boy then his grandmother died from it. both had recently arrived with other family members from neighboring democratic republic of congo where the boy's grandfather also succumbed to the virus ugandan doctors say patients are being kept in isolation in other people who had contacts with the family are being monitored the district surrounding the hospital is on alert the government has banned public gatherings in district as the ministry of health tries to control the spread of hiv the virus causes internal bleeding and is often fatal. the latest outbreak of ebola in uganda spread from the east in d.r. c. the outbreak there last year has killed 1400 congolese and infected 2000 just over 500 have been treated efforts to contain the spread have been hampered by militia attacks on treatment centers and hostility towards medical teams. in the bustling markets of uganda's capital kampala concerns are growing your grubby did read by

the minister today morning i heard on the radio. just like about you know i don't see any preparedness because people are moving freely and i think they are not always. yeah they you know it is a very dangerous disease. to set up and. when you are considered a compiler. people see does as far. as not they are on site and i would say preventive measures are being imposed ugandans being urged to wash their hands with soap and an emergency vaccination campaign is being set up to immunize health workers on the frontline in a number of people over 700 frontline health has another one we have vaccinated in consistency and so on friday we shall be back finish on again all the front line hills to our cars other walk us on ring boxing nation for the

contacts the alerts is spreading to the world health organization and emergency committee is planned on friday to determine whether the bonus spread to uganda should become an international public health emergency. al-jazeera will update the headlines in a moment on al-jazeera and then the palestinians banned from fishing the israeli navy tightening its grip on the gaza strip. and there we should now be expectancy dry and dusty and hot conditions struck middle east and iran that's true a few showers run across the southern caspian or not some relief from it and same is true in southern caucasus and maybe turkey otherwise it's just where the wind coming from well it's a hot dry wood now coming south through iran so 44 degrees in baghdad might

translate to about 48 in science around. that will bring with it dust which is on his way sas or the gulf otherwise be all men have already said regarding showers it is dry hardly a surprise we're now into proper summer such i'm sure as easily into the middle forty's from there how westwards the breeze has brought more dust and recently through eastern saudi and towards the u.a.e. this cloud along the south coast result of the incoming monsoon which will just i think will bring a tropical cycle with it just to catch the size of pakistan or at least the winds and rain or kashmir but for the ready in place that is not the case and it sort of improves cloud wise come saturday that's where most active weather is in the world actually than south africa southern africa you'd be pushed to see any significant cloud at all apart from this frontal system just dragging trust with the science of south africa but inland by day stuff as well as it could be you're lucky to get 22 of course frosty nights.

with al-jazeera these are the top stories the united nations security secretary

general says the world cannot afford a confrontation in the gulf the warning from antonio the terrorist follows apparent attacks on 2 tankers in the gulf of oman but the crew has been forced to abandon ship. iranian t.v. showing these pictures of what it says is one of the oil tankers the front of which had $23.00 crew on board it was loaded with oil from abu dhabi in the united arab emirates and was heading to taiwan. and in other news crowds have been gathering again in hong kong to protest against plans for a new extradition law so far fewer people are turning out compared to wednesday when police used tear gas pepper spray and rubber bullets to disperse thousands of protesters surrounding hong kong legislative council. the former british foreign secretary boris johnson has topped the 1st round of voting by conservative party m.p.'s in the contest to elect their new leader and he's won by an overwhelming margin mr johnson is saying to replace prime minister theresa may who resigned last week after failing to win support for her break that deal with the e.u.

aren't they reports now from the. jeremy hunt 43. sajid javid 23. or it's johnson $114.00. so it's already seems to be boris johnson's race to lose he received nearly 3 times as many votes as his nearest rival in this 1st round and momentum is now very much with. his team is studiously avoided letting johnson do any of this sort of thing for the obvious reason that it hardly looks like a prime minister in waiting. but for all of his ducking of difficult questions about his private life and personality it remains a fact that polling has him as popular with his party but unpopular with very many voters they are unlikely m.p.'s seem to want to know how exactly he will renegotiate a deal with the european union when there is effectively no time left to do it i

think the onus is on the candidates to show how they will achieve brix it because it's all very well saying what will go for no deal may not get through parliament. so you really go. when a moment get through the year so at the moment the kind of not being adequately precise to convince even their own colleagues let alone the membership of the public at large thompson's appeal is partly based on the terror many conservative m.p.'s have that nigel farage is the bracks of policy is so undermining them that if it isn't delivered as soon as possible then the tory party faces destruction. but does johnson do his rivals jeremy hunt the current foreign secretary or michael gove the eloquence environment secretary actually know how to deliver bracks it's any better than to reason mated they've been wrong for 3 years about what the.

right all of a sudden now so they don't stand up to scrutiny i think it's not necessarily intended to stand up to scrutiny i think it's maybe intended to influence the candidates in the leadership debate. direction and competing with each other to be more. yes that consideration seems less important to rank and file conservatives than their belief that only johnson can stop their party from being wiped out boris johnson may not be a details man but he's certainly not short of rhetorical flourish courage seems to be his by word of course the u.k. can do this one way or the other well if he really thinks he is the man to take the you can't of the european union without any sort of trade deal he may find himself hostage to his own fortune. apart from anything else the growing likelihood of johnson as prime minister who put enormous pressure on the labor party leader jeremy corbyn to do something to stop the u.k. being walked out of the european union without any trade deal and time is not on

his side either. al-jazeera london. the thoughts of stephen who is the chief diplomatic correspondent for europe for the new york times he told us the conservative party is so worried about a possible general election annihilation about back boris johnson because they think he's popular. there is a feeling that any prime minister with the wind of. the party and parliament behind him or her is far better than to reason may who had no one behind her so if boris johnson can actually construct amend it and control the house everyone will be very happy because frankly i think we've all been headed for a long time to afraid to a free trade deal of the style of canada which is you know a kind of cracks it it'll take

a long time to negotiate and i don't think for ford johnson it's the transition period that worries him it's it's the symbolism of legally leaving and and i think you know that's can be done but it has to be done with some kind of divorce deal if not they'll be chaos and boris johnson knows that the party knows that everybody knows that many even if they do you know get pushed out on october 31st they'll have to be back in brussels in the next week to talk about how airplanes land and and how we do things it's not so simple the tories are so desperately afraid that their party's going down the drain i think they're they will line up in support of someone who at these promises them the sun lit up plans that boris johnson keeps talking about nobody really trusts him i mean people regard him as

reckless as ambitious people regard him as you know after. that in a way he's like jay gatsby if this makes any sense there's a hollowness at the heart of boris johnson that he's always trying to fill but as if he finally gets to be prime minister i think maybe hill and learn to relax and learn to lead as opposed to simply flannel. let's look at albania where peace of overwhelmingly passed a no confidence motion against prime minister met the resolution passed 100 to 7 prime minister and the drama proposed the vote after the president cancelled this month's local elections opposition groups have held months of weekly protests against russia accusing him and other socialist party politicians of having links with organized crime and occasions which i strongly denied more from john psaropoulos in the albanian capital tirana. prime minister appears to have

won a sweeping victory in parliament today by passing a censure motion against the president with 100 votes versus 7 against but this legislature is not working as it used to in february the opposition m.p.'s walked out leaving mr obama with his $75.00 socialist plus 4 traditional allies more or less as the sole occupant of the chamber since then mr rahman has managed to bring in about $43.00 n.p.'s who were runners up to those who resigned their seats in february and he's managed to populate this chamber with replacement opposition m.p.'s some of those who voted with the ruling socialists today to give them that large margin of victory of 100 votes versus 7 however the censure motion against the president does nothing to resolve the constitutional and political impasse in this country the president has ruled a week ago that june 30th elections local elections for 61 mayor ships across the

country should not take place because the opposition democratic party has refused to field candidates for those elections the socialists have taken the position that they should hold those elections anyway with only the socialist party candidates. the british home secretary has signed an extradition order that could send the wiki leaks founder julian assange to the united states where he's wanted to face espionage charges songes currently serving a 50 week prison sentence in the u.k. for jumping bail and 2012 whether he's transferred to the u.s. depends on a decision of a british court which is set to hear his case on friday a son his lawyers say he's too ill to attend because it sounds new president's been sworn in but protests against his election continue. is the 2nd president in kazakhstan post soviet history during the ceremony police arrested dozens of protesters near independence palace in the capital there's been more fighting on

the outskirts of libya's capital warlord who for half his forces have been battling soldiers from the un recognized government military sources say government forces are advancing on the areas of veins are a b. and half as warplanes also targeted several locations across tripoli overnight more now from the wahoos in tripoli. the clashes that we knew would between forces loyal to the government of national called and fighters loyal to the world lord have to on the southern outskirts of the libyan capital the military sources with the government say that their forces are advancing in why did will be and ends our neighborhoods in southern. the government sources also say that they have lost civil fighters in thursday's clashes and they also say that the clashes than you would after have to this warplanes targeted similar locations overnight and this

and on thursdays morning across tripoli and that includes that also includes several civilian locations including civilian houses we know that have to do warplanes have been intensifying air strikes recently that's after have to us forces have not been able to achieve their goals by reaching get at the city center as the government forces have been pushing them back beyond the southern parts of the libyan capital and we know that the clashes have taken long as their military sources say that have to as forces have been have been pushed back by the government forces that beyond the diversity of the in active old international airport on the southern western part of tripoli and the city of misrata in india and definitely an area that's around 20 kilometers to the west from misrata a pro-government plane crashed because of technical reason and the pilot

is dead according to the government sources little bit of breaking news now the sudanese state television is saying president has been charged with corruption bashir of course from power in a military coup back in april which was triggered by weeks of protests over price hikes prosecutors are saying they've completed an investigation into the former leader before charging him. with corruption more on this developing story out of sudan when we get it. now this ready navy is banning palestinian fishermen in gaza from going to see indefinitely israel's defense ministry says the action is in response to the launching of incendiary balloons and kites across the border june a peak fishing season in gaza and supports around 50000 people israel and egypt blockaded gaza since 2007 more now with harry force that. gaza's fishing industry employs some 4000 people working on some 1200 boats and since the end of

the last round of fighting between israel and palestinian armed factions here in gaza that was at the beginning of may they've really been bearing the brunt of the continued tensions since every time in century devices flown across into israeli territory setting fires in israel it's the israeli military has been restricting access to the fishing zone taking it down from 50 nautical miles to 10 nautical miles then relaxing those restrictions again when tensions seem to subside this time though after a number of fires were set inside israeli territory on wednesday the israeli military has decided entirely to close down access to the sea for garza's fisherman the fishing union says it is costing them hundreds of thousands of dollars a day the background to all of this is that hamas is indicating that israel has not been moving quickly enough on some of the undertakings that it made in terms of quelling that last round of violence both in terms of preparing the way for more

qatari money to come into gaza other restrictions being relaxed in terms of what is allowed to be imported into gaza so now we're into another period it seems of increased tension a lot will be shown in the way potentially in terms of where this will go with what happens on friday the next round of protests of the border they have been restricted in terms of of how close people are being able to get to the border question is what will happen this friday and where will that point in terms of how the tensions between israel and hamas roll on from here. top stories for you this hour on al-jazeera the united nations secretary general says the world cannot afford a confrontation in the gulf the warning from antonio terrorists follows reports of attacks on 2 tankers in the gulf of oman. i strongly condemn any attack

against civilian vessels facts must be established and responsibilities clarified and they've very some seen the world cannot afford is a major confrontation in the gulf region iranian t.v. has also shown what it says is one of the oil tankers the front i'll tear which had 23 crew on board it was loaded with oil from darby in the united arab emirates and was bound for taiwan taiwan state oil company says it is believed to have been hit by a torpedo. more breaking news the sudanese state television is saying president bashir has been charged with corruption this year was ousted from power in a military coup in april triggered by weeks of protests over price hikes prosecutors now say they've completed an investigation into the leader before charging him more on that developing story as we get it. there's been more fighting outskirts of libya's capital warlord khalifa haftar forces have been battling soldiers from the un recognized government after as warplanes also targeted several

locations across tripoli overnight protesters in hong kong are planning another mass rally on sunday government offices remain shopped on thursday a small protests took place against a proposed new law which would allow extradition to mainland china m.p.'s in albania have overwhelmingly passed a no confidence motion against president. the resolution passed a 100 to 7 prime minister propose that vote after the president cancel this month's local elections opposition groups accuse roma and other socialist party politicians of having links with organized crime and the israeli navy's banning of palestinian fishermen in gaza from going to see indefinitely israel's defense ministry says the ban is in response to the launching of an sentry balloons and kites across the border june it's peak fishing season in gaza which supports around 50000 people up to date with the headlines here on al-jazeera we are back with the news hour after inside story.

there's growing tension in the gulf 2 oil tankers are attacked near the strait of hormuz becomes us who are increasing their attacks on saudi arabia can this tension be contained or could it spiral out of control this is inside story. welcome to the program i'm adrian finnegan attacks on oil tankers in the gulf and cruise missiles fired on saudi arabia tensions been building up in the gulf region

over the past month part of it has to do with the war in yemen we'll get to that later but 1st the 2 tankers which were damaged in the gulf of oman on thursday the taiwan state oil company believes that one vessel was hit by a torpedo one was heading from abu dhabi in the united arab emirates to taiwan the other from saudi arabia to singapore it happened near the key strait of hormuz which links the middle east oil producers to the rest of the world thursday's incident isn't the 1st almost a month ago 4 tankers were attacked off the coast the u.s. is accused iran of quote or most certainly being behind the attacks iran has dismissed the accusations well iran and saudi arabia have always been in disputes over the war in yemen the kingdom is still battling who the fighters who seized parts of yemen including the capital sanaa in 2014 who thiis of repeatedly hit targets inside saudi arabia the latest misawa to. back on wednesday on alba

airports injuring dozens of people saudi arabia blames iran for supporting the who theories and threatening the region security iran denies those accusations al-jazeera is alexy o'brian has a report on the latest escalation in yemen. these pictures a said to show the damage where flights were disrupted for several hours saudi state t.v. says the airport was back up and running soon after the attack carried out by hooty rebels in neighboring yemen the head of the saudi immorality coalition that's fighting the rebels called it a terrorist attack on a civilian target which could be considered a war crime the whole thing is are targeting civilians on purpose on the blindly they want to put to. a player a week of the player a dirty player in the region because you know targeting civilian targets is very

bad. but the who things insist they have the right to defend themselves saying by launched a cruise missile after years of bombings by the coalition and an air and sea blockade that tempted aid access. we've identified 300 enemy strategic targets every day we have a goal and we will not rush to bomb all the targets today we carried out how threat and promise. the hoose they say they hit and disable the airports taua the stepped up missile and drawing attacks across the border in recent weeks and have made advances on strategic locations inside saudi arabia they can target easily a lot of. you know airports important bases military bases so basically that is a changing dynamic of the this kind of growing war in yemen saudi arabia has been at war with the who sees in yemen since 2015 the kingdom accuses iran of arming the

rebels which iran denies the u.s. says the attack is another attempt by tehran to destabilize the region. these provocative actions mark a new evolution in the threat around poses to the region to our partners and to our own national security the conflicts already cause the deaths of tens of thousands of people the u.n. spokesman says he's deeply concerned we urge all parties to prevent any further such further incidents which risk escalating the current situation pose a serious threat to the national and regional security and undermine the u.n. led political process. but the saudis are already promising stern action with the who are reporting bombing in civilian areas and al-jazeera. or let's bring in our guests for today's discussion joining us from the capital of

yemen is nasser out of be a yemeni journalist and filmmaker from lancaster university simon mabel and who is a senior lecturer in international studies at the university and from london we're joined by a model dean who's a political analyst and author of gentlemen good to have you with us let's start with you simon. incidents in the gulf of oman who myself been behind what happened and what would their motive be. i think there's a range of different possibilities at play here and that's part of the issue there's a great deal of rhetoric involved there's a huge number of accusations allegations about guilty parties i think if you listen to rhetoric coming out of riyadh out of up with that be that be the suggestion that iran or rainy and actors are behind it and that's obviously part of a broad the escalation in tensions across the gulf and part of a broader escalation in tensions between iran and the united states so i think we

need to contextualize yes it is an incredibly worrying incident but it's part of a broader set of geo political maneuverings that there are a consequence of widespread escalation across the region and across the international community ok i'm still love still no clear assignment as to as to who might have been behind it there and what their motive would have been for this attack well that's part of the problem we don't exactly know who is behind it i mean it could have been the iranians it could have been a false flag operation what we don't know who is behind it directly and as a consequence we don't know exactly what their motives are but what it seems to me is that it's a consequence of these broader tensions these broader escalations and that would seem to suggest if we accept that that is true that it's a consequence of these factors then the attack is either a response to the tensions or an attempt to increase tensions and

either way it's a worrying sign i think for regional security and regional stability in that of the algebra in london why would iran or anyone under its influence undertake such a brazen action when tension is so high in the region right under the noses of the us task force. always if there are one uniform the section of the american sections economy sections against iranian regime we see it is biting the really really hard of the people inside of iran of our movement that are out there saying they are not happy with the regime and the and and they jia the regime is still careless about the people so furthermore they want to find anyway which is close to the war solution why because they believe that they can make the inside side of your eye and to make them behind their government which is what's happened this morning where later to us have been yesterday when they fired missiles or coarseness out so

there. must have been last month there with 4 ships so obviously all of this is logically a related to the iranian regime because they are useful from this in fact hang on to it so you're saying that iran would intentionally escalate the tension push towards further towards military action. and risk a war. it just right because it seems to me you know logically they pushed her that way because there are many ways to come on this kind of lead to solve any problem but for the iranian regime sectarian book they have a sectarian bloodshed and then the out of the lord so obviously they don't want to put back they don't want to withdraw from for our country under their control so this is not so without by peaceful at least by a military solution otherwise you know you cannot for the iranian regime they do with the of that any kind of the clash it is for their site for the american though

obviously they don't get if there is attack from your american side for the want for the people which is there not by those without a bit the other no than there is not in mind the 2 have an attack for they iranian because they are so far to the control of 4 arab quantities they believe that they cannot withdraw by in peaceful right so what the end of the day is so both must be clash otherwise they don't do them just they think they attach these things and you know of attack can attack them to see how read the reaction from the western side plus from the gulf side ok now saturday what he what do you make of what you heard just who do you think is responsible for thursday's attacks in the gulf to yemen's hooty rebels have the ability. to attack vessels in the gulf and would pay. the attacks in

in the job of. we in yemen do not care about these things at all we don't care because we have been and the bombings and the saudi him out at the bombings for 5 years. saudis and him are at these have been killing and destroying yemen mess mesler silly so we don't care who is now who is now attacking him. in the gulf because we are a very busy we are very briefly okey abiud with our 3 cities with the water crimes being committed they are and denied by saudis and emeritus on yemenis so what we what we can say now what they can answer if you ask me is who. oh how could you or how would you defend yourselves and i would have the time

that we would defend ourselves because yemenis would defend ourselves because now after 5 years of. killing and destroying and blockading that country and the v.a. and stuff and the stuff and starving that the bomb so we are now yemenis are defending themselves now by doing the same in the saudi arabia and the united out of. saudi arabia or rather the who. admitted responsibility for the missile attack on airports on wednesday but a spokesman warned that there would be further voted cama surprises in coming days why not the incidents in the gulf of oman on thursday as perhaps one of those surprises to to ratchet up the tension to focus attention on what's happening in yemen. yes thank you very much for this for the scores and yes yemenis would not

attack anyone. would attack the one who attacks them so now yes yemenis declared the clearly that they have 300 guy gets inside the mainland of saudi arabia and inside the mainland of united arab emirates not in iran not in the in the money see not in any any other places so. yemenis and i would or would focus on these things because they are defending themselves they don't want to open war with anyone they don't want to open war with the region they don't want to open war with the united states no but they want what they want is to defend themselves because now. saudis and him are at these are. told you today for example saudi airplanes came over the summer and they they carried out 2 more than 20 airstrikes in their places

that they were hit many times repeatedly over and over again time and time again why because they say they wanted to say we are still striking we are still. killing and destroying you so what what matters to yemenis most is to defend themselves saudis and emeritus not anyone else some of what you make of that i mean . why would the who thinks attack saudi arabian interests in the gulf when the region's on such high alert and the consequences for doing so could be so high. i think just before i get to the i think what we've heard so far from from the other 2 guests demonstrates the complexity of what's going on demonstrates that it's not entirely clear what's happening about who's involved but that a range of different agendas at play a range of different fears a range of different aspirations and a range of different strategies that these groups are all potentially working

towards each with their own grievances each with their own concerns and that's what makes this this incident so complex and so so troubling i guess now as for your question about why the who these might might attack saudia marathi vessels we know that the war in yemen is incredibly costly that it's draining billions of dollars out of the saudi arabian economy and and there's a crude clear asymmetry in terms of power at this saudi m r r t led coalition has planes it has the capacity to exert huge losses on the who feeds into huge destruction on parts of yemen and that comes at a cost of course now the who thinks fighting an asymmetric type of war will try and strike back against the saudi and the right to coalition in in a way that it can and perhaps this is one of the ways of doing that by striking vessels causing damage having causing destruction to saudi vessels carrying

oil causing a financial losses potentially causing increased security in the gulf potentially ratcheting up tensions between the saudis and other states and so it's potentially a response to what's happening inside of yemen that that can hit the saudis the hardest without necessarily striking at mass civilian casualties that are had. to be sorry come back to just a moment but. picking up on what saddam was saying. have already demonstrated they have the technology in the ability to strike deep inside saudi arabia the capital riyadh has been hit or oil installations have been hit i mean it's not that hard to believe they might have the technology and the ability to attack vessels in out in the gulf. well for the technology it's very easy to explain what because. yemenis. you know.

bombings for 5 years now so they. they mean that this is it the thought of the yemenis how to make use of inexperience of any expertise of any experts. so this acknowledge is is a natural consequence for for what happened to yemen because it's 5 years we are now you know the infrastructure is almost 0 but of course we want to live and yemeni now is the raising yemenis are raising that the slogan of to die bitter to die than to to to to be a slave. and to try to defend yourself if anything and this by anything and with any and however it is this is what yemenis are trying to do now and this is. of course they their chief sexist of course and.

what their what they did now in there in that in terms of drones and in ballastic missiles and lastly also the that the cruise missiles all of these things also because of the injustice because of the authorities because of the war crimes so yemenis should do something yemenis would not sit idly by watching others do watching their country being killed and destroyed or without doing anything so they should do something they should use it a technology to defend themselves if it had gone so that the truth is a fighting against fighting back against injustice atrocities and war crimes. we're always doing talk with a meanies we have to offer asked there is an argument government supported by the art of collusion let by saudi arabia and eligible and forces which is the whole

theologian so 80 percent more than 80 percent containment of the yemeni land by the german government we're talking about. a 1000000000 who are they there are in fact it's 3 ways to sort out the whole conflict in yemen 8 the security council resolution specially 201-622-1622 extension 31 the. gulf of plus the national conference inside of yemen which is the hotel ringback was part of them and accepted so far for the legitimate government and out of. collusion they excepted but for the 1000000000 they don't so this is the problem no one can talk i mean for the who think i'm not up way the whole yemeni people that i believe and part of the.

sectarian abroad ject and this for all of we're continuing one of them in yemen so of i mean every day like they're going to be just hold it out they have to respond positively for this a 3 solutions and today not tomorrow the whole comic will finish in yemen. just to set up a cynical note for a moment here is it in saudi arabia's interests to have yemen's civil war becoming more intertwined with the tension between the u.s. and iran. no idea how to be and most of the. dollars there are against any conflict against the civil a civilian war so a but the point is is the who theme part of the iranian sectarian a broad sect and this are war and this is what we meant if they put their country 1st and 2nd to from the iranian regime and the respond positively for this research

is the contact will finish today not tomorrow so this is the point they fight because they are part or i am of the iranian regime and they are here some of you want to just come back on the what you've heard in the last couple of ounces. sure you know i think your question although cynical is certainly up to the yemeni conflict is complex enough we know that the why complex mess of grievances of different identities of tribal groups of religious groups of political agendas of individuals of networks of patronage and this has had a devastating impact on yemen as we've seen from 2011 to this day now locating this within the broader set of struggles between saudi arabia iran and the united states has led to more escalation has led to increasing devastation has led to more and

more deaths and that's what we've seen when we've seen a conflict has taken on more broader geo political dimensions when we've seen it become part of a broader struggle as a radiance get involved the saudis immoralities and others get involved so making this a bigger part a bigger arena within the broader geo political struggle between iran and saudi arabia in the u.s. is only going to have devastating consequences for the people of yemen for the stability and future of the country and that as we've seen with the recent toothy attack on the saudi airbase will have repercussions for regional politics the regional security and regional stability simon japan's prime minister shinzo up there was in teheran on thursday just as the attacks in the gulf happened. to do you think linked is that significant. what was shinzo are they doing that he's

denied being a mediator between the u.s. and iran and how will those attacks have impacted upon his talks in teheran. well that implicate was initially going to take on a mediator a role that's what japan seemed to be positioning itself and that was why it seemed like he was going to tehran to open up a line of dialogue but of course of the attacks on the tankers in the gulf would have caused a great deal of consternation it also seems that there are japanese interests in these vessels about will lead to a constant in many if not for many in tokyo but what's also interesting is the response to the japanese involvement in this whatever it may be whatever characteristics it may hold from the office of the supreme leader for a molly hominine in iran himself who's poured a great deal of scorn on japan's role as a mediator and expressed a great deal of distrust suggesting that japan open this dialogue would trump

previously but it led to more sanctions and we're almost out of time i have one more question for you if iran and the u.s. were somehow to engage peacefully in dialogue and the tension that currently exists in the gulf was was reined back might that pave the way towards an end so to yemen's long running civil war. it would remove some of the serious issues that are adding to the escalation but it wouldn't address the local on the ground grievances that pit people against people that are local villages against their neighbors that pit individuals belonging to particular communities against their neighbors and against the other but what it will do is it will take out the sting of broader regional involvement it will stop the saudi bombing campaign it will stop the arming of particular groups and that will be a real step in the right direction it will create a degree of space for those on the ground to address their local grievances without

them being played out within the context of an increasingly devastating conflict gentleman there i'm afraid we must leave it there be some a bone and him out of the in algebra thank you as always for watching don't forget you can see the program any time just by visiting our website at al-jazeera dot com for further discussion join us on our facebook page you'll find that at facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle at a.j. inside story from me adrian finnegan and the whole team here in doha thanks for watching i'll see you again i for the.

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secretary general expressing over the suspected attacks and saying the world cannot afford a major confrontation in the gulf also in the news the former sudanese of president obama she has been charged with corruption 2 months after he was ousted from power in a military coup. nandan with a top stories from europe including 1st johnson edges closer to power in britain as he tops the 1st round of the concept. the party's leadership race. and sport the st louis blues are the new stand like had champions maybe the boston bruins and 8 year wait to win the. biggest prize. the united nations is warning the world cannot afford a confrontation in the gulf and terraces comments come after to oil tankers were damaged and the crew is forced to abandon ship in the gulf of oman now it's still

not clear exactly what happened but we've heard from the operator of one of the ships the frontal terror which says there was a fire on board both vessels were damaged apparently by explosions that happened near the strait of hormuz which is one of the world's busiest and most important shipping lines all the crew have been rescued now we have these pictures as well from iranian television said to be the 1st ship i mentioned the frontal to. 23 crew on board it picked up petrochemicals in abu dhabi and was heading to taiwan the 2nd time it's called the courageous and according to its manager the ship was carrying methanol that suffered hull damage and it was going from saudi arabia through to singapore these distress calls or so month after 4 other tankers were attacked off the u.s. coast and the port of for geron oil prices rose sharply on thursday after this news the reaction started with iran's foreign minister zarif he was on twitter saying this reported attacks on japan related tankas occurred while prime minister shinzo

of it was meeting ayatollah harmony for extensive and friendly talks suspicious doesn't begin to describe what likely transpired this morning iran's proposed regional dialogue forum is imperative. now we've also heard from the spokesman for the saudi led coalition which is fighting the hooty rebels in yemen who says he thinks the tanker incident is actually connected to last year's attacks in the red sea i think it is a major escalation if we look to what being declared an announced by the iranian regime. lately about how they will close the. strait and if we look to what's happening in the bubble mentor and also in the south and. see how the the there are 3 thing the line of seas and the international trade and we connect those terrorist act we can say yes they are connected and there is

a huge. of course there is this question by the iranian regime ok here's the team on the story right now kimberly howard at the white house will be with you shortly starting that with mike hanna at the united nations in new york we heard a little bit of what antonio terra's had to say earlier take us through the rest well this was a previously should yield meeting a one between the league of arab nations and the u.n. discussing cooperation but the incident in the gulf certainly was referred to by most of the speakers in the course of the morning among them the u.n. secretary general who warned against drawing any conclusions before the full investigation is carried out i strongly condemn any attack against civilian vessels facts must be established and responsibilities clarified and they've that is something the world cannot afford is a major confrontation in the gulf region. the meeting was chaired by the foreign

minister of kuwait kuwait should be held in the chair for the security council this month he expressed deep concern as did the general secretary of the league of arab nations this is what he had to say as he thought they were not unhappy or when or got belzoni in these dangerous developments must compel the security council to act against those responsible to maintain the security and stability of the region mr president some parties in the region are trying to instigate fires in our region and we must be aware of that. well that part of the security council session is over for the day however the u.s. has made a request for a closed door session to discuss specifically the situation in the gulf later on this evening thank you mike hanna at the u.n. or here is kimberly how that now at the white house hi kimberly any reaction from there any further reaction yeah we are getting some.

there are a couple things going on here let me try and get all of these moving parts in order we're watching very carefully at the state department we expect that there could be some kind of statement coming from the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei oh the topic not specified but of course we're watching for that reaction if it has anything in terms of response on iran the other comments that have been coming have been from the press secretary here at the white house as well as on capitol hill it started the white house press secretary saying in a statement that the president's aware for ports of attacks and ships in the gulf of oman and the u.s. government providing assistance will continue to assess the situation now i'll get to congress in a minute because i want to talk to you about what's coming in being widely reported here in the united states from u.s. defense officials unnamed defense officials but again a lot of this finger pointing that we've been seeing in the last few hours coming from capitol hill in regards to who the united states and many believe is

responsible for these attacks offering no proof i should point out the finger pointing against iran saying according to the unnamed u.s. defense official they are saying that it's highly likely iran is responsible again offering no proof also saying that there are reports that the crew of one of the abandoned tankers spotted an unexploded device attached to it believed to be a limp mine may not be pronouncing that correctly but what they do know about those mines is that they tend to attach to a ship's hull and then can be detonated on a timing device so these are some of the lies that are starting to come out of various u.s. officials now let's get to congress because the words they're pretty strong in terms of the finger pointing again without any investigation or even tying for an investigation to take place we got a top republican senators pointing the fingers against her on one senator tom cotton saying let's not be naive iran's economy is staggering under u.s. economic sanctions and the ayatollah is are lashing out from mitch mcconnell the

republican leader we don't know who's responsible for the latest. taxes not a reasonable to suspect an iranian hand in that so when you pull back from all of this conclusively there seems to be a rush to judgment here before the fires have even been fully put out and that is certainly concerning to many here in washington as these and some fold. in washington up white house and finally the reaction coming from the iranian capital tehran dosage of barry's there for us. iranian president hassan rowhani before departing for his trip to made a statement in which he stressed the security of the region is under very severe circumstances and also the intention of the iranians is that they will not be giving in to economic terrorism which is what the u.s. is trying to do earlier at the same time that these attacks took place in the gulf of oman the iranian foreign minister the iranian president and the visiting

japanese prime minister all meeting with iran's supreme leader his compound the japanese prime minister shinzo up a just wrapped up his 2 day visit to the islamic republic and he met with the supreme leader and with a very specific goal he was here to deliver a message from u.s. president donald trump and the supreme leader upon finding out what the that there was a message for him so that he's not interested that it's not even worth responding to that the iranians are not going to give in to economic pressure to be bullied into negotiations and that given america's behavior towards iran over the past few years there is really no trust there and there is no reason for the iranians to come to the negotiating table only to be disappointed yet again we'll take you back to the strait of hormuz shipping channel it is so important and what happens there has a knock on effect on the supply and price of oil globally you know around a 3rd of oil traded by sea passes through the strait we're talking 20 percent of

the total oil traded worldwide a sea route used by major producers saudi arabia the u.a.e. and kuwait mainly exporting out to asian markets and you've also got qatar in there the world's largest liquefied natural gas producer news of those attacks sort of price of oil jumped. 4 percent initially the tanker association into tanker warned diff the strait of hormuz becomes unsafe and prosthetics would eventually trickle down to consumers old around the world here's the thoughts of cleopatra henry who is the president of the world maritime university talks about how these sorts of attacks can impact world trade. and the question is whether or not these security incidents can be detected in time agel ships actually are manned. not armed on the air not armed as the a cargo ship and they depend therefore an external protection so you have what they're up with there what does exist and detection systems like radar that have

been developed for navigation as well as for antique allusion so you would imagine that these would be among the instruments they at would 1st be actively to ensure the maximum amount of security terms of shipping because when you think of the number of ships at sea every day if it weren't for these important security measures and shipping i would imagine there would be much more there would be even worse incidents taking place all more frequently so these international instruments like an international ship and port security code and as well as the. last conventions i could see these important imo instruments acritical for making shipping as safe as it is today here's what's coming up for you on this news hour a 2nd person dies of a ball in uganda pressing more concerns about the virus spreading from neighboring democratic republic of congo also standing firm in hong kong calls for another mass protest as the government balance to proceed with its controversial extradition

bill and in sport a key player in real madrid's effort to rebuild their squad officially signs on of the. sudanese state t.v. has been reporting in the last hour that president omar bashir has been charged with corruption but she was ousted from power in a military coup in april triggered by weeks of protests over price hikes prosecutors say they completed their investigation into the former leader before charging him we have got with us now senior lecturer in lord kill university an analyst on africa joining us on skype from kiev in the u.k. always nice to talk to you what's your initial riyadh.