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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Tuesday, January 19. Here are the top
00:10stories at this hour.
00:12In a major shake-up of traffic movement around Jumeirah, the Roads and Transport Authority
00:17has revealed that Al-Wasl Road and Jumeirah Road will soon be one way.
00:22As part of the Traffic Improvement Plan, the RTA said traffic on Al-Wasl and Jumeirah Roads
00:27will move in a single direction, with each road having four lanes moving clockwise. The
00:33time frame for implementing the move has not been specified yet.
00:37A bomb targeting a police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan has killed 11 people. Another 17 people
00:44were wounded in the blast, which took place on the outskirts of Peshawar on a road leading
00:49to neighbouring Afghanistan.
00:51The dead include police, civilians and at least one child. The attack appears to have
00:56been carried out by a suicide bomber who struck as a local police chief arrived at
01:01the checkpoint. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.
01:06Andy Murray urged tennis authorities to be proactive in the fight against corruption
01:10after match-fixing claims hit the sport.
01:13If there is corruption in any sport, you know, you want to hear about it, said the world
01:18number two after beating Alexander Zverev in the Australian Open first round.
01:23Venus Williams' 69th Grand Slam came to a premature halt in the first round when she
01:29was shocked 6-4, 6-2 by rising British star Johanna Conta.
01:35Glenn Frey, a rock and roll rebel from Detroit who co-founded the Eagles and with Don Henley
01:40formed one of history's most successful songwriting teams with such hits as Hotel California and
01:46Life in the Fast Lane, has died. He was 67.
01:50Frey died of complications from rheumatoid arthritis, acute ulcerative colitis and pneumonia,
01:57the band said on its website. He died on Monday in New York. He had fought the ailments for
02:02the past several weeks, the band said.
02:05And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 25 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:10to 13 degrees at night.
02:12That's all for now. Thanks for watching. But as always, you can get the latest news on
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