for a few events including a dinner with the emir of qatar and trade talks with the international trade secretary liam fox there was supposed to take place yesterday and that being cancelled anyway and all the talk in london frankly the last couple of days from diplomats and former diplomats has been well how exactly is someone like kim derek supposed to be able to do his job when he spun he sends back his bests understanding and intelligence of a situation in his posts and then it gets leaked straight back in is and is made to look him make him look like complete complete fool so plainly if if kim derek is not able to act as an ambassador go to events find out what's going on because he's basically been stonewalled and blackballed by by the white house from doing so and on one level you have to think well what's the point in him actually staying on but certainly the diplomatic service here and his many supporters in governments

including the outgoing prime minister's reason may have stood by him have said that they regard him as very effective very high quality diplomats. and the whole thing has created what you can only describe as a complete flat crisis between between the u.s. and the u.k. in this supposed special relationship and the question now arises will his replacement be be what in the same sort of thing the year that the u.s. always does a political appointment or will it be someone who comes from the diplomatic service that decision will end up being taken by it is seen boris johnson if he's to win the conservative leadership contest and become the new prime minister and in the t.v. debate that happened last night over this over all this boris johnson flatly refused to support barack and defend him against the attacks by donald trump obviously there it would have seen that happen. must have come to

a conclusion that if but if boris johnson is going to be the next prime minister then there's no point in trying to stay on if he doesn't have a chance and support so going forward what can we anticipate the reaction from the united states to be i mean certainly it's possible that donald trump may tweet his reaction and the coming hours but might there be some real lasting damage from this . well i think i mean certainly trump is like to say good you know good riddance and all that sort of thing given the absolute incendiary language she was using over twitter against barack in the last day or so. but it's it is pretty catastrophic for the for the u.k. because the point that supporters of barack of be making is well you know this is this is the kind of thing the countries like china or russia do you know you they appoint people in post to who are political appointees think of someone like say rex tillerson who is the american sector a state sees these are diplomats it's all it was it was an executive with exxon oil

company and that's what trump has been doing putting political appointees in post who mirror his own political views of the world and it isn't the way that a country like the u.k. does things it takes people from the diplomatic service and puts them in posts as nonpolitical appointees and then says to them in whichever country they're in give us your best interpretation of what you think of that country and so they'll put someone in moscow say who will talk in unguarded unvarnished terms about what he what he or she might think about say the putin administration and send those back to london and then they're treated in secrecy and they help define the british political position towards that country now if it's going to be the case that say boris johnson becomes prime minister and puts in post in washington someone as a political appointee who directly supports donald trump with

a view to say getting the trade deal for the u.k. with the u.s. when it leaves the european union then the diplomatic service is going to say it undermines our credibility and our objectivity in doing the job and they're going to be extremely worried about i think the president of this sets or again this happened just in the last couple minutes will continue to monitor reaction as it can then lawrence lay my press in london thank you lawrence. so as iran continues to pull back from its commitments to the 2015 nuclear deal president hassan rouhani is insisting tehran's actions are peaceful he says it's increased rate of enriching uranium is within the framework of the nuclear agreement issued a warning in fact that the u.s. will face const the u.k. rather will face consequences for seizing an iranian tanker near gibraltar european powers are meanwhile focusing on saving the nuclear deal the french president's top advisor is meeting iranian officials that all of this will be the focus of an emergency meeting of the international atomic energy agency in vienna later on

wednesday go live now to the iranian capital with or so jabari so the tell us more about what president rouhani is saying. well before we get to that richelle i want to talk about this communique that's been issued after the meeting took place between the french the man that's here meeting with his the secretary for iran's supreme national security council that is the body that's in charge of the country's nuclear program. and he has said that iran has given the european signatories of the nuclear agreement more than enough time it's been well over a year since the united states withdrew from the agreement so leaving the europeans to really uphold their in the deal and he said that as soon as the europeans uphold their end of the bargain we will do the same now the french the full amount emanuel has said that he is not here with a message from washington to tehran but rather he is here to try and deescalate the

tensions that is the wishes of french president emanuel and he said that the message is the french are trying to lift these trying to get a cease fire rather on this economic warfare that's been waged on iran and they believe that they're doing that will deescalate the tensions in this region the iranian president hassan rouhani at his weekly cabinet meeting meanwhile said that this seizure of the iranian vessel off the strait of gibraltar on july 4th is illegal and issued a stern warning to the british government he had the following to say no no. it is unlawful to seize the tank we're telling britain that this is a mistake and it is their last i'm telling britain that it's initiating in security understand the consequences later britain has started in security in international waters and they are directly responsible for all the consequences. all this comes at a very very critical time since iran an ounce on sunday that it was scaling back

its commitment to the nuclear agreement and increasing its uranium enrichment from 3.67 percent to what it is currently a 4.5 percent believe that all these events that unfolded in recent weeks are just the international community's attempts at the request of the u.s. government to put more pressure on terror on to try and get them back to the negotiating table to rediscuss this nuclear deal and that is something the iranians have said they will never do they've given the european signatories another 60 days before they announce the next step of them scaling back their commitment for now there are all kinds of diplomatic efforts to try and calm the situation because as the iranians have set themselves the future of this nuclear deal is very very important not only to the future of iran's economy but also to the security of this entire region right there such a boring life for us in tehran dorsett thank you now to the international atomic

energy agency meeting in vienna john a whole is there for us such an old expect to come out of this meeting. this is a meeting called by the united states of a full complement of the 35 board of governors of the i.a.e.a. that's the un atomic energy association tasked with scrutinizing iran's compliance with the j c p o a and remember that at no stage has the i.a.e.a. deemed iran to be in breach of the deal even up to and including the united states decision to unilaterally withdraw last year now the us i'm sure would love the product of this meeting to be the i.a.e.a. declaring now iran to be in full breach jackie was the us ambassador calling this meeting called on the international community to hold iran's regime accountable but diplomats are briefing that they don't really see what can effectively come out of

this meeting consider on the one hand that the e 3 the european signatories to the deal britain france and germany along with the e.u. are not ready to trigger the official dispute resolution mechanism within the deal these increases in enrichment by iran are considered pretty marginal at this point and the europeans are intent on trying to preserve this deal on the other hand as well russia and china also signatories to the deal also members of the i.a.e.a. here well they tend to take iran's view that its response is a legitimate one in the face of that unilateral withdrawal by the united states last year in breach of its obligations under international law so as i say hard to see what headway the u.s. can hope to make here other than as dorsett was saying maintain pressure on iran to come back to the negotiating table on new terms and importantly as well i think maintain pressure on the european powers to take a harder line on iran all right and

a ha the latest in vienna china thank you. so the gulf has one of the world's most important and busiest shipping lanes to give you a sense of just how many ships are transiting through these waterways this is a look at marine traffic dot com those red ships for just the tankers operating in the region at this moment fill take on as a partner at the dryad global that's a maritime security risk management company says a military patrol in the gulf or require a huge amount of coordination this is their main channel through to the gulf and not see the main channel to get the oil out and they are they are worried on computers what to do so the idea of click a thing or be giving commercial shipping some point protection is obvious huge amount of pressure from nations so how does it work well you can provide some form escort you can draw its military vessels in the area and you can create a convoy has now we've seen this already in operation for the south in the gulf of

aden where this was implemented in response to karzai now it does require processes procedures and it would have to comply and not everyone would choose to comply such an extent what you can do is provide a measure of protection a lot of on military vessels for a controlled transit area. france's military has admitted that anti-tank missiles found during a raid in libya belong to the french army the us may javelin missiles were recovered from the libyan war the base on the outskirts of tripoli french military say the missiles were intended for the self protection of a french military unit deployed for counterterrorism operations in libya the documents found with the ammunition suggest they belong to the u.a.e. . and would like to see not these are the us made weapons and these are the chinese made weapons the contract written on them comes from the united arab emirates the last of the file we have found modern weapons well libya is under embargo most of

these weapons were imported from certain countries these countries should use them to defend themselves but instead they became involved in the conflict and the libyan blood that. i talked about large joins us now from paris sen the fighter in that video he is saying that that came from the u.a.e. that's not quite what france is saying though. yes a of p. and where it is news agencies say that they have received a statement from the french defense ministry and in a statement the french defense ministry says these missiles are indeed french they are u.s. made javelin missiles that the french gave to their forces operating in libya now that's interesting in itself because france has always been very vague about its presence in libya and now the french defense ministry statement also says that these missiles were in fact defective they were supposed to be destroyed what the statement doesn't say though is how on earth these missiles ended up in the hands

of forces who are loyal to khalifa haftar i mean that's the big question and potentially a very embarrassing one for the french government because the french government have always said that they are not supplying any weapons or to libya that would be in breach of a u.n. arms embargo and over the years campaigners and critics have accused france of supporting. in the sense that france perhaps feels after is someone that they can partner with in the fight against fighters in the region but france has always denied that they've denied that support and said that they backed publicly the u.n. peace process so when will we get more more explanation more answers about this on the record. what is not certain but what we do have a bit later today is the french defense minister of france parley who and this is

considered full timing is in front of a panel at the national assembly now this special a defense committee will be questioning florence poly about its french weapons sales now french weapons sales over the past few years of saud particularly to saudi arabia and to the united arab emirates we're talking about billions of dollars worth of trade and what campaigners have been saying is that there aren't enough checks in the french parliament on these weapons sales how they are being used to now the french government has always maintained the french weapons are sold only for defensive purposes but campaign is the same this isn't the case they're often used for offensive purposes and back in april in fact there was a defense ministry document that was leaked to certain journalists who published this document and it said that the french weapons were being used by the saudi coalition in yemen and they've been used offensively and had resulted in the deaths

of dozens of civilians so the french defense minister will be questioned about that campaign as want is for there to be more transparency of weapons sales and for weapons sales to be suspended whether is a doubt over how these weapons are being used all right natasha butler with the latest from paris atocha thank you still ahead on al-jazeera drilling into a controversial we'll look at the reaction to turkey's latest around cyprus. and a look at the slow recovery in the iraqi city of mosul 2 years after i saw it was pushed out. hello again welcome back we're here across southern japan of course the risk is still going to be flooding here across parts of q shoe now we had

a break from the very very heavy rain but unfortunately as you can see here on thursday more heavy rain is coming into play now the ground is still saturate across much of this area and it's not going to take much rain at all to cause the flooding to really become quite severe again up towards tokyo though here on thursday it's going to be an often rain shower a few with a tender there of $25.00 but the rains do get quite hard as we go towards friday with that same system beginning to push towards the north by the time we get to the weekend no q sure looks much better so that round of rain is really going to quiet down towards vladivostok it is going to be a chilly day if you with a temperature of 17 degrees where across parts of china we're still looking it's a very gusty winds with these thunderstorms pushing down towards the southeast now the flooding there has been quite exceptional as well unfortunately for fujian province we're going to see more rain over the next few days for who show 20.