00:00Good day and welcome to the Golf News update for Thursday, January 8th. Here are the top
00:09stories at this hour.
00:11French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said there were several arrests overnight in the hunt
00:15for two suspects in the deadly shooting at a satirical newspaper. Valls said preventing
00:19another attack is the main concern. Twelve people died in the attack on the offices of
00:24Charlie Hebdo, a weekly newspaper.
00:27A fierce winter storm has brought freezing temperatures to the Middle East, raising worries
00:31about the plight of the millions of refugees. Winter storm Huda, forecast to last several
00:36days, has brought snowfall and freezing temperatures to Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Turkey. Israel,
00:42the West Bank and the Gaza Strip have also been affected.
00:45Sri Lanka Tamils went to the polls in large numbers, defying what the opposition said
00:50were attempts to discourage voting in the heavily militarised Jaffna Peninsula, where
00:54President Mahinda Rajapaksa is widely disliked. Witnesses heard a loud blast as voting got
01:00underway in the northern region, which was on the front line of a decades-long civil
01:04war that only ended in 2009.
01:07Real Madrid suffered their second successive defeat when they were beaten 2-0 by city rivals
01:13Atletico in the first leg of their Spanish Kings Cup last-16 tie at the Vincente Calderon
01:18Stadium last night. Striker Fernando Torres played his first game for the hosts since
01:23re-signing on loan from AC Milan, but it was Raul Garcia and Jimenez de Vargas who
01:28scored the goals.
01:29Bill Cosby got a standing ovation from polite Canadian fans at the end of his first show
01:34since November, where protesters outside braved below-freezing weather to shame the ticket
01:39holders as they streamed in. Cosby's show in Kitchener was the first of three performances
01:43planned in Canada's Ontario province and came in the wake of sexual assault allegations
01:48from more than 15 women. The entertainer saw at least 10 performances get cancelled
01:52on his North American tour.
01:55And finally, the weather stays high across the UAE, with 28 degrees Celsius dropping
01:59to 18 degrees at night.
02:01That's all for now, thank you for watching. A reminder that our next bulletin will be
02:04on Sunday, but as always, you can get the latest news on golfnews.com
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