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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Tuesday, August 29. Here are the top stories
00:08at this hour.
00:10Officials say North Korea for the first time has fired a mid-range ballistic missile designed
00:16to carry a nuclear payload that flew over Japan and splashed into the northern Pacific
00:21Ocean. The aggressive missile launch, likely the longest ever from North Korea, over a
00:27close US ally, sends a clear message of defiance as Washington and Seoul conduct war games
00:34nearby.
00:35South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missile travelled around 2,700 kilometres.
00:42The length and type of the missile test seemed designed to show that North Korea can back
00:47up a threat to target the US territory of Guam if it chooses to do so. It also established
00:54a potentially dangerous precedent of sending future missile tests over Japan.
00:59US President Donald Trump is expected to arrive in Texas, aiming to show unity in the face
01:04of what he called the terrible tragedy wrought by Monster Storm Harvey's devastating raids.
01:11The US President and his wife Melania are not slated to visit Houston, America's fourth
01:16largest city, where rescue teams are scrambling to reach hundreds of stranded people as Harvey
01:22appeared poised to strike again. Officials warned that the danger has not yet passed,
01:27with more families still stranded or packed into emergency shelters and the tropical storm
01:34once more gathering strength on the Gulf coast.
01:37HBO's Game of Thrones set yet another audience record with its seventh season finale. Nielsen
01:43says an all-time high of 12.1 million viewers were tuned into the wildly popular fantasy
01:49drama. An additional 4 million caught the episode on streaming channels. The seven-episode
01:55season began with 10.1 million viewers, while episode 5 drew 10.7 million.
02:03And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 44 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:08to 29 degrees at night.
02:10That's all for now. Thanks for watching. And as always, you can get the latest news on
02:15Gulfnews.com.