00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News update for Wednesday, July the 19th.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09Last month was the third hottest June on record globally, temperature data suggests.
00:14Confirming 2017 will almost certainly make a trifecta of annual climate records with
00:202015, 2016 and 2017 being the three hottest years since records began.
00:27Recent figures also cement estimations that warming is now at levels not seen for 115,000
00:34years and leave some experts with little hope for limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius
00:40or even 2 degrees.
00:42According to new figures from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, June
00:472017 was the third hottest June on record, beaten only by the two preceding Junes in
00:542015 and 2016.
00:57Data show combined land and sea surface temperatures for June 2017 were 0.82 degrees above the
01:0520th century average, making a string of 41 consecutive Junes above that average.
01:11Neymar will not be leaving Barcelona despite reports that Paris Saint-Germain have triggered
01:17his £195 million release clause, club president Josep Maria Bartomeu has told BBC Sport.
01:24The Brazil forward signed a new five-year contract until 2021 in October, with his release
01:30clause set to rise with each year of the deal.
01:33Neymar, 25, joined from Santos in 2013.
01:37An impending auction of pop star Madonna's personal items, including a love letter from
01:42her ex-boyfriend, the late rapper Tupac Shakur, and a hairbrush containing her hair, was halted
01:49by a judge.
01:50Manhattan State Supreme Court Judge Gerald Labovitz ordered Gotta Have It collectibles
01:55to pull 22 items from its rock-and-roll-themed auction scheduled for today.
02:01The material girl had earlier sought an emergency court order, saying she was shocked to learn
02:06of the planned online auction of the Tupac letter and had no idea it was no longer in
02:12her possession.
02:13And finally, the weather, today's high across the UAE will be 47 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:18to 33 degrees at night.
