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00:00Good day, welcome to the gulf news update for Tuesday, October the 4th.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09The Obama administration has made good on an ultimatum and withdrawn its cooperation
00:14with Russia over Syria.
00:16Moscow has suspended a key nuclear weapons treaty it had signed with Washington more
00:21than a decade ago.
00:23US-Russia ties have hit one of their lowest points since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet
00:29Union.
00:30Exasperated over relentless Russian and Syrian airstrikes on the battered city of Aleppo,
00:35Washington announced it was breaking off bilateral talks with Russia over Syria's fate and cancelling
00:41plans to share military intelligence and operations-related information with Moscow.
00:48More than 6,000 refugees were rescued and 22 found dead on the perilous sea route to
00:53Europe on Monday, one of the highest numbers in a single day.
00:58Lebanese coast guards said at least nine refugees had died and a pregnant woman and
01:03a child had been taken by helicopter to a hospital on the Italian island of Lampedusa,
01:08halfway between Sicily and the Libyan coast.
01:11Libyan officials said 11 bodies had washed up on a beach east of the capital Tripoli
01:17and another two refugees had died when a boat sank off the western city of Sebrata.
01:24Reality TV star Kim Kardashian West returned to New York badly shaken on Monday after being
01:31robbed at gunpoint in her Paris residence by masked men who stole some $10 million worth
01:37of jewellery.
01:38Kardashian West, wearing sunglasses and with her head bowed, was pictured entering her
01:44Manhattan apartment with her rapper husband Kanye West.
01:47She had left Paris by private jet hours after robbers tied her up in the bathroom and put
01:52a gun to her head.
01:54And finally, the weather.
01:55Today's high across the UAE will be 34 degrees Celsius, dropping to 27 degrees at night.
02:01That's all for now.
02:02Thanks for watching.
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