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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Thursday, March 21. Here are the top stories
00:12at this hour.
00:13Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt has been convicted by the India Supreme Court in the Arms Act
00:18case that he was booked under in connection with the 1993 Mumbai serial blast. He has
00:23been given a five-year sentence. He has served 18 months in jail already. The court also
00:29confirmed the death sentence of Yaqub Abdul Razak Memon and commuted the death sentence
00:33of 10 others.
00:34A man in his 20s was found murdered at his apartment in Naba area of Sharjah, police
00:39said. The body of the Bangladeshi victim was found in one room of an apartment shared by
00:4335 roommates. US President Barack Obama faces a stony reception when he travels to the West
00:49Bank for talks with Palestinian leaders who accuse him of letting Israel ride roughshod
00:54over their dream of statehood. Lufthansa said it had cancelled 500 mainly short-haul
00:59and domestic flights to and from its home airports on Thursday because of a planned
01:04strike by staff.
01:05In cricket, Australia captain Michael Clarke has backed his deputy Shane Watson to step
01:09up and lead the side if he's ruled out of the fourth test against India, which starts
01:13in New Delhi tomorrow.
01:15If you're out and about this weekend, Nawazuddin Siddiqui appears in his first starring role
01:20opposite Bipasha Basu in the thriller Atma. If it's action you're after, then catch
01:24Olympus Has Fallen, in which the White House comes under attack from North Korean terrorists.
01:30Two music legends perform in the UAE, with Julio Inglesias crooning his romantic hits
01:34in Dubai and Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli's operatic sounds in Abu Dhabi.
01:39And finally, weather. The daytime temperature will be 36 degrees Celsius, falling to 18
01:44at night.
01:45That's all for now. Thanks for watching. A reminder that our next bulletin will be
01:49on Sunday. But as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com.
01:54Thanks for watching.