00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, February the 2nd. Here are the
00:09top stories at this hour.
00:11Jordan has vowed to do all it can to secure the release of a pilot captured by Daesh after
00:16a video was released appearing to show the beheading of a Japanese hostage. Jordan echoed
00:21Japan in strongly condemning the murder of Kenji Goto. The pilot, Muadil Qasasbe, was
00:26captured when his plane came down in December on a mission to support the US-led anti-Daesh
00:31military coalition.
00:34Australian journalist Peter Grest will keep fighting to free his colleagues still jailed
00:38in Egypt, his family said, after he was released following more than 400 days in prison on
00:43charges of backing the Muslim Brotherhood. Grest, an award-winning correspondent for
00:48Al Jazeera English Television, flew to Cyprus with brother Michael after his release from
00:52Cairo's Torah prison on Sunday.
00:55Narendra Tandon, the BJP's Delhi chief ministerial candidate, Kiran Bedi's campaign assistant,
01:02quit the party just days ahead of the Delhi polls, accusing her of adopting a dictatorial
01:06attitude. Tandon, a former secretary of the party's city unit and a permanent invitee
01:11to Delhi's BJP's executive committee, tendered his resignation, saying it was difficult for
01:16him to continue working with Bedi.
01:19Tom Brady and the New England Patriots defeated Seattle 28-24 in Super Bowl XLIX on Sunday,
01:25denying the Seahawks a second consecutive title in the NFL Championship Spectacular.
01:31With their fourth Super Bowl triumph and a first in a decade, the Patriots reconfirmed
01:35their status as the league's dominant team of the past 15 years.
01:40Singer Bobby Brown has asked for privacy regarding his and his late wife Whitney Houston's daughter,
01:45Bobby Christina Brown, who, according to police, was found unresponsive in a bathtub
01:49at her Georgia home before she was revived at a hospital. The incident comes nearly three
01:54years after Houston, a superstar who battled substance abuse, drowned in a bathtub in Beverly
02:00Hills, California, in February 2012. Authorities have said cocaine use and heart disease contributed
02:06to her death.
02:08And finally, weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 24 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:12to 18 degrees at night.
02:14That's all for now. Thanks for watching. And as always, you can get the latest news
02:18at gulfnews.com.
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