Following thejuly 1st protests. Hello and welcome to dateline london. Im carrie gracie. And this week threats of tanker tit for tat after an Iranian Oil Tanker is seized off gibraltar. Hong kongs protests turn ugly. And balloting begins. Will Boris Johnson be britains Prime Minister before the end of this month . My guests today iranian writer amir taheri, political commentator adam raphael, Isabel Hilton of the website China Dialogue and greg katz of the associated press. Welcome to you all. Over recent weeks weve talked a lot about rising tension in the gulf, with western powers blaming iran for attacks on half a dozen oil tankers. This week the action moved to the mediterranean, when British Royal marines seized an Iranian Oil Tanker off the territory of gibraltar. In the same week, iran carried through on its threat to breach the limit for enriched uranium in the 2015 nuclear deal. Amir, you start us off on this. Coming to the oil tanker tit for tat, seniorfigures in iran say we sh
Good morning. Murderers who refuse to reveal the location of a victims body could be forced to spend longer in prison. Thejustice secretary david gauke has announced plans to introduce whats known as helens law. It follows a campaign by the mother of helen mccourt, who was murdered in 1988. Helens body was never found. Ben ando reports. For 31 years, Marie Mccourt has been fighting for helens law, named after her daughter who was just 22 when she was abducted and murdered in 1988. Her killer, pub landlord ian simms. He has never revealed the whereabouts of helens body. To take a life is horrendous, but then to take the lives of the family of that loved one and not let them know where their loved ones body is, there is no torture worse than that. I could say ive had a dripping tap on my head for the last 31 years. Its far worse than that. Its a pain in your heart that will never go. Marie led a campaign demanding that murderers who refused to disclose the whereabouts of a victims remain
Now on bbc news, dateline london. Hello and welcome to dateline london. Im carrie gracie. And this week threats of tanker tit for tat after an Iranian Oil Tanker is seized off gibraltar. Hong kongs protests turn ugly. And balloting begins. Will Boris Johnson be britains Prime Minister before the end of this month . My guests today iranian writer amir taheri, political commentator adam raphael, Isabel Hilton of the website China Dialogue and greg katz of the associated press. Welcome to you all. Over recent weeks weve talked a lot about rising tension in the gulf, with western powers blaming iran for attacks on half a dozen oil tankers. This week the action moved to the mediterranean, when British Royal marines seized an Iranian Oil Tanker off the territory of gibraltar. In the same week, iran carried through on its threat to breach the limit for enriched uranium in the 2015 nuclear deal. Amir, you start us off on this. Coming to the oil tanker tit for tat, seniorfigures in iran say we
Disembarked from a rescue ship after it defied a ban to dock on the italian island of lampedusa. The captain of the ship said he was forced to act because of intolerable hygiene conditions aboard. Its the second vessel to clash with italian authorities in a week. Emergency officials in california are warning of more aftershocks following the biggest earthquake in the us state for 20 years. The 7. 1 magnitude quake was felt as far away as las vegas and over the border in mexico. Emergency Officials Say the damage is not as bad as they initially feared, with power restored to most areas. Its 2 31am. Now on bbc news, dateline london. Hello and welcome to dateline london. Im carrie gracie. And this week threats of tanker tit for tat after an Iranian Oil Tanker is seized off gibraltar. Hong kongs protests turn ugly. And balloting begins. Will Boris Johnson be britains Prime Minister before the end of this month . My guests today iranian writer amir taheri, political commentator adam raphael
Real solution, but if you want, i can give you an answer who is the president . Give an example that there are three issues and political opinions regarding the elections. The implementation of the elections is the first issue that has an extreme trend that sees itself without the majority vote of the society, and i want to, even against the opinion of the province. Lets hold the elections quietly and quietly, according to the opinion now, the main problem with mr. s words is me. Mr. s words say that some people say, why are you saying so much , why are you so much . Who wants this stream interested in the system wants the system itself to come to the conclusion that the expediency of the system is in the competition and the excitement of the elections, and therefore it is now in a situation where begging no longer qualifies mr. Larijanis previous bad number. Majlis jahangiri, the first deputy, will be disqualified, the claim of president ahmadinejad will be disqualified, well, i will