A UK casting agency has been offering actors money to take part in an \u201canti-Qatar event\u201d outside\u00a0Downing Street\u00a0during a meeting between\u00a0Theresa May\u00a0and the ruler of the Arab country.<\/p>\n
The Independent<\/em>\u00a0has seen an email sent to extras offering \u00a320 per person to take part in the supposed protest from 11am until 12.30pm\u00a0on Tuesday, just \u00a0before\u00a0Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani\u00a0is due to arrive at No 10.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is NOT a film or TV production,\u201d casting agency Extra People said in the email to their actors. \u201cThe company are looking for a large group of people to fill space outside Downing Street during the visit of the president of Quatar (sic). This is an ANTI-Qatar event \u2013 You will not have to do or say anything, they just want to fill space. You will be finished at 12:30.\u201d<\/p>\n Extra People told\u00a0The Independent<\/em>\u00a0it was \u201ccontacted by an individual\u201d to \u201csource people\u201d for the event, but refused to reveal the identity of the client.<\/p>\n At 8.15pm, shortly after media reports first began to circulate about the job offer, the agency sent another mass email to its extras saying \u201con reflection\u201d it would not be involved \u201cin such a project\u201d.<\/p>\n A spokesperson said the agency decided to cancel the project having begun \u201cto understand what the hirer was asking of our artistes and the event involved\u201d after \u201creceiving further information\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cWe quickly made the decision to withdraw our involvement and wish to have no association with the event,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n The planned event comes amid a visit to Britain by Mr al-Thani aimed at promoting\u00a0Qatar\u00a0in the face of a year-long blockade by four neighbouring states \u2013 Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain.<\/p>\n They accuse Qatar of funding Islamist terrorism, supporting extremists and fostering ties with Saudi\u2019s arch-rival Iran.<\/p>\n Qatar in turn has accused Saudi Arabia, its biggest neighbour, of\u00a0\u201cbullying\u201d and risking a new conflictamid the ongoing diplomatic crisis.<\/p>\n On Tuesday, the UAE was ordered by the United Nations\u2019 highest court to immediately allow Qatari families affected by the dispute between the countries to reunite.<\/p>\n The International Court of Justice in The Hague imposed the measure before it hears the full case filed by Qatar at a later date.<\/p>\n According to Qatar, which filed the suit in June, the UAE has as part of the boycott expelled thousands of Qataris, blocked transport and closed down the offices of the Doha-based Al-Jazeera news channel.<\/p>\n The UAE had argued the case was without merit and should be dismissed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A UK casting agency has been offering actors money to take part in an \u201canti-Qatar event\u201d outside\u00a0Downing Street\u00a0during a meeting between\u00a0Theresa May\u00a0and the ruler of the Arab country. The Independent\u00a0has seen an…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46,57,90,96,107,137,139,174,201,202,209,232,233,244,246,249,256,277,279,288],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aramco","tag-baroudi","tag-democracy","tag-doha","tag-embargo","tag-gas","tag-gazprom","tag-lebanon","tag-offshore","tag-oil","tag-opec","tag-putin","tag-qatar","tag-rosneft","tag-roudi","tag-russia","tag-saudi","tag-total","tag-trump","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}