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Trump seeks to cancel Mueller meeting. India relaxes foreign direct investment norms. Vince and Stoneman retained their places in England’s Test squad. Michael Douglas denies as-yet-unaired accusations. Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv

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00:00Good day, welcome to the gulf news update for Thursday, January 11.

00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.

00:08President Donald Trump has said it seems unlikely that he would have an interview with Robert

00:13Mueller.

00:14The special counsel is investigating the potential links between the Trump campaign and Russia

00:19in the 2016 US presidential election.

00:22When they have no collusion and nobody has found any collusion at any level, it seems

00:26unlikely that you would even have an interview, Trump said.

00:31India has relaxed foreign direct investment norms in various sectors such as single-brand

00:35retail and allowed foreign airlines to invest up to 49% in Air India.

00:41The decision was taken during a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

00:45The decision allows overseas investors to invest 100% FDI in single-brand retail trading

00:51and construction development without any government approval.

00:54James Wins and Mark Stoneman had retained their places in England's Test Squad for

00:59the Tour of New Zealand.

01:00The decision comes despite their struggles with the bat in the 4-0 Ashes defeat by Australia.

01:06Batsman Gary Balance, bowler Jake Ball and all-rounder Tom Curran have been dropped.

01:11Michael Douglas has denied as yet unaired accusations that he performed a sexual act

01:16in front of an employee of his production company 30 years ago.

01:20The actor-producer said he was making a pre-emptive denial following reports the Hollywood reporter

01:25was preparing to run a story on the allegations.

01:28Saying he had no contact with his accuser for 30-plus years, Douglas said he was floored

01:34by the acquisitions.

01:36And finally, the weather.

01:37Today's high across the UAE will be 23 degrees Celsius, dropping to 17 degrees at night.

01:43That's all for now.

01:44Thanks for watching.

01:45We will be back with our newscast on Sunday, but you can always get the latest updates

01:49on gulfnews.com.

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