00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, October 15th. Here are the top
00:09stories at this hour.
00:10Authorities hope weaker winds will help more than 10,000 firefighters battle the deadliest
00:15blazes in Californian history, which have killed at least 40 people and destroyed thousands
00:19of structures in one of the state's worst natural disasters in years. Fast-moving fires
00:24spread by shifting winds forced thousands more to evacuate their homes on Saturday as
00:29the death toll over the week rose to 40, with hundreds missing.
00:32Austria voted in a parliamentary election that could see 31-year-old Conservative Sebastian
00:38Kurtz become Chancellor on a pledge to take a hard line on refugees and prevent a repeat
00:43of Europe's migration crisis. Foreign Minister Kurtz propelled his People's Party to the
00:47top of opinion polls when he became leader in May, dislodging the far-right Freedom Party
00:52that has led for a year. Kurtz says he will shut the main migrant routes into Europe via
00:58the Balkans and the Mediterranean.
01:00Luis Suarez saved Barcelona's unbeaten La Liga record this season by salvaging a 1-1
01:05draw at Atletico Madrid in a match laced with political tension amid Catalonia's drive
01:10for independence. Real Madrid moved up to second, five points behind Barca, as Cristiano
01:16Ronaldo struck an 85th-minute winner his first league goal of the season to grind out a hard-fought
01:212-1 win for the European champions at Getafe.
01:25In a week of sexual allegations and claims of assault, British actress Lysette Antony
01:29has also come forth saying that she told police that Harvey Weinstein raped her in the 1980s.
01:35The news comes even as the Oscars board revokes the disgraced movie mogul's membership. Antony,
01:40who currently appears in the British soap opera Hollyoaks, told the Sunday Times newspaper
01:44that Weinstein attacked her after showing up at her London home.
01:48And finally, the weather today is high across the UAE, with 37 degrees Celsius dropping
01:52to 26 degrees at night. That's all for now, thank you for watching. As always, you can
01:56get the latest news on gotthings.com
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