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00:00Good day, welcome to the gulf news update for Tuesday, February the 13th.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09Five people, including a mother and her two children, died of suffocation after a fire
00:14broke out on Monday in a Sharjah apartment.
00:18The victims included a Moroccan woman, 41, and her two children, aged four and six.
00:24An Indian male, aged 32, and a 34-year-old Pakistani woman also died in the fire.
00:30At least 10 emergency rescue team members sustained injuries.
00:34South Africa's ruling party has decided to sand Jacob Zuma as the country's president,
00:39a senior official has said.
00:41The decision came after a marathon meeting over the fate of a leader whose scandal-plagued
00:46years in power divided Nelson Mandela's post-apartheid Rainbow Nation.
00:51Zuma has been living on borrowed time since Cyril Namaposa was elected as head of the
00:56African National Congress in December.
00:58Eden Hazard's double eased the mounting pressure on Chelsea manager Antonio Conte.
01:04The goals came as the English champions moved into the Premier League top four with a 3-0
01:09win over West Brom last night.
01:12Director Guillermo del Toro, whose latest film The Shape of Water is tipped to win big
01:18at the Oscars, will chair the Venice Film Festival jury.
01:21Venice is a window to world cinema and the opportunity to celebrate its power and cultural
01:26relevance, the Mexican director said.
01:29The Shape of Water, a Cold War-set fantasy romance, won del Toro the Best Director award
01:34at the Golden Globes and has earned him 13 Oscar nominations.
01:39And finally, the weather.
01:40Today's high across the UAE will be 28 degrees Celsius, dropping to 17 degrees at night.
01:46That's all for now.
01:47Thanks for watching.
01:48And as always, you can get the latest news on gulfnews.com.