00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News update for Wednesday, January the 25th.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09President Donald Trump will order the construction of a Mexican border wall, the first in a series
00:14of actions this week to crack down on immigrants and bolster national security.
00:19He will slash the number of refugees who can resettle in the United States.
00:24Trump will also block Syrians and others from terror-prone nations from entering at
00:29least temporarily.
00:31Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al Khalid Al Sabah will submit an invitation letter
00:36to Iran for a GCC-Iran dialogue during a visit.
00:41Kuwait is among eight countries that has offered to mediate in the standoff between Saudi Arabia
00:46and Iran.
00:48Dubai Airport's chief Paul Griffiths reached out to US President Donald Trump saying Dubai
00:53will be willing to help the US on airport infrastructure building.
00:58This came on the same day Emirates hit back at a US lobby group complaining about it launching
01:03a daily service to Newark via Athens starting March 12.
01:09Emirates move attracted backlash from the Partnership for Open and Fair Skies, a lobby
01:13group representing US competitors who have accused Emirates of competing unfairly by
01:19way of state subsidies.
01:22Michael Jackson's daughter Paris says she tried to kill herself multiple times in the
01:27years after her father's death.
01:29The 18-year-old tells Rolling Stone in a wide-ranging interview that she battled depression and
01:35drug addiction and was entered into a residential therapy program after her last attempt at
01:41age 15.
01:43And finally, the weather.
01:44Today's high across the UAE will be 22 degrees Celsius dropping to 15 degrees at night.
01:49That's all for now.
01:50Thanks for watching.
01:51As always, you can get the latest news on gulfnews.com
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