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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Tuesday, March 13. Here are the top stories
00:07at this hour.
00:08Cross-border rail links between the UAE and Saudi Arabia will be established by the end
00:13of December 2021, a top UAE official has said.
00:18Dr. Abdullah Saleh Malqatiri, Director-General of the UAE's Federal Transport Authority,
00:23confirmed the two nations were on schedule to hit the deadline.
00:28He was speaking at the Middle East Rail Conference in Dubai on Monday.
00:32Britain will hold new emergency talks today into the brazen nerve agent poisoning of a
00:37Russian former double agent on the soil.
00:40The move came after the US and NATO backed London in implicating Moscow in the assassination
00:45attempt.
00:46Russia has vehemently denied accusations of its involvement in the attack on Sergei Skripal
00:51and his daughter in south-west England on March 4.
00:55India beat Sri Lanka by six wickets in the fourth match of the Nidhahas' T20 international
01:00cricket tri-series in Colombo on Monday.
01:03Chasing 152 in a rain-curtailed match, Manish Pandey and Dinesh Karthik played sensibly
01:09to ensure victory for Team India.
01:11Venus Williams beat sister Serena 6-3, 6-4 last night to reach the round of 16 in the
01:16Indian Wells Tennis Tournament.
01:18She will now play against Latvia's Anastasia Sarastova.
01:22Folk rock legend Paul Simon said he plans to close out his touring career with a last
01:27series of concerts in his hometown of New York.
01:30The 76-year-old former half of Simon and Garfunkel had last month announced a farewell tour that
01:35will take him across North America and Europe.
01:38Revealing new dates, Simon said he plans to host a final concert in New York on September
01:4222.
01:43And finally, the weather.
01:45Today's high across the UAE will be 34 degrees Celsius, dropping to 22 degrees at night.
01:50That's all for now.
01:51Thanks for watching and as always you can get the latest news on gulfnews.com