the other was admitted its, use of seat belts and avoiding and stand firmly against those praying grounds. with critical injuries at Trauma the use of mobile phones while who want to undermine it. QNA Intensive Care Unit at HGH, Al driving. Sharq reports, adding the acci- Statistics on road accidents dent was among 90. during Eid show the number However, majority of the acci- of deaths from injuries during dents were minor. Ramadan reduced by 40 per- Traffic police deployed at vari- cent last year compared to 2013, ous locations, mainly busy places, according to HMC. Aden ‘liberated’ but fighting continues and patrolling teams ensured Every year, Hamad Trauma smooth traffic despite accidents Centre admits up to 900 patients SANA’A: Yemen’s exiled gov- “We will work to restore life Riyadh has been leading a They secured the airport and and rush. with severe injuries as the ernment yesterday announced in Aden and all liberated cities coalition of Arab countries, wag- the surrounding Khormaksar dip- Ambulance Service at Hamad number of accidents rises dur- the “liberation” of second city to restore water and electricity,” ing an air campaign against the lomatic district earlier this week. Medical Corporation (HMC) ing the holy month. Aden after four months of fight- said Bahah, also prime minister. rebels and renegade troops loyal But witnesses said rebels were received 80 calls related to mis- The number of deaths was ing between loyalist forces and A government statement con- to former president Ali Abdullah still in control of the city’s Tawahi haps between 3am and 6pm. more than double during Iran-backed rebels. firmed the liberation of Aden. Saleh. district. Clashes are raging on the Hussain Mohamed Karmous, Ramadan in 2013 compared to But rebels continued to control On Tuesday, loyalist forces Aden was President Abdrabhu edges of Mualla, which leads into Assistant Director, Ambulances other months, especially with some districts of the city, wit- launched Operation Golden Arrow Mansur Hadi’s last refuge after he Tawahi, they said. Services, said six SUVs were regard to young men who are nesses said, adding fighting was against Shia Houthi rebels, who fled the capital earlier this year as Pro-Hadi fighters “are trying to deployed to reach the accident more likely to be involved in seri- underway in central areas of the seized control of much of Aden in the rebels took over the govern- advance towards Tawahi but fac- sites across the country and ous accidents. southern port. March, forcing the government ment, launched an offensive and ing resistance,” said one witness. ambulances responded to seven However, an increase in the “The government announces into exile in Saudi Arabia. seized much of the country. The Houthis are also holding emergency calls. number of awareness campaigns the liberation of the province of The counter-offensive was car- The exiled government’s official onto their positions in Dar Saad In a separate incident, a vehi- and enforcement of traffic law Aden on the first day of Eid Al ried out by southern militiamen news agency said loyalist forces northern neighbourhood and con- cle caught fire near Al Saad. led to a reduction in the number Fitr which falls on July 17,” Vice- of Popular Resistance, backed had mopped up the last pockets tinue to control the northern and A 13-second video posted on a of injuries and deaths last year, President Khaled Bahah said on by reinforcements trained and of rebel resistance in the city’s eastern entries into Aden. social media site showed a white HMC said. THE PENINSULA Facebook. equipped in Saudi Arabia. Mualla district. AFP

Eid celebration at Katara IS car bomb Hot day, strong wind kills 80 in Iraq BAGHDAD: A suicide car forecast all over Qatar bomber killed over 80 people in a busy market in an Iraqi DOHA: There is no respite in hottest areas with maximum town yesterday, in one of the sight from the scorching heat, temperature around 45 degrees. deadliest attacks carried out by with the Qatar Meteorology However, Ruwais and Dukhan will Islamic State (IS) militants. Department forecasting a very may witness maximum tempera- The force of the blast brought hot day with strong wind over ture between 35 and 38 degrees, down buildings in Khan Bani all areas today. respectively. Saad, about 30km northeast of Motorists will need to be cau- Humidity is likely to increase Baghdad, crushing to death people tious as visibility is expected to be from tomorrow. “Starting from celebrating Eid Al Fitr, police and poor because of dusty wind, added Sunday wind speed will decrease medics said. IS claimed responsi- the department. which will be northwesterly- bility for the attack in the mixed “Strong wind over all areas northeasterly light to moderate eastern province of Diyala where and low horizontal visibility is in speed. Khan Bani Saad is located and expected (on Saturday),” said the “The wave height will be slight said the target was “rejectionists”, department. to moderate and the weather is as it refers to Shias. See also page 5 Temperature is expected going to be relatively humid by between 31 and 45 degree Celsius. night during this period,” the Israel asked to free Doha, Al Wakra and Mesaieed department added. are expected to be among the THE PENINSULA

54 Palestinians A display of fireworks at Katara to celebrate Eid Al Fitr last night. BAHER AMIN GAZA CITY: A senior Hamas official yesterday said there could be no new exchange talks with Israel until it frees dozens of prisoners it has rearrested Qatari consumers face ‘snooping’ by market forces since their release in a 2011 swap. DOHA: Qatari consumers are worried Prominent Qataris and legal experts that she knew even the minute details of file,” said the Qatari, who didn’t want to Ismail Haniya, a former about alleged sharing of their personal stressed that authorities should tighten his health problem and treatment he had disclose his name. Palestinian prime minister, said information by shopping malls and com- regulations against those invading peo- undergone. “Callers reach out to you in different Israel had re-arrested at least 54 mercial outlets with strangers without ple’s privacy. They also asked citizens and “I received the call from a lady who ways. Sometimes a caller tells you that of over 1,000 prisoners freed in their consent. expatriates to be cautious while sharing claimed that she represented a company his or her queries are part of their sur- exchange for soldier Gilad Shalit, Using information shared by them with personal information with malls and other involved a medical survey. She wanted vey and go to the extent of asking per- captured by Gaza militants in these outlets with strangers are intruding outlets. some details on the cardiac arrest I had sonal questions such as details of family 2006. “We have told mediators into their privacy, including their health Some cases of privacy violations are suffered a few weeks ago. I was surprised to members, their income, favourite shopping that there won’t be any nego- status and financial data. shocking. For example, a Qatari, who see her reveal details of my ailment and the destinations and how you prefer to spend tiations before the release of all The phenomenon experts describe as underwent treatment at a hospital recently, treatment I underwent,” Al Sharq quoted weekends. These calls are suspicious and those Israel detained from among “online tracking” and “behavioural profil- received a call from a stranger while he was him as saying. annoying,” said another national. the Shalit deal group,” he said. ing” has increasingly becoming a menace recuperating at home. “I am sure either she or the company THE PENINSULA AGENCIES in Qatar, reports Al Sharq. He was appalled to hear from the caller she represents was privy to my medical Continued on page 4 SATURDAY 18 JULY 2015 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Emir receives well-wishers on Eid

DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday received well-wishers at Al Wajba Palace on the advent of Eid Al Fitr. They included Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani, sheikhs, ministers, Advisory Council speaker and his deputy, undersecre- taries, council members and citizens. The Emir also received heads of diplomatic missions, army and police officers and heads of national institu- tions and departments. Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir’s Personal Representative H H Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani and sons of Father Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani were present. In the afternoon, the Emir received more well-wishers, including sheikhs and citizens, in the presence of the Deputy Emir. Meanwhile, the Emir exchanged greetings on the telephone with pres- idents Mahmoud Abbas (Palestine), Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Turkey), Mamnoon Hussain (Pakistan), former Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri and Hamas Political Bureau Head Khaled Meshaal. QNA SATURDAY 18 JULY 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 Prayers, festivities mark first day of Eid

Faithful perform Eid Al Fitr prayers at Msheireb Mosque and (right) in Al Wakra yesterday. (PICTURES BY SALIM MATRAMKOT, KAMMUTTY VP and BAHER AMIN)

BY FAZEENA SALEEM

DOHA: Prayers and celebrations Outages mar celebrations marked the first day of Eid Al DOHA: Outage in Al Jakheera, Raya and Al Jadid lasting up to Fitr yesterday. five hours spoiled celebrations. Braving hot and humid weather, Some people came out on the streets and complained about the thousands of believers converged at damage to food in fridges due to sudden power failure, Al Sharq mosques and specially designated reports. They called Kahramaa which sent a team to rectify the prayer grounds early morning to problem. “Our technical crew is on site and working to restore sup- perform Eid prayers. ply as quickly as possible to the affected areas,” Kahramaa said in a The historic Eid Prayer Ground tweet in the afternoon. in Msheireb Downtown received Residents in Al Raya and Al Jadid expressed anger over power thousands as it opened to the pub- disruption from 12.50pm to 6pm, which Kahramaa said was due to lic well before the prayer time of overloading. “It should be noted that most interruptions are due to 05.08am. overloads without our approval,” Kahramaa said. Imam Muhammad Abdul Residents complained that they did not get any response from Wahhab Mosque and Al Sheikh Kahramaa when they called its offices. They said Kahramaa should Abdullah bin Zaid Al Mahmoud be on alert during summer as power consumption goes up due to hot Islamic Cultural Centre (previously weather and interruptions create problems for people. known as Fanar) were packed with They said the outages spoiled their celebrations as they could not worshippers. receive guests, adding if Kahramaa had alerted them earlier, they Authorities made elaborate could have booked hotels to celebrate Eid. “Kahramaa would like to arrangements at 360 mosques and apologise to customers for any inconvenience caused by any power several prayer grounds. interruption,” the company said. THE PENINSULA At some places, faithful were seen offering the prayers on pave- mother of three, said, “Many of us Souq Waqif, the Corniche and ments as mosques and prayers went to Fanar because the sermon Katara Cultural Village were ground got filled to capacity before was in English... Several other non- crowded with people enjoying the the prayer time. Arabic speaking African communi- Eid holidays. The souq drew a large Many Asian expatriates per- ties were present, mainly because crowd as popular Arabic sing- formed the prayers with their com- we could understand the sermon,” ers performed late into the night, munities and non-Arab Africans she said. rendering traditional Arabic songs. at Al Sheikh Abdullah bin Zaid Al Ahmed Zaareh a Sudanese The event was held with support Mahmoud Islamic Cultural Centre. expatriate, said, “We went to from Al Rayyan Radio. The Indian community performed Imam Muhammad Abdul Wahhab Qatar Tourism Authority (QTA) the prayers at places, including Al Mosque as many people gather has lined up fun-packed celebra- Arabi Sport Club and near the Lulu there and it gives an opportunity tions, including music, fireworks Hypermarket. to meet and greet a lot of people.” and family entertainment. Many Sri Lankans performed Families and bachelors who pre- Shopping malls have also the prayers at their embassy. The ferred to remain indoors after the announced entertainment shows, Indonesian embassy also organised early morning prayers due to the including mime shows, ‘Rene Eid prayers for its community. inclement weather, ventured out Magritte’ and ‘Babylon Joe’ shows, Umm Abdullah, a Nigerian in the evening. a performance by Paper Magic Artist and other events inspired by Qatari heritage. ‘Eid Al Fitr Celebrations 2015’ a cultural and sports event organ- ised by the Ministry of Interior attracted thousands of single work- ers at Barwa Workers Recreation Complex in Al Khor industrial area and at Asian Town (Former West End Park near Grand Mall). Events featured community performers, cricket, football and basketball matches and other activities. The Philippine embassy organ- ised Eid Al Fitr Filipino Food Festival at Big Tent in Al Dafna. It ends on Sunday. Children and parents watching a traditional Arabic dance programme (top) at Ezdan Mall. Cartoon characters perform at Landmark Mall. THE PENINSULA Inspection of food HIA witnesses huge departure rush on first day of Eid outlets to continue DOHA: Hamad International Airport DOHA: Municipalities are to (HIA) witnessed huge rush of passen- intensify inspection of restau- gers yesterday as travellers wanted to rants, fast food chains, bakeries reach their destinations to celebrate Eid and sweet shops during the next Al Fitr with their family members. eight days, as they have caught Anticipating a heavy rush due to Eid, many violations of food safety laws many were seen arriving at the airport in the last few days, reports Al much early. Raya. “My flight is at 10pm but I arrived four Health inspectors of Doha hours early to avoid any delays due to Municipality conducted 1,351 visits, heavy rush. I knew that there would be registered 56 violations and closed a long queue to check-in because of holi- four outlets. They also raided veg- days,” said a passenger. etable and fruit shops to check if “A few years back I had arrived at the the items were safe for human con- airport on time during Eid holidays but sumptions and import documents to the security line was so long that I nearly ensure if they were checked on the missed my flight. Learning the lesson from borders or not. that incident, now I always arrive at the Some shops were asked to correct airport quite early,” he added. minor mistakes while storing items. On Tuesday, HIA had advised passen- The municipality has divided inspec- gers travelling during Eid Al Fitr holidays tors in groups to cover various areas. to arrive early to avoid any delays. It is Today, inspectors in two shifts expecting a peak in departing passenger will monitor auctions at vegetable traffic until July 20 and arriving passenger markets. traffic from July 23 to 25. Rayan Municipality inspected “To ensure that passengers experience bakeries, food outlets and sweet seamless and comfortable travel through shops, as many people rushed for Eid the airport, HIA advices locally departing shopping. Inspectors in the morning passengers to arrive at the airport three shift focused on restaurants, tradi- hours before their flight departure time tional kitchens, cafeterias, super- and that check-in will close 60 minutes markets, commercial markets and prior to departure,” HIA said in a state- slaughter houses. ment on Tuesday. Al Shamal and Al Wakra munic- “To save time, Qatar Airways and many ipalities also conducted similar other airlines operating from HIA offer inspections. Inspectors are accom- passengers online check-in,” it added. panied by veterinary doctors. Passengers waiting to check in at Hamad International Airport yesterday. KAMMUTTY VP THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA SATURDAY 18 JULY 2015 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME / MIDDLE EAST 500 kids treated at Eid prayers at Blue Mosque Paediatric Emergency

DOHA: Hospitals of Hamad at the HGH’s Emergency Medical Corporation (HMC) Department said that 30 special- received 1,263 patients, including ist consultants and 90 doctors work 500 children, on the first day of round-the-clock to treat patients Eid Al-Fitr. during the Eid holidays. The main Paediatric Emergency Five deaths were reported on Center (PEC) of HMC in Al Sadd the first day of Eid, including four received children with varied prob- from road accidents and one due lems yesterday. to cardiac arrest. Their conditions vary from Also, the ambulance services minor to severe, and most were received 550 calls between 3am treated for cold, cough and stomach to 6pm yesterday, with 80 cases upsets, said Dr Khalid Al Ansari, related to road accidents. Director of Paediatric Emergency The ambulance service Services at HMC. responded to seven calls with air Although health services are ambulances, 75 calls with regular provided immediately to all chil- ambulances and six with SUVs. dren brought to the PEC, despite Also, 13 bicycles are made avail- their condition, Dr Al Ansari able by the ambulance service in urged parents to be more coopera- crowded areas to provide first aid. tive with the medical staff so that Emergency service units are the ailment can be diagnosed and also deployed at the Hamad treated quickly. International Airport (HIA), Among the other patients, Katara Cultural Village and 463 were treated at the Hamad Aspire zone. General Hospital (HGH), and According to Hussain Mohamed 300 at the Al Wakrah Hospital Karmous, Assistant Director, mainly for injuries received in road Ambulances Services, HMC Calls accidents, chest pains, stomach received from HIA on the first upset and indigestion, Al Sharq day of Eid Al-Fitr has increased reported. due to the large number of peo- Patients were received between ple travelling in and out of the 6am and 6pm yesterday. country. Dr Mahmoud Fawzi, a Specialist THE PENINSULA Turkish Muslims prepare to pray inside the Blue Mosque in Istanbul on the first day of Eid Al-Fitr yesterday.

Hamas chief Senior cleric challenges Iran deal meets Saudi King Salman Foreign minister Javad Zarif to visit Gulf countries after Eid holidays over agreement DUBAI: Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal and other top officials DUBAI/BEIRUT: A senior were returned and Tehran’s revo- These are excessive demands.” Zarif will brief parliament on conference in 1981. from the Palestinian militant cleric challenged Iran’s historic lutionary ideals, including its fight Under the deal agreed on the deal on July 21, according to Zarif, embarking on a diplo- group met with Custodian of the nuclear deal with world powers with “global arrogance” — a term Tuesday, sanctions will be gradu- some Iranian media, and it will matic offensive in the wake of Two Holy Mosques King Salman yesterday, echoing a cautious for the West and Israel—were ally removed in return for Iran also be examined by the country’s the deal, told fellow Muslim coun- of Saudi Arabia and senior Saudi early assessment of the accord preserved. accepting long-term curbs on a top security body, its National tries that Iran hoped the nuclear leaders yesterday, a Hamas by Supreme Leader Ayatollah “They have some excessive nuclear programme that the West Security Council. accord could pave the way for source said, in the first meeting Ali Khamenei, an arch-conserv- demands,” he said, objecting to has suspected was aimed at creat- Khamenei was quoted on more cooperation in the Middle between the two sides for years. ative who has the last word on restrictions placed on the number ing a nuclear bomb. Wednesday as saying that reach- East and internationally. The meeting brought together matters of state. of centrifuges Iran can operate, Iran, which says its nuclear ing a deal was “a significant step” In a message to Islamic and top members of Hamas political Ayatollah Mohammad Ali on its nuclear research and devel- work is for civilian purposes, but the text should be carefully Arab countries on the occasion of wing with the Saudi King, crown Movahedi Kermani did not dis- opment and on its handling of sees its programme as a symbol scrutinised along with the legal the Eid Al-Fitr holiday at the end prince and defence minister in a miss the accord in his remarks enriched uranium. of national pride and resilience in procedures. of the Holy Month of Ramadan, he possible rapprochement between at Friday prayers in Tehran, Political analysts said the com- the face of what it sees as decades Kermani also handed some said: “By solving the artificial cri- the conservative United States- but his language was sufficiently ments by Khamenei and Kermani of hostility from Western coun- praise to Iran’s negotiators for sis about its nuclear programme allied kingdom and the tradition- tough — some terms of the deal allow conservative clerics the tries that opposed its 1979 Islamic their work in the marathon talks diplomatically, a new opportunity ally Iran-allied party. were an “insult” and “excessive”, political space to make further revolution. in Vienna, saying Tehran’s nego- for regional and international “The delegation discussed he said—to indicate significant criticisms of the deal and could Kermani’s criticism underlined tiating partners had been forced cooperation has emerged.” Palestinian unity and the political unease about the accord within also absolve the Supreme Leader concerns expressed in the past two “to retreat”. Zarif would travel to Gulf coun- situation in the region. This meet- Iran’s clerical establishment. of responsibility if the accord, days by some conservative figures “Israel and its allies, especially tries at some point after the Eid ing will hopefully develop rela- His remarks will be seen by which will last for years, falls within Iran’s political establish- Saudi Arabia, are extremely holiday, Foreign Ministry spokes- tions between Hamas and Saudi Iranians as reflecting Khamenei’s apart at some future stage. ment and media, and repeated the unhappy about this deal, and this woman Marzieh Afkham told Arabia,” the source told Reuters. views and contrast with the praise At the same time their criti- term Khamenei used to describe is the best proof to show how val- state news agency IRNA late on Hamas has ruled Gaza since 2007 given to the accord by President cism is not so severe as to tor- some of Tehran’s negotiating uable the deal is. As Iran’s mar- Thursday. after fighting a brief and bloody Hassan Rowhani and Foreign pedo the deal and block a lifting of partners — “untrustworthy”. tyred cleric, Beheshti, used to say: She said Iran was seriously civil war with Palestinian rivals in Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, sanctions — something ordinary Kermani said Iran’s nuclear ‘Let them be angry and die from determined to further expand Fatah and has fought three wars who plan to use the deal as the Iranians are desperate to see hap- scientists and scholars should now their anger.’” ties with regional states and its with Israel. REUTERS basis for a charm offensive among pen to restore a normal economy. scrutinise the deal and discuss it. Beheshti was seen as the neighbours, some of which include Iran’s wary Arab neighbours. “They say ... Iran’s nuclear pro- “This is important as I have number two in Iran’s political Gulf Arab states who accuse Shia Kermani said Iran would accept gramme should be limited and heard some critics saying the deal framework after the revolu- power Tehran of interfering in the Callers have a deal only if sanctions were lifted Iran should accept a comprehen- has not preserved the Supreme tion. He was assassinated in a Arab world. immediately, frozen revenues sive nuclear inspection regime ... Leader’s red lines,” he said. bomb blast at a political party REUTERS personal details Continued from page 1 The callers are armed with your Gun-runner details, including your e-mails, direct phone numbers, location of where you live, your profession British pilots took part in and even the position you hold in your office and the restaurants you frequent. Shopping malls are the key sources of these unsolic- air strikes on IS in Syria ited calls. Most of these malls are collecting consumers’ phone num- LONDON: British pilots have In 2013, Cameron’s govern- Cameron favours exploring a bers and basic details promising taken part in US and Canadian ment suffered a setback when second vote to gain support for to alert them about the upcoming air strikes against Islamic it lost a vote on Syria air strikes air strikes in Syria later this year promotions. Those participating State jihadists in Syria, the due to opposition from the once Labour elects a new leader in shopping malls’ bumper draws Defence Ministry said yester- Labour party. in September, who could give are another set of victims. day, despite parliament voting Lawmakers last year voted him the support needed to get Said Tariq Omar Al Susulaiti: in 2013 against military action. in favour of air strikes against the move through parliament. “I do not mind people calling me Prime Minister David IS militants in Iraq, but not in The embed activity emerged if they are really looking for my Cameron knew British military Syria. following a freedom of informa- feedback on certain issues. But pilots were taking part in the Eight British Tornado jets tion request by the Reprieve it’s embarrassing to realise that bombing raids, his spokeswoman based in Cyprus are carry- legal charity. these people have got all personal said. ing out air strikes over Iraq as “It is alarming that parlia- details of me and my family mem- Some lawmakers have called part of US-led operations and ment and the public have been bers. This is a clear case of vio- for ministers to explain the situ- Britain currently also has three kept in the dark about this for lation of my privacy. I have the ation in parliament. spy planes flying missions in so long,” said Reprieve lawyer right to protect my privacy”. “The UK is not conducting air the region. Jennifer Gibson. Leading Qatari lawyer Yousef strikes in Syria,” the Ministry of Cameron’s spokeswoman con- “Yet more worrying is the Al Zaman said Qatari law pro- Defence said. firmed the prime minister knew fact that the UK seems to have tects the privacy and personal “But we have a long-standing about the embed programme. turned over its personnel to information of nationals as well as embed programme with allies, “The PM was aware that UK the US wholesale, without the expatriates. The law clearly warns where small numbers of UK per- personnel were involved in US slightest idea as to what they are of criminal proceedings against sonnel act under the command operations and what they were actually doing, and whether it those who intrude into others’ of host nations. doing,” she said. is legal.” privacy. Personal data and privacy “That has been the case in Days after 30 Britons were The left-wing Stop The War is protected by the law. Syria, although there are cur- among 38 tourists killed by Coalition called for an immedi- Fatima Al Ghassal, another vic- rently no pilots operating in this a jihadist on a beach in the ate end to British troops embed- tim of frequent unsolicited calls region,” it said, adding that the Tunisian resort of Sousse last ding with allies bombing IS said she takes objection to receiv- number of pilots involved was month, Defence Secretary targets in Syria. ing calls from strangers, who ask fewer than 10. Michael Fallon hinted that The actions show the govern- for personal details. “Most of the The policy of embedding Britain’s parliament could be ment’s “contempt for democ- calls I receive are from insurance British personnel with allied asked to vote again on joining racy,” the anti-war group said. companies, automobile and com- forces dates back to the 1950s. air strikes on targets in Syria. “Western bombing in Syria mercial plazas. The callers fail Personnel have been embed- He told the BBC that IS “has will do nothing to halt IS,” to understand that my culture ded with the US, French and to be defeated in both Syria and it said. and tradition prevent me from Canadian military, but only the Iraq” and that there was “an “On the contrary, it will add A boy holds his toy gun near the former Somali parliament in Mogadishu sharing information that they United States and Canada are illogicality” about not being able fuel to the flames of war engulf- yesterday. often seek. operating in Syrian airspace. to strike targets in Syria. ing the whole region.” AFP THE PENINSULA SATURDAY 18 JULY 2015 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Shabaab chief Gathered for prayers threatens more attacks Terror group seeks more recruits

MOGADISHU: The leader of extrajudicial killings against cler- Somalia’s Al Qaeda-affiliated ics and kidnappings of Islamic Shabaab rebels yesterday issued youth” along Kenya’s Muslim- an Eid message calling for a majority coastline. “The time wave of new recruits in order to for the Christians to engage in “lift the pain of Muslims” across atrocities without accountability East Africa. is over,” he said. “We pray to God In a statement that under- to lift the pain of the Muslims scored the group’s ambition to in the whole of eastern Africa — expand its operations, Shabaab Ethiopia, Uganda and Djibouti.” leader Ahmed Diriye, also known “We will not spare any effort as Ahmed Umar Abu Ubaidah, to assist you, and the doors of took aim at Kenya, Ethiopia, our training camps are open to Djibouti and Uganda. receive you and our houses are “The sword of the Mujahedeen open to welcome you.” is drawn and attacks against The Shabaab, meaning “youth” the enemy are ongoing country- in Arabic, emerged out of a bit- wide and we are calling them ter insurgency against Ethiopia, Libyan Muslims gather on Martyrs’ Square in the capital Tripoli to perform prayers yesterday on the first day of Eid Al Fitr that marks the end of the to increase their attacks on the whose troops entered Somalia in fasting month of Ramadan. infidels,” he said in a statement a 2006 US-backed invasion to top- posted on an Islamist website. ple the Islamic Courts Union that “We say to our beloved brothers was then controlling the capital living in territories under Kenyan Mogadishu. colonisation that your brothers Shabaab rebels continue to will never stop coming to your stage frequent attacks, seeking to Six killed as Mursi supporters clash with cops assistance,” he said. counter claims that they are close “You have to know that Jihad is to defeat after losing territory in CAIRO: At least six people In the Mediterranean city of as electricity towers. Muslim Brotherhood, once Egypt’s the only way you can free your- the face of an African Union and were killed yesterday in clashes Alexandria, police arrested 20 In the Sinai Peninsula, jihad- largest political movement. selves from the oppression and Somali government offensive, between pro-Islamist protesters Islamist protesters after they ists affiliated to the Islamic The Islamists had been banned humiliation you are now facing, regular US drone strikes against and Egyptian police in Cairo, directed fireworks at policemen, State group have killed hun- for decades until a popular 2011 so rush and join in the Jihad... and their leaders and defections. the Health Ministry said. the official MENA news agency dreds of policemen and soldiers uprising ousted veteran strong- liberate your territories from the Currently affiliated to the Supporters of ousted Islamist reported. in an insurgency since Mursi’s man Hosni Mubarak. Christians.” Al Qaeda franchise, there has president Mohamed Mursi had Pro-Mursi protests have overthrow. They went on to dominate par- Diriye praised the April mas- been mounting speculation that held small marches after the dwindled since his ouster by the Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood liament and then win the 2012 sacre at Garissa University in the group could shift its allegiance morning prayers for Eid Al Fitr, military in 2013, which led to a has been blacklisted and thou- presidential election with their northeastern Kenya, in which four to the Islamic State group. which marks the end of the Holy massive crackdown on Islamists sands of its sympathisers have candidate Mursi, who lasted only Shabaab gunmen killed 148 peo- The Shabaab were once a mag- Month of Ramadan. that killed at least 1,400 people been jailed. a year in office. ple, most of them students. The net for foreign volunteers, but Police officials said the protest- in street violence. Hundreds, including Mursi, The Islamist proved to be a attackers were mostly Muslims their capacity to recruit has in ers attacked security forces sta- Hardcore supporters continue have been sentenced to death. divisive leader, prompting mil- from Kenya. recent years been eclipsed by the tioned in Cairo’s Talbiya district to hold small protests that are Most have appealed the verdicts lions to demonstrate against him “We congratulate you and the rise of Islamic State militants near the Giza pyramids. often confined to one or two Cairo and won retrials. demanding his resignation. rest of the Muslims in the world in Syria and Iraq, while several The Health Ministry did not neighbourhoods. Protesters risk jail even for non The crackdown on the on the heroic Garissa University foreign Shabaab members have give a breakdown of those killed. Demonstrations have largely violent demonstrations under a Brotherhood has shown no signs operation,” the Shabaab leader fallen victim to infighting and Protest clashes were also given way to militant attacks, law that requires obtaining a of letting up, with weekly arrests said, saying the massacre purges. reported in the village of Nahya often small bombings and police permit to demonstrate. of the group’s remaining organis- was retaliation for “organised AFP near Cairo. attacks on infrastructure such The crackdown has gutted the ers in Egypt. AFP

Enjoying the ride Israel hints at IS attack kills over 80 in Iraq BAGHDAD: A suicide car Angry crowds went on the attack was to avenge the killing bomber killed more than 80 rampage after the explosion, of Sunni Muslims in the north- seeking more people in a busy market in an smashing the windows of cars ern Iraqi town of Hawija, and Iraqi town yesterday, in one of parked in the street in grief that the suicide car bomber was US military aid the deadliest attacks carried and anger. carrying around three tonnes of out by Islamic State militants “Some people were using veg- explosives. JERUSALEM: Israel signalled since they overran large parts etable boxes to collect children’s Iraqi officials declared victory yesterday that it would ask the of the country. body parts,” said police major over Islamic State in Diyala United States for increased mil- The force of the blast brought Ahmed Al Tamimi from the earlier this year after security itary aid to counter any threats down several buildings in Khan site of the explosion, describing forces and Shia paramilitaries that may arise as result of the Bani Saad, about 30km north- the damage to the market as drove them out of towns and vil- international agreement on east of Baghdad, crushing to “devastating”. An officer from lages there, but the insurgents Iran’s nuclear programme. death people who were celebrat- the Diyala police command said remain active in the province. Israel gets $3bn in annual mili- ing the end of the Holy Month rescue crews were still retrieving Security forces and militia tary aid from Washington under of Ramadan, police and medics bodies from under the debris so groups are currently focused a package due to expire in 2017 said. the death toll could rise. on the western province of and has in recent years secured Islamic State, which controls The Diyala provincial gov- Anbar, where they have been hundreds of millions of dollars in large parts of northern and ernment declared three days’ gearing up for an offensive to additional US funding for missile western Iraq claimed responsi- mourning and ordered all parks retake the mainly Sunni gov- defence. Israel and the United bility for the attack in the mixed and entertainment places to ernorate — Iraq’s largest. The States had been in talks on future eastern province of Diyala where close for the rest of the Eid United Nations said earlier this grants but Israeli Prime Minister Khan Bani Saad is located and Al-Fitr holiday to preempt any week that nearly 15,000 people Benjamin Netanyahu suspended said the target was “rejection- further attacks. had been killed in the 16-month them in the run-up to Tuesday’s ists”, as the group refers to Shia Islamic State said in a state- period up to April 30. agreement which curtailed Iran’s Muslims. ment issued on Twitter that the REUTERS nuclear projects, which he con- demned as insufficient. Netanyahu plans to lobby the US Congress not to approve the nuclear deal. But Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon yester- Syrian refugees living in Ouzaii compound play on a playground yes- day appeared to regard congres- terday in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon yesterday. The recrea- sional ratification as a foregone tional area was notably built with the donations of French NGO “Aide conclusion. medicale internationale” (AMI) and the French government. REUTERS Kerry: Very, very hopeful Iran will release three Americans

WASHINGTON: Secretary of his team’s efforts to get them United States,” Kerry said in the State John Kerry said yesterday freed, including during the final MSNBC interview. “And we are he raised the topic of detained round of negotiations that began consistently, constantly even now Americans at every meeting he on June 27. continuing to work on that.” held with Iranians during the “There was not a meeting that The Americans known to be final weeks of nuclear nego- took place — not one meeting held in Iran include Washington tiations and said he is hopeful that took place, believe me that’s Post correspondent Jason Rezaian, Tehran would release them. not an exaggeration — where who is being tried on espionage The Obama administration has we did not raise the issue of our charges after his arrest in July faced criticism for not securing American citizens being held,” he 2014. the Americans’ release as part said. US President Barack Obama in of the landmark deal reached on Kerry said he brought it up March urged Iran’s government Tuesday in Vienna to curb Iran’s with Iranian Foreign Minister to release Rezaian and two other nuclear programme in exchange Jawad Zarif just before the two detained Americans — Saeed for sanctions relief. went out to announce the deal. Abedini and Amir Hekmati — and There are three Americans “We remain very, very hope- to help find Robert Levinson, an known to be detained by Iran. ful that Iran will make the deci- American who disappeared in In an interview with MSNBC’s sion to do the right thing and Iran eight years ago. “Morning Joe,” Kerry defended to return those citizens to the REUTERS SATURDAY 18 JULY 2015 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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HE lower house of Japan’s parliament has passed bills Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate to allow Japanese troops to fight abroad for the first time since the second world war. The two bills were Tpassed despite widespread popular opposition and questions over their constitutionality. Opposition parties staged a walkout in protest before the vote. On Thursday, thousands of protesters chanted and held up placards reading “No War, It’s OK if Japan wants to No Killing”. But the passing of the legislation wasn’t difficult because the governing Liberal Democratic party (LDP) controls two-thirds of the seats. Demonstrations in Japan are usually small, but the latest issue has galvanised opposition across a wide swathe of the fudge its constitution population. The reaction is not surprising considering the BY NOAH FELDMAN pacifist policies that Japan has strictly followed in the past and promulgated under conditions of the respect that comes with time, it decades. Opinion polls show the vast majority of the public is occupation. can become very hard to change. And against the bills, and Prime Minister Abe’s approval rating APAN’S Diet has begun the proc- In this sense, the Japanese constitu- because a constitution can come to be ess of passing legislation that tion poses a fascinating puzzle for con- seen as a coherent whole, changing one is dropping. There were chaotic scenes in a parliamentary would authorize the country’s stitutional theorists who think such a provision can lead to unsettled expec- committee room as opposition lawmakers thronged the floor in Jself- defense forces to fight in for- document can only be legitimate and tations about whether other provisions an unsuccessful bid to block the bills. eign conflicts, in apparent violation of effective if it reflects the will of the might be changed. Finally there’s the Chief among the changes that the legislation will enable is the country’s pacifist constitution. And people. At the time it was adopted, the problem of whether a supermajority can the option for the military to go into battle to protect allies even that’s a good thing, despite the apparent Japanese charter very clearly did not actually be persuaded to take national if there is no direct threat to Japan or its people, something danger it poses to the rule of law. Behold reflect the will of the nation -- only interest into account. the power -- and the danger -- of a liv- its acknowledgment of its defeat. Yet To strict constructionists everywhere, successive governments have ruled out. Opponents are saying ing constitution. over time, it’s achieved the respect these difficulties in amending a consti- that provision would drag Japan into American wars in far- The provision in question is Article 9 we associate with popularly adopted tution are part of the whole point of the flung parts of the globe. of the Japanese constitution, which says constitutions. document. Written constitutions tend While Japanese have every right to “the Japanese people forever renounce Now, under the prime-ministership of toward conservatism of the small-c, protest against the bills and demand their war as a sovereign right of the nation” conservative nationalist Shinzo Abe, a Burkean variety. Because they’re hard Japan is rollback, the current geopolitical realities and promises that majority of the legislature’s lower house to change, they promote the status quo. “land, sea, and air is acting in apparent violation of the But as U.S. Supreme Court Justice enacting laws make such changes necessary. Japan is forces, as well as venerated constitution -- and there’s Robert Jackson once put it, the a major global power and therefore has to allow its other war poten- reason to think the legislation will pass. Constitution is not a suicide pact. responsibilities which it must perform. In No other tial, will never be Abe has spoken of Japanese hostages Jackson was an inveterate pragmatist troops to a crisis and conflict-ridden world, military maintained.” captured and killed by the Islamic who knew something about geopoli- interventions are often necessary to bring country has such No other coun- State, but that’s just window dressing. tics after serving as chief prosecutor try has such a Everyone understands that the real at Nuremberg. His point was that a fight abroad. peace and stop mass killings. Most of the a remarkable remarkable paci- reason for Japan to develop offensive constitution must be interpreted prag- It’s a positive major powers are performing this duty pacifist fist guarantee in military capabilities is the rise of China. matically, to serve the nation’s interests change that and Tokyo cannot stay away. It’s because its constitution. Since World War II, Japan has relied and help it avoid existential threats. It of this realization that Abe has chosen to guarantee in It was imposed by on the United States to defend it from applies equally to Japan as to the U.S. Japanese push the bills despite huge opposition. its constitution. the US occupation the much larger China. What’s changed That leaves the second option: Supporters of the legislation are saying after World War is that China’s military is getting big- interpreting the constitutional provi- must accept. It was imposed II. Even if a whole ger, its regional posture is increasingly sion flexibly so as to accommodate the it is needed considering the shifting by the US people wanted to aggressive, and the U.S. seems increas- change that the nation acknowledges to security environment in Asia, where be at peace with ingly uncertain about its commitment be necessary. In the case of Article 9, the North Korea remains as volatile and occupation after the world, there and capacity to defend its Asian allies argument should be that Japan’s exist- unpredictable as ever. China too is increasingly perceived to be World War II. would ordinarily if push comes to shove. Geopolitically, ing self- defense forces already count throwing its weight around. If the new bills survive, they would be no good reason increasing military capacity makes all as “land, sea, and air forces.” Thus, the also permit the Japanese government to deploy soldiers abroad to renounce the the sense in the world for Japan. Any literal meaning of the provision has right to fight. But country in its situation, with its eco- already been abandoned in favor of its in UN peacekeeping missions and for collective defence, for General Douglas MacArthur wanted nomic capacity, would be taking steps spirit. And that spirit remains the spirit example in alliance with the US and Australia. Abe wants what a definitive and clear message sent to to grow its military. of self-defense. After all, Japan isn’t he calls a normalisation of Japan’s military posture, which has the Japanese that their imperial ambi- The catch is Article 9 of the constitu- planning to invade China or anybody been constrained by a constitution imposed by US occupiers tions were being permanently shut tion. It would seem to leave no room for else. It just needs expanded military after World War II. down. Forcing them to renounce war such increased military capacity. capacity to recognize the growing threat as a legitimate tool of foreign policy was What’s to be done when a consti- of China. In military affairs, sometimes As expected, China has reacted angrily to the bill. China’s akin to forcing the emperor of Japan to tutional provision conflicts with a the best defense is a good offense. official Xinhua news agency condemned the Japanese vote, renounce his divine character. country’s pressing self-interest? Two If Article 9 can’t be amended, then saying it meant “a nightmare scenario has come a step closer for Remarkably, Japan’s constitution has plausible options present themselves. Japan’s legal authorities can -- and Japanese people and neighbouring nations”. been a resounding success, notwith- One, preferred by legal logic, is to should -- move in the direction of inter- However, considering the opposition to the new legislation, standing the fact that it was written amend the constitution to fit the new preting it to allow expanded military Abe must move cautiously in deploying troops abroad. by Americans in English, translated circumstances. The trouble is that once forces in the spirit of self-defense. hastily to Japanese (with some errors), a constitutional provision has achieved BLOOMBERG The other side Quote of The Greek let-down the day

HE latest phase of the over and above what the referendum of austerity has only exacerbated the is unsustainable. What Europe should protracted game of chicken set out to seek. But with the eurozone problem for the economy. have done was to write-off a major part between Greece and its being pushed by its largest economy, That said, it must be asked what the of Greece’s debt and allow the country creditors ended in a whimper Germany, to prepare for Grexit, Greece goal of the agreement was: make an to lift public spending. This, in a classi- By signing this deal, Tfor the country as Prime Minister Alexis had barely any wiggle room: the pain of example out of Greece for other debtor- cal Keynesian way, would have helped Tsipras’s government agreed to a a Grexit was seen to be more daunting nations, or help its economy tide over its revive demand and thereby economic Britain -- with allies continuation of the austerity programme than status quo for the economically immediate and deep problems? Given growth. But instead, Europe’s leaders including America, in return for debt relief concessions. The crippled nation. There have been the way the negotiations were held, decided to toe the line of big finance government’s actions should be termed rumblings within the ruling Syriza and from the terms of the agreement, it by punishing Greece and its people, Germany, France, as a letdown. It sought a referendum against the latest agreement. But in could be said for sure that the latter was creating divisions within Europe. The Russia and China-- on the conditions posed by the Troika the Greek Parliament the conditions not on the agenda. In the past seven present action against Greece exposes — comprising the European Central accepted by the Syriza government years the country’s GDP has shrunk by the fault-lines in the European project, what we’re doing Bank, the European Commission and have been ratified, and Greece will 30 per cent while unemployment has which originally aimed to integrate a the International Monetary Fund — again try a round of austerity measures risen to over 25 per cent. If after years continent economically and politically is taking Iran away that yielded an overwhelming “no” and privatisation to pay off its debt in of austerity and two bailouts Greece still but failed to do so because of the insist- from a nuclear from the Greek people. Later under a the medium term. It is anybody’s guess has to seek a third bailout package to ence on a faulty and unbalanced mon- David Cameron new agreement, it accepted conditions if this would work; after all, five years service its debt, that itself shows its path etary union. THE HINDU weapon. British Prime Minister SATURDAY 18 JULY 2015 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 The black president has arrived

that mass incarceration and sexual vio- Obama didn’t lation in prison have become accepted features of life for some segments of lecture black America (so much so that they are now part of the American joke-making firma- ment). He mentioned both. And Obama America about its put the price tag of mass incarceration, American-style, at more than $80bn a behaviour while year. That’s a tab that could be used to build better roads and bridges and schools, making only passing Obama said. Or it could cover the cost of universal pre-K for every 3- and 4-year- mention of some old in America or the cost of college tui- tion at every public college and university in the United States. of the social and How did we get here? And what became of that Obama who once so famously economic conditions opined about the futility of any discus- sion about a black and white America and that solid research deepening divisions between red states and blue? Back in 2012, when Obama had just — not just political been reelected, the leaders of some of the country’s biggest civil rights groups ideology — tells us often talked privately about the fact that Obama had made public com- mitments and taken concrete steps to has at least helped advance the interests of environmental- ists, immigrants and queer Americans. to foster inequality. That same president, these leaders often said privately and sometimes publicly, BY JANELL ROSS could hardly be counted on to mention the word race, much less aggressively push ideas that might address racial here’s this thing people some- inequality. times say down South. But lots of reporters who watch the So-and-so is “acting brand A guest looks at silent auction items including this framed Giclee print of President Obama titled “Let Me Be Clear” during the 86th birthday White House for a living say the Obama Tnew.” Sometimes that’s a refer- celebration for Martin Luther King Jr at the annual Salute to Greatness Awards Dinner to honour the slain civil rights leader in Atlanta. administration was stung by the 2010 ence to people behaving like they don’t midterm elections and Democrats’ stag- know old friends and family — that two major reform packages — housing to include things like anti-death penalty and Latino men. That in turn splinters gering defeat, despite years of what they they have evolved past their old crowd. last week and criminal justice on Tuesday work and school-funding reform. families and concentrates long-term saw as pragmatic compromise. So the Sometimes that’s Southern-speak for the — that could, if ultimately implemented, Still, in the eyes of some Americans, joblessness, poverty and a rather logical administration went big with execu- emboldened, people behaving like they be of particular benefit to people of colour the NAACP is a partisan organisation. but dangerous degree of hopelessness in tive orders and administrative actions either don’t know the rules or have out- in the United States. Some on the right have even called it a those same communities. You can read on the environment, immigration, trade right decided to disregard them. Here’s the thing: This Obama might “hate group.” more about the specifics of the criminal and other issues. There have also been In the past four weeks, we’ve seen look or sound “brand new” to some But Obama came to the NAACP con- justice reforms Obama called for here, some defeats — in court and in the court President Barack Obama take up resi- Americans. He might even sound a lit- vention and laid out a criminal-justice here and here. of public opinion — but then, there have dence in a place that sits somewhere tle something like the black president reform agenda that included everything Obama talked about the fact that some also been some legal and social victories in-between. some white Americans across the politi- from calls for a close and hard look at people in jail need to be there, at least in the past eight weeks. He’s spoken off the cuff about race cal spectrum feared (or hoped for). But what sends people to jail, which crimes for some period of time. And he didn’t And there have stunning moments relations on a widely circulated pod- to people who watch the White House and which defendants get the longest lambaste law enforcement. — in Sanford, Florida; in New York; in cast (even using the n-word) and then closely, this is the President Obama who sentences, the use of solitary confine- Still, this Obama didn’t do what he has Ferguson, Missouri; in North Charleston, eloquently followed that with what can has been developing for some time. ment and the loss of voting rights after so many times before. He didn’t lecture South Carolina; in Baltimore and in only be described as a sermon on race On Tuesday, Obama addressed the release. That agenda, Obama said, also black America about its behaviour while Charleston, South Carolina — that have relations in America before breaking 106th national convention of the NAACP, has to include resolving the massive dis- making only passing mention of some of made the continued significance of race into song. He’s challenged America to the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights parities in school quality and discipline the social and economic conditions that harder for the White House and larger go deeper in its support of equality than organisation. It’s worth noting here that that federal data tells us begin in pre- solid research — not just political ideol- swaths of America to ignore. Combine retiring symbols of slavery (such as the the NAACP was founded by a cross-racial kindergarten classrooms. ogy — tells us has at least helped to foster that with the waning months of Obama’s Confederate flag) and impolitic words group of civil rights warriors ultimately When combined with a whole host of inequality. He gave a full airing to his presidency, and the timing makes sense. (such as the n-word). responsible for some of the most sweep- other inequities Obama mentioned — who sense that there is a need for wholesale And there was something else that While eulogising a slain minister and ing legal reforms of the 20th century. But graduates from high school and college, policy reforms. And he stayed completely happened in that podcast with come- state lawmaker allegedly killed by a the NAACP isn’t as highly regarded these who is employed, who lives in the saf- clear of the politically expedient and at dian Marc Maron. There was something white supremacist in Charleston, South days as it once was. In the 1990s, the est and best-equipped communities and times outright popular act of saying that Obama said long after that n-word Carolina, he outlined a whole raft of ways NAACP saw a sharp decline in member- how police view their responsibilities to young black men should do something exchange that should not be ignored. in which discrimination remains and ine- ship and was itself focused on issues such different neighbourhoods — these pro- about the way some wear their pants or “I know what I am doing, and I’m fear- quality continues to grow. And now, in as retiring the n-word, before rebuilding duce exceedingly elevated arrest, con- how they speak. less,” Obama said. the span of two weeks, he has announced its membership by expanding its activism viction and incarceration rates for black This Obama did not avoid the fact WP-BLOOMBERG Though irked by US, EU keeps own spy projects quiet BY FRANCESCO lack capacity to develop such however, the EU official said: among European police forces. GUARASCIO and technology themselves. Among “Of course, the Israeli firms get After two years of argument, it ALASTAIR MACDONALD top priorities are finding ways attention. They are getting a lot finally passed the committee stage to focus mass surveillance of the of EU money. But the reality is in parliament on Wednesday. evelations of US spying in Internet, email, mobile phones these guys are miles ahead of us in That has delayed implementa- Europe have soured trans- and social networks on suspects. technology. And they are sharing tion of a system on which the EU Ratlantic relations, prompt- “Member states do conduct it with us.” has already spent several million ing a White House apology and, their own research,” said an EU Officials say that among pri- euros in technology costs. as leak followed leak over the official familiar with such projects orities for investment are mass EU-funded security projects past two years, have fostered feel- who spoke privately as he was not surveillance technologies that let are no strangers to criticism. ings of moral superiority among authorised to speak. “But a lot of agencies sweep large amounts of One, known as INDECT, Europeans. them like to go through us — it audio, video and written data to which ran for five years until Yet EU governments are step- helps keep some of this stuff at zoom in on suspects. 2014, developed ways to identify ping up surveillance of their arm’s length.” These include deep packet potential criminals using software own citizens: last month France, Most of the research the EU inspection equipment to inter- to collate and analyse disparate smarting from Islamist attacks funds, much of it by private firms cept online conversations, digital information collected for example in January, passed intrusive laws including from non-European forensics to remotely access pri- from CCTV, drones, GPS location on the very day it learned US states such as the United States vate computers, IMSI catchers services on phones. agents tapped French presidents’ and Israel, is listed in public ten- — a mobile device for listening in Critics called it a real-life “Big phones; this week, the European der documents, though these are to phone calls — social network Brother”. Parliament gave ground in a time-consuming to consult. But analysis and data mining to pro- “The shift from identifying fight to block powers to track about a tenth of the spending is file people according to patterns offenders to preventing crime and share air passenger records set aside for work classified as top they leave online. implies that the presumption of among member states. secret. Broken antenna covers of former National Security Agency (NSA) listening Technologies to decrypt innocence is no longer the nor- Less well known still is that Asked whether such research station at the Teufelsberg hill in Berlin. secured messages and to identify mal case, but that all citizens are the 28-nation European Union might lead to infringing civil lib- anonymised communications are becoming suspects,” argues David itself, as a collective institution, is erties, a spokeswoman for the US company with operations in impossible to use them with- also being developed. Wright, editor of ‘Surveillance in spending hundreds of millions of European Commission, Natasha Israel. Coordinator of four secu- out having whatever local legal Such projects trouble the chair Europe’, an overview of the sector euros developing security technol- Bertaud, said: “Fighting terror- rity projects, Verint received some authorisation is required, for of the European Parliament’s published last year. ogies that civil liberties watchdogs ism and keeping citizens safe is ¤4m in EU funding from 2007-13, example to tap telephones. civil liberties committee. Claude The Emergency Support say jeopardise rights to privacy. all about staying ahead of the according to Commission data. Gaudino’s firm was partner in a Moraes, a British Labour EU law- System project, run from 2009- “Funding these programmes game ... The EU brings together Despite EU insistence that three-year EU-sponsored project maker, sees a “conflict of interest” 13, was said to have improved is not per se problematic,” said the industry and practitioners, systems are designed to be kept known as CAPER — Collaborative between the development of these authorities’ response to crises Nils Muiznieks, a Latvian who is and provides funding for devel- under strict judicial control, some information Acquisition, technologies and EU’s frequent but it used fast analysis based on human rights commissioner for oping cutting-edge technolo- experts note that, once developed Processing, Exploitation and outcries at mass surveillance pro- technologies, such as IMSI catch- the 47-state Council of Europe, gies, in order to help member with EU cash, the software and Reporting. Concluded nine grammes run by its international ers, which critics say are invasive a rights body that is not part of states better protect people and devices owned by private firms months ago, it created a platform partners. of personal privacy. the EU. “It is how the new tech- infrastructure.” could be used by any future buyer for police and security agencies to The revelations two years ago The EU official familiar with nologies will be used that poses a Calling EU privacy standards with fewer scruples. share data gathered in pursuit of by fugitive US National Security the research projects said balanc- series of human rights concerns.” among the highest in the world, The Council of Europe’s organised crime gangs. Agency contractor Edward ing security and freedoms was a With concerns growing over she noted efforts to ensure com- Muiznieks said surveillance tools Gaudino said that while tech- Snowden on US mass surveillance problem: “Personally, of course, Islamist violence even before the panies based elsewhere also which have so far been subject nologies developed under EU of private emails and phone data some of this makes me uncom- attacks in Paris in January, EU abided by data protection rules in to rigorous checks, may become auspices were in themselves “neu- across the world still fuel suspi- fortable,” he said. “But the others spending on security research, at the EU: “There can be no security easier to use as EU states toughen tral” — inherently neither good cion in Europe and poison EU-US are all doing it and Europe needs ¤1.7bn in the bloc’s 7-year budget without freedom and no freedom counter-terrorism measures. or bad for civil liberties — there relations. to catch up.” from 2014, is 20 percent up on the without security,” she said. Security technologies devel- was no guarantee how they might The experience reinforced On protecting civil liberties, previous period. A number of firms which have oped by EU projects have privacy be used once they were no longer opposition among EU lawmak- he added: “We make an effort. EU officials estimate that rep- taken part in EU projects, includ- protection tools embedded into inside EU programmes. ers, already strongly influenced But in the end of course once the resents a hefty 40 percent of all ing planemaker Airbus and Italy’s them, said Francesca Gaudino at Concern over the involvement by historic German mistrust of firms develop this stuff, it’s their such spending by the bloc’s 28 Wind telecom declined comment. US law firm Baker and McKenzie of non-European companies in EU state surveillance, to proposals to proprietary product. They can sell member states, many of which So too did Verint Systems Inc, a in Milan. These aim to make it research projects was misplaced, share airline passengers records it to who they want.” REUTERS SATURDAY 18 JULY 2015 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com EUROPE Italians set Ukraine points fire to beds in anti-migrant finger at Russia protests

ROME: Residents in a chic on MH17 fate Rome suburb and a northern Italian village staged angry anti- immigrant protests yesterday, with villagers setting mattresses Families mark downing of MH17 ablaze in a bid to stop authorities from housing migrants. HRABOVE, UKRAINE: church service was held and resi- Authorities in the village of Ukraine’s president accused dents joined a procession to a grave- Quito plan to accommodate 101 Russia’s military yesterday stone near the charred area where immigrants in empty apartments, of ordering the missile strike twisted metal and body parts came but several residents broke into that brought down Malaysia crashing down on July 17 last year. one of the buildings, removed camp Airlines flight MH17 one year “To the memory of the dead - 298 beds, mattresses and televisions ago, as relatives gathered from innocent victims of civil war,” was intended for the newcomers and the Netherlands to Australia to written on the gravestone in the set them on fire outside. remember the 298 passengers village of Hrabove, where a Russian The protesters then put up and crew. Orthodox priest and an imam said tents, with the Corriere della Sera “MH17, where 298 victims were prayers. Dancers perform during the commemoration ceremony for the people who died in the crash of the Malaysian newspaper quoting them as saying: killed for no reason, was shot down About 300 people brought flowers “We aren’t going home until they Airlines flight MH17, in Nieuwegein, near the city of Utrecht, the Netherlands, yesterday. by a Russian BUK missile, launched and flags of the victims’ countries, leave — this is an invasion.” by a Russian professional crew some with black ribbons attached, Italy is currently hosting more under an order and an instruc- and released white balloons into the At Amsterdam’s Schiphol Western diplomats say they are the Dutch Safety Board, due in than 80,000 migrants who have tion from the Russian military,” sky. “The memory of these people Airport, from where flight MH17 open to the prospect of a tribunal October, concludes that rebels shot crossed the Mediterranean fleeing President Petro Poroshenko said on will always be in our hearts ... Pray departed, and at towns across the that is not backed by the UN if the plane down with a Russian- war, persecution or poverty in the the first anniversary of the disaster. for their souls,” said a priest who country, sunflowers were laid like Russia wields its Security Council made missile, it would under- Middle East and Africa. The arriv- Ukraine has consistently blamed gave his name as Oleg. those that grow at the crash site. veto. Thirty-nine of the victims mine Russia’s denials and could als include many Africans, particu- Russia, but Poroshenko’s comments Of the victims, 196 were from the Flags flew at half-mast. were from Australia, which held a pave the way for court cases and larly Eritreans, as well as Syrians. were his most direct to date. Netherlands, where 1,500 relatives Western governments believe memorial service. prosecutions. Luca Zaia, the president of Russia denies responsibility and gathered for a ceremony of music that pro-Russian rebels shot “Their passing leaves a void British Foreign Secretary Philip Italy’s northern Veneto region and in turn has pointed the finger at and dance at which the names of the plane out of the sky with a than can never be filled and a Hammond said in a statement a member of the anti-immigrant Ukraine, whose forces are fighting the victims were read out. “Today Russian-supplied BUK missile. pain that still throbs,” Australian issued in London: “Any attempt Northern League party, told Italian pro-Russian separatist rebels in the is a hard day, a day of reliving,” Britain and Ukraine marked the Prime Minister Tony Abbott said. to undermine this process would television he agreed with the pro- region of eastern Ukraine where Prime Minister Mark Rutte told anniversary with new appeals for Malaysia remembered the victims, deprive the victims of justice and testers, and complained about the the plane crashed to earth. mourners. “The 298 unique people an international tribunal to pros- 43 of whom were Malaysian, at a cannot be tolerated.” “Africanisation” of his own region. Poroshenko did not say what we remember today are for always ecute suspects, an option also ceremony on July 11. The differ- At Hrabove, about 650 km east “This is a declaration of war for evidence he had for accusing the bound with your lives and those of favored by Malaysia, Australia, the ences over what happened are part of Kiev, rebel supporters who came those who don’t understand what Russian military. In comments thousands of others.” Netherlands and Belgium. of a standoff between Russia and to the crash site, including rebel it means to put (migrants) along- later on Friday, he used a different The wife of the airliner’s first Russian President Vladimir the West over Moscow’s role in the leader Alexander Zakharchenko, side families with young children,” form of words, blaming the trag- officer took the stage to read out Putin dismissed those calls as pre- conflict in east Ukraine, in which blamed the Ukrainian forces. he said. edy on Russian-trained “terrorists” the passenger announcement her mature and counter-productive on more than 6,500 people have been “The saddest thing is the But Treviso prefect Maria - a description often used by the husband was never able to make. Thursday in a phone call with Rutte killed since the separatist uprising Ukrainians brought it down and Augusta Marrosu said: “They are Ukrainian government to describe “Salam alaikum and good evening,” and criticized “politicized” versions began in April 2014. shifted the blame onto us,” said a staying, because they don’t have the separatists. she said, her voice trembling. “We of the incident “planted” in foreign Moscow denies giving the rebels separatist who uses the nom de the choice.” In rebel-held eastern Ukraine, a will begin our descent shortly.” media. arms and soldiers. If a report from guerre of Sultan. REUTERS Graffiti sprayed on the side of a building in Quinto said in large red letters: “Prefect Marrosu, take them home.” In Casale San Nicola, a well- heeled suburb north of Rome, Poland to hold around a hundred locals and an UK surveillance law ruled unlawful extreme-right group also staged a general election protest against the arrival of some LONDON: Britain has been from Britons who have travelled EU directive requiring com- over the access to the data. 20 migrants. on October 25 given nine months to pro- to Iraq and Syria to fight with panies to retain data for 12 It gave the government until The protesters shouted “You duce new surveillance legisla- them. “The court has recog- months. March 2016 to come up with can’t bring them here” and “We are WARSAW: Poland’s president tion it says is vital to national nised what was clear to many Cameron had argued that a replacement. “We disagree afraid for our daughters” as sev- announced that parliamentary security after London’s High last year, that the government’s scrapping this could deprive absolutely with this judgement eral women in the crowd formed a elections would take place on Court ruled yesterday that hasty and ill thought through police and intelligence agencies and will seek an appeal,” said human chain in an effort to block October 25, with the country’s emergency measures rushed legislation is fatally flawed,” said of access to information about Security Minister John Hayes. the migrants’ bus. Clashes erupted ruling centrists bracing for a through parliament last year lawmaker David Davis, a long- who customers contacted by Cameron’s government, fresh between the demonstrators and stiff challenge from the con- were unlawful. time campaigner against state phone, text or email, and where from winning an election in police, who escorted the migrants servative opposition. The court backed a judicial intrusion who was defeated by and when, which forms a crucial May, has already promised new into a former school that has been Outgoing president Bronislaw challenge from two prominent Cameron in the race to become part of most investigations. legislation to extend the pow- turned into a reception centre. Komorowski, an ally of the ruling lawmakers and other campaign- Conservative Party leader in He said the emergency law ers of police and spies to moni- Rome authorities condemned Civic Platform (PO), called the ers that powers which com- 2005. would not provide new pow- tor communications and web the protests and noted the loca- election two months after being pelled telecoms firms to retain Tom Watson, currently stand- ers but only enshrine existing activities so they can keep up tion of the centre was carefully defeated in his reelection bid by customer data for a year were ing to be the deputy leader of capabilities. with technological changes. The chosen in accordance with the law. Andrzej Duda, a conservative. inconsistent with European the opposition Labour Party, However, the High Court decision also comes after three Italy’s resources are being severely If the general election were held Union laws. added: “The government was ruled the law should be “disap- major inquiries concluded that stretched by the influx of migrants. now, the eurosceptic, conserva- Prime Minister David warned that rushing through plied”, saying it did not provide British spies were not knowingly The interior ministry wants to tive Law and Justice (PiS) party Cameron had said the meas- important security legislation precise rules to ensure data carrying out illegal mass sur- share the burden across regions, of Jaroslaw Kaczynski — a former ures were vital to protect the would end up with botched law.” was only obtained to prevent or veillance following disclosures but in many cases local govern- premier and twin of late president country, which is on high alert Last year’s legislation was detect serious crimes, and also by former US security agency ments do not have adequate facili- Lech Kaczynski — would score 33 because of the threat posed fast-tracked after the European failed to ensure there was judi- contractor Edward Snowden. ties to host them, particularly in percent, according to a poll. AFP by Islamic State militants and Court of Justice threw out an cial or independent oversight REUTERS the north. AFP

Eid prayers in Russia Dozens flee as wildfires rage in Greece ATHENS: Greece appealed The fire department said five for EU assistance yesterday to homes in the area had been battle wildfires raging on the burned down. “The town is outskirts of Athens and in the being evacuated, we can only see southern Peloponnese region two metres ahead of us,” said a that forced the evacuation of resident of the coastal town of several villages. Neapoli, where a health centre Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and retirement home were also said he had requested help to fight emptied by authorities. the fires and announced army and National civil protection chief airforce units were being deployed Tassos Mavropoulos told Skai to help douse the flames. TV that reinforcements from “All firefighting forces, in addi- the entire Peloponnese region had tion to the army and the airforce, been rushed to the area, where are on alert,” Tsipras told report- the operation was hampered ers, blaming the outbreak on by the wind and mountainous “emergency weather conditions”. terrain. “We all need to stay calm.” A fire-fighting plane was forced Greece had asked for four air- to make an emergency landing craft from Europe, fire depart- near Neapoli but the two pilots ment spokesman Nikos Tsongas escaped with only minor injuries. told a briefing. Fire department spokesman Tsipras, fresh from a bruising People run away from their houses during a fire in Athens yesterday. Tsongas had earlier warned vote in parliament early Thursday there could be further damage to to approve an unpopular EU-IMF Within a few hours, it had that borders the mountain, told property. “The winds are strong debt deal, was expected to reshuf- crossed the mountain and was Vima radio. and are not expected to weaken. fle his government but such plans threatening the districts of A huge grey cloud billowed over There could be further damage,” have now been pushed back, Ilioupoli and Glyfada close to the the city, and a nunnery and a chil- he said. reports said. Athens coast. dren’s shelter were evacuated. A fire also broke out on the Around 300 firemen with over In the afternoon, a new fire Earlier in the day, four vil- island of Evia and was threat- 100 fire engines, a dozen airplanes front broke out in Malakassa, lages were evacuated in the ening homes, officials told state and six helicopters were trying to north of the capital. Peloponnese peninsula, near the agency ANA. Greece is routinely hold back the flames on Athens’ Television images showed resi- town of Monemvassia, where hit by wildfires at this time of doorstep and the Peloponnese, the dents dousing pockets of fire with strong winds fanned a raging year, many started by arsonists, fire department said. buckets and garden hoses as local wildfire, local officials told state every summer, fanned by high The fire in Athens broke out on officials said the blaze was started agency ANA. temperatures and strong winds. brush land on Mount Hymettus deliberately. “It’s hellish right now, there The worst recent major blazes, around midday, near the north- “This is clearly arson, I heard are hundreds of pockets of fire,” in the Peloponnese and on the eastern district of Kareas, and explosive devices go off in the for- Iraklis Trichilis, mayor of the island of Evia in 2007, left 77 Russians pray outside the central mosque in Moscow yesterday during later spread to the outskirts of est,” Vassilis Balassopoulos, the town of Monemvassia, had earlier people dead and ravaged 250,000 the Eid al-Fitr celebrations. residential areas. mayor of the district of Ilioupoli told Skai television. hectares. AFP SATURDAY 18 JULY 2015 AMERICAS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 US shooter’s travel, phone probed for motive Chattanooga killer’s Jordan travel last year under lens

CHATTANOOGA: be named confirmed the Jordan quiet kid and well-liked. “He Investigators trying to deter- trip. Bassam Issa, president of was friendly, funny, kind,” Kagan mine why a 24-year-old Kuwait- the Islamic Society of Greater Wagner told the Chattanooga born Tennessee man gunned Chattanooga, told CNN that Times Free Press. “I never would down four Marines are looking Abdulazeez had moved overseas have thought it would be him.” at his travel to Jordan last year to live with relatives about two “They were your average to see whether he was in con- years ago. “My understanding is Chattanooga family,” Wagner said. tact with extremists, reports recently he had come back... and Scott Schrader, who coached said. was working with a company in Abdulazeez in mixed martial arts, Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez Nashville,” Issa told CNN. told CNN he “seemed like the all- opened fire on two military cent- The Kuwaiti interior ministry American kid.” ers in Chattanooga on Thursday, issued a statement yesterday con- In an apparent blog post writ- killing the four Marines and firming that Abdulazeez was born ten on Monday, Abdulazeez said wounding three people before in Kuwait and had last visited in Muslims should not let “the dying in a shootout with police. 2010 for three weeks, but was of opportunity to submit to Allah... Authorities have said they are Jordanian descent. pass you by,” according to the treating the case — a grisly scene The gunman had not given SITE Intelligence Group, which reminiscent of other shooting authorities any reason to place monitors extremist activity on rampages at US military instal- him under surveillance prior to social media. lations — as one of “domestic Thursday’s attacks, Chattanooga The FBI said that so far, there terrorism.” mayor Andy Berke said. had not been any indication that The FBI has warned against “We certainly didn’t have any anyone else was involved in the jumping to conclusions about a indication that he was a threat shooting, which came just before possible motive, and said so far, or that yesterday something was the Eid holiday. there is no information directly going to happen,” Berke said. “We have no idea at this point linking Abdulazeez — a natural- Although no motive has been what his motivation was behind ized US citizen — to an interna- formally established so far, the this shooting,” FBI special agent tional terror group. incident fuelled fears of so-called Ed Reinhold said late Thursday. But investigators are combing “lone wolf” actors — attack- Investigators are pursuing through his computer, cell phone ers with no known affiliation every angle, including the pos- Members of the FBI Evidence Response Team gather information at Armed Forces Career Center/National Guard and social media contacts to to an extremist group who are sibility that this was simply a Recruitment Office yesterday in Chattanooga, Tennessee. unearth details about a months- extremely difficult to detect. “criminal act,” he said. long trip he made to Jordan last US media reports described President Barack Obama called year, the New York Times and Wall Abdulazeez as having had a tra- the shootings “heartbreaking” Reinhold said Abdulazeez had increased security at “certain fed- never be forgotten,” his brother Street Journal reported. ditional American upbringing, and asked Americans to pray for “several weapons” and fired from eral facilities, out of an abundance Joe posted on Facebook. “This attack raises several including participation on school the relatives of the victims. inside his car at the recruitment of caution.” “Please keep his family & questions about whether he was sports teams. The Marine Corps confirmed center before moving to the Two of the victims were identi- friends in your thoughts & directed by someone or whether He graduated from the that all four victims were killed at reserve centre, leaving his car and fied yesterday. prayers. Thank you Tommy for there’s enough propaganda out University of Tennessee at a Navy and Marine Corps Reserve opening fire. Thomas Sullivan, 40, was a gun- protecting us.” there to motivate him to do this,” Chattanooga with a degree in Center in the late morning. About An autopsy will be conducted to nery sergeant from Massachusetts Skip Wells, 21, was originally an unnamed senior intelligence engineering. 40 minutes earlier, the gunman determine how Abdulazeez died. and local media said he had sur- from Georgia and had just fin- official told the Times. A woman who went to high had opened fire at a recruitment The Department of Homeland vived two tours of duty in Iraq. ished boot camp, the local CBS A US official who asked not to school with him said he was a center several miles away. Security said it had ordered “He was our hero and he will affiliate in Atlanta reported. AFP

Mass murderer Brazil’s lower Breivik to study Obama goes behind bars in push for reforms EL RENO: President Barack American Civil Liberties Union, house speaker for degree Obama, who wrote in his mem- said the visit would not show oir about using marijuana and Obama the extent of overcrowd- breaks with cocaine as a youth, became the ing or lengthy stints in solitary behind bars first sitting president to tour a confinement that exist at maxi- federal prison and met drug- mum-security prisons. “He’s not government OSLO: Norwegian mass mur- offense inmates, saying he could going to see the harshest and derer Anders Behring Breivik have been in their place if not most restrictive and most prob- BRASILIA: The speaker of has been admitted to a political for the advantages he had grow- lematic conditions in the federal Brazil’s lower house of Congress, science course, the University of ing up. prison system,” Fathi said. Eduardo Cunha, broke with the Oslo said, but his imprisonment Obama spoke with inmates and But, Fathi said, Obama deserves government of President Dilma means he is unlikely to earn a toured El Reno federal prison, credit for being the first president Rousseff yesterday over cor- degree. Breivik killed 77 people which holds 1,300 inmates, 146 to visit a federal prison and use ruption allegations, deepen- in a rampage in Norway in July percent of its capacity. his position to draw attention to ing a political crisis in Latin 2011, claiming he was fighting He vowed to work with war- the flawed system. America’s largest economy. against multiculturalism and a dens and corrections officers to As his time in office begins Cunha accused Rousseff’s gov- “Muslim invasion”. address overcrowding, a piece of to draw to a close, Obama has ernment and prosecutor general Norwegian convicts have the his administration’s wide-ranging become more outspoken, while Rodrigo Janot of conspiring to right to higher education if they criminal justice reform agenda. also enjoying a run of victories on incriminate him in a widening meet the admission requirements Obama walked down the pris- Pacific Rim trade, his healthcare corruption scandal at state-run and the course Breivik applied for on’s dimly-lit gray halls and stood law, same-sex marriage rights oil firm Petrobras in which he could in theory lead to a bachelor’s at the door of Cell 123, Block B, US President Barack Obama speaks to reporters during his visit to the El and, earlier this week, a historic is being investigated for taking degree that would focus heavily on noticing its two occupants’ sparse Reno Federal Correctional Institution outside Oklahoma City. nuclear agreement with Iran. bribes. “I cannot accept that the democracy and human rights. supplies: brown uniforms, mesh Overhauling prison sentencing government uses its machinery to “He got a place here. He meets laundry bags, dish soap and a is an issue he has set as a key goal seek the political persecution of the criteria,” university spokes- few books. Six non-violent drug Americans were in state or fed- after he leaves office in 2017. For for his final months in the White those who turn against it,” Cunha woman Marina Tofting said. offenders shared their stories eral prisons at the end of 2013, the unprecedented visit, guards House. On Tuesday, he called on told journalists in Brasilia. But graduating with a degree with Obama. Their discussions according to the Bureau of Justice cleared prisoners from the build- the US Congress to send him a Cunha said he would push to is currently not an option for the will air on HBO’s “Vice” docu- Statistics. African-Americans ing where Obama toured and sentencing reform bill by the end remove his Brazilian Democratic right-wing extremist — who once mentary program in September. were 15 percent of the US popu- spoke. He said the criminal jus- of the year. Movement Party, or PMDB, from made a living from selling fake Speaking to reporters after lation at that time but accounted tice system should do a better job Soaring US incarceration fol- a governing alliance at a party university diplomas — as five out their discussion, Obama reflected, for about a third of its prisoners. of discerning between young drug lowed a 1980s-1990s drug-crime congress in September. of the nine courses needed would “These are young people who Obama wrote about his own offenders from poor backgrounds crackdown. Mandatory minimum- The PMDB is Brazil’s largest require him to attend university made mistakes that aren’t that drug use in his memoir “Dreams and hardened, violent criminals. sentencing guidelines from then party, and its departure from seminars. different from mistakes I made.” from my Father” and has made “We have to consider whether would be altered under steps being the governing coalition would The 36-year-old is currently “The difference is they did not helping young black and Hispanic this is the smartest way for us considered in Congress for non- deprive Rousseff and her allies of in solitary confinement with- have the support structure, the boys a priority of his remaining to control crime and rehabilitate violent drug offenders. The United a majority in Congress. The party out access to the internet, and second chances, the resources time in office through a program individuals,” Obama said. States has 25 percent of the world’s said in a statement it respected his contacts with the univer- that would allow them to survive called “My Brother’s Keeper.” El Reno is a medium-security prisoners but just 5 percent of its Cunha’s personal position but that sity will have to be through an these mistakes,” he said. The issue is one he has said he prison. David Fathi, director of population but has 25 percent of any party decision would only be intermediary. AFP More than 1.5 million intends to remain committed to the National Prison Project at the its prisoners. REUTERS taken after consulting various party commissions. The rupture, which has been in the works for months, comes a Hillary’s campaign day after Cunha said he is weigh- ing legal arguments for Rousseff’s Kerry to host Cuba FM on impeachment over alleged cam- paign finance irregularities. Cunha, an evangelical Christian, Monday as ties restored is seen as a possible presidential candidate in 2018. Some opposition lawmakers are HAVANA: US Secretary of part in the ceremony which will leading the calls for Rousseff’s State John Kerry will meet see the Cuban flag raised over the impeachment but Cunha, as with his Cuban counterpart building, once visited by legen- speaker of the lower house, Bruno Rodriguez on Monday to dary revolutionary leader Fidel would be responsible for initiat- mark the historic reopening of Castro in April 1959. ing the process. His opposition diplomatic ties after a half-cen- There was no immediate to Rousseff could pose a major tury freeze, Cuban officials said. confirmation from the State obstacle to any government- Kerry will host Rodriguez at Department of Kerry’s sched- proposed legislation, complicat- the State Department on the ule for Monday, but spokesman ing her efforts to shore up public day the two nations formally John Kirby said it was expected finances and avert a credit ratings restore relations, following the top US diplomat for Latin downgrade. lightning negotiations to put the American, Roberta Jacobson, Brazil’s currency, the real, and two former Cold War foes on the would attend the embassy cer- the benchmark Bovespa index path towards a full normalisation emony in Washington. stock lost about 1 percent after of ties. The Cuban minister will be Cunha spoke yesterday. Cunha’s Rodriguez will also take part in accompanied by a large delega- departure from Rousseff’s coali- a formal ceremony at the Cuban tion including the deputy speaker tion was triggered by testimony interests section in Washington of the Cuban parliament Ana from lobbyist Julio Camargo, who which will reopen as an embassy Maria Mari and Josefina Vidal, said Cunha had taken $5m in a minute past midnight Monday, who led the Cuban side in the bribes. Cunha denied the allega- Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton participates in an event in Windham, New Hampshire as the Cuban foreign ministry said. negotiations with Jacobson to tions and said Camargo had been part of her presidential bid. Clinton spoke about how to build an economy that will boost the middle class. Some 500 invited guests, among unlock ties after more than five pressured to change his previous them around 30 Cubans, will take decades. AFP testimony. REUTERS SATURDAY 18 JULY 2015 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / AFRICA 63 killed in Nigerian bombing mayhem Suicide squad of girls target three mosques, kill 13, while twin bomb blasts rock Gombe city claiming 50

KANO: At least 13 people were Damaturu had killed two peo- “The first blast went off around have been killed in attacks since transitional period between of Gombe last Thursday. Nobody killed in the Nigerian city of ple, before a third blast went off 7:15 am (0615 GMT) while secu- he came to office. Buhari’s installation and the claimed responsibility for the Damaturu yesterday in three moments later near a mosque rity volunteers who had come Topping the agenda of his talks deployment of a regional force of blasts, which went off around 5:30 suicide attacks carried out by leaving another 11 people dead, earlier than worshippers were with Obama “will be measures to 8,700 troops, scheduled for late pm local time. girls as residents prepared for according to medics. waiting for the worshippers so strengthen and intensify bilateral July, to launch deadly attacks on A Red Cross official, who was the Eid festival at the end of “Thirteen people were killed in they could assist in crowd control. and international cooperation an almost daily basis. involved in the evacuation, and a Ramadan, police said. the... suicide blasts,” said Markus Two were killed and three were against terrorism in Nigeria and The group has also carried out National Emergency Management The attacks, in an area hard hit Danladi, Yobe state police com- injured,” he said. west Africa”, a statement from suicide bombings in neighbouring Agency representative said about by the Boko Haram insurgency, missioner. “The attacks were car- “While we were attending to the Nigerian presidency said. Chad and Cameroon. 50 people were killed. came just days before Nigeria’s ried out by three underage girls. the victims we heard another Relations suffered in the latter Washington, which has consist- Around 70 people were injured new President Muhammadu Fifteen people were also injured blast about 500 metres (yards) part of former Nigerian president ently condemned Boko Haram in the attacks. Buhari travels to Washington for in the attacks.” away.” Goodluck Jonathan’s rule, with attacks, has said it can provide “We saw people on the ground talks with his US counterpart The attacks followed a double Damaturu is the capital of Yobe, Abuja considering US aid to fight material aid to Nigerian forces burnt. Then people started run- Barack Obama. bombing at a market in the town one of three northeastern states Boko Haram insufficient. and encourage countries in the ning. Then there was another Buhari is expected to use of Gombe, south of Damaturu, on worst affected by the insurgency. The west African nation region to combat the group. blast which killed more people,” Monday’s meeting with Obama Thursday evening that killed at Nigeria’s new army chief Major decided to halt a US training The United States already said witness Awalu Yakubu. to push for US help to tackle least 49 people who were shopping General Tukur Buratai was due programme for an army battalion shares intelligence on Boko Buhari has made crushing Boko the jihadist violence, which has for the Eid celebrations. to visit Damaturu on last Friday which would have developed into Haram with Nigeria, and last year Haram his top priority, but hun- surged since he took office in May. This year’s Ramadan has been to celebrate Eid with soldiers a unit to take on the militants. sent military and civilian advis- dreds have been killed in bomb- Boko Haram have increasingly particularly deadly, with suicide battling the jihadists, who have The US State Department ers to try find the more than 200 ings and attacks concentrated in used young women and girls as bombers hitting mosques and pledged allegiance to the Islamic reacted by saying it would do school girls abducted from their the northeast of Africa’s top oil human bombs over the past year worshippers gunned down as they State group that has seized what was needed to assist Nigeria. school in Chibok in the northeast. producer. as part of campaign of terror, prayed. swathes of Iraq and Syria. But it also expressed concern The girls are still missing. Buhari will seek help in fighting which has left 15,000 people dead “There were two blasts near Buhari, a former military over respect for human rights and Meanwhile, in another incident, militants across West Africa when and 1.5 million homeless since the Eid prayer ground,” said head of state, has made the fight protection of civilians during mili- two bombings by suspected Boko he meets US President Barack 2009. Ahmad Adamu, a security volun- against Boko Haram one of the tary operations. Haram militants killed an esti- Obama for talks in Washington Residents said twin explo- teer in Damaturu said of Friday’s main planks of his administra- The Islamist militants mated 50 people at a market in on Monday, as part of a four-day sions near a prayer ground in attacks. tion -- but more than 700 people have taken advantage of the the northeastern Nigerian city visit. AGENCIES

Filipinos pray S Korea invites North for summit Nine coal miners

SEOUL: South Korea yester- day invited a North Korean die in Philippines vice defence minister to attend an international security con- MANILA: Five people died and survived said sea water had been ference in September in Seoul, four others are believed to have seeping into the pit for months, despite cross-border military also been killed when part of a the governor said. tensions, officials said. coal mine collapsed on a remote “Precautionary measures The annual conference was central Philippine island yes- should have been in place,” the launched in 2012 to enhance terday, the provincial governor governor said. “This will undergo regional and global security coop- said. investigation. I hope there is no eration, but North Korea has The nine workers were using negligence on the part of the never been invited. heavy machinery to remove sea contractor.” South Korea has already sent water from the open-pit mine Semirara Mining and Power invitations to 32 countries, includ- when a wall collapsed and buried Corp, which owns the mine, said ing the United States, China and them, Governor Rhodora Cadiao it was investigating in coordina- Japan. said. tion with the government. Cross-border tensions have Heavy rains had also reportedly “Management has condoled flared at regular intervals this drenched the area, she added. with the families of the victims year, with North Korea conduct- “They were buried in mud and and is giving them full support,” ing a series of ballistic missile water. (The missing) are pre- it said in a statement. tests in anger at annual US-South sumed dead already,” Cadiao told The open-pit mine is on an Korean military exercises. ABS-CBN television. island around four hours by And Pyongyang was infuriated Mining operations were sus- boat from the central island of by the opening last month of a pended following the incident Antique, a fishing province in the new UN office in Seoul to moni- and an investigation has been Visayas islands, and one hour by tor NorthKorea’s human rights launched. plane from the capital Manila. record. AFP Filipino Muslims performing Eid Al Fitr prayers, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan, outside the Pink Eight other miners who AFP Mosque in Datu Saudi Ampatuan town, Maguindanao province in southern Philippines, yesterday. Lanka’s Rajapakse launches Typhoon Nangka floods Japan, 2 killed TOKYO: Powerful Typhoon Agency said. to evacuate, according to Japan’s Nangka lashed Japan yesterday, Nangka, Malaysian for jack- public broadcaster NHK. killing at least two people and fruit, paralysed traffic, ground- A 71-year-old who was trying political comeback bid triggering floods as authorities ing at least 94 domestic flights, as to reinforce window panes was urged more than 230,000 resi- torrential rain and violent winds found dead on last Thursday in ANURADHAPURA: Sri spearhead the parliamentary that religious and other minori- dents to evacuate. swept large areas of western Awaji island, Hyogo prefecture, Lanka’s former strongman election campaign for his United ties are protected,” Rajapakse Packing gusts up to 126 kilome- Japan, officials said. a local official said, adding a few Mahinda Rajapakse formally People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA). said. tres (78 miles) per hour, Nangka Television footage showed landslides had also been reported. launched his political come- The new leader of the party, He made no direct reference to barrelled over the nation’s main muddy water overflowing Naka “Winds are getting weaker but back bid yesterday from the President Maithripala Sirisena, his bitter relations with Sirisena, island of Honshu after making river in Tokushima flooding up to rain remains quite heavy,” the historic Buddhist pilgrim town earlier this week predicted his but promised economic reforms if landfall near Cape Muroto on the second floor of nearby school official said. of Anuradhapura with a call for predecessor would be defeated at he is elected. Shikoku island late Thursday. buildings. An 85-year-old who had ethnic reconciliation. the polls as minority Tamils and He denied allegations that he The storm was passing near The weather agency has issued apparently gone out to check on Rajapakse, 69, a staunch Muslims would not vote for him. stole billions of dollars during his Tottori prefecture in west- warnings for floods, gale-force farmland was found dead last Sinhalese nationalist credited However, Rajapakse told nine-year rule and told his accus- ern Japan by yesterday noon, winds, landslides and high waves Thursday night in Shiso, also in with crushing Tamil rebels and thousands of supporters in ers to “look in the mirror” before moving north at 15 kilometres in southern Japan. Hyogo prefecture, another official ending a 37-year-long separatist Anuradhapura, 200km north of making accusations. an hour towards the Sea of Local authorities urged at least said. 39 people were injured. war in 2009, is standing for elec- the capital Colombo, that he was Rajapakse, an ethnic Sinhalese, Japan, the Japan Meteorological 230,000 people in the storm’s path AFP tion in parliamentary polls on ready to learn from his mistakes remains popular among big sec- August 17 after losing a presiden- and work towards ethnic and reli- tions of the island’s majority tial vote in January. gious unity. Sinhalese-Buddhist community After initially saying he wanted “I am ready learn from my mis- for overseeing the defeat of the 27 years to freedom to retire, Rajapakse re-emerged takes... we must work towards Tamil Tiger separatists in 2009. earlier this month seeking to ethnic reconciliation and ensure AFP China’s Xi visits North Korean border BEIJING: Chinese President “China has 1.3 billion people, China has tried to get North Xi Jinping has visited a sensi- and we need to rely on ourselves Korea to embark on economic tive border area with North to hold up our grain production. reforms, and has set up trade Korea populated by ethnic We need good grain brands, to zones with North Korea along Koreans, state media said yes- get good prices and good results. the border. terday, amid tension over the I hope you have a great harvest,” But China’s ties with North North’s disputed nuclear pro- Xinhua quoted Xi as saying. Korea have been strained over gramme and killings blamed on China is North Korea’s last the North’s banned nuclear pro- North Korean troops. major ally, but relations have gramme. North Korea is under Xi arrived in Yanbian, which soured in recent years, while UN sanctions because of its is nestled up on the northeast- China has grown closer to the nuclear tests and missile launches. ern corner of the border, on last North’s rival, South Korea. Border crime involving impov- Thursday, wading into rice fields, China’s state media carried a erished North Koreans has also chatting to villagers about toilets picture showing Xi clapping at been an irritant between North and visiting a pharmaceutical a dance performance by villag- Korea and China. factory. ers dressed in traditional Korean In April, three residents of While the report made no clothing. Xi promised that the a Chinese border village were direct mention of North Korea, a government would lead a “toilet reportedly killed by North Korean country Xi has yet to visit since revolution” to ensure that villag- soldiers searching for food and assuming power in late 2012, he ers would no longer have to use money. talked up Yanbian’s agricultural earth toilets. Last year, a North Korean Chinese-born artist Cui Ning with his painting titled ‘Long Walk to Freedom’ in honour of Nelson Mandela in prowess - something that stands There are close family, cultural murdered a Chinese family of Cape Town, South Africa, yesterday. The two meter by six meter painting has taken more than five years. His in marked contrast to North and business links between eth- three, prompting Beijing to file a work is varied but he has a love of the former South African president Nelson Mandela and has depicted him Korea’s constant struggle to feed nic Koreans on both sides of the formal complaint to Pyongyang. in several paintings. itself. border. REUTERS SATURDAY 18 JULY 2015 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Pakistan wants UN Karzai can’t let go of politics observers to probe Former president has set up office near Afghan presidential palace

KABUL: Barely 10 months country,” Faizi said. after retiring as president, But a Western diplomat in border firing by India Hamid Karzai remains a for- Kabul charged that Karzai was midable presence in Afghan creating a “shadow government” ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s down in disputed Kashmir. India politics, with critics accusing and actively plotting to destabilise army yesterday asked the UN denied it was their drone. him of Machiavellian string- the establishment with the inten- military observers to inves- For its part, India protested to pulling behind the scenes which tion of bringing it down. tigate firing and shelling by Pakistan over the firing, a govern- is imperilling political stability. If that happened, Karzai would Indian troops on its side of ment source said. The complaint The two-term leader trans- step forward to fill the politi- Kashmir which it claims killed was registered after India claimed ferred power to technocrat-politi- cal vacuum by shepherding the four people this week. one of its civilians was killed dur- cian Ashraf Ghani last September interim government and project- The flare-up between the two ing gunfire near the border in inAfghanistan’s first-ever demo- ing himself as a national saviour, countries, who have fought three Jammu’s Akhnoor sector on last cratic transition, leaving behind said the diplomat. wars since 1947, comes days after Wednesday. a legacy of troubled ties with Karzai, then aged only 44, their prime ministers met in The two countries both control Western backers, worsening became a global star when he was Russia in an apparent sign of a part of Kashmir, but claim the security and a corruption-ridden selected to lead Afghanistan after thaw in relations. territory in full and have fought economy. the ousting of the repressive 1996- The Pakistan Army in a state- two wars over it. But the “retired” leader never 2001 Taliban regime. ment said that it had informed They agreed on a border cease- really exited the political scene, Charismatic, stylish and fluent the United Nations Military fire in 2003, which has largely setting up an office near the pres- in English, Karzai convinced the Observer Group in India and held, though violations are regu- idential palace, directing scath- United States that he was the Pakistan (UNMOGIP) about larly reported from both sides. ing barbs at the new government perfect partner to tackle Islamist ceasefire violations and asked Last yesterday, Indian Prime struggling to clean up his messy Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai gestures as he speaks barely 10 militancy after the 9/11 attacks. them to investigate. Minister Narendra Modi accepted legacy and creating what palace months after retiring as president, Hamid Karzai remains a formidable But such sentiments evapo- It said it had “highlighted the an invitation from his coun- officials describe as a parallel presence in Afghan politics, with critics accusing him of Machiavellian rated as the insurgency raged on Indians’ use of heavy mortars and terpart Nawaz Sharif to visit power centre. string-pulling behind the scenes which is imperilling political stability. for a decade, casualties mounted, machine guns on (the) civil popu- Pakistan next year, raising hopes Widely labelled a political billions of aid dollars were spent lation” living along the de facto of an improvement in perennially “madari”, or juggler, Karzai is “He (Karzai) should consider Faizi, a long-time aide to Karzai. to limited effect, and Karzai border of the disputed Himalayan difficult relations. said to wield a shadowy influence himself lucky. His house, his He reiterated that Karzai does launched increasingly bitter criti- state of Kashmir. After months of stalemate and deep within the palace, weaning security, even his cook are paid not plan to return to politics, but cism of the US intervention. It said that four civilians recriminations, Modi and Sharif away high-ranking detractors dis- for by the government. Does he he will not lie dormant. He is accused of building a vast were killed and five others were spoke for about an hour while enchanted with Ghani’s brusque not appreciate the meaning of Sporting his trademark green- patronage network that exacer- wounded during the past two days visiting Russia for a regional style of governance while casting hospitality?” and-purple striped chapan, a bated corruption, with his succes- as a direct result of Indian firing summit. himself as a political unifier. Karzai has publicly maintained hand-woven coat, and a kara- sor inheriting a state with empty and shelling. It will be the first time that “If the question is whether that he fully supports the govern- kul hat, Karzai recently rubbed coffers. On last Thursday Pakistan Modi -- who has a reputation as Ghani acknowledges (Karzai’s) ment and harbours no ambition of shoulders with Russian President Nevertheless, Karzai’s pub- protested to the Indian envoy in a hardline nationalist -- has trav- interference, the answer is yes. returning to power. Vladimir Putin in Moscow. lic stature has grown at a time Islamabad over the firing. It also elled to Pakistan since coming to Is the pressure felt? Yes,” a “He definitely has no intention “As an Afghan and an influ- when Ghani has projected himself summoned the Indian ambassa- power. palace official said, requesting of running for president” in elec- ential politician, Karzai cannot as the very antithesis of his pred- dor after a “spy drone” was shot AFP anonymity. tions slated for 2019, said Aimal ignore what is happening in his ecessor. AFP

Last day of fasting Panic button for India, Pakistan urged media houses ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad to ease trade curbs police have completed the security audit and survey of KARACHI: Pakistan Business must be consistent with its con- 38 media houses and installed Council (PBC), a private sector cessions to other South Asian panic alert system at 31 outlets not-for-profit business policy Free Trade Area (SAFTA) coun- to avert any untoward incident advocacy forum, has said that tries such as Bangladesh and Sri there. Pakistan’s Non Discriminatory Lanka to ensure Pakistan gains Panic alert systems were Market Access (NDMA) to fair access to the Indian market installed at 31 media houses after India will lead to a mutually post-NDMA. conducting the security audit of beneficial trade relationship India granted Most Favoured 38 media outlets. only if India agrees to gradu- Nation (MFN) status to Pakistan While 123 security guards have ally ease its Non-Tariff Barriers in 1996, which Pakistan has to been given security training in (NTBs). reciprocate being a signatory of 3-day programme. In addition, a In its latest report on Pakistan the World Trade Organisation total of 59 security guards joined India trade, PBC, which represents (WTO). the rehearsal of firing. Pakistan’s 47 largest enterprises Pakistan’s exports to India grew Likewise, the security audit of including multinationals, said the from $158m in 2004 to $392m in 150 buildings have been completed country must build capacity to 2014, but it could only claim 0.09 and 530 bunkers constructed for support its exports and protect percent of total Indian imports guards deputed there for security the local industry from subsidised from the world in 2014. purpose. imports from India. India’s exports to Pakistan He said that a total of 1723 The report also said that details grew much more significantly guards had been given secu- and time-frame of India’s prom- over the period under considera- rity training so far and this ised concessions to Pakistan must tion, from $454m to $2.1bn, but it exercise would continue into next be determined and considered too could only claim 0.63 percent month. Pakistani Muslims observe prayers on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, in Rawalpindi, yesterday. before granting NDMA. of total Pakistani imports from INTERNEWS India’s concessions to Pakistan the world in 2014. INTERNEWS Paramilitary troops raid Nine out of 10 Pakistanis live in poverty: Report LAHORE: The middle class 2011, compared with 399 million income, upper-middle income, to certain regions of the globe, in Pakistan is hardly two per- in 2001. Thus, the middle-income and high income. namely China, South America MQM headquarters cent of the total population population-those living on $10-20 The first is $2, the minimum and Eastern Europe alone. The while 97.6 percent is poor or low per day-nearly doubled, increas- daily per capita income that must middle class barely expanded in KARACHI: Paramilitary repeatedly accused the military of income class, recent report by ing by 385 million in the first dec- be exceeded to exit poverty. The India, Pakistan, rest of Southeast forces raided the headquarters targeting his party in long, ram- PEW research centre said. ade of the new century. second is $10, the threshold that Asia, Africa and Central America. of a powerful Karachi political bling speeches. Hundreds of party The report named “A global The study divides the popu- must be crossed to attain middle- In 2001, 33.3 percent of party and arrested two mem- workers have been arrested in a middle class is more promise lation of each country into five income status. Pakistan's population was living bers yesterday, officials said, crackdown aimed at criminals than reality” includes the study groups based on daily per capita Though, there was growth in in poverty, 65.2 percent lived on in a sign of deepening tensions and militants. of around 111 countries. consumption or income of a fam- the middle-income population low income, 1.1 percent on mid- between the army and politi- “Workers should be mentally It said around 784 million ily. The five groups are labelled from 2001 to 2011, yet the rise dle income and 0.3 on high-middle cians controlling the biggest prepared for more such raids; residents were middle income in poor income, low income, middle in prosperity was concentrated income. INTERNEWS and richest city. we will see how many workers Many fear the showdown may are arrested,” Hussain said in a threaten the stability of the finan- broadcasted telephone address cial hub that generates half of after the raid. Eid Mubarak government revenue and is home British authorities are cur- to 20 million people, or upset rently investigating Hussain for Only ‘talks with the delicate balance between the money laundering. They are also fledgling civilian government and seeking to question MQM mem- Taliban can end the powerful military, which has bers over the murder of a dissi- a history of coups. dent MQM activist in London. bloodshed’ The paramilitary Sindh Two MQM members - a former Rangers, which fall under mili- provincial legislator and the chair KABUL: Speaking at the tary command, said they raided of the decision-making central presidential palace in the capi- the Muttahida Qaumi Movement committee in Karachi – were tal, Kabul, yesterday, Ghani (MQM) because the party had detained in yesterday's raid for referred to peace talks with been making hate speech. “hate speech”. the Taliban as a priority for his The MQM, Pakistan’s fourth “More arrests will be made in administration. largest party, traditionally rep- the near future,” Rangers spokes- The Afghan president resents the descendents of Urdu- man Major Sibtain Rizvi said in thanked Taliban leader Mullah speakers who migrated from India a statement. Mohammad Omar for his support after the creation of Pakistan in “MQM is the only political to the peace talks. 1947. It was involved in bloody fac- party whose head office is being Omar said last Wednesday, tional battles in Karachi in the raided by Rangers,” he told the “If we look into our religious 1990s and now holds the majority crowd. regulations, we can find that of the city's legislative seats. Yesterday's arrests follow a raid meetings and even peaceful inter- “Those apprehended tonight ... on the same address on March actions with the enemies is not have been arranging and facilitat- 11, when authorities said dozens prohibited.” ing hate speeches against peace of weapons were recovered and a He said that all Taliban mem- of Karachi,” Director General suspect wanted for the murder of bers “should be confident that in Sindh Rangers, Major General a journalist detained. The MQM this process, I will unwaveringly Bilal Akbar tweeted. said the weapons were planted defend our legal rights and view- Afghans greet each other after Eid Al Fitr prayers in Herat, Afghanistan, yesterday. Afghans celebrated the MQM's leader Altaf Hussain, and the suspect smuggled in. point everywhere.” Eid Al Fitr yesterday. who lives in exile in London, has REUTERS AGENCIES SATURDAY 18 JULY 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA

Eid Al Fitr in Modi shifts tactics on landbill Kerala, several states today Unable to win support in the upper house, government soft-pedals on the bill HYDERABAD: Eid Al Fitr will be celebrated in Kerala, NEW DELHI: In the first support in parliament, where his opposition attacks in the rowdy implement their own versions of country is against this bill,” said Telangana, Andhra Pradesh direct blow to his ambitious party is in the minority in the houses over allegations of cor- the legislation. Jyotiraditya Scindia, a leader and several other states today. economic reform agenda, Indian upper house. ruption, and does not want to “The opposition can’t stop our in the Congress party that has As the new moon was sighted Prime Minister Narendra Having staked so much capital rile opponents further over the agenda, it can only delay it,” he spearheaded opposition to the yesterday in some parts of Andhra Modi’s government has had to on an unpopular issue, Modi risks land law. said, in comments echoed by a reform. and Telangana, Markazi Ruwait- row back on a business-friendly losing the initiative to the oppo- Land reform is critical for senior cabinet minister. In a sign the government is e-Hilal or the central moon sight- land bill amid fierce parliamen- sition and fuelling perceptions Modi’s drive to build new roads, Eight states where the BJP delaying a push on the bill, four ing Committee announced that tary opposition. that his reform plans are not homes and factories and, if stalled is the largest party could press senior government officials on last Eid will be celebrated today. The government has not given necessarily going to improve the would blight his vision of 100 new ahead with passing their own Thursday failed to appear before Moulana Syed Mohammed up on making it easier to acquire lot of India’s 1.27 billion people. ‘smart’ cities across India linked laws, but that would risk creat- a joint parliamentary committee Qubool Pasha Shattari, president land needed to kick-start hun- “This is a huge setback for Modi,” by industrial corridors and high- ing a patchwork of regulations examining the proposed changes of the committee said moon was dreds of billions of dollars in said Sanjay Kumar, an analyst speed rail routes criss-crossing that could further hold up stalled to the law, and their report will sighted in Warangal in Telangana stalled projects, but after failing at the Centre for the Study of the country. infrastructure projects worth now be delayed by two weeks, and Vijayawada in Andhra to win support in parliament may Developing Societies. In the last seven months, $300bn. according to a member of the Praadesh. ask states to pass their own laws. “This is an indication that if Modi has had to issue temporary Opposition parties have joined panel. The moon of Shawwal was “We realise that currently we bills are controversial, this gov- executive orders that allow the forces to portray the proposed That would effectively rule also sighted in Kurnool, Nandyal, don’t have the numbers to pass ernment is going to find it very government to forcibly purchase changes to the land act, includ- out progress on land during the Adoni, Guntur and other parts of it,” a leader in Modi’s ruling party difficult to pass them.” farmland for industrial develop- ing exemption from getting con- three-week ‘monsoon’ session Andhra Pradesh. said. In the next sitting of parlia- ment, but has failed to secure the sent of 80 percent of landowners of parliament. “It is now almost Eid Al Fitr, marking the culmi- “By reducing the heat on this ment due to start on last Tuesday, votes in parliament to make the for some projects, as anti-farmer, clear that there would be no nation of holy month of Ramadan, we will be able to get other things the government wants to ease the changes permanent. a damaging charge in a mostly consensus on the amendments,” is one of the two major festivals passed.” passage of the biggest overhaul of Senior BJP leader Shrikant rural country. On last Wednesday, the person said, asking not to be of Muslims. After sweeping to power last taxes since independence in 1947, Sharma said the government opposition leaders boycotted named. “Members have taken Elaborate arrangements have year on expectations he would and may also introduce the first would continue to work with Modi’s latest attempt to build a line almost identical to their been made for Eid prayers in accelerate an economic trans- major labour reforms in decades. opposition parties to pass the consensus around the issue. party stands. There is no scope both the states. In Hyderabad, formation that began in the Modi’s Bharatiya Janata law, but if that failed, it would “I certainly hope that the real- for reaching a common ground.” all arrangements are in place 1990s, Modi is struggling to build Party (BJP) will have to fend off work with individual states to ity dawns on them. The whole REUTERS for prayers at eidgahs or open grounds and major mosques. Meanwhile, lakhs of Muslims offered prayers of Jumatul Vida Flash floods in Kashmir Aor yesterday of Ramadan in mosques across the two states. Murder charge added The largest congregation was held at the historic Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad, where police had made elaborate security to liquor barons deaths arrangements. The imams or priests in their NEW DELHI: A court here charges against the accused. sermons on the occasion exhorted yesterday added murder The trial court had dropped Muslims to continue good deeds charges against all 21 accused murder charges against all after Ramadan and follow the involved in the killing of liquor the accused, saying that the path shown by Islam till their baron Ponty Chadha and his November 17, 2012 shootout that last breath. They said Ramadan brother Hardeep. resulted in the killing of Ponty was a month long training aimed Additional Sessions Judge and Hardeep “seems to be an at inculcating piety in them and Vimal Kumar Yadav framed event which happened suddenly develop empathy towards the murder charges with common and unexpectedly” and had added poor and have-nots. intention against Uttarakhand charges related to culpable hom- IANS minorities panel’s sacked chair- icide not amounting to murder man S S Namdhari, and his PSO against Namdhari and Tyagi. Sachin Tyagi. The remaining 19 accused were Amarnath Yatra The remaining 17 accused were charged under attempt to murder formally charged under section in connection with the incident. suspended due 302 (murder) along with section The high court, however, held 149 (member of unlawful assem- that it was “not a case of tres- to bad weather bly guilty of offence committed in pass”. “It was a pre-planned well prosecution of common object) of thought conspiracy,” Justice Garg SRINAGAR: The annual Indian Penal Code. ruled. Hindu pilgrimage Amarnath The court has added the Ponty Chadha and his brother Yatra in Jammu and Kashmir charges on the direction of the were killed at a farmhouse in was yesterday suspended due Delhi High Court. Chhattarpur in south Delhi in a to landslides on the routes to Justice S P Garg had allowed shootout on November 17, 2012, the Himalayan cave shrine. Kashmiri villagers and soldiers make their way through the mud following flash floods triggered by heavy rainfall the police plea against trial court’s allegedly over a property dispute. “No yatri will be allowed to at Kullan village, about 25 km northeast of Srinagar, yesterday. Flash flood and cloudbursts in Kashmir killed order of dropping of murder IANS move towards the holy cave several people and damaged dozens of residential houses and shops. either from Baltal or Nunwan (Pahalgam) base camps yester- day,” a police officer said. The situation will be reviewed in the afternoon. Scribe killed On last Thursday, a 15-year Congress-BJP front in Gondia is a miracle: Sena old girl was killed due to a cloud- after police burst that hit the Kulan village MUMBAI: The Shiv Sena yes- politics,” said an editorial in the “a lot of strength and courage” expediency or helplessness with on Srinagar-Leh highway in raid on bar terday dubbed the decision of the Sena’s mouthpiece “Saamna”. which its ally had shown. this tie-up. Tomorrow, in a simi- Ganderbal district.The village BJP and the Congress to jointly “Friends of 25 years become “We have no doubts now that lar situation, should we sprinkle is situated on the highway that THANE (MAHARA SHTRA): take power in Maharashtra’s enemies while sworn rivals from with such a daring party ruling Ganga water at Pakistan’s feet?” leads to the Baltal base camp of A journalist was killed and Gondia Zilla Parishad as a birth suddenly become friends. the state, the problems of farm- the editorial wondered. the yatra. Some houses in the vil- two other people were criti- “miracle” that will affect state All this is a miracle of power, ers, labourers and unemployed It urged the BJP not to make lage were also damaged. cally injured when they were politics. and even the great magician P C shall be solved in a jiffy.” entire Vidarbha become another Cloudbursts also hit Gagangir attacked shortly after covering After the arch rivals embraced Sorcar cannot create such magic,” Though the recent results of Gondia-Bhandara as it would be and Sonamarg villages in the a raid on a ladies bar yesterday, each other following a hung ver- it said. the Gondia and Bhandara Zilla betraying the trust of the people district. police said. dict, the Sena’s ire was directed The Sena said it was the Parishads were “unfortunate”, the of the region. In south Kashmir Anantnag The body of Raghavendra Dube, chiefly at the Bharatiya Janata Congress which levelled corrup- Sena said it had advised its activ- In the 53-member Gondia district, a ponywallah was an editor with a local newsweekly, Party (BJP), which rules tion charges against the BJP. ists against joining hands with the Parishad, the Nationalist injured when a cloudburst hit the was found a short distance away Maharashtra in alliance with And poking fun at the BJP, the Congress or NCP as it could invite Congress Party bagged 20 seats, Sheshnag area of the yatra’s south from the White House Bar in the Sena. “You can never predict editorial said that taking a deci- public wrath. the Congress 16 and the BJP 17. Kashmir mountain track. Mira Road town, a suburb of who will join hands with who in sion of “this magnitude” needed “The BJP may plead political IANS IANS Mumbai. Police said journalists Shashi Sharma, Anil Nautiyal and Santosh Mishra had gone to the Tibetans protest bar to cover the raid but were allegedly attacked by some uni- Kerala’s Muziris heritage dentified people. On hearing about the raid and assault on his professional col- leagues, Dube reached the spot wins tourism award around 3 am yesterday and later went to Mira Road police sta- THIRUVANANTH The award, sponsored by the tion where a large number of bar APURAM: Kerala Tourism Macau Government Tourism owners and their staffers were has bagged this year’s pres- Office (MGTO), was bestowed present. tigious Pacific Asia Travel on the Muziris Heritage Project It was not clear what tran- Association (PATA) Gold for its conservational aspect, spired there, but he left the police Award for its Muziris Heritage uniqueness and impact on local station around 4.30 am and an Project, an official statement community. hour later his body was recovered said here yesterday. There were 269 entries from a short distance away. The award was won by Kerala 83 organisations and individuals According to police, Dube was Tourism in the ‘Heritage & worldwide for this year’s award, attacked with iron rods and other Culture’ category, the statement the highest since 2007. weapons and sustained severe issued by the tourism department The awards will be presented injuries on the head and body. said. on September 8 at PATA Travel His body has been sent for an “This award is recognition of Mart in Bangalore. autopsy. Superintendent of Police, the Muziris project, aimed at “Being a part of the Spice Thane (Rural), Rajesh Pradhan restoring the historical and cul- Route Project, which is sup- told media persons that at least tural significance of the ancient ported by UNESCO, the Muziris six people were detained in con- town that stretches across project already has a key status nection with the incidents. North Paravur in Ernakulam to in the cultural tourism map,” The incident came a day after Kodungalloor in Thrissur,” said said Kerala Tourism secretary G some print and television journal- Kerala Tourism Minister A P Kamala Vardhana Rao. ists were abused and manhandled Anilkumar. “The list of PATA Gold Awards by a group of hoodlums when they “The flagship project of the 2015 winners unveils once again went to cover a gas cylinder blast Exiled Tibetan protesters shout slogans against China outside the Chinese embassy in New Delhi yesterday. government of Kerala is one of the very best of Pacific-Asia in suburban Mumbai which killed Tibetans were protesting the untimely death of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, a prominent Tibetan spiritual teacher the biggest heritage conserva- tourism practices,” said MGTO four members of a family. in a Chinese prison. tion projects of modern India,” director Maria Helen de Senna IANS he added. Fernandes. IANS SATURDAY 18 JULY 2015 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Vyapam: CBI files FIRs, Ramadan’s last Friday prayers says Damor murdered Agency also takes custody of journalist’s death case

BHOPAL: The CBI has regis- Singh has been sent to the CBI. court has give Chouhan any clean tered three FIRs in the Vyapam Akshyay Singh was found dead chit nor termed Congress leader scam -- including one related in mysterious circumstances in Digvijaya Singh and whistle- to the mysterious death of Jhabua’s Meghnagar while cov- blower Prashant Pandey’s excel- Namrata Damor which has ering the Namrata Damor death sheet wrong. Still, from BJP’s now been considered as a mur- case, viewed as most sensational Nandkumar Chouhan to union der, sources said yesterday. It of all other deaths linked to the minister Prakash Javadekar they has also taken custody of the Vyapam scam. are saying the chief minister has case diary of journalist Akshay The body of Namrata Damor, got clean chit.” Singh’s death case. a second-year MBBS student of A 40-member CBI team under Contrary to an earlier obser- Indore city’s Mahatma Gandhi supervision of Joint Director vation on Namrata’s death, the Medical College on January 7, R.P. Aggarwal began probing the CBI investigating the Madhya 2012, was found on Shivpura- Vyapam scam earlier this week Pradesh Vyapam scam and the Bherupur rail track in Ujjain on the directive of the Supreme deaths related to it yesterday district, police sources said. Court. opted to view it as a murder, CBI With regard to Pre-Medical Vyapam (Vyavsayik Pariksha sources said. Test 2010, two incidents have Mandal) conducts recruitment The agency filed a case under been registered and 12 people and entrance exams not organised Section 302 of the Indian Penal have been mentioned as accused, by the Madhya Pradesh Public Code against unidentified people, CBI sources added. Service Commission. after the case diary of Namrata’s Meanwhile, the Congress party The Vyapam scam came to light Muslims attend the last Friday prayers of the holy month of Ramadan, in Kolkata, yesterday. Muslim devotees death was handed over to the CBI here yesterda said no court had in 2013 and has since assumed took part in the last Friday prayers ahead of the Eid Al Fitr festival marking the end of Ramadan. on Thursday night. given any clean chit to Madhya mind-boggling proportions, lead- The number of First Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj ing to the arrest of nearly 2,100 Information Reports (FIRs) filed Singh Chouhan but the ruling people. At least 40 people linked in the Vyapam scam so far has Bharatiya Janata Party is falsely in some way to the scam have now reached eight. claiming that he has been given a also died, either in mysterious Kejriwal says Centre feared ACB Jhabua Police Superintendent ‘clean chit’ by court in the scam. circumstances or have commit- Abid Khan said the case diary on State Congress spokesperson ted suicide. death of TV journalist Akshay K K Mishra said: “Neither the IANS action against its minister

NEW DELHI: The Narendra Kejriwal said. He didn’t identify work being done by the ACB after Modi government acted against the minister. the AAP took power in February India’s most Delhi’s Anti-Corruption Branch The Kejriwal government has but everything changed suddenly NIA wants Jundal trial (ACB) because it feared action been locked in a bitter row with on June 8. against a central minister, Lt Governor Najeeb Jung over the Last month, Jung replaced expensive film Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal control of the ACB. In his inter- Delhi government appointee S S said yesterday. view, Kejriwal insisted that Jung Yadav with M K Meena -- both smashes box via video conference The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was fronting for the Modi govern- men are from Delhi Police -- as leader also told news channels ment and the Bharatiya Janata the ACB chief. NEW DELHI: Counsel for between him and his client. that he would be happy if dissi- Party.“Modi is using Jung so that The AAP government dubbed office records suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba He informed the court that he dent leaders Yogendra Yadav and Kejriwal is not able to work... Meena’s appointment illegal, and (LeT) terrorist Abu Jundal, the would write a letter to Jundal Prashant Bhushan returned to “Modi is controlling the Delhi drastically pruned his powers. MUMBAI: India’s most expen- alleged mastermind of the 26/11 seeking his instructions. the party. government’s home department The tug of war now awaits a judi- sive film ever, Baahubali, is Mumbai attacks, told a court The court was hearing National Kejriwal claimed the central by sending Delhi Police person- cial verdict. close to quickly recouping its here yesterday that if his trial Investigation Agency (NIA) plea government changed the leader- nel there. Kejriwal said he would be happy massive $40m budget after a is conducted through video con- for proceedings against Jundal via ship of the ACB overnight because “L K Advani was right in invok- if Yadav and Bhushan, who were record-breaking week at the ferencing, his defence would be video conferencing. the BJP feared the anti-graft ing fears of another Emergency. among the founder leaders of the box office, an industry analyst adversely affected. NIA said the Maharasthra gov- body was going to act against a Why else does Modi say that he AAP, returned to the party. “Agar said yesterday. Jundal’s counsel M S Khan ernment apprehends Jundal may minister in the Modi government. will decide every post (in Delhi) aisa hua to bahut achcha hoga (If The epic battle movie, which told District Judge Amar Nath be killed or kidnapped by rivals “The BJP feared that the ACB from (that of) the peon to the it happens, it will be very good),” has been likened to American that if the trial was conducted during transit from jail to court. was trying to frame a cabinet chief secretary? Is this right?” he said. “Their return will be good blockbuster “300”, enjoyed the through video conferencing, there Jundal is lodged in Arthur minister. The centre’s move was According to Kejriwal, Jung for the party.” biggest opening day in the history will be no proper communication Road Jail in Mumbai. IANS aimed at pre-empting our move,” himself was positive about the IANS of Indian cinema, grossing 500m rupees ($7.9m) on July 10. It went on to make more than $22m across India in its first Monsoon hits Kolkata weekend, according to Komal Nahta, the editor of Indian movie magazine “Film Information”, smashing the previous record of Premier’s foreign $17m set by “Happy New Year”. “It would have crossed 200 crore rupees ($32m) in its first week,” Nahta said. policy a failure: “No film in the history of Indian cinema has made this kind of money in the opening week.” Baahubali, released in the Salman Khurshid Telugu and Tamil languages for the so-called Tollywood and NEW DELHI: Congress leader foreign secretary to that country Kollywood markets, cost 2.5 bil- Salman Khurshid yesterday under a pretext. lion rupees to make, director SS said Prime Minister Narendra “There was celebration of Rajamouli said in an interview Modi’s foreign policy was a breakthrough (at Ufa). Next day, last month. “failure” and his government there were attacks on us,” he said. It is being released in two parts was “incapable of strategic Khurshid said there were and the first offering, Baahubali - thinking”. far less ceasefire violations by The Beginning is believed to have Talking to the media here, Pakistan in the last year of the made around two billion rupees in Khurshid said there had been UPA government compared to the its opening seven days, according over several hundred ceasefire record of the NDA government. to industry insiders. violations in Jammu and Kashmir Answering a call on the right Baahubali, literally meaning in one year of the National time to talk with Pakistan, “The One With Strong Arms” in Democratic Alliance (NDA) gov- Khursid said it was a very diffi- English, also enjoyed one of the ernment and a number of civilians cult call. most successful opening weekends had been killed besides soldiers “We do not want to undermine for an Indian film in the United laying down their lives. the ability of the government to States, collecting $4.4m, accord- “Modi had said talks and bombs deal with Pakistan but we do want ing to ‘Variety’. will not go together. Why has it it to deal with its eyes and ears IANS changed,” Khurshid, a former open. When it shuts its eyes and A cyclist rides through a flooded street during a continuous shower in Kolkata, yesterday. A monsoon shower external affairs minister, asked. shuts its ears, I think that is not hit the city and disrupted daily life. The Indian monsoon takes place between May and September. India on Thursday warned the best way to go for dialogue,” Pakistan of an “effective and he said. forceful response” to unprovoked Khurshid said there was a tinge firing after repeated ceasefire vio- of policing in foreign policy. No end in sight to politics of sleaze in Himachal lations by it over the last few days “I think a policeman’s foreign along the Line of Control and the policy is not the best foreign pol- international border in Jammu icy that I am aware of,” he said. SHIMLA: There seems to be Chief Minister Virbhadra the sixth time in December 2012, and party vice president Rajiv and Kashmir. He said there was a percep- no end to the politics of sleaze Singh has ordered a high-level the court acquitted Virbhadra Bharadwaj on July 14 demanded The border tensions erupted tion that Modi was successful in and corruption in Himachal probe into it. Singh and his wife. a CBI probe into the incident. within days of a meeting between foreign policy but “it has been a pradesh. Political leaders say that in In a role reversal, another They said the Congress had Modi and Pakistan Prime Minister greater failure”. “The govern- At least two chief ministers, the past one decade attempts audio CD was circulated in March indulged in such activities in the Nawaz Sharif in the Russian city of ment is incapable of strategic a senior BJP leader who is now were made from time to time to 2010 in which then chief minister past too.“This time health minis- Ufa on July 10 in which both lead- thinking. They should do some a Loksabha member, a former tarnish the image of senior poli- Prem Kumar Dhumal was heard ter Kaul Singh has been made a ers agreed to a series of steps to tactical thinking,” he said. union minister, a top police officer ticians from both the Congress directing then vigilance chief D victim as speculation is rife that improve bilateral ties. Khurshid also took a dig at the and now a senior cabinet minister and the BJP. S Manhas to tap the phones of he might become the next chief Khurshid said the Bharatiya government over China blocking in the Congress government here Virbhadra Singh and his wife Virbhadra Singh and his wife. minister,” they said. Janata Party (BJP) had been crit- India’s move in the UN that called claim they have been victims of Pratibha Singh were booked in Dhumal and Manhas allegedly Transport minister G S Bali ical of the Congress-led United for action against Pakistan on the sleazy CDs and videos. 2009 in a corruption case by the also talked about money. hit back. “Nobody should be Progressive Alliance government release of Mumbai attack mas- Currently, an audio CD from then BJP government on the basis Two other CDs were also in allowed to play with the privacy when it held talks with Pakistan. termind Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi. an unknown source has gone viral of an audio CD in which he was circulation in 2010 - an audio in of an individual as it is character “We felt that Pakistan betrayed He said it was unrealistic to in which health and family wel- heard talking about monetary which Dhumal was heard talk- assassination,” he said. The gov- us. We used to make efforts to expect that China would not sup- fare minister Kaul Singh is pur- transactions on the phone. ing about former union ministers ernment registered a case on June improve ties with Pakistan with port Pakistan. portedly carrying out a personal Charges of conspiracy and cor- Sukh Ram and Shanta Kumar, 26, 2013, related to the tapping great deliberation,” he said. Referring to Modi addressing conversation with a known busi- ruption were framed by a Shimla and a video in which BJP MP of over 1,300 telephones, mainly Khurshid said the Modi govern- the Indian diaspora during his nessman and a woman. court, following which Virbhadra Virender Kashyap was allegedly of Congress leaders, government ment had called off foreign secre- visits abroad, Khurshid said it Singh has dubbed the CD a fake Singh resigned as union minister. caught taking cash on camera. functionaries and journalists, in tary-level talks with Pakistan last was not enough to impress only and said it was aimed at tarnish- Less than 24 hours before his Taking a jibe at the chief min- violation of the Indian Telegraph year over its envoy meeting sepa- the non-resident Indians. ing his 40-year political career. swearing-in as chief minister for ister, BJP legislator Rajeev Saijal Act. IANS ratist leaders but later sent the IANS SATURDAY 18 JULY 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS European Union approves emergency funding for Greece

BRUSSELS: The EU approved to put the Greek economy back a short-term loan for Greece on track,” said Dutch Finance yesterday, allowing it to make Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, huge payments as early as next who heads the Eurogroup of his German House backs Greek week to its international credi- eurozone counterparts. tors while a new eurozone debt “It’s not going to be easy. We bailout is being hammered out. are certain to encounter problems The European Union’s 28 mem- in the years to come. But I believe ber states unanimously agreed to we will be able to resolve them,” bailout despite rebellion give Greece $7.8bn using a bloc- he added. wide crisis fund, overcoming Officials hope the bailout talks strong objections by Britain and between Greece and its creditors other nations outside the euro- — the European Commission, the A fifth of Merkel’s conservatives voted ‘no’ in a blow to the chancellor zone with assurances they would ECB and the IMF — will take no not be put at risk. more than three weeks at which BERLIN: German lawmakers gave their go “We have an agreement on point Athens could begin receiv- ahead yesterday for the eurozone to nego- bridge financing ... This agreement ing cash in exchange for further tiate a third bailout for Greece, heeding a backed by the 28 member states very tough economic reforms. warning from Chancellor Angela Merkel prevents Greece from an immedi- The ESM approved the talks that the alternative to a deal with Athens ate default,” EU Commissioner for after the Greek parliament passed was chaos. the euro Valdis Dombrovskis told a first set of draconian reforms in The Bundestag lower house of parliament, reporters in Brussels. a dramatic vote on Wednesday. whose backing is essential for the talks to The loan allows crisis-hit “We welcome that the Greek start, decisively approved the move by 439 Greece to pay the European government and parliament voted votes to 119, with 40 abstentions. But almost Central Bank €4.2bn due tomor- in favour of the reforms with a a fifth of Merkel’s conservatives voted ‘no’ in row, and cover arrears to the very broad majority,” ESM chief a blow to the chancellor. International Monetary Fund of Klaus Regling said in a statement. Popular misgivings run deep in Germany, €2bn. But crucially, the loan will The bridge loan to tide Athens the eurozone country which has already con- not cover the next payment to the over will be given through the tributed most to Greece’s two bailouts since ECB, due on the August 20, effec- European Financial Stability 2010, about funnelling yet more aid to Athens. tively giving Greece and its credi- Mechanism, a rescue fund set up Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble tors only a month to negotiate the at the time of Greece’s first bail- has questioned whether a new programme terms of a new three-year bailout out in 2010 but that involves the will succeed, although the creditors’ offer to of €86bn, agreed in principle at a whole of the 28-nation EU, not Athens includes the conditions for more aus- crunch eurozone summit. just the 19 eurozone members. terity and economic reform that Berlin had “It will allow Greece to clear Britain on Thursday dropped demanded. But Merkel argued for negotiating its arrears with the IMF and the its opposition to the emergency a new deal to prevent a Greek exit from the Bank of Greece and to repay the EU loan to Greece after reaching euro — the “Grexit” that might undermine ECB, until Greece would start a deal that would, it said, protect the entire currency union — and said sug- receiving financing under a new it and other non-euro countries gestions Athens might temporarily leave the programme from the European against potential losses. euro wouldn’t work. “The alternative to this German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel speaks at the Bundestag, the German lower house of Stability Mechanism (ESM),” the Prime Minister David Cameron agreement would not be a ‘time-out’ from the European Council, which repre- of non-euro Britain had insisted parliament, in Berlin, yesterday. euro ... but rather predictable chaos,” she told sents the bloc’s 28 member states, that his country would not be the Bundestag. “We would be grossly negli- said in a statement, referring to responsible for bailing out Greece, gent, and act irresponsibly, if we didn’t at least Greece. “Seven reasons why the Bundestag collapse on Thursday. the eurozone’s bailout fund. while his finance minister George attempt this way.” should vote ‘No’ today,” ran a headline in the With Merkel under domestic pressure from The ESM meanwhile, which Osborne said the plan was a “com- Schaeuble himself has suggested that mass-selling Bild daily before the debate, list- lawmakers who have lost trust in Greece, the is governed by the eurozone’s plete non-starter”. The use of the Greece might be better off taking such a time- ing ‘Grexit is the better solution’ and ‘our creditors agreed the tough deal at the weekend 19 finance ministers, said that EFSM risked causing a headache out from the eurozone to sort out its daunting grandchildren will pay’ among its reasons. demanding that Athens cut pensions, raise it had officially approved begin- for Cameron as he seeks to rene- economic problems. But Merkel said neither A Forsa poll showed that 53 percent of value-added tax, and set aside $54bn of state ning negotiations for what will be gotiate Britain’s own membership Greece nor the other 18 eurozone member German voters had wanted parliament to assets to sell off. Greece’s third bailout since 2010. of the EU ahead of an in-out ref- countries were willing to accept the idea. back the negotiations, with 42 percent against. Some members of the opposition Greens “This agreement offers a chance erendum by 2017. AFP “Therefore this way was not viable,” she added. The Greek parliament approved the new said they wanted Greece to stay in the euro Schaeuble lined up with his boss and urged bailout offer in the early hours of Thursday, but rejected austerity as a cure for its ills, lawmakers to vote to start the negotiations, although Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had leaving abstention as their only option. adding: “It’s a last attempt to fulfil this to rely on opposition support after some law- “Another bloodletting won’t make Greece IMF urges debt restructuring extraordinarily difficult task.” makers from his left-wing Syriza party also more healthy again,” said lawmaker Katrin PARIS: IMF chief Christine Lagarde yesterday stressed the impor- Not all conservatives agreed. A total of 60 rebelled. Tsipras moved yesterday to replace Goering-Eckhardt, backing IMF calls for tance of easing Greece’s debt burden for her institution to partici- voted against starting negotiations, more than his energy minister, one of the rebels, a gov- Greece’s debt burden to be eased. pate in the European rescue package for Athens. double the number of rebels in a February ernment source said. That fell on deaf ears with Merkel and Speaking on French radio, Lagarde was asked whether the rescue vote on extending a second bailout package. About a quarter of Syriza lawmakers voted Schaeuble, who said European law did not plan for Greece clinched in Brussels on Monday was viable without The jump highlighted grassroots opposition to ‘no’ or abstained, refusing to accept the permit a “haircut” writing off part of the debt. restructuring Athens’s enormous debt load. “The answer is fairly cat- granting further aid. demands for yet more austerity and reform German conservatives have accused Tsipras egoric: ‘no’,” she insisted. She said Greece’s European partners had “If we don’t have the courage to end it — included in the deal with Greece’s creditors. of blackmail for saying other weaker eurozone accepted the “principle” of easing the debt burden, but “neither the Greece won’t make it in the eurozone — there The Greek electorate had already rejected an countries would slide into crisis if Greece were amount nor the method.” “For us to participate, we need a complete will be a fourth and a fifth bailout for Greece,” earlier offer in a referendum, and the latest forced out of the euro. But Gregor Gysi of the programme and from our point of view, this programme has two parts,” said conservative eurosceptic Klaus-Peter is even tougher. Left party, Syriza’s ideological counterpart in she told Europe 1. The first part is that the Greeks must enact funda- Willsch, who voted ‘no’. Still, the Greek parliamentary approval Germany, turned the tables. mental reforms to free up the economy and allow it the possibility to The Social Democrats were more united opened the way for European action to stave “You’re not being blackmailed — you’re grow. “The second part comes from the lenders, and that consists on with 175 of their lawmakers backing the start off Grexit, at least for the time being. The the blackmailers yourselves” said Gysi. “Mr one hand of providing finance and on the other hand of restructuring of the talks and only four against. European Central Bank increased emergency Schaeuble, I’m sorry but you’re in the process the debt to ease the burden,” she said. AFP The rebels reflected popular discontent with funding to keep the country’s banks from of destroying the European idea.” REUTERS

World Bank president in Beijing Eurozone inflation China’s FDI inflows increase outlook brighter: ECB 8pc in first half BEIJING: China’s foreign FRANKFURT: The inflation gradually,” the ECB continued. direct investment inflows rose outlook for the euro area is Structural reform efforts 8.0 percent in the first six improving as growth picks up and ongoing adjustments and months from a year earlier, a and the effects of the European rebalancing in some euro area Commerce Ministry official Central Bank’s policy measures countries was also expected to said. Investment into China’s feed through into the econ- help keep a lid on upward price fast-growing services sector omy, an ECB survey showed pressures. jumped 23.0 percent in the first yesterday. Already on Thursday, ECB half of 2015 from a year ear- According to the ECB’s regular chief Mario Draghi had said that lier, accounting for more than quarterly survey of professional the central bank’s raft of differ- 60 percent of the period’s total forecasters, eurozone inflation is ent policy measures, including a FDI, Vice Commerce Minister expected to average 0.2 percent much-contested scheme of buying Wang Shouwen told a briefing. this year and then pick up to 1.3 €1.1 trillion worth of public sec- Wang’s remarks were recorded percent in 2016 and 1.6 percent tor and government bonds, were in a transcript posted on the cen- in 2017, moving closer to the cen- helping to fuel economic recovery. tral government’s website. tral bank’s target of just under Turning to the growth outlook The ministry didn’t announce two percent. for the 19 countries that share the exact investment value or the The 2015 and 2016 figures rep- the euro, the survey saw largely monthly figures for June. resent a slight upward revision no change in experts’ growth China’s outbound direct invest- from the previous survey in the forecasts. ment soared 29.2 percent to World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim (left) at a meet in Beijing, yesterday. The bank continues to project second quarter. Survey respond- “The outlook for economic $56bn in January-June from a China’s growth to be at seven percent, and believes the economy is ‘strong’ amidst recent stock market fluctuations. ents “see a number of factors activity was largely unchanged year earlier. that support the strong pick-up from the previous round,” the FDI is an important gauge of in inflation in 2016 and 2017,” the ECB said, with real gross domes- the health of the external econ- ECB said. tic product projected to expand by omy that sustains China’s vast “The main factors include the 1.4 percent in 2015, 1.8 percent in factory sector, but is a small con- Chinese firm to raise $2bn in HK IPO confirmation of ongoing, albeit 2016 and 1.8 percent again in 2017. tributor to overall capital flows moderate, growth in economic Only the 2016 forecast was compared with exports, which HONG KONG: A Chinese a provider of railway signalling CRSC said it plans to take activity, monetary policy meas- revised upwards slightly from 1.7 were worth $2.3 trillion in 2014. state-owned rail company is products and services, hopes to orders starting late July, after the ures, exchange rate developments percent in the previous survey. Last year, China drew a record planning a $2bn listing on list on the city’s stock exchange city’s stock exchange approved and base effects from past oil “The upward path is explained $119.6bn of FDI, while ODI surged Hong Kong’s stock exchange, in mid-August, according to the the listing on Thursday. The news price developments,” it explained. by the ECB’s accommodative 14.1 percent to a new high of a report said, in what will be Wall Street Journal. comes as investors remain on edge However, respondents expected monetary policy and the low oil $102.9bn. The government has the first major initial public The Beijing-based company, in after a month-long sell-off that the pick-up in economic activ- prices,” the central bank said. been encouraging firms to invest offering by a Chinese company its prospectus to the Hong Kong saw shares plunge more than 30 ity to exert only slowly increas- Low oil prices would contribute abroad to slow the rapid build- since the nation’s stock market stock exchange, said it is the larg- percent and billions wiped off val- ing pressure on prices, “as the positively to private consumption up of reserves and help domestic meltdown. est rail transportation control uations, despite news that China’s slack remaining in the euro area thanks to households’ higher dis- firms become more competitive China Railway Signal and system solution provider in the economy grew more than expected economy will be removed only posable income. AFP internationally. REUTERS Communication Corp. (CRSC), world in terms of revenue. in the second quarter. AFP SATURDAY 18 JULY 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 Samsung wins nod for merger after fight Deal seen a key step for Samsung Group succession

SEOUL: South Korea’s domi- takeover wilfully undervalued the in what amounted to a sweet- nant Samsung conglomerate — C&T share price, at an unaccept- heart deal that penalised its run by the country’s wealthiest able cost to its shareholders. shareholders. family — secured shareholder Samsung C&T executives The hedge fund, which had also approval yesterday for the cru- insisted the deal made good busi- sought to block the merger in the cial merger of two affiliates, ness sense and would enhance South Korean courts, accepted seeing off a formidable chal- shareholder value in the long-run, the vote result, but hinted that lenge from investor activists led with a more competitive merged it could pursue other avenues of by a combative US hedge fund. company that could target sales opposition. The victory, following a bit- of 60 trillion won ($52bn) by 2020. “Elliott is disappointed that the terly contested proxy battle, will “I am grateful for the share- takeover appears to have been come as an enormous relief to the holders who voted for the approved against the wishes of Samsung Group’s founding Lee merger,” C&T chief executive Choi so many independent sharehold- family as it seeks to restructure Chi-Hun told reporters. “We will ers and reserves all options at the multi-headed corporation do our utmost to ensure their its disposal,” spokesman Richard ahead of a generational transfer support is repaid in the form of Barton said in a statement of power from ailing patriarch heightened shareholder value.” Although the anti-merger camp Lee Kun-Hee. Turnout was high, with 83.6 lost the final vote, its muscular At a packed and sometimes percent of eligible C&T voting campaign marked a watershed fractious emergency meeting, shares cast. That left Samsung moment for shareholder activism shareholders of construction firm requiring 55.7 percent of the vote in South Korea, where family-run Samsung C&T voted in favour of to secure the necessary two- conglomerates, or “chaebol,” dom- a takeover by the group’s de facto thirds majority, and the finally inate the economy and are used holding company, Cheil Industries, tally in favour of the merger was to running their businesses with Choi Chi-Hun (centre), President and CEO of Samsung C&T, visits the press room after the company’s general in an all-stock deal. 69.5 percent. minimum investor interference. meeting of stockholders in Seoul yesterday. Both companies saw their For Samsung, victory was In an unprecedented show of share prices plunge in the wake critical to its current strategy of domestic investor power, more of the vote result, with C&T clos- streamlining and consolidating its than 3,000 individual sharehold- governance by the chaebol,” years ago and said he doubted the Korean media had sought to por- ing down 10.4 percent at 62,100 group holdings into fewer, larger ers had grouped together in an Hwang said. board claims that the deal would tray the proxy battle as corporate won, and Cheil down 7.7 percent companies. online forum aimed at blocking Small shareholders made sure trigger a long-term rise in share- Korea’s fight against pernicious 179,000 won. The family already controls the C&T takeover. their voices were heard dur- holder value. outside influence, with some com- The merger had been pas- Cheil and taking over C&T will “I think this will be seen as a ing Friday’s meeting, taking the Kang Dong-Ok, an activist mentaries straying into far-right sionately opposed by a signifi- solidify its grip on the entire con- positive, transitional moment in microphone and embarking on representing small sharehold- territory with remarks about cant number of C&T investors, glomerate because the affiliate South Korea’s corporate culture,” long, often rambling speeches — ers, accused Samsung of play- ruthless Jewish financiers. rallied by US hedge fund Elliott holds more than $10bn in shares said Hwang Sei-Woon, an ana- both for and against the takeover. ing a “dirty game” — harassing The remarks forced Samsung Associates — the company’s sec- of Samsung Group units. lyst at the Korea Capital Market “I oppose this merger abso- shareholders at their homes and to issue a statement, condemning ond-largest single shareholder. Elliot had complained that C&T Institute. “It highlighted deep- lutely,” said dentist Park Sun-Ok, workplaces. anti-Semitism “in all its forms”. Elliott had argued that the was essentially being offered up rooted problems in corporate who bought his C&T shares 13 Nationalist voices in the South AFP

Yellen open to Google beats earnings forecast, shares jump

SAN FRANCISCO: Google search monetization,” Google’s videos on smartphones or tablets from transactions or related shares soared after the Internet new chief financial officer Ruth has surged along with overall advertising. raising threshold titan beat second quarter earn- Porat said during her first earn- viewer time spent on the website, “Although we’re still in early ings expectations by riding hot ings call at the company. Google said. YouTube is focused experiments with a limited growth of mobile search and She credited work done to on “re-inventing the television number of retailers, we see advertising on YouTube. improve user experiences on experience for the Internet age,” ‘Purchases on Google’ as a big for systemic banks The Silicon Valley-based com- mobile devices along with the Google chief business officer Omid step towards helping retailers pany said that second-quarter quality of ads, as well as finding Kordestani said. drive more mobile conversions WASHINGTON: Federal panel in May proposes allowing net income climbed two percent ways to merge online activities Google expects to boost its and win more customers,” Google Reserve Chair Janet Yellen banks with assets between $50bn to $3.4bn on an 11 percent rise in with real-world commerce. earnings in the future by attach- shopping product management said she was open to raising a and $500bn to lose the SIFI des- revenue to $17.7bn. Porat said desktop search- ing “buy buttons” to mobile ads to vice president Jonathan Alferness threshold for determining a ignation if the Fed believes they Google’s shares soared more based advertising also posted solid make shopping easier for smart- said in a blog post. bank’s systemic importance are not systemically risky. than 11 percent in after-hours revenue growth. And Google’s phone users. Mobile devices, typically smart- and indicated that US lenders Republican Senator Mike Crapo trade to nearly $650 after mark- streaming video website YouTube The introduction of “Purchases phones, are increasingly consulted had made progress in their sub- reminded Yellen on Thursday that ing a 3.5 percent gain during the saw substantial growth in viewer on Google” came as Facebook before or during shopping trips missions of so-called living will Fed governor and top banking regular session prior to the earn- engagement during the past year, and Pinterest also try to make in the United States, influenc- plans this month. regulator Daniel Tarullo has told ings release. attracting marketers to its adver- shopping seamless for peo- ing nearly a trillion dollars in in- The tacit nod of approval from the committee he supports raising “We continue to close the gap tising platform. ple using their sites, putting store sales last year, according to the Fed chief is a good sign for the threshold above $50bn. “So, between mobile and desktop Time spent watching YouTube themselves in position to profit Alferness. AFP Wall Street, as a rejection can be like Governor Tarullo, I would be costly, though Yellen also made open to a modest increase in the clear the US central bank will not threshold,” Yellen said. She added hesitate to reject certain plans that it is critical for the Fed to when it completes its assessment. maintain its discretion over sys- “We are certainly prepared to temically important banks should US inflation, housing data on the rise Fiat Chrysler say that they are not credible,” the SIFI threshold change. Yellen told the Senate Banking The senators’ questions for WASHINGTON: US con- wait for the first rate hike may seasonally adjusted annual pace of exploring sale of Committee during the second and Yellen centered mainly on the sumer prices rose for a fifth not be that much longer,” said Joel 1.17 million units in June. Permits final day of her semiannual testi- Fed’s role as the top banking straight month in June as the Naroff, chief economist at Naroff for future home construction Magneti Marelli mony to Congress on the economy regulator. Her appearance before cost of gasoline and a range Economic Advisors in Holland, increased 7.4 percent to a 1.34 and monetary policy. the House of Representatives of other goods increased, fur- Pennsylvania. million-unit rate, the highest level The questions aimed at Yellen Financial Services Committee on ther signs of firming inflation The Labor Department said since July 2007. LONDON/MILAN: Fiat focused more on financial indus- Wednesday was marked by more that strengthen the case for an its Consumer Price Index rose The acceleration in housing Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) try regulation than the timing of aggressive questioning focused on interest rate hike this year. 0.3 percent last month after activity should ease concerns that is considering whether to sell an interest rate hike. One topic transparency and congressional Other data yesterday sug- increasing 0.4 percent in May. economic growth slowed at the its auto parts maker Magneti that emerged was the threshold oversight of the central bank. gested the economy could support Last month’s increase pushed the end of the second quarter after Marelli after receiving interest for so-called SIFIs. The Fed chief gave the same a tightening of monetary policy. year-on-year CPI rate into posi- a surprise drop in retail sales in from potential buyers, accord- The 2010 Dodd-Frank financial opening testimony in both appear- Housing starts surged in June and tive territory for the first time June and continued weakness in ing to sources familiar with the reform law says that all US banks ances, saying that progress in the building permits soared to a near since December. manufacturing. matter. with more than $50bn in assets labor market and a strengthen- eight-year high. The energy-driven disinflation- “We are seeing strong house- At least two US private equity are labeled systemically impor- ing economy put the central bank Federal Reserve Chair Janet ary trend appears to have run its hold formation by the millennial funds are looking to team up with tant financial institutions (SIFIs), on track to raise interest rates Yellen this week affirmed the US course, with producer prices ris- cohort, which is putting pressure industry players and submit joint making them subject to tougher later this year, though some head- central bank was keen to start ing in June for a second straight on many local housing markets,” bids for Magneti Marelli, which supervision by the central bank. winds remained. She added that raising interest rates later this month. In a separate report, said Peter Ciganik, managing supplies all major carmakers in A bill drafted by Republican the Fed’s decision on when to hike year. the Commerce Department director at real estate investment Europe, the Americas and Asia, Richard Shelby, the commit- rates will remain data-dependent. “The barriers to a Fed hike said groundbreaking for new firm GTIS Partners in New York. three sources said. tee chairman, and passed by the REUTERS are starting to crumble. The homes increased 9.8 percent to a REUTERS A recent offer, by a consor- tium including a US buyout fund, valuing the business at less than €2.5bn was rebuffed in June as FCA would not agree to sell for less than €3bn, one of the sources said. FCA declined to comment, Ericsson profit beats forecast as US sales stabilise while a Magneti Marelli spokes- man had no comment. STOCKHOLM/ whether US sales would continue Debt-laden FCA could sell the FRANKFURT: Ericsson, the to grow this year. wholly owned unit either in parts world’s No.1 mobile network Analysts said the rise in or in its entirety, the sources said, equipment maker, topped sec- beaten-down Ericsson shares adding that no final decision on a ond-quarter sales and profit reflected investor relief over disposal had been taken. forecasts and said its mainstay the levelling off in its US busi- Magneti Marelli has often been North American business had ness and better margins, exclud- touted as a takeover target. While stabilised after three quarters ing hefty restructuring charges, FCA has always denied any inter- of declines, lifting its shares as rather than an improvement in est in selling, the sources said the much as 6 percent. fundamental demand. Italian-American carmaker had Mobile operators in North “There’s probably an element recently told interested parties it America, which accounts for of relief in the share price move, may reconsider its plans. about a quarter of Ericsson’s particularly around comments on The world’s seventh-largest turnover, have largely finished North America,” Jefferies ana- carmaker currently has its hands building out the latest 4G net- lyst Robert Lamb said, adding full with a planned initial pub- works, meaning suppliers are that cost cuts pointed to further lic offering of luxury sports car having to focus on upgrading improvement of profitability maker Ferrari, skedded for after congested parts of existing net- ahead. mid-October, and any decision on works there. The Swedish firm also Magneti Marelli would be taken “We see stabilisation,” Ericsson reported sales growth from the after that, the sources said. CEO Hans Vestberg said of the fast roll-out of 4G networks in Yet US buyout funds have US business on a call, adding “we China as well as demand in India, been working on the dossier for are operating still on a lower the Middle East and South-East Hans Vestberg, CEO of Swedish Mobile telecom equipment maker Ericsson, speaking at a press conference in months, the sources said. “Letters operating level compared to last Asia, offsetting weakness in are piling up on Fiat’s table,” one Stockholm, Sweden, yesterday. year.” He declined to forecast Japan. REUTERS of the sources said. REUTERS SATURDAY 18 JULY 2015 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS VIEWS

A majority of new jobs Growth fantasy of are temporary gigs BY STEPHEN MIHM small govt, tax cuts he rise of the “gig economy” -- the world of part-time, freelance, contingent workers such as Uber car drivers BY NOAH SMITH or contract software engineers -- threatens to supplant as energy and pharmaceuticals. applied his formidable statis- indexes of state business climate, an earlier model, in which long-term, stable employ- They employ a number of econo- tics skills to investigating the and found that two factors did ment with a single company was the norm. eb Bush says that if mists, including Arthur Laffer, impact of ALEC’s rankings predict higher growth. These are T he’s elected presi- the famous proponent of sup- on actual state growth levels. 1) simpler corporate tax codes QUICK TAKE FULL EMPLOYMENT dent he wants to get ply-side economics. Every year, What he found was startling -- and 2) less spending on welfare “Contingent workers” now account for about 40.4 percent of us to sustained gross ALEC produces a report called the ALEC rankings didn’t pre- and other transfer payments. the workforce, up from 30.6 percent in 2006, according to the domestic product “Rich States, Poor States,” in dict a state’s growth within one But the effect of these policies Government Accountability Office. This trend arguably began growthJ of 4 percent a year. I’m which it ranks states according year, three years or six years. In on growth was very small. sometime in the late 1990s, especially in the so-called New Economy. highly skeptical, and I’m far to how business-friendly their other words, if having ALEC- So what we’re seeing is that It intensified with the last recession. Indeed, the vast majority of from the only one. But there are policies are. ALEC claims that endorsed policies makes a state supposedly pro-business policies, new jobs being created are contingent, temporary gigs -- precisely some true believers, who think the policies it advocates deter- grow faster, either it must take of the type constantly urged on the opposite of what happened in the 1990s. that if we just do the right struc- mine which states will grow and a very long time, or the effect is us by conservative think tanks This new face of labor is anxiety producing, but there’s not much tural reforms, we can get there. which won’t. From the report’s too small to measure. and rightward-leaning econo- new about it. In fact, the replacement of steady jobs by unpredict- University of Chicago economist website: In fact, when Chinn controls mists, are just not that effective able gigs marks a return to what passed for normal for most of US John Cochrane, for example, has Rich States, Poor States not for a number of other variables, in generating growth. Yes, there history. The gig economy was the economy. a long list of structural reforms only identifies these policies such as urbanization rates, are a few things we can do. We In the late 18th Century, most people worked on farms. Although that he thinks will do the trick. but also makes sound research- weather and access to water- can simplify the corporate tax many Americans owned land, contingent farm labor was common- Now some of these are prob- based conclusions about which ways, he finds that there may code, and -- if we aren’t worried place, much as it was back in England, where the rise of capitalism ably good ideas, and some are states are poised to achieve even be a negative relationship about the social harm to vulner- had created a class of casual wage laborers who moved from job probably bad. But what we really greater economic prosperity and between the ALEC rankings and able populations - - we can cut to job and place to place. lack is any idea of the quantita- those that are stuck on the path growth -- in other words, states transfer payments. But even In Massachusetts, cradle of the American Revolution, landless tive impact of any given reform. to a lackluster economy. that ALEC claims have more these will give only a slight fillip laborers traveled from farm to city and back again, piecing together A good idea might produce a Alec lists 15 factors that it business-friendly policies might to growth. In other words, don’t jobs in a way that would seem familiar to today’s millennials. In 1 percentage point increase in claims boost state growth rates. actually grow more slowly! believe that Jeb Bush can deliver 1770, one 20-something from Walpole, Massachusetts, described growth for three years, or a 0.01 These boil down to low taxes, low Chinn isn’t the only one who on his 4 percent growth prom- how he had moved “from place to pace for his living … for allmost percentage point bump for three levels of government spending has analyzed the ALEC rank- ise simply by lowering taxes and [sic] two years past and hath nothing but his hands to get a living.” months. A lot of the belief that and light regulation. In other ings. The Iowa Policy Project, a easing regulation. The countryside was crawling with such people. In cities and we can reform our way to sus- words, these policies are simi- smaller rival think tank, con- As for the more radical steps towns, those fortunate enough to learn a trade enjoyed far greater tained higher growth really boils lar to the ideas John Cochrane ducted its own analysis and John Cochrane suggests, such privileges. But acquiring those skills required an apprenticeship down to faith and hope. describes, and that pro- free- reached the same conclusion as as ending agricultural subsi- with a master craftsman. The apprentice exchanged labor for room, There are many cases where market economists have been Chinn. They investigated ALEC’s dies, eliminating occupational board, and training. This system was remarkably stable, involv- that faith and hope has turned promising us will boost growth factors individually, and found licensing and rolling back most ing a long-term relationship between master and apprentice that out not to be justified. For exam- since time immemorial. It’s a that none of them had much of labor law, we should get the culminated when the trainee set up his own shop. ple, there is the case of the ALEC simple prescription: shrink the a relationship to growth. data before we start slashing. It This system broke down as the Industrial Revolution gathered rankings. ALEC is short for the state, cut taxes and the econ- What about other measure- seems likely that many of these steam in the 19th Century. The growing division of labor reduced American Legislative Exchange omy will grow. ut do the poli- ments of business-friendly pol- radical free-market policies once complex crafts to easy-to-master steps, each of which could Council, a think tank comprised cies work? Empirical evidence icy? These fare slightly better. would deliver a lot of economic be contracted out to contingent workers. of state senators and represent- suggests that they don’t deliver. In 2013, economists Jed Kolko, and social disruption for very lit- Much of this production took place outside of conventional fac- atives from a number of large Menzie Chinn, an economist at David Neumark and Marisol tle actual growth. tories. Instead, employers would “put out” -- in other words, sub- corporations in industries such the University of Wisconsin, Mejia analyzed 10 different BLOOMBERG contract -- the labor to a faceless army of men and women, many of whom worked at home. A single pair of pants, for example, might tap the labor of 17 or 18 seamstresses and tailors working as subcontractors. This was the gig economy, and it wasn’t pretty: Workers strug- gled to make ends meet, contending with an ever-changing number of employers, jobbers and other middlemen who hired them. Much like today’s freelancers, these laborers worked overtime to cobble together a living wage.In the second half of the 19th Century, growing numbers of laborers began toiling in large factories. This brought some stability to employment, but immoderate fluctuations in the business cycle, combined with seasonal changes in demand and in the availability of raw materials, put large numbers of people out of work on a regular basis. While they waited to be hired or rehired, they often turned to odd jobs, unskilled labor and other forms of makeshift employment. Outside of salaried, white-collar work, which also was far more tenuous and unpredictable than it later became, most Americans had some experience with the gig economy. This was especially true in extractive industries such as log- ging and mining, where seasonal, temporary and contract work remained the norm. The lives of these workers, chronicled by the historian Mark Wyman, reveal a world of contingent, flexible, con- tract laborers. These itinerants went by a host of derogatory names: hoboes, bindlestiffs, floaters and tramps. The 20th Century brought some stability to the labor markets. Unions, combined with competing doses of corporate paternalism, joined workers and employers in long-term relationships. These arrangements, profoundly shaken by the Great Depression, would become commonplace in the postwar era. The nature of work was transformed. In 1910, labor turnover was two or three times higher than in 1960. By the postwar era, a job for life seemed like a reasonable expectation; a job with benefits was the norm for a remarkable swath of the American workforce, though contingent, freelance employment lived on in some areas of the economy such as migrant farm work.This sea change can be glimpsed in Census data on those who identify as self-employed. According to the economic historian Claudia Goldin, in 1910, 21.5 percent of the white men between the ages of 25 and 64 described themselves as self-employed. By 1940, that number had dropped to 14.9 percent; by 1990, it was 12.5 percent. The number of such workers probably is on the rise again, and even those who hold full-time, steady work are starting to pad their earnings with freelance work on the side. BLOOMBERG Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate Release Greece from Euro membership trap BY MARK GILBERT Europe’s contortions to prevent so, it’s a grotesque betrayal of eve- designated for paying off debts like the best way to guarantee the can be made economically viable its first euro-quitter have a tinge rything the European project was and the remainder used for country’s economic future. within the borders of the euro emember the birth of sadism. Less than two weeks supposed to stand for. unspecified “investments.” At any rate, Greece’s track zone. That, I fear, is a mistake. of the euro, when after proclaiming victory in a Reading the bank research Jeroen Blokland, a Rotterdam- record on asset sales has been No one should underestimate countries had to referendum rejecting the bailout about the proposed agreement, based strategist for fund man- abysmal. Prime Minister Alexis how economically painful the clear a set of eco- conditions he was offered, Prime it’s hard to find anyone who has ager Robeco, points out that the Tsipras dropped plans to reduce initial separation would be. But nomic hurdles to Minister Alexis Tsipras has effec- a good word to say about it. “Half fund would be worth more than the government’s 51 percent stake when you’re stuck in an unhealthy be Rconsidered worthy of member- tively ceded control over every- a deal,” says Holger Schmieding a quarter of what gross domestic in Public Power Corp, which con- relationship with partners who ship? Those thresholds on debts thing -- from which assets he at Berenberg, the German pri- product was at the end of 2013. trols two-thirds of the nation’s say you’ve lost their trust, it’s and deficits had two purposes: to must sell to reduce the country’s vate bank. There’s “bloated By then, Greece’s economy had a power generation and almost all time to move on. And there’s a prevent profligate nations from debts to whether shops should anticipation” about how much pri- total value of 182bn euros and had of its electricity supply, after his lot to be said for the argument tarnishing the new currency, and open. vatization can raise, says Brendan shrunk by a quarter in the space January election. By then, Greece that Greece needs to regain to make sure each country, once After months of resistance, Brown at Mitsubishi UFJ. Grexit of five years, according to the had raisedjust 3.1bn euros-- yes, self-determination over its mon- admitted, could keep up in bad his government “has accepted risks remain high and the asset country’s statistics service. Since just 3.1bn euros in four years -- etary affairs, rather than ced- times as well as good. The former practically everything,” Maltese sales target is unrealistic, says 2013, it’s likely to have contracted with the Syriza-led administra- ing yet more sovereignty to its is why Europe’s leaders should Prime Minister Joseph Muscat Nick Kounis at ABN Amro. even more. tion adamant it wouldn’t carry lenders. jettison Greece; the latter is why said. Paul Krugman, writing for The centerpiece of the accord When privatizations were first through plans to sell the nation’s I’vewritten beforethat the their strenuous efforts to keep the New York Times on Sunday, the Greek parliament will vote on floated in 2011 as a solution to the ports, water companies or postal euro would be better off with- Greece in the euro are inappro- had this to say: This Eurogroup this week is the establishment of debt crisis, 50bn euros was often service. out Greece, and Greece would be priate and downright cruel. list of demands is madness. The a special privatization fund. The tossed about for how much might Tsipras’s capitulation means better off without the euro. Given trending hashtag ThisIsACoup is terms of the agreement specify be raised. But as Gary Jenkins at the creditors can now hang “for the humiliating deal currently GREECE’S FISCAL exactly right. This goes beyond that “valuable Greek assets” LNG Capital points out, the Greek sale” signs on just about anything on the table, I’m more convinced ODYSSEY harsh into pure vindictiveness, worth 50bn euros ($55bn) will stock market is worth half what it in the country. than ever that keeping Greece I’m starting to think that complete destruction of national be transferred to the fund; sell- was five years ago, suggesting that But the inflated optimism in the economic straitjacket of Greece’s increasingly desper- sovereignty, and no hope of relief. ing those off will raise 25 billion the crisis has badly impaired the about how much cash might be euro membership is the wrong ate attempts to stay in the euro It is, presumably, meant to be an euros to recapitalize the coun- value of Greek assets. raised shows how desperate eve- solution. club hint at masochism, while offer Greece can’t accept; but even try’s banks, with 12.5bn euros Holding a fire sale doesn’t seem ryone is to pretend that Greece BLOOMBERG SATURDAY 18 JULY 2015 CLASSIFIEDS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 17

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[email protected] SATURDAY 18 JULY 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 Froome driven to distraction by ‘motorbike’ claims

MURET, France: Chris it very seriously. Froome has more to contend “We are doing some testing, with than doping allegations as we’ve done testing at Milan-San the Briton seeks a second Tour Remo, the Giro (d’Italia), Paris- de France title — he’s also fac- Nice and from time to time we’ll ing accusations of using a motor do tests during the rest of the hidden in his bike. season.” Technological doping, as it has That includes the Tour, and been called, has not been proved Froome’s Sky team had their — far from it — but it is widely bikes tested following Sunday’s suspected to exist, and to have team time trial, with no anoma- been used. lies found. And the speed of Froome when Yet according to Hungarian he accelerates has left some con- inventor Istvan Varjas, the vinced it could only have been authorities buried their heads in produced by outside propulsion. the sand for too long. “It seems like the bike is ped- He demonstrated a motorised alling itself,” said former cyclist bike he’d built on Italian TV in Cedric Vasseur, now working for 2010 and in April 2015 he spoke to French television. French newspaper l’Equipe. Froome is not the first per- “People took 10 years to believe son to face accusations of using in EPO, it’s the same for motors. a motorised bicycle, as Fabian No-one believed it but it’s been Cancellara’s 2010 victory in the going on for 17 years,” he said. Tour of Flanders also raised more The problem is finding the than a few eyebrows. dividing line between mechani- BMC Racing rider Greg Van Avermaet of Belgium (right) celebrates as he crosses the finish line ahead of Tinkoff-Saxo rider Peter Sagan (left) to win He denied the accusations cal cheating and improvements the 198.5km 13th stage of the 102nd Tour de France race at Rodez yesterday. before, a week later, racing off in material. into the distance to win Paris- At the 2012 Olympics in London Roubaix even more impressively. the French accused the domi- Authorities have started test- nant British of gaining an unfair ing for motors in bicycles, but the advantage from the wheels their tests are rare and target only a track squad used. few cycles. In an attempt to dissuade the Van Avermaet grabs his And, much to the chagrin of use of motors, the UCI has banned many French sceptics at the Tour, the changing of unlisted bikes Froome’s bike from his stage 10 during a race. victory was not tested. But there is also the issue of International Cycling Union detection as one theory has it (UCI) president Brian Cookson that motors that can be activated first Tour stage victory insists his organisation is taking remotely. the issue seriously. Italian police swooped on the “We’ve done some testing Giro in May testing for magnetic already for concealed motors,” fields that such motors could pro- 30-year-old holds off Sagan to win battle of nearly men he said. duce, with no results. “We understand that although Former Tour winner Greg RODEZ, France: Greg Van at 7sec, including race leader this subject sometimes causes Lemond suggested the use of Avermaet finally banished his Tour de France Stage 13 Results Chris Froome in sixth. amusement and derision we know thermal detectors whilst the demons but Peter Sagan’s frus- 1. Greg Van Avermaet (Belgium/BMC Racing)...... 4:43:42” All his main rivals finished just that the technology is available: idea of a power passport, which trating two-year wait for a Tour 2. Peter Sagan (Slovakia/Tinkoff - Saxo) ...... ST behind him so the 30-year-old we have seen examples of it in tracks a rider’s efforts — and de France stage win continues 3. Jan Bakelants (Belgium/AG2R) ...... +3” Briton maintained his 2min 32sec laboratory conditions. which could potentially identify following yesterday’s 13th stage. lead over Tejay Van Garderen “We have no evidence that it whether or not an acceleration 4. John Degenkolb (Germany/Giant) ...... +7” Van Avermaet beat Sagan in with Nairo Quintana third at has been used in competition was accompanied by increased a tight finish at the end of the 5. Paul Martens (Germany/LottoNL) 3min 09sec. yet but sadly we do know that output — could be used alongside 198.5km stage from Muret to 6. Chris Froome (Britain/Team Sky) But he said that, given a 570m in competitive sport sometimes biological passports. Rodez to take the biggest win of 7. Vincenzo Nibali (Italy/Astana) climb with an average gradient of some people will try to find ways That final idea is one backed his career. 8. Alberto Contador (Spain/Tinkoff - Saxo) 9.6 percent had provoked a battle of cheating. by Froome’s Sky manager Dave So often missing out narrowly 9. Alejandro Valverde (Spain/Movistar) among the favourites, Saturday’s “This is one way that would Brailsford. in major races, the 30-year-old 14th stage would see even greater be very damaging and danger- But so far, no such motor has 10. Tejay van Garderen (US/BMC Racing) Belgian was second at the Tour hostilities. ous to an individual’s reputation, been detected, no such bike pro- of Flanders last year and third Overall Standings “We already saw on a 500m a team’s reputation and to the duced at a race, and no proof of this year, also finishing third at 1. Chris Froome (GBR/SKY) ...... 51h34min 21sec climb like today gaps opening sport’s reputation, so we’re taking cheating exists. AFP Paris-Roubaix having come fourth 2. Tejay Van Garderen (USA/BMC) ...... at 2:52 up so tomorrow on a climb like in 2013. 3. Nairo Quintana (COL/MOV) ...... 3:09 Mende at 3km and more than 10 This was only his second Grand 4. Alejandro Valverde (ESP/MOV) ...... 3:58 percent, I definitely think the GC Qatar ready for UCI Road Tour stage win — he took one at 5. Geraint Thomas (GBR/SKY) ...... 4:03 (general classification) guys will the Vuelta a Espana in 2008. be fighting to gain time,” said the 6. Alberto Contador (ESP/TIN) ...... 4:04 “For me it’s a big victory, finally Sky team leader. World Championships I made it!” said Van Avermaet. 7. Robert Gesink (NED/LNL) ...... 5:32 Right from the off in yester- “I was a few times close this 8. Tony Gallopin (FRA/LOT) ...... 7:32 day’s stage there was a six-man DOHA: The organising committee of the 2016 UCI Road World year in the Classics so I came here 9. Vincenzo Nibali (ITA/AST) ...... 7:47 breakaway but the peloton, led Championships will meet in Doha to review the country’s prepa- to win a stage. 10. Bauke Mollema (NED/TRE) ...... 8:02 by some of the sprinters’ teams, rations to host the prestigious event. “Especially in the first week a never allowed them more than a The meeting will be chaired by H E Sheikh Khalid bin Ali Al few times I was close but didn’t The 25-year-old sat on Van Van Avermaet, by contrast, four-minute lead on a day when Thani, President of the Qatar Cycling Federation (QCF), and win. Avermaet’s wheel all the way up attacked early and held on grimly. temperatures reached almost 40 will be attended by the QCF board members Ahmed Al Homaidi, “I survived the Pyrenees with the tough final 570m climb to the “It was really hard, I actually degrees Celsius. Khalid Arhamah Al Kuwari, Marouf Sheikh and Abdullah Al this kind of stage in mind, I’m finish and looked primed to dart didn’t know who was in my wheel. With 15km left the break was Hammadi. really happy I made it. out from behind the Belgian to I went pretty early, I just kept on down to three riders — Wilco The event consists of a road race, a team time-trial and a time- “Coming here and winning a win the stage. going, kept on going. Kelderman, Cyril Gautier and trial for elite men and women and a road race and time-trial for stage in the Tour was one of my But he said he should have “I saw still one rider in my Thomas De Gendt — and at the men under-23, junior men and junior women. dreams.” launched his sprint sooner. wheel, there was one guy with 10km mark they had a 50-second It will be the 83rd Road World Championships and the first time Sagan finished a bike length “I waited too long to start my still 200m to go. lead on the peloton. that Qatar, or the Middle East, will host the championships. behind to earn his fourth runner- sprint and if I had continued “I was dead and just hoping he That was down to less than “No country from the Middle East has ever been selected to host up spot during this Tour, his ninth pushing hard, I think I would have wouldn’t come over. 10 seconds inside the final cycling’s world championships,” said Sheikh Khalid bin Ali Al Thani. since his last win in 2013 and his beaten him. “I’m really happy I could hold kilometre of the race and it “In 2012, Qatar received the right to host it. The first Arab and 20th top-five finish in that period. “But after getting out of the on and have a victory like this.” wasn’t long after they started Middle East country, and the second in Asia after Japan in 1990. The “I’m not sad, I’m pissed (off), saddle, I sat back down and tried Jan Bakelants was third at 3sec the climb to the finish that rid- worlds will enhance Qatar’s position to host sporting events and it it’s different,” said the affable to accelerate but I didn’t have the with John Degenkolb in fourth, ers started to come surging past. will underline our ability to do it,” he added. QNA Slovak, with a twinkle in his eye. legs any more.” heading home a group of 11 riders AFP US swimmers on song at Pan Ams as Kanye choice draws flak

TORONTO: American swim- disqualified for making illegal women’s 4x200 freestyle relay Olympics, successfully defended mers finally made a splash in turns. were all winners, with only the men’s singles title he won in the Pan American Games pool After out-duelling American Almeida preventing a US golden Guadalajara, beating Canada’s on Thursday while the decision Caitlin Leverenz to the wall in sweep. Andrew D’Souza 2-0 to bring the to have controversial hip hop the 400 metre individual med- A productive night in the pool badminton competition to a close. artist Kanye West headline the ley, 17-year-old Canadian Emily helped the United States close the Cuba struck double gold in closing ceremonies sparked out- Overholt was left crushed when gap on Canada at top of the med- men’s Greco-Roman wrestling, rage and took the focus off the she was stripped of her medal for als table. Mijain Lopez, Olympic champion athletes. a non-simultaneous touch during Through six days the United in 2008 and 2012, winning in the After a smooth start to the July the breaststroke. States has been unable to knock 130kg weight class and Yasmany 10-26 competition, which many A few minutes later it was the hosts out of top spot. Lugo taking first in the 98kg consider Toronto’s audition for Brazilian great Thiago Pereira, Canada have 38 golds and 97 division. landing a Summer Olympics, Pan winner of a Pan Am record 21 total medals, with the Americans Meanwhile, four Latin Am Games officials have come swimming medals, who was on 34 gold and 96 medals overall. American athletes were kicked under fire for not going with a denied another gold for an ille- There were no controversies out of the Pan American Games more Canadian lineup. gal touch in the men’s 400m IM, in track cycling where Canada for doping violations, the Pan Since announcing on handing victory to team-mate sped away with gold in both the American Sports Organization Wednesday that Grammy- Brandonn Almeida. men’s and women’s team sprint (PASO) said yesterday. winning West will be part of With just two golds from the events. Mexican weightlifter Cinthya a lineup including US rapper first two days of the swimming Canada and the United States Vanessa Dominguez Lara and Pitbull and Canadian musician competition, the Americans traded gold medals at the bad- baseball players Nelson Gomez Serena Ryder, a number of online finally flexed their muscles on minton hall with the Americans (Puerto Rico), Mario Mercedes petitions have popped up demand- Day Three, reaching the top of winning the mixed doubles and Castillo (Dominican Republic) ing officials to reconsider. the podium in four of five finals. the hosts striking gold and silver and Javier Jesus Ortiz Angulo Giles Smith of the United States competes in the men’s 100m butterfly It was also a controversial Leverenz, Kelsi Worrell (wom- in the women’s singles. (Colombia) all failed doping final during the 2015 Pan Am Games Toronto on Thursday. evening in the swimming pool en’s 100 butterfly), Giles Smith Kevin Cordon, Guatemala’s tests, PASO officials said. where two gold medallist were (men’s 100 butterfly) and the flag bearer at the 2012 London AGENCIES SATURDAY 18 JULY 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Outstanding There is life Kiprop trumps Milner scores winner for after Bastian, Farah in Monaco say Guardiola MONACO: Two-time defending world champion Asbel Kiprop and Lahm sprinted away to the fifth fastest 1500m ever run at the Monaco Liverpool in Australia BEIJING: Bayern Munich Diamond League meet yester- coach Pep Guardiola and club day as Mo Farah struggled to captain Philipp Lahm yester- stay with his startling pace on day vowed that the German the last lap. Reds recover from a goal down to beat Brisbane Roar champions would emerge Kiprop, also the 2008 Olympic from the shadow of Bastian gold medallist, clocked 3min BRISBANE, Australia: New especially for myself and the other Schweinsteiger as they pre- 26.69sec, just 0.69sec off Moroccan recruit James Milner scored the new boys to get to know the rest pared for their first game Hicham El Guerrouj’s world winner as Liverpool recovered of the lads and the more we play since his departure in Beijing. record set in Rome in 1999. from an early goal down to beat together we can build those rela- Guardiola said it was “tough” The Kenyan’s time was the Australia’s Brisbane Roar 2-1 in tionships on and off the field.” for both the players and fans fastest run in 14 seasons and a pre-season game in Brisbane Young made a string of strong of the Bundesliga side, fol- leaves him the third fastest per- yesterday. saves and had plenty of reason lowing the midfielder’s exit to former of all time. England midfielder Milner, who to perform in his reunion with Manchester United on Monday “At the bell I saw 2:31-2:32 so I joined Liverpool from Premier Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers, after 17 years at the club. knew it could be a very fast time,” League rivals Manchester City who recruited him as a teenager But Bayern were well pre- said Kiprop. on a free transfer last month, into Reading’s academy. pared as they looked towards “At the end of the day, I’m very finished well surrounded by Unperturbed by the huge sup- the new season, Guardiola satisfied, but can admit I wanted Roar defenders to claim his first port for Liverpool, the Roar took said, ahead of a friendly match a bit of a faster time. goal for his new club in the 75th a surprise lead after 17 minutes against Spanish side Valencia “But all things considered, minute. when Dimi Petratos stepped past in the Chinese capital. it’s great and confirms my form The Roar, in their first match Martin Skrtel and then unleashed “Bastian was a legend at before Beijing.” under new coach and former from near the penalty spot to Bayern Munich. He spent World and Olympic 5,000- Socceroo striker John Aloisi, beat Liverpool goalkeeper Simon 17 years playing here and 10,000m champion Farah, in his looked on par with a rusty Mignolet. won absolutely everything,” second race since doping allega- Liverpool outfit before the English But Brisbane’s lead didn’t last Guardiola told reporters at a tions levelled at his coach Alberto giants got the upper hand. long and 11 minutes later it was press conference at Beijing’s Salazar, came in fourth in 3:28.93. Milner, capped 53 times by his all square, with an Adam Lallana iconic Bird’s Nest stadium. The Briton, who missed out on country, slid the ball through the equaliser. “He is really, really loved by his European record set at the legs of Roar captain Jade North Lallana threw off the advances the fans, and the people (at same Stade Louis II two years before beating goalkeeper Jamie of Roar defender Jack Hingert, the club),” he said. “It is nor- ago by 0.12sec, said his outing Young with a deflected shot. and then found the top corner mal that at the beginning it was perfect speed training for his “It’s nice to get off the mark with a perfectly-weighted curl- is tough,” he added, speaking attempt to defend his two titles (for Liverpool), it’s important that ing shot. about the impact on the dress- at next month’s world champion- we put in a performance early in Liverpool’s far greater depth ing room and on the fans. ships in Beijing. our pre-season,” Milner said. showed as they closed out the Lahm echoed the Spaniard’s “It was good to be in that com- “It was a good test for us match in style in the second half. praise for his teammate in pany,” said Farah. “I just could not tonight, they’re a good team Liverpool opened their tour Germany’s World Cup wining close that gap on Asbel. Coming and they gave us exactly what with a 4-0 win over the Thai All side last year, but said Bayern here I wanted to run hard, not we needed at this stage of the Stars in Bangkok on Tuesday and would look ahead. “We will look just a race and it worked. Liverpool’s James Milner in action during a friendly match against the pre-season. they remain in Australia to play forward and move on,” he said, “As for the double in Beijing, I Brisbane Roar at the Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane yesterday. “The amount of time spent Adelaide United in Adelaide on “Without him we will move on.” will do the 10,000m for sure and together on tour, 24 hours a day, Monday. AFP Former Germany captain then we will see about the 5000m.” Lahm retired from interna- Algeria’s Olympic champion tional football at the end of the Taoufik Makhloufi powered City captain World Cup, and Schweinsteiger through in the last 200m for sec- Casilla replaces Casillas at Real has worn the armband since. ond in a personal best of 3:28.75 Kompany hails According to both the with Morocco’s Abdelaati Iguider, MADRID: Real Madrid moved German and British media, world indoor champion and to sign a replacement for Spanish Sterling arrival United will pay Bayern around bronze medallist at the London departed captain Iker Casillas goalkeeper $21.72m for Schweinsteiger, Games, taking third, also in a PB yesterday, agreeing a deal to buy Kiko Casilla GOLD COAST, Australia: who has been a constant in of 3:28.79. Kiko Casilla from Espanyol for a laughs Captain Vincent Kompany has the success of Bayern and the New Zealand’s Nick Willis, reported 6m euros ($6.5m). during his hailed the signing of Raheem massive improvement of the Olympic silver medallist in 2008, In a statement on their official farewell Sterling as “massive” for German national side’s for- set an Oceania record finishing website, Madrid said the 28-year- press Manchester City as the club tunes over the past decade. fifth in 3:29.66. old would sign a five-year deal conference chases more trophies, saying his Bayern face Valencia on The blistering pace saw six once he had passed a medical at to leave fearlessness sets him aside from Saturday at the Bird’s Nest — other runners set personal bests the Santiago Bernabeu. RCD his peers. the main venue for the 2008 in perfect, if slightly humid, con- Casilla was on Madrid’s books Espanyol in The 20-year-old Sterling Olympic Games — at the start ditions, with temperatures of 30 as a youngster before moving to Barcelona became the most expensive of a three game tour of China. degrees Celsius (86F). Espanyol in 2007. yesterday. English footballer in history ear- They will then meet Italian Kenyan Andrew Botich set With a surname confusingly lier this week when he signed side Internazionale in the com- the pace through the first two similar to that of the departing top long-term replacement. lower divisions, he said, “some- from Liverpool on a five-year con- mercial hub of Shanghai on laps, Farah set in fourth behind hero, Casilla was playing in the “We have reached a deal and times it is good to suffer in order tract worth an initial £44m that Tuesday before heading into a Kiprop. second division just four years Kiko Casilla will be transferred to get somewhere. Sometimes it could rise to £49m. clash with Chinese champions With two laps to go, a second ago. to Real Madrid,” Espanyol’s presi- is worth it. Football has not given He almost immediately got on Guangzhou Evergrande in the pace-setter Jackson Kivuva took However, he is now on the dent Joan Collet told a news con- me an easy time but that way you a plane to hook up with his new country’s south on Thursday. over at a startling pace, Kiprop fringes of the national team ference alongside the player. enjoy moments like this much team-mates in Australia, where The team arrived in China going through at the bell with a and made his Spain debut last Casilla joined Espanyol in 2007 more.” City play a friendly on the Gold without a handful of stars, 10-metre lead on Farah. November, replacing Casillas but spent spells on loan to lower “I am as excited as a young Coast on Saturday. including French winger The tall, lean Kenyan stretched during a 1-0 friendly defeat to league clubs Cadiz and Cartagena boy. I went there when I was 14 “It’s massive for us — the biggest Franck Ribery, Dutch mid- that lead down the far strait, Germany. before returning to the Barcelona- and now I am lucky enough to be thing is that you’ve seen Sterling, fielder Arjen Robben, and Farah slipping back to fourth He will compete for the Madrid based side, for whom he played going back.” especially the way he played the Brazilian defender Dante, who behind Makhloufi and Iguider, as goalkeeper’s position with Costa 126 official matches overall. Madrid drew criticism for season before last, and he was one are all injured. Kiprop came home in great style. Rica’s Keylor Navas, under former “It is a difficult moment for me the unceremonious departure of of the main reasons, along with Guardiola said Bayern’s staff “The race was really fast!” said Liverpool and Napoli coach Rafael after so many years with a club Spain hero Casillas last weekend (Luis) Suarez, that Liverpool will work to maintain the fit- Makhloufi. “I’m very happy with Benitez, who has taken the helm that I love, but I knew the chance after 25 years at his boyhood club. played so well,” Kompany said on ness of players throughout the my performance and I hope I can at Real ahead of the new season. to join Real Madrid was a unique He left for Portuguese side the club website. next season, but was upbeat get better and better. Meanwhile speculation sim- opportunity and I wanted to seize Porto after a tough few years, “It became more difficult for when asked about the current “The final in Beijing will be dif- mers on in the Spanish and British it,” Casilla told a news conference. having fallen out with former them when Suarez left but what condition of his squad. ferent as the best of the best will media that Madrid will at some “It is a train that only goes by coach Jose Mourinho and club you will find is that he will have “At the moment we are be there but I’m playing to win so point sign David de Gea, 24, from once.” president Florentino Perez. this kind of structure at City much, much better than the count on me!” AFP Manchester United as Casillas’s After his temporary exile in the AFP already.” AFP last few seasons,” he said. AFP Johnson regains lead at Open Lotus boss rejects ST ANDREWS, UK: American what would be his third straight driver ‘robots’ claims Dustin Johnson, chasing his first major to open the season, was major title, went two shots clear misfiring with the putter but LONDON: Teams and sponsors are not to blame if modern Formula of the field at 11 under at the picked up a much needed birdie One drivers mask their personalities and behave like robots, Lotus Open Championship yesterday at nine to stay within four of deputy principal Federico Gastaldi said yesterday. after picking up four birdies Johnson on six under. Brazil’s retired world champion Emerson Fittipaldi, who won titles through 10 holes. The day’s play was delayed for in 1972 and 1974, said this week that drivers were becoming ‘robots’ as The 31-year-old from South over three hours in the morning teams and sponsors sought to prevent them being themselves. Carolina, had an eagle putt to when torrential rain and high “If you drive for Ferrari, for example, before the press conference win the US Open in June before winds left the Old Course unplay- you will be told ‘you cannot say this’ or ‘you should not say that’,” three-putting on the final green, able before groundsmen did a Fittipaldi told motorsport.com. but is well on course to break his miraculous job to get the second “Am I a robot? Or am I a personality? That’s what is missing.” Grand Slam duck at St Andrews. round underway. Gastaldi, hitting back in a team preview for next week’s Hungarian Clubhouse leader Danny Meanwhile, Tiger Woods looked Grand Prix, denied putting any pressure on his Lotus drivers — Willett, striving to become the to be heading out of the door at St Frenchman Romain Grosjean and Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado. first Englishman since Nick Faldo Andrews yesterday, facing back- “I understand what Emerson’s saying but I know that we as a team in 1992 to win the Open, is now to-back missed cuts in majors for don’t do anything proactive to stop our drivers from saying what they two shots back with charging the first time in his career. think,” he said. South African Charl Schwartzel The former world number one, “The drivers themselves are free to decide to say what they think, on eight under after four birdies mired in the worst slump of his but they are talking in a very different world from when Emerson through 11 holes. pro career, on Thursday carded a was a driver. Six players are on seven four over 76 in the British Open “Now if you say anything even slightly out of the normal it’s repeated, under including Scotland’s Marc first round. It was the worst first misreported, analysed and regurgitated across all forms of media and Warren, Aussie former world round he had posted in a major I think many drivers have taken a wise approach to this.” number one Adam Scott and and with the scoring low, it left Gastaldi said if some drivers sounded “like politicians” then it was American Zach Johnson, who are him with a mountain to climb to because they wanted to avoid controversy and drawing ever more all in the clubhouse, while South make it through to the weekend. questions. African Retief Goosen, Luke After six holes of his second “They want to drive, not spend hours discussing their opinions on Donald of England, 1999 Open round, he was moving in the whether Kim Kardashian should appear on the front of Rolling Stone Dustin Johnson of the US acknowledges the crowd after hitting a putt champion Paul Lawrie and Jason wrong direction and stood at six magazine,” he added. on the 10th hole during the second round of the British Open on the Old Day of Australia are still out on over with the cut projected to fall A recent survey carried out in conjunction with the Grand Prix Course in St Andrews, Scotland, yesterday. the course. at even par. He was tied for 140th Drivers Association found that 86 per cent of respondents wanted Spieth, seeking history with position out of 156 starters. AFP drivers to be open and honest with fans. REUTERS SATURDAY 18 JULY 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

Japan rips up Axar, Harbhajan lead India to 2020 Olympic stadium plans to start anew

54-run victory over Zimbabwe TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe yesterday ordered plans for Tokyo’s 2020 Wicketkeeper-batsman Uthappa top scores with 39 not out for visitors Olympic stadium to be ditched amid growing public anger over its eye-watering $2 billion price HARARE: Axar Patel and tag. Harbhajan Singh shared five “I have decided we must go wickets to spin India to a com- back to the drawing board,” Abe prehensive 54-run victory over told reporters after meeting Zimbabwe in yesterday’s first Tokyo 2020 president Yoshiro Twenty20 international at Mori, sports minister Hakubun Harare Sports Club. Shimomura and Olympics min- After Robin Uthappa top- ister Toshiaki Endo. scored in an Indian total of 178 India players celebrate a “We have looked at the logis- for five, Patel took 3 for 17 on his wicket with captain Ajinkya tics and construction period and I Twenty20 international debut and Rahane (left) during the first have made this decision because I Harbhajan returned 2 for 29 as of two Twenty20 international was assured that we can definitely Zimbabwe were restricted to 124 matches against Zimbabwe complete construction on time. for seven. at the Harare Sports Club in “We must control costs as far In total India handed out five Harare yesterday. as possible,” he added. “We are Twenty20 international debuts determined to draw up the best in the game, but their vast expe- possible plan, and we have to draft rience in the Indian Premier that plan as quickly as possible.” League meant that the hosts were Iraqi-British architect Zaha still no match for them. Hadid’s futuristic design had been The tourists made a bright met with fury by many Japanese start after winning the toss architects, but a cosmetic row has and opting to bat, with captain given way to widespread discon- Ajinkya Rahane putting on 64 for tent and public bickering over the first wicket with Murali Vijay “The wicket was very slow -- start to their chase as Hamilton finances. inside seven overs. not like all T20 wickets that you Masakadza and Chamu Chibhabha Scoreboard Shimomura said Japan would Vijay was the first batsman play on all around the world,” put on 55 for the first wicket, with INDIA C Chibhabha c Pandey b Harbhajan Singh .. 23 reopen the bidding process and dismissed when he was run out Uthappa said. seamer Sandeep Sharma endur- A Rahane c Masakadza b Cremer ...... 33 C Coventry c Rahane b Harbhajan Singh .....10 choose a new design by early next for 34, before Rahane was caught “It was important for me ing a tough start with the ball on M Vijay (run out) ...... 34 E Chigumbura b Patel ...... 1 year. at backward point for 33 off the to hold one end up for the side his international debut. R Uthappa (not out) ...... 39 Sikandar Raza b Patel ...... 10 “We will decide the design in bowling of leg-spinner Graeme because we needed one batsman However the introduction of M Pandey c Sikandar Raza b Mpofu ...... 19 C Ervine (run out) ...... 2 six months,” he told reporters. Cremer. to bat through. I was very happy the spinners turned the match K Jadhav c Masakadza b Mpofu...... 9 G Cremer b Sharma ...... 9 “From design to completion of Uthappa had scored just 44 to do that for the team.” irreversibly in India’s favour, as S Binny c Cremer b Mpofu ...... 11 P Utseya (not out) ...... 13 construction, 50-plus months is runs in three innings during the Fast bowler Chris Mpofu fin- Chibhabha was caught at long-on Harbhajan Singh (not out) ...... 8 N Madziva (not out) ...... 14 looked at. The aim is to finish it recently concluded one-day series, ished with 3 for 33 on his return off the bowling of Harbhajan and Extras (B-8, LB-3, W-13, NB-1) ...... 25 Extras (LB-6, W-8) ...... 14 by the spring of 2020.” which India swept 3-0, but his to the Zimbabwe side after firing Masakadza scooped Patel straight Total (for 5 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 178 Total (for 7 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 124 The 2019 rugby World Cup, return to form on Friday helped in a crafty spell of death bowling, to fine leg. Fall of wickets: 1-64, 2-82, 3-127, 4-150, Fall of wickets: 1-55, 2-64, 3-66, 4-68, 5-82, to be held in Japan, has already India maintain control through- but India were still able to finish Patel went on to rip through 5-166. 6-90, 7-98. become the first casualty of out their innings. strongly as Zimbabwe conceded the middle order, bowling Elton Bowling: Utseya 4-0-30-0, Mpofu 4-0-33-3, Bowling: Kumar 4-0-22-0, S Sharma 3-0-34- Friday’s embarrassing about- The wicketkeeper-batsman 25 extras, including 13 wides. Chigumbura and Sikandar Raza Muzarabani 3-0-36-0, Madziva 4-0-46-0, Cre- 0, M Sharma 3-0-8-1, Patel 4-0-17-3, Har- turn, with organisers now forced opted against his usual big-hitting “I thought maybe the pressure Butt, which left the Zimbabwean mer 4-1-20-1, Sikandar Raza 1-0-2-0. bhajan Singh 4-0-29-2, Binny 2-0-8-0. to consider alternative venues in approach, and instead anchored got to our youngsters, which I can lower order to bat out the final ZIMBABWE Result: India won by 54 runs. Tokyo or Yokohama for matches, the innings with an unbeaten 39 understand,” said Mpofu. four overs with no chance of H Masakadza c Jadhav b Patel ...... 28 Series: India lead the two-match series 1-0. including the tournament final. from 35 balls. Zimbabwe made a promising achieving the target. AFP “Unfortunately we cannot build the stadium in time for the rugby World Cup,” said Abe, whose approval rating has plunged fol- lowing his push to pass controver- Gold Cup Quarter- sial security bills that opponents say undermine Japan’s pacifist FIFA plot future in Monday meeting final Fixtures constitution. “But the govern- (All times in GMT) ment remains fully committed to ZURICH: FIFA’s future will Frenchman football fed- Monday’s meeting must also Today supporting the tournament.” begin to take shape on Monday Platini, in par- eration presi- discuss proposed reforms to the United States vs Cuba (2100) Construction costs for the when its executive committee ticular, has dent Wolfgang FIFA statutes and make recom- Tomorrow new National Stadium have bal- meets to choose a date for the ducked out of Niersbach mendations to the Congress. looned by nearly twice the original Haiti vs Jamaica (0000); Trinidad & Tobago vs presidential election and discuss public appear- during a Domenico Scala, head of FIFA’s budget to 252bn yen, which puts Panama (2030); Mexico vs Costa Rica (2330) proposed reforms to soccer’s ances at events UEFA meet- watchdog audit and compliance it on track to become the world’s discredited governing body. such as UEFA’s ing in Prague committee, has already said these most expensive sports venue. If they decide on a December recent executive last month. reforms could include changes in Battle-hardened Earlier this week, the Japanese election, it could spark a desper- committee meet- “The road- the way the executive commit- architect who oversaw the selec- ate scramble as presidential hope- ing in Prague, map has been tee is chosen as well as integrity US ready for tion of Hadid’s plans, Tadao fuls would be left with less than where he left his set. There is a checks for members, potentially Ando, backed her blueprint but one month to declare their candi- general secretary FIFA execu- leading to another clash with expressed concern over soaring dacy and gather the written sup- Gianni Infantino tive meet- UEFA. Cuba showdown costs, which dwarf those for the port of at least five federations. to face the media ing on July Blatter has blamed UEFA for BALTIMORE: United States last two Summer Olympics. FIFA has been in limbo since conference. 20 when the blocking similar proposals in the coach Jurgen Klinsmann believes London spent around $680 mil- June 2, when president Sepp Once ear- date of the past, a charge which UEFA has his battle-hardened players will lion on the main venue for the Blatter, having been re-elected for marked as congress will denied. Outside pressure is also carry a precious advantage over 2012 Games, while Beijing’s 2008 a fifth term only four days ear- Blatter’s succes- be fixed and building for FIFA to clear up its their rivals as they prepare for “Bird’s Nest” stadium cost less lier, announced that he would lay sor and now one then we will act. United States prosecutors a do-or-die Gold Cup quarter- than $500 million. down his mandate at an extraor- of his most bitter know more. threw FIFA into turmoil in May final showdown with Cuba here Yoshimitsu Kobayashi, chair- dinary FIFA Congress which will critics, the moody Obviously the by indicting 14 sports marketing today. man of influential business take place between December and Frenchman sooner the executives and soccer officials, The defending champions lobby the Japan Association of February. has made it clear over the past better,” added Infantino. including a number from soccer’s arrived in the last eight as winners Corporate Executives, waded Blatter has repeatedly said that years that he would be reluctant “The sooner there is clarity governing body. of Group A, where they notched into the row on Thursday, criti- he will not stand again and, unless to relinquish the presidency of about what will happen the bet- Seven of those were arrested wins over a combative Honduras cising the plans as “slapdash” he backtracks as he did following UEFA. ter for FIFA and the better for in a dawn raid on a luxury Zurich side and a physical Haiti before and accusing the government a similar promise in 2011, FIFA The first matter is to decide on football.” hotel just two days before the securing a hard-fought 1-1 draw of “not seriously working to cut will have its first new president the exact date for the Congress Blatter, on the other hand, has Congress where Blatter was with Panama. expenditure.” since 1998. and election, which will be done already said that a December re-elected for a fifth mandate. Klinsmann is delighted that his Construction on Tokyo’s Candidates must declare their on Monday. election would clash with the Club Campaigners, including anti-cor- team were given a thorough test Olympic stadium had been set to intention to stand, and present UEFA, the biggest continental World Cup, a FIFA tournament in ruption watchdog Transparency during the group phase, saying it begin in October and was going support, four months before the block on FIFA’s executive com- Japan, and that he would prefer it International, have said internal has honed his squad’s competitive to be completed by May 2019 -- election. mittee with eight of the 25 places, to take place in January. reforms are not enough. instincts as they enter the deci- just in time for the rugby World The race to replace Blatter is appears to favour an early elec- However, recent FIFA tour- “There has to be an independ- sive knockout rounds. Cup. shrouded in mystery with all the tion in December to begin the naments, such as the Under-20 ent reform commission and FIFA “It can only benefit you if you’ve But as the unseemly row over potential frontrunners, such as reforms as quickly as possible. World Cup and the Women’s has to change. No more false had real games already in the financing the project escalated, UEFA president Michel Platini “We are clearly of the opinion, World Cup, went ahead without dawns, no more scandals, no more group phase,” Klinsmann said. senior officials sought to distance and previous contender Prince Ali that it should happen as quickly the presence of either Blatter or dawn raids,” said TI’s managing “Two years ago, we had Belize themselves from blame, Mori bin Al Hussein of Jordan, keeping as possible, and that means before secretary general Jerome Valcke, director Cobus de Swardt. and Cuba and things looked very pointing the finger at the sports a low profile. the end of this year,” said German and both ran smoothly. REUTERS easy,” he added. AFP ministry, while opposition politi- cians have called for Shimomura’s resignation. Shimomura, who has clashed publicly with Tokyo governor Martinez backs winter World Cup in Qatar Yoichi Masuzoe, insisted the gov- ernment needed to look into how SINGAPORE: Everton man- should embrace it,” the Spaniard as accommodating given the right in the summer heat.” Martinez the design was selected, admit- ager Roberto Martinez (pic- told reporters in Singapore on conditions. also believes there is plenty ting there had been “insufficient tured) has thrown his backing Friday, a day ahead of Everton’s “My thoughts on the World of time for European clubs debate over the costs.” behind a winter World Cup in Premier League Asia Trophy Cup are that you play it every- opposed to moving the tour- Japan’s sports minister con- Qatar, believing the 2022 tour- final against Arsenal. where in the world, if the decision nament from its traditional firmed last month that the cost nament should be embraced as “Once that decision is made, is to be given to Qatar then it is summer timing to prepare the of the stadium, to be built on the a chance for the global game to it’s not good for us in football to clear that the tournament must leagues and players for a win- site of the 1964 Tokyo Olympic bridge new boundaries. keep going on about the negative be played in winter. ter tournament. centrepiece, represented a 90bn Earlier this year, soccer’s world aspect of playing it in winter. “There’s no way you can play it “I don’t think it’s even up yen hike since it was chosen 2012. governing body FIFA relented on From my point of view, we need in the summer. We were in Qatar for debate, it has to be a win- Masuzoe likened the govern- previous demands that the tour- to enjoy it and adapt to what- not that long ago and they have ter World Cup and as a football ment to the “Imperial Army” in nament would be held in summer, ever changes will come our way all the facilities, so I don’t think manager and a football person a furious outburst for demand- opting instead for a November- because of it.” it will be a problem to play the you have to adapt towards it and ing Tokyo foot part of the bill and December event to avoid matches Martinez is an advocate of tak- World Cup there. we will do that,” he added. criticised them for failing to nego- kicking off in higher tempera- ing the game to new countries “You could play the games in “We will start making plans for tiate harder as contractors raised tures of summer. and the first-hand experience of the summer because of the air it and get the players prepared their prices. “A World Cup in Qatar is an Everton’s positive reception in conditioning in the stadiums to make sure they are ready for There was no immediate incredible experience for every- Singapore has given him a firm but it would be very tough for what is ahead of them.” response to the decision from one concerned and I think we belief that Qatar would be equally the fans to enjoy a World Cup REUTERS Hadid’s offices. 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Pakistan’s Hafeez banned Australian opening salvo from bowling for a year

NEW DELHI: Pakistan off- spinner Mohammad Hafeez leaves England in tatters has been banned from bowling for a year after his action was found to be illegal for the second Johnson strikes early blows for visitors, hosts reeling at 83 for 4 time, the International Cricket Council said yesterday. The 34-year-old’s action had LONDON: Australia ripped been reported after the first Test out England’s top order to take against Sri Lanka in Galle last a vice-like grip on the second month, but he had been allowed to Ashes Test after completely play on till the assessment results dominating the second day at were declared. Lord’s on Friday. The assessment, carried out Steve Smith struck a mag- Australia’s in Chennai on July 6, revealed nificent 215 to lead the touring Mitchell Johnson that Hafeez’s “elbow extension side to 566 for eight declared exceeded 15 degrees while bowling celebrates after before their rampant pace attack and, thus, he employed an illegal dismissing knocked over Adam Lyth, Gary bowling action,” an ICC statement Ballance, Ian Bell and Joe Root England’s Joe said. to leave England tottering on 30 Root during the “As this report has constituted for four. second day of the the player’s second report within Alastair Cook and Ben Stokes second Test of the a two-year period, he is now auto- clung on grimly to prevent fur- Investec Ashes matically suspended from bowl- ther damage as the Australians Series at Lord’s ing in international cricket for a smelt blood. yesterday. RIGHT: 12-month period,” the statement Stokes lifted spinner Nathan England’s Ian Bell added. Lyon over long-on for six and the walks back to the Hafeez had been reported pair completed a gritty 50 part- pavilion after los- earlier during the Abu Dhabi nership before England reached ing his wicket for Test against New Zealand last the close on 85 for four with 1 run. November. But in April he was Stokes unbeaten on 38 and Cook cleared to resume bowling after 21. being tested at the same bio- Lyth fell to the second ball mechanics clinic in Chennai. of the innings for nought, waft- This time, Hafeez played in the ing loosely at a wide ball from second Test against Sri Lanka Mitchell Starc and nicking a in Colombo before travelling to catch to wicketkeeper Peter Chennai. He missed the third Nevill. and final Test in Pallekele, but Ballance, on 23, was bowled when, on 173, he misjudged a full century by hitting Moeen Ali returned to take part in the first by a full straight delivery from delivery from Broad which nipped for four, leaping in the air and Scoreboard two matches of the ongoing one- Mitchell Johnson and a similar back in to shatter his stumps. flamboyantly waving his bat to a Australia (I innings): 138-1; Stokes 19-2-77-0; Root 12-0-55-2; day series where he claimed six ball from Josh Hazlewood crashed The 37-year-old, who shared standing ovation as he became the C Rogers b Broad ...... 173 Lyth 1-1-0-0. wickets. into Bell’s stumps to send the a second-wicket partnership of first Australian to score a double- D Warner c Anderson b Ali ...... 38 England (I innings): All-rounder Hafeez can also right-hander back to the pavil- 284 with Smith, left the field to a century at Lord’s since Bill Brown S Smith lbw Root ...... 215 A Lyth c Nevill b Starc ...... 0 play in the remaining three one- ion for one. standing ovation after making his in 1938. M Clarke c Ballance b Wood ...... 7 A Cook (batting) ...... 21 dayers, but will not be allowed to Root, so often England’s saviour highest Test score which included He looked intent on inflict- A Voges c Buttler b Broad ...... 25 G Ballance b Johnson ...... 23 bowl. and fresh from a superb century 28 fours. ing more misery on the tiring M Marsh b Broad ...... 12 I Bell b Hazlewood ...... 1 Hafeez is entitled to appeal in the first Test in Cardiff, was Michael Clarke never settled England bowlers, only be trapped P Nevill c Ali b Root ...... 45 J Root c Nevill b Johnson ...... 1 “any procedural aspect” of the caught by Nevill off a pumped-up and, on seven, he mistimed a pull lbw by Root’s part-time off-spin M Johnson (not out) ...... 12 B Stokes (batting) ...... 38 independent assessment that has Johnson for one. off a short ball from Mark Wood, as he attempted a reverse sweep M Starc (not out) ...... 11 Extras (LB-1) ...... 1 led to this automatic suspension, Australia had resumed in the Ballance taking a catch high to and he walked off after batting Extras (B-8, LB-14, W-1, NB-1) ...... 24 Total (for 4 wkts) ...... 85 the ICC said. morning on 337 for one and James his right at square leg. more than eight hours and hitting Total (for 7 wkts) ...... 562 Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-28, 3-29, 4-30. “However, only after the expiry Anderson struck Chris Rogers on Smith and Adam Voges took 25 fours and one six. To bat: J Hazlewood, N Lyon. Bowling: Starc 7-0-29-1; Hazlewood 10-1- of this one-year period will he be the helmet with the first ball of Australia to 424 for three at lunch Peter Nevill made a bright 45 Fall of wickets: 1-78, 2-362, 3-383, 4-426, 22-1; Johnson 6-3-16-2; Lyon 4-1-14-0; entitled to approach the ICC for the day. but Broad dismissed Voges (25) on his debut before he too fell to 5-442, 6-533, 7-536 Marsh 2-1-3-0. a re-assessment of his bowling The left-hander, however, con- and Mitchell Marsh (12) shortly Root, chipping a catch to Moeen Bowling: Anderson 26-4-99-0 (1w); Broad Match position: England are 481 runs behind action,” the governing body added. tinued to flay the ball through after the interval. at mid-off. 26-5-79-3 (1nb); Wood 28-7-92-1; Ali 36-4- Australia with six first-innings wickets standing. Hafeez made his international the covers and it was a surprise Smith reached his double REUTERS debut in 2003. AFP Murray leads British fightback, Aussies sink

PARIS: Andy Murray sparked alongside brother Jamie instead (7/5), 6-7 (2/7), 7-6 (7/5), 6-4 to after failing to follow police orders a British Davis Cup quarter- of Dominic Inglot in Saturday’s put Kazakhstan on the brink of to leave his hotel penthouse in final revival by pulling his team key doubles. reaching the semi-finals for the Miami following a night of loud level with France yesterday as “I always want to play but I’ve first time. partying. crisis-hit 28-time champions had a long few months,” said Kyrgios, who was heavily criti- In Ostend, Steve Darcis and Australia slumped to a new low. Murray, playing for the first time cised amid claims of “tanking” David Goffin gave Belgium a 2-0 World number three Murray, since his Wimbledon semi-final during his fourth-round loss to lead over Canada. Great Britain’s the only top 10 player on duty in loss to Roger Federer seven days Richard Gasquet at Wimbledon, Darcis saw off world number Andy Murray the quarter-finals, kept Great ago. and also for arguing with umpires 272 Frank Dancevic 3-6, 6-1, celebrates win- Britain in the hunt for their first “It’s about doing what is best and sarcasm during his press con- 7-5, 6-3 before world number 14 ning the second semi-final place in 34 years as he for us to win the tie and also about ferences, admitted the loss had Goffin swept past Filip Peliwo, set during his defeated Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7-5, being fresh for Sunday (reverse left him drained. ranked 491, in straight sets 6-4, singles match 7-6 (12/10), 6-2. singles). Hopefully I can play.” “Physically, I felt OK. I felt like 6-4, 6-2. against France Murray was under pressure to In September’s semi-finals, my body was good. But mentally, Belgium are well-placed to during the Davis win the second rubber of the day the winners are likely to face I almost felt a bit drained out make the semi-finals for the first Cup World on the grass courts of Queen’s Kazakhstan who piled on the there,” Kyrgios said. time since 1999 while Canada Group Quarter Club in west London after Gilles problems for Australia in hot and “It was hard to focus. It was were already hamstrung by play- Final at Queen’s Simon had given last year’s run- steamy Darwin by opening a 2-0 hard to dig deep. It was hard to ing without their top two singles ners-up France the perfect start lead. push myself because a lot has gone players, eighth-ranked Milos Club, London, with a 6-4, 6-4, 6-1 rout of James Mikhail Kukushkin swept to on.” Raonic, who has yet to fully yesterday. Ward. a 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 win over teenager The disappointing outcome recover from a foot injury, and Murray’s victory -- his 11th Thanasi Kokkinakis in just over capped a forgettable day for Wimbledon quarter-finalist Vasek in 13 meetings with Tsonga and two hours. Australian tennis after Bernard Pospisil. his 22nd in 24 career Davis Cup World number 115 Aleksandr Tomic was arrested in the United The winners will face either singles rubbers -- also raised the Nedovyesov then stunned States overnight. Argentina or Serbia for a place possibility that he might play 41-ranked Nick Kyrgios 7-6 Tomic was taken into custody in the final. AFP

Filipino International Triathletes Qatar, Ram saves two match points also known as FitQ, will be send- ing its delegation to participate e in to reach Newport semi-finals the 70.3 IronMan Philippines. NEWPORT, United States: third before battling back to win Tatsuma Ito 6-3, 6-7 (2/7), 6-3. 70.3 IronMan is a Rajeev Ram continued his upset the tiebreaker. The remaining two quarter- world renowned run at the Hall of Fame Tennis “Mannarino is such a tough finals will be played today, with triathlon race which Championships ATP grass court opponent because he absorbs pace second-seeded Croatian Ivo comprise of 1.9km tournament yesterday, saving so well,” said Ram, who won his Karlovic taking on Germany’s two match points against French lone ATP title at Newport in 2009. Dustin Brown and fourth-seeded swim, 90km bike fifth seed Adrian Mannarino to “I could hit through the court American Jack Sock facing Czech and 21km run. FitQ book his semi-final berth. a bit here with my forehand, so qualifier Jan Hernych. Brown will have 16 contin- The 161st-ranked Ram, who I tried to find a way to break lined up his clash with Karlovic gents that will com- ousted top-seeded American John him down,” added Ram, who will by finishing off a rain-disrupted pete in the event. Isner in the first round, needed face Australian southpaw John- second-round match against Olympic Sports is two hours and 34 minutes to get Patrick Smith for a place in the American Sam Querrey 6-2, 4-6, the main sponsor past Mannarino 2-6, 7-6 (10/8), final. 6-4. Brown was up a break in the supporting the club. 7-6 (7/2). Smith saved all three break third set when play resumed on He trailed an early break in the points he faced in beating Japan’s yesterday morning. AFP 11:15am El Talat 12:15pm, Nee-Na Pixies Talat Genisys (2D/Action) Pixies Adventure) Terminator Genisys(3D/Action) Terminator Genisys(3D/Action) (2D/Hindi) 10:30pm &12:30am Arabic) & 5:00pm 10:15pm &12:00midnight The LastSurvivors 10:00pm &12:30am Baahubali Baahubali Neena (Malayalam) Bajrangi Bhaijaan Maari 2:00pm SCREEN 3 SCREEN 2 The Gallows(2D/Horror) Terminator Genisys(2D/Action) SCREEN 1 5:30 &9:30pm Bin Roye(2D/Urdu) SCREEN 3 6:45 &8:45pm SCREEN 2 SCREEN 1 SCREEN 3 4:00 &5:45pm SCREEN 2 SCREEN 1 SCREEN 10 SCREEN 9 SCREEN 8 SCREEN 7 SCREEN 6 The Gallows(2D/Horror) SCREEN 5 SCREEN 4 SCREEN 3 SCREEN 2 Hayaty Mebahdela(2D/Arabic) Minions SCREEN 1 Baby Blues by Jerry Scott andRickKirkman Scott by Jerry Baby Blues Syndicate York New Times /The International Arts Cartoon Sudoku. a normal like solved is Sudoku aHyper Otherwise, once. only appear 1to 9can from numbers the regions Inall regions). standard nine the with overlap regions 13 (four unlike Sudoku regions has Sudoku Hyper A cells. blank 1 to 9intofrom the numbers by the filling solved is Puzzle Sudoku A Hyper Sudoku: Hyper play to How HYPER MALL NOVO ROYAL PLAZA LANDMARK ASIAN TOWN (2D/Arabic) (2D/Animation) (Tamil) (2D/Malayalam)

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Loch monster Elephant in ivory! hunter says it’s a catfish LONDON: A man who has Feltham concedes there spent 24 years scanning is no record of Wels catfish Scotland’s Loch Ness for its being released into Loch Ness, legendary mysterious monster Scotland’s largest at 37 kilometres reckons Nessie is most likely a long and over 200 metres deep in giant catfish — although he is some places. not prepared to give up looking But he said: “Given the number just yet. of hunting estates that there are Steve Feltham, who holds a around here, it’s plausible they Guinness World Record for the (the Victorians) may have put a longest continuous Nessie vigil, few in, giving themselves some says it is the most probable expla- good sport of catching one of the nation for the enigmatic beast biggest freshwater fish in the that has captivated people’s imag- world. inations the world over. “If they did that here in the “The current frontrunner is (late) Victorian era, they would the Wels catfish. It’s the most have reached maturity in the likely explanation,” the 52-year- 1930s” — the time when the old told AFP. Nessie craze took off. “I’m not saying it’s the final He said in the early years of his explanation. It ticks most of the vigil, there would be up to a dozen boxes with sightings — but it good sightings per year, but now doesn’t tick them all.” there might only be one. Feltham left his home and girl- “Whatever Nessie turns out to friend in 1991 to go looking for be, it is dwindling. We are look- People look at a life-size ivory elephant sculpture after it was unveiled at the Sir Seretse Khama International Airport in Gaborone, Botswana. Nessie and has spent the years ing for the last one or two now,” since in a caravan on the lake he said. shore, scanning the waters. The reduced good sightings Media reports this week sug- might be explained by technol- gested Feltham had given up his ogy — with the pixel resolution on Woody Allen explores murder in Irrational Man vigil after favouring the catfish digital cameras, modern amateur theory, but he insisted he would Nessie hunters’ pictures could be keep searching for the definitive shown to be boat waves. NEW YORK: As a little kid, who has all but checked out of life comedies, Allen told reporters in Hollywood. But with well-prac- conclusion. Feltham said other hardened future filmmaker Woody Allen until he meets a star pupil por- that “Irrational Man” is for him ticed public modesty, the Oscar- “We still have this world-class Nessie hunters have reached dif- was preoccupied with three trayed by Emma Stone. Through “a serious picture from start to winning director and writer mystery and for the next several ferent conclusions from the same things — baseball, magic and a random overheard conversa- finish.” praises his actors, saying, “All I decades I hope to carry on trying available evidence. murder. tion in a diner, Abe regains his If “people find amusing things do is try not to screw them up. to find the answer,” he said. “Others say sturgeon, giant It’s that last one that serves footing and purpose by hatching in it, I myself didn’t put them “These people are all doing fine Catfish are native to central eels, plesiosaurs. A couple believe as the grist for his latest film, a plot to do away with an appar- there ... but, look, if it gets a laugh, before they met me. There’s noth- and eastern Europe but Feltham there’s a spaceship on the bottom “Irrational Man,” which opened ently immoral, inept and corrupt that’s how I set my table,” he said. ing to learn (from me).” believes the Victorians might of the loch; one woman thinks in US movie theatres yesterday. judge. He rationalises his plan as For that he credits his cast, To wit, he will begin his next have introduced them to the deep there’s a porthole to a hollow In “Irrational Man,” Allen a deed that will make the world which includes Parker Posey as film in August with Bruce Willis, freshwater lake so they could Earth,” he said. explores themes of morality, a better place. a professor who fills out the love Jesse Eisenberg, Blake Lively and catch them for sport. “Many people think it’s a non- infidelity, passivity and mortal- “It interests me,” Allen, 79, triangle with Phoenix and Stone. Posey, among others. “They’ll take Wels catfish can group up physical phenomena.” ity, familiar ground for fans of director of more than 45 films, Still, some amusement factor is it because they like to act,” he to four metres (13 feet) long He added: “I hope it turns out earlier fare such as “Crimes and said of murder. It’s “the stuff evidenced in what Allen said was said. For himself, Allen said he and weigh more than 400 kilo- to be something far more excit- Misdemeanors,” “Manhattan of drama,” from the Greeks to his original title: “Crazy Abe.” has come to find fame and fortune grammes (800 pounds) — though ing than a catfish. It’s a mundane Murder Mystery” and “Match Shakespeare, he said, like magic Allen’s films over the years empty and joyless.” they are rarely more than half creature, even though it’s massive. Point.” and baseball, has been a life-long have attracted top acting talent, “The only payoff is the act of this size. The scaleless fish can “I’m certainly not going to give Joaquin Phoenix plays a disaf- fascination. despite a much lower salary than making the film,” he said. live for at least 30 years. up searching.” AFP fected philosophy professor, Abe, Although best known for his many of his stars can command REUTERS

Director Perry Old Lisbon market cooks up food-to-media concept calls for LISBON: In the past year, Lisbon’s 19th- century riverside market has soared from dilapidated oblivion to a top attrac- respect for tion on a zesty blend of fine food, drinks, arts and hip shopping — a concept its Kristina Brown owners now plan to replicate in London and New York. ATLANTA: Film maker Tyler Aside from serving as a gigantic win- Perry appealed yesterday for dow display for downtown renovation and prayers and respect for the the Portuguese capital’s tourism boom, daughter of late singer Whitney the two-storey Mercado da Ribeira also Houston as the young woman gives a physical dimension to the mostly- hangs onto life in a Georgia digital Time Out magazine, which owns the hospice. expanding project. The writer and director of the The Lisbon unit of the London-based hit “Madea” movies condemned global media brand, which provides tips to the “blatant disrespect, lies, and dozens of cities worldwide, had assigned ignorance” that have been cir- its journalists and critics to handpick their culating about Bobbi Kristina favourite chefs and shops for the market. Brown, 22, whose family said they “This is a magazine, with various of its had placed her “in God’s hands” sections, brought to life,” said Joao Cepeda, three weeks ago. director of Time Out Lisbon and now the Brown suffered brain damage chief of international operations of the new in a January fall. Time Out Markets unit that will expand the Celebrity news website TMZ.com project overseas. and other outlets printed a photo The venue sells Time Out-brand tours, this week that showed a large invites musicians and houses an urban art white tent had been set up at the project called Underdogs, which is a gal- back of the hospice where Bobbi lery and a public art programme for local Kristina is being cared for, fueling and foreign artists. Portuguese street art- speculation that she may be near ist VHILS is one notable co-founder of death. Earlier this month, TMZ Underdogs. reported that a photo was being Cepeda said the project was meant shopped to the media of the young to “use our know-how to save the local People have a meal at Ribeira Market in Lisbon, Portugal. In the past year, Lisbon’s 19th-century riverside market has soared from dilapidated woman in her hospice bed. TMZ edition”. oblivion to a top attraction on a zesty blend of fine food, arts and hip shopping — distilling a concept its owners now plan to replicate in said it declined to take the photo. During Portugal’s 2010-2014 economic London and New York. “May I ask you all to please crisis, revenues from advertising and web- show some decency and respect? site views fell. So when city hall offered a fusion food and local dishes made in 20 busy, Cepeda calls it “a simplified version in an old quarter nearby. Not only to Krissi’s family, but 20-year concession to renovate and run see-through kitchens. Popular choices are of fine dining experience”, which sets it The chef, who specialises in Portuguese- also to the other families that are the market in 2011, the magazine seized salmon-cuttlefish burger with seaweed on apart from souped-up street food generally inspired “petiscos” — a more elaborate and there in this place,” Perry, who the opportunity. cuttlefish ink bun, salad with goat cheese served at similar venues abroad, including heartier cousin of Spain’s tapas — says the was a close friend of Whitney With 60,000 visits on a good week, the and ice cream or fish tartar with avocado New York. success of the food court also supports the Houston and her family, wrote commercial success has exceeded initial puree. The chefs are happy too as client num- remaining part of the old market where on his official Facebook page. expectations almost two-fold, he said. Rave reviews on travel websites fre- bers keep growing. locals buy vegetables, meat and seafood. “Not only is Krissi at the centre Time Out is choosing locations to open a quently label the spot a “foodies’ paradise”, “Now, over a year on, the business is bet- She buys some 80 percent of all ingredients but there are several other fami- market in London by 2017 and another in with many praising it as a pioneering “cross ter than when we opened, way past the from the market. lies who are grieving the loss of New York by 2018. In the meantime, it is between a food court, a Shoreditch food novelty peak, and it has all the goings of The renovation and a new riverside their loved ones at the same time. also looking at Portugal’s second-largest market and a chef’s restaurant”, while improving further,” said Susana Felicidade, promenade helped boost the dining scene It’s heartbreaking to think that city of Porto. others highlight its “hipster aura” and a prominent chef who runs Cozinha da in the hip Cais do Sodre area where 14 res- even in a time like this, this child Day and night, tourists and locals sit at modest prices considering a vast choice of Felicidade (Kitchen of Joy) in the market taurants have opened up in the past year. is still not allowed any peace,” long wooden tables and counters sampling quality food. and a popular restaurant called Pharmacia REUTERS he added. REUTERS