00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, November the 18th. Here are the
00:09top stories at this hour. The 13th edition of the Dubai Air Show opened with record aircraft
00:15order deals signed on the first day. Orders worth nearly $200 billion for a total of 573
00:22Airbus and Boeing planes were placed by Gulf carriers Emirates, Etihad Airways, Qatar Airways
00:28and FlyDubai. These include Emirates $99 billion order for 150 Boeing 777X and 50 Airbus A380s
00:37and a $67 billion order from Etihad for a total of 199 planes. A 22-year-old Emirati
00:42died in heavy rains and flooding yesterday at the Al-Bayah area between Sharjah and Fujairah.
00:48His abandoned car was located late evening and it took Sharjah Airwings several hours
00:53to find the man's body. In Saudi Arabia and Oman, two people have been killed in heavy
00:58rain which triggered flash floods. Schools in Riyadh are expected to remain closed today
01:03as authorities work on reopening roads shut due to the rain. The Dubai Roads and Transport
01:08Authority is studying a plan to place baby seats on its buses. Under the plan, every
01:13public transport bus on the road will be fitted with at least one child seat to restrain infants.
01:19Peace talks with Israel will continue for the full nine months agreed with Washington
01:23regardless of what happens on the ground, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said.
01:28He also called for an international probe to determine who killed Yasser Arafat after
01:33scientists said it was likely he had been poisoned. The trial of former Egyptian President
01:37Hosni Mubarak continues today behind closed doors. Legal experts say that the court could
01:42decide today to end his house arrest, effectively releasing Mubarak from prison. Google said
01:48Monday it had developed technology that makes it harder to find child sexual abuse images
01:53on the web. Google boss Eric Schmidt said more than 100,000 searches would no longer
01:58feature such material in their results. The restrictions will initially apply to English-speaking
02:03countries but will be expanded to 115 other languages within six months. Australian spy
02:08agencies attempted to listen to the phone calls of Indonesian President Susilo Yudhoyono
02:14and targeted his wife and senior ministers. The reports were based on secret documents
02:19leaked by U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden and drew a demand for answers from Jakarta.
02:24Sport and Red Bulls quadruple world champion Sebastian Vettel won the U.S. Grand Prix last
02:30night, becoming the first Formula One driver to take eight consecutive victories in a single
02:35season. Meanwhile, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Christian Bale and Robert De Niro
02:40could be heading to the Dubai International Film Festival. The stars, along with Jeremy
02:45Renner, Amy Adams and Louis C.K., all star in the American Hustle, which will be the
02:50festival's closing film this year. The festival will run from December 6 to 14 at Madinah
02:56Jumeirah. And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 29 degrees Celsius,
03:02dropping to 23 at night. That's all for now. Thanks for watching. And as always, you can
03:06get the latest news at govnews.com.
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