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Huge protests are planned for here in san juan puerto rico and all over the island actually organizers saying they expect hundreds of thousands of people it was planning to be the biggest protest so far since this crisis began the biggest political crisis this island is ever seen and so up to see on monday how big these protests are to see how much of a game changer this is i will tell you though having been here for a week and talking to everyone i was asking people even before this saying if he said he would not run for reelection but wanted to stay in power would that be enough everyone has said absolutely not so i dont think this will change much on the street i think most people are still going to be out protesting wanting him out of power because thats what theyve been telling us all week they said they will accept nothing less than his full resignation and on this message that he posted on facebook unexpectedly on sunday evening he made it very clear that while he will step down from the presidency of his Political Party the new Progressive Party and while he will not seek reelection november of 2020 he said he will not step down as governor and i think most people here are simply not going to be satisfied with that. Still to come on aljazeera. A parliamentary election puts ukraines new president on course to consult his power. South africas president challenges a report spy a corruption watchdog claiming its fundamentally flawed. Hello there but a break in the weather the last couple days across more eastern and southern areas of china theyre all still theres often a thunderstorms that are quite heavy at times you can see it on the bright white clouds however we have got more rain in the 4 calls of course is sweet and from the north on the west. At this my you buy you from these plum rains that you talk about of course these and you raise new facts but in further into the south and the west on tuesday meanwhile at about 10 hong kong 32 degrees celsius but we have got more cloud to the west 36. 00 to be celsius there in hanoi and then monday further to the south across Southeast Asia we will see some rain showers but not too bad really across much of borneo the south like to show in fairly case guys in the last hours the rain is to the west pretty much in line again with that cloud it does spread further tools the west across some of the peninsula and easy to the north not much of thailand visible or indeed vietnam or come back to you but to time which is the bit below in singapore with a high of 29 and the same across in kuala lumpur india it is a turn of the south to see the heavy monsoon rains and some warnings in place state by state it has been clear across the north and the northeast just a scattering of showers monday to raise you can see much more prevalent across areas in the south it stays like that on tuesday i have 30 celsius in mumbai. Whether sponsored by qatar or. Aljazeera wound close to roger stone to become the trial was. Used to lie on their expertise with snakes. But now performed their traditional music and down to adapt and survive the modern internet. Rather stands the dancers on aljazeera. This is al jazeera quick reminder of the top stories for you this hour the acase Prime Minister to resign may is to hold an emergency meeting over the british floods oil tankers seized by iran in the strait of hormuz the ship and its crew are detained in the a rainy imports of bonds are opposites. Process have turned violent again in hong kong with white Police Firing tear gas and bullets at cosmo crecy protest says hundreds of sizes 6 in the streets the latest in more than a month of demonstrations in parts of ricos embattled governor and eyes he boards be seeking reelection next year but hes refusing to resign as follows days of demonstrations over leaked messages showing him insulting Women Political opponents im victims of hurricane maria. The exit polls show the party of ukraines new president float in the southern ski has won a snap parliamentary Election Form a comedian cold the votes after his landslide victory in april as parliament was packed with his opponents mohamed to toe reports. That you know these elections how president will admit his alinsky is fast Major Political test the vote was initially set for october but zaleski the comedian tom politician dismissed parliament in his integration speech in may and called for paul sicking us traum monday for his 7th of the people pitted to pursue what he says would be an Ambitious Program of reforms of the cosmos with the 1st time voters in the capital kiev could barely hide the end side and about spitting in the elections this president. Procedure was clear for me even though i never voted before but nevertheless its funny to take part in the elections when you have the vote and you know that your vote will matter taking into account what is happening in the country its also very cool exit polls released moments of the voting and that predicted victory for the lewinsky 70 of the people with over 40 percent of the votes not quite an outright majority teach it to be the chaos he we are grateful to the people of ukraine for their support thank you there was applause the people of ukraine for their great trust in our party and a servant of the people and i am allowed to say servant to the people you see theres no more campaigning im now campaigning only for ukraine because zelinsky house sadies most likely candidate for Coalition Partner in parliament is that recently formed a whole host of voice pertti of ukrainian rockstar c. V. S. To mark a tree i vote for the future. I vote for volleyball because i think that all the mornings. Already show the results when they hear we are all. All of france at this point so we need to change but its going. To change the law you presently we need to change in order to make real change the up arent willingness to place ukraine in the harms of mobius politicians analysts say is symptomatic of the publics discontent with establishments ukrainians in the majority they do not trust in old politicians and those new coming to power with the president and with the rest of Political Parties they are on experience and it will be is serious test definitely it will not be easy work for presidency lenski and for his majority or for his call the. Most all of the country was able to take part in this not elections because we are still remain under russian control and influence. Would want all the force issues since he will have to resolve now that his party has a formidable presence in parliament Mohamed El Al jazeera. Japans Prime Minister shinzo abyei has claimed victory in the upper house election but its obvious when it was not enough for him to be able to lift restrictions on japans armed forces he needed at least 2 thirds of the votes in order to carry out his constitutional reform plans on the unthinkable market stability or chaos this is what ive been appealing to the public about the results show that the public want us to make it balance points on policies under a stable Political Base and to proceed on diplomacy to protect state interests that islam has more from tokyo. He thanked the people for supporting his political and diplomatic agenda so he understands that the people are supporting amending the course and constitution but many of the people actually supported him because they were looking for stability. But i missed that i be has been office for 6 on the half years and he indeed he brought back stability to the political scene in japan after what socalled revolving door politics in which 6 Prime Ministers came to office within 3 and a half years many issues in this elections were economy and social issues so people. Didnt actually give him a 3rd for a zation to amend the constitution but hes going to push forward with his long long time dream of changing or amending this constitution written which hasnt been changed for over 70 years since the end of the 2nd world war but hes going to need the 164 the magic number the majority 2 thirds majority in the upper house and still his about 11 seats short of that number of. South africas president says he will challenge in courts a report by the countrys corruption watchdog on friday Cyril Ramaphosa was accused of deliberately misleading parliaments a Bicycle Campaign contribution bounce around the polls or has dismissed the findings against him as fundamentally flawed but several an accuracy for me to miller has the latest from pretoria. President has responded to the report by the Public Protector saying that its fundamentally flawed and not based on fact and this is after he responded to some of our questions earlier this year and according to his statements hes released he says that its unfortunate that shes decided to to issue the strip or to given that he had concerns around it he has said that he is now seeking an urgent judicial review and it will be up to the courts to decide if this report stands its also worth remembering that the Public Protector has had a record of having some of her reports overturned by the courts given that there were issues around the legality and perhaps some of the foundations that these reports were written on the president says this is the case once again one is not dealt specifically with the accusations leveled against him by the Public Protector that he was that he lied when he responded to a parliamentary question around the donation his campaign when he was running for president of the African National congress when that campaign took place but he said that the courts will now decide the Public Protector had to prescribe some remedial action in that the report should go to the Parliaments Ethics Committee for review and possibly investigation and also the president should be investigated for Money Laundering she says she has evidence that this is the case amounting to perhaps 28000000. 00 the president says that the report shouldnt stand as it is and instead the court should decide what happens next. German Airlines Live tons is resuming flights to egypts capital cairo wont British Airways will continue to suspend operations the be a ban will last a week to a life or a security assessments airlines given the details about what prompted the move egypts financial Tourism Sector was already under pressure after a series of attacks on visitors. Humanitarian aid groups Doctors Without Borders and s. O. S. Mediterranean say they will resume migrant search and rescue missions off the coast of libya the groups of also launched a new vessel the ocean viking they were forced to stop the missions in december because of what they describe as obstruction by some European Countries libyas coast is a main departure point for african migrants trying to reach europe. Increasing numbers of kenyans are using mobile phone apps to borrow money that becomes cheaper and easier to borrow hundreds of thousands of kenyans around saying up on the governments credit blacklists some companies are being accused of using illegal methods to lure people into debts catherine so reports from nairobi. This is a hub of Financial Technology in africa so firey com kenyas leading mobile Network Launched the 1st mobile phone based loan system in partnership with some banks 5 years ago since then more lenders have joined the easy access loans markets do what it does it provides somebody who. Wants to do business so the hostler segment able to take a loan and be able to extend the business it looks at what we call. The ladies you can go to the market or to the for that they take a loan at 4 am go to market buy products and services go to a construction site cook food sell it and actually be able to make a profit from the business and repay the loan but here is a problem many kenyans are often aware of heat and charges Interest Rates up to 200 percent and what it means if they dont trip a many people. Think for a minute but the basic. Principle for the business is other students they use the money to place bets on Sports Events hoping to make a big summit meeting that they struggle to pay back the loans and end up being blacklisted by the countrys credit crunch. Comic conic Joseph Cohen Jaros one of them he took out different loans with a 100. 00 from several digital lenders 2 years ago he was unable to repay the loans and now nearly 200. 00 because of that hes been blacklisted by the credit traffords bureau. I have to. Buy food and took my children to school with money get businesses not been doing good even if i get 100. 00 of the end of the month with all the responsibilities paying but my lawn is a little disappointed priorities. 54 percent of people polled recently by the central bank and kenya bureau of statistics said their financial status had wasnt the poll also indicates a Credit Reference Bureau has blacklisted more than 400000 boras some 4 defaulting bass littlest 2. 00. Back of the garage and his friends discuss how hard life has become most are repaying several loans some are on the block least all tell us that even if the Loan Companies have helped them in times of need they still feel and trapped index cats in saudi aljazeera nairobi. Pakistans government says pledged tens of millions of dollars to help promote tourism in the north for years the security situation in the region has made it a no go area but thats changing thanks to polo the hope explains. Welcome to the chandeleur pass the socalled roof of the world home to some spectacular views on the world famous poly festival that is central to the pakistans governments plan to attract tourists back to the area just like this polo match has been played here since 1036. 00 formally there are 2 places and ballister there are traditional rivals its almost like the cricket match of pakistan and india and while polo is known as the sport of kings this version of the game is freestyle mountain pole are no umpires he rules and played on the highest poller ground in the world at 3700. 00 metres above sea level but. Its very difficult to play at such High Altitude not only for me but also for our horses but our love for post boards makes a stronger to withhold such kind of pressure. In recent years scenes like this made tourist reluctant to visit the chandeleur Valley Police seemingly ill equipped to deal with the security situation however the historical feud between the northern tribes of gil get and to throw out is not going far into the polish failed whats more over 31000000. 00 has been pledged to the area to encourage more foreign and local visitors more to get out or its time for this area where polo is played is very scenic and beautiful and we want everyone to come here and enjoy were with pakistan loneliest pakistan if the numbers at this years festival were anything to go by the tourists seem to be flocking back the local authorities hoping that this sport and the surveillance are linked to pakistans past can be the key to a more positive future role pathic al jazeera. This is al jazeera and these are the headlines u. K. s Prime Minister to resign may is to hold an emergency meeting over the british flags all tankers seized by iran in the strait of hormuz an iranian flag is now flying over the captured vessel the ship and its crew are detained in the iranian ports of bands or of us process of sound violence again in hong kong with white Police Firing tear gas and rubber bullets at prodemocracy demonstrators hundreds of thousands took part in the latest in more than a month of rallies and they say chinas efforts to undermine their freedoms. Puerto ricos embattled governor has announced he wont be seeking reelection next year but ricardo resale refused to give in supertaster is calling for his immediate resignation hes being accused of racism homophobia and corruption. If you got the will it up unless you own a significant sector of the population has been protesting for days i am aware of the dissatisfaction and the uneasiness that you feel your right to express yourself will always be safeguarded by our constitution to which puerto rican i have heard you and i hear you today i have made mistakes and i have apologized i am a man of good that has a great love for my island and for everyone. The u. S. Military is accusing a venezuela vice or jets of flying dangerously close to one of its intelligence planes u. S. Southern command released what it says is a video of the encounter venezuela says the incident happens in its airspace but the u. S. Denies this saying it was an instant arsenal skys washington doesnt recognize venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and is supporting an Opposition Leader who is trying to oust him from power. Exit polls show the party of ukraines you president for them is there in ski has won a snap of parliamentary election the former comedian called the votes after his landslide victory in april because parliament was packed with his opponents he wanted to secure a greater mandate to push through promised reforms and japans Prime Minister shinzo rb has claimed victory in an opera house election but up is when was not large enough for him to be able to lift destructions on japans Armed Forces Well those are the headlines the news continues here in aljazeera after inside story stay with us. Our flags of convenience and Inconvenient Truth for the shipping industry the registers the Iranian Oil Tanker seized by britains armed forces and dozens of other ships to why are they sailing under a foreign flag and should the practice be stopped this is inside story. Thanks. Hello and welcome to the program im dan you navigate the threat of military action between iran and the u. K. Oversees the oil tankers as provoking a debate about a common practice in the shipping industry many vessels are owned by companies in one country but registered in another an example is the iranian tanker detained by britains Royal Marines a couple of weeks ago the British Government said the grace one was stopped near gibraltar for carrying oil to syria in violation of e. U. Sanctions like around 7000. 00 ships worldwide the tanker was sailing under the flag of panama but the panamanian say they removed the super tanker from their shipping register 2 months ago and their d. Registering another ship which disappeared from tracking maps in the strait of hormuz last week well under International Law every commercial ship must be registered in a specific country many ship owners choose a foreign country to register and a practice known as flag of convenience the flag state is responsible for a say. The inspections and working conditions of the crew ships registered under flags of convenience can often reduce operating costs avoid regulations and hire cheap cruise panama has the Worlds Largest shipping registry followed by liberia and the Marshall Islands critics though say the practice allows substandard regulations and makes a hard to hold ship owners to account and some shipping is involved in crimes such as smuggling weapons or illegal drugs. Lets bring in our panelists for this discussion via skype from kingston in the canadian province of ontario we have who chang has any ari hes a professor of International Relations on Security Issues at the university in all mon joining us from london is phil diak on hes a Maritime Security analyst also a partner at the Maritime Security Risk Consultancy dryad global and over in new jersey via skype we have Lawrence Brennan he teaches maritime law at Fordham University thanks very much for joining us on inside story and welcome to all a few fill if i may start with you over in london is it fair to say that part of that cheaper and easier process of registration in another country doesnt mean fewer regulations for these ships and recent incidents in the gulf are now shining a spotlight on certain issues. I think its fair to say that the industry as a whole has improved its standards considered rare over the last decade or so and most of the prominent flags of convenience are all signatories to the the best and highest standards the thing to remember is that a flag of convenience is ineffective effectively a business and the businesses are trying to attract their customers and we talk about panama being the largest so what it offers is a set of regulation and standards and as you mentioned every vessel has to ascribe to a flag therefore its trying to attract as much business to itself now they may all ascribe to the highest on the safe or environmental for ship and safety and welfare and some of the areas youve already mentioned and whilst the flag of convenience in this case how them are is the largest there are others also vying for business so im not sure its fair to say that it is a way of avoiding issues but each vessel owner will discard decide based on their own Business Metrics as to which flag they will ascribe to. Over to laurens brenin just break down for us if you may when s. Merchant ship registers with a country known as were saying as its flying state what does this actually mean in terms of how much oversight and jurisdiction the country has over the vessel. The country has over administrative oversight over the vessel the manning the crew the safety and security regulations. But not to the exclusion of other nations. Depending on the circumstances the location of the ship other nations especially port states have the right to inspect and regulate flags of convenience can be of high quality and some are not of the same quality and as my colleague noted earlier theres been a an improvement but throughout the 1960 s. And seventys most of the major environmental disasters were on tank bessel tankers that were flying plagues of convenience and a lot of those were old ships that could no longer survive after open 90 the exxon valdez disaster the older tankers 25 years and older and the single hull tankers were were taken aside but weve had similar problems to the ones were seeing in the persian gulf strait of hormuz and even the in the gulf go from home on in the 1980 s. In the tank a war involving eram into some extent iraq in the United States where there was war declared on tankers bound for each other the enemy rand would attack it tankers bamf air rack and vice versa ultimately the United States volunteered to represent other nations and damned certain tankers that were being attacked and in fact the kuwaiti tankers were reflagged as u. S. Ships in the late 1980 s. The flag of convenience states are parties to many of the International Treaties there are questions and disputes among the experts as to the ability of those ships to be inspected investigated but a lot of that work is done by classification societies and again some experts will disagree that quest haitian societies are equal in their representation in their skills in the United States. Youre shipping is not a National Society but is the society that does most of the inspection create us wake chips in some port for the u. S. Coast guard but Lloyds Register theres an italian registry of german registry and they have many skilled professional surveyors former captains of ships former chief engineers and licensed professional engineers let me cross over to canada and which i have signed yari so obviously what were hearing from the panelists is that this is a money making industry for countries like panama and liberia who offer this type of service but why do you think countries flock to panama in liberia and why do they register their ships over there as michael mentioned there there are a number of countries who are known to have. Vast majority few issues on their flanks. Gardens and the. Like very arguable there is not that. For a number of issues for example when the americans in the early 1920 s. That they decided to do that was to somehow to to make you detour on their mind. Not on alcohol. Relations that existed during those days disturbed by putin and other countries that see that instruction was that. There are other cases out there that there is a combination. Of Business Model number of companies they would benefit from. A convenience to some august they dont want to get to take this possibility for for 40 ships i mean distaste im talking about this so it combination of reasons. You know came together and. In order to put us in the situation that you are eating now so what do you say vanity fair says that. Which i has on the ari is that a fair system which allows these countries to avoid all sorts of things like taxes inspections and labor laws not necessarily because for example your weight in kind says it is not convenient for the country that loses that that. Is good for the company. Benefiting from the situation its like if for example you. Claim a plane used. By a company in lets say year. Any given country that. Plane comes under the jurisdiction. And who so davie had a unit that used to benefit from despair is it. That that pain in some other cases when there is not such a thing and then that creates this is why he did meant you bought it its really. Become now it came to surface in this context for her country and the rest. Confiscating ships and so forth so that hes in need really to improve even further that i know my colleague mentioned that the situation that youre living in now is much more convenient and much more improve the comparison to the old relations that existed but the reason need really that you review. The deuce you in order to make it very very clear that you each. Isa how as if thats right. And not just the. Convenient convention for the float for your own has for example been a minute registering a number of ships on line you dont even seen those those sheets and that it isas creating a problem. In the past few years in. Government. They did. It big number of those who use it for a number of reasons violation of International Law and so forth and some of those flags everywhere used by Current Events so do this usenet is not fair but in the absence of better after the b. B. C. s ration that we are confronting now and that is not. Clearly an idea that situation fell over to you as our panelist from canada was saying panama has now decided to deregister a number of steps were hearing up to 60 ships over the past few months and that includes the grace one thats the iranian tanker that has been and is still detained as you know in gibraltar by u. K. Authorities to what extent do you think panama is very being pressured to do so at this point and if it is being pressured by whom so the International Chamber shipping monitors the flag states it publishes annually the performance of flag states and the performance is measured in many many categories and is publicly available the purpose of that is to keep accountability amounts of like states for the favor reasons that weve just been discussing now the flex all businesses so theyre going to be concerned about their reputation and their ability to attract business or ships into their registry and therefore if theres a reputational issue such as a vessel that they is deemed to be breaking sanctions and operating a factory illegally then its up to them to really take action and. Clean up their portfolio so in this situation cleaning up portfolio is a regular event but we all see very much aware of this one because this ones in in the news and its very current so the like states they are businesses they want to attract business and be seen to be compliant which most of them on the very large ones are and also those vessels that are registered with those flex states the owners of them the operators of them they also want to be associated with a compliant business or compliant process and registration process so this cleaning up is probably housekeeping that youve seen any business where the regular turnover vessels we just mention about applying online now if youve got a large volume of vessels moving around in terms of their registrations then some extent you know if you or your administration of it and your ability to administer it effectively with inspections which should of course happen every time theres a registration until flagged amongst many things then there will be the situation where perhaps as a lag between when station inspection right so the example given there of applying online you would expect to be caught up eventually to be conform conforming to the process of wresting feels like right lawrence what do you make of this concept of cleaning up and particularly at this point in the context of all the regional tensions as it is likely panama cleaning up or how much pressure do you think panama was under and by whom look to the flag of the iranian ships that they have in the past few months i think theres no dispute that the United States has encouraged panama or the area Marshall Islands and maybe others to take appropriate action to ships that are engaged in improper an unlawful conduct searches smuggling. Trafficking drugs violating sanctions. Such as was done with the early 21900 centuries by the u. S. And british navy in fighting the slave trade one of the important things to realize is the internet. Ashville nature of maritime commerce theres 35. 00 trillion dollars thats good every year in world global trade most of which 80 percent or so goes by sea and the infrastructure ships ports facilities and thats a lot of money its really the driving force of the World Economy oil is a significant part of that its probably the most valuable commodity trade. Where shipowners try to save some money is own crew its coal manning expenses bunkering expenses a small amount and the quality of the ship in the ability to keep the ship in service wanker and with fewer problems is important so its a business competition between competing problems with the managers of a vessel do we repair or ship do we keep it another 2 years do we get rid of it buy a new ship what the economic benefit ok family just family up on that point with you lawrence so clearly there is a big economic angle to this so if a vessel gets d. Flags then the owners of the ships might have to register the ships and their countries and correct me if im wrong here but so what are the economic implications of that. Well the us is a great example we have a thing called the jones act which requires us owned u. S. Flagged u. S. Manned ships to trade between 2 american ports so if you want to bring oil from the u. S. Gulf coast to new jersey you need a u. S. Flagged ship there are some interesting exceptions for cruise ships and passenger liner but if you have a u. S. Crew its probably 3 times the amount of cost now the magic issue that makes all ships equal is insurance and particularly environmental insurance what is the whats the cost of having environmental coverage pollution coverage under the checks and Indemnity Club p. N. I cover and the citizens get a financial responsibility no ship particularly no tanker is going to get into a Court Without having a citizen get a financial responsibility to show that if theres a pollution event theres millions of dollars available to respond to that pollution event and weve seen that historically in the world for the last 60 or 70 years and weve seen some ships break up in and cant get to whats called the port of refuge those are real problems the 1st thing we did at the beginning of the iraqi invasion of kuwait was to make sure that iraq could not use its ships in global trade its tankers and we were particularly concerned that they would use those tankers to cause an environmental disaster so the British Government the ministry the Foreign Ministry and the u. S. State department where i was a conduit as they say in london for my navy duties we arrange for an Order Council and u. S. And british insurers were prohibited from providing marine insurance to iraqi flag ships in 1900 that wasnt the 1st time its done its been done for hundreds of years right and its it continues to be done ok over to canada and when china has a new area what is. This the registration that were seeing by panama is it in your opinion a way to pressure iran to keep pressure on its economy on its oil flow. I think hes part of that that pressure because you dont doesnt have. That china. Use in order to. Or you have to be monitored or. Range. Mentioned our staff. These precious you know for example if you look at the Current Situation there are 2 you know and in chief thats all this talk in britain because they they are not they cannot get fuel. By the brazilians because of the sanctions and consequently that puts a lot of pressure on on to eat any and. Hardly any to sanctions that are imposed on them by Different International entities and so. Stand it any prostitute read on that it makes it it makes you dont even more want to read to. You. Ranting. To you. Issues that ought thats what i made of it but there is no doubt that. Im not used. To men so many other countries precisely because of that kind of relationship that. Taints. Rest of the community that there be any security risks however who are trying to widespread the registering of ships and particularly in hot spot areas like the strait of hormuz. I believe so because then. Like you did the other sheep that now eats. Eats arrested by eat any and it is true about that was the disappeared from the from the radars for sometime last last says they go is so now is in a limbo at least that its you that is also the heart by and among those so that it and then the question is really what you do if you destroy it you are deed and in going to q 2 just simply let it sit in one of the again or so for how long and there who is going to take care of the crew and this so many other questions of that nature and read out for you go use the question of insurance and and its read write a game lets play it out yeah. Lets put that to fail because i see you nodding your head phil ill give you an example this stana imperio which is currently seized by iran for according to iran violating International Maritime law is in fact swedish oh and those on board are india under russian law and in filipino we hear but its the u. K. Flag thats flying that particular ship so is that fly just symbolic or to what extent does the u. K. Now oprah text and to that vessel. So youve just highlighted exactly the murkiness of what is the the oldest form of globalisation International Aspects to shipping so youve got u. K. Registered youve got swedish own youve got those different interested parties of the cargo so it is when it comes to whos got responsibility ultimately iran has an issue as impounded a vessel that has multiple interests normally its the u. K. Flag that sits above all however of course you know weve got a swedish and vessel part and we also go. What you call they say you know there are other parties that are going to feel the impact of the ever on his decision again thats the point before about is this going to happen in the straits of hormuz is to registration process as an a wider scale i dont believe just because its the straits of hormuz thats going to happen but were saying is that pressure applied to stuff like states either by themselves or by external parties to enforce whatever of sanctions or other rules that are being broken and to take action against them so in the case of perhaps the United States putting pressure on panama to take a closer look at vessels that are conducting activities that are regarded as perhaps illegal all counter to certain agendas then yes that we can see the registration processes with all the problems that my colleague has just mentioned with stranded cruise stranded assets to and where do they go in the case of a direct stated iranian vessel it can go back to iran but once its then flagged with an iranian flag what can it do we just heard that its options really are limited at lawrence final word to you do you think that were going to see more deregistration and more the targeting of fleets. Yes i think thats true but theres an important economic issue that is easily confused we have deregistration and the seizures of ships recently and its the general maritime practice ships in court are personified theyre the same as a person so when my client calls up and said that the british flag tanker hit my fishing ship in the strait of hormuz and i have a maritime william and i want you to arrest that ship. There can be an arrest in its a civil process it normally doesnt occur with the Iranian Revolutionary guard launching helicopters and small boats its usually an order from a judge and then it mad trying to court and its brought up by a civil officer the marshal or in some other country the sheriffs right now in a case in a case like the one we saw or involving stana pirro. That would have been done in a telephone pole between the lawyers or representatives of the fish boat and in the tanker and they would have said hey my fish broke and he had your tankers fault you owe me a 20000 dollars 100000 dollars a 1000000. 00 the owner of the tank would say i dont want my ship arrested anywhere but particularly here and now my insurance will be happy to give to you a document a sick piece of security a letter of undertaking a promise to pay a certain amount on settlement or final judgment an appeal ok that gets the around the world all the time theres a confusion in the world now between sanctions and simple civil rights all right on that note ill have to leave it there we thank you very much to all of my guests which i have any ari show the icon and Laurence Brennan thanks very much for joining us and thanks for watching the show you can see the program again any time by visiting our website aljazeera dot com you can have further the fasten by going to our Facebook Page thats facebook dot com forward slash a. 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A Radio Exchange apparently detailing what happened in the strait of hormuz on friday a British Navy Officer from the frigate h. M. S. Montrose tells the crew of the oil tanker stener him piro that its in a recognized International Strait and must not be impeded he then urges the Iranian Navy Patrol boat which ordered the tanker to change course not to intervene. Late. At the end of the senate. But irans revolutionary guard soon arrived by helicopter and seized the tanker Iranian Maritime officers said on sunday the vessel and its crew of 23 from india latvia the philippines and russia a safe in the port of bandar abbas weve already announced that if the ship or the crew members if they have any needs we are ready to meet them however there are some regulations and we should conduct a casualty investigation with regards to the vessel the u. K. Has written to the United Nations Security Council insisting the stand imperio had been in the territorial waters of oman and saying iran had violated International Law the British Government is calling it a hostile act but its wary of escalating tensions we have seen as i say ratchet up the last 3 weeks of events and tensions in the straits of hormuz and with iran as a whole we need to make sure that we thought this go back to the Bigger Picture of the russian ship with iran and make sure that we protect our International Shipping taking to twitter irans foreign minister mohammad jeffard zarif is accusing President Trump security adviser john bolton of quote turning his venom against the u. K. In hopes of dragging it into a quagmire but i had a fairly long conversation with him over the weekend britains foreign secretary jeremy hunt phones the wreath he then said to her on was implying it had retaliate. 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