00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Wednesday, November the 12th.
00:09Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:12Dubai Tram opened for public service from 6.30 am today with a trip every 10 minutes
00:17during peak hours and every 12 minutes during non-peak hours.
00:22Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, flagged off the first
00:27tram from Al Sufou depot last night.
00:30Sheikh Hamdan rode on the first tram along with senior government officials with two
00:34more trains in tow for the inaugural run.
00:39Israeli colonists torched a mosque near the West Bank city of Ramallah overnight, Palestinian
00:44security officials said, as violence intensified in the occupied territory.
00:49The colonists set fire to the hole of the first floor of the mosque in the village of
00:53Al Mughair near the Shiloh colony, a security official said.
00:58Iraqi President Fouad Massoum held important talks late last night in Riyadh with Saudi
01:04King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz following years of strained relations between the neighbouring
01:09countries.
01:10Massoum headed a high-ranking delegation to Riyadh that included several Iraqi cabinet
01:16ministers.
01:17China will aim to cap greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, while the US will cut total emissions
01:24by more than a quarter by 2025, the world's two biggest carbon polluters said in an unprecedented
01:32joint pledge at a summit in Beijing today.
01:36Although many questions remain about enforcement of the deal, the announcement throws the political
01:41weight of the world's two biggest economies behind a new global climate pact to be negotiated
01:47in Paris next year.
01:50Guest James Bond will have to wait his turn for a turn of the wheel.
01:54All of the initial production run of the super-premium Lagonda from Aston Martin, Bond's car of
01:59choice, will be exclusive for buyers in the Middle East to strut around town.
02:04The first deliveries of the Lagonda Taraf are scheduled for the first quarter of next
02:10year.
02:11In sport, Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and Minister of Finance,
02:17was bestowed with double honours at the 24th annual Cartier Racing Awards in London last
02:23night.
02:24In a vintage year that saw him crowned champion owner in Britain with 130 wins for the season,
02:29Sheikh Hamdan was given a special award of merit in recognition of his lifetime achievements
02:34in racing.
02:36Nicki Minaj is apologising for a video that some feel uses Nazi imagery.
02:42The rapper posted on Twitter yesterday that she didn't create the concept for the lyric
02:47video for her song only.
02:49She wrote,
02:50I take full responsibility if it has offended anyone.
02:55I'd never condone Nazism in my art.
02:58The animated video, which debuted on November 7, features a swarm of soldiers with red armbands
03:05featuring a logo that has been compared to a swastika.
03:10And finally, the weather.
03:11Today's high across the UAE will be 28 degrees Celsius, dropping to 21 degrees at night.
03:17That's all for now.
03:18Thanks for watching.
03:19And as always, you can get the latest news on gulfnews.com
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