00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, January the 23rd.
00:07Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09US President Donald Trump has pledged to begin renegotiating the North American Free Trade
00:14Agreement in talks with the leaders of Mexico and Canada.
00:18Trump will receive his Mexican counterpart Enrique Pena Nieto on January 31st.
00:23No date has been given for a meeting with Canada's Justin Trudeau, but it is expected
00:28soon.
00:29The White House said it is only in the early stages of talks to fulfil President Donald
00:33Trump's pledge to move the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to occupy Jerusalem,
00:40an action that would likely spark anger in the Arab world.
00:43AIDS said no announcement of an embassy move was imminent.
00:48Madonna is defending her fiery, expletive-laden speech at the Women's March, saying her
00:53words were taken wildly out of context.
00:56The singer said at the Washington, D.C. March on Saturday that she had at times been angry
01:02after the election and had thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.
01:08Syrian rebels are meeting their war-torn country's government in the Kazakh capital Astana in
01:13the latest push to end the conflict.
01:16The face-to-face talks are the first time armed rebel groups have negotiated directly
01:21with President Bashar al-Assad's regime since the conflict erupted in 2011.
01:27Serena Williams kept up her pursuit of a record Grand Slam title and a return to world No.
01:321 as she reached the Australian Open quarter-finals without dropping a set.
01:37Williams overcame Barbara Strykova to set up a last-eight clash with Britain's Johanna
01:43Conta.
01:44And finally, the weather.
01:45Today's high across the UAE will be 27 degrees Celsius, dropping to 22 degrees at night.
01:51That's all for now.
01:52Thanks for watching.
01:53And as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com.
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