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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, March the 12th.

00:05Here are the top stories at the Sabud.

00:08India-born top US prosecutor Preet Bharara, known for his crusade against corruption,

00:13has been fired by the Trump administration after he refused to quit following orders

00:17to the 46 Barack Obama-appointed attorneys to resign immediately.

00:21Bharara, 48, one of the most high-profile federal prosecutors in the US, had been asked

00:26by the acting Deputy Attorney General a day earlier to immediately submit his resignation.

00:31Turkey has told the Netherlands that it would retaliate in the harshest ways after Turkish

00:36ministers were barred from speaking in Rotterdam in a row over Ankara's political campaigning

00:41among Turkish emigres.

00:43President Tayyip Erdogan had branded its fellow NATO member a Nazi remnant, and the dispute

00:48escalated into a diplomatic incident when Turkey's family minister was prevented by

00:53police from entering the Turkish consulate in Rotterdam.

00:57Jonathan Joseph scored a hat-trick of tries as England retained their six-nations title

01:02with a 61-21 rout of Scotland at Twickenham, which also equalled New Zealand's record

01:07of 18 successive wins by a Tier 1 nation.

01:10England ran in seven tries in total against a Scotland side who had arrived in London

01:15bidding for the Triple Crown and with hopes of a first Twickenham victory since 1983.

01:20Alia Bhatt won Best Actress Award for Udta Punjab and Amitabh Bachchan won Best Male

01:25Actor Award for his performance in Pink, while Kareena Kapoor Khan gave her first performance

01:30post-motherhood at the Zee Cine Awards 2017 in Mumbai on Saturday night.

01:36Other performers included actors Salman Khan, Varun Dhawan and Bhatt.

01:40The awards ceremony will be aired on Zee Cinema on April 1.

01:44And finally, the weather.

01:45Today's high across the UAE will be 33°C dropping to 21°C at night.

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