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00:00Good day, and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Wednesday, August 29.
00:07Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09The Indian Supreme Court will hear later today a plea by well-known historian Romila Thapar
00:15and activist Maja Dharawala on the arrest of five left-wing activists and a lawyer on
00:22Tuesday for their alleged Naxal links.
00:25A bench headed by Chief Justice Deepak Mishra said it would hear the matter at 3.45 p.m.
00:31after Counsel Prashant Bhushan, appearing for Thapar, Dharawala and three other activists
00:37mentioned the matter for an urgent hearing.
00:40Maharashtra police had arrested five left-wing activists, Sudha Bhardwaj, Varanvara Rao,
00:48Gautam Navlaka, Vernon Gonzalez and Arun Ferreira on Tuesday.
00:54Police had also raided the houses of tribal rights activists Stan Swamy and Anand Teltumde,
01:01a management professional and civil rights activist, and others.
01:05Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic suffered in sweltering U.S. open conditions but battled
01:11through to the second round with a 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 and 6-0 victory over Hungarian Martin
01:19Foukovics.
01:20Djokovic received a brutal welcome back to Flushing Meadows as soaring temperatures and
01:25high humidity prompted organizers to offer the men a 10-minute mid-match heat break for
01:31the first time ever.
01:33Roger Federer, the second seed, escaped the worst of the conditions as he headlined the
01:38ninth session on ash.
01:39Nor did he need much resistance from Japan's Yoshito Nishioka in a 6-2, 6-2 and 6-4 victory.
01:48Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett says nothing prepared her for the extent and depth
01:53of suffering she saw when she visited camps in Bangladesh for Rohingya Muslim refugees
01:59who fled a violent crackdown by Myanmar's military.
02:03In her very different role as a goodwill ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency, Blanchett told
02:09a UN Security Council meeting that she heard a gut-wrenching accounts of torture, rape
02:14and people seeing loved ones killed before their eyes.
02:18And finally, the weather.
02:19Today's highs across the UAE will be 44 degrees Celsius, dropping to 33 degrees at night.
02:25That's all for now.
02:26Thanks for watching.
02:27And as always, you can get the latest updates at gulfnews.com.