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00:00Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has announced plans to build a new city on the
00:13Red Sea coast.
00:15Prince Mohammed said the project, to be called Neom, will operate independently from the
00:19existing government framework, with investors consulted at every step during development.
00:25The project will be backed by more than $500 billion from the Saudi government, the country's
00:30sovereign wealth fund, and local and international investors.
00:34Arizona Senator Jeff Flake has launched an extraordinary attack against Donald Trump
00:39and the complicity of the Republican Party while announcing his decision to leave the
00:44Senate.
00:45Flake, a key Republican critic of the U.S. President, said he was retiring at the end
00:49of his term in 2018 because there was no room for him in the party under Trump's stewardship.
00:55There are times when we must risk our careers in favour of our principles.
01:00Now is such a time," the senator said.
01:02The second one-day international match between India and New Zealand has got embroiled in
01:07controversy hours before its start with allegations of corruption against curator Pandurang Salgaokar.
01:13A TV channel claims to have conducted a sting in which reporters posing as bookies approached
01:20the curator, asking for a pitch to favour the fast bowlers of one of the competing teams.
01:24The curator is seen and heard on camera agreeing to the demands.
01:28Iconic Indian classical vocalist Girija Devi died on Tuesday night at a Mumbai hospital
01:34following a cardiac arrest.
01:36She was 88.
01:37Fondly known as the Queen of Thumri, Girija Devi was born in 1929 in Varanasi and received
01:43her initial training in vocal music from Sarju Prasad Mishra.
01:47Emotional tributes poured in from the Indian music and film fraternity as well as politicians.
01:53And finally, the weather.
01:54Today's high across the UAE will be 34 degrees Celsius, dropping to 25 degrees at night.
02:00That's all for now.
02:01Thanks for watching.
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