00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News Update for Wednesday, November the 8th.
00:08Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:11Voters in Virginia and New Jersey gave Democratic gubernatorial candidates large victories and
00:17sent a clear message of rebuke to Republican President Donald Trump.
00:22In Virginia's hard-fought contest, Democratic Lieutenant Governor Ralph Northam defeated
00:28Republican Ed Gillispie.
00:30In New Jersey, front-running Democrat Phil Murphy trounced Republican Lieutenant Governor
00:36Kim Guadagno to succeed unpopular GOP Governor Chris Christie.
00:40US and Turkish troops are illegal invader forces on Syrian territory and Syria will
00:45deal with them, a top adviser to President Bashar al-Assad said.
00:50Bhutena Shahban also said in a television interview that Damascus would not give up
00:55on the northern city of Raqqa, which was liberated from Daesh last month by the US-backed
01:00Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.
01:04India coach Ravi Shastri heaped praise on facer Jaspreet Bumrah after India defeated
01:09New Zealand in the third and final 2020 international T20 here.
01:15Bumrah produced a superb performance with figures of 2-9 in his two overs as India won
01:21by six runs to clinch the three-match series 2-1.
01:25Outstanding temperament from Bumrah, Shastri said after the match.
01:30Bruce Dickinson used to think that writing an autobiography should come at the end of
01:34his career.
01:35A bout with throat cancer changed his mind.
01:39After his recovery, the Iron Maiden frontman began writing his life story, filling up a
01:43stack of legal pads in longhand.
01:46Now, the fruit of his labour has led to the recently released What Does This Button Do?
01:51And finally, the weather.
01:52Today's high across the UAE will be 34 degrees Celsius, dropping to 22 degrees at night.
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