00:00Good day.
00:06Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, January the 19th.
00:09Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:12Strong gusty winds and moderate showers lashed the UAE early this morning, bringing rush
00:16hour traffic to a grinding halt.
00:19Roads linking Sharjah and Dubai, including Al-Ittihad Road, Beirut Street, and Mohammed
00:23bin Zayed Road, were badly affected.
00:26Over-to-bumper traffic could be seen for at least five hours since 6 a.m., causing
00:30major delays for office-goers.
00:33Sheikh Zayed Road also saw heavy tailbacks on both directions.
00:37In Abu Dhabi, a hailstorm hit the main highway, while heavy rain fell across the emirate.
00:41According to the UAE Met Office, the temperature dropped to 8 degrees at Jabal Jais in Ras al-Khaimah.
00:48Fierce clashes erupted in the Yemeni capital between the Presidential Guard and Al-Houthi
00:52militants.
00:53Tensions have been running high in Sana'a since Al-Houthis abducted the Yemeni President's
00:57Chief of Staff Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak on Saturday, in a bid to extract changes to a draft constitution
01:03he's been overseeing.
01:05Europe was on high alert today as a suspected mastermind of a jihadist cell in Belgium remained
01:10at large.
01:11EU foreign ministers are to meet in Brussels to discuss ways to combat the threat posed
01:16by radicalized Europeans returning home after fighting in Iraq and Syria.
01:20The meeting Monday comes as the bloc prepares for a special leaders summit on February 12th
01:24dedicated to fighting terrorism.
01:27Oprah Winfrey and the cast of the movie Selma marched with hundreds of people on Sunday
01:31in Alabama to recall one of the bloodiest chapters of the American civil rights movement.
01:35Winfrey helped lead the march with Selma director Ava DuVernay, actor David Oyelowo, who portrayed
01:41Martin Luther King Jr. in the movie, and the rapper Common.
01:45And finally, weather.
01:46Today's high across the UAE will be 19 degrees Celsius, dropping to 16 degrees at night.
01:52That's all for now.
01:53Thanks for watching, and as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com.
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