Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. UAE seeks $75b from manufacturing. Shaikh Rashid Bin Saqr Al Qasimi Road willl be closed for 20 days. Tropical Cyclone Debbie tore through Queensland. Director Barry Jenkins is writing and directing a drama for Amazon. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv
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00:00Good day, welcome to the Golf News update for Tuesday, March 28. Here are the top stories
00:07at this hour.
00:08The UAE is aiming to attract $75 billion by 2025 into the country's new industrial manufacturing
00:15sector, the Ministry of Economy said on Monday. In its inaugural address at the first Global
00:21Manufacturing and Industrialization Summit, Sultan Bin Saeed Al Mansouri also said the
00:26sector will contribute 25% towards the UAE's GDP by 2025. A number of ministers and industry
00:33leaders from around the world are attending the four-day summit in Abu Dhabi.
00:38Authorities in Sharjah have announced that it will close Sheikh Rashid bin Zakat Al
00:41Qasimi Road for 20 days. In a statement, the Sharjah Roads and Transport Authority said
00:46the maintenance work, at a cost of 1.4 million dirhams, will be carried out between the areas
00:52of Al-Abar and Dasman.
00:54Howling winds and heavy rain pounded Australia's northeast today, damaging homes and cutting
00:59power to thousands of people as tropical cyclone Debbie tore through Queensland. With gusts
01:05stronger than 260 km per hour recorded at tourist resorts along the world-famous Great
01:10Barrier Reef as the powerful storm made landfall as a Category 4, the weather was too bad to
01:16assess damage fully or mount an emergency response.
01:20Director Barry Jenkins, whose movie Moonlight won this year's Best Oscar Picture, is writing
01:25and directing a drama for Amazon. The Underground Railroad will be adapted from the book of
01:30the same name by novelist Colson Whitehead. Inspired by the historic secret network of
01:35routes that allowed slaves to reach freedom in the North in the 18th century, the novel
01:40tells the story of a young African-American Cora's escape from a Georgia plantation.
01:46And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 28 degrees Celsius, dropping
01:49to 21 degrees at night.
01:52That's all for now, thank you for watching. As always, you can get the latest news on
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