Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. Dubai film fest to be back in 2019. Family surprised to find ‘stolen’ jewellery with police. Trump leaves open possibility of bailing on meeting with Kim Jong Un. Hyperloop to build a line in Al Ghadeer to be operational by 2020.
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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Thursday, April 19. Here are the top stories
00:06at this hour.
00:07An Indian family which went to a police station in Dubai to report a robbery of a 40,000 dirham
00:13gold jewellery was in for a surprise. Officers at the station handed over the gold to them
00:17as a cleaner had found it among garbage. The family's housemaid had thrown out the bag
00:21thinking it contained garbage.
00:23President Donald Trump is leaving himself plenty of wiggle room when it comes to following
00:27through with a summit with the leader of North Korea. Trump told reporters he will
00:31bail out of the meeting if he decides it won't produce results.
00:34He was discussing the planned sit-down with North Korean Kim Jong-un during a joint news
00:38conference alongside Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
00:41Hyperloop Transportation Technologies plans to build the region's first Hyperloop line
00:46in Al-Qadir and extend it to Yas Island, Abu Dhabi airports and beyond. The company will
00:50initially construct a 10-kilometre line within Al-Qadir that is expected to be operational
00:55by 2020, a top executive said.
00:58The annual Dubai International Film Festival is taking a break this year, but it will return
01:02in 2019 for its 15th edition. The organisers of DIFF will be adopting a new approach, with
01:07the 15th edition of DIFF confirmed for 2019, a statement said. The festival will take place
01:12every two years from the 15th edition which will reflect DIFF's change strategy.
01:17And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 31 degrees Celsius, dropping
01:21to 23 degrees at night.