the u.k.'s conservative party prepares to announce who replaced a reason many as prime minister was johnson is a front runner for the top job. hello i'm down jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. so if iran continues on this dangerous path they must accept the price will be a launch of western military presence or tension in the gulf as the u.k. calls for the immediate release of an oil tanker seized by iran on friday. kenya's finance minister pleads not guilty to corruption charges linked to the construction of 2 dams also. police used tear gas to break up protests against the territories in fact all got. britain's new prime minister will be announced shortly to resign may's due to hold her final cabinet meeting before she resigns and then the result of the conservative party's leadership election will be revealed but was johnson's a favorite to beat rival jeremy hunt in the vote by tory party members. of the west months now where john hall is live for us that gena so just t

u.k. looks to de-escalate tensions with iran after the islamic republic seizes a tanker in the strait of hormuz. healthy growth -- phillips beats sales estimates for the second quarter as the ceo gives bloomberg his take on the trade war. >> these trade wars that are , as ave in the world strong believer in what globalization has brought to the world, i hope that we can see coming closer to each other. that will be good for the world economy. >> we had some outflows. if i had that back, we are actually within the target range . if i look at margins and revenues compared to the second half last year, they have substantially recovered. >> a very more welcome to the european market open, everybody. european markets opening -- what? 28 minutes' time? there or thereabouts. futures suggesting we will be a little bit weaker at the start of the trading day. european markets expected to be a little bit weaker, apart from the 3100. i should point out, seen as a bit of an outlier, and that could very

as the u.k. leaves the eu october 31, we will assume that is the date, they enter a softening global economy. a trade war between the united states and china. the european union and japan continued to sign free-trade agreements of which the u.k. will not be a part of after they leave. as much has certainly as a president who is very enthusiastic about a prime andster as boris johnson trade, the u.s. trade representative's is playing hardball and think about a u.k.-u.s. agreement using our considerable leverage to get the u.k. to make concessions. when president trump visited the u.k. for the state visit in june, he asserted that everything would be on the trade table and that bilateral negotiation, even the opening of the national health service who know british politics, that is a publiccow, and actually, opinion has grown against at u.s., u.k. free-trade agreement. this adds a huge challenge to a global economy that has really been challenged at the moment. host: the u.k. would have to strike n

how minorities fill that they can operate in the u.k. i don't address that because while his law is the master of insults. i i totally to speak up boris is someone who comes from a rich diversity of ethnic heritage and said he's going to church family here and he's got family from turkey family from the last his great grandfather that he's originally. of eurasia and that's a wonderful thing but also he's someone that stood up for and defended minority communities year after year what i already know how to tell them i don't like them going up for minorities when you hold women who wear the bar letterboxes that he said yes your list is there in the context of that comment the context of that comment with it's he again it came out against the e.u. country denmark that a liberal ban on the practice in many fronts and lots of european countries and morris is writing a column that defending the rights of muslim women to wear the burka and he's had a consistently liberal position on all of these issues and he's stood up for the rights of minori

we've now got some u.k. data coming out in the last few moments. >> gdp numbers. >> gdp numbers for may up .3% month for month very much in line for expectations. up 1.5% year on year against the expectation of 1.3% bounce you can see the three-month period that's against the april number of .4% and interesting numbers around industrial output that's up 1.4% slightly lower. >> interesting but is the reaction the pound here we had the shocker, negative 0.4% on back of some of the givebacks we had in march. we also had weakness in the auto sector some of that has been given back now in the month of may. month-to-month we're up 0.3% if you look at it analyzed, that is coming in at 0.4% it is coming a little bit higher than the market had anticipated. >> not great news for the manufacturing numbers. you can see manufacturing output is 1.4% higher month to month. that's very much lower than the expectation which was 2.1% as an increase there the manufacturing still under pressure construction slightly beating exp

interfering in solve or an issue on the ambassador here to the u.k. said that those who had illegally occupied the hong kong parliament in the last few days actually should be seen as being law breakers are not supported now beijing also went on to accuse jeremy hunt the foreign secretary of having colluded here a year or delusions this is what the spokesperson for the chinese foreign ministry had to say. it seems that he still indulged in the polls british colonists and this persisting with the bad habits of condescending and pointing fingers at other countries internal affairs. well also jeremy hunt in the u.k. we accused of hypocrisy when it talks about. prosy in hong kong with it being pointed out that under british colonial rule no elections took place on the island this is what the hunt the foreign secretary have to say response to that. message to china's government. between countries so based on mutual respect and on ring the legally binding agreements between them that is the best way to preserve the great relationship between the u.k. and ch

u.k. looks to disk tensions with iran after the islamic republic seizes a tanker. violent clashes calmed at the strongest warnings from the chinese government fanning fears of escalating violence. ceo declined the pain of negative rates. outflows. had some of 4% tothin the range 6%. if i look at margins and revenue compared to the second half of last year, we recovered. >> welcome to "bloomberg surveillance." i am anna edwards in the city of london. let's start with a check on the markets. this is how we are doing on the stoxx 600. we did either side of the flat line trading and we are losing around .1%. a little of performance coming through in the london market as you might expect when you have oil prices going higher by 2.2% because of the tensions between the u.k. and around in the strait of hormuz. that is the focus for oil traders and they are pushing out some of the oil related businesses listed in london. s&p futures point higher. we are a little range bound on these global equity

the u.k. navy's measure is turn to mount to maritime piracy britain has no right to impose its own unilateral sanctions or those of the european union in an extra territorial manner against the other countries this is the very bullying policy of the us. gibraltar's chief minister says the tanker may have been carrying oil to syria in violation of e.u. sanctions however iran has provided documents to the u.k. proving that the vessel was transiting to a permitted destination without specifying where spain knows that it was detained by britain after a u.s. requests washington applauded the seizure. axle news yuki has detained the supertanker greece one laden with the reigning oil bomb for syria in violation of you sanctions american our allies will continue to prevent regimes into iran in damascus from profiting off this illicit trade. the white house unilaterally withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal and slapped harsh sanctions on tehran iran now says it is no longer bound by the agreement and wil

being seen as a threat that the that the u.k. will leave you on the 31st of october with no deal could have potentially have huge economic consequences the expectations among some of the hard line breaks here is that that will make the e.u. bend the knee and give in but that is also quite naive because we've heard corrector it like this before especially when it came to if you think of how the u.k. was expecting germany to handle this and thing saying that you know well germany will be pushing they'll be rooting for us and make sure that we get the best deal possible because of course germany stands a lot stands to lose a lot especially if the u.k. crashes out of the e.u. without a deal an already yesterday the. one of the of one of germany's as a biggest industry is they are. expressing their fears and concerns about the prospect of having boris johnson as the prime minister of the u.k. in the fact that he could pull the u.k. from the e.u. without a deal come the 31st of october of course for a long time the economic ties betwee

u.k. will learn the identity of its next prime minister at midday. worst johnson is the favorite to take the top job. that deal. president trump announces a i partisan agreement to boost u.s. spending for the next two years. good morning. matt: good morning. less than half an hour away from the european open and a lot going on. let me take a look first at pound futures. we're looking at pound trading 124. it is headed down over the past few sessions. we will keep a close eye on this . and a is on standby for the new prime minister. also looking at futures pointing higher. european equity indexes have risen for a couple of sessions. it will be three solid sessions. the ftse, the dax, and the cac all pointing to gains ahead of the open in less than 30 minutes' time. talk to us about the politics situation. westminstern keeping an eye on the pound because of what is happening here. we will hear later on around midday the identity of the new prime minister. willoughby boris johnson? probably g

the u.k.'s government is fighting the court of appeal ruling that arms sales to saudi arabia are norful in the latest challenge in the long running legal battle over weapons used in the yemen war ministers are trying to stay the judgment which means they could carry on licensing arms sales to the saudis until the outcome of its appeal last month the court said the u.k. export licensing process was wrong in law in one significant respect the government made no concluded assessments of whether the saudi led coalition had committed violations of international community area law in the past during the yemen conflict and may not tempt to do so trade secretary liam fox was forced to hold an immediate review of almost 5000000000 pounds worth of weapons deals while this latest appeal seems to contradict fox's assurances to m.p.'s that saturday on sales would be halted pending a review as i said earlier we disagree with the judgment and the secret mission to appeal alongside this we are carefully consid

ambassador to the u.k. to provide him and the state department with similarly unvarnished views of how the british government is operating the other point and i think this is an important point is that there does not appear to be any real danger to u.s. british relations you don't see the u.s. threatening for example to downgrade diplomatic relations between the 2 countries you certainly don't see the members of the british diplomatic corps being ordered to pack up their belongings and their papers and their families and to leave the country within 72 hours that happened when the u.s. wanted to show its displeasure with the ongoing civil war in syria the embassy over in washington wyoming avenue has been empty for the past several years certainly the iranian ambassador building on massachusetts avenue here in washington has been sitting empty for more than 40 years and it's up to the state department's diplomatic corps diplomatic security i should say to make certain that no one gets into their building the

well the u.k. is calling for a stronger western military presence in the gulf the u.k. foreign secretary jeremy hunt says he wants a european led naval mission to ensure shipping through the strait of hormuz and that's where iran sees the british flag on friday claiming it was violating international maritime law while the u.k. is calling it an act of state piracy lawrence lee has more now from london. this emergency couldn't have come at a worse time for the u.k. and the ministers who left the crisis meeting all know it's apart from anything else they'll be a new prime minister this week probably with a different take on the situation still the u.k. can do nothing in the face of what it regards as a provocation by iran the way in which the capture of the u.k. flight tanker was filmed by the commandos who took control of its refusal to obey the demands of the british frigates in the strait of hormuz to let the time to go all cut very deep at the heart of a british military establishment used to the days when britannia ruled the waves and consequently the foreign secreta

the u.k. government fights a block on arms sales to saudi arabia after a court ruled supplying weapons to riyadh was illegal because they could be used in the yemeni conflict. in from around the world this is r.t. international from moscow i want to welcome to news this hour the british government says looking into the possibility that a hostile state the damning secret memo sent back to london by a bastard or in the united states the embarrassing revelations expose what he really thought about the american president and his administration and it seems that the incident has put strain on that long lasting so-called special relationship between the 2 nations the reports next from westminster. because this all began when this message this message was leaked which showed the you can buster the describing the trumpet ministration in really harsh terms describing them as being inept and not seeing the situation improving any time soon and perhaps in typical donald trump fashion the us president too

the wacky ambassador that the u.k. for we stood upon the united states is not someone we are thrilled with a very stupid guy he should speak to his country and prime minister may about their failed break that negotiation and not be upset with my criticism of how badly it was donald trump friends speak frankly so i will these comments are disrespectful and wrong to our prime minister and my country you said the u.k. u.s. alliance was the greatest in history and i agree but i need to treat each other with respect and three's i'm a is always done with you i've got a good relationship with the white house and i have no embarrassment in saying that the united states is has been will be for the foreseeable future our number one political military friend. well there you had the gaffe prone guy boris johnson with his usual explicit flair and of course this has angered many in the house of commons who are deeply critical of boris johnson stance in fact that also includes the foreign 1 office minister sir alan duncan and he's ac

after iran sees a u.k. flagged oil tanker italy denmark the netherlands and france apart britain's proposal for a european led nato mission to chill safe shipping through the strait of hormuz. and russia has carried out what it said was its 1st long range app a trial with china in the asia pacific region triggering hundreds of warning shots from south korea. kenya's finance minister has been released on bail in a sensational corruption case that made him the 1st minister to be charged while in office henry write it has been accused of defrauding the government out of hundreds of millions of dollars but he insists he's done nothing wrong after so reports now from somebody in kenya. henry rocked is in unfamiliar territory in a courtroom. he has been charged along with other government officials with several counts of corruption using office and the 40 in the government of more than $240000000.00 this is unprecedented he's the highest ranking government official to be arrested and charged at the center of the

as the u.k.'s ambassador there was unprecedented do you think ploys and the will was for as ambassador was concerned all the way back in 2060. right and what we should say of course is that kim was already ambassador in 2015 so he already had a bit of a harbinger of things to come today a tweet from farage saying that it is time for a break. to be installed and that said that is not how diplomatic and appointments actually work in the u.k. of course and they're not political appointments. just a personal note you or british you're there in the u.s. reporting from the united states talk to me about to help this diplomatic disaster . hit you when you got the news. right well i will say this yesterday i said to you brant that it's important to look beyond 1 the bluster and the consequences today in washington d.c. we woke up to some very real and serious consequences which have certainly shaken the diplomatic core here but this is a diplomatic and political city and i think it's important to look bey

a one in 4 chance the u.k. economy is already in recession pending the release of the latest quarterly growth figures has severe downturn in the event of a messy no deal breakfast and sluggish growth in the best case scenario these are the key findings of a report by the u.k.'s national institute of economic and social research about the impact of breakfast. it follows a similar outlook in a report the office for budget responsibility or o.b. are released last week speaking on the day of its publication the man in charge of britain's finances had this to say. published this morning shows that. there would be a very significant hit to the very significant reduction. so why do researchers appear to be so united in the belief that bracks is bad for the british economy. one big factor concerns trade with no clarity on how the country's economic relationships will look post-breakfast companies are finding it hard to plan for the future this has led to a decline in investment. does in turn has hampered growth forcing

the u.k. will get a brexit deal or will leave the european union without one. johnson delivered his first speech as leader outside number 10 downing street. p.m. johnson: it is vital at the same time that we prepare for the remote possibility that brussels refuses any further to negotiate. and we are forced to come out with no deal, not because we want that outcome, of course not. but because it is only common sense to repair. mark: during his remarks, prime minister johnson tried to show his administration will have priorities beyond brexit. he promised to increase school funding, lower taxes on capital investment, and fix the country's social care system. bernard made office asking president trump to shorten his 150 year prison sentence. the financier who was sentenced in 2009 to 150 years in prison has filed a request for a commutation with the department of justice's office of the pardon attorney. he was convicted of running the largest ponzi scheme in history, stealing an estimated $64 bi

the u.k.'s conservative party prepares to announce who will replace to resign may yes but mr johnson is a front runner for the top job. hello i'm daryn jordan this is al jazeera live from coming up. if iran continues on this dangerous path they must accept the price will be a launch of western military presence. and more tension in the gulf as the u.k. calls for the media release of an oil tanker on friday. to break up the territories embattled governor. and the trump administration announces it will fast track deportations of undocumented migrants. in the coming hours will find out who will become the new prime minister of the united kingdom to reason may be holding last cabinet meeting before the conservative party's next leader is announced boris johnson or jeremy hunt will be taking over the top job from wednesday live not to westminster hall joins us jonah so just tell us how things are going to unfold for the winner today. later on in the morning the winner of this conservative party lead

you're poking the u.k. bear. and they were kind of on your side a little bit in the past several months. >> that's right. that's the way we see it, trace. it's not the iranian narrative. they hope to pressure the europeans to break with washington more a and somehow deliver sanctions relief. but i think obviously there's a chance that they get the opposite reaction. you said earlier, trace, the u.s. is trying to recruit other countries, recruit allies to help in maritime security in the gulf. this is a great demonstration of why it's necessary. >> yeah, very quickly, michael, i want to find out, do you think this is an escalation or is this just a bump in the road? >> i think we're going to see more of this. i think the iranians are not trying to cause a confrontation. but they are trying to, again, throw american policy off track. >> thanks, michael. appreciate it. >> trace: we'll continue coverage of this breaking news. iran seizing two oil tankers. i'm trace gallagher in for shepard smith. "your world" with ne

and trade partners and the u.k. and the rest of the world in the event of brexit, then you have a scenario where the neutral rates drop. they are much lower than it would be otherwise. therefore, rate cuts would be less effective. the other end of the consideration is the u.k. is unique in the sense that it is an open economy with a very large financial sector. that makes sterling vulner able, which is very much driven by political risk. the currency is very much the political risk currency among the g10. the bank of england is looking at the volatility, looking at its inflation forecast driven by political risk. if you look at the u.k., g10 break evens out. it is in the outlier trending what is up and down. manus: ok, as you say, it could bring some unconventional policy to bear and a rate cut before the year-end if there is a hard brexit. komileva, she is staying with us. something positive on brexit. next, it is almost that time again. corporate earnings results. and we are getting ready for them. banks will be a

or we begin in the u.k. were british prime minister to resume a is set to hold an american city meeting on monday over the british oil tanker that was seized by iran in the straits of hormuz and arabian flag is now flying over the captured vessel the ship and its crew on its attains in the arabian ports of bonds are full as the seizure of an iranian tanker in the british territory of gibraltar earlier this month as barbara has more. a radio exchange apparently detailing what happened in the strait of hormuz on friday a british navy officer from the frigate h.m.s. montrose tells the crew of the oil tanker stener in piro that it's in a recognized international strait and must not be impeded he then urges the iranian navy patrol boat which ordered the tanker to change course not to intervene. late international. troops at the end of the senate. but iran's revolutionary guard soon arrived by helicopter and seized the tanker iranian maritime officers said on sunday the vessel and its crew of 23 from india latvia

terrorism in northern ireland did throughout the u.k. u.s. citizens have been compensated by libyan authorities but the u.k. should not that's unlikely say the. x the reason why this is where the other is much more of the mess that political affairs are getting what's more about the relationship between the conservative party. and the party and this is just it is being done because the libyan government is in the midst of a. civil war. and the interest of that money even for the symbols of the question all this raises is when the libyan money well finally returned to the people of libya the country is in a state of civil war and its rival governments haven't requested the funds back in april libya's house of representatives called on the international community not to release any libyan assets abroad until a unified government is formed this u.s. news report is from 2011 the u.s. treasury department has $37000000000.00 worth of funds that were accessible to more market off his regime frozen. in the united states the u.s. government is holding

the u.k. because they are out with a positive report on the state of the u.k. housing market. that could lift some house builders. we are expected to open more strongly. next.en is this is bloomberg. ♪ anna: a minute to go to the start of cash equities trading. welcome to the european market open. from thehe handover asian session, a strong one, up 0.8% on msci asian pacific index, reflecting the dovishness from jerome powell. the jobs report did not change his thinking. rate cuts are on their way. the euro was stronger, but it is a dollar weakness story. the dollar has weakened as a result, the euro made gains as does the yen. we see weakness and yields. the buy everything story seems to be back. you're watching developments in the straits of war moses -- the strait of hormuz between the u.k. and iran. 0.2% and 0.4% on this european sector. ,uropean equity markets opening the extent of the dovish messaging coming through from the fed ringing in the ears of investors globally. powell will ap

of dragging the u.k. into this crisis they say britain is just following american orders do you think that's the case right now what is their role in the crisis well that's a church that's long been levied at the united kingdom dating back decades the idea that u.k. is waning power doing that bidding of the united states is one that is routinely routinely thrown a london and to an extent i can understand why it is but i think recently what we've seen is that the british tensions with iran independent of the united states really really escalated following the seizure of the tankers that your package really was talking about and that draws on longstanding tensions between u.k. and iran that the independent united states dating back to the time of persia an oil in persia so there's a complex there's a complexity to all of this historical complexity and a more contemporary complexity independent of the united states in other world news police in hong kong have fired rubber bullets and tear gas at protesters o

for the u.k. really to decide in which direction it will go how do you see the prospects for boris johnson to build some sort of unified position. that is very hard to tell from the moment because this was not a speech that would deliver unity it appealed to everybody who believes in bracks it and he sort of said again britain is going to wonderful be wonderful all serious economists here is say that it's going to be a serious hit for the british economy to the chuen of many billions baht he sort of clings on to this optimism we can do it and many more possibilities he talks about free trade he has free trade being a member of the european union of course and i would sign free trade is going to be much more difficult so of course he's fucked. you know all these issues because like a preacher he is preaching to the converted but others saw it was really nothing on offer for them there was nothing on offer called the remainders of the country and for the many who don't believe that to a glorious fut

of the u.k. expressed her condolences as well what was especially striking about this unfortunate incident was that out of the 1414 sailors who died 7 of them of captains 2 of them heroes of the russian federation all professionals all high ranking decorated veterans of the navy we've learned about the incident itself as well it happened aboard a military deep sea scientific research vessel it was out in the barents sea off the coast of mormons conducting scientific research in the hydras field when a fire broke out and one of the compartments the crew acted professionally story they began fighting the flames they evacuated a civilian industry representative that was on board shut the hatch behind him in order to prevent the fire from spreading and consuming the rest of the submersible perhaps killing their colleagues the other crew members that survived and unfortunately they got the fire under control but they perished juta asphyxiation. acted heroically in a critical situation from a compartme

vro u.k. where you know hate crime is going up why do you think that is going to skew some bills that is the fear that austerity is catalyzed ways was he growing up i think hate crime is going up because. of austerity because of the braggs it paralysis that we're in i feel that you know in posts briggs's britain people have given themselves the permission to criticize to bully to vocalize their hate to anything that they deem the other u.k. back blackborough it is them or would you make of the we reflect the home office so they will want the people who did with the horse to the wind. promoting a beauty rhodes kudos to you cable out pride for doing that i mean. you know as a person of british pakistani faith i am aware of pakistani asylum seekers for example that come to my clubs that come to my shows that i have to go through hurrying experiences of claiming asylum in the u.k. i mean having to prove that their eligibility you know the home office believe that if you're outgoing partying pink t

and the u.k. share a bond that's bigger than any individual we remain committed to the u.s. u.k. special relationship and our shared global agenda nothing shocking pretty pro-forma statement but i can tell you that other diplomats are much more shocked about this the fact that someone was simply doing their job reporting back to his government and the fact that these are such close allies that normally work together on the dish it did difficult issues the world don't find themselves against each other in this adversarial way as we saw with the ambassador and the comments of the president what next well i think there is concern certainly among british diplomats about maybe among other diplomats too about this leak could there be more to come could there be more comments from the british embassy here in washington could there be more things that were given in diplomatic cables from other british embassies so i think everyone in the british diplomatic system at least is on high alert they also i think will be looking at what the next step will be in terms of filling the vacancy tech

made fighter jets u.k. made bombs and u.k. made missiles have played a devastating role in creating the worst humanitarian crisis in the world and yemen it is no surprise that the government is appealing this paradox because it will do everything it can to maximize arm sales to him because for decades and decades to stage a dictatorship has been the largest buyer in the wilds of u.k. weapons the saudi led coalition says it wasn't deliberately targeting civilians but thousands have been killed the united nations says 3300000 yemenis are displaced and at least 2 thirds of the population need help in the long running lethal battle is no end in sight. coming up a play a televised link between people from ukraine and russia infuriates kiev we'll tell you why after this. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy foundation let it be an arms race in this on all sides very dramatic development the only. exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. 17 min

reminded of the news this hour u.k. foreign secretary jeremy hunt is calling for a european led naval mission. stepping through the strait of hormuz it's a response to iran the seizure of a british flag oil tanker last week. most of venezuela has been plunged into darkness after a major blackout the government says opponents sabotage the palace station but the opposition leader is blaming the government failing to maintain the national grid. and the u.s. government says undocumented immigrants can now be deported from anywhere in america without allowing them to appear before a judge fast. but the trumpet ministration has been leaning hard on mexico to stop central american migrants from making their way to the u.s. but critics have warned the crackdown could lead to human rights abuses by new reports from mexico city. over the past 45 days mexican authorities have stepped up a crackdown on migrants through an increase in immigration officers and the deployment of 1000 national guards troops to mexico's northern and sou

still the u.k. can do nothing in the face of what it regards as a provocation by iran the way in which the capture of the u.k. flecked tanker was filmed by the commandos who took control of its refusal to obey the demands of the british frigates in the strait of hormuz to let the time to go all cut very deep at the heart of a british military establishment used to the days when britannia ruled the waves and consequently the foreign secretary told parliament minister the u.k. would seek a european led maritime missions of the gulf states because iran had to understand so to consequences of its actions if iran continues on this dangerous path they must accept the price will be a larger western military presence in the waters along the coastline not because we wish to increase tensions but simply because freedom of navigation is a principle which and its allies will always defend the british government has been widely accused by many m.p.'s of having no take a strategy over this crisis with iran let al

rules applying to the u.k. and that would mean that the price of things being made you kate would go up rather significantly making we're all ready to be tight margins would make things unprofitable under current business plans so it's a real problem a religious tension threat to the industry and to trade across the u.k. now as the united kingdom is turning away from the e.u. they're more interested perhaps in a trading the united states was present on a trump said he says that talks about a quote very substantial trade deal with the u.k. already underway is the us a good alternative to the e.u. for britain. i don't think so i mean the exact same words were said by trump about what he was hoping to do with trees today he's always been promising some kind of big substantial deal but is never given any detail or made any progress on it of course britain can't be negotiating a trade deals until it's out of the e.u. anyway i think the americans under trump right now is a mistake in the short term remember president

the u.k. firmly refutes iran's version of events that the tanker was in some way in violation of maritime rules collided in some way with a fishing vessel and that is the reason why it needed to be boarded and forcibly directed towards iran we heard from britain's defense secretary penny mordant who has described it as a hostile act an act that big very dramatically in the strait of homo's. this is the moment the british tanker was seized by iran's revolutionary guard in the strait of hormuz special forces dropped down on to the deck of the speeding bessel forcing it into iranian waters the 30000 ton stana imperio was on its way to saudi arabia nothing's been heard from her 23 crew since the revolutionary guard who released these images say the tanker was being escorted by a british warship to try to stop the seizure britain's ministry of defense declined to comment on the claim the detained tank is now at the center of a diplomatic storm these images were released by news agency linked to the

meanwhile the u.k. government says a british warship has intervened tried to obstruct a british oil tanker in the strait of hormuz on wednesday denies there was any confrontation. 3 people are dead and 17 more have been taken to hospital after a car bombing in libya the blast happened at the funeral of your former commander who served under warlords 24 have to. a u.s. congressional committee has voted to authorize subpoenas for a dozen current and former trump aides including senior white house adviser jared kirshner these subpoenas would be for an obstruction of justice investigation the house panel also took aim at the president's immigration policy. it's looking to subpoena documents and summon testimonies related to trump's 0 tolerance policy which led to the separation of children from their families at the border let's bring in mike hanna he's joining us from washington d.c. so now that the house panel has authorized these subpoenas mike what happens next. will essentially it's up to the chairman

and u.k. reports it was apparently the naval vessel that drove off these 3 iranian boats and one thing that we could see in the near future is that the u.k. and the united states taking this as evidence and the need to deploy more navy vessels to the region to safeguard commercial ships there now or today's incident is it being seen there where you are as retaliation for britain seizure last week of an iranian oil tanker off. well the u.k. government remains a matter of speculation but of course we have to remember what happened there a british the british marines ceased an iranian super tanker full of oil that was according to u.k. authorities headed towards syria and that would be illegal because they're e.u. sanctions on the assad regime at the moment so they seize that ship iran in return said that that was an act of piracy and that there was a price to be paid so yes it appears that this incident in the gulf in the strait of hormuz was a matter of retaliation from iran now the u.k. seems

made fater jets u.k. made bombs and u.k. made missiles have played a devastating role in creating the worst humanitarian crisis in the world and yemen is no surprise the government is appealing this verdict because it will do everything it can to maximize arm seals. because for decades and decades to stage a dictatorship has been the largest buyer in the world of u.k. weapons the saudi led coalition says it wasn't deliberately targeting civilians but thousands have been killed the united nations says 3300000 yemenis are displaced and at least 2 thirds of the population need help in the long running lethal battle is no end in sight. partridge. that's all for now across folks coming your way next we're back at the top of the hour with the latest global news headlines see you then. just. a little. up. and you try and be professional you try and leave it outside the door you try and put in a come up compartmentalize it's new bright and so you can forget about it but little by little these. these little whispers come and for me i

but the u.k.'s foreign minister jeremy hunt says the tank a seizure is an act of state piracy that must be met with an international response and aren't lee has more from london. this emergency couldn't have come as a worse time for the u.k. and the ministers who left the crisis meeting all know it's apart from anything else they'll be a new prime minister this week probably with a different take on the situation. still the u.k. can do nothing in the face of what it regards as a provocation by iran the way in which the capture of the u.k. flag tanker was filmed by the commandos who took control of its refusal to obey the demands of the british frigates in the strait of hormuz to let the time to go all cut very deep at the heart of a british military establishment used to the days when britannia ruled the waves and consequently the foreign secretary told parliament minister the u.k. would seek a european led maritime missions of the gulf states because iran had to understand the consequences of its

and u.k. came up of course once again demonstrating that gap hunt's insisted he would stand up to trump and support his ambassador in washington sometimes things that you have to say to your friends that you rather not say like i said to president trump today because i think its comments about treason may were unacceptable and i don't think he should have made them. while johnson refused to promise to defend the ambassador and refused to say that he would keep him posts well i'm not going to be so presumptuous as to thank you i got a good position the program was called britain's next prime minister much of it was excruciating to watch. yes or yes i will i will get your yes sir you know is the question allow him to respond force you haven't answered any. question about why it was you know both are to raise their hand if they believe the u.k. will leave the european union at the end of october well that's the spirit germany . of course the one thing that both johnson and hunt both have in commo

the u.k. government has condemned the leak but is standing by its ambassador and his right to communicate honestly about the u.s. administration but trump's lambasted have to resume a and breaks it that led u.k. foreign minister jeremy hunt to tweet this message today for the u.s. president he writes dollar friends speak frankly so i will these comments are disrespectful and wrong to our prime minister and my country your diplomats give their private opinions to the u.s. secretary of state pump a go and so do ours strong words for that special and now strained relationship but publicly the british government remains more concerned that a secret diplomatic cable was leaked to the public the government has ordered a special investigation to track down the leaker the problem is the leak that's the fundamental problem is that the british government can't be trusted to keep secrets the reality is there is number 3 in washington who although i don't agree with his analysis was doing exactly what the

i think primarily because if the u.k. doesn't leave the 31st of october then probably the u.k. will never leave and as well as that that you could as and leave then then that would be a general election sooner rather than later and they're terrified of either losing enormous support of the brits party or losing the entire election to jeremy corbin and both of these candidates are saying openly that if they don't leave those things will happen so it's as much as anything else it seems to me that the in it's for the delivery of bricks it is as much a peep in the conservative party together as it is to do with national interests and that's not a partisanship mulloy it's what they say who sells that now you're a young neighbor and i want to put the stephen this comes and pfizer membered says in the black and minority ethnic office the london young loba and selects this point about this concept of the surprise have a. story to collection is the hierarchy includes millions of people having st peter of our country that there is a current prince of people he plays life and death situat

the u.k. they faced some of the same difficulties -- member the backstop, the thorny way the relationship will be managed between northern ireland and the republic of ireland -- that will be back. that is something that boris johnson, the favorite to win, objects to. he wants brexit to take place by october 31. one thing that is making his life more difficult is that -- she only has a majority courtesy of the relationship with the dnp in northern ireland. his majority will be even smaller than theresa may's at the time she took office, because the majority keeps on falling for various reasons. he will be incredibly vulnerable from day one. just yesterday we saw one minister resign, whether he has the confidence of the house. we now understand the liberal democrat party is going to be taking legal action in the scottish courts to try to stop any attempt suspend parliament. all the difficulties that we saw theresa may face in trying to get parliament to come to a view on brexit -- if anything, i

and the u.k. government challenge was a landmark court ruling blocking arms exports to saudi arabia. hello welcome to our teens and i still live from moscow and daniel hawkins review arts and i thanks for tuning in on the program but. the u.s. president has lashed out at the british ambassador in washington calling him a pompous fall so after a leaked memo in which the envoy gave a damning assessment of the trump ministration the feud has put a strain on the so-called special relationship between the 2 countries as more. this all began when this message message was leaked which showed the you can bask in the describing the trumpet ministration in really harsh terms describing them as being inept and not seeing the situation improving any time soon and perhaps in typical donald trump fashion the u.s. president took to twitter to express his feeling. they didn't pull any punches and he described the u.k. ambassador as being a very stupid guy the wacky ambassador that the u.k. foisted upon the united