00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Tuesday, February 16th. Here are the top
00:10stories at this hour. The UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention has withdrawn children's
00:15Advil suspension from the market due to safety concerns. Dr. Amin Hussain Al Amiri, Assistant
00:21Undersecretary for Public Health Policy and Licensing at the Ministry, said the move came
00:25after Pfizer Canada recalled the medicine for its non-compliance with the product specifications.
00:31Beginning this afternoon, forecasters are expecting rain and unstable weather in the
00:35UAE over the next 48 hours. A low pressure coming from the east is going to hit the UAE
00:40weather, said a forecaster from the Met Office. Groups of students, journalists and teachers
00:45gathered for protests in New Delhi today after a student union's leader arrest and subsequent
00:49violence by Hindu nationalists. Cordons of police officers were blocking right-wing Hindu
00:53organizations that support the BJP from entering the campus of Jawaharlal Nehru University
00:58in the Indian capital, where thousands of students have been protesting for days. Police
01:03also arrested Delhi University lecturer, Sar Gillani, this morning, who along with student
01:08leader, Kanhaiya Kumar, are accused of sedition. Oil continued its climb this morning with
01:13Brent crude up 4.3% to above $34 a barrel ahead of a meeting between Saudi Arabia, Qatar,
01:19Venezuela and Russia. Meanwhile, European and Asian shares reacted well to the stronger
01:23yuan price fixed by Beijing. This morning, Asian stocks continued to build on yesterday's
01:28gains with Chinese markets up 2.7%. In sport, Cocoa Vanderweide defeated 2015 finalist Karolina
01:35Plinkova 7-6, 6-1 and Julia George claiming a stunning 6-0, 6-1 victory over three-time
01:42finalist Svetlana Kuznetsova last night to reach the second round of the Dubai duty-free
01:47tennis championships. Taylor Swift's official switch from country to pop with her best-selling
01:521989 album brought the singer her second Grammy award win for album of the year. Swift was
01:58shocked when she won the night's top prize, beating out Kendrick Lamar, Chris Stapleton,
02:02Alabama Shakes and The Weeknd. Swift used her speech to encourage young women who feel
02:07defeated at times and said they should focus on their work instead. And finally, the weather
02:12today's high across the UAE will be 24 degrees Celsius dropping to 17 degrees at night.
02:17That's all for now. Thank you for watching. As always, you can get the latest news on
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