00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Thursday, November 14. Here are the top
00:09stories at this hour.
00:10The United States said relief channels were belatedly opening up to the typhoon-ravaged
00:15Philippines today as the UN admitted it had not acted quickly enough to help survivors.
00:20UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said the scale of the disaster and the logistical challenges
00:25meant that six days on from the storm, some places remained without help.
00:30Devastated by the typhoon, Tacloban City buried some of its dead in a mass grave in a hillside
00:35cemetery. Many bodies are still lying along the roads in the city and others are buried
00:39under debris, with more than 11.5 million people affected throughout the country.
00:45Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE foreign minister, has condemned as unacceptable Iranian
00:50hegemonic practices in the region. Speaking at a joint press conference with his German
00:54counterpart Gaido Westerwelle, he said that the international community may have neglected
00:59the important issue during nuclear talks.
01:02A Sudanese man was killed and 17 people were injured as riots broke out again in Riyadh.
01:07Several shops and around 30 cars were damaged as Ethiopians hurled stones and attacked Saudis
01:13and foreigners. The new riots in the Saudi capital followed those that occurred on Saturday.
01:18Russian foreign and defence ministers are due to hold talks in Cairo that will reportedly
01:23include possible arms deals. It is the first such high-level Russian visit to Egypt in
01:28decades.
01:29Kuwait reported its first case of the deadly MERS coronavirus yesterday, the fifth Gulf
01:34country this strain has emerged in since the outbreak began in Saudi Arabia last year.
01:39Credit rating agency Moody's Investors Service yesterday upgraded the outlook for the UAE's
01:44banking system to stable from negative. The outlook change reflects the continued improvements
01:49in the operating environment as well as the ongoing recovery of the local real estate
01:54market.
01:55Indian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar's final test has got underway in Mumbai today. But
02:01Indian fans may have to wait a day to see the little master bat after India won the
02:05toss and elected to field.
02:07Romeo and Juliet take centre stage at the UAE's cinemas from today with two adaptations
02:12of Shakespeare's tale of star-crossed lovers. One is a Hollywood version with Hayley Steinfeld
02:18while Bollywood brings its own version with Ram Leela.
02:22If the Bard's language isn't your cup of tea, try All is Lost, the Robert Redford lost-at-sea
02:27drama. Find laughs at Bad Grandpa while there's even something for sci-fi fans in Elysium.
02:34There are also enough choices for concerts this weekend with Alicia Keys at Dubai Media
02:38City, Nancy Ajram at the Hyatt Regency and Jimmy Raqui and Nile Rodgers at Sundance,
02:44all playing on Friday night.
02:46And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 29 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:51to 22 at night.
02:53That's all for now. Thanks for watching. We will be back with the newscast on Sunday.
02:57But you can always get the latest news at GovNews.com.
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