Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. Sparks fly as Clinton and Trump clash. Saudi Arabia cuts salaries of cabinet ministers. Construction at Expo 2020 site in Dubai South commences. Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts are separating. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv
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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Tuesday, September 27. Here are the top
00:07stories at this hour.
00:09Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump leveled sharp and personal charges over trade, the US economy,
00:16race and foreign policy in their first face-to-face debate, an event that put on display their
00:22starkly different personalities and visions of the future.
00:26In the first question, posed by moderator Lester Holt at the Hofstra University in New
00:31York, the debate devolved into an exchange of accusations as Trump and Clinton reached
00:37into the other's past statements and records. While both candidates claimed victory after
00:42the debate, financial markets were judging it in favour of Clinton.
00:47Saudi Arabia last night cut the salaries of cabinet ministers by 20 per cent and froze
00:52the wages of lower-ranking civil servants in an intensified austerity drive to cope
00:58with lower oil revenues. While ministers will have lower salaries, the 160 members of the
01:05Shura Council will see a 15 per cent drop in their annual allowances for housing, furniture
01:11and cars, a royal decree has said. Frontline soldiers on the southern border with Yemen
01:16will be exempt from a ruling not to grant the military an annual bonus.
01:22Construction at the Expo 2020 site in Dubai's South District has formally commenced, with
01:28the first of four infrastructure sections underway. The first section of infrastructure
01:33projects involves work on the Expo Village, where participants will reside during the
01:38Expo period. All infrastructure work is expected to be completed by October 2019.
01:45Leif Schreiber and Naomi Watts are separating after 11 years together. The celebrity couple
01:51said in a joint statement Monday they have come to the conclusion that the best way forward
01:56for us as a family is to separate as a couple. Schreiber and Watts, who have been together
02:02since 2005, have two children and are not married.
02:07And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 40 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:12to 29 degrees at night.
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