00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Thursday, February 22. Here are the top
00:07stories at this hour.
00:09Students galvanized by the deadly mass shooting at a Florida high school confronted lawmakers
00:13on Wednesday with demands to restrict sales of assault rifles.
00:18President Donald Trump, meanwhile, suggested that arming teachers was a way to stop more
00:22U.S. rampages. The unprecedented lobbying by groups of teenagers and parents at the
00:27White House played out as fellow students staged classroom workouts and rallies across
00:32the country.
00:33Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea was largely responsible for his side taking
00:39a 0-0 draw from the first leg of their champions' draw away to Sevilla. The result for Man United
00:45came despite being largely overrun by the Spanish side for the majority of the game.
00:50Roma could be left rewing a poor second-half performance after allowing Shakhtar Donetsk
00:55to win 2-1 in the first leg of their last-16 meeting.
01:00Prime artist Stormzy and singer-songwriter Dua Lipa have been named British Solo Artists
01:05of the Year at the Brit Awards. Stormzy won the Male Artist Prize for his distinctly London
01:09style of rap and thanked his mother, his team, South London and God. Lipa, who topped UK
01:15charts with the song New Rules, dedicated her trophy to all the female musicians who
01:20have allowed us to dream this big.
01:23And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 26 degrees Celsius, dropping
01:27to 19 degrees at night.
01:29That's all for now. Thanks for watching. We will be back with the newscast on Sunday,
01:33but you can always get the latest updates on gulfnews.com
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