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DOHA: The morning will be wins hearts foggy, affecting visibility, which will be as low as a kilometre at times at places, weather fore- casters said yesterday. They also forecast strong winds and high seas by the evening. The of Saudis wind speed inshore could be three to 13 knots during the day but could reach 20 knots as First GCC ruler officially on Twitter night approaches. The air may be a bit chilly at places at night DOHA: The Custodian of as the direction of the wind the Two Holy Mosques King changes at night to northwest- Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, erly. Temperatures will vary has become the only Saudi and from 32 degrees Celsius dur- GCC ruler so far to have a gen- ing the day to 14 degrees C at uine official Twitter account, night. reports Al Sharq. He won the hearts of fellow Saudis by tweeting that he had GIS system to granted a staggering $30bn as a account was opened on September reward to his people. 23, 2013. map Qatar’s The largesse he announced After the tweet, the number after being crowned the king of the king’s followers on Twitter Qatar’s Bertrand Roine in action against Poland during their semifinal match in the Men’s Handball World fish stocks includes two months of salary has increased to more than Championship at Lusail Multipurpose Arena last evening. Qatar won 31-29 to become the first non-European for all public servants and defence 500,000 and the figure is growing side ever to reach a world handball final. They meet France in the final today. See also page 22 DOHA: Qatar is developing a personnel and two months of by the minute. geographical information sys- scholarships for every Saudi stu- “The king has become a very tem (GIS) to map and analyse dent, at home and abroad. popular figure on social media, its marine resources, mainly Likewise, two months’ stipend especially Twitter,” Alarabia. fishing reserves. is to be paid to people with spe- net said. His tweet has evoked a The fisheries department is cial needs and the beneficiaries of huge response from Saudis and it QA takes $1.7bn stake in IAG busy assessing the country’s fish social security, and all this would has been re-tweeted more than reserves and working on a pilot add up to $30bn. 200,000 times, a record. LONDON/BERLIN: Qatar oneworld alliance and has limited create opportunities in southeast project to develop plans on how In his tweet, the Saudi ruler “The Saudi king is the first Airways has bought a stake code-sharing deals and a freight Asia, India and the Middle East, to manage fishing areas. told his people: “You kind peo- GCC leader to have an authentic worth about £1.15bn ($1.7bn) in partnership with BA. where Qatar has an extensive net- The idea is to develop a national ple, you deserve much more and and official social media account,” the owner of British Airways Buying the stake could deepen work, while also giving it a wealthy database to help rationalise the whatever I did will not be able to said Al Sharq. and Iberia, aiming to forge the relationship, giving Qatar long-term backer whose support exploitation of the country’s fish- give you what is your right. I hope That also makes him the first closer links to a group with two greater access to destinations could be useful in funding future ing stocks, according to a report Allah will be with me and with Saudi ruler to have been assured major European hubs and strong served by IAG’s London and growth. of the general secretariat of the you to help us serve our religion of his people’s allegiance in a big transatlantic networks. Madrid hubs, particularly trans- Neither party said whether IAG Cabinet for 2014. and our country. And don’t forget way electronically as Saudis have The Gulf airline, which dis- atlantic, with North America had been aware Qatar was build- Technical reports have already me in your prayers.” tweeted in massive numbers with closed a 9.99 percent holding well served by British Airways ing the stake and did not say who been prepared on various types Alarabia.net reported yester- the hashtag ‘Mubaya’ (allegiance), yesterday, already partners and South and Central America the shares had been bought from, of fish found in Qatari waters, day, while reproducing his above said the daily. International Consolidated by Iberia. or when. including shark and hamour. tweet, that King Salman’s Twitter THE PENINSULA Airlines Group (IAG) in the On IAG’s part, the tie-up will REUTERS THE PENINSULA

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The Foreign Minister H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah with heads of some of Qatar’s diplomatic, consular and representative missions abroad. FM honours Qatari missions DOHA: The second annual gen- success in different fields and eral meeting of heads of Qatar’s achieve state interests. diplomatic, consular and repre- GCC Secretary-General Dr sentative missions abroad ended Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani in the presence of the Foreign highlighted the role of the embas- www.swiss-belhotel.com Minister H E Dr Khalid bin sies in activating cooperation Mohamed Al Attiyah. between GCC foreign ministries. Tel He thanked aides, ambassa- Dr Al Attiyah honoured Qatar’s Fax dors and heads of departments at outstanding embassies, consulates the Foreign Ministry for efforts to and representations abroad. He make the meeting a success. said the recognition is a catalyst He said the three-day meet- for embassies, consulates and rep- Tel ing was an opportunity to review resentations abroad to exert more Fax work strategies, coordination and efforts to promote Qatar’s foreign cooperation between the minis- policy, offer the best services to The Foreign Minister addressing the concluding session of the try and government agencies to citizens overseas and remove meeting. promote Qatar’s foreign policy obstacles they might face. QNA

Tel Fax Law urged to encourage private Tel + 974 44298888 Fax investment in food projects Tel Fax DOHA: The man behind the private sector. export its products to the neigh- QR200m meat processing fac- The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bouring GCC states. tory opening next month says bin Hamad Al Thani has in his He said the plant will use lat- Tel a law is needed to encourage address to the Advisory Council est technology and the validity Fax the private sector to invest talked of empowering the pri- of some packed meat products in projects to ensure food vate sector, said Al Khalaf. could be extended to longer security. It must also protect The Prime Minister and durations. the investors’ interests, said Interior Minister H E Sheikh “Some packed products Tel Ahmed Al Khalaf (pictured). Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa imported here have validity for Fax “What we lack is basic infra- Al Thani has also stressed the only 72 hours. Our factory would structure like land, water and need to back the private sector be able to process products that www.doha.hilton.com electricity to get involved in and help widen its role in the would have longer shelf life.” agricultural production in a big national economy. Quality will be a hallmark of Tel 44233333 974+ way.” Al Khalaf is the chairman “There is no law that encour- the plant because regional and of the company commissioning ages businessmen to invest in international competition is Fax 44233000 974+ the factory, which will start pro- food security projects and pro- fierce, said Al Khalaf. duction in April. tect their interests,” Al Khalaf He said the factory was sup- He told this daily yesterday business and the area under said. posed to be ready six months ago that his family got involved in cultivation will soon be He said the factory’s daily but was delayed due to technical horticulture more than two 100,000sqm,” he added. production capacity will be 50 problems such as meeting safety years ago and has in the past Al Khalaf said his farms pro- tonnes which could be doubled. requirements and upgraded two summer seasons supplied duce seasonal vegetables but “We will produce 80 types standards and specifications. fresh vegetables to the local soon facilities for vegetables of meat products, including Power supply is another prob- market. round-the-year will be set up. chicken, mutton (goat included) lem. “The plant will be commis- “We have about 20,000sqm He said food security is one and beef.” The output will be sioned next month but will be Tel of land under cultivation. of the main areas in which the more than sufficient to meet fully operational by April,” he Gradually, we are expanding government should support the local demand so the factory will said. THE PENINSULA Fax Al Wakra Hospital Tel Ministry removes illegal porta Fax to have ‘Maternal cabins from govt properties and Child Tower’ Tel Fax DOHA: Hamad Medical DOHA: Several porta cabins and Equipment to help in the villas in Doha which had Corporation is constructing encroaching on state prop- campaign. encroached on government a third building at Al Wakra erties have been removed in The owners of the cabins land. The ‘building/excavation Hospital for maternal and child many civic areas, officials will be fined and will also have violation notice’ asked the own- health. Tel have said. to pay the expenses incurred ers to contact the municipality The building ‘Maternal and Fax Inspectors from the Ministry on removing the cabins. within 24 hours over the “ille- Child Tower’ will provide services of Municipality and Urban Authorities also issued notices gal encroachment of perimeter related to gynaecology, child birth Planning, accompanied by to several violators to remove wall” violations. and paediatrics as part of a plan police, went to Umm Lekhba their cabins. The ministry, meanwhile, to develop and upgrade the hos- Tel and Al Markhiya and removed The Umm Salal Municipality provided training for inspec- pital so that it can provide more wooden porta cabins installed said it removed cabins during tors through workshops, lec- services for residents in the south Fax on public properties, accord- an inspection campaign car- tures and field trips in several of the country, reports Al Sharq. ing to the local Arabic daily ried out with police and the areas, covering types of viola- The two buildings provide all Al Watan. They were also department. tions and steps inspectors must services in the area, reducing accompanied by a team from Last November, officials take to notify and fine violators. the crowds at Hamad General Tel the Department of Machinery pasted notices on many old THE PENINSULA Hospital. THE PENINSULA Fax Sidra nursing official awarded RCSI fellowship

DOHA: Sidra Medical and Research are working together to improve health and Center has announced that its Chief healthcare for people everywhere,” said Dr Tel Nursing Officer, Dr Mary Boyd (pic- Boyd. tured Fax ), has been awarded fellowship by Before joining Sidra, she held senior lead- the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, ership positions in healthcare in Ireland and Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland was a major contributor to Irish healthcare (RCSI). reform. Tel The fellowship follows an examination, Sidra’s Member of the Office of the CEO Fax including the submission of a portfolio of and Executive Vice Chief Medical Officer, evidence and viva and a review of her con- Dr Abdulla Al Kaabi, said, “Sidra has estab- tributions to nursing in three key areas: lished the pursuit of education as one of its www.marriottmarquisdoha.com Teaching, research and practice. main pillars. We commend Dr Boyd’s com- These areas mirror the three pillars mitment to life-long learning and knowledge Tel + 974 44195000 of excellence in patient care, biomedical sharing at Sidra and UCQ.” Fax + 974 44195100 research and medical education on which Professor Marie Carney, Dean, Faculty Sidra was founded. of Nursing and Midwifery, RCSI, said. “Dr Dr Boyd also lectures students of Boyd’s dedication to the progress of nurs- the Bachelor of Nursing programme at ing as a profession in Ireland and focus on University of Calgary in Qatar (UCQ). education and empowerment of our nurses “Sidra and RCSI share a commitment and midwives has had a major impact on experience will help build a strong founda- to excellence in clinical practice, recognise the evolution of the discipline. tion for nurses at Sidra and in Qatar.” the power of education and training and “I am confident that her passion and THE PENINSULA SATURDAY 31 JANUARY 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 Final rounds of main falcon contests end Mazayen competition, awards ceremony at Katara today

DOHA: The sixth Qatar Falcons and Hunting Festival yesterday saw the final rounds of the Local Dau, Hudud Al Saluki and Hudud Al Tahaddi competitions. The winners in Hudud Al A file photo of people lining up at a ticket counter inside a cinema complex. Tahaddi, the most popular con- test, were Mohammed Saleh Al Qamra Al Marri and Mohammed Saad Al Rumaihi who took home Demand for books declines Lexus cars. In Hudud Al Tahaddi, falcons seek to obstruct the flight of homing pigeons trained to fly to a point many kilometres away, as craze for movies rises and cause them to land. The competition was stiff with BY SACHIN KUMAR information and entertainment, multiple information and enter- the highest number of partici- they use social media for infor- tainment options. Access to the pants in the festival’s history. DOHA: The charm of printed mation and fun. Books were Internet is rising fast in Qatar “This edition was tough because Mohammed Saad Al Rumaihi, one of the winners in Hudud Al Tahaddi words is fading away in Qatar the main source of information because of falling prices of it witnessed 534 competitors, 24 challenge at the sixth Qatar Falcons and Hunting Festival yesterday. and the craze for movies is a decade earlier,” said Tauseef Internet data plans. of whom reached the finals. Last peaking, according to report Hussian, a civil engineer in an The declining prices of com- year saw 16 competitors in the followed by Sheikh Abdulaziz bin this important aspect of our her- released by the Ministry of infrastructure company here. puters, smartphones and tablets final round,” said Saif Saeed Al Jabor Al Thani (QR50,000) and itage and culture. This year wit- Development Planning and “The decline in number of book have increased their usage. Nuaimi, Head, Hudud Al Thadddi Team Ilzam (QR40,000). nessed an increase in the number Statistics. lovers and increasing popularity The rise in number of audi- Committee. Team Marmi won the Shaheen of falconers which is evident that The number of people going of movies is not unique here. It ence continues despite a decline In the Local Dau Qarnas event, Qarnas event, winning a Land Qataris are keeping alive the her- to cinema halls has surged is a global trend and technology in the number of cinema halls. Mohammed Saleh Al Qamra Al Cruiser, followed by Mana itage of their forefathers alive.” by 41 percent in recent years is one the main factors behind There were 38 halls at 2011-end Nabet Al Marri came first and Abdulhadi Al Shahwani Al Hajri He said the ministry has while the number of books bor- it,” he said. and the count dropped to 31 at took home a Land Cruiser, fol- (QR50,000) and Team Ilzam launched a project to protect rowed from public libraries has The number of people going to 2013-end. The number of librar- lowed by Ahmed Misnad Al (QR40,000). Qatar’s natural resources and plunged by 30 percent. cinema halls jumped by 40 per- ies has remained stable at seven Misnad who won QR50,000 and Sheikh Ali Abdullah Khaled in support of CITES, an inter- The number of books bor- cent to 2,243,352 in 2013 from since 2011. Khaled Rashid Saleh Aba Al Hamad Al Thani won the top national agreement between rowed from libraries has 1,603,000 in 2012. According to the report, the Zamat Al Marri (QR40,000). two slots in Hudud Al Saluki governments to protect endan- dropped from 61,888 in 2011 to “My 10-year-old son reads number of book borrowers has The challenge showcases a fal- while Saud Ahmed Mubarak Abu gered plants and animals. “One 43,090 in 2013, according to the stories on his tablet while I declined by 22 percent. Around coner’s skills in training his bird. Ghanem Al Sulaiti came third. of the initiatives is to increase the 29th issue of ‘Qatar in Figures’ used to read stories from books 31,000 people borrowed books In Local Dau, a falcon is required Hudud Al Saluki is a race in number of Al Habari bird because report. The number of aver- in my childhood,” said Javed in 2011 and 24,186 in 2013. The to cross about 400 metres to which salukis, or Arabian grey- the species is particularly impor- age cinema audience per day Mohammed, who lives in Najma. craze for non-Arabic films is reach the finish line in the short- hounds, try to cover 2km in the tant for falconers,” he said. reached 6,146 in 2013 from 4,357 “Every weekend he demands growing in Qatar. A total of 868 est possible time, with the help of shortest possible time. The Mazayen contest to select in 2011. to visit cinema hall and seldom movies were released in 2013, of a signal from its owner. The Minister of Environment the most beautiful falcon and “The current generation is asks for story books,” he added. which 817 were non-Arabic and Leading the Local Dau Al Farkh H E Ahmed Amer Mohamed Al the awards ceremony will be not dependent on books for The Internet has given 51 Arabic. THE PENINSULA event was Misnad Ahmed Al Humaidi said, “I am supporting held today at 5.30pm at Katara Misnad who won a Land Cruiser, the festival because it preserves Building 12. THE PENINSULA HBKU hosts graduate students from US Salamtek reviews DOHA: Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), a mem- ber of Qatar Foundation distracted diving for Education, Science and Community Development DOHA: Qatar Mobility deployment in the market. (QF), hosted 25 faculty, staff Innovations Centre (QMIC) “The strong consortium made and graduate students from hosted the first meeting of the up of key national organisa- Colorado State University as Salamtek Consortium where tions from diverse fields will part of its Qatar Study Tour members reviewed progress effectively promote the devel- (QST) and Young Professionals made by the centre in having opment, deployment and user Institute (YPI) programmes. solutions ready for national adoption of solutions that can The programmes, based on deployment. limit phone usage while driving,” partnerships with graduate They also discussed market- said Abdulaziz Al Khal, Deputy institutions in the US and deliv- ing activities and reward mech- Executive Director and CEO, ered by staff at HBKU Student anisms to promote the use of QMIC. Affairs, showcase how Student Salamtek solutions. “We are privileged to work Affairs’ ideas transform educa- Vodafone Qatar became the with these entities to ensure tion in Qatar. Since their incep- sixth member of the consortium. a coordinated effort to apply tion in 2010, QST and YPI have In support of its initiative to strategies for creating the larg- enabled participants to broaden tackle the distracted driving est impact possible on reducing and exchange knowledge, extend problem caused by mobile phones, distracted driving. The meet- professional network and enhance QMIC, in November 2014, formed ing discussed QMIC’s progress intercultural competence. the consortium which includes in solutions and next steps,” Al QST participants gain insight the Ministry of Municipality Khal added. into higher education and student and Urban Planning, the Traffic Salamtek solutions and appli- affairs in Qatar by engaging with Directorate of the Ministry of cations focus on managing driver administrators from HBKU, its Interior, Ooredoo Qatar, Qatar distraction in a user-friendly partner universities in Education Insurance Company, Vodafone manner. Solutions will seam- City and Qatar University. Qatar, and Road Safety Studies lessly change phone behaviour YPI, an intensive four-day Centre at Qatar University. above certain speeds, eliminating learning experience, encourages The consortium will ensure distracting elements caused by graduate students from the US coordinated national efforts to mobile phone. The use of mobile to engage with stakeholders from speed up the development of phones while driving is one of the institutions in Qatar. innovative solutions and come main causes of distracted driving. Working in teams, participants Faculty, staff and graduate students from Colorado State University at the event. up with mechanisms for their THE PENINSULA research, discuss and tackle issues related to student affairs and Practices and Local Laws’; and open a new frontier and future for Vice-President, Student Affairs, present findings to contribute to ‘Internationalisation of Higher the field. The QST and YPI pro- Colorado State University, said, more effective practices. Education and Student Affairs grammes were innovative shared “Our graduate students, staff and Issues discussed this year in the Arabian Gulf’. learning experiences where edu- faculty enjoyed cultural immer- included ‘Student Affairs Dr Khalid Al Khanji, Vice- cators from the US and Qatar sion activities, educational ses- 279 Indians died in Qatar Profession: A Job or a Career’; President, Student Affairs, said, came together to understand sions and engaging discussions ‘Culturally Appropriate Student “Increasing international under- student affairs and leadership at to more effectively work with Activism’; ‘Challenges of Working standing among student affairs’ a deeper level.” students in a global context.” last year, says embassy in Start-Ups’; ‘Student Affairs professionals has the potential to Blanche Hughes, THE PENINSULA DOHA: A total of 279 Indians 13 emergency certificates this died in Qatar last year, up month. compared to previous years, It also issued nine air tickets according to data released by to people in distress to return to the Indian embassy yesterday. India this month. The mission recorded 241 Since the beginning of this Tamayoz lines up training programmes deaths in 2013 against 237 in year, the Labour and Community 2012. Since January this year, the Welfare Section of the embassy DOHA: ExxonMobil Qatar has programme is always a work technical and project manage- “What I learnt has been appli- number of deaths has reached 33, received 280 complaints from announced that the 2015 edition in progress and we constantly ment aspects of training. cable to my work and the course indicating a further increase. Indians seeking redress for of its Tamayoz training pro- update our courses so that they Mohammad Hasan Eshkenani, has enhanced skills set my job The data, released after the problems. gramme will focus on health, are effective and relevant to Geologist, QP, who attended requires.” monthly Open House at the Data shows a steady increase in safety, environment (HSE) and participants. the Fundamentals Geoscience Last year, with 33 training embassy, does not provide details the number of complaints received leadership development skills “They must fulfil Tamayoz’s Subsurface Interpretation opportunities Tamayoz covered about the causes of deaths. over the past three years. In 2014, for participants, including objective — to contribute to course, said: “I had heard posi- all relevant areas for 670 pro- There are 87 Indians at the the embassy received 3,943 com- employees of its partner Qatar building people’s capabilities and tive comments from colleagues fessionals. “Month after month, Central Prison serving terms plaints compared to 3,558 in 2013 Petroleum (QP), and joint ven- continue the development of about courses Tamayoz provides professionals from our joint for offences. The number of and 3,385 in 2012. tures RasGas and Qatargas. the industry in line with Qatar for professionals in the energy ventures have come to expect Indians awaiting deportation The Indian Community “The 2015 agenda has courses National Vision 2030.” industry. quality training programmes we at the Search and Follow Up Benevolent Forum under the in a range of topics,” said ExxonMobil experts offer free “When I took part in one, I have provided since the launch Department has been put at 113. embassy provides support for the Anthony Pryde, Joint Interest training programmes on areas experienced first-hand the qual- of Tamayoz in 2013,” said Alistair Following requests from needy through welfare initiatives, Technical Manager, ExxonMobil pertinent to participants’ work. ity content, trainers’ extensive Routledge, President and General authorities for travel documents including air tickets, financial Qatar Inc. This year’s courses will also industry knowledge and the rel- Manager, ExxonMobil Qatar Inc. for Indian inmates at the depart- assistance and medical help. “A successful training cover areas such as commercial, evance of the courses. THE PENINSULA ment, the embassy has issued THE PENINSULA SATURDAY 31 JANUARY 2015 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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ction from the first round of the Arabian Drag Racing League at AQatar Racing Club in Doha during the weekend. Top drivers from around the world are taking part in the event that will decide the winner after rounds 2 and 3 at the same venue. Round 2 will be on February 5 and 6 and Round 3 on February 12 and 13. Packed with family fun and entertainment, Round 1 on Thursday and Friday attracted a large number of fans. SATURDAY 31 JANUARY 2015 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Qaeda in Yemen says Houthis’ gathering France top enemy ‘Paris has replaced Washington in the war on Islam’

DUBAI: The ideological leader anyone”, those who mock the Al-Nusra Front attacked the of Yemen-based Al Qaeda in the prophet. movement’s positions and check- Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) said AQAP has a track record of points in the west of Aleppo yesterday that France had sur- launching attacks far from its base province ... We in the Hazem passed the United States as the in Yemen, including an attempt Movement will defend ourselves top enemy of Islam. to blow up an American airliner until the last drop of blood,” it With the “weakening” of the over Michigan on Christmas Day said in a statement. United States in recent years, in 2009. Hazem is mainly present in France has replaced America in The group’s English-language northern Syria. Last year, it was the “war on Islam,” Ibrahim Al propaganda publication had the first to receive US-made anti- Rubaish said in an audio message urged extremists to carry out tank missiles from its Western published by AQAP’s media arm attacks abroad, naming Charlie backers. on YouTube. Hebdo’s editor-in-chief Stephane In November, Al Nusra jihad- US intelligence agencies con- Charbonnier among a list of ists expelled the Western-backed sider AQAP to be the most dan- targets. Syrian Revolutionaries Front gerous branch of the jihadist Meanwhile, Al Qaeda’s affiliate from Idlib. network. in Syria battled Western-backed Elsewhere in Idlib, Islamist One of the group’s ideologues, rebels yesterday as the militants rebels detonated explosives Nasser bin Ali Al Ansi, has pressed their bid to seize control planted in a tunnel under an army claimed in a video that AQAP was of northern areas, a monitoring position in the Jabal al-Arbaeen behind the January 7 attack on group and rebels said. area, killing at least one soldier French satirical weekly Charlie The fighting comes nearly and wounding around 24 others, Supporters of the Yemen’s Houthi movement attend a gathering, called by the group leader Abdul-Malik Al Hebdo that left 12 people dead. three months after Al Nusra according to the Observatory. Houthi, to discuss the country’s security and political situation in the capital Sana’a yesterday. Various tribes- Cartoons of the Prophet Front expelled another group of Rebels from Suqur Al Sham men, religious leaders and officials attended the meeting. Mohammed (peace be upon him) Western-backed opposition fight- group, a component of the mas- published by the magazine have ers from Idlib province. sive rebel Islamic Front alli- angered many Muslims. The Syrian Observatory for ance, distributed videos claiming Western governments say Human Rights said the jihad- responsibility for the attack. it remains unclear if AQAP ists launched their offensive One video showed a huge cloud directly orchestrated the attack against the Western-armed of smoke rising above the site of Gunmen attack two Americans on the weekly, although they do Hazem movement on Thursday the explosion. believe one or both of the attack- in Aleppo province. “The jihad- State news agency Sana, for ers, brothers Said and Cherif ists expelled the rebels from its part, said the army repelled in Saudi’s eastern province Kouachi, spent time with jihad- Regiment 111, once a regime army an attack on Jabal Al Arbaeen, ists in Yemen. base that Hazem had taken over,” “killing a large number” of rebels. AQAP was formed in 2009 Observatory director Rami Abdel Syria’s conflict began in March RIYADH: Gunmen fired at two and are looking into them.” shot dead an American former after a merger between militants Rahman said. 2011 as a popular revolt seeking US citizens yesterday on a road It was the fourth attack since colleague and wounded another in Yemen and Saudi Arabia. “Then yesterday, the fight- democratic change, but later in oil-rich Eastern Province, October on Westerners in the in Riyadh. In November, Saudi Rubaish urged attacks on the ing spread to the north of Idlib morphed into civil war after leaving one wounded, in the kingdom, which in September Arabia blamed IS-linked suspects West, singling out France. province.” President Bashar Al Assad’s fourth anti-Western attack joined a US-led coalition against for the killing of seven Shiites, He also called on Muslims The Hazem group confirmed regime launched a brutal crack- in Saudi Arabia in as many the Islamic State (IS) jihadist including children, in Eastern to target, “without consulting the attack. “The so-called down against dissent. AFP months, police said. group in Syria and Iraq. Province. “At 2:00 pm today... a car car- Last month, Saudi authorities In a video posted on Tuesday, Al rying two American nationals... arrested three IS supporters for Qaeda’s Yemen branch (AQAP) came under fire from an unknown allegedly shooting and wounding called for lone-wolf attacks source, resulting in one of them a Dane in his car in Riyadh. against the United States and Air strikes alone not enough to defeat IS being wounded and hospitalised,” The interior ministry said the West, with one of the group’s said a police spokesman, quoted authorities arrested the suspected ideologues, Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi, BRUSSELS: Air strikes alone “I welcome that (participa- are reluctant to send their com- by the official SPA news agency. gunmen, driver and videographer, urging supporters to carry out will not be enough to defeat tion) and I think that is impor- bat troops into action against He was “in stable condition.” who wore masks during the shoot- “individual jihad.” Islamic State militants and tant, even though I don’t believe Islamic State. The two Americans were ing which was filmed and posted A recording was released in greater Western help in build- that air strikes alone can solve Last month the Baghdad gov- travelling on a road in Shiite- online by IS. November attributed to Abu ing up Iraqi security forces the problem,” Nato Secretary- ernment asked Nato for help in populated Al Ahsaa governorate The suspects, all Saudis, had Mohammed Al Adnani, the IS could also play a role, the head General Jens Stoltenberg told a training its security forces after of eastern Saudi Arabia, he said. “trained for two weeks” before spokesman, that urged Muslims of Nato said yesterday. news conference. the Iraqi army collapsed in the A resident of Al Ahsaa said the attack, authorities said. to attack Westerners by any The United States leads a coa- Separately Stoltenberg told face of an offensive by Islamic that police blocked off a part of Also in December, an assail- means, even if only to “spit on lition of countries that has been Reuters in an interview that air State militants last year. the city where a National Guard ant stabbed and wounded a their faces”. carrying out air strikes against strikes could be supplemented “We are considering how we facility and a Saudi Aramco Canadian as he shopped at a mall The video on the Dane being the Islamist militants who have by working with the Iraqi gov- can do that in a way which is hospital and training school are in Dhahran on the Gulf coast. attacked came with an audio seized large parts of Syria and ernment to help it develop its helpful for them and we are in located. No other details were Canada and Denmark are also recording, purportedly of IS Iraq. Nato as an organisation is security forces. Some Western dialogue with the government of immediately available. taking part in the US-led air cam- leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, not involved but individual allies countries have sent soldiers to Iraq now,” Stoltenberg said. US embassy spokesman Johann paign against IS. And in October, warning that Riyadh will see “no participate in the coalition. Iraq to train and advise but they AFP Schmonsees, contacted by AFP, a Saudi-American fired from his more security or rest”. said: “We are aware of the reports job with a US defence contractor AFP Exiled Gaza strongman Netanyahu denies wife granted Serbian profited from bottles citizenship JERUSALEM: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu BELGRADE: Exiled yesterday dismissed as “false” Palestinian strongman reports that his wife Sara Mohammed Dahlan, a rival of (pictured), had pocketed at President Mahmoud Abbas, has least $1,000 worth of public been granted Serbian citizen- money by returning empty ship, the Balkan Investigative bottles to supermarkets. Reporting Network (Birn) The reports, which were reported yesterday. cause for ridicule in local media, “Dahlan, his wife and four chil- come as the head of the right- dren, a nephew and five key politi- wing Likud party prepares cal supporters were all granted to seek re-election in a snap citizenship between February March vote. 2013 and June 2014,” Birn said. In a long Facebook post, The news portal provided a link Netanyahu hit out at “false to a page from the government accusations against me and matter is being turned over to gazette of December 11, 2013, my wife that seek to topple Israel’s attorney general’s office, in which the decision to grant the Likud and bring the left to Haaretz said. Local media were Dahlan citizenship was published. power.” quick to ridicule Sara. The decision, which was A Palestinian boy throws stones at an Israeli army bulldozer during clashes following a protest against the nearby “All of this aims to detract Haaretz published a car- signed by then prime minister Jewish settlement of Qadomem, in the West Bank village of Kofr Qadom yesterday. attention from what is really toon featuring her sitting in Ivica Dacic, went unnoticed until important — who will lead the her living room, surrounded by reported by Birn. country,” he wrote. empty bottles and pointing at “Dahlan is credited with facil- Earlier this week, reports a TV showing the latest fron- itating Abu Dhabi’s promised Israel to build 430 settler emerged that Sara Netanyahu tier flare-up between Israel investment of billions of euros had during her husband’s second and Lebanese militant group in Serbia,” Birn said, referring term as prime minister (2009- Hezbollah. to pledges of financing from the homes in West Bank: Report 2013) collected a vast amount “I need them to take some- United Arab Emirates, including of empty bottles bought by the thing to the supermarket,” she a multi-billion-euro plan to rede- premier’s office and returned barks down a telephone, point- velop Belgrade’s waterfront. JERUSALEM: The Israeli were to be built in four existing Likud is competing with other them to supermarkets, pocket- ing at attack helicopters shown Dahlan lives in the United Arab government yesterday pub- settlements across the West Bank rightwing parties for the set- ing the money herself. on the TV. Emirates. The government in lished tenders to build 430 new — 112 in Adam, 156 in Elkana, 78 tler vote. “This could hardly be Over several years, the Pro-Netanyahu freesheet Belgrade refused to confirm a link settler homes in the occupied in Alfei Menashe and 84 in Kiryat an accident,” he said. “It could Netanyahus through this Israel Hayom slammed the between the passports given to 12 West Bank, the head of an NGO Arba. not have taken place without practice earned at least 4,000 reports as “defamation” as the Palestinians, all linked to Dahlan, that monitors settlement activ- Seidemann, whose group par- Netanyahu’s knowledge and shekels ($1,000, ¤885) of what country’s political parties pre- and the Gulf country’s planned ity said. ticularly monitors settlement in consent.” should have been public money, pared for the campaign trail. investments, the report said. “It’s the opening of the set- Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, Israel occupied the West Bank the reports said. They returned The snap vote on March Dahlan once acted as point- tlement floodgates,” said predicted that building plans in the 1967 Six-Day war. Building $1,000 to the state in 2013, the 17 will pit Netanyahu’s Likud man for Abbas in the Gaza Strip, Daniel Seidemann, head of the there were likely to be announced settlements there is illegal under Haaretz website reported. and other possible rightwing where he ran the security forces Terrestrial Jerusalem group, add- soon. international law and opposed by But Haaretz also cited allies against a united centre- but he fell from grace in 2007 ing that the announcements were “I don’t think it’s over,” he said. the United States and the inter- a former employee of the left front that includes former after the Islamist group Hamas the first since October 2014 and “I would be very concerned.” national community as an obsta- Netanyahus as saying that justice minister Tzipi Livni’s drove Fatah from Gaza following unlikely to be the last before the He linked the new tenders cle to an eventual peace deal with the figure was in fact thou- Hatnuah and the Labor party. days of fierce street battles. 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OTH Israel and Hezbollah have decided to step back from the brink after a Hezbollah missile Why Greece went left while strike this week killed two Israeli soldiers and Bwounded seven. It’s a wise decision, and will be widely welcomed, not only in Israel and Lebanon, but all over the world because this region can’t afford to start Europe turns to right another war. It’s also a decision that derives from the strength of both sides to retaliate against each other. Unlike Palestinians, Israelis have been wary in their dealings with BY NOAH FELDMAN employment, cutting budgets, and work- between northern and southern Europe. Hezbollah and would think twice before precipitating a ing harder for less money and shorter In Greece, as well as Spain, the far right situation that can spin out of control. HY has Greece chosen a vacations becomes resistance to the has actually governed in the postwar far-left government at a market economy itself. The ex- com- period. The colonels who ruled Greece The Hezbollah attack on Wednesday was in retaliation time when discontented munist radical left is the natural place from 1967 to 1974 relied on a hard right for a January 18 drone strike by Israel on a convoy in Wand frustrated voters for such resistance: The economic pro- anti-communist ideology. In Spain, Syrian territory that killed six Hezbollah fighters and elsewhere in Europe have turned to the gram of the left simply denies that such Generalissimo Francisco Franco was an Iranian general. This was the worst flare-up between far right? measures will actually help, and instead more or less the last living European the two enemies since their bloody 33-day battle in 2006, In northern Europe, the frustrated holds the promise of telling Europe to fascist — and he governed until his voters’ parties of choice are right wing get lost. death in 1975. and a further escalation would have brought about huge and anti-immigrant. So how come frus- In northern Europe, economies may be That experience means Greeks and consequences. trated Greeks made a sharp turn to in the doldrums, but no external European Spaniards don’t have to fantasize about Both sides have expressed their willingness not to the left, electing the near- communist political force is pressing for fundamental what a right-wing government looks launch any more strikes. Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Syriza party to lead the government? structural change. Frustrated voters who like: They actually know. This provides Ya’alon told Israel Radio on Thursday that Hezbollah had The choice of left over right is especially see their job benefits scaled down even a powerful disincentive to vote for such sent a message via the United Nations monitoring force in striking because Greece is a first port moderately thus need a different target. parties in a way that might actually of call for so many Those who arrived recently — immi- go beyond protest to governance. In Lebanon to say there’d be no further action. Lebanon’s LBC new immigrants grants — are the traditional objects of Greece and Spain, voters know that television reported that Israel told the UN peacekeepers its to Europe. blame. The social contract may seem to the far right had no magic solutions operation was over, too. Iran, Hezbollah’s main backer, has If Spain’s be breaking down as a result of neoliber- to economic troubles. And they know also signaled that military action against Israel was over for Podemos party alism, but because no one has forced this that, whatever their limits, center-left now. The simplest continues to change on northern European societies, or center-right governments brought Israel is preparing for an grow, then the it’s much easier to blame immigrants for greater economic prosperity than their After — and most contrast between burdening the state and making the social more extreme counterparts. election and all its leaders, surprising — northern and contract too expensive. Never mind if it’s In northern Europe, the story is more tit-for-tat including Prime Minister Benjamin southern Europe true: The point is to blame anyone other complicated. Germany, of course, had attacks, Netanyahu, are focused on answer may will be even more than yourself. the experience of National Socialism campaigning to come to power. be just this: striking. The second effect of the economic — but few people now politically active Israel and Election is no time to fight a war, A combination troubles in southern Europe is that vot- personally remember the Nazi years. of economics, pol- ers are genuinely looking for a credible Elsewhere, far-right parties played dif- especially when it can affect voting the worse the Hezbollah itics and history alternative economic policy. In post-war ferent kinds of collaborationist roles and lead to failure of parties and economy, the can shed light on Greece, the hard left (defined as, say, during the war years. But nowhere in have decided candidates. Hezbollah too is busy the differences. left of democratic socialism) has a his- northern Europe has the far right actu- fighting its own war. Hezbollah worse for the The simplest — tory of meaningful political participa- ally governed since World War II — and to step back. and Iranian forces are fighting far right and and most surpris- tion in government. The predecessors of this notwithstanding Cold War fears of alongside Syrian President ing — answer may Syriza were part of a coalition govern- communism. the better for be just this: the ment in the late 1980s. A lack of real-world experience with Bashar Assad in the country’s civil war, against opponents worse the econ- In contrast, the northern European far-right government helps fuel some dominated by jihadist Sunni groups. Opening a new war the far left. omy, the worse for far right has no credible economic pro- northern European voters’ fantasy front with Israel is the last thing Hezbollah wants. It will the far right and gram, and no post-war history of partic- that things might magically be fixed if be in the interest of both sides to keep permanent peace on the better for the ipation in government. You might vote the far right were to have more influ- the border. far left. for the xenophobic Sweden Democrats ence in government. In the middle of Nasrallah said the group is no longer bound by any rules The southern European economies or the Danish People’s Party because Europe lies France, half northern and are in substantially deeper trouble than you’re angry about the way your coun- half southern by geography and cul- of engagement with Israel, without explaining. He said that their counterparts in middle and north- try is going — but you couldn’t vote for ture — and as always a conundrum. The if any party cadre is killed “we will blame Israel for it and ern Europe. This has two distinct politi- them in the belief that they have some Gaullist economic program was neither consider it our right to respond anywhere, at any time and cal effects, which together explain the economic program that’s going to make liberal nor socialist but something in in whatever way we see fit.” Netanyahu too has promised difference between a turn to the left and things better. All they promise is to shut between: state directed and nationally to defend his country against all threats, but heaped more a turn to the right. the borders to new immigrants. oriented. The French Communists par- First of all, Greece is facing austerity Put differently, the northern ticipated in the coalition governments blame on Iran for what had happened. demands that come from the northern European far-right parties may be of François Mitterrand and Lionel Hezbollah is the only power able to retaliate against members of the European Union, espe- born in part out of economic frustra- Jospin. This might suggest that the far Israel in the same force, which has helped create a sense cially Germany. That means the Greeks tion. But their politics are focused on left should gain the frustration vote in of balance on the border between Lebanon and Israel. perceive the main bad guy as external, social and cultural issues, not economic France. Yet the far-right National Front Palestinians need to learn from the Hezbollah and boost its not internal, and see the neoliberalism ones. Choosing these parties is a kind hasn’t participated in government; in defence against the Israelis of Angela Merkel as the immediate of luxury for voters who perceive their this way France’s experience is more . source of the pain. economies as troubled but not in freefall. like that of northern Europe. The resistance to reducing state Then there’s the difference in history WP-BLOOMBERG The other side Quote of A timely warning that Australia’s inertia must end the day USTRALIA’S drift towards budget deficit has blown out to $40 speech began with a warning about I believe the cumulative effect of the economic stagnation should billion. Commonwealth debt has risen why our political gridlock was becom- events of last year, and the global be obvious to anyone except to $245 billion. Productivity growth is ing dangerous: forces at work, are so profound that the Athose who do not want to see. stagnant. International competitiveness “The ageing of our population alone policy ambition we’ve become accus- The 25 per cent fall in the value of the is declining. Unemployment is 6.1 per could drive a fiscal gap of 4 per cent tomed to won’t be sufficient.” dollar against the US dollar over the cent, higher than during the global of gross domestic product by 2060, Ms Westacott offered a series of We do not want past three years is not simply about the financial crisis. Youth unemployment in today’s terms about $65 billion. A proposals, which the Herald believes end of the commodities boom. Even if is twice that rate. The population is age- reversion of the terms of trade to their have great merit. Her top priority is war... but the another boom were to occur, Australia ing, placing greater demand on govern- long-run, pre-boom levels could alone budget repair, which requires a rede- would be lucky to win any multibillion- ment services. increase the deficit by around another sign of major spending programs - resistance is dollar new projects. Australia has Australia needs a narrative that $40 billion. Another global financial health, education and social security militarily ready, become one of the most expensive reflects this strategic challenge. We crisis, which saw a $70 billion budget - to improve quality and efficiency. “We countries in the world. have seen no more urgent or con- deterioration, would turn this into a per- need a fundamental rethink of the fiscal and we are not The deteriorating fundamentals no structive call to action than the speech fect storm … Our geopolitical environ- strategy. In fairness, this is the message longer justify Australia’s high costs. delivered on Australia Day by Jennifer ment is very fragile on so many fronts.” the Prime Minister and the Treasurer afraid of war. The terms of trade had their big- Westacott, chief executive of the “If all this doesn’t constitute a burn- are delivering.” Hassan Nasrallah gest fall in 50 years during 2014. The Business Council of Australia. Her ing platform, I’m not sure what does. The Sydney Morning Herald Hezbollah Chief SATURDAY 31 JANUARY 2015 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Kurds ask US for promised weapons The White House has not changed a longstanding policy — enshrined in US law — that prohibits the open shipment of weapons to sub-state entities such as the Kurdistan Regional Government.

BY ELI LAKE He is now overseeing much of the day- to-day fighting on one of the war’s hot- ith the victory this week test fronts. When Kurdish fighters from over Islamic State forces Turkey known as the PYD were under at Kobani, Syria, one might siege in Kobani, Masrour Barzani sent a Wthink that the United Peshmerga artillery team into the city States and Iraqi governments would be that also helped coordinate the US air- looking to increase shipments of arma- strikes as part of the battle. ments to the Kurdish forces who did the But such cooperation with the US Air actual fighting. Force in the border area and elsewhere But according to the Kurd oversee- has not resulted in the arms shipments ing much of the ground campaign in the Kurds say they desperately need to Kobane, his Peshmerga units are facing fight the IS army, which has appropriated a shortage of ammunition and guns just heavy weaponry the US provided long ago at the moment they have turned the tide to the Iraqi army. against the jihadists. “The United States spent 10 years In an exclusive interview from a com- training an Iraqi army, it spent billions of mand center on the Iraq-Syria border, dollars training an Iraqi army and equip- Masrour Barzani, the chancellor of the ping it with Humvees, MRAPs (mine- Kurdistan Region Security Council, told resistant, ambush — protected vehicles), me his forces have received only four artillery and howitzers, all of this given shipments of needed munitions in recent to the Iraqi army, and it was dismantled months. “The shortage of ammunition is in 10 hours,” Barzani said, referring to a big problem and this is not even close to the collapse of the Iraqi forces in June at what we were asking for,” he said. Mosul and around Kirkuk. His comments have all the more sig- A State Department official in nificance because a recent deal — bro- Washington contacted on Thursday Civilians gather in the Syrian Kurdish city of Qamishli as they wave flags in celebration after Kurdish forces took control of the Syrian kered in part by the US — commits the largely disputed the characterization town of Kobani on January 27. Baghdad government to provide $1 bil- that the Kurds were being deprived. In lion to Kurdish forces in exchange for talking points provided to me, the official 90 percent of the work is done by the equip a Kurdish Peshmerga division. in large part on other countries for the the Kurds sharing revenue of their oil pointed out that Baghdad had recently Peshmerga, but we are only getting 10 But the White House has also equipment and ammunition he will need exports. Barzani says that so far, his sent 25 MRAPs to the Kurds, and that percent of the armaments.” not changed a longstanding policy — to take on the Islamic State.” forces have not received that money, since August there have been 59 interna- Barzani also pointed out that his forces enshrined in US law — that prohibits the In some cases, that includes counting though he spoke to me before the final tional cargo flights worth of ammunition were getting none of the 1,000 Humvees open shipment of weapons to sub-state on less-than-savory actors such as Iran. deal was passed this week in Iraq’s parlia- delivered to the Peshmerga. This included or 175 Abrams tanks promised to Iraq. entities such as the Kurdistan Regional Barzani acknowledged receiving ammu- ment as part of its annual budget. 45,000 mortar rounds, 2,800 rocket- pro- “We are starting to have doubts that Government. That means, in practice, the nition from Iranian military. Jeffrey told The news is also important in light pelled-grenade launchers, 40,000 rounds there might be a political decision on Baghdad government gets a final say on me this included rockets and other kinds of recent news reports suggesting the for those launchers, and 18,000 assault what sort of equipment should be given all weapons headed to Kurdistan. of specialized weapons. “He is right to Obama administration has not commit- rifles. to the Kurds,” he said. “We don’t think Other Western countries have been complain, because they are doing a lot ted many resources in other elements of Yet Barzani said that most of those this is just a technical issue. It’s been way more flexible. Germany has provided of the fighting and they don’t have a lot its war against Islamic State militants, shipments came in the late summer and too long for any technical issue.” the Kurds with French-made Milan anti- of the heavy weapons they are going to such as bankrolling and equipping mod- fall from eastern European countries, and The State Department official said tank missiles, which Barzani said were need,” Jeffrey said. erate Syrian rebels. The White House that the re-supply of the Kurdish forces there was no intent to deny Kurdish very effective against Humvees and other Barzani said that since the Peshmerga now says it will take at least three years since December has slowed to a trickle. fighters heavy weapons, and that there vehicles used by Islamic State forces. entered the war, more than 800 fight- to complete the Islamic State mission, He was particularly angry that his forces was a new effort to provide mortars, “At the end of the day, the U.S. position ers have been killed and more than 4,000 leaving the war to be finished by the next received only 25 MRAPs. rounds for Soviet-made T-62 tanks the is that it has to get Baghdad’s approval wounded. “We are fighting on behalf of president’s administration. “Now the Americans are providing 250 Kurds commandeered in 2003 from for any specific weapons system,” said the rest of the world against this ter- Barzani is the son of the Kurdistan MRAPs to Iraq, but only 25 of them are Saddam Hussein’s army, and other vehi- James Jeffrey, who served as U.S. ambas- rorist organization,” he told me. “We are region’s president, Massoud Barzani, promised to be given to the Kurds,” he cles and equipment to counter roadside sador there between 2010 and 2012. “That putting our lives on the line. All we ask and the grandson of the legendary said. “90 percent of the burden for this bombs. The Obama administration also is part of our keeping-Iraq-unified policy. for is the sufficient equipment to protect Kurdish nationalist Mustafa Barzani. war is on the shoulder of the Peshmerga, committed for the first time to train and As it stands now, Masrour has had to rely these lives.” WP-BLOOMBERG

Poll could define Britain’s US armed drone programme in global role into next decade Yemen facing intelligence gaps BY MARTIN KETTLE hat should be Britain’s role in the world in the 2020s and beyond? The question can’t be divorced in any meaningful BY MARK HOSENBALL, PHIL Houthis, who are hostile to both the United Seeking to stabilize the country, way from the approaching general election. Few modern STEWART and MATT SPETALNICK States and Al Qaeda. US officials said train- Washington has signaled at least limited Welections have been so clearly a search for national iden- ing of Yemeni special forces had ground to a contacts with the Houthis, who oppose the tity and meaning as the 2015 contest looks like being. But no election he United States is facing increas- halt in the capital, though some joint activities American drone campaign but are also ene- outcome will make much sense unless it simultaneously offers a new ing difficulty acquiring intelligence were continuing in the Sunni-controlled south. mies of Al Qaeda. and consistent account of this nation’s place in the wider world. needed to run its stealth drone pro- Many US personnel remain in place with “As a new part of Yemen’s leadership, the Foreign affairs rarely play a prominent role in general elections. Yet Tgramme in Yemen, undermining a Yemeni government forces at the southern Houthis will have many reasons to talk with 2015 ought to be an exception: partly because of the British relation- campaign against the most lethal branch of al-Anaad air base, an intelligence post for the international community,” said White ship with the European Union, about which this election outcome will al Qaeda after Houthi rebels seized control monitoring the Al Qaeda group. House spokesman Alistair Baskey. be so decisive; partly because this will be the parliament that decides of parts of the country’s security apparatus, Stephen Seche, who served as US ambas- He cited the need for security assurances whether to renew Trident, the ultimate embodiment in many eyes of US officials say. sador to Yemen from 2007 to 2010 and now for diplomats and to “articulate their inten- great-power status; and partly because of the objectively greater sense Gaps in on-the-ground intelligence could works in Washington at a law firm, said, how- tions” on the country’s political transition, but of international tension that has followed the standoff with Russia in slow America’s fight against a resurgent al ever, he expected collaboration between US insisted there was no US intelligence sharing Ukraine, the rise of Islamic State (IS) and the uncertainty in Europe Qaeda in Yemen and heighten the risk of and Yemeni intelligence services to suffer. with the Houthis. embodied in the Greek election result. errant strikes that kill the wrong people and “If there’s no leadership, there’s no clear With little prospect of collaborating with By several measures, David Cameron’s Britain has stepped back stoke anti-US sentiment, potentially making direction, there’s no real motivation to do the Houthis, Washington will also face trouble from the active global and regional engagements favoured by most of the militants even stronger in areas where Al that,” he said. mounting raids on al Qaeda hideouts similar his recent predecessors. Cameron has brought the troops back from Qaeda is already growing. The White House and the Pentagon have to those carried out in the past by US-trained Afghanistan, to general relief; has been compelled by public caution not Iran-backed Houthi rebels have taken up said counter-terrorism efforts in Yemen will Yemeni special forces working close with US to intervene in Syria; and has distanced Britain even further than his positions in and around several defense and be undeterred by turmoil in the country. officials. predecessors from the eurozone and its momentum on European inte- intelligence installations whose teams had “We do continue to have an ongoing secu- The United States will maintain some secu- gration. True, he has at the same time bombed Libya, joined the conflict previously cooperated with Washington, cut- rity relationship with the national security rity cooperation in southern Yemen, an al against Islamic State in Iraq, sent troops to west Africa against the ting off key sources of information for drone- infrastructure in Yemen. Some of which, much Qaeda stronghold and where former president Ebola threat and nurtured a better relationship with Angela Merkel’s missile attacks, the officials said. of which, is still functioning,” White House Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi retains some sup- Germany than Labour ever attempted. But he has also cut the defence Turmoil in the wake of last week’s col- spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters. port, even while the rebels control the capital budget – and will cut it further if re-elected – and, through the still lapse of a US-backed Yemeni government Some US officials, however, privately say the and much of the north, the officials said. unfinished Chilcot inquiry, he has kept open the space for fresh intro- after days of clashes in the capital Sanaa, reduced intelligence sharing could undermine The US officials added that they can con- spection about future UK military intervention. In sum, the Cameron- has already forced the US State Department the armed-drone program. tinue drone strikes such as Monday’s attack on Clegg government has represented a brake on recent foreign policy to reduce staff and operations at the US Information has dried up from Yemeni a car in eastern Yemen that killed three men trends but not a break with them. Embassy. security offices in Sanaa and there has been believed to be Al Qaeda militants, including Some have gone further, drawing the conclusion from the public US officials said last week that Washington less cooperation from local security services one identified as a youth by a Yemeni rights mood of Cameron’s Britain that it is embarked on a journey into isola- has also halted some counter-terrorism outside the capital, the officials told Reuters, group. tionism. The Syria vote was pivotal in this view of things. But the rise operations, but described the measures as speaking on condition of anonymity. The Central Intelligence Agency, which con- of Ukip, with its core aim of UK withdrawal from Europe, supported temporary. Houthis have erected checkpoints at ducts the bulk of drone operations in Yemen, by a significant section of the Tory party, can be seen as a symptom The turmoil has also cast doubt over entrances at security institutions and have has no drone bases on Yemeni soil but operates and a cause of this isolationist mentality; while the rise of the Greens the future of a key partnership for stationed operatives inside, Yemeni officials from Saudi Arabia and Djibouti, US officials and the SNP, both opposed to Trident, could indicate a public mood Washington in the fight against al Qaeda say. Rebels also surround the homes of the say. that is more ready to step back from traditional military great-power in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP. Only defense minister and the head of the National They also insist that while “collateral aspirations. Anti-immigrant feeling increases the sense that modern last September President Barack Obama Security Bureau. damage” is always a risk in counter terror- Britain is minded to pull the duvet over its head. touted cooperation with Yemen as a model US authorities treat some Yemeni intelli- ism operations, they do the utmost to avoid But there’s a large problem with this thesis. It is not borne out by the in counter-terrorism. gence leads with skepticism, concerned local civilian casualties. “There must be near- facts. It is certainly not supported by a detailed new Chatham House AQAP claimed responsibility for shootings officials might be trying to settle scores, and certainty that no civilians will be killed or analysis, based on surveys by YouGov. This not only discerns no public this month in Paris that killed 17 people and typically seek corroboration from multiple injured - the highest standard we can set,” shift towards isolationism over the past five years, it also clearly identi- has been accused of plotting attacks against sources, the officials said. Baskey said. fies a growing, or perhaps a reviving, appetite for the UK to aspire to American interests. But they will now be forced to rely more on Nineteen US drone strikes killed 124 mili- be a “great power” rather than accept its decline – 63 percent of the The crisis in the Arab world’s poorest coun- surveillance drones, spy satellites and elec- tants and four civilians in Yemen in 2014, British public have this aspiration, the highest figure in such surveys try threatens to create a power vacuum that tronic eavesdropping, as well as their own according to the New America Foundation, since 2010. At the same time, however, 60 percent think that Britain could allow AQAP to expand, while pushing “human intelligence” sources on the ground, which maintains a database of drone opera- is expected to do too much internationally, while 54 percent think Yemen toward a broader conflict between said one official with direct knowledge of the tions. Britain should spend less on aid. majority Sunni Muslims and minority Shia operations. REUTERS GUARDIAN NEWS SATURDAY 31 JANUARY 2015 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Hezbollah head says not seeking new war Response to any future Israeli attack will no longer be limited to Lebanese territory: Nasrallah

BEIRUT: Hezbollah chief since the 1967 Middle East war. blood of a Hezbollah youth,” he Hassan Nasrallah said yester- Lebanon says the Shebaa Farms is added. day his Shia militant group is Lebanese territory, while the UN Nasrallah also said the fact not seeking confrontation with says it was annexed from Syria. that an Iranian general had been Israel but warned their conflict The strike was in retalia- killed alongside Hezbollah fighters could go beyond Lebanon’s bor- tion for a January 18 Israeli air on Syrian territory proved their ders in any new war. strike inside Syria that killed six “unity in cause, fate and battle”. Its response to any future Hezbollah fighters and an Iranian He said Hezbollah planned its Israeli attack will no longer be general. The Iranian parliament’s counter-strike against Israel, limited to Lebanese territory, he national security and foreign which he described as “highly pro- said in an address via video link to policy committee head, Alaeddin fessional... and intelligent”, just a thousands of supporters gathered Boroujerdi, visited Beirut yester- few hours after the Golan attack. in Hezbollah’s southern Beirut day for the Hezbollah rally. “They killed us in broad day- stronghold. He said Hezbollah “I want to be clear: the resist- light, and we did too,” said would no longer respect “the rules ance will no longer recognise any Nasrallah, adding that Israel’s of engagement”. such thing as the rules of engage- strike was at “11:30 am (0930 “We do not want war... but ment, or of confrontation,” said GMT) or 11:45 (0945 GMT), and the resistance is militarily ready, Nasrallah, appearing both defiant ours was at 11:25 (0925 GMT) or and we are not afraid of war,” and relaxed. 11:35 (0935 GMT).” Nasrallah said, using the term “It is our right — legally, in He added: “They killed and “resistance” to refer to Hezbollah. human terms and morally — to wounded our men, we killed and “You tested us, do not test us face the enemy anywhere, any wounded theirs. Missiles for mis- again,” he warned. His address time and in any way we deem siles.” Posters of the Lebanese and came two days after Hezbollah appropriate,” he warned. the Iranian killed were plastered carried out a missile strike that Nasrallah condemned Israel’s in the hall where the Hezbollah killed two Israeli soldiers and air strike on the Syrian-held sec- supporters gathered for the wounded seven others in south tor of the Golan Heights as “an speech. The supporters waved Lebanon’s occupied Shebaa Farms assassination carried out in broad the movement’s green and yellow area on the border. daylight”. flags, chanting slogans in support Supporters of Hezbollah watch its leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah give a televised address in the southern The Shebaa Farms have “We will bear Israel responsi- of Nasrallah. suburbs of Beirut in Lebanon yesterday. been under Israeli occupation ble for any (future) killing in cold AFP

Saudi postpones flogging of blogger Clashes in Sinai after for third week militants kill 30 DUBAI: Saudi Arabia post- poned yesterday for a third week in a row the flogging of CAIRO: Egypt’s army clashed wounded in simultaneous assaults. a blogger sentenced to 1,000 with militants in Sinai yester- “The army and police will lashes for insulting Islam, his day, leaving two children dead, intensify their raids against ter- wife said. Raef Badawi “was not as President Abdel Fattah Al rorist and extremist elements in flogged” yesterday, Ensaf Haidar Sisi flew home to deal with a Sinai and across the country,” a said, adding that the reason was wave of militant attacks that military statement said. unclear. killed at least 30 people. The fresh bloodshed came The 30-year-old received the The top brass vowed to hunt despite new security measures. first 50 lashes of his sentence out- down those behind the violence. Jihadists have regularly tar- side a mosque in the Red Sea city Health officials said a six- geted security forces in the Sinai of Jeddah on January 9. The next month-old baby was hit in the since Islamist president Mohamed round of punishment was post- head by a bullet during the clashes Morsi was ousted by then army poned for the following two weeks and a six-year-old was killed in a chief Sisi in 2013. on medical grounds. Badawi’s case rocket blast in the peninsula. The militants say the attacks has already prompted worldwide Two more people including a are in retaliation for a govern- outrage and criticism from the 12-year-old were badly wounded. ment crackdown on Morsi sup- UN, US, the EU and others. Friday’s violence came a day porters in which hundreds have On Thursday, Haidar, who has after jihadists targeted security been killed, thousands jailed and sought asylum with their three forces with rockets and a car dozens sentenced to death. A soldier stands guard on top of a column outside Almaza military airbase, where a military funeral ceremony of children in Canada, voiced con- bomb in North Sinai province in US State Department spokes- security personnel killed in attacks in Sinai is being held, in Cairo, yesterday. cerns about the health of her hus- simultaneous attacks claimed by woman Jen Psaki condemned band, who has been suffering from an affiliate of the Islamic State Thursday’s attacks and said need for regional cooperation “to military checkpoint south of El in the cities of El-Arish, Sheikh hypertension since his arrest in group. Washington “remains steadfast in combat the terrorist menace in Arish. Separately an army officer Zuweid and Rafah”. June 2012. “Raef’s health condi- Security officials said the bodies its support of the Egyptian gov- Egypt”. was killed when a rocket struck a In November the organisation tion is bad and it’s getting worse. of the 30 victims, most of them ernment’s efforts to combat the The main focus of Thursday’s checkpoint in Rafah, on the bor- pledged allegiance to IS, which I am very concerned about him,” soldiers, had been flown to Cairo. threat of terrorism”. attacks was El-Arish, the provin- der with the Gaza Strip. has captured large chunks of ter- Haidar told reporters and law- Sisi pulled out of an African Late last year Washington cial capital, where militants fired Officials said at least 62 people ritory in Syria and Iraq. makers in Canada. Union summit in Ethiopia and delivered 10 Apache helicopters rockets at a police headquarters, were wounded in the attacks. Elsewhere, a policeman was “It is impossible for a human flew home “to monitor the situa- to Egypt, which has poured troops a military base and a residential The Islamic State group’s killed by a bombing in the canal being to withstand 50 lashes every tion”, his office said. and armour into the peninsula, complex for security forces, offi- Egyptian affiliate, Ansar Beit al- city of Suez, and a suspected week,” she said. “I do not know It was the deadliest wave of for joint counter-terrorism opera- cials said. Maqdis, claimed the assaults, say- militant mistakenly blew himself how he’s coping with it. I never attacks since October when 30 tions in the Sinai. This was followed by a suicide ing on Twitter it had “executed up in Port Said while planting a imagined he would be flogged.” soldiers were killed and scores On Friday, Iran stressed the car bombing and an attack on a extensive, simultaneous attacks device. AFP African Union urged to release S Sudan atrocity probe Outspoken Saudi prince Alwaleed ADDIS ABABA: A top African Union official who led an inquiry into atrocities in to launch pan-Arab news channel war-torn South Sudan warned yesterday that ignoring its rec- RIYADH: An outspoken, billionaire his Bahrain-based Alarab News Channel especially during the 2011 Arab Spring ommendations would help the Saudi prince will tomorrow launch a will be the latest player in the Arabic- uprisings against authoritarian regimes guilty to evade justice. pan-Arab satellite news channel aimed language television market, after Qatar- in the Middle East and North Africa. Led by former Nigerian presi- at challenging established networks in subsidised Aljazeera became the first Cairo in particular complained about dent Olusegun Obasanjo, the AU the region. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is regional news broadcaster 19 years ago. Aljazeera’s coverage of the Muslim commission of inquiry spent six a nephew of King Abdullah, who died on It will also be a rival for Dubai-based Al Brotherhood. Egypt arrested three Al months last year investigating January 23. Alwaleed, who holds no gov- Arabiya, established in 2003 and owned jazeera reporters who have been charged the tens of thousands slaughtered ernment rank, is unusual for his high by Sheikh Waleed Al Ibrahim, a brother- with spreading false information. They in the civil war between fighters profile and periodic comments about eco- in-law of Saudi Arabia’s late King Fahd. remain in custody pending a retrial. loyal to South Sudan President nomic issues. Critics have accused both broadcasters Al Arabiya was meanwhile accused Salva Kiir and his sacked deputy- Broadcasting from 1300 GMT tomorrow, of reflecting their owners’ political views, of supporting the interests of Saudi turned-rebel leader Riek Machar. Arabia, which like Egypt considers the Brotherhood to be a “terrorist” group. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Both channels deny any slant in their Woman opens fire at coverage. Jamal Khashoggi, Alarab’s gen- countries on the Reporters Without eral manager, said the new channel will be Borders 2014 World Press Freedom Index. Istanbul police post even-handed. “We are not going to take Bahrain is only just ahead at 163. sides,” he said in an interview. Mohammed El Oifi, a specialist in Arab ISTANBUL: A woman opened “I think a news channel should not media at Sorbonne Nouvelle University fire with a machinegun on a have a political agenda... We should just in Paris, said Alarab will have difficulty police post in Istanbul’s cen- be a news channel that provides accurate, breaking the mould. Arab viewers need tral Taksim Square yester- objective information.” their news channels to take a clear or even day, Turkey’s NTV television Khashoggi is a veteran Saudi journal- militant editorial line, he said, because they reported. Initial reports sug- ist who was forced to step down from the fill “a political function” in the absence of gested there were no casualties, helm of Saudi Arabia’s Al Watan daily in other forums for debate. This is reflected as television footage showed 2010 after it ran an opinion column that in the marginal role of the “objective” BBC armed police cordoning off a cor- angered conservatives. He declined to Arabic, he said. ner of the square. Pedestrians reveal Alarab’s budget but said the chan- Alarab is a “political project” to and traffic continued to use sur- nel will have about 280 staff, including improve Alwaleed’s position, while pro- rounding streets as normal. correspondents in 30 countries. Riyadh moting “liberal discourse” on issues such NTV said some police vehicles will be the largest bureau with around 20 as women’s rights, Oifi added. Alwaleed had been damaged in the attack, employees. Because Saudi Arabia does not chairs Riyadh-based Kingdom Holding and that the woman had escaped allow independent channels, Alarab had Co, which has interests ranging from the on foot, leaving her weapon to find an alternative location “so Bahrain Euro Disney theme park to Four Seasons behind. A photograph posted on is appropriate”, he said, speaking by tele- hotels, Citigroup and media giant News social media by a local journal- phone from the island state which is linked Corporation. He is also majority owner of ist showed what appeared to be Alarab News Channel staff are seen on duty at the editorial office in the Bahraini capital by a causeway to its Saudi ally. Rotana Group which runs entertainment a crudely modified machine gun. Manama. Saudi Arabia ranks 164th out of 180 TV channels in the Middle East. AFP AGENCIES SATURDAY 31 JANUARY 2015 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Ukraine peace talks aborted; civilians die Rebel delegates depart after arriving in Minsk for talks

DONETSK/MINSK: Civilians Any talks would be the first since A cameraman in Donetsk saw were killed on both sides in a five-month-old ceasefire col- four covered bodies near a cultural heavy fighting in eastern lapsed with a new rebel advance centre that had been hit by artil- Ukraine yesterday, while an last week. lery while residents were queuing attempt to reopen peace talks The main rebel stronghold outside for humanitarian aid. A in neighbouring Belarus was Donetsk echoed to the sound fifth body lay in a badly-damaged aborted before it began. of heavy artillery fire, includ- car nearby. A kilometre away, a Rebel delegates flew to the ing salvoes from multiple rocket sixth dead person lay where a trol- Belarus capital Minsk, only to launchers and heavier thuds from leybus had been hit. announce that no talks would take artillery coming from the direc- The separatists said the total place yesterday and they were tion of the airport, a constant death toll in those two strikes flying straight back to Moscow. battlefield. was seven, blaming government forces. Kiev said the shelling was carried out by the rebels to ruin Refugees carry their belongings as they walk to a bus to leave Debaltseve, an eastern Ukrainian city controlled the chance of peace talks. Both Putin ally gets contract to sides have made similar allegations by Ukrainian forces, yesterday. throughout the conflict, which are build bridge to Crimea impossible to verify. civilians were killed in rocket But neither Kiev nor Moscow said it was ready to participate in In Debaltseve, east of Donetsk, attacks the previous day, the may- confirmed that they were ready talks either yesterday or Saturday MOSCOW: Russia has handed a multi-billion dollar contract seven civilians were killed yes- or’s office said. Ukraine authorities for talks, and one of the rebel but was waiting for an agreement to build a bridge to the Crimea peninsula to an ally and former terday by separatist shelling of did not comment. delegates, Denis Pushilin, swiftly on draft documents. judo partner of Vladimir Putin who is under Western sanctions. their homes, regional police chief Kiev’s military said five of its announced they were heading The rebels have said their prin- A government order published yesterday named Stroygazmontazh Vyacheslav Abroskin said in a servicemen had also been killed back to Moscow. He said the cipal aims for now are to push (SGM) as the contractor to build the bridge spanning the Kerch Facebook post. Earlier he reported and 23 wounded in fighting in the rebels were prepared to press on government guns out of range of Strait to link Russia’s mainland and Crimea, annexed from Ukraine another seven civilians killed in past 24 hours. with their offensive and seize more their cities and make their posi- last March in an act that triggered Western sanctions. and around the town in the pre- The past week has seen by far territory if artillery continues to tions more secure by “straighten- SGM is 51-percent owned by Arkady Rotenberg, an old friend vious 24 hours. the worst fighting since the cease- fall on their cities. ing out the front” - choking off a of Putin who was among the first Russian businessmen to be put The government-held town is a fire was signed five months ago, “If shelling resumes, then we government-held pocket around under Western visa bans and asset freezes over Crimea’s seizure. key rail and road junction in the with rebels announcing an offen- reserve for ourselves the right to Debaltseve. It was unclear exactly how long the bridge would be, but the east. It and nearby Vuhlehirsk sive that Kiev says amounts to a continue the offensive and go to Both are moves that would strait varies from around 4-15 km in width. The government order have come under fierce attack repudiation of the truce. the very borders of Donetsk and make existing rebel areas more said the project should be completed no later than December 2018. from rebels encircling government The arrival of two rebel negotia- Luhansk regions,” he said, refer- defensible if, as many Western Kommersant newspaper, which published an interview with garrisons there, with water and tors in Minsk was the first sign of ring to the two provinces where countries suspect, Moscow’s aim is Rotenberg yesterday, said the project was costed a few months ago electricity supplies cut off. a reopening of negotiations since separatists have declared “people’s to pursue a stable “frozen conflict” at 228.3 billion roubles ($3.3bn at the current rate). REUTERS In the nearby rebel-held front- the rebels launched their latest republics”. in eastern Ukraine. line town of Horlivka, eight advance. The Ukrainian foreign ministry REUTERS Romney not to run AU for regional force to fight Boko Haram

ADDIS ABABA: The African development. This has now spread Council called for a regional five- African leaders also named for president in 2016 Union called yesterday for a to the region beyond Nigeria and nation force of 7,500 troops to stop Zimbabwe’s President Robert regional five-nation force of requires a collective, effective and the “horrendous” rise of the Boko Mugabe to the bloc’s one- WASHINGTON: Republican as well as in key swing states. 7,500 troops to defeat the “hor- decisive response,” AU commis- Haram insurgents. year rotating chair, replacing Mitt Romney bowed out of the “So I am convinced that we rendous” rise of Nigeria’s Boko sion chair Nkosazana Dlamini- The proposed force will have the Mauritania’s President Mohamed 2016 US presidential race yes- could win the nomination, but Haram Islamist militants. Zuma said in a speech opening backing of the AU, and will seek Ould Abdel Aziz. terday after considering a third fully realise it would have been The call for collective action the summit. UN Security Council approval The leaders are also discussing run, and told supporters it was difficult test and a hard fight,” came as leaders of the 54-mem- Conflicts elsewhere, including Dlamini-Zuma said. the economic recovery of countries time for the next generation of Romney said. ber bloc opened their two-day civil war in South Sudan and the More than 13,000 people have affected by the Ebola virus, setting party leaders to seek the White In his statement, Romney said annual summit in the Ethiopian Central African Republic, as well been killed and over a million up a “solidarity fund” and plan- House. he still believed he would have the capital Addis Ababa, where they as a new offensive launched on made homeless by Boko Haram ning a proposed African Centre Romney’s decision will prob- best chance of beating the even- were addressing a string of crises Thursday by Democratic Republic violence since 2009. for Disease Control. ably boost the fortunes of former tual Democratic nominee because across the continent. of Congo against Rwandan ethnic UN Secretary-General Ban With over a dozen elections Florida Governor Jeb Bush, a of his message of “making the “Terrorism, in particular the Hutu rebels in the east of the Ki-moon told African leaders that due to take place this year across probable presidential candidate world safer” and improving the brutality of Boko Haram against country, are also expected to be Boko Haram is “a clear danger to Africa, the focus at the talks will who, like Romney, is widely viewed US economy for the middle class. our people, (is) a threat to our discussed. national, regional and interna- also be on how to ensure peaceful as representing the Republican But he said he did not want to collective safety, security and The AU Peace and Security tional peace and security”. polls. AFP establishment. make it more difficult for someone Many who had raised money for who might have a better chance of Romney were already looking else- getting elected. where, concerned that the former “I believe that one of our next Massachusetts governor did not generation of Republican leaders, US to pour $215m make sufficient changes from his one who may not be as well known Italy lawmakers fail to elect president 2012 campaign, when President as I am today, one who has not Barack Obama defeated him. yet taken their message across the ROME: Italian lawmakers wavering, raising the prospect of still needed. The quorum falls to a into ‘precision “After putting considerable country, one who is just getting failed to pick a president in a an early national election. simple majority of 505 votes in the thought into making another run started, may well emerge as being second round of voting yester- With newly elected Greek fourth round, due this morning. medicines’ for president, I’ve decided it is best better able to defeat the Democrat day, but Prime Minister Matteo Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras Then Renzi should have the to give other leaders in the party nominee,” he said. Renzi appeared poised to get facing tricky talks with German- numbers to elect Mattarella, WASHINGTON: President the opportunity to become our Bush said he recognised how his candidate, a senior judge, led European partners on renego- but the voting by secret bal- Barack Obama yesterday next nominee,” Romney said in a hard the decision was for Romney. elected today when the number tiating Greece’s debt, a political lot has a history of intrigue and unveiled plans to plough $215m statement he read to supporters in “Mitt is a patriot, and I join many of votes required will be lower. crisis in Italy would compound unpredictability. into “precision medicine” a conference call from New York. in hoping his days of serving our Renzi’s Democratic Party (PD) uncertainty in the euro zone. Adding to tension is centre- research, a field he said pro- Romney told a private donors nation and our party are not over,” and a handful of allies pledged Two votes on the president right leader Silvio Berlusconi’s vided “boundless” promise for meeting in New York three weeks he said in a statement. on Thursday to back Sergio have so far failed to back a single anger at Renzi for betraying the treatment of diseases like ago that he was considering jump- Romney, who also ran for the Mattarella, 73, a constitutional candidate. what the media tycoon said was cancer and diabetes. ing into the race. Yesterday, he White House in 2008, would have court judge and a veteran centre- Italy’s 1,009 parliamentarians a promise to give him a role in The field — which aims to tailor sounded reluctant to bow out. faced difficulties raising money left politician. and regional officials eligible to choosing the candidate as part of treatment to individual patients The reaction to his potential in a third run. Some of his fund- Any failure by Renzi, who has pick the president began vot- a pact the two leaders made last — “gives us one of the greatest candidacy was both surprising and raisers said they were inclined to been in office less than a year, to ing for a third time yesterday, year to draft institutional reforms opportunities for new medical heartening, he said, noting that he move on to other potential candi- get Mattarella in would suggest but the result is likely to be the together. breakthrough that we have ever was leading in many national polls dates like Bush. REUTERS his authority over his party is same, as a two-thirds majority is REUTERS seen,” Obama said. The funding would be used in part to collect gene, biochemical, lifestyle and other data from one Remembering Churchill million volunteers. Scientists believe that vast Srebrenica massacre: UN bank of information could then lead to better classification of diseases — based on molecular court upholds life for two causes rather than symptoms — as well as tailored treatment THE HAGUE: The UN’s imprisonment in 2010 for geno- that replaces a “one size fits all” Yugoslav war crimes court yes- cide, conspiring to commit gen- approach. terday upheld the life terms of ocide, war crimes and crimes The bulk of the money, two Bosnian Serbs for their role against humanity. $200m, would go to the National in the Srebrenica massacre of The trial judges said Popovic Institutes of Health and its affili- almost 8,000 Muslim men and and Beara formed part of a “joint ate the National Cancer Institute. boys in 1995. criminal enterprise” to rid certain The proposal is part of Obama’s The Appeals Chamber “affirms parts of Bosnia of non-Serbs dur- 2016 budget plan, which would the life sentence” against Vujadin ing the bloody Bosnian conflict first have to be approved by a Popovic, 57, and Ljubisa Beara, that killed 100,000 and left 2.2 hostile Republican-controlled 75, Judge Patrick Robinson said million others homeless. Congress. at a hearing at the Hague-based Four other army officers and “The time is right to unleash a tribunal. a police official received terms of new wave of advancements in this Both men are former senior between five and 35 years over the area,” said Obama setting out his officers in the Bosnian Serb army, Srebenica killings. proposals next to a giant model which is blamed for the three-day The court upheld a 35-year of DNA. massacre in July 1995. sentence against Bosnian army Obama said the move would Popovic, wearing a dark suit and security chief Drago Nikolic, and “lay the foundation for a new gen- black T-shirt shook his head as the a 13-year sentence against brigade eration of lifesaving discoveries.” verdict was read out, while Beara, commander Vinko Pandurevic. During his recent State of also in a dark suit and white shirt, The 19-year sentence given to the Union address, Obama said The ‘Havengore’, which carried former British prime minister Winston Churchill’s coffin along the Thames, stood motionless. Bosnian army operations chief he wanted “the country that makes the same journey past the Houses of Parliament with members of his family on board to mark the 50th The International Criminal Radivoje Miletic was reduced by eliminated polio and mapped the anniversary of his funeral in London, yesterday. Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia one year. human genome to lead a new era sentenced the two men to life AFP of medicine.” AFP SATURDAY 31 JANUARY 2015 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / PHILIPPINES Philippines, Aquino vows rebels talk disarmament justice for dead in Malaysia KUALA LUMPUR: Philippine government and Muslim rebel commandos negotiators met in Malaysia yesterday, forging ahead with talks on disarming the guerril- las despite a historic peace deal Philippines holds national mourning struck last year being thrown into doubt by a deadly clash. MANILA: Philippine President as she was overcome with grief. The discussions marked the Benigno Aquino pledged jus- “My head was spinning. I was first formal sit-down between tice for the families of 44 police confused. I still can’t believe the two sides since a botched commandos killed by Muslim what happened to my husband,” Philippine police anti-terror raid rebels during a botched anti- Esmulla, 33, said, carrying her in the country’s Muslim south last terror operation, as he led trib- one-year-old daughter. Sunday resulted in a firefight that utes yesterday — a national day Aquino was attacked by many killed 44 police commandos and of mourning. for failing to attend a parade cer- shook the peace effort. The men were killed in con- emony on Thursday that saw uni- The Moro Islamic Liberation frontations with two rebel groups formed commandos bearing the Front (MILF), which has waged in the southern Philippines coffins of their fallen comrades a decades-long bloody insurgency, on Sunday while on a mis- as they arrived home in Manila. signed a protocol during an initial sion to catch or kill Malaysian He vowed yesterday that one encounter on Thursday in Kuala bomb-maker Zulkifli bin Hir of his government’s top priorities Lumpur that paves the way for alias Marwan, who is accused would be to go after Philippine disarmament. of involvement in the 2002 Bali militant Abdul Basit Usman, a Talks are expected to continue bombings in Indonesia in which suspect in at least nine bombings into the weekend at an undis- 202 people died. in the south, who escaped from closed location as procedures are “I feel your pain,” Aquino told the weekend fighting. Filipinos light candles and torches to pay tribute for the 44 slain SAF members, in Quezon City, east of Manila, hammered out. weeping widows, parents and chil- And in his eulogy, Chief yesterday. But the future of the entire dren of the police commandos at Superintendent Noli Talino peace effort has been called into an emotional memorial service repeated a Philippine government past they had been offered shelter. that some of the dead police- his government from enforcing doubt by the clash in Mindanao, inside a police camp in suburban claim — not yet independently “We don’t know anything about men had surrendered, only to be a peace agreement reached last with public calls growing in the Manila. verified — that Zulkifli was killed their movements... They don’t executed by the rebels who also year with the country’s largest Philippines for retribution against “I pledge to bring justice to by a small assault force. have contact with the MILF at desecrated some of the corpses, Muslim guerrilla force. the rebels. all those who were killed,” said The 44 men lost their lives in all,” Iqbal said, adding 11 MILF triggering mounting calls for But analysts said the bloodbath The police raid was aimed at the president, sporting the same gun battles with large units of fighters died as a result of the retribution. cast doubts over the future of the capturing or killing a wanted black armband worn by police Filipino Muslim rebels who sur- encounter while 15 were wounded, Yesterday, the Philippine gov- peace accord aimed at ending the Malaysian terrorism suspect attending the ceremony. rounded them, according to offi- with some in a “serious condition”. ernment and Muslim rebel nego- decades-long armed conflict in but turned into a debacle when An awkward silence, broken cials, including the Moro Islamic Iqbal said there was “no other tiators announced that they had impoverished Muslim regions of commandos were ambushed only by the sound of infants cry- Liberation Front (MILF), which way to move forward” except to signed a protocol for the disarma- the mainly Catholic Philippines. by fighters from MILF and the ing, filled the cramped gymna- signed a peace agreement with implement the peace treaty. ment of guerillas. To keep the peace timetable on Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom sium as Aquino personally offered Manila last year. The other group that attacked The two sides started three- track, Aquino needs parliament Fighters (BIFF), a MILF splin- his condolences to victims for the The MILF maintains that it the policemen, officials said, is a day talks in Kuala Lumpur from to pass by March a self-rule law ter group. MILF chief negotia- first time since the massacre, acted in self-defence and has MILF splinter group called the Thursday, their first formal sit- for minority Muslims in several tor Mohagher Iqbal told AFP by praying briefly before each white vowed to pursue the peace proc- Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom down since the botched raid. southern provinces. phone that 11 MILF fighters also casket. ess, as it seeks regional self-rule. Fighters (BIFF), which last year The president stressed during However, legislators admitted were killed, and 15 wounded, some Elisa Esmulla, unemployed and The rebels were not harbour- pledged allegiance to Islamic the ceremony that what was the this week that the incident will seriously. widowed with five young children, ing Zulkifli or Usman, MILF chief State fighters in Iraq and Syria. worst loss of life suffered by the likely cause parliament to miss Last year’s peace deal would said she could not take a combat peace negotiator Mohagher Iqbal Eyewitness accounts by at country’s police or military forces the deadline. create a southern autonomous medal from the president’s hands said, despite military claims in the least one police survivor allege in recent memory would not stop AFP region for the Philippines’ Muslim minority with locally elected lead- ers by mid-2016. Representatives of both sides at the Malaysia-hosted talks said they would not allow the blood- US would welcome Japan air patrol in South China Sea shed to derail the painstakingly achieved peace agreement signed last March. “There is no other TOKYO: The United States “I think allies, partners and “Countries outside the region role in the alliance, 70 years after spokesman was not available for way to move forward,” Iqbal said. would welcome a Japanese friends in the region will look to should respect the efforts of coun- the end of World War Two. “I comment. Japan has never indi- But President Benigno Aquino, extension of air patrols into the Japanese more and more as tries in the region to safeguard think that JSDF (Japan Maritime cated any intention to patrol the who must convince Congress to the South China Sea as a coun- a stabilizing function,” Admiral peace and stability, and not do Self Defense Forces) operations in South China Sea. The ministry approve the deal, is under mount- terweight to a growing fleet of Robert Thomas, commander of things that will drive a wedge the South China Sea makes sense routinely declines to comment on ing pressure to strike back at Chinese vessels pushing China’s the Seventh Fleet and the top between other countries, and cre- in the future,” Thomas said. any changes to guidelines being the rebels. The Philippine police territorial claims in the region, US navy officer in Asia, said in ate tension,” ministry spokeswoman Japan is not party to the dis- discussed with the US. It calls for believe they managed to kill their a senior US Navy officer said. an interview. Hua Chunying told a daily briefing. pute in the South China Sea peaceful solutions to disputes and target — Zulkifli bin Hir, alias Regular patrols by Japanese “In the South China Sea, Thomas’s comments show where China, the Philippines, for all countries to follow interna- Marwan, a top suspect in the 2002 aircraft only reach into the East frankly, the Chinese fishing fleet, Pentagon support for a key ele- Vietnam, Taiwan, Malaysia and tional law and conventions. Bali bombings that killed 202 peo- China Sea, where Japan is at log- the Chinese coastguard and the ment of Japan Prime Minister Brunei have competing claims. Abe is pushing for legislation ple, in the raid. gerheads with China over disputed (navy) overmatch their neigh- Shinzo Abe’s push for a more But the waterway provides 10 later this year that would allow Iqbal insisted the MILF had islands. Extending surveillance bours,” Thomas said. active military role in the region. per cent of the global fisheries Japan’s military to operate more no knowledge that Zulkifli flights into the South China Sea Asked about Thomas’s state- That is crucial because U.S and catch and ships crossing it carry freely overseas as part of a broader was in their midst, and had no would almost certainly increase ment, China’s Foreign Ministry Japanese officials are negotiating $5 trillion a year in cargo, a large interpretation of the self-defence prior warning of the anti-terror tension between the world’s sec- called on all countries to avoid new bilateral security guidelines portion to and from Japan. allowed by its pacifist constitution. operation. ond- and third-largest economies. raising tension. expected to give Japan a bigger A Japanese Defence Ministry REUTERS AFP

Sri Lanka appoints minority Tamil as Chinese relatives reject chief justice MH70 death declaration COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena BEIJING: Distraught Chinese of the lost passengers are request- yesterday appointed a Tamil relatives of passengers on miss- ing Malaysia take back their judge as the country’s chief jus- ing flight MH370 yesterday statement, according to posts in tice, the first member of the called for Malaysia to withdraw an online group they use. minority community to hold the its declaration that all onboard Family members, some of whom post in more than two decades. had died in an accident, shun- burst into tears as they spoke to Kanagasabapathy Sripavan, ning offers of compensation. reporters near a Buddhist temple 62, was sworn in yesterday, Malaysian authorities on in Beijing, said they had received ending a crisis in the Supreme Thursday formally declared that little advance warning of the Court triggered by the sacking all 239 the passengers and crew announcement—echoing com- of former chief justice Shirani onboard the lost Malaysia Airlines plaints from distraught relatives Bandaranayake two years ago. plane — two-thirds of whom were in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday. Sripavan becomes the first Chinese — were presumed dead “Malaysia ignored the right of Tamil to occupy the top judicial for the first time. relatives to know the news first,” position in 24 years as Sri Lanka’s “We call on Malaysia to with- Jiang added. Furious accusa- new leaders seek to mend ties draw their statement. It lacks a tions from Chinese relatives that with the country’s largest ethnic basis in evidence,” said Jiang Hui, Malaysia had covered-up infor- minority after a bloody 37-year whose mother was on the plane, mation about the loss of the flight war. calling on authorities to apologise. during the 10-month investigation “Justice Sripavan was sworn “They gave up searching for drew Beijing into the fray, strain- in before President Sirisena,” the Kelly (last name not given), 29, addresses a news conference along with other relatives of passengers aboard survivors after 40 days.” ing bilateral ties. presidential secretariat said in a missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. More than 100 Chinese relatives AFP statement. The appointment comes two days after Sirisena declared the controversial impeachment of Bandaranayake by the previ- ous regime illegal, fulfilling one North Korean leader Kim set for global debut in Russia of the pledges he made before his surprise win of this month’s election. SEOUL: North Korea’s leader “coming out” and minutely scru- Kim’s presence would set up with Russia over Ukraine, while met in the past three years is Bandaranayake stepped Kim Jong-Un looks set to take tinised, especially with other some potentially intriguing meet Park’s office says she is still con- the former NBA basketball star, down on Thursday, a day after an initial, tentative step onto world leaders, including China’s and greets. sidering unspecified scheduling Dennis Rodman. being formally restored to the the global stage with a visit in Xi Jinping, expected to be there. As well as Xi, US President conflicts. Formal talks with Vladimir post, which she lost in January May to Russia — his first trip The Kremlin confirmed Barack Obama and South Korean A Kim meeting with virtually Putin would mark Kim’s first 2013 after angering former abroad since coming to power Wednesday that Kim would be President Park Geun-Hye have anyone would be news. summit, after a noted breach of president Mahinda Rajapaksa three years ago. among those attending ceremo- both been invited, but have yet to The young leader has received a protocol saw him snub the presi- with her judgements against Kim may not have the physique nies to mark the 70th anniversary confirm one way or the other. number of high-ranking Chinese dent of Mongolia who visited his regime. or bearing of a shy debutante, but of the Soviet Union’s victory over Obama is considered an unlikely officials in Pyongyang, but the Pyongyang in 2013. AFP Moscow will be his diplomatic Nazi Germany in World War II. participant given current tensions most prominent foreigner he has AFP SATURDAY 31 JANUARY 2015 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Bomb attack at mosque kills over 60 Taliban offshoot claims attack

SHIKARPUR, Pakistan: A Local resident Mohammad powerful bomb tore through Jehangir said he had “felt the a busy Shia mosque in south- earth move beneath my feet” as ern Pakistan yesterday, kill- he prayed at another mosque ing more than 60 people in the around 1.5 kilometres away. country’s deadliest sectarian An official with a national Shia attack in nearly two years. organisation, Rahat Kazmi, said The blast hit the mosque in that up to 400 people were wor- Shikarpur in Sindh province, shipping in the mosque when the around 470km north of Karachi, blast struck. as hundreds of worshippers Sainrakhio Mirani, police attended Friday prayers. chief of the region said officers Pakistan has suffered a rising were still working to determine tide of sectarian violence in recent whether it was a suicide bombing years, most of it perpetrated by or whether the 6-7 kilogramme hardline Sunni Muslim groups bomb was detonated remotely. against minority Shia Muslims, It is the bloodiest single sec- who make up around one in five tarian attack in Pakistan since of the population. March 2013, when a car bomb in Sindh health minister Jam a Shia neighbourhood of Karachi Mehtab Daher said that “the killed 45. death toll from the attack has A spokesman for the shad- increased to 61”. owy Jandullah militant group, a “There are 54 dead bodies in splinter faction of the Pakistani Shikarpur hospital. Seven others Taliban, said they were behind died in Sukkur and Larkana hos- the blast. pitals,” he said. “We claim responsibility for Shaukat Ali Memon, the attack on Shiites in Shikarpur medical superintendent of Civil very happily,” Ahmed Marwat Hospital in Shikarpur, earlier said. gave a death toll of 48. Locals said many people lost Hundreds of people rushed to relatives in the attack. the scene after the blast to try to Mohabbat Ali Bablani, a dig out survivors trapped under Shikarpur local, said four of his the roof of the mosque, which col- cousins, aged between 30 and 40, lapsed in the explosion, witness were killed in the blast while his Zahid Noon said. friend had lost five children, all Television footage of the under 13. aftermath showed chaotic res- “My friend Nizam-ud-Din cue scenes as people piled the Sheikh has lost his five sons. People and relatives of victims who were injured in a suicide attack gather at a hospital in Shikarpur, Pakistan, yesterday. wounded into cars, motorbikes He had taken them with him to and rickshaws to take them for offer prayers and all of them were political murders. After yes- Quetta, the northwestern area of sectarian militant groups were Heavily armed gunmen went treatment. killed in the attack,” he said. terday’s attack, a group of Shia Parachinar and the far northeast- growing in strength in rural from room to room at the army- “The area is scattered with Friday’s attack came as Prime Muslims came out in streets and ern town of Gilgit. areas of Sindh, a province which run school gunning down 150 peo- blood and flesh and it smells of Minister Nawaz Sharif visited blocked main traffic artery in Around 1,000 Shiites have has escaped much of the worst ple, most of them children, in an burnt meat, people are screaming Karachi, the capital of Sindh the central Karachi city during been killed in the past two years of the violence that has wracked attack that horrified the world. at each other... it is chaos,” Noon province, to discuss the law and evening rush hours. They chanted in Pakistan, with many of the Pakistan over the last decade. Since then, the government has said. order situation in the city. slogans against the attackers and attacks claimed by the hardline Pakistan has stepped up its ended a six-year moratorium on “A huge contingent of police Karachi, Pakistan’s biggest city beat their chests in protest. Sunni group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi fight against militants in the past executions in terror-related cases and rangers is present here and and economic heart, has wrestled Anti-Shia attacks have been (LeJ). month, following a Taliban massa- and pledged to crack down on all ambulances from the nearby for several years with a bloody increasing in recent years in Karachi A report by the US Institute cre at a school in the northwest- militant groups. towns have started to arrive.” wave of criminal, sectarian and and also in the southwestern city of of Peace this week warned that ern city of Peshawar. AFP

3 US contractors Islamabad blocks over two million unverified mobile numbers killed in ‘insider ISLAMABAD: More than two from the Ministry of Interior, 16, 2014,” Dr Shah said. “Some cellular companies are verification system would cause million SIMs have been blocked Ministry of Information SIMs not verified within the 91 charging Rs50 and one company losses to mobile companies. attack’ in across Pakistan under a cam- Technology, Nadra, Federal days, would be blocked, the PTA is charging Rs100 instead of the Under a system introduced in paign launched by the govern- Investigation Authority, chairman said, adding that “hope- Rs10 that has been set by the gov- January 2009, subscribers had ment for authentication of details Intelligence Bureau, mobile phone fully subscribers will personally ernment for re-verification,” said to respond to two ‘confidential’ Afghanistan of mobile phone subscribers. operators and PTA. visit customer service centres of retired Major Tahir Iqbal. questions mother’s name and Earlier this month the government Since the exercise began on mobile companies for authentica- The PTA chairman defended place of birth for activation of SI KABUL: An Afghan sol- gave Pakistan Telecommunication Jan 12 this year, PTA has re- tion of their connections through the mobile companies and said The roughly Rs2.5 billion system dier killed three US contrac- Authority (PTA) 91 days to verify verified 8.72 million connections. biometric verification system that they would suffer significant worked fine till January 2013, tors and wounded a fourth on 103 million SIMs issued before The three-month period to verify within these 91 days”. losses by blocking unverified SIMs when voters list was made public Thursday at Kabul’s military August last year but not verified mobile phone connections through The members did not agree to and that they had spent money on for that year’s elections. The list airport, an Afghan air force through the Biometric Verification the BVS expires on April 13. a proposal that subscribers be installing the verification system. included answers to the confiden- official said. System (BVS). “Three months is not realis- charged for re-verification of their “The operators have already tial questions and resulted in SIM An increase in so-called National Assembly’s tic time for such an uphill task SI They said that mobile phone spent Rs3bn on installing more activation through identity theft. insider attacks in Afghanistan Standing Committee on but such are the directions from companies, which were minting than 70,000 machines to introduce Between 2009 and 2014 another eroded trust between govern- Information Technology and the Ministry of Interior,” PTA money through increases in tele- BVS following government direc- system of Cleaning of Old ment forces and their interna- Telecommunication which met Chairman Dr Ismail Shah told the density, should bear the cost. tions. These expenses are besides Subscribers Data was introduced tional allies in the final years of here on Wednesday was informed standing committee. According to The members complained to the Rs20 per verification cost in which owners of connections the combat mission that ended that a joint working group formed earlier schedule, the job was to be Minister of State for Information that the operators have to pay to were requested to own SIMs in in 2014, prompting foreign forces by the Ministry of Interior had completed in a year. Technology Anusha Rehman that Nadra,” said Dr Ismail Shah. use and disown inactive pre-Jan- to scale back interaction with been working on the process since “But it is now necessary after mobile companies were charging But, Sardar Awais Ahmad uary 2009 SIMs through short Afghans. January 12 last year. the terror incident in a public subscribers whatever they liked for Khan Leghari and Anusha message service (SMS). The Taliban claimed respon- The group comprises members school in Peshawar on December the work. Rehman did not agree that the INTERNEWS sibility for the attack saying a militant infiltrator had carried it out. The Afghan air force official Anti-Charlie Hebdo protest said it was not clear why the attacker had killed the advisers. Musharraf’s request “No one else was there to tell us the reason,” the official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak for Saudi visit rejected to the media. “An investigation has been ISLAMABAD: The interior the country before the 2013 gen- opened.” ministry turned down yesterday eral elections. The international force in retired Gen Pervez Musharraf’s Earlier, he wanted to go to Afghanistan confirmed the request to be allowed to travel to Dubai to see his ailing mother, but shooting took place on Thursday Saudi Arabia to offer condolences was advised by the government to evening. It also confirmed that on the death of King Abdullah, a call her to Pakistan for treatment. one Afghan had been killed but ministry’s official said. In June last year, the Sindh it did not specify that he was the The request was made in a High Court had ordered removal attacker. letter the former military ruler of his name from the ECL in 15 Despite the introduction had sent to the interior ministry days and asked the parties oppos- of new measures, including on Jan 23 through his counsel ing the decision to approach the a requirement that coalition Advocate Faisal Hussain. Supreme Court within that period. forces be armed at all times The ministry responded to the On June 23, the apex court had and stricter vetting procedures letter on Friday expressing the suspended the SHC judgment till for Afghan security members, government’s inability to accede a final decision on a government incidents continue to occur to the request. appeal. The plea is still pending sporadically. “Assuming that you represent with the Supreme Court. One of the worst attacks took retired Gen Pervez Musharraf, it On April 8, 2013, the apex court place last August, killing US is informed that the Honourable had directed the government to place Major General Harold Greene, Supreme Court of Pakistan the name of Gen Musharraf on the who became the most senior restrained your client from mov- exit control list and ensure that he American military official to die ing out of Pakistan until its orders did not move out of the country until in action overseas since the war were varied or modified,” reads the its order was varied or modified. in Vietnam. letter issued with the signatures Answering a question at a press The new international of Aamir Sohail Langraw, section conference on Friday, Information “Resolute Support” mission officer (exit control list) of the Minister Pervez Rashid said Gen involving a small contingent interior ministry. Gen Musharraf Musharraf had sent the applica- of about 12,000 mostly US is currently facing treason trial for tion to the ‘wrong address’, add- troops started on January imposing an emergency in 2007. ing that the former president 1 and is to focus on training Pakistani demonstrators march in a protest against the printing of satirical sketches of the Prophet Muhammad This was the second attempt should have filed a petition in the Afghanistan’s national secu- (PBUH) by French magazine Charlie Hebdo in Rawalpindi yesterday. made by the former president to Supreme Court. rity force. proceed abroad since his return to INTERNEWS REUTERS SATURDAY 31 JANUARY 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA Top Cong leader attacks Rahul, quits party Ex-environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan accuses party leadership of interference; Congress hits back

CHENNAI/NEW DELHI: Natarajan quit after writing a Her great-grandfather was a “I have absolutely no plan to Senior Congress leader Jayanthi letter to Congress party president member of India’s Constituent join any party,” she said and added Natarajan (pictured), a one- Sonia Gandhi. Her letter took the Assembly. that no BJP leader has met her in time party spokesperson who party including the Tamil Nadu A Chennai-based lawyer, this connection. was considered quite close to unit by surprise but it sought to Natarajan entered politics as a She welcomed a govern- former prime minister Rajiv put a brave face. “The party will Youth Congress worker in the ment probe into environmen- Gandhi, yesterday quit the not be weakened by her absence,” 1980s. She was later noticed by tal clearances given by her and party, sending shock waves said Tamil Nadu Congress’s chief the then Congress president Rajiv demanded that the probe should through its political establish- E V K S Elangovan. Gandhi. She went to the Rajya be transparent. ment. She accused the party Natarajan, who was asked to Sabha for the first time in 1986. “I have to set the record leadership, particularly party put in her papers on December In a career that spans over 30 straight to uphold the legacy of vice president Rahul Gandhi, 20, 2013, by then prime minis- years, she has thrice been re- my family and my reputation. of letting her down, especially ter Manmohan Singh, said: “(I) elected to the upper house of the It has been a bitter experience during her term as environ- received several requests and rep- parliament in 1992, 1997 and 2008. for me for the past one-and-half ment minister in the previous resentations from Rahul Gandhi’s Natarajan, who was frequently years. My own party treated me UPA government. office to ensure that the environ- seen on television, was dropped badly,” she said. “I announce my resignation ment is protected.” as a Congress spokesperson in “Why for a year everyone (from the party),” Natarajan said “And according to these January 2014. ruined my reputation and tar- at a packed media conference in instructions...I did my duty. I had Natarajan said on becoming nished the legacy of my family,” Chennai. these projects investigated and the environment minister, party she asked. “I only followed the Congress leaders were quick to some of them I stopped,” she said president Sonia Gandhi had told rules. Did not break the rules.” defend Rahul Gandhi and party and added that she got “specific her to maintain the Congress Charging the Congress of let- chief Sonia Gandhi and said they inputs” from Rahul Gandhi’s tradition of protecting the envi- ting her down by allowing her did not interfere in the working office. Natarajan said she has ronment as was done by former name and her family’s name to of ministers. sufficient proof of Rahul Gandhi’s prime ministers Indira Gandhi be tarnished, Natarajan refuted Natarajan has joined people like specific requests on environmen- and Rajiv Gandhi. She was con- that she had let down the party G K Vasan and B S Gnanadesikan tal clearance related to projects. sidered close to Rajiv Gandhi and by not contesting in the recent of the Tamil Nadu Congress “Let Rahul Gandhi refute it.” was one of those who was present Lok Sabha polls. to quit the party after saying It was however not clear why at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu “I was not in a condition to they felt slighted by the party’s she waited so long to air her frus- when Rajiv Gandhi was assassi- contest the Lok Sabha polls when national leadership. tration and grievances, since she Rahul Gandhi never interfered. interfered in the functioning of nated May 21, 1991. my name, reputation and my She said: “I feel that the time had stepped down from the gov- “...I have not come across any UPA government. Ministers were Despite withstanding the family’s legacy was being tarred,” has come now for me to rethink ernment in December 2013 and instance where the Congress free to take decisions.” “anger and wrath of all the col- Natarajan said. my association because what it has been a good eight months president or vice-president inter- Grand-daughter of former leagues who protested that Many senior Congress lead- happened in the recent past. since the general elections led to fered with administration,” Moily Tamil Nadu chief minister M economic progress was being ers from Tamil Nadu, includ- The Congress is no longer the the fall of the Congress-led UPA told reporters in Bangalore. Bhaktavatsalam, Natarajan hails blocked”, Natarajan said she was ing former finance minister P Congress that I joined.” She has government. Congress leader Digvijaya from a family of Congress veter- told to resign from the cabinet. Chidambaram, did not contest in been in the party for the last three Congress leader and former Singh too said in Delhi: “...it is ans who were associated with the A visibly miffed Natarajan said: the Lok Sabha polls. The Congress decades and has been a four-time union minister Veerappa Moily, totally wrong that either Sonia Indian National Congress since its “After the Congress, I intend to party drew a blank in all the 39 member of the Rajya Sabha. however, said Sonia Gandhi and Gandhi or Rahul Gandhi ever inception in 1885. think about my life and future.” seats in the state. IANS

Shelling damages school Delhi village without hospital, Supreme Court upholds school to boycott election conviction of

NEW DELHI: A village with cleared his class 12 exams last partition. The land was originally a population of over 10,000 has year. Paramjeet Singh, a farmer, allotted to 36 Sikh families from CPM leader decided to boycott the Feb 7 said the women have been asked Pakistan. The number of voters assembly election in Delhi. The not to vote. The village came up in the village is nearly 5,000 and NEW DELHI: The Supreme residents cited lack of basic as a home for refugees who came the majority of them are youths. Court yesterday upheld the con- amenities in their area as the to India from Pakistan during the IANS viction of Kerala CPI-M leader reason behind the move. M V Jayarajan for using unpar- “Leaders have been coming to liamentary words against state us but we decided not to vote for high court judges but reduced any of them this time. It is high 114 candidates have criminal cases the sentence from six months to time now not to vote. They only four months. give fake promises,” said Panja NEW DELHI: 114 candidates contesting in Delhi Assembly An apex court bench headed Singh, 62, a resident of Jhangola polls have criminal cases against them, election watchdog ADR by Justice Vikramajit Sen upheld village that falls under Narela said yesterday and noted that 19 out of 70 were ‘red alert’ con- Jayarajan’s conviction holding assembly constituency in north- stituencies which had at least three tainted candidates each. that he has no remorse for his west Delhi. The Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR) in its report, utterances against high court Bharatiya Janata Party’s which is an analysis of affidavits of 673 candidates contesting the judges. Neeldaman Khatri won the February 7 polls, pointed out that the BJP has fielded the highest Jayarajan in July 2010 while 2013 assembly polls from the number of 27 candidates with criminal cases followed by AAP and speaking at a public meeting, after constituency. Congress with 21 and 12 such candidates respectively. the high court banned road-side “No hospital, no dispensaries, It also observed that Tughlakabad constituency has five candidates meetings, spoke unparliamentary no post office, no high school... who have criminal cases against them. words in the manner the judges every time they assure that they “114 out of 673 candidates (17 percent) have declared criminal pass judgments. will do something but nothing to cases against themselves. During the 2013 and 2008 Delhi Assembly The high court acting on a PIL avail so far,” said Singh, who runs elections, the percentage of candidates with criminal cases was 16 on his utterances began the trial a small dispensary in the Sikh- and 14 respectively,” Jagdeep Chhokar, founder member of ADR, said. on October 2010 and convicted majority village. Out of the 114 candidates, 74 of them have declared serious crimi- him for contempt and awarded Another resident Gurmail nal cases against them including murder, attempt to murder, assault, six months imprisonment on Singh said: “A government school loss to exchequer and crimes against women. November 8, 2011 is located at least seven km away “Out of the 673 candidates, one candidate has a murder case However, he was granted bail from the village. There are only against him and five candidates have declared cases of attempt to by the apex court after serving a two primary schools run by the murder. 8 candidates have cases related to crimes against women. week in jail. The only relief that NDMC (North Delhi Municipal However, no candidate has a rape case against him,” he said. the two-time former CPI-M legis- Corporation).” Higher on the ‘red alert’ constituency list are Rajouri Garden and lator from Kannur got Friday was “The education status of the Tilak Nagar with 4 candidates in poll fray having criminal cases that the apex court reduced the Villagers inspect the roof of a school damaged by alleged shelling village is so low that none of the against them. The ‘red alert’ constituencies includes Najafgarh, sentence from six months to four from the Pakistani side of the Kashmir border, at Arnia village, some youngsters get government jobs. Babarpur, Ghonda, Nangloi, Dwarka, Adarsh Nagar, Matia Mahal, weeks. Reacting to the verdict, 45km from Jammu, yesterday. According to local sources in a major The basic occupation of the resi- Shahdara, Chhatarpur, Shalimar bagh, New Delhi, Mundka, Matiala, Jayarajan said that he accepts the ceasefire violation by Pakistani Rangers three civilians were wounded dents is farming and daily wage Okhla, Hari Nagar and RK Puram. AGENCIES verdict. Jayarajan thus becomes on the Indian side of the Kashmir when Pakistani troops allegedly fired labour,” said Gurmail Singh, who the first political leader in the mortar shells at border posts and villages. state to be jailed in a contempt of court case. Sources in the Kerala govern- ment said that once they get the order, Jayarajan will be arrested . Jayarajan, 54, is presently a Religious freedom message is for US too: Envoy state committee member and is considered as a firebrand leader of the party. NEW DELHI: US President Barack to American people and people around on the idea of creating an insurance pool. Obama’s stress during his speech in India the world as he was to people of India,” “Insurance pool is a novel idea. We are on the right of freedom of individuals to Verma said. going to work with the Indian government 7 disaster-hit profess, practice and propagate religion Obama, in his only public engagement in providing whatever technical consulta- was a message for Americans too, US during his three-day India visit, stressed tion is required.” Ambassador Richard Verma (pictured) on the right of freedom of individuals to “Insurance pool will be set up according states to get said yesterday. profess, practice and propagate religion to international standards,” he added. “You should look into the speech care- and said it was important for India with Verma said the US will keep a watch in central aid fully...this is consistent with what he said its multiplicity of faiths to uphold this fun- the coming years if India is able to gener- at the UN General Assembly, that we have damental right. ate electricity as planned through nuclear NEW DELHI: The govern- to stand up for all people... He talked as Addressing a town hall-style meeting at power. ment yesterday decided to pro- much about the US and our challenges, as the Siri Fort Auditorium here, that had On the defence agreements signed vide central assistance to seven he talked about India,” Verma told Karan a large audience of young people, the US between India and the US, the ambassa- states, which were affected by Thapar in an interview on Headlines Today president spoke extensively on the rights dor said it was a “breakthrough” and “far natural disasters in 2014, under channel. enshrined for people in the Indian and reaching in many respects”. national disaster response fund, “The words speak for themselves and American Constitutions. “It (Defence Framework Agreement) a home ministry statement said. they are powerful, as are the words he said He said nations were the strongest when charts the way for next 10 years. It was in The decision was taken in a before... that we seek out the best in people they treats all their citizens as “god’s chil- 2005 when we first signed (defence) no one high-level committee meeting and that peace often starts within one’s dren, all equal and worthy”. knew that we would and we agreed to con- chaired by union Home Minister heart,” he said. On the Indo-US nuclear deal, centrate on joint training, joint exercises, Rajnath Singh. “...we also have to look at what’s in Ambassador Verma said the US is com- and combating weapons of mass destruc- The committee decided to pro- hearts and minds of people, support mitted to seeing through the civil nuclear million people, who do not have electricity, tion, and piracy and other common con- vide central assistance to Jammu their democratic aspirations, dreams, deal with India. can actually get a shot at it,” Verma said. cerns, so I think it is a breakthrough,” he and Kashmir, Kerala, Meghalaya, support for rights for equality and toler- “...We are committed to seeing this Verma, who is an American of Indian- said. Nagaland, Odisha, Andhra ance... he (Obama) was talking as much (Indo-US nuclear deal) through, so 300 origin, said the US will work with India IANS Pradesh and Haryana. IANS SATURDAY 31 JANUARY 2015 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Sushma begins Martyrs’ Day four-day China visit today Focus on resetting bilateral ties

NEW DELHI: New Foreign issues of concern to both sides. Secretary S Jaishankar is to She will inaugurate the Second accompany External Affairs India-China High-Level Media Minister Sushma Swaraj on her Forum and attend the launch of four-day visit to China begin- Visit India Year during her stay ning today. in Beijing, said an external affair Sushma Swaraj tweeted: “Going ministry statement. to China from 31st January to 3rd She will also participate in the February. Foreign Secretary Dr S 13th Foreign Ministers’ Meeting Jaishankar is accompanying me.” of Russia-India-China Trilateral, Jaishankar, who took charge and will meet Russian Foreign of his new post on Thursday, Minister Sergei Lavrov on the also met Chinese Ambassador Le sidelines of the meeting. Yucheng here yesterday and dis- This would be the first visit by a cussed the upcoming visit. cabinet minister of the Bharatiya Talking to reporters after the Janata Party-led government meet, Le said: “(Am) privileged to Beijing after it took over in that I am the first ambassador to May last year. Chinese President meet S Jaishankar after he was Xi Jinping had visited India in appointed foreign secretary.” September last year. He said they discussed bilateral Chinese Foreign Minister relations and Sushma Swaraj’s Wang had visited India last year President Pranab Mukherjee (left) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi pay tributes on the annual Martyrs’ Day at Mahatma Gandhi’s memorial in visit. to touch base with the Modi Rajghat in New Delhi yesterday. The event marks the memory of the ‘Father of the Nation’ Mahatma Gandhi, assassinated on 30 January 1948. “We talked about the agenda, government. the possible outcomes of this The RIC trilateral cooperation visit,” he added. currently covers industry, trade, Jaishankar, who was ambas- agriculture, emergency relief and sador to China before becom- healthcare. The RIC countries ing envoy to the US, was on are also members of various key Police rescue hundreds of child slaves Wednesday night appointed as the groupings such as BRICS and new foreign secretary. The cabi- G-20. NEW DELHI: Police have rescued hun- trafficking will continue,” he added. while police are making efforts to reunite chil- net’s Appointments Committee, Officials say Swaraj’s visit will dreds of child slaves as young as six during The children complained of being forced to dren with their families, Satyanarayana said. headed by Prime Minister begin with the phased imple- days of raids on workshops in the central work 16 hours a day without breaks, and were TV footage taken after the raids showed Narendra Modi, announced it was mentation of some key agree- city of Hyderabad, a senior officer said threatened with violence and no food if they cramped and dirty workshops with no win- curtailing the tenure of incum- ments reached during Xi’s trip yesterday. disobeyed orders, the officer said. dows and discarded children’s clothes. bent Sujatha Singh with “immedi- specially the $20bn investments Police discovered 120 children, some of them Many of the children were transported from Children were seen huddled in a room, looking ate effect”, seven months before in two Chinese industrial parks in sick, underweight and traumatised, during the impoverished northern state of Bihar last bewildered and being watched over by police her two-year term was to end India, cooperation in modernisa- the most recent raids late Thursday on ban- year after their parents sold them to traffick- officers. and appointing Jaishankar in her tion of Indian Railways including gle-making and other workshops, as part of ers for between 5,000 rupees ($80) and 10,000 Some four million Indian children work as place. feasibility of Chennai-New Delhi a city-wide crackdown on child slavery, the rupees ($160), according to rescuers. domestic helpers, in roadside restaurants and Sushma Swaraj is visiting Bullet train corridor. officer said. Police began a massive clampdown last week in factories making clothes and other items, Beijing on the invitation of her The two sides are expected to “They have chronic skin diseases and were against dozens of workshops, tucked away in according to government figures released last Chinese counterpart Wang Yi. review the implementation of underfed. They are in trauma and visibly the city’s narrow alleys, after tip-offs from year. But activists say the actual figures are She is also expected to lay the Chinese commitments to pro- shaken,” V Satyanarayana, deputy police com- child rights activists and police informers. much higher. ground for the visit of Prime vide better access to India’s IT missioner for south Hyderabad, said. Some 220 children were rescued last week Indian activist Kailash Satyarthi won the Minister Narendra Modi later and Pharmaceuticals sectors in “They were kept in dingy rooms with no when police stormed similar workshops in the Nobel Peace Prize last year for his efforts to this year. China to address the trade gap of ventilation and exposure to harmful gases,” city’s south, Satyanarayana said. halt child labour, including the trafficking of The two ministers will discuss about $38bn in about $70bn trade the commissioner said. Thirty-one traffickers and agents have also children to be kept as slaves. bilateral, regional and global in 2014. AGENCIES “The campaign against bonded labour and been arrested and charged with child slavery, AFP

RJD, JD-U will merge, say Lalu Uber cab rape victim files lawsuit in US court and Nitish WASHINGTON: A woman suffered due to Uber’s inadequate Douglas H Wigdor, in a state- an Uber car,” Wigdor added. with the victim of this horrific executive from Delhi allegedly and disingenuous ‘commitment to ment said: “Uber’s focus on its Jeanne M Christensen, another crime. We are cooperating fully PATNA/NEW DELHI: Six raped by an Uber driver last safety’”. bottom line over the safety of its Wigdor LLP lawyer, said: “San with the authorities to ensure “Janata Parivar” parties will December has filed a lawsuit in Demanding a trial by jury, passengers has resulted in what Francisco Uber executives’ deci- the perpetrator is brought to certainly merge soon as there a US court, accusing the web- the lawsuit seeks “a permanent can only be described as modern sions to cut costs at the expense of justice.” is no hurdle, former Bihar based US taxi firm of focusing injunction directing that Uber day electronic hitchhiking.” customer safety forced our client The accused driver Shiv Kumar chief ministers Nitish Kumar on profits over the safety of its take all affirmative steps nec- “We intend to hold Uber to pay the ultimate cost in New Yadav is currently on trial on rape and Lalu Prasad announced passengers. essary to remedy the effects of responsible for the significant Delhi.” and kidnapping charges in Delhi. yesterday. In a 36-page complaint filed the unlawful conduct” alleged physical and emotional harm it “Her brutal rape by an Uber Delhi banned Uber and sev- In the wake of reports of in the US District Court for the in the complaint, “and to pre- has caused to our client, while driver who was a known repeat eral other web-based taxi firms unlikely merger of the Janata Northern District of California vent repeated occurrences in the simultaneously seeking a court sexual predator was a result of a for failing to carry out adequate Dal-United and the Rashtriya on Thursday, the woman seeks future”. order mandating that Uber ini- global Uber policy that has far- driver checks in early December. Janata Dal ahead of the assem- to “slam the brakes on Uber’s It also seeks an award of tiate certain safety precautions reaching consequences,” she said. But last week Uber announced bly polls in Bihar later this year, reckless worldwide expansion at unspecified amount of punitive that they appear unwilling to do “We intend to hold Uber resumption of its services in both JD-U leader Nitish Kumar the unfortunate expense of basic damages to be determined at voluntarily,” he said. accountable for violence that Delhi, saying it had applied for and RJD chief Lalu Prasad said customer safety”. trial, plus prejudgment interest, “We hope that this lawsuit will could easily have been avoided had a radio taxi licence and would merger was certain. “Merger is The lawsuit which identifies to compensate the victim “for all bring about positive change that even a minimal background check improve safety by introducing certain, it will take place,” Nitish the victim only as Jane Doe, also physical, monetary and/or eco- will ultimately protect people been conducted.” features such as an “in-app emer- Kumar told the media in Bihar’s seeks compensation “for the hor- nomic harm”. worldwide who are unaware of An Uber spokesperson said: gency button”. Aurangabad district. He said the rific and brutal rape that she Her New York-based lawyer, the serious risks of entering into “Our deepest sympathies remain IANS “Janata Parivar” would again become one and a united force. In New Delhi, the RJD chief said merger of the RJD and the Work for drainage system JD-U will have take place. “There is no if and but, the RJD and the 11 Christians convert to JD-U will merge,” Lalu said. Lalu said Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has Hinduism in Tamil Nadu been working for the merger of the six parties. The six parties are the JD-U, RJD, Samajwadi CHENNAI: Eleven Christians and added that he would seek Party, Janata Dal-Secular, Indian —five men and six women — legal recourse. “I have been kept National Lok Dal and Samajwadi converted to Hinduism dur- under house arrest in Anna Nagar Janata Party. ing a programme organised here since morning. Large num- by the Hindu Makkal Katchi bers of police have been deployed (HMK) here yesterday, said outside the house where I am Swine flu claims its leader. staying,” Sampath said. “Despite the attempts by the He said they first wanted to 8 in Haryana; 47 city police to thwart the volun- have the programme in the famed tary conversion to Hinduism, 11 Triplicane Sri Parthasarathy Christians came back to their temple but were denied permis- cases confirmed mother religion,” HMK president sion. “The temple authorities CHANDIGARH: At least eight Arjun Sampath said. refused permission in writing. people have died due to swine flu He claimed as many as 162 peo- The temple is administered by in Haryana this month, health ple had come here to participate the government. When churches officials said here yesterday. in the conversion programme and mosques permit conversion, A health department spokes- though they had announced con- why not government-managed man said 47 cases of swine flu version of 108 people. temples,” Sampath said. have been confirmed so far in the “However, police stopped “Does the government think of state and the patients were being their vehicles and turned Hindu temples as revenue gener- treated in the isolation wards of them away. Despite the police ating organisations and nothing various hospitals. These include attempts to stop them, some more,” he asked. eight from Faridabad, seven from people had reached the venue With the permission denied Gurgaon and five from Hisar. and embraced Hinduism,” by the Triplicane temple, HMK The spokesman said strict A municipality worker prepares large pipes before their transport to the project site in eastern Indian city of claimed Sampath. decided to have the conversion monitoring was being done of Calcutta yesterday. The project will include the construction of concrete drains to replace the brick-built open He accused the Tamil Nadu programme at a private temple patients with any symptoms of drains and introduction of a modern sewage system. government of preventing vol- in West Mambalam here. swine flu. IANS untary conversions to Hinduism IANS SATURDAY 31 JANUARY 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

Greece not to seek bailout extension New govt won’t cooperate with troika

ATHENS: The new leftwing Dijsselbloem said a decision on government in Athens opened the deadline would be reached negotiations on its bailout pack- before the end of February but age with European partners rejected Greece’s push for a spe- yesterday by flatly rejecting the cial conference on debt, saying a expected extension of the pro- conference already existed in the gramme and the international form of the Eurogroup of euro inspectors overseeing it. zone finance ministers. Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis gave no indication Varoufakis met Jeroen of what Greece, which must be Dijsselbloem, head of the euro under a EU/IMF bailout pro- zone finance ministers’ group, in gramme to ensure its banks have Athens for what both described as continued access to ECB fund- “constructive” discussions on the ing, would do if it cannot reach new government’s aims. an agreement by the deadline. But the hour-long meeting Athens is waiting on a final appeared to do nothing to bridge bailout tranche of ¤7.2bn ($8.13 the gap between Prime Minister bn) and has been shut out of Alexis Tsipras’ government and international bond markets faces European partners who have but faces around ¤10bn in debt The logos of the Honda Motor Co are seen on the company’s ASIMO dolls displayed at the company showroom in Tokyo yesterday. The company sliced insisted that Greece must respect repayments this summer. 6.5 percent off its core annual profit forecast. its obligations under the ¤240bn German Finance Minister bailout. Wolfgang Schaeuble repeated The meeting with Dijsselbloem a message hammered home by was the first in a series for Berlin since the new Greek gov- Honda cuts profit forecast on recall costs Varoufakis, who travels to ernment’s arrival, saying German London, Paris and Rome next generosity had already been TOKYO: Honda cut its full- to the difficult automobile market on the latest death — has been the firm said in a statement. week as the government looks to stretched to its limit and that it year profit forecast yesterday as environment and a forecast increase plunged into a public relations “We are currently work- build support. could not accept blackmail. the Japanese automaker grap- in quality-related expenses, mainly crisis at it faces lawsuits, calls for ing with representatives of the Tsipras, who makes his first Tsipras’ government has taken ples with soaring recall costs, in North America”. a criminal probe and accusations driver’s family to gain the access foreign visit as prime minister to office showing it has no intention including from an exploding Honda’s airbag recalls — and of “deception and obfuscation” necessary to conduct a compre- Cyprus on Monday, will also be of softening its opposition to the airbag crisis linked to at least others involving its Fit compact over the deadly defect. hensive investigation.” Bloomberg in Rome on Tuesday for meet- bailout programme, halting priva- five deaths. car and Vezel SUV — diluted the Honda’s October-December net News reported that relatives of ings with Italian Prime Minister tisations, reinstating hundreds of The downgrade came after positive impact of the yen’s sharp income dropped 15 percent as ris- the 35-year-old father of two has Matteo Renzi, one of the leading laid-off public sector workers and Honda said it was probing a decline, which has inflated profits ing costs hit its bottom-line, with launched a lawsuit against Honda, voices in Europe against strict increasing low-income pensions. fatal crash in the United States among major Japanese exporters. the firm taking a $425m recall- Takata and the dealership where budget austerity. Varoufakis said he had assured that may have been caused by a “It’s a kind of a one-two punch related charge in the quarter. the car was purchased. But he said Greece had no Dijsselbloem that Athens planned defect in airbags made by embat- for Honda — they are fighting for “These are deep-rooted prob- Takata previously confirmed intention of cooperating with to implement reforms to make the tled supplier Takata, which has sales and at the same time they lems and there are still uncertain- four US deaths and one in a mission from the “troika” of economy more competitive and sparked the recall of millions of have the Takata problem. They ties on what will happen next,” Malaysia involving its airbags, European and International have balanced budgets but that it vehicles worldwide by 10 major are hit on two fronts, (so) it is a Tachibana Securities Kentaro while hundreds of injuries have Monetary Fund lenders and would not accept a “self-fed crisis” automakers. bad situation for them,” said Hans Hayashi told Bloomberg News. also been reported. would not be seeking an extension of deflation and non-viable debt. Honda, Japan’s third-biggest Greimel, Asia editor for US-based Honda’s US division said About 20 million vehicles pro- to a February 28 deadline with In turn, Dijsselbloem said he automaker, said Friday it was cut- Automotive News. “Even though Thursday that a driver of a 2002 duced by some of the world’s big- euro zone lenders. had told the new government to ting its fiscal year to March net they are making some big gains Honda Accord died in a crash this gest automakers, also including “This platform enabled us to win respect the terms of the existing profit forecast by 3.5 percent to on the foreign exchange, they are month in Houston, Texas, and Toyota and General Motors, are the confidence of the Greek people,” agreement between Greece and 545bn yen ($4.6bn), citing “quality- not able to capitalise on it like the cause may have been a faulty being recalled due to the risk he told reporters after the meeting. the euro zone and warned against related expenses” as well as falling other Japanese companies.” inflator in a Takata airbag. their Takata-made airbags could “Our first action as a government taking unilateral steps, saying it demand in Japan and the world’s Honda shares fell 0.78 percent But “since this tragic event deploy with excessive explosive will not be to reject the rationale was important not to reverse biggest vehicle market, China. to 3,581.0 yen on Friday in Tokyo. occurred very recently, no offi- power, spraying potentially-fatal of questioning this programme progress made so far. It blamed the move on a “decline Takata — whose Tokyo head- cial cause of death has yet been shrapnel into the vehicle. through a request to extend it.” REUTERS in unit sales in Japan and China due quarters declined to comment determined by local authorities,” AFP

Xerox profits up Gold rebounds Oil up on Iraq after previous Dollar set to end month concerns but day’s big drop with record run poised for drop LONDON: Gold firmed yes- NEW YORK: The dollar edged Turkey will cut rates again next NEW YORK: Oil rose yester- terday as investors weighed up higher yesterday and was on week, sending the lira to a new day as concerns over fighting in the prospect of a US interest track to end January with gains record low. Iraq extended short covering rate rise later this year, with of more than five percent, while On Wall Street, the Dow from the previous session, but data showing economic growth stock indexes around the world Jones industrial average fell crude prices were still poised cooled in the fourth quarter fell as data showed US growth 119.87 points, or 0.69 percent, to for a seventh month of declines, helping prices recover from slowed sharply in the fourth 17,296.98, the S&P 500 lost 15.79 the longest rout on record. the previous day’s two percent quarter. points, or 0.78 percent, to 2,005.46 A supply glut and Opec’s plunge. The dollar index, bolstered and the Nasdaq Composite refusal to cut output has driven Gold is still on track to post its by expectations the US Federal dropped 24.40 points, or 0.52 per- benchmark Brent and US crude biggest weekly fall in two months, Reserve will be the first major cent, to 4,659.01. futures down 60 percent since however, on expectations that the central bank to raise interest European shares were down June. Chart watchers as well as Federal Reserve will hike rates rates, also was poised to end 0.5 percent, while the MSCI all- analysts tracking market funda- this year for the first time in January with its longest run of country world index declined 0.8 mentals believe the selloff will nearly a decade. gains since the dollar was floated percent. continue for a few more months The metal had hit a five-month in 1971. It was up 0.1 percent European shares were up about at least. high hit earlier this month but yesterday. seven percent for January, on A Reuters poll shows oil prices concerns that its rally, above US gross domestic product track to post their best monthly may post only a mild recovery in $1,300 an ounce, had gone too far expanded at a 2.6 percent annual performance in three years, while the second half of the year, with prompted some investors to cash pace after the third quarter’s major US stock indexes were prices still averaging less in 2015 in gains on Thursday, knocking spectacular five percent rate, on track for a second straight than during the global financial all the precious metals sharply the Commerce Department said monthly decline. crisis. lower. in its first fourth-quarter GDP European shares have been Crude was up in early trading Gold recovered some lost snapshot. lifted recently by expectations Friday in New York on renewed ground after the latest US growth The headline number was “well that a bond-buying program by violence in oil producer Iraq, report, but struggled to make sig- below consensus expectations and the European Central Bank will where Islamic State militants had nificant new headway. that is definitely one of the data help the region’s economic recov- struck at Kurdish forces south- “(The data) was soft, but points that many bulls were look- ery, while US stocks have been hit west of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk. many of the underlying compo- ing for to justify staying bullish,” by falling oil prices and concern Brent climbed 46 cents, or nents were strong, so it was not said Peter Kenny, chief market about weak overseas demand. about 1 percent, to $49.58 per bar- very bullish as far as gold is con- strategist at Clearpool Group in In the US bond market, the rel by 10.25am ET (1525 GMT), cerned,” INTL FCStone analyst New York. 10-year note was up 21/32 in price after a session high at $49.80. For Ed Meir said. Russia surprised markets by to yield 1.6812 percent. the month, Brent was down about Spot gold was up 0.3 percent cutting interest rates as fears of Brent crude edged up 45 cents $8, or almost 14 percent. It had at $1,260.40 an ounce at 1457 a Russian recession mount follow- to $49.58 a barrel, supported by peaked at above $115 in June. GMT, while US gold futures for ing a plunge in global oil prices renewed violence in Iraq, but a US crude rose 80 cents to February delivery were up $4.70 and Western sanctions over the persistent global supply glut kept $45.33 a barrel, after reaching an ounce at $1,260.60. Ukraine crisis. the market on course for a sev- $45.54 earlier. For January, US Appetite for physical gold in The Xerox Corporation office building in McLean, Virginia. Xerox Corp, The move pressured the rou- enth straight month of declines, crude was also down about $8, or Asia overnight remained muted best known for its printers and copiers, reported a slightly better-than- ble, which skidded as much as its longest bear run on record. US 15 percent. It had traded as high despite lower prices. expected quarterly profit as expenses declined four percent. four percent against the dollar, crude was up 87 cents at $45.40. as $107 in June. REUTERS and bolstered expectations that REUTERS REUTERS SATURDAY 31 JANUARY 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 Spanish growth Russia central accelerates but domestic bank in surprise banks lag

MADRID: Spain’s economic turnaround accelerated in the interest rate cut fourth quarter of 2014 and growth hit pre-crisis levels as oil prices tumbled, although an enduring lending crunch signals Repo rate slashed by 2pc to 15pc the recovery may still take time to feed through to struggling MOSCOW: Russia’s central She said the rate remained families. bank unexpectedly cut its main high enough to allow the bank to Spanish output expanded 0.7 interest rate yesterday as fears reach its inflation target in the percent quarter-on-quarter of recession mount in the coun- medium term. from October to December, beat- try following the fall in global President Vladimir Putin, ing expectations and reaching its oil prices and Western sanc- who won popularity by providing fastest pace since before a near- tions over the Ukraine crisis. Russians with more financial sta- seven-year downturn. The bank reduced its one-week bility after the chaos of the 1990s Falling borrowing costs, a minimum auction repo rate by following the fall of the Soviet depreciating euro and strong two points to 15 percent, a little Union, did not comment and the exports have helped drive the over a month after pushing it up Kremlin denies influencing cen- turnaround. Lower oil prices are by 6.5 points to 17 percent after a tral bank decisions. now providing a stimulus worth run on the rouble. But Finance Minister Anton 1.5 percent of gross domestic The bank had been widely Siluanov said he backed the rate product, boding well for growth expected not to change the rate. cut, and that the central bank in 2015, an election year. Following the decision, the rouble had good reason to say the situa- “The increasingly broad-based extended losses to trade as much tion on the currency market was A man walks past a board showing currency exchange rates in central Moscow yesterday. The Russian rouble recovery suggests Spain is well- as four percent down on the day under control. fell after the central bank unexpectedly cut its key interest rate. positioned to take advantage of against the dollar, though it later “The decision appears to be supportive factors in early 2015, clawed back some of the losses. politically driven, since it is a week showed real wages slump- recession is inevitable.” and inflation pressure remains namely lower energy costs, a The move implies a shift in the cut that shows the central bank ing by 4.7 percent year-on-year Analysts had nevertheless quite strong, as well as signals for weaker euro, and a cut in per- Bank of Russia’s priorities away is worried about the risks to the in December and real disposable expected the bank to hold rates the outflow of capital... This (rate sonal and corporate taxes,” said from clamping down on rising banking sector. It looks like the income slumping by 7.3 percent, this month, as the bank had pre- cut) is probably a reason to sell the Raj Badiani, economist at IHS inflation and supporting the rouble, central bank’s hand has been boding ill for economic growth in viously said it would cut rates rouble more in the short term.” Global Insight. towards trying to support economic forced,” said Nicholas Spiro, man- the months ahead. when inflation is on a sustained However, Renaissance Capital Spain’s emergence as one of the activity, which the bank expects to aging director of Spiro Sovereign The bank said it expected gross downward trend. Inflation has economist Oleg Kouzmin said he euro zone’s fastest growing coun- fall sharply in the coming months. Strategy in London. domestic product to fall by 3.2 instead been shooting up as a welcomed the move: “It’s good tries has also relied on improv- The decision will also fuel spec- Earlier this month the bank’s percent in annual terms during result of the slide in the rouble. that they are lowering now. This ing domestic demand. Retail sales ulation that recent changes in the head of monetary policy, Ksenia the first half of 2015, following The bank said that it saw condi- is a sensible step. This will help over the Christmas period grew bank’s senior management have Yudayeva, an anti-inflation hawk, growth of 0.6 percent in 2014. tions for lower inflation in the medium the economy and allow stability at the fastest rate in just over 10 shifted the bank towards more was replaced by Dmitry Tulin, a “This tells us they are looking term, but effectively acknowledged to be preserved.” years, for instance. dovish monetary policy, possibly central bank veteran seen as more beyond rising inflation in the coming that inflation would stay in double He added that high interest But the exit from recession— under pressure from the Kremlin, acceptable to bankers, who have months to try to stimulate economic digits throughout this year. rates do not especially help the Spain’s output expanded 1.4 per- banks and business lobbies. called for lower interest rates. growth,” said William Jackson, It said it expected inflation to rouble as capital outflows are cent in 2014 from a year earlier, “Today’s decision to lower The shift in policy may also emerging markets economist at fall below 10 percent in January largely linked to debt repayments. the first notable annual growth key interest rate by 2 percent- reflect the realisation that Capital Economics in London. 2016. Inflation was 13.2 percent as “Will the capital outflow be since 2008 -- has yet to ease the age points is intended to balance Russia’s economy is heading for “But I don’t think the rate of Jan. 26, the bank said, up from stronger? Yes, but there will be hardship for thousands of house- the goal of curbing inflation and a hard landing as low oil prices cut will have much impact (on 11.4 percent in December. a weaker rouble and a stronger holds, in a country where nearly restore economic growth,” the look set to persist and the conflict growth). If you look at the stress “I see big risks in today’s deci- current account, which means it one in four of the workforce is out bank’s governor, Elvira Nabiullina, in Ukraine has worsened, defying on the banking sector, capital sion,” said Rosbank economist won’t be necessary to spend more of a job. said in an emailed statement after hopes of an early end to Western flight, the real income squeeze Evgeny Koshelev. “Now the geo- forex reserves.” Growth is also happening from the announcement. sanctions. Data released this and collapse in oil prices, then a political background is unclear REUTERS a low base, and in absolute terms the Spanish economy has shrunk by almost 7 percent from its peak at the beginning of 2008. Constrained lending is just one of the potential drags on the Rosneft will not resume drilling in Kara Sea this year recovery. Most Spanish banks, including Caixabank and Popular, saw credit shrink again in 2014. MOSCOW: Russian state-con- Moscow is believed to have one of Ukraine crisis. “There will be no complete work. Rosneft did not producing nation and output hit Families and companies were trolled oil company Rosneft will the world’s largest oil resources. drilling in 2015. There is no plat- give the timeframe offered by the a post-Soviet high of an average still focused on paying back debts, not be able to resume drilling In September, Rosneft form and it is too late to get one. licence. 10.58 million barrels per day (bpd) they said, although many small in the Kara Sea this year after announced it had found oil in The project was initially created The second Rosneft source last year. businesses have also complained Western sanctions halted its the Kara Sea after drilling with for Exxon’s platform,” a Rosneft said the company planned to But the country needs to they cannot get the financing they cooperation with ExxonMobil Exxon at the Universitetskaya-1 source said. resume drilling in 2016 but that explore new areas such as the need to survive. in a major setback for Moscow’s well, the most northerly in the The second source confirmed commercial production would Arctic or for shale oil because Banks are now hoping for a energy ambitions, two company world. Oil resources in the Kara this. now be pushed back to beyond its resources in Western Siberia, better 2015, as new loans grow sources said. Sea are estimated to be compara- Asked for comment, Rosneft 2020. Russia’s main oil producing while their overall stock of debt The delay will be a blow to ble to those of Saudi Arabia. said: “In 2015, Rosneft will ensure “Usually, it takes 8-10 years region, are depleting. remains flat at worst. “The (lend- Rosneft, which was spearhead- The company was due to restart implementation of its licence from the first well to the first Rosneft was using the West ing) trend is being reversed,” ing President Vladimir Putin’s drilling this year but Exxon was obligations related to geological oil on the offshore but here you Alpha platform, owned by Banco Popular Chairman Angel goal to increase output and forced to stop cooperation after exploration in the Kara Sea.” have such a difficult situation,” Seadrill subsidiary North Atlantic Ron said on Friday after present- secure Russia’s energy dominance the West imposed sanctions on Usually licences give compa- the source said. Drilling, in the Kara Sea. ing full year results. by exploring the Arctic, where Russia over its actions in the nies a certain period of time to Russia is the world’s top oil REUTERS REUTERS

With the CEO Easyjet to fly Japan airlines foresee from expanded Heathrow airport smooth earnings LONDON: British budget TOKYO: Japan’s two biggest The deal would see it acquire airline easyJet has backed airlines yesterday projected eight planes from US-based Heathrow in London’s run- smooth full-year earnings, with Boeing and seven from European way expansion race and said All Nippon Airways (ANA) planemaker Airbus, with delivery it would start flying from the placing a $2.2bn order for Boeing from later this year until 2022. capital’s largest airport if the and Airbus planes, while rival The deal’s size is based on list government chooses to increase Japan Airlines (JAL) raised its prices, but manufacturers usu- its capacity. full-year profit forecast. ally give airlines a discount from British lawmakers and busi- ANA said its April-December that rate. ness leaders agree Britain needs net profit soared 57.2 percent Despite a fall in nine-month new runways to remain eco- to 52.36bn yen ($443m) from profit, JAL raised its full-year nomically competitive. A govern- a year ago, as an expansion at earnings forecast owing to falling ment-commissioned taskforce Tokyo’s downtown Haneda air- fuel costs and stronger revenue in is assessing whether a new or port increased landing slots for its cargo business. expanded runway should be built international flights. A drop in oil prices — rates at Heathrow, or Gatwick south of Sales in the latest period rose have fallen by about half since the capital. 9.1 percent to 1.3 trillion yen, the summer — is good news for “We can say with great confi- while ANA left unchanged its airlines, which often count fuel dence that easyJet would operate annual net profit forecast of 35 as their single-biggest expense, from Heathrow if a new runway is Heinrich Hiesinger (left), CEO of Germany-based technology holding company ThyssenKrupp AG, with billion yen for the fiscal year to particularly after a sharp drop built,” the airline said in a report candidates for the ThyssenKrupp supervisory board Ingrid Hengster and Jens Tischendorf (right) before the March. in the yen had sent those costs submitted to the taskforce as part company’s annual shareholders meeting in the western German city of Bochum, yesterday. The company “moved to soaring. of a consultation. strengthen its overseas net- “The impact of low oil prices The airline, based at the works by taking advantage of is significant enough to offset all smaller Luton Airport north of the increase in takeoff and land- the other negative factors,” said London, does not offer flights ing slots for international routes Masayuki Kubota, chief strategist from Heathrow which is typi- Weak metal prices hurt Vedanta profit at Haneda Airport”, it said in a at Rakuten Securities. cally more expensive to operate statement. While the weak yen increases from. Revenue from international fuel costs, it also tends to boost Potential easyJet flights from LONDON: Vedanta Resources gain of two percent on the London “The key message from the passenger flights jumped 19.1 per- the number of foreign visitors Heathrow would provide 19 new Plc said its third-quarter core Stock Exchange yesterday. company is that it does not cent on-year, while revenue in its coming to Japan, he added. destinations from the airport and earnings fell 11 percent and Vedanta said its debt maturities have a debt/covenant problem domestic passenger flight business But Kubota warned that severe lower fares, the airline said, add- that it was reviewing its operat- were being refinanced at lower at the moment,” Hatch said in inched up 1.0 percent. price competition from emerging ing that its tickets are typically ing and capital spending plans costs and that it was review- a note. ANA added seven new routes budget carriers may put addi- 40 percent cheaper than those of across its businesses, as the ing refinancing and repayment The London-based miner, at the airport with flights bound tional pressure on Japan’s major incumbent operators. mining conglomerate responds options. which has most of its assets in for London, Paris, Munich, Hanoi, airlines. EasyJet said expanding to a sharp fall in commodity Market concerns have prima- India, reported a net debt of Jakarta, Manila and Vancouver. “Also, geopolitics is always a Heathrow airport would provide prices. rily revolved around Vedanta’s about $8.8bn at the end of 2014, Also yesterday, the carrier said potential risk amid growing con- the greatest benefits for passen- Shares in the company fell as ability to service its debt and down from $9bn at the end of it has placed a $2.2bn order for cerns over terrorism around the gers and Britain’s economy. much as 4.8 percent to 353.21 meet covenants, said Canaccord September. a total of 15 planes from Boeing world,” he added. REUTERS pence before bouncing back to a Genuity analyst Nick Hatch. REUTERS and Airbus. AFP SATURDAY 31 JANUARY 2015 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com CLASSIFIEDS

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Randolph sparkles as McIlroy surges ahead in Grizzlies grab big win

NEW YORK: Zach Randolph Pacers 103, Knicks 82 posted his 11th consecutive dou- Indiana, who had lost their last ble-double with 15 points and 17 three home games, scored a com- Dubai with flawless 64 rebounds to lead the Memphis bined 67 points during the second Grizzlies to a 99-69 victory over and third quarters on their way the Denver Nuggets. to a 103-82 victory over the New World No.1 takes one-shot lead; Warren, McDowell follow The Grizzlies (34-12) earned York Knicks. their ninth win in 10 games over- The Pacers (17-31) caught fire all and their seventh in their past in the middle quarters to out- DUBAI: World number one back-to-back birdies at 10 and 11 eight home games. score New York by 35 during that Rory McIlroy stormed into and the four-times major winner Randolph, averaging 17 points 24-minute window. a one-shot lead in the Dubai displayed his enormous class with and 12 rebounds since returning Rodney Stuckey led Indiana Desert Classic with a sparkling birdies at his closing three holes. from a right knee injury on Jan. 9, with 22 points while Roy Hibbert second-round 64 yesterday. “I’m definitely in a great posi- did not play in the fourth quarter. added 18 points and 10 rebounds McIlroy birdied his closing tion going into the weekend,” The Grizzlies rested their start- in the match. Carmelo Anthony three holes to move to 14-under McIlroy told reporters. ers after ending the third with a had 18 and Lou Amundson added par as he seeks to win the Dubai “I felt like I played very nicely Rory 25-point lead. 17 for the Knicks (9-38), who are title for a second time since today and I couldn’t ask for much McIlroy of Bucks 115, Magic 100 an NBA-worst 3-21 on the road. breaking through to claim a first more, bogey-free, made birdies Northern Jerryd Bayless scored 19 points Lakers 123, Bulls 118 (2OT) professional success in the 2009 and set myself up for a good run Ireland in 20 minutes, leading the well- Jordan Hill scored 26 points tournament. over the next couple days.” reacts after balanced Milwaukee Bucks to a and grabbed 12 rebounds, and the Scotland’s Marc Warren stayed McIlroy won three events in a playing a 115-100 victory over the Orlando Los Angeles Lakers halted a nine- on target for a maiden Masters row last season – the British Open, shot during Magic. game losing skid with a thrilling invitation and a fourth Tour title WGC-Bridgestone Invitational the second The Bucks (24-22) had seven double-overtime victory over the by shooting a 65 to sit in second and PGA Championship – but round of players score in double figures Chicago Bulls. REUTERS place at 13 under par. finished runner-up in his next the 2015 while snapping a 17-game losing Former US Open champion three, the PGA Tour’s Tour streak in Orlando. The Magic (15- Omega Graeme McDowell (65) and Championship, DP World Tour 34) lost their seventh consecutive Dubai NBA Results England’s Seve Benson (66) were Championship and the Abu Dhabi game. Desert Milwaukee 115 Orlando 100 a further shot back. HSBC Championship. Milwaukee’s John Henson, Indiana 103 NY Knicks 82 McIlroy started at six under “That’s not acceptable to me, Classic, in his first start of the season, Memphis 99 Denver 69 par and picked up three birdies especially with how I’m playing yesterday finished with 12 points and 11 in his opening five holes. as I want to take advantage of in Dubai. rebounds. LA Lakers 123 Chicago 118 He parred the next four before that and I know I’m playing well enough to win,” he said. 2nd Round Scores “So there’s no point in being 130 Rory McIlroy (NIR) 66-64 satisfied with second, when you know you’re playing well enough 131 Marc Warren (SCO) 66-65 to lift trophies.” 132 Graeme McDowell (NIR) 67-65, Seve Six years ago McIlroy returned Benson (ENG) 66-66, home to Ireland with the gleam- 133 Danny Willett (ENG) 67-66, Stephen ing ‘Coffee Pot’ trophy. management company will finally old-son Archie after his round. Gallacher (SCO) 66-67, Andy Sulliavan If he succeeds again this year he be resolved. “Being a father now helps (ENG) 65-68, Lee Westwood (ENG) will arrive in Dublin on Monday Warren, ranked 56th in the me totally forget about golf, as 65-68, Bernd Wiesberger (AUT) 64-69, staring at the likelihood of at world and just six places shy of opposed to kind of thinking about 134 Morten Orum Madsen (DEN) 71-63, least five days in the High Court earning a first Masters invita- it at night time or anything like Renato Paratore (ITA) 68-66 when his dispute with a former tion, was met by nearly two-year that,” he said. AFP Woods struggles in first 2015 test

SCOTTSDALE, US: Tiger problem before taking part Zach Randolph (left) of the Memphis Grizzlies shoots the ball against Dirk Woods admitted it had been “a last month at the Hero World Nowitzki of the Dallas Mavericks during their NBA game in Dallas, yesterday. grind” after he laboured to a Challenge, his charity invitational 73 on Thursday in the opening event, in southern Florida. He PGA golfer Tiger round of the Phoenix Open, his shared last in a field of 18. first full-field tournament of the Woods reacts Woods is playing for the first Paquette scores hat-trick season. on the ninth time in an official event since Ryan Palmer fired a seven- hole during last year’s PGA Championship. under 64 to lead the PGA Tour the first round He had back surgery last March. event at TPC Scottsdale, which of the Waste Woods, a 14-time major winner, as Lightning rout Wings is just down the road from where Management said he expects to have some off the Seattle Seahawks and New Phoenix Open at days while he adapts to changes NEW YORK: The Tampa Bay beating the New York Islanders. England Patriots will meet in TPC Scottsdale in his swing that he hopes will Lightning got an unlikely hat- Canadiens down Rangers 1-0 in tomorrow’s NFL Super Bowl on Thursday. eventually lead him back to his trick from rookie centre Cedric another match. AGENCIES spectacle. But there was nothing brilliant best. With Woods, the Paquette, sending a strong spectacular about the form of story is typically about his quest statement to another Eastern former world number one Woods, to match the career record of 18 Conference power and jumping NHL Results who suffered a bad start and was major titles won by Jack Nicklaus. into first place with a victory Boston 5 NY Islanders 2 This was the first tournament over the Detroit Red Wings. Montreal 1 NY Rangers 0 left tied for 104th as play was second place at six-under. They for Woods since turning 39 and no The Lightning (31-15-4) set a Philadelphia 5 Winnipeg 2 Phoenix Open Scores suspended by darkness with nine were joined by Daniel Berger, who player has won more than three franchise record with their ninth Arizona 3 Toronto 1 64 Ryan Palmer players still on the course. was through 16 holes of round majors beyond his 39th birthday. straight home win, getting a big 65 Bubba Watson, Keegan Bradley “Physically I am fine,” said one. Berger will complete his first Woods was coming to Phoenix, night from Paquette, who came Dallas 6 Ottawa 3 66 Zach Johnson, Martin Laird (SCO), Ben Woods, after starting his round round yesterday. known for a loud and boister- into the night with only six goals Tampa Bay 5 Detroit 1 Martin, Robert Streb with two bogeys, par, then double Former Masters winner Zach ous crowd, for the first time all season. Meanwhile, the Boston Florida 3 Columbus 2 67 Justin Leonard, Angel Cabrera (ARG), bogey. Johnson carded a five-under 66. since 2001, when a fan tossed Bruins scored a pair of goals in St Louis 5 Nashville 4 Graham DeLaet (CAN), Brendon de “Mentally I am tired from the He was in fifth with Martin Laird, an orange onto the green while less than two minutes spanning Minnesota 1 Calgary 0 Jonge (ZIM), James Hahn, William grind of trying to piece together a Robert Streb and Ben Martin. he was putting and another who the second and third periods Edmonton 3 Buffalo 2 McGirt, Michael Thompson, Shawn round.” Major champions Keegan Woods spent months recu- heckled him was later found to as they opened the post-All- Stefani Bradley and Bubba Watson share perating from an ongoing back have a gun. AFP Star portion of the schedule by San Jose 6 Anaheim 3 SATURDAY 31 JANUARY 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 Dhoni insists India primed Gutsy England reach final for World Cup PERTH: India captain James Taylor produces brave knock under pressure in Perth battle Mahendra Singh Dhoni insisted yesterday his team will be primed for their upcoming PERTH: England will face one-day internationals. Having World Cup title defence, despite Australia in tomorrow’s tri- been sent in to bat, India squan- Clarke to test ending a miserable tour of series final after winning their dered a good platform provided by Australia without a win. one-day international against their openers. fitness on road India bowed out of the one- India at the WACA Ground They lost six wickets for day international tri-series with in Perth yesterday by three just 31 runs to slump to 165-9, to World Cup another poor batting effort, which wickets. before some late hitting from condemned them to defeat in Set a modest 201 to win after Mohammed Shami (25 from 18 SYDNEY: Australia captain their clash with England at the another disappointing batting balls) and Mohit Sharma boosted Michael Clarke will bat in a WACA Ground in Perth. effort by India, England stum- their total. local game this weekend as he Sent in to bat, India were bled early before recovering to It was another worrying bat- embarks on a gradual return to dismissed for 200 and although edge their way to 201 for seven ting performance ahead of their competitive cricket in a bid to England stumbled early, they and win with 19 balls to spare. upcoming World Cup title defence be fully fit for the World Cup recovered to edge their way to 201 With the winner of the game in Australia and New Zealand after hamstring surgery. for seven and win with 19 balls advancing to tomorrow’s final, next month. India beat Sir Lanka Cricket Australia said the to spare. That booked England a England looked in deep trouble in the 2011 final. 33-year-old, who also suffers berth in tomorrow’s final against when they slumped to 66 for five The Indians made an encour- from a chronic degenerative back Australia at the same venue. in their run chase. aging start to their innings condition, would turn out for It ended a fruitless three- However, James Taylor and through the previously out-of- Sydney’s Western Suburbs today month tour for India ahead wicketkeeper-batsman Jos form Shikhar Dhawan and open- and tomorrow. of next month’s World Cup in Buttler rescued their cause. ing partner Ajinkya Rahane. Then, if all goes well, for a Australia and New Zealand, in The pair rode their luck, with The pair put on 83, but the Cricket Australia XI against a which they failed to notch a win in several close calls, to put on 125 innings started to unravel when Bangladesh XI on February 5, 10 matches, including four Tests for the sixth wicket and carry Dhawan was caught behind by adding a limited fielding capacity and four one-day internationals. their side to within 10 runs of Buttler from the bowling of Chris to his batting. Dhoni conceded their batting victory, before both fell in quick Woakes for 38. “He remains on track for a had been a concern. However, he succession. Virat Kohli’s poor series then return in Australia’s second ICC expected his batsmen to regain Taylor made 82 (122 balls) continued when he was caught Cricket World Cup match on their best form before the World before holing out to deep fine by Joe Root from the bowling of 21 February,” a statement said Cup and said the focus would be leg from the bowling of Mohit spinner Moeen Ali (2-35) for just yesterday. on recharging their batteries in Sharma in the dying stages of eight. “Michael is making good the coming weeks. the chase. Kohli averaged 86.50 during progress following his injury and “From a confidence point of Buttler made the most of an the Test series against Australia, the subsequent surgery six weeks view we are quite good,” he said. early reprieve, when he should which India lost 2-0, but has been ago,” said physiotherapist Alex “It has been a long tour so far have been run out. unable to continue that form into Kountouris. but with this break now, it will He went on to make a match- the limited overs format, making Clarke had surgery in really help us. The guys should be winning 67 from 78 balls before just 24 runs at 8.00. England batsman James December after badly tearing his able to come back strong.” falling just two runs after Taylor, From there wickets fell stead- Taylor attempts to hit a right hamstring during the first With the winner of the game caught on the boundary from the ily, with only Rahane offering high ball during the tri- Test against India. advancing to tomorrow’s final, bowling of Mohammed Shami. serious resistance with 73. series one-day cricket That ruled him out of the fol- England looked in deep trouble The loss meant India ended Steven Finn’s good series con- match against India lowing three Tests and threatened when they slumped to 66 for five their three-month tour of tinued when he claimed 3-36 his involvement in the world one- in their run chase. Australia without a win from for England, with every English at the WACA in Perth day tournament which begins on However, James Taylor and 10 games, including two warm- bowler tasting success. yesterday. February 14 in Australia and New wicketkeeper-batsman Jos up matches, four Tests and four REUTERS Zealand. REUTERS Buttler rescued their cause. The pair rode their luck to put on 125 for the sixth wicket and Scoreboard carry their side to within 10 runs INDIA 10-0-35-2. of victory, before both fell in quick Afghans prepare for succession. A Rahane c Buttler b Finn ...... 73 ENGLAND S Dhawan c Buttler b Woakes ...... 38 I Bell lbw Sharma ...... 10 Taylor said England was look- V Kohli c Root b Ali ...... 8 M Ali c Rayudu b Patel ...... 17 ing forward to the final with a S Raina c Woakes b Ali ...... 1 J Taylor c Raina b Sharma ...... 82 win handing them a psychological A Rayudu c Buttler b Broad ...... 12 J Root c and b Binny ...... 3 advantage ahead of their World ‘dream’ World Cup Cup opener in Melbourne. M S Dhoni lbw Anderson ...... 17 E Morgan c Dhawan b Binny ...... 2 S Binny c Bell b Finn ...... 7 R Bopara c Jadeja b Binny ...... 4 “It would make a massive state- KABUL: At an indoor academy and New Zealand. Only the top R Jadeja c Finn b Broad ...... 5 J Buttler c Rayudu b Shami ...... 67 ment, no doubt,” he said. in Kabul, Afghanistan’s cricket- four in each group go through to A Patel c Bell b Finn ...... 1 C Woakes (not out) ...... 4 “It is going to be a challenge, ers are training hard for their the knockout stages. M Sharma (not out) ...... 7 S Broad (not out) ...... 3 they are playing some great debut in the upcoming World But the side are buoyant after M Shami c Buttler b Woakes ...... 25 Extras (W-7, NB-2) ...... 9 cricket at the moment, but we are Cup tournament in Australia beating Bangladesh in the Asia Extras (LB-2, W-4) ...... 6 Total (for 7 wkts in 46.5 overs) ...... 201 all looking forward to it. and New Zealand next month. Cup last year and know the big- Total (all out in 48.1 overs) ...... 200 Fall of wickets: 1-14, 2-40, 3-44, 4-54, 5-66, “We know if we string all three Shuttle runs and lifting weights name sides will be wary of a pos- Fall of wickets: 1-83, 2-103, 3-107, 4-134, 6-191, 7-193. facets together and do them to the help keep out the bitter chill of sible giant-killing. 5-136, 6-152, 7-164, 8-164, 9-165, 10-200. Bowling: Binny 8-0-33-3; Sharma 10-1-36-2; best of our ability, which we are the Afghan winter as the players “We have a chance, if we play Bowling: Anderson 9-1-24-1; Woakes 9.1-1- Shami 9-0-31-1; Patel 10-1-39-1; Jadeja 9.5- getting close to doing, we know tune up for the tournament on to our potential, to qualify for the 47-2; Broad 10-1-56-2; Finn 10-0-36-3; Ali 0-62-0. we are going to put in a real good warmer antipodean shores. quarter-finals,” said Nabi, an off- performance on Sunday” The Afghans’ opening match spinning all-rounder with 43 one- Having been sent in to bat, against Bangladesh in Canberra day internationals under his belt. India squandered the good plat- on February 18 will mark the cul- “This is a game that can bring ICC reprimands Sri Lankan for form provided by their openers. mination of a fairy-tale journey Afghanistan together and be They lost six wickets for for a team born in the ashes of a very good tool for peace and aggressive performance just 31 runs to slump to 165-9, decades of war. stability.” before some late hitting from Afghanistan qualified for the The Taliban are gone from WELLINGTON: Sri Lankan Nuwan Kulasekara has been repri- Mohammed Shami (25 from 18 last two World Twenty20 tourna- power in Afghanistan but their manded by cricket’s governing body for “unacceptable” aggressive balls) and Mohit Sharma boosted ments in 2010 and 2012 but lost all In this photograph taken on resilient insurgency still exacts a behaviour during the one-day international against New Zealand in their total. their matches, however this will January 26, 2015, an Afghan bloody toll, particularly on civil- Wellington. The Indians made an encour- be their first time in the 50-over cricketer practices at the Kabul ians. The country’s cricket board The fast bowler was charged with behaviour that is either “con- aging start to their innings tournament. Cricket Academy training centre chairman Nasimullah Danish trary to the spirit of the game or brings the game into disrepute,” the through the previously out-of- “It really means so much to agreed with his captain that the International Cricket Council said in its ruling delivered yesterday. form Shikhar Dhawan and open- play in a mega event like the invasion of their homeland. After game is a good way to inspire the After dismissing New Zealand batsman Luke Ronchi in Thursday ing partner Ajinkya Rahane. World Cup,” Mohammad Nabi learning it in exile, young Afghans country -- and spread a more night’s match, Kulasekara “aggressively changed direction towards the The pair put on 83, but the Eisakhil, the team’s 30-year-old brought cricket back with them positive image abroad. dismissed batsman, which was considered unacceptable by the match innings started to unravel when captain, wearing a thick jersey when the Taliban fell in 2001 and “We will rock the World Cup, officials,” the ICC ruling said. Dhawan was caught behind by and winter hat inside the chilly the game has gone from strength all the boys are in confidence,” “Kulasekara accepted the offence and the proposed sanction of Buttler from the bowling of Chris training facility, said. to strength ever since. Danish said. an official reprimand.” Sri Lanka won the match by 34 runs with Woakes for 38. Virat Kohli’s poor Cricket came to Afghanistan Afghanistan face a tough fight “We will show to the world that Kulasekara’s confrontation of Ronchi the only sour note in the series series then continued when he through refugee camps in to get out of their group, which we are cricketers, and we are the won by New Zealand 4-2. The ICC has vowed to crackdown on what it was caught by Joe Root off the Pakistan, where countless includes Test powerhouses people of peace, and we are the sees as “”disrespectful behaviour” ahead of the World Cup which starts bowling of spinner Moeen Ali Afghans fled the 1979 Soviet Australia, Sri Lanka, England people of sports.” AFP in New Zealand and Australia on February 14. REUTERS (2-35) for just eight. REUTERS Second round of Qatar International Endurocross

DOHA: The second round of the the Emirates with 42 points season of Qatar International stands in third position. Endurocross will take place Fahad Al Musallam from today near Sealine Beach Kuwait is leading the Quads after Resort. his double wins in the opening In the E1 category, Kuwaiti round. rider Meshari Abou Shaibah leads Mohammed Al Kulaifi and his category with 50 points after Abdulla Nasser are second and winning the both races of the third respectively in the Quads opening round in January. category. Compatriot Moath Al Ansari is Action will start at 10:30am second with 44 points while Saeed with the free practice for bikes Al Shenqiti from the UAE is third and quads. The first race for bikes with 40 points. is at 12:15 and at 1:10pm for quads. Mohammed Jaffar, who won The second race for bikes is at the last year in the E1 category, 2:05pm and for quads at 3:00pm. has changed to the E2 this season Podium ceremonies will be and is leading in his category with after the second race of quads, 47 points. organisers Qatar Motor and Jaffar finished second in the Motorcycle Federation (QMMF) first race and won the second said in a statement yesterday. race of the previous round in the At the end of next month, E2 class. QMMF will stage the first round British rider Jake Preston is of the MXGP Motocross World Mohammaed Jaffar and Mohammed Al Balooshi are seen in action during round one of the Qatar International Endurocross held at the start is this second with 45 points. Championship. month. RIGHT: Quad rider Fahad Al Musallam in action earlier this month. Mohammed Al Balooshi from THE PENINSULA SATURDAY 31 JANUARY 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Dead battery Djokovic beats Wawrinka led to Wawrinka losing title MELBOURNE: A 2014 season to reach final in Melbourne which began for Stan Wawrinka with an Australian Open tri- umph and ended with Davis Cup The Australian Open: World number one sets up date with Andy Murray glory finally caught up with the Swiss at Melbourne Park yes- terday as he was left “mentally MELBOURNE: World number completely dead”. one Novak Djokovic fought off The fourth seed’s title defence Stan Wawrinka over five tense fizzled out in a low quality 7-6 sets to master the defending (1), 3-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-0 semi-final champion and reach his fifth loss to world number one Novak Australian Open final yester- Djokovic and Wawrinka admitted day, where he will meet Andy he was simply running on empty. Murray. “I told my coach before the The Serb top seed won 7-6 (7/1), match and yesterday that I was 3-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-0 in 3hr 30mins mentally completely dead and no and will face the British sixth battery,” he told reporters. seed for a third time in tomor- “Tough to focus on what I want row’s Grand Slam decider. to do. Tough to focus on my game. It was Djokovic’s toughest And that’s what happened.” match of the tournament and The 29-year-old Wawrinka had his serve was broken five times entered the match after a clini- in another titanic duel with the cal destruction of Kei Nishikori Swiss world number four. in the quarter-finals, but both The clash was their fourth he and the Serb appeared flat on straight Grand Slam encounter Rod Laver Arena yesterday, with to go to five sets with Djokovic neither anywhere near the level winning three of them. expected for a semi-final. He lost to Wawrinka in the Veterans Hingis-Paes make The pair had played two epic quarter-finals at last year’s ABOVE: five set encounters over the last Australian Open. Novak LEFT: Stanislas Australian mixed final two Australian Open tourna- “I did not play on the level that Djokovic of Wawrinka of ments, with the winner eventually I intended,” he said. Serbia reacts Switzerland MELBOURNE: Martina Hingis and Leander Paes (pictured going on to clinch the title. “There were parts of the match during his reacts during his below) turned back the clock yesterday to make the Australian Wawrinka, however, said where I stepped in and played a semi-final semi-final match Open mixed doubles final, where they will face third seeds Daniel his maiden Grand Slam win game I needed to play, but other match against against Novak Nestor and Kristina Mladenovic. 12 months ago, which was the parts where I played too defen- Stanislas Djokovic. The The veteran campaigners, seeded seven, drew on their consid- springboard for a season best sive and allowed him to dictate Wawrinka of Serbian top seed erable experience to overcome Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-Wei and Pablo three titles and a first Davis Cup the play from the baseline. Switzerland won 7-6 (7/1), Cuevas of Uruguay 7-5, 6-4. triumph with Switzerland, may “He has great depth in his at the 3-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-0 Nestor and Mladenovic downed India’s Sania Mirza and Brazil’s have contributed to the insipid shots. Bruno Soares, the top seeds. end to his Melbourne Park title Australian in 3hr 30mins “Once he has control of the Hingis, the holder of five Grand Slam singles titles and 10 major defence. Open at and will face the rallies it’s very difficult to play doubles crowns -- nine women’s and one mixed -- came out of six “It was mentally that I’m pay- against him. Melbourne British sixth seed years’ retirement last year. ing the price to finish off the sea- “So it was very emotional, very Park in for a third time in Now 34, she partnered Italy’s Flavia Pennetta to make the US son with Davis Cup, not having a tense, as it always is against a top Melbourne, tomorrow’s Grand Open final and continued her encouraging comeback at Melbourne bigger off-season,” Wawrinka said. player in semi-finals of a Grand Australia, Slam decider. Park. Given how he was feeling, Slam.” yesterday. “I have a great partner in Leander. He’s been there and done it all Wawrinka did not expect the The top seed won through to before,” she said. “He has given me a lot of confidence and we have match to go the full distance. his fifth Australian Open final, great chemistry. “I’m surprised we went five sets having won his previous four “This will be the first time again, even if the last one was 10 deciders in Melbourne. in a final here since 2006 and minutes,” he said with a wry grin He beat Murray in the 2011 and and he was getting a lot of balls the tiebreak with Wawrinka too a victory would be nice. I’m in reference to the 6-0 scoreline, 2013 finals. back in play. loose with his shots to drop the just enjoying the moment,” even though the set lasted 36 But Murray also has form “I didn’t have many free points opening set. The Swiss fought off added Hingis, who spent 209 minutes. against Djokovic, beating him on the first serve as I did through- break points in his opening serv- weeks as the world number “For sure we had some great in the 2012 US Open and 2013 out the tournament, so that was ing game of the second set, but one singles player. battles here last two years (but) Wimbledon finals, setting up an a significant change.” Djokovic double-faulted on break The decider tomor- today was strange match. unpredictable Melbourne Park Wawrinka said he too struggled point in the sixth to lose the set. row will be her first final “We didn’t play our best tennis, decider. mentally and was not at his best. Both players traded service in Melbourne since 2006, that’s for sure (and) there was as It was not a convincing per- “I was telling my box it was breaks in the third set, but the when she partnered another a lot of up and down, a lot of mis- formance from the Serb, who tough for me to stay with him, to world number one seized control Indian, Mahesh Bhupathi, takes and everything. made 49 unforced errors to 27 find a way to win points,” he said. after Wawrinka could not close to claim the mixed doubles “But, again, it’s like that. He winners and won just 70 percent “Because I was just trying to out a 40-15 lead and he reeled off title. was there. He was stronger of his first serves, but crucially fight and to make some good the next four points to take the Paes, 41, has won eight tonight ... he was playing good he broke Wawrinka’s strong serve choice, but today I was just not lead in the match. men’s doubles and six mixed enough to win and he deserved seven times. there.” But again Wawrinka hit back doubles Grand Slams and to win and play the final.” “I think it was more mental Djokovic had lost only one of with two breaks in the fourth set said Hingis was a joy to work because once you back up and his 74 service games prior to the to take it into a fifth, just like with. start playing defensively you semi-final, but Wawrinka broke their three previous Grand Slam “It is fantastic to play Mattek-Sands, spend a lot of energy,” Djokovic him in the seventh game of the encounters. with Martina,” he said. said of his mid-match lapses. match with a series of withering Two double-faults and an over- “Everyone knows what Safarova win “He was the one that was dic- backhands. hit backhand cost Wawrinka an great work she did on the tating the rallies. There’s no ques- But the Serb hit straight back early service break in the final court but she is also a doubles title tion about it. with outstanding side-to-side set and another errant backhand great human being off the “Some points of the match I did movement to level up with the lost him a second service to hand court,” Paes said yesterday. MELBOURNE: The unseeded struggle physically to recover for set going to a tiebreaker. the Serb a winning 4-0 break. REUTERS pairing of American Bethanie the next one because I run a lot Djokovic was too strong in REUTERS Mattek-Sands and Czech Lucie Safarova won the Australian Open women’s doubles title yes- terday, their first Grand Slam success. Djokovic just glad to The two were playing together in Melbourne for the first time and clicked immediately, down- ing the 14th seeded Zheng Jie of China and Taiwan’s Chan Yung- overcome Stan threat Jan 6-4, 7-6 (7/5). “I mean, our name is carved MELBOURNE: A solemn for build up of the confidence for on this trophy. It’s pretty cool,” Novak Djokovic will look for pos- Australian Open finals.” said a delighted Mattek-Sands, itives from his previous clashes Djokovic will take some com- who slipped to 258 in the singles at Melbourne Park after playing Results fort from the fact that he has had rankings after injuring her hip arguably his worst match of the MELBOURNE: Collated Murray’s measure at the year’s last year. “This trophy at least tournament in edging a men- results from day 12 of the first Grand Slam, beating him in started in 1922, I think. It’s got a tally “dead” Stan Wawrinka in Australian Open at Melbourne the 2011 and 2013 finals. lot of great names on there. We five sets yesterday. Park yesterday: Murray, who also lost to Roger get to add ours now.” The top-seeded Serb blew hot Federer in the 2010 title-decider, They beat five seeds to clinch Men’s Singles Semi-finals: Novak and cold in the 7-6 (1), 3-6, 6-4, will contest his fourth final the title and in doing so became Djokovic (SRB x1) bt Stan Wawrinka (SUI x4) 4-6, 6-0 semi-final victory, squan- in Melbourne after a brilliant the first unseeded women’s duo to 7-6 (7/1), 3-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-0. dering a winning position in the demolition of hard-hitting Czech claim the Australian crown since Women’s Doubles Final: fourth set and being fortunate Bethanie Mattek- Tomas Berdych in the first semi- Svetlana Kuznetsova and Vera that the defending champion was Sands (USA)/Lucie Safarova (CZE) bt Chan final on Thursday. Zvonareva in 2012. They were also out-of-sorts on a cool and Yung-Jan (TPE)/Zheng Jie (CHN x14) 6-4, Djokovic said he was happy to also the first new pairing to win breezy night at Rod Laver Arena. 7-6 (7/5). see Murray, his old friend and fel- a women’s Grand Slam title since Djokovic will meet sixth seed Mixed Doubles Semi-finals: Martina low 27-year-old, back in a Grand Dinara Safina and Nathalie Dechy Andy Murray in his fifth final at Hingis (SUI)/Leander Paes (IND x7) bt Hsieh Slam final after a barren season at the US Open in 2007. Melbourne Park but is unlikely Su-Wei (TPE)/Pablo Cuevas (URU) 7-5, 6-4; in the majors last year. Safarova said they got together to glean inspiration from a video Daniel Nestor (CAN)/Kristina Mladenovic “Sure. He deserves to be there. after her coach and Mattek- review of the match against (FRA x3) bt Sania Mirza (IND)/Bruno Soares With the game that he has, he has Sands’ husband, who are good Wawrinka, who later described (BRA x1) 3-6, 6-2 (10/8). a winning mindset,” Djokovic said friends, suggested they give it a himself as “mentally completely of the Scot. “He’s a great fighter, go. They had no doubles prac- dead” with “no battery”. “I think I have much more great competitor, and somebody tice together before they went on “I can say I’m glad, of course positive things to reflect on in my that commits to this sport. You court for their first round match, I’m happy and satisfied to go game and then all the matches can see that on a daily basis. He but clicked with good communi- through,” Djokovic told reporters, that I played so far in the tourna- has a great team of people around cation the key to their successful devoid of his usual good humour. ment than the negative. him. He puts a lot of hours in the partnership. “I’m proud of the fighting spirit “I’m in the finals. In the end of practice, gym, so forth. “It’s hard to describe the feel- Bethanie Mattek-Sands (left) of the US and Lucie Safarova of the Czech that I had. But the level of per- the day, that’s why I’m here, to “It pays off. I know him for a ings. It’s like such a huge happi- Republic jubilate with their trophy after winning against Zhang Jie of formance was not where I wanted try to get far in the tournament. long time, so it’s great we are able ness, because to be a Grand Slam China and Chan Yung-Jan from Taiwan in their women’s double final at it to be. “Getting to the finals in any to challenge each other now in champion, it’s just the best that the Australian Open in Melbourne, Australia, yesterday. “You have days when things way possible is a great achieve- another Grand Slam final.” you can have,” said the Czech. aren’t going your way. ment. I’m going to try to use that REUTERS REUTERS SATURDAY 31 JANUARY 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21 Heavyweights collide in Asian final Australia desperate to win maiden title on home soil; upbeat Koreans eye the trophy

SYDNEY: Top-scorers Australia will try to unlock the Asian Cup Final Asian Cup’s stingiest defence today when they meet South - Team Profiles Korea in a blockbuster final between two of the region’s and Line-ups heavyweights. The Socceroos are desperate to South Korean win a first Asian title on home AUSTRALIA soil, but to do so they will have to players train find a way through a Korean rear- ahead of their Coach: Ange Postecoglou (AUS) guard which has not conceded all AFC Asian Cup tournament. final in Sydney, Captain: Mile Jedinak It could be a case of who yesterday. South Korea will play blinks first as Australia look to Best Asian Cup result: Runners-up (2011) be crowned kings of Asia, after Australia in the defecting from Oceania in 2006, AFC Asian Cup World ranking: 100 and South Korea try to end a hoo- final in Sydney doo stretching back a staggering today. 55 years. The Socceroos can win their first Asian Cup Runners-up to Japan in 2011, title at only the third attempt after Ange Australia have hit 12 goals in five Postecoglou successfully rebuilt the team games and they will start as slight after the disbanding of their “golden genera- favourites, despite losing 1-0 to tion”. Break-out star Massimo Luongo, who South Korea in the group phase. plays in England’s third tier, leads the new Coach Ange Postecoglou opted wave although veteran Tim Cahill remains to rest talisman Tim Cahill for a key man with three goals so far in the that game in Brisbane and he was tournament. Postecoglou took over in late robbed of captain Mile Jedinak 2013 and presided over an encouraging through injury, but he insisted the World Cup where Australia impressed in their 3-2 loss to the Netherlands. Captain result would count for little with Mile Jedinak provides steely leadership the stakes now so high. and German-based forwards Robbie Kruse “Previous records go out the and Mathew Leckie give pace and power window,” he told reporters yes- up front. Club Brugge goalkeeper Mathew terday. “It will be the team able to Ryan has also been a rock for the hosts in deal with whatever may happen performances that have reportedly drawn who wins, because finals never interest from Liverpool. Postecoglou’s run to script.” policy of rotation was criticised when the Cahill has netted three times Socceroos lost 1-0 to South Korea in Group so far, including a venomous over- A, but it has also kept the players mainly head kick in the quarter-final win fit and fresh ahead of one of the biggest over China, and is likely to be cen- matches in Australian football history. tral to the plot in one of the big- gest games in Australia’s history. Likely line-up: Mathew Ryan; Ivan Franjic, “It just takes one second for Matthew Spiranovic, Trent Sainsbury, Jason someone to switch off,” said Davidson; Massimo Luongo, Mile Jedinak the former Everton forward. Australian striker Tim Cahill speaks to reporters at (capt), Mark Milligan; Robbie Kruse, Tim “Hopefully I can be on point to a press in Sydney on Thursday. RIGHT: This combo Cahill, Mathew Leckie. make it count.” shows file photos of Ki Sung-Yueng of South Korea Both teams possess players (left) playing against Kuwait in Sydney on January SOUTH KOREA capable of delivering a knockout 13, 2015 and Australia’s Tim Cahill celebrating his blow, with South Korea hoping goal against China on January 22, 2015, during their Coach: Uli Stielike (GER) golden boy Son Heung-Min can AFC Asian Cup football matches. Cahill and Ki are weave his magic as they seek to expected to be one of the key match-ups in the win a first Asian Cup since 1960 Asian Cup final. Captain: Ki Sung-Yueng having already defied the odds by reaching the final. Best Asian Cup result: Winners (1956, Their title drought is a curious for Korea to be champions,” said the players it’s a great opportu- in front of a sell-out crowd of performed wonders since taking 1960) anomaly for a nation who stormed captain Ki Sung-yueng, who has nity, maybe once in a lifetime, to nearly 80,000 in Sydney and an over as they look to emulate the to the World Cup semi-finals in been a calming influence on South become Asian Cup champions so estimated global audience of 80 under-23 side’s Asian Games gold World ranking: 69 2002, but they have reached the Korea after losing the dynamic everyone is ready for tomorrow.” million. medal in October. final – their first in 27 years – pairing of Lee Chung-Yong and South Korea are the first team The players were pelted with As many as 30,000 Korean despite an injury crisis and a flu Koo Ja-Cheol in the group stages. to reach the final without conced- toffee – a traditional insult in “Red Devils” fans are expected Recently appointed coach Uli Stielike has led bug which swept through the “We don’t have anything to lose ing a goal since Iran in 1976, but South Korea – on their return to add spice to the atmosphere South Korea under the radar and into the squad, forcing medical staff to in this game, maybe Australia their resilience will be severely from last year’s World Cup, but but Stielike confessed his young Asian Cup final as they bid to end a 55-year work overtime. “It’s been too long have more pressure than us. I told tested by Australia’s firepower German coach Uli Stielike has team could freeze. AFP wait for their third title. Despite injuries and illness, the Taeguk Warriors have made it all the way to the decider without conceding a goal, to the delight of their massed ranks of red-clad fans. Expectations were low after UAE down Iraq to finish 3rd at Asian Cup South Korea’s dismal World Cup when fans pelted players with toffee, a traditional and NEWCASTLE: The United onrushing Mohammed Hameed profane insult, on their return from Brazil last year. German former midfield rock Stielike Arab Emirates overcame a in the Iraq goal. was a surprise pick to refashion the squad 10-man Iraq 3-2 in an action- Careless defending in the 28th and South Korea were unimpressive in their packed Asian Cup third-placed minute allowed fullback Waleed 1-0 opening Asian Cup win against Oman. playoff yesterday to complete Salim to break into the UAE Players of the Tournament-ending injuries to Lee Chung- an impressive tournament for penalty area and his right foot UAE celebrate Yong and Koo Ja-Cheol, and a flu bug which Mahdi Ali’s side. shot deflected home off Khamis swept through the squad, caused serious Ahmed Khalil netted twice Esmaeel. with their bronze medals disruption but the Koreans are hitting form before Ali Mabkhout converted a The 2007 champions, beaten and fitness at the right time. Captain and second-half penalty for his fifth of 2-0 by the Koreans in the semis, after winning the AFC Asian Swansea City midfielder Ki Sung-Yueng is the tournament to take him top had already hit the post via tal- the hub of the team and Bayer Leverkusen Cup 2015 third of the scorers’ charts with only ismanic striker Younis Mahmoud forward Son Heung-Min has pace to burn. today’s final to come in Sydney. and they deservedly took the lead place match But the revelation is Sangmu Phoenix striker UAE playmaker Omar three minutes before the break. against Iraq at Lee Jeong-Hyeop, plucked from relative Abdulrahman was again at the A powerful drive by Ahmed Hunter Stadium obscurity by Stielike to score vital goals heart of his side’s good play, with Yaseen Gheni was parried by in Newcastle, against Australia at the group stage and two brilliant assists for Khalil, debutant UAE keeper Khalid yesterday. Iraq in the semi-finals. As the visiting side, who stepped in as skipper with Eisa with Amjed Kalaf on hand the pressure is off the Koreans and they goalkeeper Majed Naser rested to divert home into an unguarded have already done enough to avoid the tof- after the 2-0 semi-final loss to net. The match in Newcastle, fee treatment when they head back to Seoul. Australia. watched by FIFA President Sepp The opener came in the 16th Blatter and AFC head Salman Likely line-up: Kim Jin-Hyeon; Cha minute when Abdulrahman con- bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, turned Du-Ri, Kwak Tae-Hwi, Kim Young-Gwon, trolled a long ball from deep and on its head, though, early in the the Iraq defence and he shifted from the keeper four minutes area. The Iraq centreback was Kim Jin-Su; Park Joo-Ho, Ki Sung-Yueng played a one-two with Mabkhout second half. past Hameed and slotted a sec- later went straight to Mabkhout, rightly sent off as last man with (capt); Lee Keun-Ho, Nam Tae-Hee, Son before sliding an inviting pass for A brilliant lofted ball by ond in the 51st minute to tie the who was bundled over by defender Mabkhout stepping up to roll in Heung-Min; Lee Jeong-Hyeop. Khalil to slot home under the Abdulrahman put Khalil clear of game at 2-2. A sloppy clearance Ahmed Ibrahim in the penalty the spot kick. REUTERS

IFA President Sepp Blatter Figo gets backing letters for FIFA job (centre) and AFC President PARIS: Former Portugal inter- at the May 29 elec- Prince Ali appear to great step forward for football. Shaikh Salman national Luis Figo (pictured) tions. Figo, is now have the strongest His career over many years guar- bin Ebrahim confirmed yesterday he has in the running along cases to overthrow antees a better future for FIFA,” Al Khalifa obtained the backing letters of with Asian Football Blatter, who is bid- said Mourinho. walk back six national football associa- Confederation vice- ding for a fifth term, “I believe in his character and following prize tions, with five being the mini- president Prince but has come in for determination as well as his pas- distribution mum, to challenge Sepp Blatter Ali bin Al Hussein, a barrage of criti- sion for the game. He will be a ceremony of for the FIFA presidency. Dutch football chief cism over the voting president focussed on football and the third-place “I am happy to confirm that my Michael van Praag, process that led to its general improvement, acting play-off match six backing letters have been sent ex-FIFA executive Russia being given closely with all federations.” between Iraq to FIFA this week ahead of the Jerome Champagne the rights to host Blatter on Thursday submitted and United deadline,” the 42-year-old former and former French the 2018 World Cup his candidature and is favourite to Arab Emirates Real Madrid and Barcelona star winger David Ginola. and Qatar the 2022 be re-elected. at the AFC said on his Twitter account. Van Praag also revealed he has tournament. “Today (Thursday) is a key Asian Cup in FIFA’s electoral commission backed by six associations includ- Figo found support in the form date in the electoral calendar. Newcastle, must now validate or refuse, ing Belgium, Sweden, Scotland, of compatriot and Chelsea man- I’ve made my submission, now the yesterday. within approximately ten days, Romania, the Faroe Islands and ager Jose Mourinho on announc- electoral committee follow a proc- the candidates eligible to chal- naturally the Netherlands. ing his decision. ess,” the 78-year-old Swiss wrote lenge the long-serving Blatter Van Praag and Jordanian “Luis Figo’s candidacy is a on his Twitter account. AFP Most Popular Bangladeshi Newspaper

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Qatari players celebrate after winning the Qatar 2015 24th Men’s Handball World Championship semi-final match against Poland at the Lusail Multipurpose Hall outside Doha, yesterday. RIGHT: Fans of Qatar celebrate during the match. PICTURES BY KAMMUTTY VP Spirited Qatar march into final Hosts edge out Poland in thrilling semi-final, to meet France in title clash tomorrow BY ARMSTRONG VAS Denmark and DOHA: Surprise package of the 24th Men’s Handball World Championship Qatar is Croatia to vie a win away from ultimate glory. Qatar’s Yesterday at the packed Lusail Kamaladin for fifth spot Multipurpose Arena, the hosts Mallash reacts continued their dream run at during the the championship to register a DOHA: Denmark and Croatia 24th Men’s fighting 31-29 win over Poland will clash for the fifth spot in the semi-final to set up a title Handball World while Slovenia will face off with clash with France tomorrow at Championship Germany for the seventh spot at the same venue. semi-final the 24th Men’s Handball World The hosts, who went into the match against Championship. tournament ranked 36, had said Poland at Yesterday at Ali Bin Hamad at the beginning of the cup that the Lusail Al Attiyah Arena, Denmark beat their aim was to reach the last Multipurpose Slovenia 36-33 while Croatia, eight. But the team grew in con- Hall outside overcame their quarterfinal loss fidence after wins in the group Doha, to Poland, to defeat Germany stages and the knockout phase yesterday. 28-23 in the placement round over strong European power RIGHT: A Qatari matches for positions from five houses – Austria, Germany and player scores a to eight. Poland. goal during the Both Denmark and Croatia, Yesterday’s win was the sev- match. also achieved another target enth in the championship out of with yesterday’s wins– a place eight matches, the only loss com- at the Olympic qualification ing against defending champions tournament. Spain in the group stages of the In the Croatia and Germany event. match, handball fans had the pos- Coach Valero Rivera’s side, sibility to see two totally different which had never made it past the ten minute intervals in the first pre-quarter-final stage in previ- much to his delight. “We had would like to congratulate my better start, but Qatar changed the Qatar goal began perform- half Germans were in domina- ous championship, notched many talked about the need for a two team which played according to the tide already during the first ing saves, and with seven and a tion until minute 11, with a highly a first with their maiden entry or three goal lead at half time,” the plan, and for fighting until half. half minutes left of the first half, motivated Silvio Heinevetter into the final. Rivera, the Spanish born coach the end. Within the first quarter of an Qatar could take their first lead between the posts. This is the first time an Asian of Qatar said. “I could speak about several hour, Poland had already had 12-11 and went into the half time German team captain Uwe and a non-European country will “We knew that so far in this mistakes we made, not least in three two-minute suspensions, at 16-13. Gensheimer and his team-mates be contesting a final in a sport tournament, Poland had won the the defence, but first of all, I am while Qatar had none, but still Qatar began the second half the opened the second half with two which hereto had been dominated second half in all their matches, happy that we kept fighting to get Poland managed to stay at the same way they ended the first 30 goals to level the result at 13-13 by European countries. except against Denmark and back into the match.” lead, their defence being particu- minutes, by increasing their lead. after only 4 minutes played, but The only Asian country to chal- Croatia, against whom they drew While Poland where left ruing larly successful at neutralising The hosts got ahead 19-14 and that was just the beginning of the lenge the European domination in the last 30 minutes. their mistakes Qatar made most Qatar’s top scorer so far, Zarko 21-16, before Poland managed to Croatian domination. had been Korea when they made “Therefore, we expected the of them. Markovic. crawl closer. An amazing evening of the it to the quarter-finals in 2007. task to be impossible, if we did not The hosts backed up by the In fact, left back Rafael Capote The Poles never got any closer Croatian wingers Manuel Strlek Two African sides, Egypt and lead by two or three goals at half capacity crowd of 15,000 started was the only Qatar player who than being two goals down, and Ivan Cupic provided a five- Tunisia had also made it to the time, but fortunately we did, and on a hesitant note but clawed caused the Polish defence some though, and two goals were also goal difference between the two semi-finals in the past. we managed to make it to the end, back to gain control over the trouble in that first phase of the the difference at the end, then. teams after 42 minutes of the Coach Rivera’s knew Poland though Poland played very, very proceedings. match, in which he scored four Capote scored six goals to lead clash – 19-14. will be a tough opponent in the well.” Rivera’s opposite number In a match where Poland got goals. As half time approached, Qatar while Michal Jurecki threw In the second match at the second half and thus set upon Michael Biegler appreciated the five two-minute suspensions while however, Danijel Saric, who had in nine for Poland. same venue, Slovenian right a plan which his boys executed fighting spirit of his team. “I Qatar got two, Poland got the replaced Goran Stojanovic in THE PENINSULA wing Dragan Gajic provided his team with the goals very early in the match. The team which finished fourth in the last World Championship 2013 was two goals Defiant France send Spain out of title race up after 14 minutes 8-6, before Lasse Svan Hansen kick started a DOHA: Olympic and European th in that phase of the match, and strong period for the Danes. champions France edged 24 Men’s Handball they did not make it any closer Denmark were up by seven in defending champions Spain that to reducing their deficit to the 40th minute 27-20, but the 26-22 in the close fought semi- World Championship one goal at 19-18. Slovenians, similar to the quar- final at Lusail to set a clash Semi-finals In a second half the quality of ter-final clash against France, with Qatar in the final. France 26 Spain 22 handball suffered when compared didn’t give up until the last second The beginning was all attacking Qatar 31 Poland 29 with the first 30 minutes, but this of the match. handball, and the defences and Placement matches lack of quality was made up for Gajic, Cehte, Zvizej and their the goalkeepers were left stand- by the thrilling spectacle the fans team-mates put the pressure on (fifth to eight) ing in the high-scoring first phase were being treated to. Denmark by eating into their of the match. Denmark 36 Slovenia 33 France still held a slight upper lead in 51st minute 29-26. Danish It was France who first man- Croatia 28 Germany 23 hand, as Spain were creeping coach Gudmundur Gudmundsson aged to create a substantial lead, closer all the time, right up until called a time-out to attempt to going ahead 10-6 and 12-7 on the won by four, 18-14. It took France right wing Valentin Porte decided bring a lackluster period to an first quarter of an hour. nearly five and a half minutes to it all with his goal to make it 25-22 end, and it was enough for the Spain tried to put at least some score their first goal in the sec- with a little over a minute left. win, as the Balkan boys didn’t kind of a stop to the fluent attack- ond half, as Guillaume Joli scored Joan Canelles and Cristian come closer than three goals to ing play by France through a 4-2 a penalty which was also their Ugalde scored five each for Spain, the Danish outfit. Lasse Svan Guillaume Joli of France celebrates during the semi-final match against defence, but the Spaniards did not only goal in the first 10 minutes the same as Cedric Sorhaindo Hansen scored 13 for the winners, Spain at the Lusail Multipurpose Hall outside Doha, yesterday. get any closer than three for the after the break.However, Spain scored for France. while Dragan Gajic ended with 12 rest of the first half which France also had their scoring problems THE PENINSULA goals. THE PENINSULA SATURDAY 31 JANUARY 2015 BREAK TIME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23

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