Iran reported that it has captured a British Oil Tanker in the strait of hormuz. The stena impero was bound for saudi arabia when the owners say they lost contact with the vessel. There are 23 personnel on board but no british citizens are among them. It comes after an iranian vessel was captured earlier this month. James robbins reports. This is stena impero, built only last year, british flagged, 183 metres long, now in the hands of iran, together with her 23 crew. Routine satellite tracking of the tanker shows her under way from the emirates of fujairah, around midday, heading north, staying well inside International Waters of the gulf until this happened. Just after three oclock, the 30,000 ton tanker diverts seriously off course. Her last known movement was around four oclock, inside iranian waters. The owners, stena bulk and Northern Marine management, say in a statement and then you s tonight that a second ship had been seized, iberian registered. It has been released. Jeremy hu
Hello and welcome to bbc news. Iran reported that it has captured a British Oil Tanker in the strait of hormuz. The stena impero was bound for saudi arabia when the owners say they lost contact with the vessel. There are 23 personnel on board but no british citizens are among them. It comes after an iranian vessel was captured earlier this month. James robbins reports. This is stena impero, built only last year, british flagged, 183 metres long, now in the hands of iran, together with her 23 crew. Routine satellite tracking of the tanker shows her under way from the emirates of fujairah, around midday, heading north, staying well inside International Waters of the gulf until this happened. Just after three oclock, the 30,000 ton tanker diverts seriously off course. Her last known movement was around four oclock, inside iranian waters. The owners, stena bulk and Northern Marine management, say in a statement and then news tonight that a second ship had been seized, the mesdar, iberian r
Polly. Polly middlehurst. Jacob thank you and good evening to you. Well, within the last hour, the metropolitan police has confirmed to us that a complaint has been made against the former tory mp, lee anderson, over comments he made about the london mayor and unknown complainant to unknown complainant went to the met police a day after lee anderson said islamist had control of sadiq khan. The control of sadiq khan. The ex Deputy Tory Party chairman was stripped of the whip after refusing to apologise for his remarks. He has since admitted remarks. He has since admitted his choice of words was clumsy, but said hed been trying to represent concerns of his represent the concerns of his constituents. Its a major constituents. Its a major search and rescue was launched after the bodies of at least three suspected migrants were pulled from the English Channel today , despite the bad weather, today, despite the bad weather, gb news filmed these pictures of an rnli lifeboat rushing in to resc
feel cool tomorrow, temperatures below average for the time of year, but the sunshine should mitigate it a bit, sunshine in april has a little strength. then milder air pushing in from the south, so the weather will improve, lots of sunshine on saturday, just a few showers for eastern areas, turning a bit cloudierfor showers for eastern areas, turning a bit cloudier for northern ireland later in the day, but look at the temperatures. highs up to 15 cell c and it should get even warmer to that into next week, with dry and sunny weather on the this is carly s allotment, she uses it to grow food for people struggling to make ends meet. with new figures out today showing the escalating diabetes crisis, and recent analysis of life expectancy over seven decades showing the uk doing worse than all g7 countries except the usa, we ll ask are we sleep walking into a growing health crisis and what can be done about it? also tonight. elon musk announces this evening that blue tick user
russian investigators have detained a 26 year old woman, darya trepova, in connection with the murder and the explosion in a cafe. vladlen tatarsky was killed by a bomb in st petersburg. media reports said the explosion occurred shortly after he had been given a statuette by a woman at an event in a cafe. darya trepova has previously been detained for taking part in protests against the war in ukraine. russia s security service has accused ukraine of being behind the blast, but ukrainian officials have denied this. so who is vladlen tatarsky and why might someone want to kill him? for a start, it s not actually his real name. tatarksy is actually maxim fomin an ultra nationalist with links to hard right politicians in russia. his rhetoric includes sometimes heavy criticism of russia s so called military operation in ukraine, so he may have enemies on both sides. either way he s influential with half a million followers on the social media platform telegram. in a moment we