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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, February the 12th.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09Whale rescuers were cautiously optimistic that the current wave of mass beachings in
00:13New Zealand was over after hundreds of the creatures died after being stranded ashore.
00:18The crisis began early Friday when a pod of 416 whales were found stranded on the 26-kilometer
00:25Farewell Spit, with hundreds more following them over the weekend.
00:29The shallow, sweeping spit is believed to interfere with the whales' navigation systems
00:34and is a regular scene of mass strandings.
00:36As low tide approached early Sunday evening, around 300 pilot whales were heading out of
00:42Golden Bay in the northwest of the South Island and swimming towards the deep water safety
00:47of Cook Strait.
00:48Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Naif has been awarded a medal by the new director of the US Central
00:53Intelligence Agency, who honored his counter-terrorism work.
00:56Mike Pompeo and Prince Mohammed also held talks on security issues.
01:01Manny Pacquiao has confirmed his next fight against Australia's Geoff Horn will be held
01:06in the UAE.
01:07The Filipino 8 Division World Champion posted,
01:10See you in UAE for my next fight, on both his Twitter and Instagram accounts.
01:15British TV personality Piers Morgan and author JK Rowling are in a Twitter war over American
01:21politics.
01:22Morgan called her work drivel and she called him amoral after Morgan defended the US government's
01:26travel ban during an appearance on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday.
01:32Morgan faced off with Australian comic Jim Jefferies on the episode during a discussion
01:36of the executive order.
01:38Morgan said it was not a Muslim ban and Jefferies directed an expletive at him.
01:42Rowling tweeted that it was satisfying to hear Jefferies say that.
01:46A flurry of tweets between Rowling and Morgan followed.
01:49And finally the weather.
01:50Today's high across the UAE will be 29°C dropping to 22°C at night.
01:56That's all for now.
01:57Thanks for watching.
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