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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, November the 24th.
00:08Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:11Iran and six world powers meeting in Geneva say they have reached a deal on Tehran's
00:15nuclear program.
00:17Iran is to curb its nuclear activities initially for six months in return for limited relief
00:22from sanctions.
00:23U.S. President Barack Obama welcomed the deal, though Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad
00:28Zarif has insisted Iran retains its right to enrich uranium.
00:33Dubai has a new police chief.
00:35His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE
00:40and ruler of Dubai, has signed an executive order appointing Mir General Qamis Matar al-Mazaina
00:45as the Commander-in-Chief of Dubai Police.
00:48The appointment takes immediate effect.
00:51A seven-year-old girl drowned in Ras al-Khaimah yesterday when she fell into a drainage pond
00:56filled with floodwater.
00:58The girl was playing unattended with friends when she slipped into the pond.
01:02More than 44,000 drivers in Dubai have been fined for using their mobile phones while
01:07driving so far this year.
01:10According to Dubai Police, drivers have ignored repeated warnings over texting or talking
01:14while driving.
01:15The fine is 200 dirhams and four black points.
01:19More than 11,000 children have died in Syria's civil war in nearly three years, including
01:24hundreds targeted by snipers, a new report says.
01:28Summary executions and torture have also been used against children as young as one, says
01:33the Oxford Research Group.
01:35The majority of children were killed by bombs or shells in their own neighbourhoods.
01:40Egypt has told the Turkish ambassador to leave the country a day after the Turkish leader
01:44called for ousted President Mohamed Morsi to be freed.
01:48Egypt's foreign minister has accused Recep Tayyip Erdogan of provocation and interfering
01:53in Egypt's internal affairs.
01:55The woman at the centre of a sexual assault scandal involving a top Indian investigative
02:00news magazine has publicly pleaded with her editor to halt what she called intimidation
02:06and harassment.
02:07Police have begun investigating Tehelka editor Tarun Tejpal after the woman claimed she had
02:12been sexually assaulted twice in a hotel in Goa during a conference.
02:18In a media statement, the woman said a member of Tejpal's family had visited her mother's
02:22house in New Delhi on Friday evening and asked her mother to protect the editor.
02:27Some of the hottest Oscar contenders will lead the line-up at this year's Dubai International
02:31Film Festival from December 6 till the 14th.
02:35Omar, Palestine's entry to the Best Foreign Language category, will open the festival's
02:4010th edition on December 6.
02:43Also screening as red carpet galas over the following week are 12 Years a Slave, August
02:49Osage County, The Lunchbox, Fruitvale Station and Mary Poppins' Story, Saving Mr. Banks.
02:56Stars set to hit the red carpet include Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Mark Ruffalo, Bond
03:02Girls' Berenice Malo and Naomi Harris, Priyanka Chopra, Ranveer Singh and Irrfan Khan.
03:09And finally, the weather.
03:10Today's high across the UAE will be 25 degrees Celsius, dropping to 21 degrees at night.
03:15That's all for now.
03:16Thanks for watching and as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com