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Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. Nation in mouring, martyrs laid to rest. Explosions rock Yemeni capital. US warns Russia against aiding Assad. England qualifies for European Championship. Tribute video for Bobbi Kristina Brown. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv

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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News update for Sunday, September the 6th. Here are the

00:08top stories at this hour. UAE leaders joined worshippers across the country in performing

00:14funeral prayers over the remains of Emirati martyrs. Forty-five Emirati soldiers were

00:19killed while performing their national duty as part of the armed forces' involvement

00:23in Operation Restoring Hope, carried out by the Saudi Arabia-led Arab coalition to back

00:28the legitimate government of Yemen. The nation declared three days of mourning. Powerful

00:34explosions shook the Yemeni capital this morning, witnesses said, after the Saudi-led coalition

00:39vowed to press its air war following a rebel missile strike that killed dozens of Gulf

00:43soldiers. The witnesses said the coalition warplanes pounded positions of the Iran-backed

00:48al-Houthi rebels and bases of splinter troops loyal to ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

00:54Reports suggesting that Russia was planning to expand its military support for Syrian

00:57President Bashar al-Assad have prompted a warning from the U.S. that such actions could

01:01lead to a confrontation with coalition forces. The U.S. State Department issued a statement

01:07after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to

01:12express concerns over unconfirmed reports suggesting an imminent enhanced Russian military

01:17build-up in Syria. England became the first team to qualify for the 2016 European Championship

01:24by crushing San Marino 6-0, while defending champion Spain avenged a rare loss to Slovakia

01:29with a 2-0 victory yesterday. Wayne Rooney's opener from the penalty spot was his 49th

01:34international goal, tying him with Bobby Charlton as England's all-time leading scorer. Filmmaker

01:40Tyler Perry paid homage to the late Bobby Christina Brown through a tribute video that

01:44was shown during her private funeral in August. Perry wrote in a Facebook post that the Houston

01:49estate asked him to share the three-minute-plus video featuring the 22-year-old daughter of

01:54the late Whitney Houston. Bobby Christina died in hospice care on July 26 after she

01:59was found facedown and unresponsive in a bathtub in a suburban Atlanta townhome on January 31.

02:06She was buried in New Jersey next to Houston, who died in a similar fashion. And finally,

02:11the weather stays high across the UAE will be 41 degrees Celsius dropping to 31 degrees

02:16at night.

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