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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, June the 11th.
00:05Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:08President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has instructed authorities
00:12to consider the humanitarian circumstances of Emirati Qatari joint families in recognition
00:19of the brotherly Qatari people.
00:20Saudi Arabia and Bahrain also announced similar measures that take into account the humanitarian
00:25situation of citizens who have married Qataris.
00:29In the UAE, affected families can call for assistance through a hotline set up by the
00:34Ministry of Interior.
00:35Log on to gulfnews.com for more details and the numbers.
00:39British Prime Minister Theresa May's office said talks were still ongoing with the Democratic
00:44Unionist Party on seeking its support for a conservative government.
00:48May's Conservatives lost their parliamentary majority in a humiliating election last week.
00:54They now need the support of the 10 lawmakers from Northern Ireland's ultra-conservative
00:59DUP to secure a majority, sparking widespread calls for her to resign.
01:05French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko will head to Wimbledon as the sport's newest star.
01:11The 20-year-old Latvian admitted that she once believed grass courts were suitable only
01:16for football and not tennis.
01:18She stunned tournament favourite Simona Halep 46-64-63 on Saturday to become tennis' most
01:26unlikely Grand Slam champion.
01:29Richard Hammond, a presenter of Amazon's car-themed TV show The Grand Tour, escaped serious injury
01:35on Saturday in a fiery crash while filming in Switzerland.
01:40Hammond, 47, was airlifted to hospital with a fractured knee while a Rimac Concept One
01:46electric supercar was reduced to a blackened mess after it crashed and caught fire.
01:52And finally, the weather.
01:53Today's high across the UAE will be 40 degrees Celsius, dropping to 28 degrees at night.
01:58That's all for now.
01:59Thanks for watching.
02:00And as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com