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00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, April the 2nd.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09The UAE has postponed the mandatory requirement for a good conduct certificate for employment
00:15visas from April 1st until further notice.
00:18The Cabinet has issued a decision temporarily suspending the security background checks
00:24of foreign workers applying for new work visas.
00:27A source from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation said,
00:32China's Tiangong-1 space station re-entered the Earth's atmosphere and burnt up over the
00:38middle of the South Pacific on Monday.
00:41The vast majority of the craft burnt up on re-entry at around 8.15am, the authorities
00:46said in a brief statement on its website, without saying exactly where the remnants
00:51might have landed.
00:54Bahrain has announced the discovery of a shale oil and a deep gas resource in Khalija al-Bahrain
00:59Basin, located off the west coast of the Kingdom.
01:03The find represents the largest discovery of oil in the Kingdom since 1932, when extraction
01:09started on Bahrain's first oil well within the Bahrain oil field.
01:14The new resource is forecast to contain highly significant quantities of tight oil, known
01:20as shale, and deeply located gas understood to dwarf Bahrain's current reserves.
01:27K-pop mania has officially hit North Korea.
01:30Leader Kim Jong-un clapped his hands as he, along with his wife and hundreds of other
01:35citizens, watched a rare performance by South Korean pop stars visiting Pyongyang, highlighting
01:42the thawing ties between the rivals after years of heightened tensions over the North's
01:47nuclear program.
01:49A South Korean artistic group, including some of the South's pop legends and popular girl
01:54band Red Velvet, flew to Pyongyang over the weekend for two performances in the North
02:00Korean capital, one on Sunday and the other on Tuesday.
02:04And finally, the weather.
02:06Today's highs across the UAE will be 30 degrees Celsius, dropping to 22 degrees at night.
02:11That's all for now.
02:12Thanks for watching, but as always, you can get the latest news on gulfnews.com.
02:19I'm your host, Hillary Clinton.
02:20See you next time.