00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday March 13th.
00:05Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:07A key Syrian opposition negotiator has said that the country's political transition could only start once Bashar al-Assad was no longer the president.
00:16Mohammed al-Lush described as worthless a statement by the Syrian foreign minister, Walid al-Malem,
00:21that the presidency was not up for discussion at the peace talks in Geneva.
00:25Meanwhile, a military source said the rebels shot down a Syrian government warplane over western Syria on Saturday.
00:32Controversial Chelsea striker Diogo Costa insists that he did not bite the neck of Gareth Barry during his team's 2-0 FA Cup quarterfinal defeat at Everton.
00:41The Chelsea star was shown a second yellow card by referee Michael Oliver after 84 minutes following an altercation with Barry.
00:48Costa was seen moving his head towards his opponent and appeared to place his mouth on his neck in an attempted bite.
00:55Matthew McConaughey and Samer Haik are in Dubai for a private gala dinner tonight in support of the Global Teacher Prize.
01:01They joined Bollywood stars Abhishek Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Parineeta Chopra and Ali Zafar,
01:08as well as Korean-American singer Eric Nam and Moroccan singer Hatim Amour.
01:13The Global Teacher Prize is an annual $1 million award given to an educator who has made an outstanding contribution to the profession.
01:20Jury members this year include actor Kevin Spacey and musician Esperanza Spalding.
01:25Ten finest will be attending the awards ceremony tonight at the Global Education and Skills Forum.
01:30And finally, the weather.
01:32Today's high across the UAE will be 26 degrees Celsius, dropping to 19 degrees at night.
01:38That's all for now. Thank you for watching.
01:40As always, you can get the latest news on golfnews.com
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