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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News update for Sunday, August the 23rd. Here are the
00:09top stories at this hour. In a signal of the most striking thaw in the
00:13Western ties with Iran for over a decade, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond will reopen
00:18the British Embassy in Tehran, nearly four years since protesters ransacked the elegant
00:22ambassadorial residence and burned the Union Jack. The nuclear deal that the Islamic Republic
00:26struck with six major world powers last month has prompted a flurry of European visits,
00:31including from German and French ministers, aimed at positioning for the end of Iran's
00:35long economic isolation. But Britain has operated without an embassy since Iranian protesters
00:40stormed its two main diplomatic compounds in Tehran on November 29, 2011.
00:46North Korea and South Korea resumed high-level talks aimed at easing escalating tensions across
00:51their heavily fortified border, as Kim Jong-un's forces remain on standby for an order to attack.
00:58The second round of talks between Kim Jong-un's top military aide Hwang Pyong-so and South
01:03Korean President Park Geun-hye's chief secretary adviser Kim Kwan-jin have started. That follows
01:09a 10-hour meeting on Saturday at the border village of Panmunjom for extensive discussions
01:14on ways to improve relations. Usain Bolt and Justin Gatlin are on collision
01:20course for men's 100 metres crown in World Athletics Championship in Beijing, the final
01:25of the marquee event being scheduled this afternoon. The duo stormed into the semi-finals
01:30yesterday, while Britain's Mo Farah put a difficult few months behind him to attain
01:34his 10,000 metres title in style on the opening day.
01:39Dabbling with unanswered questions and delving into an unsolved murder mystery, the trailer
01:43of Talwar, starring Irrfan Khan and Konkona Sen Sharma, sets a gritty investigative tone
01:49for the film. Directed by Meghna Gulzar, Talwar is inspired by the murder of 14-year-old Arushi
01:54Talwar and 45-year-old Hemraj Benjadi, a domestic help in Noida, India, on May 15, 2008. The
02:03film will hit theatres on October 2. And finally, the weather. Today's high across
02:08the UAE will be 45 degrees Celsius, dropping to 33 degrees at night.
02:13That's all for now, thank you for watching. As always, you can get the latest news on
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