00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, February the 19th.
00:07Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09President Donald Trump, after a rocky first month in office, returned to the campaign
00:13trail to deliver another attack on the media and tout his White House accomplishments in
00:18the friendly and familiar atmosphere of a rally with supporters.
00:22Landing on Air Force One as the sun set near a hangar filled with thousands of people,
00:27Trump reveled in the crowd and listed promises he had kept, including starting the process
00:32of building a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico, deporting bad people, and pulling
00:38the country out of a trade agreement with Asian nations.
00:41Iraqi forces have launched an offensive on Daesh militants in Mosul's West Bank in
00:46what could be the most brutal fighting yet in a four-month-old operation on the city.
00:52Federal police and Interior Ministry forces were expected to start the new phase in the
00:56offensive by moving on Mosul Airport, which is on the southern edge of the city west
01:02of the Tigris River.
01:03Lincoln City produced a huge FA Cup shock to beat top-flight Burnley 1-0 away and become
01:10the first minor league club to reach the quarterfinals for 103 years.
01:15English champions Leicester City's problems continued to mount as they went down 1-0 at
01:20third-tier Millwall.
01:22Chelsea, however, won 2-0 at championship-side Wolverhampton Wanderers, but Manchester City
01:29were held to a goalless draw at Huddersfield Town.
01:32Lisa Marie Presley describes herself as deeply in debt and just out of a treatment facility
01:38in court papers that accused her estranged fourth husband of having hundreds of inappropriate
01:44photographs of children on his computer.
01:47Their eight-year-old twin daughters are under the care of California Child Protective Services.
01:53And finally, the weather.
01:54Today's high across the UAE will be 21 degrees Celsius, dropping to 16 degrees at night.
02:00That's all for now.
02:01Thanks for watching.
02:02And as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com.
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