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00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News update for Wednesday, December the 9th.
00:09Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:12Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has defended his proposal to ban Muslims from
00:17entering the United States amid growing outrage from around the world.
00:21The White House called on Republicans to say they would not support Trump, currently the
00:26party's frontrunner for the November 2016 election.
00:30US Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Trump's comments could undermine US security.
00:38The Prime Ministers of France and the UK, Canada's Foreign Minister, the United Nations
00:43and Muslims around the world all denounced the real estate mogul's comments.
00:48But Trump said his ideas were no worse than those of then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
00:54who oversaw the internment of more than 110,000 people in US government camps after Japanese
01:01forces bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
01:07Syrian opposition groups began unprecedented talks in Saudi Arabia this morning, official
01:12media said, in a difficult attempt to unify ahead of potential talks with President Bashar
01:18al-Assad's regime.
01:21Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir welcomed the delegates to the closed-door meeting and
01:25expressed hope for successful talks.
01:29Iraq's UN ambassador last night appeared to play down a dispute between Baghdad and Ankara
01:35over the deployment of Turkish troops in northern Iraq, saying bilateral talks between the neighboring
01:41states to end the row were proceeding favorably.
01:44�We are solving it between Baghdad and Ankara bilaterally,� Iraqi Ambassador Mohamed Ali
01:50al-Hakim said after Russia raised the Turkish deployment during a closed-door meeting of
01:55the UN Security Council.
01:58Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan says there is no need for him to prove his secular credentials
02:03following his remarks on intolerance in India.
02:06�The logic is that if we want to move forward, we should not keep such things in our mind
02:11like sex differentiation, which religion the person belongs to or which region the person
02:16hails from,� he said.
02:19And finally, the weather.
02:20Today�s high across the UAE will be 23 degrees Celsius, dropping to 19 degrees at night.
02:26That�s all for now.
02:27Thanks for watching.
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