00:00Good day.
00:03Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, May the 13th.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:08Iraqi forces thrust into the city of Fallujah under air cover from the international coalition
00:13fighting Daesh from three different directions, marking a new urban phase in the week-old
00:18operation to retake the city.
00:20Only a few hundred families have managed to slip out of the Fallujah area ahead of the
00:24assault, with an estimated 50,000 civilians still trapped inside, sparking fears Daesh
00:29could try to use them as human shields.
00:32A woman is feared dead after being seized by a crocodile during a nighttime swim with
00:36a friend in northern Australia.
00:39She yelled, a croc's got me, before disappearing.
00:41The woman went for a stroll on Thornton Beach on Sunday evening in the far north of Queensland
00:46state before making a fateful decision to take a dip in an area infested with reptiles.
00:52Al Jazeera lifted the prestigious President's Cup football beating Al Ain 7-6 in a penalty
00:58shootout at Zayed Sports City in Abu Dhabi.
01:00Both teams were locked at 1-1 at full time.
01:03Johnny Depp's daughter has joined his ex-wife and a former partner to defend his reputation,
01:08praising him as loving and wonderful in the face of domestic violence accusations from
01:13Amber Heard, who has filed for divorce.
01:15In all of the years that I've known Johnny, he has never been physically abusive with
01:19me, said Vanessa Paradis, who has a son and daughter with Johnny Depp.
01:23And finally, weather.
01:24Today's high across the UAE will be 41 degrees Celsius, dropping to 27 degrees at night.
01:30That's all for now.
01:31Thanks for watching and as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com.
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