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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Wednesday, January 14. Here are the top
00:09stories at this hour.
00:11Pope Francis pressed his call for Sri Lankan reconciliation by canonizing the country's
00:15first saint as a model for national unity and visiting the war-ravaged north to pray
00:21at a shrine revered by both Sinhalese and Tamil faithful.
00:25More than half a million people packed the capital's seafront park for the mass, with
00:29some spending the night under the stars to ensure a good spot.
00:33US Secretary of State John Kerry is in Geneva for talks with his Iranian counterpart on
00:38how to speed up nuclear negotiations as a March target date approaches to conclude a
00:43deal.
00:44Kerry arrived in Geneva late last night and is to meet Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad
00:48Javad Zarif. A new round of nuclear negotiations between Iran, the five permanent members of
00:54the UN Security Council and Germany is to begin in Geneva on Thursday.
00:59German President Joachim Gauck vowed to safeguard the country's diversity and tolerance a day
01:05after a group opposing Islam's influence in Europe drew a record crowd.
01:09Immigration makes Germany more multifaceted, religiously, culturally and mentally, Gauck
01:15said at a Berlin vigil organized by the country's Muslim organizations.
01:19Gauck was joined at the ceremony by Chancellor Angela Merkel. Also attending the Berlin
01:24events were Christian and Jewish leaders.
01:27The UAE has ruled out any cut in oil output to stabilize oil prices and placed the onus
01:32to cut production on the countries which are producing the most expensive oil. Everyone
01:37needs to make measures, but those who are producing the most expensive oil, rationale
01:42and rules of the market say they should be the first to pull or reduce the production.
01:47Seher Mohammed Al-Mazroui, Minister of Energy, said at the 6th Gulf Intelligence Energy Forum
01:52in Abu Dhabi.
01:54Amazon Studios is delivering Woody Allen as creator of his first ever TV series. The Oscar-winning
02:00filmmaker will write and direct all of the episodes of the half-hour series.
02:05And finally, today's weather highs across the UAE will be 24 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:09to 16 tonight.
02:10That's all for now. Thanks for watching. And as always, you can get the latest news on
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