00:00Good day. Welcome to The Gulf News Update for Tuesday, November 14.
00:07Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09Wikileaks tried to have Julian Assange installed as the Australian ambassador to the US
00:15after Donald Trump's election.
00:17A new leak of fact correspondence from inside the Trump circle has revealed.
00:21The Atlantic magazine reported Donald Trump Jr., the President's son,
00:25was in contact with Wikileaks via Twitter direct messages
00:29during the final stages of the 2016 election.
00:32Copies of the correspondence were handed to congressional investigators
00:36by Trump Jr.'s lawyers and then obtained by the Atlantic.
00:40Saudi Arabia is moving fast in its modernisation drive.
00:43The latest positive development is the historic visit of Lebanon's Catholic patriarch to Riyadh
00:49where he met King Salman bin Abdulaziz.
00:51Maronite patriarch Bashar al-Ghrai is one of the most prominent Christian figures in the Middle East.
00:57While Lebanese Christian politicians often meet Saudi rulers in Riyadh,
01:01al-Ghrai is the first church leader to visit the kingdom.
01:04A tearful Gianluigi Buffon quit international football
01:08as four-time champions Italy sensationally missed out
01:11on their first World Cup finals in 60 years after a playoff defeat to Sweden.
01:17Coach Gian Piero Ventura also said he would consider his future
01:21after the Azzurri drew 0-0 on Monday in the second leg of their tie with Sweden,
01:26who qualified 1-0 on aggregate.
01:29Distraught Italian fans reacted with shock at the result
01:32for a team who last failed to qualify for the 1958 World Cup
01:36and have played every other edition apart from the inaugural tournament in 1930.
01:41And finally, the weather.
01:43Today's high across the UAE will be 32 degrees Celsius,
01:46dropping to 21 degrees at night.
01:49That's all for now. Thanks for watching.
01:51And as always, you can get the latest news on gulfnews.com
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