the president did move 22 nations signed a letter to the u.n. human rights council condemning disturbing reports australia canada and japan are among the signatories on long with britain france and germany they call on china to stop the mass detentions respect religious freedom and grant independent experts meaningful access to the region. countries that did not sign the document raise just as much interest out of the 22 nations assigned as none of them were muslim majority nations which is really quite telling because china is using their pocketbook to gain influence in many of these nations as well. china defends the practice the government says it's not about eliminating people's identity but about teaching employment skills and pushing out what it calls extremism year far surely by seizing up locational education and training centers in accordance with the law we aim to education save those who were influenced by religious extremism and

committed to mine it legal or fix it. the letter is not tied to a vote or a resolution but it will be published as an official document of the un's human rights council activists say it's a good sign but china's government has long stood defiant against foreign criticism katia locus of the young al-jazeera and when he has more from beijing. china's ministry of foreign affairs has responded to the letter signed by a 22 countries regarding the situation in shin jang province and predictably i guess it was dismissive of this letter saying that this was an attempt to politicize the issue of human rights and that this was a domestic affair for the government in china to deal with and it wasn't up to anyone outside china to comment on the situation there it also pointed out that there has been no terrorist attack in the region for the past 2 years evidence

it says that this program is working remembering that the government maintains that these are not detention centers in province they are vocational schools with one of the main aims being to prevent terrorism and extremism and also responded to a request in the latest sign by these countries that inspectors experts be allowed meaningful access to the area the government saying that it has already organized trips involving media and so-called experts diplomats to the region and what they reported when they returned it was quite different to what has been put trade in the western media the important word to emphasize here is meaningful in those trips in the past those trips have been very much controlled by the government controlled by the security forces and the government really only showing the people on those trips to show exactly what it wants the outside world to see at least 14 people

have died in a train crash in northeast pakistan a passenger train rammed into a stationary freight train and khan in the southern punjab region dozens of engine people are being treated in nearby hospitals emergency crews and a number of casualties could rise as a rescue operation that continues to head on the on the 10 media freedom and. spotlight new goal of the face at a global conference in london and other landmark pension reform bill passes a major hurdle and presume. how it welcomes another look at the international forecast we got the usual sunshine and showers across southeast asia those heat of the day shasta brewing up quite fiercely in fact across the central and southern parts of the philippines

well the areas of borneo could see some shabby rain from time to time all sunshine than showers but sunny in the heat of the day you will see wanted to live the downpours coming through dry though into indonesia generally set 30 carter at around $32.00 degrees and that dry weather stretching down across much of northern parts of australia doubt into the south that's always seen some rather blustery showers rattling through the bite easing down into the southeastern corner tightly packed i suppose indicate some very stiff winds are rolling through victoria to see some blustery showers effect in port fairy easing it's not too great in tasmania 11 degrees celsius there for hope up pushed further more 20 in city that's too bad 24 there for brisbane there getting up to around 19 in perth lots of fun in try over the next couple of days with more cloud united just sliding its way central parts of australia to go wanted to sas type of blustery showers continue for victoria and

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it's good to have you with us on al-jazeera these are our top stories the u.k. says iranian boats tried to obstruct a british oil tanker in the strait of hormuz one of the world's most important oil shipping channels. lions there was any confrontation that follows the seizure of an iranian oil tanker by british marines and mortars major brunton last week ambassadors from 22 countries have condemned china's treatment of ethnic and religious minorities in an unprecedented move they sent a letter to the un human rights council calling for the detention of weak and muslims to stop and at least 14 people are dead and dozens injured after a train collision in northeast pakistan a passenger train ran into a stationary freight train in the southern punjab region. at least 8 people have been killed in a car bomb attack in northwestern syria another 35 and 2 in women and children were

injured in the blast the explosion happened near the city of fleeing meanwhile the airstrikes an adlib province have killed at least 13 people this video shows the aftermath of an attack on a hospital which killed 6 people that's according to the syrian civil defense as the last major rebel stronghold in the country government troops backed by russia have been bombarding the area for months. now government and media organizations are proposing the creation of a global fund to support journalists and danger zones it is one of the goals of a global media freedom conference being held in london the fund would provide training legal support and other resources that would be administered by unesco that is the united nations cultural and scientific agency it says that $99.00 media workers were killed in 2018 and our correspondent charlie angela is covering that conference she's joining us live from london so what could change for journalist

charlie as a result of the summit. well elizabeth some of the colleagues of those murdered journalists are actually here at this summit over the next 2 days and they are looking for concrete change they're looking for investment they're looking for intervention when media freedom is threatened and u.k. foreign secretary jeremy hunt yesterday made 2 commitments on those points the global media defense fund which you've just mentioned and the formation of a coalition of governments who would be willing to intervene diplomatically act as a kind of rapid response unit when a country does suppress media freedom and one journalist who could probably benefit from some of that international support is with me now her name is maria ray says she is the co-founder of rappler online you platform in the philippines and you have been covering the human rights violations and the authorized murders by president ditto to. 2 decades now tell me how his government has tried to silence

you in about 14 months we've had 11 cases at least 11 cases and investigations filed against me and rappler i've been arrested. twice in about 5 weeks i've had to post bail 8 times in 3 months in order to be able to travel i have to pay at least $60000.00 in bail and beyond its brevity of my i feel like my rights have been violated and i will fight this. how. tiny you up with a number of court cases how is this how much is taking away from the work that you've been doing a lot it just means i don't sleep i mean because i will we refuse to get silence that mean the end goal of this and it doesn't it isn't just the weaponization of the law it started with the weaponization of social media online state sponsored hate and violence that's meant to stifle you to make you doubt yourself free and will continue doing the stories. and we will fight for our rights you

talked about social media you also organizational here works as a fact check check. identifying fake news how damaging is fake news being in the philippines extremely i think you know we are the cautionary tale for the rest of the world and this isn't just happening in the philippines what you're seeing is these exponential lies actually get distributed faster on social media lies laced with anger and hate and some of the 1st targets are reporters female reporters and journalists and new sure it is asians if you don't have facts because we're the gatekeeper so facts if you don't have facts you don't have truths without truth you can't have trust so it's almost like termites eating the floor that we're standing on a wooden floor and that's part of the reason the mockeries been rolled back in many countries around the world because it's not you know not just in southeast asia it's not just the philippines we're seeing in indonesia cambodia why do you think we're seeing a decline of media freedom particular in southeast asia at the moment i think it's the checks and balances of power in that world world are no longer working there's

a new world the people who have power are are extending their power and social media platforms they're the accelerant that's part of the reason an event like today is is good for us you know i mean all of a sudden more voices will speak up against these abuses and in my case for example when christian freeland tweeted support or after i was arrested the 1st time. she was trolled she inherited my troll 7000 in like 24 hours so people need to know silence is complicity number one and the number 2 that you should speak you should not be pounded to silence thank you maria well we're still on day 2 of this summit we're going to be having national statements later which will be probably generating a very naively question and answer session from the journalists here elizabeth johnny thank you for that is charlie and i'm live in london. now human rights watch has warned of

a tear deteriorating media freedom and russia the group says arresting journalists on fabricated charges has become a common strategy to silence government critics journalist our main guy the year is among the natives to be detained step reports from the southern region of dagestan . colleagues of. protest in front of the supreme court in dagestan permits to hold mass rallies against his arrest have been denied a cheerful was arrested on june 14th and charged with financing terrorism shortly after investigative journalist even got enough was detained in moscow on drug charges. was quickly released several high ranking police officers were dismissed for involvement in planting drugs on the journalists in response to a case has been different. we call on our colleagues from all over russia and around the world to support him to to us there is no difference between the 2 cases

fabrication and false accusations can take place regardless of the charges. this has become a familiar image a silent protest against you arrest of a journalist in moscow the public outcry led to the release of investigative journalist just a few weeks ago but this time around these protesters here in the august time after so far not been able to free the moment. as a senior journalist at one of the last independent media outlets in dagestan jama thick weekly according to his chief editor the arrest is part of efforts by authorities to close down the newspaper he says got enough release doesn't mean freedom of the press has improved. lives in moscow and the government there does not like when something dodgy starts there if it happens in dagestan it's far away but it happens close to the kremlin. a red flag they tried to remove it instantly. 10 years ago in another part of the

carcasses action journalist natalya estemirova was murdered killers have yet to be brought to justice human rights watch sas since then journalist and press freedom are in even greater danger here can clearly see that turn years ago the number of independent media outlets. the level of self-censorship in the press was. the level of among jordon of those attitudes was also not. as it is today despite their fear journalist a journalistic continue to provide news to their audience in darkest and beyond we've got gere facing 20 years in prison they have little hope calling him join them again so stop fasten al-jazeera. russia. so green is now a violent storm in the north has killed at least 6 tourists and injured dozens more

the storm struck the popular tourist region of hunky dickey near the city of thessaloniki the strong winds and torrential rain overturned cars and toppled trees that had a civil protections as a state of emergency has been declared meanwhile beachgoers were forced to flee in eastern is fully after they were battered by hailstones the size of oranges 18 people were injured and the city of pescado was flooded in the storm. the u.s. state of louisiana is bracing for more severe weather after a huge storm hit the area on wednesday widespread flooding is making it difficult to get around the city of new orleans roadways and office buildings are filled with water forecasters say a tropical cyclone forming in the gulf of mexico could become a hurricane that hits the coast by the weekend. to brazil now with the congress has taken a major step towards pension reform a key goal of the president's job board said not on the bill passed in the lower

house with a clear majority that supporters say pension reform is needed to avoid bankruptcy proposed changes include raising the retirement age and increasing contributions that pension reform continues to face opposition thousands of people demonstrated in south and other cities against the proposed changes critics say the reforms will hurt the poor the most. now the last volkswagen beetle has rolled out of an assembly plant in mexico and that might mean the end of the popular. one mexican town where the dream of the angel is alive and well. as more. there it is fresh off the assembly line the last beetle to be produced by the german automaker volkswagen it's the end of an era and to mark this notable moment in the automotive history workers at the bike and plant where the mexico are throwing a goodbye party is one of the oss it was

a good buy them to last forever but it's also a party a big party for everyone. maybe it was the combination of a funky design a reliable engine and an affordable price tag that ultimately made the beatles an international hit by the 1960 s. and seventy's the bug had become both a pop culture icon and a symbol of the counterculture movement. while the beetle has gone through several iterations over the last 80 years its cult following has carried well into the 21st century with so much history under the hood could this really be the end of the love bug. in quote that big a small town just outside mexico city you'd be forgiven for thinking v.w. beetles outnumber people. here at the by the has been fixing up beetles for almost 30 years he tells us they can try to phase out the bugs as they are loving the called in mexico but the cars themselves aren't going anywhere. will never go away it's the best car ever made it was the color of the century

whoever designed this call hit the nail on the head it can handle any think you throw it's all terrain it was the best of them a. big sits on a steep hillside no match for the vultures heavy duty engine this is probably why they're so ubiquitous the yellow ones purple ones other ones waiting to be repaired all of them will get into the cultural fabric of the country and. duction the iconic volkswagen beetle may have ended for now here in mexico there are still thousands of very proud drivers who are committed to keeping this daljit life. up a little dizzy to mexico city. and i again i'm one of the prominent are the headlines on al-jazeera the u.k. government says a bushel warship has entertained after iranian boats tried to obstruct a british oil tanker in the strait of hormuz on wednesday and on denies there was

any confrontation the same bus driver has more from. the iranian government has denied flatly denied that this incident took place at least not in the shape perhaps that the british have suggested the public affairs office of use logic revolutionary guard corps naval forces have said that there were no encounters with foreign vessels in the past 24 hours so a clear flat denial it's not even that there is a different narrative here it is that no encounter took place with foreign vessels but they did say if they were instructed to seize or confront any vessel they will carry out those orders and messages from 22 countries have condemned china's treatment of ethnic and religious minorities in an unprecedented move they sent a letter to the u.n. human rights council calling for the detention of weekend muslims to stop at least 14 people have died in a train collision in northeast pakistan

a passenger train ran down to a stationary freight train in. and the southern punjab region dozens of injured people are being treated in nearby hospitals at least 8 people have died in a car bomb attack in northwestern syria and out of $55.00 people including women and children were injured in the blast the explosion happened near the city of theme. governments and media organizations are proposing the creation of a global fund to support journalists in danger zones it's one of the goals of a global media freedom conference being held in london the fund would provide training legal support and other resources a violent storm in the northern greek region of holiday dicky has killed at least 6 tourists and injured dozens more strong winds overturned cars and toppled trees a state of emergency has been declared. a bill to reform brazil's bloated pension system has passed its 1st major hurdle the proposals passed in the lower house with

a clear majority supporters say reform is needed to avoid bankruptcy but critics say it will hurt poor brazilians that the modest well those are the headlines on al-jazeera people in power is coming up next. after 25 years of the 40 worlds waste china for the global cycling industry into chaos. the growing pressure of agreement skies is resulting in change we bring you the stories to the shaping the economic world we live in. counting the cost on al-jazeera. in his youth from kerry in prime minister viktor orban was hailed as a champion of freedom part of the generation that stood up to the soviet union these days he's routinely vilified as most solitary and nationalist. bashing agenda poses

a significant threat to western. we've been to find out why. hungary is unquestionably one of europe's most beautiful countries. the seat of power of budapest much as any capital for share occupants. it's fairytale paul and is perhaps the prettiest in europe. but for the last decade according to critics it has passed some of the ugliest moves on the continent.

6000 been has given hungary for 13 years george which time he has taken steps which mirror those taken by the crimes centralizing gets hating press freedom and attacking and g.m. . he likes this kind of new types of opportunity and leaders are also the ones who are coming building the political system that he pushes under way. too lazy motives all for her bonnet is freshly and is on one hand the concentration of political power and on the other on the actual ational personal where else is refugee policy is the whole bush is to be. what is happening in hungary is quite unique this type of treatment of depriving asylum seekers of food. poisoning less than hoff the bugs his policy for dash in concert with its smallest satellite allowed the christian democratic people's paltry nevertheless commands eva 2 thirds of the

fallen tree sakes alive to change the country's constitution at 12 this is the hybrid regime said a new in liberal states a bit in the heart of europe it's not the kind of political system that we have seen before it's a new phenomenon. last month so all been launched. payne for the european parliamentary elections with an extraordinary. political. party oxfam. make by the. caribbean. a member.

thanks. this sentiment. thank unflattering photographs of the european commission president john gordon young and. billionaire george soros in the think area government accuses of sending this to you or. text red you have the rights to may what brussels is planning. within. the firm and rage younker if you like it belongs to the used largest political group think the european people's party pledged to the suspension of the dishes membership of the group. the irony of the regime is that those close to him have done very well out of the e.u. the free store. arguably is the richest.

10 years ago. and. companies of his father. still benefit from. the same time. which. it's hard to believe that europe's but boy was once hailed as a champion of freedom and played a part in bringing democracy to the former communist state. past a couple of funny had protested alongside all but against the communists 30 years ago but his night one of his most outspoken critics. yvonne yee runs shelters for

the homeless the roma and for russia eugene 3 groups which have become targets of the regime. took course we typically enter in period i would be inclined to do as i can highly recommend he says many of the more they are all up to the back of you have only me your sack a switcher as democrats you are on a book of crazy and skewer korean. them to the me while york with what your cage be called while you're queer go along man. instead of demonizing refugees if i knew gives them jobs people like miriam a nurse who escaped afghanistan 4 years ago a night of cats for the 2nd time this at one of the past as shelters. acts such as these of put it behind me at all it's with all but his defining policy has been to attack asylum seekers. in

2015 at the height of the refugee crisis full been ordered the construction of a heavily guarded border fence talked with razor wire to keep i have to saddam see because. it stretches for 175 kilometers along the border with serbia. the the fence has proved popular with hungary's many nationalist movements including the far right paramilitary group. the sort of civil. libertarians just a sure to shoot out boy i'm sure they believe the french should be extended the fast is just a couple of 100 kilometers why stop millions come to europe good to label you good to me i mean that is the fear that actually would save for the loss of jobs their

actual good cheer in hungary is very safe place no need to log the door like in london and i'm on is not english city anymore. i love this place we try to keep this safe the fence is gold. just transits a spot along the 175 kilometer length of the france which would make a maximum of 2 people at the. transit center are cruel and tiny space there is a container and then the by. simply knowing that you are locked in for an unpredictable time. we've been unpredictable future is very stressful. but for some of the detainees this is the least of their worries. in august last year we've heard of the 1st cases where people were held in detention in the border

transit. but the authorities have stopped giving the adults food. if someone is not the legal then obviously he or she or the father he should be taking care of themselves but keep in mind that if you or myself decide to go to the united states but our requests to step down nobody's going to take care of us. what the hardware and government actually says is that people who have been refused asylum in hungary even though they are detained should not be given food. this smacks of cynicism you know and inhumanity the same time recognition rates for refugees in hungary is among the lowest in european union while you watched state media you would think that you know we are literally being invaded by hundreds or thousands. they will take videos that are completely taken out of context and they will show them on state t.v.

claiming that it's from a particular time or a particular location and then if you do some basic fact checking you will see that that's not the case at all. this is the border with serbia. before cry from what would have you believe. we. just to asylum seekers waiting for a chance to be admitted into hungary. family is a nearby refugee center on the outskirts of the serbian city of super to its. owner but his sisters decided to leave afghanistan after they were informed that they would be forced into marriage they were pursued across iran and turkey by angry relatives and suffered many traumas. when my mom on my says that on my little bit of the. you don't border the police through there. if you start.

like many before the saina and her family crossed on a dangerously overloaded burgeon to greece. they said they don't want dog and that's the furthest they're at 55 or 50 people they're saying you're off to go if you don't go they put their gun. and they say i'll still go. but anyone looking enough to survive such trials and then make it to hungary receives little health or sympathy from the state. this is largely provided by charities. those who support migrant charities are also targeted the biggest bogeyman is one garion born american financier and to learn trippiest george soros through his open society foundation the billionaire has spent hundreds of millions of dollars funding civil society and education projects in hungary the

country of his birth with mr schorr we have our if you like political differences he has become. a major political influence or. by his word by his investments by the organization of framework and that work he maintains soros has been vilified in the hungarian press shoulders jersey city and estelle getty fish like album tony the store bought the mill you got the better let me tell you off a couple because i. stopped short of money or psychodynamic bs ashour boy i would say that about. 7580 percent of the media is under the control or for bad and it has a huge impact on the public opinion short or church of us or soros for example when they started the campaign against him a few years ago was an arm known and

a neutral figure and it became a figure that everybody knows and there really hates. last year the day passed the stop soros law designed to inhibit the work of n.g.o.s. elected but what your cycle octave can further afield we know that angie all mean i love you guys a little startled alice she asked if is it that she gets mean down for the families that ask that empties before called to task for salmon. critics say this vilification of a prominent philanthropist who happens also to be jewish of the north sea era propaganda. agnus have a bear in mind when gary and philosopher he survived the holocaust is not surprised she has cell phone victim to the desh sponsored and t. semitic smear campaign he picked shot rush big shoulders because he was

a joe and he bill he said he teach people at n.b.s. the don't like people and they don't take america but i don't flag. hungary is home to one of europe's largest jewish communities it supports the biggest synagogue on the continent as well as an internationally renowned holocaust museum a chilling testament to the crimes committed by hank gary and fascists in the 1930 s. and forty's when harf a 1000000 jews the center our shirts. with risings an if. some here see the specs are fascism may return. many of you haven't even jewish families are you know ready to leave. because they know that if they know from their. family history that if you have to

leave you have to leave right away. this is a memorial to mark the site where jewish men women and children were handcuffed weighted and thrown into the time the john promotes years commissioned by the previous administration. but in recent years hungary's fascist past has undergone i'm a cave. this is opens by morial to german occupation situated next to the garry and paul. you might be forgiven for thinking that hungry was a victim of the holocaust rather than a participant. morally at all german if your patient is about a negro which comes down to that. and found that he is the angel and the eagle is the german which suggests a lie. about the holocaust and particularly about the hungary enjoy it all of us

because the whole of the part of the show was carried on by hungary and jad and that image and by the high getting situations and instead of digesting this we're still in. in a stage of the nile. it's not just one greece past it's proving controversial. these people are protesting over all bans plan to close hungary's leading educational establishment the central european university known as the see you which in shrines the ideas of democracy and liberalism it is not only about. promoting about preaching about open society democracy but it's about studying no imperfections of democracy. the c.e.u. has an open door policy to students regardless of ethnicity and so the brits

multiculturalism. a stance which puts it all it's with all but who in 2017 decided to close it sparking incredulity. hung gary and this should ask themselves who benefits here. does it benefit budapest to chase an institution out of the country does it benefit hungry. thousands came out onto the streets angry and bewildered at the time greece finest university was being forced to relocate to the. many believe open slaving for the c.e.u. is done to the fact that it was funded by george soros day for day to ny there is a link and claim that the universities ability to issue american diplomas is incompatible with and garion legislation is a matter of rule of law it is impossible that you see you or anybody else enjoys

the luxury and benefits of issuing american diplomas that's the simple reason i think it's it's a red flag and it's a warning sign that this might be in that direction where we're heading where in the pen and if the 2 sounds that speak out for human rights that speak out for the generally quality of the sense that our country is being being chased away. the now inevitable exodus of academic staff and students from hungary is a microcosm of a much bigger problem talented professionals or critic in the country and lowest numbers close to a 1000000 i think erin said. left in the last decade one in 10 of the population. good cake a bunch has a satirical group which competes in elections as the hind garion 2 tails dog poti

that regularly opens policies including those on immigration. he's printed speech monday bearing the faces of obama parents. his george soros 504 and night changes hands for 700 foreign. family i feel i should. think i'm a fairly i don't get on a bit i mean that which i question carolyn my it was. not like when the. elect obama. but the shortage of skilled workers is now becoming serious so all buns government came up with a novel solution a law allowing employers to insist that staff should work up to $400.00 i was a year and i've had time. to go quickly to the slaves lol and this is what sports yes more protests and budapest which began last december lasting several months.

employers might not have to pay for this extra work for 3 years. the slave could have been used to make people work such long hours that they would not have a weekend and payment would be so delayed that by that time maybe the company would even go bankrupt and you would never get paid. for the 1st time demonstration spread to other times quickly becoming a nationwide phenomenon. something else happened to you. that was the 1st time man and the opposition party stop talking about corporations and stop talking about how bad. the situation i went on the street a started to act. on a day and off quickly emerged as the poster girl of the protests. everybody felt angry and frustrated at that moment there were no labels that moment there were

a community a group of people at the street who feels the same. call them and it was under siege it was the most sustained threats to all bones power for years but he managed to write the story with a country deeply divided the scene was set for a very bitter yoru election in may 2019. would become one of my men to me 1st i meet peace. but there was never any ties who had way. or buns face and he migrant try to rick was again sufficient to secure victory. but it's not the 1st time angry has been sealed off from the outside world some people are old enough to remember what it was like when the iron curtain divided europe in much the same way opens border fence and i separate serbia from hungary

today the old cold war frontier is a popular psychopath and people knew freely between hungary and austria. back then try to axe it without permission and you'd be in big trouble all over to own up to you to talk. to a semi awesome man as oakland saws new words for new words no one better was on your side because i. daily show you got the hot dogs of course on top the yugoslav issues also are called also of course on the fairly. well 1st any thoughts on ahmad mag 5 athletic last night. in august 1909 colonel bela was in charge of a board of hasty the city of seoul from where the communist government sanctioned a pan european picnic in the name of good neighborly relations. and games were to pass the frontier bearing wine and sausages. the border would be

a boon for 3 hours. but things didn't go according to plan. hundreds of east germans fling that own country's dictatorship cold wind of the event and rushed saya through czechoslovakia to the border crossing. all but had to decide whether to open fire show scene to a little older one up the lawn up the lawn like that segment. has got to be. startled. me i love you not indeed look at all in hostile below like you had at that said i don't want to my goal dani and. they should make a show of. $600.00 east germans escapes to the west more than $60000.00 foot fall or the burden war became untenable and the east german dictatorship collapsed. inadvertently triggered the end of the cold

war. for many living around all buns border fence like robbers a small law the mayor of cuba cause a historical ironies or any scape a bull shark at the station where we focus on tech and i mean when does a word about it mean down like a day in a washer going around so struck by your heart i don't make let em back at them but a catalyst to pass. us off as a carry dish. as a method to mbeki get zapped i'll tell you what i'm actually an actor and i might add or so i was at them and even a standard i'm. hungry has never been more polarized with the dash having won the euro elections many are wondering what's next could the country leave yet further to the right. you must use i mean make peace all around us i don't believe

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government says iran tried to block a british oil tanker. also more than 20 countries signed a letter to the u.n. condemning what's said to be china's mass detention of we kill muslims. also francis out at the u.s. threat sansa pushes ahead with plans to tax internet giants and we're in southern if you hope you're to examine the impact of a water crisis on rural communities and joining us for us good news from england's cash for the strength here in the cricket world cup semifinals plus serena williams goes for a spot in her in that wimbledon final the day after mixed doubles run with i'm sorry comes 20. welcome to the news of the u.k. government says a rainy and boats have tried to obstruct a british oil tanker in the strait of hormuz it says the 3 iranian vessels turned away after a british navy warship intervened and gave

a verbal warning iran has denied any confrontation with the british vessel that iran has been threatening to retaliate since british marines seized an iranian oil tanker in waters near gibraltar last week was obvious danding buying for us in tehran to give us full reaction from there we'll go to lawrence leigh in london to gauge what's going on in there of course another interaction in the strait of hormuz and a worrying development lawrence. well certainly the way the british and the americans tell it's this oil tanker british heritage was approached by a number of of iranian boats which they assume had some source of malign intense and so that ends this frigates h.m.s. montrose sort of inserted itself between the iranian ships and the oil tanker to warn them off the british say this was done over the radio and the iranian boats

turned around the americans say that montrose lowered its gun there the minister of defense it won't confirm that to us but one where the other the iranian boats did turn around and the and the old. went on its way so yes it's clearly a new problem the british keep resisting the american call for sanctions and to that end their truck trying to stick with their it with the iranian position but of there is obviously this amount of friction now. with the iranians because only yesterday that hassan rouhani was saying that the british would pay a price for him pounding their tanker off for broad serve because the british said that that was carrying crude oil destined for syria in breach of european sanctions and so it is a problem is an emergency no i'm not sure it is there's no emergency meeting that we know are being planned in london in whitehall of the moment and the british are

simply saying that they would prefer it if the iranians deescalate it but it plays into a bigger point as to whether or not the british should increase its military presence in the gulf if this sort of thing continues it certainly pulls this all certainly for the british at the moment and really you just touched on the fact that it only adds really to the tension created between the u.k. and iran over that tanker that was impounded in the mediterranean just exacerbates the problem really set me on a diplomatic level. yes e.c. certainly what the americans are trying to do because they can't get the european countries on board with sanctions it's almost like they're trying to reframe the arguments and casting iran as a malign act in the way in which they say is trying to smuggle oriole illicitly out to countries like syria in breach of maritime law and sanctions all the rest of it and in that part clearly the british would be on side with the americans which is

why they say they impounded the boats in the tanker of gibraltar but i think you can see the british being a bit stuck in the middle of the iranian position which we're trying to defend to some degree over the nuclear deal and the american position because the americans are putting much more pressure on the british to increase their military presence in the gulf and so that 10 you can see the being a bit of friction potentially between the foreign office in london which i think would prefer things to calm down and the ministry of defense which would probably be quite receptive to the idea of putting more warships in the gulf because of the moment there is only one frigate h.m.s. montrose which was involved in this incident and clearly if there were say 2 or 3 british tankers involved in this sort of thing at the same time it couldn't defend all of those are ones we'll leave it there for the moment though lawrence to come back to you with any further updates thank you well whatever did happen it's clear that tensions do remain high as laurence mentioned the strait of hormuz is one of the world's most important waterways every year thousands of vessels pass through

the shipping lane which is just over 3 kilometers wide at its narrowest point almost a 5th of the world's oil around 20000000 barrels a day is shipped via the strait ships have to navigate the territorial waters of both oman and iran but are protected by a un convention on the law of the sea we should allow them to pass without a problem he has more for us from tehran and as i'm sure you heard from lawrence there is a contradictory set of statements being made in the u.k. which don't really match up with what the revolutionary guards are also saying about this version of events what are they saying. well the you know this this the optics here are certainly a problem for the islamic revolutionary guard corps which has flatly denied that this incident took place the optics are a problem for the foreign ministry that has denied that this incident took place but it is familiar to the way that the united states and the u.k. have described what played out in these waters is a familiar maneuver

a swarming maneuver that iran's naval forces in that region are said to use often but it also has to be said this kind of activity or interaction with small fast boats is also not uncommon iran has been accused in the past of harassing other vessels of of harassing american warships and so this is relatively a familiar scenario of course takes on a very heightened tension presently but the fact is that iranian officials here are simply denying that anything happened the public affairs office of the i.r.g.c. the islamic revolutionary guard corps naval forces said that no encounter with foreign vessels occurred in the past 24 hours but they left the door open to to a possibility of having to seize or stop any vessels if they are ordered to do so foreign ministry foreign minister zarif iran's foreign minister saying that this accusation is simply the u.k. trying to escalate already tense times and of course it has to be said that when

washington accused iran of carrying out or oil tanker attacks in may and june which stefon denied it was the foreign minister and other government officials that said that these were u.s. run false flag operations to create further tensions and to demonize iran iran of course says that it is responsible for security in this area and helped rescue sailors that were on board maritime vessels that came under attack in june and so iran sees itself very much as a protector as a host nation for this waterway and officially denies that this incident ever took place while leaving the nicholson come back to you when things change that's very much. or before the incident in the strait of hormuz u.s. president donald trump had been ratcheting up pressure on iran suggesting sanctions would soon be increased substantially but he's accusing the iranians of secretly enriching uranium for years they've denied this during an emergency meeting of the international atomic energy agency in vienna john holl is there for us. i think the

most important thing to come out of this meeting at the i.a.e.a. in vienna is that iran is not at this moment anyway planning to take any further steps away from the new clear deal although each envoy for some arab our body did affirm that after another 60 days now if indeed the parties have still not come back into full compliance with their commitments to iran under the deal particularly the europeans of course and their commitment to protect iran's economy under the deal will then it will be prepared to launch a 3rd phase of actions in response but pointing out that no firm response has yet been decided upon by iran misra by the told the ambassadors in the room that once again. is the enrichment that iran is undertaking is its right under the nonproliferation treaty is required for purely peaceful purposes and that iran has never tried to create or acquire weapons of mass destruction he made the point that

simply repeating the baseless accusations against iran pointed of course at the united states does not magically authenticate them he said and he painted the us as the ultimate aggressor both in the region and in the current state of the nuclear deal you know that the issue of and which meant is not permitted under the number of version 2000 this is the right of every member to the nonproliferation treaty and this is iran's right also and lots we are doing is in a very transparent manner is under the surveillance of the y. a the inspectors and barely a single activities on their monitoring we have nothing to hide it is questionable therefore what the united states will feel that it's achieved out of this meeting a meeting that he had called of course of all the board of governors of the i.a.e.a. looking presumably for some sort of international unity of purpose towards iran and

finding instead in the room only division and no formal conclusion reached by this meeting the board simply saying that all the parties must come back into compliance the division very clear among the signatories themselves to the deal. general level at least 8 people have died in a car bombing in northwestern syria another 35 were injured the explosion happened near the city of a frame and strikes in italy province of killed at least 13 people this video shows the aftermath of an attack on a hospital that killed 6 people and that's according to the syrian civil defense it is the last major rebel stronghold in syria government troops backed by russia have been bombarding the area for months. now from 22 countries have condemned china's treatment of ethnic and religious minorities in an unprecedented move issued a letter calling for the detention of we can muslims to stop cutting reports. this

fun stuff building is called a vocational center in china critics say it's more like a prison one of many detention camps run by the government. the target they say are ethnic and religious minorities mostly wigger muslims in the northwest region of. activists say at least 1000000 people are detained in similar camps where extreme surveillance force assimilation and abuse are common the camps have long sparked international criticism in an unprecedented move 22 nations signed a letter to the un human rights council condemning disturbing reports australia canada and japan are among the signatories on on with britain france and germany they call on china to stop the mass detentions respect religious freedom and grant independent experts meaningful access to the region. countries that did not sign the document.