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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, June the 12th. Here are the top
00:06stories at this hour.
00:08Shortages of U.S. dollars have hit money exchange houses in Qatar, making it harder for worried
00:14foreign workers to send money home. The crisis comes as foreign banks drastically lowered
00:19business with Qatari institutions because of the region's diplomatic crisis. Saudi,
00:25UAE, Bahraini and Egyptian banks began scaling back business with Qatar last week after their
00:32governments cut diplomatic and transport ties due to Doha's support for terrorism.
00:38Fellow Republicans pressed Donald Trump on Sunday to come clean about whether he has
00:42tapes of private conversations with former FBI Director James Comey. They urged the U.S.
00:48president to provide such tapes to Congress or possibly face a subpoena. The Senate investigation
00:54into collusion with Russia or obstruction of justice, meanwhile, extended to Attorney
00:59General Jeff Sessions.
01:01Rafael Nadal will resume his bittersweet relationship with the Wimbledon buoyed by his record-breaking
01:07French Open. But the 31-year-old Spaniard will also be wary of the traps which have
01:13ensnared him at the All England Club. Nadal routed Stan Wawrinka at Roland Garros on Sunday
01:206-2, 6-3, 6-1 to become the first man in history to win the same major 10 times.
01:27Virat Kohli says India's Champions Trophy demolition of South Africa was fuelled by
01:32his refusal to spare his players from criticism. Kohli's side crushed South Africa by eight
01:39wickets at the Oval to set up a likely semi-final showdown with Bangladesh on Thursday. India
01:45had to win to avoid elimination after slumping to a shock loss against Sri Lanka.
01:51Katy Perry opened up about having suicidal thoughts during a marathon weekend livestream
01:56event.
01:57I feel ashamed that I would have those thoughts, feel that low and that depressed, she said
02:01on YouTube during a tearful session with Siri Singh from the Viceland series The Therapist.
02:07The YouTube event is a promotion for Perry's new album, Witness.
02:12And finally, weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 40 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:16to 30 degrees at night. That's all for now, thanks for watching, and as always, you can
02:21get the latest news at gulfnews.com.