00:00Good day and Ramadan Kareem. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, June the 6th.
00:07Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09Yemen's warring parties have pledged to free all child prisoners, but have failed to reach
00:13agreement on a wider release for Ramadan. There was no immediate word on how many children
00:18are held prisoners by both sides. The UN envoy who has been trying to push the two sides
00:23for an agreement said that they have agreed to release half of their prisoners before
00:27Ramadan, which began today.
00:29Cold weather smashed into Australia's east coast and whipped up giant waves on Sydney
00:34beaches, leaving at least three people dead and several others missing. Ferocious storms
00:38pounded the coast over the weekend, causing flooding in New South Wales, while huge seas
00:43resulted in coastal erosion.
00:45Pep Guardiola is a proven winner who will take Manchester City to a whole new level.
00:50The Premier Club's chairman Khaldun Al Mubarak has said, Guardiola, who left German champions
00:55Bayern Munich to take the reins at City, began his three-year spell as manager at the
01:00Etihad Stadium in July.
01:02I'm absolutely excited about Pep joining our team. He's a winner, and his record at
01:06Bayern Munich and Barcelona I think speaks for themselves," Al Mubarak said in an interview.
01:12The newly crowned Miss USA is a 26-year-old army officer from Washington, D.C., who gave
01:17perhaps the strongest answer when asked about women in combat.
01:20As a woman in the U.S. Army, I think we are just as tough as men," Dishana Barber said.
01:25Barber is the first military member to win Miss USA.
01:28J.K. Rowling says those objecting to a black Hermione in the new Harry Potter play are
01:33a bunch of racists.
01:34The role in the latest installment of the series, a two-part West End play called Harry
01:39Potter and the Cursed Child, will be played by Noma Dumezweni, an Olivier Award-winning
01:44actress. Rowling said she fully supported the casting because Dumezweni was the best
01:48actress for the job.
01:50And finally, weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 41 degrees Celsius, dropping
01:55to 28 degrees at night.
01:57That's all for now. Thanks for watching. And as always, you can get the latest news
02:02at gulfnews.com.
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