iran intercepted the ship after iran denied that a drone was downed. the pentagon said indeed it did happen. let's get to jennifer griffin. she's live for us at the pentagon. jen, what do we know? >> trace, u.s. officials say they believe that iran has forcibly taken yet another oil tanker against its will. we received this statement. "we're aware of reports that iranian forces seized a british oil tanker, this is the second time in just over a week. the u.k. has been the target of violence by the regime. the tanker is heading to iran and gone dark according to shipping officials that say they have lost contact with the ship, which was in the persian gulf passing through the strait of for muscle. the u.k. security council is holding an emergency meeting to decide how to respond. we received this statement from the ship's owners. >> yesterday the iranian ney individual said they captured a united emirates tanker last weekend. president trump addressed the rising tensions moments ago. >> we hope for their sake, they don't do anything foolish. if they do,

sanctions on iran. i think the e.u. has been very patient and will continue to be very patient on this deal it's not only because it's very much worries that there isn't going to be any broader deal like the united states talks about that will take the nuclear components into account and again stop iran from from enriching uranium so it thinks that this is really the best shot possible to stop iran from possibly getting a nuclear weapon it isn't going to give up early imposing sanctions of course would mean admitting that the deal is dead and despite being offered to do this many times the e.u. is not willing to declare this deal dead it wants iran to reverse course you want to iran to reverse course with that teri schultz in brussels thank you we will check in with you on another story in just a moment or let's take this story now to the u.s. capital i'm joined tonight by injury miller he's with the project on middle east democracy that's a think tank and you worked at the u.s. state department and ser

in military war against iran, i am engaged in economic war against iran. what does it mean to be engaged in economic war? economic war target civilians. military war targets military personnel, and civilians are sometimes collateral damage. but in economic war target civilians. secretary pompeo has said, we want the iranian people to change their government. so, putting these two together, that means the united states is terrorising iranian people in order to achieve medical objectives. that is the classical definition of terrorism. the americans have said consistently that their goal is not regime change, they want to change iran's behaviour, that is what he has said. iran isa behaviour, that is what he has said. iran is a normal country, the us is not a normal country. what kind of normal country violates every international agreement? the human rights council, the imf, the world trade organisation... when you give organisations like hezbollah hundreds of millions of dollars,... who said we gave them hundreds of millions of dollars? that is what mike pom

and iran head back to the negotiating table. i think that's absolutely right i think the term of ministration despite putting massive financial economic and some would even say military pressure on these lama public is looking to get iran to come back to the negotiating table to iran to set some of these different preconditions i shot a couple of drone has shot a drone out of the sky has fired on tankers that using mines iran i think is trying to get the conditions ready for it to eventually come back to the table because i think it knows that it eventually will have to come back to the table and but i mean just yesterday and we have to address this a british newspaper publishing these leaked memos from the former you came back to washington essentially saying. he claims that trump pulled out of the nuclear deal with no plan on what to do next does the united states have a plan well the plan seems to be to use exactly the same sanctions exactly the same tools that got us to the nuclear deal but again once you get to the table to

day to complain about iran which using its commitments the us says iran has bad intentions well if enrichment is bad why do they enrich themselves the only country that has used nuclear weapons against innocent people is the united states the 2015 deal is essentially transactional iran curbs nuclear activity so it can sell oil and generate revenue that process stopped working when the u.s. restarted sanctions and now it's playing out on the open seas earlier this week the british royal marines seized an iranian oil tanker off the coast of japan after the horizon is called it an act of piracy that undercuts london's commitment to the nuclear deal and a breach of the j.c. . and on wednesday u.s. officials once again put out a call for countries willing to form a military coalition to patrol shipping lanes off the coast of iran and yemen a move that could make things even worse the potential for things going on without . getting an agreement. is very difficult as well every nation. regardless. agreement went direct french president emanuel necron has said it is time again for dialogue american s

is my rainbow toward iran. going to go down to the shop that does the show of course i am scared of receiving a lot of death threats specially when i see that the government attack me through cyber are me calling me a prostitute calling me ugly the agent of cia agent of m i 6 this kind of things actually from to beginning it was kind of hurting me but not now not anymore this is are you ready. maybe. i have so many bad a big one as one day many wrong how the power to run the country. my dream is just. as well as that. can cyprus every be reunified a journey along the border and countering hopes and prejudices it soon becomes clear that the decade long division has driven the greek and turkish populations farther apart and yet there are still those on both sides who refuse to accept this life on the borders. next to tell you. how come to the euro max you tube channel. closed goldmine of stories. with exclusive. kind of fussy concerning heartland culture in europe. the place to be for curious minds. do it yoursel

you know iran sees. no guarantee if they engage in talks with this administration in the united states. that the other president or another person or even the same person bo you know there's something you know strange and different again so there is no guarantee for you really is to engage in so there's no guarantees for anyone i mean russia is in a pretty similar situation when it comes to compared with iran i mean it faces the same type of political pressures sanctions intelligence after future it's competing with the united states and certain geopolitical fronts and yet i think. that the russians have been taking a very different they're very critical of the american policy but president putin has never said it worth about president trump personally. foolish you know let me complete my answer by saying that you're wrong does not rule out the possibility of any negotiations with the united states iran has said if the united states returns to the nuclear deal and compensates its commitments under the nu

iran that is not included it's exempt from the production company agreement however iran was anxious by the fact that it played no role in this agree about it and in fact it was russia leading leave. open oil producers and saudi arabia the leader of who would reach agreement outside opec before they come to the meeting so it felt as if it has been isolated and it's a very old step to isolate iran since if is if our own being member of opec and that this is it is the 3rd biggest producer of oil in rb after iraq and saudi arabia i think you russians are aware of that and that's why they have been calming iran to accept the extension and iran accepted it all go it's for adoption or love to be affected since it is exempt from the production. production got agreement mom international oil economist thank you for joining us on the program today thank you. the british home office has sparked outrage after insisting that nigerian women traffic to the u.k. to work as prostitutes and enjoy a wealthy life when they return to africa in the wake of the scandal the home office says it will now rew

deep concern over iran's pursuit of activity is not in line with its commitment calling for iran if it wants to stay in the deal as it professes to want to do to come back in line immediately without delay and calling on all the parties in terms of a joint commission to act responsibly to deescalate tensions now broadly speaking 2 points to make about this the 1st is that this is not and this is important i think the 3 triggering the formal dispute resolution mechanisms contained in the j c p o s a it's apparently thought that these breaches are not sufficient to warrant a move like that a move that could in itself escalate tensions and have the effect of shutting down what small room for maneuver there remains the 3 of course remember trying to keep the nuclear deal alive delicately here playing the middle ground on the one hand they've got to express some concern on the other hand of course they retain some faint optimism that iran can be talked around that some bridge can be found between washington and tehran faint hope indeed perhaps but that leads to the 2nd point which is tha

and there are other powers papering iran that are defending iran's interests which made iraq iran's back door a.t.m. so to speak to mitigate sanctions iraq's economy is largely unorganized a lack of official statistics and more training makes it impossible to accurately picture what happens at the border with iran which stretches 1400 kilometers france germany and the u.k. introduced a mechanism called in sticks to facilitate trade in exchange of basic goods including food medical equipment and medicine between iranian and foreign companies iraq's case is different because in addition to household items baghdad relies heavily on iranian gas imported electricity. iraq also needs a. political situation isn't completely settled this extends to iraq's economy industry and agriculture besides iranian investment other foreign investment is low although iraqi officials deny that baghdad is becoming iran's a.t.m. or cash machine the fear is that any restriction on tree could affect iraq's fragile stability and job it out of the fact that. 6 people killed in protests in nigeria's capital. the mil

simon iran's actions will no doubt be seen as provoking the u.s. and its allies is your real danger that the u.s. or others will retaliate thereby prompting a major escalation of some kind i think that's certainly a concern that amidst all of these growing tensions that some point that will be a retaliation and that retaliation will kick this crisis on to the next level but what we've seen so far is from the from the united states and u.k. calls for a responsible. way of addressing this crisis and i guess that's the big concern that the stakes are so high right now that the seizure of my all time when crude folks people in washington and london going to take some kind of military action and that would be the real catalyst for things to get incredibly worse and go. well you know as well as i do this isn't the 1st time that iran has seized an oil tanker in the strait of hormuz what kind of impact with these repeated seizures have on global oil supplies. well i think there's a political dimension to it and this is just mentioned the political dimensio

and iran over the u.s. is decision to pull out of the iranian nuclear deal and impose tough new sanctions on the country the u.k. opposes the move but remains a key u.s. ally it might seem counter intuitive for iran to cease the stand imperio given britain's support for the nuclear deal but this could be one way of getting the u.k. and its european allies to encourage the u.s. to ease off it was to give you an idea of how vitally important the strait of hormuz is well every day. 18000000 barrels of oil are transported through the state in comparison to about 5000000 through the su is camaro it's hugely important for the crude oil producing countries of the region to be able to ship their goods to international markets but already big questions are being us as to how politically diplomatically possibly even militarily the ships in the oil can keep flowing ok in the barker thank you let's now cross over to kristen salumi she's joining us from washington d.c. what's been the reaction in the u.s. to all of this

or european powers take military within iran, iran will retaliate. what needs to happen at this stage is there are talks between iran and the united states going minister'she foreigign trip your last week indicated. the those conversrsations need o continue and all sites need to begin to deeeescalat whatever actions either the united states or any other powers take in the persian gulf region, iran will retaliate and eventually these tit-for-tat devastating military confrontation in the middle east. but it seems no one really wants it at this time. amy: narges bajoghli, thank you for being with us professor of , middle east studies at johns hopkins university. her book "iran reframed: anxieties of power in the islamic republic" will be out in september. she is also the director of "the skin that burns," a documentary film about survivors of chemical warfare in iran. when we come back, we go to hawaii to look at the growing resistance against the construction of a massive .elescope on top of mauna kea we will go to that site. stay with h us. ♪ [music

iran's changing. pop music plays in the capital tehran, clerics compete with pop stars for influence. most iranians were born after the 1979 revolution. the younger generation is more open to the world. it's these liberal iranians that donald trump believes he can win over, but instead, anti—american sentiment is unifying iran. translation: it's true that iran is pushing very hard with the issue of nuclear energy. perhaps we are pushing too hard, but if nuclear energy is bad for us, then it should be bad for everyone else as well. the us and iran needn't be enemies. the paint on this mural is fading. four years ago, with the nuclear deal, america and iran showed they could reach an agreement, but it was never built on trust. what happened here a0 years ago has poisoned relations ever since. iranian students stormed the us embassy, holding american diplomats hostage for more than a year. i was from the first day here. this is me. it was christmas. we wanted the american hostages... hussein sheikholes

route off the coast of iran john hendren has that from washington. the united states is developing a military coalition to police the strait of hormuz general joseph dunford the highest ranking u.s. military official is the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff says the u.s. is working with a number of nations to identify who has in his words the political will to join in this coalition and offer military forces for that operation president donald trump says the united states should not pay for this that it should be an international military force but that does present the potential for conflict with iran after all it was only weeks ago when the united states almost launched an air strike on iran that's according to president trump who says we were within 10 minutes of a conflict in that region meanwhile brian hook the u.s. special representative for iran policy spoke to al jazeera this is what he had to say about sanctions we have taken iran to new lows in revenue and they're feeling it and they're hurting and their proxies are hurting and we want

the next phase of iran's plan to roll back cooperation with the 2015 nuclear deal now iran has said over and over again that it will not go forward with its plan to do so if other signatories to the deal or able to help provide the economic relief that was promised as part of the deal help mitigate u.s. sanctions or as the united states returns to the deal and lift economic sanctions that many iranian leaders have called economic warfare economic terrorism now with less than 24 hours to go before that deadline expires it seems that nothing has changed and so stopping the rollback of cooperation with the 2050 nuclear deal seems very unlikely we're not expecting any surprises tomorrow senior iranian leaders including president hassan rouhani himself have said that one of the things they will do is begin enriching uranium at higher purity levels under the agreement of the j c p a way article state that iran can enrich uranium up to 3.67 percent in purity many leaders who here have said that they will turn that number into 5 percent president hassan rouhani in a speech just a few days a

iran's done with dialogue at least it seems when it comes to washington. the useless sanctions imposed by the disparate us government on iran's supreme leader and foreign minister has the effect of blocking the path to diplomacy for years iran has attempted to rebuild relations with the u.s. without any tangible results in 1988 u.s. military shut down iranian passenger plane that killed 290 civilians including 66 children and although the incident was considered an accident the pentagon never apologize if. i believe that given the operating environment captain rogers acted reasonably and did what his nation expected of him this regrettable accident and it was an accident it was a byproduct of the iran iraq war and saddened all american and if past presidents are anything to go by to rand shouldn't hold its breath i'll never apologize for the united states of america ever i don't care what the facts are still ready to reconcile iran helped organize the release of u.s. hostages in lebanon but this goodwill gesture wasn't reciprocated by 995 even harsher u.s.

on the iran nuclear issue. we will continue to oppose iran's malign influence we will continue to bring pressure on their economy and under president donald trump america will never allow iran to obtain a nuclear weapon. all right well joining me tonight is someone who knows the ins and outs of the iran nuclear deal ellie garonne my a advised european governments as the gene c.p.o. way was being negotiated she's a senior policy fellow with the european council on foreign relations and she joins me tonight from london aliens good to have you on the show the announcement by iran to abandon that that 1st limit on the enrichment of uranium tell me how significant is that. well the stats i have seen from iran so far have been very managed calculated escalations on the need care for up file 1st we had iran increasing beyond the stock casks under the queen and by face margins as the international atomic energy agency verified a few days ago and this week that the same international body has indeed verified that iran h

finds itself in a difficult position with iran like the e.u. it wants to keep tensions low and save the iranian nuclear deal the j c p o 8 but it also wants to keep its close alliance with the u.s. which has walked away from the deal and has hit iran with tough economic sanctions the u.s. department of defense believes the british tank incident reinforces its argument for an international naval task force in the gulf to protect commercial shipping threats to international freedom of navigation require an international solution says a statement from u.s. central command tensions in one of the world's most important shipping channels have risen again chalons al-jazeera london. and the u.s. 5th fleet has said is working closely with the british royal navy to defend the faith of commerce and freedom of navigation through the region al-jazeera has been monitoring reaction in the iranian capital. diplomatic relations between iran and the united kingdom have been suffering for many months now and the events of the last 24 hours will not help that situ

iran having a nuclear bomb. and then and in a result in addition to that heightening economic sanctions which the foreign minister of iran shots in new york just a couple days ago called economic terrorism so the big fear of is that both countries will be running into a war that none of them really wants or corresponded oversell with on the story forged in washington tonight all over thank you. well tonight perhaps even trump thinks he's gone too far he's told reporters that he's not happy with the ugly chanting at a campaign rally in north carolina from yesterday and that he disagrees with it trump repeated his attack on a group of democratic congresswoman at the rally women that he is branded as unpatriotic and that's when the chanting started echoing racist tweets by trump posted earlier this week but in the cold light of the next day the u.s. leader tried to distance himself from what happened. it would have been a normal day at the white house if not for the events of the night before but as such the only q

bush if example you know you know iran has different needs iran has different needs to enrich uranium 3.6 or 7 to 5 percent the fuel is used in power plants to fuel ready power plant like bush air 20 percent almost 20 percent enriched uranium is needed for the tehran research reactor and other research reactors that iran has there isn't a bill and remind people i.s.o. iran is working on various types of. sorry remind us what this recession is a full on others and oh yeah poses i mean they're the research reactor yeah the research to react there in tehran produces radio is its ups for medicine all purposes for diagnosis and treatment of the same as the un for agriculture i mean research about aquaculture elso and medicine iran has you know all plans in order to build such reactors. that are for civil why would anyone in the army if he's just playing on the wire that inherent and want to rob them is that a stick if you like. well here is a point that iran is also working on nuclear propulsion systems and engines for ships they might need 3 percent to 60 percent enriched uranium now sinc

and what iran is capable of doing. he's taken a very hard line of course playing out of the nuclear agreement and being really at odds with his european allies and going it alone in terms of the hardline. those increased sanctions against iran. president trump may well feel as if his action has been the correct course of action when dealing with a nation like iran. peter bowes, our north american corresponded, thank you very much for that analysis. we will have a lot more on what's been happening between iran and the uk and the seizure of the tanker coming up and the seizure of the tanker coming up in the next half—an—hour. aid agencies are calling on the world to speed up its response to the ebola emergency in the democratic republic of congo. more than 1,700 people have already died there and the world health organization has declared an international public health emergency. vaccination programmes are ongoing in the city of goma where a priest died from ebola this week. 0ur correspondent anne soy is there. goma,

war against iran." what does it mean to be engaged in economic war? economic war targets civilians. military war targets military personnel, and civilians are sometimes collateral damage. but an economic war targets civilians. secretary pompeo has said, we want the iranian people to change their government. so, putting these two together, that means the united states is terrorising iranian people in order to achieve political objectives. that's the classical definition of terrorism. the americans have said consistently, mike pompeo has said that their goal is not regime change, "we want to change iran's behaviour so that it behaves like a normal country," that is what he has said. mike pompeo — iran is a normal country, the us is not a normal country. which of normal country violates every international agreement? imf, nafta, the paris climate convention, unesco, the human rights council — is that what you call normal? let me put to you, though, you say your country is suffering from the sanctions.

trump administration is warning iran to step back. >> iran should not confuse american restraint with a lack of american resolve. >> despite these warnings, iran is moving further from the 2015 nuclear agreement. it says it's enriching uranium at 4.5%, higher than the 3.67% allowed in the deal. the state department official allows calls this an attempt to extort the international community iran is threatening to escalate. >> yes, yes. if 20% enrichment is an option. even enrichment higher than that is an option. if these are all options but at the appropriate time. >> analysts say while iran is moving closer, these levels are still below weapons grade. last week iran breached the agreements limit on stockpile during a period of they want britain, france, and germany to help iran circumvent u.s. sanctions. if not, iran says it will keep breaching the terms every 60 days. >> if the remaining countries in the deal, especially the europeans, do not fulfill their commitment seriously and do not do anything more than talk, iran's third step will be harder, more steadfast, and somehow stunni

and iran were iran in the u.k. is that what's escalating or is it iran in the west that we're seeing escalate now i would see the west and around as a major player is escalating already and we've seen a continuous escalation for the last couple of weeks it's a strategy as a magic wall for. their raining on the threshold of the night below t. they deny it to be involved another time. to plant the bombs 2 weeks ago so all they intend to spread the instability and insecurity here and try to target u.s. interests or western interests and you know they claim that the reports by the royal navy or an example of fake news for example we heard today from the foreign secretary in the u.k. mr han calling for diem escalation but the ukase potential new prime minister boris johnson i'm sure you've heard of him he chose a slightly more aggressive stance today take a listen well i think it's very important that all vessels u.k. flag or otherwise are able to use international waters in the in the persian gulf and elsewhere with th

it made a sharp turn north towards iran. its last reported position, a few miles south—west of an iranian island. we will respond in a way thatis island. we will respond in a way that is considered but robust. we are absolutely clear that if the situation isn't resolved quickly, there will be serious consequences. a second tanker, the mv mesdar, was also detained but only briefly. it is now making its way to a port in saudi arabia but concerns over the safety of shipping are rising. saudi arabia but concerns over the safety of shipping are risingli don't safety of shipping are rising.” don't think the raising of further tensions is in anybody's interests. we call for caution, de—escalation, so we call for caution, de—escalation, so that we can restore some sort of confidence and security in the busy waters in the region say that ships and seafarers can carry on doing their business supporting global trade. earlier this month, royal marines detained a tanker full of iranian oil off gibraltar. it was accused of smuggli

forced to go and read listen iran is iran is it meant for you to show up on a t.v. show so if i can in such a case that i mean it how it's going to how it's a lot of people would agree that you know it was relatively relatively calm voltages until you know the u.s. unilaterally pulled out of the nuclear deal and then there's the escalation just kind of went from bad to worse what would you say to that. absolutely untrue of the theory and regime is complicit and are guilty of the death of a half a 1000000 syrian civilians since 2012 they are being illegitimate regime in syria the shahrazad regime they're doing the same in yemen they've taken over they have wholesale taken over lebanon they are involved in the drug trade from latin america they are propping up they helping to prop up along with russia. nicolas maduro in venezuela they've been a destabilizing force in more and more aggressive ever since president trungpa started to push back and said we're not going to tolerate the a violation of this agreement and agreement that really was never worth the paper that i

to try to get the eu to move with united states, the eu leadership is moving against iran. what trump needs to do is welcome talks with macron and in return ask the european lead toaster reinforce rouhani and the leadership that we are open to a negotiation, we want a better deal. what is that better deal? well, shouldn't have the timelines that the initial deal, we want a permanent rejection of nukes from iran and we want verification, real verification and then finally, we want to link this to them stopping the exporting of violence, stop the terrorism, so i would argue this, when you lay that out for the international community to say why is the united states doing this, what are they endeavoring to do, they don't want iran to have nukes or export terrorism, most people are going to be like, that seems pretty reasonable, what does iran wants, iran wants to continue to do what they are doing and economically benefit, who is right here? we are right. >> and you say that those points you layed out, does that call for colonel scrapping of the current nuclear deal or revising

warns iran of serious consequences after iran seized a british oil tanker and emergency committee meets in london with the government saying that the situation must be resolved quickly iran's revolutionary guard says the stand that imperio has been taken to a port on its territory also coming up germany commemorates the final and best known attempt to assassinate adult hitler we'll have a special report on how some of his inner circle conspired to kill him 75 years ago today and launched their own lives as a result. and the dutch supreme court finds the state partly to blame for the stripper needs a massacre the court rules that dutch troops failed in their duty to protect 350 muslim victims from bosnian serb forces just 8000 men and boys were murdered in the massacre of a quarter of a century ago. i'm married to evanston it's good to have you with us. britain has advised u.k. ships to avoid the strait of hormuz for quote an interim period the warning comes after iran seized a british flag tanker on friday iran says its troops boarded the stand and pair o. after it collided with a fishi

and iran. and a men's final for the ages at wimbledon after nearly 5 hours of ripping tennis novak djokovic beats roger federer to taste of victory at the all england club 45th time. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program of the 75 people have been killed and more than a 1000000 displaced by monsoon flooding in 3 south asian states many more people are missing nepal northern india and bangladesh have all been affected by the catastrophic conditions authorities also warn of a looming health crisis water borne disease. a deadly bomb soon season in much of south asia. in nepal the off the moth of mess floods and deadly landslides for the displaced there's more rain to come. nearby in bangladesh it's the same story dangerous flooding and mudslides. and for the hinge of refugees from neighboring mine the rain and landslides have washed away thousands of hillside shelters leaving several dead. and. we're having problems during this rainy season getting food the kids are suffering from disease the toi

putting the prsure on iran. u.k. is planning a european naval force to protect ships in the strait of hormuz after iran ed a british tanker ther thousands take to the streets in puerto rico as the governor says he will not seek reelection.ot esters want him to resign now. plus, india is aiming to become onthe fourth nation to lanhe moon,ge with a neneration of space fans cheering from e >> i'm very happy that india is launching chandrayaan-2, and i am proud to be india laura: for those watching on pbs and around the globe, welcome to "world news america." tensions in the strait of hormuz are growing by the day. that is the narrow waterway that 20% of the world's oil supply paes through. today britain's government warns that it is planning a european naval force to protect shipping there. this comes as iran seized a british tanker last week. ouchief international correspondent lyse doucet reports. lyse: first images of the men seized at sea, the crew of the stena impero. images released by iran. is this what life is l

fire so to iran whatsoever. who the rebels in yemen's say they have launched another attack on an airport in saudi arabia 9 people injured when airports in the us see a region was targeted not far from saudi arabia's border with yemen yemen's who the rebels have launched repeated it strikes on saudi arabia which is not a coalition against the group for almost 4 years iraq's prime minister abdul mufti has ordered the country's powerful paramilitary groups to be integrated into the armed forces they've been ordered to comply with the orders by the end of the month the prime minister says offices and checkpoints of work by militia groups must be shut down currently most of iraq's paramilitary groups are believed to be battered by iran. so those were the headlines the news continues on al-jazeera after witness statement after watching. talk to al jazeera. we ask problems and besides the instability is corruption we listen bin ziad and bins are pushing the united states and president trump into conflict we meet with

it goes to show you, i was right about iran. >> the president was right about iran. what happens next is important for a number of runs. one, the straits of hormuz is the single most important artery for the world's oil supply and the most narrow point, the strait is only 21 miles wide with shipping lanes of two miles in either direction. that is how precise you have to be. it is bordered to the north by iran and on the south by the uae in oman. that skinny piece there. that connects all of the oil-rich gulf states to the indian ocean. because of the president's pro energy policies as he mentioned today, we are now less reliant on middle eastern oil than at any time in modern history. let me add this. this has been the straits of hormuz, the most strategically important venue for the free-flow of oil at market prices. of course, oil represents the life blood of every economy. since donald trump has been president for the first time in 75 years, america is energy independent. we're now officially a net exporter of energy. it is less strategically important those strai

they are allowing iran to do exploits. they a re really allowing iran to do exploits. they are really hurting now because trump had seized and ceased to recognise that agreement and they are casting around and thrashing around trying to show, look, if he did not come up with a good and not an agreement with a good and not an agreement with us, and let us expert things, we are able to stop and cut your trade routes and i'm afraid that's is why this is happened. it does not mean know that you cannot look after your own ships and people. bearing in mind there is no free press in iran, cani in mind there is no free press in iran, can i read you a press release from the news agency. it says, that the tanker, it was seized for not observing the regulations. the british tanker shut down its gps system, contrary to marine laws and regulations and instead of passing through the entranceway industry departments, it was going through the exits, which could have caused accidents with other vessels, it said that it's also been seized because the tanker ignored warnings by iran. the

iran's violations of the era of the iran nuclear deal of the j.c.b. away although iran has broken what 2 times and says that it will do it again in 60 days how much longer do you think europe will be able to look the other way so today also striking that used foreign policy chief said that those steps were insignificant that they were all reversible and what i hear from analysts is. they're all trying to get over the finish line to get to the u.n. general assembly in september when everybody can sit face to face and perhaps find a way around this you know anything can happen that's the problem with this conflict is there are so many places that can get out of control and these these little acts of provocation by tehran they are little acts aren't they they're not meant to spiral out of control but they're meant to i mean maybe if you maybe see this differently they're meant to make sure that europe's attention is not diverted that's exactly what it's all about this is high stakes diplomacy all of the acts are reversible or deniable the problem is that

and iran this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program on iran cone an iranian old friend is that the center of a growing international dispute british marines boarded and detained the ship. as it was sailing in. a british territory on spain's south coast the u.k. believes it was violating european union sanctions by carrying iranian oil to syria spain says it was the united states that ordered the vessel be stopped iran condemned what it called an illegal interception and summoned the british ambassador to tehran the u.s. and iran have been engaged in a war of words for months as washington precious tehran to renegotiate the 2015 nuclear deal this action the rose from information giving the gibraltar government reasonable grounds to believe that the vessel the grace one was acting in breach of european union sanctions against syria in fact we have reason to believe that the grace one was carrying its shipments of crude oil to the ban yes refinery in syria that refinery is the property of an entity that is

this is news live from berlin tensions rising again in the gulf as iran seizes a british oil tanker iran's revolutionary guard says these stand out in peril has been taken to an iranian port for just government versions the committee has now gone into session the u.s. government accuses iran of tory violence. also coming up the dutch supreme court finds a state partly to blame for these massacre the dutch court rules that troops failed in their duty to protect 315 votes from victims from bosnian serb forces 8000 men and boys were murdered in the massacre quarter of a century ago. i must say because a lot of this is still developing what we know as you said stan impair oh this is a ship that was heading to saudi arabia is a massive oil tanker about 50000 tons it was being directed north towards iran the company the swedish own company owns the ship has acknowledged that that it was redirected that it actually is the word attacked it mentions several small craft boats and also a helicopter. we know that. the revolutionary guards have actually released a statement the iranian revolutionary gu

out of the iran nuclear deal even though to iran was meeting its commitments new sanctions swifty followed. and i jump olten trumps national security advisor has long wanted regime change in iran and israel void by the trump administration support also wants to rein in iran's growing influence in the middle east. iran recently has been threatening israel's destruction it should remember that these planes can reach anywhere in the middle east including iran. the european union hopes to salvage the deal but iran's position looks increasingly precarious. are for more on this i'm joined by our e.u. correspondent teri schultz going to do you. so we know that france's president micron he sent in his top envoy to tehran today what is he hoping to achieve. well brant the goal here is really not in dispute nobody not the u.s. not europe not china or russia wants iran to get a nuclear weapon so that's not the problem here the issue is how do you restrain tehran and right now the europeans feel very much that the nuclear deal which they have stuck to which the u.s. has has withdrawn from is the best

iran accuses britain of piracy here. this tanker laden with iran's oil was seized by britain onjuly 11th for allegedly violating sanctions on sales to syria. iran warned there would be paid back. its top diplomat took to twitter to accuse britain of colluding in what he called the us‘s "economic terrorism", a reference to its crippling sanctions. today in tehran, an iranian spokesman had a clear message. translation: to all the countries calling on iran to release the tanker, we ask them to tell britain the same thing. but this crisis is bigger than boats. there is nothing wrong with providing better security for shipping in these straits but that doesn't necessarily get to the issue at hand. i think iran is feeling cornered and will do everything they can to lash out without provoking enough that it causes a military response. it is hard to say what's next. britain's new prime minister may chart a different course in these troubled waters, moving closer to the us, but there will need to be a deal to free this ship and

and other news from iran the french foreign ministry says iran's detained a friend who iranian research. has more from paris. well the french foreign ministry has confirmed that free adult car franco irena in research are based here in paris has been arrested by iranian authorities now what the french foreign ministry say is that they are in touch with a radian authorities in order to try and gain more information about adult karr about the conditions of her arrest and also make sure that she has full consular access which it seems has not been the case so far now adult call is a researcher with paresis prestigious seal s'pore university she researches and writes about iran and iranian society and so there's still a question over when she was arrested that's still not clear there are some reports suggesting that she was arrested in june and i said he spoke to a professional colleague of hers also a research on iran here in paris who said that she had not had any news from model car for at least 2 weeks so that suggests that perhaps end of june beginning of july maybe the sort of period

was a byproduct of the iran iraq. and its past presidents are anything to go by to rand shouldn't hold its breath i'll never apologize for the united states of america ever i don't care what the facts are ready to reconcile iran helped organize the release of u.s. hostages in lebanon but this goodwill gesture wasn't reciprocated by 995 even harsher u.s. sanctions were being lined up for iran formally announcing my intention to cut off all trade and investment with iran the 2nd round of reproach men came shortly after 911 i was. ready and. as a. as a muslim and as an iranian before you again express my deepest sympathy. and be to all the great people across candlelight vigils were held to mourn the victims but the diplomatic progress didn't last long for months. came president bush's axis of evil speech which included iran this is a regime that has something to hide from the civilized world. states like these and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil. finally in 2015 iran signed a deal with the internationa

iran is supporting its erstwhile allies. what i think is completely exaggerated is the extent to which iran was able to use the normalisation of relations as a result of thejcpoa, in your phrase, to ramp this up. in my view, i understand why — exactly why iran has been doing that. it's because it's weak militarily, very weak. it spends one fifth of what saudi arabia spends on armaments, an infinitesimal amount compared to the united states, and it's using its neighbourhood as its form of defence. now, in my view, since most of the iranians are desperate for a normalisation of the relationships, that had we settled the nuclear deal, then those other issues 00:08:41,736 --> 2147483051:41:05,583 would have been subject, could have 2147483051:41:05,583 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 been subject, to negotiation. your book makes me wonder, too. you've written this book understanding iran and why it distrusts britain. it's a fascinating book, and indicates that the links go, with the country, very deep diplomatically. you know foreign

warns iran of serious consequences after iran sees to british oil tanker and emergency committee meets in london with the government saying the situation must be quickly iran's revolutionary guard says the stand that imperiled has been taken to a port on its territory. also coming up germany commemorates the final and best known attempt to assassinate adult hitler we'll have a special report on how some of his inner circle conspired to kill him 75 years ago today they lost their own lives as a result. and the dutch supreme court finds the state partly to blame for the massacre the court ruled that dutch troops failed in their duty to protect 350 muslim victims from bosnian serb forces 8000 men and boys were murdered in the massacre of the order of a century ago. i married i haven't seen welcome to the program. iran has seized a british tanker in the strait of hormuz stand ampera was intercepted by iranian vessels and forced to sail to a court in iran iranian soldiers also briefly boarded a 2nd british own tanker mess star before allowing it to continue his journey is the latest in a se

that's a good thing, but then he also said to iran, he was asked about iran, he says iran better be careful. and then he called the obama agreement foolish. now, i want to ask you and get your take on -- he was referring to of course the 2015 iran nuclear deal which the president a year ago pulled out. that's what iran is claiming, kicked everything off that's happening now, saying the u.s. pulled out so all bets are off. how do you see it, and what should the president do next? >> well, the reality is iran is really hurting from the sanctions that are being applied. and there's enormous potential unrest in iran. that's why you saw those attacks on the tankers. that's why you saw all of those incidents in the persian gulf. i think we are heading towards a series of non-violent confrontations because iran is going to be continuing to test the president, and at the same time sending out signals that it's willing to talk again if there's a new president, but they don't think they are going to get any kind of a deal from this president. i think iran is going to be a major issue in the 2020 elec

job in south was referring to donald trump's threat to obliterate iran if iran attacks anything american and when asked about the possibility of war the u.s. need to boast that it would be a quick. iraq which we know shares a border with iran and host thousands of american troops has voiced its alarm over the stand off the iraqi president said his country will not be used as a staging ground for any kind of military action. the american troops the coalition troops in iraq again at the invitation of the iraqi government for the specific exclusive mission of fighting isis we do not want to be a staging post for any hostile action against any of our neighbors including iran however the us secretary of state mike compare claims that everyone has a full responsibility for the. americas and everything it can to deescalate if there is conflict if there is war if there is a kinetic activity it will be because the iranians made that choice of course europeans have their own grievances when it comes to donald trump and nato but when it comes to iran they sure some of these concerns or alleged conc

of oil iran wants a unilateral u.s. sanctions lifted it wants to sell oil on the market european countries including the united kingdom are said that they don't agree with the unilateral u.s. sanctions iranian government officials say that the british seizure of oil tanker in gibraltar completely contradicts that stand and shows that the u.k. and other european capitals are simply taking the american leave when it comes to practical execution of the sanctions regime on the international stage zain thank you very much for that same following all the developments from the iranian capital for that q. and a before the incident in the strait of hormuz donald trump had been ratcheting up pressure on iran suggesting that sanctions would soon be increased substantially he's accusing the iranians of secretly and russian grainy and for years they have denied this during an emergency meeting of the international atomic energy agency in vienna john holl is there i think the most important thing to come out of this meeting at the i.

on the other is iran. at its narrowest point, it is only 21 miles across, about 35 km, but a fifth of the world's oil exports pass through this narrow channel. our chief international correspondent lyse doucet has more. first images of the men seized at sea, the crew of the stena impero — indians, russians, a latvian, a filipino, images released by iran. is this what life is like on board now, or is this just for show? a crew member heard saying, "don't look at the camera". and this photograph looks a lot different — the crew in a corner, an iranian official in charge. iran's flag flies here now, this ship suddenly seized on friday in a dramatic raid. iran's islamic revolutionary guards descending to the deck. a british frigate in the gulf was too far away that day to stop them. hms montrose will soon be joined by another warship at the end of this month. and britain has now announced plans for a maritime protection force, led by europe, separate from the us‘s proposed force, and its more aggressive