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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Tuesday, January the 3rd. Here are the
00:06top stories at this hour. Drug gangs sparked a prison riot that killed 56 people with decapitated
00:13bodies thrown over prison walls in the bloodiest violence in more than two decades in Brazil's
00:19overcrowded penitentiary system. Sergio Fontes, the security chief for Amazon Estate, told
00:26reporters several decapitated bodies were thrown over the wall of the prison in the
00:30Amazon city of Manaus, with most of those killed coming from the Sao Paulo-based First
00:36Capital Command drug gang. Turkish authorities are close to fully identifying the gunman
00:42responsible for an attack on an Istanbul nightclub which killed 39 people on New Year's Day and
00:48have detained eight other people. Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said information
00:54about the fingerprints and basic appearance of the terrorist have been found. He said
00:59it was clear that Turkey's military incursion into Syria had annoyed terror groups and those
01:04behind them, but said the offensive would continue until all threats to Turkey were
01:10removed. David Warner joined an elite group of batsmen, including Don Bradman and Victor
01:16Trumper, to score a century in the opening session of a test with a milestone innings
01:22in the series-concluding match against Pakistan. The left-hander slammed his 18th Test hundred
01:28and third at the Sydney Cricket Ground of 78 balls to reach three figures in just 117
01:35minutes with 17 fours. George Michael's partner Fadi Fawaz has denied tweeting that the late
01:42singer attempted suicide many times. He said his Twitter account was hacked in a statement
01:48Fawaz, whose account has been closed down after the messages were posted on New Year's
01:53Day, said, I am shocked with what's going on with the Twitter thing. My Twitter account
01:58has been hacked and closed.