Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. Irma wreaks havoc in Florida. Arabia to keep pressuring Qatar until demands met. 1,000 bogus job offers have been busted by the Indian Workers Resource Centre. Cityscape Global kicked off. Miss North Dakota was named Miss America 2018. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv
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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, September the 11th.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09Hurricane Irma, which has toppled cranes, swallowed streets and left millions without
00:14power, has weakened to a Category 1 storm, but continued its furious climb up Florida's
00:20southwest coast.
00:22Warnings of hazardous storm surges remained in effect through vast swathes of peninsular
00:28Florida.
00:29At least 6 million people were evacuated from Irma's path, one of the biggest operations
00:35in U.S. history.
00:37Saudi Arabia has said it would keep pressuring Qatar until demands by a bloc of Arab states
00:42are met.
00:44The comments dampen hopes for a U.S.-mediated resolution to a diplomatic crisis.
00:50The Arab bloc's 13 demands include Doha ending its alleged support for Islamist extremist
00:56groups, closing a Turkish military base and downgrading diplomatic ties with Tehran.
01:03More than 1,000 bogus job offers have been busted this year by the Indian Workers' Resource
01:08Center working under the Indian Embassy in Abu Dhabi.
01:12Top Indian officials said the IWRC office in Dubai has been providing the service of
01:17verifying the authenticity of job offers received by Indians.
01:23Of the 1,078 inquiries received till August 31, only 73 job offers were found to be genuine,
01:30said Dinesh Kumar, the first secretary at the Indian Embassy.
01:34Developers in the UAE today showcased residential and commercial projects worth billions of
01:40dirhams as the annual Cityscape Global kicked off.
01:44The event was inaugurated by Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown
01:49Prince of Dubai.
01:51Miss North Dakota was named Miss America 2018 on Sunday night in Atlantic City.
01:57The 23-year-old Kara Mund had said President Donald Trump was wrong to pull the US out
02:02of the Paris Climate Accord.
02:05She topped a field of 51 contestants to win the crown in the New Jersey Seaside Resort.
02:12And finally the weather.
02:13Today's high across the UAE will be 43 degrees Celsius dropping to 32 degrees at night.
02:19That's all for now.
02:20Thanks for watching.
02:21And as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com