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PM opens Qatari-Turkish Business Forum in Ankara

We concluded our visit to the Republic of Turkey where we were delighted to meet our brothers in Ankara. This visit marked an important step in the intentions of cooperation between our two countries and people. We exchanged views on various regional, international, investment and other issues. The Qatari-Turkish consensus continues to achieve the broader prospects for cooperation.

QNA praised the efforts of the ANKARA Turkish private sector and the aspiration to enable the Qatari Prime Minister and Interior and Turkish businessmen to Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah establish successful projects for bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani the benefit of the two and Vice-President of the countries. Republic of Turkey, Fuat Oktay, H E the Prime Minister pointed opened yesterday the Qatari- out that this meeting reflects the Turkish Business Forum keenness to communicate “Investment Opportunities in between the two sides, exchange Qatar”, organised by the Ministry views, and highlight the promising of Commerce and Industry of the investment opportunities and State of Qatar, the Qatar Chamber coordinate joint efforts to consol- and the Turkish Ministry of idate economic integration with Customs and Trade in Ankara, the Republic of Turkey, in Turkey. addition to overcoming obstacles H E the Prime Minister to achieve greater prosperity and delivered a speech on the progress for both parties and occasion, saying that the contribute to the consolidation common denominators between of the State’s march in achieving the two countries constitute a its national vision aimed at trans- solid base for the development forming the State of Qatar by Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani with Vice-President of the Republic of Turkey, Fuat and strengthening of economic 2030 to a developed country Oktay, and other officials during the Qatari-Turkish Business Forum in Ankara, yesterday.` and trade relations between the capable of achieving sustainable P2 two countries, in addition to the development. significant development wit- Vice-President of the sisterly praised the escalating trade and the forum brings together the most economy, based on the comple- expressing hope to increase the nessed in bilateral trade relations Republic of Turkey, Fuat Oktay, economic relations between the prominent members of the mentary characteristic of each number of Qatari businessmen under the agreements concluded, has affirmed the solid relations State of Qatar and the Republic of business from Qatar and Turkey. other, provides unique opportu- in the field of assessing oppor- especially the economic and trade between Qatar and Turkey, Turkey, noting that the two coun- He expressed confidence that nities for cooperation for both tunities for investment in the partnership, which is a clear evi- noting that the two countries tries are currently celebrating the the Qatari-Turkish Business sides based on the concept of prof- tourism sector, food, health and dence of the effectiveness of the offer a model of solidarity for the 46th anniversary of diplomatic rela- Forum will further consolidate the itable cooperation. manufacturing in Turkey. decisions and actions taken in whole world by supporting each tions, and are proud of the level of existing relations with the friendly The Turkish Vice President A number of Their Excel- recent years in implementation of other under difficult cooperation between the two coun- and brotherly State of Qatar and praised Qatar’s remarkable lencies ministers, senior officials, the directives of the leaders of the circumstances. tries. He welcomed the Prime Min- contribute to the continuation of progress in becoming a brand for several business owners, and two countries. In his speech, “Investment ister and the accompanying del- mutual cooperation. He pointed out investors, especially in the field Turkish businessmen attended Also, H E the Prime Minister Opportunities in Qatar”, Fuat Oktay egation, at the forum, noting that that the Qatari and Turkish of energy and technology, the opening ceremony. `P15 Over 800 Nearly QR4.5bn deals signed surgeons attend during QITCOM 2019 world pediatric THE PENINSULA /DOHA government entities’ tendering congress in Doha processes in compliance with Minister of Transport and applicable laws and regulations THE PENINSULA/DOHA Communications, H E Jassim bin governing tenders and auctions Saif Al Sulaiti, has announced and, with the objectives to Sidra Medicine launched the 6th that the volume of deals signed increase efficiency and improve World Congress of the World during the QITCOM 2019 is transparency in government Federation of Associations of about QR4.5bn. H E the Minister procurement management. Pediatric Surgeons (WOFAPS said on the sidelines of the “We are glad to announce 2019) yesterday, with the closing ceremony of QITCOM this project today, which con- attendance of over 800 surgeons 2019 that the fifth edition was the tributes to achieving the goals of from more than 80 countries. largest in terms of the volume of the Qatar Digital Government The international congress, contracts signed, where this value 2020 Strategy in addition to the held for the first time in the includes all contracts signed by solutions it will provide in terms of Middle East and Qatar, started the parties involved in QITCOM enabling digital transformation in the yesterday and will conclude on 2019. government sector,” said Assistant November 4 at the Qatar Meanwhile, the Ministry of Undersecretary of Government Infor- National Convention Center. Transport and Communications mation Technology Sector, MoTC, The conference aims to (MoTC) yesterday announced the Hassan Jassim Al Sayed. Yousef Al improve the surgical care of commencement of implementing Naama, CEO, malomatia, said: “In children around the globe, the e-tendering solution project malomatia, we are committed to driving collaboration, education Winners of Qatar Digital Business Awards 2019 announced on the sidelines of the closing day providing the best expertise and and training beyond borders. It of the QITCOM 2019. The project practices in modern technology Minister of Transport and Communications, H E Jassim bin Saif Al Sulaiti, presenting QITCOM 2019 Award also aims to ensure every child aims to provide a government- that realize Qatar’s National Vision (Best Accessible Booth), to Qatar National Bank (QNB) during the closing ceremony at Qatar National in the world has access to good ` wide standardised electronic (QNV 2030) of a vibrant quality healthcare and Convention Center, yesterday. P3 solution to automate knowledge-based society.” treatment by a pediatric medical or surgical specialist. Sidra Medicine is hosting WOFAPS 2019 to ensure Pedi- Silk Road Exhibition and Conference begins tomorrow atric Surgeons have access to the latest updates in the field, THE PENINSULA technologies of all types which November 5 is set Several local and interna- and opportunities for training DOHA are part of shipping services, to attract invest- tional firms from public and with some of the world’s transport and port management ments and spe- private sectors are participating leading pediatric surgeons. The Under the patronage of Minister in the participating countries. cialized modern in the exhibition, which is spon- conference aligns with Sidra of Transport and Communica- It also provides an oppor- technology to the sored by Mwani Qatar, the Main Medicine’s mission to provide tions, H E Jassim bin Saif Al tunity for direct meetings state of Qatar, and represented by Al Sharq Media Sponsor; Qatar Airways, as comprehensive healthcare Sulaiti, the Silk Road Exhibition between exhibitors and many provide opportunities for Management, strive to promote Official Carrier & Gold Sponsor; services including the training and Conference will begin decision-makers from public and building agreements and mutual Qatar’s projects and vision by Milaha and Qatar Rail as Gold and education needed for tomorrow at Doha Exhibition private sectors participating in cooperation between Qatar and organizing exhibitions and Sponsor; and General Authority healthcare practitioners, espe- and Convention Center. the event. the Silk Road States in various conferences that attract mutual of Customs along with Qterminals cially in lower income coun- The Exhibition aims at pre- The three-day Exhibition fields. investments between Qatar taking part in the Exhibition as tries. `P3 senting the state-of-the-art which will conclude on Dar Al Sharq Group, and the world. 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PRAYER TIMINGS OFFICIAL NEWS FAJR 04. 24 AM SHOROOK 05. 42 AM Amir sends ZUHR 11. 17 AM MAGHRIB 04. 55 PM congratulations to ASR 02.29 PM ISHA 06. 25 PM President of Algeria DOHA: Amir H H Sheikh WEATHER TODAY Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Deputy Amir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani sent yesterday cables of congratulations to the President of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, Abdelkader Ben- salah, on the occasion of his country’s National Day. Prime Minister and Interior Minister, H E Sheikh Abdul- lah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani, also sent a cable PM meets Turkish Defence Minister, opens business forum of congratulations to the Prime Minister of the Peo- The Prime Minister and Interior ple’s Democratic Republic of Minister, H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Algeria, Noureddine Bedoui, Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani, with the on the occasion of his coun- Defence Minister of the Republic of try’s National Day. QNA Turkey, Lieutenant General Hulusi Akar, at the ministry’s headquarters Amir sends in Ankara, yesterday morning. They reviewed aspects of joint cooperation condolences to between the two countries in the fields President, Prime of defence, in addition to several issues Minister of Pakistan o o related to regional and international 28 C 33 C affairs. The Turkish defence minister DOHA: Amir H H Sheikh Minimum Maximum hosted a luncheon banquet in honour Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani of H E the Prime Minister and the and Deputy Amir H H Sheikh accompanying delegation. A number Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani Relatively hot daytime with slight dust at sent cables of condolences to places at times and some clouds. of senior Turkish officials attended the meeting and luncheon banquet. the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Dr. Arif

HIGH TIDE 08:17 – 19:01 LOW TIDE 01:57 – 16:09 LEFT: H E The Prime Minister speaking at the opening of the Qatari-Turkish Alvi, and Prime Minister, Imran Courtesy: Qatar Meteorology Department Business Forum. Khan, on the victims of a fire that engulfed a train in south- ern Pakistan, wishing the injured a speedy recovery. MoTC issues first certificate of Prime Minister and Interior Minister, H E Sheikh Abdul- accreditation for Qatari company lah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani, also sent a cable of con- QNA company is able to deliver dolences to Imran Khan. QNA DOHA certain services, activities and tasks consistently, reliably and FM sends The Ministry of Transport and accurately, and is a partner in message to OIF Communications (MoTC) has improving the cybersecurity Secretary-General issued the first certificate of landscape by enhancing the accreditation for a company in quality of information security MONACO: The Secretary- Qatar to provide information services in Qatar. General of the International security consulting services on The certification comes as Organization of La Francopho- the sidelines of the Qatar IT part of Qatar’s national infor- nie (OIF), Louise Mushikiwabo, Conference and Exhibition mation security compliance has received a written mes- (QITCOM 2019). framework. The Certificate of sage from the Deputy Prime The Accreditation Program Compliance Consultancy Minister and Minister of For- is part of the Qatar National Services recognises that this eign Affairs, H E Sheikh Information Security Standards service provider is a strong con- Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Compliance Framework, which sulting firm capable of assisting Al Thani, pertaining to bilat- aims to ensure security in ICT organisations and companies in eral relations and ways of The Minister of Public Health, H E Dr. Hanan Mohamed Al Kuwari, during her visit to the fifth edition programs, systems and services, the planning, design and imple- enhancing them. The mes- of QITCOM 2019 at the Qatar National Convention Center. and to encourage compliance mentation of their NIA and SSQA sage was delivered by the with good practices to protect certifications. Ambassador of the State of digital infrastructure and data. Dana Al Abdullah, Director Qatar to the French Repub- Health Minister underscores importance The Ministry awarded the of Compliance and Data Pro- lic and Qatar’s Representative Certificate of Compliance to tection at MoTC, said: “We are to OIF, Sheikh Ali bin Jassem QITCOM in delivering digital solutions Protiviti Qatar, which is intended delighted that more accredited Al Thani, during his meet- for companies providing infor- service providers have joined ing with Secretary-General on QNA/DOHA offered by the event that serves they exhibit their projects in mation security consulting the national accreditation pro- the sidelines of the Ministerial various sectors and contributes modern technology, such as the services to the public and private grams, which will increase con- Conference of La Francopho- The Minister of Public Health, to sustainability.H E the Minister patient portal “my health”, which sectors. The certification is a fidence in the cybersecurity nie in Monaco. QNA H E Dr. Hanan Mohamed Al reviewed the electronic services allows patients to access their formal recognition that the supply chain in Qatar. Kuwari, stressed the importance and solutions offered by the Min- medical files via the Internet, of the Qatar Information Tech- istry of Public Health and health and provides access to important nology Conference and Exhi- sector institutions to the public. medical information including UN official lauds Qatar’s role in fighting corruption bition (QITCOM 2019) in serving Also, she was briefed on the the results of laboratory tests, all sectors concerned with digital pavilions participating in the details of medicines, and medical QNA/DOHA UN official at the Public Prose- the hard work of Attorney- solutions. exhibition and the distinctive appointments. cution headquarters in the General H E Dr. Ali bin Fetais Al During her visit to the fifth projects presented in the field of The national health infor- The Head of the United Nations presence of the Director of the Marri in the fight against edition of QITCOM 2019 held at digital technology. mation platform project, one of Office on Drugs and Crime Institute of Criminal Studies at corruption and crime, as well as the Qatar National Convention The Ministry of Public the Ministry’s e-health projects, (UNODC) for GCC, Dr. Hatem Ali, the Public Prosecution Dr. Saad his work at the United Nations. Center under the slogan ‘Safe Health, Hamad Medical Corpo- is showcased at the event. The said that Qatar leads the fight Hanif Al Dosari and a number of He added that the UNODC is and Smart Cities’, Her Excellency ration, and the Primary Health project aims to use digital tech- against corruption and supports members of the Public Prose- working with all sectors in Qatar praised the innovative tech- Care Corporation are partici- nology and solutions to enable judicial integrity. This came cution. Dr. Hatim gave an in preparation for the World Cup nology and digital solutions pating in QITCOM 2019, where an integrated healthcare system. during a lecture delivered by the overview of the UNODC praising 2022. QNL exhibition traces millennia-old Qatar-India-Gulf links RAYNALD C RIVERA highlights the maritime trade addition to digital items from THE PENINSULA between the Gulf and India and India’s Ministry of External Gulf exports to and imports from Affairs, the British Library and A fascinating major exhibition India during the pre-oil and gas the National Portrait Gallery and which traces the deep historical era, hundis and rupees in the Royal Trust in London, among connections between Qatar, Gulf, cultural confluence, the other sources. India and the Gulf dating back Indo-Gulf Society, the Indio-Gulf The opening ceremony 4,600 years opened on Thursday empires and the current bilateral included talks by Dr. Sohair at Qatar National Library (QNL). relations between India and Wastawy, Executive Director of Dubbed “Qatar, India and Qatar. A Qatari pearl merchant’s QNL; Aisha Al Attiya, Head of The Gulf: History, Culture and chest and tools which are made Qatar Museums’ Years of Culture; Society,” the exhibition serves as in India, a Qatari Bedouin P Kumaran, Ambassador of India one of the highlights of the necklace made of Indian rupees- to Qatar; Kees Wieringa, Director ongoing Qatar India 2019 Year Qatar’s principal currency from of Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al of Culture celebrations. It delves 1916 to 1966 and a collection of Thani Museum and Dr. James into the millennia of links old photos of dhows made of Onley, Director of Historical between India, Qatar and the wood sourced from India are Research and Partnerships at Gulf through a wide ranging among the many interesting QNL. The event also featured display of objects, photographs, items on display. cultural performances by Indian Ambassador to Qatar, P Kumaran (centre); Director of Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani maps, books and manuscripts, The show features items members of Qatar’s Mappila Museum, Kees Wieringa (second left); Dr. James Onley (second right), Director of Historical Research among other things. from QNL’s Heritage Library col- community from Kerala. The and Partnerships at QNL, and other officials touring the “Qatar, India and The Gulf: History, Culture Divided into ten sections, the lection and the Sheikh Faisal Bin exhibition is open for public and Society,”exhibition during its opening at Qatar National Library, yesterday. exhibition curated by QNL Qassim Al Thani Museum, in viewing until February next year. PIC: BAHER AMIN / THE PENINSULA SATURDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2019 HOME 03 Winners of Qatar Digital Business Awards announced

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The 2019 edition of the Qatar Information Technology Conference & Exhibition (QITCOM 2019) came to a close yesterday with the announcement of the winners of the Qatar Digital Business Awards (QDBA) and the QITCOM Awards in a prestigious gala presided over by the Minister of Transport and Communications, H E Jassim bin Saif Al Sulaiti. In its fifth year, the annual Qatar Digital Business Awards is one of the most prestigious awards for the digital industry in Qatar, and comes as part of the Ministry of Transports and Com- munications’ (MoTC) efforts to honour and recognise corporate entities, SMEs and startups that have contributed to the devel- opment of the digital industry in Qatar. For this year’s awards, MoTC received 150 nominations for the various categories of the awards. The nominations, which came from 76 public and private entities including four major banks, were reviewed by a jury made up of industry experts, uni- versity professors and gov- ernment officials. The awards were presented by H E Jassim bin Saif Al Sulaiti, Transport and Communications, presented to A101. The Systems award for Cloud Solution of the program TASMU - went to booths stood out during the exhi- and Assistant Undersecretary of remarked, “The notable growth Integrator of the Year award goes Year, which recognizes organi- Bonocle. bition. The awards were given in Digital Society at the MoTC, in the outcomes of QITCOM year to the enterprise systems inte- zations that provides excellence Meanwhile the E-Commerce six categories: Best Innovative Reem Al Mansoori, in 10 cate- after year are a key indicator of grator that can demonstrate high in cloud-based solutions, Solution of the Year was awarded Booth (Hamad bin Khalifa Uni- gories: ICT Service Provider of the progress Qatar has made on levels of customer satisfaction. services and infrastructure. to E-Butler. Innovative Fintech versity), Best Interactive Booth the Year, Systems Integrator of its journey towards digital trans- This year the award went to The Digital Startup of the Solution of the Year, which goes (Vodafone), Best Accessible the Year, Mobile App of the Year, formation and of the develop- Mannai Trading Company. Year award, which goes to a new to organizations that have dis- Booth (Qatar National Bank), Cloud Solution of the Year, ments in the Qatari market and The Mobile App of the Year product or service that has rupted the FinTech space Best Sustainable Booth (Qatar Digital Startup of the Year, Smart infrastructure which render it an accolade is awarded to a delivered measurable benefit for through the implementation of Rail), and Best Engaging Booth Solution of the Year, SME Digital attractive destination for local business that has pioneered an customers, went to urbanpoint, new and innovative solutions, (Huawei Qatar). Transformation of the Year, and international investments, original mobile app that has after a tough competition with went to debito.Finally, ICT The Best Interactive Booth E-commerce Solution of the with the potential to build an enhanced the services offered to 30 nominees. Exporter of the Year went to award was given in three sub- Year, Innovative Fintech Solution exciting future.” its customers. This year 23 Smart Solution of the Year modaris, after competing in the categories based on the size of of the Year, ICT Exporter of the The ICT Service Provider of entities were nominated for this award - given to businesses or final stages with Maskan and the booth; booths between 36 Year. the Year award, which recog- award, and while Doha Bank and government entities in the Q-tickets and Events. and 95 square metres in size Speaking at the awards cer- nizes the role played by ICT Commercial Bank of Qatar transport, logistics, environment, The gala dinner also wit- (Cisco), booths between 95 and emony, Reem Al Mansoori, service providers in supporting reached the final stages, the healthcare or sports sectors, nessed the awarding of the 300 square metres in size Assistant Undersecretary of organizations with the timely award went to Hamad Interna- which are the priority sectors QITCOM 2019 awards, which (Ooredoo) and booths larger than Digital Society at the Ministry of provision of services, was tional Airport. Meeza bagged the targeted by the Smart Qatar went to eight companies whose 300 square metres (Microsoft). Silk Road Exhibition and More than 800 surgeons attend Conference begins tomorrow world pediatric congress in Doha FROM PAGE 1 FROM PAGE 1 exchange of goods and products this conference has truly been a giving equal chances in surgical such as silk, perfumes, incense, Dr. Mansour Ali, Executive team effort, with the main goal access to everyone.” “The exhibition is being held spices, as well as exchange of Chair of Surgery at Sidra Med- to provide all delegates with the Prof. Pippi Salle, Chief of for its first edition with an aim cultures and sciences. icine and Co-Chair of the best, and enriching world con- Urology at Sidra Medicine, wel- of attracting investments and The Silk Road had a great WOFAPS 2019 Organizing Com- gress experience.” comed delegates, praising the exchanging expertise in the influence on the prosperity of mittee, said: “It gives me great “Under the theme ‘Moving success of the pre-congress two fields of transport, shipping, many ancient civilizations, such pleasure to welcome over 800 Collaboration, Education and day workshops, saying: “We logistics and customs services,” as Chinese, Egyptian, Indian and Pediatric General Surgeons, Training Beyond Borders’, Qatar have a fantastic International said Eizeldin Abdelrahman, Roman. The Silk Road extends Pediatric Urologists, Community is welcoming the brightest and faculty at Sidra Medicine, both Executive Director of Al Sharq from commercial centres in Surgeons, Surgical Trainees, and most innovative thought leaders for the live surgery workshops Media Management and Exec- northern China, divided into two Nurses from around the globe to in the surgical and medical field, as well as for the urological sci- utive Director of the Silk Road northern and southern branches. WOFAPS 2019 here in Doha.” allowing WOFAPS delegates to entific meeting prepared to Exhibition. The northern branch passes Dr. Ali added: “In line with learn and discover new best make this event an unforgettable Companies participating in through Eastern Europe and the the National vision 2030, Qatar practice methodologies in pedi- one.” In parallel with the 6th the exhibition are representing Crimea to the Black Sea and is the first Middle Eastern atric surgical care.” Prof. Sigalet World Congress of Pediatric both public and private sectors down to Venice. The southern country to host such a major said. Dr. Sanjeev Dutta, Former Surgery (WOFAPS), full day Eizeldin Abdelrahman from Qatar and outside Qatar branch passes through Iraq and pediatric surgery congress. As a Associate Professor of Pediatric urology sessions will be held such as Italy, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey to the Mediterranean Sea Qatari surgeon, I am proud to see Surgery, Stanford, and Head of every day of the congress, Syria, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan The Silk Road is one of the or through Syria to Egypt and the readiness and capability of Innovations at Johnson and organized by local expert, Dr. and Poland. The conference oldest commercial road net- North Africa. a leading healthcare organi- Johnson, said: “Africa and Asia Pippi Salle. These dedicated associated with the Exhibition works that have played a central In September 2013, as part sation like Sidra Medicine to host are the geographies that witness surgery sessions will provide under the title ‘Belt and Road’ role in cultural interaction. It has of a visit to Kazakhstan, the such a global event. We are now the biggest disparities in three days of discussions around will address topics by group of contributed greatly to the President of China announced a at the forefront of women’s and healthcare, and it’s a global the most relevant topics and the specialists from inside and exchange of political, economic plan to establish a new silk road children’s healthcare services responsibility to address those hottest debates. outside Qatar that will run for and cultural experiences linking China to Europe known and supporting the teaching and disparities in terms of offering The academic sessions at two days and will be discussing between China, Central Asia, as the “One Belt, One Road,” training to attending surgeons access to wellbeing to people WOFAPS 2019 are led by inter- topics such as ‘Maritime Western Asia, India and Europe. which reaches 60 countries with from around the globe.” everywhere. Given the proximity nationally recognised health Logistics’ and ‘Security & Safety The Silk Road is defined as a projected investments of Prof. David Sigalet, Chief of to this region, organizing the professionals. The sessions cover in Supply Chain & Logistics’. 12,000-kilometer road and land between $4 and $8 trillion. Patient Services at Sidra Med- congress here in Qatar and cross-cutting themes in inno- Also, it will bring together route linking Asia, the Middle The project aims at pro- icine and President of WOFAPS, having 100 doctors who are vation, education, quality, and experts and workers specialized East and Europe for hundreds of moting trade between Asia, said: “We are pleased with the giving care to children in these safety, and a total of 6 pre and in the exhibition and conference years with trade, cultural, reli- Europe and Africa, as well as amazing support of Sidra Med- parts of the world sponsored to post congress workshops have during the period of November gious and philosophical links focusing on global peace and icine and our partners and come and attend is a sign of the been developed to create a 3 to 5 from 10am to 5pm. through which there has been cultural prosperity. sponsors. The organisation of democratization of surgery, and diverse platform. Qatar Museums and YUZ announce landmark collaboration THE PENINSULA cities, each a leader in the cultural Amanda Ross-Ho, and Martine Illusions: The Garden of Zhang exhibitions and curatorial projects collaboration with Yuz Museum DOHA sector. Each museum will bring Syms. Opening to the public on Daqian (March–May 2020), involving Yuz Museum, LACMA and LACMA advances both unique expertise, collections, and November 7, 2019 in Shanghai, drawing from the Yuz Collection, and Qatar Museums are currently aspects of our mission, while ena- Yuz Museum Shanghai (YUZ), the audiences, forging a multi-site In Production is grounded in and This Is Not a Selfie: Photo- under discussion. bling us to add substantially to the Los Angeles County Museum of exhibition program that is truly works from LACMA’s renowned graphic Self-Portraits from the H E Sheikha Al Mayassa Bint programs of both these distin- Art (LACMA), and Qatar Museums global in perspective. permanent collection. The exhi- Audrey and Sydney Irmas Col- Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, guished partner institutions. (QM) have announced a historic The inaugural exhibition of bition is curated by Rita Gonzalez, lection (May–August 2020), Chair of Qatar Museums, said, “At Thanks to this agreement, we can collaboration to jointly develop this partnership, ‘In Production: Terri and Michael Smooke which features works from Qatar Museums, we always look now look forward to sharing and share exhibitions and Art and the Studio System’, Curator and Department Head, LACMA’s permanent collection. inward and outward at the same ideas, insights, and creative programmes across their institu- explores the interconnected his- Contemporary Art, at LACMA. The third exhibition, Yoshitomo time—inward to the next gener- visions from Doha with the public tions. tories of visual art and film. Fea- Following In Production, the Nara, will be on view at LACMA ation of creators and cultural in Shanghai and Los Angeles, and The partnership aims to tured artists include Cayetano exhibition schedule continues (April 5–August 2, 2020) before audiences within our country, and to bringing extraordinary new encourage the exchange of art Ferrer, Douglas Gordon, Alex with three shows to be presented traveling to Yuz Museum (Fall outward to artists and audiences experiences to our diverse and and ideas among these three Israel, Mike Kelley, Alex Prager, in 2020, including The Abode of 2020). Further plans for throughout the world. This deeply engaged public in Qatar.” 04 MIDDLE EAST / AFRICA SATURDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2019 Iraqis hold biggest protest day since fall of Saddam

REUTERS Five people died from injuries sustained BAGHDAD overnight after security forces used tear gas and rubber bullets on protesters camped out in Tens of thousands of Iraqis thronged central Baghdad the capital’s Tahrir Square. At least 103 people yesterday demanding the root- were injured, police and hospital sources said. and-branch downfall of the political elite in the biggest day of mass anti-government square, condemning elites they “We are peaceful yet they demonstrations since the fall of see as deeply corrupt, beholden fire on us. What are we, Islamic Saddam Hussein. to foreign powers and respon- State militants? I saw a man die. Five people died from sible for daily privations. I took a tear gas canister to the injuries sustained overnight after Protests have been compar- face,” said Barah, 21, whose face security forces used tear gas and atively peaceful by day, was wrapped in bandages. rubber bullets on protesters becoming more violent after In Baghdad, protesters had camped out in the capital’s Tahrir dark as police use tear gas and set up checkpoints in the streets Square. At least 103 people were rubber bullets to battle self-pro- leading into and surrounding injured, police and hospital claimed “revolutionary” youths. Tahrir Square, redirecting traffic. Demonstrators carrying the Iraqi flag during an anti-government protest in Basra, Iraq, yesterday. sources said. Clashes have focused on the Young people swept the Protests, in which 250 people ramparts to the Republic Bridge streets, many sang about the state has been around for 16 years protesters who say the gov- security official confirmed the have been killed over the past leading across the Tigris to the sit-in. Helmets and gas masks and what it failed to do we did in ernment is being manipulated general, Qassem Soleimani, had month, have accelerated dra- heavily fortified Green Zone of were now a common sight. seven days in Tahrir.” from abroad, above all by Iran. attended Wednesday’s meeting, matically in recent days, drawing government buildings, where the A woman pushed her baby in Despite Iraq’s oil wealth, “No one person or group or to “give advice”. huge crowds from across Iraq’s protesters say out-of-touch a stroller draped with an Iraqi flag many live in poverty with limited side with an agenda, or any Many see the political class sectarian and ethnic divides to leaders are holed up in a walled- while representatives from several access to clean water, electricity, regional or international party, as subservient to one or another reject the political parties in off bastion of privilege. Iraqi tribes waved banners health care or education. The gov- can infringe upon the will of of Baghdad’s main allies, the power since 2003. “Every time we smell death pledging support for the protesters. ernment of Prime Minister Adel Iraqis or force an opinion upon United States and Iran, who use Thousands have been from your smoke, we yearn more Mohammed Najm, a jobless engi- Abdul Mahdi, in office for a year, them,” Sistani’s representative Iraq as a proxy in a struggle for camped out in the square, with to cross your republic’s bridge,” neering graduate, said the square has found no response to the pro- said during a sermon in the city regional influence. many thousands more joining someone wrote on a nearby wall. had become a model for the tests. In his weekly sermon, top of Kerbala. A powerful Iran- “Iraqis have suffered at the them by day. Friday, the Muslim Amnesty International said country he and his comrades hope Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Al backed faction had considered hands of this evil bunch who came main day of prayer, drew the on Thursday security forces were to build: “We are cleaning streets, Sistani warned of “civil conflict, abandoning Abdul Mahdi, but atop American tanks, and from biggest crowds yet, with many using “previously unseen” tear others bring us water, they bring chaos and destruction” if the decided to keep him in office Iran. Qassem Soleimani’s people taking to the streets after gas canisters modelled on mil- us electricity, they wired it up. “A security forces or paramilitary after a secret meeting attended are now firing on the Iraqi people worship. By the afternoon tens itary grenades that are 10 times mini-state. Health for free, tuk-tuks groups crack down on the protests. by a general from Iran’s Revolu- in cold blood,” said protester of thousands had packed the as heavy as standard ones. transporting for free,” he said. “The And he gave an apparent nod to tionary Guards. An Iranian Qassam Al Sikeeni.

Murderer of British Hezbollah: Lebanon’s next govt must heed protesters diplomat sentenced REUTERS his decision, saying it would waste time to death in Lebanon BEIRUT needed to enact reforms that are urgently needed to plug gaping holes in the state AFP/BEIRUT The powerful Lebanese Hezbollah group finances. “A new government must be said yesterday a new government must formed as soon as possible... and the new A Lebanese court yesterday listen to the demands that fuelled protests government must listen to the demands sentenced a taxi driver to death against the country’s rulers and led Saad Al of the people who took to the streets,” for the 2017 murder of British Hariri to quit as prime minister this week. Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nas- embassy worker Rebecca Dykes, The unprecedented, nationwide pro- rallah said in a televised address. the national news agency tests that erupted on October 17 tipped “There must be serious work because reported. The Mount Lebanon Lebanon into political turmoil as it time is tight and so is people’s patience,” criminal court sentenced the grapples with the worst economic crisis he said, adding that the government’s goal accused to death for the rape and since the 1975-90 civil war. Lebanese must be to restore confidence. After murder of the young British banks reopened for the first time in two warning last week against a power woman, the agency said, naming weeks on Friday, with dozens of people vacuum that could lead to chaos and even the killer as Tariq Samer waiting at some branches. civil war, Nasrallah said on Friday the Howeish. The 30-year-old’s Hariri, an ally of the West, quit on “patience and awareness” of the Lebanese lifeless body was found dumped Tuesday after saying he had failed to had averted such scenarios. on the side of a road north of resolve the crisis unleashed by the pro- President Michel Aoun, a political ally Beirut in December 2017. The tests against a ruling elite accused of of Hezbollah, has yet to say when he will driver employed by ride-hailing rampant corruption and steering Lebanon begin consultations with MPs to pick a giant Uber was reported by to economic collapse. new prime minister. Hariri’s government judicial sources at the time as Lebanese soldiers surround protesters during ongoing anti-government demonstrations The Iranian-backed Hezbollah, a continues in a caretaker capacity in the having been arrested twice prior in Lebanon’s southern city of Sidon, yesterday. political adversary of Hariri, has opposed meantime. to the murder for alleged harassment and theft. Capital punishment is legal in Lebanon although no execution has been Hunger-striking Jordanian in Joint Turkish and Russian patrols carried out in 15 years. Israeli prison moved to clinic begin in Syrian region Lebanese man AFP/JERUSALEM sentenced to death in Israeli army AP/SEVIMLI, TURKEY of Turkey’s operation zone in Two cease-fire agreements 2013 mosque bombing A Jordanian woman held by Syria. Turkish troops and allied -brokered by the US and Russia- Israel without charge since injures 88 Turkey and Russia launched Syrian opposition fighters now paused Turkey’s operation to AP/BEIRUT August and on hunger strike in Palestinians joint patrols yesterday in north- control the border towns of Tal allow the Syrian Kurdish fighters protest has been moved from eastern Syria, under a deal that Abyad, Ras Al Ayn and nearby withdraw 30km from the border. A Lebanese court has sentenced her cell to a medical facility, ANATOLIA/GAZA CITY halted a Turkish offensive villages. The deal on the patrols Russia told Turkey at the end a man to death for twin car Israel Prison Service said Friday. against Syrian Kurdish fighters excludes the city of Qamishli, of the 150-hour cease-fire on bombings in 2013 that targeted “The female security At least 88 Palestinians were who were forced to withdraw according to the ministry’s Tuesday that the Syrian Kurdish two mosques in the northern prisoner under administrative injured by Israeli army from the border area following statement on Tuesday. fighters were out of the strip of city of Tripoli, killing 47 people. detention, a Jordanian citizen during the weekly Great Ankara’s incursion. The first joint patrol did not territory, as well as out of the State-run National News who is on hunger strike, was March of Return rallies in The Turkish Defense Min- fly Russian and Turkish flags on towns of Manbij and Tal Rifaat, Agency says the Judicial Council moved...to the IPS medical eastern Gaza Strip, the Pales- istry said an initial patrol their armoured vehicles but once west of the Euphrates River. sentenced Youssef Diab. NNA centre,” it said in a Hebrew-lan- tinian Ministry of Health in covered an area 87km long and the patrol was completed, A Kurdish news agency and gave no further details guage statement. Gaza said. The Hamas-run 10km deep in the al-Darbasiyah Russian flags were seen. a war monitor reported clashes regarding the sentence over the It said the move was for ministry said that 34 of the region, assisted by drones. “The After an abrupt and widely between Kurdish fighters and near-simultaneous bombings “continued observation and wounded were injured by first joint patrol was completed criticized decision by President Turkey-backed opposition that targeted Sunni mosques in medical care” but did not live ammunition, without as planned,” the statement said. Donald Trump to withdraw gunmen. The Britain-based Lebanon’s second largest city. describe her condition or say elaborating on the rest of the The Russian Defense Min- American troops from this part Syrian Observatory for Human Police said at the time that the when it took place. The Pales- cases. Almost 270 protesters istry said the joint patrol of Syria, the Kurdish forces Rights said the fighting concen- bombings wounded some 300 tinian Authority’s detainees have been martyred — and included nine military vehicles, approached the Syrian gov- trated near the town of Ein Issa others. The coordinated commission confirmed in a thousands more wounded — including a Russian armored ernment and Russia for pro- and near the town of Zirkan in bombings in the predominantly statement that Hiba Al Labdi, 24, by Israeli forces at the personnel carrier. tection. Syrian government the northeastern province of Sunni city came amid sectarian was transferred yesterday — the security fence areas with Turkey and Russia have troops and Russian military Hassakeh. The group said four violence in Lebanon at the time 39th day of her hunger strike Gaza since the rallies began agreed the patrols would cover police subsequently moved into people were wounded in the that spilled over from neigh- which has left her in poor health. in March last year. two sections, in the west and east areas along the border. Zirkan area. boring war-torn Syria. Labdi is one of two Jordanians held by Israel at the centre of a diplomatic row between the crossing and Merhi was seized neighbouring countries. there on September 2. Floods in Somalia displace over 270,000 people: UN Amman announced on Israel has not given reasons Tuesday that it had recalled its for their detention but Israeli REUTERS with floods forcing families from increasing the likelihood of relative of mine was among those ambassador in Israel over the newspaper Haaretz says that NAIROBI/MOGADISHU their homes. The Indian Ocean higher rainfall over East African who died after the boat capsized country’s refusal to free them. Israeli authorities suspect her of Dipole, the Indian Ocean’s equiv- countries,” it said. In the town of this week.” Halima Abdullahi, a According to Jordan, Labdi “contact with a foreign agent Heavy rains have killed at least alent of the Pacific Ocean-based El Beledweyne in central Somalia, a mother of three, said by phone and Abdelrahman Merhi, 28, and supporting terrorism”. 10 people and displaced more Nino, is at its strongest since 2006, river overflowed and about 10 that floodwaters had trapped her were arrested at a crossing Since their arrests, Jor- than 270,000 in Somalia, the regional trade bloc of eight East people died when a boat capsized family and they were desperately between Jordan and the Israeli- danian authorities have destroying infrastructure and African nations known as the Inter- trying to rescue stranded resi- awaiting rescue. “The floods are occupied West Bank. repeatedly called for their livelihoods in the Horn of Africa governmental Authority on Devel- dents, residents said. too much and the river which The Palestinian Authority release, a demand Foreign Min- nation, the United Nations said. opment said yesterday. “I am still stranded in a hotel broke from many parts has not says that Labdi was detained on ister Ayman Safadi repeated on East Africa has been experi- “In this state, warm moist air in Beledweyne,” Mohamed Nur yet been repaired,” she said. “We August 20 at the Allenby Bridge Tuesday. encing heavy rains, experts say, flows westwards inland told Reuters from the town. “A do not know what to do.” SATURDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2019 ASIA 05 Health emergency in Delhi as pollution at year’s worst

REUTERS &AFP thatThe goes Indian deep capital into the lungs. emergency as air pollution is NEW DELHI hasAnything banned above 400 all poses a risk now hazardous and will have constructionfor people with respiratory work ill- adverse health impacts on all, Authorities in New Delhi nesses and can also affect even but particularly our children.” declared a public health emer- thosein the with sprawling healthy lungs. It banned all construction gency and closed schools and all metropolisSome companies of 20 advised work in the sprawling metropolis construction activity until next millionemployees people to avoid exposureand its to of 20 million people and its week as air pollution in the city neighbouringtoxic air and work fromcities. home. neighbouring cities until hit its worst level this year. “We have been advised to November 5. Each year, A thick haze has hung over stayAll schoolsat home on will Monday,” remain said farmers in the states of Punjab the Indian capital this week Anujclosed Rawat, till an November account director 5. and Haryana burn crop residue caused by plumes of toxic smoke at Kantar, the market research to prepare for the sowing from farm fires raging in neigh- arm of British advertising major season, ignoring government bouring states. An index meas- WPP. Kantar employs around warnings. uring the level of a deadly air 400 people at its office in New According to government- pollutant hit 484 on a scale of Delhi, Rawat said. run monitor SAFAR, satellite pic- 500 yesterday, the government’s The Environment Pollution tures had captured nearly 3,200 German Chancellor Angela Merkel and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi gesture during their Central Pollution Control Board, Control Authority, which is incidents of stubble burning on visit to Gandhi Smriti in New Delhi, India, yesterday. the worst this year. leading the effort to tackle Thursday in Haryana and Punjab The index measures the level Delhi’s pollution, said: “We have that contributed to 44% percent of PM 2.5, tiny particulate matter to take this as a public health of Delhi’s pollution. The sky-high levels of pol- Situation of Kashmiris lution— making Delhi the most Kejriwal distributes 5 million polluted major city on the planet yesterday, according to website unsustainable, says Merkel masks among school goers AirVisual — threw into doubt a cricket match between India and AGENCIES She said she would raise the welcome to India yesterday as NEW DELHI IANS/NEW DELHI Bangladesh scheduled for matter with PM Modi, adding Prime Minister Narendra Modi tomorrow. that while she was aware of welcomed her in air so polluted Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal yesterday distributed anti- The toxic air has left several The conditions in which the India’s position regarding that authorities declared a public pollution masks to school-going children in the Capital, on a day Bangladeshi cricket players with people of Kashmir are living are Kashmir, she wanted to hear the health emergency. the Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority sore throats and itchy eyes. unsustainable and must be PM plans for restoring calm to Ignoring medical advice to (EPCA) declared a public health emergency in Delhi-NCR. Bangladesh’s coach Russell improved, German Chancellor the region. “The situation for the the choking megacity’s 20 The EPCA advised residents, especially children and the aged, Domingo, bowling coach Daniel Angela Merkel told reporters people there is currently not sus- million inhabitants, the pair did to reduce exposure to hazardous air. The Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Vettori and several players wore accompanying her on a trip to tainable and must improve,” not wear pollution masks as they Party government in Delhi claims to have distributed about 5 masks during training yesterday. New Delhi where she is holding Merkel said. The German Chan- inspected troops at the presi- million anti-pollution masks among the schoolgoing children Domingo said that although a talks with Prime Minister cellor’s comments came after dential palace in New Delhi. yesterday. few were suffering from Narendra Modi. New Delhi and Berlin agreed to Merkel, 65, sat for the “Delhi has turned into a gas chamber due to smoke from crop “scratchy eyes” and sore throats, “The situation now for the work on bilateral and multi- national anthems, as during burning in neighbouring states. It is very important that we protect the match would go ahead. people (in Kashmir) is not good lateral platforms to counter ter- similar ceremonies following a ourselves from this toxic air. Through private & government “Government knew an and not sustainable. This has to be rorism and extremism. series of shaking spells earlier schools, we have started distributing 50 lakh masks today,” emergency situation was improved for sure,” said Merkel. Angela Merkel got a toxic this year. Kejriwal tweeted after distributing masks among the students. approaching and did not take “I urge all Delhiites to use them whenever needed,” he added. substantive steps on stubble Earlier in the day, the EPCA had asked the governments of burning or big industrial pol- Rogue elephant Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan to issue advisories luting sources,” said Sunil Police rescue baby asking public to minimise exposure to surroundings and take Dahiya, an energy and air pol- kills 5 villagers other measures to curb the challenging levels of pollution. lution analyst at Greenpeace. Delhi has announced closure of all schools till November 5. “A public health emergency being buried alive AFP/GUWAHATI Other NCR cities may also follow suit. situation began at least 10 days AFP/NEW DELHI ago.” Forest officials in northeast Indian police rescued a baby as its family was about to bury it India yesterday conducted a alive, officials said yesterday. Officers confronted the infant’s major operation to contain a grandfather as he held the child in a blanket, while another man rogue elephant that killed five dug a hole with his hands on wasteland in a suburb of the southern villagers earlier this week. city of Hyderabad. The male elephant killed The case was made public two weeks after a newborn girl was the people on Tuesday night in found in a clay pot at a northern Indian crematorium — later making Assam state, villager Rajen headlines for her “miracle” survival. Rabha said. “But that was not In the latest incident, the two men said the infant had died in all. In the past Laden has also hospital. But police, tipped off by a taxi driver made suspicious by attacked our villages and killed the events, said they saw the baby move under the blanket. people and destroyed our Both men were detained and later released, with the infant paddy fields,” the resident of undergoing treatment in hospital while an investigation is carried Goalpara district said. out. The animal was alone, he “They thought the baby had died and were told by other family added, saying that forest offi- members not to bring the body home,” police officer A Srinivasulu cials were using domesticated said. “We are just happy that the baby was rescued,” the officer elephants to observe it from a said. In the other case of the newborn found in a clay pot, the safe distance, as well as drones baby was believed to have been left for more than two days — seen in photographs released before she was found by a man digging a grave for his own by the Assam Forest Department. newborn daughter. As elephants’ natural habitant India is notorious for the gender killing of baby girls, seen as a shrinks, nearly 2,300 people financial burden because of the dowry to be paid when they are have been trampled in India in married. Such discrimination is blamed for India’s skewed sex ratio the last five years, according to that stood at 940 females for every 1,000 males, according to a 2011 official figures, while 700 ele- Birds fly as people commute near India’s Presidential Palace on a smoggy day in New Delhi, yesterday. census. phants have been killed since 2011. Assam Forest Minister Parimal Shuklabaidya said an eight-person Five-phase poll committee including wildlife India, Uzbekistan to sign MoUs on military medicine, education experts would decide what to do, in Jharkhand IANS taking into account the welfare of NEW DELHI represent India at the Council of will discuss on co-operation “India has a long tradition of the elephant as well as locals’ from Nov 30 Heads of Government meeting between India and Uzbekistan partnering with fellow nations, safety. “We are yet to decide on India and Uzbekistan are likely of the Shanghai Cooperation on military education and mil- while pursuing our own aspira- how to deal with the animal. IANS/NEW DELHI to sign two MoUs pertaining to Organisation (SCO). itary medicine. If the discussion tions for growth. We look There are suggestions that we military medicine and military Following the SCO meet, fructifies into a common forward to enrich them further should tranquillize the animal The Election Commission of education during Defence Rajnath is scheduled to have agreement, the MoUs will be through the SCO for the devel- and take it to forest where there India yesterday announced a Minister Rajnath Singh’s three- bilateral discussions pertaining signed between the two nations,” opment and progress of our is no human habitation nearby,” 5-phase poll for Jharkhand day visit to the Central Asian to defence co-operation with a senior Defence Ministry official people,” Singh tweeted. Shuklabaidya said. Elephants Assembly election from nation, sources said here Uzbekistan Defence Minister said. In Tashkent, Singh also paid frequently migrate from the November 30. yesterday. Major General Kurbanov Earlier yesterday, Singh tributes at a memorial of former Garo hills region of Meghalaya While date of polling for Singh is in Tashkent, the Bakhodir Nizamovich. reached Tashkent to participate Indian Prime Minister Lal to Goalpara and even to first phase is November 30, capital of Uzbekistan, to “The two defence ministers in the two-day SCO conference. Bahadur Shastri. Bangladesh. second phase polling will take place on December 7. The third, fourth and fifth phases of polling will take place on Killing of Maoists ‘state sponsored’ act: Kerala CPI December 12, 16 and 19, respectively. IANS Vijayan and right from the day they expected has taken place. a former legislator. Maoists. Since this Left gov- Counting of votes will be PALAKKAD,KERALA of the incident, the CPI has con- “This was no encounter at “This is in no way acceptable. ernment assumed office in 2016, taken up on December 23, Chief demned the act of the police. all between the police and the We demand a magisterial probe eight Maoists have been gunned Election Commissioner Sunil Expressing displeasure at the A team of CPI leaders led by Maoists. The four who were shot as a probe by the police won’t down, while during the rule of Arora announced on Friday. way four Maoists was gunned two legislators and party dead had bullet injuries on their bring out anything. The need of the Congress’ Oommen Chandy In Jharkhand, Chief Minister down in the forests near here this assistant secretary K Prakash back and the head. This clearly the hour is to rein in the police two Maoists were arrested in a Raghubar Das-led BJP is hoping week by the Thunderbolt wing Babu, despite being asked to shows that it was nothing but a who just cannot be allowed to joint operation from neigh- to retain power in the state. of the Kerala Police, the refrain from going into the deep fake encounter. If it was a real act like this,” added Babu. bouring states. In 2014, while the BJP won Communist Party of India (CPI) forests to the site where the encounter, one will be easily able Meanwhile at the state sec- According to the police, the 37 seats, its ally All Jharkhand state leadership yesterday shooting took place, yesterday to find out bullet marks on trees retariat meeting of the CPI-M, person killed on Tuesday was a Students Union (AJSU) won five. condemned the act as one that visited the area, to assess the sit- and such places. Just look at this held in the capital, Chief Minister top Maoist from Tamil Nadu, The combined tally was was “state sponsored” and uation on what happened. Babu place where we stand, does it Vijayan informed about what Mani Vasakam, while among enough for the National Dem- sought a magisterial probe. and his team walked close to signify an encounter having taken happened and according to those brought down on Monday, ocratic Alliance (NDA) to cross Incidentally the CPI is the three kilometres to reach the place here. This is nothing but a sources in the party, many in the two hailed from Karnataka — the majority mark of 41 in the second biggest ally of the ruling place and after going around the state sponsored act of gunning CPI-M are upset at the way the Sreemathi and Suresh — and 81-member Assembly. Left government led by Pinarayi place told the media, that what down people,” said Babu, who is Left government is tackling the Karthi was from Tamil Nadu. 06 ASIA SATURDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2019 Pakistan’s oppn gives Imran 2 days to resign AFP As the first day of two days to resign,” he added. ISLAMABAD Earlier in the day security demonstrations forces blocked the main entry Tens of thousands of Islamists stretched into points to the city with shipping rallied alongside opposition the night Rehman containers but protesters supporters in Pakistan’s capital focused his ire on the streamed into the capital, with yesterday, as the firebrand cleric more than 20,000 gathering for leading the protests called on country’s powerful Friday prayers, according to a Prime Minister Imran Khan’s military, which he report. government to step down within and other opposition Protesters waved black-and- 48 hours. figures have accused white striped JUI-F flags and The so-called “Freedom chanted slogans as a series of March” is being led by Khan’s of helping the former opposition figures and Islamist long-time rival Maulana Fazlur cricket star win last leaders spoke ahead of Rehman’s Rehman, who heads one of the year’s election. address. country’s largest Islamist parties, “The time has arrived for us the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam to get rid of this illegitimate gov- (JUI-F). supporters from a makeshift ernment,” Shehbaz Sharif, leader As the first day of demon- stage, referring to the military. of the Pakistan Muslim League- Activists and supporters of Islamic political party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) shout slogans during strations stretched into the night The first day of the protest Nawaz party, told protesters. an anti-government “Azadi (Freedom) March” in Islamabad, yesterday. Rehman focused his ire on the remained peaceful even as some “After one year in power, 220 country’s powerful military, in the crowd called for moving millions Pakistanis are screaming which he and other opposition the rally closer to parliament, just but the time has arrived for unemployed and factories are tactics they plan to use during the leader in 2014 when his party figures have accused of helping hours after several marches from Imran Khan to scream.” The shutting down,” protester Abu protest or just how long they will held months-long mass demon- the former cricket star win last across Pakistan converged on protest represents the first major Saeed Khan, who travelled to the stay in Islamabad. strations in Islamabad in a failed year’s election. Islamabad. “This is a peaceful challenge to Khan’s adminis- capital from the northwestern Rehman, an influential cleric, bid to bring down the gov- “They have not come to rally and we are peaceful people, tration as it struggles to quell city of Peshawar, said. insists that Khan must be ernment. As protesters massed power on the public’s mandate therefore we want to stay simmering public anger over a “We have to remove them removed from office and a new in the capital, Khan slammed but on someone else’s direction... peaceful otherwise this (crowd) faltering economy and double- from power,” added Anas Khan, “free and fair” election held. Rehman during a televised they won’t work for the public has the strength to go to the digit inflation. “We are protesting another demonstrator. The scene yesterday was speech in the northern city of rather they will only please their prime minister’s office and arrest to send these incapable rulers The demonstrators have reminiscent of similar protests Gilgit, vowing to prosecute the selectors,” Rehman told his him,” said Rehman. “You have home... our people are remained vague about what that Khan led as an opposition cleric for alleged corruption.

Pakistan eases No force can stop Kashmiris to get freedom: Imran requirements INTERNEWS “played his last card by revoking Kashmiri people for freedom” probably would have been facing Medina.” The prime minister said for Sikh pilgrims’ ISLAMABAD the special status of the occupied once it lifts the curfew in the the oppression of Modi regime that the country has been opened territory” on the 5th August. valley. Imran Khan said Pakistani today.” for tourism. Visa for the citizens crossing Prime Minister Imran Khan has He said the oppressive nation stands by Kashmiri The prime minister said of seventy countries have been said no force can stop the regime of Modi has imposed “a brethren. He said he is the Pakistan will be uplifted as per abolished and they can get the ANATOLIA Kashmiri people to get freedom cruel curfew in occupied ambassador and spokesperson the principles of State of Medina. visa on arrival at the airports. ISLAMABAD “from the cruel clutches of Kashmir” over the last three of the Kashmiri people and will He said “Pakistan is a great gift Alluding to the immense India.” months and millions of people plead their case at all fora. of God and it is the first country beauty of Gilgit-Baltistan, the Pakistan yesterday eased Addressing Azadi Parade on have been confined to their Paying tributes to the valiant which was carved out in the prime minister was confident requirements for Indian Sikhs the occasion of 72nd Inde- homes by nine hundred freedom struggle of the people name of Islam. He said we will that now more tourists will be seeking to cross the border to pendence Day of Gilgit, in Gilgit thousand Indian troops. of Gilgit against Dogra regime, make this country a glorious visiting the region which will visit a sacred temple. yesterday, he said Indian Prime He said India will “see the the Prime Minister noted “if they example for the world by fol- bring prosperity and ensure a The passport and prior reg- Minister Narendra Modi has spirit and more resolve of the have not fought that war they too lowing the principles of state of brighter future for its people. istration requirements for Sikh pilgrims wanting to visit the temple in the Kartarpur border area is waived, they announce. Funerals begin as town Pilgrims visiting on the 550th birthday of Baba Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, mourns victims of will also be exempt from a $20 service fee. Pakistan train fire “For Sikhs coming for pil- grimage to Kartarpur from AFP breakfast around dawn on India, I have waived off 2 MIRPURKHAS Thursday, two of their gas cyl- requirements: i) they won’t inders exploded, sending flames need a passport — just a valid Distraught relatives gathered racing through three carriages ID; ii) they no longer have to yesterday for the first funerals as the train passed near Rahim register 10 days in advance. of some of the 74 people killed Yar Khan, in Punjab province. Also, no fee will be charged on when fire ripped through a At least 74 people died, some day of inauguration & on crowded train in Pakistan, with after jumping through windows Guruji’s 550th birthday,” Paki- many of the victims residents of on the still-moving train to stani Prime Minister Imran a single town. escape the blaze. Khan said on Twitter. Sobbing family members Rescue officials found bodies Last year Pakistan and crowded a government building and some injured passengers India agreed to open the in Mirpurkhas overnight as the along a two-kilometre stretch of crossing, which connects the first bodies covered in white track, Dawn newspaper northeastern Pakistani city of cloth began arriving by ambu- reported. The train was a daily Narowal to eastern Gurdaspur lance from the scene of the dis- express service that runs in India. Kartarpur Sahib aster. After morning prayers, between the southern port city Gurdwara situated in Narowal A relative cries during the funeral of a train fire victim in Mirpurkhas yesterday, a day after a passenger with women watching from of Karachi and Rawalpindi, — some 115 kilometers from the train caught on fire in Rahim Yar Khan. nearby rooftops, more than a adjacent to Islamabad. provincial capital Lahore – is hundred men attended the first Trains on that route can one of the most revered temple funeral — of a car mechanic reportedly hit speeds of up to 110 and charred. One of them — far, he said. Twenty-four Mir- said the government was for the Sikh community, as named Mohammad Saleem, who kilometres per hour. Local media Wagon No.12 — was carrying purkhas residents were among arranging to send families of the Baba Guru Nanak spent the last was in his late 40s. said that the speed may have mainly people from Mirpurkhas, the injured. But at least another missing from Mirpurkhas to the 18 years of his life there. It was held at the Bismillah helped fan the flames. the town’s deputy commissioner, 40 are still missing, he said. hospital in Rahim Yar Khan The distance between the Mosque, from which at least 42 Journalists were allowed Attaullah Shah, said. Officials in Rahim Yar Khan where the bodies have been temple and Gurdaspur is just pilgrims had left to board the inside the interior of the car- “There was never such a have said many of the bodies are taken. Mirpurkhas, a town of 3km but without a crossing, train one day earlier, bound for riages early yesterday. The fire tragic incident to happen to Mir- charred beyond recognition and some half a million people sur- Sikh pilgrims from India must a religious festival near Lahore. appeared to have burned them purkhas,” he said. Eight of the will have to be identified through rounded by farms and mango travel hundreds of kilometers, Officials say as some of the entirely, with virtually no space bodies had been confirmed as DNA testing — a process that orchards, was largely shut down via Amritsar and Lahore, to train’s passengers cooked visible that was not blackened being residents of the town so could take up to one month. Shah as businesses closed in mourning. reach it. Imran greenlights plan for tax assessment surveys Unesco includes Lahore INTERNEWS documents. Prime Minister Imran regime for shopkeepers and real 30. The drive has been planned in ‘Creative Cities’ list ISLAMABAD Khan took these decisions in a estate sector. But this decision to be completed within two years meeting held on October 3 at the has become redundant after the and detailed proposals will be INTERNEWS said. The project is being run by Pakistani Prime Minister Imran PM House, which he had earlier International Monetary Fund submitted later on. It will aim at LAHORE Unesco’s Creative Cities to make Khan has approved an ambitious announced to make a public uni- (IMF) opposed the proposal this ascertaining untapped segments these places laboratories of three-year plan to conduct versity. It carries some of the rec- week. including businesses, real estate Pakistani city of Lahore has been ideas and innovative practices nationwide surveys for tax ommendations given by Tax The actions that the prime and industries. selected in the list of cities that and help in bringing a solid con- assessment, evaluating wealth Reforms Commission over three minister approved to implement It was decided in the meeting have been designated as Unesco tribution to achieving the Sus- parked in real estate and imple- years ago. But the TRC proposals from November 2019 to June that the tax reforms “must not Creative Cities. A total of 66 tainable Development Goals menting a new value added tax remained unimplemented. 2022 require strong political create a choking effect for cities figure in the list for 2019. (SDGs) through innovative system. However, the deadlines set will and full support from the economy” and correct taxation It has been announced by thinking and action. The plan, which was in the plan appear ambitious and bureaucracy. By compromising measures be taken with prompt Unesco Director-General The cities in the list have approved days before the gov- some of the steps that were with the traders, the gov- implementation instead of Audrey Azoulay, who said this committed to advocate and ernment succumbed to pressures approved had also been taken in ernment has already shown entanglement in extended step would favour ‘political and achieve the SDGs especially exerted by traders, also includes the past but were subsequently signs of weaknesses that will impasses. social innovation’ and would be those that directly benefit com- setting up the Pakistan Revenue reversed - like dividing the FBR’s keep haunting it in coming It was also decided, in prin- particularly important for the munities at the urban level. Authority by June next year and operations between north and years. ciple, to launch a nation-wide youth. “All over the world, these The 66 cities have all been restructuring the Federal Board south zones. One of the decisions The PM approved to launch survey of immovable property, cities, each in their way, make selected for one particular field. of Revenue (FBR) in interim of the meetings was immediate nation-wide tax assessment and starting from Islamabad indus- culture a pillar — not an Lahore has been selected for period, showed the official implementation of the fixed tax documentation drive from Nov trial area this month. accessory - of their strategy,” he literature. SATURDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2019 ASIA 07 China warns it won’t tolerate dissent in HK AFP Beijing also said low approval ratings, became BEIJING it would brook no leader in 2017 after securing 777 foreign interference in votes from that committee. China warned yesterday that it Hong Kong affairs as it Shen said the party leaders would not tolerate any challenge discussed ways “to improve the to Hong Kong’s governing discussed the unrest in mechanism of appointing and system, as it laid out plans to the semi-autonomous removing the chief executive and boost patriotism in the city and city at a major, key officials of the Special change how its leader is chosen four-day meeting Administrative Region by the or removed after months of pro- central government”. The legal democracy protests. of the Communist system of the city will also be Beijing also said it would Party chaired by improved to “safeguard national brook no foreign interference in President Xi Jinping. security,” he said, without pro- Hong Kong affairs as it discussed viding more details. the unrest in the semi-auton- Veteran pro-democracy law- omous city at a major, four-day maintain its “long-term pros- maker Claudia Mo said Beijing’s meeting of the Communist Party perity and stability.” China, he comments about improving the chaired by President Xi Jinping, added, would “never tolerate any way the city’s leader is chosen is according to a senior party cadre. act” that aims to split the country mere “lip service”. The central government in or endanger national security. “Hong Kong people have Beijing has so far voiced its con- Elements of the People’s been let down all too often on fidence in Hong Kong chief exec- Armed Police were deployed that issue so I think we can just utive Carrie Lam and the city over the summer in Shenzhen, ignore that ‘improvement’,” she police to put a lid on the increas- the city bordering Hong Kong, said. “We’re asking for one ingly violent protests. fuelling speculation that Beijing man, one vote, minus Beijing’s But all eyes have been on might be prepared to intervene interference.” whether the party leadership will if necessary. The paramilitary Political analyst Willy Lam People chant slogans and gesture for the “five demands” called for by protesters, during a pro- assert more control over the sit- group was seen conducting drills said the comments indicated democracy “flash mob” rally at lunchtime in the Central district, in Hong Kong yesterday. uation if the demonstrations spin with assault rifles fitted with bay- Beijing was determined to exert out of control. The former British onets at a sports stadium in “tighter control” over Hong Kong colony has been rocked by months Shenzhen on Thursday. in the future. “It’s to make sure expressed “approval and November poll invalid. education as a way to curb of protests with citizens lam- Hong Kong’s chief executive the next chief executive carries support” for the disqualification Lecturer Leung Kai-chi, of youth-led protests. Hong Kong pooning the city’s pro-Beijing is not directly elected, a source out Beijing’s orders more effec- of Hong Kong democracy activist the Chinese University of Hong officials and teenagers should leaders and erosion of basic rights. of major friction and a headache tively that Carrie Lam has done,” Joshua Wong from upcoming Kong, said changes or improve- learn about the constitution, Shen Chunyao, director of for the leaders themselves he said. “It has nothing to do with local elections. Wong, one of the ments would not help unless Shen said. The party also wants the Hong Kong, Macau and Basic because they have no popular democracy.” Shen said China’s most prominent figures in the oth- coupled with an increase in to “strengthen the national con- Law Commission, said party mandate. Currently the city’s communist leaders want erwise leaderless pro-democracy public trust. “Isn’t the current sciousness and patriotism of leaders at the meeting in Beijing leader is chosen by a 1,200- “patriots to form the main body” movement, accused the Hong disaster in Hong Kong the best Hong Kong and Macau compa- agreed to “further improve the strong committee that is stacked of those selected to govern both Kong government of “political proof?” Leung said. triots through the education of central government’s system of with Beijing loyalists. Hong Kong and Macau. screening” after an election officer The party elite decided this history and Chinese culture,” governance over the region” and Lam, who now boasts record Beijing on Wednesday ruled his nomination for the week to step up patriotic he said.

Truck plummets down ravine in No plan to drop controversial the Philippines, 19 farmers dead anti-graft bill, says Widodo

AFP REUTERS Concerns over the bill that process is ongoing don’t let MANILA JAKARTA presides over the KPK has there be a compounding legal sparked nationwide protests for decision,” he told a meeting of Nineteen farmers were killed in Indonesian President Joko the past two months, during reporters that was broadcast the mountainous northern Phil- Widodo said yesteday that he had which there have been five on television. ippines when a truck carrying no plan to revoke a new law that deaths and scores injured. Widodo said he was cur- them and sacks of rice seeds critics fear could curb the powers Shortly after the bill was rently selecting members for the plunged backwards down a deep of the country’s anti-corruption passed, Widodo had said he overseeing committee for the ravine, police said yesterday. agency and that has triggered would consider replacing it by KPK, with their inauguration set The victims were on their nationwide demonstrations. issuing a presidential regulation in December. “We will choose way home from collecting gov- Passed into law in Sep- in lieu of law. But yesterday he those with the best credibility,” ernment subsidised seeds late tember, the revised 2002 bill told reporters he would press on he told reporters. Thursday in the town of Conner governing the Corruption Erad- with selecting members for the Mahfud MD, Indonesia’s when the driver lost control of ication Commission, known by committee and also let the Con- security minister, also said in an the vehicle, in the latest tragedy its Indonesian initials, KPK, stitutional Court decide upon a interview with the Kompas TV on the country’s perilous roads. means the agency will be judicial review which was filed station that he understood Either the engine or brakes overseen by a committee and no by students in the hope that the Widodo would not issue the reg- failed as the truck made its way longer able to independently bill be dropped. ulation “because it has entered up an incline. The vehicle, with wiretap suspects. “Since the judicial review the judicial review process”. Police officers and security personnel are seen at a security check some 40 people in its bed, then point at the media center for the upcoming 35th ASEAN Summit plunged back down the hill into in Bangkok, Thailand, yesterday. a 65-foot ravine. “The truck fell on its rear first and the passengers were Security tight in Thailand crushed,” local police official Manuel Canipas said. capital ahead of He added another 20 more people on the truck were injured, but will survive. Southeast Asia summit Canipas said the weight of the seeds may have made the REUTERS domestic politics. “We will not crash worse, potentially BANGKOK allow a repeat of the bomb crushing some of the victims. attacks that took place during Deadly road accidents are Thailand mobilised more than the previous international common in the Philippines, 17,000 security officers yes- meeting,” Damrongsak said. where inadequately maintained terday ahead of a three-day “We are monitoring all risky buses and poorly trained summit of Southeast Asian and areas and are intensifying intel- drivers form the backbone of other international leaders in ligence gathering,” he said. “So land transport options. Bangkok, guarding against far, there is no sign of any Twenty people, including attacks after a dozen explosions untoward activities or any children, were killed in Sep- marred another regional threatening movements.” tember in the southern Phil- meeting in August. Leaders of the 10 member ippine town of T’boli when a House on fire in Manila Several roads surrounding countries of ASEAN will meet truck carrying a group home the main meeting venue for on Saturday and Sunday, and from a party at the beach Firemen hose down a burning residence in Manila yesterday, while colleagues remove a gas range leaders of the Association of then attend the East Asia crashed. from inside the house. Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit on Monday that and the East Asia Summit (EAS) includes officials from Aus- in Nonthaburi, north of Bangkok, tralia, China, India, Japan, New have been cordoned off since Zealand, South Korea, the South Korean divers find crashed Airbus copter, 7 missing Thursday. Some 5,000 officers United States and Russia. are assigned to the main venue Chinese Premier Li Keqiang REUTERS helicopter, operated by South South Korea and Japan claim as involved in an accident,” Airbus alone, the assistant national is confirmed for the East Asia SEOUL Korea’s fire department, was their territory, are called Take- said in a statement to Reuters, police chief, Damrongsak Kitti- meeting, while the United found in 70 meters of water yes- shima in Japan. referring to the fire department. prapas, said. States has downgraded its Divers from South Korean rescue terday afternoon, a coast guard Rescue officials were trying “We stand ready to provide Security is a major concern participation in the summit services yesterday located an official told a media briefing to secure the blackbox and voice full technical assistance to the for Thai authorities after a series by sending Commerce Sec- Airbus chopper which fell into earlier. recorder to find out what went customer and authorities as of bomb attacks in Bangkok in retary Wilbur Ross and White the sea with seven people on South Korea’s President wrong, the official said. required.” August as the city hosted a House National Security board off the disputed islets of Moon Jae-in said he had ordered An Airbus subcontractor Airbus Helicopters won a meeting of Southeast Asian Adviser Robert O’Brien, who Dokdo late on Thursday. safety checks for other H225 in carried out maintenance for the contract in 2017 for two addi- foreign ministers. That meeting will represent President A body was found close to service in the country. model’s main gear system tional H225 helicopters from was also attended by top dip- Donald Trump. the wreckage, Yonhap news The helicopter was carrying between September and South Korea’s fire department, lomats from the United States, International trade and agency reported. The Coast an injured person to hospital October, followed by test flying, but the models have yet to be China and other world powers. issues like the South China Sea Guard was unable to confirm the when it crashed about two and there were no safety issues delivered. No one was killed in dispute and the plight of ethnic report that a body had also been minutes after takeoff from found, he added. “We are aware The fire department cur- August, but four people were Rohingya fleeing Myanmar are found and the search for the Dokdo close to midnight, a fire that a H225 operated by the rently operates an all-Airbus hel- wounded from the attacks that some of the issues expected to missing was ongoing. department official said. South Korean National 119 icopter fleet comprising two police said were linked to be discussed at the summits. The Airbus H225 Super Puma The Dokdo islets, which Rescue Headquarters, has been AS365 N2 and two H225. 08 VIEWS SATURDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2019 UK election may spur ESTABLISHED IN 1996

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SHEIKH THANI BIN ABDULLAH AL THANI AHMET GURHAN KARTAL ANATOLIA EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DR. KHALID BIN MUBARAK AL-SHAFI ritain is set to go to the polls [email protected] for an early general election on December 12 as Prime Minister Boris Johnson finally ACTING MANAGING EDITOR B managed to convince lawmakers to do MOHAMMED SALIM MOHAMED so after being blocked from “getting [email protected] Brexit done” on October 31. The opposition parties gave the green light for the election bill brought DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR to the House of Commons by Johnson MOHAMMED OSMAN ALI after the possibility of a no-deal Brexit [email protected] disappeared with the new extension granted by the EU. But the election, which will aim to solve the Brexit conundrum, may cause a deeper crisis if it results in a new hung parliament. How the parties shape their cam- paigns around Brexit will be decisive EDITORIAL for British voters, but a shift in voting tendencies and changing demo- graphics may play a huge part in the election’s outcome. Up to 2 million Strategic ties elderly voters, most of them believed to be pro-Brexit, have passed away he ties between Qatar and Turkey just not cover a wide since the 2016 referendum, and up to range of fields from trade to culture rather they are 2.5 million young voters who are Tstrategic in nature and the bonds of mutual respect and mainly pro-European will cast their cooperation between the leaders and the people of both the votes in the December election. countries are growing deeper with every passing day. The austerity measures intro- Both the brotherly states have stood with each other duced after the global economic crisis through thick and thin and also adopt a uniform diplomatic in 2008 will also weigh large on approach towards different issues emerging in the region voters’ minds. Although the UK boasts and beyond. one of the world’s five biggest econ- Yesterday, Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh omies, up to 14 million people in the Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani and Vice-President country live on the edge of poverty. of the Republic of Turkey, Fuat Oktay, opened the Qatari- Additionally, problems with infra- Turkish Business Forum ‘Investment Opportunities in Qatar’, structure, public transport, and health organised by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry of Qatar, care due to a wave of privatizations the Qatar Chamber and the Turkish Ministry of Customs and which started in the 1980s often make Trade in Ankara. headlines. In the runup to the 2016 EU H E the Prime Minister delivered a speech on the occasion, referendum, put parliament’s inefficiency at the stance as the Scottish public voted to saying that the common denominators between the two coun- the Leave centerpiece of his election campaign remain in 2016. tries constitute a solid base for the development and strength- campaign by accusing lawmakers of sabotaging The party’s election trategy will ening of economic and trade relations between the two coun- painted EU the referendum result for the past have anti-Brexit messages and tries, in addition to the significant development witnessed in membership three years. However, some analysts advocate a second independence ref- bilateral trade relations under the as the main say that this approach would con- erendum for the country. agreements concluded, especially Johnson, a two- cause of all tradict the Leave campaign’s claim to Liberal Democrats the economic and trade partnership, time London Britain’s be taking back control from EU The Lib Dems have pledged to which is a clear evidence of the mayor and problems, institutions. cancel Brexit if they win a majority, effectiveness of the decisions and staunch Brexiteer, promising the Johnson, a two-time London aiming at the now-more-than 50% actions taken in recent years in UK would mayor and staunch Brexiteer, is anti-Brexit votes. The party lost 0.5% “Turkey, with implementation of the directives of is favoured by “regain favoured by those who would like to of its votes in 2017, but it recently its functional the leaders of the two countries. those who would control” and leave the union at once, but he is also managed to become the number two economy continues Earlier on Thursday, Prime like to leave solve the accused of being politically shallow. party in European Parliament elec- to be a safe Minister and Interior Minister H the union at country’s After he rejected the deal reached tions, leaving behind both the Tories E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin woes after by his predecessor Theresa May, and Labour. haven for Qatari Khalifa Al Thani and Vice-Pres- once, but he is Brussels stole which he claimed would carve off Brexit Party investments, ident of the Republic of Turkey, also accused of sovereignty Northern Ireland from the mainland The new party under staunch whose total value Fuat Oktay, held an official talks being politically from the U.K., the prospect of bringing back a Brexiteer Nigel Farage managed to win is approaching session at the presidential palace House of similar new Brexit deal could spur 30.5% in European Parliament elec- in Ankara. The talks session shallow. Commons. mistrust in Johnson. It is not clear yet tions this May. The party is expected to $22bn,” said the focused on the strategic relations The whether in his election campaign defend the idea of a no-deal Brexit in Ambassador while between the two countries and Labour Party Johnson will take a Brexiteer stance or the December vote, aiming for similar addressing a prospects to further boost them won more votes in its 2017 campaign put forward his new deal, but a hard- success. The Brexit Party campaign in different spheres. by underlining those problems. Brexit stance could drag his party to could attract some traditionally Tory reception hosted H E the Prime Minister also Some research says Brexit has the far-right and make him lose mod- votes, but the two parties could also go to celebrate 96th met with the Minister of Interior worn away voters’ sensitivity to other erate Tory voters. for tactical cooperation in the election, anniversary of the in Turkey, Suleyman Soylu, and problems, and this situation may cause Labour Party according to analysts. foundation of the discussed cooperation relations a shift in parties’ traditional grassroots. Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has DUP between the two countries and Moreover, the division in voters been targeted by the right-wing British Northern Ireland’s biggest party, Republic of Turkey prospects of developing them in after the 52%- 48% victory of Brexit in media since he took the party helm, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), at his residence. addition to a number of matters the referendum still exists. with his economic policies often is expected to win around 10 seats, of mutual interest. The two traditional main parties, described as “extreme leftist.” preserving their vote. H E the Prime Minister at His Excellency’s residence in the Conservatives and Labour, have He has managed to remain After the 2017 election, the DUP Ankara, met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, difficulty forming policies which Labour’s leader despite a few attempts entered into a “confidence and supply” Mevlut Cavusoglu. H E the Prime Minister also visited the should balance various Brexit prefer- to oust him. In the 2017 election, deal with the Conservatives. Turkish Parliament Building in Ankara where he met Speaker ences. This situation weakens the pos- Corbyn increased the party’s votes Polls of Turkish Parliament, Mustafa Sentop, and a number of sibility of the formation of a powerful from 30% to 40%, boosting its seats in The latest polls suggest the Con- members of the Turkish Parliament. Recently, Ambassador government with a clear majority after parliament to 30. servative Party will get 37% of the of Turkey to Qatar, Fikret Ozer, said that Qatar has become the election. Scottish National Party vote, while Labour will get 22%. the 7th country in which the Turkish contracting sector has Conservative Party The Scottish National Party (SNP), The Lib Dems are at 19%, and the undertaken the highest volume of projects. The Conservative Party under with 35 seats in the House of Brexit Party at 11%. The SNP is pro- “Turkey, with its functional economy continues to be a Johnson is expected to Commons, has voiced its anti-Brexit jected to receive 4% of the votes. safe haven for Qatari investments, whose total value is approaching $22bn,” said the Ambassador while addressing a reception hosted to celebrate 96th anniversary of the foun- dation of the Republic of Turkey at his residence. Rising seas are much bigger danger than experts thought

THE WASHINGTON POST corrects satellite elevation data, and it Eight Asian nations - China, Bang- “reveals a developed global coastline ladesh, India, Vietnam, Indonesia, ere’s another piece of evi- three times more exposed to extreme Thailand, the Philippines and Japan - QUOTE OF THE DAY dence that climate change coastal water levels than previously account for some 70 percent of the might be worse than scien- thought,” the authors warn. Even people living on at-risk land. Under I said to the members, Htists previously predicted. under an optimistic scenario in which the newly calculated numbers, China’s we cannot be The seas are rising, and will con- heat-warming greenhouse emissions population facing the extreme risk of undermining the tinue to rise, because hotter tempera- are restrained and Antarctic ice sheets falling below the high-tide line by markets here, but you tures melt land-based ice and expand remain stable, “the global impacts of 2100 roughly triples. Bangladesh, the volume existing ocean water takes sea-level rise and coastal flooding this India, Indonesia and the Philippines can’t be the United up. But while much study has century will likely be far greater than see the number of people living below States of the markets. examined the shift in amount and indicated by the most pessimistic past the projected high-tide line increase It’s not that. It’s the warmth of seawater humans will face, analyses.” by five to 10 times. One-third of the there is another variable scientists And that’s the rosy scenario. If Ant- populations of Bangladesh and United States of must get right to assess the risk to arctica’s massive ice sheets became Vietnam live in areas that - if emis- America. humanity: just how many people live unstable - and there are ominous signs sions were not restrained and Ant- in low-lying areas. A new paper sug- - land that is home to 300 million arctic ice proved unstable - would sink Nancy Pelosi gests previous estimates of land ele- people would be at risk of yearly below the high-tide line. A massive Speaker of US House of vation - and, therefore, the number of flooding by 2050, 50 million more slice of south Vietnam and large at-risk people - were wrong. than present projections. Some 230 swaths of Ho Chi Minh City are in Representatives The study, published Tuesday in million more people than current esti- danger. Giant chunks of Bangkok the journal Nature Communications, mates would be vulnerable by 2100. could be washed away. SATURDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2019 HOME 09 10 EUROPE SATURDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2019 Russia shuts down top rights group amid crackdown on critics

AFP ‘For Human Rights’ has and former oligarch Mikhail MOSCOW faced an onslaught Khodorkovsky on Twitter. of legal action and “It’s time for the elite to realise Russia’s Supreme Court yes- that there is only one person who terday issued a ruling to wind up the justice ministry still has rights,” opposition poli- the operations of a respected has sought to close it tician Dmitry Gudkov added, rights group, sparking outrage down for months. In referring to Putin. amid an increasing crackdown December last year, For Human Rights has faced on campaigners and the an onslaught of legal action and opposition. Ponomaryov spent the justice ministry has sought The group, For Human more than two weeks to close it down for months. Rights, vowed to appeal the in jail for urging In December last year Pon- ruling, which is the latest in a people to take part in omaryov spent more than two series of legal actions by the weeks in jail for urging people authorities in recent years seen an unsanctioned rally to take part in an unsanctioned as steadily ramping up pressure in Moscow. rally in Moscow. on rights campaigners. Russia declared opposition It comes after the gov- number of regional and local leader Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Cor- ernment in February added For rights organisations. ruption Foundation a “foreign Strengthening ties Human Rights to a register of Ponomaryov, 78, is a former agent” in early October, tightening Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (left) shaking hands with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang “foreign agents,” a label given to physics professor who rose to the screws on the group. during a meeting ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Government Heads Council organisations seen as political prominence as an activist in the The tag, reminiscent of the that implies they receive funding late 1980s and served in Russia’s Soviet-era crackdown on dissi- Meeting, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, yesterday. from overseas. first post-Soviet parliament. dents, obliges them to submit The group, which investi- In recent years, he has been documents every three months gates rights abuses, said it had a a vocal opponent of President outlining their finances. The month to file an appeal against Vladimir Putin’s government. measure comes as Russian offi- UK police step up appeals the Supreme Court ruling. “We The Russian justice ministry cials accuse the West of trying will appeal the ruling and also had accused his group of mul- to undermine the country, char- go to the European Court of tiple violations including failing acterising internal criticism as Human Rights,” said the group’s to always use the “foreign agent” the work of spies and traitors. over migrant lorry deaths chief Lev Ponomaryov, one of tag on its publications. Last month Putin removed the country’s most prominent The group argued in court several opposition figures from AFP at an industrial estate last month. Post-mortem examinations activists. “The movement itself that these were not sufficient his human rights council, an BELFAST Detective Chief Inspector are being carried out and no will continue to live and work,” grounds for liquidation. advisory body that has spoken Dan Stoten said on a visit to formal cause of death or identifi- he said. “This is a historic trial. This is out against abuses but has been British detectives probing the Belfast that officers had already cation have been released. But Tanya Lokshina of Human being done for the first time, the losing influence in recent years. deaths of 39 Asian migrants in a spoken to Ronan Hughes by tel- several Vietnamese families fear Rights Watch said the decision largest rights organisation in In March, a court in refrigerated truck near London ephone but needed to talk to him their relatives are among the dead. was a “devastating example” of Russia is being liquidated. I’m sure Chechnya sentenced Oyub renewed yesterday their appeal again in person. In Vietnam, police the Russian courts “servicing the there’s huge interest in the country Titiyev, who ran the Chechen for two brothers in the haulage The Hughes brothers, aged announced the arrest of two government agenda to stifle and in the world in this trial,” Pon- office of Memorial rights group, business to help with the 40 and 34, have links across the people for trafficking in con- critics”. omaryov told the court. one of Russia’s oldest, to four investigation. island of Ireland to the road nection with the deaths. The pair For Human Rights, founded The legal decision to close years in jail for drugs offences in Essex Police said they haulage and shipping business, were accused of “organising and in 1997, is one of Russia’s oldest down the group prompted out- a trial that drew condemnation wanted to speak to Ronan and said Stoten. The victims — eight brokering for other people to go rights groups with a mission to raged responses from opponents from international groups. Christopher Hughes from women and 31 men — were abroad and stay abroad ille- promote the rule of law and civil of the Kremlin. “The authorities Titiyev, 62, was released on Northern Ireland in connection found in a truck that entered gally”, a Vietnamese police society. It is made up of a have lost it!” wrote Kremlin critic parole in June. with the discovery of the bodies Britain on a ferry from Belgium. statement said. Greece okays Spain’s Sanchez rules out grand controversial coalition with conservatives migration law REUTERS open to such a coalition this time, MADRID as opinion polls show the election AFP result could leave no party strong ATHENS Spain’s acting Prime Minister enough to govern on its own Pedro Sanchez yesterday ruled while the two rivals combined Greece yesterday approved a law out forming a “grand coalition” would comfortably win enough tightening asylum procedures with the opposition People’s seats to form a majority in the that has been widely criticised Party (PP) after a parliamentary 350-strong parliament. by rights groups as harmful to the election on November 10. Sanchez called the repeat interests of migrants. A previous election in April election after winning the April The government says the ended in a stalemate, and opinion ballot but failing to garner enough new rules will allow it to focus polls show the repeat vote could seats to govern without the on swiftly identifying refugees be as inconclusive, with all possible support of other parties - which that need protection, instead of scenarios for deals to form a gov- he did not secure. The latest polls being bogged down by thou- ernment fraught with difficulties. show that the Socialists will likely sands of applications by eco- “We are not going to form a win again, but could get fewer nomic migrants which it says government with a party that has seats than in April. are not entitled to asylum. reached pacts with the extreme right, The PP and the Socialists “These adjustments that trivialises gender violence, dominated Spanish politics for establish a compact law on equality between men and women, decades, but new parties emerged international protection,” Prime and the democratic history of our after the financial crisis, frag- Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis country,” Sanchez told supporters menting the political landscape told lawmakers before the bill at a Socialist Party rally. and making it much harder to Far-right Vox supporters waving Spanish flags during a campaign rally in Santander yesterday ahead was approved by his conserv- Sources in the conservative form governments with stable of the November 10 general elections. ative party majority, with PP said recently they could be majorities. support from the socialists. Mitsotakis said Greece’s asylum system till now “was in Spain to host COP25 climate a state of prolonged paralysis” German Muslims feel unsafe with nearly 70,000 pending requests. summit in December “It gave the signal that amid mounting Islamophobia people could come to Greece AFP difficult decision, a decision that and stay for unspecified MADRID has been deeply painful because periods of time, without any we know exactly how important ANATOLIA and provide advice [to them]. bomb threat had also forced the scrutiny,” said the conserv- Spain will host the COP25 APEC and COP are for Chile and BERLIN Otherwise, Muslims lose confi- evacuation of visitors and staff at ative PM who was elected in climate summit in December, the world,” said Pinera. dence in the security agencies, the mosque complex, however it July on promises to bolster the UN said yesterday, after “When a father has problems, Germany’s Muslim community because protection is simply also turned out to be hoax. border patrols at land and sea. Chile abandoned plans to hold he must always prioritise his is “not feeling safe enough” amid being blurred,” he added. Germany has witnessed “This law... sends a clear it due to deadly anti-gov- family over other options. The the country’s growing Islamo- Kesici’s remarks came only growing Islamophobia in recent message: enough with those ernment protests. same goes for a president, he must phobia, a German Muslim leader a day after police were forced to years sparked by hate propa- who attempt to enter and “We are pleased to announce always put his own compatriots told Anadolu Agency in Berlin. evacuate a mosque in the ganda of far-right parties. More remain in our country whilst the COP Bureau has agreed that first, ahead of any other consid- “This year we had more than western German city of Cologne than 100 mosques and religious knowing that they are not COP25 will take place from 2-13 erations,” he added. 80 attacks on mosque commu- on Thursday following a bomb institutions were attacked by by entitled to asylum,” he said. December in Madrid,” United He said Spain’s Socialist nities in Germany. The security threat. Following a thorough far-right extremists in 2018. Human rights groups have Nations climate chief Patricia Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez situation is very tense. Muslims search at the Cologne Central Police recorded 813 hate strongly criticised the bill, Espinosa said on Twitter. had “made a generous offer to are not feeling safe enough. Mosque complex, police found crimes against Muslims last year, saying it introduces stricter After more than 10 days of host the COP 25 summit in Talks with security authorities no bomb and determined the including verbal insults, threat- rules for receiving asylum street protests, Chilean President Madrid” on the originally have shown that no sufficient threat was a hoax. ening letters and physical attacks seekers, delays access to the Sebastian Pinera said on scheduled dates which the concept exists and, above all, it It was the second time in which led to the injury of at least right to work, narrows the Thursday that his country was Spanish government promptly is so that we as Muslims are not four months that the Turkish- 54 Muslims. A country of over 81 definition of family, and not in a position to host either confirmed. Sanchez called being sufficiently advised,” said Muslim umbrella group DITIB, million people, Germany is home imposes more burdens on the December 2-13 climate con- Espinosa’s announcement that Burhan Kesici, the chairman of which runs the mosque, had to the second-largest Muslim pop- torture victims in being rec- vention as well as the November Madrid would hold the climate the Berlin-based Islam Council. been threatened with a bomb ulation in Western Europe after ognised as such. Greece is 16-17 Asia Pacific Economic summit “excellent news”, adding “Security authorities need to attack. The mosque complex in France. Among the country’s facing its highest influx figures Cooperation (APEC) summit. Spain was already working to definitely work closer with the Cologne also houses the head- nearly 4.7 million Muslims, at least in the past three years. “This has been a very prepare the event. communities, develop concepts quarters of DITIB. In June, a three million are of Turkish origin. SATURDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2019 EUROPE / AMERICAS 11 Pelosi expects public impeachment hearings to begin this month

BLOOMBERG The House Speaker districts voted against the WASHINGTON didn’t rule out measure laying out the investi- the investigation gative steps ahead. Not a single House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said continuing into 2020 GOP House member voted in yesterday that she expects the favor. Michigan Representative Democratic-led impeachment — an election year — Justin Amash, a Republican inquiry of President Donald saying the emergence turned independent who has Trump to begin public hearings of new investigative been a Trump critic, voted for this month but insisted there’s leads cannot be the resolution. no deadline to finish the A super-PAC aligned with investigation. predicted. Republicans announced imme- “I would assume there would diately after the vote that it will be public hearing in November,” mountain of concerns to be target digital advertising against Pelosi said in a roundtable with brought up,” she said, while also the 29 Democrats representing Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage makes a speech launching the Brexit Party general election campaign Bloomberg reporters and editors. acknowledging the public’s Trump-won districts who voted in London, United Kingdom, yesterday. Any case that is made to impeach attention span is limited. “When for the investigation. Those more the President “has to be ironclad”. does the law of diminished moderate Democrats were Pelosi spoke a day after the returns set in?”. “There has to be central to Pelosi’s party winning House voted to set up a formal clarity” for the public in any case the House majority in 2018. Eurosceptic Farage urges process for public hearings in an for impeachment, she added, Trump’s re-election campaign investigation of whether Trump noting that the July phone call this week debuted a national tel- used his office to pressure Ukraine between Trump and Ukraine’s evision commercial attacking to open a politically motivated president provided such clarity. Democrats, including Pelosi, for British PM to listen to Trump investigation in exchange for “Of course. it changed everything not focusing on “real issues”. releasing military aid. Pelosi said in the public mind.” Trump, she Trump, who becomes just AFP Trump also warned Johnson allow Britain to strike lucrative the closed-door depositions of noted, has described the call as the fourth president to be subject LONDON that the terms of his EU divorce free-trade agreements with witnesses will continue as long perfect. “No, it’s perfectly wrong to a formal impeachment effort, deal meant that “under certain global giants such as China and as they are “productive”. “I don’t — you can’t do that,” she said. will have to keep the Republican Anti-European populist Nigel aspect... you can’t trade” with the the United States. Downing know what the timetable will be If the House takes a formal Party unified not just to prevent Farage urged Prime Minister Boris United States. The US President’s Street moved quickly to try to — the truth will set us free,” she vote on articles of impeachment, his removal from office by the Johnson yesterday to follow unannounced intervention shoot down Trump’s trade said. “We have not made any possibly before the end of the Senate but also at the hands of Donald Trump’s advice and form turned into top UK news and put warning and dismiss talk of an decisions on if the President will year, it would take a two-thirds voters in 2020. a “non-aggression” pact with his Farage in the headlines just as alliance with Farage. “We can be impeached.” majority vote in the Republican- With many of the facts already Brexit Party in Britain’s pre- he launched his party’s official strike our own free trade deals Pelosi also said that Congress controlled Senate to convict the confirmed publicly by White Christmas general election. campaign in London. around the world from which should pursue an impeachment president, and therefore remove House documents and Trump The US President used a It also threatened to hurt every part of the UK will benefit,” inquiry regardless of its impact him from office. That’s an himself, the ultimate question for lengthy appearance on Farage’s Johnson at the onset of an it said in a statement yesterday. on financial markets.“The outcome viewed at this point as lawmakers to decide will be radio phone-in show on election campaign that carries But Farage seized on markets have their own strength highly unlikely. Pelosi has whether that conduct is Thursday to share his character- massive repercussions for Brit- Trump’s remarks and made and their resilience,” she said. staunchly defended Thursday’s impeachable. Polls show roughly istically blunt views ahead of ain’s future place Europe and the several references to it at yes- On impeachment, Pelosi mostly straight party-line vote half of the public backs the inves- Britain’s December 12 snap elec- rest of the world. Both Trump terday’s campaign event. He didn’t rule out the investigation to formally initiate the inves- tigation, though not necessarily tions. “I know that you and and Farage are deeply polarising urged Johnson to rip up his deal continuing into 2020 — an tigation, though she had been Trump’s removal from office. That (Johnson) will end up doing figures in Britain who could hurt and campaign with his Brexit election year — saying the emer- saying for months such a vote ranges from 55% in a mid-October something that could be terrific Johnson’s chances with more Party for Britain to leave EU with gence of new investigative leads was unnecessary. Quinnipiac University poll to 48% if you and he get together as, you moderate voters. almost no strings attached — a cannot be predicted. Two Democrats who rep- in a Grinnell College survey about know, an unstoppable force,” Johnson also claims that his prospect that frightens busi- “There is — I should say — a resent Republican-leaning the same time. Trump told Farage. revised deal with Brussels will nesses and the markets. Trump to move permanent Russian law to residence to Florida from NY control Internet AFP saying it was primarily for tax enters into force WASHINGTON purposes. Other than the White House, AFP US President Donald Trump the Trumps’ main residence will MOSCOW announced that he will change his now be their Mar-a-Lago resort, permanent residence from New where Trump has spent 99 days A controversial law that would York to Palm Beach, Florida, since becoming president — allow Russia to cut Internet claiming he had been “treated compared to just 20 at his pre- traffic from international very badly” in his native city. vious primary residence in servers came into force Friday, “My family and I will be Trump Tower, according to the prompting fears from rights making Palm Beach, Florida, our Times. “I hated having to make activists of online isolation. Permanent Residence,” the this decision, but in the end it The law, which President president tweeted. will be best for all concerned,” Vladimir Putin signed in May, “I cherish New York, and the Trump tweeted. requires Russian internet pro- people of New York, and always New York “will always have viders to install technical will, but unfortunately, despite a special place in my heart!” But devices provided by the author- the fact that I pay millions of New York has not always loved ities to enable centralised dollars in city, state and local Trump back: Demonstrations control of traffic. They will also taxes each year, I have been outside Trump Tower are filter content to prevent access treated very badly by the common, and Trump has butted Climate change protest to banned websites. political leaders of both the city heads with the city and state Supporters of the legislation Actress Jane Fonda chats with fellow activists during a climate change protest inside the Hart Senate and state,” he wrote, adding that multiple times. say the aim is to ensure Russian Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, yesterday. “few have been treated worse”. The most recent instance sites keep working if they are According to a report was in the beginning of the unable to connect to interna- from The New York Times, month, when a federal judge tional servers or in the case of Trump — who is a native New for the Southern District of a threat from abroad such as Yorker — and his wife Melania New York dismissed the pres- Police question Cyprus ‘leg up driver’ cyber attacks. But rights filed individual declarations ident’s bid to block access to activists say it is another cen- of domicile in September years of his personal and cor- AFP feet in long black socks on the “Driving is not a game or a sorship bid following previous changing their primary resi- porate tax returns. NICOSIA steering wheel navigating with joke. We all have a responsibility efforts in Russia to block dence from Manhattan to New York leadership his calves on the slow lane of a to be careful whilst behind the services such as the LinkedIn Palm Beach. appeared to agree that Trump A motorist in Cyprus steering a car two-lane highway with wheel and show respect not only social media site and the Tel- The New York Times also had made the right call, with with his legs is to be questioned apparent ease. for our own lives but those of egram messenger service. wrote that White House offi- Governor Andrew Cuomo for possible driving offences, An investigation has been others,” they said. Human Rights Watch cials declined to say why tweeting, “Good riddance.” “It’s police said yesterday, after a video opened and the driver called in Police pointed out that warned that the law means the Trump changed his primary not like @realDonaldTrump he posted went viral. for questioning, police said on Cypriot law states that drivers “Russian government will gain residence but cited a source paid taxes here anyway,” he The two-and-a-half minute Twitter, together with a stiff must have both hands on the even greater control over close to the president as wrote. “He’s all yours, Florida.” clip shows the driver with both warning. wheel. freedom of speech and infor- mation online”. The Internet is the country’s main forum for political debate and opposing Treatment of Assange putting his life ‘at risk’: UN expert voices as well as coordinating opposition demonstrations. AFP arbitrariness and abuse may to drawn-out “psychological helplessness typical for persons protect Assange’s health and “Now the government can GENEVA soon end up costing his life,” the torture”. exposed to prolonged isolation dignity. “However, what we have directly censor content or even UN special rapporteur on torture The independent expert, who and constant arbitrariness.” seen from the UK Government turn Russia’s internet into a The treatment of WikiLeaks and other cruel, inhuman or does not speak on behalf of the “While the precise evolution is outright contempt for Mr. closed system without telling founder Julian Assange, who is degrading treatment, Nils Melzer, United Nations, has not met is difficult to predict with cer- Assange’s rights and integrity,” the public what they are doing facing the threat of extradition said in a statement. Assange since, but he said in an tainty, this pattern of symptoms he said. or why,” said HRW’s deputy from Britain to the US on espi- Melzer, who visited the email that his growing concern can quickly develop into a life “Despite the medical urgency Europe and Central Asian editor onage charges, is putting his life 48-year-old Australian whistle- was based on “new medically rel- threatening situation involving of my appeal, and the seri- Rachel Denber. The bill “at risk”, an independent UN blower in a London prison on evant information received from cardiovascular breakdown or ousness of the alleged violations, prompted thousands of people rights expert said yesterday. May 9, nearly a month after his several reliable sources.” This nervous collapse,” he warned. the UK has not undertaken any to join street protests in Moscow “Unless the UK urgently arrest at Ecuador’s embassy information, he said, indicated that In yesterday’s statement, measures of investigation, pre- and other cities in March, with changes course and alleviates his where he had been holed up for “Assange’s health has entered a Melzer pointed out that he in May vention and redress required some comparing it to China’s inhumane situation, Mr. seven years, has previously downward spiral of progressively had demanded that London under international law,” he Great Firewall, which heavily Assange’s continued exposure to warned he was being subjected severe anxiety, stress and immediately take measures to charged. restricts Internet access. 12 HOME SATURDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2019 SATURDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2019 AMERICAS 13

Apple TV+ Easing winds help California firefighters seeks stardom REUTERS The Maria Fire swelled on streaming LOS ANGELES to over 8,700 acres near Santa Paula, service stage A fast-moving scrub fire Ventura County, threatened orchards and farms AFP in Southern California yesterday, threatening millions SAN FRANCISCO but fierce Santa Ana winds eased, of dollars in fruit helping firefighters tame a rash crops and some 1,800 Apple moved into new territory of wildfires that forced thou- homes and other yesterday with a streaming tel- sands from their homes. evision service that features a The new wildfires roared to structures, according budding library of original life in hilly farm communities to the county fire shows starring big-name celeb- outside Los Angeles on Thursday, department. rities, aimed at winning over its destroying homes and forcing yet gadget lovers at home and on more evacuations before the the go. Santa Ana winds lost their punch afternoon was 70% contained, The Apple TV+ on-demand overnight. the county’s fire department said. streaming service launched in The Maria Fire swelled to The dry Santa Ana winds that more than 100 countries at $4.99 over 8,700 acres near Santa howl down from the mountains per month. Apple is spending Paula, Ventura County, threat- every autumn in Southern Cali- heavily on new content and ening millions of dollars in fruit fornia were forecast to abate, promises a “powerful and crops and some 1,800 homes although there could still be fire- inspiring lineup of original and other structures, according fuelling gusts of 15 to 20 miles shows, movies and documen- to the county fire department. per hour, the National Weather taries,” in addition to a handful About 7,500 residents were Service said. of already familiar titles. ordered to find lodgings else- A fire that erupted early on The first Apple TV box for where for Halloween night, and Monday near the famed Getty streaming shows from the A structure devastated by the Kincade Fire off Briggs Ranch Road in Kellogg, California. dozens of schools were closed Center art museum in west Los internet to its devices or tele- yesterday. “It’s going to even- Angeles threatened thousands vision sets was released some tually run out of fuel,” Ventura of homes in some of the city’s About 50km to the break around the hilltop complex than 77,700 acres and destroyed 12 years ago, with the company County Assistant Fire Chief John wealthiest neighborhoods but northwest, a fire raged to the in May. Pacific Gas and Electric at least 349 homes and other long downplaying it as “a McNeil told reporters. was largely suppressed, with edge of the hilltop Ronald Co acknowledged last week that structures but was listed as 65% hobby”. The new streaming “We’re looking at maybe containment listed at 66%. Reagan Presidential Library & the Kincade Fire, a blaze that contained on Thursday evening. service competes with the likes 12,000 acres at the biggest foot- Residents were allowed to Museum in Ventura County’s charred 77,000 acres of Sonoma PG&E, which over this past of Netflix and Amazon, among print on this.” East of Los return to most of the 10,000 Simi Valley on Wednesday, County wine country north of weekend began shutting off power others, and comes as rivals such Angeles, the Hillside Fire homes that had been ordered threatening thousands of homes, San Francisco, started last week to 940,000 California customers as Walt Disney Co. and AT&T’s scorched 200 acres of the San evacuated. The museum but was 60 percent contained near a damaged PG&E trans- to guard against the risk of an elec- Warner Media are set to launch Bernardino National Forest, emerged unscathed, but about a early yesterday. Firefighters mission tower at about the time trical mishap sparking a blaze, said their own on-demand services. burning residential areas in the dozen dwellings were lost in the doused flames before they a high-voltage line on that tower late on Thursday that it had Original Apple TV+ shows north end of the city of San Ber- 745-acre Getty fire and two fire- reached the library, helped by a malfunctioned. restored electricity to virtually all have so far been met with nardino, but by yesterday fighters were injured. herd of 500 goats that ate a fire That blaze has burned more customers. lukewarm early reviews, but the low subscription price and an offer of year-long memberships free with purchases of the com- 4 dead in Halloween Chile launches fresh talks pany’s devices was expected to get viewers to tune in. Apple has budgeted some party shooting in $6bn for streaming television to calm deadly unrest content, according to analysts. Netflix, meanwhile, has budgeted Northern California AFP wearing Halloween masks and the country’s 1980 constitution, $15bn this year for original SANTIAGO alien costumes swarmed the Plaza which dates to the dictatorship shows, on top of the billions it has AP/ORINDA Video from the scene posted Italia — the epicenter of the dem- of Augusto Pinochet. devoted to exclusive productions by KGO-TV showed multiple Chile’s government met with onstrations — in response to a Pinera has not ruled out con- in recent years. Amazon, which Four people were killed and four patients being loaded into opposition leaders late on leaked recording of First Lady stitutional reform. The speaker has deep pockets thanks to its others wounded in a shooting at ambulances as others limped Thursday in a fresh bid to end Cecilia Morel complaining the sit- of the Supreme Court Lamberto e-commerce and cloud services, a Halloween night party at a away from the scene. Residents deadly protests that forced the uation in the country was like an Cisterna has backed a proposal has also poured cash into original large rental home in a wealthy of the neighbourhood were frus- country to abandon hosting two alien invasion. to set up a parliamentary group shows for its Prime Video service. San Francisco Bay Area com- trated with noise from the party major economic and climate Hundreds of other protesters as a first step towards a new Apple TV+ is launching ahead munity, police said yesterday. before the shooting, said summits, but leftist parties marched along Santiago’s main constitution. of a Disney+ online streaming The shooting in Orinda, a neighbor Chris Gade, who esti- poured scorn on the efforts. avenue to the presidential Reforms passed under the service set to debut November community of about 20,000 just mated that the party drew about The unrest started with palace, where they clashed with dictatorship loosened state reg- 12 in the United States, Canada east of Oakland, happened at a 100 people. protests against a rise in police, who fired tear gas and ulation of education, healthcare and the Netherlands, before party with more than 100 people, “It was just more of a noise transport tickets and other aus- water trucks. and pensions — three key rolling out worldwide. As well as Police chief David Cook told the complaint that we were worried terity measures and descended Earlier, following two hours focuses of the current protests. offering Disney’s enormous East Bay Times. He said officers about originally,” he told into vandalism, looting, and of talks at the presidential Washington, meanwhile, catalog within its first year, responded to a call around reporters. Then Gade said he clashes between demonstrators palace, the government failed to accused Russia of stoking the including all Pixar movies, it will 10:45pm on Thursday and found heard gunshots and saw people and police. convince political rivals it has the unrest through social media feature a cornucopia of newly four people dead at the scene. “screaming and fleeing down the Protesters are angry about will to make the necessary trolling. The White House said commissioned shows playing off No information on the hill.” “I think everybody in our low salaries and pensions, poor changes to appease protesters. US President Donald Trump had famous franchises such as “Star victims was immediately neighborhood immediately public healthcare and education, Socialist Party leader Alvaro “denounced foreign efforts to Wars.” It will cost $6.99 a month available and police were inves- locked our doors and started and a yawning gap between rich Elizalde said the government “is undermine Chilean institutions, in the United States. tigating what prompted the vio- messaging each other, trying to and poor. Pinera has reshuffled not prepared to listen to the cit- democracy or society,” in a Even more competition lence. The home where the party figure out what was going on,” his government and announced izens’ demands.” Heraldo phone call to Pinera. looms on the horizon, with was held is in a neighbourhood he said. “This just doesn’t a series of measures aimed at Munoz, leader of the Party for A senior State Department AT&T’s Warner Media to launch of multimillion-dollar homes. happen in Orinda.” placating protesters. Democracy, said he’d still not official, speaking on condition its “HBO Max” in early 2020 But they have continued seen “clear signals in favor of of anonymity, pointed the finger after reclaiming the rights from demanding that the right-wing dialogue.” at Russia, accusing it of seizing Netflix to stream its popular tel- billionaire president step down. Earlier, Elizalde and other on debate in Chile, “and skewing evision comedy “Friends.” Morales calls for Bolivia Protests erupted again on opposition leaders expressed it through the use and abuse of NBCUniversal’s Peacock service violence ‘truce’ Thursday as thousands of Chileans support for proposals to reform social media — trolling”. is also launching next year. FOR SALE SITUATIONS VACANT AFP election outright, but only after a 42 dead in LA PAZ sudden and unexplained shift in Apartment For Sale in Central the vote count in his favour. 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First day Nissan picks American on the job for as finance chief; ECB chief new generation Lagarde takes helm

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Addressing the Qatar-Turkey THE PENINSULA Multiple fintech startups Economic Forum in Turkey, Twar DOHA are also expected to said that there many mutual enter the landscape investments in both countries, Qatar auto finance market is which could pose a pointing out that there are more expected to grow at a positive rate threat to conventional than 450 Turkish companies in next three to four years, driven finance companies and operating in the Qatari market by increase in sales of new and with Qatari partners in sectors of used vehicles in the country banks. These start ups trading, contracting, furniture owing to emergence of new busi- would primarily work services, hospitality and tourism. nesses, increasing personal towards developing “There are about 13 Turkish disposable income and expected products to augment companies with full ownership increase in tourist inflow. the digitalisation of the working in Qatar in construction According to ‘Qatar Auto banking sector. and contracting sectors. On the Finance Market Outlook to 2023’ other hand, there are 130 Qatari H E Ali bin Ahmed Al Kuwari, Minister of Commerce and Industry; Qatar Chamber’s First Vice-Chairman released by Ken Research yes- companies working in Turkey in Mohamed bin Ahmed bin Twar and other prominent Qatari delegates attending Qatar-Turkey Economic terday, the existing players in the passenger cars segment in the various sectors. Turkish com- Forum in Turkey. market are expected to move country. panies implemented more than towards digitalisation with focus The primary lending institu- 130 projects in Qatar amounted on streamlining the financing tions in the Qatar Auto Finance to $15bn,” he added. preparedness to host the largest needed for these projects, bin develop an integrated industrial process for both Qataris and market include Banks, Captives Stressing Qatar’s excellence and most prominent event in the Twar pointed out. infrastructure through the new expats. & Non-Banking Financial Com- in sports, Twar noted that it has world, the FIFA World Cup Qatar In industry sector, Twar said industrial zones, he noted, Multiple fintech startups are panies (NBFCs). Banks hold a successfully hosted this year 2022”, he affirmed, saying that that Qatar has retained the affirming that this offers the also expected to enter the land- majority share in the market three events including the 2019 Qatar has accomplished a lot of crown of world’s largest exporter opportunity for establishing new scape which could pose a threat owing to their reliable lending World Athletics Championships, projects connected to the hosting of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), industries with Turkish side, to conventional finance com- reputation and expansive for the first time in the Arab of the international tournament noting that it exported 80 million especially that Turkey has a large panies and banks. These start ups network of branches across the region and the Middle East, the such as Rail, stadia, Hamad Port tonnes (MT) last year, enabling experience in this vital sector. would primarily work towards country. In used vehicle finance, Inter-regional Sports Integrity and Hamad Airport and many it to remain market leader with It is possible to avail the developing products to augment borrowers face greater difficulties Summit, and the World Beach other development projects. a share of 25 percent in the Turkish expertise in industry by the digitalisation of the banking in getting the required finance, Games. These projects open the door global LNG trade. establishing joint ventures in sector. This includes digital pay- penetration rate for used vehicles “This success in organizing for Turkish companies to partic- Qatar also has several raw Qatar to be as a hub for these ments, online lending, online is much lower than the global mega sports events demon- ipates with Qatari companies in materials used in many indus- industries locally and globally, aggregation and remote banking average of 50.0 percent. Captives strated its capability and implementing the services tries and has managed to he added. facilities which will make cus- and NBFCs are struggled in tomer lending process more sim- gaining traction. plified, further facilitating the car Cars accounted for a major finance market in the country. share in the number of vehicles US adds Banks and Captives are expected financed in the market owing to to focus and grow their share in high volume of SUVs on Qatar 128,000 jobs the used cars segment, also new roads, while the share of Light NBFCs are expected to enter the Commercial is lower than Cars in October competitive landscape to cater to and higher than bikes. This was the increasing demand of vehicle due to low preference of bikes by AFP financing in the country. population in Qatar. WASHINGTON According to Ken Research, Vehicles are financed for dif- the Vehicle Finance Market in ferent tenures in the market, with The US labor market took a Qatar witnessed a slight decline the share of loans lasting for 3-4 punch in October from an during the period 2014-2018, years the highest. The overall extended strike at General Motors owing to decreasing new vehicle trend in the market is the length- but the economy continued to sales over the same period. The ening of loan terms with car add jobs at a solid pace, according market is in growth stage with buyers preferring to make pay- to official data released yesterday. vehicle sales beginning to follow ments over a longer period of time The steady hiring showed a normal growth trend after con- to distribute their financial burden demand for workers remained tinued exponential growth till evenly over a longer period. Bor- resilient despite President Donald 2014, followed by a rapid decline rowers provide raised interest Trump’s protracted trade war after that. Trends in the market rates for longer period loans with with China, that has chilled were largely stimulated by decline lower monthly payments. The investment and slowed the in oil prices after 2014 and few trend towards longer loan terms economy. other reasons. These trends led to is evident both in New and Used Somalian Minister of Planning and Investment in Turkey Employers added 128,000 decline of new vehicle sales in Vehicle finance with borrowers net new jobs, the Labor Turkish National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar (third left) meets Somalian Minister of Planning, Qatar but spurred the growth of opting for longer loan terms Department reported in the Investment and Economic Development Gamal Mohamed Hassan (right) in Ankara, Turkey. used vehicles, especially in years progressively. closely-watched monthly employment report, defying many economists who expected a sharp slowdown. And gains Brexit and election will keep BoE playing waiting game in the prior months were revised up sharply and wages REUTERS Brexit referendum. Boris Johnson has called an early and do nothing.” continued to climb, making the LONDON Despite the slowdown, BoE election for December 12 to try The BoE’s Bank Rate stands jobs picture even stronger. has hesitated to step away from to get a majority to pass his new, at 0.75 percent, unchanged since Meanwhile, the jobless rate Britain’s central bank looks set its long-term message that it harder Brexit deal through a quarter-point increase in rose a notch to a still-low 3.6 to keep interest rates unchanged expects to gradually raise rates parliament. August 2018. percent, as expected. The 3.5 next week, despite a weak from post-financial crisis lows If the opposition Labour Two external MPC members, percent unemployment rate in economic outlook, as it awaits a as a jobs boom and robust wage Party wins, it will seek to nego- Michael Saunders and Gertjan September was the lowest since snap election that could reshape growth suggests there is not tiate a new deal and hold a ref- Vlieghe, have said the BoE 1969. Brexit and bring more public much slack in the economy. erendum on it, potentially over- cannot ignore the damage that Nearly 50,000 GM workers spending. Complicating the outlook for turning the decision to leave the Brexit uncertainty is doing, and were called back to work this The Bank of England, unlike the BoE had been the risk that EU. a rate cut might be needed soon. week following a 40-day strike, the US Federal Reserve and the weakened, too, although the Britain might leave the European “It’s a nightmare for them, Even if Johnson wins a but the stoppage put a deep dent European Central Bank, has not BoE is unlikely to make much Union without a transition deal really,” HSBC economist Liz majority in the election and in October’s auto industry cut rates as the trade war change to its August forecasts on October 31, requiring decisive Martins (pictured) said, referring passes his Brexit transition deal employment levels. between the United States and for annual growth of 1.3 percent action by the central bank. to the BoE’s Monetary Policy before January 31, another Without the impact of the China caused a global economic this year and next. That is about Now Brexit has been post- Committee. “Against that deadline will soon loom – Dec. GM strike, employment in the slowdown. a percentage point below the poned for a third time, until backdrop they will err on the 31, 2020, when a planned Brexit US manufacturing sector would Britain’s economy has growth rate before June 2016’s January 31, and Prime Minister side of caution, sound dovish, transition is scheduled to end. have risen in October. 16 BUSINESS SATURDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2019 Southeast Asian leaders MARKETWATCH QSE FTSE100 DOW CRUDE 10,188.97 7,302.42 27,294.86 $56.22 to push for progress on -94.71PTS +54.04 PTS +248.63 PTS +2.04 China-backed trade pact 0.92% 0.75% 0.92% Dow & Brent before going to press AFP Leaders are hoping New Delhi’s foreign ministry States’) ability to be able to Britain’s Peel Ports sees BANGKOK for a breakthrough said Thursday “critical” issues engage with Asia Pacific,” at RCEP talks at this remain to be ironed out, while Cortes-Sanchez said. Southeast Asian leaders will race Indian farmers planned In what is being read by Brexit boost as shippers to get a sprawling China-backed weekend’s meeting nationwide protests on Monday some as a snub to this weekend’s trade pact over the line at a of the Association to demand more input into the meeting, the United States will divert cargo regional meeting in Thailand this of Southeast Asian deal’s terms. send national security advisor weekend, as Beijing’s bruising This week’s Asean summit Robert O’Brien and commerce REUTERS in southern England, which is trade war with Washington Nations (Asean) comes as Washington and chief Wilbur Ross. LONDON Europe’s busiest ferry port. rumbles on. after seven years of Beijing push for the signing of a US Vice President Mike Peel Ports chief executive If signed, the Regional Com- negotiations over the partial agreement in a bid to roll Pence attended last year’s Asean Cargo shippers are diverting Mark Whitworth (pictured) said prehensive Economic Part- deal. back months of tit-for-tat tariffs summit in Singapore, and Pres- goods to more ports across the group had witnessed an nership (RCEP) will be the on billions of dollars worth of ident Donald Trump was at the Britain to ensure stable supply increase in TEU (20-foot equiv- world’s largest trade pact and is goods that have rattled both 2017 meeting in the lines due to uncertainty over alent unit) container volumes seen as a way for Beijing to But members risk losing economies. Philippines. whether the UK will leave the as importers switch to using box cement trade ties in Asia as steam after dozens of rounds of RCEP is seen as a way for But Trump’s failure to show European Union without an containers rather than trucks to Washington retreats from the negotiations and several missed China to assert its trade domi- this year is a “missed oppor- agreement, a top port executive alleviate dependence on ports region. deadlines to sign the pact. nance in Asia after the US pullout tunity”, said analyst Thitinan said. such as Dover. Leaders are hoping for a Chinese premier Li Keqiang of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Pongsudhirak of Thailand’s Chu- Brexit has been delayed for Dover is the biggest UK port breakthrough at RCEP talks at will attend the three-day summit (TPP) in 2017, which would have lalongkorn University. a third time, until the end of that can handle trucks, which are this weekend’s meeting of the in Bangkok -- officially kicking been the world’s biggest free “Showing up counts for eve- January, and Britain is headed shipped in special roll-on, roll- Association of Southeast Asian off today amid a backdrop of trade deal. rything,” he said. for a snap general election in off carriers. Using box containers Nations (Asean) after seven years heavy security -- where sim- Australia and New Zealand December designed to break the instead allows more delivery of negotiations over the deal, mering tensions in the South have called for better labour and Disputes over flashpoint impasse. options. “We are seeing it which would comprise 30 China Sea will also top the environmental rights, without South China Sea will also dom- The European Union’s Brexit twofold - through the container percent of global commerce and agenda. which RCEP critics fear could inate weekend talks as members negotiator Michel Barnier this flows into our ports and an uplift half the world’s population if Indian Prime Minister lower trade standards in Asia. attempt to inch ahead with a so- week said there was still a risk of broadly around 6 percent signed. Narendra Modi will also be there, It could also work to further called “code of conduct” for the that Britain could exit the bloc (year-on-year) certainly through “They will try to get enough as he battles fears at home that isolate the US from Asia after its resource-rich waterway which chaotically with no divorce our BG shipping line,” Whitworth together so they can sign some- key industries like metals, tex- pullout from the TPP, which has Beijing claims most of. agreement. In the meantime, said, referring to its freight thing,” even if it is not a final tiles and dairy could be hard hit since been reborn as a watered China has long been accused Peel Ports - the UK’s second- company that operates between deal, said Juan Sebastian Cortes- by RCEP, which loops in 10 down version without of deploying warships, arming largest port operator - has seen the continent, the UK and Sanchez, a Singapore-based Southeast Asian economies along Washington. outposts and ramming fishing more cargo traffic shifting to Ireland. “What you are seeing is policy analyst at the Asian Trade with Japan, India, New Zealand If RCEP is signed it will be vessels, stoking anger from other other gateways in an effort to a migration towards more uni- Centre. and Australia. “another blow to (the United claimants. avoid overdependence on Dover tised cargo,” he told Reuters. Bombardier sells Belfast, First day on the job for ECB chief Lagarde Casablanca and Dallas AFP easing” (QE) bond purchases of FRANKFURT €20bn ($22.3bn) per month, on operations for $1.2bn top of historic low interest rates Christine Lagarde took over and cheap loans to banks. AFP three operations are expected to yesterday as president of the Beyond the six executive LONDON be approximately $1bn. European Central Bank, board members and 19 A spokesman for Prime Min- replacing Italy’s Mario Draghi, eurozone central bank gov- Canadian manufacturing group ister Boris Johnson’s Downing as the institution has been riven ernors on the council, Lagarde Bombardier announced Thursday Street office welcomed the deal. by a return to easy money is also under pressure to better it was selling its aerostructures “This is great news for policies to stoke inflation and communicate ECB policy with business to US firm Spirit Northern Ireland and the highly ward off recession. the wider public. AeroSystems, involving operations skilled and dedicated workforce,” The former French finance Germans in particular are in Belfast, Casablanca and Dallas, he told reporters. “The Belfast plant minister and International grumbling at low interest rates’ in a $1.2bn cash-plus-debt deal. is one of the most important aer- Monetary Fund chief “has today impact on their savings, with Bombardier announced its ospace facilities in the UK and this taken up her duties as President top-selling daily Bild depicting willingness to sell these assets last investment from Spirit Aer- of the European Central Bank,” predecessor Draghi as “Count May as part of a broad restruc- oSystems is a significant boost for the Frankfurt institution said Draghila” saying he was turing to focus on trains and jobs and businesses in Northern in a statement. draining accounts. business aircraft. Ireland. The British trade union After three male leaders And as well as steering mon- In a statement, Bombardier Unite welcomed the deal for the since the bank opened its doors etary policy, Lagarde told said the US firm would take over Belfast facility, which employs in 1998, Lagarde is the first European lawmakers in Sep- operations in Belfast, which more than 3,500 people. woman to hold the president’s Mario Draghi (right), outgoing President of the European Central tember she wanted to dust off assembles the wings for the “We are pleased that Bom- seat. Bank (ECB) and his successor Christine Lagarde are seen in this file jargon-laden central bank com- Airbus A220. Spirit AeroSystems bardier has heeded our call to be A former corporate lawyer, picture at a handing over ceremony in Frankfurt am Main, western munications and support female will also acquire Bombardier’s a responsible seller and the need her path through politics and Germany. Christine Lagarde took over yesterday as president of staff at the ECB and climate operations in Casablanca and a for Bombardier aerostructures international organisations has the European Central Bank (ECB). action. plant in Dallas specialising in production to be transferred as a been marked by crisis man- She has also urged govern- maintenance and repairs. whole to a company with an agement, holding the French economics qualifications of council is divided as rarely ments flush with cash, like The price includes $500m excellent track record in aero- finance ministry from 2007- former guardians of the single before over its latest round of Germany and the Netherlands, (€450m) in cash and around space rather than a short-termist 2011 and the IMF post from currency. monetary stimulus. to take some of the burden of $700m in debt. hedge fund,” said assistant general 2011-2019. Lagarde takes office at a From yesterday, the insti- stoking growth and inflation off The 2019 revenues for the secretary Steve Turner. But she lacks the formal time when the ECB’s governing tution restarted “quantitative central bankers. China to use import fair to highlight trade credentials

REUTERS six-day fair focused on buying WTO reform, which China is and for the Chinese people,” he substantive economic reform SHANGHAI foreign goods does little to keen to promote, state media added. China says US businesses and opening in China,” he said. address the structural issues that have said. will be well represented at the Last year, CIIE was plagued China will use a giant import fair underpin critiques of Beijing’s “China is trying to play a expo, with more American com- by organisational gaffes. Some in Shanghai next week to try to trade and economic practices. more important role with the panies taking part this year than $57.8bn worth of deals were showcase its free trade creden- But for China, which will host WTO, especially given the US last year. signed, according to official sta- tials, temper criticism of its more than 3,000 companies and disinterest, or potential interest Its Foreign Ministry down- tistics, but it was unclear what policies and deepen its global several foreign leaders at the in leaving the WTO altogether,” played the significance of a lack portion of those were new or economic influence at a time of event - including French Pres- said Zhu Ning, a professor of of high-level US official represented legitimate, fresh uncertainty over the ident Emmanuel Macron - it is finance at Tsinghua University. participation. actionable promises. China-US trade war. part of a bigger drive to cast its “I think China is working Such representatives are One foreign participant rep- The week-long China Inter- economy in a new light and more with multilateral organi- welcome to come but if they do resenting a company at a signing national Import Expo (CIIE) bolster its global role. sations and bilaterally with indi- not it will be “no big deal,” ceremony at last year’s event told comes at a critical moment, fol- “The import expo is a very vidual countries trying to spokesman Geng Shuang told Reuters he was an actor paid to lowing Chile’s announcement on important international relations Europe, as well as efforts to improve its own influence glo- reporters yesterday. The play the part of an executive. Wednesday that it was with- tool for China. It’s more than just deepen economic links within bally and trying to shape the increased participation of Schools and businesses in drawing as host of an APEC saying that it’s open for Asia, he said. global trade and financial order American companies in the expo Shanghai have been ordered to summit in mid-November. business,” said Rodrigo Zeidan Underscoring how important going forward.” The United shows that they value the be closed for the opening days, The United States and China (pictured), an associate pro- the government sees CIIE, States seeks “a fair, reciprocal, Chinese market, he said. and the government has had hoped to sign the first stage fessor of business and finance at Chinese President Xi Jinping will and balanced trade relationship Ker Gibbs, president of the promised that the event will be of a deal to ease trade tensions New York University in deliver opening remarks on with China”, but has no plans for American Chamber of Com- bigger and better this year. at the meeting in South America. Shanghai. Tuesday for the second year in a “high-level government partic- merce in Shanghai, said that That will be the case in at US President Donald Trump said “There is this subtext that is row. ipation” in CIIE, an embassy while CIIE was an opportunity least one respect: exhibition the deal would still happen, about China’s role in the global On Tuesday, China will also spokesman said. for companies, concerns about space in the vast, clover-shaped although the venue remains economy.” The event dovetails host a “mini-ministerial” “We urge Beijing to adhere intellectual property rights, venue has been expanded by 11 unclear. with China’s signature Belt and meeting of around 30 World to the market-based rules and market access and the lack of a percent to more than 300,000 Critics have said CIIE, which Road initiative to invest heavily Trade Organization members. norms of the international trade level playing field “are real sq m, according to state media, was launched last year, is mostly in the development of land and The meeting will discuss the system. This would be good for challenges”. or roughly five times the size of symbolic, and argue that a sea links to Central Asia and multilateral trade system and the United States, for the world, “We hope that CIIE will spur the Louvre Museum. SATURDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2019 BUSINESS 17

Germany, India Nissan picks American sign wide-ranging as finance chief; new agreements REUTERS NEW DELHI generation takes helm German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi REUTERS will face the task of lifting profits, signed wide-ranging agreements in New TOKYO: which have hit their lowest in Delhi yesterday to deepen strategic coop- more than decade. eration and exchanged notes on ways to Nissan Motor Co yesterday Earnings have been undercut, boost bilateral trade. named American Stephen Ma particularly in the United States, Merkel, accompanied by several (pictured) as its next finance a key market, by years of heavy cabinet colleagues and a business dele- chief and said some veteran discounts and low-margin sales gation, is in India on a three-day visit executives were stepping down, to rental firms as part of a strategy that began on Thursday. putting a new generation in to raise market share, which has “We’re encouraging our private charge of a company battling to cheapened Nissan’s brand image. sectors to give an impetus to our growing recover from plunging profits They also need to repair Nis- bilateral trade and Chancellor Merkel and management scandal. san’s relationship with Renault, and I will meet some of the top business The announcement by management,” said a source at which has soured since Ghosn’s and industry leaders,” Modi told a joint Japan’s second-largest auto- the company, who spoke on con- arrest on charges of financial news conference with the German maker comes just weeks after it dition of anonymity. misconduct, which he denies. leader. “We’re encouraging our private named the head of its China They, along with Uchida, 53, One official raised concerns sectors to give an impetus to our growing business, Makoto Uchida, as its and other top executives, will about a lack of experience bilateral trade and Chancellor Merkel next chief executive. take on their new positions on among the new executives in and I will meet some of the top business Following the dramatic December 1. managing the alliance with its and industry leaders,” Modi said. ouster of former Chairman Among those leaving is Yas- French partner. Bilateral trade between the two Carlos Ghosn almost a year ago, uhiro Yamauchi, who was acting “We expect we’re going to countries rose to $24.06bn in the 2018/19 Nissan has been battered by CEO and passed over for the top face some difficulty in dealing fiscal year ending in March from $22bn sliding profits, uncertainty over job that went to Uchida. with Renault,” said the official, the previous year, while German com- its future leadership and tensions Nissan, whose shares have who spoke on condition of ano- panies have invested nearly $12bn in with top shareholder Renault SA. slumped about a fifth in value so nymity as he was not authorised India since 2000. The company is revamping far this year, also announced the to speak publicly on the matter. Germany is India’s largest trading its top ranks with younger exec- departure of Hitoshi Kawaguchi, “We need to make solid partner in Europe and more than 1,700 utives, picking Ma, its global con- confirming an earlier Reuters preparations for that.” Since German companies are operating in troller who turns 49 this month, report. Kawaguchi, who has Ghosn’s ouster as chairman of India. The agreements struck on stra- as its next chief financial officer been in charge of external both companies, Nissan and tegic cooperation, included agriculture, (CFO) to replace Hiroshi Karube, affairs, had been seen as backing Renault have squabbled over the cyber security and artificial intelligence. whose departure was also Yamauchi for the CEO position. selection of Nissan’s board Modi said the two countries would also announced. Both Kawaguchi and members and executives, as well bolster ties to combat “terrorism and Ma, who joined Nissan’s US Yamauchi, septuagenarians who a proposed tie-up between extremism”. operations in 1996 and has between them have served more Renault and Fiat Chrysler (FCA) Germany and India also agreed to served as CFO of Nissan’s joint than 80 years at Nissan, will earlier this year, which ulti- join hands in the area of education. venture with Chinese partner leave the company at the end of mately failed. “As many as 20,000 Indian nationals Dongfeng Motor, will join the month. The French automaker, are studying in Germany and we would Ashwani Gupta, the 49-year-old They are the latest Nissan which holds a 43.4 percent stake like to see more,” Merkel said. who was appointed chief oper- veterans to go, after former CEO in Nissan after it saved the Jap- Although Merkel and Modi didn’t ating officer last month, in Hiroto Saikawa was forced to anese automaker from financial mention anything about restarting talks becoming the highest ranking resign in September as directors ruin two decades ago, for years on finalising a free trade agreement non-Japanese at the company. sought a clean break with the has been pursuing closer ties between India and the European Union, “We are trying to achieve a Ghosn era. with its bigger partner, only to sources earlier said the two leaders could generational change in Nissan Nissan’s new executive team be rebuffed by Nissan. take up the trade deal.

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Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil (2D/Adventure) 2:00 & 4:45pm; Housefull 4 (2D/Hindi) 2:00 & 6:00pm; The FLIK Mirqab Mall Addams Family (2D/Comedy) 2:30, & 4:15pm; Edakkad Abominable (2D/Animation) 10:20am & 12:20pm Battalion 06 (2D/Malayalam) 4:00 & 11:30pm; Joker Bigil (2D/Tamil) 10;20pm; (2D/Crime) 6:00pm; Kaithi (2D/Tamil) 8:30 & 11:30pm; Countdown (2D/Horror) 11:20pm; Bigil (2D/Tamil) 8:15 & 11:00pm; Terminator: Dark Fate Edakkad Battalion 06 (2D/Malayalam) 4:10 & 11:55pm; (2D/Horror) 7:00 & 9:15pm. Isa Pa, With Feelings (2D/Tagalog) 1:15 & 5:10pm; Joker (2D/Crime) 6:40, 9:10 & 11:35pm; AL KHOR Kaithi (2D/Tamil) 6:30pm; Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil (2D/Adventure) 10:40am, 11:40am, , 1:00, Kaithi (2D/Tamil) 12:00, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00pm & 12:00 2:00, 3:20, 4:20, 8:00, 7:40, 9:00, 10:10pm & 0:30am: midnight (3D) 5:40pm; Bigil (2D/Tamil) 10:30am, 1:45, 5:00, 8:15 & 11:30pm Motherless Brooklyn (2D/Crime) 5:30, 8:20 & 11:10pm; Terminator: Dark Fate (2D/Horror) 12:30, 3:15, 6:00, Poms (2D/Comedy) 12:20, 2:10, 4:00 & 5:20pm; 8:45 & 11:30pm Terminator: Dark Fate (2D/Horror) 10;25am, 12:00, 1:00, 2:30, 3:30, 5:00, 6:00, 7:30, 8;30, 10:00, 11:00pm & 0:30am; ROXY The Addams Family (2D/Comedy) 10:30am, 12:00, 2:00, 1:50 & 3:40pm Unforgettable (2D/Tagalog) 11:25am, 3:15 & 7:10pm Bigil (2D/Tamil) 11:00am, 12:30, 10:00 & 11:30pm Edakkad Battalion 06 (2D/Malayalam) 2:30, 4:00, 5:00, 6:30, 7:30 & 9:00pm Kaithi (2D/Tamil) 11:00am, 12:30, 1:45, 3:15, 4:30, 6:00, ASIAN TOWN Yesterday’s answer 7;15, 8:45, 10:00, & 11:30pm Ujda Chaman (2D/Hindi) 12:45pm Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil (2D/Adventure) 11:00, 12:30, Edakkad Battalion 06 (2D/Malayalam) 3:45, 8:45 & 11:00pm 2:30, 4:00, 5:00, 8:30,9:10 & 11:00pm Kaithi (2D/Tamil) 12:30, 1:00, 3:15, 6:00, 8:45 & 11:30pm Terminator: Dark Fate (2D/Horror) 1:20, 11:40, 7:40, Bigil (2D/Tamil) 3:45, 7:00 & 10:15pm 10;30, 3:00, 3:30, 5:40, 6:10, 6:30 8:50, 8:20, 11:00 & Housefull 4 (2D/Hindi) 6:00pm 11:30pm The Addams Family (2D/Comedy) 11:00am,12:50, 12:30, 2:30, 2:40,4:30 & 6:30pm Ujda Chaman (2D/Hindi) 10:30am, 12:30 & 1:00pm

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The Addams Family is a 2019 American 3D computer- animated comedy horror film based on the comics of the same name by Charles Addams. SATURDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2019 SPORT 18 She’s having a great year, so Karolina Pliskova it’s going to be super tough. believes she would be the TODAY’S ACTION It’s going to be a big underdog against Al Khor vs Al Gharafa: Al Khor Stadium at 17:15 challenge but I have nothing Ashleigh Barty in the to lose. semi-final of WTA Finals Al Duhail vs Al Sadd: Al Duhail Stadium at 19:25

New Zealand team pose for pictures after winning the bronze medals following their win over Wales at the Tokyo Stadium in Tokyo, Japan, yesterday. All Blacks veterans sign-off with bronze AFP the Welsh by six tries to two. early penalty, but that was merely left Wales prop Dillon Lewis the stroke of half-time, taking a line-ups, Hansen having made TOKYO The result means New a blip as the All Blacks looked to prone. long pass from his namesake seven changes to the team which Zealand have won 32 of their 35 run the ball at every opportunity A sustained period of Welsh Aaron and powerfully handing off lost 19-7 to England and Gatland Veteran winger Ben Smith scored meetings with Wales, last losing at a packed Tokyo Stadium. pressure then followed and paid Tomos Williams to slide into the nine from the side that went a classy try double as New in 1953, while Hansen’s incredible The first try came quickly, the off after Patchell found Hallam corner. down 19-16 to South Africa. Zealand beat Wales 40-17 to record includes just 10 defeats in influential Aaron Smith finding Amos with a long miss-pass, the Mo’unga added the extras to One ever-present on the team clinch third spot at the Rugby 107 Tests in charge. skipper Kieran Read, who full-back dummying Mo’unga and leave New Zealand in complete list for Wales, however, has been World Cup on Friday in the Gatland, under whose charge offloaded to Brodie Retallick, the shooting over for a try. control at 28-10 at half-time. Josh Adams, and the winger bur- perfect send-off for storied coach Wales have won 85 of their 151 lock stepping inside Rhys Patchell Patchell added the conversion The cut-and-thrust, running rowed over from close range for Steve Hansen. Tests -- but have lost all 12 and producing a brilliant back- and then a simple penalty, but rugby continued in the second a seventh try of the tournament In what was the final Test for matches against his native New handed pass to Joe Moody, the New Zealand roared back period, Ben Smith surging deep to usurp Shane Williams’ Welsh both Hansen and Wales coun- Zealand -- might have joked that prop bounding in from 20 metres through veteran Ben Smith, the into Welsh territory before Sonny record of at a World Cup. terpart Warren Gatland, after it would have been better to settle for a great front rower’s try. winger jinking his way through a Bill Williams provided a perfect The game becamse increas- seven and 12 years at their the play-off by a drinking game, Mo’unga converted and crowded defence after good offload for centre partner Ryan ingly error-strewn, but Mo’unga respective helms, both sides pro- but both teams showed intent on added a second after Beauden lead-up work by Read and Liam Crotty to cross for the try. stepped through Dan Biggar’s duced an entertaining encounter the pitch. Barrett scampered over after a Coltman. Both sides were much dif- poor tackle for a late try, taking that saw New Zealand outscore RichieceMou Mo’ungagag missedm ssed an a neateat Aaron ao SSmith t dodrop-offpofp tthatat Smith,Sth,, 33,33 got his double on ferent from their semi-final his personal tally to 15 points. Strong England hold upper Previous World Cup finals 2015 - NEW ZEALAND 34, AUSTRALIA 17 Led by the indomitable Richie McCaw, the All Blacks became the first team to retain the title despite a spirited hand against Boks in final comeback from the Wallabies, who were down 21-3 before rallying with 14 unanswered points. REUTERS opener against the All Blacks, but South took over two years ago and his multi- 2011 - NEW ZEALAND 8, FRANCE 7 TOKYO Africa have also never lost a final, racial, multi-lingual side have looked It would prove to be third time unlucky for an inspired including the 2007 title-decider against supremely confident and eminently France as the All Blacks held firm finally to secure their second England will rightly be favourites to win England. comfortable in themselves and their title on home soil. today’s World Cup final after dethroning Having beaten Australia in the game at this World Cup. 2007 - SOUTH AFRICA 15,ENGLAND 6 the All Blacks last weekend but they are quarter-finals, England will need to Jones has twice before master- In only the second try-less final, the Springboks prevented likely to have to pull another big complete an unprecedented sweep of minded stunning upsets at the World England from becoming the first side to defend their crown performance out of the bag to prevent victories over the three southern hem- Cup - Australia beating the All as full-back Percy Montgomery kicked four penalties while South Africa from securing a third isphere superpowers in successive Blacks in the 2003 semi-finals centre Francois Steyn added another from long range. crown. weeks to get their hands on the Webb and Japan downing the 2003 ENGLAND 20, AUSTRALIA 17 The intensity of England’s per- Ellis Cup for a second time. Springboks in 2015 - only for England’s Jonny Wilkinson and Australia’s Elton Flatley formance in the 19-7 victory over double That would be a considerable his team to lose their next converted four penalties each in a tense 100-minute affair defending champions New Zealand last achievement in itself but Jones, who was match. that went to extra time courtesy of a last-gasp three-pointer Saturday will be mighty tough to rep- able to name the same starting line-up His Wallabies from the Wallabies fly-half. licate in any case, but if any team could as that which won the semi-final, has came pretty close to 1999 - AUSTRALIA 35, FRANCE 12 resist the onslaught, it is probably the raised expectations so high that it would backing up 16 years Australian full-back Matt Burke punished French ill-dis- doughty Springboks. The hope of the no longer be considered a surprise. ago, however, cipline with seven penalties to add to his two conversions at thousands of England fans pouring into In George Ford and Owen Farrell, with Clive the newly-constructed Millennium Stadium. the Tokyo area for the match, though, England have two top quality place- Woodward’s 1995 - SOUTH AFRICA 15, NEW ZEALAND 12 is that Australian coach Eddie Jones kickers and world class playmakers, England needing Newly-elected South African president Nelson Mandela might have a few more tricks up his while wingers Anthony Watson and extra time and a saw the World Cup on home soil as an opportunity to unite sleeve for the return to Yokohama Inter- Jonny May have proved themselves to last-minute Jonny a country torn apart by Apartheid and the Springboks duly national Stadium today. be the match for any outside backs at Wilkinson drop goal delivered with a narrow victory over the all-conquering All South Africa, by contrast, are the tournament. to secure their maiden Blacks. unlikely to stray very far from the tried South Africa might have finished title at Sydney’s Olympic 1991 - AUSTRALIA 12, ENGLAND 6 and tested pressure game that allowed third at the World Cup in England four stadium. The Wallabies lifted the Webb Ellis Cup for the first time them to bludgeon their way past Wales years ago but they too have endured World Cup finals are rarely England’s captain Owen thanks to a single converted try from prop Tony Daly and two under a bombardment of high balls in humiliation over the last few seasons, expansive affairs and it would be no Farrell during a practice Michael Lynagh penalties. the second semi-final last weekend. not least when they lost eight of 12 tests great surprise if it took something sim- session on the eve of 1987 - NEW ZEALAND 29, FRANCE 9 No team has ever won the World in 2016. ilarly dramatic to decide the champions today’s World Cup final The All Blacks laid down the marker in the very first World Cup after losing a pool match, as the Erasmus has managed to turn things of the ninth edition of rugby’s showpiece against South Africa. Cup final, dominating from start to finish as fly-half Grant Springboks did in their tournament around in remarkable fashion since he tournament. Fox’s kicking helped his team gain territory time and again. Warner leads Australia to T20 England beat Kiwis in first T20 AFP SCOREBOARD CHRISTCHURCH NEW ZEALAND whitewash over Sri Lanka M. Guptill b S.Curran ...... 2 England cruised to a seven-wicket victory over New C. Munro c Morgan b Jordan...... 21 T. Siefert c Bairstow b Jordan ...... 32 AP Zealand in the opening Twenty20 international in SCOREBOARD C. de Grandhomme c Vince b Rashid ...... 19 MELBOURNE Christchurch yesterday. SRI LANKA Bowling: Starc 4-0-32-2, Richardson R. Taylor c Bairstow b Brown ...... 44 K. Mendis c McDermott b Richardson .....13 4-0-25-2, Cummins 4-0-23-2, Zampa James Vincent top-scored for the tourists with 59, D. Mitchell not out ...... 30 Australia beat Sri Lanka by seven wickets yesterday at the N. Dickwella c McDermott b Starc ...... 0 4-0-30-0, Agar 4-0-24-0 notching his maiden T20 half century as England M.Santner not out ...... 1 Melbourne Cricket Ground to complete a lopsided three- K. Perera c Turner b Cummins ...... 57 AUSTRALIA chased down New Zealand’s 154-run target in 18.3 Total (5 wickets, 20 overs, lb3, w1) 153 match Twenty20 series victory. A. Fernando c McDermott b Cummins ...20 A. Finch c Jayasuriya b Kumara ...... 37 overs. Bowling: S.Curran 4-0-33-1, T.Curran 4-1-25-0 (xw), Sri Lanka, sent into bat, scored 142-6 before Australia O. Fernando c Carey b Richardson ...... 6 D. Warner not out ...... 57 “The game was won and lost in the first Jordan 4-0-28-2, Rashid 4-0-31-1, Brown 4-0-33-1 overtook that total with 145-3 with 14 balls to spare. B. Rajapaksa not out ...... 17 S. Smith c Sandakan b Pradeep ...... 13 innings... James Vince played outstanding well but ENGLAND Australia won the first match in Adelaide by 134 runs S. Jayasuriya b Starc ...... 12 B. McDermott lbw Malinga ...... 5 all credit to the bowlers today,” captain Eoin J. Bairstow c Guptill b Santner ...... 35 and the second in Brisbane by nine wickets. David Warner, L. Malinga not out ...... 8 A. Turner not out ...... 22 Morgan said. D. Malan c Sodhi b Santner ...... 11 who was not dismissed in the three matches, won player of Extras (lb8, w1) ...... 9 Extras (lb5, w6) ...... 11 A three-wicket haul from spinner Mitchell J. Vince c Guptill b Santner ...... 59 E. Morgan not out ...... 34 the series for his 217 runs, including an unbeaten 57 yes- Total (six wickets, 20 overs) ... 142 Total (three wickets, 17.4 overs) 145 Santner was not enough to rescue the Black Caps, Did not bat: Lakshan Sandakan, Nu- Fall of wickets: 1-69, 2-85, 3-99 S. Billings not out ...... 14 terday. Warner scored 100 in Adelaide and 60 in Brisbane. whose batting line-up failed to fire after England wan Pradeep, Lahiru Kumara Bowling: Malinga 4-0-22-1, Kumara Total (3 wickets, 18.3 overs, w1) 154 Australia will host Pakistan in a three-match T20 series Fall of wickets: 1-3, 2-33, 3-76, 4-99, 4-0-49-1, Pradeep 3.4-0-20-1, Jayas- won the toss and opted to bowl. Bowling: Southee 3.3-0-30-0 (1w), Ferguson 4-0-28-8, beginning tomorrow in Sydney. It will be followed by a two- 5-110, 6-132 uriya 2-0-24-0, Sandakan 4-0-25-0 The second fixture in the five-match series takes Kuggeleijn 3-0-35-0, Santner 4-0-23-3, Sodhi 4-0-38-0 Test series between the teams in Brisbane and Adelaide. place in Wellington tomorrow. SATURDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2019 SPORT 19

Aguero holds Djokovic, Dimitrov key to Man City’s title to clash in semi-final defence AFP ATP Paris Masters Corentin Moutet and Kyle PARIS AFP Results from the fifth day Edmund in his first two matches, LONDON of the ATP Paris Masters but was at his irrepressible best Novak Djokovic produced a yesterday en route to a 5-0 lead. magnificent performance to (x denotes seeding): Tsitsipas, encouraged by a Sergio Aguero holds the key to thrash seventh seed Stefanos Quarter-finals packed crowd, avoided a first- Manchester City’s bid to Tsitsipas 6-1, 6-2 yesterday and Novak Djokovic (SRB x1) bt set bagel by saving three set overhaul Premier League set up a Paris Masters semi-final Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE x7) points, only for Djokovic to serve leaders Liverpool as the against Grigor Dimitrov. 6-1, 6-2 it out in the following game after Argentine striker reaps the The 32-year-old, battling Grigor Dimitrov (BUL) bt a mere 28 minutes on court. rewards of the “best decision of Rafael Nadal for the year-end The 21-year-old’s misery his life”. Cristian Garin (CHI) 6-2, 7-5 world number one spot, dis- was compounded by a time vio- When Aguero walks onto patched Greek star Tsitsipas in lation in the third game of the the Etihad Stadium pitch ahead only 58 minutes. which start on November 10. second set, and Serbian Djokovic of today’s clash with South- The 16-time Grand Slam Djokovic holds an 8-1 duly broke his serve. ampton, he will feel more at champion went into the match winning head-to-head record Another break to love helped one with his surroundings than with a 2-1 losing record against against Dimitrov, who saw off the top seed forge 5-1 in front, he would ever have imagined Tsitsipas, but put the youngster unseeded Chilean Cristian Garin and Tsitsipas’ humiliation was when he arrived eight years in his place with a commanding 6-2, 7-5 earlier in the day. complete when he carved a ago. victory. “It was a really good “It will obviously be a dif- forehand wide on match point. Back then, Aguero was a match for me today,” said ficult match,” said Djokovic, who Former world number three talented but not yet fully Djokovic. “All week and all year is bidding to tie Pete Sampras’ Dimitrov last reached the semis rounded player hoping to here, it’s great to play in Paris.” record of finishing as the year- at a Masters tournament in thrive in England after a Djokovic will be usurped by end number one on six Monte Carlo in 2018, but has promising start to his Nadal at the top of the rankings occasions. rediscovered his form in recent European career with Atletico next week, but can ensure the “I have lots of respect for weeks after heading into the US Madrid. fight to be the best player at the him. He has lots of talent and is Open ranked 78th. The intervening years end of the year reaches the ATP very quick. But I have lots of The Bulgarian became the have been a dream come true Tour Finals in London by confidence after this match lowest-ranked player to reach a for Aguero, who is now City’s winning a record-extending fifth today.” Grand Slam semi-final since Novak Djokovic of Serbia record goal-scorer and has title at Bercy. Tsitsipas made a nightmare 2008 at Flushing Meadows, in action against Stefanos amassed four Premier The crushing defeat ended start, as back-to-back double before losing to Daniil Tsitsipas of Greece League titles, one FA Cup and Tsitsipas’ run of three consec- faults gifted his illustrious Medvedev. Dimitrov has now during the Rolex Paris four League Cups while utive semi-finals and dealt a opponent a break in just the won three consecutive matches Masterstournament at helping the club’s become blow to his confidence ahead of second game. Djokovic had been in straight sets at Bercy, where AccorHotels Arena in Paris, top dogs in Manchester after his maiden appearance at the struggling with illness earlier in he had lost in the third round in France, yesterday. decades of dominance from season-ending championships, the week and laboured past each of the previous six years. United. Aguero marked his 350th appearance with two goals against Southampton in the League Cup fourth round win WTA Finals: Pliskova to face Barty on Tuesday, giving him 12 for the season and 243 in his City career. For all the brilliance of his after thrilling victory against Halep City team-mates Raheem Sterling and Kevin De Bruyne, AFP in the third set to jump out to a 2-0 lead. it is the 31-year-old Aguero and SHENZHEN, CHINA The twists continued with Pliskova the guarantee of goals which regaining control but she was unable to remains the key element in Karolina Pliskova overcame a mid- serve it out in the ninth game. their bid for a third successive match stutter to book a semi-final She’s having a great year, Halep’s late rally was short-lived as English title. showdown with world number one so it’s going to be super Pliskova booked her third straight semi- Ashleigh Barty after a three-set victory tough. It’s going to be a finals appearance at the WTA Finals. English Premier over Simona Halep at the WTA Finals The Romanian lamented her incon- League yesterday. big challenge but I have sistent performance. nothing to lose: Pliskova Fixtures The world number two lost six “I didn’t play my best tennis,” Halep (1500 GMT unless stated) straight games in the second and third said. Today sets but eventually prevailed 6-0, 2-6, Pliskova started red hot against Halep “But she was good. It’s a tough loss.” Arsenal vs Wolves, Aston Villa 6-4 in one hour and 43 minutes to secure winning 13 of the first 16 points en route In the earlier match, Svitolina was vs Liverpool, Bournemouth the Purple Group’s second spot. to blitzing through the first set in just 20 pushed in the dead-rubber by world vs Manchester Utd (1230 Defending champion Elina Svitolina minutes. No.12 Kenin, who replaced Bianca GMT), Brighton vs Norwich, will play Belinda Bencic in the other Halep appeared rejuvenated after Andreescu after the US Open champion Manchester City vs semi-final after she capped off an receiving a pep talk from coach Darren suffered a knee injury against Pliskova Southampton, Sheffield Utd vs unbeaten round robin campaign with a Cahill between sets as the match flipped. on Wednesday. Burnley, Watford vs Chelsea 7-5, 7-6 (12/10) victory over late The Wimbledon champion finally hit the Kenin was the second replacement (1730 GMT), West Ham vs replacement Sofia Kenin. scoreboard by breaking to open the used at the tournament after Kiki Newcastle Pliskova believed she would be the second set and she rediscovered her Bertens stepped in for world number Karolina Pliskova of underdog against Barty. “She’s having touch, hitting menacing slices to rattle three Naomi Osaka, who withdrew due Tomorrow Czech Republic hits a Crystal Palace vs Leicester a great year, so it’s going to be super Pliskova. to a shoulder injury. Svitolina was return against Simona tough,” she said. Halep broke Pliskova’s suddenly relieved the match didn’t go the distance (1400 GMT), Everton vs Halep of Romania in “It’s going to be a big challenge but tentative serve three times to force a ahead of today’s semi-final against Tottenham (1630 GMT) Shenzhen yesterday. I have nothing to lose.” An aggressive decider and her momentum continued Bencic. Verstappen tops times in Texas Quartararo dominates

AFP Red Bull Racing Honda driver Max Verstappen (33) of Netherlands during practice for the United Malaysia practice AUSTIN States Grand Prix at Circuit of the Americas yesterday. AFP “really happy” to set a new lap Fresh from his frustrations in SEPANG record at the challenging Sepang Mexico, Red Bull’s Max circuit but cautioned there was Verstappen topped the times Fabio Quartararo clocked the still a long weekend of racing ahead of Sebastian Vettel’s fastest practice time and set a ahead. Ferrari in yesterday’s opening new lap record at Sepang “For sure in the qualifying, free practice at this weekend’s yesterday ahead of the if it is good weather, we will United States Grand Prix. Malaysian MotoGP, a boost for need to beat it again to make the The Dutchman, who will the French rookie after he front row.” make his 100th Grand Prix start crashed out in Australia. The result will nevertheless tomorrow, clocked a best lap in The 20-year-old Petronas lift the confidence of the up- one minute and 34.057 seconds Yamaha rider, whose race at and-coming rider, who finished to outpace the four-time Phillip Island last week ended second to already-crowned champion German by 0.169 at turn two when he collided world champion Marc Marquez seconds. with Danilo Petrucci, powered in Japan last month, after a Verstappen had pole position to a quickest lap of 1min double disaster in Australia. taken from him in Mexico where 58.576sec in the afternoon As well as the collision in the he was penalised retrospectively session. main race, he had a dramatic for ignoring yellow flags before It was the second time he smash in the first practice collecting a puncture in the race, had broken the lap record -- session which saw him thrown falling to the back of the field and where many team members ensure he is champion again eighth, but without threatening previously held by Dani Pedrosa over his handlebars, although then finishing sixth. chose to wear woolly hats for while teammate Valtteri Bottas the top positions. -- in the space of a day, after he escaped serious injury. Five-time champion Lewis extra warmth and drivers’ can only stop him claiming a This left Pierre Gasly in smashing it in the morning “Phillip Island was really Hamilton, who is poised to clinch grumbled about the surface of sixth crown by winning the race fourth for Toro Rosso ahead of session.Petronas Yamaha tough, honestly the weekend did his sixth drivers’ title, spent most the circuit. and hoping his team-mate fails Renault’s Daniel Ricciardo, teammate Franco Morbidelli of not go like we expected, two of the session working on his “These bumps are insane out to score the points. Romain Grosjean of Haas, Italy was second fastest, 0.534 crashes. Of course we arrived Mercedes’ set-up here,” said champion-elect Hamilton briefly jumped up Charles Leclerc in the second behind the Frenchman. here with not a lot of confi- permutations. Hamilton. to fourth behind Alex Albon, in Ferrari, Hamilton and Lance Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso, dence,” he said. Many of the drivers were “I don’t know if this track is the second Red Bull, and then Stroll of Racing Point. this year’s runner-up in the Marquez, aiming for his lapping on the 2020 test tyres, safe.” had his lap deleted for running Kevin Magnussen was 10th world standings and the winner second consecutive victory in supplied by Pirelli, on what was Hamilton needs only four wide, like many others, at Turn in the second Haas with Bottas, at Sepang in 2016 and 17, was Malaysia tomorrow and his 12th an unexpectedly chilly morning points, achieved by finishing in 19. In the final seconds, he who did little running, down in third fastest, 0.630 off the pace. of the season, only managed to at the Circuit of the Americas the top eight, on Sunday to clocked another fast lap to take 17th in the second Mercedes. Quartararo said he was clock the sixth fastest lap. SPORT PAGE | 18 PAGE | 19 RugbyRugby World Cup: Djokovic, Dimitrov All Blacks to clash in veteransveter sign-off semi-final with bronze of Paris Masters

Saturday 2 November 2019 Bjarnason’s late strike saves Al Arabi ARMSTRONG VAS as the game grew. They were Mohammed Salah El THE PENINSULA rewarded for their efforts when Neel (centre) scoring Al Bayati received the ball near Al Arabi’s first goal An injury time equaliser from the halfway line, advanced against Al Wakrah. Birkir Bjarnason helped Al Arabi forward and, lacking other to share points with Al Wakrah in options, launched a fantastic left- a 2-2 draw in yesterday’s QNB footed drive from distance that Stars League Round 9 match at flew past Gregory Gomis in goal the Al Arabi Stadium. and into the far corner of the goal. ROUND 9 In the other match, Al Ahli They came close to a second YESETRDAY'S RESULTS picked up full points in a 1-0 win before the half was out when Al Ahli 1-0 Umm Salal over Umm Salal. Abel Mathias Benyettou struck another shot Al Arabi 2-2 Al Wakrah scored the winning goal in the from distance but, this time, it TODAY'S FIXTURES eighth minute. went the wrong side of the post. Al Khor vs Al Gharafa Playing at home, Al Arabi The second half started much Al Khor Stadium at 17:15 came from behind twice to pick a like the first as Al Wakrah did their Al Duhail vs Al Sadd point from the four-gal thriller. best to protect an important lead. Al Duhail Stadium at 19:25 Mohammed Salah El Neel Their defensive discipline finally (68th minute) and Bjarnason came undone when Pierre- half, Umm Salal attacked more in (90+6) were on the scoresheet for Michelle Lasogga’s through ball the second. The Orange Fortress Al Arabi, with Al Wakrah having found its way to El Neel, who out- seemed to be throwing everything scored through Mohammed Waad muscled Ali Karami on the edge into the game in their bid to get Al Bayati in the 40th minute and of the area before sliding the ball their campaign away from the Mohamed Benyettou (90th- past goalkeeper Saoud Al Khater danger zone. minute penalty). to level the scores. Left-back Murad Naji’s one of Of the two sides, it was Al At this point, Al Arabi were many advance movements saw him Arabi who had the best of the very much in the ascendency and take a first-time shot off an Al play. However, they were nearly grabbed the lead when Mawas cross in the 48th minute, unable to break the deadlock. Hamdi Harbaoui turned on the though as six minutes into injury Raul Caneda, crashed to their sixth combined with fellow striker and only to be blocked by Al Ahli cus- They had multiple chances, volley, but could not keep his shot time, former Aston Villa player defeat. captain Yannick Sagbo. They were todian Ivanildo Rodriguez. Murad firstly a cross which evaded down. Bjarnason reacted quickest to After Umm Salal’s Mahmoud ably supported by Victor Vazquez attempted the rebound, but Ivanildo everybody in the penalty area Al Wakrah seemed to have Yousef’s corner to smash home Al Mawas missed a sitter by from the middle. had recovered to collect it. and hit the post, before a Bjar- sealed the points when Hossam an equaliser from close range and sending his shot wide of the side- At the other end, captain Nabil Ten minutes later, Ivanildo nason free-kick was saved, and Kamal upended Ismail Mahmoud earn his side a well-deserved netting, Abel put The Brigadiers El Zhar linked up well with parried Sagbo’s beaming free-kick El Neel’s far-post header did not in the penalty area and Benyettou point. ahead by heading in a cross by Hernan Perez. to safety. trouble the keeper too much. stepped up to fire home the Earlier, in the other match, Abdelrahman Mohammed from Sagbo shot narrowly wide in Al Ahli, with their fourth Al Wakrah started to counter penalty on the stroke of 90 Umm Salal, playing their first the right. the 21st minute after being set up victory, moved to 13 points, while and their presence in the oppo- minutes. match under Tunisian Ahmed Al Mawas impressed with his by Vazquez off a counter-attack. Umm Salal’s woes compounded sition half became more incisive There was still time for drama Labiadh who replaced Spaniard good runs along the left, and he If Al Ahli dominated the first as they stood on five points. Al Sadd, Duhail meet in QSL blockbuster CHINTHANA WASALA Al Duhail, coached by Portu- conference held yesterday, Xavi no doubt that everyone hoped to opponents forfor the title,” Faris said.said. THE PENINSULA guese Rui Faria, can reach the top said he is aware of the threat that see Al Sadd in the final of AFC Al Duhailil were occupyingoccupying the of the standings today if they win, Al Duhail are posing. Champions League, but now our top spot in the QSL standingsstandings Two of the most dominant forces but Xavi-coached defending cham- “We must be ready for this focus is on the League and then the until Friday,y, bbeforeefore AAll RayyRayyanan in Qatar’s domestic football scene, pions will try everything in their tough confrontation because we Club World Cup. It is an important climbed up followingfollowing a 2-0 win Al Sadd and Al Duhail face off in a book to spoil the Portuguese tac- know very well the strengths of Al tournament for the nation as a against Al Sailiya.ailiya. crunch tie in Round 9 of the QNB tician’s hopes and end their Duhail, individually and collec- whole. We want to leave a good Al Rayyanan are on top witwithh Stars League today. unbeaten run. tively. We know they will miss impression with our results,” Xavi 21 points, onene ppointoint cclearlear ooff AAll At the Al Duhail Stadium, the Prior to today’s blockbuster some important players like Asim said. Duhail. However,wever, AlAl SaSadd,dd, wwhoho Xavi traditional rivals will be keen to meeting, the two sides have met Madibo and Luis Martin, but that His counterpart, Faria yes- have playedd two matcmatcheshes llessess Hernandez impress as they look to remain on three times so far this season. does not mean that Al Duhail are a terday emphasised that their only than the rest,st, are posing a huge course for winning the prestigious Al Sadd got the better of Al weak team and they do not depend hope it to secure full points against threat to thehe table totoppers,ppers, Falcon Shield. The Duhail in the season-opening on one player,” Xavi said. Al Sadd. making it a tthree-wayhree-way match will kick Sheikh Jassim Cup final as Xavi “I ask our fans to supportsuppor us and “We are ready to face Al Sadd. battle for thee title.title. off at earned his maiden title as a coach. encourage us because their Everyone is waiting for this clash Al Sadd hhaveave 7.25pm. Then, in the AFC Champions presence at the stadium wwill be a which, we hope, will be a highly- 15 points fromrom League Round of 16, Al Sadd beat big motivation for the players,”playe Xavi enjoyable game. Certainly, it will six matches.hes. Al Duhail 4-2 on aggregate. called upon Al Sadd fans to support be difficult for Al Duhail and Al Their fixturesres However, Al Duhail will be the team during their ‘away’‘away game. Sadd. We are facing very strong against Al lookinglooking forward to repeat their Xavi also said that his menm suf- opponents who have a large Arabi (Weekek performance of last season’s Amir fered a heartbreaking semi-finalsem number of players of the Qatar 5) and AlAl Cup final, where they prevailed exit from the Asian ChampionsCha senior national team. Khor (Weekek over Al Sadd. League, after being knockedknocke out by “There is no doubt that Al 7) werere During a Al Hilal on an aggregate, despite Duhail are a special team with out- deferred dueue pre-match winning a thrilling secondseco leg standing players. Our target is to to Thee press match in Riyadh, have movedmo on get three points. Wolves’ AFCC and they have shifted theirthe focus “Al Duhail are playing every Champions towards upcupcoming match with one target - victory. League encounters. This game assumes greater sig- commit- “There“ThTh is nificance as Al Sadd are our direct ments.

Al Duhail’s players taking part in a training session on the eve of today’s QNB Stars League Round 9 match against Al Sadd Al Duhail’s which will be coach Rui played at the Al Al Sadd players train under the Faria Duhail Stadium. supervision of coach Xavi.