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

00:09Here are the top stories at this hour.

00:12Arab states are expected to overwhelmingly back Saudi Arabia against Iran at an extraordinary

00:18Arab League meeting today.

00:19The two countries are experiencing the worst diplomatic crisis in decades after angry mobs

00:25ransacked Saudi missions in Iran, leading to the scaling back of ties by many Arab states.

00:31Arab states have repeatedly expressed frustration with Iran over its meddling in the region.

00:37An interview that Hollywood star Sean Penn conducted with Mexican Joaquin Chapo Guzman

00:42late last year helped Mexico's government catch the world's most wanted drug lord.

00:47Guzman, the infamous boss of the Sinaloa drug cartel, was arrested in northwest Mexico on

00:54Friday morning and sent back to the prison he broke out of in July through a 1.6-kilometer-long

01:01tunnel that led straight into his cell.

01:04Mexican authorities became aware of the meeting between Penn, a Mexican actress, and Guzman

01:09in October and monitored Penn's movements, helping lead them to a ranch where El Chapo

01:16was staying.

01:17The Mexican government is now moving toward extraditing El Chapo to the US to face drug

01:22and murder charges there.

01:24German Chancellor Angela Merkel has backed stricter laws to expel convicted refugees

01:30as clashes erupted at far-right protests in Cologne over a rash of sexual assaults blamed

01:36on asylum seekers.

01:38Cologne police said they have now recorded 379 cases of New Year's Eve violence, ranging

01:44from groping to theft to two reported rapes, with asylum seekers and illegal migrants making

01:51up the majority of suspects.

01:54Zinedine Zidane has urged Gareth Bale to maintain his sensational form after the Welshman got

02:00the Frenchman's reign as Real Madrid boss off to a flying start with a hat-trick in

02:06a 5-0 demolition of Deportiva La Corona last night.

02:10Madrid have moved to within two points of La Liga leaders Barcelona.

02:15And finally, the weather today is high across the UAE, will be 28 degrees Celsius, dropping

02:19to 16 degrees at night.

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