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00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News Update for Thursday, January 26.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:08British Prime Minister Theresa May has won the race to be the first foreign leader to
00:13meet US President Donald Trump in Washington.
00:16But her trip to the US Capitol is anything but a victory lap.
00:19May's staff worked feverishly to secure the two-day trip, which includes a meeting with
00:23the President on Friday at the White House.
00:26British officials hope it will help cement the UK's place as a pre-eminent American
00:30ally and provide proof of what Britons, more often than Americans, call the transatlantic
00:35special relationship.
00:36Syria's opposition rejected a proposal from Russia on a new constitution for the conflict-torn
00:42country, warning the Kremlin against repeating the mistake made by the Bush administration
00:47after the US-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
00:51Russia presented the document in Arabic during a meeting with the chief rebel negotiator
00:55Mohammad Alush at peace talks this week in the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana.
01:00Pop star Madonna has denied a report that she filed for the adoption of two more children
01:04from Malawi.
01:05Madonna said she was in Malawi for charity work, contradicting a judiciary spokesman
01:10in the southern African country who said the singer appeared before a high court judge
01:14about the adoption issue on Wednesday.
01:16There was no immediate explanation for the discrepancy between the conflicting accounts.
01:21And finally, the weather.
01:22Today's high across the UAE will be 24 degrees Celsius, dropping to 13 degrees at night.
01:27That's all for now.
01:28Thanks for watching.
01:29A reminder that our next news bulletin will be on Sunday, but as always, you can get the
01:32latest news on gulfnews.com.