Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. Unstable weather will continue to prevail in the UAE. Mnangagwa and Chamisa both confident of victory in polls. North Korea is building new missiles. Open letter calling for the reinstatement James Gunn. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/videos
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Tuesday, July the 31st.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09Unstable weather will continue to prevail in the UAE until Thursday, bringing dust,
00:15haze, rain and fog to various parts of the country.
00:19The UAE Met Office said much of the country's skyline will remain shrouded in haze the whole
00:24day today.
00:25Zimbabwe's President Emerson Mnangagwa and his main opponent Nelson Chamisa both said
00:31today they were confident of victory in the polls.
00:34Observers said that national elections held on Monday were too early to call.
00:39Mnangagwa said he was receiving extremely positive information on the vote.
00:44Chamisa said earlier the opposition movement for democratic change had done exceedingly
00:50well in the vote.
00:51U.S. intelligence agencies have found that North Korea is building new missiles based
00:56on satellite photographs taken in recent weeks and other new evidence.
01:01Just weeks after a high-stakes summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un, Pyongyang appears
01:07to be developing at least one liquid-fuelled intercontinental ballistic missile.
01:13The Washington Post revealed the details on Monday, citing officials familiar with the
01:18intelligence.
01:19The Guardians of the Galaxy has found a new mission, and it has nothing to do with Thanos.
01:25Assorted cast members shared an open letter calling for the reinstatement of the franchise's
01:30director James Gunn, who was fired by Walt Disney on July 20.
01:37Gunn was fired after some years-old tweets resurfaced featuring the director joking about
01:43topics including rape, paedophilia, 9-11 and the Holocaust.
01:48The open letter went out across social media from a number of Guardians cast members, including
01:54Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel and Sean Gunn.
01:59And finally, the weather.
02:00Today's high across the UAE will be 42 degrees Celsius, dropping to 31 degrees at night.