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00:00Good day and welcome to the gulf news update for Wednesday, October the 17th.
00:06Here are the top stories at the south.
00:09Indian police today cleared protesters trying to stop women accessing one of Hinduism's
00:14most sacred sites.
00:16The hilltop temple in Sabarimala in the southern state of Kerala was forced by judges to open
00:22its doors to all female pilgrims for the first time.
00:26The Supreme Court in September overturned a ban on women aged between 10 and 50 from
00:32entering and praying at the Ayyappa temple at Sabarimala.
00:36Police broke up the protests at Nilakkal to allow hundreds of devotees, male and female,
00:41to proceed in buses towards the temple.
00:44The final seven kilometres will then be made by pilgrims on foot.
00:49The European Union is ready to extend Brexit's post-divorce transition period by a year to
00:55allow more time to find a trade deal, diplomats said on Wednesday ahead of a difficult summit.
01:02British Prime Minister Theresa May is due in Brussels today to address the other 27
01:07EU leaders on the stalled negotiations towards a divorce deal to bring Britain out of the
01:13Union.
01:14Talks are at an impasse over the issue of a legal backstop to keep the border between
01:19Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic open after the UK leaves the bloc on March 29.
01:26Teen actor Neel Sethi has been at the Sharjah International Film Festival all week.
01:32He will meet and greet his fans at Altavaha Reception and Convention Centre at 4.30pm
01:38on Thursday.
01:39The 14-year-old breakout star, who played Mowgli in the 2016 Disney film The Jungle
01:46Book, said he's preparing to film a sequel once director Jon Favreau wraps another production.
01:53Plus, Sethi has his eye on a superhero film with hopes of becoming the next Tom Holland.
02:00And finally, the weather.
02:01Today's high across the UAE will be 34 degrees Celsius, dropping to 26 degrees at night.
02:07That's all for now.
02:08Thanks for watching.
02:09And as always, you can get the latest updates on gulfnews.com.
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