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SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 2015 • 26 Dhul-Hijja 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6579 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Qatar pledges Israeli troops kill six Palestinians in clashes GAZA CITY: A week of violence between Israelis and Palestinians spread to the Gaza Strip yesterday, with Israeli troops killing six in clashes on the border and Islamist movement Hamas calling for $8m to fight more unrest. A fresh wave of stabbings also hit Israel and the West Bank, including a revenge attack by a 17-year-old Jewish suspect that wounded two Palestinians and two Arab blindness Israelis. Gaza had been mainly calm as unrest has shaken annexed east Jerusalem and the occu- Backs global initiative for children pied West Bank in recent days. But clashes broke out yesterday east of Gaza City and DOHA: Qatar has pledged $8m female) as well as members of Khan Yunis along the border with the Jewish (QR29.2m) to combat blindness IAPB. Qatari volunteers are also state, with Israeli forces opening fire and and support affected children part of the initiative. killing six Palestinians, including a 15-year- all over the world, in partner- The initiative is part of Qatar’s old, and wounding 80, according to medics. ship with International Agency role in backing global health Hundreds of Palestinians, some with their for the Prevention of Blindness agenda by enhancing its part- faces covered by keffiyeh scarves, defied the (IAPB). nership with other countries soldiers by making victory signs and throw- Israeli security forces run during clashes with Palestinians in Beit El, near the West Bank city of Assistant Foreign Minister and concerned organisations to ing stones. It was the deadliest clash in Gaza Ramallah, yesterday. for International Cooperation achieve development goals, Qatar since the summer 2014 war with Israel. Affairs H E Sheikh Mohammed News Agency reported yesterday. “Forces on the site responded with fire bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Qatar Charity (QC) and Orbis towards the main instigators to prevent their City, Haniyeh said, “we are calling for the There have been 13 stabbings since last Thani has announced the part- UK earlier launched a cam- progress and disperse the riot,” an army strengthening and increasing of the Intifada.” Saturday, including the revenge assault. Five nership with IAPB and Qatar’s paign for more than QR4m to spokeswoman said. “It is the only path that will lead to libera- of the alleged attackers have been killed. pledge to support the initiative. reduce blindness in children in Palestine Liberation Organisation tion,” he said. “Gaza will fulfil its role in the Yesterday’s escalation came as Israeli During a meeting with Princess Bangladesh. The campaign was Secretary-General Saeb Erekat accused Jerusalem intifada and it is more than ready security forces sought to prevent the further Sophie Rhys-Jones, Countess of launched after the Countess of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for confrontation.” spread of Palestinian unrest, with Netanyahu Wessex, the Minister said the Wessex visited QC headquarters and his government of “committing a new Stabbing attacks in the West Bank, having said the country faced a mostly unor- initiative aims to provide treat- in Doha. massacre of Palestinians” in Gaza. Jerusalem and Israel along with rioting have ganised “wave of terror”. Abbas has spoken ment and care for millions of Under this partnership, QC The clashes came as Hamas’s chief in raised fears of a third Palestinian Intifada, out against violence and in favour of “peace- blind children around the world will mobilise support for the Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, called the spreading following the first that began in 1987 and the ful, popular resistance,” but many youth are and prevent blindness in devel- campaign, while Orbis UK will violence an Intifada, or uprising, and urged second in 2000. Netanyahu condemned the frustrated with his leadership as well as oping countries worst hit by the implement it, by virtue of its further unrest. attack by the Jewish youth, a sign of concerns Israel’s government. condition. experience of more than 15 years In the Friday sermon at a mosque in Gaza it could trigger further violence. AGENCIES Princess Sophie was in Qatar in the combat of blindness in on a four-day trip, with the blind- Bangladesh. ness prevention charity, Orbis There are 7.4 million people in UK, to mark World Sight Day. Bangladesh who are blind or visu- She is Patron of Vision 2020: ally impaired, of whom 1.4 mil- Nobel Peace Prize for Tunisian democracy group The Right to Sight and Global lion are children. Cataract is the Ambassador of IAPB. Members most common cause of blindness OSLO: The Tunisian National The National Dialogue Quartet this Quartet, not to the four indi- and terrorist attacks, have come of the agency also attended the in Bangladesh and around 5,000 Dialogue Quartet — a democ- is made up of four key organisa- vidual organisations as such,” the together in a spirit of unity, com- meeting. children are diagnosed each year. racy group — has been awarded tions in Tunisian civil society: The committee said. The laureates will promise and tolerance.” The initiative will be imple- Cataract is easily treated the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize for Tunisian General Labour Union; receive their prizes at a ceremony The prize was awarded nearly mented by supporting healthcare with surgery, yet rural areas of “its decisive contribution to the the Tunisian Confederation of in Oslo on December 10. five years after a desperate centres to conduct blindness- Bangladesh are hard to reach building of a pluralistic democ- Industry, Trade and Handicrafts; The award won praise from Tunisian street vendor set him- related surgeries and provide and communities can find it racy”, the Norwegian Nobel the Tunisian Human Rights around the globe, with UN chief self on fire, touching off a wave high-quality mobile medical units. extremely difficult to access the Committee has announced. League; and the Tunisian Order Ban Ki-moon hailing the groups’ of unrest which left more than Awareness and training activities right treatment. There aren’t The group of four organisa- of Lawyers. work as “an inspiration to the 300 people dead and eventually will also be held as part of the enough experienced surgeons tions established “an alternative, The jury cited the group for “its region and the world”. toppled the dictatorial president initiative. to perform the surgery, which peaceful political process at a time decisive contribution to the build- US President Barack Obama Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, inspiring The scheme includes a coali- makes the situation worse. when the country was on the brink ing of a pluralistic democracy in called the award “a tribute to uprisings across the region. tion of physicians from all over of civil war,” the Committee said Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine the perseverance and courage of the world and specialist Qatari THE PENINSULA yesterday, referring to the period Revolution of 2011”. “The Nobel the Tunisian people who, in the AGENCIES ophthalmologists (male and Picture on page 2 following Tunisia’s 2011 revolution. Peace Prize for 2015 is awarded to face of political assassinations See also page 5

Al Attiyah reigns supreme Coalition raids Yemen’s Marib province Russian air

SANA’A: Warplanes from the the port city of Aden to which the president Ali Abdullah Saleh. Saudi-led coalition raided posi- government returned last month The coalition has come under strikes kill 300 tions of the Iran-backed Shia after six months in exile. criticism over the civilian death insurgents east of the rebel- Raids also targeted rebels in toll in its campaign. rebels in Syria held capital yesterday, military Hodeida in western Yemen, other UN Under-Secretary-General sources said. military sources said. for Humanitarian Affairs Stephen MOSCOW: Russia’s Defence The air strikes targeted Houthi In the evening, coalition war- O’Brien called for a swift investi- Ministry said yesterday its planes rebels in the west of Marib planes struck rebel arms depots gation of a suspected deadly air had struck the headquarters of province, amid ongoing clashes on the Nahdain hill south of strike on a wedding in Dhamar the Liwa Al Haqq militant group between them and forces loyal Sana’a. After they overran Sana’a province on Thursday. Medical in Syria, killing 200 insurgents, to President Abdrabuh Mansur unopposed in September 2014, sources said at least 28 people were including two Islamic State (IS) Hadi. the rebels widened their control killed, while the rebel-controlled field commanders in Raqa, the Pro-Hadi fighters backed by to several provinces, advancing Saba news agency said 51 died in RIA news agency reports. Gulf forces have been pushing to in March on Aden where Hadi that attack. “We did not conduct In separate attacks in the regain control of Marib province had taken refuge before fleeing any operation in Dhamar,” coali- Aleppo region, the ministry said to advance on the capital Sana’a. to Riyadh. tion spokesman Brigadier General Qatar’s Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah and co-driver Matthieu Baumel celebrate its planes had killed 100 insur- They set their sights on Marib The coalition then launched Ahmed Al Assiri said on Thursday. after winning the Morocco Rally, the ninth and penultimate round of gents. Russia’s air force hit over after pushing the rebels out of a fierce air campaign against the 2015 FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies, in Agadir, Morocco, 60 “terrorist targets” over the five southern provinces, including them and allies loyal to ousted AGENCIES yesterday. Story and pictures on page 19 past 24 hours, ramping up its bombing campaign. “Sixty-seven sorties have been carried out from the Hmeimim air base” in Syria, Deputy Head of Mowasalat launches double-buses One shot dead, three hurt in Russian General Staff, Lieutenant General Igor Makushev, told DOHA: In a first in Qatar, reporters. “Su-34M and Su-24SM Mowasalat has launched dou- US university ‘confrontation’ warplanes hit 60 terrorist tar- ble-buses (articulated bus) for gets,” he added. public transport with a capac- LOS ANGELES: A student College in Oregon that left nine Makushev said militants “have ity of more than 60 passengers. armed with a handgun killed people dead before the gunman sustained significant casualties It is a single-deck bus com- another student in a “confron- killed himself. First emergency and been forced to change tac- prising two rigid sections linked tation” at an Arizona univer- calls came through to police at tics,” seeking refuge in towns and by a pivoting joint (articulation) sity early yesterday that also 1.20am, when most NAU stu- villages, stressing that Moscow enclosed by protective folding left three with multiple gunshot dents would have been in bed at would increase the intensity of bellows and a cover plate on the The single-deck bus comprising two rigid sections linked by a pivoting wounds, police said, in the latest the sprawling campus in the city the strikes. He said Russia has inside of the vehicle. joint (articulation). shooting at a US college. of Flagstaff. “Two of our student been bombing command posts and The bus, equipped with an The incident at Northern groups got into a confrontation. It communication centres, ammuni- advanced monitoring system, disembarkation. busy residential and commer- Arizona University (NAU) came turned physical and one student tion depots and training camps in has larger passenger capacity, The bus will operate on cial areas in the city, Al Sharq hours before President Barack shot four,” said Gregory Fowler, Raqa, Latakia, Hama, Idlib and more and larger doors allow- routes with a higher number reports. Obama was to meet families of Chief of NAU police. Aleppo. ing simultaneous boarding and of passengers, covering some THE PENINSULA victims of last week’s shooting AFP AGENCIES rampage at Umpqua Community See also page 12 See also page 4 SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 2015 HOME 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

Minister meets Countess of Wessex Ministry to hold tender workshop from Tuesday

DOHA: The Ministry of Economy and Commerce will hold a two-day workshop from Tuesday on protection of tender competitiveness with the participation of GCC government departments, the pri- vate sector and international experts in the field of protection of competitiveness and the fight against collusion in tender procedures. The workshop aims to increase awareness of specialists about tender procedures and its impact on the economy besides deepening understanding and awareness of the need to stimulate competition and anti-manipulation when tendering by facilitating participation in Assistant Foreign Minister for International Cooperation Affairs H E Sheikh Mohammed bin bidding, activating the principle of equal oppor- Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani with Princess Sophie Rhys-Jones, Countess of Wessex, tunities for all companies and methods of agree- www.swiss-belhotel.com in Doha yesterday. They discussed an initiative by International Agency for the Prevention ments disclosure in various forms. of Blindness to provide treatment and care for millions of blind children around the world QNA Tel and prevent blindness in developing countries worst hit by the condition. Fax Japan FM Tel Saudi tourism Fax chairman tours arriving Qatar National DOHA: Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida is Tel Museum visiting Qatar next week. He Fax DOHA: Prince Sultan bin will meet Foreign Minister H Salman bin Abdulaziz Al E Dr Khaled bin Mohamed Saud, Chairman, Saudi Al Attiyah and other digni- Commission for Tourism and taries and exchange views Tel + 974 44298888 Antiquities, yesterday visited on enhancing comprehensive Qatar National Museum under partnership between Qatar Fax construction. and Japan and the situation He was received by Qatar in the Middle East. Museums Board of Trustees Tel Vice-Chairman Sheikh Hassan Qatar attends bin Mohammed Al Thani and Fax briefed on the unique archi- WHO meet tectural design of the museum inspired by the “Desert Rose”. KUWAIT: Qatar partici- Tel Prince Sultan also toured the pated in the 62nd session Fax Old Palace of Sheikh Abdullah of Eastern Mediterranean bin Jassim Al Thani, in the centre Region of the World Health of the museum. The museum is Organization which ended conceived and designed by French Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Chairman, Saudi here yesterday. Minister of Tel architect Jean Nouvel. Commission for Tourism and Antiquities, with other officials during Public Health H E Abdullah Fax QNA a visit to Qatar National Museum. bin Khalid Al Qahtani led Qatar’s delegation to the www.doha.hilton.com four-day meeting. It dis- cussed issues, including Tel 44233333 974+ world health security with a focus on the Middle East Fax 44233000 974+ respiratory syndrome coro- navirus (MERS-CoV), the PSG player visits Qatar influenza virus H5N1, medi- cal education and means of enhancing psychological healthcare. IFTM stand in Paris Qatar, Morocco Accambray shares training experience in Qatar ties discussed Tel RABAT: Moroccan Fax DOHA: William Accambray, Minister of Higher Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) Education, Scientific Handball Team’s left back, vis- Research and Professional ited Qatar’s IFTM Top Resa Training Lahcen Daoud Tel stand in Paris. met Qatari Ambassador Fax Accambray shared his experi- Abdullah bin Falah bin ence of Qatar with participants, Abdullah Al Dosari. Talks saying “Our pre-season training dealt with bilateral ties, camp last August in Qatar gave especially in the field of edu- Tel us the opportunity to rediscover cation. Fax Qatar, its culture and history. QNA “From a sport point of view, we enjoyed high-quality sport GCC meeting facilities which allowed the team to prepare in the best conditions. DOHA: The ninth meeting Tel It’s always a pleasure to visit of GCC attorney-generals, Fax Qatar.” public prosecutors and heads Laura Georges and Kheira of investigative agencies will Hamraoui also spent some time William Accambray, PSG Handball Team’s left back, holds a falcon during begin at Doha Sheraton at Qatar’s booth to take part in a a visit to Qatar’s IFTM Top Resa stand in Paris. tomorrow. Tel calligraphy workshop, alongside Attorney-General Dr Ali French bloggers. and recreational facilities. events, including Chantilly Arts bin Futais Al Merri will chair Fax Qatar Tourism Authority QTA’s partnership with PSG & Elegance and Qatar Prix de the two-day meeting to discuss (QTA) showcased the country’s has helped increase French l’Arc de Triomphe. exchange of prosecutors and increasingly diverse offerings at awareness of Qatar as a des- France is now Qatar’s second investigators, among other Top Resa last week through a tination grow in recent years, largest source market in Europe. things, Al Sharq reports. Tel 100sqm exhibition stand that in addition to Qatar’s presence Fax also highlighted Qatar’s leisure in several high-profile French THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA

Belgian artist Tuymans Tel Fax to open expo at Al Riwaq

DOHA: Celebrated Belgian ‘Intolerance’ includes more Tel artist Luc Tuymans will open than 100 paintings and a selec- Fax a major exhibition at Qatar tion of works on paper. Museums (QM) Gallery Al It is the most comprehensive Riwaq, his first in the Middle survey of Luc’s career, covering www.marriottmarquisdoha.com East. 30 years. Tuymans is working on six Tuymans, born in 1958, is Tel + 974 44195000 large-scale wall paintings, one of the key figures of a new Fax + 974 44195100 which will be the highlight of generation of figurative paint- his exhibition ‘Intolerance’ ers, widely credited with hav- on display from October 18 to ing contributed to the revival January 30. of painting in the 1990s and Presented by QM under the recognised as one of the most leadership of its Chairperson important living painters today. H E Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Belgian artist Luc Tuymans working on one of his wall paintings. Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, THE PENINSULA SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 2015 HOME / GULF / MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 Philippines seeks to boost ties with Qatar National Commission on Muslim Filipinos team in Doha for cooperation in education, halal industry

By Raynald C Rivera there is also a plan to invite investors is important. It imports 95 percent of “In the past, scholarships were in from Qatar, such as Hassad Food, which its food and Mindanao can serve as sup- the religious aspect such as Shariah, DOHA: The Philippines through focuses on food security in Qatar. plier of food,” said Philippine Ambassador Theology and Islamic Studies. We are National Commission on Muslim “A 100-hectare plot has been allocated Wilfredo C Santos. interested to do that but we want to up Filipinos (NCMF) is seeking to estab- for halal industry in the Zamboanga Having recently launched Kulinarya the ante by not just focusing on theologi- lish relations with Qatar in the fields of Economic Zone (Zamboecozone). Our goal Qatar, an initiative to promote Philippine cal and religious skills but scientific and education and halal industry. is to connect Hassad to Zamboecozone. tourism via Filipino cuisine, Santos technological skills as well,” she said. A delegation, led by NCMF Secretary With food products we have in Region 9 believes having a robust halal industry “We had several graduates from Middle Yasmin Busran-Lao is in Qatar to meet and ARMM areas, there is huge potential can turn the Philippines into a destina- Eastern countries who are learned theo- institutions and agencies to explore pos- that there will be a programme or project tion of choice for tourists from Qatar and logians but when they come back to the sible partnerships. with Hassad,” said Baddiri. the rest of the GCC. Philippines, they lack employment oppor- Lao said they have met Qatar “Our Halal industry is in infant stage Aside from making halal food available tunities,” she said, adding these gradu- University (QU) officials and the areas of and with Zamboecozone and investors in hotels and food establishments, there ates can be trained in other areas such possible collaborations discussed included like Hassad, will fast-track progress and is a need to provide additional facilities as engineering and Islamic finance. scholarship exchange and research to promotion of the Philippine halal indus- such as prayer rooms to attract more The delegation will meet Qatar develop the Philippine halal industry. try,” he added. tourists to the Philippines, he added. Foundation officials tomorrow and dis- The global halal industry is valued at With the Asean Integration, there is a Baddiri said Lao had met Philippine cuss endowments and scholarships. $3trn and Lao expressed keenness to tap need for the Philippines to catch up with Department of Tourism Secretary Ramon “This is a good beginning and we human and natural resources to develop countries such as Malaysia, Thailand R Jimenez, Jr who is keen to develop the will try to find out ways wherein the the country’s halal industry. and Indonesia with regard to the halal Philippine halal industry with respect to Philippines with NCMF and counter- She said through research, QU could market. tourism. part agencies and institutions like QU help in the development of the industry Being largely dependent on food With regard to education, Lao said can work together and help each other in which could be a source in meeting food imports, Qatar is seen as a viable market they wanted to harness partnerships by promoting shared interest,” said Baddiri. National Commission on Muslim Filipinos security needs of both parties. for halal products from the Philippines. expanding the scholarship exchange pro- Secretary Yasmin Busran-Lao. NCMF Commissioner Edil Baddiri said “As you know, Qatar’s food security gramme to include other areas. THE PENINSULA

Korea-Arab Friendship Caravan at Katara Israel, Iran trade barbs at UN disarmament meeting

UNITED NATIONS: Israel nuclear weapon free zone in the and Iran exchanged sharp criti- Middle East.” cisms at a meeting of the UN “Israel continues to block all General Assembly’s disarma- international and regional efforts ment committee yesterday, to fulfil this goal,” Khoshrou accusing each other of being a added. major destabilising force in the Iran says its nuclear pro- Middle East. gramme is for civilian purposes, Israeli Ambassador Alon denying allegations from the US Roth-Snir told the UN’s First and its allies that it has sought to Committee that “Iran remains develop the capability to produce the most significant threat to the atomic weapons. security of the Middle East and Under the July 14 nuclear beyond.” deal with the US and five other He reiterated his government’s nations, sanctions on Iran will be Korean Ambassador Heung-kyeong Park speaking strong opposition to a historic lifted in exchange for long-term during the 8th Korea-Arab Friendship Caravan at nuclear agreement between curbs on Iranian nuclear activity. Katara. (Right) Artistes perform a traditional Korean Tehran and six world powers, say- Roth-Snir also raised concerns dance. KAMMUTTY VP ing it was “unlikely to stop Iran’s about the use of chemical weapons relentless pursuit of a nuclear in Syria’s civil war. He said the weapons’ capability.” He accused removal and destruction of Syria’s Tehran of continuing “vehement declared chemical arsenal was an anti-Semitic rhetoric and threats important achievement. But he One killed in Iraq’s against Israel.” cautioned that the government Iran’s UN Ambassador maintained a residual chemical Kurdistan region Russia turns to backwater Gholamali Khoshrou accused weapons capability while the use Israel, which is widely pre- of weapons with poison gas in ERBIL: One man was killed sumed to have the region’s only Israel’s neighbour was increasing. when a protest in Iraq’s nuclear arsenal, of being “the only Kurdistan region turned violent navy for Syria missile raids impediment ... towards realising a REUTERS yesterday, government officials said, in the most sustained dis- MOSCOW: The sailors of Forces Treaty which prohibits the torpedoes and artillery cannons play of street discontent there Russia’s Caspian fleet have seen use of ground-launched missiles on the Caspian Sea, observers say, since 2011. little action over the last 300 with a range of 500 to 5,500km. a surprisingly large force given Clashes in Gaza Five others were wounded in years but now the war raging “It was the only option,” the absence of regional opponents the city of Qaladize following a in Syria has thrust them into said Ruslan Pukhov, Director or conflict around a land-locked week of strikes and demonstra- the forefront of Russia’s largest of the Moscow-based Centre body of water beloved of Iranian tions that threaten to shake military operation abroad since for Analysis of Strategies and beachgoers. Kurdistan’s stability while it the collapse of the Soviet Union. Technologies. Pukhov said ships equipped is at war with Islamic State Better known for oil drilling Russia’s air campaign in Syria with Kalibr cruise missiles had insurgents. and sturgeon smuggling than has caught the US and its Nato been operating in the region since The protests are being fuelled strategic naval importance, the allies off-guard and alarmed 2012. by an economic crisis that has left Caspian Sea bordering Central Turkey, which sits between the The Russian Defence Ministry the Kurdistan regional govern- Asia and the Middle East was an conflict and Russian naval forces declined to comment on the ment unable to pay employees’ unexpected place for Russia to on the Black Sea. number or type of vessels salaries. launch a battery of cruise missile Ankara says its air space deployed. In an online statement, Friday’s demonstration turned attacks against Islamic State (IS) has been repeatedly violated by it said the fleet was tasked with violent when protesters headed targets in Syria on Wednesday. Russian jets. protecting Russia’s regional inter- towards the headquarters of the But the Caspian Flotilla, A group of four Russian war- ests and fighting terrorism. Kurdistan Democratic Party founded by Peter the Great in ships launched 26 Kalibr cruise Defence expert Alexander (KDP) in Qaladize, officials said. 1722 and headquartered in the missiles, known by the Nato code- Golts said Russia’s missile strikes “The firing came from the city of Astrakhan was the only name Sizzler, from the Caspian hinged on the Caspian Flotilla’s KDP,” said Hawsar Wshyar choice for Russian generals want- Sea on Wednesday, the first time unusual location, separated from Mohammed Amin, a member ing to showcase their military they had been fired in combat. Syria by Russian ally Iran and of the Sulaimaniyah provincial reach in the Syrian conflict. The Russian Defence Ministry Iraq, which also receives military council from former opposition Obtaining permission to fly said the terrain-hugging missiles support from Moscow, as obtain- party Gorran. missiles through the airspace of travelled some 1,500km to strike ing permission to fly through for- “The protest is ongoing and it’s Nato-member Turkey was an targets and denied US reports eign airspace was one of the main going in a dangerous direction,” unlikely prospect and a land- that four crashed in Iran. obstacles to the operation. he added. based attack was ruled out by the Russia stations at least 20 REUTERS 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear warships armed with missiles, REUTERS Palestinians carry a wounded protester, who was shot by Israeli troops, during clashes near the Israeli border fence in northeast Gaza yesterday. Netanyahu offered vague West Bank withdrawal terms: Ex-US negotiator

WASHINGTON: Israeli Prime generally responsive.” meet at the White House early next asked about the prospects for a deal dur- very clear in words and deeds that that’s Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Ross has advised Republican and month, have an interest in repairing ing Obama’s tenure. the last thing on his mind right now,” the US five years ago that Israel could Democratic presidents, including relations that in March reached their Ross said Obama could reassure Ross said. withdraw from most of the West Bank Democratic President Barack Obama. lowest point since 1982 over the Iran Netanyahu by offering to set up a con- “The reality is we’ve seen these peri- if his country’s security needs were During an interview, Ross said he nuclear deal and remarks Netanyahu sultative committee to address Israeli ods before and afterwards we’ve also seen met, former US Middle East peace believed Netanyahu was deliberately made against Arabs in his successful re- concerns about Iran and weigh options efforts to mend the fences,” he said, citing negotiator Dennis Ross recounts in a vague at the time about land Israel would election bid, Ross said. together to counter Iran’s support for previous Israeli tensions with the admin- book to be published next week. give up in a peace deal and this was con- While seeing little hope of an Israeli- Hezbollah, a Lebanese militia opposed istrations of presidents Jimmy Carter, Prodded by then US Secretary of State sistent with past Israeli leaders who were Palestinian peace deal in the 15 months to Israel. Ronald Reagan and George H W Bush. Hillary Clinton in 2010 to say what he reluctant to state their bottom lines out left of Obama’s term, Ross said it would For Netanyahu, who spoke against Ross said Netanyahu would help mat- could do to advance peace talks and citing of concern that no matter how much they be good if the president worked with the nuclear deal in March at the invita- ters if he took three steps: Working with Israeli security needs, “he said that Israel offered, it would never be enough. both to reduce violence and improve tion of Republicans in the US House of Israel’s allies Britain, France and Germany could withdraw from most of the terri- However willing Netanyahu might lives, and quietly probed Arab states Representatives, Ross said, “I don’t think to help them better understand his coun- tory,” Ross writes in Doomed to Succeed: have been in 2010, he has since said in about the prospects for fostering a bet- there’s anything more important than try’s concerns; opening his coalition to the US-Israel Relationship from Truman the face of post-Arab Spring regional ter atmosphere. that Israel has to be an American issue, more moderate political parties; and prov- to Obama. instability that any Israeli withdrawals “I think you have to lower your sights. not a Republican or Democratic issue. ing his interest in a two-state solution by “He did not want to give percentages, from occupied territory would embolden I don’t believe that Abu Mazen is capa- “Within the White House there’s saying no to building further Jewish set- but he understood what the Palestinians hardline ‘Islamist guerrillas’ arrayed on ble of negotiating an agreement now,” clearly a sense that they see him as tlements on land he envisions as part of a wanted, and if the Israeli security needs its borders. Ross said, using Palestinian President playing a partisan game, and I think it future Palestinian state. were accepted by us and met, he could be Obama and Netanyahu, when they Mahmoud Abbas’s familiar name, when would be important for him to make it RETUERS SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 2015 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com GULF / MIDDLE EAST South Sudan IS nears Aleppo despite Russia strikes opposes drones Moscow denies missiles crashing in Iran for UN peace

BEIRUT: Islamic State group to the city of Aleppo, and this its fighters had captured five vil- mission fighters advanced yesterday is its biggest advance towards” lages in its northern offensive on Syria’s second city Aleppo the country’s pre-war commer- and killed more than 10 soldiers UNITED NATIONS: South despite 10 days of Russian air cial capital, said Abdel Rahman, or militiamen. Sudan told the United Nations strikes that Moscow says are whose Britain-based group relies The British-based Observatory yesterday that it opposed the aimed at routing the jihadists. on a network of sources on the said it was the biggest advance use of surveillance drones to The jihadist gains came as ground across Syria. by Islamic State since it launched help track ongoing fighting in regime forces, backed by Russian Control of Aleppo city is divided an offensive against rival rebels in the world’s youngest nation. bombing and fighters from the between rebel groups in the east Aleppo near the Turkish border The comments came as the Lebanese Hezbollah, intensified and government forces, bolstered in late August. Security Council approved a an offensive against rebels in the by pro-regime militias, in the “Daesh has exploited the resolution that asks Secretary- northwest, where IS is absent. west. Russian air strikes and the pre- General Ban Ki-moon to Western governments say the IS has not had a presence in occupation of the (rebel) Free deploy more helicopters and vast majority of Russian strikes the city, but the jihadist group on Syrian Army in its battles in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have targeted rebel groups Friday boasted it had “reached Hama, and advanced in Aleppo,” to strengthen the UN mission in other than IS in a bid to defend the gates of Aleppo”. said one rebel commander with South Sudan (UNMISS). President Bashar Al Assad’s rule. “IS announced several times fighters in the region, using an South Sudan’s Ambassador IS militants reached their that it would launch an offen- Arabic name for IS. Francis Mading Deng told the closest position yet to Aleppo in sive on Aleppo without doing it. The conflict began as an upris- A French army Rafale fighter before taking off from a base for Syria yesterday 15-member council that the use northern Syria at dawn yesterday They were waiting for the right ing against Assad’s rule in 2011 but as part of France’s Operation Chammal in support of the coalition against of UAVs was a “contested” issue after hours of ferocious fighting moment and took advance of has splintered into a multi-faceted Islamic State. and complained that the move with rival opponents of Assad, a Russian strikes on other rebels civil war involving government was decided without consultation monitoring group reported. to advance,” said jihadism analyst troops, Western-backed rebels, has provided cover for Assad’s US official that four Syria-bound with Juba. “Dozens of combatants were Romain Caillet. jihadists and Kurdish forces. ground troops, who have lost Russian cruise missiles fired from Such a decision will “invite killed on both sides,” said Rami Thomas Pierret, an expert on French Defence Minister Jean- swathes of the country to jihad- the Caspian Sea had crashed in controversy, and potential disa- Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Islam in Syria, said the US-led Yves Le Drian said Friday that ists and rebel groups. Iran on Wednesday. greement and hostility, when har- Observatory for Human Rights. coalition bombing IS in Syria was “80 to 90 percent” of Russian The campaign has been criti- “Any professional knows that mony and cooperation are what IS militants drove out rebels “not very active” in Aleppo, and strikes in Syria were aimed at cal for the regime’s fight in Sahl during these operations we always the situation calls for,” Deng said. from the localities of Tall Qrah, that Russia’s strikes there had propping up Assad. Al Ghab, a strategic plain in fix the target before and after The United Nations has made Tall Soussin, Kafar Qares and the struck mostly rebels, allowing IS He was speaking after French Hama province that borders both impact. All our cruise missiles hit successful use of drones in its mis- base of Madrasat Al Mushat, he to push forward. warplanes carried out new strikes the regime’s coastal bastion of their target,” spokesman General sion in the Democratic Republic said. A senior regional official close overnight on IS targets in Syria, Latakia and the rebel stronghold Igor Konashenkov said. of Congo, allowing peacekeepers The jihadists are now just over to the Syrian government said: where Paris launched its first of Idlib province. Iran declined to confirm the to survey areas that are hard to 10km from the northern edges “The Iranians are at the heart raids on September 27. Syria’s army announced a “vast claim by the US official, who did access or too dangerous to deploy of Aleppo city, edging closer to of the battle, with strength According to the Observatory, offensive” on Thursday, advancing not provide details about where the blue helmets. the front line where pro-regime and effectiveness. Yes they are 14 IS jihadists were killed in the near Sahl Al Ghab from both the the missiles might have come down Russia and Venezuela abstained forces are positioned, including participating.” raids, which had struck “a train- Hama and Latakia fronts with or if they caused any damage. from the vote largely in protest the Sheikh Najjar industrial zone. As the operation in the west ing camp” on the southern edges Russian air support. at the new provision on the use “IS has never been so close pushed ahead, Islamic State said of Raqa city. The Russian air war Moscow denied a claim by a AGENCIES of UAVs and another section on the threat of sanctions, but the resolution was adopted by a vote of 13 in favor. Russian Deputy Ambassador Petr Iliichev said it was time to Obama to overhaul Syria operations engage with South Sudan’s war- ring sides to advance peace and not “frighten them off with the LONDON: US President year in what was seen as a test of States had helped Kurdish forces threat of sanctions.” Barack Obama will overhaul Obama’s strategy of having local to successfully battle Islamic South Sudan’s President Salva Washington’s approach to sup- partners combat Islamic State State in Syria. Kiir signed a peace accord on porting Syrian rebel forces militants and keep US troops off “The work we’ve done with the August 26, a few days after rebel following this year’s deeply the front lines. Kurds in northern Syria is an leader Riek Machar committed to troubled launch of a US military But the program was trou- example of an effective approach the agreement, but fighting has training programme, Defence bled from the start, with some where you have a group that is continued. Secretary Ashton Carter said of the first class of less than 60 capable, motivated on the ground, Last month, the United States yesterday. fighters coming under attack that you can enable their success,” sought UN sanctions on the army Carter hinted the new approach from Al Qaeda’s Syria wing, Carter said. chief and a rebel commander, but would focus more on enabling Nusra Front, in their battlefield “That’s exactly the kind of the move was blocked by Angola, forces already on the ground to debut. example that we would like to Russia, China and Venezuela. battle Islamic State. The original Reuters reported last week that pursue with other groups in other The world’s youngest nation, US military effort sought to train the Obama administration was parts of Syria going forward. South Sudan descended into entire units outside Syria, at sites considering extending support to That is going to be the core of the bloodshed in December 2013 when in Turkey and Jordan, and then thousands of Syrian rebel fighters, President’s concept.” Kiir accused Machar of planning send them back into the civil war. possibly with arms and air strikes, A senior U.S. defence official, a coup, unleashing a wave of kill- The formal decision would be as part of the revamped approach speaking to reporters travelling ings that has split the country announced later on Friday, he told to Syria. with Carter, said the program along ethnic lines. journalists. That includes rebels near the itself was not ending, adding The violence has killed tens of “We have devised a number of border with Turkey and members that there would be some train- thousands of people and driven different approaches,” Carter told of the Syrian Arab Coalition. ing and vetting of Syrian rebels more than 2.2 million from their Britain’s Defence Secretary Michael Fallon (left) speaks during a news a news conference in London. Carter said the new US effort in the future. homes. conference with his US counterpart Ashton Carter at Lancaster House in In May, the US military began would seek to enable Syrian rebels London yesterday. training for up to 5,400 fighters a in much the way the United REUTERS AFP

Two Somalia Senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards general killed in Syria scribes freed ANKARA: An Iranian elite forces in 2005. an overseas arm of the IRGC. IS. Regional sources also told coordination between Syrian Revolutionary Guards general It was the IRGC, loyal to “Hamedani was a very influ- Reuters that Soleimani travelled armed forces and the voluntary from jail has been killed near Aleppo Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali ential figure and very close to to Russia in July to plan for the forces in their fight against the while advising the Syrian army Khamenei, that suppressed stu- (Qassem) Soleimani. He was an Russian military intervention Islamic State militia (IS). MOGADISHU: Somalia’s gov- on their battle against Islamic dent protests in 1999 and also expert of Syria. A very valuable that has reshaped the Syrian war. “For years, Hamedani played a ernment released two journal- State fighters, the guards said silenced the pro-reform protests commander and a true believer Assad’s longtime ally Russia very important role in Syria as ists who spent a week in jail in a statement yesterday. that followed 2009 presidential of Islam and the (1979 Islamic) launched its air campaign in an adviser ... he played an impor- after broadcasting a debate on The Guards said General elections. They were the most revolution (of Iran),” the official September, saying it would also tant role in preventing the fall the presence of foreign forces in Hossein Hamedani was killed widespread protests since the said on condition of anonymity. target IS. But its planes have also of Damascus. Then he returned the country. on Thursday night and that he 1979 Islamic revolution. Tehran denies having any mili- hit other rebel groups opposed to home at the end of his assign- Universal TV’s regional direc- had “played an important role ... Hamedani was head of an tary forces in Syria, but says it Assad, including groups backed ment,” Kosari told the semi-offi- tor Abdullahi Hersi and producer reinforcing the front of Islamic IRGC unit in charge of security in has offered “military advice” by Washington. cial Tasnim news agency. Awil Dahir Salad were set free resistance against the terrorists”. Tehran, where police, the Guards to Assad’s forces in their fight In the biggest deployment of “He returned to Syria for a few but the independent London- Iran is the main regional ally of and its Basij militia allies clashed against “terrorist groups”. Iranian forces yet, sources told days because of his deep knowl- based broadcaster remained off Syrian President Bashar Al Assad with protesters. Since 2011, Another Iranian Guards com- Reuters last week that hundreds edge about the area ... and he was the air and its Mogadishu office and has provided military and Hamedani has been subjected to mander was killed in Syria in of troops had arrived since late martyred in Syria.” was closed on Thursday. economic support during Syria’s international sanctions for violat- June. September to take part in a major Tasnim said that Hamedani’s “We are very pleased that the four-year-old civil war. ing human rights. Iranian news websites have ground offensive planned in west body will be returned to Iran journalists have been released,” Hamedani, a veteran of the An Iranian official said published pictures of Soleimani and northwest Syria. “tonight or tomorrow morning”. information minister Mohamed 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, was made Hamedani was a close ally of the on the front lines in Iraq help- Iranian lawmaker Esmail Abdi Heyr told reporters. deputy chief commander of the head of the Quds Force, which is ing Iraqi forces fight against Kosari said Hamedani helped REUTERS However, he warned journal- ists, “to tell stories wisely while avoiding anything that implicates the nation’s stability and unity.” The Universal TV journalists said they were relieved to be free. Libya rivals urged to sign peace deal “After six days in jail, we are eventually free and can go back to our lives,” said Salad. “We TRIPOLI: World leaders urged vast resource wealth. to warring factions to sign the were shocked that we have been Libya’s warring parties yester- The new government proposed accord. He urged Libya’s leaders accused of engaging in state day to sign a proposed peace deal by UN envoy Bernardino Leon “not to squander this opportu- destruction and implicating the installing a national unity gov- would be headed by Fayez El nity to put the country back on country’s stability.” ernment, after a cool response Sarraj, a deputy in the Tripoli par- the path to building a state that The journalists were arrested from some lawmakers in the liament, and include three deputy reflects the spirit and ambitions when national intelligence agents country’s rival parliaments. prime ministers, one each from the of the 2011 revolution. raided their studio on October 2 Libya has had two administra- west, east and south of the country. “Now is the time for the parties after it broadcast a debate on the tions since August last year when “After a year of work in this to the political dialogue to endorse role of foreign forces in Somalia. a militia alliance that includes process, after working with more this proposal and sign the agree- The internationally-backed Islamists overran the capital, forcing than 150 Libyan personalities ment without delay.” government in Mogadishu is the internationally recognised gov- from all the regions... finally the British Foreign Secretary Philip protected by the 22,000-strong ernment to take refuge in the east. moment has come in which we Hammond said the proposal “rep- African Union Mission in Somalia, The country descended into can propose a national unity gov- resents a genuine opportunity for AMISOM, with troops from chaos after the fall of Muammar ernment,” Leon told a news con- the parties to resolve the political Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya Gaddafi in 2011, with the two sides ference in Morocco. and security situation in Libya”. and Uganda. vying for power as well as several UN chief Ban Ki-moon wel- Libyan men take part in a protest against a new government proposed AFP groups battling for control of its comed the news, and appealed AFP by UN envoy Bernardino Leon, in the eastern city of Benghazi, yesterday. SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 2015 GULF / MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 UN aid chief PKK leader ready for wants probe of Yemen wedding Turkey ceasefire bombing UNITED NATIONS: The top United Nations aid official Commander warns against military campaign called for a swift investigation Thursday of a suspected Saudi- QANDIL, Iraq: The Kurdistan Tayyip Erdogan of being to blame lies. As of now, we have lost 70 led air strike that killed dozens Workers Party (PKK) is ready for the violence. martyrs.” of people at a wedding in Yemen. for a new ceasefire with the “We don’t want war. We have Meanwhile, he said that the Stephen O’Brien, the UN Turkish authorities despite tried to go down the political and Kurdish movement had been under-secretary-general for almost three months of deadly democratic path to move the dia- boosted by its involvement in the humanitarian affairs, said he was violence, one of its leaders said logue forwards,” said Bayik. fight against Islamic State (IS) “deeply disturbed” by the news in an interview at its stronghold “But Erdogan held up the proc- jihadists in northern Syria, a that civilians had been killed in in northern Iraq. ess,” Bayik complained. “He made campaign backed by Europe and Supporters of Kurdish party HDP, cheer Selahattin Demirtas (not pictured), Wednesday evening’s bombing. The PKK, which since 1984 us believe that there was a dia- the United States. the co-chairman of the party, during an election rally in Istanbul, Turkey, “I call for a swift, transparent has waged an armed struggle logue. But his aim was to delay it But the rebels in northern Iraq yesterday. and impartial investigation into for autonomy and greater rights as he never believed in it.” still live undercover, suspecting this incident,” O’Brien said in a for Kurds in Turkey, declared a Bayik, 64, said he still had hope Turkish drones are watching statement. ceasefire in March 2013. of a peaceful solution, saying time them from the sky and awaiting “Real accountability for par- But it ripped up the truce had shown that violence was no the next air raid. Deputy PM dismisses ties to conflict, whether they are in July this year, accusing the way out. These remote mountains states or non-state groups, is Turkish authorities of collaborat- “If it was possible to solve this represent their base, with por- urgently needed, to ensure that ing with Islamic State (IS) jihad- problem through war, then it traits of Ocalan everywhere and truce offer as ‘tactic’ the commitment under interna- ists in Syria, allegations Ankara would have been solved long ago,” Kalashnikov-touting fighters tional law to protect civilians is vehemently denies. he said. checking traffic at the entry to ISTANBUL: Turkish Deputy benefit its political extension,” he meaningful,” he added. The Turkish authorities say The upsurge in violence has every village. Prime Minister Yalcin Akdogan told the Haberturk TV channel O’Brien quoted Yemen’s min- over 140 members of the security raised fears of whether there can The PKK’s resumption of its has dismissed the prospect of a on Thursday evening. istry of public health as saying forces have been killed in PKK ever be a final peace deal to end campaign of violence also came ceasefire declaration by Kurdish “We are fed up with that. You that at least 47 people were killed attacks since and have hit back Turkey’s conflict with the PKK, at a critical political moment in militants as a “tactic” ahead of a burn and destroy everything, you and 35 were injured, among them with a relentless bombing cam- which has claimed 40,000 lives. Turkey. November 1 election, reiterating oppress and kill people, launch a many women and children, in the paign against the group. But Bayik denied that the PKK The ruling Justice and government demands that the war on the state ... then say you strike. Medical sources confirmed “We are ourselves ready for a was to blame for the flare-up, say- Development Party (AKP) of militants lay down arms and don’t want election security to be at least 28 deaths said. ceasefire from right now,” Cemil ing it was only acting in “legiti- Erdogan lost its overall major- leave Turkey. negatively affected,” he said, reit- The raid hit a house where doz- Bayik said in an interview in the mate self defence”. ity in June 7 elections largely due The Kurdistan Workers Party’s erating a call for the militants to ens of people were celebrating in group’s stronghold of the Qandil “All the guerilla movement is to the success of pro-Kurdish (PKK) 31-year-old conflict with leave Turkey. the town of Sanban in Dhamar mountains of northern Iraq. doing is to protect itself, it has forces. the state erupted anew in July, HDP deputy Ertugrul Kurkcu province, 100km south of the capi- But Bayik — who along with still not entered into a war,” he After it failed to form a coali- when Turkey launched air strikes said a ceasefire would prevent the tal Sanaa, residents said. It was Murat Karayilan is considered said. tion, Turkey is now facing snap on militant camps in response ruling AK Party from exploiting the second alleged air strike by the the PKK’s top commander on “What we see are young people polls on November 1. to rising attacks on its security the security situation to impose Saudi-led coalition on a Yemeni the ground in the absence of its stepping into the fray to protect Bayik accused Erdogan of forces, ending a ceasefire declared restricted military zones and debunk wedding party in just over a week. jailed chief Abdullah Ocalan — themselves and the people and reigniting the conflict with the in March 2013. AKP allegations that people vote for But the coalition, under mount- warned of a drastic PKK response democracy.” PKK in revenge for the loss of the A senior PKK figure hinted the HDP under PKK pressure. ing criticism over the civilian if Turkey continued its military The Turkish authorities, by AKP’s majority in the elections. at a ceasefire as a way to bolster Ankara has declared a series death toll of its bombing cam- campaign. contrast, accuse the PKK of being But he suggested that the PKK the election prospects of the pro- of curfews and military zones in paign against Iran-backed Shiite “If the Turkish government bloodthirsty “terrorists” who have could be ready to declare a cease- Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party the southeast, but a bid to relo- rebels, denied any involvement in continues with its logic of war, killed scores of young police and fire ahead of the elections with the (HDP), which deprived the ruling cate polling stations away from the latest attack. whether we want it or not, other soldiers simply because they are aim of helping the pro-Kurdish AKP of its single-party majority conflict areas — potentially mak- O’Brien noted that 4,500 civil- cemeteries will fill up and the con- in uniform. Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in a June parliamentary election. ing it difficult for some voters ians have been killed or injured flict will extend to all of Turkey, Official Turkish media say again score a strong result. But Akdogan, who is in charge to cast ballots – was rejected by since the Saudi-led coalition Syria and the Middle East,” Bayik some 1,740 PKK members have “For democracy to advance in of the Kurdish dossier for the the election board. The PKK has began air strikes against rebels added. been killed in the military’s air the Turkish Republic, it is neces- government, dismissed any such announced a series of ceasefires in in Yemen in March. “That is Dressed in the grey battle strikes in southeast Turkey and sary to help the HDP. We have move as an electoral gambit. the past, including ahead of elec- more than in any country or cri- fatigues favoured by Kurdish northern Iraq. already done this and we will do “We have often seen the terror tions, often with a view to engag- sis in the world during the same militants and with a picture of But Bayik rubbished the sug- it again,” he added. group resorting to such political ing in negotiations. period,” he noted. Ocalan pinned into his lapel, gestion that the death toll was tactics when it is cornered, head- Bayik accused President Recep anything on this scale. “It’s just AFP ing to its winter shelters or to REUTERS AFP

Saudi Arabia protests over Tunisia civil society groups win Nobel Peace Prize Czech version of OSLO: Tunisian civil society Order of Lawyers. encouragement for the parties Satanic Verses groups won the Nobel Peace The honour took observers by in opposition and those in power Prize yesterday for helping res- surprise as the Tunisians had not so they can believe in democracy ABU DHABI: Saudi Arabia cue the only democracy that been mentioned in the weeks of and not just grab power,” Tunis summoned the Czech ambas- emerged from the Arab Spring, frenzied speculation in the runup resident Shukri ben Nasif said. sador to protest against a in a hugely symbolic show of to the announcement. Since the Tunisia uprising, the new translation of Salman support for the country after a The UN chief said the award Arab world has been rocked by Rushdie’s book Satanic Verses, wave of jihadist attacks. also belonged to the Tunisian peo- massive upheaval that has top- state media said yesterday, The Nobel panel said the award ple. “This recognition belongs to pled leaders in Egypt, Libya and 27 years after the novel trig- to the National Dialogue Quartet all those who gave birth to the Yemen and plunged Syria into a gered global demonstrations was intended as an “encourage- Arab Spring and are striving brutal civil war. and a death threat against ment to the Tunisian people” and to safeguard the sacrifices of so Tunisia was able to adopt a the author. as a beacon to the wartorn Middle many,” he said. constitution in January 2014 and The kingdom told the East, north Africa and beyond. “The Arab Spring began with held its first democratic elections ambassador the book insulted The award won praise from great hopes that were soon replaced at the end of last year. both Islam and Muslims and around the globe, with UN chief with grave doubts. Tunisia has But its democracy remains asked him to try and halt pub- Ban Ki-moon hailing the groups’ managed to avoid the disappoint- fragile, with the country rocked lication, the SPA agency added, work as “an inspiration to the FROM LEFT: President of the Tunisian employers union Wided Bouchamaoui, ment and dashed hopes that have by a series of high-profile political citing a source in the Saudi for- region and the world” while one Secretary General of the Tunisian General Labour Union, Houcine Abassi, tragically emerged elsewhere.” killings and bloody recent attacks eign ministry. winner said it was a tribute to President of the Tunisian Human Rights League Abdessattar ben Moussa and The winners themselves were by Islamic State militants that The kingdom wanted to those who had died in the strug- the president of the National Bar Association, Mohamed Fadhel Mahmoud quick to recall the cost in human killed 22 people, mostly tourists, express its “condemnation and gle to move from dictatorship to arrive for a news conference in Tunis, in this September 21, 2013 file photo. life, with the country’s power- at a Tunis museum in March, and disapproval of translating the democracy. ful labour union saying it was a another 38 foreigners in a beach book”, and hopes the Czech Announcing the award in Oslo, prize will contribute towards safe- uprisings across the region. “tribute to martyrs of a demo- resort massacre in June. government will stop publica- Nobel committee chairwoman guarding democracy in Tunisia Formed in 2013 when the cratic Tunisia”. “This effort by In an interview after the tion of the work which is offen- Kaci Kullman Five saluted the and be an inspiration to all those process of democratisation was our youth has allowed the country announcement, the Nobel commit- sive to Islam and Muslims, the quartet’s “decisive contribution who seek to promote peace and in danger of collapsing because to turn the page on dictatorship,” tee chief said the quartet’s work Saudi Press Agency quoted an to the building of a pluralistic democracy in the Middle East, of widespread social unrest, the said UGTT chief Houcine Abassi proved that political compromise unnamed foreign ministry offi- democracy in Tunisia in the wake North Africa and the rest of the quartet established an alterna- in words echoed by fellow winner, between secular and Islamist cial as saying. of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011.” world,” the panel said. tive, peaceful political process as the UTICA trade confederation. groups could result in meaning- “The kingdom urged that The quartet had succeeded in The prize was awarded nearly Tunisia was on the brink of civil “We are here... to give hope ful democracy. “It is possible, it religion and cultures not be establishing a “broad-based national five years after a desperate war, the committee said. to young people in Tunisia that has been done and it can be done insulted in any way or form,” dialogue” and must be given much Tunisian street vendor set him- It is made up of the Tunisian if we believe in our country, we again if the people forming differ- the report said. There was no of the credit “for ensuring that the self on fire, touching off a wave General Labour Union (UGTT), can succeed,” UTICA head Ouided ent political movements want to immediate comment from the benefits of the Jasmine Revolution of unrest which left more than the Tunisian Confederation of Bouchamaoui said. cooperate in the best interest of Czech government, or from lit- have not been lost,” she said. 300 people dead and eventually Industry, Trade and Handicrafts On the streets of Tunis, peo- their people,” Kullman Five said. erary publisher Paseka which “The Norwegian Nobel toppled the dictatorial president (UTICA), the Tunisian Human ple welcomed the Nobel as a issued the edition in April. The Committee hopes that this year’s Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, inspiring Rights League and the Tunisian boost for democracy. “It’s an AFP translator used a pseudonym. Rushdie’s novel, first pub- lished in Britain in 1988, caused outrage among Muslims. The writer lived in hiding for nine years. The book’s Japanese translator was stabbed to Beirut art museum reopens death in 1991 and other people involved in publishing it world- BEIRUT: A stone’s throw from of culture, the Sursock galleries resisted and stayed a cultural wide have been attacked. dramatic street protests shak- boasted paintings and sculptures landmark in Lebanon.” Iran has threatened to boy- ing central Beirut, art lovers by artists from Lebanon and For the next three months, the cott next week’s Frankfurt gathered to celebrate the reo- across the world. museum is displaying 200 works book fair because Rushdie has pening of a museum of mod- The country’s 1975-1990 of art tracing Beirut’s evolution been booked to give the open- ern art which they hailed as a civil war all but shut down the from a provincial Ottoman town ing address, a spokeswoman symbol of the Lebanese capital’s museum, and it closed again in in 1800 to a booming national for the world’s largest literary resilience through conflict and 2008 for extensive renovation, capital in the 1960s - including trade event said yesterday. turmoil. before finally opening this week late 19th century photographs, a Rushdie’s agent did not The Sursock Museum, an for a third time. watercolour by Lebanese artist immediately respond to Italianate mansion built for an “Sursock museum is a part of Amine el Bacha and a 1966 piece requests for comment. The Ottoman aristocrat, first opened Lebanon’s modern history, a his- by British artist David Hockney. first Czech version of The to the public when he bequeathed tory that the war of 1975 tried to A more permanent exhibi- Satanic Verses was published it to the city more than 60 years erase,” said Rafic Chlala, a former tion shows the development of in 1994. ago. presidential advisor attending a Lebanese modern art over the REUTERS In the 1960s, when Beirut flour- reception to mark its latest rein- last two centuries. ished as the Middle East’s capital carnation. “But this museum REUTERS An interior view of the Sursock Museum in Beirut, Lebanon, yesterday. SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 2015 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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HE decision of the Norwegian Nobel Committee to award this year’s Nobel peace prize to a disparate coalition of Tunisian unionists, Temployers, lawyers and human rights activists GOP insiders campaign is both timely and praise-worthy. Tunisia is a shining star in the Arab firmament and a lofty example as it is the only Arab country to transform from dictatorship to democracy through Arab Spring. It’s a transformation that has won Tunisia a place in history while other Arab as outsiders Spring countries faltered, failed, descended into anarchy By Sean Sullivan or reverted to autocracy. Syria has especially spun out never held elective office and are lead- on Wednesday. “Trust me — I’ve got tire ing in the polls, fuelled by voter frustra- marks on my forehead from doing it.” of control. Tens of thousands of people have been killed, t a coffee shop meet-and- tion with government. A recent Gallup He pointed to rising incomes and educa- millions forced to flee and the country still poses a huge greet this week, Jeb Bush survey showed that Americans’ trust in tion reform as examples of his success. challenge to the international community. belittled US senators for each of the three branches of the federal It’s not clear, however, that Bush’s The achievement of Tunisia is exemplary and getting nothing done. At a government is at or near historic lows. executive record in Florida will enable extraordinary in such circumstances, which must be restaurant in Oskaloosa, he Their chief rivals have increasingly him to tap into the same anti-Washing- Atold a lunchtime crowd that he would tried to tap into that sentiment, but it ton energy that has propelled Trump, applauded and rewarded, which is what the Nobel “disrupt the old order” as president. hasn’t been easy. Carson and Fiorina. The first two committee has done. The Nobel panel said the award to the And at a Pizza Ranch in Indianola, he At a campaign stop in his home Republican candidates to drop out were Tunisia’s National Dialogue Quartet was intended as an said he “never worked in Washington” state last week, Senator Marco Rubio former Texas governor Rick Perry and encouragement to the Tunisian people and as a beacon to and that it’s “not part of my DNA.” of Florida, for example, criticized the Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. the war-torn Middle East, North Africa and beyond. “The That’s a particularly striking mes- government he has served in since 2011. Bush’s call to “disrupt Washington” Norwegian Nobel Committee hopes that this year’s prize sage for a scion of one of America’s most “The deeper problem is that never - also has become blurred with oth- powerful political families. Indeed, dur- certainly in my lifetime and probably in ers making similar pitches. When a will contribute towards safeguarding democracy in Tunisia ing several days campaigning in Iowa, yours as well — has there ever been a gov- reporter asked him about his pitch to and be an inspiration to all those who seek to promote Bush fielded multiple questions about ernment more out of touch with its people “defeat the Washington machine,” Bush peace and democracy in the Middle his brother and his father - both former than our federal government is today,” quickly corrected him by referring to East, North Africa and the rest of the presidents. At one stop, he listened as he told a crowd filled with retirees. “And the Kentucky senator running for presi- The award world,” the panel said. a man reminded him that he comes by the way, I wish I could tell you that it dent: “No, that was Rand Paul.” The Nobel peace prize picks by the from a “lineage of was just Democrats. It’s Republicans, too.” But Bush’s biggest obstacle in his of the leadership.” But Rubio’s many missed votes as he effort to be seen as an outsider may be Nobel peace Norwegian committee is not always During a race runs for president have drawn wide- his instantly recognizable last name. welcomed uniformly across the world. favouring nov- spread attention and have made him “How are your parents?” asked a woman prize to a The choice often comes as a surprise, ices like Donald a target of criticism about Washington who came to Bush’s meet-and-greet at even sparks controversy and expected During a race Trump, Carly lawmakers not doing their jobs. Trump Elly’s Tea and Coffee here in Muscatine. Tunisian names mostly get left out. The world Fiorina and Ben has slammed Rubio directly, while Bush Bush told the mostly older crowd that favouring novices Carson, Bush has called for a dock in pay for members his father, former president George H.W. national has high expectations of this prize, like Donald and several of Congress who miss work. Bush, is “strong as a goat” and that his dialogue but the selection committee follows other 2016 candi- Senator Ted Cruz of Texas has effec- candidacy has “lifted his spirits.” its own criteria. But it’s unlikely that Trump, Carly dates are scram- tively distanced himself from Republican Later, at Smokey Row Coffee in quartet will there will be differences of opinion Fiorina and Ben bling to unhitch leaders by openly criticizing their strat- Oskaloosa, a man told Bush: “I sup- about this year’s choice. The selection themselves from egy in Congress and railing against the ported your father and brother, and help boost will especially be celebrated in the Carson, Bush Washington and “Washington cartel.” But Cruz also has you come from a wonderful lineage of from government significant and long-standing estab- leadership.” In hammering Washington, democracy Arab and Islamic world, and for the and several other — even as they lishment ties: He worked on George Bush is not only trying to compete with in the Arab rest of the world which has been seek the nation’s W. Bush’s 2000 campaign and was once Trump, Fiorina and Carson. It is also hugely skeptical about Arab Spring, 2016 candidates most powerful Speaker John A Boehner’s lawyer. a way for him to sharpen his contrast world. and which has been to some extent are scrambling government job. And then there is Bush’s younger with Rubio, who has picked up momen- unaware of the Tunisian success, “Any experi- brother, Jeb, who is trying climb back tum since the second Republican debate this year’s selection will serve as an to unhitch ence that is gained up the polls after a long slide as Trump and is competing for donors and surro- in Washington and the other outsiders have ascended. gates with his fellow Floridian. eye-opener. The UN chief Ban Ki-moon hailed the groups’ themselves from should be thrown Asked by a reporter whether his cur- “If you’ve been in Washington, DC, work as “an inspiration to the region and the world”. Washington. out the résumé rent pitch was his way of taking on out- in the last six years, if you’re a United The prize is a tribute to all those who died in the window unless sider candidates, Bush replied: “I’m not States senator, what have you done?” struggle to move from dictatorship to democracy. And it the candidates taking on anybody. I’m just telling my Bush asked at Elly’s. “You’ve pushed is not only for the democratic success in Tunisia, but for are relating to story.” Until recently, the “disruption” back against President Obama, and I specific economic or national security theme had been a subtle part of Bush’s admire that. But there’s been no change Tunisia as the birthplace of Arab Spring. The prize comes issues,” said Republican strategist Ron campaign. He is now talking about it in the culture.” Asked whether he stands nearly five years after a poor Tunisian street vendor set Bonjean. “It is toxic to introduce your- more frequently, drawing a line from by his 2012 comment that Rubio had himself on fire, triggering a wave of revolution which left self to audiences by touting your DC his record as a two-term governor of more experience than Obama when he more than 300 people dead and eventually ousted the biography unless you use it show how Florida to what he would do in the ran for president, Bush responded, “He dictatorial president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, thus inspiring you would like to take a wrecking ball” White House. still does,” but adding: “That’s a low bar.” uprisings and revolutions across the region to the place. “I disrupted the place,” Bush said of . Trump, Fiorina and Carson have Florida while campaigning in Oskaloosa THE WASHINGTON POST The other side Quote of Signs country tapping its growth potential the day N ITS LATEST Global Financial international community “don’t worry” industrialization, the country will be able number of Chinese tourists making trips Stability Report released on after the IMF warned of the risks from to sustain middle-to-high growth in the overseas during the holiday was even Wednesday, the International China’s economic challenges. near future, ensuring steady growth in more remarkable. For instance, 4 mil- Monetary Fund said: “The Chinese The slowest pace of China’s growth Chinese imports of raw materials. lion Chinese are visiting Japan this year, Iauthorities face an unprecedented in about a quarter of a century is a result More importantly, if it can make an increase of 60 percent over 2014. Just as the world must policy challenge in carrying out their of both the huge downward pressures some big strides in boosting consump- The manifested enthusiasm of support the Tunisian objectives to make the transition to a levied by domestic economic restruc- tion-led growth, China will contribute Chinese consumers to travel and shop new growth model and a more market- turing and the increasing uncertainties more to global growth with a surge in is solid evidence that the rise in living people, we must stand based financial system.” facing the global economy. global consumption of Chinese shop- standards means consumption-led with civil society groups Such a reminder of how serious Yet, the concurrence of China’s eco- pers rather than another wave of “made growth is dawning. Yet as the wide- around the world who the country’s economic challenges are nomic slowdown and falling commodity in China”. spread holiday traffic jams and reports may not be music to all ears, espe- prices around the globe does not point Initial statistics show that during the of overcharging tourists show, Chinese advocate for the human cially when it comes immediately after to a clear-cut causality justifying con- first seven days of October, the coun- policymakers and businesses still face rights and inherent a weeklong national holiday. cerns that China’s slowdown threatens try’s sales volume of retail and catering a huge task in creating an environment Yi Gang, deputy governor of the to derail the global economy. service businesses amounted to 1.08 conducive to unleashing the full poten- dignity of every human People’s Bank of China, was not trying If China presses ahead with its trillion yuan ($171.75 billion), up 11 per- tial of consumers. being. Barack Obama to sweeten the tune when he told the ongoing course of urbanization and cent year-on-year. The growth in the CHINA DAILY US President SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 2015 OPINION www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 The limits of US gun control laws By Max Ehrenfreund

ollowing the fatal shooting of nine people at a community It could be that where fewer people own firearms, college in southern Oregon last week, US President more people are willing to support gun-control Barack Obama renewed his legislation. That legislation itself might not reduce Fcall for “sufficient, common-sense gun- safety laws.” Yet there is only limited evi- the rate of fatalities, but because there are fewer dence that piecemeal regulation of the kind that policymakers in Washington guns, there are fewer deaths. and in state houses around the coun- try are considering would substantially reduce gun fatalities. Take a prohibition on assault weap- ons, one of the most common proposals. The ban might make mass shootings less Tasmania led the country’s conservative the law appeared to cause a substantial, deadly, but most homicides are commit- prime minister to require owners to sell 40 percent decline in the gun homicide ted with handguns. A rule that owners their guns to the government in 1996. rate, but again, in a small state with must store their guns under lock and The government seized at least 650,000 relatively few homicides to begin with, key — if it were followed — would help guns — about one in five guns in civil- researchers need more information to keep guns away from suicidal adolescents, ian hands at the time. The result was determine whether the background but wouldn’t protect adults in a violent a reduction of nearly 80 percent in the checks would have a similar effect else- domestic dispute. Requiring background rate of suicides by firearm. And the data where. In Missouri’s case, the change in checks for private sales and transfers suggest that Australians didn’t simply use the gun homicide rate was smaller, and would make it harder for convicted fel- other methods besides guns to commit it is unclear whether background checks ons to buy guns secondhand, but some suicide. The policy likely saved hundreds reduce the rate of suicide. would still buy guns as a favour to broth- of lives a year. And shootings such as the one last ers or boyfriends who wouldn’t qualify Homicides by firearm also declined week show that background checks some- themselves. sharply, although since there were so times aren’t enough to avert violence. Senator Richard Blumenthal (right) is flanked by Senate colleagues while speaking about gun Civilians in the United States already few homicides in Australia before the Authorities say Chris Harper Mercer control during a news conference on the Senate steps at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. own more than enough guns to arm ban, it is hard to know what to make of had 13 guns and took six with him on his every American man, woman and child. the data. Yet such broad programs aren’t rampage at Umpqua Community College in which four or more people were killed homicides) were more than twice as com- Each of those weapons could end up in discussed in the current political climate in Roseburg, Oregon. He or members or wounded, and about 10,000 firearm mon in the states with the most lax laws the wrong place at the wrong time. As in the United States. of his family reportedly acquired all of homicides in total, according to organi- on guns compared to the states with the a result, experts say, the main reason On Monday, Hillary Rodham Clinton the weapons from retailers, meaning sations that monitor gun violence in the most stringent laws. Yet when adjust- that guns cause the deaths of so many laid out a plan to require buyers at gun that they passed background checks. United States. ing for the number of guns — along with Americans is just that America has so shows to pass background checks. And Adam Lanza, who authorities say shot Clinton’s plan also calls for revok- demographic variables and the rate of many guns. And while most gun-control Obama is considering similar measures, and killed 26 at an elementary school in ing the licenses of dealers who “know- violent deaths not involving firearms — proposals aim to keep guns out of the The Washington Post reported — bypassing Newtown, Connecticut in 2012, is said to ingly supply” guns to the black market. these two groups of states had identical wrong hands — measures that could cer- Congress through his executive author- have killed his mother before taking guns It’s difficult, though, for law enforce- rates of gun fatalities. tainly save lives — they do not generally ity as president to expand background she had purchased. ment to prove that a dealer knows who It could be that where fewer people address the sheer quantity of guns in this checks into what are currently consid- Maybe more thorough background is buying his wares and to what end, own firearms, more people are willing to country. ered private sales. checks, involving more than just a said Jay Wachtel, a former agent at the support gun-control legislation. That leg- “The big problem is the guns,” said There is reason to believe that requir- review of a buyer’s criminal and medi- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms islation itself might not reduce the rate David Hemenway, a professor of public ing background checks for all purchases cal records, could have prevented these and Explosives who spent much of his of fatalities, but because there are fewer health at Harvard University. — not just for transactions at licensed killings, but it’s hard to say. Dylann Roof, career on the trail of gun traffickers in guns, there are fewer deaths. “Guns are incredibly lethal,” he said. retailers, as current law requires — could the young man who allegedly killed nine Los Angeles. In any case, as long as guns remain “It’s easy to kill with a gun.” There aren’t prevent some firearms deaths, though it people at a church in Charleston, in June, It is true that there are far fewer so prevalent in American life, it appears other ways to take a life that are equally is not clear how many. passed a background check despite his deaths involving guns in states with more that violent shooting deaths will continue. effective. A knife wound is about eight “The best we can do is say, ‘The evi- arrest on a narcotics charge. The arrest restrictive rules on firearms, according to “The availability of firearms feeds this times less likely, for instance, to take a dence is very suggestive, and it seems to should have barred him from purchasing Hemenway and his colleagues, who thor- problem, but then, what the hell are you life than a gunshot wound. make sense,’ “ Hemenway said. a weapon. oughly examined the issue in the Journal going to do about it?” asked Wachtel, who A mandatory buy-back programme, Researchers have studied laws in No system of background checks will of the American Medical Association in now teaches criminal justice at California along the lines of Australia’s highly suc- Connecticut and Missouri requiring a be perfect at capturing the rare per- 2013. At the same time, there are also far State University, Fullerton. Meaningful cessful ban on shotguns and semiau- purchaser to pass a background check son who sets out to kill many. Most gun fewer guns in those states to begin with. changes to the nation’s firearms policy tomatic and automatic rifles, could be and get a permit in order to buy guns related deaths a year aren’t mass killings, So it’s hard to know what to make of the aren’t politically feasible, he said: “We’re effective in reducing the number of fire- privately. These laws prevented about a but disputes that go wrong involving one connection. screwed. This is America.” arms. In Australia’s case, a mass shooting few dozen homicides a year, according to or two people. So far this year, there have The study noted that deaths involv- at a tourist destination on the island of those studies. In the case of Connecticut, been fewer than 400 deaths in shootings ing firearms (including both suicides and THE WASHINGTON POST White House weighing a Syria retreat An American aims to push Britons to leave EU By Josh Rogin and Eli Lake added: “This is not in any way a By Kylie MacLellan substitute or change in our long- remain in the EU and those who standing policy of pressing for a back leaving is narrow. week into Russia’s mili- In Syria, much as it did in Ukraine, Russia political transition in Syria.” ost Britons have Gunster acknowledges that it tary intervention in Syria, Other officials told us that never heard of Gerry is generally easier to get people Asome top White House has hidden its true intentions, using while US still has programmes in MGunster, yet the to vote for what they know. “It is advisors and National Security place to aid the moderate opposi- 48-year-old American could going to be a tricky one,” he said. Council staffers are trying to per- the ruse of joining the fight against ISIL tion, top members of the admin- play a major role in whether “You need to not only show people suade President Barack Obama to to provide cover for Russia’s military istration who have been pushing they vote to leave the European that there is a problem, you need scale back US engagement there, for more of that support, or for Union at a membership refer- to explain to them that there is a to focus on lessening the violence intervention to prop up the Assad regime. the establishment of safe zones endum due by the end of 2017. solution to that problem.” and, for now, to give up on top- in Syria, are increasingly frus- A referendum veteran, he has “This is unprecedented and pling the Syrian regime. trated with the White House’s been hired by the Leave.EU ‘out’ I think like most referendum In addition, administration reluctance. This group included group to mastermind its campaign campaigns, they are volatile and officials and Middle East experts Kerry and General John Allen, to persuade Britons they are bet- I think it is just way too early to on both sides of the debate tell “The White House somehow themselves without any hope that the outgoing special envoy to the ter off without the European say whether or not people are us, Obama’s foreign-policy team thinks we can de-escalate the Putin might bring the Syrian anti-Islamic State coalition. Union. The advocacy firm he OK with the status quo.” no longer doubts that Russian conflict while keeping Assad in regime to the table. Kerry, though Putin’s intervention has flum- heads, Goddard Gunster, says it Under his company’s slogan: President Vladimir Putin power,” one senior administration always sceptical of Russia, has moxed the US from Day One. As has a 90 percent success rate. ‘Get used to winning’, Gunster intends to prop up President official told us. been the point man on engaging the Russian military moved into For the man behind Leave.EU, has successfully campaigned Bashar Al Assad and primarily That view, being pushed by top the Russian government through Syria, US intelligence officials tell millionaire businessman Arron against sugary drink taxes and target opposition groups other White House National Security several conversations with us, the intelligence community Banks, Gunster’s expertise will plastic bottle deposits in several than the Islamic State, includ- staffers, including senior coor- Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. was sceptical that it intended to give the ‘out campaign’ more US states, and helped block then ing those trained by the Central dinator for the Middle East Rob But it’s now clear the Russians focus its military campaign on the than a fighting chance against New York City mayor Michael Intelligence Agency. Malley, is not new. But it has were leading the Obama admin- Islamic State. Even so, as the New those lobbying to stay in the Bloomberg’s attempt to ban the The administration was late received fresh emphasis given istration down the primrose path. York Times reported, the US was 28-member bloc. sale of large, sugary drinks. to this conclusion. Despite warn- Russian intervention. “In Syria, much as it did in surprised by the speed with which “This is an historic vote,” Gunster Gunster, who declined to say ings from US intelligence agencies If Assad is staying and there’s Ukraine, Russia has hidden its Russia built and then announced said by telephone from Washington, how much his firm is being paid that Putin’s military buildup was no political process in sight, this true intentions, using the ruse of its new coalition with the govern- where he is based. “This is a cam- for its role in this campaign, intended to keep Assad in power, argument goes, the US might as joining the fight against ISIL to ments of Syria, Iran and Iraq to paign that is challenging ... but I believes the side that best suc- the White House decided to well focus on alleviating the suffer- provide cover for Russia’s mili- support its military campaign. also feel very positive.” ceeds in appealing to voters’ emo- explore cooperating with Russia ing of the Syrian people and miti- tary intervention to prop up the Brian Katulis, a Middle Although Prime Minister tions will be the one that wins. on the ground. Throughout the gate the growing refugee crisis. Assad regime,” Senate Armed East fellow at the Center for David Cameron has not yet set “You have got to get into that summer and into the fall, top Local ceasefires have been Services Committee ranking American Progress, told us that a date for the referendum, focus- emotional side of a person ... Russian officials—including struck sporadically throughout the Democrat Jack Reed said on Obama’s reluctance to confront ing instead on his plan to rene- Everybody has some self-inter- Putin himself in a meeting last war, mostly in areas under siege Thursday. “Russia’s actions, how- the Russians in Syria is sympto- gotiate Britain’s relationship est,” he said. month with Obama at the UN — by the Assad regime. The United ever, increasingly expose their matic of his overall reluctance to with the bloc, those who want “For a voter that self-interest said they were not committed to Nations special envoy for Syria, true objectives.” embroil America in another costly to see ‘Brexit’ no matter what usually means family, commu- keeping Assad in power for the Staffan de Mistura, has been push- The de-escalation and delay- and bloody war in the Middle are mobilising. nity, pocketbook, wallet and, am long term, and would target only ing this idea for over a year. Assad’s-departure approach East. While Leave.EU turns to I safe? Ultimately people make Islamic State fighters in their “The current policy of the United pushed by Malley and Gordon “If that’s your guiding principle, the United States to boost its those decisions based upon military offensive, according to States and its partners, to increase “has always been on the table. It is it helps explain why they might chances, another ‘out campaign’ whether or not ... voting on this US officials. pressure on Assad so that he ‘comes fully operative now,” former State look for a positive initially in what launched this week, bringing particular issue will protect These officials no longer believe to the table’ and negotiates his own Department official Frederic Hof Russia’s doing,” he said. “The end together some of the biggest those basic principles.” Russia was telling the truth. departure, must be rethought,” wrote in response to Gordon’s result is a policy that doesn’t names in British business to With referendums a more Reuters reported this week that Malley’s predecessor at the National Politico article. The problem, he shift in any direction despite the argue that the United Kingdom common affair in the United for months Putin was planning his Security Council, Philip Gordon, said, is that it won’t work because changes in the environment.” must reclaim its sovereignty. States, most of his firm’s expe- Syria intervention with Iranian wrote at Politico as Russia was “neither the regime, nor Tehran, Caught between two camps With the financial firepower rience is on the other side of the officials while misleading the amassing its forces in Syria. nor Moscow have demonstrated in his administration, Obama of several billionaires, ‘Vote Atlantic, but it has been involved West. Now any hope that the US The NSC view is opposed by any interest in it.” may not end up shifting the US Leave’ says Cameron is unlikely in international campaigns. and Russia could work together top officials in other parts of the White House spokesperson approach to Syria at all, although to persuade other EU leaders to Ben Goddard, who has now on stabilizing Syria has ended. government, especially Secretary Emily Horne told us that there the de-escalation side has the support the kind of reform that retired but has worked with At the same time, Obama has of State John Kerry and US has been no change in the admin- momentum. Either way, as Russia, it believes Britain needs. Gunster for 16 years and continues ruled out engaging in a proxy war Ambassador to the UN Samantha istration’s position that Assad Iran and the Syrian regime change Those campaigning for Britain to provide him with advice, advised with Putin’s military, leaving few Power. They are trying to per- must go, while also noting that facts on the ground, the rela- to stay in the EU are also ready- then Russian President Boris good options. One path, however, suade Obama that the only way top officials, including Kerry, tive position of America and the ing their arguments, with the ‘In Yeltsin on his 1990s referendums would mean finding ways to tamp to solve Syria is to increase the have publicly acknowledged that Syrians it has supported becomes Campaign’ launching on Monday on economic and political reform. down the fighting by negotiating pressure on Assad in the hopes the timetable is negotiable. The graver by the day. in London. Polls show the gap small, local cease-fires with the he will enter negotiations. US is always looking for ways to between Britons who want to REUTERS Assad regime. Yet Kerry and Power now find diminish the violence there, she BLOOMBERG SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 2015 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / AFRICA Australia, Philippines Mosque leader in Sydney calls for end to violent extremism in talks over refugees SYDNEY: The leader of the Sydney mosque attended by a 15-year-old who killed a police Canberra looking for new countries to transfer refugees worker has called for an end to violent extremism, saying yes- SYDNEY: Australia said yes- level and ministerial level over a both sides,” Dutton said. terday that Muslims who reject terday it was in talks with number of months and the for- “If we can strike an agreement Australian values should leave the Philippines to send refu- eign minister obviously spoke that is in the best interests of our the country. gees there, but refused to con- with her counterpart in New York country and from the Philippines’ Radicalised Farhad Jabar, who firm reports of a Aus$150m recently,” Immigration Minister perspective, their country, we will shot dead the 58-year-old last (US$109m) deal to expand its Peter Dutton told reporters. arrive at that point.” week while reportedly shouting controversial resettlement “I am not going to publicly com- It has been more than a year religious slogans before dying in policy. ment in relation to where some since a boat carrying asylum- a gunbattle with police, was a reg- Under Australia’s hardline pol- of the negotiations are at. I think seekers arrived in Australia and ular at the mosque in the west- icy to stop asylum-seeker boats we’re best to discuss those issues Canberra has declared its hardline ern multi-cultural Parramatta reaching its shores, those arriv- in private with those partners.” policy a success, despite intense district. ing by sea are denied resettlement Canberra has already struck criticism from rights groups. Mosque chairman Neil in Australia, even if found to be a deal with Cambodia to accept Before it was introduced, boats El-Kadomi explained to report- genuine refugees. refugees in exchange for millions were arriving almost daily, with ers what he had told the faithful They are sent to much-criti- of dollars in aid over the next four hundreds drowning en route. at morning prayers and ahead Anti-islamist protesters hold banners as they stand in front of members of cised camps on the Pacific island years. Bishop’s office would not con- of a planned evening protest by the New South Wales Police riot squad outside the Parramatta mosque in nations of Nauru and Papua New Only four asylum-seekers have firm the report on the Philippines right-wingers to close the build- Sydney yesterday. Guinea and in recent months so far opted to take up the offer deal, but a spokeswoman said the ing down. Australia has been seeking new of a new life in impoverished two governments had “long coop- “I said you waited long time to mosque reportedly shows Jabar extremism. Turnbull, who met countries to settle the refugees in. Cambodia, while the deal itself has erated on irregular migration, come to this country. You should meeting several men there on the earlier in the day with figures A front-page report in The been condemned by rights groups. people-smuggling and human not abuse the privilege you are day of the killing, although police from the Muslim community, Daily Telegraph said Foreign New Australia Prime Minister trafficking”. Australian, which is very impor- have not confirmed this. asked his countrymen to “call out Minister Julie Bishop had agreed Malcolm Turnbull said last Opposition politician Sarah tant. “Get out. We do not need Prime Minister Malcolm hatred” saying “violent extremism the deal with her Philippines month he was concerned about Hanson-Young slammed the pro- scumbags in the community. Turnbull also advised people to is a challenge to the most funda- counterpart in New York and conditions in the camps but gave posed deal with the Philippines. “We reject terrorism.” leave if Australian values were mental Australian values”. that it was awaiting sign-off by no indication of a major policy “Treating refugees as human Kadomi said Muslim youth “unpalatable”. Police issued a warning ahead President Benigno Aquino. change. cargo in a trade deal with the needed education, adding that “It is not compulsory to live in of the planned Parramatta pro- “We have had bilateral discus- “We will continue the nego- Philippines is shameful,” she said. Jabar was too young “to know Australia,” he told a press con- test called by a far-right group. sions with other countries, includ- tiations (with the Philippines) what he was doing”. ference urging Australians not ing the Philippines at an officials because there is good faith on AGENCIES CCTV footage from Parramatta to go down the path of violent AFP

China not to allow breach of territorial waters

BEIJING: China said yester- has signalled it does not recognise peace and stability,” Hua said told the Aspen Security Forum day it would not stand for viola- Beijing’s territorial claims in response to a question about in July that China was building tions of its territorial waters in and that the US navy will con- possible US patrols. hangars on one of the reefs - the name of freedom of naviga- tinue to operate wherever inter- The United States and its allies Fiery Cross – that appeared to tion, as the United States con- national law allows. in Asia, including Japan, have be for tactical fighter aircraft. siders sailing warships close to “We will never allow any coun- called on Beijing to halt construc- In May, the Chinese navy issued China’s artificial islands in the try to violate China’s territo- tion on its man-made eight warnings to the crew of a South China Sea. rial waters and airspace in the islands and the issue is central US P8-A Poseidon surveillance A US defense official told Spratly Islands, in the name of to increasingly tense US-China aircraft that flew near China’s Reuters the United States was protecting freedom of navigation relations. artificial islands, according to mulling sending ships within the and overflight,” Foreign Ministry Chinese President Xi Jinping CNN, which was aboard the US next two weeks to waters inside spokeswoman Hua Chunying told has said China has no intention aircraft. the 12-nautical-mile zones that a regular news of militarizing the islands, but The Philippines, Vietnam, China claims as territory around briefing. Washington analysts and US offi- Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan have islands it has built in the Spratly “We urge the related par- cials say Beijing has already begun overlapping claims in the South chain. ties not to take any provocative creating military facilities there. China Sea. China claims most of the South actions, and genuinely take a Admiral Harry Harris, com- Inmates sift through their belongings and debris inside the provincial jail China Sea, though Washington responsible stance on regional mander of US forces in the Pacific, REUTERS in Abuyog, Leyte province, yesterday. Smoking to kill Fire sweeps Philippine one in three Criminal probe sought into prison, leaves 10 dead young men in China: Study scandal involving Malaysia PM MANILA: Fire swept through found near the security fence. a maximum-security Philippine The Southeast Asian coun- LONDON: One in three of KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s Najib also has been rocked by It was not immediately clear prison, killing 10 inmates, most try’s dilapidated prison system all the young men in China central bank said yesterday the sensational revelation in July what has become of the $1.83bn. of them in their cells, authori- is the fourth most overcrowded will eventually be killed by it had formally recommended that nearly $700m in mysterious The central bank is perhaps the ties said yesterday, in a disaster in the world, according to the tobacco unless a substantial that criminal proceedings be transfers had been made to his most respected government insti- likely to highlight woeful condi- International Centre for Prison proportion of them succeed in launched against a state-owned personal bank accounts, and which tution in Malaysia, and the rev- tions in one of the world’s most Studies. quitting smoking, researchers company linked to Prime remain unexplained. elation casts a further cloud over over-crowded prison systems. Authorities transferred pris- said yesterday. Minister Najib Razak and which Najib, 62, and 1MDB have Najib’s handling of the affair. The cause of the blaze at the oners from the damaged section “Without rapid, commit- is at the centre of a massive cor- repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, Najib fired Malaysia’s attor- prison in the central province of to a minimum-security com- ted, and widespread action to ruption scandal. and have insisted that no 1MDB ney general in July amid specu- Leyte on Thursday evening was pound. Several dormitories in reduce smoking levels, China The recommendation, which money made it into his accounts. lation that he was preparing faulty electrical wiring, a fire the 42-year-old penal facility were will face enormous numbers of has since been dismissed by a Bank Negara said it had rec- criminal charges against the pre- department officer said. destroyed by a fire in 2013. premature deaths,” said Liming Najib-appointed attorney general, ommended in August that the mier, replacing him with his own “The whole maximum security Overcrowding in Philippine Li, a professor at the Academy was first made by the central Bank attorney-general “initiate crimi- appointee. compound was struck by the fire, prisons is exacerbated by a slow of Medical Sciences in Beijing Negara in August but only dis- nal prosecution against 1MDB The bank’s statement appeared so everyone inside the cells was judicial process and a lack of basic who co-led a large analysis of closed for the first time on Friday. for breaches” of laws on overseas to be an attempt to set the record caught in the blaze,” municipal infrastructure. Inmates suffer the issue. Najib and the company money transfers. straight following a statement on fire marshal Eric Barcelo told from inadequate nutrition and The study, published in The that he launched -- 1Malaysia Bank Negara also directed Thursday by the Najib-controlled reporters. medical attention, the US Bureau Lancet medical journal, found Development Berhad (1MDB) 1MDB, an investment vehicle attorney-general’s office, which Eight inmates were burned of Democracy, Human Rights and that two-thirds of young men -- have been under intense pres- launched in 2009 by Najib, to repat- had declared that no wrongdoing beyond recognition in their Labor in a 2013 report. in China start to smoke, mostly sure to explain more than a billion riate $1.83bn that the bank said by 1MDB had been found. cells while one died in an emer- before age 20, and that unless dollars of money allegedly missing was invested abroad based on inac- gency shelter and one body was REUTERS they quit for good, around half from overseas investments. curate or incomplete disclosures. AFP of those who start will eventu- ally die from their habit. The scientists conducted two large, nationally representative Hong Kong protest studies 15 years apart, track- Hepatitis C Tension flares ahead of ing the health consequences of smoking in China. The first was in the 1990s and involved a scare widens Guinea presidential poll quarter of a million men. The second study is ongoing, and in Singapore CONAKRY: Tension flared in “We won’t take part in an elec- involved half a million men and Guinea ahead of tomorrow’s toral sham,” Diallo said at his last women. SINGAPORE: A hepatitis C presidential election, only the campaign rally. “Otherwise we The results showed annual scare in Singapore widened yes- country’s second such demo- shan’t accept the results and I number of tobacco deaths in terday after its largest hospital cratic vote, as the opposition shall mobilise the population with China, mostly among men, had said nearly 1,000 patients and warned of fraud and incumbent all the other (opposition) candi- reached a million by 2010. If health staff need to be screened President Alpha Conde appealed dates to reject them,” he warned, current trends continue it will for the virus. for a massive victory. accusing the Independent National be two million by 2030. The state-run Singapore Conde’s main rival Cellou Dalein Electoral Commission (CENI) of Among Chinese women, General Hospital said 678 patients Diallo this week called for the poll being “incompetent and biased”. however, smoking rates have as well as 273 medical work- to be delayed as ethnic tensions But Conde told journalists that plummeted and the risk of pre- ers were being contacted to be emerged and clashes between “the CENI is perfectly entitled to mature death from tobacco is screened for the virus, local media supporters of the two contenders organise the election on October low and falling, the study found. reported, double the number ini- left at least two people dead on 11.” The proportion of all male tially estimated to be affected. Thursday. In Conakry yesterday, traf- deaths at age 40 to 79 attrib- The hospital earlier said 22 Returning to Conakry after a fic was disrupted on the road to uted to smoking has doubled kidney patients had been infected tour across the destitute nation, the airport as Conde supporters to around 20 percent now from Protesters gather to call for academic freedom at the University in Hong with hepatitis C between April and Diallo asked for the vote to be stopped cars and pedestrians sus- about 10 percent in the 1990s. Kong yesterday. More than a thousand students, alumni and teachers June. Eight died with four of the delayed on the grounds that the pected of backing the opposition. joined the protest as anger mounts over political interference in the city’s deaths linked to the viral infection. electoral roll has been stacked in REUTERS education system. favour of Conde. AFP AFP SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 2015 ASIA / PAKISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09

Four held in Afghan attack Bangladesh Afghan peace talks over Japanese farmer's murder face further delay DHAKA: Bangladesh police said yesterday officers picked up two more people for questioning Reconciliation talks will take time, says US general over the murder of a Japanese KABUL: Disarray within the The Afghan Taliban attended earlier this week that he favored farmer, an attack claimed by Taliban leadership could delay a round of peace talks with the retaining a larger US military the Islamist State group, with peace talks with the Afghan government in July, but later presence in Afghanistan next year two others in custody. government for a few months, disavowed the negotiations after than envisioned in current plans, Hoshio Kunio was shot dead on but up to 70 percent of the mili- the disclosure that Mullah Omar, which calls for an embassy-based Saturday in the northwestern city tant group may ultimately be the elusive leader of the militant force by the end of 2016. of Rangpur, the second foreigner reconciled with Kabul, the top group, had died two years earlier Campbell also said the United to be killed in a week, with IS US commander in Afghanistan in neighbouring Pakistan. States currently has about 9,800 claiming both attacks, although predicted last Thursday. Mullah Mansour was chosen as troops in Afghanistan. Of that experts are dubious. “I think it’s going to take a good the new Taliban leader, but some number, 1,300 were tied to day- Police did not disclose the iden- couple of months before we see factions of the group opposed his to-day training and advising mis- tity of the pair, but local media them kind of back to any kind selection and called for a new sions with only 500 of those were said they work in a private bank of peace negotiation,” US Army leadership vote. Mansour’s mes- outside the capital Kabul, he said. in Rajshahi city, 150kms south of General John Campbell told a sage for the Muslim festival of Eid While declining to elaborate on Rangpur. hearing of the Armed Services al-Adha discussed resurrecting his recommendations to President “Police picked up the two from Committee in the US House of peace talks with Kabul. Barack Obama for next year, he Rajshahi for questioning over the Representatives. Campbell said he thought told lawmakers a reduction in killing of the Japanese national. “I think reconciliation talks between 60 percent and 70 per- troop numbers to an embassy They are not formally arrested will continue, but it’s going to cent of the Taliban’s members force would limit the ability to yet,” national police spokesman Afghan security personnel stand guard outside a Shia mosque after take some time to bring the right would ultimately be open to conduct and assist missions. Nazrul Islam said. a bomb explosion in Kabul yesterday. At least one civilian was killed people to the table to do that,” he reconciliation. AFP and three wounded after bombs placed inside a Shia mosque in Kabul said. The general told lawmakers REUTERS exploded, police officials said. Nepal parliament to elect Fuel shortage forces Jimmy new premier tomorrow Carter to cancel Nepal visit

KATHMANDU: Nepal yester- on a consensus candidate for down their arms in 2006 after a KATHMANDU: Fuel short- supplies due to a border blockade onetime peanut farmer who day announced plans to elect a prime minister, President Ram decade-long insurgency. ages in Nepal have forced by groups protesting Nepal’s new served as president from 1977 to new prime minister this week- Baran Yadav asked parliament The charter was meant to end former US president Jimmy constitution. 1981, is arguably better known for end, three weeks after the coun- to vote, speaker Subash Chandra years of inequality and cement Carter, who is battling brain “I am saddened that we his decades of humanitarian work try adopted a new constitution Nembang told lawmakers. peace but bitter disputes over its cancer, to cancel his visit to the have had to cancel this year’s since leaving the White House. that triggered deadly protests “I have fixed the election for provisions have sparked violent country next month, Habitat Carter Work Project,” Jonathan More than 40 people have been and a border blockade. the post of the prime minister... protests and a blockade of a key for Humanity International Reckford, Habitat for Humanity killed in Nepal in clashes between Incumbent prime minister on Sunday at 11 in the morning,” trade route by demonstrators that said. International’s chief executive, police and protesters representing Sushil Koirala had pledged to Nembang said. has forced nationwide fuel ration- The Nobel laureate had said in a statement released late ethnic minorities who say a new step down after the constitution Parties have a day to register ing. More than 40 people have planned to visit with the Atlanta- last Thursday. federal structure laid out in the -- Nepal’s first to be drawn up by their nominations. If none of been killed in clashes between based non-profit organisation as “The severity of the shortages constitution adopted last month elected representatives -- was the candidates is able to secure a police and protesters represent- part of the Jimmy & Rosalynn has proven to be insurmountable will leave them under-repre- adopted on September 20. simple majority, the speaker will ing ethnic minorities who say a Carter Work Project to build and we would not be able to guar- sented in the national parliament. He announced on October 2 he set a date for re-elections to be new federal structure laid out in homes in Chitwan, 97km from antee volunteer care and safety.” Protesters have blocked a would ask the president to begin held. the constitution will leave them the capital Kathmandu. Carter, 91, had expressed his major bridge checkpoint since the process of forming a new The constitution marks the under-represented in the national But the organisation cancelled wish to visit Nepal in August, September 24, prompting author- government. final stage in a peace process that parliament. the visit citing a nationwide when he revealed that he has ities to ratio. After parties failed to agree began when Maoist rebels laid AFP shortage of fuel and other vital cancer on his brain. Carter, a AFP Nepal forms panel to ease row with India

Pakistan calls KATHMANDU: The Nepal Lanka’s China ties government yesterday formed on India over a three-member panel to talk with India to end the current Samjhauta political and diplomatic stand- to remain friendly off and ensure smooth supply of essential commodities, includ- COLOMBO: Sri Lanka will government in March after disruption ing petroleum products. continue to pursue a friendly concerns were raised over Nepal is facing a crisis after policy towards China and pro- some aspects of the project. ISLAMABAD: Pakistan sum- thousands of Nepal-bound trucks mote all kinds of cooperation The project began construction moned a senior Indian dip- remain stranded at the Nepal- between the two countries, Sri in September last year. lomat yesterday to convey India border following violent Lankan President Maithripala Liu said despite changes -- concern over cancellation of demonstrations, protests and Sirisena has said. both in regional and interna- a cross-border train service, unrest in Nepal. The protests In a meeting with visiting tional situation and the political authorities said. have claimed more than 40 lives. Chinese envoy and Chinese Vice situation in Sri Lanka, China The Delhi-bound Samjhauta A cabinet meeting on Friday Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin will adhere to the friendly policy Express, carrying both Indian formed a three-member talk on Thursday, Sirisena said his between the two countries. and Pakistani passengers, was team headed by Minister for country was willing to make He hoped that Sri Lanka will called back from the Wagah Foreign Affairs Mahendra joint efforts with China to fur- make joint efforts with China border last Thursday after Bahadur Pandey and having ther strengthen friendly rela- for the development of bilateral Indian authorities informed Chief Secretary of the Nepal Passengers ride an overcrowded bus as limited public transportation tions and also advance with the relations. Pakistani officials of farmers government, Somlal Subedi, and operates in the city during the ongoing fuel crisis in Kathmandu yesterday. suspended mega China-funded Sri Lanka should see the 21st protest on the Indian side of Commerce and Supplies Secretary port city project, Xinhua news Century Maritime Silk Road, the border. Naindra Prasad Upadhyay as Indian capital New Delhi where under a shortage of essential com- agency reported. proposed by China, as an oppor- The Indian farmers were members. it will hold high-level meetings modities, including fuel, medicine The $1.4bn Colombo Port City tunity to promote cooperation holding a demonstration to Though the detailed terms with senior Indian ministers and and other goods of daily use. India Project, funded by the China and lift the ties between the demand compensation for of reference of the Pandey-led officials. has denied imposing an embargo Communications Construction two nations to a new high, Liu destruction of their cotton crop, panel were yet to be made public The team will communicate the against Nepal and refuted all alle- Company Limited (CCCC), added. according to reports. by the government, sources told ground realities and will seek a gations made against it. was suspended by Sirisena’s IANS IANS IANS that the team will soon visit possible solution. Nepal is reeling IANS

Pakistan protest NGOs faced danger long before MSF tragedy

KABUL: The US air strike staff members said this week. “Staff no longer feel safe in any situation is deteriorating,” said in Afghanistan that killed at “A few years ago the situa- health facility anywhere in the Qudratullah Nasrat, chief execu- least 22 patients and staff at a tion was much more stable,” said country,” the Ministry of Public tive of Organisation for Research Medecins Sans Frontieres hos- Antoine Sagot-Priez, head of Health said in the wake of the and Community Development, pital wasn’t the first time the the Afghan mission for French Kunduz attack. operating government clinics in escalating war has affected an aid agency Premiere Urgence Afghanistan was the most vio- Ghazni province. “They say it’s aid-run medical facility. There Internationale, which has con- lent country for aid workers last getting worse, day by day.” have even been instances since tracts through the government to year, according to the Aid Worker Health clinics and hospitals, Foreign aid workers and Afghan run 80 health facilities in Kunar Security Database, and interna- particularly in remote areas, can colleagues shaken by the week- and Daikundi provinces. tional medical NGOs have been be affected by both sides of the end tragedy in Kunduz, one of “Now we have more and more targeted before. conflict. the worst incidents of its kind in casualties because the fighting is In 2004, five MSF staff were On last Monday, just two days the 14-year war, say increased spreading all over the country,” killed in Badghis province, after the MSF hospital in Kunduz violence around the country he added. prompting it to pull out of the was hit, members of Afghanistan’s makes it harder to provide basic According to Sagot-Priez, in country temporarily. In 2013, a National Directorate of Security services in a country where mid-August intense fighting broke ICRC staff member in the eastern intelligence agency broke into an NGOs help provide the vast out near a remote clinic operated city of Jalalabad was killed. ambulance at a clinic in Wardak majority of healthcare. by Premiere Urgence in Kunar, in But changing tactics by Taliban province, west of Kabul, operated In recent months, local and the east. The staff evacuated with insurgents this year, coinciding by the Swedish Committee for international non-govern- their patients and none too soon: with the withdrawal of most for- Afghanistan, staff reported. Supporters of a Pakistani political party hold signs with images of con- mental organisations (NGOs) that day, the clinic was damaged eign troops that made the country The agents detained two SCA victed killer Mumtaz Qadri during a demonstration against Qadri's death have seen equipment and in the shelling. less stable, has seen district and staff members overnight, accord- sentence, in Karachi yesterday. The Supreme Court on Wednesday ambulances damaged in sui- “We expect this kind of event to provincial ing to Khalid Fahim, SCA’s pro- had upheld Qadri's death sentence for killing the governor of Punjab cide attacks, raids by Afghan happen more and more,” he said. centres targeted more fre- gramme director in Afghanistan. province after he called for reform of the blasphemy law. security personnel and threats The Afghan government recog- quently and across a broader area. to their lives from militants, nises the growing risks. “My staff always tells me the REUTERS SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 2015 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / INDIA Delhi CM sacks minister Food minister Asim Ahmed had allegedly demanded Rs600,000 in bribe

NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief corruption.” And Sisodia must not He said an audio tape given to “If we can remove our minister, Minister Arvind Kejriwal yes- spare him (Kejriwal) if he (chief him on Thursday established the then we can take action against terday publicly sacked Food minister) himself indulged in cor- claim of the complainant that the anyone,” Kejriwal said yesterday. Minister Asim Ahmed Khan for ruption, the AAP chief said. minister demanded Rs600,000 The Bharatiya Janata Party allegedly demanding Rs600,000 “I am sad to take this decision,” from the builder for allowing (BJP), the only opposition in in bribe from a builder. he said. “Till the CBI completes illegal construction in his Matia the Delhi assembly where the Announcing this at a hurriedly the investigation, he (Khan) will Mahal constituency in Old Delhi. AAP has 67 of the 70 seats, and called press conference where he not be a minister.” “Prima facie it seems the mat- the Congress made light of the played an audio tape of a conver- AAP legislator Imran Hussain ter is serious... We cannot toler- minister’s sacking. sation purportedly involving the will replace Khan in the Delhi ate this.” “Sometimes Kejriwal fights builder, Khan and a middleman, cabinet. Kejriwal began his press He underlined that this was a with (Delhi’s Lt Governor) Kejriwal said he won’t tolerate conference by saying that the decision of the AAP government, Najeeb Jung, sometimes with corruption. AAP was born from an anti-cor- and that the media did not PM (Narendra Modi), sometimes The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) ruption movement. unearth this episode. with (Home Minister) Rajnath leader said the case was being “We were forced to contest Kejriwal went on to demand Singh, and sometimes with his referred to the Central Bureau elections... People trust us only that Prime Minister Narendra own people,” said BJP leader Ravi of Investigation (CBI). because of our honest politics and Modi should similarly sack Shankar Prasad. “We won’t tolerate any corrup- anti-corruption stand. Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister “Let his stories of fights be left Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he delivers a speech during an tion, even if it is by our minis- “We had dreamt of a corruption Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who is to him,” he said. election rally in Aurangabad, Bihar, yesterday. ters or legislators,” said Kejriwal, free India. And we had said we linked to a recruitment scandal. Congress spokesperson R P N flanked by Deputy Chief Minister will not compromise on corrup- Khan is the second minister to Singh added, “This is the situation Manish Sisodia and official tion at any cost.” bow out of the AAP government when there is no Lokpal in Delhi. spokesman Nagendar Sharma. Still keeping the media guess- in disgrace. Then law minister Imagine if there was one, the “I’ll not spare any minister, ing, Kejriwal said the step “we Jitender Singh Tomar resigned whole cabinet would have to Punish those who any legislator, even my son or are going to take is a solid step” under pressure in June after resign.” even Manish. Strict action will be — and he then announced Khan’s being arrested for allegedly faking taken against anyone involved in sacking. his educational degree. IANS ruined Bihar: Modi

SASARAM: Prime Minister ruined Bihar,” he said. Narendra Modi yesterday said Modi questioned: “Ask Laluji that Bihar voters have made why he is not contesting the elec- up their mind to punish those tion this time. He wants to run PDP, NC leaders underline secular values who ruined the state. At a rally Bihar with a remote control and in Bihar’s Sasaram town, dis- thinks he is the Big Boss,” he said. SRINAGAR: Jammu and “What we are witnessing today upheld communal harmony, Omar He said Sheikh Abdullah trict headquarters of Rohtas, He targeted Chief Minister Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti (in the state) isn’t a reflection of Abdullah said, “We should respect converted his Muslim Conference he also questioned Rashtriya Nitish Kumar and said the Janata Mohammad Sayeed and oppo- our religious tolerance and com- religious sentiments and aspira- into the National Conference Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Dal-United leader’s “arrogance sition leader Omar Abdullah munal amity.” tions of every region in the state. in 1938 and opted for a path for not contesting the polls. will cost him dear”. came together yesterday to call His comments come a day after Chief Minister Sayeed said different from that of Muslim The first phase will be held on “The people who have turned for upholding the state’s secular two Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Kashmir had to be a beacon to League founder Muhammad Ali Monday. Bihar into a ‘Jungle Raj’, have and pluralistic values. legislators assaulted an independ- strengthen India’s secularism and Jinnah who founded Pakistan. “The three parties (Congress- the audacity to talk about it now. Speaking on near similar lines ent legislator, Engineer Rashid, the country’s inclusive nature Taking a larger view, Sayeed RJD-JD(U) who used to fight Vikas Raj is needed in Bihar to on religious tolerance, Sayeed and in the assembly last Thursday for must be preserved. said the 17 crore Indian Muslims against each other, have come solve all its problems,” the prime Omar Abdullah spoke eloquently hosting a beef party. He said when the sub-conti- had always supported secular together. Why have they sud- minister said. as the assembly unanimously Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal nent was caught up in commu- parties. The resolution was later denly come together? They have Modi will address one more passed a resolution pledging to Singh of the BJP apologised for nal flames in 1947, Kashmiris adopted unanimously as mem- come together only for power, and rally in Aurangabad district yes- uphold the ethos of the country’s the attack, which drew wide embraced a secular path. bers from the Peoples Democratic this is called opportunism of poli- terday afternoon. only Muslim-majority state. condemnation, including from He went on to praise Omar Party, the National Conference, tics. They have ruled Bihar for 60 Modi had addressed four rallies “We have been elected to set Chief Minister Sayeed, whose Abdullah’s grandfather and the Congress and the BJP as years and have ruined the state,” in Bihar last Thursday. He sought an example here,” National PDP rules the state with the BJP National Conference founder well as independents raised their Modi said. support for the BJP-led NDA in Conference leader Omar Abdullah as its ally. Sheikh Abdullah’s “vision of hands in support. “But the voters have made up the state polls. said, moving the resolution. Saying Kashmiris had always tolerance and brotherhood”. IANS their mind to punish those who IANS PM to lay foundation Composer Ravindra Jain passes away MUMBAI: Renowned music At a very young age, Jain director Ravindra Jain, who started learning to sing Jain stone for AP capital overcame his blindness to chart bhajans and at local Jain temples a stellar career in Bollywood, and later his parents decided to HYDERABAD: Prime ministers of Singapore and Japan died at private hospital here on teach him music under the tute- Minister Narendra Modi will for the ceremony. However, senior Friday following prolonged ill- lage of Pandit G L Jain, Pandit J. visit Andhra Pradesh (AP) on officials from the two countries ness, an aide said. He was 71. Sharma and Pandit Nathu Ram October 22 to lay foundation are expected to attend. A film on He is survived by his wife Divya in Aligarh. stone for the state’s new capital Amaravati will be screened at the and a son Arush. He worked in the Bengal film Amaravati. ceremony, which will also witness Jain, who breathed his last industry from 1960 onwards, His day-long visit to the state cultural programmes. at Lilavati Hospital in Bandra and in 1970 came to Mumbai has been finalized. According Modi will also launch an e-brick around 4.15pm following multi- to work in Bollywood through to officials, Modi will reach portal to receive donations for organ failure and other complica- Prathibhushan Bhattacharya Gannavaram airport near the construction of the state tions arising out of renal failure, for whose films, “Kranti” and Vijayawada by a special aircraft capital. The state government had been suffering from kidney “Balidaan”, Jain composed the at 11.45am. He will then leave for has appealed to people, especially ailments since some time. He had music. Over the decades, he went Uddandarayunipalem in Thullur Telugus living abroad, to make been admitted to the Wockhardt on to compose some of the most mandal of Guntur district to par- contributions. Super Specialty Hospital in memorable numbers in super- ticipate in the foundation stone The prime minister will also Nagpur last Tuesday, where he, Late music director Ravindra Jain hit movies like “Ankhiyon Ke laying ceremony. The prime felicitate farmers who have come owing to his ill-health, could not Jharokhon Se”, “Chitchor”, “Chor minister will reach the venue at forward to donate their lands for attend a scheduled music concert. His funeral will be held at Aligarh, as the third child among Machaye Shor”, “Geet Gaata 12.35 pm and participate in the the capital. After the ceremony, As there was little improve- Santacruz Hindu Cemetery today seven brothers and sisters. Chal”, “Shyam Tere Kitne Naam”, ‘puja’ along with Governor E S L Modi will return to Gannavaram ment in his condition, Jain was afternoon, said an aide. Among his siblings are D K “Fakira,” “Saudagar,” “Ram Teri Narasimhan, Chief Minister N. airport at 3.05pm and from there airlifted to Mumbai by his family Born blind on February 28, 1944 Jain, a former judge and a director Ganga Maili”, “Henna”, among Chandrababu Naidu and central will fly to Tirupati. last Wednesday and admitted in to Sanskrit scholar and ayurveda of the Times Group, and Pandit many others. and state ministers. the ICU of Lilavati Hospital and doctor Pandit Indramani Jain and M K Jain, a renowned ayurvedic Naidu has invited prime IANS kept on a ventilator. Kiran in then United Provinces’ doctor. IANS

Record attempt Ghulam Ali to Kerala offers to host Mob beats up perform in Delhi two over alleged in December Japanese firms' meet cow slaughter NEW DELHI: Pakistani THIRUVANANTHA- heads from his country,” said LUCKNOW: Days after a man ghazal maestro Ghulam Ali, PURAM: Kerala Tourism yes- Rao, adding the state would soon was lynched by a mob in Uttar whose concert in Mumbai this terday expressed its desire to host a meeting of top executives Pradesh’s Dadri city over sus- week was cancelled following play host to the meetings and of Japanese companies based in pected consumption of beef, two threats from the Shiv Sena, will conferences of Japanese compa- India to kick-start the process. youths were beaten up in the now regale his Indian fans at a nies and got a positive response “We will also organise a meet- state’s Mainpuri city yester- show here in December. from Japanese Ambassador to ing in Tokyo of Japanese CEOs,” day after allegedly being found The news was confirmed by India Takeshi Yagi. he said. Japanese companies reg- slaughtering a cow. Police res- Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kerala’s Tourism Secretary ularly send their senior execu- cued the two. Kejriwal. G Kamala Vardhana Rao met tives abroad for meetings and Police had a tough time rescu- “Ghulam Ali Sahib. Hum apke Yagi in New Delhi to seek the conferences. ing the two youngsters, who have bahut bade fan hain (I’m a huge support of the Japanese gov- Yagi also suggested a meeting now been admitted to a local fan of yours). Abhi apse baat ernment in turning Kerala into of the representatives of the Indo- medical facility. karke bahut acha laga (I felt really a MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Japanese Chamber of Commerce Violence broke out in the city’s good to talk to you). Thanks for Conferences and Exhibitions) to explore the possibility of invit- Quraishiana locality after some agreeing to do a program in Delhi destination for CEOs of promi- ing investment in hospitality and people were allegedly caught in December,” Kejriwal posted on nent companies in Japan and tourism sector in the state. slaughtering a cow. As the news his Twitter page on Friday. those based in India. The tourist visa on arrival spread, several people took to the Delhi’s ruling AAP last The meeting came ahead of facility introduced by India for streets and beat up the two men. Thursday had invited the noted Kerala Tourism road show in Japanese citizens has given a When police reached the scene, singer to perform here after he Tokyo is slated for October 19. boost on the number of arrivals the mob resorted to stone-pelt- cancelled his Mumbai concert. Students pose for photographers as they hold up painted and decorated “The honourable ambassador to Kerala, while the number of ing. A police jeep was set on fire, The 75-year-old was scheduled blouses at a college in Chennai. Some 3,500 students painted 7,000 of Japan has assured his full sup- Keralites visiting Japan has also forcing police to resort to a cane to perform in Mumbai and Pune blouses in one hour yesterday in an attempt to enter the Limca Book port towards Kerala government’s increased in the recent past. charge. They also fired blanks in this week. of Records. efforts to transform the state as a the air. IANS MICE destination for the business IANS IANS SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 2015 ASIA / INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Ready for Navratri SC rejects death in Katara case Apex Court turns down mother's plea stating it was not an ‘honour killing’

NEW DELHI: The Supreme backward caste or bad family,” his cousin Vishal Yadav along heinousness of the crime, it said. Court yesterday rejected a Justice Khehar observed as senior with another person kidnapping As Salve reiterated the grounds plea by Neelam Katara seek- counsel Harish Salve appearing and murdering Katara. for the enhancement of the sen- ing enhancement of sentence for petitioner told the court that “It is probably that dance that tence pointing to the “surgical” to death for Vishal and Vikas it was a case of honour killing. disturbed the mind of (Vikas precision with which Katara was Yadav, who have been convicted Not persuaded, the court said and Vishal) that (set) them into murdered, the court observed, “It for murdering her son Nitish that “(Yadav) family knew that action,” the court said, rejecting is just a murder, nothing more. It Katara in February 2002. they were in relationship and the contention of honour killing. may be planned. Every murder is A bench of Justice Jagdish they were talking about it”, add- Forget “honour” and “show us planned.” Singh Khehar and Justice R ing “could she (Bharti - Vikas’s it is heinous” and covered under “Nobody can relieve anybody’s Banumathi said that while it was sister) have invited Nitish Katara the category of rarest of rare case, pain when child is lost,” the court a murder and could even be pre- for her own sister’s wedding with- the court asked Salve. said in apparent reference to the meditated, it was not heinous or out family permission”. As Salve told the court that it presence of Neelam Katara in the a case of honour killing. This is a society living in urban was case involving kidnapping, court room as it declined the plea. Neelam Katara had moved areas where they allow friend- premeditated burning of body She had sought enhancement the SC questioning a Delhi High ships with a rider, “friendship so leading to destruction of evidence, of the sentence to death or alter- Court order sentencing both far so good, don’t take next step”, the court asked him where was natively imprisonment for whole Vikas and Vishal Yadav to 25 and said the bench. the heinous dimension, like the life. five years' sentences which are to Telling Salve that it was not a body being chopped into pieces or According to the high court Dancers dressed in traditional attire pose with a motorcycle during a be run one after the other. case of honour killing and appar- something like that. order, both the Yadav brothers full dress rehearsal for the "garba" dance ahead of Navratri festival in “I am not very sure it is really ently something happened while Burning of body was only are to undergo a sentence of 30 Ahmedabad, yesterday. Navratri, which starts on October 13 this year, is a matter of honour killing as he Katara and Bharti were dancing destruction of evidence and years each. celebrated over a period of nine days when thousands of youths dance (Nitish Katara) was not from that resulted in Vikas Yadav and same does not amount to IANS the night away in traditional costumes. Court orders truck toll to improve Delhi’s air Pest blights GM cotton

NEW DELHI: Diesel-guzzling the cocktail of smog, according trucks and commercial vehi- to the Centre for Science and crop, fuelling debate cles in India will soon have to Environment (CSE). ‘Metrino’ project to decongest pay a surcharge for entering The independent centre says MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: Two "Bt technology is effective only New Delhi, after the country's about 52,000 commercial vehicles roads to start soon: Gadkari Indian states are suffering the against specific types of bollworms top court yesterday approved a enter the city daily -- more than first major pest infestation since that are known to cause maximum trial plan to improve the capi- double government estimates -- NEW DELHI: The govern- work on the Metrino project the country adopted genetically yield loss and economic damage to tal's notoriously filthy air. accounting for nearly a third of ment will commence work on in next four months,” Gadkari modified cotton in 2002, raising the cotton crop," said a spokesman Successive Delhi governments the area's total pollution levels. the ‘Metrino’ project, on the said here during his interaction concerns over the vulnerability for Mahyco Monsanto Biotech have been criticised for failing Many of the trucks drive pattern of a ropeway, in four with the media at the Indian of the lab-grown seeds that yield (India) Pvt. Ltd. to curb pollution from industry through the capital to avoid pay- months to decongest roads Women’s Press Corps (IWPC) nearly all of the cotton in the The joint venture between and chronic traffic in the city of ing tolls outside the city. in the national capital, union last Thursday night. world's top producer. India's Mahyco and a local unit of 17 million, ranked as having the Yesterday's decision comes a Minister of Road Transport He claimed that fare in the Damage from the whitefly Monsanto has sub-licensed pro- world's worst air quality by the month before Diwali, the Hindu and Highways Nitin Gadkari Metrino system would be even attack on the Bt cotton variety in duction of its Bt cotton strains — World Health Organisation. festival of light, when Delhi fills has said. cheaper than the Delhi Metro. the states of Punjab and Haryana first approved for sale in India in Acting on a petitioner's plea, with acrid smoke from celebra- The project, estimated to In the Metrino system, fully is likely to be extensive and has 2002 — to 28 seed companies. the Supreme Court approved an tory firecrackers set off day and cost around Rs40bn, will cover automated and driverless small even been blamed for farmer sui- "Currently there are no extra charge of 700 rupees ($11) night, blanketing the city in an a 70km stretch from Dhaula vehicles — known as pods — will cides, according to local officials approved agriculture biotech- on light commercial vehicles eye-burning haze. Kuan in Delhi to Manesar, near travel suspended under an over- and experts. nology solutions to counter the and 1,300 rupees on large trucks A WHO study of 1,600 cities Gurgaon in Haryana. head network. It will come down India's overall crop losses are infestation of whiteflies. The rec- entering Delhi. released last year showed Delhi Gadkari said Prime Minister at the station. Each pod, carrying expected to be light, because the ommended solution for farmers is The court is scheduled to had the world's highest annual Narendra Modi-led government up to five people, would run at a states are not major producing spraying of approved pesticides." pass an official order Monday average concentration of small was taking a number of initia- speed of up to 50km per hour. centres, but the pest attack is The farmers' union allied to on the surcharge, which it said airborne particles known as PM tives to bring in new technology The minister said the project, inflaming debate over the usage Prime Minister Narendra Modi's would apply for four months on 2.5 -- higher even than Beijing. in the transport sector, in the powered on electricity, does not of GM crops. ruling party is stepping up its an "experimental basis", with no These fine particles of less light of a rising number of vehi- require land as pillars would be Bt cotton was tweaked by sci- opposition: It wants Bt cotton start date yet specified. than 2.5 micrometres in diameter cles in Delhi. built in between the roads. entists at Monsanto to produce banned. "We have been telling Researchers hope the toll will are linked to increased rates of He said his ministry was work- Gadkari earlier said the cost its own insecticide to kill pests the government to conduct tests help to clear the capital's polluted chronic bronchitis, lung cancer ing on the ambitious project to of the project would be Rs500m like bollworms. But two years on all GM seeds before they are air before winter starts, when and heart disease as they pene- decongest traffic on the National for a kilometre as compared to of drought have encouraged the sold in the market," said Mohini quality deteriorates. trate deep into the lungs and can Highway-8, which has the Delhi- Rs250m per km for a metro rail spread of whitefly, against which Mohan Mishra, general secretary Banned from the city during pass into the bloodstream. Gurgaon expressway. “We are project. the strain has no resistance. The of Bharatiya Kisan Sangh. the day, thousands of trucks pour going to start construction IANS winged pest damages the leaves of into Delhi every night adding to AFP the cotton plant. REUTERS

SC notice on culling of Rahul visits farmers in suicide-hit state

BENGALURU: Congress vice Besides Siddaramaiah, state stray dogs in Kerala president Rahul Gandhi yester- unit president G. Parameshwara day visited the family of a debt- and former chief minister and ridden farmer who committed external affairs minister S M NEW DELHI: The Supreme in two weeks, the court asked suicide in Karnataka’s Mandya Krishna, who hails from Mandya Court yesterday sought a senior counsel Dushyant Dave to and consoled the bereaved fam- district, Housing Minister response from the central and assist the court in the matter as it ily, a party official said. Ambarish and Agriculture Kerala governments on a public directed next hearing of the mat- “It is an unfortunate coin- Minister J Byre Gowda partici- interest suit seeking immedi- ter on October 26. cidence that one more farmer pated in the meeting. ate halt to the killing of street Tripathi told the court that committed suicide on a day Rahul “A relief package to farmers is dog by Thiruvananthapuram the decision to cull the stray dogs was visiting us to interact with likely to be announced by Rahul Municipal Corporation. was against the provisions of the families of farmers who com- at a party meeting in Haveri on Notice has also been issued Prevention of Cruelty to Animals mitted suicide during the last Saturday after consultations with to Thiruvananthapuram Act, the Animal Birth Control three months in the district,” a the chief minister and officials,” Municipal Corporation. Rules and the other penal pro- party member said from Mandya, the party member hinted. A bench of Justice Dipak Misra visions. The culling of the stray 100km from here. Even as Gandhi was discussing and Justice P C Pant sought the dogs is being carried out following Gandhi, who is on a two-visit the farmers’ issues, state farmers’ response of the governments and an all-party meeting July 9, with to Karnataka, flew by a helicop- body (Karnataka Rajya Raitha the civic body as as public inter- Chief Minister Oommen Chandy ter to Mandya after landing at Sangha and Hasiru Sene) mem- est petitioner Anupam Tripathi in the chair, where it was decided the Bengaluru airport on a Jet bers demonstrated on the state described as illegal and cruel the eliminate more than 2.5 lakh Airways flight from New Delhi AICC vice-president Rahul Gandhi meets family members of farmer Lokesh highway between Bengaluru and killing of the street and stray street dogs. with party general secretary in village Koppalu, in Mandya district, yesterday. Mysuru against the state govern- dogs. Digvijay Singh and others. ment’s “anti-farmers” policies. Having issued notice returnable IANS “When Rahul learnt about the Siddaramahiah in translating arrears from sugar mills, unre- Returning to Bengaluru in the death of the farmer (Lokesh) his words into Kannada, Gandhi munerative prices to their crops evening, Gandhi addressed the at Sanabada Koppalu in assured the family that the state and drought due to deficit rains, recently-elected about 3,000 gram Pandavapura taluk of this district government would come to its Gandhi discussed a relief pack- panchayat members from across Kashmir protest on reaching Mandya, he rushed rescue and look after its welfare. age to them with a group of min- the state at the palace grounds on to his house, consoled the family Sensing the gravity of the issue isters and state party leaders at relief works in 24 of the 30 dis- and issued a cheque of Rs1lakh to and farmers’ ire over the state the zonal agriculture research tricts reeling under drought and his widow,” the party leader said. government’s failure to address centre (VC farm) on outskirts of power crisis. Taking help of Chief Minister their woes arising out of debts, Mandya. IANS

After Dadri, storing beef is risky: Goa Congress PANAJI: The Congress party groups on beef transportation a mob which suspected them of shortage in the state as well as here yesterday said following a had shot up the prices of beef having cow’s meat. Christians hiked prices of the red meat. 52-year-old man’s lynching in in the state where 27 percent and Muslims account for nearly “Beef imports into the state Uttar Pradesh over allegedly of the people are from minority 27 percent of Goa’s population are being targetted by the VHP eating beef, it had turned risky communities. and are the major beef consum- (Vishwa Hindu Parishad) in for members of the minor- “Minority communities in Goa ers, along with a significant sec- Karnataka and other groups. ity community of Goa to store are now scared to keep mutton tion of the three million tourists Prices of beef in Goa have also mutton at home. at home after what happened in who visit the state annually. escalated,” Mulla alleged. Supporters of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front shout slogans during Goa Pradesh Congress Dadri,” Mulla said while con- Mulla also said specific target- Beef is being sold at Rs250 a protest in Srinagar, yesterday. They were protesting against the alleged Committee general secretary demning last month’s Dadri ing of beef consignments being per kg in Goa, which has a daily choking of political space for Kashmiri Muslims, arrests of Kashmiri Urfan Mulla said at a press attack in Uttar Pradesh where imported into the state by the demand of around 50 tonnes of youth, elderly men and children, and the communalisation of Kashmir. conference that persistent pres- a Muslim man was killed and Hindu right wing organisa- beef. sure from the right wing Hindu his son left severely injured by tions, had resulted in a beef IANS SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com EUROPE / AMERICAS Ebola: Scottish University student shot dead in Arizona nurse back in hospital Three people wounded as handgun-wielding student kills fellow student LONDON: A Scottish nurse who contracted the Ebola LOS ANGELES: A student “Two of our student groups got next to a residence hall on cam- Hartung Cheng said she was the victims of this morning’s virus in Sierra Leone last year armed with a handgun killed into a confrontation. The confron- pus, which is a designated “gun- “shocked and deeply saddened.” tragic shooting, their families but had seemingly made a full another student in a “confron- tation turned physical and one of free” zone with 20,000 students. “This is not going to be a nor- and the entire Northern Arizona recovery was back in hospital tation” at an Arizona university our students shot the other stu- Students described how they mal day at NAU. Our hearts are University community,” he said. in a serious condition yesterday early yesterday that also left dents. Four of our students were were awoken by a university text heavy,” she added. In the wake of the Umpqua after suffering a late complica- three others with multiple gun- shot,” said Gregory Fowler, chief message warning them of the NAU sent out alerts urging killings, Obama angrily called on tion from the disease. shot wounds, police said, in the of NAU police. shooting or by calls from worried residents of Mountain View Hall Congress to do more and warned Pauline Cafferkey, 39, was latest shooting at a US college. “We have one student deceased friends and family. dormitory to stay indoors. that failure to act on gun control transferred from the Queen The deadly incident at Northern and three others being treated at “You don’t expect that in “Like many people, I was was a “political decision,” vowing Elizabeth University Hospital in Arizona University (NAU) came the Flagstaff medical center.” Flagstaff. I never thought it would asleep,” said Brown. to keep pushing for reform. Glasgow to an isolation unit at the hours before President Barack The alleged shooter, named happen here,” one student, Megan “But of course this is a very However, Obama faces a frosty Royal Free Hospital in London Obama was to meet families of by police as 18-year-old fresh- Aardahl, told CNN, describing upsetting thing for anyone to reception Friday from some in early on Friday morning, the victims of last week’s shooting man Steven Jones, was taken how her room was just yards from receive in the middle of the night. the grieving community of con- Royal Free said in a statement. rampage at Umpqua Community into custody and did not attempt where the shooting took place. Honestly, our thoughts are with the servative Roseburg, home to the “Pauline Cafferkey is in a College in Oregon that left nine to escape arrest. All the victims Aardahl said fellow students families of the victims right now.” Umpqua college. serious condition,” the hospital people dead before the gunman were male students. frantically contacted one another. Arizona Governor Doug Ducey The father of one girl who was said, adding that she was suf- killed himself. It was not immediately clear “And we’ve been texting each called the incident—which shot in the back and survived fering from “an unusual late The first emergency calls came what the confrontation was about, other in group chats and making comes amid a renewed national by playing dead told Fox News complication”. through to police at 1.20am yes- but Jones was cooperating with sure everyone is safe,” she said. debate about gun control after he had declined an invitation to Cafferkey, from South terday, when most NAU students police, Fowler said. “There is a huge community a series of school shootings meet the president, accusing him Lanarkshire, Scotland, spent sev- would have been in bed at the NAU spokeswoman Cindy here and everyone is reaching out — “heartbreaking.” of politicizing the tragedy. eral weeks in an isolation unit at sprawling university campus in Brown told CNN that the inci- and making sure everyone’s okay.” “I join Arizonans from all the Royal Free at the beginning the city of Flagstaff. dent occurred in a parking lot University president Rita across our state in praying for AFP of the year after contracting the virus in December 2014. She was the first person to have been diagnosed with Ebola on British soil. She was discharged in January after seemingly mak- First asylum seekers under EU ing a full recovery. Portugal coalition relocation plan leave Italy talks unfruitful,

ROME: A small group of who claim it is better for the “This is a tangible exam- say Socialists Eritreans left Italy for Sweden Mediterranean to become a lake ple of what we can do when we yesterday, the first contingent of death... and believe that scaring work together. We are nations LISBON: The leader of of asylum seekers to be relo- the European people is the way of immigrants and we’ve made Portugal’s opposition Socialist cated under a much-contested forward,” he added. an important step forwards,” Party, Antonio Costa, said European Union scheme to ease The scheme follows months Avramopoulos said, adding that yesterday that talks with con- the burden of the migration cri- of tensions over the more than it showed “Italy is not alone”. servative Prime Minister Pedro sis on frontline countries. 600,000 people who have flooded Alfano said Italy was ready to Passos Coelho on forming a Grinning shyly before the into Europe this year. relocate 100 more asylum seek- coalition government had been media, 19 young Eritreans — five EU migration commis- ers who would go to Germany “unfruitful”. women and 14 men — waved and sioner Dimitris Avramopoulos and the Netherlands, and the Coelho’s “Portugal Ahead” blew kisses as they boarded a and Luxembourg minister Jean UNHCR said further relocations Journalists and officials watch the first group of Eritrean asylum seekers coalition won 38.6 percent of the small propeller plane at Rome’s Asselborn, whose country holds would take place from Italy at the boarding a plane for Sweden, at Rome’s Ciampino Airport, yesterday. vote in last Sunday’s general elec- Ciampino airport after hugging the EU presidency, were in Rome to beginning of next week. tion but lost its absolute majority, members of the Red Cross and launch the relocation of 160,000 ref- “This is a significant day, a the Mediterranean which have shipping said yesterday. meaning he must obtain support UN Refugee agency goodbye. ugees from Italy and Greece to other positive and important one,” the cost over 3,000 people their lives A UN report in June detailed from other parties to govern. “Today is an important day member states in the 28-nation bloc UN refugee agency’s southern this year alone as many flee wars how Eritrea, under Isaias “The meeting was unfruitful,” for the European Union, it is a over the next two years. Europe spokeswoman, Carlotta and persecution. Afwerki’s iron-fisted regime for Costa said after three hours of day of victory... for those who The plan, which hopes to help Sami, said. A baby thought to be about a the past 22 years, has created a talks, adding he hoped that “the believe in Europe, for those who ease the bloc’s worst migra- “But we know more must be year old was the latest victim, repressive system in which peo- rightist coalition will have a con- believed in saving human lives,” tion crisis since World War II, done. There is a great need for drowning off the Greek island of ple are routinely arrested on a crete proposal to present” in the Italian Interior Minister Angelino was only given the green light measures to be put in place to Lesbos during the night when a whim, detained, tortured, killed next round of talks scheduled for Alfano told journalists after the after Brussels flatly overruled allow (asylum seekers) to arrive dinghy carrying about 55 Syrians or disappeared. Tuesday. departure. stiff opposition from Eastern in Europe safely,” she said, refer- from Turkey began sinking in “It is a defeat for those European nations. ring to perilous boat crossings in the dark, Greece’s ministry of AFP AGENCIES

EU to suspend sanctions German party accuses Merkel of ‘people smuggling’ BERLIN: A right-wing German as a smuggler,” deputy party largely from the Middle East and Merkel’s conservative bloc the Christian Social Union (CSU). against party plans to lodge a legal leader Alexander Gauland told Asia, from entering from Serbia, remained by far the most popu- The state government of complaint against Chancellor reporters. which is not in the EU. lar group in the Forsa poll with Bavaria, where most asylum seek- Angela Merkel, accusing her of Responding to the AfD move, Since then huge numbers have 39 percent support, but this was ers are arriving after their journeys Lukashenko “people smuggling” for allow- Merkel’s spokesman Steffen arrived in Germany, straining the down a percentage point in the across the Aegean and through the ing thousands of asylum seekers Seibert said Germany was gov- ability of authorities to accommo- past week and its lowest rating Balkans, says it is planning “emer- BRUSSELS: The EU is ready into the country after they got erned by the rule of law and that date them and leading to a hard- since May. By contrast, the AfD gency measures” to slow the flow, to suspend sanctions against stuck on the Hungarian border. citizens were free to make legal ening of public opinion on the was up two points at 7 percent. including sending some migrants Belarus President Alexander The anti-immigration complaints as they saw fit. crisis. A poll yesterday showed Petry said the government was back to neighbouring Austria. Lukashenko in a shift following Alternative for Germany (AfD) Last month, Merkel said asylum support for Merkel’s conserva- split on the crisis and could offer This stand by CSU leader and the release of the country’s last said yesterday it would make the seekers were welcome to come to tives slipping while the AfD’s rat- no solution. state premier Horst Seehofer political prisoners, European complaint to the Berlin public Germany, averting a humanitar- ing climbed. Merkel is facing growing oppo- is a direct challenge to Merkel, sources said yesterday. prosecutor’s office, hoping that it ian crisis after Hungary — an “Germany’s absorption capacity sition on the issue within her who has refused to accept a cap The decision to end travel would open preliminary proceed- eastern outpost of the European has been exceeded,” AfD leader centre-right Christian Democrat on numbers. bans and asset freezes against ings against the chancellor. Union’s passport-free Schengen Frauke Petry said, pointing to the (CDU) party and open defiance Lukashenko and some 175 other “Angela Merkel has operated zone — tried to stop migrants, poll results. from its Bavarian counterpart, REUTERS people plus 14 groups will be taken ahead of October 31, when the current set of measures expires and must be either renewed or Refugee arrivals surge in Greece: IOM scrapped, they said. But before making a decision GENEVA: The number of urged the European Union yes- no easy response to that unless the European Union will wait to refugees arriving on Greek terday to come up with a credible you have a mechanism to control see how elections go on Sunday islands has leapt to 7,000 a day system soon, and warned that the things from the starting point,” in Belarus, in which strongman from about 4,500 at the end of unpredictable weather could lead he said. Lukashenko is set to win a fifth September, probably because to more deaths. On Saturday, he will visit consecutive term. of fears the weather will “This is a chaotic situation that reception centres on the Greek “This is a gesture in response worsen soon, the International is terrible for the countries, cre- island of Lesbos, the main entry to the gesture made by the regime Organisation for Migration ates tension among countries and point for most of the 428,000 when it freed the political prison- (IOM) said yesterday. that at the same time is horrible people who have crossed the ers this summer,” an EU diplomat The sharp increase, in a mat- for the people,” Guterres told a Mediterranean from Turkey so said. ter of days, has come as European news conference on the eve of a far this year. A European source meanwhile states continue to struggle to visit to Greece which includes Almost 3,000 have died, the said it would be a “political signal” agree on a strategy to control talks with Prime Minister Alexis U.N. refugee agency UNHCR from Brussels to Lukashenko, a the flow of people and protect Tsipras on Monday. estimates. Authorities on the once close Moscow ally but who thousands making perilous sea “All of a sudden with the kind island say they are running out has since played one off against crossings. of weather that you have in of room to bury them. the other in pursuit of his own A Syrian girl reacts as she is helped by a volunteer upon arrival from Turkey The UN High Commissioner Balkans this can be a tragedy interests. on the Greek island of Lesbos yesterday. for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, at any moment. And there is REUTERS The sanctions against Lukashenko were imposed in January 2011 over numerous human rights violations. Some of the other sanctions against his regime in the ex-Soviet state date Oklahoma used wrong drug to execute US convict: Autopsy back to 2004. Once dubbed “Europe’s last dictator” by Washington for his WASHINGTON: An inmate report added to growing questions potassium chloride, according to box from which the vials used to investigate their execution meth- authoritarian rule, Lukashenko executed in the US state of about execution methods, and the autopsy report, first obtained fill the syringes were taken was ods. That incident brought new has been in power since 1994. Oklahoma in January was killed Governor Mary Fallin confirmed by the The Oklahoman newspaper. labeled “potassium acetate.” attention to the state’s execution In a surprise move in August, using the wrong drug, accord- Thursday she was delaying all Although witnesses at the Potassium chloride is sup- methods. Lukashenko released from jail six ing to an autopsy report made executions until those concerns January execution said Warner, posed to cause heart failure, and On September 30, Fallin issued opposition leaders considered the public on Thursday. could be allayed. who was 47 when he died, showed experts say the products are not a last-minute stay of execution for last political prisoners in Belarus. The revelation follows a deci- “Until we have complete confi- no physical signs of distress, he interchangeable. Glossip to address questions about Among the freed opponents sion by the state’s governor last dence in the system, we will delay took 18 minutes to die and report- Warner had been originally the use of potassium acetate in his was Mikola Statkevich, a former month to stay the execution of any further executions,” Fallin edly said, “My body is on fire.” scheduled to die in April 2014, three-drug lethal injection cock- presidential candidate imprisoned another convict, Richard Glossip, said. The autopsy report revealed on the same night of the botched tail and ensure it complies with in 2010. amid questions over the same Charles Warner, killed by that although the syringes with execution of Clayton Lockett, court-approved protocols. drug. Oklahoma on January 15, was given which Warner was injected were who took 40 minutes to die and AFP The newly released autopsy potassium acetate rather than labeled “potassium chloride,” the prompted Oklahoma officials to AFP SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Qatar ‘a partner not a market for Turkey’: Olpak Musiad calls to boost partnership 3.6m VW cars require hardware changes BERLIN: Roughly 3.6 million the scandal would blow over. By Sachin Kumar must speak about a partnership Volkswagen cars in Europe with “There is no evidence that used that both countries could develop 1.6-litre engines will require car prices are coming under pres- DOHA: The trade and busi- together,” he said. hardware changes in the wake sure for the Volkswagen brand or ness sector of Turkey consid- According to Olpak, IT sector of the company’s diesel emis- for the Volkswagen group mod- ers Qatar as a partner and not offers business opportunities for sions rigging scandal, a spokes- els,” Christof Engelskirchen, the a market, said the president of both countries. “Software business man for the German transport Swiss-based company’s managing Turkey’s industry body. is quite important (for future trade). ministry said yesterday. director, said. The survey, carried Nail Olpak (pictured), I am not mentioning construction The emissions-cheating scan- out between September 17 and President of Turkey’s Independent because we are already working on dal shaking Volkswagen has not yesterday, showed the price of Industrialists’ and Businessmen’s that. But especially for this high affected the price of used VW used VW diesel cars in Germany Association technology or diesel cars in Europe, a car valua- fell by 1.5 percent against the (Musiad) stated IT I believe this tion firm said, while warning that market, but Engelskirchen said that both coun- will be the most could change later in the year. this could be in line with daily tries can explore important area. EurotaxGlass’s AG said it had volatility and not necessarily due trade and busi- Opportunities surveyed used car prices in 30 to the scandal. He added there ness opportuni- can be explored European countries and found was likely a lag between the news ties in the field in this area in that Volkswagen, Europe’s larg- on September 18 that Volkswagen of Information future.” He men- est carmaker which admitted in had fitted diesel vehicles with the A symbol of a wrench is seen on the dashboard of a VW Golf in Leipzig. Technology (IT) tioned that cur- September it could have emissions- so-called defeat devices and its in future. rently the balance cheating software in up to 11 mil- impact on used cars prices. Volkswagen cars across the world Volkswagen’s core autos divi- He spoke to of trade between lion vehicles, was not trailing the “We see a risk of a more visible have also not slipped following the sion will likely plunge into a loss The Peninsula both countries is market significantly in any one. downward trend apparent during news of the scandal. this year as it is set to shoulder on the side- tilted in favour The firm said, however, the lim- the next four weeks for VW brand Audi, a division of Volkswagen, the bulk of the costs from the fall- lines of the 19th of Turkey, which ited impact was due to sellers of and VW group models, once more said sales had risen 6.8 percent in out of the company’s rigging of International should be balanced. affected vehicles holding off from people have understood the full September to 170,900 cars thanks diesel emissions tests, two sources Business Forum (IBF) Congress “We must balance it (trade lowering prices, and instead pre- extent of Dieselgate and begin to to strong demand from Southern said. and the 2nd High Tech Port Fair. surplus) by going together, and if ferring to delay sales in the hope deal with it,” he said. Sales of new Europe and the United States. AGENCIES The three day-long event at Qatar the trade surplus continues to be National Convention Centre con- in Turkey’s favour then we only cluded on Thursday. see Qatar as a market. But since “Qatar is not a market for us, we consider Qatar as a partner, it is a partner for us,” said Olpak. somehow it could be balanced” “Turkey is not treating Qatar as a said Olpak. World finance ‘good market’ because we consider “The trade between Qatar and QNB, Garanti and Chinese group it as a friendly country and an ally Tureky has been developing con- leaders upbeat where we could develop technolo- sistently during the last five years. gies together,” he added. One of the main reasons behind The volume of trade between rise in trade is that Qatar also interested in Finansbank stake on China Qatar and Turkey reached increased its income in the last LIMA: Global finance leaders QR3.5bn in 2013, as the volume five years,” he added. He hoped ISTANBUL: Qatar National QNB will be at the forefront The European Central Bank’s believe China will weather its of exports from Qatar to Turkey that the forum and fair will be Bank, Turkey’s Garanti Bank in this sale.” The sources said banking supervision arm is due to slowing growth and manage a reached QR2.5bn, while the total a starting point for joint events and Fibabanka are interested in Goldman Sachs and Morgan conduct a comprehensive assess- successful transition from an volume of imports from Turkey to between Qatar and Turkey in an anticipated sale by National Stanley were advising on the sale. ment of all four main Greek export to a consumer economy Qatar was about QR1bn. the future so as to promote com- Bank of Greece of a stake in Another source said that the data banks this month to assess their despite a huge buildup of inter- “If the focus is on selling, then mercial and investment coopera- its Turkish unit Finansbank, room process was about to begin. recapitalisation needs after the nal debt in the world’s second our relationship is only valid for tion between the two countries. sources close to the matter told Finansbank told Reuters it had imposition of capital controls in largest economy. today but what about tomorrow? Reuters. nothing to add to a statement late June to halt massive deposit The International Monetary If we are targeting tomorrow, we THE PENINSULA One source said an unnamed which it made to the Istanbul flight. Fund believes the Chinese econ- Chinese group was also interested stock exchange last week, when it Finansbank has capital of omy will grow 6.8 percent this in the stake sale in Finansbank, said alternatives were being con- 2.84bn lira and is 99.8 percent year and 6.3 percent in 2016, which is virtually 100 percent sidered to cover NBG’s potential owned by NBG with the remain- slower than recent levels but owned by NBG. capital shortfall and that a final ing 0.2 percent traded in Istanbul. still enough to keep driving glo- Sony cuts PS4 price Under a restructuring plan decision had not been taken. Its market value is around $5.6bn. bal economic growth when other approved by European regulators, A QNB spokesman was not Earlier this week, Turkish positives have largely disappeared. SAN FRANCISCO: Sony sliced $50 off the price of PlayStation NBG committed to selling 40 per- available to comment when daily Hurriyet reported that the France’s Finance Minister 4 video game consoles, matching that of rival Xbox One ahead of cent of its Finansbank stake but Reuters called the bank’s Doha Finansbank sale was being con- Michel Sapin is among the opti- the frantic holiday shopping season. The price of PS4 dropped to postponed the plans earlier this office yesterday. QNB said in July ducted by the Hellenic Financial mists, along with Britain’s George $350 in the United States and to C$430 in Canada, according to year on valuation concerns. it was interested in entering the Stability Fund (HFSF) and that Osborne and IMF chief Christine Sony Computer Entertainment America. “Our goal at PlayStation NBG, Greece’s biggest lender, Turkish market given the right initial bids will be received by the Lagarde. China’s Deputy Central has always been to offer the best place to play at a compelling declined last week to comment on opportunity, but that it was not in weekend. Bank Governor Yi Gang was value to gamers,” SCEA chief executive Shawn Layden said. a report that it had received a bid any specific discussions. Garanti An NBG spokesman said the keen to reassure his peers at this While PS4 has led the market since its release two years ago, from QNB valuing Finansbank at Bank and Fibabanka declined to bank did not want to comment week’s IMF meetings in Lima, Microsoft recently began gaining ground with the release of Xbox about 3bn euros ($3.4bn). comment. on the report and an official from saying a recent devaluation was a One consoles with a reduced price of $350 because they come with- “In total four groups have NBG has not abandoned a plan the bank has previously said any one-off and that China’s economy out Kinect motion-sensing accessories. Layden touted the pending made bids. NBG wants to have to eventually hold a public offer- decision would probably only be was stable. releases of eagerly anticipated games including “Call of Duty: Black concrete bids when the stress ing and reduce its Finansbank taken after the results of the “We are satisfied by the meas- Ops III” and “Star Wars Battlefront” along with PS4-only block- test results come in,” another stake, continuing to work towards stress tests. ures currently being implemented buster “Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End.” source said. “It is likely that a share sale. REUTERS by the Chinese government to AFP limit the risk of contagion caused by the economic downturn in the short run,” Sapin said at the IMF Sri Lanka vehicle imports to fall meeting in Lima yesterday. Yet cracks are already appear- ing in China, an economy whose red-hot growth of almost 10 per- Global oil market needs a cent a year for 30 years fuelled a commodity super-cycle that in 2008 pushed oil prices as high as $145 a barrel, and inflated demand clear leader: Saudi adviser for iron ore and edible oils, as well as industrial goods from advanced KUWAIT: The lack of a clear landmark decision, at its meet- detail how such a structure would economies like Germany. leader or “anchor” in the glo- ing in November 2014, not to cut work or say how likely it was to It is not just China that is a bal oil market is fueling uncer- oil output to support prices, and be established. risk - although it is by far the tainty and leading to sharp instead seek to defend market He gave examples of organisa- biggest one to the relatively rosy swings in crude prices, but this share. tions such as the International IMF forecasts of global economic uncertainty is unlikely to con- The decision, which is a shift Energy Agency and the growth of 3.1 percent this year tinue for long, a senior Saudi oil from Opec’s traditional role of International Energy Forum as and 3.6 percent in 2016. adviser said. reducing production to prop up attempts to bring more transpar- In Germany exports to China, The comments by Ibrahim prices, has along with a supply ency to the oil market but said Brazil and Russia account for 3.4 Al Muhanna suggest that Saudi glut helped trigger a sharp drop more needs to be done. percent of gross domestic prod- Arabia and the rest of Opec in crude prices in the last year. Muhanna said global demand A customer walks near a car showroom in Colombo yesterday. Sri uct, according to investment bank understand that they are unable The message from Riyadh has for oil was expected to rise by Lanka’s vehicle imports will drop by at least 90 percent after the gov- Barclays, a risk for Europe’s larg- to manage the oil market alone been clear: The kingdom is no at least 1 million barrels per day est economy. ernment changes the way it calculates the value of certain motor for the time being, and would longer willing to shoulder the bur- every year, driven mainly by eco- REUTERS vehicles, officials said. like to see some kind of collective den of reducing production alone nomic growth in Asia, Africa and mechanism to reduce the current and if others want better prices, Latin America, and the world’s instability in the market. they should take on their share of oil consumption would reach “In the current circumstances, output cuts. about 105 million bpd by 2025. He the international oil market could Gulf oil sources see no sign of also said the current persistent continue in an unstable situation, Saudi Arabia wavering in its long- oil supply glut and instability of Oil climbs on weak dollar, Mideast woes where there is a lot of uncertainty term strategy, particularly when prices “is a temporary situation with the lack of a market anchor,” other Opec members such as Iraq that will not last for long”. LONDON: Global oil prices hit multi-month prices. The flagging greenback makes dollar-priced Muhanna, an adviser to the are raising production and Iran is A US Energy Information peaks yesterday on the back of the struggling US oil cheaper for buyers using stronger currencies, Saudi oil minister, told a closed- gearing up to boost exports by next Administration report on Tuesday dollar and increasing geopolitical turmoil in the which tends to stimulate demand and prices. door energy event in Kuwait on year. Non-Opec producers includ- predicted global oil demand for 2016 crude-rich Middle East, dealers said. This week, Russia continued to launch airstrikes Wednesday. His comments were ing Russia have refused to cooper- would rise by the fastest rate in six Brent North Sea crude for delivery in in Syria in support of President Bashar Al Assad. released publicly yesterday. ate with Opec in cutting output. years, suggesting the crude surplus November added 56 cents to stand at $53.61 per “Russia’s controversial and apparently imprecise “In the end, this means the Muhanna referred in his speech that has pushed prices down about barrel just after midday in London, having earlier bombardment of IS targets in Syria is further inability of investors to find a to the need for greater interna- 50 percent since June last year is hit $54. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate heightening the geopolitical risks in the Middle suitable price in the market cur- tional cooperation to reduce spec- easing faster than expected. for delivery in November won 96 cents to $50.39 East region and this is also helping to push oil rently and in future,” he said in ulation and support a healthy oil Opec Secretary-General per barrel compared with Thursday’s close. The prices higher,” noted analyst Fawad Razaqzada at the speech. “This is an unnatural market, which “should not only be Abdullah Al Badri said that the contract had earlier touched a 2.5-month peak traders Gain Capital. situation and it is difficult to see limited to Opec and other produc- oil exporter group should work at $50.58. Crude futures also climbed on hopes that increas- it continuing.” ing countries but also include the together with producers outside “Oil prices are continuing to rise, as they have ing demand and declining US crude production Top oil exporter and Opec other main energy consumers,” Opec to tackle the oil surplus in been in recent days,” said Commerzbank analyst would ease a supply glut that has depressed the heavyweight Saudi Arabia was he said. the global market. Carsten Fritsch. “Increased risk appetite coupled market for more than a year. the driving force behind Opec’s Muhanna did not describe in REUTERS with a weaker US dollar is giving tailwind to the oil AFP SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS US import StanChart plans to cut 1,000 top staff prices point to New CEO Winters says up to a quarter of senior staff roles to go; clients to be cut smaller drag

SINGAPORE/LONDON: from bad loans in India, China reducing the total to about 88,000. on inflation Standard Chartered’s new Chief and on commodities, as well Winters also said in the memo Executive Bill Winters plans to as fines from US regulators his plans were not all about cuts, WASHINGTON: US import cut about 1,000 of the bank’s and strained relations with and he had identified areas for prices fell only slightly in most senior staff to reduce shareholders. investment, to make room for September, offset by recovering costs, according to a memo sent “We lost some discipline during which the bank would cut the oil prices, suggesting a slowdown to staff, as he battles to revive that time, leading to our recent number of its clients. in the rate of imported deflation the bank following a sharp drop problems with loan impairments “We will focus on those clients is occurring which may eventu- in profits. and relatively high expenses,” who value our capabilities and ally allow the Federal Reserve The cull shows the scale of the Winters said in the memo. He is compensate us accordingly. For to raise interest rates. overhaul Winters is planning at expected to outline his plans to others, we will be there when The Fed held off from rais- the Asia-focused bank, which investors and staff in November they need us but will withdraw ing interest rates in September he has said needs to speed up or December. Meantime there resources in the meantime.” largely because a weak global decision-making on costs, people are concerns a test of its loan Standard Chartered has also economy and financial market and strategy, and improve its risk book against a theoretical Asian been fined more than $1bn for volatility had raised doubts that management and profitability. recession, being carried out by the breaching US sanctions, including US inflation would rise toward Winters said he planned to Bank of England, could show it is with Iran, and authorities there the Fed’s target of 2 percent as reduce by a quarter the number short of capital. The results are are still investigating some issues. expected. of staff graded in bands 1 to 4, The logo of Standard Chartered is seen at its new Singapore office tower due out on Dec. 1. Winters said the bank was US import prices fell only the memo seen by Reuters said. at Marina Bay Financial Centre. Standard Chartered could have making progress in improving its 0.1 percent last month in Those bands cover bankers at a $4bn capital shortfall under the processes and systems, its behav- data reported by the Labour director level and higher and investment bank boss who took were up 5.3 percent at 788.4 “stress test”, analysts at Goldman iours and remediating past issues, Department yesterday, and include about 4,000 staff. over in June after the ousting of pence by 1310 GMT. The shares Sachs said this week. But they and told staff any violations would import prices, exluding oil, fell 0.2 “Our situation requires decisive predecessor Peter Sands, said the have rallied 26 percent in the last said there was scope for the bank not be tolerated. percent, which was half the pace and immediate action,” Winters bank would also make disposals eight trading days amid optimism to restructure and release up to A spokesman said a note sent of the declines registered in July told staff. “Each member of the and cut clients. Winters can get on top of its $6bn of capital. to staff by Winters this week said and August. management team has a mission Disposals would be in areas problems, but are still down 42 Winters halved Standard kick-starting performance was Analysts had expected overall to drive through improvements where the bank was “not differ- percent since the start of 2014. Chartered’s dividend in August a priority. It said the bank had import prices to decline more, in our returns and part of this entiated”, or an activity or loca- Standard Chartered has had and said the bank would raise indicated in July there could be by 0.5 percent, and the US dol- will be further streamlining of our tion “was not critical to a core a troubled three years due to capital from investors if needed. It personnel changes to come. lar strengthened slightly against organisation.” strength.” weakness in many of its key said at that time it had cut 4,000 a basket of currency following Winters, a former JP Morgan Standard Chartered shares emerging markets, rising losses staff since the start of the year, REUTERS the data’s release. “Today’s report suggests a significant slowing in the rate of imported deflation,” said Blerina Uruçi, an analyst at Barclays. A surge in value of the US dol- lar last year, fuelled by expecta- Key European markets climb tions that a strengthening US economy would lead to higher interest rates, has been a fac- tor pushing down inflation, as on Fed’s no rate hike hint evidenced by declines in non-oil import prices. LONDON: Europe’s major London’s benchmark FTSE concerns over the slowdown in Federal Reserve Chair Janet stock markets advanced yes- 100 index climbed 0.65 percent to emerging markets and the drop Yellen, who said late last month terday after gains across Asia stand at 6.416,16 points, boosted in commodity prices,” Jasper the Fed was likely to raise rates by thanks to growing hints that by mining giant Glencore’s seven Lawler, analyst at CMC Markets year end, has argued that the dis- US interest rates will not rise percent jump. UK, wrote in a client note Friday. inflationary impact from imports until next year. In the eurozone Friday, the Mining and commodities giant was bound to fade and that US Shares in mining compa- Paris CAC 40 won 0.54 percent to Glencore announced that it is inflation would then trend higher. nies meanwhile surged after an trade at 4,701.39 points compared slashing its worldwide output Yesterday’s data appeared con- announcement from Glencore with Thursday’s close. Frankfurt’s of zinc by one third. Glencore sistent with that view. that it will slash zinc production. DAX 30 stocks index rallied 1.04 shares surged 7 percent to close Already, declines in oil prices The Federal Reserve post- percent to 10,096.60 points, with at 129.1 pence, while rivals Anglo have moderated after a late 2014 poned a move to hike US inter- troubled Volkswagen’s shares American jumped 7.23 percent plunge, and prices for imported est rates as it was worried about soaring to close up 8.35 percent and Rio Tinto won 3.15 percent. oil rose 1.1 percent in September a global slowdown, concerns over at ¤125.90 In Asia, stock markets extended after declining sharply in August. the strong dollar and listless US The German auto giant, which a run of gains as confidence returns Crude oil prices have actu- inflation, minutes from its last has seen over ¤25bn in market to trading floors, with most ally trended higher over the monetary policy meeting revealed capitalisation wiped out in two regional exchanges more than one last month. The dollar, which Thursday. weeks, has been engulfed in a percent higher. Tokyo jumped 1.64 strengthened sharply in the sec- European indices made ground massive global pollution cheating percent, Sydney ended 1.33 percent ond half of 2014, has weakened “thanks to another positive US scandal involving 11 million of its higher, while Shanghai climbed 1.27 since March. close which spilled over into Asia, diesel vehicles. percent and Hong Kong gained The Labour Department data extending recent gains as inves- Yesterday’s share jump sparked 0.46 percent. also showed the price of imported tors add to risky bets on expecta- speculation over a “mystery” US stocks, which shot up on consumer goods other than cars tions of prolonged easy monetary buyer snapping up the shares. Thursday after the minutes of actually rose 0.1 percent in policy”, said Mike van Dulken, Daily Bild cited market rumours the Fed meeting were released, September, the first gain since head of research at trading group that the Porsche and Piech fami- rose slightly on Friday. Near mid- February. Imported car prices Accendo Markets. lies — both major shareholders of day in New York, the Dow Jones were flat. Fed policymakers at their Volkswagen group — were in the Industrial Average was at 17,067.05 Still, the data also pointed to September meeting mulled an market to buy. points, a gain of 0.10 percent. The ongoing weakness in global demand increase in the zero-level US fed- The euro climbed to $1.1362 broad-based S&P 500 added 0.12 that is weighing heavily on US fac- eral funds rate but took a cautious from $1.1275, with the Fed seem- percent to 2,015.83, while the tech- tories and other exporters. Export approach after a severe bout of ingly not rushing to hike US bor- rich Nasdaq Composite Index A businessman walks past a share prices board illustrating the benchmark prices fell 0.7 percent, more than financial turmoil unsettled the rowing costs before the end of the gained 0.40 percent to 4,830.06. Nikkei 225 index at the Tokyo Stock Exchange yesterday. Tokyo stocks the 0.2 percent decline forecast by outlook for the world’s biggest year. “Rate-setters from the UK ended up 1.64 percent. economists. economy, the minutes showed. to Europe to the US have voiced AFP REUTERS

Mom-and-pop investors spur China’s markets Cellphones ‘transforming’ SHANGHAI: Some are in it on China’s stock markets, electri- Africa but growth to slow purely for the money. Others cian Gao Haibao, 55, has a more just want a few extra yuan to modest approach by aiming to CAPE TOWN: The rapid vital services such as education buy a meal. And then there are make about 10 yuan everyday, spread of mobile phones across and healthcare.” also those who trade for fun or or $1.50. “I make money to buy Sub-Saharan Africa is trans- For many Africans faced with to spend time among friends. a meal everyday,” he says. “I’m forming the region, but record poor or non-existent landline Millions of mom-and-pop happy with it. I’m making money.” levels of growth are due to slow infrastructure, mobile phones are investors — from pensioners, to And Du Mingpeng, 50, a secu- sharply, an industry report said the route to the Internet instead security guards, to students — rity guard at a jewellery store, this week. of laptops or desktop computers. dominate China’s stock markets, hopes to profit from his invest- The industry contributed The number of subscribers has conducting about 80 percent of all ments to give money to his son more than $100bn to the region’s grown by 13 percent a year dur- transactions. But this year they who is getting married. economy last year — equivalent ing the first half of this decade have experienced one of the most Many of the retail investors to 5.7 percent of gross domestic — more than twice the global tumultuous periods in the coun- use an informal network to help product, according to a study average of six percent. try’s financial history. decide which stocks to buy and released at a conference in But the growth rate in Sub- China’s stock markets first sell. At the weekends in Shanghai, Cape Town by the GSMA asso- Saharan Africa is expected to soared — more than doubling in hundreds gather at what is locally ciation which represents mobile slow sharply over the next five the six months to May — only known as the “street stock salon” operators. years, to around six percent. to crash. Since June, prices have near the city’s landmark People’s It forecast that there will be The rapid growth in the first fallen about 40 percent on concerns Square to exchange tips and 386 million mobile subscribers in half of the decade was partly due that growth in the world’s second- information and listen to long- Sub-Saharan Africa by the end of to starting from a low base, with biggest economy is slowing down term investors talk about their this year — equivalent to 41 per- less than a quarter of the popula- faster than previously thought. experiences. cent of the population. tion having a mobile subscription “Trading stocks is my biggest Wu Lin’an sells his analysis of “The mobile industry remains in 2010. hobby,” says 90-year-old Wang the stock market at the “street a key driver of economic growth Another factor limiting future Cunchun, who only started Yue Banghai moves his electric bike during a “street stock salon” in central stock salon” and believes the rul- and employment in Sub-Saharan growth is the “weak business case to invest in equities after he Shanghai, China. ing Communist Party, headed by Africa, making a vital contribu- for rural network rollout” where retired from a stationary store President Xi Jinping, will save tion given the population growth the income from remote commu- in Shanghai. house,” he said. “I don’t know of 13 when his father gave him the stock market and make peo- and high unemployment levels nities makes it difficult to justify He joins other retirees in one of how to use computers so my 2,000 yuan ($320) to learn about ple rich. seen in many countries,” said the high investment costs, the the many brokerage houses dot- neighbours actually help me stock investing. He fits trading “Chairman Mao led us through GSMA acting director general study says. ted around China where people sell and buy.” Trading stocks is into his schedule when he has a liberation,” he said, referring to Alex Sinclair. “Future progress will depend gather not just to trade stocks also a hobby for 16-year-old high day off school. “I like maths and the founding of modern China. “Mobile technology is also play- on governments working with but to enjoy the company of fellow school student Qian Yujie. But in want to study finance in college “Deng Xiaoping led us to the ing a central role in Sub-Saharan the industry to provide a regula- investors and, on hot days, take contrast to Wang, he places his and I think it’s very helpful for road of happiness, Xi Jinping Africa by addressing a range of tory environment that encourages advantage of the air conditioning. orders from a desktop computer job hunting,” Qian said. led us to the road of enjoyment.” socio-economic challenges, par- investment and innovation,” said “There are many old neigh- at his home in Shanghai. While some retail investors say ticularly digital and financial Sinclair. bours coming to the brokerage He began trading at the age they want to make their fortune REUTERS inclusion, and enabling access to AFP SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15

iPhone 6S launched in Spain Vietnam to keep Glencore slashes zinc coal, crude export taxes production by a third under TPP HANOI: Vietnam will exempt some state firms from a Pacific trade pact agreed this week and Operations in Australia and Peru to be suspended has negotiated to keep export taxes on its crude oil and coal to ZURICH: Mining giant approximately 100,000 tonnes a white pigment in paint. support an overstretched state Glencore, burdened by debt of contained zinc metal,” Around 13.5 million tonnes of budget, its chief negotiator said and a commodity price crash, Glencore said. zinc is produced worldwide each yesterday. announced yesterday that it The overall cut is equal to 3.8 year, according to the latest data The communist nation is seen was slashing its worldwide out- precent of the world’s zinc pro- from 2013 from the International as one of the biggest winners from put of zinc by a third, sending duction last year, analysts at the Lead and Zinc Study Group. the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the metal’s price sharply higher. investment bank Commerzbank Glencore said its decision would with a surge of investment Glencore, one of the world’s said in a report, predicting it “ensure that our zinc operations expected into its $186bn economy, largest miners and producers of would “significantly tighten” the are sustainable well into the especially in low-cost manufac- zinc, said it was lowering zinc pro- global zinc market. future, providing jobs in the com- turing. Vietnam has kept secret duction by 500,000 tonnes across The zinc market has been suf- munities where we operate and until now the details of what it its operations in Australia, South fering from a supply glut amid returns to shareholders”. negotiated. America and Kazakhstan. a sharp drop in demand from “Glencore remains positive In areas touching national “The main reason for the China, which consumes about 40 about the medium and long term security, Vietnam can exclude reduction is to preserve the percent of global production. outlook for zinc, lead and silver unspecified state-owned enter- value of Glencore’s reserves in In light of the oversupply prices,” it said. prises (SOEs) from the TPP, and the ground at a time of low zinc dogging the market, Accendo Before the decision, the com- does not have to reveal those sec- and lead prices, which do not cor- Markets research chief Mike van pany’s share price had plummeted tors, said Tran Quoc Khanh, vice rectly value the scarce nature of Dulken hailed Glencore’s move, 60 percent since the beginning of minister of industry and trade. our resources,” the miner and which he said was “designed to the year, and it has faced wild Export taxes on coal, crude and commodities trader said. restrict market supply and help fluctuation in recent weeks amid some ores would stay, and other Global zinc prices, which had put a floor under prices which investor fears that sinking com- A man looks at an iPhone 6S in its box as she purchases her new countries had negotiated similar fallen by nearly 30 percent since have fallen to five-year-lows.” modity prices will affect its abil- phone at the Apple Store in Madrid, Spain, yesterday. The iPhone exemptions, Khanh said. Vietnam May, shot up 12 after Glencore’s The Swiss-based Glencore, ity to meet outstanding debt 6S and 6S Plus are now offered in more than 40 countries after the earned $7.2bn from exports of announcement, rising as high as which employs around 181,000 obligations. crude oil, and $554.5m from coal September 25 launch. $1,875 a tonne in trade in London. people worldwide, acknowledged Most resources-linked firms last year. “The impact on the state The company, meanwhile, saw that “these changes, although tem- have taken a hit in recent months budget will be minimal,” Khanh its share price surge 7 percent porary, will unfortunately affect as the price of copper, aluminium, told a news conference. to close at 129.1 pence in London employees at our operations.” iron ore and oil have tumbled as He said certain materials of trading. A company spokesman said growth in China’s economy, the specialist nature, or in short Glencore said its operations at that around “1,540 people will world’s second largest, slows. PC shipments sink under supply, would be permitted from Lady Loretta in Australia and unfortunately lose their jobs”. Glencore has been particu- outside the TPP area while still Iscaycruz in Peru would be sus- “This decision has not been larly badly hit because of its huge qualifying for “yarn forward” pended and operations at George taken lightly,” the company said. $30bn debt load, even after the weight of strong dollar rules of origin on garments, one Fisher and McArthur River in It said that in coming days it firm this month raised $2.5bn via of Vietnam’s top sectors. Australia and various mine opera- would “engage with all employ- a share issue as part of a vast plan SAN FRANCISCO: Worldwide East, according to Gartner. PC Vietnam’s textiles and footwear tions in Kazakhstan would reduce ees” and provide support for those to rejig its finances. Glencore has shipments of personal comput- shipments in the US and Asia/ would gain strongly from the TPP, production levels. affected by the changes. already mothballed output at two ers sank in the recently ended Pacific were “more stable,” the after exports of $31bn last year “These changes, which rep- Zinc has a number of industrial copper projects in Africa, and on quarter with a strong US dollar analyst noted. for brands such as Nike, Adidas, resent around one-third of applications, including as an anti- Wednesday closed a platinum mine weighing down sales, market The launch of Microsoft’s new H&M, Gap, Zara, Armani and Glencore’s annual zinc produc- corrosive coating for iron and in South Africa, cutting more than tracker Gartner reported on Windows 10 operating system in Lacoste. tion, will reduce fourth quar- steel, a component for batteries 800 jobs. Thursday. the quarter appeared to have a The country makes a tenth ter 2015 mine production by and making metal alloys, and as AFP A total of 73.7 million personal minimal impact on PC shipments, of the world’s shoes and is the computers were shipped during according to Gartner. United States’ second-largest the third quarter of this year, Microsoft focused heavily on source of footwear after China. down 7.7 percent from the same computers already in people’s Vietnam anticipates record Philippine exports fall period last year, according to hands being upgraded to Windows foreign investment this year, Gartner figures. 10. The US software titan was the majority in manufacturing, Court backs The category includes desktop, likely to make promoting new as firms capitalise on its cheap laptop and notebook computers, Windows-powered computers a labour and the prospect of the Coca-Cola but not devices in the booming priority in the all-important year- TPP slashing tariffs in a region mobile market. end holiday shopping season. covering 40 percent of global GDP. The global PC market has A recent Gartner survey indi- Although Vietnam’s TPP gains settlement in been hit with price increases cated that about half of consum- would outweigh losses, experts say of around 10 percent through- ers who took part intend to buy a requirements for independent Spain jobs row out the year due to the sharp new PC in the coming year. labour unions and fair competi- appreciation of the US dollar Kitagawa expected a “soft tion and transparency with state MADRID: A Spanish court yes- against local currencies, accord- recovery” for PC sales to begin in firms have been concerns. terday ruled Coca-Cola does not ing to Gartner analyst Mikako the current quarter and a more Khanh said Vietnam had got have to give workers from a shut- Kitagawa. stable year ahead. some latitude.It would follow down factory their bottling jobs “In the third quarter of 2015 Chinese computer maker International Labor Organisation back as long as it maintains their this continued to be a major Lenovo had a leading 20.3 per- principles on unions “on the basis pay and conditions. Workers who cause for weaker demand in those cent share of the PC market in of respecting its political institu- were laid off when the US drinks regions,” Kitagawa said. the third quarter, while US-based tions”, he said, and would use its giant shut down several bottling Regions where the strong Hewlett-Packard is second with right to have carve-outs for state plants in Spain had sued to get Workers transfer steel wires to be used for commercial developments dollar curtailed PC shipments 18.5 percent, according to Gartner firms in areas of national security. their original jobs back. in Manila yesterday. Philippine exports fell by the most in four months, included Europe, Japan, Africa, estimates. Earlier court rulings had forced reflecting weak global demand that has floored regional economies. Latin America and the Middle AFP REUTERS the company to cancel 1,000 lay- offs and reinstate more than 200 workers who had already been dismissed. The plan to shut the plants sparked a strike for months last year. Eighty-five employees returned to work last month at a Youth unemployment rising in China and Brazil: ILO new logistics centre on the site of one of the old bottling plants, in GENEVA: Youth unemploy- percent in 2016, the ILO said. so many years, with investments quarters of 2015 it averaged 15.8 then rise again to 13.2 percent in the Fuenlabrada district of south- ment is coming down in rich China’s youth population will in universities, and not all these percent. 2018. The ILO says youth unem- ern Madrid. countries but rising in China actually have shrunk by a quar- qualified young people find jobs “ILO modelled numbers were ployment matters for reasons In the case of another 130 work- and Brazil as economic growth ter over those seven years, to 181 that meet their qualifications, projecting 15.5 percent for 2015, beyond economic growth. It also ers, the court had to rule whether abates, the International Labour million, but the number of young even in a growing economy like so these numbers hint that this affects health, civil unrest and they could be appointed to new Organisation said on Thursday. people without jobs will have China,” she said. could come out higher. Also, bear overall levels of happiness. posts in the logistics centre or Worldwide, the number of dropped by only 1 million over In some other countries, more in mind our numbers would not The highest rates are among whether the company had to give unemployed youth — those aged the same period. people going to university has yet incorporate the latest more women in the Middle East and them back their old bottling jobs 15-24 who want to work but can- Azita Berar-Awad, director of helped reduce youth unemploy- bleak economic figures of the North Africa, at around 45 per- despite the firm’s plans to wind not find jobs — dropped to 73.3 the ILO’s employment depart- ment, as young people leave the IMF,” said Sara Elder, lead author cent. In developed economies down those operations. million in 2014 from a peak of 76.6 ment, said slower growth meant labour market. of ILO’s Global Employment and the European Union, the The National Court in Madrid in million in 2009. fewer jobs for young Chinese who Like China, Brazil is also see- Trends for Youth report. aggregate youth unemployment a written ruling upheld Coca Cola’s But the youth unemployment had migrated to the cities, but ing slower economic growth. Its Globally, youth unemployment rate has fallen from 18.0 percent decision to keep the Fuenlabrada rate in China has risen from 9.3 a surfeit of graduates was also youth unemployment rate, 16.0 has been 13 percent for the past in 2012 and is projected at 16.2 plant running as a logistics centre. percent in 2010 to 10.6 percent to blame. percent in 2010, has been at 14.0 three years, but this year it is percent for 2015, and to continue last year. It is projected to reach “They’ve had an explosion of percent or below for the past expected to rise for the first time falling. AFP 10.8 percent this year and 11.1 university graduates in the past three years. But in the first two since 2003, to 13.1 percent, and REUTERS

Proposed Fiat Chrysler UAW agreement gradually ends two-tier pay

DETROIT/KOKOMO: The latest the UAW to threaten a strike against Fiat local union leaders before he can offer Those second tier workers were hired since agreement are incomplete” and said fuller proposed four-year contract for Fiat Chrysler, which was to begin on Wednesday support of the new proposal. the two-tier pay system went into effect in details will come after Friday’s meeting. Chrysler Automobiles NV’s US union- at one minute before midnight eastern “That $29 sounds good, but the com- 2007 when all three of the Detroit carmak- Workers outside the gates of one of the ised workers would over time eliminate time. That would have been the first stop- pany just doesn’t hand you something ers were struggling financially. four Kokomo Fiat Chrysler plants greeted the much-maligned two-tier pay struc- page at a US carmaker since 2007. without taking something away some- The pay proposals for the first-tier of news on Thursday of a new tentative agree- ture, allowing new hires to reach top There is no cap on the percentage of where else,” said Horner. “And I still UAW Fiat Chrysler workers remained the ment skeptically, giving an indication of the pay within eight years, sources said. second-tier workers in the new deal. If think it takes too long to get to the top. same as in the recently rejected contract, challenges the union may face in getting The proposal agreed by United Auto one had been enacted, that could have Eight years? That’s more than one con- which is 3 percent raises in years one, and the deal ratified by members. Workers and Fiat Chrysler negotiators created a permanent second tier while tract. How do we know they are going 3- and 4-percent lump sum payments in The rejection vote at UAW Local 685 in late on Wednesday would also increase raising some to first-tier pay level, ana- to keep that promise for more than one years two and four, the sources said. Kokomo was even more pronounced than the top pay for some second-tier workers lysts said. contract?” The UAW and the company declined the national tally, as “no” votes among to $29 in the course of the agreement, up The sources would not say whether the Second-tier workers with some tenure to comment on the proposed contract, production workers prevailed by a mar- from their current pay of about $19 per company put more money on the table will get to the top pay during the four which will be presented to UAW local gin of 2,555 to 723. “When you have people hour, sources said. That would also be or if the same amount of spending in the years of the contract. For instance, a five- leaders on Friday and if approved then working side by side doing the same job for up from about $25 top pay for second- previous agreement was reshaped. year veteran who makes the lower tier of will go to a ratification vote of all Fiat different wages, it causes tensions,” said tier workers that was in the proposed Alston Horner, a 25-year-old second- pay would reach the new top pay in three Chrysler UAW members. Lakeysha Woodare, 41, a first-tier worker contract rejected last month by a nearly tier worker at the Kokomo Transmission years, the sources said. The UAW issued a statement on social making $28 an hour who voted against the 2-to-1 margin. Plant in Indiana, said on Thursday he will About 45 percent of Fiat Chrysler’s media Thursday saying, “Preliminary first contract. The failure of the first agreement led have to wait to learn the details from his 40,000 UAW workers are second-tier. media reports of a proposed tentative REUTERS SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 2015 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS VIEWS

Why lifting oil export ban Better for a country to have can help US foreign policy By Emma Ashford skilled people than oil House of Representatives bill is due to go to the floor this week, one step closer to lifting the 40-year-old ban on the export of US crude oil. The window of opportunity By Noah Smith products, a phenomenon known as the boom might be one reason the US stock A was opened by the continuing plunge in oil prices, now “Dutch disease.” Also, the huge stream of market has fallen recently, despite signs at a six-year low, as falling demand and booming production have HE simplest kind of country, it wealth accruing to the rulers of a petrostate of overall health in the economy. Certainly, created an overabundance of global supply. seems to me, is one with just make a tempting target for coups and revo- people who expected resource booms to Congress must seize this opportunity: Lifting the ban on crude an army and a bunch of natu- lutions; when the top dog has all the money, transfer wealth and power to America’s red oil export would not only be good for the economy, it could also ral resources. The army guards everyone wants to be the top dog. states are going to be disappointed. benefit US foreign policy. the resources, and the resources Nevertheless, in recent years there has But don’t worry. A petrostate is the last US firms have been unable to export crude oil since 1974 — a Tfund the army. In today’s modern economy, been a lot of excitement in rich Western thing the US should want to become. legacy of the energy security fears in the wake of the Arab oil energy is the most important commodity, countries about oil, gas and other natural Petrostates, after all, have bad govern- embargo. The only exceptions are crude oil exports to Canada, so the easiest way to pull off this trick is by resources. In the US, this took the form of ance. Some may think that rich, developed and oil produced in Alaska. There are similar, if less draconian, having large deposits of oil and/or natural a boom in shale gas and tight oil, extrac- countries are immune from this aspect of export restrictions on natural gas, which requires a Department gas. This is your basic petrostate. tion of which has become much cheaper due the resource curse, but I wonder if this is of Energy waiver. Petrostates offer rulers some big advan- to the development of hydraulic-fracturing true. In Canada, a country with very strong These restrictions were an overreaction. But recent changes tages over a more industrialised develop- technology. In Canada, the excitement is political institutions, some are beginning to in the global oil market have made matters worse. Over the past ment model. Industrial countries get their over the tar sands in the country’s western worry that Prime Minister Stephen Harper decade, new technologies — particularly hydraulic fracturing or wealth from the hard work and skills of region. Australia, meanwhile, has become is becoming increasingly illiberal. In the US “fracking” — have enabled the extraction of oil and natural gas the humans who live within their borders, a major exporter of coal, iron ore and and Australia, the political influence of fos- in previously inaccessible areas. The result has been a shift away so they need to spend money educating other resources, especially to China. These sil-fuel companies has suppressed action on from some traditional energy-producing countries — such as their populace. They also need to establish resource booms have helped to reduce trade climate change. This is a far cry from the Russia or members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting courts, property rights, legal systems, police and budget deficits, and they have probably autocracies that feed off of oil revenue in Countries – and toward newer producers. forces, roads, bridges, electrical grids and given businesses a simple, compelling invest- Saudi Arabia and Russia, but it’s hard to The biggest beneficiary of these technological advances has competent bureaucracies to manage all of ment story that they can believe in. deny that natural resources give inordinate been the United States, now the world’slargest producer of oil and this. Workers will demand things like pen- But now that story is coming to an end, power to special interests. natural gas. Even under current restrictions, US crude exports sions, health care and other government at least temporarily. The Western resource Even more importantly, the dire situation to Canada have risen dramatically, from essentially zero in 2007 benefits. Corruption has to be kept in check, booms are going bust. A slump in global in which petrostates are now finding them- to more than 100,000 barrels a day by March 2013. US producers limiting the payouts that the friends of the demand, combined with continued high selves should be a stern cautionary tale. In could contribute far more globally, but are largely prevented from ruler can extract. On the other hand, in a crude production by Saudi Arabia, has Russia, falling oil prices are undoing years doing so under the current bans. petrostate, the government can get their lowered oil prices. In the US, that initially of robust growth, as the country’s economy The new oil produced is also at odds with US refining capacity, money simply by taxing the state-run oil translated into plunging rig counts, and is shrinks outright. The situation isn’t much which complicates domestic consumption. Fracking usually pro- and gas companies. finally filtering through to lower oil output. better in Iran. And Venezuela, the country duces light sweet crude oil. US refineries, however, are primarily As you might expect, skimping on pub- In Canada, major investors are fleeing the with the world’s largest oil reserves, might set up to process heavier crude oils from Mexico and Venezuela. lic goods usually leads to a less efficient tar sands, and the economy is rebalancing be the worst of all. This has led to domestic market distortions. Refiners can buy economy overall. That is a big reason for back toward manufacturing. Meanwhile, The US is lucky that oil and gas are not oversupplied crude on the cheap, but then charge consumers world the “resource curse” — the observation mining investment has plummeted in yet a big enough part of the economy to market prices for gasoline, pocketing the difference. that countries with large natural resource Australia as China’s economy slows. threaten a similar crash. Various studies have shown, however, that ending the ban would endowments are usually poorer than their This is bound to cause much conster- The smart thing, is to stick with pro- help the US economy. It would add an estimated 630,000 jobs, more industrious peers. There are other nation among Western investors. The US moting knowledge-based industries instead. increase manufacturing and boost the gross domestic product reasons for the curse, of course, for example, and Canada are not going to turn into pet- Human ingenuity and industry will always in the long-term. Though some supporters of the ban argue that exporting natural resources can push up rostates after all, and Australia will prob- be more valuable than lumps of material lifting it could raise pump prices, as more oil it made available for the value of a country’s currency, making it ably have to diversify its economy as well. dug up out of the ground. export, it is most likely to lower them in the long run. more difficult to export higher-value-added The abrupt reversal of the natural resource BLOOMBERG A lack of domestic refining capacity now discourages production by lowering the prices that refineries pay for crude oil. If produc- ers are instead able to export their excess crude oil, they would likely increase production, which would lower global oil prices. Lifting the ban would also produce real benefits for US foreign policy. Authoritarian regimes would no longer be able to cite Washington’s reluctance to open its energy markets to free trade as an excuse for their own unfair practices. It is harder, for exam- ple, for the United States to chide China on issues like currency manipulation while maintaining protectionist economic policies like the crude export ban. More important, exporting US oil and natural gas increases diversification within world energy production. Though energy security concerns can be overblown, increasing production in the United States would reduce global reliance on oil from volatile regions like the Middle East. It’s certainly true that today’s low oil prices may make increased production less attractive to US producers in the short-term. Yet states like those in Eastern Europe may well choose to switch to US suppliers from Russia for non-economic reasons. Then, once oil prices rise again, the influx of US oil and natural gas into the world market from new domestic production would certainly keep prices lower than they would have been otherwise. That would reduce the income and influence of various authoritarian states, which have long been among the world’s biggest producers of oil, such as Venezuela or Russia. Lifting export bans on liquefied natural gas would be particu- larly helpful for US allies in Central and Eastern Europe. These states rely on Russia for the majority of their energy, which lim- its their range of political and economic responses to Moscow’s recent aggression. There has been other recent momentum in Congress on lift- ing the export ban. A bill passed the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee this summer, and is awaiting full hearings. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) in July had also signaled his support for ending the ban, comparing it to the sanctions on Iranian oil and gas producers. With oil prices so low, any pro- tests about potential increases in gasoline prices would be muted. Increased US production has also removed any solid justification for keeping it. Congress should seize the opportunity now to lift the ban, and reap the economic and foreign policy benefits so sure to follow. REUTERS Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate Could your high credit help score a perfect mate? By Michelle Singletary to help lenders determine how Want to know why this data related to 529 college saving plans. I don’t understand why they Ilka Erren Pardiñas of Los much of a credit risk you might may predict a relationship’s lon- Here’s the link for that chat. don’t require a PIN as they do in Angeles had some other concerns REDIT scores are be. The higher the score, the more gevity? Read the story. Then tell Europe. Surely that would provide about the new cards: “My com- increasingly being used likely it is that you will pay your me what you think. FALL FINANCIAL MOVES valuable added security.” ments are more about the human to measure people’s lives debts as promised. Since it’s about to get really cold I totally agree with Cowie. cost of manufacturing these Cin everything from get- As Swanson reported, COLOUR OF MONEY in many places and you’re likely to And so did this reader, Peter chips and how they will affect ting a job to how likely they will researchers looked at 12 million Would you use a credit score retreat indoors anyway, perhaps Thrift (love that last name!) of the environment. Can these pay their rent. Now new research randomly selected consumers in to determine the marriage poten- fall is a good time to spend some Leesburg, Va., who wrote: “I feel cards be recycled? Where are by the Federal Reserve Board the database of the credit bureau tial of a future spouse? Send your time with your finances. that the ‘chip and sign’ credit the chips that are now embedded suggests that a person’s credit Equifax over a 15-year period. comments to colorofmoney@ The Post’s Jonnelle Marte cards offer only a slight improve- made and what exactly are they score might be able to predict “They found that people with washpost.com. In the subject line offers five tips for recent col- ment over the older system. The made of? Are the standards of marriage stability. higher (i.e. better) credit scores put “Scoring the Right Mate.” lege grads to getting started on new cards still have the magnetic manufacture humane? Are un- “The researchers found that are more likely to form a commit- Please include your name, city your holiday shopping ahead of strip, which is very vulnerable renewable resources being used credit scores — or whatever per- ted relationship,” Swanson wrote. and state. the rush. “In between raking to fraud, and the card transac- to make this many additional sonal qualities credit scores might “This was true even after control- Join me at noon (ET) for a leaves, picking apples and carving tion can still take place out of ‘disposable’ chips? We dispose of represent — actually play a pretty ling for other differences between live discussion about your pumpkins, here are some finan- the holder’s sight, a major secu- credit cards for many reasons, big role in whether people form partners, like education level, race money. If you’ve got some finan- cial to-dos to tackle this month,” rity flaw. The U.S. must quickly which begs another question: and stay in committed relation- or income.” cial drama, perhaps I can help. Marte writes. move to the ‘chip and pin’ sys- How do you destroy a defunct ships,” reported The Washington In the case of good credit scores, Here’s the link to participate in tem ASAP. Of my cards, only chip card?” Post’s Ana Swanson. when people dated folks whose the chat. CHUCK CREDIT CARD Target has implemented the bet- Read this CreditCards.com “People with higher credit scores were close in number to If you missed last week’s chat, As I wrote last week, by now ter system.” story to find tips on what to do scores are more likely to form their own, the more likely they I highly recommend you go back many of you should have received “I feel more secure, but not with a discarded credit card. committed relationships and were to stay together in the long and read the archive. 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QMMF chief Al Attiyah bags another crown congratulates Qatari superstar seals 2015 Cross-Country title after winning the Morocco Rally Nasser Saleh DOHA: Qatar’s superstar Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah yester- DOHA: QMMF President day sealed an emphatic victory Nasser bin Al Attiyah (pictured) at the Morocco Rally where yesterday congratulated rallying he also secured the FIA World ace Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah who Cross-Country title. won the Morocco Rally. According to information made Yesterday’s result meant Al available from Agadir, Morocco, Attiyah was crowned the 2015 Al Attiyah and his co-driver FIA Cross Country Rally champion Matthieu Baumel topped the for a second time with a round to five-stage race in their Mini All4 spare. Racing. Al Attiyah, who is a FIA Vice The ninth and penultimate President and FIM Deputy round of the 2015 FIA World President, Cup for Cross-Country Rallies said: “We finished yesterday afternoon after feel happy five punishing selective sections about Nasser through the Moroccan deserts. Saleh’s great Russian Vladimir Vasilyev, win. He won Saudi driver Yazeed Al-Rajhi and over strong the South African duo of Giniel competition. de Villiers and Leeroy Poulter To see him finished second, third, fourth win is not and sixth in what was a crucial new. He is test for the entire team ahead of a champion January’s Dakar Rally. driver who Qatar’s Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah and his co-driver Matthieu Baumel The result also meant that “We tried to manage races that I compete well. My country has earned Vasilyev, the 2014 FIA World with good planning (smiles),” Al supports me in a big way. That’s celebrate after winning the Morocco Rally which ensured 2015 everyone’s respect.” Champion, finished second in Attiyah explained. why we are at every event,” he Cross-Country title for the duo yesterday. He added: “In Qatar, we are this year’s series with naviga- “To jump from big car or small said. “It is a lot of things. We working to a strategy so that tor Konstantin Zhiltsov behind car is different - to compete in needed nine points to the title, “There was Yazeed Al RALLY OF MOROCCO Qatar produces more champions. Morocco winner Al Attiyah. the desert is not similar to each I needed to win the race also Rajhi and he also wanted to We are doing well in motor sport Dutchman Bernhard Ten other,” he said. because there are many good driv- win this race. Then there was TOP 5 POSITIONS because of the support of the Emir, Brinke, Frenchman Ronan Chabot “I have a lot of experience. I try ers and riders,” Al Attiyah said. Sebastian Loeb with new co- 1. Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah (QAT)/ H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al and Pole Marek Dabrowski com- to be there at different races so “We needed to be clever in this driver. It was a good chal- Matthieu Baumel (FRA) Mini All4 Thani. We dedicate this win to the pleted the event in ninth, 12th race. We need to run without lenge,” Al Attiyah said. Racing 14hr 18min 18sec Emir.” and 13th in the remaining three problems like punctures,” he said. “Of course you need to 2. Vladimir Vasilyev (RUS)/Konstantin After erstwhile leader Carlo V8-engined Toyotas. CROSS-COUNTRY “Morroco rally is hard race. If attack from the beginning. Zhiltsov (RUS) Overdrive Toyota Hilux Sainz’s retirement on the penulti- “I am really happy to come here RALLIES you need to win you need to be For me, I will open the road 14hr 35min 03sec mate stage handed him the lead, Al and race like this,” Al Attiyah 1. Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah (QAT) clever. It is good us to be here so - first stage at 320kms. I 3. Yazeed Al-Rajhi (SAU)/Timo Attiyah entered the final day yes- said. 261 pts that you know where you are at needed to push since I don’t Gottchalk (DEU) Overdrive Toyota terday 16 minutes up on nearest “I think we had a great year. 2. Vladimir Vasilyev (RUS) 221 pts Dakar Rally,” Al Attiyah said. want to lose big time. After Hilux 14hr 35min 32sec rival Yazeed Al-Rajhi. He never let We won the Dakar Rally this and “We have a best car in the cross the second stage, I know the up on his lead and won with ease. 3. Yazeed Al-Rajhi (SAU) 98 pts 4. Giniel de Villiers (ZAF)/Dirk von now this,” he added. country in our Mini. We wanted stage well,” Al Attiyah said. “I Nine-time WRC champion 4. Reinaldo Varela (BRA) 97 pts Zitzewitz (DEU) Toyota SA Hilux 14hr “This year has been good for us. to show we can win this race. took my chance on the dunes, 37min 40sec Sebastien Loeb rounded out his We worked very hard. We put a 5. Marek Dabrowski (POL) 92 pts “Toyota has improved a lot last like last year,” Al Attiyah cross-country rally debut for 6. Miroslav Zapletal (CZE) 86 pts 5. Mikko Hirvonen (FIN)/Michel Périn good plan for different events - (but) don’t forget that Mini has said. (FRA) Mini All4 Racing 14hr 49min Peugeot with the 14th quickest 7. Erik van Loon (NLD) 72 pts Dakar, ME, WRC, it looks like a the best driver in the cross coun- 29sec time on the final day. good year,” he said. 8. Bernhard Ten Brinke (NED) 43 pts try,” Al Attiyah said with a smile. THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA Al Sailiya coach urges players to keep calm Khan arrives as Doha Worlds enter last-8 stage DOHA: Al Sailiya’s Head DOHA: After the mania caused contenders emerge. To see box- Coach Sami Trabelsi met by Filipino boxing sensation ing of this skill and quality live in with his players about the Manny Pacquaio across the the heart of Doha all within this poor start to their season. capital, the scene was set for state-of-the-art facility really is a He asked them to keep their another explosive day of elite spectacle to behold,” he said. calm and concentration dur- boxing at the world-class Ali “We’re thrilled that so many Mikhail ing the upcoming Qatar Stars Bin Hamad Al Attiyah Arena. within the community of Qatar Dauhaliavets League (QSL) matches, hop- Despite Pacquaio leaving Qatar have turned out in force to sup- of Belarus was ing for an improved show. late on Thursday night the pros- port the event and join fans from The meeting was held pect of a swift return to Doha for around the world in this celebra- adjudged the recently before training ses- a comeback bout against chal- tion of sport. I’ve no doubt boxing winner against sion in order to try and lenger Amir Khan was heightened has a very bright future in Qatar Qatar’s Hakan regroup psychologically and further with Khan landing into and this event will leave a last- Murst Nuraydin hopefully try and find solutions Qatar yesterday. ing legacy on future generation. at the AIBA to the issues which saw the Khan, the current holder of the We couldn’t be happier with how World Boxing Peregrines lose three matches WBC Silver welterweight title things are going especially with Championships and win only once in the four and a former British silver med- stars like Manny Pacquaio attend- in Doha Rounds of the QSL. Trabelsi allist at the Athens 2004 Olympic ing yesterday and now Amir Khan yesterday. urged the players to forget the Games is expected to witness for confirmed to share the champion- PICS: BAHER previous rounds and that they himself the global showpiece in ship experience tomorrow.” AMIN should see the resumption of Doha today. With interest for boxing boom- the league on October 17 as Following four consecutive days ing across the country, local com- the true start to their season. of world-class boxing in Doha munities once again came out in Sailiya will play a crucial game Yousuf Ali Al Kazim, President numbers for the last day of the against Al Wakrah in Round of Qatar Boxing Federation, and preliminaries. 5. Al Sailiya resumed their Executive Director of the signa- In one of the early bouts in the training sessions last Monday ture event in association with afternoon session, Cuba’s reign- and will play a friendly game Qatar Olympic Committee, said: ing world lightweight champion, winning on unanimous decision, can see my aggression. I think the “I did my best, but it was hard as against Al Fath (KSA). “Stage by stage the standard Lazaro Alavarez, took on Thai the Cuban favorite said: bout went well, and I’m thrilled to my opponent had an extra day’s and entertainment keeps on champion Pachanya Longchin. “I’m happy to through to the be through to the quarter-finals. I rest. My legs were tired and I THE PENINSULA increasing and the class of the Backed by vociferous support next round. It was a tough fight think I’ll be up against the world had to focus to stay in the three boxers is really starting to show,” from the stands, Alvarez had no against a very skilled opponent. no. 1 in the next round, so it’ll be rounds. Right now I’m of course QSL: THE SEASON BY he said. trouble living up to the favourite I’ve come to Doha to defend my really hard to stay in the competi- very disappointed, but I thank the “This is when we start to see tag and booked his place in the title, and I feel confident that I’ll tion, but I’ll do my best to get to Qatar Boxing Federation for this NUMBERS SO FAR the real world championship quarter-finals. Speaking after succeed.” the final.” wonderful opportunity of compet- Number of matches played so far 27 Another reigning world cham- For Qatar’s Hakan Murst ing in the World Championships Total number of wins in the league 24 - Al pion in the ring yesterday was Nuraydin the competition is over at home in front of friends and Rayyan has the most number of wins (4) Kazakhstan’s welterweight pugil- after being defeated by Mikhail family,” said Nuraydin. Total number of losses in the league 24 - ist Daniyar Yeleussinov, who eas- Dauhaliavets of Belarus on unani- The latter stages of the mar- Mesaimeer has the most number of losses (4) ily defeated Pavel Kastramin from mous decision, bringing an end to quee event is set to kick off today No. of goals scored so far 75, with an average Belarus. Winning 3:0 on points, the incredible journey for the light with the first quarter-finals. of 2.7 goals per game the Kazakh favourite is racing heavyweight boxer which has cat- Best attacking team so far Al Sadd & towards his second consecutive apulted him from the local gym THE PENINSULA Lekhwiya with 12 goals each world-title: to the world stage on home soil. Worst attacking teams so far Al Khor and “It feels great to win my first Mesaimeer with zero goals scored this season bout, but I know that I’ll be facing Strongest defence Al Gharafa has conceded far tougher opposition in the com- zero goals ing rounds. I just need to get my Weakest defence head down and work even harder. There’s no other way,” Yeleussinov Kharaitiyat has conceded 12 goals said. Total No. of penalties awarded so far 7 For the Philippines, mean- Penalties scored 5 while, Eumir Marcial went up Conversion rate 71.43% against stiff competition in the Goals scored from set pieces so far 18 name of Youba Sissokho Ndiaye (Includes: free kicks, corners, penalties and from Spain. The 19-year-old jun- throw-ins) ior world welterweight cham- Top Goal Scorers so far pion, making only his second Yousef Msakni (Lekhwiya) 5 goals from 3 senior appearance in the World matches Championships, looked inspired Luiz Muriqui (Al Sadd) 5 goals from 4 matches in the ring after meeting his idol Yannick Sagbo (Umm Salal) 4 goals from 4 Manny Pacquaio yesterday. matches Speaking after his narrow 2:1 Abderrazak Hamdallah (El Jaish) 4 goals from win, Marcial said: “It was amaz- 4 matches Action during the bout between Mikhail Dauhaliavets (left) of Belarus ing to meet Manny. He said that I Fans supporting their country’s boxers at AIBA World Boxing Vladimir Weiss (Lekhwiya) 3 goals from 3 andQatar’s Hakan Murst Nuraydin. should go out there and dominate Championships yesterday at the Ali Bin Hamad Al Attiyah Arena. matches my opponent so that the judges SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT QMMF’s Simon impresses at Japan MotoGP practice

QMMF Racing Team experiences mixed fortunes as Kallio struggles QMMF President and FIA Vice-President for MENA Nasser bin Khalifa Al Attiyah, along with delegates at FIA Institute medical seminar in Doha, DOHA: The QMMF Racing recently. Team experienced mixed for- tunes on the opening day at the Grand Prix of Japan with Julian Simon impressing on the prac- Qatar hosts FIA medical tice day, yesterday in Motegi, Japan. According to details received seminar for ME, MENA here, Simon finished 11th among the pack of top riders with his DOHA: The latest FIA Amjad Obeid, Bahrain Motor unique tunnels and elevation Institute medical seminar Federation Chief Medical changes. for the Middle East (ME) Officer, discussed the correct The QMMF rider, however, and North Africa (MENA) procedure for the selection of will still be chasing the best pos- region featured two days of medical staff, which included sible set-up of his Speed Up bike presentations and practical how to fully prepare the medi- in order to suit the hard-braking demonstrations at the Losail cal team for the event and action that is required for most of The QMMF Racing Team’s International Circuit in Qatar the correct accident manage- the Motegi corners in the qualify- rider Julian Simon in action recently. ment procedures. The seminar ing session today. at the Grand Prix of Japan in Delegates at the conference also featured practical dem- On the other hand, after a good Motegi, yesterday. included motor sport medi- onstrations and exercises in and successful first Grand Prix cal personnel from around the extrication utilising the FIA’s with QMMF Racing Team acou- region who listened to presen- medical extrication simula- ple of weeks ago, Mika Kallio tations given by senior motor tors for closed car and open struggled with strange difficulties sport safety officials. They also wheel racing. The second day all day long and finished in 22nd took part in workshops and of the event included simula- position in practice. simulations to practice impor- tion work on track, with an He had unexpected handling tant extrication skills. exercise involving a car going issues with his bike that couldn’t Dr Michael Scholz, Medical into barrier and a difficult be solved during the first two Chairman of the Deutscher extrication. sessions. Only after practice was had a little problem under brakes. in the qualifying stage. “Today because I said before that the Motor Sport Bund and Chief Nasser bin Khalifa Al finished, he and his team found This track is special as far as was a disaster, really bad. I felt bike was quite light in direction Medical Officer (CMO) of the Attiyah, President of Qatar a possible explanation for the braking goes, it’s important to be immediately that something was changes. Now it was completely German Grand Prix, spoke Motor and Motorcycle difficulties and reversed the re- able to brake very late and hard. totally wrong on the bike. The opposite,’ he added. about the planning stages nec- Federation (QMMF) and FIA positioning of a weight that had You need to have good stability feeling was completely different “ After practice, we started to essary for safety in motor sport. Vice-President for MENA, who to be fitted to reach the minimum for the front of the bike, but you from what I had at the last race in think why it could be like this and Dr Scholz also discussed opened the event, said: “We overall weight of rider and bike. also need the right settings for Spain and I came in many times what we changed from the last other safety procedures dur- were very happy to host this The second day of practice in the rear in order to stop the bike in both sessions trying to modify race at Aragón. Then we realised ing a motor sport event that seminar in Qatar for the first Japan will reveal if this change smoothly,” said Simon. He added: the settings and to find a solu- that the reason could be the extra include: doping control, the time and I’m sure everybody is will solve Kallio’s problems. “The team did a great job giving tion,” he said. weight that we needed to fit to drivers’ briefing, and weather leaving with a good experience Simon after an impressive me different set-up solutions to “ But nothing really changed the bike. For Motegi, we changed and other natural hazards. of our region, as well as knowl- opening day at Grand Prix of try and what we ended up with the behaviour of the bike and it the position for this weight, and Jean Duby, CMO of the FIA edge and skills to take back to Japan was hoping for better was not bad. I still have little was a big question mark for us it might be that this affects the World Rally Championship, cov- their organisations. We really results in the race. problems in the braking zones, why the feeling was like that. turning and how I feel,” he said. ered the varied aspects of rally need our doctors and medical “Our first day in Motegi was but we will continue to work and Basically, I couldn’t turn the bike. “Now, we changed the position safety for competitors, specta- officials to be in good shape not bad. I really like the track, it we will try more set-up solu- When I tried to make direction of the weight back to where it was tors and officials, including the because a successful motor is a lot of fun to ride through the tions tomorrow. I am sure we changes, the bike was really heavy, in Aragon. If it turns out that this extrication techniques used in sport organisation will not suc- up- and downhill sections and the can continue in a good way and and as a consequence, the speed was the reason for our difficulties, rally events and the organi- ceed without them.” two tunnels that make Motegi so be successful.” was really low in the corners,” we made a big mistake.” sational structures for rally unique,” said the rider. Meanwhile, a disappointed said Kallio. and other off-road events. Dr THE PENINSULA “ The bike worked well, I just Kallio hoped to make amends “This felt strange to me, THE PENINSULA Losail MX Championship gets underway today DOHA: The opening round of the MX1 category is ready for the Mohammed Al Hattab and the the new season of Losail MX start of the season and hope to Emirati rider Saeed Al Shenqiti. Championship will take place have a good performance in the QMMF President, Nasser bin today at the Losail MX Track in opening round. Khalifa Al Attiyah is very excited Doha. “I am really looking forward to for the start of the new season. The Losail MX Championship start the new season and defend “We are ready for another will be composed by five rounds the title,” he said. exciting and thrilling Losail MX and each round consists of free “I have been training and Championship, with more riders practice, qualifying practice and working very hard during the and new categories, he said. two races of 20 minutes plus 1 lap, past months and I am well pre- “I am very happy the Losail with 3 classes; MX1, MX2 and pared for the season. I know the Junior MX Championship has new for this season , the Veterans competition is stronger in every more participants and we thank (riders 40 + years old). season but thanks to my spon- to their parents to bring their The final round will take place sors and Balooshi Racing team children to our track, we hope as part of the opening round of for their support in the new sea- that more local families think the MXGP World Championship. son I am very confident “ said the about bringing their children in As in the previous season, KTM rider. the coming rounds.” there is also the Losail Junior The runner up in the last sea- There will be a riders photo MX Championship, the follows son, Mishary Abou Shaiba also shooting at 9:45 and the free prac- the same format as the Losail MX from Kuwait, is also back to the tice will start at 10:00 for MX1, Championship but on a shortened competition and for sure that MX2 and Veterans and at 10:30 track with a race time of 10 min- he will have a strong battle with for the Junior class. utes plus 1 lap of 8-12 years old on Jaffar for the victory. Races be from 12:30 to 15:00 65cc, 11-14 years old on 85cc and In the MX2 category, the battle and all podium ceremonies at the 13-17 years old on 125cc. will be amongst the Kuwaiti rid- end of the last race, at 15:25. The Kuwaiti rider Mohammed ers Barak Al Jasmi, winner in the Action from the Losail MX Championship at Losail MX track last season. Jaffar, the defending champion of last season, Moath Al Ansari and THE PENINSULA

Qatar cruise into CISM World Games final Qatar down Egypt in handball semi-final

Qatar basket- ball players cel- ebrate reaching the final at the 6th CISM World Games in Mungyeong, Korea. Qatar beat Brazil 60-55 in the semi-finals. Qatar will take on Greece in the final.

Action from Qatar’s win against Egypt in their handball semi-final at the 6th CISM World Games in Mungyeong, Korea. Qatar won 27-24. Around 8,700 athletes are competing at the October 2-11 Games. SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21 Blatter fights ban as FIFA looks to find new leader IOC President Thomas Bach says time to get outsider to clean FIFA house

ZURICH: FIFA president Sepp Blatter appealed against the 90 day ban that forced him out of Liverpool job office, a report said yesterday as world football’s sleaze-tainted is ‘biggest governing body headed into South Africa’s captain Faf du Plessis (left) gestures alongside teammate months of turmoil over how to challenge’, Albie Morkel at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on October 8, 2015. The find a new leader. match was eventually washed out because of a wet outfield. The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) became the says Klopp latest regional body to demand an LONDON: New Liverpool emergency meeting of the FIFA manager Jurgen Klopp (pic- executive after the suspension of tured below) described his The talking points in Blatter, UEFA president Michel job as “the biggest challenge” Platini and FIFA general secre- in world football yesterday tary Jerome Valcke. following his appointment The New York Times reported as the successor to Brendan India-SA T20 series that the 79-year-old Blatter had Rodgers. complained that he only found out “Maybe it is the biggest NEW DELHI: Five talking change at the top, saying Dhoni about his suspension after it was This photo taken on October 8, 2015 in Zurich shows the entrance sign challenge this moment in points in the T20 series between is past his sell-by date. Having made public. with the logo at the FIFA world headquarters. FIFA’s ethics watchdog the world of football,” Klopp hosts India and South Africa already retired from Test cricket, Blatter’s lawyers demanded on Thursday suspended the two most powerful men in football, Sepp said in an interview with which the tourists won 2-0 after 34-year-old Dhoni needs to win a full hearing to argue his case Blatter and Michel Platini, for 90 days in a sensational new blow to Liverpool’s in house television the final match was washed out: the five-match one-day series and also asked to see the case file the sport’s scandal-tainted governing body. Issa Hiyatou head of the channel, LFCTV. South Africa gain from IPL that starts tomorrow to silence used by the FIFA ethics commit- Confederation of African Football, a Blatter ally, was put in charge of “But I was never a guy for experience his doubters. tee in deciding the suspension, the an easy way. In this moment -- Very evident in South South Africa’s pace scores the multi-billion dollar body. Times said. it is the most interesting job Africa’s series win was how eas- over India’s spin Platini also plans to appeal in world football.” ily they adjusted to Indian condi- -- The battlefield is clearly against his 90-day suspension. Former Borussia Dortmund tions. Not surprising really since defined. South Africa bank on Platini is a leading candidate in FIFA ex-co meeting after years of scandal and graft head coach Klopp, 48, was as many as 10 players in South their fast bowlers to deliver, while FIFA’s presidential election in allegations. The 60-year-old has appointed on Thursday on a Africa’s squad are signed up for India rely on their slow bowlers, February, alongside South Korean on October 20 been named in the investigation three-year contract following the glitzy T20 Indian Premier notably off-spinner Ravichandran tycoon Chung Mong-Joon who into Blatter because of a $2m the dismissal of Rodgers, who League. It helped that skipper Ashwin. Pace has clearly domi- was banned from football activi- ZURICH: FIFA announced (1.8m euro) payment he received was sacked last Sunday after Faf du Plessis, who turns out for nated the first leg of the long tour. ties for six years in the ethics yesterday that an extraor- in 2011. He insists the payment three and a half years at the his Indian counterpart Mahendra Further bad news awaits India as committee purge. dinary executive commit- was legitimate and slammed the club. Singh Dhoni’s IPL side Chennai the tourists will be reinforced by Chung, a former FIFA vice tee meeting will be held on FIFA ban as “farcical”, pledging His first game at the helm Super Kings, had better luck with pace spearheads Dale Steyn and president, has also vowed to use October 20 in Zurich to dis- to carry on with his bid to lead will be a trip to Tottenham the toss that left India to field Morne Morkel, who were rested “all legal means” to fight his ban. cuss the corruption crisis the world body. Hotspur in the Premier League second in slippery dew conditions for the T20 games. It leaves coach Blatter, who has led FIFA since which has engulfed the gov- “I reject all the allegations that on October 17. Liverpool won both times. Russell Domingo with an embar- 1998, was provisionally banned erning body. have been made against me,” he the last of their 18 league titles World Twenty20 fears rise rassment of riches to choose from by the body’s ethics watchdog as “FIFA can today confirm said, indicating he too intended to in 1990 under the stewardship for India for the one-dayers. India, mean- Swiss prosecutors investigate him that its Executive Committee appeal against the ban. of Kenny Dalglish. -- If the series loss is an indi- while, are still to find an effective for criminal mismanagement. will convene in Zurich on The 54-member UEFA will Rodgers led them to a sec- cation, India have much to do if comrade-in-arm for Ashwin. Platini was named in the Swiss Tuesday 20 October 2015 for an meet at its Nyon headquarters ond-place finish in 2014, but they are to prove competitive in Slushy Garden of Eden in inquiry over a $2m payment he extraordinary meeting,” said a next Thursday to discuss the cri- they finished sixth last season the World Twenty20 to be held Kolkata received from FIFA. statement. “Further informa- sis. The suspensions handed out and are currently in 10th place in the country in March and -- The drainage system at The crisis at FIFA has been tion will be communicated in on Thursday can be renewed for in the table with 12 points April. Dhoni’s men may have the Eden Gardens in Kolkata is building since May, when US due course.” another 45 days when they run from eight games. won the inaugural World T20 so poor that a sharp 30-minute authorities announced charges AFP out in January, which would take Klopp introduced a style of in South Africa in 2007 and shower five hours before the against 14 officials and sports the exclusion until just before high-octane football during his reached the final of the last edi- scheduled start washed out the marketing executives over bribery the FIFA election to be held on time at Dortmund, leading the tion in Bangladesh in 2014, but third and final T20 game on allegations amounting to more FIFA spokeswoman said the mat- February 26. club to two Bundesliga titles the Proteas appear to be in better Thursday. This should worry the than $150m. ter would be discussed by Hayatou Platini said he had still regis- and a Champions League final, shape at the moment to win their International Cricket Council and Asia’s powerful football chief and other senior committee mem- tered his official papers to be a and he pledged that Liverpool first major title. the Indian board, since the iconic Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al bers next week. But the decision candidate in the FIFA race. The would play at “full throttle”. Will Dhoni lead India at the venue is due to host the final of Khalifa wrote to acting FIFA rests with the acting president, deadline is October 26. “Winning is important, but World Twenty20? the World Twenty20 next April, president Issa Hayatou calling who is currently in Cameroon, the The head of the International so is how you win and how you -- The noose is tightening a month that usually brings bad for an emergency meeting of the spokeswoman said. Olympic Committee (IOC) -- play the game,” he said. around Dhoni, a limited-overs weather to the eastern metrop- body’s executive committee. Blatter, a 40-year veteran of which has wrestled with its own “I believe in a playing phi- great who has led India to title olis. Fortunately, there are no “These are exceptional cir- FIFA, is still in Zurich, home of graft problems in the past -- losophy that is very emotional, triumphs in the World Cup, World WorldT20 games scheduled in cumstances and that is why we the organisation’s headquarters, weighed into the controversy on very fast and very strong. My Twenty20 and the Champions Cuttack which witnessed crowd need the meeting. Only together a source close to him said. Thursday. IOC President Thomas teams must play at full throt- Trophy. With young Test captain trouble during the second match. will we overcome these difficult A cloud now hangs over Platini, Bach said “enough was enough” tle and take it to the limit Virat Kohli waiting in the wings, times,” Khalifa said, according to the former French captain and and it was time for FIFA to con- every single game.” critics are already calling for a AFP a statement from the AFC. one of the greatest players of all sider bringing an outsider in to “It is important to have The German and English feder- time, who had presented him- clean house. a playing philosophy that ations have made similar calls. A self as the man to clean up FIFA AFP reflects your own mentality, Indian board, Pepsi working reflects the club and gives you a clear direction to follow. Tactical of course, but tactical to resolve IPL ‘concerns’ QUOTES FROM SEPP BLATTER’S CAREER with a big heart.” He added: “Liverpool has MUMBAI: The Indian cricket board (BCCI) is confident they can ZURICH: Sepp Blatter (pic- -- “I consider myself a little bit extraordinary supporters and address the concerns of PepsiCo amid local media reports the global tured), who was suspended as a godfather of the organisation Anfield is a world renowned food and beverage giant wants to end its title sponsorship of the from football for 90 days on of women’s football in FIFA.” home, with an incredible scandal-hit Indian Premier League (IPL). Thursday as a mounting cor- atmosphere. Cricket lords over other sports in India and teams in the IPL, with ruption scandal engulfed world Blatter in 2015, urging “I want to build a great a $3.5BN estimated brand value, count Bollywood stars and major football’s governing body FIFA, better marketing of women’s relationship with these sup- conglomerates such as Reliance Industries as investors. is famed for his controversial football ahead of the World porters and give them memo- PepsiCo bagged the IPL title sponsorship rights in 2012 for five years quotes. Cup in Canada. ries to cherish. I hope we can (2013-17) for 3.97bn Indian rupees ($61.31m), almost double that DLF, Here are a few quotes that feed off each other’s energy India’s biggest listed property developer, paid for the rights from 2008- have marked football history: -- “Listen, this is a special and that we take this journey 12. The Twenty20 league has been dogged by corruption allegations -- “It seems to me that I am approach in the Anglo-Saxon together.” for years and in July a panel set up by India’s top court recommended being held to blame for all the ills countries. If this had happened Klopp confirmed that his suspending the franchise owners of two teams for two years following of the world: the destruction of in, let’s say, Latin countries assistants at Dortmund, Zeljko an illegal betting and spot-fixing scandal. the rainforests, the rail strike in then I think he would have been Buvac and Peter Krawietz, Reports said PepsiCo’s decision was based on issues that have brought Germany, frequent volcanic erup- applauded.” would join him at Liverpool. the game into “disrepute”. tions in Iceland, and -- it goes He described his appoint- “BCCI and PepsiCo have had a longstanding cordial relationship without saying -- fluctuations on Blatter says in 2010 John ment as “one of the best and have been in discussions to work out a solution which addresses the world’s stock markets.” and at the end of the game, we Terry ought not to have been moments in my life” and said PepsiCo’s concerns. Both parties will share it when ready,” the board Blatter in an address to shake hands, and this can hap- sacked as England captain Anfield was “the most histori- and the company said in a joint statement. Zurich’s Academic Sports pen, because we have worked over an alleged affair. cal place” in world football. The statement gave no further details on the specific issues at stake. Association subsequently so hard against racism and He also thanked Liverpool’s Around 90 percent of the advertisement money targeted at sports published in FIFA magazine discrimination.” -- “Every game should have a American owners Fenway in India goes to cricket, analysts say, and one of the two teams that in November last year. winner. When you play cards or Sports Group (FSG) for the court-appointed panel recommended for suspension is owned by Blatter sparks controversy any other game, there’s always appointing him and said he India Cements. -- “I am convinced that evil will in November 2011 when asked a winner and a loser. We should was happy to work with their The panel was established by India’s Supreme Court after a separate come into the light and good will in a television interview if he have the courage to introduce a transfer committee, which committee had carried out the investigation into the scandal, which triumph.” believes there is racism in the final decision in every game of oversees the club’s recruit- broke in 2013. More than two dozen people, including players, officials game. football.” ment strategy. and bookmakers, were arrested by Indian police. Many were later Blatter to German maga- REUTERS charged with various offences. zine Bunte in an interview -- “Let the women play in Blatter in 2004 when pro- Three players -- S Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan -- published hours before FIFA’s more feminine clothes like they posing the possibility of abol- were charged with spot-fixing, the term given to incidents in a match ethics watchdog handed him do in volleyball. They could, for ishing draws and making that may not affect the final result but can easily attract illegal bets. A and UEFA head Michel example, have tighter shorts. goals bigger. typical example in cricket is when a bowler deliberately delivers a wide Platini 90-day suspensions. Female players are pretty, if you or a no-ball. The panel also recommended that Gurunath Meiyappan excuse me for saying so, and -- “There are not many names and Raj Kundra be banned for life from the sport after both were found -- “Crisis? What is a crisis? they already have some different the media haven’t thrown at me in guilty of betting on matches and passing on information to bookmakers. Football is not in a crisis.” rules to men -- such as playing the last few years. I would be lying Meiyappan is the son-in-law of Narayanswamy Srinivasan, the cur- with a lighter ball. That deci- to you if I said it did not hurt. You rent chairman of the International Cricket Council and the managing Blatter in May 2011 amid sion was taken to create a more ask yourself: ‘What have I done?’” director of India Cements. Kundra is a former co-owner of the other an earlier major corruption female aesthetic, so why not do suspended franchise, Rajasthan Royals. scandal. it in fashion?” Blatter in 2014 discussing “We are in constant contact with them. We are working out a solu- his treatment by the interna- tion,” IPL chairman Rajeev Shukla told reporters yesterday. “We are -- “I would deny it. There is Blatter in 2004 talking tional media. addressing their concerns and they are addressing our concerns. no racism ... We are in a game, about women’s football. REUTERS REUTERS 22 SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 2015 Sport www.thepeninsulaqatar.com One-year countdown to cycling worlds The 2016 UCI Road World Championships to make much-awaited debut in the Middle East next October

DOHA: Qatar has kicked- Thani, President of the Qatar where sport occupies a privi- off one-year countdown to Cycling Federation (QCF), said leged position, we’ve been able the 2016 UCI Road World prior to the official one-year to choose the best venues and Championships which will be countdown. roads for racing tracks which has LEFT: The logo held in Doha next year. “In 2012, Qatar received the been accredited by UCI officials,” of the 2016 UCI The October 9-16 event will right to host it. The first Arab a QCF official said. World Road bring together dozens of teams and Middle East country, and In February this year, QCF Championships. and thousands of cycling fans to the second in Asia after Japan unveiled the event route and RIGHT: QCF the Qatari capital. in 1990. The championship will the logo of the UCI Road World President The event consists of a road enhance Qatar’s position to host Championships 2016. Sheikh Khalid race, a team time-trial and a sporting events and it will under- QCF President Sheikh Khalid bin Ali Al Thani. time-trial for elite men and line our ability to do it,” he added. was joined by cycling legend women and a road race and time- The organizing committee Eddy Merckx, John Lelangue and trial for men under-23, junior of Doha 2016 has been working Amani Al Dosari at the spectacu- men and junior women. closely with UCI to make sure lar unveiling ceremony. The championship will make that next year’s event continues “It is a great honour and pleas- its debut in the Middle East in the same successful vein, he ure for me to announce the details “The first edition in 1921 was Lelangue told the media at Flanders, but we will have every- which is fast becoming the hub said. of the World Championship,” he hosted by Denmark. Since then, the unveiling ceremony the road thing in place,” he said. The route of sports activities with Doha In July this year, the organis- said at the time. no country from the Middle East races for the elite athletes would map has already been shown to playing a lead role. ing committee of the 2016 UCI “Since 1921, the UCI has been had been selected to host the be staged on an 80km loop in the world body UCI, Lelangue said. Qatar will be the second Asian Road World Championships held organising the Road World championships. desert. A special 19km circuit Qatar expects more than 1,000 country to host the event after a special meeting to review the Championships. It is an annual “Qatar will be the first coun- will snake through Katara — the athletes from 75 countries for the Japan staged the championship Qatar’s preparations to host the event staged in one of the world’s try in the Arab World and the city’s cultural centre — all the event. in 1990. event. cities chosen by the international Middle East to host the cham- way to The Pearl, Lelangue said. Millions of TV viewers all over “No country from the Middle “Thanks to the support of the institution through a bidding pionships in 2016. It will also be The Katara route will include the world are also expected to East has ever been selected to government and national part- process similar to the process of the second country in Asia after cobblestones, he added. tune in for the event. host cycling’s world champion- ners and as a part of the national choosing the host of the Olympic Japan, which hosted it in 1990,” “It will look nice. Nothing like ships,” Sheikh Khalid bin Ali Al agenda of the country’s leaders Games,” Sheikh Khalid said. he added. Paris-Roubaix or the Tour of THE PENINSULA

Unbeaten runs England hunt for crumbs on the line as Australia take from their own Cup table on Wales

MANCHESTER: What could LONDON: Australia and and should have been a rous- Wales may have qualified ing finale, where a win or a for the quarter-finals of the Six Nations-style chase for 50 Rugby World Cup already points would send England into but there is plenty rest- the World Cup quarter-finals, is ing on their Pool A clash at now not even the biggest rugby Twickenham today. Ajo Motorsport rider Johann Zarco of France attends a press conference match in Manchester today. The winners will top the after taking the Moto2 world champion title at the Japanese Grand Prix England today take on Uruguay group and so avoid South in Motegi, Tochigi prefecture yesterday. in the final game of Pool A with Africa, whose 64-0 thrash- nothing at stake except pride ing of the United States on and the opportunity for some Wednesday continued their fringe players to enhance their revival after a shock opening Motorcycling: Zarco wins reputations. loss to Japan, in the last eight. Yet if Chris Robshaw had opted Both the Wallabies and Moto2 title as Rabat pulls out for a shot at goal, and Owen Wales have won all three of Farrell had landed it, to secure their ‘Pool of Death’ matches MOTEGI, Japan: Frenchman Johann Zarco became the Moto2 a draw with Wales instead of so far, with every World world champion yesterday ahead of the Japanese Grand Prix, after a 28-25 defeat two weeks ago, Ireland’s back row Peter O’Mahony warms up during a team training Cup-winning team, including his closest rival Tito Rabat pulled out with an injury. England might still have been session in Newport, south Wales, at the 2015 Rugby World Cup yester- Australia in 1991 and 1999, Zarco, on a Kalex, had a 78-point lead against defending champion alive and kicking in the group of day. BELOW: England’s Anthony Watson during training in Manchester. going through the tournament Tito Rabat and needed to come out of tomorrow’s race with a 75-point death even after being well beaten unbeaten. advantage to guarantee his season victory. by Australia. “No team ever won the In the end he didn’t need to race. A Wallabies win over Wales, grand final taking place across the World Cup losing a game,” Spaniard Rabat had to abandon the Japanese race during the first or even a draw, at Twickenham city at Old Trafford two hours WORLD CUP FIXTURES said Australia coach Michael free practice session yesterday morning due to pains from a broken today would have left the door earlier. Cheika. left radius, sustained in a training crash on Monday. open for England when they con- England’s coaches and players, THIS WEEK “It is going to be a big game Throughout this season, Zarco has dominated the field, having col- cluded group proceedings a few of course, will have to bury such for us. It is going to be a mas- lected 284 points in the 14 races so far. Of those races, Zarco has man- Saturday 10th October hours later at Manchester City’s thoughts and they have spent sive battle and pretty painful.” aged 12 podium finishes: six wins, five second places and one third place. stadium. the week trying to convince the 14.30 Samoa vs Scotland, Pool B, Wales have lost their last The Frenchman said he pushed himself to take risks this season, For the thousands of fans who world, and probably themselves, St James’ Park 10 Tests against Australia but also managed to apply his experience to win races. have paid hundreds of pounds for that this is a game from which 16.45 Australia vs Wales, Pool A, -- a sequence that includes a “I wanted to enjoy (claiming) the world championship,” he said. “I a rare glimpse of the national they can extract some small con- Twickenham, London third place play-off defeat at did it this year. It’s perfect. I want to keep going like this,” he said, team in the north of the coun- solation from the wreckage of the 20.00 England vs Uruguay, Pool A, the 2011 World Cup in New vowing to defend his title. try, that “what if” question will country’s first pool-stage exit. Manchester City Stadium Zealand. Rabat congratulated Zarco for securing the championship and remain the night’s major talking “We have to come out and wear Sunday 11th October But that did not stop Cheika putting up an impressive performance throughout the season. point -- along with rugby league’s the white shirt with pride and put 12.00 Argentina vs Namibia, Pool C, labelling Wales counterpart “He’s ridden a faultless season and will be a worthy champion,” Rabat in a good performance,” lock Joe Leicester City Stadium Warren Gatland as the “mas- said. Meanwhile, Rabat said his team will assess the status of the injury Launchbury said. 14.30 Italy vs Romania, Pool ter coach” last week. next week before deciding whether he will participate in the Australian Head coach Stuart Lancaster DSandy Park Although Cheika has Grand Prix the following weekend. “There was little pain, but I just has made nine changes from the only been in charge of the didn’t have the power in the injured arm needed to cope with the hard 16.45 France vs Ireland, Pool D, team beaten by Australia, with Millennium Stadium Wallabies for barely a year, braking areas here at Motegi,” Rabat said. “The championship is gone an exciting looking backline the Australian’s attempts to and second place is not worth the risk of crashing again and making 20.00 USA vs Japan, Pool B featuring George Ford, Owen present himself as a novice cut the injury worse,” he said. Kingsholm Farrell, Henry Slade, Jack Nowell, no ice with Gatland. REUTERS Anthony Watson and Alex Goode, After all, Cheika is the with Jonathan Joseph on the number 10s out there,” Care said. only coach to have won both bench. “There are some fantastic ball the European Cup, with Irish Feeding them will be scrum- players, who have been brilliant province Leinster, and the Lorenzo tops MotoGP half Danny Care, making his first in training, so we’re going to southern hemisphere’s Super Rugby World Cup appearance throw the ball around -- though Rugby competition, with the after a broken foot ruled him out we know for sure that our funda- New South Wales Waratahs. in 2011. mentals have to be right.” This year also saw Cheika practice in Japan “I’d say there are about four Uruguay suffered heavy defeats guide Australia to the south- in their first three games, but ern hemisphere Rugby MOTEGI: Jorge Lorenzo a distant third and says he has their attitude and remarkable fit- Championship title. marked the fastest time in yes- largely given up hope for defend- ness for a largely amateur team “What he did with Leinster, terday’s MotoGP free practice ing his title. Lorenzo said he was ENGLAND VS URUGUAY has won them many admirers. he put structure and discipline ahead of the Japanese Grand surprised by his stellar showing, “They are very proud to play in,” said Gatland. Prix tomorrow. given a shoulder injury sustained England: 1-Mako Vunipola, 2-Tom Youngs, 3-Dan Cole, 4-Joe Launchbury, for their country, so if we decide “He did the same with The Spaniard clocked 1min during a recent practice before 5-Geoff Parling, 6-James Haskell, 7-Chris Robshaw (captain), 8-Nick Easter; to run the ball from everywhere the Waratahs and now with 44.731sec, showing off his con- coming to Japan. 9-Danny Care, 10-George Ford, 11-Jack Nowell, 12-Owen Farrell, 13-Henry we will make life difficult for our- Australia,” the New Zealander sistent supremacy at Motegi, “I am happy that I can be still Slade, 14-Anthony Watson, 15-Alex Goode. selves,” Lancaster warned. added. “He’s straight up and riding 0.128sec ahead of Honda competitive and constant,” he The only previous meeting honest. Australians appreciate rider Dani Pedrosa and 0.312sec said. “We are lucky that the bike Replacements: 16-Jamie George, 17-Joe Marler, 18-David Wilson, 19-George between the teams came in the and respect that and he’s done faster than Ducati man Andrea is working very well,” he said, Kruis, 20-Tom Wood, 21-Richard Wigglesworth, 22-Jonathan Joseph, 23-Mike 2003 World Cup, when England a fantastic job. He’s a world- Dovizioso. adding that it meant he didn’t Brown. won 111-13 en route to lifting the class coach.” Championship leader Valentino need to over exert himself. Uruguay: 1-Mateo Sanguinetti, 2-Carlos Arboleya, 3-Mario Sagario, 4-Santiago trophy. Australia underlined their Rossi, who is only 14 points ahead Off the bike, however, Lorenzo Vilaseca (captain), 5-Jorge Zerbino, 6-Juan Manuel Gaminara, 7-Matias Beer, A repeat of that scoreline credentials as title contenders of Lorenzo, came in eighth, riding was seen touching his shoulder 8-Alejandro Nieto; 9-Agustin Ormaechea, 10-Felipe Berchesi, 11-Rodrigo Silva, is unlikely, given Uruguay’s with an impressive 33-13 win 0.823sec slower than his Yamaha several times between practice 12-Andres Vilaseca, 13-Joaquin Prada, 14-Santiago Gibernau, 15-Gaston improvement since then. A repeat over England last weekend teammate. laps. Mieres is World Cup triumph, thanks that knocked the tournament With four more races at play, “Obviously my shoulder isn’t in part to Robshaw’s moment hosts, beaten 28-25 by Wales including the Japan Grand Prix perfect, but even with my shoul- Replacements: 16-Nicolas Klappenbach, 17-Oscar Duran, 18-Alejo Corral, of madness two weeks ago, is of the previous week, out of the tomorrow, the championship can der in this condition I’m still able 19-Mathias Palomeque, 20-Diego Magno, 21-Agustin Alonso, 22-Alejo Duran, course impossible. event. go to either of the Yamaha riders, to ride and be quite consistent,” 23-Manuel Blengio REUTERS while injured reigning champion he said. REUTERS Marc Marquez trails them at REUTERS SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 2015 BREAK TIME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23 EASY SUDOKU CROSSWORD 1234567 89101112 SOB I G TALC AMI E

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How to play Kakuro: NOVO SHOWING AT The kakuro grid, unlike in sudoku, can be of any KAKURO SCREEN 1 Knock Knock (2D/Thriller) 11:00am, 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 & 11:45pm VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER size. It has rows and columns, and dark cells SCREEN 2 The Martian (3D/Action) 10:30am, 3:50 & 9:10pm TEL: 444933989 / 444517001 like in a crossword. And, just like in a crossword, The Martian (2D/Action) 1:10, 6:30 & 11:50pm some of the dark cells will contain numbers. Some SCREEN 3 Pan (3D/Adventure) 10:00am, 2:30, 7:00 & 11:40pm cells will contain two numbers. Pan (2D/Adventure) 12:15, 4:45 & 9:15pm However, in a crossword the numbers reference SCREEN 4 Straight Outta Compton (2D/Drama) 10:00am, 3:00 & 8:30pm clues. In a kakuro, the numbers are all you get! Black Mass (2D/Drama) 12:45, 6:00 & 11:15pm They denote the total of the digits in the row or SCREEN 5 Hotel Transylvania (2D/Animation) 11:00am, 12:50, 4:30, 6:20 & 10:00pm column referenced by the number. Hotel Transylvania (3D/Animation) 2:40 & 8:10pm Sicario (2D/Action) 11:50pm SCREEN 6 The Walk (2D/Adventure) 10:15am, 2:45 & 7:15pm Within each The Stranger (2D/Drama) 12:45, 5:15, 9:50 & 11:50pm collection of cells SCREEN 7 Etiquette For Mistresses (2D/Tagalog) 10:30am, 2:30, 6:30 & 11:20pm - called a run - any Operator (2D/Action) 12:40, 4:40 & 9:20pm of the numbers 1 SCREEN 8 Ahwak (2D/Arabic) 11:00am, 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 & 11:30pm to 9 may be used SCREEN 9 The Walk (IMAX 3D/Adventure)11:00am, 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:10 & 11:50pm but, like sudoku, SCREEN 10 The Martian (2D/Action) 10:00am, 12:40, 3:20, 6:00, 8:40 & 11:20pm each number may only be used once. MALL Yesterday’s SCREEN 1 Rudhramadevi (Telugu) 2:00pm answer Pan (2D/Adventure) 5:00 & 7:00pm The Martian (2D/Action) 9:00pm Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate Operator (2D/Action) 11:30pm SCREEN 2 Hotel Transylvania (2D/Animation) 2:30pm Jazbaa (Hindi) 4:15 & 10:45pm Operator (2D/Action) 6:30pm Jamna Pyari (Malayalam) 8:15pm SCREEN 3 Puli (2D/Tamil) 2:15pm Hotel Transylvania (2D/Animation) 5:00pm ALL IN THE MIND Ahwak (2D/Arabic) 6:45pm Etiquette For Mistresses (2D/Tagalog) 9:00pm The Martian (2D/Action) 11:00pm Can you find the hidden words? They may be horizontal, vertical, diagonal, forwards or backwards. LANDMARK SCREEN 1 Puli (2D/Tamil) 2:00pm Pan (2D/Adventure) 4:45pm Jamna Pyari (Malayalam) 6:45 & 11:30pm The Martian (2D/Action) 9:00pm SCREEN 2 Hotel Transylvania (2D/Animation) 2:00 & 3:45pm Operator (2D/Action) 5:30 & 9:15pm Pan (2D/Adventure) 7:15pm Jazbaa (Hindi) 11:00pm SCREEN 3 Rudhramadevi (Telugu) 2:00pm Jazbaa (Hindi) 5:00pm Etiquette For Mistresses (2D/Tagalog) 7:15pm Hoy en la Historia Ahwak (2D/Arabic) 9:15pm The Martian (2D/Action) 11:15pm October 10, 2014 Pakistani schoolgirl Malala ROYAL PLAZA Yousafzai, shot by the Taliban for demanding education for girls, SCREEN 1 Hotel Transylvania (2D/Animation) 2:30pm Pan (2D/Adventure) 4:15 & 6:30pm became the youngest ever The Martian (2D/Action) 8:45 & 11:15pm recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize SCREEN 2 Jazbaa (Hindi) 2:30 & 11:00pm 1865: Inventor John Wesley Hyatt Hotel Transylvania (2D/Animation) 4:45pm Operator (2D/Action) patented his design for the billiard ball 6:30pm Etiquette For Mistresses (2D/Tagalog) 8:30pm 1935: George Gershwin’s folk opera Porgy and Bess opened on Broadway to immense acclaim ASIAN TOWN 1975: Richard Burton and Elizabeth Rudhramadevi (Telugu) 12:30, 1:00, 3:30, 6:30, 7:00, & 9:30pm ACCELERATOR, AUTOMOBILE, AXLE, BATTERY, Taylor married for the second time, but Puli (Tamil) 4:00 & 10:00pm BRAKE, CARBURETOR, CLUTCH, CRANKSHAFT, divorced again the following year Jamna Pyari (Malayalam) 3:00, 5:30, 7:15, 8:00, CRUISE CONTROL, CYLINDER, DASHBOARD, 2005: Angela Merkel, leader of the & 10:30pm DIFFERENTIAL, DISTRIBUTOR, ENGINE, EXHAUST, conservative Christian Democrats, Jazbaa (Hindi) 12:45, 8:15 & 10:45pm FUEL LINE, GEARS, HALF SHAFT, HEADLIGHT, became the first woman Chancellor Singh Is Bling (2D/Hindi) 5:30pm IGNITION, MUFFLER, PISTON, RADIATOR, SHOCK in Germany’s history Talvar (Hindi) 3:00pm ABSORBER, SPARK PLUG, STEERING, SUSPENSION, Picture: Getty Images © GRAPHIC NEWS TAILPIPE, TRANSMISSION, WHEELS. SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 2015 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

Prayer Timings Weather Hazy to misty at places at first be- Fajr 04.13 am Zuhr 11.21 am Maghrib 05.13 pm Minimum: 30o C Maximum: 41o C comes hot during the Shorook 05.30 am Asr 02.42 pm Isha 06.43 pm HIGH TIDE 03:45 - 15:15LOW TIDE 09:00 - 22:00 day with slight dust and some clouds. Nasa unveils missing pieces in journey to Mars

MIAMI: Nasa has outlined the Nasa administrator Charles and Moon, or in the Moon’s orbit, face increasingly difficult chal- many challenges that remain Bolden said in a statement that known as cislunar space. lenges associated with trans- before humans can set foot on the US space agency is “closer to These include sending a robotic portation, working in space, and Mars, calling the problems sending American astronauts to spacecraft in 2020 to lasso a boul- staying healthy,” said the report. “solvable” but setting no firm Mars than at any point in our his- der from a near-Earth asteroid Nasa also said it needs to develop date for an astronaut mission to tory.” Bolden, a former astronaut, and ferry it to an area in deep adequate space suits to pro- the Red Planet. said he looked “forward to contin- space that astronauts can inves- tect against the hazards of deep Updated details of the US space uing to discuss the details of our tigate. “Nasa will learn to con- space exploration, and must test agency’s Mars strategy were plan with members of Congress, duct complex operations in a deep advanced solar electric propulsion contained in a 36-page docu- as well as our commercial and space environment that allows to power spacecraft efficiently. ment released to the public late our international partners, crews to return to Earth in a Before humans ever set foot on Thursday, ahead of upcoming many of whom will be attending matter of days,” said the report. there, global space agencies are talks with Congress about budgets the International Astronautical The third phase involves living planning a series of new robotic for space exploration and a major Congress next week”. and working on Mars’ surface rovers, adding to those already international meeting of the space The plan ahead is divided into and in transiting spaceships “that sent by NASA, including the industry to be held in Jerusalem This Nasa image obtained yesterday shows a view from the “Kimberley” three stages, the first of which is support human life for years, with Curiosity rover which touched next week. formation on Mars taken by Nasa’s Curiosity rover. The strata in the already under way with testing only routine maintenance,” as well down in 2012. Astronauts who journey to Mars foreground dip towards the base of Mount Sharp, indicating flow of water and experiments on human health as “harvesting Martian resources Even that rover’s spectacu- could spend three years in deep toward a basin that existed before the larger bulk of the mountain formed. and behavior, life support systems to create fuel, water, oxygen, and lar sky-crane powered landing space, where radiation is high and like growing food and recycling building materials”. must be completely revamped so are the risks of cancer, bone loss — which included no schedule or if Mars is found to host tiny life water, and 3-D printing aboard Nasa gave no precise dates or for a human-scale landing, which and immune problems, said the budget — was weak on key details. forms, or if humans take them the International Space Station. details for this phase in the report, would be 20-30 times heavier. document, called “Nasa’s Journey John Rummel, senior scientist there by accident, Rummel said. The second phase, called though one graphic mentioned A vehicle to lift humans from to Mars: Pioneering Next Steps in at the SETI Institute, said the “The document does not address “Proving Ground,” begins in “human missions to Mars vicinity the surface of Mars into Mars’ Space Exploration”. document contained “curious how the question of whether Mars 2018 with the first launch of the in 2030+”. The investments out- orbit is also needed, and is con- “Living and working in space shortcomings,” noting that it only provides a ‘home to microbial life’ new deep space capsule Orion lined in each of the three phases sidered “critical to crew survival”. require accepting risk, and the mentioned the terms “food” and today will be answered, or when, atop the most powerful rocket “are affordable within Nasa’s cur- “Nasa will have to learn new ways journey is worth the risk,” it said, “air” once, without elaborating on nor what that discovery would ever built, known as the Space rent budget,” the report said. of operating in space,” said the calling Mars “an achievable goal” how astronauts will grow food in mean to future exploration,” he Launch System, or SLS. After As Nasa presses further into report. “Overcoming these chal- and “the next tangible frontier space in order to survive. said. “Without sufficient care, that, the space agency plans to space, the agency acknowledged lenges will be essential on the jour- for expanding human presence”. It also ignored “the fundamen- Earth contamination could be practice other missions in the that the problems will grow more ney to Mars.” But some experts said the report tal issue of contamination risk” misread as Mars life.” area of space between the Earth complex. “Future missions will AFP

Changing pace Blue skies and frozen First ancient human genome of walking water detected on Pluto MIAMI: Pluto has blue skies burns more and patches of frozen water, from Africa is sequenced according to the latest data from Nasa’s unmanned New calories: Study Horizons probe, which made MIAMI: Scientists have from western Eurasia around can trace at least five percent a historic flyby of the dwarf sequenced the genome of a 3,000 years ago, his genome of their genome to the Eurasian NEW YORK: If you are look- planet in July. 4,500-year-old man in Africa showed that this migration “was migration. ing for a simple way to burn Never before has Pluto — a for the first time, a difficult up to twice as significant as pre- Researchers believe their find- more calories while walking, resident of the distant Kuiper achievement since the hot cli- viously thought, and affected the ings show that the massive wave just keep changing your speed, Belt, a frigid region of the solar mate has made DNA difficult genetic make-up of populations of backflow migration was far big- suggests a study by Indian- system beyond Neptune that is to recover from old remains, across the entire African conti- ger than previously thought and origin researcehrs. home to many comets and aster- researchers said. nent,” said the research team in may have amounted to a quarter Walking at varying speeds can oids — been observed in such The breakthrough was made a statement. of the population of the Horn of burn up to 20 percent more calo- detail. “Who would have expected using the skull of a man buried This event, known as the Africa at the time. ries compared to maintaining a a blue sky in the Kuiper Belt? face down in a cave in the south- “Eurasian backflow,” occurred “With an ancient genome, we steady pace, the findings showed. It’s gorgeous,” said Alan Stern, ern Ethiopian highlands, accord- when people from regions of west- have a direct window into the “We found that changing New Horizons principal investi- ing to the study in the journal ern Eurasia such as the Middle distant past. One genome from speeds can increase the cost of gator from Southwest Research Pluto’s haze layer and its blue Science. East and Anatolia suddenly flooded one individual can provide a pic- walking substantially,” said study Institute in Boulder, Colorado. colour is seen in this picture The cave was cool and dry back into the Horn of Africa. ture of an entire population,” said co-author Manoj Srinivasan, pro- Along with the announcement, taken by the New Horizons enough to preserve his DNA for By comparing his ancient Andrea Manica, of the University of fessor of mechanical and aero- Nasa released an image show- thousands of years, said the study, genome to DNA from modern Cambridge’s Department of Zoology, space engineering at The Ohio ing a blue layer of haze around Ralph/Multispectral Visible which noted that previous ancient Africans, researchers found that a senior author of the study. State University in the US. Pluto, taken by the New Horizons Imaging Camera (MVIC). genome analysis has been limited East African populations today “The question is: what got them The researchers found that up spacecraft’s camera. Blue skies to samples from northern and have as much as 25 percent moving all of a sudden?” The cause to eight percent of the energy we are seen on Earth because of the arctic regions. Eurasian ancestry from this event. of the mass movement remains a use during normal daily walking scattering of sunlight by very small particles of nitrogen. While the man died before a Beyond the region, African mystery. could be due to the energy needed “On Pluto they appear to be larger — but still relatively small wave of migration back into Africa populations across the continent AFP to start and stop walking. — soot-like particles we call tholins,” said science team researcher For the study, they measured Carly Howett, also of SwRI. Nasa said the “second significant find- the cost of changing walking ing” from New Horizons’ latest trove of data is that there are numer- speeds by having people change ous small, exposed regions of frozen water on Pluto. Fleet Week their walking pace on a tread- Using a tool called a spectral composition mapper on New ‘X-Files’ makes its mill while its speed remained Horizons, scientists have been able to map the signatures of water steady. ice on various parts of the planet’s surface. TV comeback, after “Walking at any speed costs “Large expanses of Pluto don’t show exposed water ice,” said sci- some energy, but when you are ence team member Jason Cook of SwRI. “Because it’s apparently 13-year absence changing the speed, you’re press- masked by other, more volatile ices across most of the planet.” ing the gas pedal, so to speak. “Understanding why water appears exactly where it does, and CANNES: The truth is out Changing the kinetic energy of not in other places, is a challenge that we are digging into.” The there, fans of “The X-Files” the person requires more work areas that seem to contain the most water ice also appear bright always knew — and now agents from the legs and that process red in recent color images of Pluto. “I’m surprised that this water Mulder and Scully are back to certainly burns more energy,” ice is so red,” said Silvia Protopapa, a science team member from digging it out after a 13-year first author of the study Nidhi the University of Maryland, College Park. hiatus from the small screen. Seethapathi, doctoral fellow in “We don’t yet understand the relationship between water ice and The cult US show made its long- mechanical engineering at Ohio the reddish tholin colorants on Pluto’s surface.” Scientists have pre- awaited return at the Mipcom TV State University explained. viously reported seeing flowing nitrogen ice glaciers on the surface market held annually in the French For more tips on how to burn of Pluto. On July 14, New Horizons, a nuclear-powered spacecraft Riviera town of Cannes, with the more calories when walking, about the size of a baby grand piano, became the first spaceship to screening of the first episode of the Team Oracle stunt pilot Sean Tucker (right) flies ahead of the US Navy Srinivasan offers some simple pass by Pluto. It will continue to send data back to Earth until late new, six-part miniseries. Blue Angels (left) as part of a practice run for Fleet Week over the bay advice: Walk in a way that feels next year. Nasa says the spacecraft is pressing on and is in good “X-Files” creator Chris Carter unnatural. working order some 5bn km from Earth. in San Francisco, California. Fleet Week started on October 5 and goes presented the screening and said IANS AFP till October 12 and will include ship tours and an air show. the series’ conceits have expanded beyond the investigation of extra- terrestrial and paranormal activity to include the very current themes of America under videosurveil- lance, citizens being spied upon and an overweening government. Baby-wearing revival gets a fitness twist in HK The two stars, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, reunite in HONG KONG: High up in one of Hong even suspension training (TRX) classes While in many cities frazzled parents baby-wearing is fine, as long as the baby their roles as Fox Mulder, a hot- Kong’s ubiquitous skyscrapers a group of have sprung up in recent months — all can soothe their baby — and stretch their sling is very supportive, and the activity head FBI agent investigating the women are being put through their paces, allowing parents to exercise while their legs — by strolling through the park with level of the baby wearer is not too vigorous.” inexplicable, and Dana Scully, his straining against the weight of a novel baby is strapped to them in a carrier. the pram, Hong Kong’s high-rise living and From structured types for sport to tra- rational partner. training accessory — their children. “There is huge demand from mums unwieldy streets can leave many here feel- ditional woven cloth style, there is now a They made their last on-screen Dubbed ‘Mumba’ these exercise classes who wanted to get back in shape and to ing trapped and lonely in relatively small baby-wearing option for every occasion. appearance together in a 2008 are a new twist on the baby-wearing trend get strong again after the challenges of apartments. “Carriers have been used across cultures movie, “The X-Files: I Want to gripping mothers in the city. labour, but who also didn’t want to leave New mother Angela Gou explains: “I was for thousands of years, but, like breastfeed- Believe”, which received mid- Once the preserve of traditional commu- their young babies behind while they spent looking for a way to get out and meet other ing, went out of ‘vogue’ for a long period dling-to-positive reviews. nities, the art of wrapping a baby across a time exercising,” explains Ifat Hindes, co- mums. I always want to exercise but it’s as people moved toward a more product- In their new TV adventure, caregiver’s body so it can be carried during founder of Mumba Fitness. hard to leave the baby at home. So these driven approach toward caring for small they find themselves caught up daily activities is being taken up by modern “We have combined different types of sessions solve the problem. Plus my baby babies,” says Trish Kelly who co-founded in a dangerous conspiracy run up parents. exercise including yoga, dance, TRX, and likes it and thinks we’re playing a game.” Hong Kong’s Babywearing group. by a wealthy individual who may In Hong Kong, where narrow hilly pilates, and the bonus is that you are using Most baby-wearing exercise programmes She adds that renewed interest in natu- or may not be seeking to master streets and unforgiving urban landscape your baby for weight training,” she says. recommend infants are three months or ral birth and breastfeeding has meant tra- alien technology. often render strollers and prams useless “There’s no need for expensive gadgets older to take part to ensure adequate neck ditional approaches to child-rearing are “The X-Files” miniseries will — many frustrated parents are now going — it’s just you and your baby, with other control, and check positioning to ensure back in fashion. “But for Hong Kong I think get its public airing in the US on back to basics out of necessity. parents, being guided by a professional. You babies hips are protected. it comes down to practicality. Moms like January 26 next year, on the Fox Proving the old adage, invention has fol- know everyone is in the same boat. Hong Chartered physiotherapist Helen Binge, what works. Baby-wearing is a practical network. lowed. ‘Mumba’ fitness, baby-wearing bel- Kong can be a difficult and unwelcoming who runs paediatric firm Physiobaby, said: way of getting around.” AFP lydance, ballet, yoga and pilates classes, and city for new mothers.” “The growing trend to exercise whilst AFP