00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Tuesday, April the 2nd. Here are the top
00:09stories at this hour. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, Vice President
00:14and Prime Minister of the UAE and ruler of Dubai, has launched the Al Jalila Foundation.
00:19It aims to raise 100 million dirhams this year to conduct medical research and find
00:24treatments. March was the bloodiest month yet in Syria's two-year-old civil war with
00:29more than 6,000 documented deaths, an anti-regime activist group has said. Hamas re-elected
00:35Khaled Mashal as the Islamist group's leader at a marathon overnight closed-door meeting
00:39in Cairo. Egypt and Qatar are said to have lobbied on Mashal's behalf. North Korea said
00:44it will restart all nuclear facilities, including a reactor closed in 2007. A nuclear energy
00:50spokesman said that the move would involve readjusting and restarting all the facilities
00:55at the Yongbyon nuclear complex. A fire killed 13 students at a Muslim school in Myanmar's
01:01main city, raising tensions in the wake of sectarian clashes. Police said the blazing
01:05young gun was accidental. The Champions League quarterfinals kicks off tonight, with Barcelona
01:10taking on Paris Saint-Germain in Paris, while Bayern Munich faces Juventus at home. Both
01:16matches kick off at 10.45 pm UAE time and will be telecast live on Al Jazeera Sports.
01:22Angelina Jolie has opened another girls' school in Afghanistan. She plans to fund more
01:27from the proceeds of a jewelry line going on sale this week that she helped to design.
01:32Jolie funded the girls' only primary school in an area outside Kabul. The school educates
01:37200 to 300 girls. And finally, weather. The daytime temperature will be 37 degrees Celsius,
01:43falling to 22 at night. That's all for now. Thanks for watching. And as always, you can
01:47get the latest news at gulfnews.com.
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