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00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News update for Monday, July the 16th.
00:07Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:10France managed to overcome mistakes in their World Cup final over Croatia with sheer mental
00:15strength to lift the trophy for the second time, coach Didier Deschamps said.
00:20France overpowered Croatia 4-2 to lift the trophy and Deschamps became only the third
00:26man to win it both as player and coach.
00:29My greatest source of pride is the players had the right state of mind, Deschamps, who
00:34had captained France to the 1998 title, told reporters.
00:39The UAE's ambitious plan to build a city on Mars will no doubt succeed as the country
00:45is already laying the groundwork for this target, a senior NASA expert said.
00:50The UAE in 2017 launched its plans to set up the first habitable human settlement on
00:55Mars by 2117.
00:59President Donald Trump meets Vladimir Putin in Helsinki today under pressure to confront
01:04his Russian counterpart over Kremlin meddling in the 2016 election.
01:10Concerns are also rising about the US under Trump's direction abandoning current international
01:15order.
01:17The highly anticipated event will include 90 minutes in which the two presidents meet
01:22one-to-one with only their respective translators in attendance.
01:26A bounced check case against Arif Naqvi, the founder of Abraj Capital, and his colleague
01:31Mohammad Rafiq Lakhani has been dismissed.
01:34Judge Nadir Al-Susi announced the verdict on Sunday.
01:38The case relates to 1.1 billion dirhams in loans from Hamid Jafar, the founder of Sharjah-based
01:45Crescent Group, to Abraj and Naqvi.
01:48Jafar has since waived his rights to pursue the claim.
01:51Breaking his silence over the Sacred Games web series, India's Congress Party President
01:56Rahul Gandhi has said freedom of expression is a fundamental democratic right.
02:02The Netflix series is facing a legal petition over the removal of certain content on the
02:07grounds that it insulted former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
02:11"'My father lived and died in the service of India.
02:14The views of a character on a fictional web series can never change that," Gandhi tweeted.
02:20And finally, the weather.
02:22Today's highs across the UAE will be 40 degrees Celsius, dropping to 33 degrees at night.
02:28That's all for now.
02:29Thanks for watching.
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