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
One has the government. The amounts they are not going to see is a british tanker, but the other iran might do so. Iran is trying to manage its own internal contradictions, as it has been trying to do for the past a0 years, and the consequence of these contradictions sometimes as tension with outsiders, but what is interesting in the case of the gibraltar tanker, why did the brits decide to react after four years, because they have been Smuggling Oil to syria for four years. Lets look at what the iranians are going to do, before we get to the brits. The iranian government have said it is a form of piracy what happened off gibraltar, and said they will respond to bullies without hesitation. This is not the normal rhetoric from the iranian republic, but in action, you see in the past few months, and many other occasions before, they never go beyond the edge, they want to appear that islam is victorious and they are fighting imperialism, and the usual shenanigans, but when it comes to bra
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
who will win a second term in the white house, or might someone else get the chance of a first? and can china survive a third term for president xi? in the studio are: jeff mcallister, time magazine s white house correspondent during the clinton years, and then chief of the magazine s london bureau. he and his wife now run their own international law firm. eunice goes, a portuguese writer and academic, lectures on comparative government which, i guess, is how countries learn from each other s mistakes; and steve richards, who arrived at westminster just as the conservative party was evicting margaret thatcher from downing street. the latest episode of rock and roll politics, his podcast, is entitled the next labour government and the power of markets. have events of the last few hours, perhaps certainly the last few weeks, steve, provided you with an insight into those two thoughts, the power of the market and the prospects for a change of government? prospects for a change