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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Wednesday, May the 23rd.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09North Korea has accepted a list of South Korean reporters to visit their nuclear testing site
00:15after a days-long tug-of-war with Seoul.
00:18North Korea invited a handful of media from a number of countries to witness the dismantling
00:23of the testing site to uphold its pledge to discontinue nuclear tests.
00:29President Donald Trump expressed pessimism about whether a scheduled summit with North
00:34Korea's leader will take place on June 12.
00:37Opening batsman Faf Du Plessis smashed an unbeaten half-century and anchored Chennai
00:42Super Kings to its seventh Indian Premier League final.
00:46CSK managed a thrilling two-wicket victory over Sunrisers Hyderabad thanks to Du Plessis'
00:5267th of 42 balls in the first IPL qualifier on Tuesday.
00:57Hyderabad had the match in its grip until the 17th over, with Chennai needing 43 runs
01:03and three wickets in hand.
01:05Swedish DJ and music producer Avicii, who was found dead last month in Oman at the age
01:11of 28, will be given a private funeral.
01:15Avicii, whose real name was Tim Bergling, was one of the biggest stars in electronic
01:20dance music.
01:22The Bergling family has now confirmed that the funeral will be in the presence of the
01:26people who were closest to Tim, his Swedish publicist said.
01:30And finally, the weather.
01:31Today's high across the UAE will be 40 degrees Celsius, dropping to 28 degrees at night.
01:36That's all for now, thanks for watching and as always, you can get the latest updates
01:41on gulfnews.com