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00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News update for Thursday, November the 8th.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09Get ready to slow down in bad weather.
00:11When weather brings poor visibility, the speed limit will be reduced to 80 kilometers per
00:16hour in Abu Dhabi, the Traffic Safety Committee has announced.
00:21Bad weather rules will be enforced when visibility drops to less than 200 meters on the road,
00:26said officials.
00:28This comes as part of the committee's plan to further improve road traffic safety during
00:33such conditions.
00:35President Donald Trump forced out his Attorney General and vowed to fight if Democrats use
00:40their new majority in the House of Representatives to probe his administration.
00:46Trump came out swinging a day after his Republicans lost control of the House and followed through
00:52on repeated threats to remove Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
00:56Sessions, an early and loyal supporter of Trump, drew his fury when he recused himself
01:01from an investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 White House campaign.
01:07Trump named Sessions' chief of staff Matthew Whitaker as acting Attorney General.
01:12A Christian woman acquitted after eight years on death row for blasphemy in Pakistan was
01:17released today.
01:18But Asia Bibi's whereabouts in Islamabad remained a closely guarded secret in the wake of demands
01:24by Islamists that she be publicly executed.
01:27Asia Bibi was with her family and under heavy security after being transferred to the Pakistani
01:33capital overnight from her detention facility in southern Punjab.
01:38For the moment, she was still in Pakistan, according to two people who are close to her.
01:43Bollywood's answer to Pirates of the Caribbean, the swashbuckling, star-studded thugs of Hindustan
01:48sails into cinemas today.
01:51This year's big release for India's Diwali festival, the seafaring song-and-dance fest
01:56with superstars Aamir Khan and Amitabh Bachchan, costs $42 million.
02:01That makes it the most expensive movie to date in the Hindi-language industry.
02:07Filmed in India, Thailand and off the coast of Malta, it brings together for the first
02:11time Bachchan and Khan, two of Bollywood's most bankable stars.
02:16And finally, the weather.
02:17Today's high across the UAE will be 32 degrees Celsius, dropping to 23 degrees at night.
02:22That's all for now.
02:23Thanks for watching.
02:24We will be back with the newscast on Sunday, but you can always get the latest updates
02:29on gulfnews.com