Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. Obama tapped my phones, says Trump. 66,000 displaced in north Syria fighting: UN. Andy Murray wins Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships. Louis Tomlinson arrested after airport fight.
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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, March the 5th.
00:05Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:08President Donald Trump accused former President Barack Obama of tapping his phones at Trump
00:12Tower the month before the election, leveling the explosive allegation without offering
00:17any evidence.
00:18Trump called his predecessor a bad or sick guy on Twitter as he fired off a series of
00:23messages claiming that Obama had my wires tapped.
00:27He likened the supposed tapping to Nixon, Watergate and McCarthyism, although he did
00:31not say where he had got his information.
00:34A total of 66,000 people have been displaced by fighting along two fronts in Syria's
00:39fractured north, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordination Agency said.
00:44Turkey-backed rebels seized Al-Bab from Daesh on February 23 after several months of fighting.
00:50Since war broke out in Syria in March 2011, more than half of its population has been
00:54forced to flee their homes.
00:56Aleppo province hosts tens of thousands of displaced Syrians, many in camps near the
01:00Turkish border.
01:02Andy Murray became the first Briton to win the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships by
01:06beating Spain's Fernando Verdasco 6-3-6-2.
01:10It was Murray's first win in Dubai, his first tournament win of 2017 and the 45th
01:16of his career.
01:17The victory sees the world number one extend his lead at the top of the world rankings
01:21ahead of Serbia's Novak Djokovic.
01:24One Direction singer Louis Tomlinson was arrested after he allegedly dragged a photographer
01:29to the ground and then went after a woman taking cell phone video at Los Angeles International
01:35Airport.
01:36Tomlinson, 25, was arrested on a charge of simple battery and released after posting
01:41a bond of $20,000.
01:43Tomlinson was with a female companion when the altercation occurred at the Terminal 4
01:47baggage claim on Friday night.
01:50And finally the weather, today's high across the UAE will be 30 degrees Celsius dropping
01:54to 20 degrees at night.