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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, November the 3rd.
00:08Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:10U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry starts his Middle East tour today aiming to shore
00:14up decades old alliances with Egypt and Saudi Arabia left frayed by the turbulence sweeping
00:20the region.
00:21Egyptian state media said Kerry would visit Cairo today for the first time since Washington
00:25froze part of its $1.5 billion in annual aid.
00:30The move followed U.S. anger over the bloodshed and lack of democratic progress in Egypt since
00:35the July ouster of President Mohamed Morsi.
00:38His tour will also take him to Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Jordan, Morocco and Israel.
00:44Formula One and Mark Webber will be hoping to get one over his Red Bull teammate and
00:48newly crowned world champion Sebastian Vettel when he starts on pole at the Abu Dhabi Grand
00:54Prix today.
00:55The race starts at 5 p.m. UAE time and you can follow gulfnews.com for more action.
01:01Four people were injured when a fire broke out during a prisoner's riot in northern
01:05Saudi Arabia.
01:06A spokesman for the prison's authority said the riot and the fire broke out during weekly
01:11visiting hours.
01:12The Saudi state news agency reported that authorities restored order while firefighters
01:17put out the fire.
01:18The U.S. has brushed off Pakistani claims that a drone strike which killed Pakistani
01:23Taliban leader Hakeemullah Mehsud has scuttled talks with the militant group.
01:28A State Department official declined to confirm that Mehsud had been killed and said the issue
01:32of whether to negotiate with the Taliban was an internal matter for Pakistan.
01:37Mehsud, who was under a $5 million U.S. government bounty, was killed when a drone targeted his
01:43car in a compound in North Waziristan tribal district on Friday.
01:48And finally, the weather.
01:49Today's high across the UAE will be 34 degrees Celsius, dropping to 25 at night.
01:54That's all for now.
01:55Thanks for watching.
01:56And as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com.