00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, October the 29th.
00:08Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:11Pro-unity protesters will gather in Catalonia's capital, Barcelona, today.
00:16The protests come two days after lawmakers voted to split the wealthy region from Spain,
00:21plunging the country into an unprecedented political crisis.
00:25As Madrid moved to squash the independence bid, Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont called
00:30for democratic opposition to the seizure of regional power.
00:34Iraqi Kurdistan's veteran leader Massoud Barzani will not extend his presidential term
00:40beyond November 1.
00:42His decision came just weeks after a referendum on Kurdish independence backfired and triggered
00:48a crisis for Iraq's Kurds.
00:51A plan to divide up the president's powers was outlined in a letter Barzani sent to the
00:55Kurdish parliament on Saturday, an official said.
00:58Pre-orders for the iPhone X began on Friday, but Apple's UAE website is already showing
01:05a waiting period of five to six weeks for the new model.
01:09Reports have suggested the production of Apple's flagship phone is behind schedule due to technical
01:14issues over the device's face authentication feature.
01:18Apple will only ship 20 million devices this year, half of what it originally anticipated.
01:24Manchester City star Phil Foden scored twice as England came from behind to crush Spain
01:305-2 in the U-17 World Cup final last night.
01:35The victory added to England's growing list of youth honours.
01:39They have won the U-20 World Cup and European U-19 Championship this year.
01:44Singer Selena Gomez said her kidneys were done when she had the transplant operation
01:50and credited her best friend for saving her life.
01:53In an interview with The Today Show, the pop star, who has battled with autoimmune condition
01:59lupus, said it got to the point where it was kind of life or death.
02:04Earlier this year, the 25-year-old singer revealed that her friend Francia Raisa had
02:10donated one of her kidneys to her in a secret operation.
02:13And finally the weather.
02:14Today's high across the UAE will be 34 degrees Celsius, dropping to 24 degrees at night.
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