00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News Update for Tuesday, January 13.
00:08Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:10Indonesian divers have retrieved the cockpit voice recorder from the wreckage of an Air
00:14Asia plane that crashed into the Java Sea.
00:17It came a day after the plane's other black box, the flight data recorder, was recovered.
00:21The devices could provide investigators with vital information about what caused flight
00:26QZ8501 to go down on December 28.
00:30Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to join a Muslim community rally today to promote tolerance,
00:35condemn the militant attacks in Paris, and send a rebuke to Germany's growing anti-Islamic
00:40movement.
00:41President Joachim Gock will address the vigil at Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate.
00:45Merkel has spoken out against the right-wing populist Brigitte and stressed on Monday that
00:50Islam belongs to Germany.
00:52The winter storm that hit Syria last week and the freezing temperatures in its wake
00:56have taken the lives of seven children and four adults in the war-torn country.
01:00Twin baby girls were among the latest victims in the hard-hit northern city of Aleppo, the
01:05Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
01:08It added that the deaths included five boys in several areas of southern and eastern Syria.
01:13In sport, Portugal and Real Madrid great Cristiano Ronaldo lifted his third FIFA World Footballer
01:17of the Year award last night in an overwhelming win over eternal rival Lionel Messi.
01:23The 29-year-old forward beat four-time winner Messi to the Ballon d'Or for the second year
01:27in a row.
01:28Germany's World Cup-winning goalkeeper Manuel Neuer came third in the vote.
01:32John Galliano's return to the catwalk on Monday was described as sensational and beautiful
01:37by fashion insiders.
01:39He staged his first couture collection more than three years after he was fined 26,000
01:44euros for anti-Semitic rants in a Paris cafe and had to leave Christian Dior.
01:49Among the supporters who attended his new Margiela show in London were model Kate Moss
01:53and Burberry chief executive Christopher Bailey.
01:56And finally, the weather.
01:57Today's high across the UAE will be 24 degrees Celsius, dropping to 18 degrees at night.
02:02That's all for now.
02:03Thanks for watching.
02:04And as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com.
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