00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News update for Tuesday, April 12.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09The Dubai Opera will open on August 31 with a performance by Spanish tenor Placido Domingo.
00:15The concert venue in downtown Dubai on Tuesday announced the lineup for its first season,
00:21which runs until the end of 2016.
00:24Also on the list are Domingo's compatriot Jose Carreras, Emirati singer Hussain Al-Jasimi,
00:29flamenco superstar Sara Baras and sitar player Anushka Shankar.
00:35Operas to be performed include The Pearl Fishers by Georges Bizet and Joaquino Rossini's The
00:41Barber of Seville.
00:44UN peace envoy Staffan de Mistura visits Iran today on the eve of a new round of Syrian
00:49peace negotiations in Geneva.
00:52De Mistura said Monday that the Geneva talks would be crucially important in finding a
00:57solution to Syria's brutal five-year war.
01:01The negotiations are expected to focus on Syria's political transition, where the fate
01:06of President Bashar al-Assad remains a major sticking point.
01:11Saudi King Salman has arrived in Turkey for a visit aimed at tightening increasingly close
01:16ties between the two allies.
01:19The king was welcomed at Ankara airport by a delegation personally led by President Recep
01:25Tayyip Erdogan in an unusual break from protocol.
01:29King Salman is expected to hold talks on the Syrian conflict and the fight against Daesh.
01:35A committee of Brazil's lower house of Congress voted on Monday to recommend the impeachment
01:41of the country's president.
01:42Dilma Rousseff faces charges of breaking budget laws to support her re-election in 2014.
01:48If the Senate decides to put Rousseff on trial, she will immediately be suspended for up to
01:54six months while the upper house decides her fate.
01:58And finally, the weather.
01:59Today's high across the UAE will be 33 degrees Celsius, dropping to 24 degrees at night.
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