Healthy. Plus, a major recall to tell you about as we kick off a busy friday early today starts right now good morning im cori coffin. And im frances rivera. We begin with breaking news. The tensions between the United States and iran escalating dangerously overnight. The Defense Department confirming that a u. S. Air strike in baghdad killed a top iranian general. Growing fears this morning about how iran might retaliate to do things that they see as tit for tat. If you hit us in a certain way, we are going to ratchet up and hit you back in a harder way and we just killed the probably the second most important person in their government nbcs cal perry joins us now from london. So, cal, iran vowing harsh response here. The big question is what that response is going to be. Yeah. And in what form will it come . We should mention, of course, the iranians have these proxies all across the region. Its likely to come in the form of one of those proxies. The most powerful has to be hezbollan
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Its 50 years ago today that Neil Armstrong took the giant leap to become the first man to walk on the moon. And coming up at 10. 30am, the travel show is in florida to meet the people who worked on that epic apollo 11 mission back in 1969. The government has advised uk ships to stay out of the area of the strait of hormuz for an interim period, after iran seized a british flagged tanker. The warning came after a meeting of the governments emergency committee, cobra, late last night. State media in tehran say the tanker, the stena impero, was involved in an accident with an iranian fishing boat before it was seized. The reports also claim the vessel had violated International Maritime rules. But the ships owner, the Swedish Company stena bulkt says the tanker was in full compliance with all navigation and international regulations. The foreign secretary, jeremy hunt, said the seizure was unacceptable and britains response would be considered but robust. Our correspondent simonjones repo
Im team mack. If he cant respect our sport, why should i respect him . A lot of people, but make did end of 403, everyone in a swimming behind him so hopefully this happens for more events. Former World Champion mark foster doesnt believe it does the sport any favours with what people are seeing. It is great for the sport to talk in talking points but it is also a bad talking points but it is also a bad talking points but it is also a bad talking point because of what it is talking point because of what it is talking about. Swimmers want a level Playing Field not cheap. I am not saying that sun yang is a complete sheet. We have rules and regulations, if you have served a ban and then you are allowed back m, ban and then you are allowed back in, you are allowed back in. It doesnt leave a bitter taste if you come in second and you could have been well championed. The russian boxer Maxim Dadashev has died at the age of 28, after being injured during an ibf light welterweight bout in the u
It is a cooler and a cloudier weekend for all of us. There will be some rain around too, some of it quite heavy, but its not going to be a complete washout for all of us. Join me laterfor all the details. Its saturday 27th july. Our top story donald trump says the uk and United States are working on what he called a very substantial post brexit trade deal. The president spoke with borisjohnson on the phone yesterday and claimed trade could be worth up to five times what it is now. Boris and i just spoke. I congratulated him and hes all set to go. Hes gonna be i think hell be do a greatjob. Were working already on a trade agreement. And i think it will be a very substantial trade agreement. You know, we can do with the uk we can do three to four times we were actually impeded by their relationship with the european union. We were very much impeded on trade. Lets get more on this now from our Political Correspondent tom barton, whos in our london newsroom this morning. President trump is