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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Thursday, October the 8th. Here are the
00:09top stories at this hour.
00:11The Al-Houthi militia in Yemen has agreed to stop fighting, the United Nations said,
00:15and now a UN envoy is coming to the region to see how Yemen's government will respond.
00:21A UN spokesman said, Al-Houthis accepted a UN Security Council resolution that calls
00:26for an end to violence, withdrawal of their forces from all areas they have seized, and
00:31a halt to undermining the political transition in the country.
00:36An independent lawmaker from Indian Kashmir was beaten up by Sambhartiya Janata Party
00:40legislators in the northern Indian state for throwing a beef party, triggering an uproar
00:46from the opposition, which staged a walkout.
00:49The manhandling of Sheikh Abdul Rashid came on a day the assembly is scheduled to take
00:53up a bill on the banning of meat.
00:56Seth Blatter was on the brink of finally being ousted as FIFA president after its Ethics
01:01Committee moved to suspend him.
01:03Michel Platini was also facing a provisional 90-day ban over a £1.3 million payment he
01:09received from Blatter, who is under criminal investigation over the alleged illegal transaction.
01:15A suspension of the two most powerful men in football was formally sought by FIFA's
01:20Ethics Committee, which could effectively end Blatter's 17-year reign and ruin Platini's
01:26challenge to replace him.
01:27A final decision rests with head judge Hans Joachim Eckert.
01:33After five years away from movie screens, Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai Bachchan returns
01:37today in Jaspa, a thriller in which she plays a lawyer fighting to rescue her kidnapped
01:42daughter.
01:43Speaking to Gulf News, Aishwarya, who took a break from films to raise her daughter,
01:47said she's been as present as ever on the entertainment scene, and her film was
01:52anything but a comeback.
01:54And finally, the weather.
01:55Today's high across the UAE will be 38 degrees Celsius, dropping to 27 degrees at
02:00night.
02:01That's all for now.
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