00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Wednesday, October 21. Here are the top
00:10stories at this hour.
00:12Syrian state media says President Bashar al-Assad has met his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin
00:17in Moscow in the first known trip abroad for the embattled leader since war broke out in
00:23his country in 2011. The Ikhbaria news channel says al-Assad met Putin a day earlier in Moscow.
00:31It says the two leaders discuss the continuation of the military operations against terrorists
00:36in Syria. With a host of policies that differ dramatically from his predecessor, Justin
00:41Trudeau's victory over the most conservative leader in Canada's history will reverberate
00:46beyond the country's borders. The first major shift came when Trudeau announced he had spoken
00:51with President Barack Obama and told him he will remove Canada's six fighter jets from
00:56the US-led bombing campaign against Daesh in Iraq and Syria. Officials from Milan and
01:02the UAE have marked the start of a five-year countdown to the opening of Expo 2020 in Dubai.
01:08Expo Milano 2015 also marked a day dedicated to the UAE as Italy prepares to bring its
01:14Expo to a close in just under two weeks.
01:17Arsenal remains bottom of Group F in the Champions League but the Gunners finally got
01:22their campaign underway with a 2-0 win over Bayern Munich. After losing both opening matches
01:28for the first time, Arsenal desperately needed a win to keep alive its hopes of reaching
01:33the knockout round.
01:35Advanced ticket sales for the new Star Wars film have smashed records two months before
01:39the highly anticipated sci-fi sequel is set to hit screens. Fandango, the market leader
01:45in online ticket sales, said it had sold eight times as many tickets as it did for
01:50The Hunger Games, the previous record holder for the first-day ticket sales.
01:55And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 34 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:00to 26 degrees at night.
02:02That's all for now. Thanks for watching. But as always, you can get the latest news
02:05on gulfnews.com
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