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UAE approves Dh180b federal budget - GN Headlines

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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, October the 1st.

00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.

00:08A zero-deficit federal budget of 180 billion dirhams for the next three years has been

00:14approved by the UAE Cabinet.

00:17His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister

00:21of the UAE and ruler of Dubai, announced the budget following a Cabinet meeting.

00:27While 59% of the budget will go to education and social development, the budget will also

00:32be the biggest in the history of the UAE.

00:35Indonesian authorities scrambled today to get aid and rescue equipment into Quake-hit

00:40Sulawesi Island and prepared to bury some of the dead.

00:43Shaken survivors meanwhile streamed away from their ruined homes in search of food and shelter.

00:49The confirmed death toll of 844 looked certain to rise as rescuers reached devastated communities

00:55hit on Friday by a 7.5-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami.

01:01Dozens of people were reported to be trapped in the rubble of several hotels and a mall

01:05in a small city of Palu.

01:07Krishna Kapoor, the widow of legendary Bollywood actor Raj Kapoor, died on Monday after a cardiac

01:13arrest.

01:14The 87-year-old Krishna, who married Raj Kapoor in May 1946, is survived by her son Randhir,

01:21Rishni and Rajvi Kapoor, and daughters Ritu, Nanda and Reema Kapoor Jain.

01:27Tributes poured in from Bollywood veterans expressing their shock and sorrow over the

01:32news.

01:33And finally, the weather.

01:34Today's highs across the UAE will be 38 degrees Celsius, dropping to 29 degrees at night.

01:39That's all for now.

01:40Thanks for watching.

01:41And as always, you can get the latest updates on gulfnews.com.