And what is in a name he act or apparently, quite a lot. More on this story over former french president Nicolas Sarkozys move to change his Opposition Partys name, on the way. First, our top story. Genie first, the army in iraq is fighting to take ramadi back from the state islamic group. It is aimed at cutting off the militants and preparing a bid to retake the city. For more on this, lets bring in Charles Mcdermott. Talk about how this operation will work. Charles it was an interesting statement from the iraqi government. They said they would launch the operation, but nothing has started yet. They give interesting details. They said the sunnis will take part, the shia militias will take part, and the iraq he forces, which suffered a big defeat. It is a lot of facesaving for that baghdad government. Nothing has happened just yet. Genie you mentioned this facesaving for the iraqi government. Tell us more about that. Charles ramadi fell. It is really an embarrassment. Troops were repor
We just learned that iran tried to shoot down an american drone on two separate occasions. U. S. Officials say four tugboats contracted to pull the norwegianowned tanker, one of the two tankers damaged in an attack thursday have been prevented from doing so but i by iranian gun boats. U. S. Officials now tell us one of the two tanker crews were in fact detained by the iranians early thursday morning after first being rescued by another merchant vessel. One of the crew spoke earlier today on iranian tv. Im from russia. The service is excellent. They hosted us well. Everything is fine. Only 23 are present in this video. The u. S. Navy says they rescued the others. The 23 sailors detained by iran have been held for nearly two days against their will. The Central Command released this photo showing what is an unexploded mine attached to the hull of one of those attacked outside the the attacks. Officials say this revolutionary guard boat removed that un exploded mine. U. S. Officials say a
Of now for u. S. Naval vessels to escort commercial ships through the straight. We learned late yesterday that iran tried to shoot down an american drone on two separate occasions in recent days, using surfacetoair missiles. In fact u. S. Central command released this Photo Officials say the unexploded mine removed from one of the tankers is the same type of mine used to attack four oil tankers last month, in the same area. The you arab emirate presented evidence to the u. N. Security council that the attacks were state sponsored. Oil prices increased by about 4 following thursdays tank era tacks, but remained lower than where they were two months ago. G20 ministers meeting in in japan vowed to stabilize the oil market and the u. S. Granted a waiver to iraq to import iranian gas for the next three months but encouraged baghdad to find an alternative. In fact this video released by the u. S. Military claims to show proof of irans involvement in thursdays attacks. Officials say this Iran