Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. Donald Trump denounces chemical weapons attack in Syria. Donald Trump removes Steve Bannon from National Security Council. More Dubai landlords offer annual rent through multiple cheques. Suu Kyi denies ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. Experts explore film partnerships between UAE and Hollywood.
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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Thursday, April 6. Here are the top stories
00:06at this hour.
00:07US President Donald Trump has denounced the latest chemical weapons attack in Syria as
00:12an affront to humanity and warned it would not be tolerated. Speaking alongside Jordan's
00:17King Abdullah at a White House news conference, Trump did not lay out in any detail how the
00:23United States would respond to the killings, which are widely believed to have been perpetrated
00:28by the regime.
00:30Donald Trump removed his chief strategist, Steve Bannon, from the National Security Council
00:35on Wednesday, reversing his controversial decision early this year to give a political
00:40adviser an unprecedented role in security discussions. Vice President Mike Pence said
00:45Bannon would continue to play an important role in policy and played down the shake-up
00:50as routine.
00:51Rather than pay up employee housing allowances in one go, many companies in the Y are spreading
00:57it out in monthly installments. For tenants, it has become another useful tool in their
01:02negotiations with landlords to bring down rental payments, according to the first-quarter
01:07update on the property market from Cavendish Maxwell. The number of landlords offering
01:11flexibility to pay annual rent through multiple checks has increased, according to the firm.
01:17Aung San Suu Kyi has denied security forces have carried out ethnic cleansing of Rohingya
01:22Muslims in Myanmar. She was speaking to the BBC after the UN Rights Council agreed to
01:27investigate allegations of rape, murder and torture against the army. Rights groups say
01:33hundreds of the stateless group were killed in a month-long army crackdown following deadly
01:38attacks on Myanmar border police posts. Almost 75,000 Rohingya have fled to neighbouring
01:44Bangladesh where they have related grisly accounts of army abuse. Myanmar's de facto
01:50leader Suu Kyi has not spoken out in defence of the persecuted minority. She has also not
01:55condemned the crackdown.
01:57Three Hollywood influential experts landed in the UAE this week to explore the possibility
02:02of film corporation partnerships between the UAE and Hollywood, and to promote a programme
02:07that connects filmmakers from around the world with leading US entertainment professionals.
02:12UAE is a very robust player in the region in terms of content creation, so it was important
02:18for us to include it," Jennifer Kushner, Director of Artist Development, Film Independent, said.
02:24And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 34 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:29to 26 degrees at night.
02:31That's all for now. Thanks for watching. A reminder that our next bulletin will be on
02:35Sunday but as always you can get the latest news on gulfnews.com