00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Tuesday, November 21. Here are the top
00:06stories at this hour.
00:08German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was ready to face voters again to break the country's
00:13political stalemate. Days after coalition talk collapsed, Merkel said she intends to
00:18serve her fourth term and prefers new elections to governing Europe's biggest economy without
00:23a majority.
00:25German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will start sounding out political parties today
00:29to see if he can cajole them into an alliance with Merkel.
00:34Zimbabwe's ruling party is set to begin impeachment proceedings against longtime President Robert
00:39Mugabe today. A party official said government ministers have been instructed to boycott
00:44a cabinet meeting called by the president.
00:48Bitcoin's relentless rally shows no sign of abating, with the world's largest cryptocurrency
00:52defying growing bubble fears to hit yet another milestone.
00:56Bitcoin rose 4.5% to $8,045.45 in London on Monday, after climbing as much as 5.2%
01:05during Asian hours.
01:07Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone has pulled out of the Global Entrepreneurship Summit,
01:11which features US President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka and Prime Minister Narendra
01:16Modi. The actress was expected to speak at a session on Hollywood to Nollywood to Bollywood,
01:21with a path to movie-making on November 29.
01:23Deepika's move comes amid a raging row over Padmavati, which was scheduled to be released
01:29on December 1. Some right-wing groups have threatened to behead the actress and director
01:34Sanjay Leela Bhansali.
01:36And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 29 degrees Celsius, dropping
01:40to 21 degrees at night.
01:42That's all for now. Thanks for watching. As always, you can get the latest news on
01:46gulfnews.com
01:51by following the link in the description.
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