00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Thursday, February the 11th. Here are
00:09the top stories at this hour. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice
00:14President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, unveiled a new cabinet with
00:18eight ministers, including five women. The 29-member cabinet includes eight women and
00:24the two newly created portfolios of happiness and tolerance are held by them. Uhud Khalfan
00:29Al Rumi is Minister of State for Happiness and Sheikh Hulubna Al Qasimi has been named
00:34Minister of State for Tolerance. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown
00:39Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, has inspected a guard
00:44of honour at the Rashtrapati Bhavan as he started his three-day visit to India. Indian
00:49Prime Minister Narendra Modi broke protocol as he personally received Sheikh Mohammed
00:54on his arrival in Delhi on Wednesday. Russia has proposed a March 1 ceasefire in Syria,
01:00but Washington believes Moscow is giving itself and the Syrian government three weeks to try
01:05to crush moderate rebel groups. The talk of new ceasefire plans comes as the US, Russia
01:11and more than a dozen other countries meet in Munich today to try to halt five years
01:15of civil war in the Arab country. Liverpool's owners apologised and scrapped controversial
01:21plans to hike Anfield ticket prices after 10,000 fans walked out of the ground in protest
01:27at the weekend. The owners acted after legions of angry Reds fans stormed out of the ground
01:33in the 77th minute of Saturday's home game against Sunderland. The timing reflected the
01:38£77 being asked for the most expensive ticket at the Anfield next season.
01:44The new Harry Potter play will become a new Harry Potter book. Scholastic Inc announced
01:49that a script book of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will be published on July 31.
01:54Rowling's Potter website Pottermore.com will release an edition.
01:58And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 23 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:03to 17 degrees at night. That's all for now. Thanks for watching. A reminder that our next
02:08bulletin will be on Sunday but as always you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com
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