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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Wednesday, June the 18th.
00:09Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:11Residents of the Iraqi capital Baghdad are stockpiling food and water as Islamist militants move closer.
00:18UK Prime Minister David Cameron will hold talks with his senior security advisors today
00:23to discuss the crisis, saying the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is a real threat to the country.
00:29Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has accused Saudi Arabia of backing ISIL.
00:35Forty Indian employees stranded in the violence are uncontactable, the Foreign Ministry said,
00:41with a newspaper reporting the construction workers have been kidnapped.
00:45Afghan President Hamid Karzai has dismissed suggestions that his country could descend into the same chaos as Iraq
00:52when US-led troops pull out and leave the National Police and Army to impose security.
00:58In an interview, he said the Al-Qaeda militant group no longer had a presence in Afghanistan.
01:0537 people remained missing today after an apparently overloaded boat carrying Indonesian illegal migrants
01:12heading home for Ramadan sank overnight in rough seas off western Malaysia, killing at least two.
01:19Officials said 58 people had been rescued or made it to land by themselves.
01:25For Ralph Lauren, the American flag is not just a motif.
01:29When he uses the flag as inspiration for his designs, he believes in what that represents.
01:35The 74-year-old fashion designer was honoured by the Smithsonian Institution for his career
01:41and to mark the 200th anniversary of the original flag that inspired the writing of the national anthem.
01:47Lauren helped fund a major effort to preserve that flag.
01:52World Cup host Brazil were denied an early place in the last 16 by a virtuoso performance
01:58by Mexico goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa last night.
02:02The stopper produced four world-class saves as El Trai hung on for a goalless draw.
02:08Other matches saw Belgium beat Algeria 2-1 and Russia and South Korea play out a 1-1 draw.
02:15Defending champions Spain will be eliminated from the tournament if they lose to Chile tonight.
02:21Log on to gulfnews.com to watch Gulf News' Kamil Shaheen picking the winner.
02:27And finally, weather. The daytime temperature will be 39 degrees Celsius, falling to 27 at night.
02:34That's all for now. Thanks for watching.
02:36And as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com