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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Thursday, March 8. Here are the top stories
00:07at this hour.
00:08Four people were killed and three others injured from the same family in a traffic accident
00:12on Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Road in Abu Dhabi today. Abu Dhabi police said the family belonged
00:17to a Gulf country.
00:19British detectives are scrambling today to uncover who poisoned a Russian former double
00:23agent and his daughter with a nerve agent. Doctors meanwhile battle to save their lives
00:29and that of a policeman who also fell ill after coming to their aid.
00:33Sergei Skripal, 66, who moved to Britain in a 2010 spy swap, is in critical condition
00:38in hospital along with his daughter Yulia after they collapsed outside a shopping centre
00:43on Sunday.
00:44Archie, Jughead, Betty and Veronica are getting very far away from Riverdale. They are going
00:50to Bollywood. Archie Comics and Graphic India say they are teaming up to create a Bollywood-style
00:55live-action film that reimagines the American suburban perpetual teens as Indian characters.
01:01The companies are touting the film as the first international comic to be translated
01:06for Indian screens. No release date has been announced.
01:10And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 32 degrees Celsius, dropping
01:14to 18 degrees at night.
01:16That's all for now. Thanks for watching. We will be back with the newscast on Sunday but
01:20you can always get the latest updates on gulfnews.com.
01:25Thanks for watching.