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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Wednesday, August the 28th.
00:09Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:11The West insists its goal is not regime change in Syria, but to punish President Bashar al-Assad's
00:16government for unleashing chemical warfare on civilians near Damascus last week.
00:21Obama spokesperson Jay Carney said a declassified version of a U.S. intelligence investigation
00:27would be released this week.
00:29A 37-year-old Arab resident based in Al Ain has died after complications from gastric
00:35bypass surgery for weight loss.
00:37The man, who weighed 200 kilograms, died two weeks ago.
00:41Doctors have said only people with potentially life-threatening obesity should undergo weight
00:46loss surgery when other treatments, such as lifestyle changes, have not worked.
00:51Adjacent three-story apartment buildings collapsed early today, killing at least eight people
00:56in Gujarat.
00:57Rescuers are working to pull out at least a dozen people trapped in the debris after
01:02the buildings fell in Vadodara.
01:04UAE markets continued to drop today, with the Dubai Stock Index currently trading down
01:09at 6.83%.
01:11The DFM General Index stood at 2,382.43.
01:16The Abu Dhabi measure declined 2.48% to 3,727.28.
01:22American teenager Victoria Duvall described herself as a child who became a warrior while
01:28knocking former champion Sam Stosser out of the U.S. Open.
01:32The 17-year-old qualifier from Atlanta, who was held hostage at the age of seven and whose
01:37father was dug out of the rubble of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, announced herself on the
01:43world stage with a stunning victory.
01:45For those into a bit of magic, world-famous show The Illusionist, featuring a group of
01:50seven magicians, begins its 10-day run at the Dubai World Trade Center tonight.
01:55Dubbed the Cirque du Soleil of Magic, the show is a mix of optical illusions including
02:00levitation, mind-reading, disappearance and a full-view water torture escape.
02:05Tickets starting at 250 dirhams are available at tixbox.com.
02:10And finally, weather.
02:12The daytime temperature will be 40 degrees Celsius, falling to 30 at night.
02:16That's all for now.
02:17Thanks for watching.
02:18And as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com.