On t. W. This is v. W. News live from Berlin Britain pledges to protect its ships from what it is calling a running in piracy foreign minister jeremy hunt says that the u. K. Against joining with european allies to ensure ships can travel safely through the Strait Of Hormuz that is after all ron seized a British Oil Tanker there on friday. Also coming up another weekend of antigovernment protests in hong kong and in Violence Police fired tear gas and Rubber Bullets to disperse thousands of demonstrators and this protesters seek
refuge in a Train Station and theyre attacked by dogs thought to be chinese gang members plus a big win for ukraines president bloaters alaskas party claims an outright majority after sundays parliamentary elections and he now deliver on promises reforms and to bring peace to eastern ukraine. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program British Foreign minister jeremy hunt says that his country is not looking for confrontation with iran but had strong words for tehran
of commons after a meeting of prime minister s cobra a motion seeking immunity so let s have a listen to what he had to say under international law iran had no rights to obstruct the ship s passage let alone board. it was therefore an act of state piracy which the house will have no hesitation in condemning. it because freedom of navigation is a vital interest of every nation we will now seek to put together a european led maritime protection mission to support the safe passage of both crew and cargo in this fight whole region we ve had constructive discussions with a number of countries in the last quarter and we will discuss later this week the best way to complement this with recent u.s. proposals in this area. so let s get more now we re joined from london by correspondent barbara faisal with the latest on this so we heard the foreign