00:00Good day, welcome to the Golf News Update for Thursday January 5th. Here are the top
00:06stories at this hour.
00:08Congressional Republicans launched their long-promised effort to dismantle the Affordable Care Act,
00:13even as they acknowledged that they may need several months to develop a replacement along
00:17conservative lines.
00:19Signifying how enormous a priority the issue is for the incoming administration, Vice President
00:23Elect Mike Pence met privately to discuss it with House and Senate Republicans. He offered
00:28no details afterward about what a new health care law might look like, but vowed to unwind
00:33the existing one through a mixture of executive actions and legislation.
00:38President Barack Obama made a rare Capitol Hill appearance, meeting behind closed doors
00:42with Democrats from both chambers. He urged members of his party not to help the GOP devise
00:47a new health care law.
00:49Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for Israeli occupation soldier Alor
00:54Azaria to be pardoned after he was convicted of manslaughter. He also urged the public
00:59to support the army and its commanders. Azaria, an army medic, was caught on video in March
01:04fatally shooting a wounded Palestinian in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron. The
01:08Palestinian Abdel Fattah al-Sharif was lying on the ground and already unarmed when Azaria
01:13shot him in the head.
01:15Drake leads the nominations for the 2017 iHeartRadio Music Awards with 12 including Male Artist
01:21of the Year, while Electronic Duo, The Chainsmokers, have 11 nominations, including Song of the
01:26Year for Closer with Halsey. Bruno Mars will perform at the fourth annual awards show to
01:31be held on March 5 in Los Angeles.
01:34And finally, the weather today's high across the UAE will be 25 degrees Celsius dropping
01:38to 16 degrees at night. That's all for now, thank you for watching. A reminder, our next
01:42bulletin will be on Sunday, but you can always get the latest news on golfnews.com.
