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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, November the 10th.
00:08Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:11As many as 10,000 people are believed to have died in one Philippine city alone when one
00:15of the worst storms on record sent giant sea waves washing away homes, schools and airport
00:21buildings.
00:23Ferocious winds ravaged several central islands, burying people under tons of debris.
00:28Typhoon Haiyan hit the eastern seaboard of the Philippine archipelago and barreled through
00:33six eastern and central islands before exiting into the South China Sea, packing ferocious
00:39winds of 235 km per hour.
00:42On Leyte Island, the regional police chief said there were about 10,000 deaths, mostly
00:47by drowning and from collapsed buildings.
00:50Meanwhile, more than 600,000 people were evacuated as the typhoon veered towards Vietnam.
00:56The storm is expected to strike on Monday morning after changing course.
01:01Four years after Gulf News exposed the underground sale of exotic animals by buying a baby crocodile
01:06from the Sharjah Birds and Animal Market, an undercover team of reporters bought another
01:11one.
01:12The crocodile cost 1,500 dirhams in 2009 and four years later the price dropped by 500
01:19dirhams.
01:20The animal dealer said he could procure any animal for a price.
01:24Sharjah municipality said it is monitoring the sale of animals and will take action against
01:29illegal transactions.
01:31Talks between world powers and Iran have failed to reach an agreement on Tehran's nuclear
01:36program.
01:37EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said there was a lot of concrete progress but some
01:42differences remain.
01:45Cristiano Ronaldo netted another hat-trick in Real Madrid's 5-1 win over Real Sociedad
01:50last night as the Portugal forward extended his scoring run to 9 goals in his last four
01:56games.
01:57Ronaldo's latest goal blitz took him three past Atletico Madrid's Diego Costa as the
02:03leading scorer in the Spanish league with 16 through 13 rounds.
02:08A 25-year-old Venezuelan who appears on TV in her country and is an accomplished flamenco
02:13dancer is the new Miss Universe.
02:16Gabriela Eisler was crowned on Saturday night in the Pagent in Moscow.
02:21And finally the weather.
02:22The daytime temperature will be 33 degrees Celsius falling to 21 at night.
02:27That's all for now.
02:28Thanks for watching.
02:29And as always you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com