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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Thursday, August 29th. Here are the top
00:09stories at this hour.
00:11US President Barack Obama says the US has concluded that the Syrian government carried
00:15out a chemical weapons attack near Damascus. He said the use of chemical weapons affected
00:20US national interest and that sending a shot across the bowels could have a positive impact
00:24on Syria's war. However, Obama said he had not yet made a decision about whether to intervene
00:29militarily.
00:31Indian police have arrested the alleged co-founder of top home-grown militant group the Indian
00:35Mujahideen. Yassin Bakhtal was arrested on the Indian-Nepal border in Uttar Pradesh state
00:41on Wednesday night. The banned Indian Mujahideen came to public attention in November 2007
00:47following serial blasts in Uttar Pradesh and it is blamed for multiple attacks in Poon,
00:52Bangalore and Hyderabad.
00:54New limits on the extent to funds that high net worth Indian investors can repatriate
00:58abroad during a year could be stressful for Dubai's property market. The new regulatory
01:02limit allows a domestic Indian investor to take out up to $75,000 a year compared with
01:08$200,000 earlier.
01:11In sport, defending champion Ande Murray reached the second round of the US Open after overpowering
01:16France's Michael Lodger in straight sets. Murray will now play Argentina's Leonardo
01:20Meyer on Friday.
01:23The draw for football's champion league group stages takes place today from 7.45pm
01:28UAE time and Manchester City could find themselves in another so-called group of death in the
01:33league having been seeded in pot three.
01:36Catherine Zeta-Jones and her husband Michael Douglas are taking some time apart to evaluate
01:40and work on their marriage, their publicist said. Back home, Prakash Jha's Bollywood
01:45political pot-boiler Satyagraha opens in the theatres this weekend along with One Direction.
01:50This is us.
01:52And finally, the weather. Today's high crossed the UAE with 43 degrees Celsius dropping to
01:5631 at night. That's all for now. Thanks for watching. We will be back with our newscast
02:02on Sunday, but you can always get the latest news at boltonnews.com