00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Wednesday, August the 3rd.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09Ahmed Zewail, a science advisor to President Barack Obama,
00:13who won the 1999 Nobel Prize for his work on the study of chemical reactions
00:18over immensely short time scales, has died. He was 70.
00:23Zewail's death was announced by the California Institute of Technology,
00:27where he was Linus Pauling Professor of Chemistry
00:30and Director of the Physical Biology Center for Ultra-Fast Science and Technology.
00:36Zewail and his students pioneered the field of femtochemistry,
00:40the use of lasers to monitor chemical reactions at a scale of a femtosecond
00:45or a millionth of a billionth of a second.
00:49Donald Trump has hit back at Barack Obama for teaming him unfit for presidency,
00:54saying the terrible president would go down as the worst in American history.
00:59He's been a total disaster, Trump told Sinclair Broadcast Group.
01:03You look at what happens in the Middle East, in Syria and his line in the sand.
01:07I think it just means he's concerned I'm going to win, he claimed.
01:12The parents of Star Trek actor Anton Yelchin filed a wrongful death lawsuit
01:18against the makers of Jeep Grand Cherokees,
01:20claiming the company manufactured unsafe gear selectors
01:24that led to their 27-year-old son being crushed in his own driveway.
01:29The actor's 2015 Cherokee rolled backward down a driveway of his home on June 19,
01:36pinning him between a mailbox and a security fence.
01:40Jamaican sprint star Usain Bolt took time off his Olympic training schedule
01:45to invite a group of underprivileged children to his team's Rio training base.
01:50The visit only became public when Bolt posted a photo on Facebook,
01:55in which he and dozens of children struck the sprinter's trademark lightning bolt pose
02:00at the Navy Physical Education Center in Rio's north.
02:05And finally, the weather.
02:07Today's high across the UAE will be 44 degrees Celsius, dropping to 34 degrees at night.
02:12That's all for now. Thanks for watching.
02:14But as always, you can get the latest news on gulfnews.com
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