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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, February the 15th.
00:09Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:13Copenhagen police said today they believe a man shot dead by officers was the sole perpetrator
00:18of two fatal attacks in the Danish capital.
00:21Police said video surveillance indicated the man was behind an attack at a panel discussion
00:26about Islam and free speech in which one man died on Saturday.
00:31In the other attack, another man was shot outside Copenhagen's main synagogue early
00:36Sunday.
00:37Iraq's two main parliamentary lists, including Sunni lawmakers, suspended their activities
00:43on Saturday in protest against the killing of a prominent Sunni tribal leader and the
00:49kidnapping of a Member of Parliament the night before.
00:52Sheikh Qasim al-Janabi and his son were shot dead along with at least six guards after
00:57gunmen stopped their convoy in South Baghdad.
01:01UN Security Council members are considering the first resolution on Yemen since a rebel
01:06takeover spun the country into the danger of collapse.
01:09A draft resolution demands that al-Houthi rebels immediately and unconditionally withdraw
01:15forces from government institutions, release U.S.-backed President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi
01:22and his cabinet from house arrest, and engage in good faith in UN-led peace talks.
01:29Foreign ministers of the six GCC states who met Saturday night urged the UN Security Council
01:35to take a decision under Chapter 7 of the United Nations Charter, which allows the use
01:40of military force if there are threats to peace.
01:44Benedict Cumberbatch is now a married man.
01:47The Oscar-nominated actor married his pregnant fiancée, Sophie Hunter, on Saturday, according
01:53to British media.
01:55Actress Keira Knightley was among the stars joining the celebrations.
01:59Cumberbatch is currently working on a new series of BBC's popular Sherlock adaptation.
02:06Iranian dissident director Jafar Panahi has won the Golden Bear top prize at the 65th
02:12Berlin Film Festival for Taxi, his third movie made in defiance of an official ban.
02:18Panahi, who is outlawed from travelling abroad and was absent from the festival, appears
02:24on screen in the film as a Tehran cab driver, swapping stories with the denizens of the
02:29city.
02:30The jury president, Hollywood director Darren Aronofsky, said Panahi had overcome restrictions
02:36that had the power to damage the soul of the artist.
02:40And finally, the weather.
02:41Today's high across the UAE will be 29 degrees Celsius, dropping to 21 degrees at night.
02:47That's all for now.
02:48Thanks for watching.
02:49And as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com.