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00:00Good day, welcome to the GAUK news update for Thursday, September 1st.
00:05Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:07Cries of Bravo rang out in Dubai last night as Spanish tenor Placido Domingo inaugurated
00:12the Dubai Opera, the UAE's first purpose-built venue for classical music.
00:16His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister
00:20of the UAE and ruler of Dubai, was one of the first visitors as nearly 2,000 attendees
00:25arrived for the opening night.
00:27Domingo performed a wide programme that opened with an orchestral Richard Wagner's Overture
00:32from Dey master singer Vaughan Neunberg.
00:34Trieste's worthy orchestra performed throughout.
00:37In an unusually strong statement, the US rebooked Israel on Wednesday over what it said was
00:42its accelerated building of Jewish colonies in the occupied West Bank.
00:46The significant expansion of the colony activity poses a serious and growing threat to the
00:51viability of a two-state solution, President Barack Obama's spokesman Josh Earnest said.
00:56Donald Trump returned to form in Phoenix last night with a nativist immigration plan
01:01ruling out legal status for undocumented immigrants.
01:04The Republican presidential nominee also proposed to build a wall on the southern border of
01:09the United States and asked Mexico to cover the cost.
01:12The speech, which postulated crime prevention as a rationale, came just hours after Trump
01:17travelled to Mexico at the invitation of President Enrique Pena Nieto.
01:21The site of the multi-billion-dirham Mall of the World has been relocated to Mohammed
01:26Bin Zayed Road.
01:27The new location has been selected so that the project's tourism contribution can be
01:31fully realized, according to a statement from developer Dubai Holding.
01:34The project, which will integrate shopping with leisure, hospitality and entertainment
01:38choices, was initially marked for a location off Sheikh Zayed Road.
01:43Want more Stranger Things?
01:44Done!
01:45The popular series will return in 2017 with nine new episodes Netflix has announced.
01:50Set in fictional Hawkins in 1983, the new season will include four new characters.
01:56And finally, the weather.
01:57Today's high across the UAE will be 43 degrees Celsius, dropping to 29 degrees at night.
02:02That's all for now.
02:03Thanks for watching.
02:04We will be back with The Bulletin on Sunday, but as always, you can get the latest news
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