00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News update for Sunday, September the 6th. Here are the
00:08top stories at this hour. UAE leaders joined worshippers across the country in performing
00:14funeral prayers over the remains of Emirati martyrs. Forty-five Emirati soldiers were
00:19killed while performing their national duty as part of the armed forces' involvement
00:23in Operation Restoring Hope, carried out by the Saudi Arabia-led Arab coalition to back
00:28the legitimate government of Yemen. The nation declared three days of mourning. Powerful
00:34explosions shook the Yemeni capital this morning, witnesses said, after the Saudi-led coalition
00:39vowed to press its air war following a rebel missile strike that killed dozens of Gulf
00:43soldiers. The witnesses said the coalition warplanes pounded positions of the Iran-backed
00:48al-Houthi rebels and bases of splinter troops loyal to ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
00:54Reports suggesting that Russia was planning to expand its military support for Syrian
00:57President Bashar al-Assad have prompted a warning from the U.S. that such actions could
01:01lead to a confrontation with coalition forces. The U.S. State Department issued a statement
01:07after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to
01:12express concerns over unconfirmed reports suggesting an imminent enhanced Russian military
01:17build-up in Syria. England became the first team to qualify for the 2016 European Championship
01:24by crushing San Marino 6-0, while defending champion Spain avenged a rare loss to Slovakia
01:29with a 2-0 victory yesterday. Wayne Rooney's opener from the penalty spot was his 49th
01:34international goal, tying him with Bobby Charlton as England's all-time leading scorer. Filmmaker
01:40Tyler Perry paid homage to the late Bobby Christina Brown through a tribute video that
01:44was shown during her private funeral in August. Perry wrote in a Facebook post that the Houston
01:49estate asked him to share the three-minute-plus video featuring the 22-year-old daughter of
01:54the late Whitney Houston. Bobby Christina died in hospice care on July 26 after she
01:59was found facedown and unresponsive in a bathtub in a suburban Atlanta townhome on January 31.
02:06She was buried in New Jersey next to Houston, who died in a similar fashion. And finally,
02:11the weather stays high across the UAE will be 41 degrees Celsius dropping to 31 degrees
02:16at night.
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