Job thats up for grabs. Im good to have you with us tonight thousands of protesters have tried to storm the Parliament Building in the georgian capital of tbilisi theyre calling for the government to resign police turned back one attempt to storm the building only to be confronted by another attempt to hours later that these were the images earlier this evening the unrest was spawned by the appearance of a Russian Legislature or in the Parliament Building relations between georgia and russia remain very sensitive after the 2 you may remember fault a short war back in 2008 a war which georgia lost. Art for more on this we want to talk now with deborah while the journalist who is based in tbilisi good evening to you deborah we understand that there are reports that police are using tear gas to Disperse Protesters whats the situation like right now. Demonstrators up and back in front of parliament about me. The situation. Accelerated a bit since some hotels just tried to storm into parlia
Territorial waters he says it proves iran acted in selfdefense its a point that irans ambassador to the u. N. Magid tucker of and she makes in a letter to secretary general antonio good terrorists and to the current president of the Un Security Council in the letter he says the drone was in full stealth mode as it turned off its identification equipment and engaged in a clear spying operation despite repeated radio warnings it entered into the iranian air space where the air Defense System of the Islamic Republic of iran acting under article 51. 00 of the United Nations charter targeted the intruding aircraft at 4 o 5 hours in the letter iran says the drone was in the air for almost 4 hours it says it doesnt want a war but it reserves the right take any necessary measures against hostile acts it wants the International Community to respond so far though no meeting of the u. N. Security council has been scheduled jamesburg out 0 of the United Nations planned tomorrow head on the hour to
Leaders will meet again at the end of the month to try to reach a consensus for greece and cyprus of the e. U. To issue sanctions against turkey after it deployed a 2nd drilling ship off the north east coast of cyprus the vessel is looking for oil and gas and what cyprus says is its territory. From nicosia. The Greek Cypriot leaders are not mincing their words they expect action at the european summit underway in brussels yes if one is home or liking it we agreed to prepare the ground at the european summit and take the appropriate decisions even going so far as to impose sanctions against turkey if it is proven that there has been drilling inside the cypriot exclusive Economic Zone turkey says its drilling ship has started exploring the sea floor in an area 45 nautical miles west of cyprus its far from the areas cyprus has licensed Multinational Oil companies to explore but still within a 200 nautical mile radius where cyprus claims it has the sole right to exploit mineral wealth unde
Strategy here then measure the main iran as we know is under painful sanctions its hurting financially its hurting economically its been very close as weve just seen to a military confrontation with the u. S. So whats the thinking in tehran right now how does it run get out of this iran believes that everything happens after it is actually activity or act of war all of this measures are actually done by then mr nation is actually the act of war and i think trump trying to run to try to leave that to the status quo which iran now in so they want to push for a more. InterNational Community to act to mediate to push to pressure the United States to have a dialogue because this status school is actually collapsing the economy and will have serious ramifications on the stability of the region on much of just a final thought from you on the key regional players briefly we know that saudi arabia israel would love to see. Iran got a bloody nose from the us but i mean how worried are gulf state
A final thought then on the key regional players i mean we know saudi arabia and israel would want to see iran get a bloody nose from the u. S. But i mean how worried are gulf states the broader International Community about i suppose the terrifying consequences of a full blown conflict between the usa and iran any kind of confrontation in the gulf oil will pay the price theres not lets not forget this is this is the region which provides 60 percent of the oil to the world and one of the american will be influence that something doesnt want to see any confrontation will affect the stability will affect the economy of the country the economy the with the effect of the developments the countries has made i believe that all parties do want to weaken iran however they dont want to see this war because the price will be very. Much as were going to get your thoughts thank you frank so much. Our time from a short break here now to 0 when we come back. Im gabriels on good Portland Maine in the