00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, November the 4th.
00:05Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:08The husband of a Pakistani Christian woman at the center of a blasphemy case has criticized
00:13a government deal with Islamists that left her in legal limbo.
00:17Asia Bibi, on death row since 2010 on blasphemy charges, was acquitted by the Supreme Court
00:23on Wednesday and ordered to be set free.
00:26That verdict triggered protests by ultra-conservative Islamists who paralyzed Pakistan for three
00:32days.
00:33The government reached a deal on Friday to end the protests by agreeing to a travel ban
00:38preventing Bibi from leaving the country.
00:40But Bibi's husband, Ashik Masih, told German Deutsche Welle Radio that it was wrong to
00:46set a precedent in which you pile pressure onto the judiciary.
00:50Masih said he has pleaded for asylum from the UK, US or Canada.
00:55The tumultuous 2018 midterm campaign barreled through its final weekend as voters prepared
01:01to deliver a verdict on the first half of President Donald Trump's term.
01:06The Republicans are bracing for losses in the House and state capitals on Tuesday, but
01:11hopeful they would prevail in Senate races in areas where Trump is popular.
01:17The president is set to storm across two states today and three on Monday in an effort to
01:22pick off Senate seats in Indiana, Florida and a handful of other battlegrounds.
01:28Liverpool had to be satisfied with a 1-1 Premier League draw at Arsenal on Saturday as their
01:34prolific attacking trio were well shackled by their improving horse.
01:39Liverpool had netted at least three goals in their last five games against Arsenal,
01:44but forwards Sadio Mane, Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah were kept off the scoresheet.
01:51When the audience put on their 3D glasses during the trailer launch of upcoming trilingual
01:56film 2.0 in Chennai, they were in not just for a visual treat but for a new sound experience.
02:03The man behind it, Oscar Award winner and sound designer Rasool Pukutty said that it
02:09was the result of two years of work.
02:112.0, the sequel to Indiran the Robot, features South Indian superstar Rajnikanth and Bollywood
02:17star Akshay Kumar who is making his Tamil cinema debut.
02:22Another Oscar winner A. R. Rahman has composed the music.
02:26The film, one of the most awaited movies of the year, has been in the making for four
02:30years and releases on November 29.
02:34And finally the weather, today's high across the UAE will be 32 degrees Celsius dropping
02:39to 23 degrees at night.
02:41That's all for now.
02:42Thanks for watching and as always you can get the latest updates on gulfnews.com
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