00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, April the 21st. Here are the top
00:10stories at this hour.
00:12Dubai Airports will start shuttle services between Dubai International and Al Maktoum
00:16International Airports from April 24th. The shuttle services will be put in place as select
00:22airlines temporarily move to Dubai's secondary airport for 80 days starting May 1st, owing
00:27to runway repairs. The free shuttle buses will depart each airport every 30 minutes.
00:34Three of the 12 people who are under isolation in Abu Dhabi hospitals for MERS coronavirus
00:38have now tested negative. The health authority Abu Dhabi said the three were able to overcome
00:43the infection within 10 days without any treatment and will be leaving the hospital soon. Iranian
00:49President Hassan Rouhani has urged equal opportunities and rights for men and women and condemned
00:54sexual discrimination. In a speech marking Women's Day, Rouhani criticized those considering
00:59women's presence as a threat to society and said Iran still had a long way to go to ensure
01:04gender equality. A Kuwaiti judge has ordered the temporary closure of two newspapers for
01:10breaking a news blackout about an alleged coup plot. Al Watan and Al Alam Al Youm published
01:15details of a videotape set to show former senior officials planning the overthrow of
01:20the Gulf state's leadership. South Korean President Park Geun-hye has said the captain
01:25and some crew members of a sunken ferry committed murderous behavior in the disaster, which
01:30left more than 300 people dead or missing. Prosecutors, meanwhile, said they had detained
01:34four more crew members in a widening investigation into the disaster. One lucky Emirati will
01:41get the chance to fly into space, thanks to a competition launched by Abad Investments
01:45and Virgin Galactic. The winner will take a seat on board Virgin Galactic's spaceship
01:49too once it begins commercial space trips expected by the end of 2014. A seat on the
01:55spaceship is currently worth $250,000. Director Quentin Tarantino and the website Gawker are
02:02at each other's throats over the latter's leak of Tarantino's latest screenplay entitled
02:07The Hateful Eight. An enraged Tarantino shut down the film and sued Gawker. In the meantime,
02:12he arranged a live read of the script with Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, and Amber
02:17Tamlin in major roles. And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 34 degrees
02:23Celsius, dropping to 24 degrees at night. That's all for now. Thanks for watching.
02:28And as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com.
