00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday August 7th.
00:05Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:07South Africa's ruling African National Congress suffered an historic defeat in the country's
00:12capital where it lost to the opposition Democratic Alliance in local polls.
00:17In Twain, the metropolitan area that includes Pretoria, the DA won 43.1% of the vote over
00:22the ANC's 41.2%, reacting to the worst election result for the party since the end of white
00:29minority rule 22 years ago, President Jacob Zuma said the voters had been heard.
00:35Yemeni government forces were in the midst of a fresh offensive east of the Yemeni capital
00:39Sana'a after United Nations-sponsored peace talks in Kuwait ended without an agreement.
00:45A Saudi-led Arab coalition said the Yemeni army and allied local tribesmen, backed by
00:50Arab coalition airstrikes, began a major operation to liberate the district of Nehem east of
00:56Sana'a.
00:57Australia's Katinka Hosu ended her long wait for Olympic victory and Australia captured
01:01two gold medals in an exhilarating first day in swimming competition that saw three world
01:06records smashed in Rio.
01:08Hosu demolished the world record by 2.07 seconds in the final of the women's 400m individual
01:13medley.
01:14Australia's women retained their Olympic title by winning the 4x100m freestyle relay
01:19in world record time.
01:21Actor Bradley Cooper is developing a TV miniseries based upon a book about the rise of Daesh
01:26militants.
01:27A show the author hopes will help Americans understand how the group came about.
01:31Joby Warwick's 2016 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Black Flags the Rise of ISIS, tracks
01:36the group's roots and transformation into the terrorist ensemble.
01:41And finally, the weather today is high across the UAE, will be 45C dropping to 33C at night.
01:47That's all for now, thank you for watching, but as always you can get the latest news
01:51on golfnews.com
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