British ships in one of the busiest oil shipping lanes in the world have been put on the highest state of alert. It comes as a Royal Navy Warship had to warn off three iranian gunboats that were trying to intercept a british tanker in the strait of hormuz. The ministry of defence says hms montrose moved between the tanker owned by bp and the iranian vessels and issued several radio warnings before the iranian boats turned away. Iran has denied that any confrontation took place. But it had already threatened to retaliate after British Royal marines seized an iranian tanker last week on suspicion of breaking eu sanctions. Our defence correspondent Jonathan Beale reports. The warship hms montrose was on patrol when the british tanker was approached by three armed iranian fast boats. Montrose was reported to have quickly arrived at the scene, training her guns on the iranians who turned away after several warnings were issued over the radio. The tanker, british heritage, was about to trans
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Palestinians waiting for aid in gaza. City, one person has been killed. The british cargo ship has something the red sea after it was attacked by human scuse fighters last month and on peace. A statement with all your sports news premium. E lead is a little pool. Big, nothing for us. Im for me to one will chime in next for stuff in the womens opening ball, raymond, are on free that among the program the so we begin this news, our with developments on the war on guys or the white house saying there is a Framework Agreement on the table for 6 weeks ceasefire. Israel has not turned it down. Now the weight is on for home us to agree talks are ongoing here in doha, with parties hoping to have a deal in place by brand desk. We have correspondence following developments from both israel and the us in a moment. Well be getting reaction from oceans ears. Honda, so hooting tel aviv 1st, so lets speak to rosalind jordan in washington, dc was tell us what you can tell us what you know about this F
Israel carries out more deadly attacks on palestinians waiting for aids in central guys on, on the us air drop supplies over gaza. President biden admits its not nearly enough with many continuing to calls for a ceasefire. The we begin in Southern Gaza where israel continues to target the residential areas. At least 15 palestinians have been killed and several others injured in a strike overnight. A 4 Story Building in the center neighborhood. The desktop was kits. Rescuers and residents rushed to the scene to recover bodies and take the injury to hospital or somebody of lucky. As you can see behind me, we saw that a residential building was struck, causing civilians into space people. Its a 4 Story Building. We managed to remove several bodies and rescue several injured people, but many more civilians, women and children are still under the rubble. We have limited, scant resources and this war is entering at 6 months. There is no fuel to operate, search and rescue equipment and we nee