Thanks hugh and sarah has all the weather more rain to come. Also coming up a new streaming service to rival netftlix, the bbc and itv plan to launch britbox by the end of the year to show new commissions and classic programmes. Hello, everyone this is afternoon live. Hundreds of thousands of Public Sector workers are set to get a pay rise above the rate of inflation. The treasury is expected to confirm the details on monday, but reports suggest that among those in line for rises are the armed forces, police in england and wales and teachers in england. The pay award represents one of theresa mays last Big Decisions as Prime Minister. But labour have dismissed it as insulting. Our Political Correspondent iain watson reports. On one level, its quite straightforward actually, Public Sector. Now an apparent victory for some of those in the government payroll. The treasury was going to announce an inflation busting increase next week, the figure to be leaked to the Times Newspaper today. T
Hello and welcome to world news today. We start with some breaking news irans revolutionary guards say they have seized a british flagged tanker in the gulf. Iran says the stena impero was stopped while passing through the strait of hormuz on the grounds that it was not observing International Maritime rules. The stena impero was bound for aljubail in saudi arabia, but it appears to have taken a sudden turn into iranian waters this afternoon. It was last tracked heading towards the iranian island of qeshm. The company that owns the tanker has confirmed that it was approached by unidentified small boats and a helicopter while it was still in international waters. Its since been uncontactable. We also have early reports that a second uk operated tanker sailing under a liberian flag also made a sharp turn towards iran in the persian gulf. The stena impero, which was bound for aljubail in saudi arabia, joining me now is our defence correspondent jonathan beale. What more do we know about t
French fighter jets c. 35 and a boeing. 202 french fighter jets were noticed over the cost of tripoli we understand that egypt the United Arab Emirates and france are are the major supporters of the world Khalifa Haftar and recently advances weapons including the anti tanks a. G. T. M j of the learned rockets were captured by the Government Forces as have those forces last the city of and we understand that both the United Arab Emirates and france are accused of supporting the warlord Khalifa Haftar the with advanced weapons fighter jets and drones and also advance of the rockets including their. Tanks. Rockets. Still ahead for you marching to remain thousands take to the streets of london in a show of solidarity with europe 3 months before the u. K. Is set to leave the e. U. And we look at indias endangered species struggling to survive heavy monsoon rains as a National Park is flooded. Hello there quite a mix of weather across europe and 2 main stories thats a little for all the clou
She says used to try and make a living. Which used to be a shop owner has allowed her to live here every corner has its use one part of the kitchen the other corner is the bathroom. And it jason to that is the sleeping area. Im forced to sell used clothes in this makeshift house you can see behind me some of these that i have stored and other clothes are put on display just outside my doorstep. Its hard being a widow she says because she cannot afford rent or proper education for her daughter roger is among 7000000. 00 iraqis who live in poverty which means they can only spend less than 2. 00 per day and like roger many live without basic services then why are you telling me tap water is scarce sometimes i have to fill buckets to store some water when its cut off for a day or 2 state and across city goes on for 4 or 5 hours a day and its the same for water. Years of war and fighting has meant essential services are either very poor or nonexistent in many places iraq faces a major elect
A kurdish region in the south of turkey sources say that he joined the Kurdistan Workers Party or p k k in 2014 the p. K. K. Is an armed group its deemed a terrorist organization by turkey and the United States this morning turkey conducted air strikes at a peak a k. Training camp on the outskirts of a town called more they believe that dad was there 4 times last week and that he had trained there and that there was a possibility that they may have he may have fled there after the shootings all vote the p. K. K. Is being pinpointed by investigators its important to note that on wednesday hours after the shootings a spokesman with the military wing of the p. K. K. Denied involvement the group is very big and has been described as decentralized a political analyst tells us one thing is certain the motivation of this is sas the nation is intended to destabilise the relationship between turkey and the Kurdistan Regional government the heads on aljazeera extending a humanitarian hand taiwan