00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Tuesday, April 11. Here are the top stories
00:08at this hour.
00:10The Dubai Civil Aviation Authority is rolling out strict new measures that will restrict
00:14the sale and access of retail aerial drones only to those who have registered with the
00:19new tracking program, Mohammed Abdullah Ahly, Director General of the DCAA, said.
00:24The new tracking system requires registered drone operators to effectively file flight
00:29plans to be approved by the DCAA, which are then monitored live. The new measures are
00:35in response to several drone intrusions in 2016 into Dubai International Airport airspace,
00:41which caused brief closures and delays.
00:44The group of seven major global powers were joined by Middle East allies today in a push
00:49to isolate Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hours before the US Secretary of State flies
00:54to Moscow.
00:55G7 foreign ministers sat down early today with their counterparts from Turkey, Saudi
01:00Arabia, UAE, Jordan and Qatar, all of whom oppose Assad's rule, to discuss the six-year-old
01:06war in Syria.
01:08Pressure is building on Russian President Vladimir Putin to break ties with Assad, who
01:11stands accused of launching a nerve gas attack on a rebelled town last week.
01:17North Korea denounced the US deployment of a naval strike group to the region today,
01:22warning it is ready for war as Washington tightens the screws on the nuclear-armed state.
01:28The strike group, which includes Nimitz-class aircraft supercarrier USS Carl Vinson, cancelled
01:34a planned trip to Australia this weekend to head to the Korean peninsula in a show of
01:38force.
01:40President Donald Trump has asked his advisers for a range of options to rein in Pyongyang,
01:44a top US official said Sunday.
01:47Kylie Jenner is getting an E! reality series of her own.
01:51The cable network has announced plans for a Keeping Up With The Kardashians spin-off
01:55titled Life of Kylie.
01:57E! says the eight-episode series will document the life of the 19-year-old makeup entrepreneur
02:02as she juggles being a celebrity, a businesswoman and a teen.
02:07The show is set to premiere this summer.
02:09It will include other members of the Kardashian clan and some of Jenner's friends.
02:14And finally, the weather.
02:15Today's high across the UAE will be 37 degrees Celsius, dropping to 27 degrees at night.
02:22That's all for now.
02:23Thanks for watching.
02:24And as always, you can get the latest news on gulfnews.com.
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