On t. W. This is you know we news live from berlin showdown in the gulf britain says a royal navy forget has driven off iranian boats trying to intercept a British Oil Tanker but iran denies there was any confrontation also coming up on the show a powerful storm devastated greece is from northern coastal areas leaving 7 dead and Dozens Injured plus a french lawmakers to vote for a Digital Services tax that washington says unfairly targets american tech giants
good to us speak airing out full but no other trade war this time with france. Its great to have you along everyone britain says 3 iranian boats attempted to intercept a British Oil Tanker near the persian gulf but were driven off by a Royal Navy Frigate iran has denied that its vessels tried to stop the tanker in the Strait Of Hormuz saying its boats were carrying out routine duty. The Strait Of Hormuz one of the worlds busiest Shipping Lanes through which a 3rd of the worlds seaborne oil passes. Irans navy is an active presence
good to us speak airing out full but no other trade war this time with france. it s great to have you along everyone britain says 3 iranian boats attempted to intercept a british oil tanker near the persian gulf but were driven off by a royal navy frigate iran has denied that its vessels tried to stop the tanker in the strait of hormuz saying it s boats were carrying out routine duty. the strait of hormuz one of the world s busiest shipping lanes through which a 3rd of the world s seaborne oil passes. iran s navy is an active presence here. the narrowest point in the strait is only 40 kilometers wide the british ministry of defense said the incident took place near the island of abu mussab.
if it does more of this then i think it s quite a seismic change in pace or the police and her brother says that they have arrest that the captain and the chief officer of the detained iranian a super tanker at the same time a british security source says we re not going to accompany every frigate that is in the strait of hormuz what i m wondering is are all parties just testing the waters but they don t want to go into confrontation and just checking how far they can go. yeah i think it s a case of trying to figure out what the new rules of this new game were know traditionally that the shipping would go on and iran wouldn t necessarily go and do anything like this it would threaten it but it wouldn t actually do it but right now given that iran has done this it s a case of figuring out what s what it might do next and what what states like the u.k. and the u.s. could potentially do to prevent it from happening so there s
it says this for get turned away raining speedboats stuff are threatening the british oil tanker the u.k. foreign minister has responded by calling for calm obviously very concerning developments but also very proud of the royal navy and the role that they played in keeping british assets british shipping safe we are continuing to monitor the situation very very carefully the fear is that this latest incident will escalate it comes days after british authorities seized an iranian tanker off gibraltar claiming it was violating sanctions by delivering oil to syria earlier this week iran also started enriching uranium beyond the limits set down the 2050 nuclear deal it signed with international powers iran says the confrontation never happened it s foreign minister mohammed serif has called a british accusations worthless iran s farce news agency quote sorry for saying they are seeking to cover up their weaknesses with such claims as tensions in the