00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News update for Tuesday, February 7.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09The Israeli regime's parliament last night finalized a controversial law legalizing dozens
00:15of Jewish squatter outposts built on private Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank.
00:21The law, approved by 60 members of parliament to 52 against, was slammed by the Palestinians
00:27as a means to legalize theft of land.
00:30The Palestine Liberation Organization said the law demonstrated the Israeli government's
00:35will to destroy any chances for a political solution.
00:40Syrian authorities have killed as many as 13,000 people since the start of the 2011
00:46uprising in mass hangings at a prison north of Damascus, Amnesty International said on
00:52Tuesday.
00:53In a new report covering the period from 2011 to 2015, Amnesty said between 20 and 50 people
01:01were hanged each week at Sadnaya prison in killings authorized by senior Syrian officials.
01:08The U.S. Justice Department will face off with opponents in a federal appeals court
01:12on Tuesday over the fate of President Donald Trump's travel ban on people from seven
01:17Muslim-majority countries.
01:19The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco will hear arguments over whether
01:24to restore the ban from Justice Department lawyers and opposing attorneys for the states
01:29of Minnesota and Washington.
01:31Apple is replacing defective batteries in 88,770 iPhone 6s models in the UAE that were
01:40causing unexpected shutdown, the UAE Ministry of Economy said on Monday.
01:44According to the ministry, only specific phones that contained a defective battery
01:49manufactured between September and October 2015 in China will be recalled.
01:54Apple had announced its battery replacement program globally on November 30.
02:00The eight-year-old daughter of actress and singer Jamie Lynn Spears was injured when
02:05an all-terrain vehicle she was driving fell into a pond in Louisiana on Sunday.
02:10Jeff Raymond, a publicist for Spears, who is the younger sister of pop star Britney
02:15Spears, confirmed the news and sought privacy for the family.
02:19And finally, the weather.
02:21Today's high across the UAE will be 22 degrees Celsius, dropping to 14 degrees at night.
02:26That's all for now.
02:27Thanks for watching.
02:28And as always, you can get the latest news on gulfnews.com.
