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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Tuesday, August the 7th.
00:07Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:10Soldiers have pulled a man alive from the rubble of a large mosque flattened by an earthquake
00:15on the Indonesian island of Lombok.
00:19Thousands of homeless locals, meanwhile, waited for aid today and stranded tourists camped
00:23at beaches and the lobbies of damaged hotels.
00:27The north of Lombok has been devastated by a magnitude 7 quake that struck Sunday night,
00:34damaging thousands of buildings and killing at least 98 people.
00:37A fire raging in northern California has become the largest in modern state history, the state's
00:44fire agency said.
00:45The Mendocino Complex fire, which is burning northwest of Sacramento, topped 283,000 acres
00:52on Monday, making it the most sizable California fire in a century of record-keeping.
00:58The state is only in the middle of its fire season, with the worst fires often occurring
01:03later in the year.
01:05Indra Nooyi is stepping down as chief executive officer of food and beverage giant PepsiCo.
01:12She is handing the reins to a top lieutenant in a transition that will draw attention to
01:17the dearth of prominent female CEOs in corporate America.
01:22India-born Nooyi, 62, will leave the role in October and remain chairman until early 2019.
01:30Ramon Lagarta, 54, will be just the sixth CEO in the 53-year history of the company.
01:37Robert Redford, the screen legend and Oscar winner, has announced that he is retiring
01:43from acting at the grand old age of 81.
01:46The upcoming movie, The Old Man and the Gun, will be his last gig in front of the camera.
01:53The actor, director and founder of the Sundance Institute and its film festival began his
01:59career on stage 60 years ago.
02:02And finally, the weather.
02:03Today's high across the UAE will be 41 degrees Celsius, dropping to 31 degrees at night.
02:09That's all for now.
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