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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Wednesday, December the 11th. Here are
00:09the top stories at this hour. The casket of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, draped
00:14in the multicolored South African flag, arrived at the seat of power in the country's capital
00:19for public viewing. Motorcycle-riding police officers escorted the casket from the military
00:23hospital outside Pretoria to the Union Buildings, once a symbol of the white-dominated government
00:29in the country. When Mandela took office, he used the buildings as his offices, and
00:33the presidency is still located there. Traffic on the Trade Center roundabout in Dubai will
00:38ease considerably as 4.2-kilometer-long flyovers have opened for traffic, linking 1st al-Kale
00:44Street with Sheikh Rashid Road, heading to Sharjah, and Udmetha Road heading to Al Ain.
00:49The 719 million dirham project also provides direct access to Al Maktoum Bridge and the
00:54Al Karama area. Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah opened an annual Gulf summit
01:00with a call for an end to the human catastrophe in Syria. He issued the plea as Ahmed Jaber,
01:06leader of Syria's main opposition national coalition, attended the opening of the summit
01:10and delivered a speech in which he appealed for urgent help from the Gulf state. Gulf
01:15leaders converged on Kuwait for the summit amid differences over a proposed union and
01:20relations with Iran. More than 139,000 counterfeit products worth 35 million dirhams have been
01:26seized by the Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development this year, and the number is expected
01:31to rise with the public's heightened awareness on commercial fraud. That's according to officials.
01:37Football Bayern Munich saw their record run of 10 successive Champions League wins end
01:42in dramatic fashion last night as Manchester City came from 2-0 down to beat them 3-2 in
01:47their final group game. A dozen newly discovered recordings made by late American country singer
01:52Johnny Cash three decades ago will be released next year as an album, according to Sony Music's
01:58Legacy Recordings. Out Among the Stars will be released on March 25th. And finally, the
02:03weather. The daytime temperature will be 26 degrees Celsius, falling to 18 tonight. That's
02:08all for now. Thanks for watching, and as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com.