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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Tuesday, January 26. Here are the top

00:10stories at this hour.

00:12A senior US Treasury official has directly accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of

00:18corruption in a BBC program. The US government imposed sanctions against a number of Kremlin

00:24insiders in 2014 after Russia's annexation of Crimea in Ukraine, but did not accuse Putin

00:31of direct involvement in corruption. However, during a panorama investigation into Putin's

00:36secret riches, Adam Zubin, the acting Under-Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence at

00:42the US Treasury, said Putin was a picture of corruption.

00:47Malaysia's Attorney General said that nearly $700 million channelled into Prime Minister

00:53Najib Razak's private accounts was a personal donation from Saudi Arabia's royal family

00:59and cleared him of any criminal wrongdoing. The announcement capped months of uncertainty

01:05for Najib, who has come under intense pressure to resign over the financial scandal in his

01:11biggest political crisis since he took power in 2009.

01:16Roger Federer reached his 12th Australian Open semi-final in 13 years with a clinical

01:22straight sets win over Thomas Berdych. The Swiss 17-time Grand Slam champion will now

01:28face either defending champion Novak Djokovic or Kei Nishikori in Thursday's semi-final.

01:35World No. 1 Serena Williams breezed past Maria Sharapova 6-4 6-1 to set up a semi-final against

01:43Agnieszka Radwanska who disposed of Carla Suarez 6-1 6-3.

01:49Top star Miley Cyrus will be the latest muse of Woody Allen as the legendary comedian directs

01:54his first television series for Amazon. Cyrus, the 23-year-old Disney actress turned singer

02:00and master of provocation, said she will appear in the yet-untitled project that the online

02:05retail giant plans to stream later this year. Cyrus posted on Instagram a blue-hued painting

02:12of the famously bespectacled Allen, saying that she had kept his picture next to my bed

02:18for a few years.

02:20And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 25 degrees Celsius, dropping

02:25to 16 degrees at night.

02:28That's all for now. Thanks for watching. But as always, you can get the latest news on

02:32Govt.com.

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