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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Thursday, February the 4th. Here are the

00:10top stories at this hour.

00:12Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has said he will turn himself over to British police

00:17on Friday if a UN panel rules he has not been arbitrarily detained. He has spent more than

00:23three years in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

00:26Assange has been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden over

00:31rape allegations, charges he has denied. Ecuador has granted him asylum, but he faces immediate

00:38arrest if he steps onto British soil. Police have been posted around the clock outside

00:44its doors at a cost of millions of pounds.

00:47International aid to the victims of Syria's five-year war, including the millions forced

00:52to flee their homes, has persistently fallen short. However, organisers of the annual Syria

00:58pledging conference hope for greater generosity this time around, despite a record request

01:04of close to $9 billion for 2016. The expectations are partly based on the reframing of the aid

01:11debate over the past year, following the chaotic migration of hundreds of thousands of desperate

01:17Syrians to Europe.

01:19Coach Darren Lehmann has been cleared to join Australia's test team in New Zealand after

01:24suffering from deep vein thrombosis. Lehmann has been sidelined since January 23, after

01:30he was admitted to a Sydney hospital with a swollen calf. Battling coach Michael DiVenuto

01:36replaced him for Australia's 2020 series against India and the one-day international tour of

01:42New Zealand, which started in Auckland on Wednesday. All the games have been lost.

01:49Actress Cate del Castillo has filed a petition seeking an injunction against any arrest related

01:55to Mexico's investigation of her relationship with detained drug lord Joaquin El Chapo Guzman.

02:02Del Castillo arranged a meeting between the drug boss and actor Sean Penn in October.

02:08Guzman was arrested in a raid in January.

02:11And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 23 degrees Celsius, dropping

02:17to 17 degrees at night. That's all for now. Thanks for watching. A reminder that our next

02:22bulletin will be on Sunday. But as always, you can get the latest news on gulfnews.com.

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