the day, if possible. this is just brazen. what can europe do? what can the united states do in response? clearly, an incidence like this, a hijacking, clearly an act of piracy by belarusa would not have happened without the okay by putin. you saw the applause happening after lukashenko pulled off this breathtaking defiance of international law, for a 26-year-old blogger. let s remember, that s how scared they are of dissent. this was a guy who was, you know, exiled, i guess, left the country after the rigged election last year, when the protests against lukashenko s rigging of the election led to a great outpouring. he brazened it out, partly with
was an attempted act of piracy and that it showed the trump administration s respect for international law. such operate there reporting from tehran you re watching it every news still to come. the miracle of the hudson but this time in a cornfield near moscow where the pilot is held as a hero after a flock of seagulls forced him to clash land soon after takeoff we talked to some of the relieved passengers. but 1st right wing extremist violence in germany is on the rise and that s at least according to the country s interior ministry authorities recorded more than 8 and a half 1000 offenses in the 1st half of this year in germany and many people fear they could be targeted because their names have appeared on far right enemy lists distributed online the interior ministry says the lists don t pose a tangible threat the critics say authorities are not making are not taking rather
literally, the regime is acting more like a toddler. not getting its way and getting in the way of oil tankers will international will have the reason to pass. what is the next step? this was indeed an act of piracy as secretary pompeo said and the british foreign secretary said, but it s also an act of retaliation. they were quite clearly trying to parallel with the british had done to their tanker, but of course the two situations aren t comparable. the british were enforcing their european sanctions only transport of oil to syria when they took the tank and they had no justification for their actions and i think what makes it more outrageous is the fact that they did it with the royal navy right there and while we hear those radio transmissions we don t hear things like warning shots for example. the british have announced they will keep up their maritime patrols, but one wonders if that s going to be sufficient given that there was a royal navy vessel and they can do
operative and cnn security analyst, bob baer. always good to have you with us. as we look at this, you have iran saying one thing with this elaborate video, as well. the president and the secretary of state saying something else. who do you believe? i don t believe either one. what i do know is the iranians have cornered this white house, taking that tanker on friday was essentially an act of war. an act of piracy. they cannot withstand sanctions. iran cannot withstand them too much longer and they want to force a confrontation with the united states, hoping they ll come out at the better end of it. and, you know, it s almost as if they want a war. almost as if they want a war. do you think this administration sees that on the part of iran? look, here s the problem. the president cannot take on iran militarily and win without more forces in the gulf.
boosting air patrols over the persian gulf and the trump administration is once again appealing for a new set of nuclear paths with iran. hans nichols has more. hans? reporter: iran releasing dramatic video claiming to show its revolutionary guard seizing a british oil tanker. commandos wearing ski masks and machine guns rappelling to the ship s deck. the search for ways to de-escalate the tension. we re very clear that we will do what it takes to secure the safety of the shipping. in iran, continued defiance. ali arouzi in tehran. it shouldn t surprise that they seized the british tanker on the 4th of july. it provoked a furious response from the supreme leader here, calling it an act of piracy by the evil english and vowed not to let it go unanswered. iran challenging president