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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Tuesday, February the 10th. Here are the

00:08top stories at this hour.

00:10Twenty-five percent of the UAE's needs will be supplied by clean energy when the first

00:15nuclear plant is launched in 2017, General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown

00:20Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces announced. Sheikh

00:25Mohammed made the announcement at a government summit's main plenary session on Monday. Sheikh

00:30Mohammed said that 50 years from now, there may be no more oil reserves to depend on,

00:35which is why the UAE government has started to focus on alternative resources to consolidate

00:40its economic strength.

00:42Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi conceded a crushing defeat this morning in Delhi state

00:46elections as early results showed anti-corruption campaigner Arvind Kejriwal's party set for

00:52a landslide victory. Modi assured Kejriwal of the federal government's full support following

00:57the right-wing premier's first election loss since storming to power last May. Early tallies

01:03showed Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party leading in just six seats in the 70-seat state assembly

01:09with former Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party ahead in 63. The Congress

01:14party was suffering another mauling after being thumped at the general election, trailing

01:19in all seats as vote counting continued.

01:22US President Barack Obama has agreed to hold off a controversial decision on sending arms

01:27to Ukraine until German-led efforts to broker a ceasefire with Russia are given a chance.

01:33Hosting Chancellor Angela Merkel at the White House, Obama said he hoped she could reach

01:37a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin to end 10 months of bloodshed in eastern Ukraine.

01:43However, he warned that more punitive measures were in the pipeline if that fails.

01:48And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 31 degrees Celsius, dropping

01:52to 20 degrees at night.

01:54That's all for now. Thanks for watching. And as always, you can get the latest news

01:58at GovNews.com.

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