Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. Cold War fantasy film 'Shape of Water' wins best picture, US aircraft carrier visits Vietnam for the first time since the War, China sets stage for President Xi Jinping’s indefinite rule. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv
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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, March the 5th.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09The Cold War fantasy film The Shape of Water is the winner of the Best Picture Academy
00:14Award.
00:15Director Guillermo del Toro's film was considered one of the frontrunners for the evening's
00:20top honor.
00:21It received a leading 13 nominations for this year's Oscars and won four Oscars on Sunday
00:28night.
00:29It stars Sally Hawkins as a mute janitor who falls in love with an aquatic creature kept
00:35captive in a government lab.
00:37Del Toro also won for Best Director, which he dedicated to young filmmakers around the
00:43world.
00:44The youth that is showing us how things are done, really they are, in every country in
00:49the world, he said.
00:51A US aircraft carrier has arrived in Vietnam for the first time since the end of the Vietnam
00:57War.
00:58The move dramatically underscores the growing strategic ties between the former force at
01:03a time when China's regional influence is rising.
01:07The grey and imposing silhouette of the USS Carl Vinson could be seen this morning from
01:12the clifftops just outside the central Viennese city of Da Nang.
01:18Thousands of Chinese legislators erupted into enthusiastic applause on Monday over plans
01:23to give President Xi Jinping a lifetime mandate.
01:28The mandate will allow the Chinese leader to mould the Asian giant into a global superpower,
01:33they said.
01:35China's parliament met in the imposing Great Hall of the People for an annual session that
01:40will make Xi the most powerful leader since Mao Zedong.
01:45And finally, the weather.
01:46Today's high across the UAE will be 24 degrees Celsius, dropping to 16 degrees at night.
01:52That's all for now.
01:53Thanks for watching and as always, you can get the latest updates on gulfnews.com.