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00:00Good Day, Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Tuesday, March 18.
00:08Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:10Dubai metro stations will soon play host to a variety of museums displaying artwork as
00:15well as offering a peep into civilizations and creativity, Gulf News has learnt.
00:20The initiative was launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice
00:24President and Prime Minister of the UAE and the Ruler of Dubai.
00:28Work on transforming the stations will begin in the next few weeks with museums to be ready
00:32within a year to coincide with the launch of Art Dubai 2015.
00:36Saudi Arabia has ruled out the possibility of international mediation in its dispute
00:41with Qatar and said the conflict will not be resolved until Qatar changes its ways.
00:45In the first official statement from the three countries that recalled their ambassadors from
00:49Doha, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al Faisal told Al Hayat that Riyadh, Abu Dhabi
00:55and Manama will not budge on their positions on Qatar.
00:59An ultimatum given to the Jordanian government by Parliament to take action after Israel
01:04killed a Jordanian judge expires today.
01:07Lawmakers have threatened Prime Minister Abdullah Nasser with a vote of no confidence.
01:12Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a draft bill for annexation of Crimea.
01:17Putin earlier informed the Parliament of the Crimean leadership's proposal to join Russia.
01:22The US and European Union imposed personal sanctions on Monday on 11 Russian and Crimean
01:27officials involved in the seizure of Crimea from Ukraine.
01:31Australian authorities said Tuesday they had begun searching 600,000 square kilometres
01:35of the remote Indian Ocean for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.
01:40American and New Zealand aircraft have also joined the search with Australia.
01:45Preliminary estimates for 2013 show that Abu Dhabi's GDP is expected to reach 953.2 billion
01:52dirhams with a growth rate of 4.8%.
01:55According to data released by Statistics Centre, Abu Dhabi's non-oil GDP in 2013 at current
02:00prices is estimated to reach 429.3 billion dirhams with a 10% growth rate.
02:07And finally the weather.
02:08Today's high across the UAE will be 25 degrees Celsius, dropping to 18 degrees at night.
02:13That's all for now.
02:14Thanks for watching and as always you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com