and nothing but propaganda at the same time the british government was in an emergency meeting to come up with a response to what it calls iranian piracy on the open sea on friday iranian revolutionary guard troops ignored warnings from the british navy and seized a british ship in the strait of hormuz the fact that it has taken 3 days for london to announce its response speaks to the few and frustrating options that it has ever since the u.s. withdrew from the iran nuclear deal britain has found itself in an almost impossible position how to help the rest of europe save the nuclear deal while maintaining ties with its most important ally the united states and to make matters more difficult britain is counting on a new trade deal with the u.s. 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
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has intercepted the british like time to stand in pearl in the strait of hormuz through our. pictures montrose a real navy type 23 frigates currently deployed in the gulf try to come to the time because 8. obstruct. and reach them. good for the up to. iran has no rights to obstruct the ships passage let s. talk about all those countries calling on iran to release the tank we asked them to tell britain the same thing that most of us feel for there is simply no comparison between iran illegal seizure of a vessel inside a recognized shipping letter and the enforcement of e.u. sanctions it was planned for an act of state piracy.
also coming up in parliamentary elections ukrainians have given their new president a strong mandate to fight corruption and that s rather remarkable considering what income but lawmakers allegedly did just staying in power. transfer and then overnight both want to transfer and however the company was mocked by widespread. over incumbent and. to our viewers on p
Oas see they say that the election this weekend was fair and free however they accuse him combet m.p. s of trying to buy votes in order to keep their seats as they ve been anything said about that by the president today and i mean this really speaks to how big the problem of corruption in ukraine really is doesn t. but there s no getting around the fact that ukraine routinely comes at the bottom of european corruption rankings only russia routinely really doing worse i think the positive takeaway from today is that the old timers trying those tricks vote buying they didn t get away with it they were swept away by this tide of political newcomers that he has brought into parliament i think the real test of mettle and his real determination to fight corruption will be how he deals with. the channels made him a star in the 1st place and who s been really instrumental with his media resources in helping his political rise to power. used to own ukraine s biggest bank but it
Party controls parliament this should make it very easy for him i would think to get legislation passed to keep his campaign promises will it. well brant these are really uncharted waters for ukraine politics as you mentioned this is a 1st the ukrainian politics the 1st ukrainian president to have an absolute majority in parliament his strategy of pulling those elections forward really banking that honeymoon he had with the voters really seems to have paid off not only that but also he s a rule new p.c. boards palm and not one of his new members of parliament has sat in parliament before you ve got a t.v. chef there and a limb pick wrestler a fellow comedian so it s all expected that these people will be fairly plausible and easy to be disciplined compared to political veterans that have been in ukraine s parliament up till no what would you say nick what the parliament s
Party controls parliament this should make it very easy for him i would think to get legislation passed to keep his current campaign promises will it. well brant these are really uncharted waters for ukraine politics as you mentioned this is a 1st the ukrainian politics the 1st ukrainian president to have an absolute majority in parliament his strategy of pulling those elections forward really banking that honeymoon he had with the voters really seems to have paid off not only that but also he s a rule new p.c. boards palm and not one of his new members of parliament has sat in parliament before you ve got a t.v. chef there and a limb pick wrestler a fellow comedian so it s all expected that these people will be fairly pliable and easy to be disciplined compared to political veterans that have been in ukraine s parliament up till now what would you say nick was the parliament election result