00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News update for Thursday, November 21. Here are the top
00:09stories at this hour. Heavy rains and hailstorms lashed Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah this morning
00:14with thunderstorms forecast across the UAE. Schools across the UAE shut early, public
00:19displays for the Dubai Airshow were cancelled and the Global Village was shut as a precaution.
00:24Police have warned motorists to be extremely cautious on the roads. The weather system
00:28made its entry into the UAE's western coastal and inland areas on Wednesday night as heavy
00:33rain and hailstorms hit. Trees and electric poles were uprooted in some areas. In Saudi
00:37Arabia, the death toll from heavy rains in Riyadh has risen to seven. There are concerns
00:41it could go up further as rescue operations are still underway to locate five missing
00:45people. Negotiations between world powers and Iran on the future of Tehran's nuclear
00:50program are entering a second day. It follows a positive first meeting between chief negotiators
00:55Catherine Ashton and Mohammed Javad Zarif. The phone, internet and email records of
01:00UK citizens not suspected of any wrongdoing have been analyzed and stored by America's
01:05National Security Agency under a secret deal that was approved by British intelligence
01:09officials. The revelations came in documents from the whistleblower Edward Snowden. India's
01:15leading investigative news magazine is embroiled in scandal after its editor admitted sexually
01:19assaulting a colleague and said he would step aside for six months as penance. Tarun Tejpal,
01:25founder and editor of Tehelka magazine, wrote to the managing editor of the publication
01:29admitting misconduct, but women's rights groups criticized his response as insufficient. Sport
01:35and five wickets from Stuart Broad have put England in the ascendancy on the opening day
01:39of the Ashes Test, with host Australia struggling to 273-8. With more chances of rain this weekend,
01:46cinemas may be your best bet for entertainment. Dominating Screens is the second film in the
01:51Hunger Games franchise, Catching Fire, with Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence playing the
01:55lead. In Hindi cinema, Imran Khan and Kareen Kapoor reunite for village set Gauri Teri
02:00Payar Main, a Karan Johar production. And finally, the weather. Today is high across
02:05the UAE with 28 degrees Celsius dropping to 20 degrees at night. That's all for now. Thanks
02:11for watching. We will be back with the newscast on Sunday, but you can always get the latest
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