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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Wednesday, December 14. Here are the top
00:07stories at this hour.
00:09Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has said he personally killed suspected criminals when
00:14he was mayor of Davao, to set an example for police. Duterte made the comments in a speech
00:21to businessmen as he discussed his campaign to eradicate illegal drugs that has seen police
00:27and unknown assailants kill thousands of people since he became president on June 30.
00:33In Davao, I used to do it personally, just to show to the guys, the police, that if I
00:37can do it, why can't you? I'd go around in Davao with a motorcycle and I would just
00:43patrol the streets, looking for trouble. I was looking for a confrontation so I could
00:48kill, Duterte said.
00:50The Syrian rebel pullout from their last holdout in the city of Aleppo has been delayed. The
00:56withdrawal was supposed to start early in the morning after the rebels reached a ceasefire
01:01deal to evacuate from eastern Aleppo in what is effectively a surrender and a defining
01:07moment in Syria's civil war. Buses are prepared to move 5,000 fighters and their families
01:14to Attarib, an opposition-held town in the northwestern Aleppo countryside.
01:20A publicist says Alan Thicke, who played the likeable father on the sitcom Growing Pains,
01:25has died at age 69. Karleen Donovan, who is a publicist for Thicke's son, singer Robin
01:32Thicke, says the actor died from a heart attack on Tuesday in Los Angeles.
01:37Alan Thicke starred as Dr. Jason Seaver in the ABC series Growing Pains, which aired
01:43from 1985 until 1992.
01:47And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 25 degrees Celsius, dropping
01:52to 15 degrees at night.