00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News Update for Tuesday, March the 26th.
00:10Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:12The trial of a group of Emiratis charged with threatening national security resumes at the
00:16State Security Court in Abu Dhabi today.
00:19The court will listen to prosecution witnesses.
00:22The former head of the Syrian National Coalition, Moaz al-Khatib, is expected to head the Syrian
00:26delegation at the Arab League summit in Doha today and deliver a speech.
00:31Despite disapproval from Algeria and Iraq, the Syrian seat at the meeting has been granted
00:36with Qatari insistence to the opposition.
00:38Damascus has reacted furiously.
00:41The summit plans to ask President Bashar al-Assad to step down from power.
00:45Meanwhile, on the ground, activists said a top rebel military leader and founder of the
00:49Free Syrian Army, Colonel Riyad al-Assad, has been wounded and possibly killed by a
00:54bomb stuck to his car.
00:56Taliban suicide bombers have killed at least five policemen in a pre-dawn attack in Jalalabad
01:01that coincided with a visit to the country by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
01:06A Boeing 787 Dreamliner conducted a two-hour test flight on Monday aimed at showing the
01:11plane's new battery system meets regulatory safety standards, a key step in ending a two-month
01:17worldwide grounding of the new jet.
01:19The flight went according to plan, Boeing said.
01:22Tiger Woods is back on top of the golfing world for the first time since October 2010
01:26after his win at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Florida saw him overtake Rory McIlroy as
01:32number one in the sports rankings.
01:34Organizers of the Oscars have said the ceremony will be moved a week later in 2014 to avoid
01:40clashing with the Winter Olympics in Soky, Russia.
01:43It will be held on March 2 next year.
01:45And finally, weather.
01:46The daytime temperature will be 30 degrees Celsius, falling to 20 at night.
01:51That's all for now.
01:52Thanks for watching.
01:53And as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com.
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