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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, April the 4th.
00:05Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:08Yemen's President Abdur-Rabbu Mansur Hadi on Sunday relieved Prime Minister and Vice
00:13President Khalid Baha of his duties due to what he called government failures.
00:19Hadi appointed Ahmad bin Dagir, former Secretary General of the General People's Congress
00:24Party as the new Prime Minister.
00:26He appointed Veteran General Ali Mohsen Al Ahmar as Vice President and a presidency
00:32source said that Baha would now serve as a Presidential Advisor.
00:37World leaders, stars of the pitch and screen and dozens of billionaires were among those
00:42named in what looks to be the biggest ever leak of inside information in history.
00:47Covering 40 years of emails, financial records and passport details, the investigation on
00:53how the world's most powerful people have secreted away their money in offshore jurisdictions
01:00is based on documents from Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca.
01:05The so-called Panama Papers include the names of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iceland's
01:11Prime Minister, Chinese President Xi Jinping and British Prime Minister David Cameron's
01:17family, footballer Lionel Messi, martial arts hero Jackie Chan, Bollywood megastar Amitabh
01:23Bachchan and 29 billionaires from Forbes' rich list.
01:29Parents have been advised to keep an eye on their children while using social media platforms
01:34to safeguard them against cyber blackmailers.
01:38Prosecutor General Mohammed Ali Rostam's warning comes in the light of referring a
01:4235-year-old Asian football coach to a Dubai court for blackmailing and sexually abusing
01:49a 15-year-old boy through the use of social media.
01:53The stars of music and theatre were celebrated in three of the biggest awards shows on Sunday.
01:59In Los Angeles, music fans swooned as Taylor Swift and DJ Calvin Harris cemented their
02:05love story with four awards between them at the iHeartRadio Awards.
02:10In London, dame Judi Dench set an Olivier Awards record, taking her eighth career trophy
02:17for the best supporting actress in The Winter's Tale.
02:21And Dolly Parton and Katy Perry took the stage at the annual Academy of Country Music
02:26Awards in Las Vegas to perform hits such as Jolene and Coat of Many Colors.
02:32And finally the weather, today's high across the UAE will be 26 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:38to 21 degrees at night.
02:39That's all for now, thanks for watching and as always you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com
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