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00:00Good day, welcome to The Girl News Update for Thursday, August 17.

00:05Here are the top stories at this hour.

00:07An Australian senator provoked an angry backlash from lawmakers by wearing a burqa in Parliament

00:13as part of her campaign for a national ban on Islamic face covers.

00:16Pauline Hanson, leader of the anti-Muslim, anti-immigration One Nation Minor Party, sat

00:21wearing the black head-to-ankle garment for more than 10 minutes before taking it off

00:26as she rose to explain that she wanted such outfits banned on national security grounds.

00:31Attorney General George Brandis drew applause when he said his government would not ban

00:35the burqa and chastised Hanson for what he described as a stunt that offended Australia's

00:40Muslim minority.

00:41King Salman's issuance of several decrees to facilitate Hajj pilgrimage for Qataris

00:46has been broadly praised by Gulf citizens and officials.

00:48Early Thursday, the King ruled that the Salwa land border crossing with Qatar be opened.

00:53He offered to pay for Qatari flights to Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj.

00:57King Salman also offered for Saudi Arabian airlines to fly the pilgrims in for free and

01:02waive electronic permits for Qatari pilgrims.

01:04Fresh off winning her first Oscar, actress Emma Stone ousted Jennifer Lawrence to claim

01:09the top spot on Forbes' 2017 list of the world's highest-paid actresses.

01:13Stone, 28, who won the Best Actress for her role as a struggling actress in La La Land,

01:19made $26 million in pre-tax earnings, according to Forbes calculations, over a 12-month period

01:24from June 2016 to June 2017.

01:27She outpaced Jennifer Aniston, 48, who came in at No. 2 this year with earnings of $25.5

01:33million, with residual income still coming in from the television sitcom Friends and

01:37endorsement deals.

01:38And finally, the weather.

01:39Today's high across the UAE will be 43 degrees Celsius, dropping to 32 degrees at night.

01:44That's all for now.

01:45Thanks for watching.

01:46A reminder that our next bullet will be on Sunday.

01:49But as always, you can get the latest news on gulfnews.com

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