00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News update for Thursday, September the 6th.
00:07Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09Parental negligence, furniture on balconies, and windows left open have been blamed for
00:14high-rise deaths involving children.
00:17Top officials in Sharjah on Wednesday discussed ways to find radical solutions to end the
00:22tragic accidents that have claimed several children's lives in recent years.
00:27A five-year-old American girl died after falling from the 19th floor of a Sharjah building
00:32on August 26.
00:34She was left alone in the apartment and had climbed on furniture placed in the balcony.
00:39India's top court has struck down a colonial-era law that made homosexual acts punishable by
00:44up to 10 years in prison.
00:46The verdict is landmark victory for gay rights in the world's largest democracy.
00:52In a unanimous decision, five Supreme Court justices ruled that the archaic law resulted
00:57in discrimination.
00:59Kim Kardashian West was at the White House on Wednesday to lobby for prison reform.
01:04The reality star met Jared Kushner and others for what Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley
01:09called a listening session about the clemency process.
01:13Of particular interest to Kardashian is 30-year-old convict Chris Young, TMZ said.
01:19After rejecting a 14-year plea deal, Young picked up a mandatory life sentence at age
01:2422 when he went to trial in Tennessee and was convicted of his third low-level drug
01:29offense.
01:30And finally, the weather.
01:31Today's highs across the UAE will be 44 degrees Celsius, dropping to 33 degrees at night.
01:37That's all for now.
01:38Thanks for watching.
01:39We will be back with the newscast on Sunday, but you can always get the latest updates
01:43on gulfnews.com.
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