00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Tuesday, June 7. Here are the top stories
00:07at this hour.
00:09The Saudi cabinet has approved a major plan to diversify the national economy away from
00:14oil and aiming to generate 450,000 non-government jobs by 2020. The National Transformation
00:21Programme 2020 also seeks to cut public expenditure by 40% over the next five years.
00:29NTP is one of several programmes to achieve the goals of the Saudi Vision 2030, an 84-page
00:35document released in April by Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
00:40Hillary Clinton became the first woman to capture the US presidential nomination for
00:45the Democrats, according to Associated Press. The agency said Clinton had secured enough
00:50superdelegates to overcome a bruising challenge from Senator Bernie Sanders.
00:56Sanders added to the drama by refusing to accept the AP survey and vowing to fight
01:01on while Republican nominee Donald Trump argued that he had done more for women than Clinton.
01:08Argentina coach Gerardo Martino expects Lionel Messi to be fit for his team's second Copa
01:14America Centenario fixture this week. The Argentines opened their campaign with a convincing
01:192-1 win over reigning Copa America champions Chile today, with Messi sitting out on the
01:25bench.
01:28The makers of Bollywood film Urta Punjab are said to have been asked by the Indian Censor
01:33Board to remove all references to Punjab. The film, which features Shahid Kapoor, Alia
01:39Bhatt, Kareena Kapoor Khan and Diljit Dosanjh, depicts how youth in the Indian state have
01:45succumbed to drugs. On Monday, reports emerged that the board has asked the makers to make
01:5089 cuts to the film, which is set to release on June 16 in the UAE.
01:56And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 42 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:01to 28 degrees at night.
02:03That's all for now. Thanks for watching. And as always, you can get the latest news
02:07on gulfnews.com
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