Election next year. 2 weeks ago britain seized an iranian tanker now iran has taken control of a u. K. Ship a tit for tat to take a crisis that london says is now a battle iranian piracy vs freedom on the seat tonight britains awkward and ironic request for help to patrol the Strait Of Hormuz soon to be breaks it britain sending out an s. O. S. To europe sending a thanks but no thanks to the United States im burnt off in berlin this is the day. At approximately 4 pm u. K. Time on friday Iranian Forces intercepted the british flag trying to stand in pearl in the Strait Of Hormuz through. European trade for xmas montrose a Role Navy Type 23. 00 frigates currently deployed in the gulf try to come to the tankers 8. Truck through. The trees and. The coast for the long run through from the far right. Here on how to rights to obstruct the ships passage let alone pool to. All those countries calling on iran to release the tanker we asked them to tell britain the same thing. But there is simply
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
a vital interest of every nation we will now seek to. together a european led maritime protection mission to support the safe passage of both crew and conquer in this final region we ve had constructive discussions with a number of countries in the last us and we will discuss later this week the best way to complement this with the recent u.s. proposals in this area or that was the u.k. foreign minister there jeremy hunt let s take this story now to london i m joined by our correspondent barbara vague good evening to you barbara there is another important part of this story tomorrow we expect to find out who the new u.k. prime minister will be either jeremy hunt who we just saw or boris johnson i mean would you agree that this has to be the worst timing possible. we also know french that is the most likely candidate to step into downing street
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
after it leaves the european union later this year so the irony was not lost today when the u.k. said that it will put together a naval protection mission in the strait of hormuz to be led by europe and not connected in any way with a similar alliance that the u.s. is struggling to create because freedom of navigation is a vital interest of every nation we will now seek to. together a european led maritime protection mission to support the safe passage of both crew and conquer in this final region we ve had constructive discussions with a number of countries in the last 48 hours and we will discuss later this week the best way to complement this with the recent u.s. proposals in this area or that was the u.k. foreign minister there jeremy hunt let s take this story now to london i m joined by our correspondent barbara vague good evening to you barbara there is another important part of this story tomorrow we expect to find out who the new u.k.