Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. Psy releases new video 'Gentlemen' and gets 10 million hits in 24 hours. New Salik toll gates go live in Dubai tomorrow. Syrian government airstrike killed at least 20 people. Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad resigns. Venezuelans to elect Hugo Chavez's successor today. Convicted Kerala-born US fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander hopes his 59 year sentence will be overturned. Tiger Woods still in the hunt for the Augusta Masters. Rebel Wilson will host the MTV Movie Awards. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv
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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, April the 14th. Here are the top
00:09stories at the ZAR. Two new Salik toll gates are scheduled to go live in Dubai tomorrow
00:14in addition to the four gates in the Emirate. The gates are located in Al-Mamzar on Al-Ittihad
00:19Road and Airport Tunnel on Beirut Road. A Syrian government airstrike on a town in Idlib
00:25killed at least 20 people on Saturday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
00:30Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad resigned on Saturday after weeks-long falling out with
00:35President Mahmoud Abbas. Venezuelans will elect Hugo Chavez's successor today in a
00:40duel between Nicolas Maduro and Enrique Capriles. Maduro led opinion polls as he promised to
00:46continue the oil-funded policies that cut poverty from 50 to 29%. Convicted Kerala-born
00:53fashion designer Anand John Alexander has spoken out from a New York prison.
00:57He says he has faith his 59-year sentence will be overturned. Alexander was sentenced in 2008
01:04after being found guilty of taking advantage of aspiring models, some as young as 14.
01:10World No. 1 Tiger Woods shook off a two-stroke penalty to shoot a 2 under par 70 and stay in
01:16the hunt for the Augusta Masters. He is now lying four strokes behind joint leaders Brant Snedeker
01:22and former champion Angel Cabrera going into the final round today.
01:26Australian actor Rebel Wilson will host the MTV Movie Awards in California tonight.
01:31Presenters include Brad Pitt. The ceremony will be broadcast live on MTV.
01:37South Korean sensation Psy's new video has raked in more than 10 million hits on YouTube
01:42in less than 24 hours after it was released yesterday. Called Gentleman, the video is the
01:48singer's much-awaited follow-up to Gangnam Style. It was first revealed at a concert in Seoul last
01:53night. Gangnam Style is still the most watched video on YouTube ever. And finally, weather. The
01:59daytime temperature will be 40 degrees Celsius falling to 24 at night. That's all for now.
02:04Thanks for watching and as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com.