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00:00Good day, welcome to the gulf news update for Tuesday, June the 5th, here are the top
00:08stories at this hour.
00:10More than 110 beggars have been rounded up by Dubai police so far this Ramadan as part
00:16of an anti-begging campaign.
00:18Brigadier Abdul Rehman Saeed Obaidullah, director of Naif Police Station, said police have divided
00:24the city into different zones based on the concentration of beggars in an area.
00:30Most of them are fraudsters who come here during Ramadan on visit visa and loiter around
00:36mosques, he said.
00:37Last Ramadan, police arrested 154 beggars compared to 641 in 2016.
00:46President Donald Trump claimed he has an absolute right to pardon himself.
00:51The declaration appeared to be part of an extraordinarily expansive vision of executive
00:56authority that is mostly untested in court.
01:00Trump's lawyers have said in a memo to special counsel Robert Mueller that it was impossible
01:06for him to have done anything wrong in obstructing justice.
01:10According to them, as the country's chief law enforcement officer, Trump has ultimate
01:15control of the Justice Department.
01:19Former world number one Serena Williams has withdrawn from the French Open.
01:24She was due on court to face Maria Sharapova in a much-anticipated fourth-round showdown.
01:31The 36-year-old, 23-times Grand Slam champion, said she had suffered a pectoral muscle injury.
01:39Director Woody Allen has weighed in on the hashtag MeToo movement, saying he should be
01:44its poster boy.
01:46In an interview, Allen spoke at length about his support for the larger movement, sparked
01:51in part by investigative journalism done by his son, Ronan Farrow.
01:56The director was accused by adopted daughter Dylan Farrow, who claimed Allen sexually abused
02:02her at age seven.
02:04The director continues to categorically deny any misconduct.
02:09And finally, the weather.
02:10Today's high across the UAE will be 44 degrees Celsius, dropping to 32 degrees at night.