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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Tuesday, September the 30th.
00:09Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:11Hong Kong's embattled leader has called for an immediate end to street demonstrations
00:16that have drawn tens of thousands and paralyzed parts of the city.
00:20But protesters refused to move until China grants genuine democracy.
00:25In his first public comments since demonstrators were tear-gassed by riot police on Sunday
00:30evening, Chief Executive Leung Chung-Ing said protests organized by the pro-democracy Occupy
00:36Central Group had got out of control.
00:40Protest leaders immediately rejected his demands and renewed calls for him to step down.
00:45Kurdish troops launched offensives against Daesh on three fronts in northern Iraq this
00:49morning.
00:51Aircraft struck before dawn north of Daesh-controlled second city Mosul against a town on the Syrian
00:56border and south of key oil hub Kirkuk.
01:00The US said its aircraft have flown roughly 4,100 sorties in the air war against Daesh
01:06since August.
01:08Arab coalition partners including Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar have
01:13also undertaken roughly 40 flights in the operation in Syria since it began on September
01:1923, a US military officer said.
01:22British rock band The Who will launch their latest tour at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix with
01:26an after-race concert on November 23.
01:29Pharrell Williams makes his return to the UAE with a show on November 22.
01:34DJ Armin van Buuren will perform on November 21.
01:38Entry to the concert is for F1 ticket holders.
01:42The romantic canal city of Venice has been the venue for 323 weddings of foreign couples
01:48this year.
01:49Only one has drawn crowds and paparazzi.
01:52George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin said ìI doî for a second time on Monday, celebrating
01:58a civil wedding ceremony in Veniceís City Hall on the Grand Canal.
02:02Indiaís MC Mary Kom secured a berth in the gold medal bout of the womenís flyweight
02:07competition after a convincing win in the semi-final of the 17th Asian Games this morning.
02:13The 31-year-old beat Vietnamís Ly Thi Bang by a unanimous 3-0 decision to enter the
02:19final.
02:20And finally, the weather.
02:21The daytime temperature will be 38 degrees Celsius, falling to 27 at night.
02:26Thatís all for now.
02:27Thanks for watching.
02:28And as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com