Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. Yemeni government forces launch a fresh offensive after United Nations-sponsored peace talks in Kuwait ended without an agreement. Hungary's Katinka Hosszu ended her long wait for Olympic victory and Australia captured two gold medals in an exhilarating first day of swimming competition. Actor Bradley Cooper is developing a TV miniseries based on a book about the rise of Daesh militants. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv
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00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday August 7th.
00:05Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:07South Africa's ruling African National Congress suffered an historic defeat in the country's
00:12capital where it lost to the opposition Democratic Alliance in local polls.
00:17In Twain, the metropolitan area that includes Pretoria, the DA won 43.1% of the vote over
00:22the ANC's 41.2%, reacting to the worst election result for the party since the end of white
00:29minority rule 22 years ago, President Jacob Zuma said the voters had been heard.
00:35Yemeni government forces were in the midst of a fresh offensive east of the Yemeni capital
00:39Sana'a after United Nations-sponsored peace talks in Kuwait ended without an agreement.
00:45A Saudi-led Arab coalition said the Yemeni army and allied local tribesmen, backed by
00:50Arab coalition airstrikes, began a major operation to liberate the district of Nehem east of
00:56Sana'a.
00:57Australia's Katinka Hosu ended her long wait for Olympic victory and Australia captured
01:01two gold medals in an exhilarating first day in swimming competition that saw three world
01:06records smashed in Rio.
01:08Hosu demolished the world record by 2.07 seconds in the final of the women's 400m individual
01:13medley.
01:14Australia's women retained their Olympic title by winning the 4x100m freestyle relay
01:19in world record time.
01:21Actor Bradley Cooper is developing a TV miniseries based upon a book about the rise of Daesh
01:26militants.
01:27A show the author hopes will help Americans understand how the group came about.
01:31Joby Warwick's 2016 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Black Flags the Rise of ISIS, tracks
01:36the group's roots and transformation into the terrorist ensemble.
01:41And finally, the weather today is high across the UAE, will be 45C dropping to 33C at night.
01:47That's all for now, thank you for watching, but as always you can get the latest news
01:51on golfnews.com