Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. Trump warns Pyongyang of fire and fury. Efforts to break Qatar stalemate intensifying. Country legend Glen Campbell dies at 81. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv
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00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News Update for Wednesday, August the 9th.
00:08Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:10In an exchange of threats, US President Donald Trump warned Pyongyang of fire and fury like
00:16the world has never seen, and the North's military claimed it was examining plans for
00:21attacking Guam.
00:22The high-level tit-for-tat follows reports that North Korea has mastered a crucial technology
00:28needed to strike the United States with a nuclear missile.
00:32Despite regular North Korean threats against Guam, a US territory in the Pacific about
00:373,400 km from the Korean Peninsula, it is extremely unlikely that Pyongyang would risk
00:44the assured annihilation of its revered leadership with a pre-emptive attack on US citizens.
00:50It is also not clear how reliable North Korea's mid-range missiles would be in an attack against
00:56a distant target given the relatively few times they have been tested.
01:01As the crisis with Qatar entered its third month, efforts to break the stalemate are
01:06intensifying amid renewed diplomatic efforts by Kuwait and the US.
01:11Tim Lenderking, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Arabian Gulf Affairs in the Near East
01:16Bureau and retired General Anthony Charles Zinni arrived in Kuwait on the first leg of
01:22a tour that will include Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Egypt and Qatar.
01:28The Arab Quartet wants Qatar to crack down on financing terrorism, its support for the
01:34Muslim Brotherhood and wants it to close down the Al Jazeera news channel.
01:39Doha has yet to act on any of their demands.
01:42Country music legend Glen Campbell, the rhinestone cowboy who sold millions of albums over a
01:48career that spanned decades, has died at the age of 81 after a long battle with Alzheimer's
01:54disease, his family announced.
01:56Campbell achieved crossover success on the US and British pop charts starting in the
02:011960s with hits including Rhinestone Cowboy and Wichita Lineman.
02:07In his early career, Campbell performed as a session musician for legends like Elvis
02:12Presley and Frank Sinatra.
02:14And finally the weather, today's high across the UAE will be 46 degrees Celsius dropping
02:19to 31 degrees at night.
02:21That's all for now.
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