Trump calls for teachers with guns. De Gea the hero as Manchester United cling on in Seville. Stormzy and Lipa solo artists of the year at the Brit Awards. Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv
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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Thursday, February 22. Here are the top
00:07stories at this hour.
00:09Students galvanized by the deadly mass shooting at a Florida high school confronted lawmakers
00:13on Wednesday with demands to restrict sales of assault rifles.
00:18President Donald Trump, meanwhile, suggested that arming teachers was a way to stop more
00:22U.S. rampages. The unprecedented lobbying by groups of teenagers and parents at the
00:27White House played out as fellow students staged classroom workouts and rallies across
00:32the country.
00:33Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea was largely responsible for his side taking
00:39a 0-0 draw from the first leg of their champions' draw away to Sevilla. The result for Man United
00:45came despite being largely overrun by the Spanish side for the majority of the game.
00:50Roma could be left rewing a poor second-half performance after allowing Shakhtar Donetsk
00:55to win 2-1 in the first leg of their last-16 meeting.
01:00Prime artist Stormzy and singer-songwriter Dua Lipa have been named British Solo Artists
01:05of the Year at the Brit Awards. Stormzy won the Male Artist Prize for his distinctly London
01:09style of rap and thanked his mother, his team, South London and God. Lipa, who topped UK
01:15charts with the song New Rules, dedicated her trophy to all the female musicians who
01:20have allowed us to dream this big.
01:23And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 26 degrees Celsius, dropping
01:27to 19 degrees at night.
01:29That's all for now. Thanks for watching. We will be back with the newscast on Sunday,
01:33but you can always get the latest updates on gulfnews.com