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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, March the 25th.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09Within hours after Cricket Australia saying it would investigate the ball tampering committed
00:13by the leadership group in the Australia team, the Australian government has asked to sack
00:19Steve Smith as the captain of the team.
00:22Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has also called the incident a shocking disappointment
00:28and said it seemed completely beyond belief that the Australian cricket team had been
00:33involved in cheating.
00:35Chanting never again, hundreds of thousands of young Americans and their supporters answered
00:40a call to action from survivors of last month's Florida high school massacre and rallied across
00:47the United States to demand tighter gun laws.
00:50In some of the biggest U.S. youth demonstrations for decades, protesters called on lawmakers
00:56and President Donald Trump to confront the issue.
01:00Voter registration activists fanned out in the crowds, signing up thousands of the nation's
01:05newest voters.
01:06Paul McCartney, Common, Miley Cyrus, Amy Schumer and other stars played supporting roles at
01:13nationwide gun reform rallies dominated by teenage survivors' emotional speeches.
01:18Still, the protests were deeply personal for some of the celebrities involved.
01:24Jennifer Hudson, who performed the Times They Are a-Changing to cap the March for Our
01:29Lives rally in Washington, alluded to the shooting deaths of her mother, brother and
01:34seven-year-old nephew in 2008.
01:37Sebastian Vettel won a thrilling duel with world champion Lewis Hamilton to win the season-opening
01:43Australian Formula One Grand Prix in Melbourne.
01:46The four-time world champion got the jump on the Mercedes ace of a miscalculation on
01:51the pit stop under virtual safety car conditions and held off Hamilton for a second straight
01:57win in Melbourne and third overall.
02:00And finally, the weather.
02:01Today's high across the UAE will be 35 degrees Celsius, dropping to 21 degrees at night.
02:07That's all for now.
02:08Thanks for watching.
02:09And as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com.