Critics say those choices reflect back room power politics and theyre threatening to torpedo the nominations with the e. U. Facing pressing challenges strong leadership is more important than ever will it emerge from a process with democratic deficit e. U. Top jobs instead of inspiration thats our topic and here are our guests its a pleasure to welcome emmanuelle shahs shes a freelance journalist originally from france who works with us here as well as for french print and broadcast media she says the scramble for the e. U. s top jobs further highlights discrepancies between the Member States and damages the union. Works for. The list for the German Council on Foreign Relations he says the visit group of Eastern European countries has maneuvered itself into a corner their lack of representation in top the e. U. Jobs. Its a significant problem for any you cohesion it will come back to haunt the region and its a pleasure to welcome tom not told he is the berlin correspondent for the brit
A tax on tech and washington does not like it saying American Companies will be unfairly targeted the white house is threatening to impose retaliatory tariffs on french goods and its a museum to take the whole family to maybe japans Parasite Museum offers a glimpse into the world of human and animal parasite. I bring to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome tonight britain says that 3 iranian boats attempted to intercept a British Oil Tanker near the persian gulf it says they were driven off by a Royal Navy Frigate iran has denied that its vessels trying to stop the tanker in the strait of hormuz it says its boats were simply carrying out routine duties. 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 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 a
In australia, join the queue theres a trafficjam of tourists doing it, before climbing is banned altogether. The uk says iran tried to intercept a British Oil Tanker in the gulf of oman and that the royal navy had to repel several iranian boats. This is the tanker, the british heritage. The uk says it was moving through the strait of hormuz when it was approached. This is the route the british tanker took. The allegation is that iranian boats tried to force it into iranian waters to the north. Iran denies that this happened. These are the type of boats the british say were used theyre armed speed boats that irans revolutionary guard uses to patrol the strait. This footage is from an exercise last year. The uk says it was this ship, a frigate called the hms montrose, that was shadowing the british tanker, and that came to its defence. Were told it trained its guns on the iranian boats and ordered them to withdraw. The mod said they did so and no shots were fired. Iran says it didnt happ
They dont want the media speculating about the health of their chance. Its good to have you with us we have some breaking news coming in right now in sudans Ruling Military Council says that it has just for oil and an attempted coup attempt general announced the attempt on state Television Just moments ago sudans state t. V. Reporting at least 12 officers in full were soldiers have been arrested the general did not say when the attempt was made but it cues members of the National Intelligence and Security Services of taking part in this is a dramatic change turn of events into. Sudan just last week sudans military council and a probe Democracy Coalition agreed to share power until elections can be held that shared power agreement is supposed to be in effect for 3 years well get more information about this attempted coup in sudan as details become available lets get back now to our other top story britain says that 3 iranian boats attempted to intercept a British Oil Tanker near the per
A vent to present their own status as being the Innocent Party as being innocent as being the ones in the right so so i think its not particularly surprising that there would be 2 different types of stories but if we look at what what has happened in the in the long long history of the strait of hormuz particularly in recent decades we know that there have been routine threats from iran to close the strait of hormuz we know of iran has attacked various ships going back to the iran iraq war in the 1980 s. So we know that there is a modus operandi in operation here so i think whilst its contested was the iranians have denied it it seems relatively obvious that there is some type of subterfuge going on here there is some type of complicity involved involving the Iranian Revolutionary guard corps so are you saying that this is the retaliation that the iranians had threatened because iran has been threatening to retaliate since british marines seized that Iranian Oil Tanker and waters. Last