www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESSBUSI | 15 SPORT | 22 PiPimcom favours Qatar’s Al Attiyahyah inflation wins Dakar bonds Rally stage SATURDAY 16 JANUARY 2016 • 6 Rabia II 1437 • Volume 20 • Number 6677 thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar Qatar beat Iran Emir to start Two DFI-funded Russia visit films nominated tomorrow DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani will start a three- day official visit to Russia tomorrow at the invitation of Russian Presi- for Oscars dent Vladimir Putin, reports QNA. The Emir will hold talks with the Russian President on Monday. Talks will deal with means of enhanc- after Theeb was nominated at the ing bilateral relations in addition to British Academy of Film and Tele- regional and international issues, Jordanian film Theeb vision Arts (BAFTA) awards in two particularly latest developments is the only entry categories including Best Film Not in in the Middle East. the English Language and Outstand- on the list from the ing Debut by British Writer, Director Two Palestinians Middle East or Producer. Since its release at international shot dead in Gaza film festivals in August 2014, Theeb has been screened in 25 countries and won 18 awards. Most recently, GAZA CITY: Two Palestinians were The Peninsula the film had a commercial release Qatar’s Ahmed Alaa (left) celebrates after scoring a goal against Iran during their AFC U23 clash at shot dead by Israeli forces during in the US and garnered more than Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium in Doha yesterday. Qatar defeated rivals 2-1 to claim second successive protests along the border with Gaza $136,000 in ticket sales within five victory in the tournament. → See also page 23 yesterday, the Palestinian enclave’s weeks. health ministry said. DOHA: Two films produced by Doha It was also released in 12 coun- Film Institute (DFI) have made it to tries in the Arab region and Europe the Oscars nominations list. Theeb and is set to have a limited re-release and Mustang are part of the nomi- in several Arab countries, coincid- nations in the Best Foreign Language ing with the Oscars race. Teen starves to death in besieged Syrian town Film category. Set in the Arabian Desert of Jordanian film “Theeb” and French 1916, the film follows Theeb, a young film “Mustang” were on Thursday Bedouin boy, and his brother Hussein announced as being among the five as they leave the safety of their tribe AFP basement” where two young men next to Ali began frantically whisper- “What you really feel is the mag- nominees in the category alongside to venture on a treacherous journey shared a bed, Unicef’s top Syria rep- ing, “Did he die? Did he die?” nitude of the hunger. Everybody you “Son of Saul” (Hungary), “Embrace at the dawn of the Great Revolt. resentative, Hanaa Singer, told AFP. She said Ali’s family, sitting nearby, ask says they have been surviving on the Serpent” (Colombia) and “A War” Mustang, which was directed by Singer said the two boys’ bodies appeared so exhausted “that they can’t soup with water, spices, eating leaves (Denmark). Turkish-French filmmaker Deniz BEIRUT: “He’s gone,” the doctor “were skeleton-like”. even mourn anymore. They were cry- and grass,” Singer said. Directed by Jordanian filmmaker Gamze Ergüven, was a recipient of said quietly, announcing the death A Unicef doctor approached one ing silently but helplessly.” “The convoys do not help in situ- Naji Abu Nowar, Theeb was selected the Fall 2014 DFI grants programme. of 16-year-old Ali of starvation in the of the teenagers who looked particu- Ali became the latest person to die ations like this,” she said, calling for for a post-production grant by the It was screened as part of the Direc- basement of a makeshift clinic in the larly weak and noticed his pulse had of malnutrition in Madaya, which is an end to sieges across the war-rav- DFI through its MENA Grants Pro- tors’ Fortnight at last year’s Cannes besieged Syrian town of Madaya. stopped. under a crippling government siege. aged country. gramme in 2013. Film Festival. The film is set in a tiny Ali’s death late yesterday was “She checked him out, there was More than two dozen people in “The children are begging for a The critically-acclaimed film is village in northern Turkey and tells witnessed by representatives of the no pulse, so she started resuscitating. the rebel-held town have reportedly piece of bread. Some of the children the only one from the Middle East to the story of five young sisters born UN children’s agency, Unicef, as they One, two, three times, then she looked starved to death since early December. come and apologise to you, after ask- make it as a finalist among submis- in a family obsessed with virtue and assessed the health situation of res- at me and said, ‘He’s gone.’ And she Aid agencies entered Madaya with ing several times and you tell them you sions from 81 countries. their spectacular attempt to break idents of the famine-stricken town. closed his eyes,” Singer said by phone a convoy yesterday to deliver desper- don’t have any,” Singer said. The nomination for the DFI- free after being innocently embroiled “They took us down to the make- from Syria. ately-needed humanitarian aid, in a “They say, ‘sorry auntie,’ just for funded films comes only a few days in a scandal. shift hospital and we went to the According to Singer, the young man second such operation this week. a piece of bread.” UN chief unveils Attack on army base in Somalia kills 63 Kenyan soldiers plan to fight violent Bloomberg capital, Mogadishu. The attack is the in a bid to contain the situation, and Somalia has deployed about 22,000 lost at least 1,100 troops since 2009, biggest assault on an African Union the number of casualties on both sides peacekeepers to help Somali gov- the Nairobi-based East African news- base since a raid on an installation at is still being calculated, he said. ernment forces stabilise the country, paper reported in September. extremism Janaale in southern Somalia on Sep- Al Shabaab has waged an insur- which hasn’t had a functioning central In yesterday’s raid, Abu Musab said MOGADISHU: Al Qaeda-backed tember 1. gency in Somalia since 2006 to impose administration since civil war erupted the militants detonated a vehicle laden Islamist insurgents claimed to have The African Union Mission in Soma- its version of Islamic law. It’s used the a quarter of a century ago. Kenyan with explosives at the fence of the base AFP killed 63 Kenyan soldiers in an attack lia “can confirm that there was an attack country as a staging ground to carry forces form part of the Amisom contin- in El Adde and fired rocket-propelled on an African Union military base in on our troops in El Adde” and more out attacks in Kenya, East Africa’s larg- gent, along with troops from Ethiopia, grenades at the troops inside. Equip- southwestern Somalia and captured details will be released later, it said est economy, and Uganda. Burundi, Uganda and Djibouti. ment and ammunition were seized the town of El-Adde near the border yesterday on its Twitter account. Kenya While the militant group has lost in the raid. UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary- with Kenya. Defence Forces spokesman David territory since being driven out of Troop Losses The battle lasted for about three General Ban Ki-moon yesterday Sheikh Abdulaziz Abu Musab, a Obonyo said the militants attacked a Mogadishu in 2011 by government and In the attack on Janaale, the group hours as Kenya Defence Forces troops appealed for a shift from “heavy- spokesman for the military wing of Somali National Army camp close to African Union forces, it continues to claimed to have killed 80 African Union tried to repel the attack, before the base handed” responses to the rise of Al Shabaab, made the claim on Radio a Kenya Defence Forces camp at 4am stage deadly gun and bomb attacks, soldiers. Amisom said at the time it was overrun, Mohamed Isaq, a resi- extremists like the Islamic State Andalus, a pro-militant station that yesterday. The KDF has “increased its including in the capital. was verifying the number of casual- dent of El Adde, said by phone from group as he launched an action broadcasts via the Internet in the military operations” against Al Shabaab The African Union Mission in ties. The mission is estimated to have the town. plan to prevent violent extremism. Ban asked all countries to come up with national plans and outline steps that go beyond the narrow scope of military and secu- Jakarta Starbucks attack Two Saudi teachers rity responses to the threat from IS and other violent groups. “Many years of experience have freed by Yemen rebels proven that short-sighted policies, failed leadership, heavy-handed approaches, a single-minded focus AFP Yemeni capital Sana’a, SPA said. only on security measures and an The teachers were on their way utter disregard for human rights to work in the Comoros, on a flight have often made things worse,” which transited Sana’a, when air Ban told the UN General Assembly. RIYADH: Two Saudi Arabian religious service was suspended at the start “We all lose by responding to teachers have arrived home after their of a Saudi-led bombing campaign ruthless terror with mindless policy release from more than nine months’ against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels — policies that turn people against detention by Houthi rebels in Yemen, on March 26, SPA said.