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Mideast deal likely by April TEL AVIV: Shrugging off gloomy predictions of fail- ure, US Secretary of State John Kerry said yesterday that Israelis and Palestinians remained committed to peace talks and were on course to wrap up a full deal by April. Book Fair: Speaking at the end of his sec- ond visit to the region in a week, Kerry said both sides were dis- cussing a framework for a final- status accord to resolve the core issues in the decades-old conflict. Full report on page 8 A tame affair US sanctions move angers Iran

VIENNA/MOSCOW: A breakthrough agreement to THE ISSUE end the stand-off over Iran’s nuclear programme appeared As in the previous severe lack of parking space editor-in-chief of Al Sharq, Abdul Aziz dedicated to subjects, looking for books to face its first major difficulty years, the latest amidst construction work Al Mahmoud, was more eloquent in his at the venue can be time-consuming and yesterday with Russia warning going on near its venue kept criticism of the event and said the fair tiring. that expanding a US sanctions edition of the much- Avisitor turnout at the fair low has just become an annual ritual. “Usually, every fair of this kind has blacklist could seriously com- talked-about book fair, this year. “It’s more of an annual tradition now sections dedicated to books subject-wise. plicate its implementation. being held at the Doha Then, the books generally being high- than anything else. There are the same If I am looking for history books, I should Russia, which, along with the priced didn’t help the fair become a suc- publishers and almost the same books. go to that section, for example. But there US, is among the six world pow- International Exhibition cess. “Overall, it was a flop show. There The fair is repetitive,” he said in remarks was no such thing at this fair,” said the ers that negotiated the November Centre, has been a was nothing new about it. It was like to this newspaper. visitor. 24 interim accord with Iran, ech- every year,” said a critic, requesting According to another visitor who About book prices, some enthusiasts oed Iranian criticism that it vio- tame affair, and it ends anonymity. didn’t want his name in print, the event said they were on the higher side. lated the spirit of the deal and today. Celebrated Qatari author and former is chaotic as in the absence of sections Continued on page 2 could “block things”. See also page 8 DECEMBER 14, 2013 ON SATURDAY 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Home

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BY RAYNALD C RIVERA appreciation for the organisers who he “In terms of sales, I consider this year it is being held from December 4 to 14. said had provided the necessary support better than last year. In the previous The fair has witnessed a decline in the DOHA: As the 24th Doha International to them, but said sales were low. years, government entities purchased number of publishers, from 456 in 2011 to Book Fair comes to a close today, book- This year, Dar Al Maktabi has brought books, they also gave coupons to students 419 last year to 360 this year. It has also sellers observed the fair had lost its books on philosophy, biography, history to come and purchase at the fair. These been criticised for the fact that the major- sheen, blaming the decline in sales and children’s books to the fair. further boosted our sales,” said Shawqi. ity of books are in Arabic, with only a few on lack of publicity and government “Sales are poor. The problem is the Shawqi has travelled to different parts available in English. Booksellers, however, support. shortage of parking space and the road of the world and found arrangements for argued that books in Arabic were more in People’s lack of interest in books, diversions,” he said, adding there was need the Doha book fair to be good. demand in the region. brought about by the fast-evolving tech- for an intensive media campaign. A representative from Dar Al Thaqafa The 11-day fair has drawn praise for its nological landscape with the Internet and The huge space adjacent to the Doha also urged additional official support in side events, many of which were linked advanced smartphones and gaming gadg- Exhibition Centre was once utilised as the form of the government purchasing to the UK, the guest of honour this year ets coming to the market, is another factor parking space for visitors during big books from them, and said sales were bet- to coincide with the Qatar UK Year of contributing to the decline. events, but currently it is barricaded due ter compared to last year. Culture. The Qatar UK pavilion offered “The demand for books is decreasing to ongoing construction. This has resulted The book fair was moved to an ear- various cultural and educational activities year by year because people are not any- in limited parking space for visitors’ cars lier part of the month this year as in for children. They included storytelling more interested in them,” Ziyada, owner and school buses. the past two years it had coincided with and related activities, film screenings, a of Dar Al Asma, told The Peninsula. Road diversions, caused by works on the the National Day, resulting in low visitor literary translation summit, an art expo, His stall, in which titles mostly on metro project, are also making the road turnouts. In 2011 and 2012, the fair was and book talks. Arabic language and education are avail- challenging and confusing for motorists held from December 12 to 22, but this year THE PENINSULA able, has sold only 50 books on average to negotiate. in a day. Khalid Suleiman of Dar Al Iqra from “The previous years were definitely bet- Kuwait, who has been participating in the ter,” he said, adding that the government fair for several years now, also complained Call for more non-Arabic books must support booksellers the way it did of the parking problem and road diver- several years ago. sions, but said he would come again next Continued from page 1 to international schools are developing By government support booksellers year as he found the management of the According to Al Mahmoud, though, the habit of book reading”. mean ministries and other government fair very cooperative. the prices being high or low, is not the These schools make you read three organisations purchasing books in large Another bookseller, from Qatar-based issue. “The issue is there must be a books on average a week and you must quantities, and providing schoolchildren Maktaba Lubnan,, was of the view that printed and approved price list, but it make their summary as part of curricu- coupons that they can use to buy books. there should be more initiatives through wasn’t there. lum, he said. “Our schools don’t encour- Because of a lack of interest from the advertisements in traditional media in “So people didn’t age book reading.” general public, booksellers now rely on addition to social media campaigns to know whether to buy Another critic schools and students to a large extent. revive the fair. the books at the fair or said that he found it “The government should revive the cou- “More media campaigning is needed to from the market where surprising that the pon system providing students free cou- attract more customers because people it could be cheaper.” book fair caters only pons; this would encourage them to buy nowadays are not reading books anymore The other problem to Arabic-speaking and read books,” said Abdullah Al Owais because they prefer the Internet more,” was that nobody knew population and leaves of Kuwait-based Al Ibdah Al Fikri. he said, adding the timing should also be about this year’s new out the others who A recent study on children in the GCC, revised to make it more convenient for titles and whether are quite sizeable in which was conducted by global research customers to visit the fair. there were some best number. organisation TNS and commissioned by The Maktaba Lubnan stand provides sellers or not, he said. “Only 30 percent private company Fun Ville, revealed read- a variety of books, such as encyclopedias, Yet another critic Abdul Aziz Al Mahmoud of our population is ing was the activity on which children up dictionaries, children’s books, medical said the fair was bar- Arabic-speaking,” to 12 years spent their free time the least. books and books on cooking, language and ren and people were left on their own. said Al Mahmoud. “Why are Indians, Al Owais has been taking part in the well-known Islamic figures. “There was no one to guide us.” Filipinos, Pakistanis and others left fair for three years now, and although he “At average, sales are between QR2,000 A Qatari woman, talking of the event out?” had average sales this year, he said demand to QR3,000 per day, but in the previous on a local social networking site, said He said the Ministry of Arts, Culture was low compared to last year. years they reached up to QR15,000 a day,” she visited the fair in the past but this and Heritage does not provide an assess- “The problem of a dearth of parking he said. year she didn’t because there is no one ment of the performance of the fair space has also added to the low turnout. Others, however, have witnessed good at the fair to guide as to what books to at its conclusion. “There should be an There should also be a media campaign so sales, yet believe there is more to be done pick for reading. online assessment system where peo- that more customers come,” he said. to improve the current state of the fair to A Qatari man, commenting on the ple should be able to give feedback for Despite the unsatisfactory turnout, Al benefit all the booksellers, such as Khalid same site, said he bought several books improvement,” he said. Owais was hopeful the situation would Shawqi of Maktaba Afaq from Kuwait last year but couldn’t read even one of According to him, the difference improve in future, so he has decided to and Ahmad Hassan of Egypt-based Dar them. between Arab publishers and western come back next year and bring more of Al Sharq Al Arabi, who both claimed aver- Al Mahmoud said that there is no publishing houses is that while the lat- his books, which are mostly on religion age sales of 500 books a day. official survey on the reading habits of ter literally hunt for authors, the former and personal development. “I sell 500 books per day, but compared fellow Qataris. “But the current trend wait for writers to approach them. Dr Rayas Maktabi, owner of Dar to previous years including last year, this is that those Qataris who have exposure THE PENINSULA Al Maktabi from Syria, expressed is low,” said Hassan. DECEMBER 14, 2013 Home / Middle East www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 ON SATURDAY Next phase of compulsory Emir receives Mercury could dip phone call health insurance scheme from Haniyah DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh likely to begin by April Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani received yesterday a tel- DOHA: The second phase of insurance providers are found below 10 degrees ephone call from the Hamas the compulsory health insur- not complying with the direc- Gaza Prime Minister, Ismail ance scheme is expected to be tives of SCH, the law will take Haniyah. They reviewed the launched by April next year its course. Weather Bureau warns of cold spell from tomorrow situation in Palestine. when all Qatari citizens are to Insurance companies licensed be brought within its ambit. to operate in the country can DOHA: The Weather Bureau Messaid, while the night could The weather will be windy with Algerian official The first phase of the scheme only provide additional insurance issued a fresh warning yes- be a little cooler in Dukhan and wind speed ranging from 20 to 30 was implemented some months cover — for medical services that terday about a cold spell from Abu Samra with the minimum knots. Offshore the speed could meets Qatari envoy ago covering a large segment of are not basic. “So they should tomorrow when temperatures temperature forecast being 17 reach 35 knots. Qatari women. sign agreements with healthcare in some remote areas of the degrees C. The sea will be rough with ALGIERS: Algeria’s Public health authorities have providers to provide insurance country could dip below 10 Ruwais will be the coldest place waves of six to eight feet and at Commander of National reiterated that the National cover only for additional medical degrees Celsius. during the day today with the times going up to 10 feet in the Gendarmerie, Ahmed Health Insurance Company services,” SCH has said. These areas are, however, be maximum temperature forecast north. Boustaila, met the Qatari (NHIC) set up to implement and Insurance cover for basic med- remote, uninhabited stretches, being 23 degrees C. A highlight of the cold spell will Ambassador, Ibrahim bin monitor the scheme will be the ical services is out of their pur- weather forecasters said in a Abu Samra is to witness the be northwesterly wind that will Abdul Aziz Al Sahlawi, and sole provider of insurance cover view, SCH said, adding it was a press statement. largest variation in temperatures bring chill from the freezing areas discussed ways of developing for basic medical services. sole prerogative of NHIC. In Doha city and other towns, as the minimum and maximum of Europe. relations. The beneficiaries of the There are 26 basic healthcare night temperatures could drop to forecast for today are 17 and 29 The bureau said it would issue scheme, once it is fully enforced, services for which insurance 10 degrees C at times during the degrees C, respectively. warnings of wind and high seas Qatar condemns will be the entire population, cover will be provided by NHIC. week-long spell. Brace for the first cold spell of from tomorrow until Wednesday. including citizens, expatriates A list of these services is likely Forecasts suggest the tempera- this season from tomorrow, the The cold spell is likely to last Bangla execution and visitors. Healthcare regu- to be made public sometime next ture during the chilly spell could weather bureau reiterated in its the whole week. Sea-goers would lator, the Supreme Council of year. According to the law that range between 10 and 20 degrees warning. better take precaution, said the DOHA: Qatar condemned Health (SCH), has asked insur- regulates the mandatory health C in most places. The spell will be caused by an bureau. the execution of the Assistant ance providers to cancel agree- insurance scheme, the Minister An idea about what a substan- extension of high pressure over About today, the bureau said Secretary-General of Jamaat- ments they might have signed of Public Health is to deter- tial drop in mercury during the the Arabian Peninsula. the morning could be foggy with e-Islami Party in Bangladesh, with healthcare providers to mine the premiums to be paid cold spell would mean can be This will be associated with low visibility and there could be Abdul Kader Mollah, an offi- make basic health insurance in respect for each category of had from the fact that the maxi- cold air mass in the upper air dust in the air in some places. cial source at the Foreign cover available to people. beneficiaries. Employers will be mum temperature forecast for levels over the country. The wind direction will be Ministry said yesterday. The grace period allowed to required to pay the premiums for today is 29 degrees C at several Temperatures could fall to southeasterly to southwesterly In a statement, the source the insurance companies to can- their foreign workers and their places, including Doha, Al Wakra, between 20 and 10 degrees C, the during the day but as the evening said Qatar was concerned over cel the above agreements is April dependents, while the state will Mesaieed and Abu Samra. warning said. approaches the weather could be the possibility of rising tensions next year, SCH has said. pay for the insurance of citizens. The minimum forecast is The weather will be partly a bit chilly as the wind direction in Bangladesh. Once the deadline ends and THE PENINSULA 21 degrees C for Doha, and 20 cloudy with chances of scattered might change to northwesterly. QNA degrees C for Al Wakra and rain on Monday and Tuesday. THE PENINSULA

Corniche lit up for National Day celebrations E-devices for fishing boats to monitor location

DOHA: Fishing boats and trawl- 11,274 tonnes, while a little more than ers are being fitted with electronic 1,000 tonnes of fish were exported. Fish devices that will help officials at the imports totalled 3,823 tonnes in that Fisheries Department to monitor year. their location while they are in the Fish consumption in the year was sea. 14,078 tonnes. So far 427 boats and trawlers have The department, in crackdowns last been fitted with such devices during an year, came across 14 cases of fish being initial phase of the novel project. sold in places not designated for the The department has also prepared an purpose. extensive database on the fishing areas It also detected other violations of in the country’s territorial waters and the provisions of the law that regulates the available fish resources that can be fishing and caught people who were commercially exploited. using instruments and devices that are The database also analyses the types banned in fishing. of fish available and it is to be linked to The department last year issued an international database. licences to 349 boats while 329 boats Meanwhile, the department is giving renewed their permits. finishing touches to a technical guide- Some 788 fishermen were issued book on sweet water fish farming. licences to operate whereas 365 fisher- A project has been launched and pro- men renewed their licences. Some 59 duction has begun. vehicles were issued licences to trans- Statistics reveal that fish production port fish stocks. Visitors stroll along the Corniche where palm trees have been decked up ahead of National Day celebrations, yesterday. and consumption in the country have Besides, 107 traditional dhows were SALIM MATRAMKOT been on the rise. issued licences last year for fishing. Local fish production in 2012 was THE PENINSULA

Qatar aid for Gaza, Syria Vehicle Recall DOHA: The Emir H with extreme cold. H Sheikh Tamim bin The Emir asked Hamad Al Thani has authorities to provide instructed authorities urgent relief worth $60m to urgently provide the for the Syrian people to Gaza Strip with fuel help them cope with the worth $32m to address difficult conditions and the difficult conditions extreme cold. due to snowstorms and An official source from the shutdown of the the Foreign Ministry said power plant after it ran in a statement that the out of fuel. aid was sent out of Qatar’s Infiniti JX The Emir also ordered sense of duty towards our 2013 - 2014 YM urgent relief worth $28m brothers in Palestine and Product to Gaza to help them cope Syria. QNA For the sake of consumers’ interest and in coordination

with the Consumer Protection Department at the Faulty Anti-lock Braking Ministry of Economy and Trade, and pursuant to Article System Programme (ABS) Fault Syria food tender No. (14) of Law No. (8) of 2008 on consumer protection on Iran credit line which stipulates “Upon discovering a defect in the product to e used or the service to e eneted from, Anti-lock Braking System (ABS) HAMBURG: Syria ten- Trade Organisation is that would endanger consumers, the supplier shall be Software update dered to import food yes- seeking to buy 150,000 Action terday using a credit line tonnes of sugar, 50,000 committed to inform the competent authority at the from Iran’s export bank tonnes of rice, 25,000 in what could be a test tonnes of flour and other Ministry and the consumer of the potential harms and of last month’s landmark food using a credit line Saleh Al Hamad Al Mana Co. deal to ease Western from Iran, traders said. how to prevent them. The supplier shall also recall all Landline: 44600167 ext 125 or 126 financial sanctions on “The tender says there defective commodities from the market and announce Mobile: 5550 9637 Tehran. must be a written declara- Communicate www.shalmana.com Sanctions also imposed tion by the bidder to say so immediately.” on Syrian President they are fully briefed on Bashar Al Assad’s govern- the credit line agreement ment do not cover food between Syria and Iran but on banking and asset and that they accept all freezes and the country’s the contents of the terms Contact Consumer Hotline Toll Free SMS E-mail two-year-old civil war have and conditions,” another made tenders difficult. European trader said. Protection 44945500 8005000 92665 [email protected] Syria’s General Foreign REUTERS DECEMBER 14, 2013 ON SATURDAY 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Home

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FEAST FOR BOOK LOVERS The 24th Doha International Book Fair, which is on at the Doha International Exhibition Centre, features 22,000 titles from 360 publishers in 29 countries. The UK is this year’s guest of honour, and is showcasing over 400 titles from seven leading publishers, besides holding events to celebrate Qatar UK Year of Culture. An important event at the UK pavilion will be a literary translation summit in which 32 translators will take part, with authors conducting workshops. The fair is open to the public until today. DECEMBER 14, 2013 Middle East www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 ON SATURDAY Tunisia parties to name caretaker PM Islamists, opposition reach deal after Filali backs out

TUNIS: Tunisia’s ruling were due to meet again later yes- since Ennahda gained office after Islamists and their opponents terday to settle who should form Tunisia’s first free elections, polit- were set to name a prime min- the non-political cabinet. ical dissension has centred on how ister yesterday to head a care- The UGTT had set a Saturday the role of Islam should be for- taker administration until deadline for rival factions to name mulated in the new constitution. elections next year that would a prime minister. The debate has unfolded put the nation’s post-revolt Among the potential candi- against the backdrop of attacks transition back on track. dates are Ahmed Adhoum, a judge by Islamist militants, some linked Three years after a wave of and former minister, economist to Al Qaeda, who have exploited protests against autocrat Zine Radhi Meddeb, and Habib Essid, the chaos in nearby Libya to gain El Abidine Ben Ali inspired Arab a former interior minister, party weapons and training. They have uprisings elsewhere, Tunisia is officials said. assassinated two secular opposi- seeking to end a crisis in which Tunisia has fared better than tion leaders this year. disputes over the role of Islam in two North African neighbours Those killings, along with con- politics have threatened its new that also unseated their leaders. cerns of foreign lenders about democracy. Egypt’s elected Islamist president Tunisia’s budget deficit, have The relatively moderate ruling is in jail after the military ousted increased pressure on politicians Islamist Ennahda party, which him, and Libya is struggling to to break their deadlock and reset A boy walks on snow as he holds a plastic gallon during snowfall in the Duma neighbourhood of Damascus has met stiff opposition from control the militias that fought the transition process. yesterday. some of its secular rivals, has Muammar Gaddafi. Fethi Ayadi, a leader of agreed to resign once politicians Tunisia, whose strong secular Ennahda, said the negotiators decide on a caretaker cabinet, tradition has collided with the were still trying to persuade Filali complete a new constitution and political power of Ennahda and to agree to head the new govern- Storm delays Iraq-Syria aid airlift again set a date for elections. the ambitions of Islamist mili- ment. “We have communicated A deal brokered by the power- tants, has nevertheless seen less of with Filali to convince him to BAGHDAD: Severe weather regional spokesman Peter Kessler, UNHCR said it planned to ful UGTT labour movement on the violent unrest troubling Egypt take on this responsibility. If he has delayed the start of the first referring to the city in northeast spend $195m to help “winter- Thursday promised to end weeks and Libya. It has kept strong ties refuses, we will respect his opin- UN airlift of aid from Iraq to Syria to which aid is to be flown. ise” Syria and the surrounding of wrangling over who should be with former colonial ruler France ion,” Ayadi told Shems FM radio. Syria for a second day, a spokes- “We hope to have word from countries. It has begun distribut- interim prime minister, though and relies on European tourism. Houcine Abassi, a mediator man said yesterday. authorities there, hopefully ing tents, plastic sheeting, warm none has been publicly named. Its political landscape is also from UGTT earlier said a com- A powerful winter storm sweep- later today or tomorrow,” which clothing, especially for children A leading candidate for the dominated by two men who say promise had been reached on the ing the eastern Mediterranean is “would then give us an idea when and other vulnerable people, and post, Mustapha Filali, 92, backed elections are the best way for- choice of prime minister. causing mayhem across the region the airlift might start,” he said. cash for fuel. out of the race yesterday. ward: Ennahda leader Rached He said the contents of the and inflicting extra hardships on The airlift, which has been given The civil war between forces “I am not ready to accept such Ghannouchi and Beji Caid Essebsi, long-awaited agreement would Syrians convulsed in civil war the go-ahead by the Syrian and loyal to Syrian President Bashar a huge responsibility, mainly a former Ben Ali-era official who be announced at a meeting yes- and on refugees who have fled Iraqi governments, was initially Al Assad and rebels seeking because of my advanced age,” the leads the main secular opposition terday, but did not give time or the fighting. expected to begin on Thursday. his overthrow has raged for 33 former cabinet minister told local party, Nida Tounes. place for the announcement. The storm, Alexa, is expected UNHCR plans to fly some 40 months and killed about 126,000 Mosaique FM radio. But the protracted political The Islamists and the opposi- to last until today, bringing more metric tonnes of aid into the people. Kurdish-majority areas “I have not proposed myself as crisis has hurt the economy and tion have been unable to agree snow, rain and cold to Turkey, area, which has become increas- of the country’s northeast were a candidate, it is they who have prospects of generating prosper- on a premier since negotiations Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, the ingly dangerous to reach, provid- quiet until clashes broke out this proposed me. I will not accept this ity in the nation where a street opened on October 25 to form Palestinian territories and Egypt. ing “core relief items for 10,000 year between Kurds and jihad- mission... I reject it because of my vendor set himself on fire nearly a government of independents, “Qamishli airport remains families, or about 60,000 people,” ist rebels, pushing thousands of age, and because of the scope of three years ago in a gesture of draft a constitution and prepare closed, but apparently weather Kessler said. The UN’s World Syrian Kurds across the border the responsibilities and problems.” despair that ignited revolt across for elections to end the political conditions are improving,” said Food Programme and Unicef were into Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Ennahda and opposition groups the Arab world. In the two years impasse. AGENCIES UN refugee agency (UNHCR) also to send aid into Syria via air. region. AGENCIES

Protest in Bahrain Armenians’ deportation inhumane: Turkey FM

ANKARA: Turkish Foreign as a “totally wrong practice done by based on a “just memory”. “The pri- The territory is internationally Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (the Ottoman-era rulers),” Hurriyet mary aim is to build an environment recognised as Azerbaijan’s but was described the deportation of Daily News quoted him as saying. of dialogue on a strong basis,” he said. seized by Armenia-backed separa- Armenians under the Ottoman “It was inhumane.” Nalbandian said before meet- tists in a 1990s war that killed 30,000 empire as “inhumane” during a Armenians say up to 1.5 million of ing Davutoglu that relations with people. fence-mending visit to Yerevan this their kin were systematically killed Turkey should be normalised without The two countries signed rec- week, the Turkish media reported during the Second World War under preconditions. onciliation accords in 2009 but the yesterday. the Ottoman Empire, the predeces- “Turkey’s attempts to link the US-backed rapprochement collapsed Davutoglu made the comments to sor of modern Turkey. matter with other issues or lay con- within six months with each side Turkish journalists travelling with Turkey says 500,000 died in fight- ditions are unavailing and senseless,” accusing the other of setting new him to Armenia on Thursday on his ing and of starvation and categori- he told reporters. conditions and rewriting parts of the first visit since moves to open diplo- cally rejects the term genocide. Ankara closed its border with agreements. “Our primary aim is not matic ties between the neighbours Davutoglu said after meeting Armenia in 1993 in solidarity with only to open the Turkish-Armenian failed four years ago. his Armenian counterpart Edward regional ally Azerbaijan in its fes- border but to form a foundation that He described the large-scale depor- Nalbandian that he hoped the two tering dispute with Yerevan over will pave the way for a comprehensive tation of Armenians to Syria in 1915 countries could build a relationship Nagorny Karabakh. peace,” Davutoglu said. AFP

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A senior nurse, Rula Al Saffar, holds a banner with photos of Dr Ali Al Ekri and Ebrahim Demistani as she participates in an anti-government rally organised by Bahrain’s main opposition party Al Wefaq in Budaiya, west of Manama, yesterday. Nissan Tiida C12 2014 YM Product 366 prisoners freed For the sake of consumers’ interest and in coordination with the Consumer Protection Department at the from Aleppo jail Ministry of Economy and Trade, and pursuant to Faulty Stop Lamp Switch Fault DAMASCUS: Syrian “Authorities have Article No. (14) of Law No. (8) of 2008 on consumer authorities have freed released 366 detainees for “humanitarian rea- due to the siege imposed protection which stipulates “Upon discovering a defect sons” 366 detainees by terrorists,” SANA said, in the product to be used or the service to be benefited from Aleppo prison in referring to the rebels. Readjust Stop Lamp Switch the north of the country Observatory chief Rami from, that would endanger consumers, the supplier fitment which is under rebel siege, Abdel Rahman said from Action state news agency SANA Britain that conditions shall be committed to inform the competent authority reported yesterday. inside the prison were The Syrian Observatory “horrific” and prison- at the Ministry and the consumer of the potential harms for Human Rights said a ers were being freed due Saleh Al Hamad Al Mana Co. first group of 10 prisoners to outbreaks of diseases, and how to prevent them. The supplier shall also Landline: 44600167 ext 125 or 126 were freed on Thursday including tuberculosis. recall all defective commodities from the market and Mobile: 5550 9637 and more would follow, “The evacuation of Communicate www.shalmana.com adding that most prisoners prisoners began yester- announce so immediately.” were convicted criminals. day and the Red Crescent Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al has brought out 10 people. Nusra Front and other Others will gradually be set Islamist rebel groups fight- free,” he said. ing to topple President More than 3,000 pris- Contact Consumer Hotline Toll Free SMS E-mail Bashar Al Assad have laid oners are held in the jail, siege to the prison for the including Islamists, activ- Protection 44945500 8005000 92665 [email protected] past eight months. ists and minors. AFP DECEMBER 14, 2013 ON SATURDAY 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Views

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ORTH Korea continues to be an enigma wrapped in mystery. There was some hope that the ascension to power of Western-educated Kim Gun carnage continues in NJong-un would help bring this state out of its seclusion, but that hope has been dashed. But now comes more disturbing news from Pyongyang – that Kim Jong-un had decided to destroy his once powerful uncle, Jang Song- America with no end in sight Thaek, most likely at the bidding of hardliners in the military. Jang, who had been seen as Kim’s political regent BY MICHAEL COHEN and the country’s unofficial number two, was executed on gun at her chest and pulled the trigger. else that the parent, guardian or the Thursday immediately after a special military trial. He was He thought the weapon was not loaded. friend is almost never held responsi- accused of committing such a hideous crime as attempting to NE year ago this week, a seem- In Arkansas, a grandfather with a gun ble. In fact, in 23 states there are no overthrow the state by all sorts of ‘intrigues and despicable ingly unimaginable event took killed himself and three others including child gun-access prevention laws on the Oplace inNewtown, Connecticut. his two grandchildren – one was four- books. In the states where the laws do methods with a wild ambition to grab the supreme power of Adam Lanza, a disturbed and isolated years-old, the other only four months. exist they are rarely enforced. Take, the party and state’. young man took guns that were legally In Chickamauga, Georgia a 34-year- for example, the aforementioned case That a leader like Jang is executed in North Korea speaks purchased and kept in his home and old man heard a prowler outside and of the three-year-old Indianapolis boy of the ruthlessness of the current dictator. Jang, 67, played a drove to the Sandy Hook elementary rather than wait for police, he went out- who found his parents gun and killed key role in strengthening the leadership of the inexperienced school. He shot his way inside with an side with his .40 caliber handgun and himself. The police are still not sure AR-15 assault rifle and proceeded to kill fired four shots at the silhouette of a whether a crime was committed. Kim when he succeeded his father Kim Jong-Il in 2011. By 26 people – 20 of them young children. man behind his house. It turned to be a As the New York Times reported executing him, Kim has even gone against the advice of It was a crime that, perhaps more 72-year-old suffering from Alzheimer’s earlier this week there have been 109 his father. When the late Kim Jong-il knew he was dying, than any other in recent memory, spoke who had wandered away from his house. gun laws passed in state legislatures he appointed Jang and Kim Kyong-hui, the most powerful to America’s deadly and debilitating fas- And there was the 21-year-old San since Newtown – 39 of them tightened figures in the Korean Workers’ party organisations, to cination with guns. Here was the sick- Diego man whose “long-time friend” gun restrictions and 70 loosened them. serve as regents and to supervise the ness of this nation’s gun culture on vivid was showing him a gun. He dropped On the federal level, a bill to expand display. the weapon and it went off, striking the background checks for potential gun transition of power. He even insisted But a year later what is even more man in the chest – and ending his life. buyers was defeated by a Republican The execution that they be given top posts in the unimaginable, These are just a few of the more filibuster. In Colorado, which is one of military which controls most of the more difficult to than 11,000 gun deaths that Slate has the few states to toughen its gun laws of Kim Jong- country’s economy. Also, Jang had comprehend and compiled in the year since Newtown. in the last year, two state legislators un’s uncle performed many powerful roles in the more shocking Assembling gun statistics is quite dif- who supported the bill were defeated past. He was in charge of finding the Slate calculated than this horrible act ficult – largely because the NRA and in recall elections. The NRA’s power to shows the of violence – is that its congressional allies have pushed for thwart public opinion and to uphold the money to finance the regime, which he that the US the carnage continues legislation to make it harder for the fed- narcissistic belief among gun advocates ruthlessness is supposed to have done by negotiating death toll from with seemingly no end eral government to collect such data. So that their “freedom” must outweigh the for foreign aid or by selling missiles, in sight. the actual number is likely much higher. costs to society of practically unfettered of the regime. nuclear knowhow, drugs or other gun violence Soon after In fact, researchers at Slate believe access to guns remains as strong as ever. contraband. since Newtown Newtown, Slate began the death toll from gun violence since At the same time, gun manufacturers assembling an extraor- Newtown is more than 33,000 people. are seeing higher profits and gun sales, Experts are trying to read the is more than dinary (and deeply Of course, what made Newtown so at least in the first quarter of the year, meaning and analyse the consequences of Jang’s execution. 33,000. When depressing) database uniquely awful was that the victims appeared to increase dramatically. Of Nothing can be said with certainty about goings-on in the of every media men- were young children. But, in the year course, this will mean even more gun state, but many believe the latest development indicates will we wake tion of a gun death in since Newtown, children continue deaths. many things: first, a power struggle in the state in which the up? America. The stories to die from gun violence at a terrify- If there is one thing that we do know executed leader was on the wrong side; secondly, it indicates are often short crime ing clip. According to a recent report about gun ownership in America, it is blotter articles. The from Mother Jones, 194 kids have been that buying a gun and keeping it one’s the emergence of the hardliners in the military. The decision victims are frequently unidentified and gunned down since last year. It’s an home for “protection” dramatically to execute a mentor can’t be easy and if Kim has done that, the motive unclear, but the senseless- appalling number, but it may actu- increases the possibility of dying (or it shows the draconian influence some people have over Kim. ness was all too evident. ally underestimate the problem. Two having a family member or friend die) This could also be a message to foreign powers, including Just take the past two weeks: a three- Boston-based researchers believe that from gun violence. China. The executed uncle was in charge of dealing with year-old in Indianapolis pulled his par- as many as 500 children and teenagers It’s even worse for children. By one foreign powers. Talks with South Korea and Beijing are ents’ loaded gun off a kitchen counter die every year (and 7,500 are hospital- estimate, more than 75% of guns used and shot himself in the head. Neighbors ized) due to firearms. in suicide attempts and unintentional now in trouble, and this could further puncture peace in were surprised because even though the As if to add insult to unspeakable injuries in those between birth and age the region, which is already volatile and tense due to sabre- little boy’s parents frequently carried tragedy, rarely is anyone punished 19 were kept in the home of the victim, rattling by China. their arms in public, they always seemed when a child dies in this manner. Justin at relatives or with friends. Imagine if While people all over the world are breaking away “responsible” enough not to leave a gun Peters at Slate has doneyeoman’s work Americans were told that every time dictatorship, North Koreans are finding themselves shackled where their child could get it. A 16-year- in addressing this issue. He points out they went to the gun store to buy a old girl in Noblesville, Indiana was shot that when children find a gun in their weapon. from all sides. And the world can just watch helplessly• and killed when her friend pointed a home and harm themselves or someone THE GUARDIAN The other side Quote of Whose side is Obama really on? the day

BAMA’S decision to suspend some, at least, of the equipment sup- by Al Nusra Front and the ISIL. It mat- imbroglio was well known — but rather non-lethal aid to Syria was plied by the Americans and the British, ters not that the arms that Washington of using US power and influence to depressingly predictable. who are also stopping their non-lethal could have supplied would have almost convince Assad and his Russian and OWashington says that it can aid, has indeed fallen into extremists’ certainly tipped the balance of power Chinese allies that it was time for him no longer be certain that equipment hands. in the FSA’s favor, both against Assad to go quietly into exile. that it has been giving, including radios However, the issue is not the sus- and the extremists. The reality is that However, Washington’s support for and other communications equipment, pension of this aid but how we got to Americans are going to do absolutely the Arab League monitors and peace We are working on an medical kits, ambulances and ready- where we are. It is important first to take nothing to help the main body of the mission was, it is clear now, half- approach that both to-eat meals, will not be falling into the the decision in context. The admission rebels defeat Assad. hearted. There appeared to be no sense hands of extremists. by the Obama White House that it can Two and a half years ago, when the of urgency in the Oval Office. Al-Qaeda guarantees Israel’s Given that the two main extremist no longer be sure where its non-lethal insurrection began, when the death had yet to raise its head in the struggle security and fully groups, the Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Nusra aid is going, makes it absolutely certain toll was still being counted only in the and the revolt was almost exclusively Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and that the Americans will not be provid- hundreds, there were urgent calls for led and backed by Syrians. Assad liked respects Palestinian the Levant (ISIL) are now turning on ing anything now. It matters not that Washington to intervene. It was not a to claim that he was under attack from sovereignty. units of the Free Syria Army, to which the mainstream Free Syria Army is not question necessarily of boots on the foreign terrorists, but in the early days they nominally belong, the US fears are only having to battle Assad’s forces, ground — Obama’s almost visceral this was bunkum. John Kerry understandable. It is highly likely that but is also being stabbed in the back aversion to another Middle Eastern ARAB NEWS US Secretary of State DECEMBER 14, 2013 Views www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 ON SATURDAY A future vision for Asean and Japan It is indispensable for Japan to tap into the energy and vitality of a growing Asean as the centre of growth for the revitalisation of the Japanese economy.

BY SHINZO ABE efficiency, both in production and dis- tribution of goods, and will greatly ben- n this special year of the 40th anni- efit both Asean and Japan’s sustainable versary of Japan’s relationship with economic growth and from economies of the Association of Southeast Asian scale. Nations, I have invited the leaders Asean has grown in the last 40 years of all Asean countries to join me in and has now become the world’s market Ia special summit to celebrate our cher- and a centre for service industries. It is ished partnership. Ever since I assumed indispensable for Japan to tap into the the office of prime minister at the end of energy and vitality of a growing Asean last year, I have been conducting strategic as the centre of growth for the revitali- diplomacy looking over the entire globe, sation of the Japanese economy through and Asean has always been at the centre its new economic policy, what many call, of my diplomacy as a special partner for “Abenomics.” At the same time, I am con- Japan. fident to say that the revitalisation of our In promoting our partnership, I economy will bring about further mutual Asean leaders offering a silent prayer for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines during a welcome dinner of Asean-Japan announced the Five Principles of Japan’s benefit to regional and global economy. commemorative summit hosted by Japanese Premier Shinzo Abe in Tokyo yesterday. Asean Diplomacy in January this year Second, Asean and Japan share the during my visit to Jakarta. In advancing high seas that stretch between the two. the Five Principles, I visited all 10 Asean The same can be said for the air space Toward Interactive Asia Through Fusion for a partnership that ties the hearts throughout this year. countries in a single year to candidly dis- above. There is no need to mention how and Harmony, to further promote cul- of the people. I would like to emphasise I believe that the mutual trust we have cuss the way forward on Asean-Japan significantly important it is for Asean as tural exchanges. I already announced the that Asean-Japan partnership has great built, and will continue to enhance, will relations with Asean leaders and people. an entity to ensure and promote funda- JENESYS2.0 youth exchange programme potential to be realised further. form a solid foundation for our ever- It is my great pleasure and honour to mental values such as freedom, democ- in January in Jakarta, which is currently The summit will serve as a catalytic lasting partnership. To respond to the host the Asean-Japan Commemorative racy and human rights and rule of law underway, inviting and sending youths opportunity to deepen and enhance the warm hospitality from Asean countries Summit in Tokyo on Friday that will in order to maintain peace and stability from both Asean and Japan. future partnership between Japan and that I received during every visit this no doubt be the milestone in conclud- of the region. I believe that Japan and Through my travel to Asean coun- Asean. I would like to have substantial year, I look forward to discussing ways ing and celebrating this 40th anniver- Asean, through their commitment to the tries this year, I was enlightened with discussions with Asean leaders on four to promote our cultural exchanges and sary year of Asean-Japan Friendship and renunciation of the threat or use of force the diversity and richness of the cultures aspects that are equally important for our give back the hospitality of Japan. Cooperation. or coercion, and to peaceful dispute reso- of each nation. For example, during my future relationship: peace and stability, My grandfather, Nobusuke Kishi, vis- On the eve of the summit, I would lutions, can play a more proactive role visit to Brunei, I visited Kampong Ayer, prosperity, quality of life of the people, ited Southeast Asian countries in 1957 like to highlight the significance of the for peace, stability and prosperity of the the water village, and had heartwarming and people-to-people exchanges. when he was prime minister, the first Asean-Japan partnership. Even though whole global community. exchanges with a family living there. I believe that for the benefit of the official visit to Asia by a Japanese prime we already have excellent bilateral rela- I will take the opportunity to explain to In Malaysia, I have very good memory regional and global interests, Asean and minister after the Second World War. tions with each Asean member country, the Asean leaders the concept of my pol- of the hospitality that I received at the Japan should together engage further for More than half a century has passed why do we strengthen our cooperation icy of Proactive Contribution to Peace for dinner reception despite being during the maintenance of peace and stability, since then. Now, an opportunity to bring between Japan and Asean as a collective regional and global stability and security Ramadan. I remember having the honour greatly enhance our economic partner- the Asean-Japan relationship that my entity? based on Japan’s long-standing principle of singing along with first lady Rosmah ship in various areas by promoting trade late grandfather initiated to a higher First, in the area of economy, Asean of international cooperation and build- Mansor. As for my travel to Vietnam, in goods and services that are of mutual level is laid out in front of me. has been the centre for manufactur- ing on Japan’s post-war endeavours as a I enjoyed seeing traditional dance that interests, and focus on the promotion of Succeeding my late grandfather’s ing for Japanese companies, and both peace-loving nation. dates to an ancient city with Prime human resources development to over- wishes and dedication, I am committed Asean and Japan have enjoyed economic I believe in the potential of cultural Minister Nguyen Tan Dung. come socio-economic issues. to the success of the summit. Yesterday growth thanks to the strong manufactur- exchanges in Asia to be conducted in Through these wonderful experi- I expect this summit to be an inval- will be remembered as a milestone that ing industry of Asean. A single Asean a two-way and win-win style, and have ences, I confirmed that Asean and Japan uable opportunity to nurture the sets out a clear vision of a bright and entity with better inter-connectivity and committed to launch a new Asian cul- understand each other from the bottom friendship between Asean and Japan promising future for Asean and Japan. intra-connectivity will bring about more tural exchange policy, WA Project: of our hearts and work hand-in-hand that I myself have already witnessed WP-BLOOMBERG Immigration not a problem today Playing the orientalism Immigration is clearly one of the card with Turkey’s critics most fiercely debated and toxic BY MARC CHAMPION rtan Aydin, a top adviser to Turkish Prime Minister Recep issues of today. The debate is, Tayyip Erdogan, doesn’t think much of foreign criticism of his government. however, less about the facts than E In an Al Jazeera op-ed article on Wednesday, Aydin cited a recent post of mine and a New York Times article by Tim Arango and Ceylan Yeginsu to make the argument that the Western news media about the existential impact. are misrepresenting Turkey because of our “orientalism,” a prejudice of West against East that has a long historical pedigree. I don’t challenge BY KENAN MALIK loss, gets to the heart of the the fact of orientalism, but it is hardly the case here. contemporary debate about For many years, like most Western journalists reporting in Turkey, here has recently been immigration. I defended Erdogan and his government against the “paranoiac” (my built in Merton in Immigration is clearly one of Fears of anti-Mulsim and anti-immigrant attacks are spreading in Greece. word) suspicions of secular Turks who claimed that he had a radical south London a “mega the most fiercely debated and Islamic or authoritarian agenda. Aydin complains that the Western Tmosque” that has inevi- toxic issues of today. The debate The current debate takes place, idea of class-based politics is press rarely mentions the improvements to Turkish democracy and tably become the focus of much is, however, less about the facts however, in a new context. When derided. All this has helped erode civil rights under Erdogan. Not true: Until a few years ago, the govern- controversy. In his book The than about the existential impact. Balfour warned of the impact of the bonds of solidarity that once ment was praised abroad for precisely those achievements, hence the British Dream, David Goodhart Immigration has become sym- Jewish immigrants, there existed shaped working-class communi- rise of the term the “Turkish model.” If you don’t hear much praise takes the mosque as symbolic bolic of the disruption of com- a strong sense of British identity, ties, leaving many feeling voiceless now, it’s because the liberal reforms stopped several years ago. In of the unacceptable change that munities, the undermining of rooted primarily in the concepts and detached from the political areas such as press freedom, they were put into reverse. And while immigration has wrought upon identities, the fraying of the sense of race and empire. Hostility to process. we continue to laud, for example, Erdogan’s peace efforts with Kurdish the nation. of belongingness, the promotion immigration was part of a racial- Immigration has played almost separatists, it would be impossible for us not to report on the disap- The mosque, he writes, of unacceptable change. The ised defence of national identity. no part in fostering these changes. pointment that so many observers, above all inside Turkey, feel as they “replaced an Express Dairies bot- roots of The British Dream lie in There lies also the break- It has, however, come to be a watch him throw away the chance of greatness. Instead, he is pushing tling plant which provided a few Goodhart’s 2004 essay in Prospect down of traditional political means through which many per- a partisan, ideological agenda for reasons that have mostly to do with hundred jobs for local people and magazine, of which he was then mechanisms, the growing chasm ceive these changes. consolidating his base ahead of elections next year. lots of milk bottles – an icon of an editor, called Too Diverse? between the elite and the public, Partly this is a consequence of Aydin tries to counter some of the specific criticisms often made earlier, more homogenised age.” Liberals, he suggested, had and the abandonment by main- the way that the public discussion against Erdogan. The crackdown at Gezi Park doesn’t show some nas- There was, in fact, a seven-year to face up to a “progressive stream parties of their traditional has been framed, with politicians cent brutish elected dictatorship, he says, adding that no protestors gap between the closing of the dilemma”. Too much immigra- working-class constituencies. at both ends of the spectrum pre- have been jailed and the five “unfortunate” deaths that occurred there dairy in 1992 and building work tion undermined social solidarity, The transformation of work- senting immigrants as a problem, are under investigation. This is a half-truth at best. The six deaths — beginning on the mosque. In those particularly in a welfare state. We ing-class life, the erosion of the even a threat. Aydin omits a policeman — were worse than unfortunate, they were seven years the abandoned dairy had to choose between the two. sense of working-class identity, Partly also it is because the needless, inflicted by an overly aggressive state response to what began was, according to local accounts, The essay caused considerable the breaking of bonds of solidar- forces of globalisation, or the as a small environmental protest. turned into a crack den. controversy, but the idea that ity, the marginalisation of labour internal wrangling of the Labour And some 40 trials on charges relating to the demonstrations involv- So, one story we could tell is too much immigration under- as a political voice – all are real party, are difficult to concep- ing about 300 people are underway; just this week, another 255 people that of economic forces closing mines social solidarity has over phenomena. tualise. One’s Bangladeshi or were indicted. Aydin doesn’t mention the issue that has Westerner down an unprofitable dairy, with the past decade become almost But all have roots not in mass Jamaican neighbour is easy to see. reporters most concerned: the government’s growing suppression of the loss of several hundred jobs, common sense. immigration but in broader eco- Almost inevitably, immigra- the domestic press, making Turkey a world leader in the incarcera- and of local Muslims subsequently The sense that Jewish immi- nomic and political changes. tion has come to be viewed by tion of journalists. A recent report by the opposition Republican Party rescuing the abandoned, crime- gration was uncontrolled and that When the first wave of post- many not as something that has claimed that 77 Turkish journalists lost their jobs for reporting on the infested site, creating new jobs “we’ve lost this place to other war immigrants arrived in enriched their lives, but as some- Gezi Park protests. and in the process transforming cultures” was palpable in the Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, thing that has diminished them. Erdogan had, and perhaps still has, the potential to be remembered Merton for the better. Critics of discussions. it was a period of full employ- So bedazzled have we become as a great, transformative leader. But Aydin’s charge of orientalism is immigration want, however, to “There is no end to them in ment, an expanding welfare state by the existential fear of immigra- just the latest in a long line of claims of foreign conspiracies intended tell a different story. Whitechapel and Mile End,” and strong trade unions. Today, tion that migrants have come to to deflect legitimate criticism — remember when a top Erdogan The mosque, in their eyes, is claimed one witness giving Britain’s manufacturing base has be seen less as living, breathing adviser claimed the Gezi protests were plotted by the German airline symbolic not of the rescue of a site evidence to the 1903 Royal all but disappeared, working class human beings than as so much Lufthansa? from abandonment and crime, Commission. “These areas communities have disintegrated flotsam and jetsam to be swept The most dangerous threat to Erdogan’s rule doesn’t come from but of the original closure of the of London might be called and the welfare state has begun away from Europe’s beaches. Western news organisations: It comes from the young educated Turks dairy and of the transformation Jerusalem.” The Conservative to crumble. Fortress Europe has created not in Gezi Park Erdogan dismissed as terrorists; from his political oppo- of Merton’s old way of life. MP Major Sir William Eden Trade unions have been neu- only a physical barrier around nents and increasing number of disenchanted former supporters; and The story of the Merton Evans-Gordon expressed the tered, the Labour party has the continent but an emotional from the fellow founding members of his own party, President Abdullah mosque, and the retelling of that same sentiment through a quite largely cut its roots with its one, too, around Europe’s sense Gul and Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc. Are they all oriental- story as a narrative of cultural extraordinary metaphor. working-class base, and the very of humanity. THE GUARDIAN ists, too? WP-BLOOMBERG DECEMBER 14, 2013 ON SATURDAY 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Middle East Iran halts nuclear talks after US blacklist move

TEHRAN: Iranian negotiators halted to bow to White House pleas not to intro- Singa Tankers, both companies accused under secretary for terrorism and finan- US sanctions currently in place,” said nuclear talks with major powers to duce new sanctions in Congress. of helping Iran transfer badly-needed cial intelligence. Johnson. return for consultations in Tehran But it risked angering Tehran after funds to a foreign bank on behalf of the Administration officials insisted the “But I agree that the administration’s yesterday after Washington black- repeated warnings from Iranian officials National Iranian Tanker Company. timing of Thursday’s blacklist move was request for a diplomatic pause is reason- listed a dozen companies and individ- in recent days that any additional puni- Ukrainian national Vitaly Sokolenko entirely coincidental and not aimed at able,” Johnson told a hearing by the panel. uals for evading US sanctions, state tive measures would be a violation of last and his Odessa-based firm Ferland sending a message to Congress to back “A new round of US sanctions now media reported. month’s agreement. Company Limited were cited for help- off new sanctions. could rupture the unity of the interna- “The Iranian negotiators interrupted Under the interim deal reached in ing to broker the sales of Iranian oil and But just hours afterwards, Senate tional coalition against Iran’s nuclear the talks with the P5+1 for consultations Geneva, Iran agreed to freeze parts of transfer the crude ship to ship. banking committee chairman Tim programme.” in Tehran,” a negotiator told Iran’s official its suspect nuclear programme for six The US State Department also named Johnson and the committee’s top Before the Iranian delegation quit Irna news agency. months in return for some $7bn in relief five Iranian entities and several people Republican Michael Crapo agreed with the talks late on their fourth day on The negotiators had been discuss- from Western sanctions as it negotiates a that it alleges provide goods and services the White House that Washington should Thursday, diplomats said they were prov- ing the implementation of a landmark final, comprehensive accord to allay sus- that contribute or risked contributing to not introduce new sanctions, warning ing to be a hard slog. Participants said interim accord agreed last month with picions it is seeking a weapons capability. Iran’s nuclear programme or its develop- they could “rupture” international unity there were differences of opinion about the P5+1 — Britain, China, France, Russia The United States also agreed to ment of ballistic missiles. against Tehran’s nuclear programme. sequencing Iran’s promised nuclear freeze and the United States, plus Germany. refrain from slapping new sanctions on “Today’s actions should be a stark The comments virtually assured that and the easing of sanctions agreed in last The decision to halt the talks in Vienna, Iran, but senior administration officials reminder to businesses, banks and bro- no new sanctions legislation would pass month’s deal. which also involve the UN nuclear watch- argued that Thursday’s measures were kers everywhere that we will continue Congress before the year-end break, They insisted, however, that the discus- dog, came hours after Washington black- taken as part of the existing sanctions relentlessly to enforce our sanctions, although lawmakers could controversially sions were not any harder than expected listed a dozen overseas companies and regime which had forced Tehran to the even as we explore the possibility of a introduce a new sanctions bill within the and that the differences would eventually individuals for evading crippling US sanc- negotiating table. long-term, comprehensive resolution of next week. be ironed out — although not by the end tions on Iran’s oil and baking sectors. Those blacklisted on Thursday included our concerns with Iran’s nuclear pro- “Let me be clear. I support strong of this week. The move prompted two top senators the Singapore-based Mid Oil Asia and gramme,” said David Cohen, Treasury sanctions, and authored many of the AFP Israeli-Palestinian deal possible by April: Kerry Both parties remain committed to peace: Top US official

TEL AVIV: Shrugging off as a broad outline for the final respects Palestinian sovereignty,” g lo omy pr e d ic tion s of fa i lu r e, US deal. Palestinians fear such a pre- Kerry said, without giving further Secretary of State John Kerry liminary agreement could serve details. said yesterday that Israelis and to delay once again their hopes of Palestinian officials say Israeli Palestinians remained commit- establishing an independent state security concerns are block- ted to peace talks and were on in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and ing the talks and have ques- course to wrap up a full deal by East Jerusalem — land the Israelis tioned whether Israel would April. seized in the 1967 war. press ahead with the third Speaking at the end of his sec- Kerry said his talks over the tranche of a planned release of ond visit to the region in just a past two days, played out against Palestinian prisoners at the end week, Kerry said the two sides a backdrop of fierce winter snow of December. were discussing a framework for storms, had focused on security, Seen as a vital confidence- a final-status accord to resolve with retired US General John building measure, Israel has so A Palestinian with a snowman outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem yesterday. the core issues at the heart of the Allen joining him for the discus- far freed about half the 104 pris- decades-old conflict. sions with Palestinian President oners it had pledged to let out of “Both parties remain commit- Mahmoud Abbas. its jails under a deal secured by ted to fulfilling their obligations Washington in July. Kerry said Jerusalem locked down by to stay at the table and negoti- GUARANTEES the third tranche would go ahead ate hard during the nine-month Palestinian sources said Allen, on December 29. period that we set for that,” Kerry a former commander of US troops Kerry has made nine visits to told reporters after separate in Afghanistan, had drawn up the region since taking office in fiercest snowstorm in years talks with Palestinian and Israeli plans to allow a continued Israeli February in a relentless cam- leaders. military presence for the next paign to gain momentum and JERUSALEM: The hilltop city metres (2,600 feet) above sea level people living in Jerusalem not to “We’re not talking at this point 10 years in the Jordan Valley — bridge a vast gulf of mutual of Jerusalem was paralysed yes- were closed and police appealed to drive in private cars unless they about any shifts (in the sched- along the eastern border of any mistrust. terday by its fiercest snowstorm drivers not to attempt the journey. have four-wheel-drive because of ule),” he said, dismissing bleak new Palestinian state. “We remain hopeful that we in years, with its mayor calling Temperatures in the city were the danger on icy streets,” police assessments from both sides on Israel says its troops have to can achieve that final-status out the army to help stranded predicted to reach a high of two spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. progress in the US-brokered remain there to prevent arms agreement. Why? Because we motorists. degrees celsius (35.6 Fahrenheit) He said that by mid-morning negotiations, which resumed in and militants from entering the are absolutely confident ... that “We are battling a storm of during the day and drop below police had been called to help July after a three-year pause. West Bank and launching attacks. for both sides, and the region at rare ferocity,” Mayor Nir Barkat freezing at night, with the snow- about 1,500 drivers in the city and The US top diplomat wants the Abbas has rejected the idea, but large, peace can bring enormous said in a statement as snow in fall that started on Thursday con- on the roads leading to it. two camps to accept a so-called said he would accept seeing US benefits,” Kerry said. the Holy City piled up to around tinuing into Saturday. He said about 1,000 stranded framework accord that will touch troops deployed along the border. The US Secretary of State was 37 centimetres (15 inches), while Schools were closed for a second travellers were given shelter on all the main issues, such as “We are working on an due to leave Israel today and head outlying areas had much deeper day yesterday and most residents at the Jerusalem International security, the future of Jerusalem approach that both guaran- for Vietnam and the Philippines. drifts. Main roads into the Holy appeared to be heeding advice to Conference Centre on the city’s and the fate of refugees, and serve tees Israel’s security and fully REUTERS City, which climb around 795 stay at home. “We have asked western edge. AFP

Gunmen shoot dead 18 oil Women Islamists challenge Egypt’s army-backed rule CAIRO: With many of its “Protesting is more important workers in Iraq male members jailed, Egypt’s than lectures and tests because this besieged Muslim Brotherhood is about freedom for our country,” BAQUBA, IRAQ: Masked is calling up an unlikely reserve she said, giving only her first name gunmen shot dead 18 oil and gas force against the army-backed on account of security concerns. workers, most of them Iranians, government in the conservative Just outside her dorm, hundreds of outside the northeastern Iraqi Arab country. female students chanted for the end town of Muqdadiya yesterday, At more and more protests, of military rule. medical and local sources said. female members of the Islamist They went as far as to call army The workers, 15 of them from movement can be seen taking on chief General Abdel Fattah Al Iran and three from Iraq, were security forces mounting one of Sisi, who toppled Mursi, a traitor, attacked as they dug a trench to their fiercest crackdowns against despite a new law that puts severe extend a gas pipeline, Muqdadiya’s the group. One newspaper front restrictions on demonstrations. mayor told Reuters. page captured the determina- “Our presence encourages Two Iraqis were killed and tion of the Muslim Brothers, and the men to continue,” said Nada twelve others wounded when sisters, to survive. A photograph Abdelrahman, 21, her face fully a car bomb exploded in Al showed a woman wearing goggles covered by a black veil, nervously Nahrawan neighbourhood in east- and a gas mask over her head- watching a man who she sus- ern Baghdad. Security authorities scarf throwing an object at secu- pected was an undercover state said that the incident has caused rity forces as she and two women security agent. damage to a number of cars and were engulfed in a cloud of teargas. “We can’t stand by while our shops near the blast site . Beside the photo was an image of brothers are in jail and getting the interior minister, one of the beaten up by the police.” officials who have vowed to wipe Sisi has promised that a politi- Qaeda rebels seize out the movement. cal roadmap would lead to free “We are doing this for our Supporters of former president Mohamed Mursi make the ‘four-fingered salute’ during a protest showing their and fair elections in Egypt. But 120 Syrian Kurds classmates who are in jail and our continued support for the ousted leader, in Cairo, yesterday. Brotherhood members say Egypt friends who were martyred,” says is no freer than it was before the BEIRUT: Islamist rebels linked Al Shaimaa Hussein, 21, a media women members could pose a Eric Trager, an expert on the demonstrations.” 2011 popular uprising that toppled to Al Qaeda kidnapped at least student at Al Azhar University, dilemma for the state. the Muslim Brotherhood at the The government came under autocrat Hosni Mubarak. 120 Kurdish civilians yesterday the epicentre of student protests While much of the public has Washington Institute for Near fire last month from rights groups Al Azhar student Shaimaa from a village near the Turkish against the army. The university supported tough security meas- East Policy, says the Muslim after a court sentenced 21 women Mounir, 21, was arrested at a border in Aleppo province, a is the Sunni Islamic world’s seat ures against the group, societal “Sisterhood” has not suffered and teenage girls to harsh prison mosque in downtown Cairo dur- monitoring group said. of learning, and usually toes the norms in the majority-Muslim heavy blows in the crackdown. terms for protesting. The court ing a protest in August. She was The Syrian Observatory for Egyptian government line, but country may cause some to chafe “With their structure intact, ended up slashing their sentences detained for two days at one of Human Rights said the Islamic some students are sympathetic at action against women and girls, they are able to play a more cen- and releasing them. Egypt’s most notorious prisons. State of Iraq and the Levant to the Islamist cause. even those protesting against the tral role in mobilising for the cur- Unlike her Islamist male rela- “The police think they can (ISIL) fighters entered Ihras, Police have killed hundreds of revered army. Those sensitivities rent protests,” he said. tives who are constantly on the scare us into stopping. On the 20km south of the border town Islamists. They have also arrested may have figured in the calcula- “The fact that Egyptian author- run for fear of arrest, 18-year- contrary, I feel no fear,” she said. of Azaz, and took the captives, top Brotherhood leaders, includ- tions of the Brotherhood, who ities have typically been more old Olaa, an engineering student She wore a button with a pho- including at least six women, to ing Mursi, decimating what was have tried but failed to turn the hesitant to round up women than at Al Azhar, still has freedom of tograph of herself with a woman an unknown location. once the most organised political public against the army, which it men is an added incentive for the movement, and she is taking full friend killed in a raid on a pro- AGENCIES force in Egypt. But going after accuses of staging a coup. Muslim Sisters to participate in advantage of it for the cause. Mursi protest camp. REUTERS DECEMBER 14, 2013 International www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 ON SATURDAY

Close Gitmo Yanukovych sits says US general who with opposition opened camp

WASHINGTON: The general who opened the US military’s for round table Guantanamo Bay camp in Cuba when its first detainees arrived in 2002 on Thursday called for the facility to be closed. Thousands mass for rally “I believe it is time to close Guantanamo,” said retired Major KIEV: Ukrainian President politician Vitaly Klitschko. General Michael Lehnert in an Viktor Yanukovych made few Despite talks in Brussels by article published in US daily the concessions yesterday in crisis his government aimed at secur- Detroit Free Press, adding that talks with the opposition, his ing financial aid from the EU the prison “should never have first direct attempt to defuse for his near-bankrupt country, been opened.” weeks of unrest over a policy Yanukovych still appeared on The article comes as US law- swerve to Russia away from course to go to Moscow on Dec. makers prepare a deal that Europe. 17 to tie up a trade agreement eases restrictions on sending The meeting came as protest- which the opposition fears could Guantanamo detainees home or ers streamed into the capital slam the door on integration with to third countries but bars their from mainly western regions for Europe. transfer to the United States. a mass rally tomorrow, boosting Highlighting the high geo- But Lehnert, the first com- thousands already camped out on political stakes, Russian Prime mander of the US detention Kiev’s Independence Square, focal Minister Dmitry Medvedev yes- center, said the compromise point of recent demonstrations. terday said Ukraine must avoid a measure between Democrats Russia, in the meantime, point- “tectonic split”. and Republicans, “maintains an edly demanded that the European He said the appearance of EU unwise and unnecessary ban on Union keep out of Ukrainian politicians at Kiev protests was a transferring detainees to the affairs. “crude interference” in Ukraine’s Pro-European integration protesters gather in Independence Square in central Kiev, yesterday. United States.” Yanukovych, yielding to calls affairs — a clear reference to EU “There are a handful of detain- from the international commu- foreign policy chief Catherine agreement with the European (Yanukovych) your demands. We the stability of the economy which ees at Guantanamo who should be nity, began round-table talks with Ashton and EU foreign ministers Union after years of prepara- will fight for our common victory,” is very unsteady,” he said. “I am transferred to the US for pros- the opposition to try to find a way who have visited protest sites in tion and announced it was reviv- said Arseny Yatsenyuk, a former outraged by the radical acts which ecution or incarceration,” Lehnert out of the conflict which has put recent weeks. ing trade relations instead with economy minister, told crowds on have taken place on the ‘maidan’, said. Ukraine at the centre of an East- The national currency, the former overseer Moscow. Kiev’s Independence Square which as much as from ‘provocateurs’ The retired general maintained West tug-of-war. hryvnia, tumbled 0.4 percent on Since then the capital has been is known colloquially as the ‘maidan’. as from the security bodies which that the detention facility “squan- But with the opposition insist- Friday to 8.31 to the dollar — its roiled by sometimes harshly han- The two other opposition did not behave correctly.” dered the goodwill of the world ing on core demands such as the lowest level since 2009 — as the dled pro-Europe rallies, involving leaders, Klitschko and far-right He defended his policy shift, after we were attacked by our dismissal of his government, the anti-government protests contin- hundreds of thousands of people nationalist Oleh Tyahnybok, stood repeating that Ukraine’s eco- actions in Guantanamo.” talks seemed unlikely to head ued to jangle market nerves. at the weekends, who accuse alongside him as he spoke. nomic ills could not be cured He added that he was ordered off another outpouring of anger The round-table talks repre- Yanukovych of turning the clock In remarks to the round-table without “restoration of normal to “construct the first 100 cells against him tomorrow. sented the first direct encounter back and selling out national Yanukovych sought to take a neu- trade relations with Russia.” at Guantanamo within 96 hours” “This round-table was simply a any of the three opposition lead- interests to the Kremlin. tral stance in the conflict which In a gesture of appeasement, and that the first group of 20 pris- declaration and not a single step ers have had with Yanukovych in The opposition leaders indi- has involved police heavy-hand- Yanukovych said he would propose oners arrived seven days after the was made to meet the opposition. months of crisis around his policy cated they would insist that edness against peaceful protest- an amnesty for those detained at order was given. I have the impression that the towards Europe. Yanukovych meet their core ers that has drawn condemnation recent mass street protests - but When President Barack Obama authorities today did not listen This came to a head on demands which include the dis- from the international community. he made no indication of offering took office nearly five years ago, to a single one of the demands November 21 when his govern- missal of the government and “Any instability negatively up Prime Minister Mykola Azarov closing the detention center was of the opposition,” said boxing ment suddenly backed off a early elections. influences not only the image of as demanded by the opposition. one of his first promises. But champion-turned-opposition landmark trade-and-political “We will pass on to him the country but the life of people, REUTERS today, 162 men remain behind bars out of the 779 who passed through its doors. Of those left, most “are cleared for transfer, but stuck by politics” Lehnert wrote. France should allow headscarves, Arabic in schools: Report In the facility’s earliest days, Lehnert said he realized that many detainees “should never PARIS: France should reverse It said France, with Europe’s Prime Minister Jean-Marc Among the proposals presented working again because it has broken have been sent in the first place,” decades of strict secularism to largest Muslim population, should Ayrault, who will chair a min- by senior civil servant Thierry down”. Centre-right UMP party and that “they had little intelli- integrate its immigrant popu- recognise the “Arab-oriental isterial meeting next month on Tuot and a group of experts was to leader Jean-Francois Cope accused gence value, and there was insuf- lation better, allowing Muslims dimension” of its identity, for improving integration based forbid authorities and the media the government of pandering to the ficient evidence linking them to to wear headscarves in schools example by changing street and partly on the report, told report- to refer to people’s nationality, immigrant vote and denounced “an war crimes.” and promoting Arabic teach- place names, rewriting its history ers there was no plan to drop the religion or ethnicity, and the cre- attempt to make multiculturalism “It is time to close Guantanamo. ing, according to an iconoclas- curriculum and creating a special headscarf ban and distanced him- ation of a new offence of “racial the new model for France”. Our departure from Afghanistan tic report commissioned by the day to honour the contribution of self from the study. harrassment”. They also recom- “It would no longer be up to is a perfect point in history to prime minister. immigrant cultures. “Just because I receive a report mended promoting the teaching immigrants to adopt French cul- close the facility,” he said. The document, part of a gov- Although ethnic statistics are doesn’t make it government pol- of Arabic and African languages ture, but for France to abandon The compromise is part of a ernment review of integration officially banned, an estimated icy,” Ayrault said after the daily in French schools. its own culture, language, history larger defense bill. The House of policy, sparked an outcry among five million Muslims, originating Le Figaro drew attention to the Ayrault said the aim was to rec- and identity to adapt to other Representatives and Senate are conservative opposition politicians mostly from former African colo- document, which was posted on ommend ways to fight discrimi- people’s cultures,” he said in a expected to vote on the matter and unease among the governing nies such as Algeria and Morocco, the prime minister’s official web- nation and inequality to “get the statement. before the end of December. Socialists. live in France. site last month. republican model of integration REUTERS AFP

Russia says Arctic crew cannot Mourners swamp last leave country: goodbye for Mandela Greenpeace PRETORIA: The last day of again. Nosiswe Maduna and her SAINT PETERSBURG: Nelson Mandela’s formal lying 14-year-old daughter had queued Russia has denied foreign in state yesterday was over- vainly for hours on Thursday after Greenpeace activists permis- whelmed by mourners desperate travelling 220km from Senekal in sion to leave the country pend- to say a final, personal farewell Free State Province. ing their trial over an Arctic to the anti-apartheid icon. “It was my daughter who said protest, the group said yetser- Barely two hours after opening we should sleep here and try day, some two weeks after they the top of the casket for viewing, again, because she didn’t want were released on bail. the government said it would be to go back without seeing him,” Dutch activist Anne Mie unable to accommodate all those Maduna said. Jensen received a letter from the waiting and appealed for people They spent the night in the Investigative Committee, in which to stay away. open at a petrol station and began the powerful agency indicated to Yesterday was the last oppor- queueing at 3.00am so as not to be the crew, indicted on hooliganism tunity to view the body of South disappointed again. charges, that they “cannot leave Prince Harry (left) of Team Gelfiddich with Heath Jamieson of Team Commonwealth, Margaux Mange of Team Africa’s first black president in For those who did manage to the country,” Greenpeace said. US and Team Commonwealth and Duncan Slater of Team Gelfiddich with the trophy at the South Pole during Pretoria, before it is transported enter the venue, the last glimpse The organisation said they had the Virgin Money South Pole Allied Challenge expedition in Antarctica, yesterday. to his boyhood village of Qunu for of Mandela prompted powerful asked the committee to request burial tomorrow. feelings. exit visas from the Russian Large numbers had camped “It’s truly a moving event. As migration services for the 26 for- Prince Harry reaches South Pole out to secure an early place in you walk past his body, you’re eign nationals, so that they can the queue, but as of 7.30am (0530 overcome with emotion,” said go home, but the committee has GMT) there were already 50,000 Sakib Khan, a British national refused. LONDON: Prince Harry yes- the safety of the participants, The veterans have endured waiting for buses to the Union living in South Africa since 2002. The activists “would now be terday became the first member some of whom lost limbs fighting temperatures as low as minus 35 Buildings — the seat of govern- Mandela’s body is scheduled forced to stay in Saint Petersburg of Britain’s royal family to reach in Afghanistan and Iraq. degrees Celsius (minus 31 degrees ment where the coffin has been to be taken to Waterkloof air for Christmas and possibly well the South Pole after a three- The teams decided to continue Fahrenheit) and wind speeds of laid out for three days. force base early this morning, for beyond,” without any idea as to week charity trek with injured their trek, however, dragging around 80km per hour. “We urge people to please NOT the two-hour flight to Qunu in when authorities will actually military veterans from Britain, 70-kilogramme sleds through The trek has been organised make their way to the park and Eastern Cape province, where he summon them for questioning. the United States, Canada and the bitter cold and high winds. by Walking With The Wounded, ride facilities,” the government grew up. Tomorrow, some 5,000 The 30-strong crew of Arctic Australia. Harry, 29, joked earlier this week a charity which raises funds to information service said in a writ- people, including foreign dignitar- Sunrise was arrested after some Harry and the 12 servicemen about the expected arrival date retrain injured troops and help ten statement. ies and senior political figures, are activists attempted to scale a and women reached the globe’s of Friday 13th, which he said was them find new careers outside the “Any additional numbers will expected to participate in a for- Gazprom gas company platform most southerly point at 1200 “unlucky for some, lucky for us”. military. make it physically impossible for mal, two-hour ceremony begin- in the northern Barents Sea to GMT following a 320km jour- “The wind has dropped down, Harry joined the charity for people to be safely transported to ning at 8:00 am (0600 GMT). protest oil exploration in the vul- ney across the frozen wastes of which is nice. I think everyone is part of a trek to the North Pole in the Union Buildings and get the But the actual burial will be a nerable area. Antarctica, organisers Walking feeling a bit tired but slowly get- 2011, but had to come home early opportunity to file past the body,” strictly private affair, barred to Russian special forces boarded With The Wounded said. ting into the rhythm,” the fourth- to be best man at his brother it said. both the general public and the the ship shortly after the protest The expedition was initially in-line to the throne said. Prince William’s wedding to the But many had already been media, government spokeswoman and towed it into Murmansk. conceived as a race but it was “Only just got into the rhythm former Kate Middleton. turned away the day before, and Phumla Williams said. AFP abandoned due to concerns about now and it has almost finished.” AFP were determined not to miss out AFP DECEMBER 14, 2013 ON SATURDAY 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Asia

Chinese exec in Kim’s uncle scandal jailed for bribery

CHINA: An official involved in an immoral act was sen- executed tenced to 14 years in jail for bribery yesterday, state media said, in the latest fall- Jang Song Thaek guilty of treason out from a case that trans- fixed the country. SEOUL: North Korea said yes- and influence had become increas- Han Shuming, a former dis- terday it has executed the uncle ingly resented. trict head in the southwestern of leader Kim Jong-Un, brand- “If confirmed, this is another city of Chongqing, was convicted ing veteran fixer Jang Song- example of the extreme brutality of accepting bribes worth 4.4m Thaek a “traitor for all ages”, as of the North Korean regime,” US yuan ($724,759), according to a the US and South Korea voiced State Department deputy spokes- local court ruling, the Xinhua concern at the shock purge. woman Marie Harf said, adding news agency said. In a stunning downfall, Jang that Washington was following Han was one of more than — who had been seen as Kim’s developments closely. 20 officials and executives at political regent and the country’s South Korea yesterday state-owned companies who unofficial number two — was exe- expressed “deep concerns” over were investigated after a gang cuted on Thursday immediately the developments, and said it blackmailed them with secretly after a special military trial, state would prepare for “all possibili- recorded sex videos. news agency KCNA. ties in the future” and coordinate In a viciously worded attack it closely with its allies. US, China ships said he committed such a “hideous “The North usually curbs inter- Jang Song Thaek, North Korea’s second most powerful man and leader Kim Jong-un’s uncle, stands trial before crime as attempting to overthrow nal instability by waging provo- a special military tribunal in Pyongyang on Thursday, a day before he was executed. avoid collision the state by all sorts of intrigues cations externally,” the South’s and despicable methods with a Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl- Three generations of the Kim was also accused of slighting the armed forces under the control WASHINGTON: A US wild ambition to grab the supreme Jae said, warning the purge could family have ruled the North for young leader. of my confidants”, KCNA quoted guided missile cruiser oper- power of our party and state.” be followed by military responses six decades with an iron fist, regu- Deriding Jang as “despicable him as saying. ating in international waters The report portrayed Jang as including another nuclear test. larly purging those showing the human scum... worse than a dog,” “I attempted to trigger off dis- in the South China Sea was decadent and corrupt, “stretching China — the North’s sole major slightest sign of dissent. Most are the KCNA report said he had content among service person- forced to take evasive action his tentacles” into every area of ally and economic lifeline — said executed or sent to prison camps, attempted to stand in the way of nel and people when the present last week to avoid a collision national affairs. In a rare admis- Jang’s execution was an internal but the nation has not seen such a Kim Jong-Un’s succession and then regime does not take any measure with a Chinese navy ship sion of economic strife, it also matter but also emphasised the high-level execution for decades. targeted him with a planned coup. despite the fact that the economy manoeuvring nearby, the US blamed him for the failings of the need for stability. The regime accused Jang of During the court hearing, Jang of the country and people’s living Pacific Fleet said in a state- hungry and impoverished nation. “As a neighbour we hope to betraying the trust of both Kim reportedly confessed he attempted are driven into catastrophe.” ment yesterday. Jang, 67, played a key role in see national stability, economic Jong-Un and his father — saying he to stage a coup by mobilising his South Korea’s spy agency told The Pacific Fleet statement cementing the leadership of the development and people living in had received “deeper trust” from associates in the military. the National Assembly that the did not offer details about inexperienced Kim when he suc- happiness in the DPRK,” foreign the younger leader in particular. “I was going to stage the coup worst purge in decades in the what led to the near-collision ceeded his father Kim Jong-Il in ministry spokesman Hong Lei In a nation long ruled under a by using army officers who had Stalinist state masks its chronic on December 5 involving the 2011, but analysts said his power said at a regular briefing. pervasive personality cult, Jang close ties with me or by mobilising instability. AFP USS Cowpens. But it did say the incident underscored the need for the “highest standards of professional seamanship, including communications between vessels, to mitigate the Four dead in clashes after risk of an unintended incident Yingluck must step down: Suthep or mishap.” BANGKOK: The leader of a knowing that allies of Yingluck’s Thailand’s eight-year politi- Bangla leader’s execution Tsunami record protest group trying to over- brother, ousted former premier cal conflict centres on Thaksin, throw Thailand’s government Thaksin Shinawatra, would prob- a former telecommunications DHAKA: At least four peo- “It is a great gift to me as per- found in cave said yesterday the prime minis- ably win any election, wants an tycoon popular among the rural ple were killed in Bangladesh son, and it is consistent with the ter should either step down or unelected “people’s council” to poor because of policies pursued yesterday when supporters of spirit of our liberation war,” Selina JAKARTA: Scientists said be forced out, and his movement take over. when he was in power and carried Islamist leader Abdul Quader Hossain, a writer whose family yesterday they had discov- would then need around a year Presenting his ideas to the on by governments allied to him Mollah vented their fury at his was tortured during the conflict, ered a cave on the Indonesian to push through reforms. media, protest leader Suthep when he was ousted. execution for war crimes com- said. Mollah, dubbed the “Butcher island of Sumatra that pro- Suthep Thaugsuban, a law- said he would meet military Thaksin, who lives in self-exile mitted during the 1971 war of of Mirpur” in Bangladesh for his vides a “stunning” record of maker who resigned from parlia- chiefs today to discuss his strat- to escape a jail sentence for abuse independence from Pakistan. part in hundreds of killings 42 Indian Ocean tsunamis over ment to lead the protest, and his egy, but he rejected any idea of of power, gained an unassailable The decision to hang Mollah, years ago, was buried in the early thousands of years. allies have spoken of a volunteer cutting a deal with Yingluck, mandate that he used to advance a senior figure in the Jamaat-e- hours of yesterday in his home They say layers of tsunami- police force, decentralisation of who heads a caretaker govern- the interests of big companies, Islami party that is a key part village in the southern district of borne sediments found in the power and electoral reform - but ment now that the king has including his own. He has dis- of the opposition coalition, drew Faridpur. cave in northwest Sumatra apart from that have been notice- endorsed the election date. missed the graft charges as politi- widespread condemnation from In the latest violence, Jamaat suggest the biggest destructive ably short on specifics. Yingluck said she will hold cally motivated. Ranged against political allies and international supporters set fire to vehicles and waves do not occur at set inter- Prime Minister Yingluck a forum tomorrow to discuss him are a royalist establishment human rights groups. houses, looted shops, set off crude vals — meaning communities in Shinawatra has called an elec- reforms but says they can only that feels threatened by his rise But many citizens celebrated bombs and blocked roads in several the area should be prepared at tion for Feb 2 in an effort to end be drawn up and implemented and, in the past, the military. the first ever execution of a parts of the country. all times for a tsunami. the street protests but Suthep, after the election. REUTERS Bangladesh war criminal. REUTERS Inside the cave the research- ers found layers of sandy sedi- ment, which had been washed in by tsunamis thousands of years previously. The layers, which contained small fossils from the seabed, were well- preserved and separated by droppings deposited by bats. Japan opts for nuclear power TOKYO: Japan should embrace nuclear power as an “important and fundamental” energy source, a government panel said yesterday, in advice that looks almost certain to be accepted, despite widespread anti-nuclear feeling after the Fukushima disaster. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is keen to restart Japan’s idled nuclear reactors to cut the cost of fossil fuel imports which have swelled the trade deficit to a Philippine President Benigno Aquino (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attend a joint news record and driven up electric- ity prices. conference at the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo yesterday. Beijing sues Asean addresses sea dispute rights activist BEIJING: China yesterday TOKYO: Asian nations must Asian nations, including the The charm offensive, which formally charged a promi- ensure that territorial dis- Philippines, over wide swathes has been underlined by hefty nent campaigner for offi- putes do not erupt into con- of the South China Sea and has Japanese aid over the years and cials to reveal their wealth, flict, leaders said yesterday, said it might set up a similar rising private investment, culmi- his lawyer said, after police with Japan and the Philippines zone there. nates in a three-day Tokyo gath- accused him of break- reaffirming their commit- “We reiterated our commit- ering that began yesterday and is ing the law by organising ment to freedom of flight as ment to uphold the rule of law, billed officially as celebrating 40 demonstrations. concerns grow over China’s promote the peaceful settlement years of diplomatic ties. Xu Zhiyong, who has also new air defence zone. of disputes, and to assure free- The final statement from pushed for greater civil rights, Beijing’s growing military dom of flight in international the summit, due to be released was arrested in August. strength has sparked concern air space,” Philippine President today, is likely to state its sup- Xu’s lawyer, Zhang Qingfang, in Asia, and tension has spiked Benigno Aquino told reporters port for freedom of the air and said Xu had been charged with in the last month after China in Tokyo after meeting Japanese the seas - but stop short of men- “disturbing public order”, a announced the air defence zone Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. tioning China. common accusation against including islands in the East Aquino stopped short of “In particular, it must be said rights activists who attempt China Sea also claimed by Japan. mentioning China in the media that good relations between any form of protest. The air defence identification appearance with Abe, who has Japan and China are critical Asked when the trial might zone has triggered protests from made stronger ties with the 10 to the future of our region,” be held, Zhang said, “All I can the United States and its close members of the Association of said Indonesian President say is that it will be very quick, allies, Japan and South Korea Southeast Asian Nations a pri- Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in within a month.” China is also locked in ter- ority, visiting all of them during a speech. AGENCIES ritorial rows with other his first year in office. REUTERS DECEMBER 14, 2013 Philippines www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 ON SATURDAY Philippines typhoon death toll tops 6,000 2,000 still missing as UN official visits Tacloban to help rehabilitation efforts

MANILA: The number of peo- Gulf, that left between 5,000 and Tacloban at the Philippine gov- ple dead after one of the world’s 8,000 people dead. ernment’s invitation to provide strongest typhoons struck the The Haiyan toll has already insights on managing large-scale Philippines has risen above surpassed Tropical Storm recovery programmes, the United 6,000, the government said yes- Thelma, which unleashed floods Nations Development Programme terday, with nearly 2,000 others that killed more than 5,100 peo- said in a statement. still missing. ple in the central city of Ormoc “I’m here to offer the govern- Five weeks after Super in 1991, previously the country’s ment and the international com- Typhoon Haiyan destroyed entire deadliest storm. munity my experience as the towns across the nation’s central The United Nations asked coordinator of rehabilitation of islands, the National Disaster donors this week to more than Aceh,” Mangkusubroto said in the Risk Reduction and Management double their emergency aid dona- statement. “I look forward to shar- Council put the official death toll tions to the Philippines to $791m ing my expertise and contributing at 6,009, making it the Philippines’ to cover needs over 12 months. to designing an efficient recovery deadliest recorded typhoon. The government said more plan for the areas devastated by The council said it is still look- than four million people lost their Typhoon Haiyan,” he added. ing for 1,779 missing people amid homes to either Haiyan’s 315 kilo- “The aim of this significant visit an international relief and reha- metres (195 miles) per hour winds by Dr Kuntoro Mangkusubroto bilitation effort covering a large or tsunami-like storm surges, and is to share ways to ensure that devastated area. The number of some would continue to need food the recovery process in the people confirmed dead or unac- aid as well as shelters and jobs. Philippines will build resilience counted for continues to rise As part of the international against future typhoons,” said the steadily. On November 23, more aid effort, an Indonesian offi- UN’s humanitarian and resident than two weeks after the storm cial involved in the rebuilding of coordinator Luiza Carvalho. struck, officials put the death toll Aceh after the devastating 2004 Mangkusubroto was the at 5,235 and listed 1,613 people as Indian Ocean tsunami was in the director of Indonesia’s National still missing. Philippines yesterday to help the Agency for Reconstruction and The latest official count puts neighbouring country recover Rehabilitation for Aceh and Nias Haiyan nearly on par with a from the typhoon. islands, which accounted for 1976 tsunami in the southern Senior government official about half the 200,000-plus deaths A man removes mud from a painting at the site of his destroyed house in Palo, Tacloban, as survivors of Typhoon Philippines, generated by a major Kuntoro Mangkusubroto vis- caused by the 2004 tsunami. Haiyan slowly begin rebuilding their lives. undersea earthquake in the Moro ited the hard-hit central city of AFP

FIFA gives $1m as typhoon aid Govt lifts ban on deployment in Egypt 163 bombs made by leftist MANILA: The Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs However, he added the deploy- MANILA: FIFA will give government has lifted a total (DFA) further lowered the cri- ment ban for newly-hired OFWs rebels seized in Agusan a special $1m grant to help deployment ban on Egypt in sis alert level in the said country shall be maintained. rebuild football facilities view of the continued improve- from Level 3 to Level 2 or restric- In August this year, the DFA DAVAO CITY: The military on Wednesday at Kauswagan vil- damaged in the Philippines’ ment in the political and secu- tion phase. raised the crisis alert level in yesterday said it had discov- lage, Loreto, a town of Agusan del deadliest typhoon, the rity situation there, a senior Under Alert Level 2, he said Egypt to 4, which led to the man- ered a huge cache of impro- Sur, said Captain Alberto Caber, national football association official said yesterday. the processing and deployment datory repatriation of OFWs and vised bombs believed to be from spokesperson for the military’s said yesterday. Philippine Overseas of workers shall be allowed only issuance of a total deployment a regional factory of the leftist Eastern Mindanao Command. “We are deeply moved Employment Administration for overseas Filipino workers ban on Egypt. New People’s Army (NPA) in “Bombs have enough power by this generous support of (POEA) chief Hans Leo Cacdac (OFWs) returning to their cur- There are around 6,000 the southern Philippines. that can kill or maim thousands FIFA that shows their soli- said that the POEA Governing rent employers and are with Filipinos in Egypt, listing a total Some 163 pieces of landmines and destroy a city when detonated darity and sympathy with Board has lifted the deployment existing employment contracts of 1,353 OFWs. were recovered in one of the big- at the same time,” Caber said. our nation,” the Philippine ban on Egypt after the Philippine as determined by POEA. THE PHILIPPINE STAR gest seizure by government troops THE PHILIPPINE STAR Football Federation’s president Mariano Araneta said. “We are looking at reha- bilitating and constructing football facilities in provinces severely hit by Super Typhoon $22m development fund (Haiyan),” the association’s general secretary Edwin Gastanes said in a statement. scam being probed Haiyan pummelled nearly 200 towns and cities across the central Philippines on MANILA: The government Department of Justice, National November 8, killing at least will investigate another Priority Bureau of Investigation (NBI), 6,009 people and leaving 1,779 Development Assistance Fund Office of the Ombudsman, and missing. (PDAF) scam involving P1bn Commission on Audit. The Philippine Football ($22.6m) and allegedly per- De Lima said Roque’s case Federation said it was drawing petrated by non-government would be treated separately from up a list of damaged football organizations linked to busi- that of alleged pork barrel scam infrastructure and facilities in nessman Godofredo Roque, mastermind Janet Lim-Napoles, the region to assess where the Justice Secretary Leila de Lima which has been the focus of the money should go. revealed yesterday. NBI probe. Football has been gaining De Lima said a task force “As I have said many times, popularity in recent years in under the Inter-Agency Anti- the coverage of the NBI probe the Philippines, a former US Graft Coordinating Council is only Napoles, particularly colony where basketball is the (IAAGCC) will be assigned to NGOs related to her and there- number-one sport. investigate the charges against fore within the knowledge of our Its higher domestic profile Roque by labour group Bukluran whistle-blowers,” she added. has been attributed to the ng Manggagawang Pilipino. The NBI has filed two batches relative success of the Filipino “I think Mr Roque, along with of corruption cases against national team, called Azkals others who also operated their Napoles and several lawmakers (feral dogs), which went up NGOs in amassing PDAF, will be linked to her before the Office of to 133rd in the FIFA rankings covered by the investigation of the Ombudsman. last month, up 26 places from the inter-agency task force,” De De Lima said the IAAGCC two years ago. Lima said. probe would include lawmakers AFP The task force would be com- mentioned in the COA report. posed of representatives of the THE PHILIPPINE STAR

Learning welding

A Filipina learns how to weld steel as part of her training at the Technical Educational Skills and Development Authority in Taguig City, Metro Manila, last week. She took a four-month welding course to improve her chances of employment overseas, despite knowing it would lead her to a job in a male-dominated industry. DECEMBER 14, 2013 ON SATURDAY 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Pakistan / Afghanistan Gunmen kill two cops, Protest over drone raids worker in Pakistan Taliban shootings targeted polio vaccination teams

PESHAWAR: Gunmen shot province, police narrated. was standing at the corner of his dead a polio worker and two “The gunmen opened fire on the street after vaccinating children policemen on duty to protect a policemen. One of the policemen in Jamrud, doctor Sameen Jan, a polio vaccination team in two was killed on spot while second senior health official in Khyber, separate attacks in Pakistan’s died in the hospital,” senior local said. Two intelligence officials in troubled northwest yesterday, police official Muhammad Sajjad Peshawar, the region’s main city, police and a doctor said. Khan said, adding that the gun- confirmed both incidents, which The shootings were the latest men managed to flee after the brings the death toll to at least 28 in a series of attacks by militants attack. since the June 2012 ban. targeting polio teams following The pair had been deputed on The attacks come despite a the imposition of an official ban security duty for an ongoing polio recent fatwa by a prominent by the Taliban last year, who see vaccination campaign in the area, Pakistani religious scholar, known inoculation campaigns as a cover he said. as the “Father of the Taliban,” who for espionage. The first incident In a separate attack yesterday, urged parents to immunise their took place when two policemen gunmen on motorbikes opened children against polio and other riding a motorbike were attacked fire on a polio worker near his life-threatening diseases and said by at least four gunmen as they home in the Jamrud area of the vaccinations were compliant with left Swabi town for Topi in north- Khyber tribal district, killing him Sharia. western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on the spot. Mohammad Yousuf AFP Pakistanis burn a US flag during a protest against drone attacks, in Peshawar yesterday. Pakistan-US ties have come under strain amid differences over drone raids on suspected militants in Pakistan. Karzai warns against intimidation over security treaty with US NEW DELHI: Afghanistan will not with India, which is keen to ensure that into intimidation,” he told NDTV. killings”. His stance has outraged US offi- assistance would be high on the agenda. be bullied into signing a security pact the exit of some 75,000 US-led Nato “If they have not recognised this they cials and lawmakers, who have threatened Foreign ministry spokesman Syed allowing US troops to stay on after troops at the end of 2014 does not trigger should, it will be good for them to recog- a complete pullout if Karzai does not sign Akbaruddin confirmed the troop pact next year, President Hamid Karzai said a return to power of the hardline Taliban nise... We will sign it when we feel sure by the end of the year. was discussed, saying both India and as he pressed India yesterday for more militia. that our signature will bring peace and James Dobbins, the US special repre- Afghanistan saw it as “important for sta- military hardware. But speaking to Indian television, security.” sentative on Afghanistan and Pakistan, bility and safety”, but he denied pressure Karzai met Indian Prime Minister Karzai said he would not be “intimidated” Karzai, who is due to stand down after this week told a Senate Committee he was put on Karzai to sign. Manmohan Singh and Foreign Minister into signing the pact which would allow elections next year, initially endorsed the hoped India could help persuade Karzai “India’s relationship with Afghanistan Salman Khurshid at the start of a three- 12,000 US troops to stay in Afghanistan so-called Bilateral Security Agreement. to ink the agreement. is based on three key elements: We day visit, with the United States hoping after 2014 and sets out their terms of But he later said the agreement could India has poured $2bn in reconstruc- don’t intervene, we don’t prescribe them New Delhi can persuade him to ink the engagement. only be signed after the presidential tion aid into Afghanistan, and Karzai’s anything and we are not judgemental,” troubled pact. “Aggressive rhetoric won’t work... We election in April, warning against a Nato ambassador to Kabul said ahead of the Akbaruddin told reporters. India-educated Karzai has close ties are not a nation that is known for giving presence if it just meant “more bombs and visit that requests for more military AFP

Khyber province mulls options in Nawaz may improve ties with India and Afghanistan ISLAMABAD: The United and its relations with India were to cooperation with the US while border.” “Probably the greatest “So we’ve been encouraging both power tariff case States and India believe that discussed thoroughly at a con- simultaneously undermining our contribution India could make and Pakistan and India to overcome PESHAWAR: The Khyber Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif gressional hearing - ‘Afghanistan primary objective of bringing Pakistan can make in Afghanistan their differences in Kashmir, their Pakhtunkhwa province gov- can succeed in improving rela- 2014: Year of Transition’ - on Afghanistan under the control of is improving their bilateral rela- differences over Afghanistan.” ernment is considering its tions with both New Delhi and Wednesday afternoon. a democratically elected govern- tionship,” said Dobbins, while Ambassador Dobbins assured options on appearing before the Kabul, says a senior US official. Congressman Ed Royce brought ment,” he said. responding to Bera’s remarks. India that there was no near-term Supreme Court in a matter that And the United States wants the Pakistan element into the Congressman Ami Bera, a This will have two effects: It danger of foreign fighters shifting concerns the interest of 2.6 mil- Sharif to have “a fair chance debate in his opening remarks, democrat of Indian origin, high- will greatly increase the access of from Afghanistan to the Indian lion electricity consumers of the of being able to do so”, said claiming Pakistan’s military lighted Indian concern that Afghan trade to India via Pakistan border. “But the Indian concerns province, according to the rel- US Special Representative for and security service continue to once the US withdrew from and will reduce the ‘highly desta- are legitimate and it’s something evant officials. Pakistan and Afghanistan, James complicate matters by support- Afghanistan, “hardened, trained bilising’ competition between the that we do need to be careful The legal battle between Dobbins. ing the Taliban. “Pakistan is a jihadi fighters will start shift- two countries for influence in about,” he said. 72 industrialists from Khyber Pakistan, its role in Afghanistan double-dealer, paying lip service ing over to the Indian-Pakistan Afghanistan, he said. INTERNEWS Pakhtunkhwa and Peshawar Electric Supply Company about the recovery of fuel adjustment charge (FAC) and fuel price adjustment (FPA) has reached the Supreme Court after being Four teams to prevent explosions pursued at the Peshawar High Court for around two years. PESHAWAR: In light of The official said that as part been issued by IGP Nasir Khan The high court has been hold- the recommendations put of the supervision, the AIG SB Durrani after a recent increase ing hearings in the 72 identical forward in a meeting of the will ensure scanning of the resi- in bomb, grenade and suicide writ petitions since early last Peshawar divisional task force dences, vehicles, routes and ven- attacks, said the official, add- year and stopped Pesco from col- recently, the bomb disposal ues frequented by VVIPs and ing the BDS is an important lecting FAC and FPA till further squad (BDS) has been asked VIPs along with the buildings component in the war on terror. orders. to deploy at least four teams around the provincial assembly. Meanwhile, the district gov- The stay order has been in in the provincial capital and BDS teams in the districts ernment has tightened secu- place since February 28, 2012. two each in every district of will be placed under the opera- rity around the posh area of Wazir said that the Khyber the province. tional command of the dis- Hayatabad after a recent surge Pakhtunkhwa government, a A senior police official said trict head of police who will be in kidnappings for ransom by party to the case in the Peshawar the BDS will work under responsible for their deploy- deploying police officials with High Court, did not appear before the supervision of the AIG of ment and routine matters, the khasadars at locations next to the Supreme Court. Special Branch (SB) and will be official added. the tribal areas. INTERNEWS headed by the BDS AIG. These new guidelines have INTERNEWS Dog fight Islamabad-Kabul trade ties continue to progress PESHAWAR: The sym- customs and tax authorities biotic trade relationship were charging Rs150000 as between the Pakistani and Ilm-o-Khabar rahdari (transit Afghan traders continues to tax) from each truck of wheat flourish during the Pakistan flour. Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) The local traders said blockade of North Atlantic the informal trade between Treaty Organisation supplies Pakistan and Afghanistan to Afghanistan as bilateral has been thriving for many informal trade maintained years, which also includes the its monthly flow of around smuggling of goods originally $200m. brought under the Afghan- However, some exporters Pakistan Transit Trade had to change their routes Agreement (APTTA). due to sit-ins of the PTI and its It was hardly affected by the allies and increase by Afghan PTI blocked of Nato supplies. authorities in their transit in Zahidullah Shinwari, their transit and toll charges President Khyber in Torkham and routes in Pakhtunkhwa Chamber of Jalalabad. Commerce and Industry Officials and traders said (KPCCI), said the most cited that the wheat flour traders goods dealt in informal trade were now using the route via were livestock, foodstuff, car- Ghulam Khan in Waziristan pets, precious stones and auto- Dogs fight during the weekly fights in Kabul, Afghanistan, yesterday. Under to consign their goods to mobile parts. the Taliban regime dog fighting was forbidden. Afghanistan as Afghan INTERNEWS DECEMBER 14, 2013 India www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 ON SATURDAY US envoy summoned over diplomat’s arrest Deputy consul general Devyani Khobragade was arrested and handcuffed in New York for alleged visa fraud

NEW DELHI: India sum- entirely unacceptable.” authorities of traumatising and the Consulate General of India late in the afternoon for an moned yesterday the US ambas- Indian media reports said that humiliating the Indian diplomat here, significantly she was serv- arraignment hearing. Wearing sador to New Delhi to protest the New York-based Khobragade who was doing her duties in the ing as the acting Consul General a purple sweater and dress, the “humiliating” arrest of a was arrested and handcuffed in US,” Akbaruddin said. “We are at the time of her arrest. She Khobragade appeared composed top diplomat while dropping her public for allegedly lying on the confident that we will be able to was released on a $250,000 bond during the hearing but looked children at school in New York, US visa application for an Indian justify our stand on this issue,” after she pleaded not guilty in pale and stressed. the foreign ministry said. national who worked for her as a he added. a court. The judge read out Khobragade Ambassador Nancy Powell domestic help. In its statement, the embassy She was charged with one her rights and the charges against was summoned to a meeting The Indian embassy in said the US authorities had count of visa fraud and one count her. Khobragade did not speak with Foreign Secretary Sujatha Washington said the detention already been made aware of the of making false statements, which during the hearing except to say Singh, the day after the detention was based on “allegations raised injunction from the Delhi court carry maximum sentences of 10 that she agrees with the terms of deputy consul general Devyani by the officer’s former India-based and had been asked to “facilitate years and five years in prison, and conditions of the bail. The Khobragade (pictured), ministry domestic assistant”. the service of an arrest warrant” respectively. next hearing has been set for spokesman Syed Akbaruddin said. The domestic worker had against the domestic worker. The Indian Embassy in January 13. “We are shocked and appalled “absconded” from her employer “The US side have been urged Washington released a statement Khobragade joined the at the way she had been humili- in June and was already the to resolve the matter with due saying it had “immediately con- Consulate last year and has pre- ated and this will be taken up subject of an injunction issued at a briefing with reporters in sensitivity, taking into account veyed its strong concern” to the viously been posted in Germany, forcefully with the US,” said by the High Court in Delhi, the New Delhi. the existing court case in India US Government over the action Italy and Pakistan. The arrest Akbaruddin. “She was pursuing embassy added in a statement on In response to a question that that has already been brought to taken against Khobragade. sent shock waves among the her duties and is entitled to cour- its website. the diplomat has been accused of their attention by the government Khobragade, mother of two Indian diplomatic corps here with tesies of a serving diplomat. “The legal aspect of it is sepa- forging a visa or other documents, of India, and the diplomatic status young daughters and a Chevening some officers saying it is unprec- “This kind of behaviour against rate and there is no justification the spokesman said that did not of the officer concerned,” it said. scholar, was taken into cus- edented and and inappropriate the Indian diplomat, a young for what has happened to the justify Khobragade’s treatment. While Khobragade (39) is tody and produced before US for a diplomat to be arrested. woman with two children is young woman,” added Akbaruddin “It still doesn’t absolve the US the Deputy Consul General at Magistrate Judge Debra Freeman AGENCIES

Parliament attack anniversary Lokpal Bill tabled in Upper House AAP says it can’t

NEW DELHI: The Lokpal Bill was tabled in the Rajya Sabha form govt in Delhi yesterday by Minister of State in Prime Minister’s Office V NEW DELHI/GHAZIABAD: cannot form a government. The Narayanasamy amid uproar The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) AAP came second with 28 seats. over various issues. said yesterday that it lacks the The bill seeks to provide for the numbers to form a government CONGRESS OFFERS SUPPORT establishment of the institution in Delhi and this decision will be Meanwhile the Congress told of an ombudsman to inquire into conveyed to Lt Governor Najeeb Lt Governor Najeeb Jung that it allegations of corruption against Jung today. was ready to “unconditionally” certain public functionaries. “Today (Friday), we discussed support an AAP government to The Bharatiya Janata Party, all possibilities. But, we have end a political logjam in Delhi. the main opposition party, had decided that we will not take or A Congress source said that offered to pass the bill in din give support of anyone to form all eight legislators of the party without debate if it was tabled as the government. We are ready were ready to back the AAP, amended by the select committee for the re-election,” party leader which has been invited by Jung of the Rajya Sabha. Yogendra Yadav told the media to explore the possibility of form- FROM RIGHT: Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, ruling Congress However, sources say Chairman after AAP’s political affairs com- ing a government. party President Sonia Gandhi, Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) leader Sushma Swaraj, Samajwadi Party leader M Hamid Ansari rejected the idea mittee meeting at party convener The letter to Jung read: “Indian Mulayam Singh Yadav and Congress party Vice President Rahul Gandhi during a ceremony to pay tribute to and insisted that the bill cannot Arvind Kejriwal’s house. National Congress is willing to the people who lost their lives in the 2001 parliament attack, in New Delhi yesterday. be passed without debate. The Earlier, Yadav said the AAP offer unconditional outside sup- upper house was adjourned till does not have majority support port to AAP if they are ready to 2.30 p.m. soon after the bill was nor has it finished first. He also form the government.” introduced as members continued said AAP founder leader Arvind “We have come to know to create din on various issues. Kejriwal would meet Jung today through media that after the Apex court grants bail to Lalu in response to a formal invitation refusal of BJP to form govern- from the lt. governor regarding ment in absence of adequate NEW DELHI: The Supreme Gogoi, while granting bail to the court. Lalu Prasad is the only one Ex-home secretary government formation in Delhi. number, you have invited Arvind Court yesterday granted bail to Rashtriya Janata Dal chief, noted whose bail plea was rejected by the The party’s newly elected legis- Kejriwal of AAP to form govern- jailed RJD chief Lalu Prasad, that similarly situated other lower courts. The apex court also R K Singh joins BJP lator Manish Sisodia said Kejriwal ment,” it added. over two months after he was accused in the fodder scam case noted that of the five years’ jail would meet Jung around 10.30 am The letter was signed by party convicted by a Ranchi court in have already been granted bail. awarded, he has already under- NEW DELHI: Former home today. Yesterday, the Bharatiya general secretary Shakeel Ahmed a corruption case and sentenced Of the 44 accused in the case, gone one year of the sentence in secretary R K Singh yester- Janata Party, which finished at and Delhi Congress chief J P to five years jail. 37 have already been granted bail two phases, which included incar- day joined the Bharatiya Janata the head of a fractured Delhi Agarwal. A bench of Chief Justice P while bail pleas of six others are ceration for 10 months during the Party (BJP). Singh, a retired assembly with 31 seats, said it IANS Sathasivam and Justice Ranjan under consideration of the trial course of trial. IANS Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Bihar cadre (1975 batch) was home secretary Karzai meets Pranab from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2013. Maharashtra Assembly As district magistrate of Samastipur, he was instrumen- tal in the arrest of senior party passes anti-superstition bill leader L K Advani during the lat- ter’s Rath Yatra in 1990. “I share NAGPUR: The Maharashtra Assembly made history by passing the much- BJP’s hardline orientation on issues awaited anti-superstitions bill in the ongoing winter session of the state leg- of national security. BJP and its islature here yesterday. The bill had been on the back and front burners of other associates like RSS never the government at various occasions since the past nearly 15 years. It was compromise on this. Other parties only after the murder of its chief proponent, Narendra Dabholkar Aug 20 in tend to compromise due to their Pune that the government swung into action and promulgated an ordinance, vote banks,” Singh said after for- followed by a bill, passed by the legislative assembly. mally joining the party in the pres- It will now come up before the legislative council next week for passage ence of president Rajnath Singh. after which it will be enforced as a law. “I am confident that it will be passed even by the legislative council (upper house) next week. I appeal to the opposition parties to co-operate with the Vasundhara sworn government on the issue,” legislator and state Congress president Manikrao Thakre said, lauding the government for the step. in as chief minister Bharatiya Janata Party state president Devendra Fadnavis alleged though the bill was supposed to be passed unanimously in the house, it was passed JAIPUR: Vasundhara Raje on the majority of the ruling Congress and Nationalist Congress Party and yesterday was sworn in the in the absence of Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and opposition leader. Rajasthan chief minister for Afghan President Hamid Karzai with his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee during a meeting in New the second time after the BJP Delhi yesterday. Karzai is on a four-day visit to India. wrested the state from the Congress in the state assembly Suspected LeT operative arrested polls. Vasundhara Raje, 60, who NEW DELHI: A suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative, prepar- served as the chief minister in an Court to decide Indian driver’s ing to strike in the national capital and several other states, has been earlier stint from 2003 to 2008, arrested from Haryana, police said yesterday. was administered the oath by Mohammad Shahid, 32, a resident of Choti Mewli village in Mewat and the Governor Margaret Alva at the extradition to Australia next week imam of the local mosque, was arrested from his house on December 9, for Rajasthan assembly building here his alleged links with the Pakistan-based terrorist organisation. in the presence of thousands of NEW DELHI: An Indian who only had a provisional leading to his arrest. After four “He was regularly talking to Javed Baluchi, another LeT commander who BJP activists and leaders. man who fled Australia after driver’s licence at the time of years on the run from police in is based in Pakistan. We have recorded some conversations between the two,” Senior BJP leader L.K. Advani, killing a teenager while the crash, hit two students, India, he was nabbed in late a police official said. Shahid is in police custody till December 21, he added. party president Rajnath Singh, drink driving and speeding aged 19 and 20, as they walked November in Noida, a satellite According to another officer, an input was received November end that BJP’s prime ministerial candidate in Melbourne was yesterday across a road in Melbourne in city of Delhi. While Australian members of the LeT group were trying to motivate youths for strike in Delhi, Narendra Modi, Chhattisgarh sent to prison as a court set 2008. One of the students died authorities are now seeking Haryana and Rajasthan. Shahid was introduced to Baluchi by another Mewati, Chief Minister Raman Singh and his extradition hearing for at the scene. extradition, Puneet’s lawyer whose name police refused to reveal. his Madhya Pradesh counterpart next week. Puneet Puneet, Australian police estimated Meena Sharma said she had Shivraj Singh, and former party 24, was handcuffed and led Puneet was driving at 148km an moved an application for his president Nitin Gadkari, were away to New Delhi’s Tihar hour — more than double the trial be held in India. among those who attended. jail amid emotional scenes at legal limit in the area. He also “We are saying that since Telangana bill rocks Andhra Houses Former chief minister Ashok the Patiala House court com- tested positive for alcohol. Puneet is an Indian citizen, he HYDERABAD: Both houses of the Andhra Pradesh legislature were rocked Gehlot of the Congress was also plex where his family mem- Puneet had been charged should be tried in India,” she by protests yestas legislators from Telangana, across party lines, demanded present. A huge crowd of party bers pleaded for sympathy for with culpable driving and neg- told reporters outside the court. immediate debate on the bill for a separate state while the lawmakers from workers thronged the Janpath their only son. ligently causing serious injury, Earlier, judge Sheetal Seemandhra wanted a resolution to be passed to stop the state’s bifurcation. Road — leading to the state Puneet, sporting a black win- then bailed on strict conditions Chaudhary said she would hear The state assembly was adjourned twice while the legislative council assembly building — where sit- ter cap and a black jacket, said including the surrender of his arguments on Puneet’s extradi- was adjourned for the day as lawmakers from Telangana and Seemandhra ting arrangement was made so he could not understand why passport. But he later fled using tion next Wednesday. “Fugitive (Rayalaseema and coastal Andhra regions) trooped into the wells of the two that the people could watch the he was being handcuffed. “I a fellow Indian’s passport. Puneet be sent to judicial cus- houses. With the central government sending Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation ceremony. am not a terrorist. I am ready Australian police offered a tody in Tihar jail till then,” she Bill, 2013, by a special flight Thursday night, the lawmakers from Telangana IANS to abide by the law.” Puneet, reward in 2012 for information said. AFP demanded that the bill be taken up immediately for debate. IANS DECEMBER 14, 2013 ON SATURDAY 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Business

Oil falls towards Ireland ends $108 on potential Libyan bailout, plans ports restart LONDON: Brent crude oil fell towards $108 a barrel yesterday on prospects for ports in east- ern Libya to resume exports tax deduction and a possible scaling back of the US Federal Reserve’s mas- sive stimulus programme. First eurozone country to leave bailout Libya’s government expects eastern tribes to reopen three oil DUBLIN: Three years after and smaller towns. Jobs are being ports this weekend, which could going cap in hand to interna- created and house prices rising in increase output at the Opec pro- tional lenders to avert bank- the former, while the latter are ducer from the current 250,000 ruptcy, Ireland has officially still strewn with empty proper- barrels per day (bpd). ended its bailout in a landmark ties from the “Celtic Tiger” boom But there are doubts as to for the euro zone’s efforts to years and closed down shops. whether Libya can raise its out- resolve its debt crisis. Economic recovery is also heav- put to pre-protest levels of more Ireland has cut spending and ily reliant on exports. than one million bpd as internal raised taxes to rebalance the While pledging to maintain conflicts continue to threaten its economy since seeking emergency fiscal discipline, Noonan said he oil industry. “I don’t think any- help from the European Union will consider income tax cuts in thing is set in stone yet in terms and International Monetary the next two budgets to give the of a definite restart, but market Fund, meeting every major tar- economy some support. expectations are that the Libyan get under the ¤85bn ($117bn) pro- Ireland could cut its total debt A flag with the company logo outside a Peugeot automobile dealer in Paris yesterday. ports are going to restart,” said gramme and enduring little public load from a peak of 124 percent of Amrita Sen, chief analyst at con- unrest. “This isn’t the end of the gross domestic product this year sultants Energy Aspects. road. This is a very significant to 116 in 2014 by using its cash January Brent was down 30 milestone on the road,” Finance buffers, Noonan said. Peugeot confirms in talks with cents at $108.37 a barrel by 1233 Minister Michael Noonan told a “They have to be prudent. GMT, following a fall of more news conference yesterday. You can’t just cut taxes for the than $1 on Thursday. US crude “But we must continue with the sake of it,” said Alan McQuaid, Chinese carmaker; GM pulls out futures for January were down 50 same types of policies.” chief economist at Merrion cents at $97, after rising around The country of 4.6 million is Stockbrokers. “It’s a good story $6 in the past two weeks. funded into 2015 thanks to debt for the EU and it’s a good story PARIS: Peugeot confirmed is ¤3.5bn ($4.8bn). The most In a surprise move US car- Upbeat economic data from the issuance over the last 18 months. for us (but) we’re still at the yesterday it is in talks with probable scenario would involve maker General Motors announced United States on Thursday height- It is showing the way to Greece, mercy of global factors.” Chinese giant Dongfeng about Dongfeng and the French state in Thursday it is selling its entire 7 ened speculation that the Fed may Portugal and Cyprus - which have Leaving the bailout is an impor- a shareholder tie-up, while GM equal measure buying up a major- percent stake in Peugeot. start trimming its monthly bond also had sovereign bailouts - and tant achievement but Prime announced it was dropping its 7 ity of the newly-issued shares, GM explained the move by purchases as soon as next week. Spain, which has had help for its Minister Enda Kenny’s govern- percent stake in the loss-mak- with other French investors tak- saying its equity support was no The move could strengthen the banking system. ment still has plenty of hurdles to ing French carmaker. ing the rest, said the source. longer needed, but a capital injec- dollar and weigh on demand for With more than ¤22bn ($30bn) overcome as it seeks to win over PSA Peugeot Citroen, the sec- As the European car mar- tion would also dilute its holding dollar-denominated commodities of cash in hand, almost twice the the Irish people, with an election ond-biggest carmaker in Europe ket and its sales remain stuck and value. “Our equity stake was such as oil. But stronger US eco- amount initially envisaged by its due by early 2016. Kenny, who after Volkswagen of Germany, in a slump, Peugeot has moved planned to support PSA in their nomic growth could also lead to lenders, Ireland has insulation inherited the bailout when he came stressed that there had not been to revamp its management and efforts to raise capital at the time higher fuel demand in the world’s against market shocks and the to power in 2011, will start efforts any agreement on a tie-up and there has been talk of a major of the creation of the GM and largest oil consumer. economy is forecast to grow by to win back voters in a state of the that the talks were at a prelimi- shake-up in the ownership of the PSA alliance, and that support is Brent was supported by sup- about two percent next year. nation address on Sunday evening, nary stage, but GM’s statement company. no longer needed,” said GM Vice ply concerns arising from bomb- Unemployment has fallen below the date he has earmarked as the said Peugeot no longer needed its Reports in recent months have Chairman Steve Girsky. ings near the Suez Canal, a major 13 percent, from a 15.1 percent official end of the bailout. support. hinted at a sharp reduction in the The alliance, which dates to transportation channel for global peak in 2012, and Dublin is con- Ireland’s costs to borrow money A tie-up with Dongfeng would holding of the Peugeot family, March 2012, aimed to improve oil markets. US oil also was sup- fident enough to do without a for 10 years have now fallen below give Peugeot a much-needed cash which controls about a quarter both companies’ positions in ported by expectations that new backup credit line. 3.5 percent, from a high of 15 per- injection, and also cement its rela- of the shares and 38.1 percent of Europe after the regional market pipelines starting in the coming In a sign of European admira- cent just eight months into the tionship with China’s second-big- the voting rights, losing its con- plunged into a deep slump, weak- weeks and next year could help tion for Ireland’s efforts, Noonan bailout, but many people, particu- gest carmaker and boost its access trolling interest. ening many major automakers reduce US stockpiles. received an award from the larly outside the capital, have yet to the fast-growing market. Peugeot will “remain French”, there, including GM’s loss-mak- Brent has slipped by more than German-Irish chamber of com- to feel better about their finances. Dongfeng, for its part, has only Industrial Renewal Minster ing German unit Opel. two percent so far this week, the merce for his role in the bailout “They say it’ll turn around, but by said that it is studying the ration- Arnaud Montebourg said on the The two have been laying plans steepest weekly loss in seven exit and “huge positive impact” on the time it turns around people will ality of taking a stake in Peugeot. reports of the Dongfeng talks. to achieve savings by pooling pur- weeks, and its premium to US relations between the countries. be devastated, broke,” said Michael A source familiar with the The Prime Minister’s office said chases of parts and jointly devel- crude futures closed at $11.17 on But there is a sharp divide Moore, a pensioner in Dublin. talks said the amount of the cap- it was following the talks “very oping new auto platforms. Thursday. between capital and countryside REUTERS ital injection being considered closely”. AFP REUTES

Portugal won’t need a second bailout: PM Dollar, euro hit five-year

LISBON: Portuguese Prime economists question whether it Portugal faced two scenarios as the bailout programme would be dis- Minister Pedro Passos Coelho can make it on its own and say it makes its exit from the pro- cussed with international creditors high on Fed taper talks said his debt-wracked nation the country may need further EU gramme, accessing a short-term from January. Portugal’s creditors would be able to return to the support. EU credit line, or making a clean from the European Commission, TOKYO: The dollar and euro Tuesday and Wednesday. financial markets without having “During the past two years break like Ireland is doing this the European Central Bank and hit five-year highs against the The yen has also been pres- to seek a second economic bailout. we have produced results that month, by returning to the mar- the International Monetary Fund yen in Asia yesterday as inves- sured by a growing sense that the Portugal must return to financ- exempt us from the necessity of kets without additional help. last week began a review of the tors bet that the US Federal Bank of Japan will add to its own ing itself on debt markets when a second bailout programme,” “I am not excluding either of reforms the country has carried Reserve will announce a start monetary easing scheme after a its ¤78bn ($107bn) bailout pro- Passos Coelho said in radio and these possibilities,” said Passos out in exchange for the aid. to its long-awaited stimulus marked slowdown in the country’s gramme expires in June, but many television interviews. He said Coelho, adding that the exit from AFP wind-down next week. third-quarter economic growth. The dollar bought 103.86 yen Dealers said a closely watched in Tokyo afternoon trade from BoJ business confidence survey Volkswagen to end bus production in Brazil 103.36 yen in New York on due Monday will give a better Central bank Thursday, while the euro fetched idea of the bank’s plans for its 142.76 yen compared with 142.15 stimulus, which it put into effect chief wants lower yen — both at highs not seen since in April. October 2008. The single currency “Investors will be looking for a Aussie dollar was also at $1.3743, from $1.3752. cue to sell the yen stemming from The release in Washington on the BoJ’s additional easing,” said SYDNEY: The Australian dol- Thursday of data showing retail Citigroup Global Market Japan lar slumped below 90 US cents sales rose 0.7 percent in November chief forex strategist Osamu yesterday after central bank — better than the 0.6 percent Takashima. governor Glenn Stevens said he forecast — added to widespread The yen has lost about a quar- wanted to see it at 85 US cents speculation that the Fed will begin ter of its value against the dollar to help stimulate trade-exposed to cut its bond-buying this month. since late last year when, as leader sectors of the economy. While some analysts say the of the opposition, Shinzo Abe who Stevens also said he expected Fed may hold off until January, is now prime minister promised a the US Federal Reserve to scale the upbeat sales figures bolstered policy blitz to stoke the economy— back its stimulus programme the picture of a stronger US econ- later dubbed Abenomics. “before too much longer”. omy that does not need as much Japanese officials including BoJ Stevens said he would prefer a central bank support as it did at Governor Haruhiko Kuroda have lower dollar over lower interest the start of the year. hinted there may be more eas- rates as a mechanism to spur the “The conclusion must be that ing to come with a sales tax rise economy. it is increasingly likely the much in April expect to take a bite out “To the extent that we get some debated Fed taper begins next of consumer demand just as the more easing in financial condi- week,” National Australia Bank world’s third-largest economy tions, at this point it’s probably said. A reduction in the Fed’s picks up. more preferable for that to be via $85bn a month programme will Tokyo has announced a nearly a lower currency at the margin Bruce Wolczanski works on a 1976 Volkswagen camper at his McNab Foreign Car garage that specialises in mean fewer dollars in circula- $54 billion government spending than lower interest rates,” he restoring VW vehicles in Pompano Beach, Florida. After 64 years, the German automaker announced it will tion, which will in turn increase plan to help blunt the impact of said. finally stop producing the bus on December 20 in Brazil. demand. The Fed holds its final the rate hike. AFP policy meeting of the year on AFP DECEMBER 14, 2013 Business www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 ON SATURDAY

Spain’s public EU watchdog eases bank bonus rules debt hits new EBA to allow exclusions from cap in ‘justified cases’; decisions can be vetoed by regulators record in

LONDON: Bankers in the for implementing the cap, and for the industry,” said Jon Terry, who are being excluded from the to come out,” he said. European Union earning more yesterday published its final rule, a partner at consultancy PwC. cap. The regulator can challenge The final rule also requires third quarter than ¤500,000 ($688,000) a year which introduces flexibility for The Association for Financial them. banks to identify material risk may be excluded from a cap on some bankers to escape the net Markets in Europe, a banking Those earnings over ¤750,000 takers, even if they don’t trigger MADRID: Spain’s public debt, their bonuses if they are not “in justified cases”. industry body representing top will need prior regulatory approval any of the criteria EBA sets out which has risen unchecked for major risk takers, according “Institutions will have to ... lenders, and the British Bankers’ to be excluded. The EBA must in the rule. The aim is to keep the past five years of economic to a revised rule from the EU’s demonstrate that the excluded Association had no immediate be consulted about regulatory some key risk takers from escap- crisis, hit a new record of 93.4 banking watchdog yesterday. staff on the basis of the business comment. approval for exclusions of those ing the net. percent of gross domestic prod- Faced with public anger at unit they are working in, as well In the original draft, bank- earning more than a million euros. Most of the bankers that will uct in the third quarter, the banking excess, the EU approved as of their duties and activities, ers earning more than ¤500,000 PwC’s Terry said the approval be hit by the cap are based in Bank of Spain said yesterday. a cap on bankers’ bonuses, lim- have indeed no material impact were automatically affected, even system will increase work for the London, and Britain is challeng- Spain’s centre-right gov- iting them to no more than on the institution’s risk profile,” if they did not meet EBA’s crite- banks, and Britain’s Prudential ing the cap in the EU’s highest ernment, which last month their annual salary, or double EBA said. ria for risk taking. The final rule Regulation Authority is unlikely court. Even before the ink dries announced it would ease its aus- that amount with shareholder Based on EBA figures, flexibil- eliminates the automatic trigger to ask EBA for many exclusions on Friday’s final version of the terity reforms over the coming approval. The cap will take effect ity introduced into the final rule based on salary and incorporates for top earners. rule, banks are taking steps to two years since the economy on bonuses awarded for perform- means that up to 12,000 bankers a new system of scrutiny for high “For bankers earning over a circumvent it. Those include appears to be emerging from ance in 2014 and handed out in might escape the cap. earners who want to be excluded. million euros, they can assume bumping up fixed pay or looking recession, has set a year-end debt- early 2015. “I don’t think there is any A bank will have to inform its nothing has changed, but there at extra “allowances” on top of to-GDP target of 94.2 percent. The European Banking doubt it will make a difference. local regulator about staff who is a distinct possibility for staff at basic salaries. It sees the debt-to-GDP ratio Authority (EBA) is responsible It’s a small-to-medium victory earn ¤500,000 to ¤750,000 and a bank’s asset management units REUTERS peaking at 101.13 percent in 2015 before easing slightly to 101.09 percent in 2016. Under the terms of the European Union’s Maastricht Treaty, mem- ber states are supposed to have RBS to lodge defence public deficits of no more than three percent of GDP, and debt of no more than 60 percent. Spain’s debt ratio has soared from in £4bn lawsuit 40.2 percent of GDP in 2008 — when the end of a decade-long property LONDON: Royal Bank of “Had shareholders been given boom triggered an economic slump Scotland said it and its former the true picture of the bank’s — to 85.9 percent at the end of 2012. bosses may have made bad position, they would have had a The ratio stood at 79.1 percent dur- business decisions in the past better opportunity to assess the ing the third quarter of 2012. but that does not mean they risks which caused the shares Since his landslide election vic- misled investors or acted ille- to collapse and led to billions of tory two years ago, Prime Minister gally, as it prepared to lodge its pounds of losses for private and Mariano Rajoy has pushed defence against a lawsuit from institutional shareholders alike,” through unpopular spending cuts, shareholders. the action group said in a state- tax rises and labour reforms in a RBS said it planned to file its ment on Friday. bid to stabilise the public finances defence against a £4bn ($6.5bn) RBS is 82 percent owned by of the economy, the fourth-biggest lawsuit in London’s High Court the UK government after the 45 in the eurozone. later yesterday. billion pound taxpayer bailout in But last month he announced The Royal Bank of Scotland October 2008, months after the his government would ease its Shareholder Action Group is rights issue which was announced austerity drive. “I think we are suing the bank and four former in April. now in a position to say that directors on behalf of about 100 “While RBS and its former there will not be any cutbacks as institutions and 10,000 private directors made some business big as the ones we have adopted shareholders, alleging they were decisions that have been criti- over the past two years,” he said in misled over the bank’s financial cised, this does not mean that an interview on national radio to strength in a rights issue prospec- they misled investors or acted mark the midpoint of his mandate. tus published months before RBS illegally,” RBS said in a statement. A man uses an ATM at a branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland in London. The latest official figures show almost collapsed. “We believe we have strong Spain timidly emerged from a Fred Goodwin, the disgraced defences to the claims that are shareholders including UK investors, who are part of a sepa- Superannuation Scheme (USS) two-year recession in the third former chief executive of RBS being brought against the group taxpayers.” rate group considering lodging a are part of the group, who took quarter of this year, but the unem- who was ousted at the time of the and that is why we intend to The Shareholder Action claim. up about 10 percent of the £12bn ployment rate remains extremely government bailout, is among the defend these vigorously and Group could be joined by some Prudential, Standard Life, Legal rights issue under scrutiny. high at nearly 26 percent. directors accused. to protect the interests of our of Britain’s biggest institutional & General and the Universities REUTERS AFP

QATARI MARKET Egypt regulator Moody’s Ford to open plants in China and Bond Coupon Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield S&P Qatar Govt 5.15% 4/9/2014 USD 101.50 0.28% Aa2 AA to retry sukuk Qatar Govt 3.125% 1/20/2017 USD 105.00 1.46% Aa2 AA Brazil, add 5,000 jobs in US Qatar Govt 6.55% 4/9/2019 USD 119.50 2.59% Aa2 AA rules early Qatar Govt 5.25% 1/20/2020 USD 112.25 3.03% Aa2 AA DETROIT: US automaker manufacturing cars and 3,300 decline in European sales. Qatar Govt 4.5% 1/20/2022 USD 106.25 3.60% Aa2 AA Ford said it will open two new engineers in design and quality Ford’s sales in China have next year Qatar Govt 9.75% 6/15/2030 USD 153.75 4.95% Aa2 AA plants in China and a third in assurance. increased by 50 percent this year Qatar Govt 6.4% 1/20/2040 USD 114.75 5.34% Aa2 AA Brazil next year while add- “We saw unprecedented growth and the company’s market share CAIRO: Egypt’s financial regu- Qatar Govt 5.75% 1/20/2042 USD 105.50 5.37% Aa2 AA ing more than 5,000 jobs in the in the United States this year,” has expanded by more than 0.6 lator will submit new rules to United States. Hinrichs said, adding that Ford percentage point to 3.7 percent. the government in January to Qatari Diar 3.5% 7/21/2015 USD 104.00 0.96% Aa2 AA “It will be the largest expan- had gained one-half point of mar- China sales have helped make facilitate issuance of sukuk, or Qatari Diar 5% 7/21/2020 USD 110.13 3.28% Aa2 AA sion of Ford manufacturing in ket share in the highly competi- the Ford Focus the most popular Islamic bonds, as part of a capi- Comqat 5% 11/18/2014 USD 103.63 1.02% A1 A- the past 50 years,” Joe Hinrichs, tive US market, boosted by robust car in the world, Hinrichs said. tal market law, its chairman Comqat 3.375% 4/11/2017 USD 103.88 2.16% A1 A- Ford’s president of the Americas, sales of the Ford Fusion sedan and Of the 6 million vehicles Ford said. QIB 3.856% 10/7/2015 USD 104.25 1.46% NR NR said at a news briefing at the com- the Ford Escape utility vehicle. has sold this year, 1.1 million are The renewed push to allow pany’s headquarters near Detroit. In China, the world’s largest Focuses, which are sold in Europe, sukuk in the country comes after QNB 3.125% 11/16/2015 USD 103.50 1.27% Aa3 A+ Ford plans to remodel or automobile market, Ford plans to North and South America as previous attempts have been QNB 3.375% 2/22/2017 USD 103.75 2.15% Aa3 A+ expand seven plants in the US complete a new assembly plant as well as Asia. The company also thwarted by nearly three years of Doha Bank 3.5% 3/14/2017 USD 104.00 2.21% A2 A- where it is preparing to introduce well as a new factory for engines showed reporters an experimen- political turmoil since the ouster Qtel 3.375% 10/14/2016 USD 105.13 1.51% A2 A 15 new vehicles in 2014, including and transmissions at its manufac- tal, “automated” Focus, capable of president Hosni Mubarak in Qtel 7.875% 6/10/2019 USD 123.63 3.15% A2 A the new Mustang, a small luxury turing hub in Chongqing. of scanning its surroundings for February 2011. sedan and a North American ver- It will also build a new engine potential hazards and maneuver Sukuk have grown in promi- Qtel 4.75% 2/16/2021 USD 105.63 3.84% A2 A sion of the small Transit Connect plant in Camacan, Brazil. around them. nence as a funding tool beyond Qtel 5% 10/19/2025 USD 100.38 4.96% A2 A van Ford now sells in Europe. The expansion comes as the It will help make driving safer, the industry’s core markets of the Rasgas 5.5% 9/30/2014 USD 103.50 1.00% Aa3 A The second-largest US auto- company introduces 23 new vehi- said Raj Nair, Ford executive vice Middle East and southeast Asia, Rasgas 5.832% 9/30/2016 USD 107.00 3.18% Aa3 A maker also said it would add cles in markets around the world, president of product development. with the likes of Britain and Hong Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 107.75 3.98% Aa3 A 1,700 blue-collar workers in the company aiming to offset a AFP Kong considering sukuk issuance of their own. SOVEREIGNS “We are looking to submit a Bond PDA* Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P proposal to the government in the Abu Dhabi Govt 5.5% 4/8/2014 USD 101.63 0.18% Aa2 AA Employee tour beginning of January to include rules regulating these financial Abu Dhabi Govt 6.75% 4/8/2019 USD 122.63 2.21% Aa2 AA instruments as a tool within the Dubai Govt 6.7% 10/5/2015 USD 108.50 1.87% NR NR capital market law,” said Sherif Dubai Govt 4.9% 5/2/2017 USD 106.75 2.79% NR NR Samy, chairman of the Egyptian Dubai Govt 7.75% 10/5/2020 USD 119.88 4.34% NR NR Financial Supervisory Authority Dubai Govt 6.45% 5/2/2022 USD 112.00 4.70% NR NR (EFSA). The EFSA is keen to push Qatar Govt 4% 1/20/2015 USD 103.50 0.77% Aa2 AA for the introduction of sukuk Bahrain Govt 6.273% 11/22/2018 USD 113.38 3.31% NR BBB to diversify funding sources and Bahrain Govt 5.5% 3/31/2020 USD 103.25 4.89% NR BBB help further develop the coun- Egypt Govt 5.75% 4/29/2020 USD 95.25 6.68% Caa1 B- try’s capital markets. “The EFSA Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 101.88 4.17% NR BBB- emphasizes the importance of the presence of these funding tools *Periodic Distribution Amount IMPORTANT NOTE: within the financial system in Egypt,” Samy added. Published by HSBC Bank Middle East Limited, P O Box 57, Doha, Qatar which is licensed and regulated by Qatar Central Bank and Jersey Financial Services Earlier this year, the govern- Commission. Information quoted is from publicly available sources or proprietary data ment began issuing 18-month and subject to change. HSBC accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising out of bonds alongside its traditional the use of all or part of this material. This information is general and does not take into maturities of three, five, seven account individual circumstances, objectives or needs. The price of bonds can and and 10 years. Egypt’s previous does fluctuate. The secondary market for bonds may not provide significant liquidity sukuk law faced long delays due or may trade based on prevailing market conditions. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance. You should consider these matters and consult your to concerns from local scholars financial advisor prior to making any investment decisions. and politicians that it would allow the seizure of sovereign assets by foreign investors in the event of a Employees of French mobile operator SFR during a media tour at the SFR Campus in Saint-Denis, near Paris default, a debate which the EFSA yesterday. hopes to avoid. REUTERS DECEMBER 14, 2013 ON SATURDAY 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Business Views

UK working class still Eurozone economy may without representation BY HUGH MUIR stay at a stall for long

f the attributes Britons hold dear, the most potent is eneral Motors has sold Chevrolet eurozone performed the same as the US in household and government debt. stability. Our traditions endure, institutions survive. We vehicles in Europe through the the past five years, its annual GDP would be For every bit of political progress — a seem loth to countenance revolution. And yet we have Great Depression, the Second about $2.7trn higher than it is today. This is long-debated banking union is taking Oexperienced a coup d’etat of sorts and the question must World War and the partition a massive loss of wealth, buying power and shape — major disputes remain. Much of be asked: Just when did the middle classes take untrammelled of the continent by the Iron tax revenue that has left a hole in the world the world is leaning on Germany to find control of the levers? GCurtain. economy and become a major headache for ways to consume more and lower its large It always was a force; but now there is hegemony. Today, a What it could not weather was Europe’s US firms plotting a global strategy. export surpluses with other nations. Within glimpse of what has happened to the vanquished. current blend of economic stagnation and It is a region of “deep scars” from what Germany, proposals to set a minimum wage According to the conservative think tank Policy Exchange, the high unemployment with no clear change on now has been five years of crisis and an only have created a backlash among an economic under-representation of people from working-class backgrounds the horizon. Last week, GM pulled Chevrolet recently ended recession, Mark Otty, Ernst elite that argues it would damage competi- in public spheres such as parliament and magistrates courts can out of Europe, thanked its customers and & Young Managing Partner for Europe, tiveness and hurt the 5.5 percent unemploy- reasonably described as “shameful”. dealers “for their loyalty,” and said it wanted wrote in a forecast. He projects that the ment rate. It suggests an inquiry is necessary, perhaps run by the gov- to focus on parts of the world “where the current pattern of low growth and high Jean-Michel Six, Standard & Poor’s chief ernment equalities office and the equality and human rights opportunity for growth is greatest.” unemployment will settle in like a stalled economist for Europe, said the small bit of commission. That would be anywhere but Europe, weather system. growth expected for the eurozone this year One can disagree with its diagnosis of the problem. Policy where the 17-nation eurozone has entered Tomorrow, Ireland will begin writing and next is an illusion — attributable more Exchange, true to its leaning, says the diversity policies of the a netherworld where it is neither in crisis what should be the epilogue of the eurozone’s to the fact that government budget cutting last Labour government were too narrow – too much focus on — with the urgency of action — nor clearly troubles when it exits from its IMF bailout. won’t be as much of a drag, than because of race and gender – but that feels like scratching at the surface. recovered. The most troubled countries have The island nation is the first to complete its any bounce in demand or investment. Still, who can dispute that the problem exists? avoided default, and new tools are in place three-year bailout programme. It is stable Unlike earlier in the year, when the focus One can look to the figures. According to the Sutton Trust think to ensure that the euro monetary union to once again sell bonds on the open market was on the end of the eurozone’s recession, tank – which focuses on social mobility – 68 percent of leading remains intact. But what is left behind is to finance its deficits. Its levels of govern- latest data suggest a more “sobering” pic- “public servants” went to private schools. It says 63 percent of not pretty — 12 percent unemployment and ment debt are expected to decline next year, ture about an economy that may stay at or leading lawyers were privately educated, as were 60 percent of twice that much in some countries, tepid and its economy is growing — slowly. near a stall for a long time to come. The the upper ranks of the armed forces. growth, and fear about a downward spiral Yet that positive development is an iso- situation is important to the US. Combined, Independent schools produce more than half of the nation’s of wages and prices. lated one in a sea of disagreement over how the eurozone countries form the world’s leading journalists, diplomats, financiers and business people. As the US debates a shift towards tighter the eurozone — and each country — should second-largest economy, and are among Policy Exchange says just 4 percent of MPs previously worked monetary policy and analysts speculate conduct itself. There are other bits of good the US’ chief trading and investment part- in manual trades. about how new energy finds may boost news — Spanish exports and productivity ners. Next week, an European delegation A few weeks ago, I spoke to a would-be Labour councillor; a future growth, the eurozone confronts are growing, and investors are no longer will be in Washington for the latest round busy man; a professional. So busy that he thought the task of this dismal fact: Regional economic output shy. But there is a steady drizzle of down- of negotiations over a treaty to create the actually campaigning to get himself elected might be too time remains below where it was before the 2008 sides: Declining industrial production in world’s largest trade zone — an idea pressed consuming. So he placed an advert online seeking someone to do crash, and is not projected to return to ear- France and Germany, an ongoing contrac- by Germany to try to boost regional growth. his campaigning for him. The powers that be took a dim view and lier levels for at least another year. Had the tion in bank lending, slow progress in paring WP-BLOOMBERG the ad was promptly withdrawn, but I took to wondering what the councillors I knew in Newham in London, where I grew up and was a cub reporter, would have thought of him. These were people who had graduated to the council having been shop stewards and tenants’ association leaders. Charlie, the taxi driver, Lew, the tube driver, Jim, the car plant worker. Sue, the diffident single mother who galvanised the residents in one tower block and then another and then built a campaign that culminated in a clutch of dangerous tower blocks being demolished. There were working-class people in representative positions, voic- ing the concerns of people from their communities. Fewer now. What happened? Thatcherism happened. The social geographer Danny Dorling details how the grocer’s daughter from Grantham, fractured the post-war reality of the poor becoming less poor and the narrowing of the gap between the very poor and very rich. “By the time Thatcher left office in 1990, the annual incomes of the richest 0.01 percent of society had climbed to 70 times the national mean.” For them to win, as they did under Thatcher and New Labour, others had to lose. Those who lost most were working-class communities. With their institutions unravelled and a daily battle for sub- sistence, how are they to seek office in meaningful numbers? With what support? There are excellent groups building capacity, such as Citizens UK, but still the fundamental problem remains. Dorling recently estimated that of the bottom 50 percent of people in Britain by income “all are financially insecure”. How is that a springboard? The total capture of the professions by the middle-classes hap- pened. Take journalism. I entered national journalism 27 years ago with no degree; just a year’s college training – funded by a council grant – and after an apprenticeship on the Newham Recorder. That was when journalism was a trade, not a profession and there were routes of entry for other than the middle classes. People took those routes to senior positions in our industry. With the middle class self-selecting, we wouldn’t stand a chance today. The country ticks along, stable and first-world prosperous. So why does the absence of working-class representation matter? Because it conflicts with everything we say we want for Britain; inclusion, fairness, equality of opportunity. Because without the broadest input, our institutions become myopic; our democracy atrophies. Isn’t that the story of the last 30 years? THE GUARDIAN Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate With heavy lifting done, GM’s focus turns to fixing Europe

BY BEN KLAYMAN shows the emphasis will be on product as will help. company as much as $1.6bn, but will help 2009 bankruptcy should be alleviated by opposed to strategies like squeezing sup- GM’s European Opel brand has in lower costs long-term and possibly relieve the presence of so many “outsiders” on ith General Motors Co pliers and that’s the right path,” Gabelli & the past suffered from having to adapt pressure on GM in Korea as Australian the management team and board. in recent days setting in Co analyst Brian Sponheimer said. European cars from platforms more demand is met by the Korean plants, Jonas cited the presence of Dan motion big changes around “Quality and consistency of product suited to the North American market, analysts said. Ammann, the incoming president and Wthe globe, the focus for new will always be GM’s No 1 challenge,” he after former Vice Chairman Bob Lutz “It’s important for Barra to start current chief financial officer who Chief Executive Mary Barra and her added. “Mary Barra needs to continue to insisted on Chevy and Opel sharing out with a relatively clean slate and joined from Wall Street, and incoming team will be making cars and trucks that change the perception of GM in the eyes more parts, said an Opel employee who announcing these changes in the last Chairman Tim Solso, who saw sales dou- prove popular enough to help end losses of potential customers. That starts with declined to be named. couple of weeks gives her an oppor- ble and shares rise nearly 10-fold in his in Europe, analysts said. the quality of the car.” Analysts also said GM’s efforts in tunity for her first six months to talk 12 years leading engine maker Cummins Over the past week, GM has announced Outgoing CEO Dan Akerson is cer- Europe are more likely to bear fruit in about what’s positive at GM as opposed Inc. Jonas said concerns facing Barra and it would pull the Chevrolet brand out of tainly not leaving the product cupboard 2015 after the carmaker has ceased pro- to coming in and announcing cuts,” her team in GM’s core North America Europe by the end of 2015 to concentrate bare, as vehicles like the Chevy Impala duction in Bochum, Germany. Gabelli’s Sponheimer said. market include rising capacity, deterio- on Opel and stop making cars in Australia and Cadillac CTS sedans and redesigned Another money-losing region that Other challenges facing GM and all rating credit quality, falling prices for by 2017, to end losses in those regions. It Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup needs help is the Asia region exclud- carmakers include tackling the differ- used vehicles and the weak Japanese yen. also celebrated the long-awaited exit of trucks are garnering awards and pulling ing China, analysts said. While GM is a ent regions’ regulatory agendas, as well Analysts and investors expect one of the US Treasury as a shareholder. in profits. But a company is only as good leader in China, it is struggling elsewhere as continuing efforts to help GM’s global Barra’s early actions to be the intro- The moves, welcomed by Wall Street, as its next vehicle debut, so Barra must in the region with lack of market share operations work together more seam- duction of a stock buyback program clear the decks for Barra and her reshuf- complete her current task as global prod- or, in the case of its South Korean manu- lessly, IHS managing director Michael and reintroduction of a common stock fled management team that takes over uct development chief - consolidating the facturing hub, rising labour costs. Robinet said. dividend, given GM’s large pile of cash next month. number of platforms on which GM builds GM earlier this year cut the third To do all that, David Cole, former and the exit of the US government as a GM on Tuesday named 51-year-old vehicles around the world as a way to cut shift at its Korean plants, and industry chairman of the Center for Automotive shareholder. Barra as its next CEO, making her the costs, analysts said. research firm IHS said the carmaker is Research, said Barra and her top execu- Barra takes over at an auspicious time, first woman to lead a global carmaker. “GM has more complexity than a lot likely to cut output in that country by tives will need to “break down the fief- as the new pickups and related large Barra will also be the first engineer of other global carmakers and they really nearly 20 percent in 2015 compared with doms” throughout the company globally, SUVs hit showrooms in growing num- to lead GM since Robert Stempel in the need to harness their scale to get the full this year. something Ford Motor Co CEO Alan bers, pushing up profit. early 1990s. Analysts who follow the No 1 benefits,” said UBS analyst Colin Langan, GM officials have been mum lately on Mulally pulled off in his turnaround of But Jeff Schuster, senior vice president US carmaker said that was a good sign as who has a “buy” rating on GM’s stock. plans for Korea, but executives have not GM’s US rival. “The whole concept of of forecasting at LMC Automotive, said, developing and building hot-selling vehi- Fixing Europe, where GM has lost hidden their desire to minimise reliance team play is critical at GM,” he said. “This is a ‘what have you done for me cles is crucial to ending financial losses $18bn over the last 12 years, is at the on the country in the future. Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas lately?’ market, so keeping the edge and in Europe while also defending profit in top of Barra’s to-do list, analysts said. The decision to cease production in said in a research note on Wednesday connection to consumer needs with the the key US and China markets. New Opel products and the decision to Australia as well as the move to drop that investors’ concerns about GM slip- next-generation products will be a chal- “It would appear that her ascension stop selling most Chevy vehicles there the Chevy brand in Europe will cost the ping back to the “old ways” that led to its lenge.” REUTERS

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[email protected] DECEMBER 14, 2013 Sport ON SATURDAY 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Swansea advance despite defeat Europa League: Wigan, PSV crash out

PARIS: Swansea City are through to the last 32 of the Europa League despite produc- ing a lacklustre performance in losing 1-0 to St Gallen in Switzerland on Thursday. The Welsh side knew that a point in north-eastern Switzerland would secure their qualification for the knockout stages from Group A but instead a second-half Marco Mathys goal allowed the already-eliminated hosts to bow out on a high. Nevertheless, the defeat did not prevent the Swans from advanc- ing as Kuban Krasnodar failed to get the victory they required away to Valencia in Spain to stand a chance of grabbing second place. Paraguayan Lorenzo Melgarejo scored to earn the Russians a 1-1 draw after young forward Paco Alcacer put group winners Valencia ahead at the Mestalla, Swansea City’s Ivorian striker Wilfried Bony (right) vies for the ball with but Kuban bowed out. St Gallen’s French defender Stephane Besle during the Europa League Swansea manager Michael Group A match on Thursday at the AFG Arena in St Gallen. Laudrup will be relieved at seeing his men go through to Monday’s draw for the first knockout round disallowed when Neil Taylor through and a penalty converted after they failed to build on a turned a cross into his own net by Jordi Gomez put them in front. promising start in Group A. but Wuethrich was penalised for However, Chris McCann was The Premier League club won a foul on the Swansea captain. sent off moments later for a sec- their opening two matches, but Jose Canas cleared off the line ond booking after handling in the took just two points from their from a Mathys header but Mathys box and Dejan Mezga tapped in following four games and never turned in a low Wuethrich cross to equalise after his penalty had got a grip of Thursday’s encoun- following a quick free-kick to been saved. ter, much of which was played in finally put the Swiss Super League Zeljko Filipovic then put thick fog. side in front with 10 minutes left. Maribor in front in the second Perhaps still feeling the Substitute Pablo Hernandez half, and they held on to win effects of serious travel delays on fired just wide with Swansea’s despite having Ales Mertelj sent Wednesday which forced them to best chance late on but they limp off late on. cancel their eve-of-game training through and will play European Maribor qualified for the last 32 session at the AFG Arena, they football after Christmas for the courtesy of their better head-to- spent much of the game on the first time in their history. head record against Belgian side back foot. Meanwhile, last season’s FA Zulte Waregem, who lost 2-0 to After a quiet first half, St Cup winners Wigan Athletic section winners Rubin Kazan. Gallen grew as a threat after the were eliminated from Group Former European champions restart, but visiting goalkeeper D, eventually finishing bottom PSV Eindhoven needed just a Gerhard Tremmel made two good of the section after a 2-1 defeat point to go through from Group saves to deny Roberto Rodriguez away to Slovenian champions B but were eliminated after los- before Sebastien Wuethrich hit Maribor. ing 1-0 at home to Chornomorets the woodwork from a free-kick In new manager Uwe Rosler’s Odessa, a solitary Franck Dja just after the hour. first game in charge, Wigan had Djedje goal taking the Ukrainians St Gallen then had a goal to win to stand a chance of going through instead. AFP Germany to use tailor-made Van Persie training base in Brazil ruled out for BERLIN: Germany have kept things in the family and will set up their Brazil 2014 World Cup base at a German-built resort under one month construction in Porto Seguro, north of Rio de Janeiro, the country’s football association said yesterday. LONDON: Robin van Germany, bidding for their fourth World Cup title and their first Persie will play no part in international trophy since 1996, are eager to have ideal preparations in Manchester United’s busy the run-up and during the month-long tournament starting in June. holiday programme after “We saw at the previous World Cup in 2010 that short distances being ruled out for a month between team headquarters, training pitches and media centre are with a thigh injury, manager crucial for everyone involved,” team manager Oliver Bierhoff said. David Moyes said yesterday. The “Campo Bahia” as their headquarters will be known consists With United trying to claw of 65 rooms still under construction with a what the DFB said was a back the damage of a poor first “village atmosphere” and well away from the crowded metropolitan third of the Premier League areas of Sao Paolo and Rio. It is to be completed by March next year. season, starting at Aston Villa The location is also 45 minutes from the Port Seguro airport which tomorrow, the Dutchman’s Germany will use for their group matches to cities as they are keen absence is a big blow, especially to avoid long trips across the vast country. as they have not won in the “It was important for us to minimise any travel fatigue because of Premier League without him. the size of the country and the great distances between cities,” Bierhoff “Robin van Persie is out said. REUTERS for a month. He picked up a thigh strain in taking a cor- ner kick which led to the goal (against Shakhtar Donetsk on Your TV guide for Tuesday),” Moyes told a news conference. live matches today Van Persie, who has scored seven goals in 11 Premier Event Competition Time Channel League matches this season, only returned from a groin Man City vs Arsenal Barclays Premier League 15:00 HD6 injury in last weekend’s 1-0 Leicester vs Burnley English Championship 15:15 +2 home defeat by Newcastle United, a result that left them Osasuna vs Real Madrid La Liga 17:30 HD2 in ninth place, 13 points behind Blackpool vs QPR English Championship 18:00 +2 leaders Arsenal. Nottingham Forest vs Ipswich English Championship 18:00 +1 “It’s unfortunate because I think if you look at our record Chelsea vs Crystal Palace Barclays Premier League 18:00 HD6 with Wayne Rooney and Robin Guangzhou vs Al Ahly FIFA Club World Cup 18:00 HD4 in the team, it is actually very good and we have not had them Rennes vs PSG Ligue 1 19:00 .TV for quite a period recently,” Rayo vs Granada La Liga 20:00 +4 Moyes said. Hull vs Stoke Barclays Premier League 20:30 HD6 Responsibility will now fall to Rooney who has been Barcelona vs Villareal La Liga 21:30 HD2 in great form this season Catania vs Verona Serie A 22:00 HD3 despite United’s problems and who is edging towards Bobby Guingamp vs Monaco Ligue 1 22:00 .TV Charlton’s club scoring record Evian vs Stade Reims Ligue 1 22:00 +4 of 247. Nantes vs Toulouse Ligue 1 22:00 +2 Rooney will clock up 500 first-team appearances Nice vs Sochaux Ligue 1 22:00 +1 (including with Everton) Raja vs Monterrey FIFA Club World Cup 22:30 HD4 tomorrow. REUTERS Sporting vs Belenenses Portuguese League 23:15 HD1 DECEMBER 14, 2013 Sport www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21 ON SATURDAY

Scores BANGKOK: Scores after the second round of the $1m Thailand Golf Championship Qatar Team’s Carella claims yesterday at the Amata Spring Country Club. (par 72) 133 68-65 Sergio Garcia (SPA), 65-68 Justin Rose (ENG) 135 64-71 Alex Cejka (GER), 71-64 Anirban Lahiri (IND) , 70-65 third straight world title Alexander Levy (FRA) 136 70-66 Rickie Fowler (USA) 137 70-67 Henrik Stenson (SWE), The Italian wins decider in Sharjah; Torrente finishes second overall 69-68 Kiradech Aphibarnrat (THA), 68-69 Sujjan Singh (IND), 72-65 SHARJAH: Qatar Team’s Alex He added: “Congratulations to Andrew Dodt (AUS) Carella led from start-to-finish Alex on his superb drive and also to seal a third successive UIM to Shaun, who pushed him all the 139 65-74 Arnond Vongvanij (THA), F1 H2O World Championship way. It was another tremendous 69,70 Masahiro Kawamura (JAP), title with a stunning victory season for everyone at the QMSF 66-73 Gaganjeet Bhullar (IND), in yesterday’s Grand Prix of and I would like to thank Sheikh 71-68 Panuphol Pittayarat (THA) Sharjah on Khalid Lagoon. Hassan for his support and all 140 71-69 Jaakko Makitalo (FIN), Despite initial pressure from our team for their hard work. We 70-70 Bubba Watson (USA), 73-67 team-mate Shaun Torrente and have now won the last three world then from race runner-up Phillipe titles. This is a superb achieve- Scott Barr (AUS) Chiappe, Carella held his nerve to ment for everyone connected with reach the chequered flag 1.98 sec- the Qatar Team.” onds in front of the Frenchman. Khalid Abdullah Al Kuwari and Rose and Torrente finished third and con- Mohammed Al Obaidly qualified firmed second position in the sixth and eighth for the final UIM world championship. F-4S race of the season for the Garcia lead There were no Friday the 13th Eurofin Trophy and reached the gremlins on this occasion and chequered flag for the 25-lap race Carella duly entered the history in fourth and sixth places. in Thailand books with his third world title Latvia’s Nikita Lijcs led from success. pole position and on through BANGKOK: Ryder Cup team- Italian racing legend Guido a yellow flag situation to beat mates Sergio Garcia and Cappellini was the last man to the new F-4S champion Mike Justin Rose played sparkling win three successive world titles Szymura by 6.31 seconds. golf to move into the joint between 2001 and 2003. Italian youngster Aberto lead of the $1m Thailand Golf Finland’s Sami Selio lost his Comparato finished third. Championship after the second slim chance of taking a third Carella made a superb start round at Amata Spring Country world title with technical prob- and surged into a stunning lead Club yesterday. lems on the 22nd lap and this through lap one. Garcia fired a sizzling seven- left the door open for Team Abu His lead was up to 2.13 seconds Qatar Team’s Alex Carella (right) celebrates after clinching his third successive world title after finishing the under par 65 which included a Dhabi’s Ahmed Al Hameli to fin- through lap two, as Selio moved Sharjah Grand Prix in first place, yesterday. hole-in-one at the eighth, while ish fourth, with fellow Emirati up from 13th to eighth. Rose shot an accomplished 68 as Thani Al Qamzi and Italian Carella continued to edge away the duo reached 11-under for the Francesco Cantando rounding from Torrente and the lead was The defending world cham- Thani Al Qamzi’s hold on sixth and Torrente for the world tournament. off the top six. up to 3.16 seconds through lap five pion’s lead was 2.04 seconds at place. championship. Rose and Garcia are two “This was a superb perform- of 38, but the American trimmed one-third distance, but Torrente Chiappe began to pressurise Chiappe had reduced Carella’s strokes ahead of overnight leader ance by the entire team. I am so that lead back to 2.5 seconds after began to edge further clear of Torrente for second and the gap lead to 4.3 seconds through lap 27, Alex Cejka of Germany, France’s happy right now,” said Khalid bin lap six. Chiappe. was 1.52 seconds after lap 22 but Torrente began to drop behind Alexander Levy and India’s Arhama Al Kuwari, head of for- Yousef Al Rubayan was forced Carella’s lead was 3.32 seconds and the Frenchman managed to and the title pendulum swung in Anirban Lahiri, who shot the mula racing at the Qatar Marine to run a drive-through penalty lap at the halfway point and Torrente pass Torrente and snatch sec- Carella’s favour. The Italian held day’s lowest score, a magnificent Sports Federation (QMSF), and this lifted Selio to seventh, was running over two and a half ond as Selio ground to a halt on his nerve after intense pressure eight-under 64. A further stroke which runs under the presidency as Carella continued to hold off seconds in front of Chiappe. the course and lost his chance of from Chiappe late on to reach behind was America’s Rickie of Sheikh Hassan bin Jabor Al Torrente and Chiappe at the front Selio maintained seventh, but winning the world title. It was the chequered flag and claim his Fowler. Thani. of the field. was unable to make in-roads into now Carella against Chiappe third title. THE PENINSULA Pre-tournament favourite Henrik Stenson improved on his opening round with a 67 to move into joint seventh place with a cluster of players includ- Qatar National Sprint: De Vido clinches title ing Thailand’s leading contender Cycling: Armstrong Kiradech Aphibarnrat and India’s Sujjan Singh. “It was a wonderful day,” said a ‘bought’ Million Dollar happy Garcia who in addition to his hole-in- one, sunk five bird- ies. “The hole-in-one was an extra bonus. It is always an exciting Race, says report feeling,” said Garcia. It was his third ace in tournament play. ROME: Retired Italian the West Virginia Classic and Garcia, who has his girlfriend rider Roberto Gaggioli told the CoreStates race. on the bag, said he felt comforta- yesterday’s edition of the “Two laps from the end, I ble with his form. “I’ve been play- Corriere della Sera that Lance was in a breakaway with Lance, ing well both days,” he said. “But Armstrong (pictured) paid Bobby Julich and some Italian there are still two days to go.” him $100,000 in 1993 in order riders from the Mercatone Rose said he was pleased with to win the Million Dollar Race team. When Lance made a sign, his score despite a rather shaky in the United States. I turned away as if not to see beginning. “It was a funny round,” “It was a young American that he had escaped. He broke he said. “I got off to a slow start,” colleague,” Gaggioli, away to win on his which included a bogey at the who is now 51, was own.” third. The participants of the sixth round of the Qatar National Sprint is seen after the event in Doha, yesterday. Luc quoted as saying. “He The newspa- He added: “I had more trouble Mathern Van Der Merwe was the fastest driver with a lap time of 1.22.9 seconds. The Lotus car driver com- offered me a panettone per added that reading the greens today and was peted in the 3S Category. The second best time went to Lebanese driver Nadim Ziady, who clocked 1.23.4 (a traditional Italian other riders also fortunate to make some big putts seconds with a Mitsubishi Evo 8. Compatriot Elie Daccache made the third best time of 1.23.6 seconds with Christmas cake) as a failed to respond to to save par.” a Renault Clio. The final round saw the participation of 16 drivers in the event which was organised by Qatar present and wished me Armstrong’s attack However after a birdie at the Motor and Motorcycle Federation (QMMF). Canadian driver Peter De Vido was crowned the overall winner with a merry Christmas. In because they too had ninth his game really stepped up. 84 points. Pavel Nedobity from Czech Republic and Ziady finished in second and third positions respectively. the box there were been bought, and cited “That birdie really got me Van Der Merwe finished the championship in fourth place. $100,000 in small bills. one, Roberto Pelliconi, going,” Rose said. That colleague was who said: “Angelo And things soon got even better Lance Armstrong. Canzonieri (another when he was rewarded with an “Lance said that my rider) and Lance eagle at the 11th. Nadal wins team, Coors Light, had agreed agreed on a fee of 50, Angelo “My approach was the best iron to it. I understood that it had thought he meant dollars but shot I have hit in months,” he said. Prague charity all been decided,” added Gaggioli Lance meant lire. “I’m looking forward to playing in reference to Armstrong’s “At the Tour of Lombardy he with Sergio in the third round.” poker event win in the CoreStates race in gave us 50 million (lire).” Overnight leader Cejka said he Philadelphia which was crucial Armstrong, who was riding had played quite well but a double to him winning the one million for Motorola at the time and is bogey at the 18th spoilt his day. PRAGUE: Rafael Nadal showed dollar prize for the victor of now 42, was officially stripped of “That double was a real pity, he was not tired of dethroning three races held over 21 days. his seven Tour de France wins otherwise it would have been a world number one players when The Million Dollar Race, in 2012 after being found guilty decent round,” he said. AFP he saw off Daniel Negreanu to which was known as the Thrift of a string of doping offences. win a charity poker tournament Drug Triple Crown, was com- He publicly admitted that he in Prague late on Thursday. prised of the Pittsburgh Classic, had cheated in January. AFP NHL Results The €100,000-euro ($137,000) Columbus 4 NY Rangers 2 tournament was the first-ever live poker event for the 27-year- Philadelphia 2 Montreal 1 old Spaniard, who had stripped Tour champ Froome says Ottawa 2 Buffalo 1 Serbia’s Novak Djokovic of the world’s top spot in tennis this Tampa Bay 2 Detroit 1 year. battle with disease is over St. Louis 6 Toronto 3 Nadal has been a fervent poker World number one tennis player Rafael Nadal (right) and former Brazilian LONDON: player since a knee injury side- footballer Ronaldo smile as they arrive at a celebrity poker tournament, Reigning Tour de France champion Chris Froome has Nashville 3 Dallas 1 lined him from his day job last revealed that he has recovered from a parasitic illness that had the European Poker Tour Charity Challenge, in Prague. Colorado 4 Winnipeg 3 year, but had so far only played plagued him for over four years. in online poker tournaments. The 28-year-old Briton had been suffering from bilharzia, which is Calgary 2 Carolina 1 “I had fun. I had a great expe- Tomba, past football legends Like tennis, poker is “a com- usually spread by contaminated water and is most common in Africa. rience here playing with friends, Ronaldo and Andriy Shevchenko, petition, you need to control your Froome, who was born in Kenya, has managed to reach the summit Phoenix 6 NY Islanders 3 playing for a good cause, for char- and finally Dutch field hockey emotions, you need to be focused of the sport in spite of the condition, but he says he was relieved to Boston 4 Edmonton 2 ity,” Nadal said after the game. champion Fatima Moreira de all the time.” learn that he had finally shaken it off. “The next thing I know is that Melo in the heads-up. “You need to have self-con- “At last I am free of the debilitating disease bilharzia,” he told yes- San Jose 3 Minnesota 1 tomorrow morning I will be on “My life is still tennis, playing trol, you have to wait for your terday’s edition of British newspaper The Independent. court at 9am practising tennis.” poker I have fun. I am learning, moment,” he said. “I had a test when I went back to Kenya recently and it is the first NBA Results Besides Negreanu, the world but at the same time I try to ... be Nadal won 10 titles including time it has come back negative since the diagnosis (in 2009). That is Brooklyn 102 LA Clippers 93 number one poker player, Nadal competitive,” Nadal told reporters the French and US Opens this fantastic news for me. I’m not going to have to worry about that any Portland 111 Houston 104 beat Italian downhill star Alberto before the tournament. year. AFP more. That should be it gone now,” he said. AFP DECEMBER 14, 2013 ON SATURDAY 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Sport Clarke bags top ICC awards NEW DELHI: Australian were the others on the short- two double centuries and three and Adelaide. “I’d swap it for the were drawn up by an independ- captain Michael Clarke (pic- list to miss out. The awards are other hundreds. team to have success, that’s for ent 32-person panel comprising tured) stole the honours in the based solely on performances The Australian captain has sure,” Clarke said of the double former players and representa- International Cricket Council over a 12-month period that been in top form in the ongo- honour. tives from the media, match ref- awards announced yesterday, ended on August 25, 2013 and ing return Ashes series at “The most special feeling in any erees and umpires. Those who winning both Player of the Year included the World Twenty20 home, lifting his team to a 2-0 team sport is winning, but espe- received the highest number of and the Test Cricketer of the in Sri Lanka, the Champions lead with centuries in each of cially in cricket, along with that votes were declared the winners. Year. Trophy in England and the wom- the first two Tests in Brisbane comes individual performance.” For the first time since the Clarke, whose Australia en’s World Cup In the Test awards were introduced in 2004, team have taken a firm grip of in India. Player of the Year they were not presented at a the ongoing Ashes series, beat Clarke Winners category, Clarke function but announced through five other nominees including won despite a NEW DELHI: List of winners of the International Cricket Council awards announced by the world scored over five a media release by the ICC. England skipper Alastair Cook lean time for governing body yesterday: other nominees -- A television show on the to bag the Sir Garfield Sobers Australia in Cricketer of the Year: Michael Clarke (AUS) Amla, Anderson, awards, hosted by former Trophy for the player of the year. that period Ravichandran Australian captain Ricky Test Cricketer of the Year: Michael Clarke (AUS) “I was very surprised, to be when they were Ashwin, Ponting, will be shown today, the honest, probably because there thrashed 4-0 One-Day Cricketer of the Year: Kumar Sangakkara (SRI) Cheteshwar ICC said. are so many guys who are playing in India, before Women’s One-Day Cricketer of the Year: Suzie Bates (NZL) Pujara and Dale Ireland’s Kevin O’Brien was so well around the world at the losing the Ashes Emerging Cricketer of the Year: Cheteshwar Pujara (IND) Steyn. voted the best Player from non- moment,” Clarke told the cricket. series against Associate and Affiliate Cricketer of the Year: Kevin O’Brien (IRL) Sri Lanka’s Test nations, while Richard com.au website. England 3-0. Sangakkara was Kettleborough of England was “I definitely didn’t expect to During the Twenty20 international performance of the year: Umar Gul (PAK) - for bowling figures of 2.2-0- named the One- named the Umpire of the Year. have won this award but it is a voting period, 6-5 vs South Africa, March 3, 2013. Day Player of the Mahela Jayawardene won the prestigious award and an hon- Clarke was the Women’s Twenty20 Cricketer of the Year: Sarah Taylor (ENG) Year, while Indian spririt of cricket award for not our, and something I’m certainly world’s lead- Umpire of the Year: Richard Kettleborough (ENG) batsman Pujara waiting for the umpire’s decision proud of.” ing run-scorer Spirit of cricket Award: Mahela Jayawardena (SRI) - for not waiting for umpire’s decision after was voted the after edging a catch when he was Hashim Amla, James with 1,559 runs edging a catch to the wicket-keeper when he was batting on 91 against New Zealand in a Test emerging Player on 91 against New Zealand in a Anderson, Mahendra Singh at an average of match in Galle in November 2012. of the Year. Test match in Galle in November Dhoni and Kumar Sangakkara 70.86, including Nominees 2012. AFP

Scoreboard

New Zealand (I innings): ...... 441 West Indies (II innings): West Indies (I innings): K Edwards c Williamson b Southee ...... 35 Smith rescues Australia K Edwards c Rutherford b Anderson ...... 55 K Powell b Southee ...... 36 K Powell lbw Southee ...... 21 D Bravo c Watling b Wagner ...... 0 D Bravo c Fulton b Anderson ...... 4 M Samuels c Anderson b Southee ...... 12 M Samuels c Watling b Boult ...... 60 S Chanderpaul (not out) ...... 31 S Chanderpaul c Anderson b Boult ...... 6 N Deonarine b Boult ...... 12 N Deonarine c Taylor b Boult ...... 22 D Ramdin c Boult b Anderson ...... 19 with vital ton in Perth D Ramdin (not out) ...... 12 D Sammy lbw Boult...... 0 D Sammy b Boult ...... 0 S Shillingford c Taylor b Wagner ...... 1 S Shillingford b Boult ...... 0 T Best c Fulton b Boult ...... 21 The hosts are 326/6 after recovering from 143/5 T Best b Boult ...... 0 S Gabriel b Boult ...... 0 S Gabriel b Southee ...... 0 Extras: (LB6, NB1, W1) ...... 8 Extras (LB8, W1, NB4) ...... 13 Total (all out, 54.5 overs) ...... 175 PERTH, Australia: A vital it hard for the opposition to score, Total (all out; 49.5 overs) ...... 193 Fall of wickets: 1-74, 2-75, 3-85, 4-94, century by Steve Smith put but we found it hard to do that. Fall of wickets: 1-46, 2-67, 3-103, 4-119, 5-117, 6-146, 7-147, 8-148, 9-175, 10-175 Australia in a strong position “We didn’t get it right.” 5-175, 6-182, 7-182, 8-188, 9-188, 10-193 Bowling: Boult 12.5-2-40-4, Southee 11-2- and frustrated England in the Smith said his innings was a Bowling: Boult 15-5-40-6, Southee 15.5-2-58- 24-3, Wagner 17-2-67-2 (nb1), Anderson 11- third Ashes Test after they had career highlight and admitted 2 (1w), Wagner 7-1-37-0 (nb4), Anderson 7-1- 1-29-1 (w1), Williamson 3-1-9-0 threatened to bowl the hosts out the English had the home side on 20-2, Sodhi 3-1-18-0, Williamson 2-0-12-0 Result: New Zealand won by an innings and 73 runs cheaply yesterday. the ropes. Australia’s fragile top order “We were under a bit of pres- again stuttered as the hosts sure, losing a few wickets in the slumped to 143/5 on the first day, middle, but I was lucky enough before Smith came to the rescue to build a partnership with Hads Boult stars as NZ with his second Test ton in what (Brad Haddin) and Mitch at the could be the series decider. end,” he said. At stumps Australia were 326/6 “We are in a decent position with Smith unbeaten on 103 and and hopefully if we start well thrash West Indies Mitchell Johnson on 39, further tomorrow we can post a really loosening England’s grip on the good score.” WELLINGTON: Trent Boult led New Zealand to their first Test trophy at 2-0 down and three to Smith said the English bowlers win in more than a year yesterday when he produced career best play. were guilty of pitching the ball “a figures in a fiery bowling display that crushed the West Indies Having turned the first two yard” too short. inside three days. Tests with his fiery fast bowl- Australia lead the five-Test The West Indies lost 16 wickets on the third day as they handed New ing, Johnson was threatening to series after big wins in Brisbane Zealand a comprehensive victory by an innings and 73 runs. inflict more pain on the English, and Adelaide, and can secure the It was the Black Caps first win in 11 Tests under Brendon McCullum this time with the bat. Ashes with victory in Perth. who replaced Ross Taylor after their last success in Sri Lanka nearly Johnson had hit six boundaries But not for the first time in the 13 months ago. as he and Smith added a quickfire series they found themselves in “Everyone’s obviously very happy,” McCullum said. 59 and counting for the seventh early trouble with the bat after “We played near the perfect Test match and that’s obviously pleasing.” wicket. winning the toss. The West Indies resumed yesterday at 158/4 in their first innings in English fast bowling coach Playing his 100th Test, as was reply to New Zealand’s 441. David Saker admitted his team his English counterpart Alastair They were forced to follow on when they collapsed to be all out for again let a commanding position Cook, Australian captain Michael 193, and the second innings ended at 175. slip away, as he has been their way Clarke elected to bat. Boult was the chief destroyer with six for 40 in the first innings in this series. Despite the pitch offering pace where his last four wickets came in the space of six deliveries. “No doubt we let it slip,” he and bounce, there was no side- In the second innings he returned 4-40 and also pulled off a spec- conceded. “And it is probably ways movement and it looked a tacular one-handed, diving catch when Denesh Ramdin (19) slashed not the first time in the series good strip to bat on, but England at a Neil Wagner delivery. we’ve had them on the ropes and capitalised on poor shot-selection “That catch was pretty surreal, I don’t know how to explain that TOP: Australia’s Steve Smith haven’t finished the job. by the home side. one, I just seemed to dive at it and it stuck,” said Boult. “Credit to them, but we didn’t All of the Australian batsmen, “It’s something I’m going to cherish for long time. Ten wickets in a celebrates his century on the deliver what we should have deliv- bar opener Chris Rogers (11) who Test match is obviously something very special to me.” first day of the third Ashes ered today. was run out by Jimmy Anderson, The West Indies had success at the start of the match after putting Test match against England “We pride ourselves on making fell to reckless shots. AFP New Zealand into bat but from there they were outplayed. AFP at the WACA ground in Perth, Australia, yesterday. EXTREME RIGHT: Pakistan’s captain Mohammad Hafeez (left) and Sri Lanka’s captain Dinesh Sri Lanka level series, retain top spot Chandimal (right) pose with the trophy after the two-match DUBAI: Sri Lanka retained Scoreboard Twenty20 series ended in a draw their status as the world’s top in Dubai, yesterday. Twenty20 team by beating SRI LANKA S Maqsood c Chandimal b Perera ...... 15 Pakistan by 24 runs in a thrill- J Perera run out (Saeed Ajmal/Sohail Tanvir) 84 Umar Akmal b Prasanna ...... 0 ing finish to the second game in TM Dilshan c Umar Amin b Saeed Ajmal ..... 48 Shahid Afridi c Sangakkara b Perera ...... 28 Dubai yesterday. Scoreboard S Prasanna c Usman Khan b Saeed Ajmal .. 21 Umar Amin c Chandimal b Senanayake ...... 0 The win also levelled the two- KC Sangakkara (not out) ...... 44 Bilawal Bhatti st Sangakkara b Senanayake . 0 Australia (I innings): match series at 1-1 after Pakistan Chris Rogers run out (Anderson) ...... 11 won the first match by three Extras (LB 1, W 12, NB 1) ...... 14 Sohail Tanvir c Prasanna b Malinga...... 41 David Warner c Carberry b Swann ...... 60 wickets on Wednesday. Total (3 wickets; 20 overs) ...... 211 Saeed Ajmal lbw b Kulasekara ...... 20 Shane Watson c Swann b Broad ...... 18 Kusal Perera hit a career best Did not bat: LD Chandimal, AD Mathews, HDRL Usman Khan (not out) ...... 2 Michael Clarke c Cook b Swann ...... 24 59-ball 84 and spinner Sachitra Thirimanne, NLTC Perera, KMDN Kulasekara, Extras (B 1, LB 2, W 10, NB 3) ...... 16 Steve Smith (batting) ...... 103 Senanayake took three wickets SMSM Senanayake, SL Malinga Total (all out; 19.2 overs) ...... 187 George Bailey c Pietersen b Broad ...... 7 in a match with full of runs and Fall of wickets: 1-100 , 2-133, 3-211 Fall of wickets: 1-18, 2-27, 3-62, 4-83, Brad Haddin c Anderson b Stokes ...... 55 records. Bowling: Usman Khan 4-0-52-0-1 (2w); So- 5-84, 6-85, 7-85, 8-121, 9-184, 10-187; SL Mitchell Johnson (batting) ...... 39 The series draw kept Sri Lanka hail Tanvir 4-0-31-0; Bilawal Bhatti 2-0 -32-0 Malinga 4-0-30-1 (3nb, 1w); Kulasekara 3.2- Extras (LB5, W3, NB1) ...... 9 at number one in the Twenty20 (1nb, 1w); Saeed Ajmal 4-0 -25-2 (2w); Mo- 0-23-2 (2w); Senanayake 4-0-27-3; AD rankings, shattering Pakistan’s Total (6 wickets; 87 overs) ...... 326 hammad Hafeez 4 -0-45-0 (2w); Shahid Afridi Mathews 1-0 -10-0; TM Dilshan 1-0-13- 0; S Fall of wickets: 1-13, 2-52, 3-106, 4-129, hopes of claiming the top spot in 2-0-25-0 Prasanna 3-0-45-2 (2w); NLTC Perera 3-0- 5-143, 6-267. any form of the game for the first Bowling: Anderson 17-4-44-0 (1w), Broad time. PAKISTAN 36-2 (1w) 17-1-78-2 (1w), Bresnan 21-4-72-0, Stokes Chasing 212 target, Pakistan A Shehzad c Vithanage b Senanayake ...... 8 Result: Paksitan won by 24 runs; 2-match se- 14-2-52-1 (1nb, 1w), Swann 17-0-71-2, finished at 187 with Sharjeel Khan Sharjeel Khan b Prasanna ...... 50 ries drawn 1-1 Root 1-0-4-0. scoring 50 and Sohail Tanvir M Hafeez c Sangakkara b Kulasekara ...... 7 Player-of-the-match: MDKJ Perera (Sri Lanka) making 41. AFP DECEMBER 14, 2013 Break Time www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23 ON SATURDAY

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ATHENS 11/07 Partly cloudy 13/09 Clear handle unruly travellers WASHINGTON 03/01 Partly cloudy 06/-3 Showers SYDNEY 27/18 Chance of storm 27/17 Mostly cloudy GENEVA: Fighting soccer after throwing liquor at them, and cases leaves cabin crew and pilots carriers - that they should back LONDON 09/06 Mostly Cloudy 12/10 Chance of rain fans, fashion models screaming then shouted abuse at stewards uncertain on how to respond. their crews and try to ensure PARIS 11/07 Partly cloudy 14/07 Chance of rain obscenities and a French film and fellow passengers throughout “There is always the fear that that badly behaved passengers ISTANBUL 05/04 Chance of rain 08/03 Clear star relieving himself in the an overnight flight from Europe they could be sued for assault if are taken to court. MANILA 30/24 Mostly cloudy 31/23 Partly cloudy gangway are just a few well pub- to Thailand. they restrain a violent passenger,” But the absence of well defined DHAKA 24/14 Partly cloudy 24/12 Clear licised examples of what airlines Since 2007, when it began Colehan said. legislation means that this often DELHI 23/11 Clear 24/11 Clear say is a growing trend of abusive recording data, well over 15,000 Other incidents in the skies this leads nowhere. The Tokyo con- ISLAMABAD 23/05 Partly cloudy 22/07 Partly cloudy passenger behaviour on planes. incidents have been reported to year include a violent attack on a vention was originally drawn up Briefing journalists this week, IATA, Colehan said. “But there stewardess in China, an American to deal with hijacks. the International Air Transport are almost certainly many more viewing pornography on his com- IATA wants governments to Association (IATA) said it aims to which we never hear about.” puter, and a South African couple agree at the March conference, use a conference in Montreal next The problem for the airlines having First Class sex, according convened by the International Major Chinese art collection March to seek agreement on the and the crews, said Colehan, is to credible media reports. Civil Aviation Organization, on a rights of crews and captains to do that international law has not A Russian woman on a flight new convention that will spell out whatever is necessary to subdue caught up with the new world of from Los Angeles to London the right of an airliner’s captain set for Oxford museum offenders. global air travel. drank liquid soap when refused to do what he feels necessary to “Unruly passenger behaviour... Often offenders, like the violent alcohol, and tried to bite a stew- control misbehaving passengers. LONDON: Chinese paintings and art considered to form one of is on the increase,” Tim Colehan woman passenger on the Bangkok ard. On another plane a man But the airlines are not sure of the best collections outside China have been bequeathed to the of the Geneva-based grouping told flight, go scot free because police seized wine from a trolley and the outcome. “We are confident Ashmolean Museum of Oxford University by an art historian, the reporters. “ It is a problem which in countries where planes land locked himself in the toilet to there will be a new convention, museum announced yesterday. our crews and other travellers say they have no jurisdiction. drink it. but — with so many governments The Canadian-born historian and collector Michael Sullivan, who face every day.” Worse, IATA says, the lack of Several years ago, IATA told its having to agree — we have to wait died in October at the age of 96, had amassed the collection with his He cited as typical a woman clarity in the current 1963 Tokyo 240-odd members - which include to see how it turns out,” Colehan late Chinese wife Khoan and many of the artists were the couple’s close passenger who fought cabin crew Convention that governs such almost all the world’s scheduled said. REUTERS friends, the statement said. The collection includes works by Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian and Fu Baoshi, with more recent acquisitions including Landscript by Xu Film award Bing, the museum said. Man sues “Michael Sullivan was a longstanding friend and supporter of the Ashmolean,” Professor Christopher Brown, Director of the Ashmolean, said, describing the collection as outstanding. govt for $48m “Scholars from around the world will have the opportunity to use the works in their study, teaching, and research. We hope this is a fitting over museum testament to a great art historian and collector.” Sullivan, whose family moved to Britain from Toronto when he was demolition three years old, was a pacifist who first visited China in 1940 after he’d heard the Quakers were recruiting a team to drive trucks for the International Committee of the Red Cross. SHANGHAI: A Shanghai He developed a lifelong fascination with China, southeast Asia and man is suing local authorities the Pacific region and in 1959 published “Chinese Art in the Twentieth in China’s commercial hub for Century”, the first of several works on China and Chinese art. almost $48m over the demo- He was appointed Lecturer in Asian Art at the School of Oriental lition of his home — which and African Studies, London, in 1960, and was Professor of Asian Art doubled as a private museum at Stanford University in California from 1966-1984. — a court and reports said He combined academic work with his passion for bringing eastern yesterday. art to a wider audience, producing articles for BBC publications and Liu Guangjia, whose house broadcasting on the radio. and a museum-style garden of bonsai trees and exotic rocks in the southwestern suburb of Anle were destroyed in April End of road for camper vans The producer Karim Amer (left) and director Jehane Noujaim (right) receive from Sheikh Mansour bin Mohammed last year, is seeking 289m yuan bin Rashid Al Maktoum the award of best film at Muhr Arab Documentary for the movie Al Midan (The Square) ($47.6m) in compensation, the FRANKFURT: Ten years after Volkswagen’s legendary Beetle during the awards ceremony of the 10th Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) 2013 in Dubai yesterday. official Xinhua news agency drove off into the sunset, the German carmaker’s other main icon, reported. the camper van, takes its leave from the world’s automobile stage this The museum was free to month. Volkswagen’s last Type 2 — the van’s official name — is sched- visit for the public, it added. uled to roll off the production line in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil Batch of 59 rare Beatles songs for sale It is rare for cases against on December 20, closing a 63-year-long chapter of automotive history. the authorities to reach the In the vast firmament of the automobile industry, the camper van’s LONDON: Rare recordings timing of the release or comment The legislation has been dubbed courts in China, and state star shines almost as brightly as that of the Beetle. of 59 songs by the Beatles will on speculation that it was aimed “Cliff’s law” in Britain for the media said Liu’s demand The worldwide popularity of both vehicles helped VW become a go on sale for the first time on at extending copyright over the additional royalties it would was the largest ever brought global carmaker. Tuesday when Apple Records material. provide for veteran rocker Cliff against a local government. It was the Beetle — the Type 1 — that gave birth to the company makes them available for down- In 2011, the European Union Richard, whose songs had been A district court heard that that is currently the world’s third-biggest automaker. load. Apple, a label founded by ruled that copyright over sound starting to fall out of copyright. Liu and his wife Zhu Rongzhou, And it enjoyed various guises over its 60-plus years before it was the Beatles in 1968, said it would recordings should be extended Earlier this year, Sony Music both in their 70s, were taken finally pulled from production in 2003. release a series of tracks from from 50 to 70 years from next released a compilation of Bob away and tied up for 30 hours The Beetle began as a little twinkle in the eye of Adolf Hitler, who the early 1960s that were previ- year, but only for recordings Dylan recordings from 1962 and during the demolition, the took it into his head in 1934 to make a reasonably priced car -- at ously only available as bootleg released before the 50-year term 1963, giving away the reason Global Times said. around 1,000 Reichsmark -- available to all Germans. recordings. had expired. for the move with a frank sub- “Zhu had just finished treat- And from the functional “People’s Car” of the Nazis, it went on to Among the songs to be released The bulk of the Beatles tracks title: “The Copyright Extension ment for breast cancer and become a symbol of the German post-war economic miracle, emblem on iTunes are versions of She available for download from Collection, Vol. 1.” Liu’s arm was dislocated in the of the hippie “flower power” generation and even star of Walt Disney’s Loves You, A Taste of Honey and Tuesday were recorded for the Sony only released 100 copies of struggle,” it reported. “Herbie” comedy adventure movies. There’s a Place, as well as out- BBC in 1963 but not released. the Bob Dylan recordings. It was “When they were released, The Type 2 — which shares the Beetle’s rear engine and its axles — takes, demos and live perform- Others have already capitalised not immediately clear whether the house, museum and all started life as a doodle by Dutch car salesman Ben Pon, VW’s first car ances recorded for BBC radio. on the changes to EU legislation Apple Records would limit down- the contents were all gone,” it dealer outside Germany, on a visit to the carmaker’s plant in Wolfsburg A spokeswoman for Apple to maintain control over their loads of the Beatles songs. added. AFP in 1947. AGENCIES Records declined to explain the back catalogues. REUTERS