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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, November the 10th.

00:08Here are the top stories at this hour.

00:11As many as 10,000 people are believed to have died in one Philippine city alone when one

00:15of the worst storms on record sent giant sea waves washing away homes, schools and airport

00:21buildings.

00:23Ferocious winds ravaged several central islands, burying people under tons of debris.

00:28Typhoon Haiyan hit the eastern seaboard of the Philippine archipelago and barreled through

00:33six eastern and central islands before exiting into the South China Sea, packing ferocious

00:39winds of 235 km per hour.

00:42On Leyte Island, the regional police chief said there were about 10,000 deaths, mostly

00:47by drowning and from collapsed buildings.

00:50Meanwhile, more than 600,000 people were evacuated as the typhoon veered towards Vietnam.

00:56The storm is expected to strike on Monday morning after changing course.

01:01Four years after Gulf News exposed the underground sale of exotic animals by buying a baby crocodile

01:06from the Sharjah Birds and Animal Market, an undercover team of reporters bought another

01:11one.

01:12The crocodile cost 1,500 dirhams in 2009 and four years later the price dropped by 500

01:19dirhams.

01:20The animal dealer said he could procure any animal for a price.

01:24Sharjah municipality said it is monitoring the sale of animals and will take action against

01:29illegal transactions.

01:31Talks between world powers and Iran have failed to reach an agreement on Tehran's nuclear

01:36program.

01:37EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said there was a lot of concrete progress but some

01:42differences remain.

01:45Cristiano Ronaldo netted another hat-trick in Real Madrid's 5-1 win over Real Sociedad

01:50last night as the Portugal forward extended his scoring run to 9 goals in his last four

01:56games.

01:57Ronaldo's latest goal blitz took him three past Atletico Madrid's Diego Costa as the

02:03leading scorer in the Spanish league with 16 through 13 rounds.

02:08A 25-year-old Venezuelan who appears on TV in her country and is an accomplished flamenco

02:13dancer is the new Miss Universe.

02:16Gabriela Eisler was crowned on Saturday night in the Pagent in Moscow.

02:21And finally the weather.

02:22The daytime temperature will be 33 degrees Celsius falling to 21 at night.

02:27That's all for now.

02:28Thanks for watching.

02:29And as always you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com

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