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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Thursday, October the 2nd.
00:09Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:12More than two million Muslims from around the globe gather in Mecca today to perform
00:16the Hajj pilgrimage.
00:18Authorities have deployed more than 70,000 officials in Mecca, Medina and other holy
00:22cities to ensure the safety of pilgrims.
00:27President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met for talks
00:31overshadowed by unusually blunt U.S. criticism of the Jewish state's latest colony plans.
00:37The proposed construction of 2,610 new homes in the east was viewed as an overt rejection
00:44of reaching a political solution to the conflict.
00:48Julia Pearson has resigned under pressure as Director of the U.S. Secret Service after
00:53failing to quell a political furore over repeated breaches of White House security.
00:59Pearson's support in the West Wing began crumbling in large part because she did not tell the
01:04White House of a security failure in Atlanta last month when an armed man was allowed to
01:10ride in an elevator with President Barack Obama at the Centers for Disease Control and
01:15Prevention.
01:17Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters demanded that the city's embattled leader meet a deadline
01:22to resign on Thursday as China warned the United States against meddling in its internal
01:28affairs.
01:30Demonstrators who have shut down central areas of the southern Chinese city for four days
01:34have given Chief Executive Leung Chung-ying until midnight to step down or face escalated
01:41action.
01:42The UAE won a third medal at the 2014 Asian Games today as Marwan al-Mazmi claimed bronze
01:49in the men's individual kata competition.
01:52His success follows Sheikh Jumma bint al-Muqal Maktoum's double-trap shooting bronze and
01:57the gold medal of Alia Saeed Mohammed in the women's 10,000 meters.
02:02At 88, veteran crooner Tony Bennett broke his own record as the oldest living artist
02:08to land a No. 1 record on the weekly U.S. Billboard 200 album chart with his latest
02:14compilation of duets with Lady Gaga.
02:17Cheek to Cheek sold 131,000 copies in its first week.
02:23And finally the weather.
02:24The daytime temperature will be 40 degrees Celsius falling to 28 at night.
02:28That's all for now.
02:29Thanks for watching.
02:30A reminder that our next bulletin will be on Monday but as always you can get the latest
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