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00:00Good day, welcome to the gulf news update for Thursday, March 23, here are the top stories
00:06at this hour
00:07British police arrested a number of people in a raid on a property in Birmingham just
00:12hours after the deadly attacks in London.
00:15The raid was linked to the assailant in Wednesday's attacks, in which four people were killed
00:19and 40 wounded.
00:21Police refused to confirm a link between the raid in the central English city and the attack
00:25in the capital, which they have attributed to Islamist-related terrorism.
00:30Syrian rivals are to resume UN-brokered peace talks in Geneva, with escalating violence
00:35and deadlock on key issues dimming hopes of a breakthrough.
00:39UN envoy Stéphane de Mistura insisted government and rebel negotiators had agreed on a clear
00:45agenda on issues of governance, a political transition, the constitution and elections,
00:50as well as counter-terrorism, at the request of Damascus.
00:55Meryl Streep is all set to play Catherine Graham of Pentagon Papers, the first female
00:59CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
01:02But Graham is not so much an ice queen in the script as a reluctant monarch, a stark
01:07contrast to the last publishing executive Streep played to great acclaim, Miranda Priestley.
01:13Purse lips, that's about all that Streep's Priestley, the actress's interpretation of
01:17Vogue editor Anna Wintour, in The Devil Wears Prada and Graham have in common.
01:22A Pennsylvania ice cream maker is coating Harry Potter fans with a new flavour based
01:27on Hogwarts' favourite drink, butterbeer.
01:30Junglings Ice Cream notes that JK Rowling once described butterbeer as tasting a little
01:36bit like less sickly butterscotch.
01:39With that in mind, Junglings says the new butterbeer variety combines buttercream and
01:44butterscotch ice cream.
01:46And finally, the weather.
01:47Today's high across the UAE will be 31 degrees Celsius, dropping to 22 degrees at night.
01:53That's all for now.
01:54Thanks for watching.
01:55A reminder that our next bulletin will be on Sunday.
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