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00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, September the 5th.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:08German Chancellor Angela Merkel came under renewed pressure over her liberal refugee
00:12policy after an upstart anti-migrant populist party handed her party a humiliating defeat
00:18in her home state.
00:19The xenophobic Alternative for Germany clinched around 22% in its first bid for seats in a
00:25regional parliament.
00:26This showed after most ballots had been counted from Sunday's polls.
00:30Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union garnered just 19% in its worst-ever
00:34score in the northeastern state, while the Social Democrats maintained top place with
00:39around 30%.
00:41At least four explosions hit government-held parts of Syria in the cities of Tartus and
00:46Homs and alongside a road outside Damascus.
00:49Two simultaneous blasts hit the Arizona bridge area at the entrance to the northwestern coastal
00:54city of Tartus.
00:55Eighteen people have been killed so far and the toll is expected to rise.
01:00Dubai's mid-market residential needs have received a major boost with the announcement
01:04of a joint venture between Dubai South and Reimar, which will create as many as 15,000
01:09homes.
01:10The master plan for Reimar South is being finalized by an international architectural
01:15firm and will have its centerpiece, an 18-hole golf course, set on 200 acres.
01:20Details of the overall project cost and the time frame for its completion have not yet
01:24been revealed.
01:25Five months after making the announcement, broadcaster MBC Group formally launched Project
01:30Runway Middle East, an Arab version of the hit fashion reality show, with head judge
01:35Elie Saab on Sunday in Dubai.
01:36The iconic Lebanese designer will be joined by Tunisian model and actress Aftaf Schneefen
01:41with a third surprise guest judge every episode.
01:44The first episode of Project Runway Middle East will air on September 17 on MBC4 and
01:50MBC Masr 2 at 10 p.m. UAE time.
01:53And finally, weather.
01:54Today's high across the UAE will be 45 degrees Celsius, dropping to 29 degrees at night.
02:00That's all for now.
02:01Thanks for watching, and as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com.