Couple of week its going it plans to identify which countries have the quote political will to go through with it and then after that is specific countries would offer Different Military capabilities perhaps through nato and they would have to weave together some kind of multinational unit in order to police the strait of hormuz now they say all they want to do is to protect the shipping lanes President Trump said he didnt want to pay for this unilaterally so that may be why this is happening with multiple countries but this does present an opportunity for conflict remember that President Trump says he was 10 minutes away from ordering an air strike on iran says he actually had had that plan moved forward and had to call it off and then of course there was the multiple attacks on ships which the u. S. Blames on iran so this force presents an opportunity for conflict with iran that just intensifies the pressure in that region the other headlines french president among your microphones t
Welcome back a program out of the top stories here this hour sudan is one step closer to a joint civilian rule government after the military and protest leaders signed a landmark agreement creating a transitional power sharing body the deals the 1st step towards meeting protesters demands for a 70 government. And the Us Government is imposing its strongest sanctions to date on me in moscow top military leaders they target me and mas commander in chief and several other Senior Officers in response to the mass killing of bringing a musket and 2017. Now the European Parliament has now elected the lion as president of the European Commission the German Defense minister will become the 1st woman to hold the post when she replaces john called young. John hall has more now from strauss book. That daily approval from the European Parliament in a tight vote means alone becomes the 1st woman to hold the e. U. Use top job as Commission President shell set the policy agenda for the next 5 years. I
Suspects the iranian ship was trying to deliver on oil to syria in breach of e. U. Sanctions paul brennan reports tanka in the shadow of the rock with police boats in attendance the Oil Tanker Grace want to see may be calm but the ship is at the center now of an International Diplomatic storm spain has revealed that the United States had been monitoring the ships journey past that intelligence to gibraltar government 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 the us refinery in syria. That refinery is the property of an entity that is subject to European Union sanctions against syria the grey sworn is believed to have loaded with iranian oil off the coast of the gulf the ship made it this far as gibraltar a british overseas territory at
Act of piracy they are demanding the Immediate Release of this vessel and its contents they have Foreign Ministry spokesperson met with the British Ambassador late last night and they are they provided documentation to the ambassador for him to take back to london the document documentation apparently pro proves that the iranians were acting illegally according to them and that the shipment was not illegal now the iranian position is that because these are sentient on syria they are they have not been indorsed by the United Nations that is why they are not binding the iranians dont recognize them as a legitimate they are saying that this has been an act of piracy in International Waters and it is an example of how the United States government is pressuring other European Countries to put more strain on iran and its economic lifeline which is its oil supply and of course the door so you know we have this ongoing war of words and we now have iran blaming the british and the e. U. As youv
A small town in chile to watch a rare eclipse. Of china is calling the overnight protests in hong kong a blatant challenge to the one country 2 systems principle its the strongest condemnation from beijing since protesters stormed hong kongs main government building on monday night the protesters are angry about an extradition bill which would allow suspects to be tried on the mainland. Well those scenes followed a peaceful rally through the streets of hong kong around 500000 people attended that march on monday which happened on the 22nd anniversary of hong kongs handover to china from britain. Were get more on the reaction from beijing in just a few minutes but 1st lets go live to hong kong its peak to wayne had a so the clean up operations going the day after now. I think at the moment for hong kong people it is about digesting exactly what unfolded on monday night and into Tuesday Morning the focus as you mentioned has been on that cleanup operation a huge amount of debris was left