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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Tuesday, February the 19th. Here are the
00:17top stories at this hour.
00:19A national project to steer more Emiratis towards private sector jobs has become the
00:23top priority of the Labour Ministry. With only 22,000 Emiratis working in the private
00:29sector, Labour Minister Sakhar Ghobash yesterday presented a number of ideas to bring thousands
00:34more UAE citizens into the sector. Some of these ideas will be turned into proposals
00:39for the Cabinet, hopefully within weeks, he told Gulf News.
00:43The European Union has renewed its arms embargo on Syria for another three months. The Union,
00:48however, gave the go-ahead to amendments to the ban that could allow a broader range of
00:53assistance to reach the Syrian opposition.
00:56Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Diabali has announced that his bid to form a technocratic
01:01government has failed. Diabali said he would turn to President Mansour Marzouki today after
01:06failing to win the support of the country's main parties for his proposed non-partisan
01:10Cabinet.
01:11Oscar Pistorius' slain girlfriend is to be cremated today. The South African Blade
01:16Runner also appears in court today for a bail hearing. His appearance is expected to reveal
01:21details about what happened the night 29-year-old model Riva Steenkamp was shot dead. Nestle
01:27has withdrawn beef pasta meals from sale in Italy and Spain after tests found horse meat
01:32DNA. The world's biggest food and drinks maker said that the level of horse DNA in
01:37its meals was above the threshold that the UK Food Safety Agency uses to indicate likely
01:42adulteration or gross negligence.
01:45In business, telecom operator Doos' quarterly profit more than doubled as it rode back tax
01:50provisions and saw an increase in its subscriber base. The firm made a fourth quarter net profit
01:55of 994 million dirhams in the three months ending December 31, up from 440 million dirhams
02:02in the year-earlier period.
02:04In sport, up-and-coming British player Laura Robson was among the casualties on the first
02:09day of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships. Robson lost an epic match against Kazakhstan's
02:15Yulia Pichinseva late last night. Former world number one Caroline Wozniacki and 2011 US
02:20Open winner Sam Stosser are among those on court today.
02:25Entertainment and Oman will get a taste of Bieber fever in May as the teen star has added
02:30an extra date to his visit to the Middle East. Justin Bieber performs on May 6 in Muscat,
02:35two days after his Dubai debut. South Korean rapper Psy is making a stop in Dubai earlier
02:41than that, though. The Gangnam Guru will perform in Dubai on March 28 as part of a
02:46new music festival.
02:48Finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 28 degrees Celsius, falling
02:53to 15 degrees at night.
02:54That's all for now. Thanks for watching. And as always, you can get the latest news
02:58at gulfnews.com