A landslide victory for taiwans Pro Independence president who has won a 2nd in power and already delivered a shop warning to china. We start with breaking news this hour britains ambassador to iran has been released after being briefly arrested in tehran its not yet known under what circumstances well macare was held foreign secretary dominic rob is called it a flagrant violation of International Law and has said that iran needs to take steps to deescalate recent tensions and engage in a diplomatic path forward its well earlier on i spoke to trita parsi the executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute and a professor of middle east politics and us about his initial thoughts and reaction to this arrest. We dont know the circumstances are exactly what happened here if that was a mistake it is important to note that apparently he was released rather quickly if he was still kept by the iranians and i think the risk of that leading to an Additional International crisis would have been
History is underway with hot weather a and strong winds expected to worsen an already devastating situation the war funds. Well its 15 gnc on a tense day across the middle east iran has voted to retaliate strongly after the u. S. Killed the commander who spearheaded surrounds military operations across the region Major General qassam solomonic you know the air strike targeting so money occurred on a road at Baghdad Airport just a day after poor on protesters ended a siege or the u. S. Embassy in iraq the pentagon says President Donald Trump ordered the attack to protect u. S. Personnel abroad well the u. S. Embassy in baghdad has now urged all americans to leave iraq immediately irans Supreme Leader has called for 3 days. National mourning ayatollah ali how many warned of harsher vengeance said the attack would double sounds result to resist the United States and iraqs Prime Minister says the strike will spark a devastating war and called lebanons lebanon rather has called for the coun
Naval base as new information about the gunman is released. A dramatic escalation of violence in iraq sends thousands on to the streets to protest what they call the slaughter in baghdad. Russian athletes will know soon if a doping scandal leads to a ban from the olympics and all other International Sports for the next 4 years. And answer joshua is once again heavyweight champion of the world the britain beat and the reason the 1st ever world heavyweight title fight in the middle east. U. S. President donald trump has done to run for very fair negotiations that led to a prisoner swap between the 2 countries the red diplomatic breakthrough was brokered by switzerland and comes as the u. S. Maintains tight sanctions on iran over its Nuclear Program under schapelle as more. 2 men caught up in tensions between the United States and iran able to reunite with their families after a prisoner swap american graduate student. And iranian scientists mustered sulaimani a stem cell expert whod been
Should be fixed. In watching the weekly here on our to recap of the biggest stories from the past 7 days you should joining us this hour. And the biggest news from this week theres been a sense of triumph among us democrats after an official impeachment inquiry was launched in a President Trump on tuesday this latest chapter has been brought about by his alleged attempts to undermine a key democratic rival in the 2020 president ial race amid claims trump leaned on ukraines president to investigate joe biden sons activities in the country and exchange for u. S. Support for key of course all of takes a look at the democrats obsession with impeachment. Democrats have always seen impeachment as Donald Trumps kryptonite a swift and affective way of ending his political life and theyve been. Armisen to pull that switch since he got in office the walls feel like theyre closing in on the truth in this ration right now and im not sure the figures hold them off for much longer the walls are clos
The u. S. Department of justice asked for the detention to be extended it instead. The case was adjourned for 5 hours a lawyer for 3 of the crew including the captain couldnt see any reason for the detention to continue weve taken advice from 2 q. Sees in london specialists on sanctions and a criminal specialist for what we could tell them their advice was that was no breach of sanction. As confusion spread from the courtroom grace was reminded on cut just as she has been since july the 4th 28 crewmembers on board 4 of them the captain and 3 offices were released on bail that passports were handed back ahead of the u. S. Approach to the calls. Made to the court was in session again this time the judge threw out the approach from the u. S. Department of justice and granted the attorney generals request for grace one to leave gibraltars waters the governments chief minister says iran had given a cost on guarantee the grace one would not deliver its 2100000 barrels of Like Crude Oil to sy