00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News update for Tuesday, March the 1st.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09Police in Oman say a bus crash has killed at least 18 people and injured 14.
00:15They said the crash occurred on the Ibrifahood road between a bus, a truck and a car.
00:20At least some of the dead were foreigners.
00:24Clashes broke out between French riot police and refugees as authorities began destroying
00:29makeshift shelters in the grim shanty town on the edge of Calais known as The Jungle.
00:35Police lobbed tear gas canisters at refugees who protested as around 20 workers moved in
00:41to start pulling down the shacks.
00:44New FIFA President Gianni Infantino said on the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups will stay
00:52in Russia and Qatar respectively.
00:54Since 2010, there has been speculation and allegations and noise.
00:59It's now necessary to organise the best World Cup in history in Russia in 2018 and in 2022
01:07in Qatar, he said.
01:09Is hashtag Oscars so boring?
01:12The 34.3 million viewers who tuned into the Academy Awards represented that annual ceremony's
01:18smallest audience since 2008.
01:22The Nielsen Company said Oscar viewership was down from the 37.3 million who watched
01:28the ABC show in 2015.
01:32And finally, the weather.
01:33Today's high across the UAE will be 25 degrees Celsius, dropping to 19 degrees at night.
01:39That's all for now.
01:40Thanks for watching.
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