Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. Israeli regime approves controversial law. Syrian authorities killed 13,000 people since 2011 uprising. The fate of Trump's travel ban in appeals court. Apple to replace defective batteries in iPhone 6S models in UAE. Jamie Lynn Spears' daughter, 8, injured in ATV accident. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv
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00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News update for Tuesday, February 7.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09The Israeli regime's parliament last night finalized a controversial law legalizing dozens
00:15of Jewish squatter outposts built on private Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank.
00:21The law, approved by 60 members of parliament to 52 against, was slammed by the Palestinians
00:27as a means to legalize theft of land.
00:30The Palestine Liberation Organization said the law demonstrated the Israeli government's
00:35will to destroy any chances for a political solution.
00:40Syrian authorities have killed as many as 13,000 people since the start of the 2011
00:46uprising in mass hangings at a prison north of Damascus, Amnesty International said on
00:52Tuesday.
00:53In a new report covering the period from 2011 to 2015, Amnesty said between 20 and 50 people
01:01were hanged each week at Sadnaya prison in killings authorized by senior Syrian officials.
01:08The U.S. Justice Department will face off with opponents in a federal appeals court
01:12on Tuesday over the fate of President Donald Trump's travel ban on people from seven
01:17Muslim-majority countries.
01:19The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco will hear arguments over whether
01:24to restore the ban from Justice Department lawyers and opposing attorneys for the states
01:29of Minnesota and Washington.
01:31Apple is replacing defective batteries in 88,770 iPhone 6s models in the UAE that were
01:40causing unexpected shutdown, the UAE Ministry of Economy said on Monday.
01:44According to the ministry, only specific phones that contained a defective battery
01:49manufactured between September and October 2015 in China will be recalled.
01:54Apple had announced its battery replacement program globally on November 30.
02:00The eight-year-old daughter of actress and singer Jamie Lynn Spears was injured when
02:05an all-terrain vehicle she was driving fell into a pond in Louisiana on Sunday.
02:10Jeff Raymond, a publicist for Spears, who is the younger sister of pop star Britney
02:15Spears, confirmed the news and sought privacy for the family.
02:19And finally, the weather.
02:21Today's high across the UAE will be 22 degrees Celsius, dropping to 14 degrees at night.
02:26That's all for now.
02:27Thanks for watching.
02:28And as always, you can get the latest news on gulfnews.com.