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SATURDAY 28 FEBRUARY 2015 • 9 Jumada I 1436 • Volume 19 Number 6355 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir meets Bush Turkey, US to Cops to get train Syria rebels from tomorrow ANKARA: The United States real-time view and Turkey will begin train- ing and equipping thousands of moderate Syrian rebel forces tomorrow as part of a deal the two Nato allies signed last of accidents week, an official said. “I can say that the train-and- equip (programme) will begin as of March 1,” Tanju Bilgic, spokes- 4G system to be used to save lives man for the Turkish foreign min- istry, was quoted as saying by the DOHA: Policemen on field duty magazine that the main objective state-run Anatolia news agency. will soon have access to ultra- behind installing the new system After several months of nego- modern telecoms technology was to save the time and energy of tiations, Ankara and Washington that will help them see in real policemen on field duty and make signed an agreement on February time road accidents taking place their work more efficient as they 19 to train and arm Syria’s anti- anywhere in the country and get would not need to come to office regime fighters. in touch with emergency medi- anymore. Turkey, an outspoken critic cal staff to dispatch help. He said the groundwork for of Syrian President Bashar al- Similarly, if a policeman gets installing the new system had been Assad, hopes rebel factions to be information on his wireless system done and tests had been conducted trained will battle the regime in about a traffic snarl anywhere, to make sure it works. Damascus as well as insurgents near or far, he would be able to He explained that if a traffic Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani called on former US president George H W Bush during his visit from the Islamic State group who view it live on his 4G system and policemen is, for example, near a to Houston, Texas, yesterday. The two had a cordial talk and discussed issues of mutual interest. have seized large swathes of ter- order quick action. traffic intersection or a rounda- ritory in Iraq and Syria right up The viewing of traffic jams and bout and is told of a road accident to the Turkish border. road mishaps and video conferenc- or a traffic snarl anywhere, he will The US government hopes the ing with emergency medical staff be able to see it in real time and first trained rebel forces will be will be made possible by surveil- decide what action is to be taken. operational by the end of the year. lance cameras installed on the The system will be connected Qatar buys prime Milan property The goal is to train more than roads for public security. to the ambulance and emergency 5,000 Syrians in the first year of All public security personnel on sections of major hospitals so doc- MILAN: Qatar’s sovereign fund the programme, and a total of field duty — including those man- tors can be contacted for instant has taken control of one of Italy’s 15,000 over a three-year period. aging road traffic — and fire fight- videoconferencing and after look- prime business areas after buy- ers will be provided access to this ing at the victim they can give ing out other shareholders. UAE, Kuwait to fourth-generation (4G) telecoms instructions on what needs to be Property group Hines Italia system soon. done until he or she is brought to announced yesterday that Qatar open embassies The system will comprise both, the emergency unit for treatment. Investment Authority (QIA) had telecoms equipment fitted in police The doctor will immediately know taken 100 percent control of the and traffic patrol vehicles as well the extent of injuries suffered by Porta Nuova district in Milan, in Yemen’s Aden as mobile gadgets they can carry the victim and what line of treat- in which it has held a 40 percent in their hands. ment is to be adopted once he or stake since 2013. DUBAI: The United Arab This was disclosed by Ministry she is brought to the hospital. Hines, insurer Unipol and Emirates and Kuwait will reo- of Interior officials in interviews The system will also help police- several investment funds were pen their embassies in the published in the latest edition of men and doctors know if the acci- among the selling shareholders in southern Yemeni city of Aden the in-house police periodical, The dent victim has a medical record a 25-building development con- instead of the capital Sana’a, Police With You. in which the relevant data are servatively valued at more than the two countries’ state news Once the system becomes oper- stored. €2bn ($2.2bn). agencies said yesterday. The Porta Nuova district in downtown Milan. ational, policemen on duty will not The proposed system will pro- Hines boss Manfredi Catella Sana’a was captured in need to go to their offices to access vide policemen instant access to would not disclose how much QIA September by the Shia Muslim their computers, landline phones all CCTVs fitted on roads and in had paid but hailed its willingness centre of a major European city. With its pedestrian walkways Houthi militia, which placed and fax machines, or view maps. public places through which it will to splash out as “an extremely pos- Situated barely a kilometre and cycle paths and a large park President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi “They will be able to access all be possible to view traffic jams and itive signal for Italy in terms of from Milan’s iconic Gothic cathe- under development, it has been a under house arrest and forced him of these things in the 4G telecoms accidents. the attractiveness of the country.” dral, the district is home to a huge hit with the discerning resi- to announce his resignation. On system that is being installed,” said Personnel from Al Fazaa, the Media reports said initial inves- number of landmark buildings, dents of Italy’s business capital. Sunday Hadi fled to Aden, where Captain Abdullah Qayed Saleh, Civil Defence (firefighters) and tors in the project had cashed out including the cutting-edge head- Its centre is the Piazza Gae he has set up a new seat of power. director of Telecoms Division of the Traffic Department will ben- with a 30 percent profit in their quarters of Italian bank Unicredit Aulenti, where the Cesar Pelli- UAE Minister of State for the Ministry of Interior. efit from the 4G system the most. pockets. and the “Bosco Verticale” (Vertical designed Unicredit buildings are Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash The wireless and radio system The official said Qatar was the The district of Porta Nuova, Forest), a complex of two award- located. said the UAE had made its deci- will be made a part of the 4G second country after the US to be which takes its name from an winning residential skyscrapers. Other prominent businesses to sion “in order to entrench con- technology being made available readying itself to use the 4G tel- early 19th century Napoleonic Porta Nuova has been over a have bases there include Google stitutional legitimacy in Yemen, to policemen on patrol or firefight- ecoms system for the policemen on gate, was subject to one of the decade in the making with a huge and, this being Italy’s fashion capi- embodied by President Abdrabuh ing duty. field duty. It will be obviously the most ambitious programmes space extending over 29 hectares, tal, there is no shortage of upmar- Mansur Hadi and his govern- Another official, Lieutenant first Arab country to be doing so. of urban regeneration ever having been reclaimed from its ket boutiques and trendy cafes. ment”, according to WAM news Faisal Ali Al Hanzab, told the undertaken within the historic former use as rail yards. AFP agency. AGENCIES Dafna blaze Italy lawmakers Police bust liquor-brewing gang urge recognition DOHA: The police have busted a Details of the gang and their The police took some people gang of 19 Asians whose criminal crimes were given by local Arabic into custody and they led them of Palestine activities can put a Hollywood daily Al Raya in a report published to where the gang brewed illicit ROME: Italian lawmakers crime thriller to shame. on Thursday after a criminal court hooch on a large scale. yesterday backed a non-bind- The gang was involved in large- sentenced them to jail for varying One of the gang members had ing resolution that encourages scale brewing of illicit liquor for terms. rented a place in Al Rayyan for the the government to recognise sale, obviously to those who can’t Most of the 19, all Asians, were illegal brewing, while another had Palestine as a state. access or afford commercial sentenced to three years in jail and taken a place on Al Nasr Street. Italy’s Chamber of Deputies brands. some to four for forging signatures The gang had “recruited” a voted by 300 to 45 to pass the They used stolen ID cards of for car purchases.