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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, March the 3rd. Here are the top

00:09stories at this hour. The slavery drama, 12 Years of Slave, won the Academy Award for

00:14Best Picture, making history as the first movie from a black director to win the film

00:19industry's highest honor. Steve McQueen's unflinching portrayal of pre-Civil War American

00:25slavery won two other Oscars, including Best Supporting Actress for newcomer Lupita Nyong'o.

00:32The film prevailed over space thriller Gravity, which racked up the most Oscars of the night,

00:37with seven, including the Best Director honor for Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron. Australia's

00:44Cate Blanchett won the Best Actress Oscar for her acclaimed role as a socialite unhinged

00:49by her husband's financial crimes in Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine, while Matthew McConaughey

00:55walked off with the Best Actor award for Dallas Buyers Club. Motorists in Sharjah

01:00jumping the queue near a Dubai-bound road are causing massive delays to commuters already

01:05stuck in the morning rush hour. It takes 40 minutes to cover a 400-meter stretch on the

01:10new Ta'un Road leading to Al-Ittihad Road, a major link between the two emirates. The

01:16same journey takes only about one minute after the rush hour. Millions of children in the

01:21Middle East will be vaccinated against polio this month, after the crippling disease resurfaced

01:26in the conflict-hit Syria. Mass vaccinations have already been launched in Egypt, Iraq,

01:32Jordan and Syria, while a similar campaign in Lebanon will start on March 9. Two members

01:37of Libya's parliament were shot and wounded when protesters stormed the General National

01:42Congress in Tripoli. The protesters were demanding that the GNC be dissolved and a date set for

01:47early elections.

01:49Ukraine is mobilizing for war, and Washington has threatened to impose economic sanctions

01:54on Russia. The move came after President Vladimir Putin declared he had the right to invade

01:59his neighbor in Russia's biggest confrontation with the West since the Cold War. Russian

02:04forces have already bloodlessly seized Crimea, an isolated Black Sea peninsula where Moscow

02:09has a naval base. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he will visit Kiev on Tuesday

02:15to show strong support for Ukrainian sovereignty. At least 11 people were killed and 24 wounded

02:21in a gun and suicide bomb attack at a court complex in Islamabad. No one immediately claimed

02:27responsibility for the attack in the Pakistani capital.

02:31In sport, world No. 1 Rafael Nadal will team up with his 14-times major champions Pete

02:36Sampras for Mumbai in the inaugural International Premier Tennis League later this year. Mumbai,

02:43Singapore, Bangkok, and Dubai will be the four teams in the franchise-based league.

02:48The tournament to be played from November 28 to December 14 will have Novak Djokovic

02:53and former women's No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki leading the Dubai challenge.

02:58And finally, weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 26 degrees Celsius, dropping

03:03to 18 degrees at night.

03:05That's all for now. Thanks for watching. And as always, you can get the latest news

03:09at gulfnews.com.

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