it's nationalism that they want to see in the white house right now steve clemons great to get your insight thank you very much. we've been listening to the u.s. president tromso unusual speech during the u.s. independence day celebrations he has been speaking and we've been i will of course be checking in on the events throughout this program and of course be going back to our correspondent she had brittany who is at the national mall for us monitoring the events taking place. ok for now let's move on to some other news and iran has condemned what it describes as the illegal seizure of the supertanker by britain of the spanish coast now the u.k. suspects the iranian ship was trying to deliver or oil to syria which is in breach of e.u. sanctions paul brennan has this report. tanker in the shadow of the rock police boats in attendance the oil tanker grace want to see may be calm but the ship is at

the center now of an international diplomatic storm spain has revealed that the united states had been monitoring the ships journey past that intelligence to gibraltar government this actually rose from information giving the gibraltar government reasonable grounds to believe that the vessel the grace one was acting in breach of european union sanctions against syria in fact we have reason to believe that the grace one was carrying its shipments of crude oil to the ban yes refinery in syria. that refinery is the property of an entity that is subject to european union sanctions against syria the grace one is believed to have loaded with iranian oil off the coast of the gulf the ship made it this far as gibraltar a british overseas territory at the entrance of the mediterranean its final destination is claimed to be the bally ass refinery in syria but under cover of darkness a contingent of 30 royal marines under the direction of the role gibraltar police boarded the ship using a wildcat helicopter and rigid inflatables to run into it

a lot more. naturally we were aware of the operation police patrols bodies were guarding the area but we are studying the circumstances in which it happened he was the man by the united states to be not a kingdom that we're looking into how it affects our sovereignty because it happened in what we understand a spanish waters the u.s. is applying what it calls maximum pressure on iran to try to force a renegotiation of the 2050 nuclear to european union those trying hard to support iran's economy against that u.s. pressure however this oil shipment was heading to syria which the e.u. definitely does have sanctions against iran being under pressure and the united states believes it's trying to twist the arm of of iraq of course the army and try to find the ways and means to bypass it and export their oil and the fact that they did not go through so as cairo and went around from africa around the good hope south of africa coming back it may be just guessing it way to avoid being

tracked iran has reacted angrily to the seizure summoning the british ambassador to the foreign ministry in tehran and stuck in the middle of all of this is the grace want paul brennan al-jazeera. started here by recent terror and with more reaction from iran's government. a strange and destructive act that is how the reigning foreign ministry. person of us mousavi is describing the events that took place on thursday morning in the strait of gibraltar the iranians are saying that this act is illegal because the sanctions that the e.u. has imposed on the syrian government is not indorse by the united nations therefore iran does not recognize them as legal this cruise ship was making its way to the mediterranean port city of tire to swear it was going to be sent to the funniest refinery this interception or seizure by the british government at the request of

the americans will be seen as a very hostile act and that's something the arrangement simply will not accept the iranian foreign ministry spokesperson says that this act will likely inch increase tensions in this region further and that is something the iranians do not want to see but they're saying that this acts on behalf of the americans is a very provocative and will likely cause further strain between the relationship of iran and washington. so anger in iran but it cheerful response from washington u.s. national security adviser john bolton 3 to this excellent news the case has detained a supertanker grace one laden with iranian oil for syria in violation of e.u. sanctions america and our allies will continue to prevent regimes in tehran and damascus from profiting off this illicit trade well joining us now from new york is lawrence brennan a retired u.s. navy captain and a maritime law expert he's currently an adjunct professor of law at fordham

university good to have you on the program now the iranian foreign ministry has called these actions of. sanctioning or the ship as an act of piracy how accurate is that. precisely imprecise and wrong it is not piracy piracy is an act by a non nation state this isn't an foresman of legal procedures and sanctions that have been imposed over a number of years the facts are important here and the facts are changing and they have changed in puerto natures this afternoon the ship according to panama is no longer registered under the panamanian flag. we don't have the details if there was permission granted by panama before the events occurred this morning in gibraltar. but iran has never claimed to own the ship the documents

that were reported in the media concerning the ownership in the oil that was being shipped were was that the oil was iraqi not iranian so what is iran's legal basis for making the argument unless they are conceding that they operate at the ship and loaded the oil in contravention of the sanctions and in the duplicious it's difficult that said it is important that the iranian position be heard not necessarily greeted with but heard and that the iranian side also listen to the position of the other nations we are at a really serious point in in operations at sea starting with the 6 nonlethal incidents in the straits of hormuz in the persian gulf and the gulf of oman and it is been expanding and expanding rapidly and the danger is to

international oil transport merchant shipping of all nature and air transport particularly passenger air transport it's time that people stopped took a breath and decided what is the true facts and iran has a major responsibility having engaged in 6 or 7 incidents that are known in the last couple of months this. it has to be somewhat of a tangled web around the ship it seems that the seizure was to enforce the sanctions not us sanctions sanctions on against syria but not us sanctions on iran could you explain our help clear up exactly what the grounds are for holding the ship. as far as i know from public statements not from primary sources you are correct that the oil was banned for syria and that transferring the oil at this time would be a violation of the new sanctions. there also could be

a basis for violation of u.s. sanctions and that seems to be consistent with the reports again reports not primary source documents that the united states government was the moving force behind the seizure of the ship and we can recall just a few months ago the united states and now it's that it had been involved in the seizure of the north korean ship for violation of sanctions the ship was seized at the request of the united states in a new knees and mortars and maintained there for a number of months if not a year and then recently i think it was may of this year the ship was towed to american samoa and the united states government commenced proceedings in the u.s. district court for the southern district of new york here under u.s. sanctions law perhaps those pleadings are a model of what might happen in this case today is the 1st day were 12 hours 16 hours away from the 1st reports what happened there

a lot of facts we have to learn before we can answer the questions with persuasion there are many instances of seizing these commercial ships particularly if you're talking about asian priests pacific region those that are servicing north korea but how often do we see military a military maneuver behind it. most seizures of ships are routine commercial events resulting in the ordinary practice of maritime trade ships collide they don't pay their bills for bunker fuel they don't pay a crew they there are other maritime lilian's there are enforced by courts around the world and those are normal arrests of ships you are correct in noting that in this case the involvement of military forces and local authorities from gibraltar are not particularly usual but iran has repeatedly used such forces in attempts to seize and arrest ships it was about 2 or 3 years ago that they arrested

a ship allegedly on a commercial debt in international waters at or near the strait of hormuz. we are seeing an expansion in the cut in the area of conflict for the past 40 years or so while the united states and iran have disagreed and sometimes have gone to violence. the conflict particularly during the 1980 s. tank a war when iran was attacking merchant tankers in the in the persian gulf it was restrained to the persian gulf it's only in june of this year that iran for the 1st time has been determined to be responsible for attacks on commercial ships in the gulf of oman and now we see the worldwide theater expanding iran's chose according to what we've seen today to send a ship to disguise the ship its cargo to improperly and illegally turn off

its detection systems and circle navigate africa as opposed to going through. the suez canal to deliver the oil and it described the oil as being iraqi not iranian these are major problems false documents in shipping are are criminal acts lawrence brennan a maritime law expert thank you so much great to get your insights. thank you now iraq has found itself caught 8 in the middle of the escalating standoff between its neighbor iran and the us speaking to our desire iraq's national security adviser said a war could be disastrous for every country in the region. who had did though really it is a crisis that threatens international peace it threatens regional peace and stability in the middle east for the sure it escalates militarily it will be a catastrophe for this region i think if the whole region thinks deeply and wisely

it will find that solving this crisis is in the interest of all a peaceful diplomatic solution. if you were both in yemen say they have carried out drone attacks on jews and airports in saudi arabia the rebel groups us all flights have been halted and a saudi coalition spokesperson says their forces intercepted and shot down a drone algis on airport new details have emerged about an attack on a migrant detention center in libya the u.n. says it was hit by 2 airstrikes and there are reports that guards shot at for a few days the migrants who were trying to escape the bombing of the ministry of justice in tripoli says 60 people are known to have died in tuesday's strikes with 77 injured mom went up there were head has this report from tripoli. only meters away from the detention center that was bombed migrants and refugees have been sleeping on the ground since the detention center was hit on tuesday night they

have remained here skiis den traumatized local libyan authorities are worried if they move them to a nearby facility it too could be targeted by would literally for i have to this force is the and says there are reports god's shot at my gran's as a try to escape the bombing. this acuity personnel here deny that accusation but they refused to let the migrants to speak on camera. immediately after the 1st strike the migrants pushed against the door trying to escape the guards tried to open the door but couldn't they were soon enough while some migrants jumped over the walls to escape the 2nd to strike hasn't side. it's been revealed that 2 air strikes targeted the detention center the 1st hit a garage the 2nd holding cell with about 120 men the u.n. back to government in tripoli blames have to his forces for the attacks since have

there is launching a military campaign to seize 2 police back in april his fighter jets have targeted several residential areas this detention center was also hit by an air strike back in may those who survived tuesday's bombing now rely on aid organizations and local donors for food humanitarian workers say they're helping them as much as they can. we're trying to alleviate their suffering by raising their morale especially those who are still in shock we're also trying to connect them with other organizations that can help them. these migrants are grateful to have survived the airstrike though some of them lost friends supervisors here say children women and their husbands are due to be transferred to other detention centers but the others will have to stay here until the u. and agency are decides where to put them. the injured have been receiving medical

treatment in several hospitals in tripoli those with minor injuries have been relieved others like these victims here will have to stay longer they are worried the authorities might transfer them to other detention centers the migrants here are from african asian and arab countries many of them were intercepted and detained while trying to cross the mediterranean to reach europe they say their embassies have not reached out to them yet and they don't know what is going to happen next. tripoli a boat carrying at least $86.00 refugees and migrants has capsized off the coast of tunis here 4 of them were rescued but only 3 survived sarah hired spoke to them enzymes is that close to that in is in a libyan border. we're here at one of a few camps in disease center near 0 which is very close to the border with libya

and this is where many of the migrants especially african migrants and up now we were talking to the red crescent that runs this place and they were telling us that 4 individuals were handed over by the 2000000 authorities on wednesday night that was less than 24 hours ago one of them is in hospital and we found out in the last few hours that one of them just passed away while we've been here and he was from the ivory coast but also one of the others is of man just laying there behind me respect him earlier he seemed visibly shaken and he's still getting over they want to vote of 86 people that were going from libya all the way to europe and only 4 turned up yesterday now there's only 3 remaining the rest died at sea and are missing and this is a story that we hear quite often one of the person we've been speaking to is mohamed he's from morocco and i'm just going to find out from him what his story is how much it is they will certainly. believe. or.

machine of the bottle almost to the you know. all of the. mohammed tells me that he was one of $75.00 people on a boat that capsized and that happened in may it made headlines around the world at the time and he survived he actually wants to stay inside his ear but most of the other people on that boat actually died at sea and he wants to stay because he's here for economic opportunities he wants to work he's a barber he told me not everyone feels the same i spoke to a few people earlier they said that they feel like they're stuck in limbo here the country doesn't have an asylum system the n.h. they are says that they're trying to help to get some of those sent other countries including europe to safer countries now few of them said that they work you'll notice that there's quite a few empty beds they work illegally they do the odd job here or there to earn a little bit of money and that money helps them buy food and very basic stuff that is not. why did here at this camp when i spoke to the red crescent they said that

there's a lack of funding but also the government at the moment and is in political turmoil and the economy and unemployment is high and for that reason they said that they haven't actually adopted the draft asylum law that was signed in 2014 so many people here are coming from libya and are still stuck here in them by and sorrow spoke to another survivor from the capsized boat and here's how he described that are you then you might not there then you might but we want to go to italy people started jumping into the water we tried to call for help using the phones we had but we couldn't reach anyone but after 3 hours we did not see any boats passing by and water started rushing into the boat then the boat split into 2 and people started jumping into the water we held on to the wooden debris from the boat the waves pushed a few of us towards the libyan engineers in khost there were about 80 of us 4 women and one of them was pregnant another was with her child all of the women were lost

at sea we could not see the libyan navy and there were no means to reach them the fisherman did find us and rescued us. right returning to our top story let's not go back to washington where donald trump has been delivering an address in front of washington's lincoln memorial during the u.s. independence day celebrations this is the 1st such speech by a president since 1951 the opponents are accusing him of politicizing the usually bipartisan holiday they say the speech and military parade are aimed at boosting his reelection campaign and a waste of taxpayers' money lots of events are prepared throughout the day including a military parade but let's go to she had her town see 1st he joins us live after this event where trump has been speaking so she has since we spoke to you last what else has he been saying.

that should have given me and then the snapshot of. exam behind me when the chamber to say see that actually with somebody is quite often i'm proud to be an american i have a backstab for the general and that's the argument the tribes are making in the way he's doing is extending the history of america the american exceptionalism paying tribute to the military he's not talking about campaign issues in his political opponents he did stick to the script and this is a group that will make sense in the coming days as there was a contrast i was asked wait a 2nd went on the left and we just see it's true that speech itself is pretty remarkable i can imagine a democrat or republican to make a bad speech a mainstream one anyway because they are wrapped themselves up in american exceptionalism and the military doing just that i'm delighted the federal surrounded by a couple of objects with constant fly past so don't trumpet the sense of know what exactly did we just see i mean that's going to be after me after he discusses this

how does all this cost a $17.00 of us how about this a cost that passed those billions of dollars it's like each of these claims it's actually been said as a sign of the other way sort of the government to save the best image the sets of these claims the financial often come to types of airplanes the tsunami commercially made it just snuck the payment disasters i think it was all about $77.00 this is a cost position i think for this but the speech itself was putting on the back and the face of the gods. and i understand commercial flights have also been affected with the airspace closed at least twice throughout the day but tell us about public reaction and general how has this divided the country. something that is something that you're seeing that when you think. 1002007 hundreds of thousands. i'm

a saver. because you can expect this is not true and i think the same the crowd behind me these anticipated is that we have piece of the republican party champ danas and members of the military have some enthusiastic i have to admit i can see what the reaction of the crowd behind me behind you are every time there is but there's a huge crowd stretching to work towards the washington monument how many of those wretches some sports i have no idea maybe that's coming here to see the spectacle to send it out seeing that clearly this is not centered on these particular about liberals and democrats who say well this isn't quite right but it did remind you that how similar some of the ratchets up existing what we have seen in the clinton or barack obama about how america is the greatest country in the world with the greatest military and should never be defeated so if they didn't observe up to my political structure you know i may get exceptionalism is very very american but whether they should be doing this on july the 4th. that as you said this is completely inappropriate as well as having too much militarization even though we see the democrats militarized it wrapping themselves up in the military all the

time so it's a pretty much as you expect i would imagine. she had what's become the hearts of those independence day celebrations thank you very much. sudan's military rulers have begun a 2nd day of talks with protest leaders on forming a new governing body earlier thousands of demonstrators returned to the streets there demanding civilian role and protesters also want justice for those killed during a military crackdown last month interrogated b has a story. despite an internet blackout that curbed their ability to organize sudanese protesters took to the streets in the capital khartoum and other cities to continue to demand an immediate handover of power to a civilian led government. the african union and ethiopia are mediating between the 2 sides protesters and opposition leaders want to 72 hour deadline for the

negotiations which resumed on wednesday. any negotiation has to start from the points that we cannot agree on and it is one main point the transitional council it is the point regarding the head of the council because both sides agreed to a civilian majority and it was suggested $8.00 to $7.00 and it was then adjusted to $5.00 and $5.00 plus one and that would be 6 civilians and 5 military. 3 months after president obama al bashir was removed from office ending his nearly 30 year rule those calling for complete change in sudan say there is still a long way to go in khartoum students demanded the reinstatement of the internet something the military gender has agreed to but not yet implemented they also call for the postponement of the academic year until the political situation is more stable. it was a similar scene in the town of santa in the south and this was the city of al-qaeda raef in the east. analysts say protesters won't stop until all their demands are

met including holding military leaders to account for the killing of civilians during a crackdown last month acutely mamba has to be in it well. what we've. done in the grand investigation into the killing. is just when you are through with. more than 200 people. in europe so far the military john to has agreed to demands from the opposition to release prisoners that protestors are concerned that military leaders may prolong the negotiations in order to take advantage of potential splits among opposition groups victoria gate and be al-jazeera. the un's human rights chief says venezuela's security forces appear to have killed large numbers of people without authorization or fear of punishment during the past 18 months the report from

michelle bash a lady who visited the country last month says nearly $7000.00 people were killed in operations led mainly by venezuela's police special forces their port accuses the special forces of carrying out extrajudicial executions then planting drugs and guns on the victims to justify their actions the government rejects this and says the people killed in the operations were resisting arrest and also says the report is an objective. well 4000000 venezuelans have fled the country's economic and political crisis since 2015 and many of them go to neighboring colombia hospitals there say they now can't cope with the growing number of venezuelans seeking medical attention i was on there are now reports from my cow in northern colombia it's almost game is less than this way treatment for you kenya in neighboring colombia he urgently needed to be admitted to an intensive care unit but spent

a month waiting for a referral in this hospital in the poor border city of mike in the question. that he is receiving basic treatment and medicine but he needs specialized treatment that we can't get here and we don't have the money to pay to move him to another city. his colombian relatives fear he will die here and he's not the only one. to me that me more at the moment 45 percent of the hospitalizations are venezuelan immigrants so we don't know what hospitals administrator says they're overwhelmed by under committed venezuelans fleeing their crumbling health system primary care for venezuelans in my cow jumped from 632 cases in 2016 to more than 34000 in 2013 and could reach 62000 by the end of this year. and we are seeing an increasing number of patients with complicated and expensive bonuses aids kidney failure cancers that we can't care for it's

a complex and dramatic situation. when the economic crisis started in venezuela back in 2015 most of the migrants that arrive here and make our young and healthy looking for basic medicine are back seeing that that is changing in the last couple of years and especially now in 2009 with the widespread blackouts in minnesota that have devastated the health service there was a small cluster of a they're going to use a sions or trying to. help. is at a loss for words. here. there are too many. one day later. passed away his relatives held a traditional vigil he's the 2nd member of the family who left in the last couple

of months here. we all deserve to live we're all human beings regardless of where we come from. it's. only to end up in a country. the russian president says he's concerned that armed fighters are flowing into libya from syria's province and warned the situation there is deteriorating putin made the comments after holding talks with the italian prime minister. during a visit to rome has more from the italian capital on the question of libya and following the bombing of refugee detention facilities at jura this week president putin said he was concerned that the situation was deteriorating rapidly he was worried about the bleeding out of fighters from syria from live in particular into

libya and he called for a cease fire and for political talks but as to the point and purpose of his meetings here in rome with the italian government where they became pretty clear in a press conference he held alongside 2 separate calm to the prime minister mr conti called for a dialogue between russia and the european union and said that sanctions imposed since 2014 the annexation of crimea of course were not a desired end state and president putin said look the 2 sides are natural allies he saw no obstacle to the restoration of full ties what he wants of course is the lifting of sanctions and he said he hoped italy would speak on russia's behalf at the e.u. level he knows that russia doesn't have many friends at the e.u. italy resolutely this populous government in particular one of them a renzi salvini i beg your pardon the far right leader now the deputy prime minister has called those sanctions quote madness mr conti has lobbied for russia

to be reintroduced to the g 7 the g 8 as it was of course or to russia was expelled to an opportunity here to try and probe for cracks for divisions within the e.u. and to win advocacy at the e.u. level and of course in the meeting with pope francis is to putin's with the pope in 6 years an opportunity also to present himself as observers will tell you a statesman like on the world stage here was a president whose father. policy has often left russia isolated on many fronts here being freighted not just by a senior member of the european union but also by the head of the catholic church. there is of the community in israel have agreed to end days of protests against police brutality and demonstrations began in response to the killing of an 18 year old ethiopian israeli who was shot by an off duty police officer on sunday the officers been arrested bernard smith has the latest from. the police officer who

shot solomon tucker is still being questioned by detectives from the police's own internal investigations department or that the ethiopian army sweeping speech that was part of the problem because this was an older member of the public who shot solomon he would have been arrested and he would be being questioned by prosecutors ethiopian jewish community we spoke to do not trust the police to investigate and they point to figures that show that in the last 5 years 10 israeli citizens have been killed by the police and no police officers have been prosecuted in connection with any of those deaths but very interesting lee the minister of internal security . he visited solomon's parents earlier this afternoon early thursday afternoon and he said after visiting the israel house the racism problem he said it's not just with the police it's inside every person in all the ministries and it's the job of every person to work on the racism in the side the martyrs because that's one minister in one of the most right wing governments in israel that's and i'm not an

indication of the role nerve that the killing of solomon taken as top here in israel. hong kong's leader kerry wants to meet university students who took part in this week's protests her offer of talks follows the arrest of dozens of people for storming the city's legislature mcbride has the details. police have begun making a number of arrests of people that they say were involved in the storming of this building on monday that's in addition to a rest they had already made for violent clashes in protests over the previous few weeks but their numbers are relatively few given the hundreds of thousands who've been protesting largely peacefully despite that local pro-democracy lawmaker here has claimed that the police have been acting on beijing's orders and effectively rounding up the troublemakers. family worried because it's so awful spawn now the.