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Monday 8 September 2014 • 13 Dhu’l-Qa’da 1435 • Volume 19 Number 6182 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780

PM meets Algerian minister Advisory Council Govt initiative nod to media law DOHA: The Advisory Council has cleared the draft media and human resources laws after discussions and the drafts have to motivate been referred back to the State Cabinet. The Cabinet has sent them for approval of higher-ups, a member of the Legal Affairs Committee of the Advisory Council, Dr Ahmed Mohamed school kids Obaidan, told Al Sharq yesterday. THE PENINSULA Ministry acts on parents’ complaints Qatar sends aid DOHA: Lack of motivation in such areas, added the minister. among students is a major chal- Dr Al Hammadi said the aca- for Iraqi people lenge facing education in Qatar demic year 2014-2015, which DOHA: Qatar has sent six and the Supreme Education started yesterday, “will be full of planeloads of humanitarian aid Council (SEC) has developed leading initiatives, outstanding to Arbil and Sulaymaniyah in several new initiatives in the new activities along with keenness to Iraq and to Amman in Jordan. academic year to address this strike a balance between mean- The aid includes 300 tonnes of issue, the Minister of Education ingful entertainment and useful tents, blankets and food, besides and Higher Education H E Dr education.” medicines for diabetes and car- Mohammed Abdul Wahed Ali He said the new academic year The Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani met Algerian diovascular conditions, and Al Hammadi said yesterday. will bring many innovative solu- Minister of State and Minister of Interior and Local Communities, Tayeb Belaiz, in Doha yesterday. antibiotics. QNA In a speech delivered at the tions that “have been translated start of the new academic year, into 70 initiatives that will be the minister said the SEC had implemented successively during taken a serious view of this issue the year.” “that has been raised through He said priority has been several complaints on various given to harnessing all available Palestinians face boycott over Hamas wages occasions.” resources “to build the Qatari “Therefore, the SEC over the man as an educated man, com- RAMALLAH: The interna- be members of the Hamas police last months has developed differ- mitted to his religion, confident tional community has threat- Abbas threatens to break unity govt and security forces. ent activities to motivate students of his present and ambitious for ened to boycott the Palestinian Before the Hamas government and improve their achievements…. a bright future in which he will leadership if it pays the salaries RAMALLAH: Palestinian drew an angry reaction from stepped down in June, it had Students this year will notice a dif- contribute to the construction of of former Hamas employees President Mahmoud Abbas has the Islamist movement, which been unable to pay their wages ference starting from school buses his own modern state and to raise in Gaza, prime minister Rami threatened to break off a unity denounced his allegations as for months because of a biting to the lessons and the laboratories. its name high in its rightful place Hamdallah told AFP yesterday. agreement with Hamas if the “baseless.” But it raised fresh economic crisis. Through this new setting, they will among nations.” In an exclusive interview, Islamist movement does not questions over the future of a But Hamdallah said his govern- be able to develop their knowledge The Minister pointed out that Hamdallah said he had been allow the government to oper- fragile intra-Palestinian unity ment had been warned against and skills,” said the Minister. “optimism in this academic year warned he would face problems if ate properly in the Gaza Strip. deal aimed at ending years of channelling money to anyone He said the SEC is going to did not come from a vacuum, but he visited the Gaza Strip without Abbas’s accusation that rival administrations in West employed by Hamas, which develop various competitions to rather as an inevitable result of first sorting out the salaries issue. Hamas was effectively running a Bank and Gaza. AFP is blacklisted by the United develop scientific and artistic hundreds of thousands of hours The densely populated parallel administration in Gaza See also page 6 States and Europe as a terror skills among students. This has of hard work by working groups Palestinian coastal territory was organisation. been done in collaboration with of thousands of people who have the target of a 50-day Israeli main stumbling block to an intra- the government from working in “The government and the banks some entities inside and outside spent the past year reviewing, offensive in July and August Palestinian reconciliation deal. the Gaza Strip.” operating in the Palestinian ter- Qatar to make students innova- studying, planning, comparing, aimed at halting militant rocket “This unity government should Since signing the agreement ritories were warned that if they tive in areas like robot, photog- drafting, revising and monitoring and mortar fire into the Jewish control both the West Bank and in April, Hamas has demanded make these payments to former raphy, environment, reading and so that this come back to school state. Hamdallah, who heads the Gaza Strip but there are many that the new government take Hamas government employees in mathematics. Excellent students would be a blessed return herald- the Palestinian government of things blocking its work,” he said. responsibility for paying its Gaza then the government and will be able to participate in ing success for everyone.” national consensus which took “Putting Hamas employees on 45,000 employees, some 27,000 the people will be boycotted,” championships at the national, THE PENINSULA office on June 2, said the ques- the government payroll is the of whom are civil servants, he he said. regional and international levels Continued on page 5 tion of wages had become the main problem which is preventing said. The rest are understood to AFP

Washed away in floods iPhone 5 recall Top Saudi cleric tells in Qatar soon DOHA: The Ministry of Muslims to fight IS Economy and Commerce, in col- laboration with Apple will soon RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s top United States seeks to build a announce a recall for iPhone 5 cleric has urged Muslims to con- broad-based international coa- sold from September 2012 to front the “oppressive” Islamic lition to fight the Islamic State, June 2013. The recall is being State jihadist group if it fights which has carved out a stronghold announced after the company Muslims after seizing swathes in large areas of Syria and Iraq. found a manufacturing defect of Iraq and Syria, media reports The United States last month in the battery. The defective said yesterday. launched air strikes against the phones have a shorter battery “This group is aggressive militant group in Iraq, in support life making users charge the and oppressive. It sheds blood,” of government forces and allied phone frequently. Al Eqtisadiah daily quoted tribesmen, as well as Kurdish The Ministry through the Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz peshmerga fighters in the north. Consumer Protection Department Al Sheikh as saying. Last month, the desert king- (CPD) and Commercial Fraud “If they fight Muslims, then dom’s highest religious authority Combating Department will Muslims must fight them to rid branded Al Qaeda and IS jihadists announce in the local newspapers people and religion of their evil Islam’s “number one enemy”, and and the Ministry’s website about and harm,” he said in a response warned Muslim youths to steer the time and recall process. to a request from an Iraqi for a clear of “calls for jihad” issued on Buyers of these phones will be fatwa or edict on fighting IS. “perverted” grounds. required submit their iPhone’s “They have been killing ever IS jihadists, already well estab- serial number to see if they meet since they began their fight. Their lished in Syria, launched an offen- the requirements for the battery killing is filled with mutilations sive in Iraq on June 9 and rapidly replacement service, which will and hideousness that distort (the seized control of vast swathes of be free. THE PENINSULA People stand on a damaged bridge which was swept away by floods on the river Tawi on the outskirts of image of) Muslims,” Sheikh said. Sunni territory there. AFP Jammu in India yesterday. The death toll from flooding in Indian-administered Kashmir climbed to 175 yes- His remarks come as the See also page 6 UK pledges more terday. See also page 15 powers to Scotland LONDON: The British govern- ment yesterday pledged greater fiscal autonomy for Scotland, Fifa’s choice of Qatar for 2022 right, says Platini after a poll put the pro-inde- pendence camp ahead for the DOHA: World football body organising body told Germany’s as a member of Fifa’s executive Platini said. “With the develop- French government to vote for first time — just 11 days before Fifa made the right decision e-paper Welt am Sonntag that committee for Qatar in 2022, and ment of football in mind it was Qatar. Platini meanwhile said that the referendum on separation. in awarding the World Cups politicians were “making things repeated calls for the tournament the right decision.” his decision not to stand against British Finance Minister to Russia in 2018 and Qatar in too easy” with calls for a Russian to be moved to the cooler winter Platini said he was “completely Sepp Blatter for the Fifa presi- George Osborne said greater tax 2022, UEFA president Michel boycott in 2018 over the conflict months. happy” to have voted for Qatar dency was because he had not fin- and spending powers would be Platini said in a newspaper in Ukraine, a sport website iol “With Qatar and Russia I chose and said “it was my decision,” dis- ished his job as head of European announced in the coming days. interview published yesterday. reported. countries which never had the missing allegations that he had football’s organising body. See also page 11 The head of European football’s Platini also defended his vote pleasure of holding a World Cup,” been put under pressure by the THE PENINSULA MONDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2014 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Es’hailSat awards procurement contract for Es’hail 2 satellite Second satellite to provide additional capacity at 26 degrees East TV hotspot

DOHA: Qatar Satellite Company, Es’hailSat, has announced that following international consultation, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (MELCO) has been selected to build the company’s second sat- ellite, Es’hail 2. The new high-performance satellite will be positioned at 26 degrees East hotspot position for TV broadcasting and add to the company’s ability to provide high quality, premium DTH TV con- tent across the Middle East and Ali Al Kuwari, CEO, Es’hailSat The Minister of Environment H E Ahmed Amer Mohammed Al Humaidi North Africa. (left) with Samoa’s Prime Minister Tuilaepa Aiono Sailel on the sidelines Es’hail 2 will have Ku-band and manufacturing and testing. of the conference. Ka-band capabilities and will pro- The satellite is expected to be Es’hail 2 will provide high quality, premium DTH TV content across the vide TV distribution and govern- launched at the end of 2016. Middle East and North Africa. ment services to stakeholders and In addition to the manufac- commercial customers who value ture of Es’hail 2, MELCO will satellite capacity for broadcasters satellite to Es’hailSat.” Qatar attends small island broadcasting and communications also operate an in-house satellite in the Mena region and build a Es’hail 1, Qatar’s first satellite, independence, interference resil- training programme for Qatari sustainable satellite industry for entered commercial service on ience, quality of service and wide engineers, continuing the com- Qatar.” Qatar National Day on December developing states forum geographical coverage. It will also pany’s strategy of developing Yasunori Kamochi, General 18 last year. Through its existing provide the first Radio Amateur capabilities within the organisa- Manager, Space Systems Division, and planned satellites, Es’hailSat DOHA: Qatar took part bin Hamad Al Thani and the Satellite Corporation (AMSAT) tion and building a sustainable MELCO, said: “We are honoured will broadcast diversified and high in the third international Prime Minister and Interior geostationary communication satellite industry for Qatar. that Mitsubishi Electric and our quality premium content with conference on Small Island Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah capability that links Brazil to Ali Al Kuwari, CEO, Es’hailSat, DS2000 satellite bus platform anti-jamming capabilities in the Developing States (SIDS) in bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani India in one hop and in real-time. said: “With the success of our with high quality and high reli- Mena region. Aiba, capital of Samoa in the and their best wishes of success It will allow the AMSAT commu- first satellite, Es’hail 1, we are ability have been selected to man- Aljazeera and beIN Sports are south Pacific. for the conference. nity to validate and demonstrate delighted to move forward with ufacture Es’hail 2 by Es’hailSat. using Es’hail 1 capacity for high The conference where Sailel asked the Minister their DVB standard. our satellite procurement pro- “We are confident that we definition broadcasting of their Qatar was represented by the to convey his greetings to the Es’hail 2 design activities gramme with MELCO. will contribute to the growth of premium channels, including the Minister of Environment H E Emir and the Prime Minister started on July 17 and will take “Es’hail 2 demonstrates our the satellite industry for Qatar recent 2014 FIFA World Cup. Ahmed Amer Mohammed Al and Interior Minister, wish- about 27 months to complete the commitment to provide premium by providing high-performance THE PENINSULA Humaidi, discussed sustainable ing the Qatari people more development of SIDS through progress and welfare under the genuine and permanent part- Emir’s leadership. nerships and topics related to The Minister also held a sustainable economic develop- meeting with the Ambassador ment, climate change, sustain- for Climate Change at Deals for humanitarian projects in Somalia, Sudan able energy and disaster risk the Swedish Ministry of management. Environment, Anna Lindstedt, DOHA: Two agreements worth Red Crescent (QRC) which will On the sidelines, the and discussed issues related to more than QR3.26m have been see them funding a health cen- Minister met Samoa’s Prime climate change and both coun- signed by Qatar charities to tre in Somalia to meet the needs Minister Tuilaepa Aiono Sailel tries’ preparations for upcom- fund humanitarian projects of the local population. and convoyed greetings of ing negotiations. in the war-torn Somalia and The agreement was signed by the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim QNA Sudan. The first was signed by Yousef bin Ahmed Al Kuwari, Qatar Charity (QC) and Qatar CEO, QC, and Saleh bin Ali Al Mohannadi, Secretary-General, QRC, at the QC headquarters in Doha. The centre will be built by QC in Odjla village in the province of Lower Shabelle. The agreement stipulates that QRC will fund the running of the centre at a cost of about QR260,000 in the first year, with QRC working in cooperation with QC to secure funding for the cen- tre in the coming years. In case of non-availability of funding, the centre will be handed Officials at the signing ceremony. over to any competent organisa- tion to run it. QRC will manage, monitor and in coordination with QRC, and parties to solve the problems of follow up on the centre’s activities cooperate with QRC in the selec- drinking water in the targeted and provide medicines through tion and training of personnel. areas of Sudan, and invest their its representative in Somalia Meanwhile, QC, QRC and expertise. in collaboration with partners Organisation of Islamic Dawa They funded a project to pro- to achieve the objectives of the have signed a tripartite agree- vide villages of Inqad unit in agreement. ment to build a water station in River Nile State, Sudan, to pro- It will also select and super- Sudan, at a cost of about QR3m. vide drinking water at a cost of vise staff in cooperation with It was signed by Al Kuwari, QR2.876m, with each party pro- official bodies and the QC Office, Al Mohannadi and the Director- viding QR960,000 and QC carry- if necessary. General of the Organisation, ing out implementation, providing QC will cooperate with resi- Hammad Abdul Qadir, at the QC services to those affected accord- dents of the region to facilitate headquarters in Doha. ing to specifications set out in the the management of the centre The deal is within the frame- project document. and the formation of committees work of the keenness of the three THE PENINSULA

One in five people in Qatar likely to develop mental illness: Research

DOHA: As part of an ongo- mental health as they do with for people to recognise that men- ing campaign in support physical health. “Over the last tal illness is something that can of Qatar’s National Mental 10 years, the trend of assuming affect them at some stage of their Health Strategy, Hamad responsibility for our health has lives, and if it does, it is not a sign Medical Corporation’s (HMC) grown dramatically. of weakness or anything to be Psychiatry Department is “Many people take control of ashamed of; it is an illness like encouraging the public to learn their health by making health- any other ailment that requires more about mental health and ier choices about food, stopping intervention. why it is as important as physi- smoking and participating in reg- “People need to know that men- cal health. ular exercise, because they recog- tal illness is not something that World Health Organisation nise that this is beneficial to their happens because of specific cir- says mental illness can affect health,” said Dr Hashem. cumstances – this is a dangerous anyone at any age in any social “What people often don’t real- misconception that leads people circumstances. According to the ise is that there are things you to feel ashamed, to not recognise latest research in Qatar, one in can do to maintain your mental that they are ill and, to not seek five people will be affected by health and that physical and men- treatment or help.” mental illness at some stage of tal health are inextricably linked. Dr Hashem said there are their lives. “There are a number of ‘risk many types of mental illnesses, Mental illness is inclusive of a factors’ linked to mental illness. ranging from mild, which are the wide range of conditions, includ- Recognising risk factors can most common, to severe. “It is ing anxiety and depression, which enable us to protect ourselves; for important to recognise changes are two of the most common. example, ensuring a good night’s early and seek advice. Mental ill- Dr Hazem Hashem, Senior sleep, doing regular exercises and ness is treatable and manageable Consultant Psychiatrist, HMC, eating healthily are not only rec- and recognising your illness, or an stressed that people must rec- ommendations for maintaining escalation in certain symptoms, ognise that mental health is our weight, they also have positive as early as possible and seeking something that should be taken effects on our mind – so you have advice or treatment is the best seriously by making adaptations twice the reason to do it.” way of getting better,” he added. to their lives to promote good Dr Hashem said it is important THE PENINSULA MONDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2014 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 Millions join online Education Minister visits schools campaign for release Al Hammadi briefed on preparations for academic year 2014-15

DOHA: The Minister of and Zubaydah Secondary academic services. International School the Director of Aljazeera scribes Education and Higher Education Independent School for Girls. Meanwhile, Fawzia Al Khater, of the Private Schools Office said and Secretary-General of the During the visits marking the Director, Education Institute at the SEC is continuing its pol- Supreme Education Council start of the academic year 2014- SEC, and Khalifa Al Darhim, icy of unifying holidays and the DOHA: Millions are partici- in announcements and press H E Dr Mohammed Abdul 2015, the Minister was briefed Director, Office of Independent start of the scholastic year for pating in a global campaign statements immediate release Wahed Ali Al Hammadi yester- on preparations by Independent Schools, also visited several Independent and private schools to free Aljazeera journalists of Aljazeera journalists. day visited Mohamed bin Abdul schools to receive students. schools to inspect the buildings and that all private schools detained in Cairo since July 3. They include the White Wahab Independent Secondary He was also briefed on the of new schools, as well as facilities opened their doors to students The number of people House, the British Ministry School for Boys, Khalid Bin readiness of schools and adminis- and equipment. on the first day of the academic demanding the release of jour- of Foreign Affairs, the Al Waleed Preparatory trative and teaching staff in terms After a tour of Al Maha year 2014-2015 yesterday. nalists has risen to 141m all Commonwealth, the European Independent School for Boys of logistical, administrative and Academy and Al Hayat QNA over the world, using hashtag Union, the Australian govern- #FreeAJstaff and millions more ment, and about 150 human are participating in the cam- rights organisations, includ- paign that started in February ing Amnesty International, on other social media networks, Committee to protect reported the Arabic daily Al Journalists, and International Sharq. Press Institute. Push for more animal breeding farms The campaign began in the The campaign has also Kenyan capital of Nairobi where attracted about 40 media per- journalists used #FreeAJstaff to sonalities writing an open let- protest the abuse of freedom and ter to the authorities in Egypt arrest of journalists in Egypt. to release the journalists, and The hashtag has been gaining protect the freedom of expres- popularity, especially after the sion and journalists in the world. American broadcaster Christian Media establishments and Amanpour announced her sup- international channels, including port for the campaign on her the BBC, CNN, ITN, Channel 4 program Amanpour on CNN. Britain, Toronto Star of Canada, The announcement came on have also called for the release February 27 and since then the of the journalists. campaign and the hashtag have The campaign is also being gained prominence. supported by media personali- Many official and government ties, including Larry King, Piers establishments have endorsed Morgan, Brian Stelter and Alex the campaign and demanded Thompson. THE PENINSULA Evening classes for

New policy will allow animal breeders to take government land on lease instead of owning farms. (INSET) Omer school dropouts soon Salem Hamad Al Nuaimi, Director of Environment Protection and Rehabilitation. DOHA: The Supreme people must produce documents, DOHA: Plans are afoot to set he added. Al Nuaimi said it is also These included cases of people Education Council (SEC) has including original passport and up a large venue where ani- being studied if breeders could be carrying petrol in water tank- announced that school dropouts identity card, along with their mals bred in Qatar could be allowed to open shops on their ers without licence. Those who among nationals and expatri- copies, two passport-size photo- brought over for exhibition farms. transport diesel and petrol with- ates keen to continue educa- graphs and a copy of Kahramaa and sale, according to a senior Major and internal roads will out licence can be jailed for up to tion can join evening classes for receipt. Environment Ministry official. be developed for easy access in a year and fined up to QR100,000. grades seven to 12. They must also have valid res- New policies are being put in areas where farms will be built Such cases are transferred to of awareness about rules regard- Registration began yester- idency permit and submit school place to encourage the setting up in large numbers. public prosecution for interroga- ing environment protection. day and lasts until September leaving certificate from their of more animal breeding farms Inspections are going on to see tion and filing charges. He said his department also 30, Qatar News Agency (QNA) home countries, attested by the across the country. if the existing breeding farms are Al Nuaimi said waste dumping cracks down on illegal campers reported. Qatari embassy in their coun- Instead of people owning such following rules and regulations rules were also flouted. during winter and those who Some Independent schools try. Those registered would get farms, they would be able to take and whether they are licensed. Waste, including construc- catch birds using devices that have been earmarked as venues textbooks from the schools where land for the purpose from the One of the key jobs of his tion waste, can be dumped only create the sounds of birds. for evening classes under the they have registered after pay- government on lease, said Omer department is to catch violations in designated areas and the fine People can contact the depart- programme. People of all nation- ing the school fee, the Education Salem Hamad Al Nuaimi, Director of environment protection rules, for such violations range from ment on hotline 998 and lodge alities are eligible to register and Institute at the SEC said in a of Environment Protection and Al Nuaimi said, adding this year QR5,000 to QR50,000. complaints if they see any viola- there is no age bar. statement. Rehabilitation. some 350 violations have been According to Al Nuaimi, many tion, he added. However, for registration, THE PENINSULA/QNA “Studies in this regard are on,” caught. violations take place due to a lack THE PENINSULA Land deals to rise as investors, realtors eye more projects

DOHA: The real estate sector number in the country, or 25.7 the Real Estate Registration top deal of QR90m involving sale of a plot admeasuring 3,489sqm QR22.2m. Umm Salal Municipality witnessed an increase in the percent of the total, followed Department at the Ministry of the sale of a house admeas- at the rate of QR5,445 per sqm in ranked third in terms of value trading value of transactions by Doha Municipality with 22 Justice, said the average daily uring 15,365sqm at the rate Al Gharrafah. The acquired plots (QR64.6m), with 16 deals, represent- despite the summer holidays. transactions. value of real estate transactions of QR5,891 per sqm in Umm represented 76.4 percent of total ing 12.6 percent of total, down 24 per- The combined value of Land plots continued to dom- totalled about QR102.8m com- Ghuwailina. transactions, worth QR71.9m, while cent compared to the previous week. deals during the fourth week inate transactions and repre- pared to QR94.6m in the previ- Transaction for plots other real estate deals were worth THE PENINSULA of August reached QR514.1m, sented 54.7 percent of the deals ous week. recorded 23.1 percent of the up 8.7 percent compared to compared to 45.3 percent of During the third week of total in Doha worth QR61.7m, QR473m in the previous week, other transactions in all areas. August, Doha Municipality while other real estate deals Ezdan Holding Group’s latest The report said transac- ranked first in terms of represented QR184.4m. weekly report said yesterday. tions especially involving pots, the value, with deals worth Al Rayyan Municipality However, the number of will rise in the coming weeks QR246.1m compared to ranked second in terms of transactions during August as investors and developers are QR108.6m in the previous week, value with QR94.1m compared 24-28 declined by 30 percent, directed towards the estab- up 127 percent through imple- to QR184.8m in the previous with 105 compared to 150 in the lishment of more real estate mentation of 22 deals and 47.9 week, down 49 percent. It saw 19 previous week. projects. percent of the total transac- deals or 18.3 percent of the total Al Daayen Municipality The report, based on the tions in the week. transactions. The highest deal executed 27 deals, the largest weekly bulletin issued by Doha Municipality saw the was worth QR19m through the

Summer festival’s third week winners named DOHA: The winners for the third week in a series of raffle draws worth QR2.5m as part of Qatar Tourism Authority’s (QTA) Summer Festival 2014 Shopping Fun activity have been announced. The draw was held at Dar Al Salam on Saturday, with 15 vis- itors winning QR1,500 worth of gift vouchers from Hyatt Plaza Mall, nine winning QR5,000, five winning QR10,000, one winning QR100,000 and two winning one Audi A4 and Audi Q7. In authorisation with the Ministry of Economy and Commerce, QTA is giving away QR740,000 in total during the draws and eight Audi cars, four of which are Audi A4, while four Audi Q7. Officials with the winner of QR100,000 during the draw at Dar Al Salam. The second two Audi cars were given away in last week- Awards will be broadcast live the Audi Q7 winner (0414360). outlets, including the Pearl- end’s draw. on Al Rayyan TV. In addition to the draws, Qatar, The Mall, City Center- The next and last draw will The lucky coupon number Summer Festival Shopping Doha, Hyatt Plaza, Al Khor be held on Saturday between tickets for last week’s draw Fun launched on August 17 Mall and Dar Al Salam Mall 7:30pm and 8:30pm at the were QR100,000 (0227634), the comprises large-scale sales until September 13. Pearl-Qatar. Audi A4 winner (0227633) and in participating main retail THE PENINSULA MONDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2014 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

Panel to discuss Emir, PM criteria for Prince Shisha 10 times dangerous than send cables Nayef Award to Brazil DOHA: Under the patronage of DOHA: The Emir the Prime Minister and Interior cigarette smoking, says expert H H Sheikh Tamim Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al BY FAZEENA SALEEM schoolchildren in grade seven — yesterday sent a cable Thani, the ministerial meeting boys and girls — aged 12 and above of congratulations to of the committee tasked with DOHA: Shisha (hookah smok- also smoke. the Brazilian President adopting rules and regulations ing), a common pastime in Qatar, Qatar doesn’t have specific data Dilma Rousseff on her for the Prince Nayef bin Abdul is more dangerous than cigarette on shisha smokers. country’s Independence Aziz Al Saud Award for Arab smoking, says a senior health “Although we know that the Day. Security, will be held today at expert. prevalence of shisha smoking is The Prime Minister St Regis Hotel. One session of shisha smoking high, we don’t know the exact and Interior Minister Interior ministers of Morocco, is known to have harmful effects numbers, because the data we have H E Sheikh Abdullah Tunisia and Algeria along with equivalent to or higher than smok- includes shisha, cigarette and use of bin Nasser bin Khalifa delegates from the General ing 20 cigarettes, said Dr Ahmed tobacco,” said Dr Al Mulla. Al Thani sent a similar Secretariat of Arab Interior Al Mulla, Consultant Physician and “Next year we will start another cable. Ministers Council will attend. Head of Smoking Cessation Clinic study to find the number of people The preparatory meeting of the at Hamad Medical Corporation who smoke shisha,” he added. New chief at panel was held yesterday. It was (HMC). The research team in Qatar inaugurated by the Secretary- “Unfortunately many people and Lebanon include Dr Al Mulla, Media Office General of the Council of the think that shisha is less dangerous. Dr Ahmed Al Mohamed and Dr Arab Interior Ministers Council, But it can be 10 times harmful than Muna Al Lingawi, HMC Thoracic DOHA: The Foreign Dr Muhammad bin Ali Kouman. cigarettes,” he told a press confer- Consultants Dr Reem Al Kuwari, Minister H E Dr Khalid He said the prize was pro- ence held at HMC yesterday. X-ray Consultant in Heart Hospital bin Mohamed Al Attiyah posed by Qatar represented by While cigarettes have filters to FROM LEFT: Noura Younes, Medical Technologist, HMC, Dr Ahmed Mohamed and field researchers Marwa Al yesterday issued deci- the Prime Minister and Interior moderate the smoke, shisha smoke Al Mulla, Head, Smoking Cessation Clinic, HMC, and Senior Consultant, Public Adawi and Dr Ahmed Hassouna sion No. 60 for 2014, Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah passes directly into the mouth, Health and Disease Control, and Dr Maryam Al Kuwari, Senior Consultant in addition to a research team of appointing Ambassador bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani throat and lungs. Radiologist, Heart Hospital and Rumailah Hospital, at the press conference at nurses and technicians at the pul- Ahmed bin Saeed Jabor during the 30th session of the To find accurate health effects National Diabetes Centre, Hamad General Hospital, yesterday. KAMMUTTY VP monary lab. Al Rumaihi as the Head council in Riyadh. He said the of shisha, HMC and American Those interested in participating of the Media Office at current meeting of the committee University in Beirut are conduct- People smoking shisha daily research team has gone to coffee in the study can call Dr Al Mulla on the ministry. It annuls follows directives from the coun- ing a clinical study. for 10 years or more, have never shops and selected people for the 4439 2778, or Research Assistant all contrary provisions cil to adopt rules and regulations People are invited to take part smoked cigarettes, are 40 and above study. Marwa on 44390637 or 50160391. and is applicable from for the award. The award aims at in the study on shisha smokers in and do not have lung disease, diabe- According to statistics, some 37 The three-year study, which the date of issue. promoting security a shared social Qatar to examine adverse effects of tes or kidney failure will be tested. percent of those aged 15 and above began in April 2013, is funded by responsibility, among others. tobacco use on heart, blood vessels The study aims at examin- in Qatar smoke, and 95 percent of Qatar National Research Fund. Thai relations THE PENINSULA and the respiratory system. ing around 200 people. So far the them are men. Some 15 percent of THE PENINSULA reviewed

DOHA: The Minister of Labour and Social Affairs H E Dr Abdullah Saleh Mubarak Al Communication, journalism experts join NU-Q Khulaifi yesterday met the Thai Ambassador, DOHA: Three new faculty mem- industries here and elsewhere in the Piroon Laismit, and bers have joined Northwestern region. reviewed cooperation University in Qatar (NU-Q) fol- “The new members have been and means of developing lowing an international search. associated with some of the world’s relations. They are global media scholar leading universities and are highly Dr John D H Downing, Professor regarded in their fields. Qatar attends of Communication, Dr Amy Kristin “The real beneficiaries of these Sanders, legal scholar and attor- new members are our students,” GCC meeting ney who has authored a leading Dennis said, adding their research mass communication law text, and track record and capacity is also an DOHA: An Advisory Dr Ilhem Allagui, an authority on asset for NU-Q and Qatar. Council’s delegation left integrated marketing communica- “They arrive at a time when the for Muscat to take part tion. Both are associate professor of university is redefining and rebuild- in the first meeting of journalism. ing its communication courses and the GCC Legislative Announcing the appointments when understanding media law and Councils’ parliamentary effective for the fall term, NU-Q the social impact of media is vital.” committee yesterday. Dean and CEO, Dr Everette E Prof Downing is the author and The delegation com- Dennis, said the three “will add editor of 12 books. He has also prises Controllers Dr immeasurably to the exceptional taught courses in communication Ahmed Mohamed faculty and provide new strength in and culture, globalisation and the Obeidan and Mohamed digital media and the role of media media, alternative media and social Abdullah Al Sulaiti, in social change”. movements, political cinema of the Member Rashid Hamad The new faculty bring professional global South, media, dictatorship, Al Mu’dhadi and Head experience in journalism and public and democracy as well as ethnicity, of Technical Section affairs and all three are authors of racism and the media. New faculty members of the NU-Q. Abdullah Abbas Al books and scholarly articles. His academic appointments Haddad. The three, along with a fourth include University of Texas, Hunter understanding. Her research includes two of Florida, Dr Sanders is the faculty member, Anthropologist Dr College in New York, and most A continuation of NU-Q’s tra- books slated for publication this author of more than a dozen Mauritanian Sami Hermez of Harvard University recently Southern Illinois University, jectory in integrated marketing year: Technology and the Stresses scholarly articles in journals who arrives in January, “bring where he was founding director of communication (IMC) within of National Community: the Case such as Communication Law & ties in focus knowledge and talent that will con- Global Media Research Center. the journalism programme, Prof of the United Arab Emirates and Policy, Federal Communications tribute to NU-Q’s commitment to His rigor, breadth and versatility Allagui adds expertise in the When Advertising Goes Arab. Law Journal, Journal of Media NOUAKCHOTT: The Qatar’s Vision 2030 and the crea- will benefit students and help define area, as well as digital media use Dr Sanders’ work on media Law & Ethics and Duke Journal Mauritanian Ministry tion of media and communication NU-Q’s commitment to global media in public relations. law, ethics and new technologies of Constitutional Law and Public of Relations with She joins NU-Q from compliments her new colleagues Policy. Parliament, Civil Society the Department of Mass and others in the journalism NU-Q is committed to excel- and Government’s Communication at American faculty. As a highly regarded, lent teaching, innovative research Spokesman Izidbih University of Sharjah, the UAE. gifted teacher and researcher, and personal intellectual growth Ould Mohamed As a published and experi- her track record includes work of students within a diverse aca- Mahmoud yesterday enced teacher and researcher, as an award-winning journalist demic community. Members of met Qatari Ambassador her experience spans courses in and licensed attorney, providing NU-Q’s Class of 2018 hail from Abdurrahman bin Ali public relations, advertising, IMC an important addition to NU-Q’s 20 countries and five continents, Ajaj Al Kubaisi and dis- campaigns, media planning, stra- journalism programme. with the majority speaking at cussed means of devel- tegic research methods and oth- Holding a PhD in mass com- least two languages. oping relations. QNA ers, including Arab media. munication law from University THE PENINSULA QNA to hold workshop on coverage of economic news

DOHA: Qatar News Agency (QNA) will hold from today a three-day workshop on covering economic news. The event is the latest in a series of workshops held to provide quality training for Qatari professionals in the media field. This week’s workshop covers topics, including how to cover economic news stories, integrate numbers and graphs and convey complicated eco- nomic terms to the public. Business Anchor and Senior Presenter at Aljazeera, Nadeem Al Mallah, will hold the work- shop. QNA workshops were launched in accordance to Emiri decision No. 51 for 2009 which mandated the agency to hold workshops to improve the professional standard of Qatari journal- ists. QNA MONDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2014 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05

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Students going back to their school on the first day of the academic year 2014-15 yesterday. (RIGHT) Traffic chaos in Abu Hamour which has over a dozen private schools. Ongoing roadworks in the area also contributed to traffic congestion. ABDUL BASIT

Minister: Nurturing, educating students New research director appointed It’s brighter tonight huge responsibility due to Harvest Moon Continued from page 1 at ExxonMobil Research Qatar DOHA: People in Qatar will witness He added that success depends on a brighter night due to Harvest Moon, each individual in the system of edu- DOHA: ExxonMobil yesterday “We share Qatar’s view that advance- experts said, adding many will even be cation playing of his required role and announced the appointment of Dr ments in technology play a critical role in working tonight. performing the important task he is Jennifer Dupont (pictured) as meeting the energy demands and chal- “The night of September 8-9 will have a entrusted with. Research Director of ExxonMobil lenges of the future, and Dr. Dupont is beautiful bright full-looking moon, as seen Dr Al Hammadi said students are Research Qatar (EMRQ). poised to play an important part in both from around the globe. Due to Harvest Moon, not the only ones who usually bear Dr Dupont’s priorities include build- advancing technology as well as meeting Monday night will be extra bright and people the results of success and failure ing and expanding upon EMRQ’s proven the goals of QNV 2030,” said Cahir. will be even able to work at night,” said Sheikh because they are in the front and technical capabilities in areas of water “I have been given an incredible Salman bin Jabor Al Thani, Director, Qatar because they are at the centre of the reuse, environmental management, opportunity to direct EMRQ at a time Center for Astronomy and Space Sciences. educational process and purpose. Safety and Coastal/Geological research. when Qatar is leading efforts to man- The Harvest Moon is the full moon clos- “Nurturing and educating the stu- She is also responsible for enhanc- age its abundant natural resources in est to the autumnal equinox, and depending dents is a huge responsibility that ing communications of EMRQ techni- a way that maximizes economic gains on the year, can occur anywhere from two should be shouldered by everyone cal data, processes, and technologies while protecting the environment weeks before to two weeks after the autumnal working at the SEC, every licence to important stakeholders including for future generations,” she declared. equinox. The 2014 autumnal equinox comes holder, academic supervisor, teacher the Ministry of Environment, Qatar “The opportunity is both humbling and on September 23, so the September 8-9 full and administrator and we should all Petroleum, research partners and invigorating.” moon counts as the Northern Hemisphere’s be aware of this responsibility and academia. She joined EMRQ in December 2013 Harvest Moon. work very seriously so that hope for “It is with great pride that on behalf of as Environmental Team Lead, enabling socioeconomic goals. She is an American This year’s Harvest Moon qualifies as a success would remain in front of the ExxonMobil Qatar, we congratulate Dr. her to develop an understanding and citizen and earned her BS degree in supermoon because it turns full less than one eyes of our students throughout the Dupont on her appointment as Research appreciation of the organization as well Biology from the University of Richmond day after reaching lunar perigee, the moon’s year from the first day until the last Director ExxonMobil Research Qatar,” as familiarize herself with the State of and her PhD in Marine Ecology from closest point to earth for the month. day of testing, nine months from explained Bart Cahir, President and Qatar, its vision and objectives, includ- the University of South Florida, College THE PENINSULA today,” he said. THE PENINSULA General Manager of ExxonMobil Qatar. ing high-priority environmental and of Marine Science. THE PENINSULA MONDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2014 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST

Turkey police Protester killed in fire teargas at protests over Yemen crackdown workers’ deaths ISTANBUL: Turkish riot police yesterday fired teargas Houthi rebels block access to the ministries and water cannon at protest- ers in Istanbul, a day after 10 SANA’A: A Yemeni man was workers were killed when a lift shot dead yesterday when police crashed to the ground from the tried to disperse a Shia rebel 32nd storey of a building. sit-in blocking the road to Police stepped in when more Sana’a airport as part of a pro- than 1,000 people gathered near test campaign, demonstrators the construction site in Istanbul’s said. Police hurled teargas can- upscale Mecidiyekoy district to isters and deployed water can- express their anger at Turkey’s non against demonstrators who lax workplace safety measures, had camped along the road near a photographer at the scene the interior ministry, a corre- reported. spondent said. “This is not an accident, this is The protest organising com- not a destiny, this is murder!” the mittee said one demonstrator was crowd shouted, at the first major shot dead, adding that a number confrontation between demon- of protesters received gunshot strators and the authorities since wounds. Yesterday’s move came Recep Tayyip Erdogan was inau- after protesters did not heed an gurated as president last month. ultimatum to clear the area, and Authorities said an investiga- apparently after some approached tion had been launched into the a checkpoint leading to the nearby incident at the Torunlar Centre, interior ministry. which is being built on the former The Houthi rebels, also known site of Galatasaray football club’s as Zaidis or Ansarullah, have been Ali Sami Yen stadium. pushing for the government’s res- The exact cause of the accident ignation, accusing it of corruption. remains unclear. There have been Turkish police secure the area as they clash with protesters after an elevator They have rejected overtures claims that the elevator broke accident near a construction site in Istanbul yesterday. At least 10 workers from President Abdrabuh Mansur down two weeks ago and that were killed when the elevator plummeted from one of the top floors of a Hadi who has offered to name a workers were awaiting funds to 36-storey building. new prime minister and reduce a repair it. “I lost my two sons,” said disputed fuel price hike. Houthis carry a fellow protester suffering from teargas inhalation during father-of-six Mithat Kara, as he safety director of the site, after platform. We will take initiative Rebel spokesman Mohammed clashes with riot police in Sana’a yesterday. sat in tears at the side of the con- hearing their testimonies. so that inspections will not be Abdulsalam accused the authori- struction site. Labour and Social Security merely on paper.” ties of “using live bullets” against They also blocked access from services and the intelligence” Among the dead was also Minister Faruk Celik said the The building’s owner Aziz the demonstrators. the capital to the international services. 21-year old student Hidir Ali accident happened after a freight Torun denied any responsibility, “We hold the authorities airport. Authorities deployed They also demanded that the Genc, who used to work at con- elevator used to carry construc- as well as the possibility of a tech- responsible for the repercus- anti-riot police around the inte- president “consult with them on struction sites to fund his uni- tion materials slipped off its rails, nical problem with the elevator. sions of this aggression, and we rior ministry, a correspondent naming the new prime minister” versity expenses. The incident with workers and building mate- “Authorities and the prosecutor stress the right of our people to said. and the ministers of defence, inte- created a storm on social media, rials crashing to the ground. will decide” what caused the acci- self-defence using all means if the The protesters erected cement rior, foreign affairs and finance. with users criticising the govern- “We will go after (the guilty dent, he told a press conference. aggression continues,” he said in road blocks along the road to the Under the presidential initia- ment’s handling of the protest. people) if there is any negligence Prime Minister Ahmet a statement. airport and wore yellow bands tive, Hadi himself would name the “State, answer to industrial or shortcoming,” he was quoted as Davutoglu called the workers’ But calm returned to the area on their wrists and across their four key ministers. accidents. Workers respond by saying by Turkish media. deaths “very painful and very later yesterday, despite protesters foreheads as a “warning” to Yesterday’s demonstrators car- making barricades,” one Twitter But the opposition ratcheted saddening”. not clearing the blocked road, a authorities. ried portraits of Syria’s embat- user wrote. up pressure on the government, “The investigation will be car- correspondent reported. A source close to the presidency tled President Bashar al-Assad as Engineers were inspecting the pledging to improve work safety ried out in detail,” he told report- Earlier in the day, protesters said the Houthis have submit- well as of the head of Lebanon’s site on Sunday. Thirty-six of the conditions. “Work accidents have ers. The incident, which is due pitched new tents blocking access ted a list of demands, including Iran-backed Shiite Hezbollah tower’s 42 floors have already been turned into work murders,” said to top the agenda of the weekly to the ministries of electricity and “uprooting corruption” as well as movement Hassan Nasrallah completed, local media reported. Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of cabinet meeting on Monday, telecommunications on Airport “giving them more powers within and of Yemen’s Shia rebel chief Police on Sunday released eight the main opposition Republican has put Turkey’s poor record on Road, where they have been dem- the public prosecution, account- Abdulmalik Al Houthi. people detained in connection People’s Party (CHP). “The workplace safety under further onstrating for weeks. ability panel, national security AFP with the incident, including the CHP will settle account at every scrutiny. AFP

Iran cultural Internet censorship not working: Rowhani 12 killed in centre in Sudan Libyan clashes padlocked TEHRAN: President Hassan slowing down the Internet to results,” he added, in a speech by conservatives. Rowhani re-entered Iran’s make many websites harder to broadcast live on state television. Referring to those who “con- BENGHAZI: Around twelve KHARTOUM: Iran’s main feverish debate on Internet cen- access. The 3G licenses decision caused stantly say we must separate girls people have been killed and cultural centre in the Sudanese sorship and gender segregation The decision of Rowhani’s gov- controversy with conservative and boys,” he said the Islamic ten wounded in a flare-up of capital was padlocked yester- yesterday, saying neither policy ernment to approve faster 3G clerics and officials arguing that republic’s founder, Ayatollah clashes between rival armed day, and officials said the deci- was in the country’s interest. mobile Internet licences for two video call functions on smart- Ruhollah Khomeini, vehemently groups near the Libyan cap- sion was final. Rowhani was elected last Iranian companies last month phones could expose youngsters opposed universities adopt- ital Tripoli, a doctor said The Iranian flag still flew above year having pledged to be more was seen as a first step towards to “immoral content”. ing such a policy after the 1979 yesterday. the building on one of Khartoum’s moderate on social issues after making Internet access easier. Iran’s ministry of telecommu- revolution. The North African country is main roads across from the air- his conservative predecessor But he went further yesterday nications, technology and infor- However, Rowhani defended in turmoil as former rebels who port. But a reporter found the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s eight- and said filtering was counter- mation later stated that video the veil and use of hijab, which helped oust Muammar Gaddafi gate padlocked and no sign of year tenure, but he has encoun- productive. “Some people think calling would not be available, women use to cover their hair and in a Nato-backed uprising three anybody inside. tered resistance. we can fix these problems by despite such services — includ- the loose robes they wear to cover years ago have turned their guns Tehran last week denied the Iran has a policy of filtering building walls, but when you cre- ing FaceTime and Skype — being their body, saying that it protects on each other in a bid to domi- centre and others had been shut online content, which leaves pop- ate filters, they create proxies,” accessible on regular Internet women. nate politics and get a share of on orders by Khartoum, despite ular websites such as Facebook, Rowhani said, referring to proxy connections. Since Rowhani took office the country’s oil reserves. generally close relations between Twitter and YouTube inacces- servers in other countries used by Rowhani also hit out at the last August he has been accused An alliance of armed groups the two countries. A Sudanese sible without the use of illegal Iranians to circumvent national recent decision of Tehran’s of being too soft on hijab — in called Operation Dawn, mainly official said on Thursday that the software. regulations. municipality to segregate staff October he asked police to be from the western city of Misrata, centres would close their doors by Iranian authorities are also “This (current policy) does not by gender, a step implemented moderate when enforcing the seized the capital Tripoli last Sunday. AFP often accused of deliberately work. Force does not produce by the capital’s mayor and hailed requirement. REUTERS month after expelling a rival group from Zintan. Tripoli has been largely quiet since then but fighters from Sisi with Saud Al Faisal the Operation Dawn have been trying to capture the tribal Warshefana area southwest of the city, residents said. The Warshefana are allied to the Zintani forces. Residents reported heavy shelling in the city on Saturday, which was confirmed by British Ambassador Michael Aron. “City is quiet. Families out on seafront last night. But shelling of Warshefana areas clearly heard,” Aron tweeted during a visit to Tripoli on Saturday. A hospital doctor said around twelve people were killed and ten wounded in the shelling of Warshefana residential areas. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi with Saudi Arabia’s Foreign REUTERS Minister Prince Saud Al Faisal in Cairo yesterday. Somalia removes security chief

MOGADISHU: Somalia on Saturday for the killing of announcement after a cabinet replaced its national security Ahmed Godane, named the lit- meeting, government spokesman director yesterday and put tle-known Sheikh Ahmad Umar Ridwan Abdiweli gave no reason its army on alert for retalia- Abu Ubaidah as its new head, for the change but said Ali’s dep- tion after the Islamist militant and reaffirmed its affiliation to uty would stand in for him. group al Shabaab confirmed its Al Qaeda. He said the defence and secu- leader had been killed in a US National Security Director rity ministers had called for air strike. Abdullahi Mohamed Ali had only “particular vigilance” following Al Shabaab vowed revenge been in his post since July. In an Godane’s death. REUTERS MONDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2014 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Obama to outline strategy as US expands IS strikes

BARWANA, IRAQ: President saying he did not have a strat- US warplanes bombed fighters advantage of the strikes, launch- Jughaifi, the administrative offi- power and irrigation water for Barack Obama has vowed to egy to combat Islamic State (IS) from the IS jihadist group around ing a drive against militants in cial responsible for Haditha, and farmers. Sustained US strikes outline a long-awaited strategy jihadists, announced that he will a strategic dam on the Euphrates the Haditha area and regaining seven soldiers. A suicide bomber could provide a major boost to against Islamic State jihadists make a speech on Wednesday to River in an area that the mili- ground. “Joint forces backed by air then struck the convoy carrying pro-government forces in Anbar, yesterday, after Washington lay out his “game plan” to deal tants have repeatedly tried to support and tribesmen launched a Dulaimi to a nearby hospital, kill- where all of one city and chunks expanded its month-long air with the group. “I’m preparing capture from government troops wide attack to clear the areas sur- ing a soldier and wounding six. of another have been out of state campaign to Iraq’s Sunni Arab the country to make sure that and their Sunni militia allies. rounding the Haditha district,” The only previous US strikes control for over nine months, heartland. we deal with a threat from” IS, “We conducted these strikes to security spokesman Lieutenant against IS outside of northern along with other areas seized by The new strikes deepen Obama said in an interview aired prevent terrorists from further General Qassem Atta said. Iraq were carried out in sup- militants since June. Washington’s involvement in the yesterday on NBC’s “Meet the threatening the security of the The troops and militia retook port of an operation by the army, Kurdish forces in the north conflict and were a significant Press.” dam, which remains under control the town of Barwana, east of Shiite militia and Kurdish fight- have been bolstered by American escalation for Obama, who made He said he would not be of Iraqi security forces, with sup- Haditha, from the jihadists, who ers to break a months-long siege strikes and recently took control his political career opposing the announcing the return of US port from Sunni tribes,” Pentagon abandoned their weapons and of the Shia Turkmen town of of Mount Zardak, a strategic site war in Iraq and pulled out US ground troops to Iraq and would spokesman Rear Admiral John vehicles in their retreat, a cor- Amerli, north of Baghdad. east of Mosul that provides a com- troops in 2011. focus instead on a “counter-ter- Kirby said. “The potential loss respondent reported. Dams have been a key target manding view of the surrounding Iraqi forces sought to capitalise rorism campaign” similar to other of control of the dam or a cata- They lowered the black IS ban- for the jihadists, and there has area, a senior officer said. on the strikes, which have largely efforts over the last few years. strophic failure of the dam — and ner from the town’s main check- been major fighting around Iraq’s Western governments have been limited to the north since “We are going to systemati- the flooding that might result — point and raised the Iraqi flag. largest dam, on the Tigris River come under mounting pressure they began on August 8, launch- cally degrade their capabilities. would have threatened US per- The victory was marred, north of militant-held second city to take strong action against IS, ing an offensive against jihadists We’re going to shrink the ter- sonnel and facilities in and around however, when a mortar round Mosul, which has been a major which controls a swathe of neigh- in the area and retaking the town ritory that they control. And Baghdad, as well as thousands of slammed into the town, wound- focus of the US air campaign. bouring Syria as well as signifi- of Barwana. ultimately we’re going to defeat Iraqi citizens,” he added. ing Anbar Governor Ahmed Al The Haditha and Mosul dams cant territory north and west of Obama, who has drawn flak for them,” Obama said. Iraq moved yesterday to take Dulaimi as well as Abdulhakim Al are important sources of both Baghdad. AFP Abbas may end unity with Hamas over Gaza President accuses Hamas of running shadow govt

RAMALLAH: Palestinian ending seven years of rival admin- was handed a note and abruptly President Mahmoud Abbas has istrations in the West Bank and stopped speaking as an official threatened to break off a unity Gaza. quickly ordered journalists out agreement with Hamas if the “We will not accept the situ- of the room. Islamist movement does not ation with Hamas continuing as The very public dispute erupted allow the government to oper- it is at the moment,” Abbas said some two weeks after the end of ate properly in the Gaza Strip. in remarks published by official a major 50-day confrontation And prime minister Rami Palestinian news agency Wa fa . between Israel and Hamas mili- Hamdallah said a dispute with “We won’t accept a partnership tants in Gaza, which killed more Hamas over the payment of sala- with them if the situation contin- than 2,100 Palestinians and 72 in ries to thousands of its employ- ues like this in Gaza, where there Israel. In Gaza, spokesman Sami ees had become the main issue is a shadow government... running Abu Zuhri said Abbas’ allegations from preventing his government the territory,” he said. that Hamas was hampering the of national unity from operating “The national consensus gov- operations of the national consen- inside Gaza. ernment cannot do anything on sus government were “unjustified.” Abbas’ accusation that Hamas the ground,” he charged. “It is untrue, baseless and Palestinian youth look on as an Israeli border policeman aims his weapon against protesters in the neighbourhood was effectively running a parallel Later yesterday, Abbas unfair to our people,” he said. of Wadi Joz in east Jerusalem yesterday. administration in Gaza drew an appeared on the verge of another Throughout the conflict, Hamas angry reaction from the Islamist public attack on Hamas in the and Fatah put up a united front, movement, which denounced his opening of his address to the Arab working side-by-side to further allegations as “baseless.” League in Cairo. indirect truce talks with Israel in Palestinians clash with police But it raised fresh questions Just 30 seconds into his speech, Cairo, which resulted in an open- over the future of a fragile intra- which referenced Hamas’ forcible ended ceasefire that took effect Palestinian unity deal aimed at takeover of Gaza in 2007, Abbas on August 26. But as the guns fell in Jerusalem after teen’s death silent, their long-held divisions again came to the fore. JERUSALEM: Scores of leg with a foam projectile and had teen in an alleged revenge attack Under the terms of April agree- Palestinians rioted in East fallen and hit his head while run- by three Jews, who are standing Israeli foreign minister ment, Hamas agreed to work with Jerusalem yesterday after ning away from officers. trial. The seething tensions have its rivals in Abbas’ Fatah move- hearing that a youth from their The body was taken for a post- underscored deepening divisions ment to form an interim consen- neighbourhood had died of mortem examination in Tel Aviv in a the Israeli-occupied part of doubts Gaza truce can last sus government of technocrats wounds suffered in a clash with and the Israeli Justice Ministry’s the city that Israel claims as its JERUSALEM: Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman which would work towards long- Israeli police last week. police investigations unit was “indivisible capital”. said yesterday he doubted the current Gaza ceasefire would hold delayed national elections. Protesters in the neighbour- examining the circumstances Damage caused by Palestinians over the long term and that disarming Gaza militants was not The deal sought to end years hood of Wadi Al Joz close to the of the case, a police spokesman to a Jerusalem light railway, which feasible anytime soon. of bitter and sometimes bloody walled Old City threw rocks, pet- said. links Arab and Jewish neighbour- After briefing Israeli journalists he was quoted across the local rivalry between Hamas and Fatah, rol bombs and flares at passing Street clashes with police in hoods and was once hailed by media as saying that he thought the chances of Egypt-mediated which dominates the West Bank- cars, and riot officers responded riot gear, military-style raids on Israeli authorities as a symbol of talks achieving their goal of a durable Gaza truce were slim. based Palestinian Authority. with rubber bullets during an homes late at night and stone- coexistence, had put a third of its “Any ceasefire, in my opinion, will be limited in time,” Lieberman The new cabinet took office on afternoon of clashes that lasted throwing at Israeli vehicles have carriages out of commission. said. Disarming the coastal strip was not on the immediate horizon, June 2, with Gaza’s Hamas gov- for several hours. There were no marked the most serious outbreak Israel captured East Jerusalem he said, but it should be kept in the forefront of international public ernment officially stepping down reports of serious injury. of violence in Jerusalem since a along with Gaza and the West opinion. “Demilitarisation is not realistic at the moment,” he was the same day. Despite the hando- Mohammed Sinokrot, 16, suc- Palestinian uprising a decade ago. Bank in the 1967 Six Day War. quoted as saying. But he said that no other force but Israel would ver, Hamas has remained the de cumbed to a head wound suffered The violent protests in the city It annexed the city shortly after- be capable of enforcing and verifying disarmament. facto power in Gaza, with moves during a protest a week ago but have been raging almost nightly wards and passed a law in 1980 “Nobody will bring about disarmament but us,” he said. “Nobody to implement the provisions of the circumstances of how he sus- beyond the spotlight on the Gaza that declared all of Jerusalem its else will go from house to house like us.” the unity deal put on hold in the tained the wound were in dispute. war, leading to a crackdown by capital, a move not recognised At the start of a meeting with Norwegian Foreign Minister Boerge face of the deadly offensive that His father Abdel Majid said his Israeli police in which hundreds of internationally. Some 40 percent Brende, Lieberman said that the immediate challenge was how to Israel launched on July 8. son had been hit in the head by Palestinians have been detained. of Jerusalem’s 800,000 residents allow reconstruction of war-shattered Gaza without allowing money Since signing the agreement in a rubber bullet but Israeli police The protests erupted in July are Palestinians. and materials reaching the Islamist Hamas, the de facto power in April, Hamas has demanded the said Sinokrot had been hit in the after the murder of a Palestinian REUTERS the territory. new government take responsibil- “The issue is first of all how to rebuild the civilian infrastructure ity for paying its 45,000 employees, and prevent Hamas to rebuild the terrorist infrastructure,” he said 27,000 of whom are civil servants. in English in remarks broadcast on local television and radio. “Putting Hamas employees on the Israeli President Reuven Rivlin also raised the subject when he government payroll is the main met Brende. “The rehabilitation and reconstruction of Gaza should problem which is preventing the go along with the demilitarisation of Gaza because otherwise we can government from working in the see in no time the next round (of violence),” Rivlin said. AFP Gaza Strip,” said Hamdallah. AFP

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HE abduction and killing of three Israeli teenagers in the occupied West Bank in June was the trigger for the biggest escalation in Palestinian- TIsraeli tensions in years, resulting in a war that left more than 2,100 Gazans and more than 70 Israelis For Israel, the beginning of dead, which Israel unleashed as a retaliation for ‘the kidnapping and killing of the Israelis’. But those who knew Palestinian politics and its territories knew well who the real perpetrators of those killings were. Now, an official wisdom is to admit mistakes Israeli inquiry into the teenagers’ death confirms this truth, thus questioning the motives of the Benjamin Netanyahu BY AVI SHLAIM Announcing the ceasefire at a news from the murderous fanatics who make government in starting the Gaza war. conference, he claimed a major mili- up Isis. Hamas, however, is not a mes- According to official documents released by Israel, the srael has a habit of justify- tary as well as a diplomatic achievement sianic jihadist movement but a local abduction and killing was executed by a local Palestinian ing its actions in the occupied for the state of Israel. Hardly anyone organisation with a pragmatic political clan and “was financed with about $60,000 mostly obtained Palestinian territories, however shared this assessment. The public, the leadership and limited aims. from a Hamas relative in Gaza’. But the report provides no illegal and indecent, in the name media, the opposition, hawkish mem- Third, Israel should transfer its con- of security. But denying any secu- bers of his Likud party, and some of frontation with Hamas from the battle- evidence that the top leaders of Hamas directed or had prior Irity to the other side only perpetuates his coalition partners, accused him of field to the conference table. On 2 June knowledge of the plot to abduct the Israeli youths. The report the conflict. accepting a ceasefire that failed to meet Hamas and Fatah reached an accord describes the kidnapping plot more as a family affair, purely a Five days after reaching a ceasefire any of Israel’s objectives. One newspa- andformed a national unity government local initiative organized and executed by member of a clan in with Hamas to end the latest round per gave the score as Hamas: 1; Israel: which consists of technocrats without a Hebron. of fighting in Gaza, the Israeli cabinet 0. Netanyahu’s popularity plummeted single Hamas-affiliated member. This As the report comes after the end of the Gaza conflict, decided to appropriate 988 acres of land from 85% at the beginning of the opera- government accepts the Quartet’s three on the West Bank, near the place where tion to 38%. conditions to qualify as a negotiating Israel deserves praise for telling the truth and not seeking to three Israeli teenagers were recently Hamas had more solid reasons for partner: it recognises Israel, it respects distort facts to prove its original claims. But the report will abducted and murdered, to make way rejoicing, despite the horrific suffering all previous Palestinian agreements with weaken the Israeli case for the conflict and further tarnish for another illegal Jewish city. This is endured by the people of Gaza. By any Israel and it renounces violence. One its image. With its deep-rooted the biggest land grab in three decades. objective criterion, the outcome of the of Netanyahu’s undeclared war aims An Israeli and widespread intelligence Operation Protective Edge, which conflict was a draw. But for a small and was to disrupt this unity government machinery in all of Palestine, came to an end after 50 days of fight- poorly armed militia to stand its ground so Israel could continue to divide and enquiry into ing, was the third and deadliest war in against one of the mightiest armies in rule, but the government survived the Israel must have known about the six years between Israel and Hamas, the world is a remarkable achievement. baptism of fire. the kidnapping kidnappers soon after it happened, the Islamic resistance movement that Not only did its fighters stand firm, Hamas vehemently denies the legiti- and Palestinian leaders too had rules Gaza. Israel lost 66 soldiers and they also succeeded in imposing on the macy of Israel but its leaders have and killing blamed a specific clan for the six civilians. On the Palestinian side, enemy what it dreaded most — a war stated repeatedly that if Fatah negoti- kidnapping. If Netanyahu still the war left 2,104 dead, mostly civilians, of attrition. Despite the intense military ates with Israel a two-state peace deal of its three and 12,656 injured; 17,000 houses were pressure, Hamas’s spirit did not break based on the 1967 borders, and if this chose to launch the war, it was to destroyed or damaged; 520,000 people, and its popularity skyrocketed. Above outcome is approved in a national refer- youths shows punish the Palestinians for their out of a population of 1.8 million, were all, Hamas succeeded in sending a clear endum, it would respect it as the choice that Hamas unity government and push its displaced. The damage to buildings and message that Israel would have no peace of the Palestinian people. Israel should dangerous agenda of weakening to the civilian infrastructure, estimated and no security as long as it continued therefore stop thinking of Palestinian leaders were not Palestinians and destroying at $6bn, will take many years to repair. to occupy Palestinian territory. unity as a threat and embrace it instead Hamas. What did Israel gain by unleashing So what should Israel do? The begin- as a potential building block of its own involved in the the deadly firepower of the IDF against ning of wisdom is to admit mistakes and security. The alleged connection of the caged population of this tiny coastal stop adding fuel to the fire. First of all, Israel’s policy towards Gaza since the crime. Hamas to the kidnappings was enclave? Virtually nothing. Israel had in Israel should end its relentless cam- unilateral disengagement in 2005 has used by Israel as a ploy to justify fact provoked this crisis by its violent paign to demonise the people of Gaza. consisted of the systematic violations of the war. Netanyahu and his team are unlikely to think crackdown against Hamas activists on the Demonisation is the enemy of dialogue international humanitarian law, duplici- differently after the findings of the inquiry. For Israel, Hamas West Bank following the murder of the and a major cause of diplomatic dead- tous diplomacy and large doses of brute is an enemy that is to be wiped out at any cost, and the three teenagers. Hamas rocket attacks — lock. The assertion of Major General military force. With chilling cynicism, the ostensible reason for the war — were Giora Eiland that there is no such thing Israeli generals speak of their periodic Netanyahu government would loathe missing any opportunity a response to Israel’s aggressive security as “innocent civilians” in Gazais sim- incursions into Gaza as “mowing the to fulfill this objective. measures. The prime minister, Binyamin ply absurd. Gazans are normal people lawn”. This policy has manifestly failed One of the Israeli objectives of the war was breaking Netanyahu, defined the operation’s objec- and, like normal people anywhere in the to procure the security that Israel’s citi- Palestinian unity and it’s getting closer to that objective. tive as “calm in return for calm”. But world, they long to live in freedom and zens deserve. The writing is on the wall. President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday threatened to break calm prevailed before Israel initiated the dignity on their land. A new and more constructive policy is cycle of violence. Hamas was left with Second, it is time to remove from desperately needed. Israeli politicians, off the unity agreement with Hamas if the latter does not a quarter of its pre-war rocket arsenal Hamas the terrorist tag. This is a pow- however, are unlikely to be able to make allow the government to operate properly in the Gaza Strip. and many of its tunnels, dubbed “ter- erful weapon in the propaganda war but any of the proposed moves without Bitterness between the two is running high and it may not be ror tunnels” by Israeli spokesmen, were useless in the quest for peace. Hamas is strong external pressure. This is where long before this fragile intra-Palestinian unity deal unravels. destroyed. But arsenals can be replen- indeed guilty of terrorism but it is also a the international community comes in. Hamas has claimed victory in the Gaza war. But part of ished and tunnels can be rebuilt. legitimate political actor, having won a It must begin to hold Israel to account that victory is given on a platter by Palestinians themselves Both sides claimed victory but fair and free election in 2006. Netanyahu in a way that it has so far shamefully Netanyahu’s sounded rather hollow. claims that Hamas is indistinguishable failed to. THE GUARDIAN to Israel• The other side Quote of The intransigence continues the day EEKS into a crisis and binding judgements in the case of even intransigence the PTI can demonstrate, and once again misreading the situation. after many rounds of individual constituencies where the May the PML-N seems willing to outdo its Following PTI president Javed Hashmi’s negotiations between 2013 elections are disputed by the PTI. political foe. Quite remarkably, at this bombshell allegations and the robust Wthe government and the The difference between the super- late stage, the PML-N negotiating defence of the democratic system in the We won’t accept a PTI, the intransigence of both sides is commission demanded by the PTI and team has once again closed the door joint session of parliament, the PML-N partnership with striking. The PTI chief Imran Khan has the judicial commission offered by the to recounts in selected constituencies. had regained some of the space it had publicly once again declared that his PML-N is not trivial: the PTI’s proposal That was the original demand of the lost during last weekend’s violence on them if the situation party will not leave Constitution Avenue would bypass existing rules, including PTI, a demand the PML-N dithered on Constitution Avenue. Feeling a little more until Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif resigns constitutional ones, in a way that would until the PTI demands increased, before confident, perhaps the PML-N decided continues like this — a claim that could be true, but may turn the electoral and criminal systems Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif himself now is not the time to make any conces- also have something to do with keeping on their head. Surely, while the overall publicly suggested that re-examining sions to the protesters. in Gaza, where the pressure on the PML-N negotiators. goal of the PTI may be to prove the elec- the results in selected constituencies That would be a mistake. The joint there is a shadow Meanwhile, Khan’s negotiating team toral fraud it has alleged and to reform could be done. session of parliament has made it clear has told the government that it wants the electoral system, putting the horse Quite why the PML-N would back- that while the opposition fully supports government... a judicial super-commission, backed before the cart is not in the greater inter- track now on a pledge made in public by the democratic system, many a party in running the by a presidential ordinance and hav- est of the democratic system. the prime minister is difficult to fathom the opposition has reservations about Mahmoud Abbas ing extraordinary powers, to announce Yet, for every bit of foolishness and — unless the PML-N is reverting to type last year’s results too. DAWN territory. Palestinian President MONDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2014 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 The old order is dead and buried Whatever Scotland decides, the union will likely be gone within a decade. It’s not just the Tories in a bankrupt establishment that are to blame.

BY OWEN JONES of thousands of civilians and 179 British military personnel before handing much f Scotland votes for independence of the country over to fanatics. They pun- next week, it is the British estab- ished aspiration by introducing tuition lishment — and the establishment fees, saddled public services with long- Ialone — that is to blame. The yes term debt through the colossal rip-off surge is not being driven by blood-and- of PFI, and began privatising our NHS soil nationalism, by dewy-eyed Celtic nos- — laying the foundations for some of talgia or the resurrection of a Braveheart the pernicious policies of this coalition spirit. It is a defiant protest at a bankrupt as they did so. They allowed the living order built by Margaret Thatcher and standards of millions of working people then preserved and entrenched by New to begin falling years before the crash, Labour. David Cameron’s Conservatives even as the coffers of corporate Britain will bear most responsibility for the prospered like never before. They failed break-up of the country, but the last to solve an ever-worsening housing crisis, government and a hollowed-out Scottish leaving 5 million languishing on coun- Labour party cannot escape the blame. cil housing waiting lists. They cut taxes Most Brits voted against Thatcherism, on corporate Britain while indulging in but the Scots — like the northern English entirely destructive gimmicks such as The Flag of Scotland, the Saltire, blows in the wind near Berwick-upon-Tweed on the border between England and Scotland yesterday. — voted more passionately against, and scrapping the 10p tax rate. The referendum on Scottish independence will take place on September 18, when Scotland will vote whether or not to end the 307-year- yet suffered some of the worst conse- Many Scots look at the Britain built by old union with the rest of the United Kingdom. quences. In 1981, Glasgow was ranked this political elite, they don’t like it and 208th among British local authorities they want out. If, say, northern England movement owes everything to, Labour to — may have prevented this unfolding from office too. Our common enemies for economic inactivity; a decade later, was a nation rather than a region, it should have treated the Conservatives debacle. And now New Labour ideologues remain economy-trashing financiers it had jumped to 10th place. Middle- would surely be bolting for the door as political Ebola. The Tory vote has come crawling to those they demonised to and poverty-paying bosses, whether they income skilled jobs were stripped from by now. Sixty-four per cent of eligible been in long-term decline not just across help prevent the all-too-plausible break- speak in an Edinburgh lilt or with the the economy, often in favour of service Britons voted against the Conservatives Scotland, it could have said, but across up of the country they are partly respon- Queen’s English. sector jobs with lower pay, fewer rights in 2010, but in Scotland they have all but much of England and Wales too: now sible for. Even if it is a close no, Scotland will and less security. The mass sell-off of collapsed to fringe party status. is our time to finish them off together. Defending a union forged by two kings be gone within a decade unless there is council housing — never replaced — left To most Scots, living under a Tory- Rather than attempting to defeat a yes over three centuries was never of any dramatic change: only the over-65s firmly many working class communities bereft led government seems absurd, like being campaign championing hope with the interest to me. What appeals is the oppose independence. The old order is of affordable homes for their children. forced to live under a hostile foreign politics of fear, it would have promised common traditions shared by Scottish, dead, whatever happens. A new federal The slashing of taxes on the rich in favour occupying force. Why do we have to to build a socially just Scotland as part English and Welsh people as they con- constitutional order – with sweeping dev- of indirect taxes, the crippling of trade scrabble around for spare cash to coun- of a new federal Britain. fronted, fought and defeated the pow- olution to the English regions and Wales, unions, mass privatisation and the relent- teract cartoonishly unjust policies such as Such is the desperation within this erful. Suffragettes such as Edinburgh’s and to Scotland if it remains – must be less promotion of the City, all ensured the bedroom tax that attempt to balance camp that John McTernan, former Ethel Moorhead and Manchester’s built. Drawing on our shared traditions of that inequality levels exploded. Britain’s books at the expense of predom- adviser to Tony Blair, has dirtied his Sylvia Pankurst; socialists such as Fife’s fighting the powerful, English, Welsh and But New Labour’s surrender to inantly poor disabled people, they won- knees by coming crawling to yours truly. Jennie Lee and her Welsh husband Nye Scots must confront an establishment the underlying assumptions of the der. Labour, meanwhile, left the Scottish In the fight to stop independence, he Bevan; trade union leaders such as that will still reign, even if Scotland is Thatcherite crusade gave the independ- National party ample progressive political writes, “the preachers of old time reli- North Lanarkshire’s Mick McGahey and formally independent. Too much dam- ence movement its greatest opportunity. turf to seize and claim as its own. On the gion” — including myself — need to take Liverpool’s Jack Jones — all confronted a age may have been inflicted for anyone Yes, the Blairites could not entirely purge ballot paper on 18 September, yes seems to the streets of Scotland. Desperation common enemy. to listen to such a call. But the estab- Labour’s traditions, and so the minimum to read “never live under a Tory govern- and chutzpah have been rolled into Glaswegians, Mancunians and lishment should know: it is responsible wage was introduced (albeit at too low a ment ever again”. one neat package. It was the likes of Cardiffians fought for and built the wel- for the looming break-up of the country. level), poverty was reduced and public You would think that Labour’s lead- McTernan who championed policies that fare state and the NHS with their own If Scotland votes to leave, or only nar- services were invested in. ers might have learned from their griev- fuelled the independence movement, who hands. A movement of Scottish, English rowly remains, there will be a reckoning, Yet they illegally invaded Iraq with ous mistakes. Rather than joining forces sidelined and demonised dissident voices and Welsh citizens not only defeated the and our bankrupt status quo must surely Conservative support, killing hundreds with a Tory party that the independence who protested: critics who – if listened poll tax, but ejected Margaret Thatcher be swept away. GUARDIAN NEWS Silva transforms Brazil’s presidential race This ceasefire is Ukraine’s best hope A former grass-roots environmentalist BY MARY DEJEVSKY

who once dreamed of becoming a nun n Friday, in the incongruous setting of a Welsh golf resort, President Petro Poroshenko stole the headlines from a tub- has stormed to the forefront in Brazil’s thumping Nato by announcing that talks in Minsk had pro- Oduced a ceasefire agreement for Ukraine. Just days on, after presidential campaign, just three weeks new outbreaks of shelling around Donetsk airport and the port of Mariupol, the most optimistic description of the ceasefire is that it is “fragile”. Fragile it may be, but the terms of the Minsk agreement, after joining the race. and the route to peace that it charts, represent the best chance there has been to end the fighting, and there are compelling reasons not to BY DOM PHILLIPS and purposeful dialogue that give up on them quite yet. doesn’t dramatize natural dif- A central question is whether the latest shelling signifies bad faith he first round of voting ferences between partners with on the part of Russia or actually demonstrates, as Moscow has insisted, is still a month away. economic interests.” that its control over the separatist fighters is less than western govern- But Marina Silva’s dra- This week’s polls show Silva ments believe. That question remains open. But there are compelling Tmatic rise in the polls and Rousseff each capturing reasons why Putin, like Poroshenko, if not the rebels, may genuinely as she seeks to unseat President about a third of the vote, with want the fighting to end now — and, indeed, why Putin may be in a Dilma Rousseff of the Workers Aécio Neves, from the center- better position than before to make it happen. Party has shaken Brazil’s political right Brazilian Social Democratic Poroshenko’s interests are clear: after initial successes, his forces establishment. Party (PSDB) garnering about 15 have been losing ground and risk losing more. The conduct of the “She is something new, like percent. In a second-round simu- Marina Silva campaigns in the Rocinha slum of Rio de Janeiro. Ukrainian forces has started to attract criticism from human rights Obama. Something that wasn’t lation, the poll by the Brazilian organisations. On the political front, having called early parliamentary expected. Talking a new language,” Institute of Public Opinion and supporters includes residents of officially went into recession in elections, Poroshenko needs some minimal accommodation with the said José Moisés, a political sci- Statistics (IBOPE) shows Silva at Brazilian slums, or favelas, business August. Inflation is hovering right east if the country is to hold together. ence professor at the University 46 percent to Rousseff’s 39 per- people who like her party’s “third at the government’s 6.5 percent The considerations pushing Putin towards a settlement are perhaps of São Paulo. “We are in front of cent, giving her victory. way” programme, and evangelical ceiling. This hurts Rousseff’s less clear, but also urgent. When the Russian president said recently a political phenomenon.” Rousseff had appeared to be Christians, an increasingly power- campaign. that he could “take Kiev in two weeks if I want to”, this was widely Silva, 56, who was the environ- a shoo-in for re-election. She ful demographic in Brazil. It also opens up space for Silva. interpreted as a threat. What he appeared to mean, though, was that ment minister in the Workers was Lula’s handpicked succes- She also attracts young, urban Her party’s detailed government “we could have taken the whole of Ukraine weeks ago, but that was Party government of hugely pop- sor. The Workers Party has run Brazilians who are disillusioned program was published Aug. 29. not, and is not, our intention”. Construed like this, it amounts to a ular president Luiz Inácio Lula Brazil since 2003. During a decade with politics. In research Moisés Neither the Workers Party nor welcome, if implicit, acceptance of Ukraine’s current borders – and a da Silva, has become the stand- of economic growth, millions of conducted this year, 82 percent the PSDB have theirs ready yet. key principle of any peace agreement. ard-bearer for the rival Brazilian Brazilians rose out of poverty. said they did not trust political Proposals in that programme This makes far more sense than designs on Kiev. Putin faces growing Socialist Party. Polls show that Eduardo Campos, the Socialists’ parties. A run of corruption scan- make Silva “our reliable agent of economic problems at home, only in part because of sanctions. Why support for her party has tripled chosen candidate, was in third dals under Rousseff and Lula have change,” said Tony Volpon, head of would he want to take on the huge liabilities of eastern Ukraine? It is since she was thrust into the race place, with 9 percent support, exacerbated the distrust. “She is emerging markets research for the clear why Russia wanted Crimea: to prevent its only warm water port shortly after the August 13 death according to an earlier IBOPE bringing the dissatisfaction of the Americas at Nomura Securities falling sooner or later into western hands. Russia’s chief concern in in a plane crash of the original poll, when he was killed last month. Brazilians with the political sys- International in New York. These eastern Ukraine is to ensure that the mostly Russian-speaking east Socialist candidate. Silva, his running mate, began her tem to the campaign,” Moisés include inflation targets, an inde- Ukrainians are not railroaded into a state where they fear being dis- If this mixed-race activist campaign in Recife days after said. Those sentiments were pendent Central Bank, a free- enfranchised. The projected peace agreement gives the east a “special from deep in the Amazon, who 130,000 people attended Campos’s echoed in the enormous Rocinha floating exchange rate and an status”, including a large amount of autonomy. That would be a gain. has a radical past in liberation funeral. Winning the presidency favela in Rio de Janeiro, where independent Fiscal Responsibility It is also something that Putin can present at home as having been theology, did become president, would be a remarkable achieve- Silva and other Socialist politi- Council to evaluate public spending. worth the fight. Giving up all claim to Ukraine, which is the effect of it would be a major step towards ment for a woman who grew up cians campaigned last weekend. “She is not only signaling the projected peace agreement, is a risk for Putin domestically. But equality in a country still largely in a poor family of Amazon rub- “She is going to fight. Put changing policy. She is chang- so is the prospect of more Russian casualties. As Putin surely knows, run by a privileged, white elite. ber tappers, hoped to become a things in order,” said Maria da ing the institutional framework Russian opinion could tip against him as quickly as it rallied to him Yet Silva appears less likely to nun before turning to evangelical Conceição, 54, rounding up her by which policies are made,” after Crimea. provoke Western powers than Christianity, and learned to read children. “We see sincerity in her.” Volpon said. Silva wants to res- Putin may also be in a better position to bring the rebels to heel than Lula occasionally did. Her party when she was a teenager. Her Her friend Claudia Mendonça, cue Brazil’s ailing ethanol indus- he was before. If, as it appears, the rebels’ recent advances were made programme highlights ties with mother was white, her father is a 42, said she, too, will vote for try and focus more on alternative largely thanks to Russian help, then that help can be withdrawn. Plus China and Latin America, but mix of black and Brazilian Indian Silva. “She is determined, she energy sources. This concerns the the rebel leaders now have their own investment in peace. In a key also says that relations with the ancestry, said Marilia Cesar, who has strength, she has drive,” oil industry, gearing up production concession by Poroshenko, they were party to the Minsk agreement. United States “need updating” wrote a 2010 biography. Mendonça said. “She is not prom- of Brazil’s vast “pre-salt” offshore Their credibility, as well as that of the two presidents, is now on the line. and calls for a “mature, balanced Silva’s growing band of ising the world.” Brazil’s economy oil reserves. WP-BLOOMBERG GUARDIAN NEWS MONDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2014 INTERNATIONAL 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Grace Mugabe poised for power in Zimbabwe Speculation growing that 90-year-old President may be grooming his 49-year-old wife for leadership

HARARE: Even as he received approached me and I am ready Sally, was alive (she died of kidney Zimbabwean political commen- red carpet treatment in Beijing to go.” failure in 1992) when he began tator, described it as a classic last month, lauded by China as With her election virtually their affair. Mugabe tactic to conceal the an “old friend” and “renowned assured at a party congress in In an interview on South African country’s deepening economic leader”, Robert Mugabe was in December, she will take a seat television last year, he offered an woes. “I really think this is a side- danger of being upstaged by a on Zanu-PF’s politburo and, as oddly worded defence: “After Sally show,” he said. “The master poli- colourful, charismatic presence Mugabe’s wife, be untouchable. was gone, it was necessary for me tician has reframed the problem at his side. Tendai Biti, the former finance to look for someone and, even as and taken attention away from His first lady, Grace Mugabe, minister, thinks she will go on Sally was still going through her his failures. We’ve got a 90-year- sporting a series of vivid outfits to lead Zanu-PF. After years of last few days, although it might old with no energy and no idea of during the official visit to China, speculation over who will suc- have appeared to some as cruel, the way forward, and who’s failed was once a lowly member of the ceed Mugabe, some believe the I said to myself, ‘Well, it’s not to groom a successor. presidential typing pool. Then she next leader has been hiding in just myself needing children.’ My “To me, Grace is just a pawn. caught Mugabe’s eye. Now the plain sight. mother has all the time said: ‘Ah, There’s no way she’s going to be woman better known to headline The rise and rise of Grace may am I going to die without seeing anything after Mugabe dies. She’s writers as “DisGrace” or “First reflect her husband’s confidence grandchildren?’ So I decided to not educated; she does not under- Shopper” is making a surprise that, at 90, he is more power- make love to her. She happened to stand the complexities of taking entrance on to the political stage ful than ever. Africa’s oldest be one of the nearest and she was a Zimbabwe forward; she does not and, it is speculated, might be leader looks certain of his party’s divorcee herself, and so it was. We even know women’s issues. She’s central to her autocratic hus- nomination for the 2018 elec- A file picture of Grace Mugabe at a Zanu-PF meeting. got our first child when my mother part of the elite and there’s abso- band’s plan to build a dynasty. tion at a time when the opposi- was still alive.” lutely no way the security guys The 49-year-old was recently tion Movement for Democratic succession battle within Zanu-PF, Simon Khaya Moyo, Zanu-PF’s The couple married in 1996 in can accept her being president. nominated as leader of the rul- Change (MDC) is in disarray. He which Mugabe has divided and chairman, issued an edict: “I must a Catholic mass dubbed the “wed- She doesn’t have the gravitas to ing Zanu-PF’s women’s league, was recently elected chairman ruled for decades. But even he, it warn the party leadership, at ding of the century”. Mugabe was lead Zimbabwe.” as well as having a place on its of a regional bloc of 15 southern is supposed, cannot live for ever. every level, not to use the media 73 when she gave birth to their Musewe said he was aware of central committee. She insists African nations and looks set to According to one theory, his wife to abuse the first lady’s name for third child. Grace has since gone rumours that Mugabe, who has she is ready. “The time has come become chairman of the African is a weapon to derail the presiden- whatever reason. The first family into business’ launching a dairy been in power for 34 years, wants to show people what I am made Union, while western powers tial ambitions of another woman, must be respected at all times.” range’ and set up a children’s to promote his wife to be a vice- of,” she told a crowd in Mazowe, have lifted most of the sanctions Vice-President Joice Mujuru, Born in South Africa to school, but has shown little appe- president early next year. “That the Zimbabwe Standard reported. against Zimbabwe. It appears he who is locked in a power struggle Zimbabwean parents, Grace was tite for diplomacy. means for the next few years no “People should learn to wait for is able to do as he pleases. with justice minister Emmerson a 20-year-old divorcee when she Her sudden appearance on the one can challenge her. But the their time… I had never dreamed Grace’s ascent has also Mnangagwa. got a secretarial job in the presi- political stage has taken many moment he drops, she’s finished.” of entering politics, but you have thrown a grenade into the bitter As the infighting worsened, dent’s office. Mugabe’s first wife, by surprise. Vince Musewe, a THE GUARDIAN

Four-day Ebola Far-right at ‘gates of lockdown could power’ in France: PM spread virus: Aid agencies BOLOGNA: The far-right of France’s flatlining economy. National Front is at the “gates Hollande’s woes have been of power” in France, Prime dramatically compounded by the FREETOWN: A four-day Minister Manuel Valls said yes- contents of a devastating memoir nationwide lockdown announced terday in a stark assessment of published by his spurned former by the Sierra Leone government the crisis embroiling the coun- partner Valerie Trierweiler, which in a bid to contain Ebola out- try’s centre-left government. depicts him as a self-serving break could instead exacerbate Valls’s warning follows weeks of opportunist with no principles. the spread of the disease, aid turmoil for the ruling Socialists Far-right groups, meanwhile, agencies have warned. which culminated in an opinion rallied yesterday against migrants From September 18 to 21, peo- poll on Friday showing that FN in the northern French port of ple across the west African nation leader Marine Le Pen would beat Calais days after refugees tried will not be allowed to leave their President Francois Hollande in to storm their way onto a ferry homes, a senior official in the presidential elections in 2017. to England. president’s office said. The French premier, whose Some protesters carried plac- But Médecins sans Frontières reformist agenda caused a split ards saying “Kick them out!” and (MSF) raised concern about the in the Socialist Party which trig- others blamed migrants for the drastic step, warning that it could gered the current crisis, made “crime, filth and economic dis- lead people to try to conceal infec- his comments in a speech to fel- aster” they claim was affecting tions from the authorities. low social democrats from across the town from which hundreds Ukrainian army soldiers check a burnt army truck after an overnight bombing attack, at a Ukrainian army checkpoint A spokeswoman said: “It has Europe at the Festa dell’Unita in of refugees hope to make it across on the outskirts Mariupol yesterday. been our experience that lock- Bologna, an annual talk-fest in the English Channel. downs and quarantines do not the one-time stronghold of Italy’s National Front leader Le Pen’s help control Ebola as they end up now defunct Communist Party. political power base is in the Pas driving people underground and In what will be interpreted de Calais region, where her party Fighting rattles Ukraine truce jeopardising the trust between as a warning shot across the made spectacular gains in the last people and health providers. This bows of left-wing rebels inside two elections. MARIUPOL: Fighting around Poroshenko and his Russian backed by Russian troops and leads to the concealment of poten- his own party, Valls said the left Expanding on his comments, two flashpoint cities in eastern counterpart Vladimir Putin, who firepower — launched a lightning tial cases and ends up spreading across Europe had to change its Valls made it clear they were Ukraine yesterday rattled a agreed that the ceasefire was counter-offensive in late August the disease further.” approach. “We have to act differ- aimed at the dissident wing of tenuous truce between govern- “generally being observed”. that dramatically reversed recent The move was intended to ently. We have to speak differ- his party opposed to his propos- ment troops and pro-Russian Mariupol city hall said one gains by the Ukrainian army allow health workers to identify ently,” the Spanish-born premier als to implement ¤50bn of cuts rebels less than 48 hours after woman had died in the shelling, and set alarm bells ringing over and isolate new cases to prevent said. “In order to be listened to in state spending by 2017 and use it came into force. the first reported death since Moscow’s territorial ambitions. the disease from spreading fur- and to be heard. part of the savings to reduce com- Insurgent militias bombarded the ceasefire. The 12-point pact Mariupol residents have for ther, said Ibrahim Ben Kargbo, a “We know what will be the ter- panies payroll taxes in the hope a government-held checkpoint signed in Minsk on Friday was days been fearful of an insurgent presidential adviser on the coun- rible price of failure. In France, of reversing the upward trend in on the eastern edge of the port the first to win the backing of assault in what analysts see as a try’s Ebola task force. the extreme right of Marine Le unemployment, which hit new city of Mariupol overnight, local both Kiev and Moscow after five possible land grab to carve out a So far, more than 3,685 people Pen is at the gates of power. record levels this summer. officials said, killing one woman months of warfare that set off the corridor between Russia and the have been infected in west Africa, “And I, as a man of the left, will The tensions in the party could and triggering panic among deepest crisis in East-West rela- Crimean peninsula annexed by with 1,841 deaths from the virus never be able to resign myself to come to a head on September residents. tions for a generation. Moscow in March. recorded in Sierra Leone, Liberia, that because it will be the weakest 16, when the Valls government Artillery fire was also heard “The Ukrainian army has met The situation was calm in the Guinea and Nigeria since March, who will be the first to suffer. And faces a confidence vote in parlia- near the main rebel stronghold the truce conditions fully, and has Azov Sea port city Sunday but according to the latest World it will also be a terrible, perhaps ment which could — if enough of Donetsk, witnesses said, with ceased fire. At the same time, our several buildings and vehicles Health Organisation figures. fatal, blow to Europe.” left-wingers side with the right the Ukrainian government accus- checkpoints came under attack were damaged. “I want peace but THE GUARDIAN The crisis within the Socialist — force the dissolution of parlia- ing separatist gunmen of trying to from the terrorist side,” said I think this ceasefire is finished, Party which led to an emergency ment. “Everyone has to step up and attack the city’s airport. National Security and Defence this is the third night we haven’t Germany’s divisive reshuffle of the government last accept the responsiblity of avoiding The violence erupted just Council official Volodymyr Poloviy. been able to sleep,” a 46-year-old month has been followed by a an institutional crisis,” Valls said. hours after a phone call between The peace plan was drawn up woman said. road toll plan string of grim updates on the state AFP Ukraine’s President Petro after the rebels — reportedly AFP flawed: Report

BERLIN: A plan to intro- Migrants rescued duce toll roads in Germany aimed mainly at foreigners, Prague cancer centre set which has already divided the ruling coalition, is flawed and even loss-making, according to receive Ashya King to internal government docu- ments published in Der Spiegel magazine yesterday. PRAGUE: A Czech centre due children, out of hospital. The child The proposal has caused a to provide five-year-old Ashya had recently undergone surgery row within Chancellor Angela King with the medical treat- for his brain tumour, and the Merkel’s grand coalition gov- ment his family has desperately parents had rejected subsequent ernment because the Christian sought since it was refused treatment they believed would Social Union (CSU), her under British care said he could turn him into a “vegetable”. Bavarian sister party, insists on check into hospital in Prague as Once in Spain, they were it while her Christian Democrats early as next week. arrested under an extradition war- (CDU) and the Social Democrat The Proton Therapy Centre rant for fear that Ashya’s health (SPD) partners are sceptical (PTC) said that its experts would was in danger, but British prosecu- about whether it conforms to fast-track their procedures for tors later dropped the case amidst European Union rules. the young brain cancer sufferer, an outpouring of public sympathy. Internal government reports whose parents were arrested last A lawyer for the family, speak- by the Finance, Interior and week in Spain after pulling him ing on Saturday in front of the Economy ministries obtained by from an English hospital in order children’s hospital in the south- Der Spiegel show the toll might to seek alternative care. ern Spanish city of Malaga where cost the government more money Migrants of sub-Saharan origin disembark Italian Navy’s frigate ‘Euro’ as they arrive in the harbour of Reggio Brett King, 51, and Neghemeh Ashya has been remained for a than it generates, and that it Calabria, in southern Italy yesterday. The migrants were rescued in the South Mediterranean Sea. King, 45, triggered an interna- week, said the boy would head to might be in violation of Germany’s tional manhunt when they took Prague by today at the latest. constitution and EU rules. Ashya, the youngest of seven AFP REUTERS MONDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2014 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 UK offers Scots greater powers; Yes camp leads Osborne’s move a panic measure: Scottish minister

LONDON: The British govern- told BBC television: “If people about Britain’s standing in the ment yesterday pledged greater were in any doubt that they can international community. fiscal autonomy for Scotland, stay at home, that they don’t need Scotland represents one-third after a poll put the pro-inde- to go out to the polls and vote ‘No’ of Britain’s landmass and is home pendence camp ahead for the to avoid separation, they won’t be to Britain’s submarine-based first time — just 11 days before in that doubt today. They should Trident nuclear deterrent, which the referendum on separation. also be in no doubt about the con- the SNP says must be out of an British Finance Minister sequences of this decision.” independent Scotland by 2020. George Osborne said greater tax The Chancellor of the Salmond claimed the momen- and spending powers would be Exchequer added: “No ifs, no buts: tum was now “decisively with announced in the coming days we will not share the pound if the ‘Yes’ campaign”. “The and would be implemented if Scotland separates from the rest Westminster elite are losing this Scotland votes on September 18 of the UK.” campaign... we’ve got them on the to retain the 300-year-old union Osborne said it was “clear” that run,” he told BBC television. with England. Scots wanted greater autonomy and He said there was “clear panic The offer came after a YouGov the three main United Kingdom- in the ‘No’ campaign. They’ve poll in The Sunday Times news- wide parties — the Conservatives, failed to scare the Scots; now paper gave the pro-independence their Liberal Democrat junior they’re trying to bribe us”. “Yes” camp 51 percent support partners in government and the The Better Together campaign, compared to the “No” camp’s 49 Labour opposition — had agreed which backs Scotland staying in percent, excluding undecided vot- to “deliver” on that. the United Kingdom, has been ers. Six percent said they had not “You will see in the next few ahead in opinion polls for months Members of the group ‘English Scots for YES’ hold a tea-party near Berwick-upon-Tweed on the border between made up their minds. days a plan of action to give more but its lead has narrowed in England and Scotland yesterday. The members, which comprises of English people living in Scotland who can Although the two-point lead powers to Scotland. More tax recent weeks. vote in the forthcoming referendum on Scottish independence, handed out free tea and cakes to people stopping is within the margin of error, powers, more spending powers, The “No” camp had a 22-point at the border lay-by, and erected their own ‘Welcome to Scotland’ sign (right). the findings dramatically up the more plans for powers over the lead in YouGov polling just one stakes ahead of the vote. welfare state,” he said. month ago. Another YouGov sur- now tip the balance in this refer- 48 percent, excluding undecideds. an “irreversible decision”. Scottish First Minister Alex “Then Scotland will have the vey for The Times newspaper on endum,” he said. “It’s not a pro- Gordon Brown, Cameron’s “The underlying mood of the Salmond, of the separatist best of both worlds. They will Tuesday showed a marked nar- test vote, it is about the future of Labour predecessor as prime electorate voting in this referen- Scottish National Party (SNP), both avoid the risks of sepa- rowing of the gap to six points. our country. If we decide to leave, minister, blamed Conservative dum is they want change,” he told dismissed Osborne’s move as a ration but have more control Osborne’s Labour predeces- there is no going back.” policies for hindering support Sky News television, but stressed “panic measure”, saying it was over their own destiny, which is sor Alistair Darling, the Better A second survey commissioned for the union. But the Scot said the best way to get it was through “ridiculous” to announce it now, where I think many Scots want Together leader, said the latest by the “Yes” camp and released whatever government was “tem- greater autonomy rather than with many people having already to be.” poll showed the referendum “will yesterday puts the “No” camp four porarily” in power — a UK-wide breaking “every single link” with voted by post. Any vote for Scotland to leave go right to the wire”. points ahead. The Panelbase poll general election is due in May the rest of the UK. Reacting to the poll, Osborne the UK would raise questions “Every voter in Scotland can gives “No” 52 percent and “Yes” — that should not be a basis for AFP

Unity rally Condition of 396,552 pending cases at US doctor US immigration courts with Ebola WASHINGTON: The backlog from Honduras, El Salvador and of pending deportation cases in Guatemala, have been caught US immigration courts has risen crossing the Mexican border ille- ‘improving’ to nearly 400,000 amid a crush of gally. More than 66,000 additional tens of thousands of unaccompa- immigrants travelling as families, WASHINGTON: An American nied children and families caught mostly mothers and young chil- doctor who caught the Ebola crossing the Mexican border dren from Central America, have virus while working in a Liberian illegally this year, according an also been caught. maternity ward is showing signs analysis of court data. Homeland Security Secretary of improvement, relatives said. The Transactional Records Jeh Johnson has said that all of Rick Sacra, 51, arrived at the Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse the immigrants caught crossing Nebraska Medical Centre early University said in its latest report the border would face deportation on Friday, becoming the third US that as of the end of July, 396,552 hearings. The TRAC report shows health care worker to be evacu- cases were pending in the Justice that the largest backlogs are in ated from West Africa amid the Department’s 59 immigration immigration courts in California, largest Ebola outbreak in history. courts. TRAC collects and stud- Texas and New York. The large Sacra’s wife Debbie and oldest ies a variety of federal prosecution and growing court backlog has led son Maxwell, 22, visited the sick- records. The backlog has grown to years-long waits for immigra- ened doctor late on Saturday. Demonstrators hold placards as they protest against the actions of Islamic State in Iraq outside Downing by more than 75,000 cases since tion cases to be completed. They spoke via video-link for Street in central London yesterday. The unity rally took place to address the genocide of the minority peoples the start of the budget year in Meanwhile, US President about 25 minutes, as Sacra is of Iraq by the Islamic State group. October, according to TRAC. Barack Obama faced criticism being isolated in the hospital’s The Executive Office for from foes and allies after his bio-containment unit to avoid Immigration Review, the Justice decision to delay immigration contamination from the highly Department agency that oper- reform until after November’s contagious disease. ates immigration courts, said on midterm elections. Republicans “Rick is very sick and weak, but Friday that its records show a and Democrats both condemned slightly improved from when he Ten dead in Colombia plane crash caseload of 391,243 pending cases Obama’s decision, announced on arrived yesterday,” Debbie Sacra as of July 31. An agency spokes- Saturday, to delay using his exec- said. “He asked for something to BOGOTA: All 10 people on after Saturday’s crash. Ortega 3pm local time (2000 GMT) on woman said the methodology utive power to break the deadlock eat and had a little chicken soup.” board a Colombian plane that said all the dead — six men, three Saturday. It lost contact with air TRAC uses to analyze court data until after this year’s polls. She added that her husband crashed in the Amazon jungle women and a young girl — were traffic control as it went over the may be different than the meth- The decision was widely could not remember much from were confirmed dead yesterday, Colombian nationals. town of Florencia. The wreck of ods used by the government. interpreted as a political move his return to the United States, rescuers said. The aircraft with registration the aircraft was located 10km Since 1 October the Homeland designed to protect Democratic and was trying to rest. Debbie Rescue team official Gustavo number HK-4755 PA 34 Navajo from the urban centre of the town Security Department has reported Party lawmakers battling to cling Sacra said she was “relieved to see Ortega said that the eight passen- took off from Araracuara Airport of Puerto Santander. that more than 66,000 unaccom- to seats in the elections. his face and hear his voice again”. gers and two crew died on impact in the country’s south around AFP panied child immigrants, mostly THE GUARDIAN/AFP She expressed hope her hus- band’s illness would help garner more attention to the outbreak. “We don’t want this story to be about Rick,” she said. Petrobras scandal shakes “The story is the crisis in West Africa. That is what is most important. The world is coming up Brazil presidential race to this fight late.” The Nebraska Medical Centre RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil’s vote-buying scheme in Congress has said that serum from a sur- October presidential race has that tainted former president viving patient, or drug treatments been shaken up by a corrup- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva while that interfere with the virus but tion scandal allegedly involving he was in office. have never been tested in peo- state-run oil firm Petrobras and On Saturday, the magazine ple are among the options being dozens of lawmakers, with both Ve j a printed the names of those considered for Sacra. There are leading candidates forced onto implicated in the scandal. Among no drug treatments on the mar- the defensive after colleagues them were former governor and ket for Ebola, and no vaccines to were implicated. presidential candidate Eduardo prevent it, though the crisis has Media reported on Friday night Campos, who died in a plane crash accelerated clinical trials to test that a jailed former Petrobras last month; minister for energy and bring remedies to the market. director had named dozens of and mines Edison Lobão; president The other American doctors politicians who allegedly received of Congress’ lower house Henrique sickened with Ebola, doctor Kent kickbacks off the company’s con- Eduardo Alves; and Senate presi- Brantly and aid worker Nancy tracts. The revelations are a head- dent Renan Calheiros. Writebol, recovered and were dis- ache for President Dilma Rousseff, Those allegedly involved in the charged from Emory University undermining her reputation for scheme were said to have received Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia last zero tolerance on corruption just a 3 percent kickback off the oil month. Ebola causes fever, vomit- as she is slipping in the polls ahead firm’s contracts with third par- ing, diarrhoea and in severe cases, of the October 5 election. It could ties between 2004 and 2012. The internal haemorrhaging. The cur- also hamper opposition candidate money swapped hands in order rent outbreak has been fatal to Marina Silva. to maintain political support about half of those infected. But the scandal has given between parties, Veja said. It is transmissible through close third-placed Aecio Neves a fresh The names were given by Paulo contact with the bodily fluids of rallying call as he tries to claw Roberto Costa, former head of an infected person, or by touch- himself back into the race. He is Petrobras’ refining and supply ing the corpse of a person who already on the offensive, brand- unit, arrested in March as part of has recently died of the infection. ing the scandal “mensalao 2” a police investigation into money AFP in reference to the “mensalao” laundering. REUTERS MONDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2014 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / PHILIPPINES North Korea to Ice bucket challenge try US citizen next Sunday Detained American appeals for help

SEOUL: North Korea will put update to Psaki’s earlier remarks. US citizen Matthew Miller on Although religious freedom is trial next Sunday, state media enshrined in the North’s constitu- said, shortly after he made a tion, it does not exist in practice highly unusual televised plea for and foreign missionaries — viewed help from Washington along with as seditious elements intent on two other detained Americans. fomenting unrest — have been Miller, who is being held among those detained in the past. in North Korea along with Bae, a Korean-American Americans Kenneth Bae and described by the North as a mili- Jeffrey Fowle, was arrested in tant Christian evangelist, was April after Pyongyang said he arrested in November 2012 and ripped up his visa at immigration later sentenced to 15 years of hard and demanded asylum. labour on charges of seeking to top- North Korea said in June ple the North Korean government. that it would put Miller and Fowle entered the North on Fowle on trial on unspecified April 29 and was detained after charges related to “perpetrat- reportedly leaving a Bible at a ing hostile acts”. “The Supreme hotel. Washington has no diplo- Court of the Democratic People’s matic ties with North Korea, and Republic of Korea decided to hold the Swedish embassy acts as a go- on September 14 a court trial on between in such consular cases. American Matthew Todd Miller, Swedish officials last visited Bae now in custody according to the on August 11, and saw Fowle and indictment of a relevant insti- Miller in late June. tution,” the official news agency The trial date for Miller has KCNA said yesterday. been set as the North launches Filipino residents dump buckets of ice water on themselves as they take part in the ALS ice bucket challenge in Quezon City, Metro Manila, yes- The statement offered no fur- a diplomatic offensive by sending terday. Over 200 people brought their own buckets of water to take part in the challenge aimed at raising awareness of — and money to fight — ther details. On September 1, the senior diplomats on rare trips to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, more often known as ALS or Lou Gherig’s Disease. three men pleaded for their free- Europe — and, possibly, to the US. dom in an interview with CNN. Kang Sok-Ju, secretary of the As government minders looked central committee of the rul- on, they urged Washington to ing Workers’ Party, arrived on send an envoy to the isolated Saturday for a European tour authoritarian state to negotiate including Germany and Italy. Bangsamoro law to be submitted on Wednesday their release. “My situation is Foreign Minister Ri Su-Yong very urgent,” Miller said. reportedly plans to visit New “I think this interview is my York to attend the UN General MANILA: Philippine President only thing he knows is that the The government negotiating between the national govern- final chance to push the American Assembly later this month, in the Benigno Aquino will submit the measure will be submitted to panel and the Milf camp failed ment and the new political entity. government into helping me,” first visit to the US by anyone in draft Bangsamoro Basic Law Congress before Aquino leaves for to meet their target to submit Once the Bangsamoro Basic Law he added, wearing a dark tur- the role of North Korea’s top dip- bill to Congress on Wednesday. Europe on September 13. the draft priority measure to is passed and signed into law by tleneck and often looking away lomat in 15 years. Senate sources told The Star “The draft BBL is now under- Congress on the last week of Aquino, a plebiscite will be con- from the interviewer. US officials As part of the renewed diplo- that the submission of the draft going final stages of refinement,” August. Milf chief negotiator ducted in the envisioned core vowed after the footage was aired matic campaign, Pyongyang will bill will be held in a ceremony in Coloma quoted Office of the Iqbal signed the cover letter of the territory of the Bangsamoro to that they would “leave no stone use the detainees as a bargaining Malacañang to be attended by Presidential Adviser on the Peace draft bill, addressed to Executive ratify the new government that unturned” in their efforts to free chip to lead Washington to the Senate President Franklin Drilon Process Secretary Teresita Deles Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr, when will replace the ARMM by 2016. the trio, but declined to disclose negotiating table, said Kim Yong- and Speaker Feliciano Belmonte as saying. “By the estimate of they submitted the measure to Polls for a Bangsamoro Political details, saying they did not want Hyun, professor of North Korean Jr, together with other leaders of Moro Islamic Liberation Front President Aquino. Entity will be held alongside the to jeopardise any diplomacy. Studies in Dongguk University. both houses of Congress. panel and Bangsamoro Transition The Bangsamoro Basic Law will May 2016 presidential and local State Department spokes- On his arrival in Berlin, Kang It could not be confirmed, how- Commission chair Mohagher Iqbal, embody the comprehensive peace elections. The crafting of the woman Jen Psaki would not dis- repeated calls for Washington to ever, whether representatives the draft bill is now 99.99 percent agreement signed last March by the Bangsamoro bill was stalled for cuss whether Washington was resume the long-stalled, six-nation of the Moro Islamic Liberation done,” Deles said in a statement. MILF and the government, aim- months after Aquino’s legal team prepared to send a high-level nuclear negotiations. The aid-for- Front as well as the government According to Deles, the draft ing to end the decades-long armed supposedly made changes to the envoy as it has in the past, when denuclearisation talks involving negotiating panel led by profes- BBL “was completed almost two conflict in Mindanao. The bill draft submitted by the Bangsamoro former president Bill Clinton both Koreas, China, the US, Russia sor Miriam Coronel-Ferrer will weeks ago” by Aquino. “On the seeks to create a new Bangsamoro Transition Commission. and ex-governor Bill Richardson and Japan have been at a standstill be attending the ceremony. basis of the President’s comments, political entity that will replace the Iqbal even earlier said that his successfully won the release of since 2009. Seoul and Washington Presidential Communications there were further discussion and Autonomous Region in Muslim camp’s peace negotiators will “lose detained Americans. want Pyongyang to first show sin- Operations Office Secretary exchange of notes between MILF Mindanao (ARMM). face” if they accept the proposed After the North’s announce- cerity about abandoning its nuclear Herminio Coloma Jr would not and the Office of the President, the The measure is expected to law with the revisions made by ment yesterday, the State weapons programme before talks confirm the Wednesday submis- results of which were also submit- stipulate power-sharing and the President’s lawyers. Department said there was no can resume. AFP sion, and said yesterday that the ted to the President,” she said. wealth-sharing arrangements THE PHILIPPINE STAR

Moon Festival Myanmar axes Japan PM hopeful on war by-elections crimes probe in Sri Lanka YANGON: Myanmar’s election commission yesterday scrapped COLOMBO: Japanese Prime later as part of a regional tour November by-elections in 35 par- Minister Shinzo Abe said he aimed at boosting trade and off- liamentary seats, citing the pres- hoped Sri Lanka’s war crimes setting China’s mounting influ- sure of hosting an upcoming probe would silence its crit- ence in South Asia. regional summit and extra costs ics ahead of his arrival on the Abe, who is travelling to ahead of a nationwide poll in 2015. island to push for stronger Colombo with a business delega- The Union Election Commission trade ties. tion, will be the first Japanese made the surprise announcement Abe told the local Sunday Times premier in 24 years to visit the after a meeting with more than newspaper that he also hoped Indian Ocean island. 30 political parties in Yangon. Sri Lanka could achieve “true Explaining the decision, deputy national reconciliation” five years EXPANDING TIES director of the commission Hla after the military crushed ethnic He is due to hold talks with Maung Cho said the number of Tamil rebels to end the island’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa lawmakers who would have been separatist war. on expanding their economic and returned to parliament in the by- Sri Lanka has been under political ties, Sri Lanka’s informa- elections “will not make a big dif- intense international pressure tion minister said. ference” to voting. over war crimes allegedly com- Officials said Japan was helping He cited high cost of contesting A Malaysian child plays amidst Chinese lanterns displayed at a mall ahead of the Mid-Autumn Festival cel- mitted by the military in the final Sri Lanka set up a new digital tel- polls for smaller political parties ebrations, in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. The festival, also called the Moon Festival, is a popular East Asian months of the war. evision broadcast system and was who are also planning their cam- celebration of abundance and togetherness, dating back over 3,000 years to China’s Zhou Dynasty. The UN rights body in March also assisting with upgrading the paigns for the nationwide vote ordered an international panel transport sector. slated for November next year. to investigate charges that Sri Abe and Rajapaksa also aim The opposition National League Lanka’s security forces killed at to strengthen maritime territo- for Democracy (NLD) secured a least 40,000 Tamil civilians. rial cooperation in the face of a landslide victory in by-elections in Abe noted that Colombo, which more territorially assertive China, April 2012, sending party leader Man held for supplying tainted oil to hotels has refused to cooperate with media reports said. Aung San Suu Kyi to parliament the UN-mandated probe, had On Saturday, Abe won Dhaka’s as the nation pressed forward TAIPEI: Taiwanese authorities after the 32-year-old was released months from February Chang expanded the mandate of its own support for Tokyo’s bid for a with democratic reforms after have detained the main suspect last week on bail of Tw$50,000 Guann had bought 243 tonnes inquiry into those disappearances non-permanent seat on the UN decades of military rule. in a food safety scare over recy- ($1,670) as concern grew over of tainted oils — collected from during the war to include investi- Security Council. Suu Kyi’s party is widely tipped cled cooking oil which officials the food scare. Television footage cookers, fryers and grease traps gating war crimes claims. Bangladeshi Prime Minister to sweep full polls in 2015, if they said yesterday had been sup- showed Kuo’s home in Pingtung — from Kuo and mixed it with “Japan hopes such efforts made Sheikh Hasina said Dhaka would are free and fair. An NLD spokes- plied to more than 900 restau- city pelted with eggs and red paint lard oil for sale to its customers by Sri Lanka will lead to dispel withdraw its candidacy in favour man welcomed the cancellation rants and bakeries. by angry protesters. islandwide. A total of 782 tonnes concerns indicated in the reso- of Tokyo in view of Japan’s of the by-elections. “They were Kuo Lieh-chen, the owner of Five other people implicated of such oils had been produced. lution by the UN Human Rights “continued and strong support pretty rushed,” Nyan Win of Suu an illegal factory in southern in the case have also been ques- Chang Guann has apologised Council,” Abe said in an interview in Bangladesh’s development Kyi’s party said. Pingtung county at the centre of tioned and released on bail. The but said it was unaware the oils with the newspaper published process”. Suu Kyi is trying to change key the scandal, was taken into cus- Food and Drug Administration were recycled. Wei Chuan Foods yesterday. Abe’s tour follows Indian Prime sections of Myanmar’s constitu- tody on Saturday. “As he is likely said yesterday that 933 restau- Corp, the Taiwanese unit of Ting Japan, the largest single for- Minister Narendra Modi’s trip to tion that could open the way for to flee or conspire with other rants, bakeries and food plants, Hsin International Group, said it eign aid donor to Sri Lanka, Tokyo this month during which further tweaks to the charter, suspects, we decided to take him including 397 in Taipei city, had had recalled 12 types of products remained neutral at the UN the two countries, which both including the ring-fenced pro- into custody,” Pan Cheng-ping, used the tainted oil supplied by including meat paste since late Human Rights Council vote in have prickly relations with giant portion of soldiers in parliament spokesman for the Pingtung dis- Chang Guann Co, a leading food Thursday which may have used March that voted to set up the neighbour China, declared they and the effective bar on Suu Kyi trict court, told reporters. oil manufacturer. the recycled oils. war crimes probe. would raise ties to a “new level”. leading the country. AFP Prosecutors had filed a complaint Investigators found that in six AFP Abe arrives from Bangladesh AFP MONDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2014 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Pressure on Afghan presidential candidate not to cede power KABUL: “Radicals” back- Abdullah — the man most here agreement that insults one side would be recounted, a process The international community together after the April vote: ing Afghan presidential candi- believe is behind in the official and promotes the other side and that concluded on Friday. On a had hoped for a smooth transi- Former ethnic Hazara leader date Abdullah Abdullah could ballot count — insinuated that the each side firmly believes he is a parallel track, the candidates tion of power as most foreign Mohammad Mohaqiq, Abdullah’s foment post-election violence election could still end violently. winner — that could be a recipe have been trying to agree on a forces withdraw by the end of second deputy; Gul Agha Sherzai, if he isn’t given an equitable In what appeared to be either for radicals to re-emerge and national unity government that the year. The United States a former Pashtun warlord; Atta share of power, his spokesman a threat or a negotiating tactic, challenge the leadership and say would see one of them hold the wants the next Afghan presi- Mohammad Noor, the gover- warned ahead of a meeting with the spokesman said Abdullah’s this is not acceptable,” he said. as-yet undefined position of chief dent to quickly sign a security nor of Balkh province, who has his rival aimed at resolving a powerful factional supporters Abdullah won the election’s executive. agreement to allow some 10,000 already threatened violence months-long election dispute. are pressuring their candidate first round in April but did not A spokesman for Ghani troops to remain to assist with against the central government; The camps of the two candi- to not cede any power to Ghani secure enough votes to avoid a Ahmadzai said the former World counterterrorism operations and and Salahuddin Rabbani, a former dates — former foreign minister Ahmadzai. June runoff. A preliminary count Bank official is committed to a training Afghan forces. president’s son. Abdullah and former finance min- “If we agree and the terms showed Ghani Ahmadzai win- national unity government, but President Hamid Karzai, in Five years ago, Abdullah ister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai — of the agreement are providing ning the second round, but both he also said that giving the losing power since the 2001 US-led inva- pulled out of an election runoff said the two were expected to an equal opportunity for both sides alleged widespread fraud. candidate chief executive power sion that ousted the Taliban, has with Karzai, a “cup of poison” he meet soon to negotiate a final deal camps and defuses that tension, it Abdullah’s camp says it believes over cabinet ministers violates refused to sign the accord. Both drank for the good of the country, on what powers should be given to might reduce the prospect of vio- some 2.5 million votes out of a Afghanistan’s constitution. “We candidates have said they would Rahimi said. This time Abdullah a proposed chief executive posi- lence,” Mujib Rahman Rahimi, an total 8 million cast were fake. know that our constitution is very sign it; one must be sworn in first. feels he can’t abide by what he tion, the final sticking point of a Abdullah campaign spokesman, US Secretary of State John clear about that specific issue, but The pressure for Abdullah views as a violation of the one per- national unity government. told The Associated Press. Kerry helped broker a deal this again this is up to both candidates,” to not cede authority comes son, one vote principle. Ominously, a spokesman for “But imagine if you have an summer under which all ballots said Mohammad Taher Zohair. from the wide coalition cobbled AP

Pakistani sailor 7 sentenced to missing during military exercise death for rape SYDNEY: The Royal Australian Navy said yesterday that it had launched a search for a Pakistani sailor believed to have disap- peared overboard during a mul- after outrage tinational military exercise in the north of the country. The navy said the sailor, who was not named, went missing early Huge applause inside Afghan court yesterday while the Pakistan Navy ship PNS Nasr was anchored at KABUL: An Afghan judge yes- “We went to Paghman with our Darwin Harbour in the Northern terday sentenced seven men to families. On the way back, they Territory during the biennial death for the gang-rape of four took us,” one victim, dressed in Kakadu military exercises. women in a case that sparked a burqa, told the packed court- A Northern Territory police nationwide outrage and high- room as noisy protesters outside spokesman told the Australian lighted the violence women demanded the death penalty. Broadcasting Corporation the face despite reforms since the “One of them put his gun to sailor might have deliberately Taliban era. my head, the other one took all jumped into the crocodile-infested The seven men, who stood in our jewellery, and the rest started From left: Afghans Safiullah, Nazar Mohammad, Qaisullah, Azizullah, Samiullah, Mustafa, and Jamil, the seven waters to swim to the mainland. the dock dressed in brown tradi- what you already know,” she said. men who gang-raped four women on August 23, stand trial in court in Kabul yesterday. “A backpack was found in the tional clothing, were found guilty Applause erupted inside the water which would indicate that of kidnapping and attacking the court after Kabul police chief were forced to wear the all-envel- The gang-rape unleashed a Afghanistan’s justice system had the person leaving the ship did female members of a group that Zahir Zahir called for the men to oping burqa, banned from jobs, wave of public anger via street failed to follow due process over know what he was doing at the was driving home to Kabul from be hanged. “We want them to be and forbidden even to leave the protests, the media and the the case and that all accused time and didn’t simply fall off a wedding. hanged in public so that it will be house without a male chaperone. Internet, echoing the response to deserved a fair trial. the ship,” Superintendent Rob President Hamid Karzai had a lesson for others,” he said. Rape and violence against recent similar crimes in India . President Karzai’s per- Burgoyne said. “He was described called for the men to be hanged. “We arrested them with police women and girls was rife, accord- Last week the US embassy in sonal intervention came as he as skulking in the bushes (on the The death sentences were techni- uniforms. They confessed to their ing to Amnesty International, Kabul condemned “the brutal waits to step down after ruling mainland), so one can work out cally handed down for the crime of crime within two hours of their which says that Afghan women robbery, beating, and rape” and Afghanistan since the fall of the from that, probably he didn’t armed robbery rather than rape. arrest.” The judge said the seven are still routinely discriminated called on Afghan authorities to Taliban. The June 14 election to want to be found.” In a televised trial that lasted only had the right to appeal against against, abused and persecuted. bring the perpetrators to justice. choose his successor has become “The Australian Defence Force a few hours, the court heard that their sentences. The Taliban, who launched a Hasina Safi, head of the Afghan engulfed in a prolonged dispute is assisting with the search and the men, who had obtained police Under Afghan law, the resilient insurgency after being Women’s Network action group, over fraud, with both of the two rescue efforts,” the military said, uniforms and were armed with President must also sign a death ousted, threaten a comeback as said she welcomed the death candidates claiming victory. adding that the hunt for the sailor guns, stopped a convoy of cars in warrant for an execution to go US-led Nato combat troops with- penalties. “We consider it a big The United Nations has would involve boats and aircraft. the early hours of August 23. ahead. Women’s rights have been draw from the country later this step and achievement for the expressed fears the political More than 1,000 people, eight They dragged the four women central to the multi-billion-dollar year. Despite 13 years of fight- women of Afghanistan. I wish we stand-off could trigger a spiral warships and 26 aircraft from 15 out of the vehicles, robbed them, international development effort ing, foreign forces have failed to had more such cases decided on of instability and a return to the Asia-Pacific and Indian Ocean beat them up and then raped in Afghanistan since the fall of quash the insurgents, who have openly, so that we didn’t have to lawless chaos of the 1990s civil nations are involved in the mari- them. One of the women was the Taliban regime in 2001. gained ground in a series of recent suffer such heinous acts.” war that allowed the Taliban to time exercise, which lasts until reported to be pregnant. Under the Taliban rule, women offensives. But Human Rights Watch said rise to power. AFP September 12. AFP Floods destruction Interior ministry’s website hacked ISLAMABAD: The official website of Pakistan’s Federal Ministry of Interior was hacked yesterday. Defacing the web- site (www.interior.gov.pk), the hackers posted offensive remarks against Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan. The website was hacked hours after Chaudhry Nisar’s press conference at the Punjab House in response to PPP Senator Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan’s speech during the joint session of the parliament on Friday. Ahsan had criticised the minister in his speech. The hacked website also carried doctored photos of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Railway Minister Khawaja Saad Rafiq and Punjab’s former law minister Rana Sanaullah. The source said the website was hacked at around 9pm and that the ministry’s staff was A man searches the debris of his house destroyed by floods in Wazirabad yesterday. trying to restore it. INTERNEWS Disabled girl awarded scholarship

ISLAMABAD: Shumaila was in kinder- supported me endlessly, and look at me However, he remains proud of her. garten when she lost both her arms in now!” exclaimed the Class VI student of “Instead of giving up, she defeated her dis- a train accident. Today, the courageous MK High School Sukkur. She learnt not ability,” he said, adding that as the eldest of sixth-grader has received the Pakistan only how to write using her feet and her left five siblings, she even helps her mother at Scottish Scholarship, proving that if you wrist, but also to draw and colour. home. “I will always try my best to make are committed enough, no handicap can Unlike her classmates, who want to her dreams come true.” be a barrier. be doctors and engineers and teachers, Dr Irfan Ahmed Rind, the education “Six years ago, I was going to Quetta with Shumaila’s dream is to become a lawyer, so department head at the Institute of Business my grandmother to attend a wedding,” she she can help the poor and needy get justice. Administration, Sukkur, and the British said. “We live near the railway station, and She was recently awarded the Pakistan Council Connection Classrooms focal person, when I saw a train approaching, I ran to the Scottish Scholarship, under which she will said that his team had chosen Shumaila for the track. My foot got stuck in it and I tripped. receive Rs12,000 each year. The scholarship scholarship after visiting 10 schools in the city. My grandmother tried to pull me away, but will also provide her with stationary, uni- “This girl has done wonders,” said Liaquat it was too late and the train ran over us.” forms and a sanitary kit among other items. Ali Abbasi, one of Shumaila’s teachers, while Shumaila’s grandmother died and the little Her father, Mohammad Ishaq, remem- school Principal Farzana Akram extolled girl lost both her arms, one below her elbow bers the time of the accident as the worst in her bravery. “While the scholarship is not and the other below her shoulder. Shumaila his life. Bemoaning the lack of medical facil- enough to cover her expenses, it is a great was rushed to Civil Hospital, Sukkur, for sur- ities in the city, the Election Commission achievement and we see it as a boost for gery. After a month’s absence, she went back employee said that his daughter’s arms such students,” she said. “Shumaila is an to school and started afresh. could have been rejoined if modern health- example for all those who lose hope after “My classmates, teachers and principal care had been available in Sukkur. becoming disabled.” INTERNEWS MONDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2014 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA Amit Shah In Gandhi’s shadow Terrorist group planned attacks hits out at during festivals

NEW DELHI: Terror group Indian Mujahideen planned to carry out attacks in Delhi and other states during the upcom- Mamata rule ing festivals, a key IM operative arrested from Uttar Pradesh has revealed, police said yesterday. Ajaz Sheikh, 27, was on the way to Delhi from Didi needs to go, says BJP chief Nepal when he was nabbed by Delhi Police and Uttar Pradesh Police in a joint operation near KOLKATA: the most from the Saharanpur Railway station in western Uttar Accusing West Saradha media and Pradesh Friday night. Bengal’s ruling urged he be interro- “Sheikh said in his interrogation that he had Trinamool Congress gated with Banerjee been asked by his Pakistan-based handlers Yasin (TMC) of involve- and scam kingpin Bhatkal and Mohsin Chaudhary to reach the ment in the Saradha Sudipta Sen. national capital via Lucknow, Muradabad and scam, BJP president BJP national sec- Saharanpur to avoid being traced by the agencies,” Amit Shah yester- retary S N Singh as said a police officer. day asserted that well as Darjeeling In Delhi, he had to wait for further orders from the federal govern- MP S S Ahluwalia his handlers. ment was not afraid too attacked the Sheikh, who was first tasked to assist Yasin in of anybody in bringing the guilty Trinamool over the Saradha issue. the execution of the February 2010 German Bakery to the book. Claiming that Banerjee was bombings, is a technical expert who used to provide Addressing a party rally here concerned only with politics than financial assistance to the other terrorists through for the first time since he took development, Shah said the peo- Hawala transactions. He was supposed to provide over as Bharatiya Janata Party ple’s aspiration for a change has money to the people who have planned to carry (BJP) president, Shah launched been betrayed by the new regime out terror strikes. a scathing attack on the Mamata as he dubbed the Trinamool “a Earlier, he had provided Rs100,000 each to Yasin Banerjee (pictured) -led state sister” of the Communist Party Bhatkal, Tehsin Akhtar, Assadullah Akhtar alias government over a host of issues, of India-Marxist (CPI-M). Haddi, and Waqas (all arrested) for carrying out including illegal Bangladeshi “When Bengal was reduced terror strikes in various parts of the country, said immigrants. to be a ‘kangaal (pauper)’ by the officer. “When a few thousand farm- the CPI-M, people brought in Another officer said the police were also inves- ers lost their land in Singur and Trinamool, hoping for change. tigating the people whom Sheikh had met during Nandigram, Didi (Banerjee) had But nothing has changed, be it the his journey from Nepal. fasted for days. But now that 1.7 crime rate, unemployment or the He had fled to Nepal after the arrest of Yaseen million poor people have lost their lack of industry,” Shah said. Bhatkal last year and was hiding there since then. deposits to the Saradha scam, why “Bengal’s scenario will not The Indian Mujahideen has launched several ter- don’t you now feel like fasting?” change so long as Didi is there, for ror attacks in the country in the past and is under said Shah referring to Banerjee’s she is only concerned with politics German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier arrives to pay homage at the Mahatma constant surveillance by intelligence agencies. anti-land acquisition movement and Bangladeshi infiltrators. Ever Gandhi memorial at Gandhi Smriti in New Delhi yesterday. IANS which eventually catapulted her since Didi came to power, these to power. immigrants have grown up five “You are not fasting because it’s times,” he alleged. your cronies who are involved in Canvassing for the party the scam,” he alleged. candidate for the bypoll in the “Can Didi stop those who have Chowringhee assembly con- BJP to open office in Kenyan capital taken the money? The answer is stituency, where polling is due no, but we are not afraid of any- September 13, Shah said the NAIROBI: Spreading its wings and we are now appointing coordi- the countries concerned, knowing United States and other parts of body because our workers have countdown for the Trinamool’s across the African continent nators in each major town in Kenya their problems and passing that the world. This engagement could not done any scam. So, be it departure has begun. He asserted where it did not have much of to work for the overseas office of information to New Delhi. also enable people from Africa Saradha or any other, we will net that only BJP was capable of giv- a presence till now, the ruling BJP,” Vimal Chadha, president “India is also playing a greater and other countries to look for whoever is involved,” added Shah. ing good governance. Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) of the Overseas Friends of BJP role in the Southern African potential investment areas in Shah’s comments come at a Claiming that India after long will be opening an overseas (OFBJP) in Kenya, told IANS. Development Community India through the opportunities time when the Central Bureau of has got an assertive prime minis- office in Kenya’s capital Nairobi According to Chadha, who has (SADC),” Chadha said. the government provides, accord- Investigation, probing the multi- ter in Narendra Modi, Shah said in the next fortnight. also served in the local commu- “As our prime minister ing to a Kenyan MP. million scam, has interrogated the BJP regime in its 100 days The party also has plans to nity for five years in the municipal (Narendra Modi) said, ‘Let’s get “India also needs assistance several high-profile persons and has earned the faith of the peo- launch offices in some other East council in Nakuru, Kenya, open- the SADC nations together, and from the countries that have has again taken the custody of ple through its good governance. African countries like Ethiopia, ing these offices in East African play the role of the big brother to something that would benefit suspended Trinamool MP Kunal “I am here to appeal to the Rwanda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and nations will help bring these show good governance in action’. India and the same goes to the Ghosh. people of Bengal to join hands Zambia. Last weekend, it opened countries together with India. And that is what we are doing other countries,” he told IANS, Ghosh, who headed Saradha’s with the rest of India as we walk offices in Canada, Denmark, and The overseas offices, he said, through these different activities.” adding that the local people will media arm, Saturday claimed together on the path of develop- Uganda. are important for interacting The BJP has offices in 32 also feel Indians are part of their it was Banerjee who benefited ment,” said Shah. IANS “We have a very good structure with the Indian community in countries in Africa, Europe, the growth. IANS

Past and present Onam celebrated Nithari killer could in Kerala with 26-dish lunch be hanged today MEERUT: Nithari killings inspected the hanging site, offi- and fervour convict Surender Koli, whose cials said. mercy petition was rejected by Meanwhile, Koli has not asked KOCHI: Despite light rain in the president, may be hanged permission to meet his family some parts of Kerala, Onam today morning in the Meerut members. He Saturday changed was celebrated across the jail, sources said yesterday. the clothes while in Dasna jail. state yesterday with a lavish, Koli was transferred from the Official said although his behav- 26-dish traditional vegetarian Dasna jail in Ghaziabad district iour seems to be normal, he was lunch, flowers and a degree of to Meerut on September 4 for the keeping quiet, and says only ‘yes’ nostalgia. execution of his death warrant or ‘no’ to any query. On the occasion of Thiru Onam issued by the CBI court. In the last two days, Koli has yesterday, the most important Officials earlier said he was not demanded anything from the day in the 10-day long Onam to be hanged any time between jail staff. On Saturday afternoon, calendar, people were in a fes- September 7 and 12. he came out for 15 minutes from tive mood, while a few recalled Although jail officials were his cell but did not utter a word. age-old customs associated with tight-lipped about the exact date He had his meal, did not speak to the event. of execution, speculation was rife anyone and went back to his cell. “We got our lunch from a that the Nithari killer may be Koli is reading the Bhagavad caterer and over the years these hanged at 5.30am today, sources Gita, which was provided by the caterers have also turned very said. Meerut jail superintendent jail staff. professional. Each and every S M Rizvi said the hook and loop “On Saturday, I inspected Koli’s item is neatly packed in contain- to hang Koli had arrived from the cell. On being asked whether he ers,” said Sumathy Nair, a home- Naini central jail. was well, he simply bowed down maker in the capital city. Koli has also been informed his head, indicating yes. His Onam, a harvest fectival, is about his impending hanging, face had a blank expression,” celebrated by Malayalees of all Bollywood playback singer Suresh Wadkar (left), actress Waheeda Rehman (centre), and playback singer and hangman Pawan Singh has Rizvi said. IANS religions, castes and creeds, cut- Sanjeevani Bhelande attend a concert in Mumbai late on Saturday. ting across the financial standing of the families. Kunjumon, a rub- ber tapper from Kottayam, said he has been without a job for the past four months, but managed to save for Onam. “We are a family Assembly elections in four states likely in Oct and Dec of rubber tappers. We have had no work for the past nearly four NEW DELHI: The Election Haryana and Maharashtra and the other two states the schedule leaders have started campaign- The Haryana assembly com- months. I did odd jobs and also Commission is set to announce the second phase in Jammu and will be announced after the first ing in these states. prises 82 members while the saved for celebrating Onam. It was the schedule for the upcoming Kashmir and Jharkhand. phase. The legislative assembly of Maharashtra assembly has 288 tough but we have managed,” said assembly elections this week, “Due to security reasons, Earlier, speculation was that all Jammu and Kashmir comprises members. Both states are ruled Kunjumon. In central districts of with polling in Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir and four states would have elections 87 members. The last assembly by the Congress. Kerala, every festival is dependent Maharashtra to be clubbed Jharkhand would see polling in together. elections were held in 2008. The “If elections are declared on the price of natural rubber and together in October while elec- December. In these two states, The elections in these states are state is being run by a National in all four states in the same since 2011, the price of rubber has tions in Jammu and Kashmir the deployment of much more keenly awaited by the Bharatiya Conference-Congress alliance. period, the model code of con- been going down from Rs210 per and Jharkhand would be held forces is required,” the sources, Janata Party (BJP) which got a The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha duct will come into effect there, kg in 2010 to just Rs126 per kg. in December, sources in the poll not wishing to be identified, told thumping victory in the April- (JMM) is ruling Jharkhand with which may halt the development A retired school teacher panel here said. IANS. May Lok Sabha elections. the Congress. The legislative works in Jharkhand and Jammu recalled how they used to dance Informed EC sources said the The dates for the elections in In all four states, the BJP assembly comprises 81 members. and Kashmir,” another source around a swing during Onam assembly elections would be held Haryana and Maharashtra will intends to repeat its winning The last assembly election was said. in the past. IANS in two phases — the first phase in be announced this week, while for streak and the party’s senior held in December 2009. IANS MONDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2014 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 Modi pledges Rs11bn for flood-hit J&K Death toll rises to 175; Modi tours affected areas; Srinagar police headquarters under water

SRINAGAR: The death toll from serious flood- ing in Kashmir climbed to 175 yesterday, with homes, military bases and hospitals inundated in the region’s main city Srinagar as the Jhelum river overflowed its banks. Prime Minister Narendra Modi flew over the Kashmir valley, a mainly Muslim region with a his- tory of separatist violence. The worst flooding there in 60 years has submerged villages and ruined crops. “This is a national level disaster,” Modi said. He announced Rs11bn ($180m) in disaster relief pay- ments, as well as compensation to victims and their relatives. Modi’s visit comes in the build up to state elec- tions in the affected state of Jammu and Kashmir by the end of the year. His nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party is seek- ing to expand support beyond the mainly-Hindu lowlands of Jammu and oust regional leader Omar Abdullah, who was allied to India’s last government defeated by Modi in May. Although heavy rains abated on Saturday after- noon, flood waters rose sharply overnight in Srinagar, a city of 900,000, catching many people living in low- lying areas unawares. “I could not save anything as the government did not issue any flood warning,” said Abdul Aziz of Jawahar Nagar in Srinagar, who drove his family to safety when water entered their home at around 4 o’clock in the morning. Kashmiri residents walk along an embankment on the side of a bridge to escape floodwaters on the outskirts of “The majority of my neighbours who were sleeping Srinagar. are still trapped in their homes,” he said. Modi met state chief minister Abdullah and other reservists, equipped with boats and life jackets, were he said. In Srinagar, an army headquarters was officials in Jammu, the other main city in the state in action. under water along with some government buildings, of Jammu and Kashmir. “We have relocated 13,000 people from flood hit according to local reports and TV footage. He also announced that 100,000 blankets, 5,000 areas. We had a shortage of boats and 100 were air- A reporter in the city was forced to the third floor tents and 50 tonnes of milk powder would be dis- lifted today,” said Rohit Kansal, the divisional com- of his house after water flooded the second, with no tributed to those forced from their homes. missioner for Kashmir. sign of emergency officials to evacuate him. Some 2,500 villages have been partially or com- “We stand shoulder to shoulder with the people “We will have to move to the roof but we are also pletely submerged across the area, while thousands of J&K in this hour of crisis,” Modi said in a tweet. worried about the building collapsing,” he said adding of people are stranded on rooftops waiting to be Photos showed residents wading through thigh- that water has risen about 3.6 metres. rescued. deep waters clutching their belongings, stranded on Another resident, Aakifa Javaid, said her local Major roads — including the one to Srinagar air- rooftops or crammed into army boats with blankets, mosque announced on loudspeakers that “it would port — were under water, hampering relief efforts. while others showed bridges and roads destroyed. be a difficult night, no one should sleep” as the river “The water level is decreasing in Jammu ... while A police official in Srinagar said he feared the true overflowed. Like hundreds of others in her neigh- the situation in Kashmir has worsened. In many extent of the devastation was not yet known because bourhood in the city’s north, she fled in the middle areas, the ground floors are inundated with flood phone networks were down and areas cut off. of the night when the water reached her home. waters,” Abdullah told reporters. “We are in a catastrophic situation,” he told AFP Thousands of soldiers, backed by 22 helicop- About 22 air force helicopters and four aircraft on condition of anonymity, adding that Srinagar’s ters and four aircraft, have fanned out across the were deployed to evacuate stranded people and to police headquarters were under water. Kashmir Valley and the rest of the state to deliver A Kashmiri man evacuates an old woman through a deliver relief. “Many people may have died and houses collapsed aid and restore communications, said national flooded road in Srinagar yesterday. About 120 army units and eight teams of police but we are not getting to know much (information),” Cabinet Secretary Ajit Seth. AGENCIES PM offers Prayers and patience as families wait for rescue help; thank SRINAGAR: Huddled with his elderly nobody has stopped,” said Bukhari, AFP’s belongings, and huddled in army boats with landlords on the top floor of his inun- reporter in Srinagar, adding that the water blankets. dated home here, Parvaiz Bukhari can has risen to a height of 3.6 metres. At Shri Maharaja Hari Singh, the city’s you, says see neighbours making a desperate “We can’t go out, the water is moving too oldest hospital, patients were moved to the response to devastating floods. fast. I can see gas cylinders, barrels, wood upper floors after the waters hit. “From my window I can see they all have debris floating past,” he added. “Those who were able to walk were Pakistan their arms in the air, praying,” Bukhari “We will have to move to the roof but helped to the upper floors by attendants, said in Srinagar, the main city of Muslim- we are also worried about the building col- others were taken on wheelchairs in the NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD: majority Kashmir. lapsing.” Hundreds of soldiers, backed by elevator,” said local businessman Fareeh Prime Minister Narendra During the night the swollen Jhelum helicopters and boats, have been deployed Ahmed, who lives nearby. Modi yesterday offered Indian river burst its banks, flooding large parts across the northern Himalayan state in College lecturer Aakifa Javaid, 25, said assistance to Pakistan for flood of the picturesque city, following days of recent days, following flash floods and land- she and her neighbours decided to pack relief operations in Pakistan- torrential monsoon rains across the state. slides that have submerged whole villages their bags and flee northern Srinagar after administered Kashmir, but Despite calls to emergency services, and left more about 75 people dead. elders from a local mosque announced on Islamabad said its relief and Bukhari and his neighbours in the city’s Many have pulled together to flee on foot loudspeakers that “it would be a difficult rescue operations were pro- central Rajbagh area remain trapped, with to safety, packing into community centres night.” “Noone slept through the night. ceeding effectively. the water reaching the second of their and wedding halls on higher ground. Even at around 2am people were moving Distraught Kashmiri women after their home “It is a matter of great distress third floors by yesterday morning. Photos showed residents wading out of their homes just for their safety,” was destroyed by floods in Srinagar yesterday. that the retreating monsoon rains “I’ve seen a couple of boats go past but through thigh-deep waters clutching their Javaid said. AFP have played havoc in many parts of our two countries,” Modi said in a letter to his Pakistani coun- terpart Nawaz Sharif. Ganesh immersion Noting “the devastation caused by the record rains and the conse- quent flooding is unprecedented”, Italy minister urges SC he said that “while reviewing the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, I was informed that the damage to life and property is equally, if to let marine fly home not more, severe in areas across the Line of Control as well”. ROME: Italy’s foreign minister has Italy for the entire time he needs to fully “My heart goes out to the urged India’s Supreme Court to allow recover.” affected people and my deep- one of the two Italian marines detained Latorre and fellow marine Salvatore est sympathies are with them over the 2012 killing of two fishermen to Girone are currently barred from leaving and their families. In this hour fly home on medical grounds. India pending a possible trial. They have of need, I offer any assistance The court will today begin considering been living at Italy’s embassy in New Delhi. that you may need in the relief a request for Massimiliano Latorre to be They are accused of shooting the two efforts that will be undertaken allowed to return to Italy to continue his fishermen while serving as part of an anti- by the government of Pakistan. recuperation following his hospitalisation piracy mission on an Italian-flagged oil Our resources are at your disposal in New Delhi with an ischemia — a blood tanker, the Enrica Lexie, off the southern wherever you need them,” he said. blockage that can lead to a stroke. Indian state of Kerala in February 2012. Expressing anguish at the The 47-year-old was discharged from The Italian sailors say they mistook the flood damage and loss of lives in hospital yesterday and is not thought to fishing boat for a pirate vessel and fired neighbouring areas in Pakistan- be in any immediate danger: but Foreign what were intended to be warning shots. administered Kashmir, he said Minister Federica Mogherini insisted that Criminal proceedings against the two India was ready to provide human- his chances of a full recovery would be men were suspended in March when itarian assistance to the flood- increased by being allowed home. India’s top court agreed to consider a chal- affected areas if Pakistan requires “Massimiliano Latorre has received lenge to prosecutors’ jurisdiction in the it. “In this hour of distress, the excellent treatment in India but it is clear case and a request for the marines to be government of India is ready to he has need of rest, peace and his family,” allowed home pending its outcome. provide humanitarian assistance Mogherini said on the sidelines of a politi- The marines were granted a home visit to those areas if the Pakistan gov- cal conference in Bologna. to vote in national elections last year. ernment needs it,” he said. “We hope that India’s Supreme Court That ended up intensifying the diplo- Official sources in Islamabad will listen to the medical arguments.” matic tensions as Italy briefly resisted said that Nawaz Sharif yester- Latorre’s lawyers will argue that the sending the men back before finally suc- day undertook an aerial survey Chief Master Sergeant should be allowed cumbing to India’s pressure in March, of flood-hit areas in Pakistan- to return to Italy in order to reduce the triggering the resignation of Italy’s then- administered Kashmir and risk of a stress-induced repeat incident foreign minister. appreciated the rescue and relief while he awaits the resolution of a case Italy argues the two men should be tried operations underway. that has caused a diplomatic rift between on home soil since the shootings involved “Our Prime Minister Nawaz the two countries. an Italian-flagged vessel in what it main- Sharif had aerial survey of flood- Devotees transport idols of the Hindu elephant deity Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, for Mogherini, who is shortly to become the tains were international waters. hit areas today (yesterday). Our immersion during the ten-day-long Ganesh Chaturthi festival, as it rains in the southern new European Union foreign policy chief, India says the killings took place in its rescue and relief operations are Indian city of Chennai yesterday. added: “The initiative (by the lawyers) territorial waters and the perpetrators proceeding effectively,” a Pakistan has the full support of the Italian govern- should face Indian justice. government source said. IANS ment. We hope he will be able to return to AFP MONDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2014 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

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THE REGION TODAY TOMORROW People perform the annual Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance in Hong Kong yesterday. The dance, performed over three nights during the Mid-Autumn Festival in Hong Kong, commemorates a performance of the dragon dance in the 19th century to halt a run of bad luck. HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER

MUSCAT 39/30 Clear 38/31 Clear MAKKAH 42/28 Partly cloudy 42/28 Clear KUWAIT 46/29 Clear 44/29 Clear Faraway moon BAHRAIN 38/33 Clear 38/34 Clear SANAA 28/16 Chance of storm 30/15 Chance of storm Replica of 18th century mimics Earth RIYADH 43/27 Partly cloudy 41/27 Clear DUBAI 40/32 Clear 40/31 Clear tectonics: Study BAGHDAD 41/25 Clear 40/24 Clear ship tests French waters PARIS: Jupiter’s icy moon THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW Europa may have active tec- ROCHEFORT, FRANCE: tonic plates similar to those HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER Cheered by tens of thousands, a that shape the Earth, which life-size replica of the Hermione, had long been thought unique ATHENS 29/24 Chance of storm 29/24 Partly cloudy the French navy frigate that in this respect, scientists said WASHINGTON 26/19 Chance of showers 23/20 Chance of showers shipped General Lafayette to yesterday. SYDNEY 22/14 Mostly cloudy 20/10 Partly cloudy America to rally rebels fighting They used images captured LONDON 22/11 Partly cloudy 21/10 Partly cloudy British troops in the US war of by Nasa’s Galileo spacecraft, PARIS 24/16 Clear 24/15 Clear independence, began its maiden which orbited Jupiter and its ISTANBUL 26/21 Chance of rain 25/21 Clear voyage yesterday. moons from 1995 to 2003, to MANILA 29/25 Chance of storm 29/25 Chance of storm Spectators lined the port in study the criss-cross of ridges DHAKA 32/24 Chance of storm 32/24 Chance of storm Rochefort in southwestern France and fractures on Europa’s DELHI 35/25 Chance of storm 31/25 Chance of storm to see the reproduced vessel, ice shell. The moon, slightly ISLAMABAD 33/22 Partly cloudy 31/22 Partly cloudy which took 17 years to build, set smaller than the one orbitting sail. A cannon boomed as the ship Earth, has one of the youngest passed the arsenal at Rochefort, surfaces in the Solar System, as spectators applauded wildly implying “rapid recycling”, said and sailors gathered on its deck the team. Acrobatic technique cried “Hurrah!” They found evidence that a The Hermione was accompa- piece of the surface had dis- nied by 120 boats. She will sail up the appeared along a boundary Charente river to Rochefort’s com- between two ice plates, pos- mercial port. From there, the frig- The French frigate Hermione sails past the Rochefort transporter bridge as sibly when one sunk under ate will head to the Atlantic Ocean it departs to the Aix island in Rochefort, western France, yesterday. the other. They took this as island of Aix for several weeks of sea evidence of surface material trials. The vessel will make a public Hermione-Lafayette Association. ship. Yann Cariou, the ex-naval being recycled into the moon’s stop in Bordeaux in October before “We were often told that it officer who will captain the frigate interior — similar to parts of returning to its home port a month wouldn’t work. But we have for its voyage to Boston, said the Earth’s crust which sink into later for final preparations. always said that she will cross the next weeks of testing would give the underlying mantle at so- The 65-metre (210 feet) ship Atlantic and we are going to do the 72-strong crew a chance to “get called subduction zones where is due to set sail for the United just that,” he added. “It’s all very their sea legs”. “Above all there will tectonic plates converge. States in April 2015, follow- impressive,” said a man watching be emotion. It’s still the Hermione The team had studied an ing the route from Rochefort to the launch. “We will continue to and nobody has navigated a ship area of 134,000 sq km (51,700 Boston made by French General follow her adventures.” like this for two centuries,” Cariou sq miles), using the images and Gilbert du Motier — the Marquis Since its foundation the asso- said. It took Lafayette 38 days to a reconstruction of geological de Lafayette — in 1780 to bolster ciation has attracted artisan cross the Atlantic, a voyage that features. They found that a American revolutionaries in their craftsmen from France, Britain, confirmed his renown as a mili- 20,000 km2-portion of surface fight against British troops. Germany, Spain and Sweden tary mastermind and a hero of was missing. Yesterday’s launch is a major and now comprises some 8,000 the American Revolution. “We propose that Europa’s milestone in the journey under- members. “There is real pride Lafayette’s noble charm and ice shell has a brittle, mobile, taken by a group of restoration in the collective force behind strategic genius during the plate-like system above con- enthusiasts who in 1997 embarked this project. There have been American revolutionary war have vecting warmer ice,” they on the arduous task of recreat- tense moments, but we remained earned him the honour of having wrote in the journal Nature ing the three-masted vessel using united,” Donnelly said. The project at least 42 US counties and cit- Geoscience. A rider displays during the first edition of the Chantilly Arts and Elegance only eighteenth-century ship- cost ¤25m ($32m), financed by ies and hundreds of streets and “Hence, Europa may be the Richard Mille event at the Chantilly Castle in Chantilly, north of Paris, building techniques. more than four million visitors squares — including Lafayette only Solar System body other yesterday. The event proposes a combination between arts and ele- “It is an important step to sail to the shipyard — also home to Square opposite the White House than Earth to e0xhibit a sys- gance, past and future, automobile and fashion, culture and entertain- Hermione at sea, which no one Rochefort’s original arsenal — as — named after him or his ances- tem of plate tectonics.” ment, with classic cars and modern concept cars contests. has ever done,” said Benedict well as through crowd-funding tral home in France, La Grange. AFP Donnelly, president of the initiatives for specific parts of the AFP

Guardians on top of sluggish North America box office

LOS ANGELES: Science- 2013. Second place in the stand- team on a 151-game winning fiction blockbuster Guardians ings was occupied by Teenage streak, remained in seventh of the Galaxy remained on Mutant Ninja Turtles, which place with $3.7m. top of the North American added $6.5m to its total earnings In eighth spot was dysto- box office this weekend as of $174.6m. pian drama The Giver based on Hollywood licked its wounds In third place was teen melo- Lois Lowry’s 1993 novel, star- after the worst summer season drama If I Stay, which earned ring Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep in years, industry estimates $5.75m, followed by comedy Let’s and Brenton Thwaites, which showed yesterday. Be Cops with $5.4m. took $3.6m. The Hundred Foot The Marvel comics adaptation The November Man was fifth Journey, a romantic comedy with added another $10.2m to its six- with $4.2m. The thriller stars Helen Mirren and Om Puri as week haul, pushing it closer to former James Bond actor Pierce culture-clashing restaurateurs, the $300m mark with $294.6m Brosnan as an ex-CIA agent was ninth with $3.2m. in earnings, according to figures lured out of retirement for one Tenth spot was taken by from box office tracker Exhibitor last dangerous mission. Lucy, director Luc Besson’s Relations. Sixth place went to As Above/ sci-fi drama starring Scarlett The performance of Guardians So Below, a thriller set in the Johansson as a drug mule who of the Galaxy was a rare bright catacombs beneath Paris, which acquires psychic powers when spot in a dismal summer season, took in $3.72m. she accidentally takes a potent which drew to a close last week “When the Game Stands Tall,” new substance during a deal after posting its worst numbers based on the true story of a US that goes wrong. The film took Cast member Chris Pratt at the premiere of “Guardians of the Galaxy” in Hollywood, California. since 2006, down 15 percent from high school coach who leads his in $1.9m. AFP Monday 8 September 2014 13 Dhu’l-Qa’da 1435 Volume 19 Number 6182 Price: QR2

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Iraq signs revised oil contracts Expansion of Qatar GDP to non-oil sector to boost Qatar grow 7.8pc growth: EY DOHA: Economic growth in Qatar will be driven by expansion in non- oil sector, said Ernst & Young in by 2016: QNB a statement yesterday. It its latest Rapid-Growth Markets Forecast (RGMF) it said Global rapid- growth markets (RGMs) will grow Inflation slowed since mid-2013 by over 4.5 percent in 2015. “With global oil production DOHA: Qatar’s real Gross Nevertheless, overall inflation already high and supply prospects Domestic Product (GDP) is projected to increase moder- strong, growth in the UAE and growth is forecast to accelerate ately to 3.4 percent in 2014 and Qatar hydrocarbon economies will from 6.8 percent in 2014 to 7.8 3.5 percent in 2015 as rising rents soften in the coming years. Instead, percent in 2016, according to a outweigh lower food prices. GDP growth will be driven prima- latest QNB Group report. There are risks, however, of rily by the non-oil sector. Rising The share of non-hydrocarbon higher inflation if the economy capital spending on infrastructure sector in the country’s GDP is hits significant supply bottlenecks. as well as the fast paced growth of projected to grow from 49 per- The government has ramped the private sector will help to steer cent in 2014 to 57.2 percent by up budgeted capital spending, the Gulf countries away from their 2016 with the sector witnessing a driving overall investment and reliance on oil,” said Bassam Hage, double-digit growth. While pro- economic growth, while the fis- A worker rides a bicycle at the Halfaya oilfield in Amara, southeast of Baghdad. Iraq signed revised con- Mena Markets Leader, EY. duction of hydrocarbon products cal surplus increased to 15.6 tracts with foreign oil companies for Rumaila and Halfaya oilfields, that reduced their production targets Qatar’s GDP is forecasted to is expected to continue register- percent of GDP in the fiscal and extended the life of the deals. grow by 6.5 percent through ing a moderate growth. year that ended March 31, 2014 2017. The oil sector in Qatar has The QNB Group has published (2013/14). benefited from a number of key its ‘Qatar Economic Insight, Lower hydrocarbon revenue projects, including the Bul-Hanine September 2014’ report. The and rising capital spending could offshore oil field and the Idd El report analyses how the economy narrow the fiscal surplus from 8.5 Current account balance at 31pc of GDP Shargi North Dome megaproject continues its diversification phase percent of GDP in 2014/15 to 5.3 upstream oil expansion. However, through double-digit non-hydro- percent in 2016/17. GDP activity will be largely driven carbon growth, which is expected The government has recently DOHA: Qatar continues to The reference quarter of this It is worth mentioning that by continued double-digit expan- to accelerate over the next couple earmarked $182bn for project remain one of the few econo- issue is the first quarter of 2014 Qatar’s real GDP growth rate of 6.5 sion in the non-oil sector, helped of years. implementation over the next mies in the world registering (Q1 2014). The main objective of percent is among the highest per- by high government capital According to the report, the five years, of which $27.4bn is in a remarkable positive current this report is to collate in one forming economies in 2013, similar spending and surging population economy has started a new 2014/15. account balance of about 31 per- document all the latest key mac- to that of Developing Asia which growth. The government is also diversification phase as large Banking asset growth slowed to cent of Gross Domestic Product roeconomic indicators. also grew at 6.5 percent, while the investing in a number of key infra- investment spending in the 9.4 percent in the twelve months (GDP) in 2013, according to an The indicators covered in the estimate for the ‘World’ average structure projects over the next non-hydrocarbon sector accel- to June- end, 2014 on lower public official publication. issue include National Accounts works out to 3 percent, and that for five years to fuel growth, includ- erated growth to 6.5 percent in sector borrowing; non-performing According to “Window on and Prices; Public Finance; Advanced Economies is 1.3 percent. ing a metro system in Doha and 2013 (6.1 percent in 2012) while loans (NPLs) were low at 1.9 per- Economic Statistics of Qatar”, the Balance of Payments; and Selected The second part of the report the Hamad International Airport. growth in the hydrocarbon sec- cent of gross loans at end-2013 eighth issue of the quarterly pub- Financial Indicators. presents an analysis of the latest The RGMF is a quarterly forecast tor slowed. and banks remained well capi- lication released by the Ministry The report also contains a economic statistics published by for 25 markets that are becoming The report forecasts real GDP talized, with the average capital of Development Planning and ‘Dashboard’ that compares the the Ministry relating to Quarterly more important globally. growth to accelerate from 6.8 adequacy ratio well above the Statistics (MDPS), current economic performance of Qatar GDP, CPI, Producer Price Index “Economic development in RGM percent in 2014 to 7.8 percent QCB requirement under Basel III. account balance in 2013 stood 30.9 with other economies and regions (PPI), Exports and Imports and cities globally will continue to be in 2016 as hydrocarbon produc- Bank lending is expected to percent of GDP. in terms of three indicators compares the performance in the associated with significant non- tion grows moderately while the rise by an average 10.7 percent Qatar’s inflation rate of 3.1 per- namely real GDP growth rate, first quarter of 2014 with that of the oil growth in financial, business non-hydrocarbon sector expands in 2014-16, increasingly driven by cent (Consumer Price Index) in inflation rate as measured by the corresponding quarter of 2013 and, and consumer services. Over the at a double-digit pace on higher expanding population and steady 2013 was slightly lower than that CPI and Current Account Balance with that of the previous quarter. medium term, fast-growing popu- investment spending and a grow- deposit growth averaging 12.5 of the world average (3.8 percent), as percentage of GDP. While part third contains arti- lations and increasing productiv- ing population. percent. which was much lower than the The economic performance of cles on selected themes. The title ity will lift growth in RGMs to 5.5 Inflation has slowed since mid- Low provisioning requirements 10.5 percent posted in the Middle Qatar in terms of the above three of the article included in this issue percent. This trend will be reflected 2013 (CPI inflation averaged 2.8 and efficient cost bases will sup- East and North Africa (Mena) important indicators reflect that is: “Differences between the 2008 in Gulf region as cities continue to percent in H1 2014) as rising port continued strong bank region, and the 5.8 percent regis- Qatar’s macroeconomic funda- System of National Accounts and the develop these significant non-oil rents were offset by lower global profitability. tered in the ‘Emerging markets mentals are much better than 1993 System of National Accounts”. sectors,” concluded Bassam. food prices. THE PENINSULA and developing economies’. other countries and regions. THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA

Rolling gates for Panama Canal Honda recalls 8 firms short-listed for 126,000 motorcycles for Dubai clean coal plant DUBAI: Dubai has short- Another DEWA executive second time listed eight companies to build said he expected the cost of the a 1200 megawatt (MW) clean clean coal project, known as the SEOUL: Honda Motor Co is coal power plant, UAE officials Hassyan power plant, which is recalling 126,000 motorcycles said yesterday, part of a $20bn expected to come online by 2021, for a second time because their investment that aims to help to to be more than $2bn. A more brakes can malfunction. diversify the Gulf Arab emir- accurate cost estimate will be The recall covers Honda’s ate’s energy mix by 2030. known by the end of November, GL-1800 motorcycles for model Dubai, one of the seven emir- when bids from the short-listed years 2001-2010 and 2012. A prob- ates of the United Arab Emirates companies are expected. lem with the secondary brake (UAE), produces very little oil DEWA has short-listed 24 master cylinder can cause the and relies on costly imports of companies for its 100MW solar rear brake to drag, potentially gas to satisfy its growing energy project and hopes to evaluate bids leading to a crash or fire. consumption. by the end of October. Honda had received 533 com- State utility Dubai Electricity Chinese solar panel maker plaints through July 24, including and Water Authority (DEWA) Yingli Green Energy Holding reports of eight small fires. There has also put out a tender for the Co, said in May it was consider- have been no reports of crashes or construction of a 100-megawatt ing taking part in Dubai’s solar injuries as a result of the problem. independent solar power project energy project. Honda originally recalled the (IPP), part of the emirate’s 2030 Like the rest of the Middle motorcycles in December 2011 but energy strategy. East, Dubai lags behind Europe continued to receive complaints. It DEWA also plans to expand its and the United States in solar says in documents filed with the existing power production and energy, but may eventually build National Highway Traffic Safety desalination plant, known as the up to 1,000MW of solar power Administration that the “root cause M-Station, to add about 600MW plants as part of plans to get five has not been determined” and it is of extra capacity, DEWA CEO percent of its electricity from continuing to investigate. Honda Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer said. renewable sources by 2030. will send a letter to each motorcy- “We expect the total invest- Solar energy has struggled cle owner explaining how to look for ments in those three projects at to take off in the Gulf despite the problem. Motorcycles with the A man takes a picture of a cargo ship carrying four rolling gates for the Panama Canal’s third set of locks, as more than $20bn,” said Tayer, who its year-round sunshine, partly defect can be taken to the dealer for it arrives in Colon City yesterday. According to Panama Canal authorities, the third set of locks has 16 rolling is also vice chairman of Dubai’s because heavily-subsidised fossil inspection. Owners will get a second gates, eight for each new lock complex. The locks and gates were constructed in Italy. Authorities also said Supreme Council of Energy. fuel makes green investments less letter when repairs and replace- that the last four remaining gates are scheduled to arrive before the end of 2014. The expansion project will Tayer said DEWA has no plans attractive than in countries that ment parts are available. allow bigger ships to transit, with two new sets of locks, one on the Pacific side and one on the Atlantic side. to issue bonds this year to raise subsidise renewables. AGENCIES money for the projects. REUTES MONDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2014 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

Consumer electronics show KPMG to hold Qatari bourse seminar on insurance index sheds regulations DOHA: Auditing firm KPMG, which is also one of the largest professional service providing companies in the world, is set 103.49 points to host a seminar on ‘Evolving Insurance Regulations’ here on Wednesday, said a press state- Saudi climbs to six-year high ment yesterday. The seminar will focus on DOHA: Qatar Exchange ended percent. The main supports were insurance regulations in Qatar in the red area when trading First Gulf Bank, Etisalat and Abu and globally, risk management closed yesterday at 13,882.49 Dhabi Commercial Bank which best practices and how risk man- points, down 103.49 points, or climbed 1.9, 0.4 and 1.2 percent agers can use techniques such as 0.74 percent, from the previous respectively. stress and scenario testing and closing of 13,985.98 points on Shares in Abu Dhabi National economic capital management. Thursday. Energy Co (TAQA) fell 2.5 per- Over 35 participants are expect The volume of shares was up cent. Sources familiar with the to attend, including chief risk offic- to 20,397,935 from Thursday matter told Reuters last Thursday ers, general managers, heads of risk 14,852,387 and the value of shares that the company may sell assets management and risk and com- decreased to QR706,189,101.91 this year and has picked two pliance personnel from the Qatar from QR812,378,354.14 on international advisers for a pos- Insurance sector. The event will Thursday. sible sale. feature presentations from David Among the top losers were Egypt’s index rose 0.8 percent Kirk, Actuarial Partner from Qatar National Bank whose share to a fresh six-year closing high of KPMG in South Africa, Yacoub down 1.81 percent to QR206, 9,723 points. Ezz Steel and devel- Hobeika, Partner from KPMG in Industries Qatar lost 2.08 percent oper Talaat Moustafa Group were Visitors look at a scale model shown at the Chinese Changhong company’s fair stand on how the electronics Qatar and Adeel Mushtaq Senior to QR188, International Islamic the chief supports, up 4.9 and 1.6 manufacturer imagines the city of the future could look like, on the third day of the consumer electronics and Manager from KPMG in Qatar. Bank fell 1.65 percent to QR89.20 percent respectively. home appliances trade fair IFA in Berlin, Germany, yesterday. Yacoub said: “It is great that we and Vodafone Qatar decreased by Egypt’s administrative court have had so many people from the 0.66 percent to QR21.20. last week suspended the annul- industry show an interest in the Meanwhile, Dubai’s bourse ment of the allocation of three seminar. It will be a good opportu- underperformed the region yes- million square metres of land nity for us to explore some of the terday as investors started cash- to TMG’s subsidiary in the key challenges facing the insur- ing out in order to take part in Red Sea resort of Ain Sokhna, Emaar Malls Group IPO to ance sector right now and I am the upcoming initial public offer- state-run newspaper Al Ahram particularly pleased that we are ing of Emaar Properties’ malls reported. able to welcome David Kirk from unit, while most other markets According to the same newspa- KPMG’s South Africa practice to edged up. per, another court in Egypt last open on September 14 give us a global perspective.” Dubai’s index slid 1.7 percent as Thursday suspended an earlier Emaar fell 1.3 percent. The devel- court verdict levying a £100m DUBAI: Dubai’s Emaar ($3.54bn), it added. statement added. Its main asset oper yesterday announced more ($14m) fine on Ahmed Ezz, the Properties will launch the initial The IPO will be divided into is Dubai Mall, one of the world’s Britain caps details of its malls unit’s initial main shareholder and former public offer of its shopping malls two tranches, one for retail inves- largest shopping centres. public offer, which Emaar said chairman of Ezz Steel who had and retailing unit on September tors and one for institutions. Both Shares of Emaar dropped 1.3 rail fares at had a net asset value of Dh33.2bn been accused of monopolistic 14, and will list the subsidiary will open on September 14, when percent at 0640 GMT, in line with ($9bn). Subscription will open on practices. on Dubai’s main stock market Emaar will announce the share the Dubai bourse that was also inflation September 14. Saudi Arabia’s main index on October 2, the developer said price range for the sale. down 1.3 percent. “I think overall this is due to edged up 0.6 percent to 11,136 yesterday. The final price will be deter- Dubai’s government owns about LONDON: British rail fares are the preparation for the Emaar points, also a six-year closing The offer would be one of the mined through a book-building 30 percent of the developer, which to be frozen in real terms for Malls IPO,” said Ali Adou, port- high. Petrochemical giant Saudi largest equity sales in the Middle process. The retail offer will close said last week it would pay a another year and operators will folio manager at The National Basic Industries was the main East since 2008, underlining on September 24 and the insti- dividend of around Dh9bn to its no longer be able to hike individ- Investor in Abu Dhabi. “There’s support, adding 1.2 percent. Dubai’s recovery from a credit tutional offer on September 26, shareholders; Dh5.3bn from the ual prices even further, finance a pressure on the market to exit Insurance companies once crisis that forced many state- Emaar said in the statement. IPO proceeds and Dh3.7bn from minister George Osborne said. (other stocks) and participate in again outperformed the mar- linked developers to stall projects, It aims to allocate at least 60 a dividend already paid by EMG In a statement yesterday, the offer.” ket as Mediterranean and Gulf and some to restructure debt. percent of the shares on offer to to its parent. Osborne said regulated train The offer would be one of the Cooperative Insurance and Emaar will sell 1.95 billion institutions and no more than Bank of America-Merrill ticket prices would be capped at largest equity sales in the Middle Reinsurance Co and Company shares or more of Emaar Malls 40 percent to retail investors. Lynch, JP Morgan Chase and inflation for the second straight East since 2008 and Emaar has for Cooperative Insurance surged Group, representing not less than It will sell at least a 15 percent Morgan Stanley are joint global year, meaning a maximum rise of said it would allocate part of it 9.1 and 7.7 percent respectively 15 percent of the share capital, stake in the malls unit through coordinators of the offer, with 2.5 percent in 2015. towards retail investors who dom- and the sector’s index jumped 2.5 it said in a statement on Dubai’s the IPO. four other banks acting as joint In addition, train firms will no inate Dubai’s stock market. percent. bourse. The mall unit’s share The malls unit has a net asset bookrunners. longer be able to increase indi- Abu Dhabi’s bourse rose 0.4 AGENCIES capital was determined at Dh13bn value of Dh33.2bn ($9bn), the REUTERS vidual fares by up to two percent more than the permitted aver- age increase. Previously, opera- tors could have raised fares on some regulated rail journeys by as much as 5.5 percent. “I can announce that no regulated rail Swedish businesses fear return to high-tax as polls loom fares will rise by more than infla- tion in 2015, which together with STOCKHOLM: For many a AAA rating, startups such as Reinfeldt cut income taxes five erupted in privately-run homes about residents being locked up in last year’s freeze will save season Swedish businesses and pros- Spotify and export brands like times and held out tax incentives for the elderly. closets and some people not being ticket holders around £75 over perous households, years of fall- IKEA and fashion giant H&M. for household services, youth Activists even staged a “class fed for most of the day. 2014 and 2015,” Osborne said. ing taxes and reforms that put Polls now show a likely vic- employment and even restaurant war safari” that bussed tourists “It feels like the centre-right is The cost of living in Britain is maids in middle class homes tory for the Social Democrats, meals to foster job creation. The through a poor Stockholm neigh- pretty tired really,” said Richard a key political battleground ahead and fed a consumer boom in the party that created Sweden’s result was more restaurants with bourhood before viewing the lux- Osterlind, 44, part-owner of a of May’s election, with the opposi- luxury cars and holidays in Asia cradle-to-grave welfare state, Michelin stars than ever before ury hotels, villas and yachts in a communications agency who lives tion Labour party claiming a crisis may be drawing to a close. although a new government may and a boom in purchases of holi- wealthy district, in Ostermalm, an affluent area in amid low earnings growth, and a Elections on September 14 look end up as a weak minority gov- day homes in sunny southern Even centre-right supporters the centre of the capital. “That Conservative government keen to set to throw out a centre-right ernment coalition of centre-left Europe. were shocked when the OECD’s is why I can understand people stress proof of a recovering econ- government as many voters rebel and Green parties. The tax cuts helped lift after- PISA schools survey last year wanting to vote the other way omy such as a fall in unemployment. against welfare cuts, stubbornly That worries many in business. tax income for Swedish workers showed Swedish 15-year-olds now just to stir things up a bit.” “Commuters suffering under the high unemployment, poor school “I just hope that any new gov- by roughly 30 percent, easing had the worst decline in results That could all change under cost-of-living crisis will take this results and tales of hospitals ernment realises that we build our pressure on companies to raise of any participating member of Social Democrat leader Stefan with a pinch of salt. David Cameron’s straining to care for patients. prosperity on growth, not higher wages in the wake of the 2008 the Organisation for Economic Lofven, a former welder and trade government has hit passengers with Eight years of Prime Minister taxes,” said Hakan Samuelsson, financial crisis. Cooperation and Development. unionist who is considering over- inflation-busting fare rises of 21 per- Fredrik Reinfeldt helped trans- chief executive of Chinese-owned But all was not well. They were below average in many turning reforms and hiking taxes cent since 2010, adding to the cost form Sweden’s image from that Volvo Car Group, one of Sweden’s Stockholm’s worst riots in years areas. on the rich and on a wide array of of living crisis,” Shadow Transport of a high-tax socialist state to biggest private sector employers hit its poor immigrant neigh- Scandals also surfaced at eld- companies if he is elected. Secretary Mary Creagh said. a European economic star with and exporters. bourhoods in 2013 and scandals erly care homes with reports REUTERS AGENCIES Europe’s top industrialists target Goldilocks zone

STOCKHOLM: “Good enough” might maker Sandvik operates, about a third of temperature tolerance. not make for a marketing slogan, but the business is in the middle segment, it For SKF, which makes bearings used in some of Europe’s top engineering compa- estimates. jet engines, cars and wind turbines, mid- nies, which have made their reputation on And it’s a market with rare growth poten- market versions would be suitable for items the quality of their products, are hoping it tial in a sluggish global economy. that don’t need to operate at such high will make for a profitable strategy. “We are not doing this just to position speeds or where higher levels of noise and That is largely because the ‘Goldilocks’ ourselves right. It is also because this is vibration are tolerated. market for industrial equipment — not as going to be good business for us,” said Jonas “It’s like going to a fast-food restaurant,” pricy as these companies’ premium products Gustavsson, head of Sandvik Machining said SKF Chief Executive Tom Johnstone. nor as cheap as the often shoddy offering Solutions, which has lined up three main “You still expect good food and good qual- from budget manufacturers — accounts for a brands — Dormer, Carboloy and Pramet — ity, but you don’t expect the same exotic huge part of Chinese domestic demand and for its push into the mid-market. quality in a pizza place as you would get in is also growing further afield, even in the But with lower selling prices and fierce a Michelin star restaurant.” developed economies of the West. local competition, companies need to recon- For all, the appeal is not just market Those who see the potential include figure their business models. expansion. It also protects their premium German engineer Siemens, which has Sandvik created a separate organisation products by creating a tougher market envi- addressed this segment with an entry-level to drive the mid-market brands, and divorce ronment for - and giving them an opportu- product portfolio called SMART — simple, them from the premium maker’s habit of nity to learn more about - their upcoming maintenance-friendly, affordable, reliable making steadily more advanced products. rivals. “One of the benefits we get is that it and timely to market. With tools based on existing technology enables us to go head to head with some of “If you want to be the market leader, you from older premium product generations, these players and understand how they are need to be in this segment,” said Ronnie Sandvik can limit research and development developing,” said SKF’s Johnstone. Leten, Chief Executive of Sweden’s Atlas costs for its offering to a minimum, helping This is particularly important in China, Copco, the world’s top maker of air com- to keep its margins up. It also offers a slim- which is moving up the quality ladder in the pressors, which can be used to fill gas cyl- mer product portfolio and sells solely through machinery market under the auspices of the inders or power pneumatic tools. distributors, all helping keep a lid on costs. government’s 12th five-year plan and as state- The lure is obvious. In, for example, the For Sandvik, the difference between pre- owned enterprises are restructured and priva- $22bn market for metal-cutting tools, where mium and mid-market products includes tised, improving the status of the private sector. Swedish tooling and mining equipment product endurance, surface treatment or REUTERS MONDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2014 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19

GSF Development Driller Time Warner Cable No quick fix staff to share $416m under for India’s coal retention plan NEW YORK: Employees of Time Warner Cable will be $416m richer even if the cable crisis: Minister operator’s merger with Comcast does not close, a move designed to keep staff from bolting while federal regulators contemplate Shortage woes to continue the deal. A proxy statement, prepared NEW DELHI: The Indian generators, which produce three- for the shareholders meetings of government yesterday blamed fifths of the nation’s power, have both companies in October to vote cost overruns at coal projects fallen to six days’ forward cover on the merger, also lays out the and $50bn in losses at state — down nearly half since Modi’s nearly $81.8m golden parachute electricity distributors for a national election victory in May. that Time Warner Cable’s chair- power crisis that has become Modi’s landslide came at least man and chief executive, Robert the first test of Prime Minister in part thanks to his reputation D Marcus, would receive. Narendra Modi’s management for CEO-style competence as His payment includes cash, of the economy. chief minister of Gujarat, where restricted stock, options and Power and Coal Minister he tackled a similar power crisis $300,000 to pay for financial plan- Piyush Goyal warned that it in 2005 and ensured round-the- ning services. would take years to alleviate coal clock electricity supplies. In all, the company will hand supply shortages, which have Even though India has the out golden parachutes of more reduced stocks at thermal power world’s fifth-largest reserves of than $136m to five of its top exec- stations to their lowest since a coal, at 61 billion tonnes, supply utives if the deal closes. huge blackout in 2012 cut off 620 bottlenecks force many genera- Comcast Corp last February million people. tors to import coal from abroad. Transocean’s GSF Development Driller II passes by the Bosphorus bridge on its way to the Black Sea, said it would buy Time Warner Any strategic decisions would While private sector players are in Istanbul. Cable Inc in a $45.2bn stock swap have to wait until a final deci- sourcing fuel from their own that combines the two largest US sion by the Supreme Court mines in countries like Australia, cable operators. on whether to revoke licences many state players can’t afford The day before the deal was for more than 200 coal blocks to import. announced, the compensation awarded since 1993, Goyal told a Goyal said he was “open to all GE oil business to outpace market committee of Time Warner news conference. options” on fixing the coal supply Cable’s board approved reten- The court has already ruled situation but said the government tion grants for more than 1,800 that these ‘captive’ blocks for would not consider opening up NEW YORK: General Electric Executive Jeff Immelt is seeking Immelt’s profit margin target for employees that would pay twice industrial use were handed out coal production to private com- Co’s fast-growing oil and gas to improve the company’s overall the whole company, Santana said the regularly scheduled annual illegally. It will reconvene on petition immediately. business that supplies equip- industrial margin from 15.7 percent on Friday. To improve margins, equity awards granted for each Tuesday to consider whether they “At the moment we don’t have ment and services is improv- last year to 17 percent by 2016. the unit is cutting costs by becom- person in 2014. should be reallocated, or whether a Plan B, but for every scenario ing profit margins and is The unit’s profitability is likely ing more productive, while trying The awards, which the proxy the operators should be fined. we are keeping ourselves ready. well-placed to outpace industry to be a prime topic for analysts to develop products for which it said totalled approximately “We will ensure quick action Whatever the Supreme Court growth over the next several and investors on Wednesday, can charge a higher price. $316.4m in restricted stock, after the Supreme Court deci- decides on coal block de-alloca- years, a top unit executive said when GE holds a half-day pres- For example, GE reduced the were awarded to compensate sion to get the process rolling and tion, we will ensure that action in an interview. entation in New York on its oil weight and footprint of an off- for bonuses in 2015 and 2016 the enhance coal output to one billion from our side is implemented Spurred by $14bn in acquisi- and gas business. shore power generation product employees would not receive, tonnes (a year) by 2019,” Goyal immediately,” said Goyal. tions since 2007, the oil division’s “We’re driving profitability up by 20 percent, allowing GE to according to the proxy. told a news conference. Coal India, which accounts for revenue has risen 75 percent to for this business as we look into charge a premium because the The compensation commit- The “Coalgate” scandal, esti- around 80 percent of national $17bn since 2009, making it the the ‘14 time frame and as we look smaller product is more desirable tee also approved up to $100m in mated in a 2012 audit report production, has warned that it US conglomerate’s fastest-growing into the strategic plan we lay out to customers, Santana said. supplemental bonuses to the more to have cost the taxpayer up will fall around 30 million tonnes industrial business in that period. for the next three years,” said The analyst meeting next week is than 15,000 employees eligible to to $33 billion, entrenched the short of its commitment to sup- But its 12.8 percent profit mar- Rafael Santana, president of GE’s the first intensive review for inves- receive cash incentive bonuses. dependence of Indian industry ply 408 million tonnes to power gin last year trailed by several per- turbomachinery solutions division, tors that GE has held specifically for Those bonuses would equal 50 on supplies from lumbering state generators in the year to March centage points GE’s other major the largest business within oil and the oil and gas sector, whose results percent of each employee’s target producer Coal India. 31, 2015. industrial businesses, such as avia- gas. The oil and gas unit will be it began reporting separately in 2012. bonus for 2014. Coal stocks on hand at thermal REUTERS tion and healthcare, and GE Chief a “key part” of driving toward REUTERS REUTERS VW cuts production at Russia plant

FRANKFURT: Volkswagen “Nevertheless Volkswagen Kuespert told the magazine. is slashing car production at Group is fully committed to Auto parts suppliers are its plant in Kaluga, Russia, in the Russian market and is con- also seeing declining orders face of a weakening rouble and secutively fulfilling its invest- and are putting off investment declining real wages, a German ment programme in Russia,” plans in Russia, the magazine industry magazine reported the spokesman added, point- added. yesterday. ing out that a new body shop Foreign carmakers have Volkswagen is set to lower opened at Kaluga this year invested at least $5bn (£3.06bn) production at Kaluga to 120,000 and that engine production in in setting up local production vehicles this year, compared with Kaluga and a new depot in near in Russia since the mid-2000s. the 150,000 originally planned, Moscow will start operating in The government encouraged the Automobilwoche reported, with- 2015. trend by raising import duties out citing sources. Automobilwoche also cited on cars and lowering tariffs on The Kaluga plant manufactures Opel’s board member respon- parts. the Volkswagen Polo and Tiguan sible for sales, Peter Christian Besides Volkswagen, US auto- models as well as the Skoda Fabia Kuespert, as expressing worries maker Ford Motor Co, France’s and Octavia. about Russia, one of Opel’s biggest Renault SA, Japan’s Toyota Motor A Volkswagen spokesman markets in Europe, compounded Corp and South Korea’s Hyundai declined to comment on figures by Moscow’s intervention in Motor Co are among those which the magazine’s report but said Ukraine. produce locally. the company was temporarily “There is no doubt that the Russia’s top car maker Avtovaz reducing production volumes situation in Russia is a con- said in August it planned to cut at Kaluga due to the economic cern. The market has shrunk production of its Lada cars in the situation in Russia, with a substantially over the past few coming months due to the falling 10-day shutdown due to start on months and the Ukraine crisis Russian market. September 8. has added to the uncertainty,” REUTERS

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Montana coal Russia bans European food imports mines to boost Asian exports Firms to consolidate ownership

BILLINGS, Montana: Coal the US Securities and Exchange companies announced an agree- Commission. ment to consolidate ownership Cloud Peak shares on the New of a Montana mine in a deal York Stock Exchange rose briefly aimed at boosting exports of on Thursday’s announcement the fuel to Asia through ports but finished the day unchanged on the US West Coast. at $14.23. Under terms of the deal, A deal on the 120-worker Wyoming-based Cloud Peak Decker mine has been in the Energy would give up its 50 per- works since 2012. Negotiations hit cent stake in the Decker Mine a roadblock last year when Ambre to co-owner Ambre Energy of could not come up with financ- Australia. ing to cover the reclamation and Ambre would take over liability lease bonds. for $67m in reclamation and lease Cloud Peak President Colin bonds for the mine. Cloud Peak Marshall said in a statement gains the option to move almost Thursday that the deal with Ambre eight million tonnes of coal annu- positions both companies to meet ally through a port proposed by future growth in Asian markets Ambre in Longview, Washington. for so-called thermal coal that is The deal is expected to close burned to generate electricity. later this year. Ambre Energy North America Ambre, Cloud Peak and other Chief Executive Officer Everett companies want to increase coal King hailed the deal as “a sig- A woman picks a product from the dairy department of a shop in the far eastern Russian port of Vladivostok yesterday. Russia, which is the EU’s shipments from the Mountain nificant step” in the company’s second biggest food market after the United States, decreed a one-year ban on European fruits and vegetables, dairy products and meat, account- West to Asia as domestic demand ambitions to develop the export ing for almost half of the bloc’s food exports to Russia. falters. But that goal has so far market. eluded the industry, as propos- “As well as building new port als for new export terminals in infrastructure, Ambre will now Washington and Oregon run into also be able to guarantee the sup- strong resistance from regulators ply of high-quality US coal to cus- Big banks to face US swaps price-fixing suit and environmentalists, prompting tomers in Korea, Japan and the some projects to be dropped. Asia Pacific region from its own US coal exports are forecast mining operations,” King said. NEW YORK: A Manhattan America Corp, Barclays Plc, BNP plaintiffs. “It will be a long, pro- ISDA and Markit not to provide to drop below 100 million tonnes Regulators last month rejected federal judge said that investors Paribas SA, Citigroup Inc, Credit tracted battle.” licenses to CMDX as they had in 2014 after hitting a record 125 a proposal for a second Ambre- may pursue a lawsuit accusing Suisse Group AG, Deutsche Bank All 12 banks and Markit contemplated. million tonnes in 2012, according backed coal port along the 12 major banks of violating anti- AG, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, declined to comment. ISDA Cote rejected the banks’ argu- to the US Energy Information Columbia River in Oregon. The trust law by fixing prices and HSBC Holdings Plc, JPMorgan spokeswoman Lauren Dobbs ment that their actions “just as Administration. Oregon Department of State restraining competition in the Chase & Co, Morgan Stanley, said the trade group believes it plausibly” could have resulted An early version of the Decker Lands said the terminal would roughly $21 trillion (£12.8 tril- Royal Bank of Scotland Group acted properly, and the remaining from “independent business deci- mine deal had Ambre also pay- interfere with a longstanding fish- lion) market for credit default Plc and UBS AG. claims have no merit. sions” in response to the global ing Cloud Peak $64m in cash. The ery in the state’s waters. swaps. Other defendants are the US and European regulators financial crisis. payment was not included in the Fuller said an appeal of the While dismissing part of the International Swaps and have probed potential anticom- “The financial crisis hardly final agreement. rejection is likely. case, US District Judge Denise Derivatives Association and petitive activity in CDS. In July explains the alleged secret meet- That suggests privately-held In 2011, the privately-held Cote said investors may press Markit Ltd, which provides credit 2013, the European Commission ings and coordinated actions,” the Ambre was able to negotiate a sig- Ambre bought 50 percent stakes claims that the defendants’ derivative pricing services. accused many of the defendants judge wrote. “Nor does it explain nificant discount for a mine with in Decker and a second mine, Sherman Act violations caused Credit default swaps are con- of colluding to block new CDS why ISDA and Markit simultane- production costs up to five times Wyoming’s Black Butte, which it them to pay unfair prices on CDS tracts that let investors buy pro- exchanges from entering the ously reversed course.” greater than those of some com- owns with Anadarko Petroleum. trades from the autumn of 2008 tection to hedge against the risk market. Citing a lack of evidence, Cote peting mines, according to court But a year later, Decker laid off 59 through the end of 2013, even as that corporate or sovereign debt In the lawsuit, investors dismissed a claim accusing the documents filed by Cloud Peak in a employees — more than one-third improved liquidity should have issuers will not meet their pay- accused the banks of trying in banks of colluding to monopolise 2012 dispute with Ambre over how of its workforce. driven costs down. ment obligations. late 2008 to quietly scuttle the trading, and claims predating the the mine was being run. Ambre The number of workers has “The complaint provides a The lawsuit seeks class-action launch of the Credit Market autumn of 2008. spokeswoman Liz Fuller declined since rebounded somewhat. Still, chronology of behaviour that status, and damages could reach Derivatives Exchange (CMDX), The case is In re: Credit to explain the change in terms. last year’s 3.1m tonnes mined would probably not result from tens of billions of dollars. being developed in part by CME Default Swaps Antitrust By selling Decker, Cloud from Decker considerably lagged chance, coincidence, independent “We are gratified with the deci- Group Inc. Litigation, US District Court, Peak will avoid losses of $3m the roughly 10m tonnes annually responses to common stimuli, or sion,” said Dan Brockett, a part- Investors claimed the banks did Southern District of New York, to $5m annually, according to a in prior years. mere interdependence,” Cote said. ner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart this by agreeing not to use new No. 13-md-02476. Thursday company disclosure to AP The defendants include Bank of & Sullivan representing the CDS platforms, and arranging for REUTERS Volkswagen FairPoint unions to expand strike

to invest €1bn PORTLAND, Maine: Leaders of two unions phone and other services, ended labor negotia- representing more than 1,700 FairPoint tions by declaring an impasse last month. euros in Thai Communications workers in Maine, New Since then, the company has been imple- Hampshire and Vermont say they’re going menting a new contract with provisions that’ve after the CEO, board members and corporate angered union workers, like Friday’s elimination plant: Report owners for refusing to negotiate. of contributions to a fund that assists workers The Communication Workers of America and with day care costs. FRANKFURT: Volkswagen International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers A FairPoint spokeswoman said the company plans to invest ¤1bn (0.80bn) vowed to take their demonstrations “to a new has never refused to meet with the union, and to build a new manufacturing level” by targeting the CEO, board members and she accused the unions of using “inflammatory plant to produce fuel efficient corporate owners where they live and work. As rhetoric” and “scare tactics.” cars in Thailand, a German part of that effort, the unions picketed this week “We’ve been at the bargaining table since April. magazine said. outside a New York event where FairPoint CEO When the unions say they want FairPoint to The Thai government is Paul Sunu was speaking. come back, what they really mean is that they expected to grant Volkswagen “We think they’re trying to provoke a strike,” want FairPoint to abandon its final positions on approval for the plant on Tuesday, Don Trementozzi, president of CWA Local 1400 issues that are critical to the future of the com- Wirtschaftswoche magazine in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, said said. pany. This we won’t do,” spokeswoman Angelynne reported, without citing sources. Charlotte, North Carolina-based FairPoint Amores Beaudry said. The plant, which will build 1.4 Communications Inc., which offers Internet, AP litre petrol engine cars and which could turn out up to 300,000 vehi- cles per year at full capacity, is due to go on line by 2019, the mag- Unicredit to meet profit target azine said, adding that part of the production would be destined for other markets in the region. A Volkswagen spokesman declined to comment on the report. Sources familiar with the matter told Reuters in April the company had applied to build its first plant in Thailand, seeking to take advantage of tax breaks that had already attracted investment from Ford and General Motors. Volkswagen already produces its Passat, Polo and Jetta models in Malaysia in conjunction with a local partner, while a new plant in Indonesia will take advantage of growing demand there. VW Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn has repeatedly said that his company needed to expand its presence in southeast Asia if it is to achieve its goal of unseating Toyota as global market A logo of UniCredit in downtown Milan. Italy’s biggest bank by assets is sticking to its full-year net leader. profit target of £1.59bn despite a worsening economic outlook for its Italian home base. REUTERS MONDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2014 BUSINESS VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

Making a difference through Searching for growth in investing in bonds

BY STAN CHOE

NSTEAD of lending to just the government or some faceless cor- Europe, clarity in China poration, what if your bond mutual fund also helped to vaccinate Ikids around the world? Or helped finance a clean-water project or solar-energy farm? BY ROBIN EMMOTT economy and avoid deflation will An inflation rate of just 0.3 number, which corresponds More mutual fund managers are seeking out bonds that not only do be at the forefront of discussions. percent, coupled with the lack of most closely with the consumer well but also promote a positive impact on the environment, society HE eurozone’s strug- The ECB stunned markets last economic growth, has given new spending component of gross and corporate governance. It’s a concept called socially responsible gle to avoid another week by cutting interest rates and urgency to the bloc’s search for domestic product, would be a investing, and it’s long been dominated by stock mutual funds. But recession will take announcing a plan to buy asset- growth. The ECB is urging gov- welcome relief after spending a proliferation of “green bonds,” whose proceeds go toward projects centre stage in the backed securities from October, ernments to also do their part and dropped in July, leading some with environmental benefits, and similar investments mean more coming week in the which Barclays described “as a enact ambitious structural reforms. economists to temper their bond funds are using a socially responsible lens. Tabsence of major US data, as clear first step into quantitative German trade, labour and growth forecasts. Fund managers — and their investors — aren’t selfless, of course. investors mull whether the ECB’s easing” — a US-style bond-buying industrial data during the week Still, US job growth slowed They won’t buy a bond unless they believe its potential return will new asset-buying plan is a prel- programme that could help the should show whether the second down sharply in August as more more than make up for its risk, no matter how noble its purpose. ude to even more radical steps. economy but divides the central quarter’s poor showing is part Americans gave up the hunt for That’s because managers want investors to use their funds as the While data from China may bank. of a trend or a one-off. A euro work, giving a cautious Federal core of a bond portfolio, and they know that won’t happen unless they give clarity on a pattern of uneven Draghi said his aim was to zone confidence indicator for Reserve more reasons to wait a deliver equivalent or better returns versus competitors. growth there, it is in Europe that expand the bank’s balance sheet September will also be watched bit longer before raising rates. “That will be the best way to start the virtuous cycle,” says Stephen the prospects for the economy back to the heights reached in after August’s unexpected slump. The Fed’s chair, Janet Yellen, Liberatore, who oversees about $5.7bn in socially responsible bond- are most uncertain, although a early 2012, which equates to a The ECB’s stimulus contrasts is concerned about slow wage investing strategies for TIAA-CREF. ceasefire in Ukraine could lift the rise of around 50 percent or one with developments across the growth, the high numbers of His main goal is to deliver better returns than the Barclays US mood and avoid new EU sanc- trillion euros in new assets. Atlantic, where the US Federal Americans working part-time Aggregate Bond index, a widely used benchmark. His TIAA-CREF tions on Russia this week. “This is going to be digested Reserve is gradually winding even though they want full- Social Choice Bond fund (TSBRX) met that goal last year and is The eurozone’s fragile economic by the markets over the coming down its bond-buying programme time employment and a long doing so this year. recovery came to a halt in the weeks,” said Thomas Harjes, an as the economy improves and is spell of joblessness following the In a virtuous cycle, Liberatore hopes to deliver strong returns, second quarter, in marked con- economist at Barclays. beginning to think about tighter 2008/2009 financial crisis. which will draw more investors. That will give him more money to trast to the United States, where “There’s now a 50-50 chance monetary policy. “Such weakness plays into invest, and the increased demand for those socially responsible bonds the economy grew robustly. Like that the ECB will go further and Investors have little to get the hands of the Fed doves,” will mean lower interest rates for the bond issuers, enabling them many of its neighbours struggling announce a sovereign bond-buy- their teeth into in the coming said Rob Carnell, an economist to do more work. to rebound from the debt crisis, ing programme by year-end, or week and the biggest US data at ING, of the August job data. Liberatore’s fund owns everything from Treasurys to mortgage- Italy slipped into recession for the the beginning of 2015,” he said. will be August’s retail sales on “It gives Yellen more leeway to backed securities, and it targets keeping 10 percent or more of its third time since 2008. Under its statutes, the ECB Friday. With the jobs market stand firm against the hawks, portfolio in bonds that it calls “proactive social investments.” As EU finance ministers and is banned from buying bonds lifting confidence, retail sales are many of whom are calling for part of that strategy, he bought a bond issued by Washington, D.C.’s European Central Bank directly from governments but seen up 0.3 percent after drop- a change in the Fed’s language water and sewer authority this summer -- the proceeds are helping President Mario Draghi convene can find ways to purchase them ping in July. on the likely timing and scale of to reduce sewer overflows into the city’s waterways. on Friday in Milan, where the from banks, for example, on the The expected gain in the policy normalisation.” TIAA-CREF launched its Social Choice Bond fund in late 2012, ECB’s latest move to help the secondary market. indicator’s so-called control REUTERS more than six years after it offered a similar stock fund. It’s a familiar picture across the mutual fund industry: Socially responsible stock funds are more entrenched than bond funds. Of the 181 mutual funds that Morningstar classifies as socially conscious, 110 focus on only stocks. That’s partially because socially responsible investors long thought they could have a bigger impact because they would have a voice at annual shareholder meetings. “Back in the day, the logic was that if you couldn’t vote a proxy, it was hard to engage with companies,” says Cathy Roy, chief invest- ment officer for fixed income at Calvert Investment Management, which manages more than $13.5 billion. In recent years, socially responsible investors have been presented with more opportunities with the growth of green bonds. The flow has been strong enough that Barclays and MSCI are developing a Green Bond index. A group of investment banks early this year also came together to publish guidelines for green bonds, something they hope will lead to more investment. Calvert has run bond mutual funds for decades that use a sustainable-investing lens, including the $1.8 billion Calvert Short Duration Income fund (CSDAX) that’s in the top 13 percent of its category for 10-year returns. In October, it launched the Calvert Green Bond fund (CGAFX), which has grown to $23m in assets, and buys bonds issued by com- panies that get at least half their revenue from environmentally beneficial technology. It also invests in project bonds that help to develop energy efficiency, transit and other environmentally friendly aims. The approach to sustainable investing has also evolved over the years, Roy says. In the past, investors took a simple pass/fail approach. Potential investments were screened as either good or bad depending on the data in their spreadsheet. Roy says investors now take a more nuanced look, measuring how much a company limits its emissions relative to others in the industry, for example. They lay that on top of weighing a bond’s yield against its risk. Proponents say a company that’s a better steward of the environ- ment or of product safety will be less likely to face fines in the future. It could also be an indication of a management team that’s more disciplined in other areas. For managers of socially responsible bond funds, it also helps to have something concrete that they can show investors. “Bonds are a part of the world that’s sleepy and boring,” says Benjamin Bailey, co-portfolio manager of the Praxis Intermediate Income fund (MIIAX). “You can tell people that we have 15 percent of our fund helping people with affordable housing or renewable energy projects — they’re essentially lending money to these projects -- and they didn’t know these things were possible.” Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate AP Dollar gains dramatically boosting US economy HE US economy has the European Central Bank’s at 1.6326. signals that the governing council reduced its the UK economy is not immune shown its resilience in interest rate cut, triggering a sell The Japanese US economy is benchmark interest rates by 10 to the global market uncertainty times of distress, as the off, as investors seek the safety yen opened the stepping up its basis point, to 0.05 percent, while and the impacts of rising geopo- dollar gained dramati- of the greenback. The collapsed week at 104.09, pace. Retailers the deposit rate is now -0.2 per- litical risks. cally for the last couple of the euro was translated to a weakening mas- and construc- cent, and the marginal lending The United Kingdoms’ Weekly Money Market Review Tof weeks against major counter- major gain of the dollar against all sively during tion firms facility at 0.3 percent. The rate cut Construction Purchasing parts, aided by strong data from major currencies. The euro con- the week against a stronger US expanded significantly, generating came 3-months after a historic Managers’ index grew at its fast- the economy, while escalating geo- tinued to drop during the press Dollar. The Japanese Yen con- more jobs for Americans, point- package of stimulus measures. est pace in 7-months in August, political risks are taking their toll conference, as the market recep- tinued to drop against the dol- ing to greater momentum in the ECB President Mario Draghi’s improving job creation, but also on the euro and Sterling Pound. tion of Draghi’s statement was not lar amid speculation that Japan’s economy in the second half of the plan to buy asset-backed securi- accumulating tensions on suppli- Pressured by worsening economic absorbed easily. The euro broke Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, will year. ties and covered bonds pushed ers. The Purchasing Managers situations weighed on by the the 1.3000, a level last seen a year appoint an ally to head the min- The US trade deficit unexpect- the Euro below $1.30 for the first Index rose to 64.0, from last Ukrainian crisis, the European ago, touching a low of 1.2920. The istry in charge of reforming the edly shrank by 0.6 percent in July time since July 2013, after stat- months’ 62.4, exceeding economist Central Bank surprised the mar- single currency ended the week Government Pension Investment to $40.5bn, the lowest in 6-months ing that “the inflation outlook had expectations of 59.1. A reading kets by cutting the interest rate to at 1.2956. fund, the world’s largest pool of while analysts were expecting the worsened”. Draghi added that “the above 50 indicates expansion, and a new record low of 0.05 percent, The Sterling Pound opened at retirement saving ($1.2 trillion). deficit to shrink to $42.5bn, driven ECB will purchase a broad port- below 50 represents contraction. causing dramatic changes in FX 1.6598, rising slightly to touch a The Japanese Yen touched a by an increase of exports to record folio of simple and transparent The expansion came from housing, and bond markets. high of 1.6644. The Pound then high of 105.71, the weakest since highs. securities” and that the ECB “took commercial and civil engineering The euro started the week at erased its gains, as the country’s October 2008, with the USD gain- Number of Americans filing for into account the overall subdued markets. 1.3132, range trading ahead of an manufacturing slowed more than ing dramatically against all cur- unemployment benefits rose only outlook for inflation, the weaken- After a big hit from the last anticipated announcement of the expected, sending fear that the rencies. The JPY regained some slightly last week, as an improv- ing in the growth momentum in financial crisis, UK construction ECB. The single currency dropped British economy might still be if its losses, ending the week at ing economy encouraged business the recent past” Draghi said. only began to grow strongly last slightly as political tensions esca- fragile, falling to 1.6450. Cable 105.07. to keep staff to meet consumer The manufacturing sec- year with the aid of an economic late after a new proposition of new continued to fall against the US The Service industry in the demands. Jobless claims rose by tor unexpectedly slowed more recovery and low interest rates. sanctions against Russia, falling Dollar, after the ECB’s decision to United States rose more than 4,000 to 302,000, against a fore- than forecasted last month. Although the hike in housing con- to 1.3110. The euro regained its cut the benchmark interest rate, forecasted in July at fastest pace casted rise to 300,000. The total The Manufacturing Purchasing struction is solid, it is still short of losses, touching a high of 1.3160, pushing the dollar higher against in 9-years. The Institute of Supply number of people on benefits rolls Managers’ Index’s (PMI) dropped meeting the market demand, that after Russian President Vladimir the GBP. The Sterling Pound col- Management non-manufacturing fell to the lowest level in 7-years. significantly to 52.5 from 54.8, the prompted the Bank of England Putin and his Ukrainian coun- lapsed, touching a low of 1.6283, as index rose to 59.6, the highest The European Central Bank lowest level since June 2013. The to state that “the risks from the terpart Petro Poroshenko agreed the dollar continued its momen- since August 2005. The figure unexpectedly cut its benchmark PMI fell below economists’ expec- housing market pose the biggest on steps toward a cease-fire in tum, and mixed economic UK data came higher than the forecasted interest rate to spur economic tation of 55.1. The weakness in the threat to the country’s economic Ukraine’s easternmost regions. sent uncertainty in the market to 57.3, and higher than the previous growth in the region, and hinder Euro area is taking its toll on the recovery”. The euro then collapsed following spike. The Pound ended the week months’ figure of 56. The increase inflation. The ECB’s 24-member British economy, showing that THE PENINSULA MONDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2014 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

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Commodities suffer as dollar accelerates

eakness across the as the strong rally this year has crude has also slowed as the sup- range. Supply worries continue commodity space failed to deter demand for beef Weekly Commodity Update ply glut in the Atlantic basin has to support nickel following news resumed this week among US consumers. December begun to ease as oil traders are that the Philippines may join Wwith the broad- live cattle futures reached a new repeating what became a multi- Indonesia in banning exports of based Bloomberg Commodity contract high after rising $10 in BY OLE S. HANSEN million-dollar trade during the unprocessed ore. Precious met- index falling by more than 1 per- five trading sessions. 2008-09 recession. Then cheap als suffered with the continued (Head of Commodity cent. Multiple factors drove the Following a mid-week slump spot crude was bought to be stored rise of the dollar, while talks of a Strategy, Saxo Bank) weakness, not least the continued petrol managed to recover and in tankers and at onshore facili- ceasefire in Ukraine reduced the surge in the dollar, which gathered reached a three-week high. ties and sold at higher price in geopolitical risk bid in the mar- additional momentum following Support for petrol should help a continued strong rise in inven- in WTI and Brent crude oil, both the future. This time the spread ket. Gold reached a near 12-week the intervention on rates and crude oil, so the price development tories. The US driving season has have managed to stabilise and between the first and the second low while silver has been getting bonds from the European Central for the product is being watched ended and this normally signals establish a range within which futures month in Brent recently close to the key area of support Bank on Thursday. The announce- by energy traders as a guide to the beginning of a seasonal rise they have been trading for the reached 80 cents/barrel, enough around 18.75 USD/oz. The widen- ment by Mario Draghi that the where crude oil may go. in crude inventories as demand past couple of weeks. From June for traders to step in and buy spot ing policy differential between the ECB had cut rates to a record low, Cocoa has come under some from refineries slow. Some raised 24 to August 26 the combined crude, which then has been moved US Federal Reserve and the ECB while pledging to buy hundreds of selling pressure during the past volatility was seen following the net-long of both crude oils held by to giant onshore facilities in South is posing an increasing challenge billions of bonds to support the week and momentum has turned news about a potential ceasefire speculative traders such as hedge Africa. This location is important to precious metals, given the cur- Eurozone, triggered a major move negative while the supporting in Ukraine as crude oil received funds fell from 610,000 contracts as oil can be shipped east and west rent and future impact this may in the dollar, with the euro falling trend-line from 2013 could be a boost from traders concluding of futures and options (610m bar- depending on where the best price have on the dollar. By how much to a near 14-month low against challenged soon. A month-long that it could potentially lead to rels) to 320,000 contracts, the can be achieved. The dollar is pop- it will support a continued rise of the greenback. rally has run out of steam as good a removal of sanctions against lowest since last December. ular at the moment, but the risk the dollar depends on inflation and Given the dollar’s adverse rela- weather in Ivory Coast and Ghana Russia. The sanctions are hurt- With the selling pressure from of correction has risen and any growth developments within the tion to dollar-denominated com- has raised production estimates ing economic activity on both long liquidation sharply reduced, weakness may provide the energy eurozone over the coming months. modities, the impact was felt for the 2014-15 season. Worries sides and the removal could help the risk of further losses have and other sectors with some addi- A somewhat weaker-than- across all sectors. A weaker-than- about the Ebola outbreak reaching support growth and demand for fallen. For the week ahead we tional support. expected US job report helped expected US job report on Friday the area and the negative impact crude oil. are looking for most of the activ- The strong year-to-date per- settle a few nerves. failed to create much dollar sell- of an El Nino weather event Healthy demand for beef ity to be contained within estab- formance among industrial met- The agriculture sector was ing, which goes to show the recent have been downgraded which has among US consumers has lished ranges which are between als continues. This week was no mixed, with key grain markets change in investor-perception of helped trigger a turnaround in the helped the strong rally in cattle 100 and 103.50 USD/oz on Brent exception, with nickel and zinc remaining under pressure from the dollar. price. futures, which top the Bloomberg crude and 92.50 and 96 USD/oz on doing the pulling, while copper what is expected to be a record Cattle futures came top, with The energy sector lost almost 2 Commodity Index. WTI Crude. was relatively stable after return- harvest in the US. supply coming under pressure percent as natural gas slumped on Following the dramatic sell-off The selling pressure on Brent ing to the lower end of its current THE PENINSULA MONDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23 US, Spain stay on course for World Cup showdown

Seattle Seahawks full-back Reigning champions ease past Mexico, hosts set up clash with France Derrick Coleman runs for a touchdown after catching a MADRID: Holders United 15-yard pass from quarter- States and hosts Spain remained back Russell Wilson against the on course to reach the basket- Green Bay Packers in the fourth ball World Cup final after pow- quarter of the NFL Kickoff held ering into the last eight where at CenturyLink Field in Seattle on they were joined by France and Saturday. The Seahawks beat the Slovenia on Saturday. Packers 36-16. The US beat Mexico 86-63 in Barcelona to book a quarter-final meeting with Slovenia who over- came the Dominican Republic NFL opener 71-61. Spain breezed past Senegal 89-56 in Madrid to set up a clash draws 26.9m with the French who edged out Croatia 69-64. The remaining four last-16 TV viewers games were scheduled to be LOS ANGELES: The National played yesterday, with the Brazil Football League’s opening game vs Argentina and Greece vs between Super Bowl cham- Serbia regional derbies offering pion Seattle Seahawks and the more thrills in the fiercely com- Green Bay Packers drew 26.9m petitive tournament. viewers on average, NBC said Fast-flowing basketball from on Friday, making it one of the the preliminary group stage made most-watched TV programs of way for physical battles in the the year. first knockout round, with the US It was the third-highest scoring their lowest tally of the watched season-opener, accord- campaign and winning by their ing to figures compiled by Nielsen, lowest margin. and underscores the value of foot- The champions were still too ball programming to broadcast strong for a battling Mexican networks that have steadily lost side and contained them to just viewers to cable in recent years. 38 points in the opening three The Seahawks defeated the quarters before taking their foot Packers 36-16 to kick off the off the gas in the final period. NFL season that will conclude “Overall, I was pleased because in February 2015 with the Super it’s our sixth game in eight days,” Bowl, US television’s most- US coach Mike Krzyzewski told watched program. reporters after guard Stephen Viewership was up 7 percent Curry led the charge with 20 compared with last year’s opener points. between the Baltimore Ravens “I am not unhappy with our and Denver Broncos on network team really, I wish they knew each CBS. other better but you can’t force Comcast Corp-owned NBC, that maturing process.” Spain’s forward Serge Ibaka (left) vies for the ball with Senegal’s forward Abdou Badji during their 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup round of 16 match which has used NFL football to Spain too were in control from at the Palacio de los Deportes in Madrid on Saturday. RIGHT: US guard Derrick Rose (right) vies for the ball with Mexico’s guard Orlando Mendez (left) boost its sometimes lackluster start to finish against surprise during their round of 16 match at the Palau Sant Jordi Arena in Barcelona on Saturday. primetime numbers, said it was packages Senegal as versatile the biggest TV audience since centre Pau Gasol capped another European champions France “We thought we were half and early in the second Hollywood’s Academy Awards effervescent performance with 17 are missing their entire top destined for great things here helped Slovenia overpower the ceremony attracted 43.7m to points and five rebounds against echelon, including four-times but it just didn’t work out for Dominicans after Zoran Dragic World Cup Results broadcaster ABC in March. the west Africans. NBA champion Tony Parker us,” Bogdanovic told Croatian nailed 18 points for the former The highest-rated cities for Aiming to win their second of the San Antonio Spurs, and media. Yugoslav republic and his brother US 86 Mexico 63 the game were Milwaukee, world title after the 2006 triumph their lack of depth told in the “This is a major failure as we Goran chipped in with 12 and six France 69 Croatia 64 Wisconsin, and Seattle, followed in Japan, the Spaniards left plenty first quarter when Croatia built never performed to the best of our rebounds. Slovenia 71 Dominican Rep 61 by Minneapolis and New Orleans. in the tank. “We managed to put a 15-7 lead. abilities. Like in previous games, Lithuania will be favourites Spain 89 Senegal 56 REUTERS on a very good display tonight But France fought back val- we dug ourselves into a hole after against New Zealand while a Sunday’s Matches and now we have another meet- iantly to cancel out a solo effort by committing too many turnovers more intriguing clash is likely New Zealand vs Lithuania ing with France,” Spanish guard Croatia guard Bojan Bogdanovic, which the opposition punished when Turkey meet unpredicta- Juan Carlos Navarro told Cadena the game’s top scorer with 27 ruthlessly.” ble Australia in the other last-16 Turkey vs Australia Ser radio. points. A 19-0 run late in the first games yesterday. REUTERS Serbia vs Greece Posey helps Giants to 5-4 win over Tigers Farah brings end to British DETROIT: Buster Posey con- tinued his hot streak with three hits, including a solo home run, and Madison Bumgarner tied drought in Great North Run for the Major League lead in vic- tories to lift the San Francisco NEWCASTLE: British track Giants to a win over the Detroit great Mo Farah (pictured) Tigers. became the first home runner Posey, who played first base, to win the men’s Great North scored twice and walked in his Run race since Steve Kenyon other plate appearance. He is hit- in 1985 as he won a thrilling ting .508 with seven home runs in duel with Kenyan and former his last 15 games. training partner Mike Kigen in Bumgarner (17-9) pulled even Newcastle yesterday. with the Los Angeles Dodgers’ The 31-year-old 5,000 and Clayton Kershaw in the win 10,000 metres Olympic champion column despite not striking out — second last year to Ethiopian a batter for the first time this legend Kenenisa Bekele in the season. race — had been content to play The Giants (78-64) pulled to second fiddle to Kigen through- within 1.5 games of the Dodgers An official talks to students at Aspire Academy in Doha yesterday. out most of the race as they set in the N.L. West while the Tigers a pace which proved too much (77-65) stayed two games behind for Ethiopia’s Olympic and world Kansas City in the American marathon champion Steven League Central. Sixty new students to Kiprotich and his compatriot The Los Angeles Angels staged Tariku Bekele. manager and the plan was to set In the women’s race Kenya’s yet another late rally in a win over However, Farah, who missed a fast enough pace so we dropped Mary Keitany showed no signs of the Minnesota Twins. REUTERS start at Aspire Academy the Commonwealth Games ear- the others. rustiness after taking time off to lier this year after he collapsed “However, it didn’t get any have a baby as she stormed home Baseball Results DOHA: The academic year chapter in their lives”, Badr because of a poisoned tooth but easier after that as Kigen kept clear to win. started on Sunday for the stu- Al-Hay, Director of Education bounced back to win dual gold at pushing. I was really surprised. The 32-year-old 2012 London Tampa Bay 3 Baltimore 2 dents of Aspire Academy for and Student Care, said while the European Championships, However, I am very happy as I Marathon champion — who was San Francisco 5 Detroit 4 Sports Excellence and Badr welcoming everyone. went to the front as they entered didn’t think I could run as fast a only fourth in the Olympic ver- Pittsburgh 5 Chicago Cubs 3 Al-Hay, Director of Education “This year we are expecting the last kilometre of the race run time as that.” sion later that year in London NY Yankees 6 Kansas City 2 and Student Care, as well as 60 new student-athletes to join over the half marathon distance Farah, who plans to spend — set a new race record of 1hr Oakland 4 Houston 3 Vice-principal Ahmed Hussain Aspire Academy. Not all of them and although Kigen tried to come 10 days holidaying on British 05min 39sec bettering by a sec- Pittsburgh 5 Chicago Cubs 0 welcomed the students in the are here yet because the regis- back at him he had enough left in entrepreneur Richard Bransons’s ond the old mark held by Britain’s Philadelphia 3 Washington 1 morning before the classes tration is still ongoing and some the tank to hold on. private island Necker, said his Paula Radcliffe. started. are still at training camps or at Both were given the same time main aim next year would be Fast improving British run- Cincinnati 2 NY Mets 1 “I would like to welcome all competitions”, Aspire Academy of 1 hour dead which is a personal the world championships in ner Gemma Steele produced Cleveland 3 Chicago White Sox 1 students, teachers and staff to School Principal Jassem Al-Jaber best for Farah. Beijing. an eyecatching performance in Boston 4 Toronto 3 the 2014-15 academic year. An commented. The new students “It’s great to finish the season “It is too soon to say whether I taking second in a new personal St Louis 5 Milwaukee 3 especially warm welcome goes, of are involved in programs such as with a victory and a great time,” will attempt the double (he holds best taking several notable scalps LA Angels 8 Minnesota 5 course, to all our new students, football, gymnastics, golf, fenc- Farah said. both world titles) but my main in the process in the shape of Atlanta 4 Miami 3 whose career at Aspire Academy ing, shooting, squash, table ten- “I had to dig deep as Kigen is a target will be the 10km.” Olympic champion Tiggy Gelani, is only just beginning and I wish nis, athletics and multi-sports. great athlete. He just kept push- Kiprotich ran on in the latter who was third, and this year’s Seattle 4 Texas 2 them every success for this new THE PENINSULA ing and pushing and I had to find stages to take third while Bekele London Marathon champion Colorado 7 San Diego 6 more. We both share the same finished fourth. Edna Kiplagat. AFP LA Dodgers 5 Arizona 2 MONDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2014 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Horschel charges three ahead No mental hangover from Boston for BMW Championship leader; McIlroy stumbles

CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE, Horschel, of Jacksonville Beach, United States: Billy Horschel, PGA Tour’s BMW Florida, matched the tourna- who is determined to put ment’s 54-hole scoring record Monday’s tough finish fast behind Championship with his total of 197. him, fired a third-round 63 to CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE, Camilo Villegas set the mark in vault three shots clear of the field United States: Leading scores 2008 at Bellerive golf course and at the BMW Championship. yesterday after the third Tiger Woods matched it a year Horschel capped his bogey-free round of the PGA Tour’s later at the Cog Hill course. round at the Cherry Hills Country BMW Championship (par 70, Horschel is projected to move Club by rolling in a 32-foot birdie USA unless noted): to first place in the FedEx Cup putt on No. 18. 197 Billy Horschel 68-66-63 points standings with a victory It was a far cry from his 200 Ryan Palmer 69-64-67 at Cherry Hills. final hole at the Deutsche Bank “I just came to the realiza- 202 Bubba Watson 70-66-66, Martin Kaymer Championship on Monday when tion that I was being too hard on (GER) 68-70-64 he chunked his second shot well myself,” he said of Monday’s blun- 203 Rickie Fowler 71-66-66 short into the hazard and had to der. “I am not nearly as frustrated settle for a bogey. 204 Sergio Garcia (ESP) 68-64-72 when I hit a bad shot. I know that Horschel finished in a tie for 205 Jim Furyk 70-68-67, Graham DeLaet it happens.” second place after having arrived (CAN) 68-68-69, Jordan Spieth Yesterday, Horschel drained a at the 18th tee just one shot 67-70-68 22-foot birdie chance on the 14th behind winner Chris Kirk. 206 Adam Scott (AUS) 71-66-69, J.B. Holmes and followed it up with an eight- “I was over it real quickly,” 71-68-67, Rory McIlroy (NIR) 67-67-72, foot birdie on the next hole. His Horschel said. “It was just a bad Morgan Hoffmann 72-72-62, Chesson run was briefly stopped with a par swing at the wrong time. Hadley 68-70-68 at the 16th. “There are bigger things in life 207 Bill Haas 72-68-67, Hideki Matsuyama On the par-five 17th, Horschel’s than hitting a fat six iron in a (JPN) 69-67-71 second shot landed on the green. hazard.” He then two-putted for birdie to Tell that to world number one Horschel ended 54 holes at move to 12-under. He was already Rory McIlroy, who suffered the 13-under-par 197 at the $8m alone in the lead when he posted ignominy of a triple-bogey in his Colorado PGA Tour event. another birdie at No. 18. third round. Ryan Palmer, who was runner- “I played really solid,” he Billy Horschel of the United States celebrates his birdie putt on the 18th green en route to his seven-under par McIlroy’s assault threatened up at the Humana Challenge and said. 63 during the third round of the BMW Championship at the Cherry Hills Country Club in Cherry Hills Village, to dissolve as he four putted on The Honda Classic, posted a 67 “The goal today was to make Colorado, yesterday. the par-three 12th. The Northern and is alone in second on 200. no bogeys. I didn’t know I was Irishman ended up posting a 72, US Open champion Martin leading. which dropped him into a tie for Kaymer (64) and Masters win- “I am just out there trying to A struggling Phil Mickelson right thing to do to protect the Because Bradley will earn 10th at four-under 206. ner Bubba Watson (66) share do my thing and hopefully things withdrew before the third round field in the BMW Championship no points from the BMW McIlroy joked about his triple- third place at eight-under 202, will go my way. started, ending his PGA Tour and the Tour Championship next Championship, he is in danger of bogey wobble on Twitter. five shots adrift of Horschel but “That putt on 18 was a bonus.” season, and Keegan Bradley also week,” Bradley said. dropping out of the top 30 players “Glad everybody enjoyed my 4 still in the hunt. Second-round leader Sergio pulled out, citing a possible rules “It’s eating me alive. I know the who advance to the next week’s putt today... always tomorrow to But the day belonged to the Garcia of Spain stumbled to a violation regarding a drop he took official approved the drop, but I Tour Championship. After three get a few shots back and get up 27-year-old American Horschel, two-over 72 and fell into sixth during the first round. just can’t be absolutely sure it was rounds, he is projected to be in that leaderboard!” he said. who had seven birdies and 11 pars. place at 204. “I just feel withdrawing is the the right spot.” 33rd spot. AFP AFC U-16: Iran edge Qatar 3-2

BANGKOK: Reza Shekari passed, we became the dominant Iran, though, looked for an Aftari’s pass before scooping his scored twice as former AFC team,” said Iran coach Mostafa instant response to the early set- strike past Ibrahim in the Qatar U-16 Championship winners Ghanbar Pour, who must now back and had the ball in the back goal. Iran edged out Qatar 3-2 yes- turn his attentions to Tuesday’s of the net after 10 minutes only Qatar, though, drew level a terday in a highly-entertaining meeting with Saudi Arabia. for the assistant referee’s flag minute before the hour mark Group D opener at Rajamangala “By shifting the positions of the to cut short celebrations after as Ahmad beat the Iran offside Stadium. players on the field we could score Vahid Aftari’s header had looped trap and after showing calmness Hassan Ahmad had handed the second goal, and by increasing over stranded Qatar goalkeeper beyond his years, the 16-year-old Qatar the lead after just four the pressure, we could score the Mohammed Ibrahim. expertly scooped the ball over minutes only for Reza Karimi third goal. The end-to-end nature of the exposed goalkeeper Nejatpashaki to equalise midway through the “The sending off of our central contest continued as the half pro- from the edge of the penalty first half before Shekari turned defender created a lot of pressure gressed, but with Iran increasing area. the tie in favour of an improving on us, but even though it was not their dominance particularly in But Iran regained the lead Iran just after half-time. a beautiful match, we were able the final third, the scores were just two minutes later as Qatar Ahmad did level the scores to get the three points.” level after 21 minutes as Karimi custodian Ibrahim failed to col- just before the hour mark, but In testing afternoon heat, raced clear of the Qatar backline lect a high ball across the face 2008 champions Iran quickly Qatar made the ideal start as before firing low across Ibrahim of goal, and with the goalkeeper Qatar’s Sheikh Ali bin Khali Al Thani on horse Vienna Olympic com- responded through Shekari’s Ahmad’s deflected shot from the from inside the area. out of position as the ball was petes in the Jumping event at the World Equestrian Games 2014 in second to claim all three points edge of the penalty area squirmed And Iran finished the half on directed back across the face of Caen, France, on Saturday night. Sheikh Ali finished in the 14th place despite the dismissal of defender past Iran goalkeeper Farid top as Karimi was denied by the goal, Shekari was on hand to head overall in the event in which the 30 best riders from across the globe Nima Daghestani with just under Nejatpashaki after the striker’s legs of Ibrahim four minutes home despite the presence of two participated. Four riders are representing Qatar at the World Equestrian 20 minutes remaining. clever flick close to the half- before half-time before Shekari defenders on the goalline. Games 2014, including, Sheikh Ali, Hamad Ali Al Attiyiah, Basem Hassan “The first match in any tour- way line had sent Abdulrasheed headed over from the resulting But despite several nervy nament is important. In the first Umaru clear in space down the corner. moments in Iran backline, Qatar Saif and Khalid Al Emadi. minutes we could not play well left before continuing his run and But Shekari was not to be were unable to find a response in and could not perform due to a collecting a return pass from his denied three minutes after the the closing stages. lack of concentration, but as time strike partner. restart as the midfielder collected THE PENINSULA Injuries hit All Blacks Platini threatens retired Ribery ahead of key clash with suspension NAPIER, New Zealand: The the match-day squad against All Blacks were counting the cost Argentina, becomes the next Action from the AFC BERLIN: UEFA President yesterday of their 28-9 Rugby available blindside flanker while U-16 Championship Michel Platini has threatened Championship victory over first choice Jerome Kaino remains match between Iran and compatriot and now-retired Argentina as Sam Whitelock and sidelined. The lock stocks are even Qatar at Rajamangala former France playmaker Liam Messam were ruled out of more depleted with sixth-choice Stadium in Bangkok yes- Franck Ribery with a suspen- next week’s crunch Test against Jeremy Thrush likely to partner terday. Iran won 3-2. sion, according to yesterday’s South Africa. Brodie Retallick against South version of Bild newspaper. The medical report was not Africa. Bayern Munich winger Ribery the news coach Steve Hansen Squad members Patrick announced his retirement from wanted to hear as he began plot- Tuipulotu (ankle) and Dominic France duty after the World Cup ting how his defending champi- Bird (toe) are still a week away in Brazil, which he missed due to ons could beat their closest rivals from being match fit while Luke a back injury. by attempting to run them into Romano, who played 16 Tests in But Platini now claims the submission. 2012-13, suffered a broken leg in 31-year-old will have no choice Hansen talked of playing “posi- the Super 15 ruling him out of the but to continue playing for his tive rugby” despite facing depleted Rugby Championship. country if selected. ranks at lock and blindside flanker Despite the injuries, Hansen “Franck cannot decide himself with Whitelock and Messam pos- declared himself “very happy” whether he plays for France,” sibly out for four weeks. with the way the All Blacks out- said the former France star and The All Blacks top the stand- gunned Argentina, scoring four Nigeria suffer Nations Cup shock coach. ings halfway through this year’s tries to nil on a wet night as they “If (coach) Didier Deschamps championship after the previously chanced their arm to run with the JOHANNESBURG: Holders There were also home wins for competitive home game when picks him, he must come. That’s unbeaten South Africa suffered ball despite the greasy conditions. Nigeria were handed a shock Burkina Faso, Gabon and Tunisia they lost 2-0 to Algeria in a World the FIFA rule. If he doesn’t come, their first loss, going down 24-23 All Blacks captain Richie defeat at the start of the group and an away triumph for the tiny Cup qualifier in Lagos in 1981. he will be suspended for three to Australia. Senior lock Whitelock McCaw added the side was fully phase of African Nations Cup Cape Verde Islands. With a possible ban from world Bayern Munich games.” was forced from the field in the committed to a 15-man game and qualifying on Saturday night Zambia, winners in 2012, were soccer’s ruling body FIFA hang- There is a FIFA rule in place first half with a damaged rib carti- rejected any suggestion of resort- while Ghana also still seemed held to a goalless draw at home ing over them for government which forces players to accept lage while flanker Messam injured ing to a kicking game if it is wet to be nursing a World Cup by Mozambique. interference in football federation national team call-ups to pre- a quadriceps muscle when racing when they play South Africa in hangover. Congo became the first country matters, they were caught out in vent them -- or rather their to score just on half-time. Wellington on Saturday. Fellow 2014 World Cup com- in 33 years to win a competitive their opening Group A game on clubs -- from picking and choos- “The worst case scenario is “I don’t think that suits us batants Algeria, Cameroon and match in Nigeria as they beat Saturday. ing which internationals they (they are) out for probably four totally. We want to be able, even Ivory Coast were in a happier the Nations Cup champions 3-2 Efe Ambrose headed the hosts play. weeks. Best case scenario -- prob- when it’s like that, to be better mood after opening the cam- in Calabar with two goals from in front after 13 minutes but But national teams usually ably three,” Hansen said. than the opposition, at being able paign for a place at the Nations French-born striker Thievy Congo captain Prince Oniangue respect a player’s decision to With Messam injured, Steven to use our skills under pressure,” Cup finals in Morocco in January Bifouma. equalised three minutes later. retire from international duty. Luatua, who could not make he said. AFP with victories. Nigeria were last beaten in a AFP AFP MONDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25 England edge India to win lone T20 Morgan stars in three-run victory

BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom: England captain Scoreboard Eoin Morgan laid the platform ENGLAND INDIA for a thrilling three-run win J Roy c Rahane b Shami ...... 8 A Rahane b Ali ...... 8 over India in the lone Twenty20 A Hales c Rahane b Jadeja ...... 40 S Dhawan b Woakes ...... 33 international at Edgbaston M Ali c Rahane b M Sharma ...... 0 V Kohli c Hales b Finn ...... 66 yesterday. J Root c Rayudu b K Sharma ...... 26 S Raina b Gurney ...... 25 Morgan top-scored with a E Morgan c Rahane b Shami ...... 71 M S Dhoni {not out) ...... 27 dashing 71 in England’s 180 for J Buttler c Rayudu b Shami ...... 10 R Jadeja (run out-Bopara/Finn) ...... 7 seven after he won the toss. R Bopara (not out) ...... 21 A Rayudu (not out) ...... 3 Nevertheless, India -- in the C Woakes (run out-Dhoni) ...... 0 Extras (LB-4, W-4) ...... 8 final match of their tour of Extras (LB-3, NB-1) ...... 4 Total (for 5 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 177 England -- were cruising to vic- Total (for 7 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 180 Did not bat: R Ashwin, K Sharma, M Sharma, tory while Virat Kohli (66) was Did not bat: J Tredwell, S Finn, H Gurney. Mohammed Shami. British Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes AMG GP celebrates on the podium after winning the at the crease. Fall of wickets: 1-26, 2-27, 3-75, 4-85, Fall of wickets: 1-10, 2-89, 3-131, 4-145, 2014 Formula One Grand Prix of Italy at the Formula One circuit in Monza, Italy, yesterday. But when he was out India lost 5-130, 6-166, 7-180 5-152. their way and they needed 17 off Bowling: Ashwin 4-0-37-0; M Sharma 4-0- Bowling: Finn 4-0-28-1; Ali 3-0-31-1 (1w); the last over, bowled by Chris 39-1; Shami 4-0-38-3; K Sharma 4-0-28-1; Gurney 4-0-29-1 (1w); Woakes 4-0-43-1; Woakes, to win. Jadeja 4-0-35-1 (1nb). Bopara 1-0-14-0 (1w); Tredwell 4-0-28-0. But, importantly, India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, one of Hamilton back in title the world’s most dynamic limited four to send the game into a super improve if they are to retain overs batsmen, was facing and he over. their 50-over World Cup title promptly launched the first ball of But no bounbary came as in Australia and New Zealand the over over square-leg for six. England held on for victory. early next year -- again proving The next ball saw India com- Former Ireland left-hander a problem. race after Italy victory plete a risky two as Dhoni Morgan had managed just 198 India paceman Mohammed retained the strike. runs in his last 10 one-day inter- Shami led the tourists’ attack MONZA, ITALY: Two weeks regain some ground and popular Dhoni failed to score off the national innings. with three for 38 in his maximum after their collision at the Brazilian Felipe Massa deliver his Italian Grand Prix third ball but mishit the fourth But the number five showed four overs. Belgian Grand Prix, Lewis first podium finish since joining off paceman Woakes for a bound- his class in a 31-ball knock which Meanwhile Ajinkya Rahane Hamilton and Nico Rosberg Williams from Ferrari. Results ary over long off. included three fours and seven held four catches, including a were on speaking terms again Massa came third, 25 seconds MONZA, Italy: Results from India now needed five to win sixes. superb grab to dismiss opener yesterday, putting on a united adrift of Hamilton, ahead of his Italian Formula One Grand off two balls. Dhoni then edged Alex Hales made 40 and all- Hales. Jason Roy, given an front for Mercedes after the Williams team-mate Valtteri Prix in Monza yesterday: Woakes to square leg but refused rounder Ravi Bopara 21 not out England debut after topping this team’s seventh one-two triumph Bottas, Australian Daniel 1. Lewis Hamilton (GBR/Mercedes) 1hr 19min a single that would have put off nine balls as England scored season’s domestic T20 scoring of the year in the Italian Grand Ricciardo and his Red Bull 10.236sec, 2. Nico Rosberg (GER/Mercedes) Ambati Rayudu on strike. 67 in the last four overs, with charts with 677 runs for Surrey, Prix. team-mate four-time champion at 3.175sec, 3. Felipe Massa (BRA/Williams) That left him needing a six off India’s ‘death bowling’ -- an fell for eight when he drove Shami Hamilton, aggressive and flaw- Sebastian Vettel. 25.026, 4. Valtteri Bottas (FIN/Williams) the last ball to win the match or area Dhoni has said they must to Rahane at extra-cover. AFP less, drove with great speed and The top four were all pow- 40.786, 5. Daniel Ricciardo (AUS/Red Bull daring to turn a poor start, when ered by Mercedes engines and Racing) 50.309, 6. Sebastian Vettel (GER/ he dropped to fourth from pole Williams’ success, in taking third Red Bull Racing) 59.965, 7. Sergio Perez Brathwaite’s position, into the 28th win of his and fourth, lifted them to third (MEX/Force India) 1:02.518, 8. Jenson Button career to trim the German’s lead ahead of Ferrari in constructors’ (GBR/McLaren Mercedes) 1:03.063, 9. Kimi maiden double in the title race from 29 points to championship. Raikkonen (FIN/Scuderia Ferrari) 1:03.535, 10. 22. Nigel Mansell, with 31 wins, is Dane Kevin Magnussen fin- Kevin Magnussen (DEN/McLaren Mercedes) à ton puts Windies the only Briton to have accumu- ished seventh for McLaren ahead 1:06.171. lated more. of Mexican Sergio Perez of Force Overall standings Rosberg, who buckled under India, Briton Jenson Button in the Drivers in command pressure and locked up twice second McLaren and Finn Kimi 1. Nico Rosberg (GER) 238.0pts, 2. Lewis at the first chicane while lead- Raikkonen of Ferrari. Hamilton (GBR) 216.0, 3. Daniel Ricciardo KINGSTOWN, Saint Vincent ing, ended up 3.1 seconds adrift Magnussen, however, picked (AUS) 166.0, 4. Valtteri Bottas (FIN) 122.0, 5. and the Grenadines: Debutant in second place and, as at Spa- up a five-second penalty and was Fernando Alonso (ESP) 121.0, 6. Sebastian spinner Taijul Islam com- Francorchamps, was booed by relegated to 10th by the stew- Vettel (GER) 106.0, 7. Jenson Button (GBR) pleted a five-wicket haul but some of the crowd during the ards while, for the first time 72.0, 8. Nico Hülkenberg (GER) 70.0, 9. Felipe veteran batsman Shivnarine prize-giving on the podium. in five years, two-time cham- Massa (BRA) 55.0, 10. Kimi Raikkonen (FIN) Chanderpaul was left unbeaten Hamilton reacted by applauding pion Spaniard Fernando Alonso 41.0, 11. Sergio Perez (MEX) 39.0, 12. Kevin on 85 as the West Indies Rosberg and speaking generously failed to finish a race, retiring Magnussen (DEN) 38.0, 13. Jean-Eric Vergne declared at 484 for seven before for the Mercedes team, which, on his Ferrari with mechanical (FRA) 11.0, 14. Romain Grosjean (FRA) 8.0, lunch on the third day of the Friday, had made clear that their problems. 15. Daniil Kvyat (RUS) 8.0, 16. Jules Bianchi first Test against Bangladesh in drivers’ jobs were in danger if they Up front, though, Hamilton had (FRA) 2.0 St Vincent yesterday. allowed their rivalry to spin out his own mechanical problems but Constructors Left with an hour to bat before of control again. didn’t let that impact on his mas- 1. Mercedes 454.0pts, 2. Red Bull Racing the interval, Bangladesh reached “Of course, we are still friends,” terful drive. 272.0, 3. Williams 177.0, 4. Scuderia Ferrari 41 for two, losing senior opening Hamilton told former Ferrari “Big congratulations to the 162.0, 5. McLaren Mercedes 110.0, 6. Force batsman Tamim Iqbal and Imrul driver Jean Alesi on the podium. team,” said Hamilton. “They said India 109.0, 7. Toro Rosso 19.0, 8. Lotus 8.0, Kayes. “We’re team-mates and we always that they wanted a one-two and 9. Marussia 2.0 Needing to accelerate the will be...” they got it today. It was a diffi- scoring considerably follow- The words came easily but cult race. For whatever reason, at Provisional Race ing pedestrian progress on the did not match the mood after the start, there was a bug in the rain-affected second day, the a tense race that saw Hamilton sequence. AFP Schedule for 2015 West Indies batsmen displayed MONZA, Italy: Provisional greater adventure, which proved calendar for the 20-race 2015 beneficial for Taijul, who reaped Formula One world champi- significant rewards for his per- onship, which was circulated severance. He took three of the among teams after the Italian four wickets to fall to finish with Third placed Grand Prix yesterday: five for 135 off 47 overs by the Brazilian March 15: Australia (Melbourne) time the declaration came after March 29: Malaysia (Sepang) 80 minutes’ play. Taijul began by Formula One removing obdurate opener Kraigg driver Felipe April 5: Bahrain (Sakhir) Brathwaite to a top-edged sweep Massa of April 19: China (Shanghai) to short fine-leg, the 21-year-old’s Williams cel- May 10: Spain (Barcelona) marathon innings of 212 coming ebrates on May 24: Monaco to an end after 554 minutes at the the podium at June 7: Canada (Montreal) England’s Eoin Morgan hits a six during the international T20 match crease. AFP the Formula June 21: Austria (Red Bull Ring, Spielberg) against India at Edgbaston Cricket ground in Birmingham yesterday. One circuit in July 5: Great Britain (Silverstone) Monza, Italy, Scoreboard July 19: Germany (Nürburgring) yesterday. July 26: Hungary (Budapest) West Indies (I innings): August 23: Belgium (Spa-Francorchamps) Bailey quits as Australia C Gayle lbw S Hom ...... 64 K Brathwaite c M Haque b T Islam ...... 212 September 6: Italy (Monza) K Edwards c Mominul Haque b Taijul Islam10 September 20: Singapore (Marina Bay) Twenty20 skipper D Bravo c Mahmudullah b T Islam ...... 62 September 27 or October 4: Japan (Suzuka) S Chanderpaul (not out) ...... 85 October 11: Russia (Sochi) J Blackwood lbw R Hossain ...... 10 October 25: Mexico (Mexico City) SYDNEY: George Bailey play Test cricket, but more than D Ramdin c R Hossain b T Islam ...... 5 Williams confirm Bottas November 1: United States (Austin) has stood down as Australia’s that it’s just about playing the J Taylor c S Hom b T Islam ...... 10 November 15: Brazil (Sao Paulo) Twenty20 captain to concen- best four-day cricket I can. K Roach (not out) ...... 2 November 22 or November 29: Abu Dhabi trate on longer forms of the “It’s the format I find the Extras (B-5, LB-18, NB-1) ...... 24 and Massa for 2015 (Yas Marina) game with half an eye on adding most challenging and the for- Total (for 7 wkts) ...... 484 to his five Test caps. mat that I get the most enjoy- Fall wickets: 1-116, 2-133, 3-261, 4-422, The 32-year-old batsman, ment from - it’s where my real 5-451, 6-466, 7-479. MONZA, Italy: Finland’s Bottas has been with the team together on the second row of the who has also captained the passion lies. Bowling: Al-Amin Hossain 22-12-43-0; Ru- Valtteri Bottas and Brazilian for five years, making his race grid on Saturday. Australian one-day side this week “Whether concentrating on bel Hossain 30-1-110-1 (1nb); Mahmudullah Felipe Massa will stay at debut last season, and emerged “The team is having a much in Zimbabwe in the absence of that ends up in me getting back 19-0-64-0; Shuvagata Hom 37-6-104-1; Williams in 2015 after the as a standout performer in a improved 2014 season and the injured skipper Michael Clarke, into the Test squad, it doesn’t Taijul Islam 47-9-135-5; Nasir Hossain 4-1- resurgent Formula One team championship that has seen skill of our drivers and their feed- said he struggled with the tran- worry me too much.” 4-0; Mominul Haque 1-0-1-0. announced yesterday what had Williams back among the back to our engineers has proved sition between the different for- Bailey made his ODI debut in Bangladesh (I innings): to be one of their easiest deci- leaders. crucial in this,” said team founder mats of the game. 2012 but he really came to promi- Tamim Iqbal c Bravo b Roach ...... 1 sions of the season. The former champions were Frank Williams, who described “It took a lot of thought and nence when he stood in as captain Shamsur Rahman (batting) ...... 15 “It was easy to make that fourth overall in the champion- Bottas as an ‘investment’ for the a lot of time,” he told Cricket for the injured Clarke on the tour Imrul Kayes c Bravo b Taylor ...... 9 choice,” acknowledged deputy ship ahead of yesterday’s race future. Australia’s website. of India last year. Mominul Haque (batting) ...... 14 principal Claire Williams ahead of with 150 points after scoring just “This announcement gives us “I had a good think about what That ODI success earned him a Extras (LB-2) ...... 2 the Italian Grand Prix at Monza. five last year. excellent stability for 2015, but of I wanted to do in the next four Test call-up for the return Ashes Total (for 2 wkts) ...... 41 “I think they have both shown Bottas, 25, is fifth in the driv- course we are very much focus- years and I’m really passionate series around the end of last year, Fall of wickets: 1-1, 2-18. they can deliver what we need ers’ standings and has finished on ing our attention on maximising about playing the best four-day despite his extremely modest Bowling: J Taylor 5-1-15-1; K Roach 6-1- them to.” the podium in four of the last five the full potential of the FW36 in and one-day cricket that I can. record in Sheffield Shield cricket. 23-1; S Gabriel 2-1-1-0. Massa joined Williams from races. the remaining seven races of this “I guess the very end goal is to AFP Ferrari at the end of 2013 while He and Massa qualified season.” REUTERS MONDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2014 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Marin Cilic of Croatia celebrates after defeating Roger Federer of Switzerland in their US Open semi-final match at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York on Saturday. RIGHT: Kei Nishikori of Japan celebrates after beating Novak Djokovic of Serbia in their US Open semi-final on Saturday. US Open: Nishikori, Cilic stun former champions New faces in final as world no. 1 Djokovic and Federer crash out Bob (right) and Mike Bryan of NEW YORK: It’s the US Open third-seeded Australian Open an over-the-counter supplement. bigger, heavier 6ft 6in (1.98m), the US celebrate after defeating final that no-one predicted and champion Stan Wawrinka. Fired up by indignation over 180lbs (82kg) Cilic. Marcel Granollers and Marc nobody is more surprised than His success comes despite him the way the case was handled, Power may often trump style Lopez of Spain in their US Open Japan’s Kei Nishikori, the first having to sit out the Toronto and Cilic is a man on a mission hav- on a fast hard court, but Michael men’s doubles final at the USTA Asian man to make a Grand Cincinnati Masters on the eve ing bettered his previous Grand Chang, the 1989 French Open Billie Jean King National Tennis Slam final who faces fellow first- of the US Open to have a cyst Slam best of a semi-final spot at champion who now coaches Center in New York yesterday. timer Marin Cilic on Monday. removed from his toe, a painful the 2010 Australian Open. Nishikori, believes his man may After top seeds Novak Djokovic problem which almost forced him Playing in his 28th Grand Slam have the edge. and Roger Federer were disposed to skip New York. event, Cilic, however, wondered if “Taller guys have certain of in the semi-finals, the cham- “I just started playing points his time in the biggest spotlight things that make it a little easier Bryan brothers pionship match will be the first a few days ago before the tour- would ever come. for them, the serve, but smaller not to feature Djokovic, Federer nament. I didn’t even know if I “When you are young on the guys have the ability to be a little win fifth or Rafael Nadal since Australia should come to New York, so I tour you always feel you have quicker around the court, a little in 2005. wasn’t expecting anything actu- enough time,” said Cilic after his more agile a little more nimble. US Open title It will also be the first in New ally,” said the 10th seed. 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 rout of Federer. There’s always different ways to York with two debutants since Pat If form is any guide, then “You have a lot of Grand Slams. neutralize power,” said Chang. NEW YORK: American twins Rafter defeated Greg Rusedski in Nishikori should race away Novak Djokovic rests between You’re going to do well. But when Federer, the five-time cham- Bob and Mike Bryan became 1997. with the title as he boasts a 5-2 games against Kei Nishikori the time starts to pass by, you are pion and winner of 17 majors, said the first doubles pair to win 100 No wonder Nishikori is still record over the 25-year-old Croat, during their US Open semi-final more anxious if it’s going to hap- he always expected Nishikori to titles together after they beat pinching himself after his 6-4, 1-6, including both meetings this year, pen or it’s not going to happen. one day reach a Grand Slam final. Spain’s Marcel Granollers and match in New York on Saturday. 7-6 (7/4), 6-3 win over Djokovic. on hard court in Brisbane and on Cilic, who is coached by 2001 “I always thought he had unbe- Marc Lopez 6-3 6-4 in the U.S. “I am a little bit surprised for Barcelona clay. The quietly-spoken Japanese Wimbledon champion Goran lievable talent way back when I Open final yesterday. me to play the final,” said the However, they have split their has come a long way since his Ivanisevic, believes the final will played with him for the first time The world number one duo 24-year-old, whose previous best two past US Open duels, with arrival in the US a decade ago come down to a tactical duel. when he was 17. Just wasn’t quite broke the 11th seeds once in each Grand Slam run had been a quar- Nishikori winning in 2010 and not knowing a word of English. “Kei hits the ball extremely sure that in a best-of-five-set set to claim their fifth US Open ter-final at the 2012 Australian Cilic coming out on top two years Cilic too has endured a tough well from the back of the court. tournament if he could get all title and take their 16th Grand Open. ago. journey of his own over the last I think I’m going to have to just the way to the back end of the Slam title together. His win over Djokovic, his sec- “He’s been playing really well, year, albeit a more controversial focus on my game to break that tournament,” said Federer. “We’re obviously ecstatic,” said ond in three career meetings with very aggressive, very fast tennis. I one. little bit of rhythm and to try to “But he’s beaten myself twice Mike Bryan. “To win it here in the world number one, followed know he’s been getting stronger,” The 25-year-old 14th seed serve well,” he said. already. He was destroying Rafa front of this crowd makes it all a five-set quarter-final triumph said Nishikori, just one of many missed the 2013 US Open to Monday’s final also offers (Nadal) in the final of Madrid the more special but we had to over fifth seed Milos Raonic players who sharpened his skills serve a doping ban handed out up a contrasting clash of styles (Nishikori retired with a back play our best match of the tourna- and another five-set, four and a at the Bollettieri academy in after he tested positive for a between the 5ft 10in (1.78m), injury). He’s shown what he can ment to win today.” quarter-hour marathon against Florida. banned stimulant contained in 150lbs (68kg) Nishikori and the do.” AFP The top seeds made their move in the fourth game of the opener and when they broke in the sev- enth game of the second set there Makarova, Vesnina dash Federer won’t obsess was no way back for the Spanish pair. Left-handed Bob Bryan served over 18th Grand Slam out for an historic victory. Hingis’ US Open title dream The win gave the 36-year- old brothers a first grand slam NEW YORK: Martina NEW YORK: Roger Federer title of the year and they have Hingis’ hopes of winning her insists he will keep playing now won at least one Grand Slam first Grand Slam doubles title into 2015 but will not become title together for 10 consecutive since 2002 were shattered on obsessed over winning an 18th years. Saturday when the Russian Grand Slam title, a target which “We’re not going to rest on pairing of Ekaterina Makarova is slipping further and further our laurels,” Mike Bryan said. and Elena Vesnina took the US away. “We’re having a lot of fun play- Open title. The 33-year-old Swiss was ing together, we’re going to keep Hingis, 33, was playing with knocked out of the US Open semi- pushing and we’re not stopping Italy’s Flavia Pennetta but finals in straight sets by Marin any time yet.” REUTERS despite a promising start to the Cilic, the world number 16 on final they went down 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 Saturday, a loss which extended Major blow to to the fourth seeds. his failure to reach a final in New Roger Federer wipes his face Hingis last appeared in a York to five years. during his US Open semi-final Hong Kong Open doubles final at a Grand Slam It’s a long stretch of disappoint- match against Marin Cilic in New in 2002 at the Australian Open ment for a man who won five suc- York on Saturday. HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s where she won the title with cessive titles between 2004 and first WTA tennis tournament Anna Kournikova, one of nine 2008 but whose last appearance 80 the other week (in Cincinnati, in more than 20 years suffered a doubles crowns she captured in the championship match was one of three tour titles in 2014), major blow yesterday with main during her heydey. Ekaterina Makarova (left) and her Russian compatriot Elena Vesnina in 2009 when he was upstaged by so that was huge for me. drawcard Eugenie Bouchard She also captured the 1998 kiss the trophy after winning the US Open women’s doubles final at the Juan Martin del Potro. “I’ll give it a go again in withdrawing on medical advice doubles title in New York with USTA National Tennis Center in New York on Saturday. “It’s not important to my life. I Australia (next January); hope to after suffering from the heat at Jana Novotna. don’t need it to be more happy or be healthy there. I enjoy playing the US Open. “We definitely had our chances, “That (loss) is not going to take by Serena. The Russians had anything,” said the Swiss veteran there. It’s been one of my most China’s Peng Shuai, who but when we look back starting anything away from that. defeated the Williams sisters on when asked how significant an consistent Slams. I hope to get advanced to the semi-finals at the tournament, if you ask me “Hopefully we will have more their way to the final. achievement it would be to cap- another chance at it. I can’t do Flushing Meadows, was also a late to sign a paper that I’m in the opportunities in the near future,” “I saw Serena this morning in ture an 18th major. more than try really hard, which withdrawal after she was forced finals, I would probably accept it the Swiss star said. the locker room. She said, Are Federer’s caution is I’m doing.” to abandon her New York clash with my eyes closed,” said Hingis. Makarova and Vesnina have you playing final today? I’m like, understandable. Federer, 33, was trying to with Caroline Wozniacki after “When you’re that close of now won two majors after their Yes. She looked straight at me His 17th and most recent become the oldest winner of a also suffering from heat-related course you want to win. We beat 2013 triumph at the French in my eyes, she’s like, Go for it, Grand Slam title was his seventh major title in more than 40 years illness. them before. It’s not like we Open. because you really deserve it,” crown at Wimbledon in 2012 and at the US Open, but his record Wimbledon finallist Bouchard didn’t have a chance. We showed Their victory came a day said Vesnina. “I was like, Ah, even that came after having to at the Slams is steadily becoming was forced to seek medical treat- that we can beat the best doubles after Makarova was beaten in thank you. That win, of course, wait over two years since his 16th one of diminishing returns. ment due to the heat during her teams out there today again, but the singles semi-finals by two- gave us confidence, because beat- at the 2010 Australian Open. Although he made the fourth round loss to Ekaterina I felt like the juice ran out a little time defending champion Serena ing Serena and Venus at home “The moment itself, it would Wimbledon final in July, where he Makarova at the US Open, but bit at the end.” Williams. with their crowd and on the big mean a lot. I keep working hard was defeated by Novak Djokovic, did not inform organisers until “I’m really happy. Still a great Vesnina said she had been stadium when everybody was for to win titles on the tour, not just his record since Wimbledon 2012 late in the piece causing frustra- tournament,” smiled Hingis. wished good luck for the final them.” AGENCIES No. 18. is modest by his lofty standards. tion among Hong Kong tennis “I was very happy to get to No. AFP officials. REUTERS MONDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27

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A moment from the opening ceremony of the IHF Super Globe Championship 2014, which was held at the all-new Qatar Handball Association Complex in Doha yesterday.

The President of the Qatar Handball Association and head of the organising committee of the IHF Super Globe, Ahmed Al Shaabi, speaks Acrobats perform during the opening ceremony of the IHF Super Globe Championship 2014 at the Qatar Handball Association Complex in Doha yesterday. during the opening ceremony yesterday.

Al Sadd player Hany Elfakharany tries to score against FC Barcelona during a Group B match of the IHF Super Globe Championship 2014 at the Qatar Handball Association Complex in Doha yesterday. LEFT: An Al Ahli player in action against El Jaish yesterday. RIGHT: A view of the brand new Qatar Handball Association Complex in Doha. PICTURES BY BAHER AMIN Monday 8 September 2014 13 Dhu’l-Qa’da 1435 Volume 19 Number 6182 Sport Price: QR2

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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 Qatar 2015 World FC Barcelona, El Jaish begin Championship preparations Super Globe in fine style get thumbs up DOHA: As the IHF Super Globe kicked off in Doha yes- terday, the participants of the Al Sadd go down to Spanish giants; El Jaish win all-Qatari duel with Al Ahli event gave thumbs up to the tournament’s officials and the newly-built Qatar Handball BY FAWAD HUSSAIN Association Complex. The coaches and players tak- DOHA: Defending champions ing part at the IHF Super globe FC Barcelona and Qatar’s El were left impressed with the Jaish got off to a winning start facilities at the Qatar Handball on the opening day of IHF Super Association Complex, which is Globe Handball Championship one of the four venues to host the that kicked off here yesterday at Qatar 2015 Men’s Handball World the newly-built Qatar Handball Championship. Association Complex. The ongoing event in which The Catalans overcame spirited eight club teams are taking part Al Sadd 34-25. from different countries has been The Spanish side that lifted the dubbed as the first test for the last year’s trophy after defeating organisers for the Qatar 2015 HSV Hamburg in the final last to be held from January 15 to year, scored 17 goals in each half February 1. to start the eight-team event on In his initial assessment, a winning note. Brazil’s Diogo Hubner, a player Barcelona were leading 17-12 from HC Taubate, the Pen in first half of the second Group American champions praised B match of the day. However, Al the hospitality and facilities at Sadd, the host club proved their the event. skills with a gallant performance “The complex is amazing and against the European giants. we are enjoying the facilities Before the match which was and our stay here,” Hubner told the last of the day, an impres- reporters. sive opening ceremony for the “I will definitely like to event held in which Minister of come back here for the World Youth and Sports H E Salah bin Championship with my national Ghanem bin Nasser Al Ali was team (Brazil). I hope it will be a the chief guest. great event.” Earlier in the day, Asian cham- Meanwhile, Ljubomir Vranjes, pions El Jaish overcame Al Ahli the coach of SG Flensburg 28-23 in the all-Qatari Group Handewitt, winners of the EHF A encounter, to live up to the Champions League also praised expectations. The match, watched the complex. by avid fans of the respective “We are pleased to be here, it’s clubs, saw a fast start with both H E Salah bin Ghanem bin Nasser Al Ali (left), Minister of Youth and Sports, Dr Hassan Moustafa (right), President of the International Handball a very nice arena,” Vranjes said. teams exchanging goals in short Federation (IHF), Ahmed Al Shaabi, President of the Qatar Handball Association and Head of the Organising Committee of IHF Super Globe during However, the coach pointed out intervals. the opening ceremony of the IHF Super Globe Championship 2014 at the all-new Qatar Handball Association Complex in Doha yesterday. RIGHT: that the organisers will have to do Al Ahli, the wild card entrants Al Sadd player Saied Sobhi attempts to score against FC Barcelona during the Group B match of the IHF Super Globe. PICTURES BY: BAHER AMIN more work ahead of Qatar 2015. of the event, started off well and “ I think the time scheduling held their strong opponents 10-10 needs to be fixed. But, still I’ll say in the first half. Al Ahli performed pretty well in SG Flensburg Handewit, the the second half and produced a if we want to win the trophy we that there are more positives (in However, El Jaish, the main the last Qatari league and winning European Champions League better show in both defense and have to play better in the com- my assessment) and a little bit of hope for the host nation in the against them is a good result.” winners, made a winning debut attack. The European side fired 17 ing games.” negatives. THE PENINSULA event, dominated the second ses- The losing team’s coach at the Super Globe when they goals in the final session to clinch Earlier, in the first match of the sion, scoring 18 more goals for an Mahmoud Najji complained about thrashed Brazilian side Taubate a 28-22 victory in their opening tournament, Esperance Tunis, 2014 Super Globe impressive victory. lack of preparations. 28-22. match. the African champions prevailed Today’s Fixtures El Jaish coach Zoran “The team performed well in Taubate, the Pan American Despite the win, the winning over Sydney University HC, rep- Sydney Uni HC vs FC 2:00 PM Kastratovic was ecstatic with the the first half but the lack of prep- club champions, started off well, team’s coach stressed that his resentative of Oceania region Barcelona victory in the first match. arations hampered our perform- particularly their goal-keeper team will have to show improve- 29-20 to record their first win in Handebol Taubaté vs El 4:00 PM “Congratulations to my players ance in the second half. We just Liuz Nascimen, to put up a spir- ment in the next games. the Group B match. Jaish SC for this very important win in a got a few weeks to prepare as we ited display to pose problems for “I am satisfied with the results The Tunis based club’s play- Al Sadd SC vs 6:00 PM difficult match. Congratulations were not sure about our partici- the European side. Taubate also but not with our performance,” ers displayed consistent show in Espérance Sportive also to Al Ahli as they played pation,” Al Ahli coach said. stunned their opponents by some said Ljubomir Vranjes. both the halves to claim winning de Tunis well.” “The organisers should have impressive hammer shots. “The Brazilian side played the points. They were leading 14-5 in Al Ahli SC vs SG 8:00 PM El Jaish player Ahmed Elahmar finalised our entry before,” Najji However, Flensburg managed first half very well and created the first half and added 15 more Flensburg-Handewitt praised his team’s performance. added. to take a 12-9 lead in the first problems for us. There is room goals to win the match in one- Venue: Qatar Handball Association at Duhail “It was a crucial match for us. In the first Group A match, half. They came back stronger in for improvement and of course sided affair. THE PENINSULA QNB becomes ‘Prestige Partner’ for Qatar 2015 worlds

DOHA: In a landmark deal teams and fans from around the are fully committed to support- ahead of the Qatar 2015 Men’s world. The agreement will provide ing sports activities and to high- Handball World Championship, QNB with significant visibility lighting the importance of sports the Qatar 2015 Organising including coverage on several key and its values to our society, Committee has announced that placements at the championship’s and we look forward to working Qatar National Bank (QNB) venues, which will be featured in with the Qatar 2015 Organising will be a Prestige Partner for international broadcasts when the Committee to making this event the global event to be held in competition begins. a major success.” Doha early next year. Dr. Thani Abdulrahman said: This partnership is the lat- The agreement was signed “We are working closely with est in a series of announcements by Dr Thani Abdulrahman Al Qatar’s leading companies to by the Qatar 2015 Organising Kuwari, Director General, Qatar ensure that Qatar 2015 is a land- Committee, as the organisation 2015 Organising Committee and mark sports event for our nation works to partner with companies Ali Ahmed Al Kuwari, Acting and to ensure that every specta- for the championship which will Group Chief Executive Officer, tor enjoys a unique sporting expe- take place from 15 January until QNB, at a press conference held rience. We are pleased and proud 1 February. on the first day of the IHF Super to welcome QNB as a Prestige With the participation of 24 Globe, a major handball com- Sponsor, and will work closely countries from all over the world, petition being hosted in Qatar with them to deliver an incred- the biennial Men’s Handball this week, at the all-new Qatar ible Championship.” World Championship is the big- Handball Association Complex Ali Ahmed while speaking at gest and one of the most impor- yesterday. the press conference said: “Qatar tant international events in As a Prestige Sponsor, QNB 2015 will be a prime opportunity Olympic sport. Handball is one will provide essential support to showcase Qatar’s capacity to of the most dynamically develop- Officials of the Organising Committee of Qatar 2015 Men’s Handball World Championship and Qatar National for the Men’s Handball World host world-class events, and we ing Olympic sports and enjoys a Bank (QNB) pose for a picture after signing an agreement in Doha yesterday. QNB will be a Prestige Partner Championship, which will engage aim to play a full role in making continuously increasing fan base for the global event to be held in Doha early next year. the whole community and welcome this event a success. At QNB, we worldwide. THE PENINSULA