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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, December the 6th.
00:09Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:12The governor of Aden, Jafar Saad and his six bodyguards were killed today after an explosive
00:17device placed under his car was detonated.
00:21The assassination comes as the UN envoy to Yemen made his first visit to the city since
00:26it was liberated from Al-Houthi control to discuss prospects for peace talks between
00:31Yemen's warring parties.
00:34India's main airport in flood-devastated Tamil Nadu state reopened today as emergency
00:39workers strove to help thousands of residents forced to flee their inundated homes.
00:45The international airport in Chennai had shut on Wednesday, leaving thousands of passengers
00:51stranded after record rains worsened flooding that has claimed nearly 300 lives since November
00:58the 9th.
00:59Thousands of residents have been rescued by boat or plucked from rooftops after the floods
01:04left much of Chennai, a city of more than 4 million, underwater.
01:09Power supplies and phone networks were also hit.
01:14English Premier League champions Chelsea's fall from grace continued with a humiliating
01:19defeat by Bournemouth last night after Leicester City's improbable title challenge was bolstered
01:25by a 3-0 victory at Swansea City.
01:28A late goal by Glenn Murray earned Bournemouth a shock victory at Stamford Bridge, while
01:34Leicester moved two points clear at the top after Riyadh Maharaj's hat-trick sank Swansea.
01:41Reality TV star Kim Kardashian and her rapper husband Kanye West have announced the birth
01:47of their second child, a baby boy.
01:49The latest addition to the West family was born in the morning and mother and son are
01:55doing well, according to a tweet by Kardashian, which showed a picture of the celebrity parents'
02:00hands intertwined.
02:03And finally, the weather.
02:04Today's high across the UAE will be 28 degrees Celsius, dropping to 22 degrees at night.
02:11That's all for now.
02:12Thanks for watching.
02:13And as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com