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TUESDAY 4 AUGUST 2015 • 19 Shawwal 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6512 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Hadi loyalists US to speed up arms recapture Al Anad base sales to Gulf: Kerry ADEN: Fighters loyal to Yemen’s exiled president Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi, bolstered by Gulf Arab support, seized the coun- Al Attiyah calls for nuclear weapons ban in Middle East try’s largest military base from Houthi forces yesterday after DOHA: Washington has agreed to come up with a solution to the heavy combat in which dozens to speed up arms sales to Gulf Lavrov meets nuclear weapons of Iran through were killed or captured, a pro- states, US Secretary of State dialogue and this came up as a Hadi commander said. John Kerry announced yesterday result of the efforts exerted by the If confirmed, the victory after talks in Doha on their con- Hamas chief United States of America and its would mark another significant cerns over the Iran nuclear deal. allies,” the Foreign Minister said, gain for the Hadi loyalists after Foreign Minister H E Dr Khalid DOHA: Russian Foreign speaking in Arabic. they drove the Houthis from the bin Mohamed Al Attiyah told a Minister Sergei Lavrov Al Attiyah also called for a southern port of Aden in July fol- joint press conference with Kerry met Hamas leader Khaled ban on all nuclear weapons not lowing months on the defensive. that the nuclear deal was “the best Meshaal here yesterday and only in Iran but “all the Middle The recapture of the Al Anad base option among other options”. invited him to visit Moscow, East”. As well as his talks with also opens up the road north to the Asked what he could offer Gulf a Hamas official said, extend- Attiyah, Kerry also met Saudi city of Taiz, where Iranian-allied states, Kerry said the United States ing a diplomatic welcome Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel Houthi militias have been locked in “agreed to expedite certain arms to the Palestinian group bin Ahmed Al Jubeir. combat with Hadi fighters. sales that are needed and that have shunned by the West. Before leaving Qatar, Kerry also “The national army and the taken too long in the past”. Meshaal last travelled to held a three-way meeting with popular resistance have completed The US would also step up Moscow in 2010. In a statement Russian Foreign Minister Sergei control of the Al Anad military efforts to share intelligence and released in Gaza, the Hamas Lavrov and Jubeir, with discussions and air base,” the operation com- increase the number of joint official said a delegation led centered on Syria. Lavrov told mander, Brigadier-General Fadel military exercises with its Arab by Meshaal briefed Lavrov on reporters that an announced US Hassan, told Reuters. allies, Kerry said following talks conditions in the Gaza Strip in willingness to take extra measures His forces were combing the with foreign ministers of the six- the aftermath of last summer’s to defend allied fighters in Syria base, which covers 40 square km nation Gulf Cooperation Council. war with Israel. REUTERS was “counter-productive”. for any Houthis who may have Gulf countries have expressed In a news conference along- remained behind. He said his force concerns that the July 14 deal side Al Attiyah, Lavrov said: “We would march on to complete the between Iran and world powers cooperation will be enhanced.” believe it’s counterproductive “liberation” of the provinces of would allow greater regional inter- Kerry added that there was to announce publicly that some Lahej and Abyan. ference by the Islamic republic. also agreement to “talk about how US-trained armed groups... will The Houthi-run Saba news “We talked about the possibil- to integrate the region’s ballistic be under the protection of the agency said earlier that Saudi-led ity, not the possibility, the real- missile defences based on some of coalition’s air forces,” Lavrov air raids had repeatedly struck ity of increasing the number of the activities of other countries”. said. Kerry flew to Qatar on Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with US Secretary of State John the military base. The base has exercises that we are conducting Al Attiyah said there was sup- Sunday from Egypt, where he Kerry in Doha yesterday. Kerry briefed the Emir on details of the Iran deal. been under siege for weeks by the together,” Kerry said. “These are port for the nuclear deal among also sought to assure Cairo that The Emir expressed his hope for a Middle-East that is free of weapons Southern Resistance, an alliance of a few examples and ways in which countries in the Gulf, despite their the Iran deal would bring greater of mass destruction, or a race towards acquiring them. Deputy Emir southern groups including seces- we believe the security of the cautious reaction. “This was the security to the region. AFP H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani attended the meeting. sionists seeking an independent region can be strengthened and best option among other options More pictures on page 2 south Yemen. REUTERS

Many accidents caused by youth, Construction sector faces tough challenges: Report DOHA: Delayed payment, con- more difficult as there are no provide engineers’ classification is negatively impacts your cash flow, Delayed payments is all too students: Survey servative banking practices and visas that can be obtained from very generic and not sufficient to meaning that you are less able to common and it affects the whole a lack of qualified professionals the government from the nation- decide whether an engineer is suf- maintain the momentum of your supply chain and it is almost DOHA: The roads in Qatar are are posing serious challenges alities that are in demand here ficiently qualified or not, he said. projects through timely payments, taken for granted that the con- safest on Fridays, says a study, to the contractors in Qatar’s like India, Bangladesh etc,” the Another major challenge high- material sourcing etc,” he said. tract terms will be ignored or only and it adds that based on a sur- construction sector, according Qatar Contractors Forum quoted lighted by the industry leaders was The biggest challenge is the used when convenient, he said. vey of 340 traffic accidents, stu- to top professionals in the field. a top industry leader as saying in the difficulty in obtaining financial growing competition contractors “There is a duality of the con- dents and those looking for jobs The construction boom in Qatar a document published by it in the support from Qatari banks, a prob- face in the construction sector as struction boom in Qatar. On one are more prone to causing acci- has brought significant difficul- run-up to the Qatar Contractors lem that has knock-on effects for international companies are drawn hand, its rapid rise means mas- dents than others. ties along with a host of fresh Forum & Awards scheduled to be the industry at large. to Qatar and its lucrative opportu- sive potential to secure lucrative Some 47 percent of the 340 opportunities, they said. held in Doha in October, 2015. “It is extremely difficult to nities. Highlighting the problems contracts but on the other, the road mishaps that were surveyed The shortage of visas, combined There is no proper system to obtain banking services from local faced by contractors, a former proper adjustments have not yet for the study were caused due to with a lack of proper ‘capability test the capabilities of prospective banks because they have raised regional director of another leading been made to the banking and lack of attention of motorists and testing’, has led to a situation engineers before they are assigned their requirements in such a firm said that there was difficulty regulatory systems to promote nearly all these accidents were where construction projects are work. The test performed by the way that it is now more difficult in getting qualified and experienced swift and secure payments.” caused by students and youth being delayed due to a shortfall of Ministry of Municipality and than ever. This directly affects professionals. Small companies are THE PENINSULA hunting for jobs. skilled engineers. “It is becoming Urban Planning (MMUP) to the progress of work because it finding it difficult to compete. Continued on page 2 The study was conducted by the Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics, reports Al Sharq. All the aforemen- Syria war plane crashes, 31 killed tioned motorists were aged less than 25. Public urged to report Young motorists drive fast and do not care much about rules and regulations and road safety, shows the study. partitioned villas The study also says that at least 50 percent of the accidents sur- DOHA: The Ministry of a suspected building could be veyed were caused by motorists Municipality and Urban checked for violation. who had driving experience of six Planning has urged the public The police will be asked to years and less. to bring to its notice villas and accompany the civic inspectors and THE PENINSULA apartments that have been par- engineers for checks to prepare titioned illegally. technical reports of the violation. In a statement issued yesterday, The Ministry has issued stern Brent plunges the Ministry said that it is the duty warnings to contractors and NEW YORK: Oil prices dived of people to report cases involving technicians not to engage, on yesterday, with Brent crude illegally partitioned homes as they behalf of owners or occupants, in tumbling about five percent, pose grave threats to public safety illegal partitioning of villas and after new data showed weaken- and adversely impact infrastruc- apartments. ing US and Chinese manufac- ture and public services. Tampering with service sup- turing and amid worries about Tampered electrical wirings and plies (electricity and water con- the global supply glut. water pipes in illegally partitioned nections and land phone lines, for US benchmark West Texas homes pose a grave threat to the example) and making connections Intermediate plummeted 4.1 safety of people, said the Ministry. illegally in a home is an offence percent for September deliv- Municipal inspectors have that is to be dealt with strictly ery, shedding $1.95 to close at been asked to watch buildings and in accordance with the law, $45.17 a barrel on the New York from outside and based on air- said the Ministry. Mercantile Exchange. Brent conditioners and cars parked Contractors and others found North Sea crude for September The area where a Syrian government war plane crashed during a bombing in Ariha, Idlib province, yesterday. At outside and other such features, indulging in illegal partitioning finished at $49.52 a barrel, down least 31 people were killed and a vegetable market was destroyed. Sixty people were wounded in the attack. they can assess whether there is of homes will be fined between $2.69 (5.2 percent) from Friday’s a violation. QR10,000 and QR100,000. See also pages 5 & 6 settlement. AFP Permission then can be taken THE PENINSULA See also page 17 from the Public Prosecution and Continued on page 2 TUESDAY 4 AUGUST 2015 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

Emir meets Sergei Lavrov, GCC ministers

LEFT: The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani meeting with Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Lavrov at the Emiri Diwan yesterday. They discussed joint efforts to find suitable solutions to the Syrian, Iraqi, Yemeni and Libyan crises. They also discussed facing the threat of terrorism and enhancing security and stability in the region. RIGHT: The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani meeting with GCC foreign ministers, who called on the Emir to greet him on the occasion of their visit to Qatar to attend a joint meeting with the US Secretary of State John Kerry currently underway in Doha. The meeting was also attended by the Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani. 500 jobs for Qataris soon Permission must before making Rigorous training and English language skills a must alteration in a villa or apartment Continued from page1 is the owner of the property or If the violator fails to comply DOHA: Some 500 jobs are programme is to be begin in a stipend during their training They must take permission occupant.” Municipal engineers with the instructions, the mat- on offer in the private and few days and the programme that will be five days a week and from the authorities before taking and surveyors have been roped in ter will be referred to the police other sectors for Qataris with will be launched in October. eight hours a day. an alteration in a villa or apart- because they will be in a better with a detailed report of the different educational back- This wouldn’t be a one-off A senior ministry official, who ment. Surveyors and engineers position to assess an illegal par- violation. grounds but they must attend programme. outlined details of the train- from different municipalities titioning and draw the sketch of Owners found guilty will be a rigorous six-month training It is part of a series of ing programme in remarks to have joined hands with inspectors the violation. fined between QR250 and QR500 programme and pass English employment-oriented training a local Arabic daily Al Arab for the civic clampdown. “Legal They would ask the owner of a per square meter of the area language skill test to be able to programmes the ministry plans published yesterday, though notices will be issued to those who building concerned to remove the involved in a violation. If the vio- grab those positions. to launch over the long-term as lamented that there is a dearth have made illegal alterations by illegal modifications and if possi- lation is on a wall, the fine per The training programme is part of a National Initiative for of suitable Qataris who could the municipality concerned,” the ble, seek civic licence to regular- square meter (linear) will be to be conducted by the Ministry Training Qatari Youth and has be employed in technical jobs Ministry has said. “No one will ize a modification if the law and between QR200 and QR400. of Labour and Social Affairs titled it as “Employ Me”. in the insurance sector despite be spared, whether the violator safety conditions so permit. THE PENINSULA with help from private com- Three categories of trainees high demand. panies that are offering these are to be registered: Those with Ali Mohamed Al Ahbabi, head jobs. The companies include secondary school certificates, of employment at the Ministry Payment delay a serious problem not only banks but also those in graduates and post-graduates. of Labour and Social Affairs, the construction sector and the But trainees must pass tests at told the daily that the compa- Continued from page 1 the construction process”, he said. The challenges jobs include professions involv- the end of the programme to nies taking part in the above ini- “This in turn is leading to a dangerous precedent faced by the contractors will be debated threadbare ing accountancy and even senior qualify to be employed. tiative are those that are quite being set, where delivery on agreed project phases is in “Qatar Contractors Forum & Awards,” scheduled administrative positions. Interestingly though, all keen on Qatarisation. delayed practically from the start as the expectation to be held from October 19-20, 2015. Registration for the training trainees will be paid handsome THE PENINSULA of delayed payments slows each and every step of THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 4 AUGUST 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 Ministry inspectors seize 3,379 fake CDs from retailer Intellectual Property Protection Department conducts raid in shop

DOHA: The Ministry of Economy and Commerce has confiscated over 3,300 fake CDs in a raid conducted in an outlet located in the Old Airport area as part of efforts to enforcing intellectual property laws and regulations. A statement released yester- day said the inspectors from the Intellectual Property Protection Department at the ministry fined the outlet for selling fake and www.swiss-belhotel.com copied CDs, and some 3,379 CDs Tel were detected, and the shop was fined for violating the Law No. Fax 7 of the year 2002 on copyright and the related rights which, in a number of its articles, states on punitive measures such as fines Tel and confiscation. Fax However, it did not provide fur- ther details about the amount of fine and other information related to the outlet in question. The ministry has called on Tel consumers to make sure that Fax the outlet is an agent licensed to sell these items or the items are within the scope of its commer- cial activity before purchasing the The confiscated CDs on display at a shop in Old Airport area. Tel + 974 44298888 item. “Consumers are requested to ask the shop to confirm the Fax item specifications in the pur- framework of the ministry’s violators, saying it will be strict to intellectual property rights chase invoice, since it is hard ongoing efforts to protect con- with them and will refer them through the following communi- to verify whether the compact sumers, monitor markets, and to the concerned entities in cation channels: hotline: 16000; Tel items are authentic or fake with ensure that outlets abide by order to have proper penalties email: [email protected]; and Fax the normal eye when purchasing,” intellectual property rights as per the law. social media accounts:Twitter: said the statement. protection laws. Customers have been urged @MEC_Qatar; Instagram: This raid comes within the The ministry warned to report any violation related MEC_Qatar. THE PENINSULA Tel Fax

Ministry Carnegie Mellon Qatar registers Tel recalls Fax record participation at SCPP www.doha.hilton.com Chevrolet Tel 44233333 974+ DOHA: Carnegie Mellon Fax 44233000 974+ Corvette 2014 University in Qatar recently concluded its ninth Summer DOHA: The Ministry of College Preview Program Economy and Commerce, in (SCPP) in which 76 high school collaboration with Chevrolet’s students, 58 percent of whom sole distributor in Qatar, Jaidah were Qatari, took part in the Automotive, has announced the month-long university prepara- recall of Chevrolet Corvette tory course. 2014 to modify airbags’ position This year Carnegie Mellon to fit kids in case of not using Qatar recorded the highest Tel seat belt. number of students participat- Fax This recall comes within the ing in SCPP, which is an expe- framework of the ongoing coor- rience designed to academically dination and follow-up by the strengthen student’s basic ministry to ascertain the dealers’ knowledge of university prepa- commitment to follow up defects ration. This is done through Tel and repair them to protect con- Mathematics, English and SAT/ Fax sumers’ rights. ACT college admission exam prep- The ministry has also affirmed aration courses held in conjunc- that it will coordinate with Jaidah tion with the Kaplan Corporation Automotive to follow up the nec- from the United States. Tel essary maintenance and repair “The exposure to the academic Fax processes and will communicate excellence on offer at Carnegie Participants at the programme. with clients to ensure the success Mellon that SCPP participants of the recall campaign as well as receive is something that most the implementation of the proce- of them are not familiar with, practical projects within one sister recently graduated from dures to fix defects. but they leave well-aware of the of the Carnegie Mellon Qatar Carnegie Mellon Qatar and it Tel Consumers have been urged work ethic needed to succeed in majors of their choosing, was her who inspired me to Fax to report any abuses or irregu- higher education,” said Damian including biological sciences, attend SCPP since she believes larities by communicating with Dourado, manager of pre-college business administration, com- it will add value to my college the Department of Consumer programmes. puter science and information application experience and Protection and Commercial Fraud “Additionally, parents are systems. ease my transition into uni- Tel Combat which will receive com- thrilled when their children Carnegie Mellon Qatar versity after graduation from plaints, suggestions and inquiries complete the program as more staff, students and SCPP alum high school.” Fax through its communication chan- focused, and academically driven, were also on hand to tutor and With 10 percent of this nels. Consumers can also submit students. The SCPP also sets stu- counsel the school students year’s participants expected their complaints through elec- dents apart from the thousands of with their coursework, their to enroll at Carnegie Mellon tronic systems installed in malls. applicants we receive each year, preparations for the univer- Qatar, the SCPP concluded Tel These systems allow consumers to as it indicates that they chose to sity admissions process, and with a student showcase at Fax electronically communicate with spend part of their summer vaca- questions about student life at which course participants the Department of Consumer tion productively,” said Dourado. Education City. presented their work to fam- Protection and Commercial During the SCPP students Having taken part in the ily and friends, followed by an Fraud Combat in a direct way. were also provided an oppor- SCPP for the first time this Iftar. THE PENINSULA tunity to undertake interactive year, Essa Al Sulaiti said, “My THE PENINSULA

Tel Qatar Duty Free sets up new retail concept Fax

DOHA: Qatar Duty Free strategic location in the airport’s Tel (QDF), in conjunction with departures concourse will make Fax L’Oréal Luxe, has created an the exhibition a focal point for exclusive pop-up experience for all passengers departing from passengers travelling through or transferring through Doha. www.marriottmarquisdoha.com Hamad International Airport The exquisite sensory journey is (HIA) this summer. built around an area of peace and Tel + 974 44195000 Lancôme, Giorgio Armani, Yves relaxation directly inspired by the Fax + 974 44195100 Saint Laurent, Ralph Lauren, and shape of the Fountain of Doha Viktor & Rolf will showcase their Museum of Islamic Art. oriental and occidental style fra- “We are delighted to reveal this grances housed within different innovative new retail concept at areas of the East Meets West Qatar Duty Free this summer,” installation, which is situated in said Qatar Duty Free Senior VP, Qatar Duty Free outlet at HIA. the main atrium of HIA. This Keith Hunter. THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 4 AUGUST 2015 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

Ballet Philippines to perform at QRC digs 32 wells in Sri Lanka Katara’s Drama Theatre on Aug 12 QR401,500 spent on the project DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent An MoU was signed by QRC (QRC) has recently completed and the Sri Lankan partner in the project of digging surface March. A QRC delegate visited and artesian water wells in the Sri Lanka to examine the ten- towns affected by civil war in der procedures through a legal Sri Lanka, in cooperation with committee. the Islamic Relief Committee The contract was awarded to (ISRC), with funding from the best financial and technical the General Directorate of bid from among four bidders. Endowments and a Qatari After identifying the areas that benefactor. need drinking water the most, the The project, which lasted for execution was carried out in three five months, cost QR 401,500, of phases: which QR129,240 was contributed 1. Review of designs and pro- by a big Qatari donor. curement lists, selection of a con- Under the project, 25 surface tractor, examination of the soil for water wells and seven artesian the best location of digging, initial DOHA: The Philippine Embassy wells were dug and equipped with preparation of the land, and lay- in Doha, in coordination with water tanks and solar-powered ing of the foundation stone; the Katara Cultural Village, pumps. Awareness sessions were 2. Start of digging work; and is organising a one-night per- held to educate the beneficiaries 3. Completion of digging, exam- formance of Ballet Philippines’ about personal hygiene standards ination of water, building of walls “Master Pieces: Celebrating the and how best to use and maintain around the wells, painting of the Tapestry of Filipino Culture & these wells. walls, and final finishing. The newly-built wells in Sri Lanka. Friendship,” which will be held The project is an attempt from All the surface water wells were on August 12 at Katara’s Drama QRC to resettle the populations completed and are now used by Theatre. displaced by the civil war, by the local communities. The arte- digging 24 surface water wells and Under its Ramadan cam- digging 10 artesian wells and “Master Pieces” presents a providing shelter, clean drinking sian wells are in the final stages six artesian wells equipped with paign, QRC is planning for more establishing 20 sanitation facilities collection of Ballet Philippines’ water, and irrigation water for of execution. water tanks and solar-powered water projects in other countries, in three regions of Mauritania, acclaimed works created and small farms. This is not the first water pumps. The $110,000 project was including 100 surface and artesian at a total cost of QR4,055,000. performed throughout its 46-year The wells will be used by 20 project to be conducted by QRC conducted in cooperation with water wells in Nepal, at a cost of Several water wells are to be dug history. towns in four northern regions for the victims of civil war in Sri Serendib Foundation for Relief QR300,000, to serve 3,000 people. in Jammu and Kashmir, at a cost As a testament to the com- of the country. Lanka. Other projects include and Development (SFRD). Another project involves of QR60,000. THE PENINSULA pany’s versatility, the works are an assortment of classical ballets, neo-classical works, modern and contemporary dance pieces, and excerpts from full-length modern and classical ballets. GEP-Qatar gets accreditation Bringing this widely toured Mowasalat organises blood show to select countries in the Middle East presents a tapestry from Philippine Embassy of culture and friendship, from which both nations can find com- donation drive with HMC monalities and understanding through dance. DOHA: Mowasalat has organ- Ballet Philippines was founded ised a blood donation drive for its in 1969 and is widely recognised employees in collaboration with today as a cornerstone of the Hamad Medical Corporation Filipino cultural identity. (Blood Donation Centre). Its official school, the CCP The drive is part of enhancing Dance School, continues to pro- the role of the company and its duce dancers of international staff towards the community and caliber. in line with the company’s social As the dance company in resi- responsibility by extending help dence at the Cultural Center of and assistance to patients, the less the Philippines, Ballet Philippines fortunate and the hospitals given is globally recognised as the coun- the high demand on blood units. Philippine Ambassador to Qatar Wilfredo C Santos with GEP-Qatar officers try’s flagship company in ballet It is also part of the company’s at the embassy. and contemporary dance. partnership and cooperation with “This by-invitation perform- other national organisations and DOHA: The Geodetic Philippine Embassy. After having ance of Ballet Philippines is a of its support of Hamad Medical Engineers of the Philippines- been accredited by the Philippine recognition of the key role of cul- Corporation’s efforts to provide Qatar Chapter (GEP-Qatar), Embassy, GEP-Qatar now gears tural diplomacy as an important the blood units with their require- the first and only organisa- toward formally securing the rec- pillar of Philippine foreign policy. ments at all times. tion of professional Filipino ognition by the Geodetic Engineers We strive to present a different The company’s staffs showed geodetic engineers based in of the Philippines, Incorporated, side to Philippine artistry for a their enthusiasm with high Qatar, has recently acquired the lead organisation of Geodetic largely Middle Eastern audience,” participation in the drive and official accreditation from the Engineers in the country. Philippine Ambassador to Qatar donated blood, fostering such Philippine Embassy. GEP-Qatar’s main objective is Wilfredo C Santos said. worthy humanitarian and social Led by Edgardo T Basilio, to ensure that all members are The event is expected to be objectives. President, the newly-elected offic- competent and competitive, and An employee donating blood. attended by prominent mem- Managed by Dr Emad ers of GEP-Qatar, took their oath that everyone is kept updated bers of the Qatari society both Mohammed Bahlool, “Mowasalat before Philippine Ambassador to with the most recent information, from the government and pri- Medical Centre” is going through health follow-ups, clearly reflect- services soon after its inaugura- Qatar Wilfredo C Santos on June technology and developments in vate sector, diplomatic corps, and major development and expansion ing Mowasalat management’s tion once the medical team are 16 at the Embassy in Doha. the field of geomatics. selected members of the Filipino in terms of intensive health care commitment to maintaining the available. Building and equip- Ambassador Santos congratu- GEP-Qatar invites all Filipino community. provided to the Company’s staff good health of its entire staff to ment are ready and installed. lated them after the oath-taking Geodetic Engineers and practic- This Middle East tour of Ballet and drivers. “Mowasalat Medical ensure its customers’ safety. Mowasalat Medical Commission rites and handed over to the ing surveyors based in Qatar to Philippines will have them per- Centre” is equipped with the latest “Mowasalat Medical Centre” will ease pressure sharing the group the accreditation certifi- join the group and help in the form at UAE and Bahrain before medical equipment. In addition, will cater to the needs as a load and demand on the existing cate which confirms GEP-Qatar continued advancement and coming to Qatar and Jordan. it provides periodic and annual Medical Commission and is near- Medical Commission. as a duly registered and recognised development of the profession. THE PENINSULA examinations as well as regular ing completion to commence its THE PENINSULA Filipino organisation under the THE PENINSULA Ooredoo supports Paris Saint-Germain Handball Academy session for youth

DOHA: Ooredoo has sup- ported a special coaching camp by the Paris Saint-Germain Handball team in Doha this week, as the company contin- ues to inspire young people to take part in sports. The camp, which was held on July 29 at Aspire Dome, gave 20 young people the opportunity to take part in a handball train- ing session led by Paris Saint- Germain coaches. The team is in Doha for a pre-season training camp and Ooredoo, as a top sponsor of the club, took the opportunity to enable a group of children to meet the Paris Saint-Germain players, so that they could take Members of the coaching camp by the Paris Saint-Germain Handball team in Doha. pictures with them, collect autographs, and see the start of their training camp. throughout the contest. all our sponsorships make a of Ooredoo’s commitment, the Several of the players were Fatima Sultan Al Kuwari, real impact on the community company hosts a series of events part of France’s winning team Director of Community & Public through interactions like this throughout the year such as the at the 24th Men’s Handball Relations, Ooredoo, said: “We coaching camp, and we’re par- Ooredoo Marathon, National World Championship, which have an excellent relationship ticularly focused upon engaging Sport Day activities, and activ- was held in Qatar in January. with Paris Saint-Germain, and young people.” ities held around the sporting Enthusiasm around the sport this training camp was another The Paris Saint-Germain competitions of Ooredoo’s brand has grown significantly since opportunity to enrich young Handball Academy by Ooredoo ambassador, Nasser Al Attiyah, the event, which saw Qatar people’s lives and encourage is part of the company’s ongo- in addition to soccer train- achieve the runner up position them to take part in an excit- ing work to introduce Qatar’s ing camps with Paris Saint- after an incredible performance ing sport. Ooredoo ensures that children to new sports. As part Germain. THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 4 AUGUST 2015 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05

Iran’s censors act against Jewish rebels newspapers criticising deal to be grilled

DUBAI: Iran’s Press Supervisory Board has sus- pended a hardline newspaper and cautioned two other out- ‘hard’ in Israel lets for criticising last month’s nuclear deal with world pow- ers — a rare move for a body Govt lays down new rules more used to upholding social conservatism. JERUSALEM: Israel will Violently shaking suspects The board suspended “9 Dey”, allow harsher interrogations was one of several methods a weekly newspaper that accused of suspected Jewish militants, used by the domestic intelli- Tehran’s negotiators of overstep- with methods once reserved gence agency Shin Bet against ping Supreme Leader Ayatollah for Palestinian detainees, Palestinian militants that Ali Khamenei’s red lines in the after a deadly West Bank Israel’s Supreme Court curbed negotiations, and referred its case attack blamed on ultra- in 1999. to a court, the ISNA news agency nationalists, a minister said But security experts have reported yesterday. yesterday. said the ruling left it an option Censors also cautioned The announcement came a in select cases where interro- “Kayhan”, an influential conserv- day after the government said gators prove to superiors an ative daily, and the “Raja News” it would start detaining citizens urgent need to glean informa- website, in a setback for critics suspected of political violence tion that may foil imminent who assert that Iranian negotia- against Palestinians without attacks. tors made too many concessions trial, another practice previ- The Shin Bet could not imme- to reach the historic deal on ously used only on Palestinian diately be reached for comment. July 14. suspects. Itamar Ben-Gvir, a lawyer The pact has been the subject Prime Minister Benjamin who has represented far-right of intense debate in the Islamic Israeli firefighters extinguish a blaze in a vehicle that was hit by a fire-bomb in the east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Netanyahu’s security cabinet Israelis accused of political Republic, and President Hassan Beit Hanina yesterday. An Israeli woman was seriously wounded in the attack. came under growing pressure to violence, said Erdan’s “tiltul” Rowhani took to the airwaves crack down on violent far-right remarks were scandalous, add- on Sunday evening to talk up Jewish groups after arsonists ing that he might mount a new the achievements of Iranian killed a Palestinian toddler and Supreme Court challenge. diplomats. severely injured his parents and “The government is act- Conservative newspapers Jewish extremist leader arrested brother on Friday. ing like an elephant in a china have been targeted in the past: Interior Security Minister shop,” Ben-Gvir said. “After in February 2014 the Supreme JERUSALEM: A Jewish accuse him of direct involvement in six-month periods of detention Gilad Erdan said the secu- they’ve spared arch-terrorists National Security Council sued extremist group’s leader was Friday’s firebombing. without trial. But it can now be rity cabinet that approved the this method, they want to try it a conservative journalist work- arrested yesterday after a According to Israeli media, he used with Jewish detainees in cases detention measures on Sunday out against Jewish youths.” ing for Vatan-e Emrooz (Today’s Palestinian baby died in a West was the brains behind a June 18 of insufficient evidence to go to trial had also authorised stronger No one has been arrested for Nation) for criticising Rowhani’s Bank firebombing. arson attack on a shrine in north- or if the suspect refuses to testify. interrogations. Friday’s arson attack, which foreign policy. The domestic intelligence serv- ern Israel where Christians believe On his blog, Ettinger has in “What the security cabinet Erdan said appeared to be the But Iranian censors are more ice named him as Meir Ettinger, a Jesus performed the miracle of past days denied the existence of told the security services yes- work of Jews. used to chasing publications per- grandson of Meir Kahane, a rabbi loaves and fish. Ettinger was to an underground Jewish organisa- terday was that any method is Ultra-nationalists have ceived to be undermining the who founded the racist anti-Arab appear in court today for a cus- tion, but has defended attacks on kosher,” Erdan said on Israel mounted sporadic vandalism Islamic Republic’s strict religious movement Kach and was assassi- tody hearing, police said. Media “crimes” such as the existence of Radio. against the property of Arabs, codes. Most recently, censors in nated in 1990 in New York. reports said Ettinger could face a churches and mosques branded as “An interrogation method like Christians, peace activists and April banned monthly magazine He was arrested in Safed in year of “administrative detention” “places of pagan worship”. ‘tiltul’, or anything that is done the Israeli army. Zanan-e Emrooz for running an northern Israel “because of his under the government’s harder line The Shin Bet spokesman said when it comes to Palestinian In a separate interview on issue on “white marriage”, a term activities in a Jewish extremist against “Jewish terrorists”. Ettinger was in January barred terrorists — the same thing Army Radio, Erdan said the used for unmarried couples liv- organisation”, a Shin Bet spokesman Israel normally applies the meas- from entering the West Bank or should be done when it comes state might require suspects to ing together, in defiance of a law told AFP. Police said Ettinger, who ure, which dates back to British- Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem for to a Jewish terrorist,” he added, wear electronic ankle-bracelets against extramarital sex. is aged around 20, was suspected mandated Palestine, against a year “because of his activities”. referring to a Hebrew term for to track their movements. REUTERS of “nationalist crimes” but did not Palestinians, allowing renewable AFP violently shaking a suspect. REUTERS

US attacks on Syria army Sudan offers guarantees to to hit anti-IS fight: Russia rebels for talks DOHA: Russian Foreign deployed to northern Syria came Minister Sergei Lavrov said under fire on Friday from other yesterday that any US military militants, triggering the first KHARTOUM: Sudan’s gov- strikes against the Syrian gov- known US airstrikes to support ernment said yesterday it is ernment army would compli- them. ready to offer rebels battling cate attempts to fight Islamic US officials, speaking on con- its forces legal guarantees to State and other groups. dition of anonymity to confirm allow them to attend talks in The United States said on details of the decision, first Khartoum aimed at addressing Sunday it had decided to allow reported by the Wall Street the country’s multiple crises. air strikes to defend Syrian rebels Journal, said the United States President Omar Hassan trained by the US military from would provide offensive strikes to Al Bashir has called for a national any attackers. support advances against Islamic dialogue to try to end conflicts in “We say that this position is a State targets. border regions and to right its ail- violation of international law and The United States would also ing economy. represents an obstacle on the road provide defensive support to repel The government says the talks to forming a united front to fight any attackers. must take place in Sudan. terrorism, including Islamic State US officials have long played “We are ready to offer the and Al Nusra Front,” Lavrov told down the idea that Assad’s required guarantees for armed a news conference. forces — which have not fired on groups to attend” the national Russia has been a principle US-led coalition aircraft bomb- dialogue, First Vice President supporter of Assad during Syria’s ing Islamic State targets in Syria Bakri Hassan Saleh said at a four-year-old war, offering mili- — would turn their sights on the press conference. tary supplies and diplomatic US-backed Syrian rebels. But “We are ready to freeze the support. they cannot rule out the possi- sentences” against rebel leaders, The decision by President bility, perhaps in an unintentional he said, but added that the gov- Barack Obama, which could clash. ernment would not offer them full deepen the US role in Syria’s con- The Pentagon and the White pardons yet. Khartoum has been flict, aims to shield a still-fledging House declined to discuss the battling rebels in the vast Darfur group of Syrian fighters armed decision on rules of engagement region of western Sudan since and trained by the United States or confirm comments by the 2003 when insurgents mounted a to battle Islamic State militants unnamed US officials. campaign against Bashir’s Arab- — not forces loyal to Assad. Pentagon spokeswoman dominated government, com- But in Syria’s messy civil war, Commander Elissa Smith also plaining of marginalisation. Islamic State is only one of the declined comment on the rules Khartoum is also facing an threats to the US recruits. The of engagement. insurgency in the South Kordofan first batch of US-trained forces REUTERS and Blue Nile areas. AFP 31 killed as Syrian army jet crashes in rebel-held town

BEIRUT: A Syrian army air- “It was flying at a low altitude not confirm whether a regime craft crashed during a bombing when it had mechanical failure,” aircraft had crashed in the area. run over rebel-held Ariha yes- Observatory chief Rami Abdel The official news agency SANA terday, killing at least 31 peo- Rahman said. “At least 31 peo- reported only that army units ple and destroying a vegetable ple, including two children, were had destroyed ammunition ware- market, a monitoring group and killed. Five of them have not been houses and attacked “terrorist residents said. identified,” said Abdel Rahman, groups” in Ariha. The Syrian Observatory for citing medical officials and resi- Residents cited by the Human Rights said it was not dents inside the town. Observatory said the plane immediately clear how many of He said at least 60 people were crashed near a vegetable market, the deaths in the northwestern wounded in the attack on Ariha, causing “a huge blast” in the town, town had resulted from the crash which is in Syria’s northwest the scene of heavy destruction in and how many were killed in the province of Idlib. Security offi- previous regime bombardment. bombing run. cials reached in Damascus would AFP TUESDAY 4 AUGUST 2015 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Erdogan vows all-out fight against Kurdish rebels Iraqi regional president Massud Barzani says PKK should take battle out of region

ISTANBUL: President Recep Tayyip The current crisis began two weeks ago Erdogan yesterday vowed to do “what- on July 20 when 32 young pro-Kurdish ever necessary” in Turkey’s controver- activists were killed in a Turkish town on sial fight against Kurdish militants, the Syrian border in a suicide bombing with no end in sight to a two-week blamed on IS. cycle of violence. The PKK, which accuses the govern- Ankara is waging a two-pronged cross- ment of collaborating with IS, shot dead border “anti-terror” offensive against two Turkish police in reprisal, starting Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria and a wave of violence that has shattered a Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels 2013 ceasefire. in northern Iraq, after a wave of attacks According to an AFP toll, 17 mem- in the country. bers of the Turkish security forces have But so far, the air strikes against the since been killed on attacks blamed on PKK targets in northern Iraq have far the PKK. outweighed those against IS, raising con- On Sunday, two Turkish soldiers were cerns about the extent of possible civilian killed and 31 wounded in a suicide bomb- casualties. ing by a PKK guerrilla in the east of the Erdogan told reporters returning with country, the first time the group has used him on a trip to Asia that the Kurdish the tactic in the current conflict. authorities in northern Iraq should be The PKK confirmed yesterday the taking action against the PKK bases attack was carried out by one of its there. guerrillas with the nom-de-guerre of “If they cannot, Turkey will do what- Andok Eris, saying it was a reprisal for a ever necessary to defend itself,” he was Turkish air raid that pro-Kurdish media quoted as telling reporters on his presi- said killed several civilians on Saturday dential jet. morning. The Turkish army has insisted But with the PKK staging daily attacks the air force bombing in the Zarkel region on security forces in reprisal for Turkish of northern Iraq hit a “terrorist camp” bombing raids, Erdogan denied there and not a civilian village. would be any return to the 1990s when The Kurdish authorities in northern the group’s separatist insurgency was at Iraq have long tolerated the presence of its peak. PKK fighters in its remote mountains. “I don’t believe that. That’s impossi- But regional president Massud Barzani ble. Maybe those who say this want to said at the weekend it was time the group Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (centre), flanked by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (centre left) and Chief of Staff General Necdet return to the 1990s,” he said, quoted by took its battle with Turkey elsewhere to Ozel (centre right), meets with members of the High Military Council during a luncheon at the new Presidential Palace in Ankara yesterday. the Sabah daily and other newspapers. avoid civilian casualties. Erdogan and Prime Minister Ahmet In new violence blamed on the PKK, board were not hurt. agency said. Local authorities also shut permanent government since June 7 leg- Davutoglu yesterday met top military two military vehicles were damaged in In the town of Tatvan in the south- the highway between the eastern cities islative elections, when the ruling Justice commanders at Turkey’s Supreme the southeastern province of Bitlis when eastern Van province, suspected PKK of Tunceli-Erzincan after suspected mili- and Development Party (AKP) lost its Military Council, in a closed-door meet- they drove over a remote-controlled mine militants staged a gun attack on a mili- tants set two trucks on fire. The violence majority, much to Erdogan’s chagrin. ing planned to last three days. early yesterday morning. The soldiers on tary hospital, the official Anatolia news also comes with Turkey still without a AFP

Defending Gaddafi’s PM Israel president Libya probes video of guards threatened over beating Gaddafi’s jailed son ‘Jewish terror’ TRIPOLI: Libyan state prosecutors are his soles tied to a rack. He is also forced to investigating unidentified guards pur- listen to other screaming prisoners being comment portedly shown in a video beating a son beaten outside the room he was held in. of Muammar Gaddafi held in a Tripoli The video’s authenticity could be not be JERUSALEM: Police have prison, a statement said yesterday. independently verified. opened an investigation into The video was posted a week after a After escaping Libya in 2011, Saadi was online threats against Israel’s Tripoli court sentenced Gaddafi’s son Saif held under house arrest in the Niger capital president following his condem- Al Islam and eight former regime officials Niamey before being extradited. nation of “Jewish terrorism” to death over crimes during the 2011 upris- Tripoli’s prosecutor general said in a after a firebombing killed a ing that toppled his father, who was later statement it had launched an investiga- Palestinian child, a presidential captured and killed by rebels. tion to identify the guards in the video spokesman said yesterday. Rights groups said the trial was riddled and “to take the necessary legal action President Reuven Rivlin had with legal flaws. against them.” written a Facebook post follow- Libya is in chaos with two governments Saadi had a brief career as soccer player ing Friday’s arson attack by sus- fighting each other with the help of former in Italy and often lived the playboy life dur- pected Jewish extremists on a anti-Gaddafi rebels, while Islamic State ing his father’s longtime rule. Palestinian family’s home in the militants have gained a toehold in a grow- Last week’s court ruling against Saif West Bank village of Duma. ing security vacuum. Al Islam was passed in absentia since he The attack killed 18-month-old The video appears to show guards teas- has been held since 2011 by a former rebel Ali Saad Dawabsha and critically ing and beating Saadi Gaddafi, who was group in Zintan, a western region beyond injured his parents and four-year- extradited to Libya by Niger last year. He Tripoli’s control. old brother. has been held since then in a Tripoli prison Other former Gaddafi regime officials “More than shame, I feel facing charges over the killing of a soccer sentenced to die by firing squad included pain,” Rivlin wrote in Arabic player when he headed the Libyan Football former intelligence chief Abdullah and Hebrew. “The pain over the Members of the committee for the defence of former Libyan strongman Muammar Federation, as well as other crimes. Al Senussi and ex-prime minister Baghdadi murder of a little baby. The pain Gaddafi’s last prime minister Al Baghdadi Al Mahmudi, English lawyer Karim Khan (right) In the video, Saadi himself is beaten on Al Mahmoudi. over my people choosing the path and French lawyer Clemence Witt at a press conference in Tunis yesterday. his face while being questioned and later on REUTERS of terrorism and losing their humanity. “Their path is not the path of the State of Israel and is not the path of the Jewish people. Syria political Unfortunately, it seems that so First US-trained Syrian rebel killed far we’ve dealt with the phenom- enon of Jewish terrorism limply,” WASHINGTON: A member of a new opposition he wrote, calling for concrete Syrian force trained by the US military was measures against such extremists. believed to have been killed in clashes last re-elects chief Rivlin’s post evoked a wave of week with Al Qaeda’s Syria wing, in what more than 2,000 comments, some would be the fledgling force’s first battlefield ISTANBUL: Syria’s western- positive but others attacking him casualty, US officials told Reuters yesterday. backed political opposition, the and recalling Israelis killed by The US officials, who spoke on condition National Coalition for Syrian Palestinians. of anonymity to discuss the incident, said Revolutionary and Opposition “Dirty traitor. Your end will the Syrian rebel was killed during fight- Forces, reelected Khaled be worse than (Ariel) Sharon’s,” ing on Friday with suspected members of Khoja for a second term as its said one comment quoted by the Nusra Front. president, the body said in a Maariv newspaper, referring to The Pentagon declined to comment, citing statement. the late Israeli former premier “operational security reasons.” The Coalition, accused of slip- who spent eight years in a coma. Friday’s incident triggered the first US air ping into virtual irrelevance on Another said: “In Russia you strikes to support the Syrian force. At the the battlefield as Islamist and would have been found by this time, the US military said the fighters repelled Kurdish groups have grown point cut up inside a shoe box.” the attack, without citing casualties among stronger, is working on estab- Police said they had received the US-trained force. lishing a new military command material from the president’s The US military launched its programme structure to head up rebel fight- security team and had ordered in May to train up to 5,400 fighters a year in ing groups. an investigation to “examine what was seen as a test of Obama’s strategy On Saturday, it said it had offensive publications against the of getting local partners to combat extremists decided to allow itself an addi- president on social media”. and keep US troops off the front lines. tional two months to form the The state prosecutor launched The training programme has been chal- structure. a separate probe into two YouTube lenged from the start, with many candidates Khoja is an ethnic Turkmen videos showing Rivlin and Prime being declared ineligible and some even drop- and medical doctor and unlike Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in ping out. previous Coalition presidents is Nazi uniforms and speaking in Obama’s requirement that they target mili- not seen to be strongly aligned German. tants from Islamic State has sidelined huge Nusra Front fighters rest with their weapons behind sandbags in the Sheikh Maksoud neighbourhood with some Gulf Arab states sup- In 1995, then premier Yitzhak segments of the Syrian opposition focused of Aleppo, Syria, yesterday. porting the insurgency. Rabin was gunned down at a instead on battling Syrian government forces. In a general assembly meeting peace rally in Tel Aviv by a Only around 60 have been deployed to the group, known as Division 30, officials said. decided to allow air strikes to help repel any near Istanbul which finished on Jewish extremist after a cam- battlefield so far. The US officials who disclosed the death of attack against the US-trained Syrian rebels, Sunday, the Coalition also elected paign of rightwing incitement The past week has illustrated that, in Syria’s the US-trained Syrian fighter said Division 30 even if the enemies come from forces loyal to a political body of 19 members and against a peace deal with the messy civil war, Islamic State is only one of also suffered casualties. Syrian President Bashar Al Assad. US officials three vice presidents. Palestinians. the threats to the US recruits. Defending the US-trained fighters could have long played down the idea that Assad’s The Coalition has enjoyed sup- Rabin’s daughter, Dalia, told The suspected militants from Nusra Front become a growing job for United States, which forces — which have not fired on US-led coa- port from some Gulf Arab states military radio she was “sickened” attacked US-trained fighters on Friday at a has been waging daily air strikes at Islamic lition aircraft bombing Islamic State targets and others allies of the Syrian by the videos. compound in Syria, which was also being used State targets in Syria. US officials disclosed to in Syria — would turn their sights on the uprising but has lately become AFP by members of a Western-aligned insurgent Reuters on Sunday that the United States has US-backed Syrian rebels. REUTERS less prominent. REUTERS TUESDAY 4 AUGUST 2015 EUROPE www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 UK to crack down on illegal immigrants Calais migrants step up bids to get into Channel Tunnel Record 11m LONDON: Britain’s govern- overnight to penetrate the France over the issue. Henri ment promised new measures Channel Tunnel premises in a bid Guaino, a lawmaker from the immigrants yesterday to crack down on to get to England, French police opposition right-wing party Les illegal immigrants by making sources said, and an officer sus- Republicains, called on leaders in landlords evict them, as the tained facial injuries from a stone. London to “do their share”. Calais migrants crisis contin- Of the 1,700 attempts, some “There is no reason for these in Germany ued to dominate the headlines. 1,000 were “pushed back” by people to be stored — if I may say BERLIN: The number of immi- Landlords in England who authorities and 700 were inter- this because it’s almost that — in grants living in Germany rose by do not remove people with no cepted within the 650-hectare France. It cannot go on like this,” 3.7 percent last year to a record right to remain in Britain, or Channel Tunnel site, police added. said Guaino. high of 11 million and a fifth of the do not check their immigration The officer was hit in the face by “The situation is fairly simple. population is of a migrant back- status before renting them a a stone apparently thrown by Migrants come to Calais to get to ground, the Federal Statistics property, could be jailed for up a Sudanese migrant, who was England. England does not want Office said yesterday. to five years. arrested. The policeman was them. Therefore the migrants Last year there were 16.4 mil- The move, announced by taken to hospital for stitches. pile up in Calais and try by what- lion people of foreign origin living Communities Secretary Greg The 1,700 attempts represented ever means they can to reach in Germany, or one in five resi- Clark, is set to be included in a a major increase from the last few England.” dents. Most — 56 percent — have new Immigration Bill that parlia- nights, when only a few hundred Earlier this week, the British German citizenship. ment will debate in the coming were registered. government pledged $11m to The figures highlight Germany’s months. The chaos at Calais spiked improve fencing around the growing reliance on foreign-born Immigration is one of the most last week when more than 2,000 Eurotunnel rail terminal in workers to drive its economy. sensitive issues in British poli- attempts were made to breach the Coquelles, outside Calais. Many of the immigrants came tics and Prime Minister David Eurotunnel defences and one per- And Cameron, who has warned from other EU, such as Poland, Cameron’s centre-right govern- son was killed, a Sudanese man that the crisis could last all sum- Romania, Italy, Bulgaria and ment has been battling to bring in his 30s who was apparently mer, promised “more fencing, Hungary. Last year, the number the numbers down for years. crushed by a lorry. At least 10 more resources, more sniffer dog of people living in Germany of a Images of migrants trying ille- people have died since June in the teams” to aid French police in migrant background had risen gally to cross the Channel Tunnel rush to sneak into England, seen their nightly cat-and-mouse game by around 1.5 million, or 10 from France to Britain have by migrants as an “El Dorado.” with the migrants. percent, from 2011. The native fuelled calls from political oppo- French police have bolstered In Brussels, the European population — excluding people nents for ministers to do more their presence with 120 addi- Commission said it was “aware of a migrant background — fell and Cameron has warned that the tional officers, which appears to that the situation is deteriorat- by 1.4 percent. situation could last all summer. be reducing the number of nightly ing” and welcomed increased The figures were based on a In a joint editorial for this attempts to storm the Eurotunnel cooperation between the French sample census, the Statistics week’s Sunday Telegraph, the premises. and British authorities. Office said. It has been tracking French and British interior min- The issue has become a cross- “This is another stark example migration numbers since 2005. isters warned that “our streets are Channel political hot potato, with of the need for a greater level of The release of the report comes not paved with gold” as Cameron’s British Prime Minister David solidarity and responsibility in the Members of the Hungarian Defence Force build a temporary border fence as tensions are rising in Germany government seeks to dispel any Cameron coming under fire for way we deal with migratory pres- at the Hungarian-Serbian border in Asotthalom, 184km southeast from over surging numbers of refugees, perception that migrants have a comments in which he referred sures in Europe,” Mina Andreeva, Budapest, yesterday. The 4-metre-high, 175-metre-long structure is meant expected to more than double to soft landing in Britain. to “swarms” of people seeking to spokeswoman for the European to stop immigrants from entering Hungary and has been criticised by the a record 450,000 this year from Meanwhile, migrants in Calais get into the country. Commission, told reporters. European Union and human rights groups. 200,000 in 2014. made around 1,700 attempts Anger is also mounting in AGENCIES AGENCIES

Spain building collapse Swedish diplomat expelled from Moscow

STOCKHOLM: A Swedish disclosed. The Russian diplomat Sweden, a non-Nato country, was The military subsequently con- diplomat has been expelled from was expelled because of actions stepping up its military capabili- firmed that “a mini submarine” Moscow in a tit-for-tat move “not in line with the Vienna ties and exercises with the alli- had violated its territorial waters, after the Scandinavian country Convention” which governs diplo- ance amid concerns over Russia’s but was never able to establish recently kicked out a Russian matic relations, Tegel said, provid- military resurgence. the vessel’s nationality. diplomat, Stockholm’s foreign ing no further details on the nature Tensions have been rising in US think tank Cepa in June pub- ministry said yesterday. of the Russian’s actions nor the Sweden and the rest of the Baltic lished a report claiming Russia had “Russian authorities have exact timing of that expulsion. region amid signs of more asser- held exercises with 33,000 troops informed us that a diplomat at the “I can only say it was recently,” tive Russian behaviour, including aimed at practising an invasion of Swedish embassy has to leave the he added. Tegel said it was Russian planes regularly skirting the Swedish island of Gotland in country ... Russia has made it clear too early to tell how Moscow’s or violating the national air space the Baltic Sea, among other sites, it considers this to be a response decision would affect relations of neighbouring countries. on March 21-25. Swedish security to the Swedish decision to expel a between the two countries. And in October 2014, Sweden experts have widely downplayed Russian diplomat,” foreign ministry “But it won’t improve the state launched a massive hunt for a for- the risk of a possible invasion, spokesman Johan Tegel said. of our relations,” he said. eign submarine, suspected to be instead interpreting the exercises Neither the names nor the posi- Swedish Defence Minister Russian, in the Stockholm archi- as a sign of increased posturing tions of the two diplomats were Peter Hultqvist said in June that pelago over an eight-day period. from Moscow. AFP

Clashes kill four Ukrainian soldiers Former British PM caught up in child sex abuse claim

LONDON: A former prime minister was drawn into the complex web of historic child sex abuse allegations in Britain yesterday, when the police An apartment block that partially collapsed in the Madrid suburb of watchdog announced an inves- Carabanchel yesterday. Firefighters were alerted by residents early tigation involving 1970s leader in the morning after huge cracks appeared on the walls of the four- Edward Heath. The Independent Police storeyed building. Hours after their evacuation, the building collapsed Complaints Commission (IPCC) causing no casualties. said it would investigate a claim from a retired senior police- man that prosecution of a per- son accused of child sex abuse in the 1990s was dropped when they Putin aide sparks row threatened to expose Heath. The former leader of the centre-right A rescuer is reflected in a mirror (left) as he stands in a food storage unit destroyed as a result of shelling Conservatives was prime minis- between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists in the town of Gorlivka, Donetsk region, yesterday. ter between 1970 and 1974, lead- Ukraine reported the death of four soldiers in widespread clashes with pro-Russian rebels that came only with ‘$620,000 watch’ ing Britain into the European hours ahead of fresh talks on ending the 15-month separatist revolt. Economic Community in 1973 after MOSCOW: Pictures of Russian $620,0000, he wrote on his blog, a referendum. He died in 2005. President Vladimir Putin’s citing an e-mail written to him While the IPCC’s investigation spokesman flashing a watch by the Swiss watchmakers. is into alleged historic corruption worth an alleged $620,000 yes- “The bridegroom’s watch cost rather than whether Heath com- terday sparked controversy in more than your apartment,” he mitted a crime, it is the first time Catalonia to hold polls on Sept 27 the crisis-hit country. titled his investigation. Navalny so a senior figure has been named Dmitry Peskov, who is given published photographs of Peskov in connection with such claims. a broad remit to voice the views wearing other costly watches The probe is separate to a major, BARCELONA: The leader the central government — has said election one chooses lawmakers of the Kremlin strongman, was including a Rolex and an Omega. judge-led inquiry into child sexual of Spain’s wealthy Catalonia that if pro-secession parties win a for the regional parliament, who photographed wearing the pricey Russian corruption busters have abuse in British institutions such region signed a decree yester- majority, they will aim to split from in turn elect a president of the timepiece as he tied the knot repeatedly focused on extremely as the BBC, the National Health day calling early parliamen- Spain within 18 months. region. This is what citizens are with Olympic ice dancer Tatiana expensive watches worn by officials Service, children’s homes and tary elections on September 27 “Politically they will not be nor- deciding with this vote and noth- Navka on Saturday in the Black who could hardly afford them on schools that was opened last month. which he has said will act as mal elections, politically they are a ing else,” she said. Sea resort of Sochi. their declared salaries. “It is alleged that a criminal pros- proxy vote on independence. plebiscite on Catalan freedom and Support for secessionist groups As images of the glitzy event Peskov — who has an annual ecution was not pursued when a The decree signed by Catalan sovereignty,” he said on Thursday. in Catalonia has weakened due to emerged, speculation centred declared salary of some $145,000 person threatened to expose that president Artur Mas made no Spain’s conservative central political infighting and the emer- on the striking black watch on — brushed off speculation over Sir Edward Heath may have been reference to independence for government fiercely rejects the gence of popular parties, such as Peskov’s wrist, its face decorated the watch, saying it was a gift involved in offences concerning the northeastern region, which idea that the Catalan elections the far-left Podemos, more inter- with a gold skull. from his figure skater wife. children,” an IPCC spokesman said. is home to 7.5 million people and should be interpreted as a refer- ested in social and economic issues. Opposition politician and cor- “Gifts from a wife to a husband The IPCC will also investigate accounts for a fifth of Spain’s eco- endum on independence. Catalonia’s three pro-independ- ruption whistleblower Alexei or a husband to a wife can hardly whether officers with Wiltshire nomic output. Deputy Prime Minister Soraya ence parties could capture 68 to Navalny identified it as a lim- have anything to do with anti- Police in western England subse- But Mas — who already faces Saenz de Santamaria said that 72 seats in the region’s 135-seat ited edition watch designed by corruption activity,” he told was quently took any steps to inves- criminal charges for staging a under the constitution the vote parliament, according to a poll Richard Mille. quoted as saying by RIA Novosti tigate the claims about Heath’s mock independence referendum in can only be about selecting a new published on July 12 in Catalan The watch is worth at least state news agency. AFP actions. 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ITH new President Muhammadu Buhari firmly in the driver’s seat, Boko Haram seems to have got a taste of state might it has often balked Wat. Yesterday, the Nigerian military, often at the receiving end of the militant group’s brutality, claimed to Why would US restore have besieged several Boko Haram positions in the embattled northeast of the country. The good news from the latest onslaught on militant positions is that 178 hostages have been freed from the clutches of the Islamist group and most of those relationship with Egypt? freed are women and children. This comes after the Nigerian military has raised the heat on Boko Haram, recently freeing BY NOAH FELDMAN only powerful institution left, after its peacekeeping troops, it would need lever- scores of people, mainly from swathes of the Sambisa forest, a defeat of the Muslim Brotherhood. The age to do so. Now that the US has shown stronghold of the Islamist group. S Secretary of State John army’s special privileges are facilitated that it wants to fund Sisi, and that it’s Another highlight is the release of a video by Boko Haram Kerry travelled to Egypt on and enhanced by $1bn plus in annual eager to develop closer relations, it’s los- yesterday. The head of the group, Abubakar Shekau, is again Sunday to renew the “stra- US military aid. ing the leverage it might otherwise have missing from the footage. Shekau has not been seen or heard Utegic dialogue” between the Beyond the receipt of aid, Egypt had to pressure Egypt on Libya. countries that was cut off in 2009. From wants the US to ask nothing of it. Further afield, the US has a press- from since March this year which has increased speculation the standpoint of long-term US national Egypt’s cold peace with Israel has ing national security interest in defeat- about his fate. The eight-minute video shows a young militant security interests, the renewal is a mis- been sustained since the Camp David ing Islamic State. That will take Sunni speak about Islamic State in West Africa. The absence of take. Leave aside Egyptian President Accords were signed, back when I was Arab ground troops — and the question Shekau’s arrogant histrionics is what Nigerian authorities are Abdel Fattah Al Sisi’s bad and wors- 8 years old. It requires no US pres- is who will provide them. The Saudis going to miss in the video. ening record on human rights and the sure or inducement for Egypt to avoid aren’t ever going to send an army of The Nigerian military’s success against the militants is trumped up convictions of Muslim fighting Israel. Indeed, Sisi and Israeli their own against Islamic State. But the Brotherhood leaders and rank-and- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Saudis might foot the bill if they became something the Buhari administration would value. But there file. Forget the tragic message that have a common enemy in the Muslim convinced that the Sunni militant group is no word on the Chibok girls. Even if the military hasn’t the short-lived American support for Brotherhood, of which Hamas is an off- was a threat to them. They would need been able to fathom where the girls have disappeared or are Egyptian democracy is now thoroughly shoot. Sisi’s primary hope is that the US soldiers from elsewhere to fight on their hiding, the government should keep dead. will stop giving him a hard time about behalf — and those troops might con- Nigeria’s gains Nigerians in the know about their What’s really troubling about the US’s the methods he’s using to repress the ceivably be Egyptian. Indeed, the last status. If they haven’t been found, cozying up to Sisi Brotherhood. The less talk of human Arab League summit saw discussion of against Boko is that it robs the rights, the better. a collaborative Sunni military force. the military should declare that, American side of What the US wants from Egypt is a Egypt could be expected to participate Haram are in the interest of the girls who are any leverage it bit harder to pin down. In the broad- in the fight against Islamic State only if in captivity for more than a year Sisi is not a might have with est sense, the US national security it had a strong external motive to do so. laudable, but and for the sake of a movement man given to Egypt to pursue interest in the Middle East right now Money won’t be enough. US approba- — Bring Back Our Girls— that regional secu- is to restore some modicum of stabil- tion and support might be — if it were the 200 girls rity goals, such ity. George W Bush’s presidency was otherwise being withheld. Otherwise, achieved worldwide popularity. sentimental as the creation devoted to disrupting the stability that it’s not clear what Sisi stands to gain kidnapped last The kidnapping last year brought friendships or of a stable Sunni had been the traditional American from risking Islamic State retaliation the country under the glare of coalition to defeat regional interest since the Cold War; within Egypt. year remain international media. The last allegiances, Islamic State. now the US would badly like to put the To be fair, Barack Obama’s adminis- unaccounted for. government headed by Goodluck having come Why should Sisi genie back in the bottle. tration could argue that getting closer to Jonathan was accused of not doing do anything the How can Egypt contribute to that Sisi will create mutual trust and encour- to power after US asks for if the goal? The most basic way, of course, is age future cooperation. Don’t believe enough to free the girls. US is busy claim- by the regime becoming stable. Sisi is it. Sisi knows perfectly well that the Boko Haram leader Shekau had later cocked a snook at the Muslim ing the relation- gambling that arrests, sham trials and Obama administration would’ve worked the Nigerian government and the West saying the girls were ship is already some executions will achieve that goal. with a successful Muslim Brotherhood kidnapped as they were undergoing western education. The Brotherhood strong? There’s reason to doubt that he’s cor- government, and that the Americans hardline Islamist group considers western education a sin. The purged his Start with the rect, but for the moment let’s assume are upset by his heavy-handed human- group, initially focused on opposing western education, was deep strategic he knows his (repressive) business. The rights violations. interests. For point is that the US shouldn’t have to Sisi is not a man given to sentimental trying to spread its footprint before the Buhari government predecessor Egypt, the rela- make any concessions to Sisi to encour- friendships or allegiances, having come came into power. The recent reverses against the military and as commander tionship with age him to make Egypt stable — because to power after the Muslim Brotherhood the absence of its leader from videos shows that Boko Haram’s the US has clear stability is already in Sisi’s interests. purged his predecessor as commander power is waning. The latest video shows that the group is now of the Egyptian goals. Egypt Egypt could potentially take a lead- of the Egyptian military. He’s already deeply allied with Islamic State. The sleek production may have wants military ing role in helping to achieve stabil- shown in his rise that he respects power, military. aid, which was ity in neighbouring Libya, where the not loyalty. The US should lend him been the handiwork of the media cell of IS, which is deeply renewed this power vacuum presents an attractive legitimacy sparingly, if at all. entrenched in Iraq, Syria and some parts of Libya. Without year in the teeth of a statute that pro- opportunity for Islamic State. Sisi for After the failures of liberal idealism, being deterred by propaganda, the Nigerian military should hibits US arms aid to countries that the moment wants to steer clear of the there’s no disputing that the US will continue its assault on Boko Haram. IS or not, Shekau or not, have undergone a military coup. The Libyan morass, because neither he nor now pursue a realist Middle East policy. the Buhari administration should be constantly focused on Egyptian military, from which Sisi anyone else has a clear sense of how to That kind of realism requires cold-eyed gradually eliminating militants of the group and bringing down springs, is not only the most powerful impose order there. If the US wanted incentives, not relationship building. institution in Egyptian society. It’s the Egypt to take a stand, and even send BLOOMBERG its power structure. The other side Quote of The logjam should end the day arliament is halfway through and the Left parties, remains adamant all-party meeting would be called: that Progressive Alliance. But this is unten- the monsoon session, and that their resignations should precede is slated for Monday. But the Congress able, beyond a point. The government, the government-opposition any discussion. Thus far there has been has clarified its participation would be on its part, has displayed arrogance deadlock persists. The little effort by the government to engage contingent on Prime Minister Narendra in not reaching out, not even conced- PBharatiya Janata Party has not the opposition, barring a half-hearted Modi making a ‘tangible’ proposal to ing the demand that the Prime Minister conceded the demand for the effort by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley end the deadlock. The aggressive himself explain in Parliament why he is We’re the first resignation of External Affairs Minister to call some leaders for a meeting; but posture adopted by senior BJP defending Ms. Swaraj, Ms. Raje and generation to feel the Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan Chief that ended in a boycott. On Thursday, Ministers on Sunday does not augur Mr. Chouhan. Parliament’s importance Minister Vasundhara Raje, both for Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan well for the meeting. lies in its providing an institutionalised impact of climate their controversial role in the Lalit called an all-party meeting. But her Clearly, the impasse must end: in the context for discussions by people who change. We’re the last Modi travel documents saga, and of objective was limited: to appeal to MPs fortnight since the session started, not represent all sections. There is a greater Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj not to enter the well of the House or one law has been enacted. And one legitimacy to their discussions than that generation that can Chouhan, embroiled in the deadly display any placards. But going by what account suggests over Rs. 20 crore of the many groups that have sprung Vyapam scandal. It seems to believe has happened since then, her request has been lost to the disruptions. The up outside claiming that they represent do something that doing so would amount to an has not been heeded. However, the Congress seems to say it has taken the people. MPs elected to office, and about it. admission of guilt and weakness. The Speaker extracted a promise from its cue from the BJP’s disruptive tac- Parliament, constitute a microcosm of Barack Obama opposition, particularly the Congress Home Minister Rajnath Singh that an tics during the decade it led the United the larger polity. THE HINDU US President TUESDAY 4 AUGUST 2015 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Eurozone doesn’t need political union The Greek crisis has triggered renewed calls for a eurozone government, budget and parliament. But such a political union isn’t needed, desirable or achievable. Instead, the eurozone needs more market-based solutions to thrive.

BY HUGO DIXON 19 countries in the bloc, and probably of has two main causes: lack of competitive- the nine other members of the European ness and excessive government borrow- he Greek crisis has given new Union, such as Britain, which don’t use ing. There are better ways to address life to a superficial argument: the euro. problems of competitiveness than by that the eurozone isn’t work- Eurozone governments do not agree agreeing a treaty to mandate it; and it ing because its monetary on the details. Germany, for exam- is already clear that treaties requiring union hasn’t been accompa- ple, thinks more fiscal discipline is the fiscal rectitude have been pretty useless. Tnied by fiscal and political union. main imperative. Wolfgang Schaeuble, To boost competitiveness, the eurozone France’s President Francois Hollande its finance minster, wants to take away needs to free up markets. This will also has called for a eurozone government, the Commission’s power to police budget allow the bloc’s economies to adjust more with its own budget, which would be rules on the grounds that it is too politi- rapidly to shocks without millions of peo- accountable to the people via a new euro- cal and soft, according to German news- ple being turfed out of work. zone parliament. Pier Carlo Padoan, the paper Frankfurter Allgemeine. To be fair, the five presidents acknowl- Italian finance minister, has backed the Some other governments, by contrast, edge this. Action is needed at a pan- idea — also advocating a eurozone unem- think the eurozone has already signed up European level to complete the single ployment scheme. to too much austerity. Not only is there market in services, the internet and The European Union’s so-called five the original growth and stability pact; energy. Creating a so-called capital mar- presidents have given nuanced support there is also the six-pack, the two-pack kets union would soften the blow when a for these ideas. In their June report, and the fiscal compact — a bewildering national economy suffered a downturn by European Commission President Jean- array of budgetary rules that are so con- spreading the pain across Europe. Claude Juncker, European Central straining in theory that they have often The presidents also rightly call for Bank chief Mario Draghi, European been breached in practice. more efficient national labour and prod- Parliament President Martin Schulz, Say the governments could agree on uct markets. They want each country to European Council President Donald what they wanted. Given the sharp rise set up an independent competitiveness Tusk and head of the Eurogroup Jeroen in euroscepticism, there is little prospect authority to drive this forward. But the Dijsselbloem called for a eurozone treas- they could then persuade their people to presidents are wrong to suggest that ury — effectively a finance ministry for back them. common standards for competitiveness the bloc — and a “common macroeco- If Hollande called a referendum, the should be hard-wired into laws apply- nomic stabilisation fund” to help coun- far-right National Front’s Marine Le Pen ing to all 19 countries. This looks like tries weather shocks. would have a fantastic platform to rail a recipe for rigidity that will hamper The five presidents first want eurozone against the loss of French sovereignty. innovation. countries to converge towards best prac- Even the Italians are becoming euroscep- Finally, there’s debt. It’s tempting to tice on boosting competitiveness. They tic: Beppe Grillo, leader of the Five Star think there needs to be rules to stop then want legally binding rules to ensure Movement, the country’s second most countries borrowing too much. There too they stay competitive. They also advocate popular party, has called for the country though, market forces provide a possible more coordination of macro-economic to abandon the euro, describing it as an solution. The key is to allow excessively Workers dismantle the large Euro sign sculpture for maintenance in front of the headquarters policy between the bloc’s 19 countries, “anti-democratic straitjacket”. indebted eurozone states to go bust. of the former European Central Bank in Frankfurt. The large blue and yellow sculpture was ultimately with some joint decisions on Doesn’t this then mean the eurozone is Preventing this was the cardinal sin in made by German artist Ottmar Hoerl in 2001. national budgets. Such an ambitious cen- doomed? If 19 countries share the same the Greek crisis. tralisation of economic power is neither currency and lose the ability to devalue If investors knew that governments needed nor desirable. Nor is it politically when they hit problems, it might sound could go bankrupt, they would be more country’s five “wise” economists, backed road. They don’t involve a large transfer achievable. like they also need a common treasury to cautious about lending to them in the this idea in their special report on the of sovereignty to Brussels or the impo- Creating a common eurozone finance cushion the blow, and a common govern- first place. The discipline of the mar- Greek crisis last week. sition of one-size-fits-all policies on 19 ministry, government, parliament and ment and parliament to give legitimacy kets would replace the discipline of So there are market-based alterna- diverse countries. budget would require a new treaty. This to their actions. the bureaucrats. The German Council tives to political union that could keep That makes them a better solution. would need unanimous approval of the Not so fast. The crisis of recent years of Economic Experts, known as the the eurozone’s monetary union on the REUTERS Biden boomlet is over before it starts Hezbollah and BY JONATHAN BERNSTEIN

here’s only one thing the Syrian wrong with the Joe Biden presidential Tboomlet, which received a fair amount of news media attention over the weekend (some opposition bought into it more than others). Democrats have repeatedly shown transformed Hezbollah from a a thorough lack of interest in symbol of resistance to aggression, moving Joe Biden into the White making it a glorious servant for House. Iranian policies. Biden, who is now 72, ran for The international community president in 1988, successfully has been dealing with Hezbollah’s winning the interest of a dozen intervention in Lebanese affairs or more big-shot Democratic con- with leniency in order not to sultants, but drawing so little sup- worsen the situation in Lebanon, port elsewhere that he dropped which is witnessing a political out long before the Iowa caucuses. fragility threatening its relative He then returned to the Senate stability. and, like Ted Kennedy after his BY DAHIM AL-QAHTANI The international community 1980 loss, set out to become a will find accepting Nasrallah’s serious senator. Biden earned an he announcement of Hassan announcement embarrassing, excellent reputation for his work Nasrallah, the Secretary because such recognition means on the Judiciary Committee and TGeneral of Hezbollah, about that the rules of the political game on foreign-affairs matters. the intervention of his party’s will change in the whole world. His return to presidential poli- fighters in battles in all Syrian This will allow extremist forces in tics in 2008 was another disas- territories is very dangerous. certain geographic areas around ter. He failed to win 1 percent of This means that the party’s the world to repeat the same sce- delegate shares in Iowa, and once forces abandoned the justification nario of Hezbollah’s intervention again dropped out. of protecting the area adjacent in Syria to apply it for fulfilling Now consider the current cycle. to the Lebanese border despite their own agenda. Yes, he’s vice president. But have it being rejected internation- In light of this clear Iranian you heard of a Draft Biden move- ally, but was acceptable to some intervention, which resembles an ment, as there was for Elizabeth Lebanese; therefore, giving them octopus that has its head in Tehran Warren? Nope. Are any big-name some credibility. and its arms are stretched out to Democrats pledging to sup- This also means that Hezbollah Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen, port him if he runs (as half the operates against the interests of it is important to highlight the fol- Democrats in Congress did for US President Barack Obama (right) and Vice-President Joe Biden at the White House in Washington, DC. Lebanon and the Lebanese people. lowing question: Are the escala- Hillary Clinton)? No, none. Does The Shias of Lebanon are paying tions carried out by the arms in he poll well among the rank and the price through the blood of their the region aim to protect the head file? No, he doesn’t. from the national press, which candidate field: Clinton is run- career for years and have always youths for the sake of a tyrant like or the head has a migraine that it HuffPollster’s estimate is that has a stake in a sharply contested ning a fully staffed campaign, pictured him in the big chair. It Bashar al-Assad and the Iranian lost balance of its arms? he peaked at about 15 percent in nomination battle. If such a con- but it isn’t clear how many tra- isn’t a surprise they may want hegemony in the region. We, as a region, are moving from Democratic trial heats for 2016 — test doesn’t exist, many reporters ditional operatives are being him to give it one more try. Now Lebanon will face a a dark stage to the unknown. We and this was back in December will pretend it does (as they did hired by Bernie Sanders, Martin We don’t know yet if Biden will moment of truth, since this dec- must either ease tension through 2012, a month after the Obama in 2000 for John McCain and, to O’Malley, Lincoln Chafee and Jim launch a no-chance presidential laration of Hezbollah will inevita- calming Iranian ambitions to give ticket won re-election. He has some extent, for Bill Bradley on Webb. The answer is probably bid. The only sure thing right now bly lead to bring the fight to the priority to people’s interest in the gradually lost ground since and the Democratic side). “not many.” is that the press will hype any hint inside of the country, not as a mat- region, or escalate the events to has never come within 40 per- Others who might benefit from For those Democratic profes- of such a campaign — or other ter of interference in Lebanese inevitably explode the situation centage points of Clinton. a Biden run are the Democratic sionals still for hire, signing on to signs that the 2016 Democratic affairs, but because the theatre inside Iran. Nor does Biden appear to have campaign professionals — poll- a long-shot campaign, as Biden’s presidential nomination is up for has spread to where Hezbollah’s At that time, the Iranian gov- any natural constituency or any sters, media consultants and would be, is low risk, since no grabs. The best analysis of Biden’s forces are present in Syria and ernment will be too late to dis- real opening, as the New Yorker’s others — who remain without a operative will be blamed for such 1988 bid remains Richard Ben also in Lebanon. cover that the civilised world can Ryan Lizza pointed out. horse. The 17-candidate field on a candidate’s failure to win the Cramer’s classic, “What It Takes.” Ironically Hezbollah is the one no longer tolerate policies that For one thing, as political sci- the Republican side is providing nomination. The New York Times front-page that made it justifiable for the push them towards the brink of entist Matthew Dickinson points full employment for their coun- Beyond those interest groups, piece on Sunday refers to a Draft Syrian opposition to fight back, the abyss. out, the most ardent enthusiasm terparts in the other party. The the vice president has friends and Biden group, but it certainly isn’t especially after the statement of The writer is a journalist and for a Biden run is likely coming Democrats only have a one-plus family who have been loyal to his high profile. BLOOMBERG Hassan Nasrallah. Lost bets have media personnel TUESDAY 4 AUGUST 2015 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com AMERICAS

Two dozen Obama unveils clean energy plan Cuban migrants land in Florida Climate one of key challenges of our time, says US president MIAMI: A group of 24 Cuban migrants landed early yester- WASHINGTON: President first president to visit the Alaskan day on a beach in Key West on Barack Obama framed climate Arctic. the southern tip of Florida after change as the toughest and “Our fellow Americans have crossing from Cuba in a make- most pressing challenge of our already seen their communities shift boat, local authorities said. time Monday, as he unveiled the devastated by melting ice and ris- Some were treated for expo- first ever limits on US power ing oceans,” Obama said. sure to diesel fuel fumes, but the plant emissions. In September, when Obama migrants — 23 men and a woman “No challenge poses a greater hosts Pope Francis at the White — were smiling in photographs threat to our future and future House, they are expected to make posted by the Key West police generations than a change in an impassioned collective call for after their arrival at about 4 am. climate,” Obama said, warning: action. “They said that they all came “There is such a thing as being And in December, representa- in the tiny makeshift boat named too late.” tives from around the world will Mariana, which was just off the “This is one of those rare issues, gather in Paris to hash out rules sea wall,” police said on the because of its magnitude, because designed to limit global tempera- department’s Facebook page. of its scope, that if we don’t get ture increases to two degrees Key West, the last in a string it right, we may not be able to Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit). of islands extending from the reverse,” he said, at the White But Obama’s invocations got Florida mainland, is the closest House. “We may not be able to short shrift from the Republican- US point to Cuba, about 150km adapt sufficiently.” controlled Congress, which away. In an attempt to at least try described the measures as “over- Cuban migrants, unlike those to slow the process, Obama reach” and “heavy-handed”. from any other nation, are announced that power plant own- In its initial proposal a year ago, allowed to stay in the United ers must cut carbon dioxide emis- the Obama administration had set States if they succeed in reaching sions by 32 percent from 2005 the carbon emissions cut from the land, but are repatriated if picked levels by 2030. power sector at 30 percent. US President Barack Obama delivers remarks on the Clean Power Plan at the White House in Washington yesterday. up at sea. Electric power plants account Climate change is a hot-but- The US Coast Guard has for some 40 percent of US emis- ton issue in American politics the environment by outsourc- action, saying Obama’s adminis- our cities, they warned that it reported a surge in attempted sions of carbon dioxide, the most and cuts are politically sensitive ing energy production to coun- tration was “pursuing an illegal would ruin the auto industry. It crossings as US-Cuban relations common greenhouse gas that con- because coal, among the dirtiest tries with poor environmental plan that will drive up electricity didn’t happen,” Obama said. have improved, raising questions tributes to climate change. Obama energy sources, remains a major records like India and China,” said costs and put people out of work.” “In 1990, when Republican about how long Washington will described the move as “the single US industry. McConnell. Accusing detractors of “scare- president George H W Bush continue to grant special treat- most important step America has It has some influential support- The leader of the House of mongering,” Obama insisted that decided to do something about ment to Cuban migrants. ever taken in the fight against ers, including Senate Majority Representatives Kevin McCarthy suggestions of higher electric- acid rains, (they) said electricity Since October, approximately global climate change.” Leader Mitch McConnell, a sena- accused Obama of choosing a ity costs, power shortages and a bills would go up, lights would go 3,000 Cubans have attempted The announcement fires the tor from coal-rich Kentucky. “green legacy over a growing damaged economy would prove off. It didn’t happen.” the dangerous crossing by sea, starting gun on a months-long “Not only will these massive economy.” incorrect. “We only get one home. We only according to the Coast Guard. environmental drive that will regulations fail to meaningfully The American Coalition for “When president (Richard) get one planet. There’s no ‘plan shape his legacy. Later this affect the global climate, but they Clean Coal Electricity, an industry Nixon decided to do something B’,” he said. August, Obama will become the could actually end up harming lobby group, previewed likely legal about the smog that was choking AFP Four dead from Legionnaires’

NEW YORK: Four people have died from Legionnaires’ disease Crews begin to gain ground against California wildfire in New York since mid-July and another 55 are currently hospi- SAN FRANCISCO: A fierce in size over the weekend. remained under investigation, but Wednesday in ranch country near buildings — remained under threat talized, city health officials said wildfire that has devoured The flames raced through Cal Fire Chief Ken Pimlott said the town of Lower Lake, about after the loss of 24 dwellings and yesterday. drought-parched terrain in 20,000 acres in one five-hour on Sunday that the blaze was one 110 miles north of San Francisco. 26 outbuildings last week. In total, 71 people in the city northern California with stretch on Saturday night, a of more than 20 large conflagra- Despite growth in the size of More than 13,000 people, about have caught the form of pneumo- remarkable speed raged on for growth rate that officials from the tions across the state following the blaze overnight into Monday 1,000 more than on Sunday, have nia, spread by bacteria discovered a sixth day yesterday as evacu- California Department of Forestry thousands of lightning strikes in morning, Cal Fire reported received mandatory evacuation in the cooling towers of several ations expanded and firefight- and Fire Prevention (Cal Fire), recent days. ground crews had managed to orders or advisories, Cal Fire buildings in the south Bronx ers began to gain some ground described as “unprecedented.” He said more than 9,000 fire- carve buffer lines around 12 per- said. neighbourhood. against the flames. They said the biggest single fighters, many of them reinforce- cent of the fire zone, more than No serious injuries have been Authorities have inspected 22 The blaze, dubbed the Rocky factor has been the extremely ments from out of state, were on double the containment during reported. But a Forest Service buildings and tested 17 cooling Fire, has scorched some 60,000 desiccated condition of the thick the lines in California. A third the two previous days. firefighter from South Dakota towers, of which five — including acres and destroyed two dozen chaparral and scrub oak fueling of that force was assigned to the “Yes, we are gaining some died on Thursday in a separate, that of Lincoln Hospital and one homes since erupting last week the fire, a natural tinder box cre- Rocky Fire alone, along with ground,” Cal Fire spokesman smaller fire roaring through hotel — were found to harbor the in the canyons and foothills along ated by four years of drought and 19 water-dropping helicopters Jason Shanley said. Some 6,300 Modoc National Forest near Legionella bacteria. Those five the inland flanks of California’s stoked by gusty winds. and four airplane tankers, Cal structures — a combination of California’s border with Oregon. have been disinfected, city officials North Coast Ranges, quadrupling What sparked the Rocky Fire Fire said. The blaze erupted on homes, barns, sheds and other REUTERS said. AGENCIES

Mexico pulls Brazil arrests former German-made weapons from minister in bribery case CURITIBA, BRAZIL: and construction contracts with four states Brazilian federal police yester- Petrobras, or Petroleo Brasileiro day arrested former govern- SA, to pay bribes to company MEXICO CITY: Mexican ment minister Jose Dirceu, one executives and politicians. authorities have withdrawn of the most senior members of Rousseff, Lula’s chosen suc- German assault rifles made by the ruling Workers’ Party to be cessor, is not under investiga- Heckler & Koch from parts of detained so far in a corruption tion, and she and her party say the country following allega- scandal engulfing state-run oil all campaign donations were legal. tions the weapons were used by company Petrobras. Lima said the bribery and local police to commit human Dirceu, chief-of-staff under kickback scheme began during rights abuses, a local newspaper popular former President Luiz the Lula administration, and reported yesterday. Inacio Lula da Silva between there was no evidence of involve- Heckler & Koch came under 2003 and 2005, was already under ment by former Petrobras Chief pressure in May, when a report house arrest for running a vote- Executive Officer Graça Foster, by German customs authorities buying scheme. His involvement whom Rousseff had appointed. found the company had sold guns in an even larger scandal threat- Dirceu’s lawyer was not to four Mexican states in violation ens to bring the investigation immediately available for com- of an export ban that sought to closer to Lula and further tarnish ment. Dirceu was arrested in limit arms sales to corrupt police his legacy. Brasilia, and police were wait- forces. Federal prosecutor Carlos ing for Supreme Court approval According to the Reforma Fernando dos Santos Lima called to transfer him to Curitiba, the newspaper, the defence ministry Dirceu a key instigator of the epicenter of the investigation in said it removed 3,758 Heckler & Petrobras scandal, saying he took southern Brazil. Lima said Dirceu Koch weapons from Chihuahua, bribes from contractors while in was responsible for hiring two ex- Mexican photojournalists hold pictures of their murdered colleague Ruben Espinoza during a demostration at the Chiapas, Guerrero and Jalisco office and continued to receive Petrobras executives involved in states “to avoid finger-point- Angel of Independence square in Mexico City yesterday. payments even when he was jailed the scandal, former refining and ing toward the Mexican state in 2014 for the vote-buying scan- supply chief Paulo Roberto Costa by national and international dal in Lula’s first term. and former head of engineering organizations.” Huge Mexico rally over scribe murder Lima said Lula was not a target and services Renato Duque. However, the gun sales did not of the widening probe but added Curitiba-based law firm Arns violate any Mexican laws, the MEXICO CITY: A prominent holding signs or cut-out photos living in Veracruz. Rios said his during a press conference: “No de Oliveira & Andreazza said on newspaper reported, citing the Mexican news photographer was of Espinosa with cameras slung office was working together with one is exempt from investigation.” Monday it would start negotiating defense ministry. The ministry among five people found dead in over their shoulders. the division of the federal attor- Federal police were serving a plea deal for Duque this week, was not immediately available a middle-class neighbourhood of One sign said “Violence is the ney general’s office dedicated to seven other arrest warrants, which could lead to damaging tes- for comment. the capital on Friday, the city’s language of the state,” another crimes against freedom of expres- including one for Dirceu’s brother, timony on Dirceu’s role. After details of the customs prosecutor told reporters at a called for Veracruz Gov. Javier sion. “All lines of investigation and 26 search-and-seizure war- The investigation into corrup- report emerged in Germany, pri- press conference. Duarte to resign. are open,” he said in response to rants in the latest phase of an tion at Petrobras, which began in vately held Heckler & Koch issued Ruben Espinosa, who a month Protestors in Xalapa, the capi- a question about Espinosa’s early investigation that has under- March 2014, has also led to jail a statement saying it had been ago claimed in interviews that he tal of Veracruz, and Guadalajara, June statements that he felt mined the popularity of President for some of Brazil’s most senior assisting investigators and had felt threatened by the governor of Mexico’s second biggest city, also threatened by Duarte, a member Dilma Rousseff and led to calls for engineering executives and caused dismissed two of its staff. eastern Veracruz state, was the took to the streets to mourn of the Institutional Revolutionary her impeachment. the oil company to write off more Human rights activists have lone male among five victims that Espinosa’s death. Party (PRI) of President Enrique Workers’ Party Treasurer Joao than $2bn in losses related to the alleged some of the guns ended up police discovered bound, beaten Mexico City prosecutor Rodolfo Pena Nieto. Vaccari was arrested in April case. Dozens of lawmakers, mostly in the southwestern city of Iguala, and shot in the head in the capi- Rios said at a press conference The governor said in a brief and stepped down to focus on his from Rousseff’s governing coali- Guerrero, where 43 trainee teach- tal’s Narvarte neighborhood. that Espinosa’s family members press release on Sunday that he defence. At least one government tion, are being investigated for ers were abducted last September The murders prompted hun- told investigators that the pho- “lamented” the deaths, including witness has said Rousseff’s 2014 receiving money in the alleged and almost certainly murdered by dreds of photographers, other tographer had been residing in Espinosa’s, and voiced his support re-election campaign was financed scheme, which prosecutors sus- a drug gang working with corrupt journalists and activists to the capital for two months and for the investigation led by the in part with money originating pect went beyond Petrobras to police. gather at the capital’s Angel of had moved to the city to look Mexico City prosecutor’s office. from a scheme to siphon funds other state-run companies. REUTERS Independence monument, many for work following eight years REUTERS from overpriced engineering REUTERS TUESDAY 4 AUGUST 2015 ASIA / AFRICA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Millions displaced in Asia’s torrential monsoon More than 40 killed and 200,000 affected in Myanmar so far; UN says swollen rivers threaten more areas

YANGON: Monsoon rains have floodwaters swamping homes in “very late”. The annual monsoon claimed hundreds of lives across hours. is a lifeline for farmers across Asia, authorities reported yes- “We’ve lost all that we have. the region but heavy rains and terday, as rescuers scrambled Our house is still under water,” powerful cyclones can also prove to reach remote areas of India, Htay Shein, 62 said from a tem- deadly. Pakistan and Myanmar after porary shelter in Kalay. “We have Poor infrastructure and limited flash floods and landslides. seen floods, but never anything search and rescue capabilities Authorities in India say more like this before.” routinely hamper relief efforts than 120 people have died across The United Nations said swol- across the region, with roads, the country in recent days, while len rivers threaten more areas of phone lines and electricity often more than a million have been the country, adding it could be knocked out by rising waters. displaced by rains worsened by days before the true extent of the India, which receives nearly 80 a cyclone that barrelled through disaster emerges. percent of its annual rainfall from the Bay of Bengal last week. “Logistics are extremely dif- June to September, sees tragedy Yesterday rescuers resumed ficult. Assessment teams are strike every monsoon season. their search for villagers after having a hard time reach- This year West Bengal has been downpours caused a landslide ing affected areas,” said Pierre hit hard with 48 people killed, in India’s remote northeastern Peron, Myanmar spokesman for according to state management state of Manipur, where an official the United Nations Office for the minister Javed Ahmad Khan. said four bodies have so far been Coordination of Humanitarian “More than 1.8 million people in recovered from a hamlet buried Affairs. 5,600 villages have been affected by a collapsed hill. Myanmar’s previous junta by the flooding... nearly 1.1 mil- In neighbouring Myanmar government was accused of cal- lion have been moved to camps,” heavy seasonal rains -- augmented lous indifference in its sluggish Khan said. by Cyclone Komen -- have killed response to Cyclone Nargis in Pakistan has seen 116 people die 46 people so far and affected more May 2008, which left nearly so far. Ahmed Kamal, spokesman than 200,000, with swathes of the 140,000 people dead or missing. for Pakistan’s National Disaster country hit by rooftop-high floods. But the current quasi-civilian Management Agency, said more The government has designated government has seemed eager to than 850,000 people had been four “national disaster-affected show it is mobilising. affected by this year’s floods. regions” in central and western President Thein Sein prom- An aerial view shows floodwaters inundating houses and vegetation in Kalay, upper Myanmar’s Sagaing region Dozens have also perished in Myanmar, where villagers have ised authorities would do their yesterday. Monsoon rains have claimed the lives of hundreds of people across Asia, authorities said, as rescue Nepal and Vietnam following been forced to use canoes and “utmost” to provide relief, accord- workers scrambled to reach remote areas of India, Pakistan and Myanmar in the wake of flash floods and landslides. floods and landslides. In Vietnam makeshift rafts to escape the ris- ing to the state-run Global New toxic mudslides from flood-hit ing waters. Light of Myanmar. report added. coastal camps following deadly response to the flooding. coal mines in the northern prov- Thousands of others are Landslides in Chin state -- Rains have also battered the 2012 unrest between the minor- “People are trapped, they have ince of Quang Ninh, home to already in camps for the displaced south of Sagaing -- have destroyed western state of Rakhine which ity group and Buddhists. no way out,” said Aung Myo Min, the UNESCO-listed Halong Bay including in the Kalay district 700 homes in the state capital already hosts about 140,000 dis- A consortium of 60 local aid one of the coordination commit- tourist site, claimed the lives of of Sagaing region, where resi- Hakha, which is completely cut placed people, mainly Rohingya groups meeting in Yangyesterday tee members, adding that gov- two families and spewed coal into dents told of unusually powerful off from surrounding areas, the Muslims, who live in exposed criticised the government ernment warnings had come town centres. AFP

Nigeria frees 178 Boko Haram hostages Malaysia PM had donor

MAIDUGURI: Nigeria’s army Gusau said, without specifying confirmed the death toll and said of numerous attacks in recent claimed to have freed 178 hos- when the rescue took place. 27 people were wounded when the months, including a suicide bomb- money, not 1MDB funds tages -- including more than “They include 101 children, 67 Islamists stormed the village. ing by a youth in a mosque in the 100 children -- held by Boko women and 10 men.” “They also set many houses middle of the Muslim holy month Haram jihadists in a dramatic The Nigerian military has ablaze after accusing us of tell- of Ramadan in July which left 12 KUALA LUMPUR: Funds threat to Najib’s credibility since weekend rescue. announced the release of hundreds ing soldiers their whereabouts,” people dead. Boko Haram has deposited into Malaysian Prime he took office in 2009 and could The operation in the country’s of people held by Boko Haram in he said. increasingly expanded its opera- Minister Najib Razak’s bank threaten the grip his United conflict-torn northeast also led recent months, especially in the Local resident Goni Musa, a tions into neighbouring countries accounts were from a donation, State-owned 1MDB has debts of to the capture of a Boko Haram notorious Sambisa forest, a long- vigilante who fights Boko Haram in recent months, prompting not from debt-laden state fund over $11bn and Najib is the chair- commander, an army spokesman time Islamist stronghold. alongside the Nigerian military, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and 1Malaysia Development Berhad man of its advisory board. Najib said in a statement late Sunday. The air strikes hit the village gave the same death toll. Niger to launch a coordinated (1MDB), the anti-corruption sacked his deputy last week after The military said earlier that it of Bita on the fringes of the for- “This morning 13 bodies were military fightback. commission said yesterday. he asked Najib publicly to explain had killed a “large number” of est not far from the Cameroonian recovered. Some had been shot in The four countries, along with Acknowledging that 2.6bn the situation around 1MDB. the extremists in air strikes in border, where Boko Haram was the back, which means they were Benin, are preparing to launch a ringgit ($675.15m) in funds were The Malaysian Anti-Corruption the northeast. preparing to launch an offen- fleeing when the terrorists killed new 8,700-strong force that offi- transferred into Najib’s private Commission’s (MACC) statement The operation took place on sive, the military said. “Many” them,” Musa said. cials say will go into action soon. accounts, the commission said comes amid an investigation by Sunday near Aulari, about 70 Islamists were killed, it added. “They burnt down houses and Niger’s President Mahamadou results of the investigations found police on information leaks by kilometres (40 miles) south of Sunday’s rescue came after sev- shops before they left, yelling Issoufou on Sunday vowed that that it was a “donor’s contribu- government officials involving Maiduguri, the capital of Borno eral attacks by Boko Haram in ‘Allahu Akbar’ (God is greatest). the new regional force would tion”. It did not elaborate on the the 1MDB probe. Two officers of state, once a jihadist stronghold. recent days. Thirteen people were Our terrorised women and “eradicate” the insurgents. donor or why the money was the MACC and an official from “During the offensive opera- killed in an assault on Malari vil- children fled into the bush and “The multinational joint force transferred to Najib’s private the attorney-general’s office were tions, 178 people held captive by lage about 20 kilometres from returned to Maiduguri this morn- will eradicate... the blind terror- accounts. arrested over the weekend. the terrorists were rescued,” mil- Maiduguri. ing,” he added. ism of Boko Haram,” Issoufou said The Wall Street Journal The task force set up to probe itary spokesman Colonel Tukur Local farmer Moha Saleh Malari has been the target in a televised speech. AFP reported in July that investigators 1MDB expects to complete its looking into allegations of graft investigations by year-end. The and financial mismanagement in group comprises the MACC, 1MDB found that nearly $700m attorney-general’s office, central Japan-Italy diplomacy was deposited into Najib’s private bank and the police. bank accounts. Reuters has not A parliamentary investigation Terrorists kill verified the report. was put on hold as the man over- Najib has denied taking any seeing the probe was appointed 10 soldiers money for personal gain. The alle- deputy home minister and gations of extensive graft at the resigned from his Public Accounts in Timbuktu fund are nevertheless the biggest Committee post. REUTERS BAMAKO: At least 10 soldiers were killed yesterday in a “ter- rorist” attack on their camp in northern Mali’s Timbuktu Japan terms US spying region, military sources said. “This morning at Gourma- Rharous we pushed back a terror- ist attack which caused 10 deaths ‘deeply regrettable’ in our ranks,” the source said. Another military source con- TOKYO: Tokyo yester- on Japanese trade officials, among firmed the ambush, saying it had day described claims that others, came just as delegates targeted a unit of the National Washington spied on Japanese negotiating a vast free-trade Guard based in Gourma-Rharous politicians and major firms agreement known as the Trans- and left around 10 men dead. as “deeply regrettable”, in its Pacific Partnership failed to reach The second source said the first official response to revela- a final deal after several days of attackers were believed to be tions from whistleblower group intense talks in Hawaii. “jihadist elements” linked to WikiLeaks. The US and Japan are the Islamist group Ansar Dine. “I will withhold comment. But two biggest economies in the The attack comes two days If this is true, as an ally, it’s deeply 12-nation negotiations, but they after two Malian soldiers were regrettable,” the government’s top have sparred over key issues killed and four others injured in spokesman Yoshihide Suga told a including auto sector access and an ambush in the centre of the regular press briefing. Suga added opening up Japan’s protected west African country. Six UN Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi (third left) shakes hands with Japan’s Emperor Akihito (second right) as that Tokyo was checking with agricultural markets. peacekeepers from Burkina Faso Empress Michiko (third right) shakes hands with Renzi’s wife Agnese Landini (second left) during a meeting the US on the Wikileaks report, WikiLeaks said the US inter- were killed early July in an assault at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, yesterday. issued Friday. cepts showed “intimate knowledge claimed by AQIM. AFP The latest WikiLeaks inter- of internal Japanese delibera- cepts exposing US National tions” on trade issues, nuclear Security Agency (NSA) activi- policy, and Tokyo’s diplomatic ties follow other documents relations with Washington. China wants no South China Sea talks at ASEAN that revealed spying on allies “The reports demonstrate the including Germany and France, depth of US surveillance of the KUALA LUMPUR: China’s hope they will not.” cncern among leaders with recent The freeze proposal may seem straining relations. Japan is one Japanese government, indicating Vice Foreign Minister Liu Neither the United States nor developments “which have the even-handed, but it’s actually of Washington’s key allies in that intelligence was gathered Zhenmin said yesterday the dis- China are members of ASEAN, potential to undermine peace, unrealistic and will not work,” the Asia-Pacific region and the and processed from numerous puted South China Sea should but have been invited to partici- security and stability in the South said Wang. “Outside countries, two countries regularly consult Japanese government ministries not be discussed at meetings pate alongside other countries China Sea.” they are trying to militarize the on defence, economic and trade and offices,” it said. of the Association of Southeast outside the group. US Secretary Chinese Foreign Minister region,” Liu added. issues. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was Asian Nations (ASEAN). of State John Kerry will be in Wang Yi dismissed a proposal China and Southeast Asian “We have strongly requested not a direct target of wiretapping “It should not be discussed,” Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday and to freeze provocative activities nations have agreed to set up intelligence director Clapper con- but senior politicians, including said Liu. “This is not the right Thursday. in South China Sea. “What to a foreign ministers’ hotline to firm the facts,” Suga said, refer- Trade Minister Yoichi Miyazawa, forum. This is a forum for pro- A draft of the joint state- freeze? What’s the standard for tackle emergencies in the South ring to National Intelligence Bank of Japan governor Haruhiko moting cooperation. If the US ment to be issued at the end of freezing? Who is to judge the China Sea, a senior ASEAN offi- Director James Clapper. Kuroda were WikiLeaks said. raises the issue we will object. We the ASEAN meeting, notes the process of the freezing activity? cial said last. REUTERS Claims that Washington spied AFP TUESDAY 4 AUGUST 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN Mullah Omar’s kin won’t back new leader Taliban’s new chief open to talks; many militants oppose Pakistan’s move for direct talks with Kabul

KABUL: The family of deceased Mansour on last Saturday Taliban were toppled from power “undermines the movement and table. The second round of face- which could delay the peace proc- Taliban leader Mullah Omar called for unity in the Taliban in 2001, were released as recently will benefit the foreign forces”. to-face talks between Afghan ess. It is believed that certain has refused to pledge allegiance in his first audio message since as last month. Mansour is seen as a prag- government officials and Taliban Taliban leaders are opposing to his successor, calling on reli- becoming head of the group as it Another commander linked to matist and a proponent of peace representatives, brokered by Mullah Mansoor’s election since gious scholars to settle a grow- faces its biggest leadership crisis the Quetta Shura, the Taliban’s talks, raising hopes that the Pakistan, was postponed following he is seen to be close to Pakistan’s ing rift within insurgent ranks in recent years. ruling council based in the south- power transition could pave the confirmation of Mullah Omar’s security establishment. over the power transition. His comments were apparently western Pakistani city of Quetta, way for an end to Afghanistan’s death two years ago. One source said Mullah Mullah Akhtar Mansour was aimed at averting a factional split criticised Mansour’s selection long and bloody war. In his first audio message, Mansoor might not favour talks announced as the new Taliban at a time of growing discord over process. The announcement of Omar’s Mullah Omar’s successor gave with Kabul anytime soon to dis- chief on last Friday after the the direction of peace talks with Many militants also oppose death, however, cast doubt over mixed signals on the peace proc- pel that impression. “He (Mullah insurgents confirmed the death the Afghan government. what they see as Pakistan’s the fragile peace process, forc- ess. While calling peace talks Mansoor0 will, in fact, first focus of Mullah Omar, who led the mili- Yakoub and several other attempt to force the Taliban ing the postponement of a sec- the enemy’s propaganda, Mullah on creating unity among Taliban tant movement for some 20 years. members of the Taliban’s ruling into direct peace talks with the ond round of talks that had been Mansoor did not rule out negotia- ranks,” the source added. But splits immediately emerged council walked out of the meeting Afghan government. expected in Pakistan last Friday. tions along with ‘Jihad’ to achieve Former ambassador to between Mansour and those who at which Mansour was declared Mansour and his two newly Meanwhile, a day after new the group’s objectives. Afghanistan Rustam Shah challenged his appointment, leader, refusing to pledge alle- named deputies -- influential Afghan Taliban chief Mullah The fate of the nascent peace Mohmand is downbeat about including the late leader’s son giance to him, a Taliban source religious leader Haibatullah Akhtar Mansoor cast doubts on process was discussed during the possibility of a peace deal in Yakoub and his brother, Mullah said. Akhundzada and Sirajuddin a fledgling peace process, a senior last Saturday’s meeting between Afghanistan following the disclo- Abdul Manan. “Part of the insurgency is trou- Haqqani -- are all seen as close to Pakistani official said Islamabad US Special Representatives for sure of Mullah Omar’s death. “The “Our family... has not declared bled and needs answers from the Pakistani military establish- would try to persuade the new Afghanistan and Pakistan Daniel Murree process is dead now. In allegiance to anyone amid these Mansour and his allies: why did ment, which has historically nur- Taliban leadership to resume Feldman and army chief General fact, it was a non-starter,” he said. differences,” Manan said in an they hide Mullah Omar’s death all tured and supported the Taliban. talks with the administration of Raheel Sharif at the General Mohmand added that reports of audio message released last these years? Did they deceive us But despite the open rifts the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. Headquarters in Rawalpindi. internal rifts on the issue of suc- Sunday, without naming Mansour. by putting out fake statements in Taliban have sought to present a “There is no change in our pol- The US special envoy, who was cession would not auger well for “We want the ulema (religious his name just to serve their own unified front, posting video and icy. We are making sincere efforts originally in Pakistan to attend efforts seeking a political solution scholars) to resolve the differ- interests?” he said. audio messages on their official to restart peace negotiations as the second round of talks, hoped to the Afghan imbroglio. ences rather than declaring alle- The Taliban have not revealed website of fighters pledging loyalty soon as possible,” said the official ‘with all sincerity’ that the talks “Divisions in Taliban ranks giance to any side,” said the audio when Omar died but the Afghan to Mansour. A senior member of who is familiar with the process. would resume soon. may benefit the Afghan govern- message, which Taliban sources government said he passed away the Haqqani network, the feared When asked, the official con- However, sources said it was ment but not the Afghan state,” confirmed was from Manan. in Karachi in April 2013. Taliban group led by Sirajuddin firmed that Pakistan would con- highly unlikely. The fact that the he said, pointing out that the “Our family will serve the But official Taliban statements Haqqani, urged fighters to unite tinue encouraging all the parties, Afghan Taliban are divided over Taliban infighting will lead to new leader... if he is elected with in the name of Omar, who had behind Mansour. particularly the new Taliban lead- Mullah Mansoor’s ascendency is lawlessness in Afghanistan. consensus.” not been seen in public since the He said the present discord ership, to come to the negotiating one reason among many others AGENCIES

Watery ways Private lobby Man to hang for killing opposes KP kid as teenager health policy PESHAWAR: The decision of KARACHI: Pakistan is pre- a school. Since then, around 180 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province paring today to hang a con- people have been hanged. government to start institution- victed killer whose case has An official at Karachi Central based practice (IBP) at teaching attracted international protests Prison said Hussain’s execution hospitals has worried the own- because family members say he was scheduled for today following ers of private medical centres as was a juvenile at the time of the a death warrant issued by a court. they fear that the new mecha- crime. The European Union last week nism will harm them financially. Shafqat Hussain was sentenced said it was “deeply concerned” by “We have been receiving to death for killing a seven-year- the resumption of hangings and requests from the owners of pri- old boy in Karachi in 2004 but has warned that a prized tariff sta- vate medical centres to oppose had several stays of execution, tus granted to Pakistan could the government’s move about IBP most recently in June. be threatened unless it stuck to in hospitals,” a senior physician The case has prompted grave international conventions on fair said. According to him, there are concern among human rights trials, child rights and preventing 100 small and big buildings in the campaigners as Hussain’s lawyers torture. city which house private clinics and family claim he was only 15 at Critics say Pakistan’s criminal where doctors from the teaching the time of the killing, though a justice system is marred by police hospitals do private practice. government-ordered probe ruled torture and poor legal representa- The provincial health depart- he was an adult. tion, meaning many of the 8,000 ment introduced a new law a few Hussain’s supporters also say or so death row convicts have not months ago to improve patients’ he was tortured into confessing. had a fair trial. A girl walks through a flooded street at Camp Koruna of Nowshera District, northwestern Pakistan, yesterday. care at state-run hospitals. The United Nations rights experts In June Hussain won his fourth Flash floods caused by torrential monsoon rains have affected hundreds of thousands of people, according new law seeks to start IBP in offi- have said his trial “fell short of stay of execution, but a day later to aid agencies, with further monsoon downpours expected in the coming days. cial hospitals in the evening. international standards” and the Supreme Court rejected an “The owners will lose their called on Islamabad to reinstate a application to set up a judicial income because several senior moratorium on the death penalty. commission to ascertain his age. consultants have opted to sit in Maya Foa of the British anti- Hussain’s age has proved dif- the hospitals for IBP instead of death penalty campaign group ficult to determine with any cer- their private medical centres,” the Reprieve codemned the plan to tainty. His supporters say he was UN monitoring flood situation physician said. hang Hussain as an “absolute 14 or 15 at the time of the killing The government is in the proc- disgrace”. but police insist he was over 20. ISLAMABAD: The United the Layyah district for the a coalition of more than 140 ess of launching the new system A six-year halt to executions Exact birth records are not Nations Office for the purpose. churches and affiliated organisa- to start private practice of doctors came to an end in December as always kept in Pakistan, particu- Coordination of Humanitarian The PDMA has asked Unicef tions working together to allevi- in four teaching hospitals includ- Pakistan got tough on extrem- larly for people from poor families Affairs (OCHA) said it is in to provide 2 million a gua tabs for ate poverty. ing Khyber Teaching Hospital, ism after Taliban gunmen mas- like Hussain’s. contact with national and pro- water treatment and the Public Malteser International, Hayatabad Medical Complex and sacred more than 130 children at AFP vincial disaster management Health Engineering Department another humanitarian agency, Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar authorities and continuously has called for 300 hand pumps has announced that it is prepar- and Ayub Teaching Hospital, monitoring the flood situation and hygiene kits. ing initial flood relief measures for Abbottabad within a month. in Pakistan, UN sources said. The Health Department asked Chitral, one of the districts badly A senior surgeon said, “When While the World Food the WHO to provide emergency affected by the flooding. I advise investigations to the Islamabad to raise Programme (WFP) is providing medicine kits. Since another high Hood dis- patients, the income goes to the logistical support to the PDMA in The `Christian Aid` charity charge peak is currently being private centre. When the govern- Punjab, it is assisting the provin- has announced an initial amount experienced at Taunsa Barrage on ment is allowing us to get con- cial government in rescue work in of 50,000 pounds to help fami- Indus, the NDMA has deployed sultation fee from the patients at prices of natural gas some flood-affected areas. lies affected by the floods. It will teams to move along Guddu- the hospital itself, why should I Two boats have been pro- distribute the aid through its Sulclcur and Sul. continue privately?” he said. ISLAMABAD: In view of com- reflected in the LNG tariff on a vided to the PDMA to be used in partners in the `Act Alliance`, INTERNEWS INTERNEWS pletion of quorum in the Oil monthly basis,” Dar informed the and Gas Regulatory Authority IMF in writing. (Ogra) and a commitment Legal and financial consulta- given by government to the tions are on to quickly dispose International Monetary Fund off regulatory business in limbo (IMF), Ogra is soon likely to for three years. Parliamentary body fast-tracks poll reforms begin implementing policy These include disposal of over directives regarding a 30 per- 600 petitions and complaints, ISLAMABAD: A positive a day before the two sit-ins were ECP are the only serious mat- For example, in three out of the cent increase in prices of natu- and finalisation of sale price for upshot of the report of the launched from Lahore. ters referred to the report. The four provinces (Sindh, Balochistan ral gas, according to sources. imported liquefied natural gas inquiry commission that has A subcommittee of the main report listed nine examples of and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) the The consumer gas prices have (LNG) which is being supplied to declared the 2013 general elec- parliamentary panel, headed by poor planning by ECP including provincial election commission- generally remained unchanged various consumers. tions fair and free, is the fast Zahid Hamid, is holding back- lack of a formula for determin- ers (PECs), who had received a since January 2013 because of Ogra’s first priority is to final- track adopted by a bipartisan to-back meetings to give final ing excess ballots, the decision to copy of the election action plan, a “freeze” imposed by Prime ise the revenue requirements of parliamentary committee to touches to its recommendations. rely on only four printing presses, decided on the number of ballots Minister Nawaz Sharif. the Sui Southern Gas Company introduce electoral reforms. “Given the pace the subcom- belated shifting of ballots from to be printed against no discern- Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, Ltd (SSGCL) and Sui Northern “The irregularities listed in the mittee is following, it is quite one press to other, failure to ible formula despite the formula however, gave a commitment to Gas Pipelines Ltd (SNGPL) report were the result of lack of likely that the electoral reforms develop effective voter verifica- to be followed being set out in the the IMF in June that the govern- because the two utilities have electoral reforms, which were package would be presented to tion method, failure to establish plan. ment would recover by July the been unable to meet the man- needed since long,” an official the parliament in September,” and use an effective results man- In Punjab, the determination losses incurred by gas utilities due datory requirement of finalising of the Election Commission of a senior official said. Dar has agement system, late provision of was left to the ROs who seemed to the “freeze”. their annual accounts and their Pakistan (ECP) said. stated that the subcommittee election material to some polling to have received very little, if But the prices could not be presentation to stock exchanges He said that 90 percent of the has finished its 80 percent task stations and lack of its own stor- any, guidance on this point and increased in July due to Ramazan. and the Securities and Exchange lapses and shortcomings men- by deliberating upon six existing age space. as such the number of excess bal- “The loss in cost recovery incurred Commission of Pakistan. tioned in the findings of the com- electoral laws and finalised its The findings said the formula lots requested per constituency by gas companies due to delayed This work will be followed mission would go away after the recommendations. for determining excess ballots i.e. varied greatly. price notifications of fiscal 2014-15 by finalisation of decisions on reforms. The subcommittee has reached rounding up on the basis of poll- According to the report, even (due in July and January) will be the 600-odd petitions that have The report underlined the consensus on 13 constitutional ing stations was not adequately where the PECs determined the fully recuperated in the new tariff been piling up over the last three urgency of the reforms pack- amendments. The committee communicated to the Returning number of ballots there was lit- which we will notify and imple- years. age by the committee headed by took a year after remaining in Officers (ROs), particularly in tle uniformity and it is unclear ment by July 1, 2015. The finalisation of price for Finance Minister Senator Ishaq suspended animation for months Punjab. whether rounding up on a poll- We will also make any nec- imported LNG involves some legal Dar. It was constituted last year with the main party, the Pakistan Even otherwise the method of ing station-wise basis as per the essary adjustments to reflect complications and Ogra will like by Speaker Ayaz Sadiq on the Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) boycott- calculating the number of addi- instructions contained in the imported gas prices, so that to defer it for now. basis of a letter written to him ing it. tional ballots was not uniform action plan were complied with. the cost of this gas will be fully INTERNEWS by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif The faults and errors of the throughout Pakistan. INTERNEWS TUESDAY 4 AUGUST 2015 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Speaker suspends 25 Congress MPs All-party meeting called by Narendra Modi fails to break parliament logjam as opposition sticks to demand

NEW DELHI: An all-party say that the government was rigid week to ensure smooth function- meeting called by the Narendra on its stand. ing of the house, Mahajan said Modi government yesterday “In fact, the Congress is rigid she had urged the members not failed to break the parliamen- on its stand. Even before the to show placards and not to come tary logjam, with the Congress beginning of the (mosoon) ses- near her podium. and the NDA government reit- sion, the Congress (leaders) said “I was forced to take stringent erating their positions on resig- they will not allow the house to action. There are ways of protest. nations over the Lalit Modi and function until the resignations of What I did is for the good (of Vyapam issues. the BJP leaders. We are ready for the house). The rules have some While the Congress demanded a debate on any issue they want,” meaning. These were not made the resignations of Sushma Naidu said. today. These were not made by Swaraj and chief ministers of Naidu also said that the me,” she said. Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, Congress was running a “smear Meanwhile, Lok Sabha Speaker the government ruled out any campaign” against Swaraj. Sumitra Mahajan yesterday said resignations. “Let the minister respond. She she had to take stringent action The monsoon session, which (Swaraj) is ready to put her point against Congress members under began on July 21, has been washed in front of the people. Even the compulsion as they did not adhere out till date over the opposition prime minister will respond as to her repeated warnings for demand for the resignations of and when required. It’s unfair to observing rules in the house. External Affairs Minister Sushma run a smear campaign against the Mahajan told reporters that Swaraj and the chief ministers of minister. Twelve days have gone. her duty was to run the house. Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh Now, please allow the house to She named 25 Congress mem- over the former Indian Premier function,” the union parliamen- bers under Rule 374A which League chief Lalit Modi and tary affairs minister said. entails their suspension for five Vyapam issues. Congress leader Ghulam Nabi The parliament building in New Delhi where the monsoon session is continuing. days. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Azad said he was happy that the “I tried my level best that the M Venkaiah Naidu said that the government called the meeting, we want to discuss in parliament. the Janata Dal-United and Ram her duty was to run the house. house functions but it did not all-party meeting was convened but said that “unfortunately, it The whole of Bengal has been Gopal Yadav of the Samajwadi She named 25 Congress mem- happen. I was warning them since to break the logjam, but the wants to run the house on its own affected by floods. There are issues Party and Sharad Pawar of the bers under Rule 374A which morning that I will have to name Congress continued to stick to terms and conditions” of farmers too,” Bandopadhyay Nationalist Congress Party entails their suspension for five them but they were not heed- its demand for the resignations. “This is not how a democracy told the media. attended the meeting. days. ing. The limit was crossed when “The Congress stuck to its functions. The opposition also Samajwadi Party leader Ram Union ministers Rajnath Singh, “I tried my level best that the an attempt was made to shadow demand of ‘first resignations and wants the logjam to end, but our Gopal Yadav said, “If there will Arun Jaitley and Venkaiah Naidu house functions but it did not the speaker (through placards),” then only the house will run’. demand is clear cut - first resig- be no solution to the logjam, ulti- were present from the govern- happen. I was warning them since Mahajan said. However, other parties are of the nations, then business,” he said. mately parliamentary democracy ment side. Lok Sabha Speaker morning that I will have to name “I was forced to take stringent view that the house should func- Trinamool Congress leader will lose.” Sumitra Mahajan yesterday said them but they were not heed- action. There are ways of protest. tion and there should be debates Sudip Bandopadhyay said most Leaders from different oppo- she had to take stringent action ing. The limit was crossed when What I did is for the good (of and discussions on a lot of issues, parties were of the view that the sition parties, including Ghulam against Congress members under an attempt was made to shadow the house). The rules have some from regional to national,” he said. house should function but it’s up Nabi Azad and Mallikarjun compulsion as they did not adhere the speaker (through placards),” meaning. These were not made Naidu also accused the to the ruling party (BJP) and the Kharge of the Congress, Sitaram to her repeated warnings for Mahajan said. today. These were not made by Congress of “targeting” Swaraj main opposition party (Congress). Yechury of the Communist Party observing rules in the house. Referring to the all-party me,” she said. and said it was “unfortunate to “We have a lot of regional issue of India-Marxist, Sharad Yadav of Mahajan told reporters that meeting convened by her last IANS

Boy at work Govt orders blocking Teachers scam: SC dismisses of 800 porn websites Chautalas’ plea NEW DELHI: India has to impose a ban on porn sites last NEW DELHI: The Supreme ordered more than 800 porn month while hearing a legal peti- Court yesterday dismissed a sites blocked for “objectionable” tion against them, saying adults plea by former Haryana chief content, a government official had the right to access such web- minister Om Prakash Chautala, said yesterday, igniting a row sites in private. his son Ajay Chautala and oth- about freedom of speech in the Prominent authors, commenta- ers, challenging the Delhi High world’s biggest democracy. tors and politicians took to social Court verdict, upholding their The telecommunications media to voice their opposition conviction and sentencing in department has directed Internet while #Pornban had been trend- the 2000 JBT teachers’ recruit- service providers (ISPs) to block ing on Twitter. ment scam. 857 websites, in the right-wing “Don’t ban porn. Ban men A bench of Justice Fakkir government’s first major crack- ogling, leering, brushing past, Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla and down on online pornography. groping, molesting, abusing, Justice Shiva Kirti Singh, while “We have written to the ISPs humiliating and raping women. dismissing a batch of petitions by asking them to control free and Ban non-consent. Not sex,” popu- Chautalas and nine others, said: open access to objectionable web- lar author Chetan Bhagat posted “We are not inclined to entertain sites,” N N Kaul, a department on Twitter. any of the petitions. They are spokesman, said. Opposition lawmaker Milind dismissed.” Since the weekend, users across Deora said the ban was “not about The verdict came after senior India have been hit with blank liking or disliking porn. It’s about counsel Harish Salve, appearing pages when they try to access govt hijacking personal liberties” for Chautalas, sought to shift adult sites, many of them based “What’ll they ban next - phones the blame on the officials, saying outside the country -- sparking & TVs?” he said on Twitter. there was nothing wrong with the anger on social media about moral Internet expert Pranesh government decision to recruit policing. Prakash said the ban was the JBT teachers but things went According to the adult site undemocratic given there was wrong in the implementation of Pornhub, India was its fourth no evidence that the sites were the decision. largest source of traffic behind unlawful. In his argument lasting nearly 50 the United States, Britain and “The ban seems illegitimate. minutes, he compared it with the Canada in 2014. It is undemocratic because there Vyapam scam in Madhya Pradesh, A Kashmiri boy works in a field on the outskirts of Srinagar, yesterday. Kaul said the order was issued doesn’t seem to be any finding saying that creation of the Vyapam after India’s top court voiced con- of unlawfulness on these web- board was not a conspiracy but cern last month about the govern- sites,” Prakash, policy director of down the line it was hijacked by ment’s failure to block child porn the Bangalore-based Center for the officers and was exploited. sites in India. Internet and Society research Contending that there was no BJP makes U-turn on “There is currently no system group, said. conspiracy in the decision to fill to filter specific websites. We are India has been accused of the teachers vacancies, Salve said: looking into evolving a system,” heavy-handed online censorship “Something that started as a sen- Kaul said, adding that until then in the past, including in 2012 sible decision is hijacked by some- all sites would be blocked. when it ordered 300 webpages, one and loopholes exploited the controversial land bill The 17-page order issued on images and links on sites includ- way, can we say, the setting up of July 31 directed ISPs to block ing Facebook and Twitter blocked. Vyapam in Madhya Pradesh was NEW DELHI: In a major The Congress and several other states on the bill last month which access on morality and decency It said they were spreading not a conspiracy but somebody climbdown from its stated opposition parties had firmly was boycotted by the Congress. grounds. rumours that were fuelling ethnic hijacked it mid-way and exploited position, BJP appears to have objected to changes made in the The 2013 Act required that The Supreme Court declined tensions. AFP it.” IANS agreed to restore key provi- land bill passed by the United the consent of 80 percent of land sions of UPA’s land law includ- Progressive Alliance government owners is obtained for private ing those related to consent and in 2013. projects and that the consent social impact assessment (SIA), There was opposition to the bill of 70 percent of land owners be informed sources said. from some Sangh outfits as also obtained for public private part- The sources said that members farmer organisations. nership (PPP) projects. MEA tries to free two IS captives of ruling National Democratic The Congress mounted a high- The bill of the NDA govern- Alliance moved amendments at pitched attack on the Narendra ment exempted five categories NEW DELHI/ Rao said all efforts were being Karnataka were released last the Monday’s meeting of the joint Modi government on its new bill, — defence, rural infrastructure, HYDERABAD: Two of the made to secure the release of Friday, there was no word about committee on land bill, seeking alleging that it had made changes affordable housing, industrial four Indians released by Islamic the two professors Gopikrishna the two Telugu speaking men. to bring back the consent clause to the 2013 Act to benefit a few corridors and infrastructure State militants in Libya are set and Kishan. Rao also spoke to Kishan hails from Hyderabad and SIA. industralists. projects including PPP projects to arrive in India today even as External Affairs Minister Sushma while Gopikrishna is from The committee, headed by The National Democratic where the central government efforts are on for securing the Swaraj regarding the steps being Srikakulam district of AP. BJP’s S.S. Ahluwalia, has sought Alliance government brought owns the land - from these pro- release of the other two men. taken to secure safe and early Gopikrishna was teaching com- time till August 7 to submit ordinances but the bill has not visions of the act. According to sources, efforts release of the two Telugu men. puter science at Jufra branch of its report on the Right to Fair been passed by parliament. The While the 2013 act was applica- are continuing for the release of T The families of Gopikrishna the university since 2007 whereas Compensation and Transparency bill was earlier passed by the Lok ble for the acquisition of land for Gopikrishna and Balram Kishan, and Kishan here have not heard Balram has been teaching English in Land Acquisition, Sabha but could not be taken up private companies, the new bill who are still in captivity of the IS anything directly from them since at the same university since 2011. Rehabilitation and Resettlement in Rajya Sabha where the govern- proposed changed this to acqui- militants in Libya’s Sirte. Andhra they were kidnapped on July 29. Vijaykumar and Lakshmikanth (Second Amendment Bill), 2015. ment lacks majority. sition for “private entities” or an Pradesh government’s represent- Four Indians, all teachers at from Karnataka, who were With the Bharatiya Janata BJP leaders had repeatedly entity ther than a government ative in New Delhi, K Rammohan University of Sirte, were kid- released from captivity in Libya, Party having seemingly changed said that the UPA’s land bill was entity, and could include a propri- Rao, spoke to Indian diplomat napped allegedly by Islamic State are to return to India by today its position on the key bill, there against rural areas and they had etorship, partnership, company, in Tripoli, Mohammad Rashid militants when they returning to morning. is a possibility of the committee made changes to the bill after corporation, non-profit organi- Khan over phone, and was told India via Tripoli and Tunis. They The two men were staying at giving a consensus report and the suggestions from the states. sation, or other entity under any that the dean at the University were detained at a check point, 50 the Indian Embassy in Tripoli government likely to recast the Prime Minister Narendra Modi other law. of Sirte is in regular touch with km from Sirte. since last Saturday after their legislation. had also convened a meeting with IANS the abductees. Though two others hailing from release. IANS TUESDAY 4 AUGUST 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA Centre, Nagaland rebels Holy month of Shravan in historic peace deal Agreement to pave way for prosperity in north-east

NEW DELHI: The cen- problem of the Nagas and was in mountainous state is spread over tral government and the favour of their demands. 16,579 sq km and is home to 16 National Socialist Council of Muivah, 81, is a key leader of major tribes, each with distinct Nagaland-IM yesterday signed the NSCN-IM which has been in customs, language and dress. a historic accord that promises talks with the central government Christian-dominated Nagaland to bring peace in a state which since 1997 after a ceasefire was is home to around 20 million has been ravaged by violence for signed. people. It’s official language is over six decades. NSCN-IM chairman Isak English. The accord was signed in Chishi Swu, who had also signed NSCN-IM claims to speak the presence of Prime Minister the agreement, could not make it for the Nagas and has also been Narendra Modi who described to the ceremony as he is unwell demanding a separate Greater it as historic. The agreement is and undergoing treatment at Nagaland for themselves by expected to end the oldest insur- Fortis hospital in Delhi. His son carving an area which includes gency in the country. Pasheto was, however, present. parts of Nagaland, Manipur and “The Naga political issue had Apart from NSCN-IM, there Arunachal Pradesh. lingered for six decades, taking are three more major fac- According to an official state- a huge toll on generations of our tions involved in insurgency in ment, government’s interlocutor people,” said Modi. the state. These are NSCN-K, for Naga peace talks, R N Ravi, He admitted that “unfortu- NSCN-U and NSCN-KZ. They signed the agreement on behalf of nately, the Naga problem has are unlikely to accept this peace the government of India. taken so long to resolve because accord. The entire top leadership of the we did not understand each The Naga peace accord took NSCN-IM, including all members other”. many by surprise, with the prime of the “collective leadership”, has Modi spoke of his vision for the minister making a dramatic fully endorsed the agreement and Racers take part in an Ekka race involving horse drawn carts, organised every year during the holy Hindu month transformation of the northeast tweet: “I will be making a special was present during the ceremony. of Shravan, in Allahabad yesterday. Shravan is considered the holiest month of the year for Hindus and on every region and expressed confidence announcement at 6:30pm from The statement said it will Monday of the month, known as Shravan Somvar, worshippers offer prayers for a happy and prosperous life. that the agreement will open “a RCR.” restore peace and pave the way glorious new chapter for the Naga The Naga People’s Movement for prosperity in the north east. people to build a bright future for for Human Rights (NPHMR) It will advance a life of dignity, Nagaland”. chairman N Krome said: “We opportunity and equity for the The Naga agreement was the were all caught by surprise by the Naga people, based on their genius Anjana, 3, Kerala’s youngest organ donor second major initiative in the sudden announcement.” and consistent with the unique- northeast -- after the peace He said they were aware that ness of the Naga people and their THIRUVANANTHA out of it today He is doing well,” playing on last Thursday and on accord between the government something was happening “but we culture and traditions. PURAM: A five-year-old boy V Venugopal, who led a team of last Saturday she was declared and the Mizo National Front in did not realise that something like Attempts were made from was doing well here yesterday doctors, said. brain dead. 1986. this would happen so soon”. time to time to resolve the issue after getting the liver and kid- Meanwhile, the transplant When doctors approached her NSCN-IM general secretary The accord comes almost two through discussion with repre- neys of a brain dead three-year- was done at a private hospital parents with a request if they Thuingaleng Muivah, who signed months after 18 army soldiers sentatives of the Naga people. A old girl, who became Kerala’s while the harvesting surgery was were willing to donate her organ, the accord yesterday at the cere- were killed in a major ambush fresh attempt for a comprehen- youngest organ donor. conducted at state-run SAT they agreed and her kidneys, liver mony held at the prime minister’s carried out by Naga militants sive resolution was initiated with “The harvesting surgery Hospital. and eyes were harvested. 7 Race Course Road home, hailed in Manipur’s Chandel district. the NSCN in 1997. started on last Saturday night He also said Anjana, the donor, “The recipient is having genetic it as a “momentous occasion”. Following this, India had carried The new government on assum- and when we finished the trans- has become the youngest organ disorders and his liver and kidney He said all Naga people had out an operation in Myanmar. ing power in May 2014 accorded plant, it took us 16 hours. donor in Kerala. are both seriously affected. Hence, great respect for Mahatma Nagaland became India’s 16th highest priority to this lingering The boy is currently on ven- Anjana suddenly collapsed he underwent the transplant,” Gandhi who understood the state on Dec 1, 1963. The mostly problem. IANS tilator and is expected to come in Thiruvananthapuram while said Venugopal. IANS Sushma’s remark stirs up row in RS No pressure on heads of NEW DELHI: External When the Rajya Sabha met in said Kurien. Sharma for violating “every rule”, institutes to resign: Irani Affairs Minister Sushma the post lunch session after two Kurien also questioned the to which the Congress leader Swaraj yesterday denied in the earlier adjournments, Congress opposition, which was displaying retorted that the union minis- Rajya Sabha any help to former leader Madhusudan Mistry placards and creating a ruckus, ter was experiencing “selective NEW DELHI: The heads of his resignation due to personal IPL chief Lalit Modi, triggering quoted Leader of the House, saying: “You said the minister memory loss” some educational organisations reasons”. a heated discussion on propri- Arun Jatiley, to claim that union did something without the chair’s Kurien, however, ruled that have stepped down because “The Board of Governors of ety, rules and house privilege External Affairs Minister Sushma permission. Is what you are doing the minister was well within her of “personal reasons” and not IIT-Delhi desired that in the between the opposition and Swaraj made a “statement” with- with the permission of the chair?” rights to respond and did not vio- because of pressure by the HRD larger interests of the institute, he treasury benches. out following due procedures. “You come to the well, display late any rules. ministry, the government said should continue as director,” she In perhaps the longest stretch “..Arun Jaitley asked Sushma placards and say the minister did “For a statement, prior per- yesterday. said. Kakodkar and Shevgaonkar’s the Rajya Sabha worked in this Swaraj to make a statement...it this without permission,” said mission is needed...but if it is a Human Resource Development resignations had raised doubts monsoon session, a debate ensued was (done) without the permis- Kurien. response to what was being said, (HRD) Minister Smriti Irani that they had resigned owing to for 55 minutes on the rules of sion of the chair; it was not in the Reacting to opposition conten- to such a response a minister in a written reply to the Rajya government pressure. conduct in the upper house once business list either. This is against tions, Jaitley retorted: “For two or a member has a right,” the Sabha said “the resignations were The minister further said that the union minister had made her the rules,” said Mistry. weeks, unsubstantiated state- deputy chairman of the upper entirely on personal reasons, former NCERT director Parvin point. Treasury benches immediately ments have been made. Can’t the house said. therefore no inquiry was called Sinclair sought “premature repa- Opposition members used the countered him, saying the min- minister even respond? Is speak- Soon after, Communist for” triation from the post on per- opportunity to raise other issues ister “responded” to the charges ing without the chair’s permission Party of India-Marxist leader On whether pressure was sonal grounds”. Irani said the as well, including a written reply made by the opposition for the every day not a privilege of the Sitaram Yechury stood up and exerted on Anil Kakodkar, chair- vice chancellor of the University by union Agriculture Minister last two weeks. house?” recalled Jaitley’s statement on person of the board of governors of Hyderabad resigned on “per- Radha Mohan Singh in the upper Deputy Chairman P J Kurien Congress leader Anand Sharma the first day of the monsoon at IIT-Bombay, and other people sonal grounds” and demitted house, in which he quoted “impo- said the question was whether the then maintained that it was a session that he (Yechury) was to submit their resignations so as office on January 28, 2015, and the tency and love affair” among rea- minister made a statement or was matter of privilege of the house. using the house for a televised to appoint preferred people, she Assam University vice chancellor sons for farmers’ suicides in the it a response. “The opposition is in bad state opportunity. said Kakodkar “requested to be submitted that he was unable to country. “The question is whether she with a three-minute response He also raised the issue of a relieved from his responsibilities continue because of “some per- “..I never requested the British made a statement or reacted to from the minister (Sushma notice given by the opposition as chairperson... but agreed to sonal and family considerations government to give travel docu- what (Congress leader) Anand Swaraj); when a detailed state- that was referred to in the house continue till the end of his tenure, and requested to release him from ments to Lalit Modi (to travel to Sharma said. And the response ment comes, they will be in worse by Jaitley, and said it was not sup- ie May 11, 2015” the responsibilities and to treat Portugal),” Sushma Swaraj told members make is on record situation,” Jaitley retorted. posed to be made public. Irani said IIT-Delhi director request as letter of resignation” the Rajya Sabha. unless expunged by the chair,” He also slammed Anand IANS R K Shevgaonkar “submitted IANS Torrential rains kill 75, displace thousands in eastern region KOLKATA: At least 75 peo- flooding in West Bengal, where rains, aid agencies said. ple have died and tens of thou- at least 49 people have died. “A massive landslide triggered sands have had to take refuge Around 200,000 people have by heavy rainfall in Chandel in state-run relief camps after been shifted to relief camps in district swept away one village heavy rains caused floods and districts such as Burdwan, Hoogly, claiming about 21 lives so far,” landslides in eastern India, gov- Howrah and North 24 Parganas a situation report from Sphere ernment officials and aid groups in West Bengal, and plastic India, a network of humanitarian said yesterday. sheets and dry food rations have agencies, said. Exacerbated by Cyclone Komen been dispatched to survivors, one Officials said teams from the which struck the east coast on official said. National Disaster Management last Friday, the rainfall has made Television pictures showed peo- Response Force and the army had major rivers overflow, inundating ple carrying bags packed with pos- been sent on search and rescue villages in parts of West Bengal, sessions as they waded through operations but roads and bridges Odisha and Manipur states. The knee-high water, villagers had been washed away, mak- rains also caused a landslide in standing on the banks of rising ing it difficult to reach stranded Manipur, killing 21 people. rivers and scores of children sit- survivors. “In the last four years, there ting in lines in a camp being fed In Odisha, where floods have has been no flood like this year. So rice and lentils. disrupted more than half a mil- far, we have witnessed man-made milewhil has monsoon rains lion people’s lives, state disaster floods and we have restricted from June to September, which management officials said them quite successfully. But are vital for agriculture. But the they believed the worst was the situation at present is ren- rains often cause damage affect- over. dered beyond control,” Mamata ing millions of people, devastat- “We had evacuated about 2,000 Banerjee, chief minister of West ing crops, destroying homes and people during the floods last week Bengal, the worst affected state, sparking outbreaks of diseases but all of them returned to their told reporters on last Sunday. such as diarrhoea. homes. The situation has Banerjee said the release of In the remote northeastern improved in most of the Local residents sleep inside a flooded hut after heavy rains in eastern India caused a rise in the water levels of water from over-full dams in the state of Manipur, many parts of areas,” Odisha Deputy Relief neighbouring states of Jharkhand Thoubal and Chandel districts Commissioner Prabhat Ranjan river Ganga and its tributaries in Kolkata, yesterday. and Odisha had worsened the have also been affected by the Mohapatra said. IANS TUESDAY 4 AUGUST 2015 FEATURES www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 Master the frittata and make it yours

By Dorie Greenspan first toss in the greens, they’re so MAKE AHEAD: The cooled frit- kale might need a minute more). voluminous, they threaten to spill tata can be wrapped and refriger- The greens will be a lot for the very cook needs a frittata over the sides of the skillet. Worry ated a day in advance. skillet, but they cook down quickly to call his or her own. A not. Crank up the heat and stir and dramatically. If the greens are chubby, big-as-a-plate, without stop; within a minute, the Ingredients sticking, drizzle in a bit more oil. Ewell-done omelette with heat and oil will have wilted the 4 ounces greens, such as kale, Meanwhile, whisk the eggs and a generous amount of add-ins, the greens, and you’ll be able to mix spinach or chard, stemmed and mustard together in a mixing bowl. frittata is a cook’s tabula rasa and them neatly in the pan. Taste as finely shredded Season lightly with salt and pepper; a host’s best friend. you go. You’re cooking the greens Kosher salt stir in the just-wilted greens. Put most simply, a frittata is a mostly for texture, so when they’re 3 medium spring onions or 2 Wipe out the pan, which must jumble of vegetables and/or meat just the way you enjoy them, call bunches scallions, trimmed (white be clean before you start the frit- mixed into a bowlful of beaten eggs it quits. and light-green scallion parts) tata or the eggs will stick. Return and cooked until done. Wipe out the pan: This is a fussy About 3 tablespoons olive oil it to the stove top over medium- The add-ins are up for grabs. step that shouldn’t be skipped. A 2 cloves garlic (green germ high heat. They can be a mix of leftovers, clean pan means an easy lift-out removed), minced Pour in the remaining 1 1/2 such as small pieces of string beans, when the frittata’s ready to be Freshly ground black pepper tablespoons of oil. 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They found that 10 percent of these children have For many decades, scientists have assumed that its creator, Claudio Acuna, a researcher at the Faulty genes may lead copy number variations (CNVs) affecting genes this was due to the strengthening of bonds between University of Santiago, has said the therapy will deemed clinically relevant. water molecules around the sugar. soon be patented in the United States, Xinhua news In the general population such CNVs are found But Seishi Shimizu from the university’s depart- agency reported. to cerebral palsy in less than one per cent of people. CNVs are struc- ment of chemistry found that the underlying cause Acuna said the aim “is to generate a vaccine for enerally known to be caused by factors such tural alterations to the DNA of a genome that can is the affinity between sugar molecules and water, people who already are showing signs of cancer Gas birth asphyxia, stroke and infections in the be present as deletions, additions, or as reorganised which in turn makes the caffeine molecules stick which will allow them to improve their immunologi- developing brain of babies, cerebral palsy (CP), the parts of the gene that can result in disease. together (or aggregate) in order to avoid the sugar. cal response against tumours. We do not expect to most common cause of physical disability in chil- The study was published in the journal Nature “This is why we experience less of their bitter reverse the cancer but offer an alternative”. dren, may also have genetic roots, says a new study. Communications. taste. Proper understanding of the fundamental “We need to wait for patents approval before pro- There are many different genes involved in cer- rationale behind this process may assist food sci- gressing to the other stages. Our project is focused ebral palsy, the findings showed. entists in many ways,” he explained. on improving the quality of life of the patients in “Our research suggests that there is a much He used statistical thermodynamics - a branch the long term and to generate a therapy that is stronger genetic component to cerebral palsy Decoded: What sugar of theoretical physical chemistry linking the micro- supplementary to the conventional treatments.” than previously suspected,” said lead study author scopic realm with the everyday world - to investi- This new method could decrease global medical Maryam Oskoui, paediatric neurologist at The does to your coffee gate the molecular-level activities and interactions care costs by 70 percent in comparison with similar Montreal Children’s Hospital in Canada. behind our daily food and drink. therapies. “This study will provide the impetus to make he sugar in your cup of coffee not only gives a “Encouraged by this discovery, we are working “This immunotherapy is available for a wide genetic testing a standard part of the comprehen- Tsweet taste but also helps reduce the bitterness hard to reveal more about the molecular basis of spectrum of patients with breast, skin, lung, colon, sive assessment of the child with cerebral palsy,” of tea and coffee, new research reveals. food and cooking,” Shimizu added in a paper pub- and prostate cancer in the advanced stages,” Acuna Michael Shevell from McGill University Health Scientists from the University of York have pro- lished in the journal Food and Function. said. Centre, noted. vided new insights into the way in which caffeine, “It will not have any side-effects and in terms Children with cerebral palsy have difficulties in sugar and water interact at the molecular level to of cost, once it’s marketed, it will not cost more their motor development early on, and often have affect the taste of hot beverages. than $750.” epilepsy and learning, speech, hearing and visual Appreciated for its “reviving” stimulant effect, New therapy against cancer Every year, more than 10 million people in impairments. caffeine is, however, also in part responsible for the n innovative immunological therapy that the world are diagnosed with new cases of can- The research team performed genetic testing on bitter taste in tea and coffee. Aattacks carcinogenic cells in humans by cer, according to the World Health Organization 115 children with cerebral palsy and their parents The caffeine molecules tend to stick to each increasing the body’s anti-tumour response was (WHO). In 2012, 8.2 million people died from the from the Canadian Cerebral Palsy Registry, many other when in water, and this tendency is further presented in Santiago city in Chile. disease. of which had other identified risk factors. enhanced by the addition of sugar. The therapy is in the pre-clinical stage and AGENCIES AICW 2015: Is couture still bridal in India? By Nivedita People tend to purchase higher value The ace designer maintained the through their couture line on day four outfits, especially customised for charm of creating his own definition of of the fashion extravaganza. he Amazon India Couture Week themselves mostly for weddings and couture by mixing the traditional with Taandon traced the origins of (AICW) 2015 ended on a grand for niche occasions. the modern to make it globally appeal- Mughal Empire through her Persia- Tnote on Sunday with some of “But, couture is not just limited to ing. From saris draped over jackets; influenced collection with actress the country’s finest garment design- bridal wear and even in India that short dresses; long maxi dress; skirts Richa Chadha walking on the ramp ers showcasing their creativity on the trend is changing.” and trousers to capes — each garment as a showstopper in a maroon and gold ramp. But the five-day extravaganza Monisha Jaising, who showcased a reflected his design aesthetics. heavily embroidered lehenga-choli. left a big question mark about whether collection titled ‘The Sailing Bride’ at The amalgam of Mukherjee’s The Bollywood quotient didn’t end the Indian fashion industry will ever the fashion gala, has a different take. ensembles with the iconic red soles of just there. Kangana Ranaut walked go beyond bridal when it comes to She believes that the magnitude of French footwear designer Christian for Manav Gangwani, Aishwarya couture. India’s wedding industry is the rea- Louboutin added to the appeal. Rai Bachchan stunned the crowd as The event, which started on July 29, son why couture is here to stay in the International Woolmark Prize- Manish Malhotra’s showstopper, and showcased a wide array of collections country. winning designer Rahul Mishra, who the svelte and lovely Shilpa Shetty from designers through 11 shows. But “In India, weddings are a mega made his debut at AICW, too grabbed walked the ramp for Rimple and what primarily sparkled was bridal industry and the term extravagant the eyeballs with his own interpreta- Harpreet Narula in a heavily embroi- wear. instantly springs to mind with this tion of couture on THE second day. dered gold lehenga-choli, aptly per- While designers admit that the mega industry becoming bigger day The collection, “Tree of Life”, com- sonifying a modern bride. wedding market in India is “huge”, by day. Couture is definitely here to prised of a blend of Indian and west- Sunil Sethi, president of AICW’s they beg to differ that couture is only stay,” she said. ern designs in subtle colours and saw organising body Fashion Design about bridal wear. The fact that couture is becoming innovative craftsmanship apt for red Council of India (FDCI), said: “In Varun Bahl, who launched a bespoke serious business in the country was carpet events both nationally and India, since weddings are very big, our wedding company through his show at well-exemplified by names such as internationally. couture is used there also, and now the event, said: “In India, if you notice Sabyasachi Mukherjee, who started Designers Reynu Taandon and duo look at the experiments in the tradi- the focus on Indian couture pieces, it the fashion gala on a positive note with Rimple and Harpreet Narula gave tional lehenga.” is usually towards the bridal segment. his line called Bater. more options to the wedding market Stressing on why couture is no Manish Malhotra with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.

longer synonymous with bridal wear, he said: “Frankly, of course, I will say that some of our prod- ucts may be for bridal market, but it is still made especially for that, so we are still calling it couture.” Leaving aside the argument of bridal and cou- ture in India, AICW witnessed some fine creations that can enthrall fashionistas globally. Whether it is Anju Modi’s ‘Kashish’ collection for which she drew inspiration from Persia or Manish Malhotra’s ‘The Empress Story’ that was influenced by his passion for reviving centuries-old Indian craftsmanship. IANS TUESDAY 4 AUGUST 2015 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

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Reindeer Day British town appoints first jester in 700 years

LONDON: A small British town has appointed its first resident jester in more than 700 years, naming him in an elabo- rate medieval ceremony. Russel Erwood was officially dubbed Erwyd le Fol (French for ‘fool’) during an event in the main square in Conwy, north Wales, on Sunday which included falconry, knights and a parade. The 34-year-old had to com- plete three challenges to get the job: juggling daggers blindfolded, balancing a sword on his chin and making a gold coin disappear dur- ing a conjuring trick. Erwood followed his tasks by balancing a blazing barbecue on a wooden pole down by the town’s quayside, a stunt known as “The Burning Brushes of Beelzebub”. Jesters were entertainers and travelling performers employed A Nenets man rides a reindeer sledge during a competition to mark Reindeer Day at a camping ground, some 200km northeast of Naryan-Mar, the administrative centre of Nenets Autonomous by noblemen to amuse them Area, far northern Russia on Sunday. People, including local herders and members of their families, gathered at the site to mark Reindeer Day, a professional holiday of reindeer breeding and their guests as well as local workers, which is celebrated annually in the region. townsfolk with magic tricks, jug- gling, music and storytelling. The market town’s previ- ous jester — Tom le Fol — was appointed by King Edward I of England, who was besieged by the Thank the ancient Romans for ‘street food’ Welsh within the town walls over the winter of 1294-1295. ROME: Grabbing something a risk Emperor Augustus (63 BC was to keep happy a capital of to 20,000 citizens — free men over Roman-era figs. The much-lauded “It’s a huge honour to take hot and tasty on the move? You to 14 AD) was unwilling to take. one million people — the biggest 17 years old. “Mediterranean diet” began here: up the role of town jester — have the ancient Romans to He made importing wheat, oil and in history before the industrial Egypt’s role was later passed on Broad beans, peas, lentils and there aren’t that many around,” thank. “Street food” was their other foodstuffs a top priority, revolution hit London. to the empire’s African provinces, onions went in stews, with pine Erwood, a professional magician invention. changing the face of Roman dining. The key lay in turning con- with grain shipped from Carthage nuts, dates and almonds thrown in. and circus performer, said. Food on the go was an integral A typical day kicked off with quered Egypt into the empire’s in Tunisia to Rome’s Ostia port in Cumin, coriander, sesame and mint Erwood undertook his tri- part of daily life in the empire, the jentaculum, or breakfast— granary and ensuring wheat was just three days and nights. Oil and seeds were used to spice up dishes. als under the watchful eye of an from nibbling on salted peas while salted bread, dried fruit and transported cheaply to Rome all meat were also imported. The globalisation of foodstuffs executioner equipped with a large watching gladiators battle in the eggs washed down with milk. year round. Private ship owners The wealthy may have gone out seen in today’s supermarkets was medieval axe to administer justice Colosseum, to grabbing a sausage That was followed by a quick would carry up to 500 tonnes of of the way to impress with exotic already in action, with oil imported in case the postulant failed any of or fried fish snack after a dip in prandium, or lunch. And after wheat between Alexandria and dishes, but the empire’s leaders from Andalusia, honey from Greece his tasks. Rome’s famed baths. an afternoon’s work or session Rome under the strict supervision were fond above all of fruit and and prized garum — the fermented “It was quite intimidating — he Feeding an empire of some 50 at the thermal baths, the rich of the state in an early example vegetables: Emperor “Tiberius fish sauce which drove Romans wasn’t a small chap,” Erwood said. million people was no mean feat, would throw sumptuous ban- of today’s partnerships between loved cucumber, while Augustus crazy — from Portugal. Erwood will sport a hood with as an exhibition in the Italian cap- quets. The rest of the popula- the private and public sectors, loved asparagus”, Rossini said. Food was such an impor- donkey ears as part of his tradi- ital sets out to show in conjunc- tion supped on fresh vegetables, Rossini said. Samples of carbonised foodstuffs tant commodity that Emperor tional 13th-century jester’s outfit tion with Milan’s 2015 Universal stews and, occasionally, meat. This made the emperor “the discovered during excavations at Diocletian, who ruled from 284 to when he attends official functions. Exhibition on the themes of food “The logistics deployed by the sole distributor of daily bread, the ancient town of Herculaneum 305, imposed price controls. But He will perform tricks around and agriculture, running until the Romans to feed themselves is fas- the only one responsible for the — destroyed along with Pompeii some dishes remained beyond the the town while putting on two end of October. cinating,” said Orietta Rossini, supply of provisions”. Augustus by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius household budget for some — with shows a day, three days a week Food scarcity could trigger curator of the Ara Pacis exhi- boosted his popularity by distrib- in AD 79 — re on display at the chicken a particularly expensive until August 29. uprisings or even topple leaders, bition, emphasising how hard it uting 35kg of wheat a month free exhibition, including wizened and rare treat. AFP AFP App could help people HitchBOT destroyed by vandals with schizophrenia WASHINGTON: HitchBOT hitchBOT’s fans will be dis- — the adorable hitch-hiking appointed, but we want them robot cobbled together from to be assured that this great LONDON: A “brain training” that computer-assisted train- household odds-and-ends — experiment is not over. For iPad game developed in Britain ing can help people with schizo- prematurely ended its sum- now we will focus on the ques- may improve the memory of phrenia overcome some of their mer travels across America, tion ‘what can be learned from patients with schizophrenia, symptoms, with better outcomes after being destroyed by this?’ and explore future adven- helping them in their daily lives in their daily lives. vandals and abandoned on tures for robots and humans,” at home and at work, research- This study, published in the side of a road, its crea- they wrote on their website ers said yesterday. the journal Philosophical tors said. www.hitchBot.me. Scientists at Cambridge Transactions of the Royal Society Envisioned as a social They added: “We have no University said tests on a small B, found that 22 patients who experiment to see if its kind interest in pressing charges or number of patients who played played the memory game made could trust humans, the talk- finding the people who vandal- the game over four weeks found significantly fewer errors and ing humanoid got its answer ised hitchBOT.” they had improvements in mem- needed significantly fewer — sadly — when it was found HitchBOT had what was ory and learning. attempts to remember the loca- dismantled and left for dead at described as a “yard-sale aes- The game, “Wizard”, is tion of different patterns specific a roadside in Philadelphia. thetic,” assembled for about designed to help so-called episodic tests. “Oh dear, my body was $1,000 from parts found in a memory — the type of memory They also improved their scores damaged,” the injured robot typical home or hardware store. needed to remember where you on the Global Assessment of wrote on its website over the The robot relied on the kind- left your keys several hours ago, Functioning (GAF) scale, which weekend. ness of strangers to get from or to remember a few hours later doctors use to rate the social, “I guess sometimes bad place to place. It was able to where you parked your car in a occupational and psychological things happen to good robots! strike up a conversation and multi-storey car park. functioning of adults. My trip must come to an can answer trivia questions by Schizophrenia is a long-term Importantly, the patients also end for now, but my love for consulting information using mental health condition that said they enjoyed the game and humans will never fade. Thank its built-in computers. causes a range of psychological were motivated to play it across you to all my friends.” And hitchBOT was able to symptoms, ranging from changes the eight hours of cognitive train- The little talking automaton tell the driver who gave it a lift in behaviour through to hallucina- ing. The researchers said this was had hitchhiked unscathed last when it was tired and in need tions and delusions. important, since lack of moti- summer across thousands of of recharging from a car’s ciga- While some psychotic symp- vation is a common feature of miles in Canada, and had tra- rette lighter. toms can be reasonably well schizophrenia. versed parts of Europe as well It had a certain shabby chic treated with medication, patients “We need a way of treat- without so much as a scratch. charm, with an an LED-lit smi- often still have debilitating prob- ing the cognitive symptoms of But it had travelled from ley face wrapped in a transpar- lems with memory and cognitive schizophrenia, such as problems only just north of Boston to ent cake saver set atop a plastic function, meaning they struggle with episodic memory, but slow Philadelphia — a distance beer pail, and had swimming to get back to work or stay in progress is being made towards of about 300 miles, covered pool noodles for limbs. education. developing a drug treatment,” in about two weeks’ time — Its feet were rubber boots There is increasing evidence said Barbara Sahakian from when it was torn asunder by and it sported yellow latex the department of psychiatry at unknown assailants. Pictures gloves — including one with Cambridge University. posted on the Internet showed its thumb permanently “This proof-of-concept study... various components of the extended to show it wanted demonstrates that the memory robot strewn on the ground, to catch a ride. game can help where drugs have damaged beyond repair. Although its travels are so far failed. (And) because the Researchers at Ryerson apparently over, “we wish to game is interesting, even those University in Toronto who remember the good times, patients with a general lack of devised the hitchBOT experi- and we encourage hitch- motivation are spurred on to con- ment, put the best possible face BOT’s friends and fans to do HitchBOT, a hitchhiking robot, waits for a passing motorist to pick it up, in tinue the training.” on the demise of their creation. the same,” the robot’s creators Marblehead, Massachussets, recently. REUTERS “We know that many of wrote. AFP Tuesday 4 August 2015 19 Shawwal 1436 Volume 20 Number 6512 Price: QR2

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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 Greek stocks plunge, banks hammered Battered economy threatens to sink further ATHENS: Greece’s stock mar- they would be forcibly converted more bank-share losses in the ket closed with heavy losses into a new drachma outside the next session. “Bank shares look yesterday after a five-week euro zone. The banks have been like they have more room to slide shutdown brought on by fears propped up by emergency money on Tuesday before bids emerge,” the country was about to be from the European Central Bank. said one fund manager, who dumped from the euro zone. Traders said they expected declined to be named. Bank shares fell 30 percent “It will take a few days for the before loss-limits kicked in to stop market to balance out.” Some investors selling any more. Pension reforms companies outperformed, mainly The main Athens stock index those with exposure abroad, ended down 16.2 percent, recov- from July although they still fell. ering slightly after plunging “Buyers emerged for non- nearly 23 percent at the open. It ATHENS: Greece and its bank stocks, blue chips like OTE was the worst daily performance lenders discussing a third Telecom and (gaming group) since at least 1985 when mod- multi-billion-euro bailout OPAP, which shows that there ern records began, including a deal have agreed that pension is buying interest out there,” 15 percent fall when Wall Street reforms will affect only those Zamanis said. crashed in 1987. who retired after the end of There were only nine gain- By contrast, the broad June, labour ministry officials ers, mainly small caps and with European FTSEurofirst 300 said. When creditors agreed in very small volume, exaggerating index was in positive territory July to negotiate a deal aimed the moves. One, furniture maker for the day. “The market tanked, at keeping it afloat and in the Dromeas SA, gained almost as expected,” said Takis Zamanis, euro zone, Greece committed to 29 percent after clinching a chief trader at Athens-based Beta implementing major reforms, ¤30m deal to supply European Securities. such as scrapping early retire- Commission offices. Banking shares, which make ment, by the end of October. Trading on the Athens bourse up about 20 percent of the Lenders want, for example, was suspended in late June as Greece index, were particularly an increase in the retirement part of capital controls imposed hard hit. The overall banking age to 67 from the nominal 62 to stem a debilitating outflow An EU flag flattering outside the Athens Stock Exchange yesterday. Greece’s stock exchange reopened with index was down to its 30 per- that falls significantly depend- of euros that threatened to col- a drop of more than 22 percent after a five-week shutdown imposed by the country’s debt crisis and capital cent daily limit. ing on the number of years lapse Greece’s banks and hurl the controls, with the nation’s outflow-hit lenders leading the way. All five shares comprising the worked and family status. indebted country out of the euro index - National Bank of Greece, The bailout, worth up to 86 zone. alive the threat of political and example, leaving the government Of this, the newspaper said, ¤10 Alpha Bank, Piraeus Bank, Attica billion euros (dollars), needs Since then, Athens has agreed economic instability. There is also and banks perilously short of bn was earmarked for an initial Bank and Eurobank - were locked to be settled by August 20 a framework bailout plan with concern that Prime Minister cash. A report on Sunday in the recapitalisation of Greek banks, down for much of the session at if Greece is to pay off debt its European Union partners in Alexis Tsipras may need to newspaper Avgi, which is close to ¤7.16bn to repay an emergency the limit with no buyers. of ¤3.5bn to the European exchange for stringent reforms call a snap election. Yesterday’s Syriza, said the government was bridge loan and ¤3.2bn to repay Greece’s banks have seen depos- Central Bank that matures and budget austerity. losses stemmed from a number seeking ¤24bn ($26.37bn) in a Greek bonds held by the European its severely depleted as Greeks that day. REUTERS But implementation of the of reasons. Negotiations on the first tranche of bailout aid from Central Bank and others. pulled out their euros for fear deal is some way off, keeping new bailout might bog down, for international lenders in August. REUTERS

Handmade fabric Egypt awards Industries Qatar’s H1 net five oil and gas concessions profit touches QR2.4bn DOHA: Industries Qatar (IQ), and moderate reduction in the worth $100m one of the region’s industrial fertiliser product prices driven giants with interests in the pro- by favorable market conditions CAIRO: Egypt has awarded duction of a wide range of pet- primarily for some of the key five oil and gas concessions rochemical, fertiliser and steel supplier markets. Sales volumes that are expected to bring in products delivered a net profit nevertheless were significantly up minimum total investments of of QR2.4bn for the first half of on last year as the group benefited about $100m, the oil ministry 2015 (H1, 15). by comparatively lower number said in a statement yesterday, The group recorded commend- of planned maintenance days in as the country seeks to boost able financial results across all the current year since most of investment in the key energy segments during the second quar- the group’s production facilities sector. ter following the strong recovery completed their planned and war- Egypt has gone from export- in petrochemical product prices ranty maintenance shutdown in ing energy to being a net energy and improved sales volumes 2014 resulting in a significantly importer and wants to boost local across all segments. The group higher maintenance days in the production to help the country also reported a strong year-on- first half of 2014. cope with its worst energy crisis year sales growth of 17.1 percent The QR2.4bn net profit deliv- in decades. as most of the group’s produc- ered for the period under review A consortium of the Emirati tion facilities were on extensive reflects a reduction of 14.6 per- firm Pacific and Malaysia’s planned and warranty mainte- cent, against the same period of Hibiscus Petroleum will explore nance shutdown during the first 2014. This reduction in net profit in the 68 sq km (26 square mile) half of 2014. was primarily driven by the Southeast Ras el-Ush concession IQ’s reported revenue for the reduced revenues resulting from in the Gulf of Suez, with a mini- period ended June 30, 2015 was the petrochemical product price mum investment of $68m, the QR 2.9bn, a modest decrease of deflation following the significant statement said. An Indonesian worker paints handmade sarong textile for export to Australia, France and Haiti at a work- 8.1 percent, over the first half of fall in global oil prices that started REUTERS shop in Banyuwangi located in eastern Java island, yesterday. The colourful fabric produced by small scale the previous year. However, on a to impact group’s products in late industries is popular for beach wear wrap-around. like-for-like basis, management 2014 and weaker fertiliser prices reporting revenue was QR 8.2bn, driven by favorable market con- a decrease of 4.8 percent, versus ditions primarily for some of the the same period of 2014. key supplier markets. Reported revenue for the sec- Net profit for Q2, 2015 was QR ond quarter was QR 1.6bn, sig- 1.5bn, up QR 0.5bn or 54.9 per- Oil sinks to 6-month low amid weak data nificantly up by 20.1 percent on cent on last quarter. This robust the last quarter, while manage- increase in the quarterly net NEW YORK: Oil sank to six- session, the rut accelerated as energy database. “But the gaso- $1.15, or 2.4 percent, $45.97. ment reporting revenue, assum- profit was aided by the strong months lows yesterday as slug- gasoline prices fell more than that line crack spread is also unrav- Gasoline was down more than ing proportionate consolidation, recovery in the product prices gish data out of the US and of crude. The supply glut aside, elling,” he said, referring to the 4 percent, narrowing its crack, or was significantly up by more most notably in the petrochemi- China, and bets for weaker traders pinned the latest losses difference between gasoline and spread, with U.S. crude to below than 16 percent. The quarter- cal segment and improved sales gasoline consumption after on sluggish US and Chinese data. U.S. crude prices, which sets the $26, the lowest in more than a on-quarter revenue improve- volumes in the petrochemicals tearaway demand earlier in US consumer spending profit margin for refiners. week. A Reuters survey last week ment was primarily driven by and steel segments. the summer, deepened losses in advanced at its slowest pace in Brent, the global benchmark showed oil output by the the improved product prices, As for the group’s current benchmark crude contracts. four months in June as demand for crude, was down $2, or almost Organization of the Petroleum notably in the petrochemical projects, Qatar Steel has opted Evidence of growing global for automobiles softened. Growth 4 percent, at $50.21 a barrel by Exporting Countries (Opec) segment and improved sales vol- to sell its 50 percent stake in oversupply and a stock market in Chinese manufacturing activ- 11:30 am. Brent’s session bottom reached the highest monthly umes in the petrochemical and the joint venture Qatar Steel collapse in China, the world’s ity, meanwhile, unexpectedly of $50.12 was the lowest since level in recent history in July. The steel segments. International to Qatar Mining largest energy consumer, have stalled in July as demand at home January 30. “The chart is looking survey showed Saudi Arabia and This year-on-year reduction in Company, the other joint venture weighed on oil for weeks, leading and abroad weakened. anything but constructive,” said other key Opec members keen revenue was primarily driven by partner. Qatar Steel will, how- in July to US crude futures’ larg- “Economic weakness has Fawad Razaqzada, technical ana- in defending market over crude a significant reduction in petro- ever, continue to be involved in est monthly decline since the 2008 set the tone,” said Matt Smith, lyst in London for forex.com, who prices, which are down 12 percent chemical product’s selling prices the project by providing technical financial crisis. director of commodity research expects Brent to test its January this year, after last year’s 48 per- following the oil price decline services and support. With August trading in its first at Clipperdata, a New York-based low of $45.20. U.S. crude was down cent rout. REUTERS that began in early Q4, 2014 THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 4 AUGUST 2015 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Migrants crisis bites into British business Freight disruption costing British economy £250m a day, says trade body LONDON: The disruption to getting their goods to market,” whole length of Britain, not just National Party in power in of Small Businesses said that in our operations.” freight between Britain and said Katja Hall, deputy director- in the southeastern corner closest Edinburgh has used the situation the majority of their members Companies have felt forced to mainland Europe caused by general of the Confederation of to France. to pile the pressure on British affected by the disruption were implement emergency measures, strikes and illegal immigration British Industry, the nation’s big- The devolved Scottish govern- Prime Minister David Cameron in manufacturing, wholesale and such as chartering aircraft at is starting to hurt British busi- gest employers’ body. ment held an urgent meeting in London. retail trade, and construction. great expense. nesses, from luxury English car The disruption is costing the Monday aimed at finding alter- “The delays, damage and uncer- The key automobile sector has Logistics solutions firms have manufacturers to Scottish sea- British economy £250m ($390m) native export routes for its sea- tainty caused by the lack of safe been affected, with Rolls-Royce, seen a boost in business, among food exporters. a day in lost trade, according to food industry, which has been hit and timeous passage through the whose factory is at Goodwood them Evolution Time Critical, Industrial action and delays the Freight Transport Association particularly hard. Tunnel is costing the sector mil- near the English south coast, which works with the automobile caused by migrants massed at trade body. Scotland exported £461 million lions of pounds every week and among those feeling the impact. industry. the French port of Calais are The freight industry alone of seafood products to mainland placing future markets in jeop- “The situation regarding “We have provided customers taking a toll on the other side of is losing £750,000 a day due to Europe last year and the sector is ardy,” Scottish First Minister incoming parts and materials with increased levels of support the Channel, with thousands of trucks being stuck on the British particularly concerned given how Nicola Sturgeon wrote in a letter has been challenging, and as a with critical deliveries in order trucks queueing up at England’s side of the Channel, not to men- quickly perishable seafood is. to Cameron. consequence we have had some to maintain uninterrupted pro- southeastern tip for ferry and tion the loss of perishable goods, The situation is particularly “Seafood exports are almost five disruption to production,” said a duction as supply chains were freight shuttle rail services. said the FTA. Several are switch- tough for shellfish and other times as important to Scotland as spokesman for Rolls-Royce Motor disrupted due to the congestion “While clearly hampering ing to longer routes and other seafood exporters to continen- to the UK as a whole, therefore Cars, a subsidiary of Germany’s in Calais,” Brad Brennan, direc- holidaymakers, the disruption at forms of transport to get their tal Europe, more so than for this impact is disproportionately BMW. tor-general of the firm based in Calais also has an economic impact goods to continental Europe. Scotland’s famous salmon indus- severe in Scotland,” the national- “However, as a luxury manufac- England and Germany, said. as exporters are being delayed The effect is being felt the try. The secessionist Scottish ist leader added. The Federation turer, we have inherent flexibility AFP

Robot suit Gulf markets edge up after sell-off; Egypt soft

DUBAI: Major Gulf stock mar- kets edged up yesterday after Sunday’s sell-off but Saudi European shares rise Arabia lagged because telecom- munications operator Mobily LONDON: European shares rose yesterday, shrugging off a tumbled following yet another slump for the Greek stock market when it reopened after a five- negative earnings restatement. week shutdown, as strong results from Heineken and banks sup- The main Saudi index edged up ported the broader market. The pan-European FTSEurofirst 0.2 percent, having dropped 3.2 300 index rose 0.7 percent to 1,583.52 points. The euro zone’s percent in the previous session. blue-chip Euro STOXX 50 index gained 1 percent, Germany’s Petrochemicals giant Saudi Basic DAX advanced 1.2 percent and France’s CAC 0.8 percent. Industries was the main support, However, Athens’ benchmark ATG equity index dropped by about rising 1.3 percent after falling 3.9 16 percent, led down by shares in the country’s major banks. percent on Sunday in response to Trading was suspended in Athens in late June as part of capi- a fresh drop in oil prices. tal controls imposed to stem an outflow of euros that threatened Another heavyweight, Saudi Greece’s banks’ survival and risked pushing the indebted country out Arabian Mining (Ma’aden) , of the euro zone. Since then, Athens and the European Union have jumped 3.5 percent and almost agreed a bailout plan in exchange for stringent reforms and budget fully recovered from Sunday’s austerity. But implementation of the deal is some way off, keeping sharp decline. But Etihad Etisalat alive the threat of political and economic instability. An employee of Japan’s Daiwa House Industry demonstrates the robot suit for construction worker Hybrid (Mobily), the kingdom’s most Nevertheless, the impact of Greece on the rest of Europe has Assistive Limb (HAL), produced by Japanese robot venture Cyberdyne, in Tokyo, yesterday. traded stock on Monday, tumbled been mitigated by economic stimulus measures from the European 7.4 percent to 31.30 riyals, its low- Central Bank, whose record-low interest rates and liquidity have est close since mid-2009. helped prop up European equities. Mobily last week restated “A lot of overseas investors have stopped paying too much atten- results for 2013-14 and the first tion to Greece,” ACIES Asset Management hedge fund manager and Nigerian banks name and shame quarter of 2015, slashing total principal, Andreas Clenow, said. “The ECB’s measures are helping profits over the period by nearly to limit the negative fallout from Greece.” 1.76bn riyals ($470m) in its latest Heineken shares rose 5.6 percent after the drinks company’s attempt to resolve an accounting second-quarter results beat expectations. bad debtors in newspapers scandal. The firm, whose shares “The make-up of the results is consistent with our argument of had been suspended since June, why Heineken is on a sustainable trajectory of margin growth,” RBC LAGOS: Nigerian commercial collapsed and as the stock market GT Bank published 4.02 billion also posted a net loss of 900.9 mil- Capital Markets analyst, James Edwardes Jones, said in a note. “Both lenders listed hundreds of bad turned sour, triggering a near col- naira of bad loans, the major- lion riyals for the second quarter brand and product mix look to be contributing.” REUTERS debtors in full-page newspa- lapse of eight commercial banks. ity of which were owed by local of this year. per adverts on Monday, under Fidelity Bank, Skye Bank, trade unions, civil servants and Mobily’s latest results were orders from the central bank Zenith Bank, Enterprise Bank, businesses. unaudited, however, and they did quarterly profit would be 817 mil- 0.9 percent as Qatar Insurance aimed at avoiding a repeat of an Sterling Bank, Stanbic IBTC “This is an action taken by the not appear to clear up uncertainty lion dirhams and Naaem broker- surged 5.1 percent to a new all- industry bailout that cost the Bank and Guaranty Trust Bank banks supported by the central about the company among many age had expected Dh1.09bn. time high of 106.10 riyals, ris- government $4bn six years ago. (GT Bank) published as required bank,” said Ibrahim Muazu, a investors. Some analysts cover- Islamic mortgage lender Amlak ing above its July peak of 102.50 The move follows the expira- the names of those who owed spokesman for the central bank, ing the stock have suspended Finance, the second most traded riyals. The stock gained strong tion of a three-month time limit money, along with details of the who added that naming and their performance and fair value stock, slipped 0.5 percent to 2.14 momentum in May when index issued by the central bank in sums outstanding. shaming bad debtors would occur estimates for Mobily pending the dirhams after tumbling 8.5 per- compiler MSCI added it to its April for bad debtors to square up The sharp fall in the glo- on a quarterly basis. release of detailed and audited cent in the previous session. emerging markets benchmark. their accounts or be identified in bal price of oil, Nigeria’s main The move to name those owing financial statements. The stock is still more than However, the company last month Nigerian media, as well as barred export, triggered a currency crisis large sums is part of a raft of Other Gulf markets did slightly 100 percent up since it resumed posted a 9.1 percent decline in net from currency and government in Africa’s largest economy and measures introduced by the cen- better although none of them fully trading in June after a six-year profit for the first half of this year. debt markets. strained government’s finances, tral bank in an attempt to steady recovered Sunday’s losses as oil suspension and a debt restruc- Egypt’s bourse fell 0.9 percent The central bank asked com- while also harming the cashflow the economy. Last month it lim- prices continued to fall yesterday. turing. Many analysts believe and, according to bourse data, mercial lenders to publish of some companies with foreign ited importers’ access to dollars, Dubai’s index edged up 0.4 per- the stock may be overvalued, most selling pressure came from bad loans of 50 million naira currency loans. in order to save its reserves. cent and Emaar Properties, the and oil’s fresh drop may now be Arab retail investors. But Emaar ($251,320) and more that were Fidelity Bank published 6.13 Since then, commercial lend- emirate’s biggest listed developer, encouraging some speculators to Misr, the local unit of Dubai’s more than 365 days old, the time billion naira of bad loans and said ers have stopped accepting cash was the most traded stock, rising cut their exposure. Abu Dhabi’s Emaar Properties, which had limit after which it considers it had a total of 21 billion naira deposits in dollars to discourage 1.3 percent. The company posted index edged up 0.6 percent and slipped early in the session after money to be lost. of non-performing loans, around speculation on the naira, which a 16 percent increase in second- Aldar Properties, that emirate’s announcing the departure of two In 2009, the central bank res- 15 billion naira of which remains has fallen as low as 242 against quarter profit to 1.18 dirhams top developer, climbed 1.5 percent senior executives, turned around cued several banks that had lent unpublished. Others also pub- the greenback in the last few ($321 million) on Sunday. SICO ahead of its earnings announce- and edged up 0.3 percent to 3.43 mainly to the oil and gas sec- lished outstanding loans worth weeks. Bahrain had forecast Emaar’s ment on Tuesday. Qatar added pounds. REUTERS tor shortly before crude prices billions of naira. REUTERS

Subaru set to announce profit Emaar Misr’s IPO buyback offer heavily oversubscribed CAIRO: Shareholders of back 15 percent of the shares at are not happy with the IPO per- Egyptian property developer the initial IPO price 30 days after formance they would like money Emaar Misr submitted a total the shares went into circulation, returned. So this is a way to keep of 487.317 million shares to be which was on July 5. retail investors happy,” he said of bought back by the company yes- The stock has performed poorly the buy-back offer. terday, more than five times the since its flotation, with the price “I think ... they were jumping 90 million shares Emaar Misr closing trade on Monday at 3.43 ahead a little because other [prop- agreed to re-purchase a month Egyptian pounds, up 0.3 percent erty development] companies after the company’s stock began on the day but 9.74 percent below such as Palm Hills and SODIC trading on the Egyptian bourse. its IPO price. are further along in developing Emaar Misr, a unit of Dubai’s The valuation of Emaar Misr their projects than them,” said Emaar Properties, sold about 13 was “a bit on the high side” with Angus Blair, chairman of busi- percent of its shares and raised the flotation affected by the qui- ness and economic forecasting 2.28bn Egyptian pounds ($291m) eter market during the month thinktank Signet. Also, two sen- in an initial public offering in of Ramadan, said Harshjit Oza, ior executives, Chief Development June which priced at 3.8 Egyptian property and banking analyst at Officer Walid El Hindi and Chief pounds per share. It was the Naeem Brokerage. Investment Officer Ahmed largest offering on the Egyptian “Here in Egypt about 60 or 70 Fathallah, resigned on Sunday Cars of the automobile maker Subaru await exports at a port in Yokohama, south of Tokyo. Subaru is expected exchange since 2007. percent of investors are retail “to pursue new opportunities”, to release first quarter earnings this week. The company offered to use investors and their goal is just to Emaar Misr said in an emailed its price stabilisation fund to buy make money quickly, so if they statement on Sunday. REUTERS TUESDAY 4 AUGUST 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 HSBC exits Brazil as group profit falls British banking giant to sell unit to local group

HONG KONG: HSBC has said in a statement. Chief execu- Shares in HSBC were up 0.78 agreed to sell its Brazilian tive Stuart Gulliver added that percent at 584.20 pence in after- business to local group Banco it “achieves both a solid financial noon deals on London’s FTSE 100 Bradesco, the British bank- outcome and swift delivery of one index, which was flat overall. The ing giant announced yesterday of our stated actions”. bank faces uncertainties in the alongside news of a fall in net In the first half of 2015, net second half of the year, according profits. profit dropped 1.3 percent to to Jackson Wong, associate direc- Profit after tax fell 3.8 percent $9.74bn, although the company tor for Simsen Financial Group. to $4.36bn (¤4.0bn) in the sec- emphasised a rise in pre-tax prof- “A lot of things could hap- ond quarter compared with the its, which climbed 10 percent in pen. For one, the (slowdown) of same period last year, said HSBC, the first six months of the year. the Chinese market could have which is selling the Brazilian unit “HSBC reported better than an impact on the world banking for $5.2bn to slash costs. expected mid-term results,” said system. The Asia-focused lender, which analyst Francis Lun, boss of GEO “Also, by the end of this year we is looking also at potentially Securities. “Pre-tax earning was should be able to know whether switching its headquarters away something like 10 percent up from they will relocate their headquar- from Britain, added that it had last year. It represents a signifi- ters from London” with Hong put aside further funds to cover cant improvement,” he said. Kong seen as a strong possibility, potential costs linked to ongoing HSBC is also mulling the he added. HSBC yesterday said A man walks past an HSBC bank branch in Sao Paulo, Brazil, yesterday. Brazilian Banco Bradesco SA agreed to probes into a series of scandals. relocation of its London head- it was “co-operating with the buy HSBC Holdings Plc’s Brazilian unit for $5.2bn, narrowing the gap with larger rivals while boosting its base of Sale of the Brazilian unit mean- quarters, with the review due relevant authorities” over sev- affluent customers in Latin America’s largest economy. while comes after Europe’s big- to be completed by the end of eral investigations in the United gest bank announced in June that the year. States and elsewhere. foreign exchange markets. around the world dodge taxes probe over the affair. “There are it would cut its global workforce The bank says it has been hit It added that a further $1.14bn In February, it was forced to on accounts containing ¤180bn many factors that may affect by up to 50,000 as it also exits hard by the British government’s provision was put aside for regula- apologise for “unacceptable” fail- ($204bn) between November 2006 the range of outcomes, and the Turkey. banking sector levy, which cost tory settlements, including almost ings at its Swiss division following and March 2007, in cases that resulting financial impact, of The sale “represents a signifi- it $1.1bn in 2014. And it argued $800m for the forex probes. allegations that the unit helped are being investigated in several these investigations and reviews, cant step in HSBC’s stated goal that state plans to scrap the levy HSBC was already fined late rich clients hide billions from the countries. which could be significant,” the to optimise its global network and would be offset by higher corpora- last year by US and British taxman. It has faced a storm over Separately, the Asia-focused bank said yesterday. reduce complexity”, the company tion tax for the sector. regulators for attempting to rig claims that it helped clients from lender is facing a French criminal AFP

Oman boosts oil production German car makers to buy Nokia map service to record high FRANKFURT: German independence of this central Navteq in 2008), but that was a car makers BMW, Audi and service for all vehicle manufac- long time ago. Back then they Mercedes-Benz have teamed up turers, suppliers and customers paid too much but now the price in June to buy digital mapping service in other industries,” Daimler is reasonable,” equity strategist DUBAI: Oman has ramped up HERE for 2.8 billion euros ($3.1 chief executive Dieter Zetsche Kristian Tammela of Nordea its oil production to a record billion) from Nokia, the Finnish added. Bank Finland said. high in June, adding to a glo- telecoms group said yesterday. Nokia paid $8.1bn in 2008 for Mikael Rautanen of equity bal supply glut that has hit oil The sale “should be concluded US digital map provider Navteq, research firm Inderes said it prices, as the Gulf Arab country in the first quarter of 2016,” Nokia one of the firms that merged to was the right acquisition at the compensates for the drop in its said in a statement, adding that create HERE, a direct competi- right time for the German car oil revenue. it expected net proceeds from the tor of Google Maps. The German makers. June production reached deal of just over ¤2.5bn. acquisition deal had been in the “It is a good deal and above all 992,700 barrels per day of crude The three German luxury car works for months. strategically important for them. oil and light oil condensate, the makers, which were already cli- Although much less famil- The biggest threat for them was highest ever according to official ents of HERE, said in a separate iar to consumers than its rival, that HERE would be sold to records going back to 2002. It pro- statement that they would hold HERE has a solid list of industrial Silicon Valley. They don’t want duced an average of 975,000 bpd in equal shares in what would be an and Internet clients including to be dependent on players like May. The sultanate is under pres- unprecedented type of partner- Facebook and Amazon. Its maps Google or Microsoft,” Rautanen sure to pump more oil to make up ship in the sector. are used by four out of five cars in said. He noted that digital serv- for the drop in the price. It hopes “HERE is laying the founda- Europe and North America with ices are transforming the car to boost its crude oil production tions for the next generation of integrated GPS. market. by 5 percent to 1 million barrels mobility and location-based serv- Nokia, the former number one “In future carmakers won’t dif- per day in 2015. Brent crude oil ices,” they said, adding that the in the mobile telephone sector, fer from each other so much by was trading around $51 a barrel technology would eventually be aims now to focus on network their motor or by their design but on Monday, down from $115 a bar- used in self-driving cars. equipment and is working on a rather by the services that come rel in June last year. The companies touted HERE’s return to the handset business, with their cars, let alone driver- The drop in crude prices has maps of nearly 200 countries in which it sold to Microsoft in 2013. less cars which will very quickly hit hard. Oman posted a budget more than 50 languages as being In mid-April Nokia struck become a part of everyday life,” deficit of 1.50bn rials ($3.90bn) in able to use “swarm intelligence” a ¤15.6bn deal to buy its rival Rautanen said. the first five months of this year, to provide constant updates on Alcatel-Lucent to create the London-based IHS Automotive swinging from a 232.9m rial sur- hazards such as icy roads, acci- world’s biggest supplier of mobile said the acquisition could spur the plus a year earlier, finance minis- dents and traffic jams. phone network equipment. establish a “de facto standard” in try data showed on Sunday. The joint acquisition, which will It also expects to finalise that the industry, spurring high-tech Oman is a small independent have to be approved by competi- deal in the first half of 2016. The development. producer, not in Opec, but its tion authorities, is aimed at main- controversial taxi app Uber told “The consortium model has crude forms part of the bench- taining HERE’S products and The New York Times in May many benefits for the industry, mark price for millions of barrels services “as an open, independ- that it had made a $3bn offer for including the ability to combine per day of exports from Middle ent and value-creating platform” HERE. Analysts said Nokia could resources to secure and continue East producers to Asia. In 2013, in the automotive industry and be happy with the final sale price. developing a long-term strategic Oman exported an estimated beyond, the car makers added. “Nokia paid a very high price resource,” it said in a statement. A close-up image showing Nokia’s Here Maps app on a Nokia mobile phone 833,400 bpd of crude oil and con- “We want to secure the for the service then (by buying AFP with Windows operating system. densate, of which nearly 60 per- cent went to China, according to the US Energy Information Administration. Iran resumes gas Austrian court snuffs out Creditors of Dubai’s Drydocks flows to Turkey planned e-cigarette curbs World select Moelis as adviser DUBAI: Iran has resumed gas VIENNA: Austria’s e-cigarette retailers exhaled in relief after a exports to Turkey after the flow constitutional court overturned a planned amendment to tobacco DUBAI: Creditors of Drydocks economic backdrop to renegoti- in the wake of the financial crisis. was halted last week, Iran’s oil laws that would have limited the sale of most products to officially World, the Dubai govern- ate a debt restructuring agreed Drydocks has changed its ministry news agency reported licensed tobacco shops. ment-owned company seek- after the 2009 financial crisis. leadership in recent months; yesterday. The director of dis- The government had proposed that sales of e-cigarettes be limited ing to revise part of a $2.3bn Drydocks World’s parent com- Dubai World board member patching at National Iranian to the Alpine republic’s licensed tobacconists from October to protect debt restructuring deal which pany, Dubai World, earlier this Abdulrahman Al Saleh replaced Gas Company said on Sunday young people and for public health reasons. it signed in 2012, have chosen year revised the terms of $14.6bn Khamis Juma Buamim as chair- that the pipelines had been Specialist sellers of e-cigarettes objected because they would have Moelis & Co as their adviser, of debt. Moelis has experience of man in March. fixed and gas flow had resumed, been allowed only to sell re-usable devices, but not the liquid to fill sources familiar with the mat- debt refinancing in the region, Saleh’s experience in helping Shana reported. them or disposable cigarettes. ter said. having previously advised Dubai steer Dubai World through its On July 28, the pipeline was The court ruled yesterday however, that the proposed amendment The selection of the New York- World on its initial debt restruc- restructuring and his position attacked in Turkey’s eastern was unconstitutional, saying that the health arguments put forward based advisory company should turing in 2011. as director-general of the Dubai province of Agri, halting the flow. were not solid enough to justify blocking the retailers’ right to trade open the way to Drydocks offer- As reported in March, Department of Finance and Iran is the second biggest natural freely and that e-cigarettes should not be treated the same as other ing a proposal to creditors, a Drydocks is likely to ask for an chairman of the Dubai Financial gas supplier to Turkey. tobacco products. move expected to happen later extension on at least part of an Support Fund, the fund formed in The world’s third-largest con- “We are relieved that we can carry on our business and don’t have this quarter, with a view to clos- $800 million tranche of restruc- 2009 for struggling state-linked tainer shipping group, France’s to shut up shop,” said Thomas Baburek, head of e-cigarette association ing a deal as early as the end of tured debt, which is due to companies, was seen as a sign of CMA CGM, said yesterday it VFFED and owner of an e-cigarette shop. the fourth quarter, said one of the mature in August 2017, according deeper involvement by the gov- would resume operations to Iran Austrian supermarkets, restaurants, cafes and petrol stations are sources. Citigroup has already to Thomson Reuters data. ernment in Drydocks, said the following the deal between Tehran also allowed to sell cigarette products, but at a higher price than in been picked by Drydocks as an Any proposal could involve sources. and world powers over the Middle the officially-licensed tobacconists. adviser, the sources said, as pre- Drydocks receiving an injection The Department of Finance Eastern country’s nuclear pro- Many experts believe e-cigarettes, which heat nicotine-laced liquid viously reported by other media. of capital from the Dubai gov- declined to comment. In another gramme. “Following the recent into an inhalable vapour, are a lower-risk alternative to smoking but Moelis, Citigroup and Drydocks ernment, said the sources. The change to the company’s leader- positive developments involving opponents say they could encourage young people to take up regular all declined to comment. money would help recapitalise ship, C S Kim, who has experience Iran and the P5+1 Group, CMA cigarettes. The marine engineering the company or cover some of working at a major South Korean CGM Group has decided to Austrian tobacconists responded by saying such products should not group is the latest United Arab the debt owed to creditors, one shipyard, is now president and resume service to Iran starting be allowed to be sold in an uncontrolled manner, “as though at any flea Emirates company seeking to of the sources added. Dubai’s gov- chief operating officer, accord- (at the) beginning August 2015,” market,” according to comments reported by the APA news agency. take advantage of low interest ernment extended billions of dol- ing to the company’s website. it said in an email. REUTERS REUTERS rates and a generally healthier lars to cash-strapped companies REUTERS TUESDAY 4 AUGUST 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS VIEWS

‘Star Trek’ economy: Do we This recovery is really want an economic utopia?

BY NOAH SMITH

grew up watching “Star Trek: The Next Generation” (easily different from others the best of the Star Trek shows). There’s one big, obvious thing missing from the future society depicted in the program. I No one is doing business. There is almost no one buying and BY BARRY L RITHOLTZ of the data. “More than a half- War II recession recoveries are including equity (average of 55 selling, except for a few species for whom commerce is a form of percentage point worse than the wrong frame of reference; percent) and housing prices traditional religion. Food and luxuries are free, provided by “replica- alling this the “worst the next-weakest expansion” is the proper one is the much more (average of 35 percent). They tors” -- machines capable of creating essentially anything from pure economic expansion an enormous, Bob Beamon-like severe set of credit-crisis col- also noted that banking cri- energy. Recreation, provided by virtual reality, is infinite in scope. since World War II” is smashing of the earlier record. lapses and recoveries. ses are followed by “profound Scarcity -- the central defining concept of economics -- seems to like saying the ebola To better understand this data Economists Carmen M declines in employment.” This have been eliminated. virus is the worst cold requires some context, which Reinhart and Kenneth S Rogoff is in line with the rise in the Is this really the future? Is it possible? Is it something we want? Cyou ever had. At some level you today’s column will provide. figured this out before the scale US unemployment, rate, which Periodically, economists and economics writers struggle with this might be technically correct, First, the specifics: By just of the crisis even was apparent. increased from about 4 percent question. Back in 2013, Rick Webb and Matt Yglesias theorized but you end up communicat- about every economic metric, In January 2008 they published to 10 percent. that as society gets richer and richer, capitalism and free markets ing confusing, even misleading, this has been a mediocre, sub- a paper titled “Is the 2007 US Other elements they saw as will still exist, but will simply recede into the background. Others information. par recovery. Sub-Prime Financial Crisis So consistent with credit crises have described Star Trek not as a socialist paradise, but as a lib- This keeps coming up, despite For the first few years fol- Different? An International were an explosion of government ertarian one. A writer named Manu Saadia is even writing a book a wealth of evidence that pro- lowing the end of the reces- Historical Comparison.” They debt, and costly “ambitious coun- about the topic. vides more appropriate context sion in June 2009, employment warned that the US subprime tercyclical fiscal policies aimed So let’s think about the economics of Star Trek. What we’re about the crash and subsequent increased slowly. mortgage issue was turning into at mitigating the downturn.” really thinking about is how to get to economic utopia. It’s an recovery. A column in Real Wages to this day have been a full-blown credit crisis, not just Let me remind you that important question. Time Economics is typical of little changed. Retail sales have a typical recession. Reinhart and Rogoff published The first thing to consider is how to distribute the fruits of plenty. the genre: been inconsistent; housing has The economic researchers their paper in early 2008 --before If we can harness renewable energy to ward off a collapse when Since the recession ended seen sales numbers, while price were astute enough to not use Bear Stearns collapsed, and fossil fuels run out, then it’s a good bet that increased automation, in June 2009, the economy has increases have been a function other recession-recovery cycles well before Lehman Brothers, virtual reality and other technological advances will provide us advanced at a 2.2% annual pace of a lack of inventory caused by as their comparison when dis- American International Group, with a world of plenty unimaginable in previous times. Current through the end of last year. limited amounts of home equity cussing the pace of growth in the banks and government- US annual gross domestic product per capita, in purchasing power That’s more than a half-per- and immobility as a consumer the US economy after what sponsored entities Fannie Mae parity terms, is only about $13,000- - enough to put food on the centage point worse than the try to reduce debt. they said would be a collapse and Freddie Mac either failed table and a roof over one’s head. What happens when it is $100,000, next- weakest expansion of the The context is simple: When caused by subprime mortgages. or needed bailouts. or $200,000? past 70 years, the one from 2001 we discuss expansions, we typi- Instead, they suggested looking I give them enormous credit It would seem ridiculous to limit this incredible plenty to a few through 2007. cally are referring to the later at five previous financial crises for not only understanding people. When the world gets rich enough, a trivial tax on the rich While there have been highs half of a typical economic con- -- Japan (1992), Finland (1991), how subprime mortgages were would be enough to provide everyone on Earth with a basic income and lows in individual quarters, traction-expansion cycle. That is Sweden (1991), Norway (1987) a threat to the economy, but that would allow them to lead lives of leisure. Or, as Yglesias sug- overall the economy has failed what is typically referred to as a and Spain (1977). seeing exactly how that threat gests, voluntary giveaways by the rich could support the rest, since to break out of its roughly 2% post-recession recovery. These earlier financial and would manifest itself, and how we might get more altruistic as our lives become more comfortable. pattern for six years. However, that huge outlier credit crises had several con- the subsequent recovery would Who cares if the robots put us all out of a job, when we can create The key that something is is a clue that we are using the sistent elements: A prolonged take form. paradise with just a tiny dash of redistribution? wrong is in the outlier status wrong data set. The post-World and deep decline in asset prices, BLOOMBERG Of course, this depends crucially on the number of humans being limited. As economist Thomas Malthus pointed out in the 19th century, exponential population growth will eventually bring back scarcity no matter how rich we are. Fortunately, it looks like that won’t be a problem -- global fertility rates are converging to replacement level, meaning that world population will level off. It is unlikely that a population bomb will threaten the leisure society. There is also the problem of the dignity of work -- people enjoy feeling needed. But human values change over time, and there seems no obvious reason why people couldn’t get their self-worth from artistic self-expression, or from hobbies. This is the basic Star Trek future. But actually, I think that the future has a far more radical transformation in store for us. I predict that technological advances will actually end economics as we know it, and destroy scarcity, by changing the nature of human desire. In economics, a core assumption is that desires and motivations are fixed, and that our actions are merely attempts to fulfill those desires -- that, to quote 18th century Scottish philosopher David Hume, “reason is…only the slave of the passions.” But desires and motivations come from the brain, and the brain can be hacked and modified with technology. Someday -- perhaps sooner than we think-- we will be able to change what we want. Reason will no longer be the slave of the passions; instead, the two will do an eternal, elaborate dance, as we constantly decide what kind of people we want to be. That will have huge ramifications for human society. Some people will doubtless choose to simply be satisfied and happy all the time, like MDMA (“Molly”) users but with no risk of drug tolerance or addiction. But these people won’t be the ones who choose to be productive. The people out there exploring the stars -- the people on the bridge of the starship Enterprise -- will be the ones who want to be explorers, who choose to be restless and never satisfied. If they are not born with the requisite motivation, they will use advanced technology to implant it in themselves. In other words, the rise of new technology means that all the economic questions will change. Instead of a world defined by scarcity, we will live in a world defined by self-expression. We will be able to decide the kind of people that we want to be, and the kind of lives we want to live, instead of having the world decide for us. The Star Trek utopia will free us from the fetters of the dismal science. BLOOMBERG Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate Detroit should put hackers behind the wheel

BY EDWARD small box that allows entry into magnifies issues raised in last the transportation safety agency, place on their “Wall of Fame” to repairs; hacking and coding are NIEDERMEYER all vehicles equipped with GM’s month’s inspector general audit, having done such a poor job with researchers who find and share the 21st century equivalents to OnStar connectivity suite. which found the regulator woe- mechanical liabilities over the vulnerabilities. fiddling with a carburetor, the hile the self-driving As worrisome as these displays fully underequipped to cope with last few years, is any match for Adapting crowdsourcing to sort of homespun innovation that car has been touted of technological infiltration were, new high-tech safety challenges. hackers? their security regimes might trickled upward in Detroit’s glory as the inevitable the corporate and regulatory That NHTSA failed to find the Perhaps, rather than pushing even help automakers rethink days. Wfuture of the auto- response has been even scarier. defect is unsurprising -- it is woe- an already-overworked agency their entire approach to defects Most of the industry even mobile industry, the idea of giving In filings to the National Highway fully short of information security into a new and profoundly com- and safety concerns. As we have gives lip service to the idea that up the wheel to a software pro- Transportation Safety Board, experts -- but its after-the-fact plex area, the auto industry can seen in recent scandals, they cars are “the ultimate electronic gram still makes plenty of people Jeep’s parent company, Fiat handling of the problem marks approach the hacking threat the hoard proprietary knowledge device,” yet automakers’ support anxious. Yet a couple of recent Chrysler Automobiles, admitted it as a flailing institution. Fiat way the technology business does. about their products, using this for copyright law tamps down the incidents demonstrate that these that people involved in its supply Chrysler brought the vulner- To find hidden vulnerabilities in informational monopoly to con- kind of enthusiastic engagement fears of lost control are already chain knew as early as January ability to the agency on July 15, their code, technology firms offer ceal defects. that makes the consumer elec- being realized, well before robots 2014 about the fundamental vul- saying it would issue a safety bul- bounties to “white hat” hackers, This would mean more than tronics sector so exciting. actually start taking the wheel. nerability that allowed the hack. letin rather than a full recall. The effectively crowdsourcing their just bounties for the white hat If automakers embrace the Instead of living in fear of a (On the heels of a record- break- NHTSA pressured the automaker security efforts. Given the com- crowd: as the Electronic Frontier hacking community and nurture hacked planet, this new challenge ing $105m NHTSA fine for fail- into a full recall a week later, on plexity of modern software and Foundation argues, automak- a culture of openness and collabo- should be seen as an opportunity ing to act sufficiently in 23 other the day the Wired story broke. high demand for those qualified to ers will have to rethink their ration, they might even begin to to improve safety regulation for recalls, Fiat’s lengthy delay in Via Twitter, the agency’s com- test its weaknesses, the NHTSA copyright claims with regard generate new forms of passion today as well as tomorrow. dealing with the Jeep’s techno- munications director told me the may never have manpower to to vehicle code, as their zealous and engagement in younger gen- The first was a staged dem- logical weakness raises renewed Wired story was a “factor, but not effectively regulate automo- protections chill the kind of inde- erations, which are far less enam- onstration set up by Wired questions about the firm’s safety central to the decision.” tive hacking vulnerabilities. The pendent research that was a “fac- ored of cars than their parents. magazine to show the ease with practices.) When the OnStar This pattern of automakers bounties themselves would be tor” in NHTSA’s decision to force As autos become even more which hackers can get take over vulnerability was revealed, GM dragging their feet on defects cheap by auto industry stand- a recall last week. software-dependent -- and by the dashboard: a driver cruis- issued a response that “an imme- and regulators struggling to ards, potentially reduce regula- Embracing the challenge of Audi’s estimate, 50 percent of the ing along at 70 miles an hour in diate fix is being implemented,” keep up is creating an atmos- tory compliance costs, and even car hacking will not be easy, but industry’s value creation will be a Jeep Cherokee suddenly found but the researcher behind the phere around auto safety simi- generate positive public rela- a progressive approach could pay in software by 2020-- the com- his air-conditioning, radio and hack insisted that the system was lar to the dark days of the 1970s tions. Currently, Tesla is the huge dividends for automakers. panies that make them will have windshield wipers all going hay- still vulnerable. (remember the Ford Pinto?), even only automaker actively engag- Cars have become so computer- to start thinking and acting more wire. Days later, a researcher Meanwhile, the safety board’s as cars themselves become safer ing the hacking community, hav- ized that software is critical to like software firms. announced that he had created a handling of the defects only than ever. Who really thinks that ing offered cash bounties and a hot-rodding and many vehicle BLOOMBERG TUESDAY 4 AUGUST 2015 MARKET www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

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Doping claims will harm Doping test results show reputations and earnings, says Kipchoge athletes’ health at risk NAIROBI: London Marathon winner Eliud Kipchoge fears the reputation and earnings Some of the readings were ‘downright dangerous’, one expert says of Kenyan runners will be hit by fresh doping claims in the media, including allegations KUALA LUMPUR/ former Olympic medal winners SYDNEY: Some of the read- had suspect blood readings. ings from athletes’ blood tests Britain’s Sunday Times news- leaked by a whistleblower for a paper and German broadcaster report exposing suspected dop- ARD/WDR said they were given ing were so extreme they were access to the results of more than “downright dangerous”, one of 12,000 blood tests showing more the experts cited in the report than 800 athletes had given blood said yesterday. samples that were “highly sugges- “There are real questions to be tive” of doping or “abnormal”. Of asked if there is no action taken, the 800, reports suggest 77 were particularly for the results taken Kenyan athletes. post-2009,” said Robin Parisotto, According to the Sunday Times, an inventor of the test used to 18 of Kenya’s Olympic and world detect the blood doping agent championships medals won from EPO. “Some of the values in these 2001-2012 were won by athletes athletes were so extreme that with suspicious blood-test results. they were downright dangerous ARD/WDR on Saturday aired and the risks to their health were documentary in which a hid- indisputable.” den camera purportedly showed The head of world athlet- Kenyan athletes being injected ics defended the International with performance enhancing Association of Athletics drugs. ARD also alleged corrup- Federations’ (IAAF) anti-doping tion among Kenyan officials who record as global sporting bodies wanted to cover up doping by the called for a thorough probe into runners. the latest allegations to plunge Kipchoge said the expose indi- international sport into crisis. cates there is some substance to That followed a report by the cheating allegations. “That Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper tells me that there is something and Germany’s ARD/WDR broad- fishy in Kenya,” he said. caster on Sunday that they had “It will seriously affect Kenyan obtained from a whistleblower athletes endorsements in major secret IAAF data that indicated races and marathons given that suspected widespread blood dop- we have been banking on a good ing in athletics between 2001 and name abroad. It’s really bad.” 2012. For some of the top Kenyan In an interview, Australian athletes sponsorship deals can be Parisotto, one of two scientific as lucrative as prize money, espe- experts cited in the reports, cially for long-distance runners said more than 800 athletes had who compete in only a handful of recorded one or more “abnormal” races every year. results, defined as a result that Participants talk before the start of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Symposium for Anti-Doping Organizations in Lausanne, in this March 24 Dozens of Kenyan athletes have had less than one chance in 100 file photo. failed drug tests over the past few of being natural. years, casting a shadow over the Such athletes accounted for 146 track and field’s showpiece world International Olympic with new techniques that some- the allegations had “nothing to do success of Kenyan athletics. medals at top events, including 55 championships in Beijing, the Committee (IOC) President one doped etcetera, etcetera then with Russia” and they reflected a Athletics Kenya (AK) has golds, the Sunday Times said. reports claim endurance runners Thomas Bach told reporters yes, otherwise no.” power battle ahead of the IAAF dismissed the latest reports as Parisotto noted that not all the suspected of doping had been on Monday he had spoken to The reports also come weeks leadership vote. a smear campaign against the abnormal results necessarily indi- winning a third of the medals at the World Anti-Doping Agency before a new IAAF president Russia accounted for 415 abnor- country’s famed middle and long- cated doping, as factors such as Olympic Games and world cham- (WADA) head Craig Reedie and will be elected, with Britain’s mal tests, followed distantly by distance runners ahead of this the timing of tests, altitude and pionships in that period. had full confidence in that body to Sebastian Coe and Sergey Bubka Ukraine, Morocco, Spain, Kenya, month’s Beijing world champion- testing conditions could have led The reports did not say that investigate the claims thoroughly, of Ukraine bidding to replace the Turkey and others. “A remarkable ships, where Kenyan runners are to some suspicious outcomes. any athletes had failed doping adding the IOC would act with retiring Diack. 80 percent of Russia’s medal win- favourites for many of the events. “But there were values that tests, only that the tests had been “zero tolerance” if there should Earlier, US anti-doping agency ners recorded suspicious scores at “The unwarranted claims on were ... quite extreme and even abnormal, which can sometimes be a case involving results at an chief executive Travis Tygart said some point in their careers,” the the Kenyan athletes are delib- taking into consideration con- be a sign of cheating. Olympic Games. an “aggressive review” was needed Sunday Times said. erately aimed at derailing the founding factors, there was really The allegations are the latest “But at this time we have noth- to protect clean athletes. WADA The allegations concern tech- preparations and the participa- no disputing what that data was setback to tarnish the multi-bil- ing more than allegations and we has said it was “very disturbed” niques to improve the ability of tion of the Kenyan team in the telling us,” he said. lion dollar world of sport after the have to respect the presumption by the reports. blood to carry oxygen, which can World Championships,” AK said In response to the reports, scandal at soccer’s global govern- of innocence for the athletes,” he The IAAF noted that the give an advantage in endurance in a statement on Sunday. IAAF President Lamine Diack ing body, FIFA. said. Medals won could be affected reports were based on confiden- events like cycling or running But Kipchoge questioned why said: “There are allegations made, Athletics are a central part of if any cases of doping were sub- tial information obtained without over medium and long distances. the claims kept resurfacing if no evidence. We want to look into the Olympics, the only sporting sequently unearthed using newer permission. The Sunday Times and ARD they were false. “If doping doesn’t them seriously because to say that event that rivals soccer’s World testing techniques that did not A heavy preponderance of the said they were given access to the exist then why should people talk in athletics between 2001 and Cup in scale and which collects exist at the time. “abnormal” results were from results of more than 12,000 tests about (it)? There is something 2012 we did not do a serious job billions of dollars from sponsors “I do not know what we are Russian athletes, according to of more than 5,000 athletes taken going on that we are not told,” with tests is laughable.” like Coca-Cola , Panasonic, Visa dealing with,” Senegal’s Diack the media reports. Russian sports between 2001 and 2012. said Kipchoge, a silver medallist Coming only weeks before and McDonald’s. said. “It is possible if we discover minister Vitaly Mutko has said REUTERS at the 2008 Olympics. REUTERS Pirates notch testy triumph over Reds Hosszu sets 200m

CINCINNATI: A late-game for the hosts in a game that also Pittsburgh medley world record shoving match that saw both saw pushing and shoving erupt in benches and bullpens clear Pirates the eighth. KAZAN, Russia: Hungary’s and Commonwealth collection. served only to slow down the starting Toronto pitcher Aaron Sanchez Katinka Hosszu (pictured) Ross Murdoch, of Britain, won Pittsburgh Pirates’ 3-0 triumph pitcher was ejected after hitting shortstop underlined her status as the bronze. over the Cincinnati Reds on Gerrit Cole Alcides Escobar with a pitch, and leading all-round swimmer Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom set Sunday. throws Toronto manager John Gibbons with a world record in the her second world record in 24 It wasn’t the only testy encoun- the ball was also ejected. women’s 200 metres individual hours in coasting to the women’s ter in Major League Baseball on against the The teams had been warned medley at the world champion- 100 metres butterfly title. Sunday, with a bench-clearing Cincinnati in the first inning after Royals ships yesterday. Sjostrom’s time of 55.64 sec- incident punctuating the Blue Reds in pitcher Edinson Volquez hit Josh Hosszu, the 2014 world swim- onds broke her previous mark Jays’ 5-2 victory over the Kansas the first Donaldson. mer of the year, clocked two of 55.74, set in the semi-finals on City Royals in Toronto. inning at Donaldson was convinced minutes 6.12 seconds as the Sunday when she became only In Cincinnati, Pirates right- the Great Volquez threw at him intention- 26-year-old not only defended the second woman to dip below hander Charlie Morton pitched American ally, and thought that set the her title but shaved 56 seconds. seven shut-out innings and Ball Park in stage for further fireworks in the 0.03 seconds off the She held off Nordic second baseman Neil Walker Cincinnati game. previous mark set rival Jeanette Ottesen, smacked a solo home run to pace “He’s a little baby,” Volquez by American Ariana who claimed silver in on Sunday. the Pittsburgh. responded. “We don’t play that Kukors at the 2009 57.05 seconds. The visitors were already up counterpart Sean Rodriguez In the ninth inning, Pirates game.” AFP world championships. Florent Manadou of 3-0 when Pirates relief pitcher exchanged heated words and play- closing pitcher Mark Melancon Japan’s Kanako France claimed gold in Tony Watson hit Reds second ers from both teams again faced was ejected after hitting the Reds’ Watanabe took silver, the men’s 50m butter- baseman Brandon Phillips with a off. Tucker Barnhart. Baseball Results 2.33 seconds behind fly, touching in 22.97 Toronto 5 Kansas City 2 pitch in the eighth inning. No punches were thrown, Pirates manager Clint Hurdle, Hosszu, while Britain’s seconds to beat Brazil’s The incident — after Reds but Reds manager Bryan Price who was also tossed, said Pittsburgh 3 Cincinnati 0 Siobhan O’Connor Nicolas Santos. hurler Pedro Villarreal plunked acknowledged that a string of hit Melancon wouldn’t have inten- Miami 5 San Diego 2 claimed bronze. Mitchell Larkin Pirates center fielder Andrew batsmen had contributed to ten- tionally walked Barnhart in that Tampa Bay 4 Boston 3 Britain’s Adam of Australia will be McCutchen in the top of the sion between the National League situation. Detroit 6 Baltimore 1 Peaty secured his first favourite to take the inning — saw players from both Central division rivals. “For the life of me, I know Atlanta 6 Philadelphia 2 world title in the men’s 100m men’s 100m backstroke title after teams pour onto the field spoiling “There is always something in Mark would not put the tying run backstroke after a whirlwind qualifying fastest for Tuesday’s Chicago Cubs 4 Milwaukee 3 for a fight. the air,” Price said. “The constant to the plate in a save situation,” 12 months on the international final, so too compatriot Emily Cincinnati center fielder is we both pitch inside. It speaks Hurdle said. Seattle 4 Minnesota 1 scene. Seebohm who advanced to the Marlon Byrd wrestled briefly with to the success of our pitching “They (umpires) felt they had NY Yankees 12 Chi White Sox 3 The 20-year-old world record women’s 100m backstroke with Pittsburgh pitcher Joe Blanton — staffs. When you pitch inside, to do what they had to do follow- Houston 4 Arizona 1 holder claimed gold from the fastest time. who had hit Byrd with a pitch in guys are going to get hit. There ing the altercation.” St Louis 3 Colorado 2 Cameron van der Burgh of South American Ryan Lochte pro- Saturday’s game between the two is a lot of testosterone. It’s just In Toronto, Blue Jays first base- Texas 2 San Francisco 1 Africa in 58.52 seconds, overtak- duced a superb performance teams. baseball.” man Chris Colabello belted a two- Oakland 2 Cleveland 1 ing the Olympic champion in the to qualify fastest for the men’s Things had appeared to calm Rodriguez, Byrd, and Reds first run homer in the fourth inning final three strokes to win by 0.07 200m freestyle final. LA Dodgers 5 LA Angels 3 down when Cincinnati third base- baseman Joey Votto were ejected and right-hander R.A. Dickey seconds and add to his European REUTERS man Todd Frazier and his Pirates from the contest. pitched seven shut-out innings NY Mets 5 Washington 2 TUESDAY 4 AUGUST 2015 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Tennis: Isner BD defend monsoon Tests beats ailing Baghdatis to South Africa and Bangladesh share the two-match series hit by rains win Atlanta DHAKA: Bangladesh’s cricket chiefs yesterday defended the South African title again decision to host South Africa’s captain Hashim Test series in the monsoon NEW YORK: Top seed John months of July and August, Amla (left) and Isner cruised to his third con- saying no other dates were Bangladesh secutive Atlanta Open title available. skipper when he beat hobbled Marcos The two-Test series ended in Mushfiqur Baghdatis in straight sets in the an inevitable 0-0 draw after the Rahim pose final on Sunday. last two days of the first match in with the trophy Isner took almost exactly Chittagong were washed out and at a ceremony an hour to dispose of Cypriot four out of five days’ play in the after the fifth Baghdatis 6-3, 6-3 on a hot after- second game in Dhaka were lost day of the noon on the outdoor hardcourt in to bad weather. second cricket Georgia. South African captain Hashim Test match The tall American used his big- Amla said he was frustrated at between the gest weapon, dropping just three being part of what he called a two sides at the points on serve, to secure his 10th “bizarre” series. Sher-e-Bangla ATP title. “This is one of the most bizarre National Cricket It was hardly a fair fight, Test series I have been involved though, because Baghdatis’s Stadium in in,” the usually unflappable Amla movement was hampered from Dhaka yesterday. said. “I don’t think I have played the start by what he said later a series where out of 10 days, six The second was an old abductor injury that days have been rained off.” Test between flared up. The monsoon season, which South Africa Baghdatis got slower as the usually starts in mid-June, and Bangladesh match progressed and an injury accounts for 80 per cent of the ended in a draw time-out after the first set did country’s annual rainfall. in Dhaka after not help matters. He barely went Last year the Bangladesh bad weather through the motions in the second Meteorological Department washed out play set but did not forfeit the match. recorded over 45,000 millimetres on the last four “I didn’t want to win like that,” (1,771 inches) of rain across the days. Isner, 30, said at the on-court vic- country from June to August. tory presentation. “I hope you’re Unfortunately, the Dhaka Test back healthy and back on tour in also coincided with cyclonic storm just a little bit. You’re a class act Komen in the Bay of Bengal, “This was the only available slot Mushfiqur Rahim appealed to official rankings, although the When the final day’s play at and I enjoyed playing you today. which made landfall on the coun- we got from the South African teams to visit his country between rankings themselves remained the Sher-e-Bangla stadium was “I feel at home on this court. I try’s east coast on Friday and board,” Chowdhury said. October and May. unchanged. called off yesterday morning, the play so well here.” brought heavy rain. “We had communicated to “We always want to play the big Top-ranked South Africa sun was shining brightly but the Fifth seed Baghdatis, in his A one-off Test against India them the rain factor. But there teams during our cricket season,” dropped five points, closing outfield was too wet from the ear- first final since 2011, apologised in Chittagong in June was also was no alternative. If we did not he said. “But they are usually busy the gap with other contenders. lier drenching to start play. to the crowd. abandoned after rain washed out host them now, we would have then. Bangladesh gained six points but Play was possible only on the “That’s not the way I wanted nearly nine of the 15 sessions of had to wait till 2023.” “The more we play them, the continued to languish in ninth first day of the match when to finish a tournament but my play. As for India, Chowdhury added more we will learn.” place, just above Zimbabwe. Bangladesh, who won the toss body couldn’t handle it today so Bangladesh Cricket Board CEO that arranging to host them was Fans will be relieved that Luckily, the weather did not and elected to bat, scored 246 for I’m really sorry I couldn’t com- Nizamuddin Chowdhury said the toughest job for any country. Australia’s two Test matches in have the final say in the one-day eight. pete 100 percent but I tried my the tight international schedule “We all know how busy the Bangladesh this year will be held series, where Bangladesh defeated The lone bright spot in the best,” he said. of both India and South Africa Indian team is,” he said. “So we in relatively rain-free October. both India and South Africa by match was fast bowler Dale Steyn He later told reporters he forced his board to hold Test had no choice but to play them The two washed-out Tests 2-1 margins to enhance their becoming only the second South had been battling the injury series for the first time during in June.” against South Africa meant a growing reputation in the shorter African after Shaun Pollock to since before the ATP event in the monsoons. Bangladesh’s Test captain revision in points that determine formats. claim 400 Test wickets. AFP Nottingham, England, in June, where he forfeited his semi-final. “I played five matches this week Bradman’s - the good thing is that it’s noth- ing serious,” Bangladesh relatives’ The 30-year-old, a losing final- ground staff ist at the 2006 Australian Open, remove unease with has not won an ATP event since the covers 2010. REUTERS as they prepare expanded ATP Tour Rankings the field for 1 (1) Novak Djokovic(Serbia) play during museum 13845 the fourth 2 (2) Roger Federer SYDNEY: Relatives of day of the (Switzerland) 9665 second Australian cricket legend Donald Bradman have revealed 3 (3) Andy Murray (Britain) cricket 7840 Test match simmering tensions with a foun- 4 (4) Stanislas Wawrinka between dation that bears his name, dis- agreeing with the expansion of a (Switzerland) 5790 Bangladesh museum celebrating his life. 5 (5) Kei Nishikori (Japan) 5525 and South The Bradman Museum, in Africa at 6 (6) Tomas Berdych (Czech the cricketer’s boyhood home- Republic) 5140 Sher-e- town of Bowral south of Sydney, 7 (7) David Ferrer (Spain) 4325 Bangla became the Bradman Museum National and International Cricket Hall of 8 (9) Marin Cilic (Croatia) 3495 Cricket Fame in 2010, a move his family 9 (10) Rafa Nadal (Spain) 3410 Stadium in believe he would not have wanted. 10 (8) Milos Raonic (Canada) Dhaka. “He wanted (the Bradman 3400 Museum) to be a small local 11 (11) Gilles Simon (France) entity,” his son John Bradman 2765 told the Australian Broadcasting 12 (12) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Corporation in a programme to (France) 2475 air later today. “And of course it is now greatly 13 (13) Richard Gasquet expanded in ways that he would (France) 2150 England veteran Bell ready for not have supported.” 14 (15) Kevin Anderson (South The Bradman Foundation, Africa) 2090 which was established in 1987 15 (14) David Goffin (Belgium) with the support of the cricketer 2045 and owns a range of his trade- Australia backlash in 4th Test marks, defended the decision, WTA Tour Rankings saying they wanted it to remain 1 (1) Serena Williams (US) 12721 BIRMINGHAM: England batsman Ian average of 20.84 in seven incredible support as a team, but as a local relevant. 2 (2) Maria Sharapova (Russia) Bell (pictured) expects Australia to come Tests this year. But rather player I felt like when I walked out to bat in “We had to ensure it could 6490 back “hard if not harder” in the fourth than drop him, England’s particular on day one it was the best applause engage with new audiences and 3 (3) Simona Halep (Romania) Ashes Test at Trent Bridge after an embar- selectors promoted Bell I’ve ever got in my career, and I felt that the we were also in an era where the 5151 rassing loss at Edgbaston. to number three in place whole crowd was with me and desperate for game of cricket was evolving at a Bell, returning to form, made two fifties on of Gary Ballance, left out me to do well.” rate that far exceeded anything in 4 (4) Petra Kvitova (Czech his Warwickshire home ground as England after an equally poor run Some of the gloss of England’s win was Sir Donald Bradman’s time,” the Republic) 5000 beat Australia by eight wickets inside three of form. taken off by a side injury to James Anderson foundation’s executive director 5 (5) Caroline Wozniacki days to win the third Test and go 2-1 up in Bell, who responded which ruled him out playing at Trent Bridge Rina Hore said. “And we needed (Denmark) 4910 the series. with innings of 53 and - a ground where the paceman has enjoyed to ensure that we had global 6 (6) Ana Ivanovic (Serbia) 3765 It was fine recovery by Alastair Cook’s side 63, said the speculation phenomenal success in Test cricket. international content so that our 7 (7) Agnieszka Radwanska after England suffered a 405-run thrashing in about his place had been But while losing their all-time leading visitors that came to this museum (Poland) 3560 the second Test at Lord’s. liberating rather than wicket-taker is a setback, Bell said it was could see their own heroes.” 8 (8) Lucie Safarova (Czech That match saw Australia bounce back from burdensome. always unlikely that England would get Bradman’s granddaughter Republic) 3515 a convincing 169-run loss in the first Test in “When things started to through the series with an unchanged attack. Greta Bradman said the cricket- Cardiff. get to that point where people were saying this And having seen how fast bowler Steven er’s family members “don’t expect 9 (9) Garbine Muguruza Blanco Such has been the see-saw nature of this might be my last Test match, I actually got Finn took a Test-best six for 79 at Edgbaston, others to necessarily feel the same (Spain) 3320 campaign that 33-year-old Bell, a veteran of into a simpler, much better mindset,” he said. after replacing the injured Mark Wood for way or feel as strongly as we do”. 10 (10) Carla Suarez 113 Tests, refused to take anything for granted “I was going to go out there and give it abso- his first match at this level since 2013, Bell “But if you can imagine a loved Navarro(Spain) 3285 when the fourth match in the series starts lutely everything and what will be, will be.” was confident one of the back-up seamers -- family member and having no 11 (12) Karolina Pliskova (Czech at Nottingham’s Trent Bridge ground on Bell, who at one stage had scored just 45 including the fit-again Wood -- could shine in control over their name or their Republic) 3210 Thursday. runs in seven innings added: “It’s been really Anderson’s absence. likeness, and having it used in 12 (11) Ekaterina Makarova “We fully expect Australia to come back tough. You go in and out of form, and some- “(In the 2010/11 Ashes, which England won a way that you know would be (Russia) 3160 hard, if not harder,” Bell told BBC Radio Five’s times you don’t know where the next run’s 3-1) we lost (Stuart) Broad quite early in the profoundly not okay with that 13 (14) Timea Bacsinszky Sportsweek programme. coming from and I honestly did feel like that series and it gave Tim Bresnan an opportunity, individual -- it’s just something (Switzerland) 2925 “We have to front up again like we did (at at times.” it gave Chris Tremlett an opportunity. that we can’t live with.” Bradman, Edgbaston),” he added, with England yet to The Warwickshire stalwart said the sup- “We were never going to win this series widely considered the greatest 14 (13) Angelique Kerber win two Tests in a row in 2015. port from his home crowd had helped end his with just 11 players, it was going to be a squad cricketer of all time, retired in (Germany) 2790 Bell’s position was called into question after personal slump. effort and that’s what experience tells me.” 1948 with a Test average of 99.94. 15 (15) Venus Williams (US) two low scores at Lord’s left him with a meagre “It’s nice to come to Edgbaston, we’ve had REUTERS He died in 2001 aged 92. AFP 2597 TUESDAY 4 AUGUST 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25 Unknown Merritt takes With British Open in the bag, Park looks first PGA win at National for new goals SEOUL: South Korea’s Park Regardless of the debate, Park Scrambling Tiger Woods makes strides with solid week In-bee had once hoped to win said she had achieved the “great- all the top tournaments in est goal as a professional golfer”. women’s golf before her career “I always thought this would GAINESVILLE, USA: came to an end. After winning be the last goal of my career,” American Troy Merritt, who the British Open on Sunday, she told Korea’s Yonhap news missed the cut in his prior five the 27-year-old now finds her- agency. “I am honoured to my starts, shot a four-under par 67 self searching for new goals. have my dream come true when on Sunday to win the Quicken Park’s three-shot win over I’m this young.” Loans National and capture his compatriot Ko Jin-young at ‘The Silent Assassin’ was at first PGA title. Turnberry gave her a seventh her stoic, unruffled best in south The unheralded 29-year-old major championship and con- Ayrshire as Scotland’s wind and held off US star Rickie Fowler firmed her status as one of the rain battered the players over and Swede David Lingmerth greatest players of all time. four difficult days. over the back nine, closing with She needs just three more While the testing course and a 35-foot birdie putt to become majors to join greats Annika brutal conditions saw play- the 10th first-time winner on the Sorenstam and Babe Zaharias ers recording eights and nines, US PGA Tour this season but the at fourth on the all-time list, with Spaniard Beatriz Recari first in the history of the National. and is almost halfway to the 15 even carding a 10 in the second “When it happens, you’re not achieved by the legendary Patty round, Park kept her composure thinking,” Merritt said of his Berg between 1937 and 1958. throughout and never scored breakthrough win moment. “You The Seoul native has now worse than bogey. really don’t even know what your won six of the last 14 majors “This week with the win and name is. I was just really happy.” and will be looking to cap a ter- the rain it was so tough mentally World number 180 Merritt, rific season with victory at the and physically,” she added. “But who fired a tournament-record year’s last major — the Evian I feel like I’ve received a great 61 on Saturday, finished 72 holes Championship. gift. I am so happy I can’t fully at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club Park won the tournament in express it with words.” on 18-under 266 for a three- its previous incarnation as the Park, who will be vying for a stroke victory over Fowler with Evian Masters before it became spot on South Korea’s team for Lingmerth third on 270. the LPGA’s official fifth major the 2016 Rio Olympics, said the “I really made some golf shots two years ago. level of talent being produced coming in, battled all the way to While the LPGA has said back home meant she had to the end,” Merritt said. “In true winning any four of the five keep improving. Rickie fashion he never gave up. majors is enough to earn the “It’s a huge driving force for It’s great to battle a great player ‘career grand slam’, with all five me,” she said. “We produce so all the way to the end.” Troy Merritt lifts the Quicken Loans National trophy at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville on Sunday. earning a ‘super slam,” many many young players every year. England’s Justin Rose, the observers say Park has not tech- They all want to come and play 2013 winner, shared fourth on Ryo Ishikawa was another stroke Tuesday after weeks of frustra- to par at a PGA event since the nically achieved the career slam in the LPGA, and their time will 272 with New Zealand’s Danny back in 10th. tion and it paid instant ben- 2013 BMW Championship. since her Evian win came before come. Lee, Sweden’s Carl Pettersson Merritt, whose best prior fin- efits, qualifying him for his first “Felt like I made some big it was afforded official major “It’s the reason I have to keep and Americans Bill Haas, Justin ish was second at Memphis last major in two weeks at the PGA strides,” Woods said of the week. status. playing better.” REUTERS Thomas, and Jason Bohn. Japan’s year, tweaked his putting stance Championship. “It was a mixed bag as far as “You just don’t give up,” Merritt results but the fact I had total said. “You keep grinding.” control of the golf ball was nice.” Lingmerth, who won his Woods, a 14-time major cham- first PGA title in June at the pion, has slumped to 266th in Memorial, and Fowler, who won world rankings due to injuries the Players Championship in May and swing changes. He has 79 and the Scottish Open last month, career PGA Tour titles, three shy each shot 69s. of Sam Snead’s all-time record, Fowler birdied five of the last but has not won a title since the eight holes but made bogeys on 2013 World Golf Championships four of the seven before that, his Bridgestone Invitational and has charge too little and too late. not won a major since the 2008 “I was able to rally and make US Open. some birdies coming in but really Haas birdied six of the first 10 disappointed with how I went holes to seize a share of the lead out,” Fowler said. “Nice to kind with Merritt, who opened with a of turn things around. Had to at birdie, added another at the par-5 least scare Troy a little bit.” fifth and another at the seventh. Tournament host Tiger Woods But Haas had four bogeys in five birdied five of the first 10 holes, holes starting at the 12th to fall including a 42-foot birdie putt at out of contention, leaving Merritt the par-3 ninth, but then made to hold on. He took a bogey at 12 bogeys on three of the next four. but was three feet from the cup to South Korea’s Park In-bee wipes away tears as she holds the winner’s He answered with an eight-foot birdie the par-3 16th. Fowler sank Tiger Woods walks off the 10th green during the final round of the Quicken trophy on day four of the Women’s British Open Golf Championships birdie putt at 17 but settled for a a 23-foot birdie putt at 18 to pull Loans National at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Virginia, in Turnberry, Scotland, on Sunday. on Sunday. 68 to share 18th on eight-under within two but Merritt topped 276, his lowest 72 holes in relation him to win in dramatic style. AFP

Juventus’ new Indigenous star set to play signing Khedira Stallions leave for on after racism controversy ruled out for Sri Lanka this week

SYDNEY: One of Australia’s raised homemade signs including two months DOHA: After a very success- professional cricket umpires asso- most high-profile indigenous “Love Goodes, racism bad” and ful tour of England in 2014, ciation of Sri Lanka. sportsmen is set to play on, his “Adam Goodes! We applaud & MILAN: Juventus’s new sign- Qatar’s leading cricket academy, The tour will start in Colombo coach said yesterday, with Adam respect you”. ing Sami Khedira will miss the Stallions CA, will embark on with a coaching session under Goodes (pictured) humbled Swans players ran into the first two months of the season its second international cricket the guidance of some of the top by the support received after stadium through a massive ban- with a thigh injury, the Serie A tour to Sri Lanka on August 7. coaches from Sri Lanka who persistent booing of him was ner emblazoned with the word champions said yesterday. The tour is scheduled to be for have represented the Sri Lankan slammed as racist. “RESPECT” as the team’s chair- Khedira was injured during 10 days from August 7 to 17 dur- national team. The Australian Rules football man Andrew Pridham slammed a pre-season friendly against ing which time they intend to play The Stallions will play matches star, a former Australian of the Goodes’ critics in a pre-match Olympique Marseille on Saturday, more than 20 games and a tour- in Colombo, Kandy and Dambulla. Year, ruled himself out of an AFL speech. the German’s first appearance nament against quality opponents The last day of the tour will be fixture last weekend, sparking Many believe the jeering was for Juventus since his move from from Sri Lankan schools, clubs marked with a grand awards cer- fears he may call it quits after racially motivated and stemmed Real Madrid in June. and academies. emony to acknowledge the top being the target of a barrage of from Goodes’ reaction after The injury is the latest blow The tour party consist of performers during the tour. boos throughout this season. being called an ape by a 13-year- to Khedira who barely featured more than 100 participants that “Our tours are aimed at pro- “I spoke to Adam late yester- old spectator at the Melbourne for Real in the second half of last includes 50 players who are play- viding the best possible playing day afternoon and he’s intend- Cricket Ground in 2013. season. ing in the Under-10, Under-12, experience to the players which ing to come and train tomorrow The abuse intensified after he Real cited a series of nagging Under-14 and Under-16 age would teach them many practical and be available for selection this performed an Aboriginal war injuries but Khedira said the club groups. lessons of life both on and off the week,” Sydney Swans coach John dance during a match in May. had decided he was no longer The teams will be managed field whilst providing them the Longmire told reporters of the Longmire said he expected wanted. by Stallions senior coaches opportunity to explore the world, Aboriginal player, who had been social media, #IStandWithAdam, Goodes, widely seen as one of Khedira helped Germany reach ManojArthanat, AshanPerera, enhance their knowledge, get given indefinite leave. quickly gained momentum. the game’s best-ever players, to the World Cup final last year, Chris Yue, Sachin Kanvinde, closer to the nature and expand “He was incredibly humbled by Australians posted messages be available for Saturday’s away only to miss the game against Shivani Mishra and head coach their imagination as our ultimate the support he received over the of support and photographs of clash with Geelong Cats, although Argentina after he was injured Sidath Tennakoon during the goal is to provide the platform for weekend. themselves with Goodes’ play- his place in the side will not be in the pre-match warm-up. tour. the youngsters to become quality, “I don’t think he had intentions ing number 37 on Twitter, in a confirmed until later in the week. Leicester sign Frenchmen The talented youngsters from skillful and responsible individu- to watch the (Swans) game, but campaign backed by Australian “If he puts himself up and he’s Kante and Benalouane Qatar who have won Qatar’s als with well-rounded personali- he ended up watching the final Hollywood celebrities Cate ready to play and he thinks he’s Leicester City have signed mid- Inter-Academy Under-14 tour- ties,” said Sidath Tennakoon, the three quarters and couldn’t Blanchett, Hugh Jackman and mentally and physically right to fielder N’Golo Kante from French nament this year will be given a head coach of the Stallions. believe the amount of support Hugo Weaving. play, I’d imagine that he will be Ligue 1 side Caen, and Atalanta tough test in Sri Lanka, which The main sponsors of the tour that he had,” he added. On Saturday a season-high playing,” Longmire said, adding defender Yohan Benalouane, the will help them immensely to are Doha Bank, Olympic Sports, “We as a football club are just crowd of almost 40,000 people at that he hoped the Cats fans gave Premier League club announced enhance their skills. Roma Transport and Trading incredibly grateful for the amount the Sydney Cricket Ground raised him a respectful reception. yesterday. The players will get the oppor- Company and Kanoo Shipping of support from the football their voices in unison to cheer the “An atmosphere that you Kante, 24, is a Frenchman of tunity to play in top interna- Services. The co-sponsors are community.” absent Goodes in an emotionally appreciate one of the greats Malian descent who was part of tional grounds such as Dambulla Malabar Gold, Lulu Hypermarket, Australia’s race discrimina- charged game between the Swans that’s played the game and you the Caen team that gained pro- International Stadium, Asgiriya Mr Cricket, Al Harib Security tion commissioner said last week and the Adelaide Crows. are watching him run around,” motion to Ligue 1 in the 2013-14 International Stadium and many Systems, Ultimate Trading and the abuse of Goodes, 35, had gone The stadium was dotted with Longmire said. season. Leicester’s website said other quality grass grounds. Contracting, Al Majid Jawad Co beyond sport and become a blight Aboriginal flags and fans wear- “It’s all Adam would expect as Kante’s contract was for four All matches will be officiated and Jaidah Motors. on the country, and a campaign on ing the number 37, while others well.” AFP years. AGENCIES by qualified umpires from the THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 4 AUGUST 2015 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Terry brushes off Arsenal’s Community Shield success Chelsea captain confident of team’s domination in upcoming season Gary Cahill Arsenal can LONDON: Chelsea captain John Terry has warned Arsenal that their Community Shield challenge for victory over the champions will count for nothing once the real action starts in the Premier title: Cahill League this weekend. Jose Mourinho’s team were well LONDON: Chelsea defender below their best as Alex Oxlade- Gary Cahill feels Arsenal could Chamberlain’s first-half strike mount a strong challenge for the gave Arsenal a 1-0 win in the Premier League title, follow- prestigious pre-season friendly ing the champions’ 1-0 defeat at Wembley on Sunday. to their bitter rivals in the Arsenal’s vibrant performance Community Shield at Wembley added to the growing sense that on Sunday. the north Londoners, who were “They’ve started well, they’ve already on a high after winning got a good squad and I think last season’s FA Cup, are ready they’ll be one of many push- to mount a sustained bid to wres- ing at the top this season,” the tle the title away from Stamford 29-year-old was quoted as saying Bridge. on Chelsea’s website (www.chel- But Terry sees it differently seafc.com). and, asked if the result should be Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain’s taken as an early indication of a goal after 24 minutes was switch in the balance of power, enough to seal a first win in 14 the former England defender said: attempts for Gunners boss Arsene “I don’t think so. It’s one of them Wenger against counterpart Jose where they (Arsenal) will prob- Mourinho. ably come up and say differently. Chelsea’s John Terry and Branislav Ivanovic look dejected after their team’s Community But according to Cahill, there But win or lose I don’t think you Shield loss to Arsenal at Wembley Stadium on Sunday. RIGHT: Arsenal Per Mertesacker (left) was not much to choose between can say that. celebrates with the trophy with team-mates after their 1-0 victory over Chelsea. the London rivals. “It’s disappointing to lose, of “Let’s be fair, the game’s been course, because it’s the first tro- won on a piece of individual play phy of the season, but it’s gone in their Premier League opener. the match with a recurrence of a Mourinho to criticise Arsenal for win the title for the first time to smash it in the top corner, but now. “Listen, it hurts. It doesn’t mat- hamstring injury – will be a prob- abandoning their attacking phi- since 2004 – provided they avoid chance-wise we had the majority “You look at the positives from ter if it’s a friendly,” he said. lem given the underwhelming dis- losophy – is the key to defeating the kind of sluggish start that of the play,” the England defender it. I thought we were on top if “Whether it’s against my kids or plays of stand-in Loic Remy and the big guns. proved so costly last year. said. anything.” anything, it’s horrible to lose. new boy Radamel Falcao. “I think we’ve learnt over the “It was important for us to Wenger also gave an Arsenal While the Community Shield “That’s the mentality I was “Diego’s a top player so he years how to play against the big- carry on the good form we are in debut to Chelsea legend Petr will be an afterthought by the brought up with. It’s the same would be missed in all sides, but ger teams now. Sometimes you at the moment,” Ramsey said. Cech, who switched between the time the major prizes are handed with the manager. That’s the atti- we have three great strikers and have to sit in and invite them “You can definitely sense some- clubs during the summer. out in May, Terry is such a tude he demands on a daily basis. they will all be fighting,” Terry on and get them on the counter- thing has clicked, but we have to “He was part of the fixtures and driven character that the sight “We’ve not lost many at said. attack,” Ramsey said. get off to a good start because we fittings at Chelsea so it’s strange of Arsenal’s players lifting the Wembley, so it could be a bless- Meanwhile, Arsenal mid- “Chelsea have done that against saw Chelsea have a good start last that he’s now left, but he’s a good silverware has added fuel to his ing in disguise and a wake-up call. fielder Aaron Ramsey says their us ever so well in the past so we season and they stayed top for guy, a fantastic goalkeeper.” competitive fire. “This squad has the experience Wembley success proved they sort of used different tactics to basically the whole season. Chelsea won the title in May And the 34-year-old says his and character. The most impor- have finally figured out how to get the result.” “If we do that we will have a with a commanding lead of team-mates are equally chastened tant thing is the Swansea game defeat their main rivals. After winning last season’s FA good chance,” he said. eight points over second-placed by Mourinho’s first defeat in 14 and the three points.” Ramsey revealed that Wenger Cup final against Aston Villa in “We have a great team, so we Manchester City and are the games against Areenal manager Terry also dismissed concerns believes a more cautious approach, swaggering style and finishing are just excited about what this bookies’ favourites to retain the Arsene Wenger and will take out that Diego Costa’s fitness prob- which they adopted to close out strongly in the league, Ramsey season can bring for us,” added trophy when the new season kicks their frustrations on Swansea lems – the Spain striker missed the Chelsea match – prompting sees no reason why Arsenal can’t the player. AFP off on Saturday. REUTERS Al Rayyan impressive in loss to Ajax Amsterdam Reserves

DOHA: Qatar’s Al Rayyan as they looked to get a goal back. Rahman Al Kurbi, Abdel Hamid gained valuable experience They had many opportunities and Enad, Sayyaf Al Kurbi, Mohamed and were impressive dur- on the 12th minute almost lev- Al Neili, Moaz Youssef and Abdel ing their 1-0 loss against Ajax elled the scores. Karim Salem. Amsterdam Reserves yester- During the second half Head Meanwhile, Al Sailiya will play day, in a friendly in Amsterdam. coach Fossati fielded three new against Emirati outfit Ajman and Al Rayyan players demon- players in the form of Saoud then they will play German team strated good performance dur- Al Hajri, Daniel Gomou and Nuremburg during their training ing the game despite the loss and Mohamed Alaa. They replaced camp in Germany. the head coach Fossati was able Omar Bari, Hamad Al Obaidi and The Peregrines training camp to try-out several players. Abdel Hamid Enad. commences from the 4th until The team started the match On the 47th minute, Ajax goal- the 26th of August, during which with Omar Bari, Mohamed keeper saved a shot from Tabata, the team will play 4 friendlies. Jumaa, Abdel Hamid Enad, and then new signing Garcia went Al Sailiya will leave Doha today Nathan, Moussa Haroun, Hamed just wide of the post with his shot. to fly for Germany for their pre- Ismail, Pascu, Hamad Al Obaidi, Fossati made a further two season training camp, which will Tabata, Ahmed Alaa and Garcia. substitutions with Farid Hamed be headed by coach Abdullah Al The first minutes of the game and Abdel Majid Enad replacing Hanzab. were tough and strong from the Ahmed Alaa and Pascu. Al Sailiya has already played Dutch side that scored in just After that Fossati changed the one preseason friendly against Al Action during the friendly match between Doha’s All Rayyan and Ajax Amsterdam Reserves in Amsterdam, the 3rd minute of the first half, formation and fielded Khalifa Shahaniya which ended in a one- yesterday. Al Rayyan lost 1-0 against the hosts. after which Al Rayyan pressured Al Ammari, Baru Siddiki, Abdel one draw. THE PENINSULA Qatar SC start training camp in Spain QSL: Lekhwiya manager Bakhit predicts tough competition

DOHA: Lekhwiya manager Walid Bakhit has expressed sat- isfaction over his team’s prepa- rations, terming the team’s Lekhwiya training sessions in Turkey as manager ‘beneficial’. Walid Bakhit On the club’s official website is happy he said: “The preparations com- with team’s menced in Doha back in early July preparations and has been going on until now. for the This has been a very beneficial upcoming overseas camp.” season. Commenting on his expecta- tions for the new season, he said” “The competition during the coming season will be very tough especially with the return of Al Rayyan, also Al Sadd and El Jaish lots of players during the transfer on loan such as Ahmed Abdel have made some good buys during window is something positive, but Maqsoud, Khalfan and Lassana.” Qatar Sports Club’s players during the opening day of their preseason training camp in Barcelona, Spain. The the summer.” it is better to buy for specific posi- “The team is looking for stabil- Kings have started their training sessions with the participation of both local and foreign players under the When asked about player tions within the team. ity and the current professional leadership of Iraqi Head Coach Radhi Shenaishil. The squad arrived in Barcelona on Saturday. Qatar Sports Club transfers Bakhit pointed out that Lekhwiya has brought in only players are demonstrating good will play four friendly games during their stay in Spain, among which is a match against the Barcelona B team. Lekhwiya is seeking stability and one player; we signed Muntari and performances with the team,” said said: “I don’t think that signing also regained players who were the manager. THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 4 AUGUST 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27 Sheikh Ahmad coy about who should succeed Blatter

KUALA LUMPUR: As the before the February 26 election unopposed as one of Asia’s Blatter at the last election, has candidates hoping to succeed next year. representatives. said he will run again, and has FIFA’s outgoing President Sepp “I think the first thing we have Mooted as a possible FIFA been joined by South Korean bil- Blatter continue to lobby for to see is that the reforms are president himself one day, Sheikh lionaire Chung Mong-joon. support, the political kingmaker going in the right direction,” he Sheikh Ahmad Al Ahmad has not thrown his hat Asia’s soccer chief Sheikh who could have a big influence said at the International Olympic Fahad Al Sabah into the ring to replace Blatter, Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa on who gets the job says world Committee’s session in Malaysia of Kuwait feels leaving the other applicants vying last week called for the region to soccer has more to worry about yesterday. football has more for his endorsement. unify behind one candidate, but than picking its next boss. “I think FIFA needs reforms to worry about Although FIFA has never stopped short of saying who. Having been conspicuously before anything else.” than picking elected an Asian as its president, Asked by whether he wanted quiet on the topic of who he Although he keeps a rela- FIFA’s next the world’s most populated region Asia to back Platini or one of the thinks should lead FIFA when tively low public profile, Sheikh president. has a big influence on soccer’s glo- Asian candidates, Sheikh Ahmad Blatter stands down next year Ahmad is one of the most influ- bal governing body because of the was coy, again insisting FIFA had Sheikh Ahmad Al Fahad Al Sabah ential people in sports politics, high number of votes it gets. bigger issues to sort out. of Kuwait said that FIFA’s prob- holding key positions on both the Frenchman Michel Platini is “It’s too early to speak about lems were much bigger than just International Olympic Committee considered the early favourite to anything,” he said. the leadership. and FIFA. win the election next February “Of course most experts will Rather than worry about who A former officer and oil min- of the Olympic Council of Asia Earlier this year, he extended but two Asian candidates could be always happy to support the next chief will be, Sheikh ister in Kuwait, Sheikh Ahmad (OCA) and president of the pow- his influence into world soccer possibly challenge him. him(Platini) but now we have to Ahmad said FIFA’s top priority joined the IOC in 1992, and has erful Association of National when he was voted on to FIFA’s Jordanian Prince Ali bin Al focus on the reform of the future,” was getting its house in order risen to the role of president Committees (ANOC). executive committee, elected Hussein, who stood against he added. REUTERS Arsenal’s Alex sets PSG’s brilliant form a sights on more goals

LONDON: Arsenal midfielder them to minimal chances,” he Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has added. set himself a personal target “That’s really positive going of scoring, or at least make an into the season because in the big worry for title rivals assist, every time he plays for games that’s what it comes down Arsenal in the new season. to sometimes.” The 21-year-old netted the all- Meanwhile, Crystal Palace Ligue 1: French giants to start title defence on Friday important goal in his side’s 1-0 have snapped up striker Connor victory over bitter rivals Chelsea Wickham from Premier League in the Community Shield on rivals Sunderland on a five- PARIS: There are ominous Sunday and feels he needs to year deal, the club announced signs that Paris St Germain score more often. yesterday. (PSG) will begin the Ligue 1 “I got a goal in the Emirates The south London side will season at full throttle, which is Cup, and it’s what I need to do pay an initial £7m (9.95m euros; worrying for their rivals hoping this year, there’s no doubting that $10.9m) fee for the 22-year-old, to prevent a fourth consecutive and I’m not afraid to say that I which could rise to £9m depend- title for the mega-rich capital need to score more goals,” the ing on appearances. club. England international told the “I think I needed a fresh start, In the last three seasons PSG Paris Saint- club’s website (www.arsenal.com). I had four years up north and have struggled to impose their “I’ve set myself that target this it’s been a bit stop-start,” said Germain’s superiority early in the season, year on a personal level so every Wickham. Uruguayan being forced to play catch-up. time I’m on the pitch it’s impor- “Now I’ve come back home and The Qatar-funded club, who are forward Edinson tant that I try and contribute in I can settle down and see my fam- poised to add Argentina forward Cavani is some way and a goal or an assist ily a bit more and hopefully let my Angel Di Maria to their already congratulated is what I need to do.” football do the talking. enviable attacking options, have by team-mates Oxlade-Chamberlain’s brilliant “I spoke to the gaffer (Alan impressed in the build-up to the during the strike after 24 minutes helped the Pardew) last week and he said new season, beating the likes French Trophy of Gunners to their first win in 14 all the right things about the club of Fiorentina and Manchester Champions match attempts against a Chelsea side and I’ve got friends here who also United in the International against Lyon at managed by Jose Mourinho. told me some very good things. Champions Cup. Saputo Stadium The midfielder, son of former “I looked at the team before They then cruised to a 2-0 in Montreal on England international Mark I arrived here and the signings defeat of Olympique Lyonnais Saturday. Chamberlain, believes Arsenal’s that have been brought in, and in the Trophy of Champions on stout defending reduced Chelsea’s the potential to score goals and Saturday. chances in the game. the chances that could be cre- “We stuck together and played “We did enough, we defended ated was a massive influence,”said quite high up the pitch, which is really well as a team and kept Wickham. AGENCIES great because I want us to impose our game on our opponents,” coach Laurent Blanc said after Saturday’s game. Alex Oxlade- In the last three seasons PSG Chamberlain started their campaign with a celebrates draw, each time against mod- front. The Uruguay forward nota- after the attacking midfielder tore and it takes time,” he said. “I want after scoring est opposition, but despite what bly scored the team’s second goal a ligament in his leg last week. to do step by step. I continue to the first goal Blanc called a ‘chaotic’ prepara- against Lyon on Saturday. Olympique Marseille were con- work, but the national team is the for Arsenal tion, they look formidable. PSG will start the defence of tenders for a long time last season back of my head.” against Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who had their title at Lille on Friday (1830 but have lost strikers Andre- Monaco will be hoping to limit Chelsea a below-par season even if PSG GMT) while Lyon, runners-up Pierre Gignac to Mexican club the damage after losing Geoffrey during their achieved an unprecedented clean last year, will host Lorient on Tigres UANL and Andre Ayew Kondogbia to Inter Milan, Community sweep of domestic silverware Sunday (1900 GMT). to Swansea and could struggle to Yannick Ferreira Carrasco to Shield (Ligue 1, Cup and League Cup Lyon, whose coach Hubert last the pace this time. Atletico Madrid and Dimitar match at the titles), looks in sharp form. Fournier blended a remarkable They did sign injury-ravaged Berbatov. The Sweden striker has played squad of youngsters last season, holding midfielder Abou Diaby They will rely on Stephan El Wembley in a deeper role at times, allow- will benefit from more experi- from Arsenal, who will have Shaarawy, on loan from AC Milan, Stadium on ing Edinson Cavani, who scored ence this time but will be with- something to prove after seeing who is set to be the main new Sunday. 11 goals in his last eight games out France international Clement his career stall. attraction on an otherwise calm with PSG, to enjoy more space up Grenier for the start of the season “I have not played for two years transfer period so far. REUTERS Ligue 1 Fixtures Austin likely Friday, August 7 (GMT) West Brom move can boost chances Lille vs sParis St Germain (1830) to move: QPR Saturday, August 8 (GMT) ES Troyes AC vs GFC Ajaccio (1900) of England return, says Lambert manager Nantes vs En Avant Guingamp (1900) Montpellier HSC vs Angers SCO (1900) LONDON: Charlie Austin, the Nice vs Monaco (1900) LONDON: Striker Rickie West Brom manager Tony Queens Park Rangers (QPR) Lambert is hopeful his move to England Pulis believes Lambert will have a striker called up by England at Olympique Marseille vs Caen (1900) West Bromwich Albion will help striker Rickie positive influence on the younger the end of last season, is likely to Bastia vs Stade Rennes (1900) him win back his place in Roy Lambert members of his squad, espe- leave the relegated club before Sunday, August 9 (GMT) Hodgson’s England set-up. (centre) cially 21-year-old striker Saido the end of the transfer window, The 33-year-old joined West celebrates Berahino. manager Chris Ramsey said Girondins Bordeaux vs Stade de Reims Brom from Liverpool on a two- after scoring “He is a great lad and in Saido yesterday. (1500) year deal on Friday, becoming the England’s we’ve got a wonderful young tal- The same applies to midfielder Toulouse vs St Etienne (1500) Baggies’ third signing of the close third goal ent and you’re just hoping that a Leroy Fer, although Ramsey hopes Olympique Lyon vs FC Lorient (1900) season after James Chester and during the little bit of that experience and both could still be available for the James McClean. international the way he conducts himself, the opening Championship (second He fell off Roy Hodgson’s radar friendly way he works, the way he does tier) match away to London rivals soon after moving to boyhood club football things will rub off on Saido as Charlton on Saturday. EPL Fixtures Liverpool last season, where he well,” Pulis said. “We know it’s a financial situa- match against found his opportunities limited to Meanwhile, Leicester City have tion where the players, given the Saturday, August 8 (GMT) Scotland at Manchester United vs Tottenham Hotspur just seven Premier League starts signed French midfielder N’Golo right offer, will probably go,” he under Reds manager Brendan Wembley Kante from Ligue 1 side Caen for told BBC London 94.9. (1145) Stadium in AFC Bournemouth vs Aston Villa (1400) Rodgers. an undisclosed fee, the club web- “Selfishly, I hope nobody comes “It is only two years ago that I London, in site reported yesterday. in for them. Whoever’s in the Everton vs Watford (1400) scored against Scotland. I scored this August Kante, 24, joins on a four-year building and can help needs to Leicester City vs Sunderland (1400) 15 goals and then 13 goals for 2013 file deal and becomes new manager be on hand. What is happening Norwich City vs Crystal Palace (1400) Southampton and obviously it photo. Claudio Ranieri’s first signing. is that the players are training Chelsea vs Swansea City (1630) is over a year since I did that He will go straight into the squad very hard to get fit for the begin- Sunday, August 9 (GMT) but I have just got to get back to for Saturday’s Premier League ning of the season and if they’re Arsenal vs West Ham United (1230) that now,” the Birmingham Mail Lambert scored two goals in his “I’ve got a lot of feeling, to be opener against Sunderland. fit they’ll feature.” quoted him as saying. West Brom debut against Bristol honest. I’m not going to get into He joins Robert Huth, Christian Austin was QPR’s top scorer Newcastle United vs Southampton (1230) He made the last of his 11 inter- Rovers on Friday night, helping it right now,” he said. Fuchs and Shinji Okazaki as new with 18 goals last season as they Stoke City vs Liverpool (1500) national appearances as an 80th his new club win the match 4-0. “I feel as if I’ve got a point to arrivals at Leicester, who finished finished bottom of the Premier lea Monday, August 10 (GMT) minute substitute in England’s He refused to elaborate on prove to myself. That’s always the 14th last season after avoiding Dutch midfielder Fer scored six West Bromwich Albion vs Manchester City 3-1 win against Scotland at Celtic a frustrating 12 months at biggest drive, yourself. And it will drop by hitting a remarkable form times after joining from Norwich (1900) Park in November 2014. Liverpool. carry on being that way.” in the run-in. AGENCIES City a year ago. REUTERS Tuesday 4 August 2015 19 Shawwal 1436 Volume 20 Number 6512 Sport Price: QR2 Hosszu sets Bangladesh, 200m medley SA share Test

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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 IOC vows ‘zero tolerance’ for tainted athletics results IAAF head sees doping allegations as campaign to ‘redistribute’ medals Sepp Blatter FIFA’s Blatter KUALA LUMPUR: IOC ARD said there was “mas- president Thomas Bach yester- sive corruption” within Kenya’s day vowed “zero tolerance” for athletics establishment and “a gives up IOC any Olympics athletics results desire to cover-up doping... to the tainted by doping, but the head summit of the Kenyan athletics of world athletics said new rev- federation”. membership elations were part of a campaign The ARD/Sunday Times reports to “redistribute” medals. also said: More than 800 ath- KUALA LUMPUR: FIFA Allegations of mass doping letes among those on the data- President Sepp Blatter was made by German broadcaster base recorded blood tests which relieved of his International ARD and the Sunday Times news- experts said were “highly sugges- Olympic Committee ex offi- paper of Britain have plunged tive of doping or at the very least cio membership yesterday, athletics into a new cheating cri- abnormal”. seven months before he will be sis less than three weeks before The tests showed an increas- replaced as the head of soccer’s the world championships start in ing use of blood transfusions governing body, IOC President Beijing. and hard-to-detect EPO micro- Thomas Bach said yesterday. ARD and the Sunday Times doses to boost red cell count and Blatter would ordinarily have obtained an athletics world body performances. been re-elected for another eight- database that they said indicated In some finals at the Olympics year term as a procedural mat- up to one third of medals involv- and world championships, every ter at the ongoing IOC Session ing endurance events at world athlete in the three medal posi- in Malaysia, along with more championships and Olympics tions had recorded a suspicious than a dozen other members, but from 2001 to 2012 were won by blood test. would be required to stand down competitors who have given suspi- Robin Parisotto, one of two when he left FIFA at the end of cious doping tests. Australian experts who studied February. “If there should be cases involv- the results, said: “Never have I The 79-year-old Swiss was re- ing results at Olympic Games, seen such an alarmingly abnormal elected for a fifth term as FIFA the IOC will act with zero toler- set of blood values. So many ath- president in Zurich on May 29 but ance with our usual policy,” Bach letes appear to have doped with announced he would lay down his told a press conference in Kuala impunity, and it is damning that mandate just four days later in Lumpur. the IAAF appears to have idly sat the wake of the worst crisis in the “But at this time we have noth- by and let this happen.” soccer authority’s history. ing more than allegations and we Adam Pengilly, a British mem- FIFA was thrown into turmoil have to respect the presumption ber of the IOC, said yesterday that two days ahead of its presiden- of innocence for the athletes.” the IAAF has been “quiet” over tial election when more than a International Association of the past year and should do more dozen officials and sports mar- Athletics Federations (IAAF) to “promote clean athletics”. keting executives were indicted President Lamine Diack told an The IAAF has promised to by the United States on bribery, IOC meeting that the world body International Olympic Committee (IOC) President, Thomas Bach (right) and IOC Communication Director Mark release a statement quickly on money laundering and wire fraud would answer the allegations. Adams (L) arrives for a press conference at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, claims that it has failed to act on charges. “Behind all this there is a desire yesterday. International Olympic Committee (IOC), has elected Senegal Olympic Committee President Mamadou evidence. Although Blatter has not been to redistribute medals, take care Diagna Ndiaye and United World Wrestling President Nenad Lalovic as new Members of the International Any sanctions are likely to be accused of any wrongdoing, his of this,” Diack, who will stand Olympic Committee (IOC) yesterday. a drawn-out process however, as stewardship has been heavily down as IAAF president this the WADA investigation will be criticised and his troubled reign, month, warned IOC members. extended by the new allegations. that began in 1998, will come to It is the second time in seven world have called for a thorough tests from 5,000 competitors Sunday Times said. But Russia’s WADA President Craig Reedie an end when he is replaced by the months that the IAAF has been inquiry. which revealed “extraordinary” Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has called the new allegations winner of FIFA’s next presidential thrown onto the defensive by “The accusations made must levels of doping. called the new allegations “non- “very disturbing” and said they election on February 26. doping. An ARD documentary be properly investigated. We Russian and Kenyan athletes sense” that were part of a power would “once again, shake the The Swiss has been an ex officio in December claimed there was welcome the World Anti-Doping feature strongly in the new struggle within IAAF before its foundation of clean athletes IOC member since 1999. widespread doping in Russian Agency’s decision to probe the claims. election for a new president this worldwide”. “Mr Blatter wrote me a letter athletics. allegations made,” said Athletics A large number of the “abnor- month. Reedie had hoped to receive on July 23 informing me that it Both the sets of allegations are Australia President Phil Jones in mal” results were from Russian Former British runner a report from an independent would be inappropriate to seek being investigated by the World his remarks. athletes, said the reports. Sebastian Coe and pole vault leg- commission in September on the another eight-year term as he Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) ARD and the Sunday Times “A remarkable 80 percent end Sergey Bubka are standing earlier allegations on doping in was retiring from his position at which termed the saga “very newspaper said a “whistleblower” of Russia’s medal winners had for the IAAF presidency. Both Russian athletics. This will now FIFA in seven months when a alarmed”. had handed over the IAAF data- recorded suspicious scores at have called for a tough response be pushed back by the new claims, new president will be selected on Athletics chiefs around the base giving details of 12,000 blood some point in their careers,” the to doping in athletics. he said. AFP Feb. 26,” Bach said. REUTERS

Gulf Cup Audi Cup starts today Tunisia’s Yassine leaves postponed FC Zurich for Al Gharafa

for a year TUNIS: Tunisian mid-fielder preferred to join Gharafa and Yassine Chikhaoui (pictured) expand his professional experi- KUWAIT: The 23rd edition has joined Qatar’s Al Gharafa ence in this region, the agent said. of the Gulf Cup of Nations has Sports Club with immedi- Chikhaoui joined FC Zurich been postponed for a year after ate effect, his agent Khalid Al on a five-year contract in 2007. a request was approved at a Qasabi said yesterday. He started his senior level career meeting by chiefs of the GCC The 28-year-old with Tunisian sports football associations, President comes to Qatar from club Etoile Sportive of Kuwait Football Association Swiss club FC Zurich. du Sahel in Sousse. (KFA) Sheikh Talal Al Fahad Club officials com- At 19 he became the announced yesterday. pleted the deal for a football club’s young- The 23rd Gulf Cup of Nations three-contract that est captain. was scheduled to be held in would run up to 2017 Wishing him and Kuwait in December, after Iraq summer, he said. his family well, FC withdrew from hosting the “Chikahoui was in Zurich President regional tournament. Gharafa’s focus since Ancillo Canepa said, The postponement request was last year. The club’s “No one will deny that presented at a meeting by the board was keen to Yassine was one the chiefs of the GCC football associa- sign him and play in Qatar Stars best football player ever to play in tions in Kuwait, said the official FROM LEFT: Bayern Munich’s Spanish head coach Pep Guardiola, Milan’s Serbian head coach Sinisa Mihajlovic, League,” said Al Qasabi in an Switzerland. In the 2014-15 season KUNA news agency. Madrid’s Spain head coach Rafael Benitez and Tottenham’s Argentinian head coach Mauricio Pochettino pose interview. he should what an excellent and Al Fahad said that postpone- with the trophy after a press conference on the Audi Cup in Munich, Germany, yesterday. The Audi Cup matches Many clubs showed interest in important player he is.” ment request was due to the with Bayern Munich of Germany, Real Madrid of Spain, AC Milan of Italy and Tottenham Hotspur of England him since he excelled for the Swiss Gharafa FC has won Qatar lack of arrangements to host the will start in Munich today. club as well as Tunisian national Stars League title seven times, event. QNA football team, but Chikahoui the last being in 2010. QNA