questions denying claims by protesters that georgia's government had become too lenient towards russia. russian what do you say to. that. that it doesn't actually require any further russia or is really concerned about your presence in. this conference of. georgia very western or we would like to find ourselves eventually within the european union in one of the debates parliamentary leader spoke of russia as an occupying force for junior russian. higher 20 percent of our territories it means permanent threat for security me here violation of human rights of people who are living territories later came the signing of financial agreements between georgia and e.u. states but as the ink dried on deals with $53000000.00 there was no disguising the

anxiety about russia's actions against this country if conference delegates were to take a short stroll down to the beach front here they get a reality check this place is normally teaming with russian tourists at this time of year the tourist official told us that hotel occupancy rates are down by 80 percent if the flight from russia continues the georgian economy has really going to suffer under symons al-jazeera but to me in georgia now a car bombing in the libyan city of benghazi has killed at least 4 people and wounded dozens the blast targeted the funeral of a special forces commander in the war on a cliff i have to the head of special forces attended the funeral that wasn't had our correspondent my head has more from tripoli. symmetry is

very close to the headquarters of the special forces unit which are under the control of the warlord. have to understand that this was a funeral held for a former commander of the special forces units and he would get under the former regime of moammar gadhafi but in that symmetry there were the military units including the special forces individuals including their commander the current commander the major general. we know that these explosions could be used as a pretext to push the special forces individuals to join have to this military campaign to seize the capital tripoli especially we know that there are many special forces individuals including their current commander. they refused to join have to this military campaign to move on tripoli we also know that. medical

sources in a bunch of ozzy's say that the number of victims could rise especially those wanted many of them have been in critical condition. it's been a year since rebels in the southern syrian province of darius surrendered and since then the un and human rights groups have documented cases of arbitrary detentions and arrests but as in a quarter reports from beirut the security situation is getting worse. it was a symbolic moment in syria's war when the opposition surrendered are in july 2018 the southern provinces where the pro-democracy movement began back in 2011 we taking it had special significance for the government even though the opposition remained in control of some towns as part of russian brokered reconciliation deals that avoided further fighting a year later state control seems weak and fragile well the situation has really

regressed over the previous 3 months where we've had a spate of different assassination. attacks on syrian army which is something which we haven't really seen in areas which have been agreed upon reconciliation the state hasn't been the only target for rebel commanders particularly those who joined units of the army as well as civilians who joined state institutions have been killed it's not clear who is behind the violence the opposition believes the government has much to gain. there have been many assassinations of civilians and former leaders of rebel groups who agreed to reconcile they've been killed so the aim is to create a state of fear eventually change the so-called reconciliation deals. some say the rest and there are is linked to the battle for influence between government allies russia and iran they have been recruiting locals and former rebel fighters into the different government affiliated military and security branches they control. rising

tensions between the rain ians on the russians across syria on the front levels 1st militias backing each other and do all senior positions the latest of which was. basically changing all of the security agencies. within the. allies. to return to. syria. they have protested for security forces present speaking out against the. services as well as the arrests and detentions international rights groups have accused president bashar assad. but people continue to strive for freedom in the birthplace of their revolution. beirut where the next still ahead.

the french attacks on. all of west africa. the challenge. and most declare across much of the middle east which of course continuing maine in there is a high numbers as we go through the next couple of days now what you can see is and as it's been pushing into northern western areas of turkey sudden friday we can see more of the way of showers but really it is carrying away from ankara really pushing across into georgia as you can see meanwhile in the eastern med a high of 30 in beirut and feeling quite nice for that on shore breeze and then

a saturday similar sort of picture but probably more in the way of rain across georgia and spreading further east was towards the caspian sea $41.00 in tehran and we will $38.00 degrees celsius in kabul and then we had a calls the arabian peninsula no rain here but we have a little bit of cloud around we've got a warm days that you know friday in doha 45 degrees celsius 38 in abu dhabi and then at 5 on sunday should be a little bit cooler i say cool 42 is not cool but perhaps i should say feeling at a bit less whole with vats high that we had down into southern africa conditions here as well this in flatiron just skirting these coastal areas as we head through friday and on into saturday and temperatures it should be feeling pretty good and with a high of 22 and even capetown cooler 18 but nice under mostly sunny skies. tony . i've been looking at your instagram account and it really takes into the

atmosphere behind the scenes this is a dialogue when donald trump announce his candidacy for president after that everyone has a voice. change for democrats to be. inspirational kalish mother. join the global conversation on your thoughts your twitter. on al-jazeera. hello again i'm. reminded of the news this hour iran's revolutionary guard has denied blocking a british tank in the straits of hormuz meanwhile police in gibraltar have arrested

the captain of an iranian tanker seized by british troops. saddam's ruling military council says it's holding 16 people over an attempted coup by all the offices as african union mediators announced progress in talks between the military and a pro-democracy coalition. and the united nations is to investigate the philippine government's a so-called war on drugs which watchdogs say has claimed more than $20000.00 lives the philippines is being to prevent extra judicial killings and enforced disappearances it says the allegations are offensive. now front has passed a tax bill targeting tech giants the 3 percent levy hits companies such as google apple facebook and amazon but it's angered to the white house to talk about the reports from paris. a show of hands and a display of defiance french senators passed a law taxing tech giants despite straits by the united states washington says the

levy on thoroughly targets american companies and it's opened an inquiry a move condemned by france's finance minister i think that the best way of dealing with that kind of difficulties between the u.s. and france is not through it is not opening a procedure under section 3 or one for the 1st time in history of the friendship between the us and france it is to build a compromise at the g 7 level. so that we can have a concrete and effective solution on the docks issue of digital activities the tax targets firms with the global revenue of more than $800000000.00 including $30000000.00 in france at least 30 companies will have to pay 3 percent tax on their french revenues because most are american including amazon and apple facebook and google washington says the levy is discriminatory in a statement the u.s.

is trade representative said the president donald trump had directed the we investigate the effects of this legislation and determine whether it is discriminatory or unreasonable and burdens or restricts united states commerce the u.s. investigation could lead to washington imposing retaliate tree tariffs on france that's something the french government would want to avoid but there's little doubt that there is a growing sense of frustration amongst many french politicians with trump's approach to international disagreements can we should mr trump threatens everyone in all areas he's become an article amity when you're head of such a power you have a responsibility you don't amuse yourself by threatening states that are as responsible and all democratic is france and that seek to the find the sort of regulation needed to address today's new economies it's. that there can be justice the european commission has been pushing for tech firms to abide by e.u. competition law rules and pay more tax in europe france's new law is

a major step in that direction it also fulfills one of the french president's campaign promises emanuel mycroft move angered the u.s. but taxing wealthy tech companies was one of the yellow vests main demands so french public opinion is likely to be on my cross side natasha buckler al-jazeera paris u.s. president donald trump has been hosting what he's called a social media summit at the white house it included a line up of online personalities from across rightwing media while google facebook and twitter officials were excluded from the gathering trump has accused them of bias against him and other conservatives alan fischer has more from washington d.c. . well donald trump believes the right wing voices are being held back on social media platforms that many are being deleted that a lot of his supporters are allowed to follow him so he invited many of those who

do support him online to the white house not invited the big tech companies people who could perhaps point to algorithms that suggest that right wing voices are not being taken off unless they breached the standards of those platforms now the economist the right wing magazine described those who were called to the white house as aggrieved discontents pessimists and reactionaries zealous ideological and cavalier with the truth donald trump actually praised those in the room for their support he said and this is a direct quote from the president of the united states he complimented them on the crap you think up donald trump if he can do one thing it is galvanize support online his online media operation is very sophisticated but he says the fact that he's got our own 60000000 followers and president barack obama has almost doubled that is a sign that many people are not allowed to follow it went on

a long rant about how he has never bought followers on twitter and when he questioned twitter on why he was losing followers they were told him it was because they were trimming down the number of boats the number of false accounts that were on twitter itself it's interesting that donald trump decided to hold this summit in the white house this week just a few days ago a judge ruled that he could not ban people from his official twitter account that even if they criticize them he couldn't kick them off it seems that the judge was saying look if you give it out then you've got to take it as well. april plays are is a journalist for online news website slate and she says trump's accusation of false bias by a social media networks is a political tactic ahead of the 2020 presidential election the pressure is coming but we're not seeing actual legal change to kind of force the companies to deal

with disdain for ration in a substantive way or to deal with the hate that spreads on their platforms in such a viral way and you know it doesn't look like there's going to be any sort of legal change moving into 2020 you know it's not even like clear that it's required that you have to label that a political ad as you know who it's paid for by or that it is a political ad on these platforms so it's not clear that anything is going to change and he's really tying tying their hands from doing anything so in one camp we have congress and members a lot of democrats saying the social media companies need to clean up their act they need to make sure that there aren't you know trolls from russia or other foreign governments or even here in the united states forwarding this information and then on the other hand you have trump saying well this is censorship and and so it's really forcing the companies into a place of an action then israel and president nicolas maduro as government and opposition parties have agreed to keep talking in

a bid to resolve the political and economic crises the breakthrough follows 3 days of meetings in barbados that mean representatives of mature and one quiet are the opposition leader has declared himself interim president before the talks began madeira had said he was optimistic that they could find a path to peace. a west african leaders are gathering in ivory coast to discuss the rollout of a single shared currency it's part of an initiative to strengthen regional ties and trade bonds as reports from abidjan there are plenty of challenges. roasted coffee beans are ready for processing at this plant on the ask itself. the factory is just one west african business looking to cash in on the region's effort to liberalize trade. the plug says having a single currency will be good for business.

there are different currencies in the region transactions among mean the countries is difficult right now but having a single currency makes trading a loss easier. regional leaders have been pushing to integrate they kind of ease they believe they are no closer to having a single currency than at any time but they're all stickles. different the level of economic development differs from one country to another for example the economies of nigeria ghana i can't give why are so smaller countries will simply drag the more advanced economies just like europe we all produce raw materials and import most of our needs there is little imports among member nations the c.f.a. is one of west africa's major caresses it's a legal tender in 8 of the 15 countries in the region and if regional leaders have their way it will be replaced by a new currency for the whole of west africa. negotiations for the single currency board after the euro have been underway for 30 years the implementation of the i

called west africa single currency was delayed several times but the recent agreement of an african free trade area is soon by some as an incentive enough for regional leaders to finally launch it after 3 failed attempts. while businesses say a common currency will ease regional trade not everyone is hopeful that all 50 repetitions of the economic bloc of course have the political will to see it through all the next year by decrease al-jazeera. well you can find much more on our web site including details on the heightened shipping security in the gulf at al jazeera dot com. hello i'm under with the headlines iran's revolutionary guard has denied blocking a british tanker in the strait of hormuz meanwhile police in gibraltar have

arrested the captain of an iranian tanker seized by british troops last week probably chalons has more from london this is the result of days of searches that have gone on on the tanker they have seized documents the police have electronic devices at the moment there are no charges but the police say this investigation is carrying on sudan's transitional military council says it's foiled an attempted coup the council says it was carried out by a group of serving and retired officers and that 16 people are being held african union mediators have announced progress in talks between the military and a pro-democracy coalition it had been hoped that a power sharing agreement would be signed on thursday about it didn't happen. the un is to investigate the philippine government's so-called war on drugs which watchdogs say has claimed more than $20000.00 lives the philippines is being urged to prevent extra judicial killings and enforced disappearances it says the

allegations are offensive italian prosecutors have opened an investigation into possible corruption involving deputy prime minister. it follows media reports that a covert russian oil deal was devised to funnel millions of euros to his ruling league party and already a recording of a meeting in october allegedly exposes a close aide of self and 3 russian men discussing a deal but there's no evidence of a transaction actually took place salvini has denied his party received any money from moscow or u.s. president donald trump says he's not backing down on efforts to determine citizenship status of people in the country but he's abandoned plans to put a question on citizenship in the 2020 census a car bombing in the libyan city of benghazi has killed at least 4 people and wounded dozens the blast targeted the funeral of a special forces commander who also the world khalifa haftar the head of special

forces was attending the funeral but wasn't hurt well those are the headlines the news continues here after the stream to stay with us. as iraq rebuild itself following years of conflict women struggle to play a bigger role politically and domestic violence also remains a problem. some of the brave women battling abuse talk to al jazeera about the struggles they face and their pursuit of justice. in the stream ridicule threats of bodily harm and scorn this is what is really after some playwright i know it's weitzman endured for participating in art and activism focused on israeli palestinian politics today where we explore how actors and artists like her using fear to as

a tool to break down barriers in israel and the palestinian territories have questions be sure to leave them in the chat and we will do our best to get them into the conversation. should people come in the room. the. day of. incarceration or. this is all you know with comments from if you want a documentary. from today. that was a trailer for the documentary play shame to point. a not wise man and palestinian hassan in it they explore the difficulties of producing politically driven theater and the challenges they have faced because of their activism. and what i'd share their narratives in individual monologues recounting the hurdles they had to overcome to advance their respective careers and

a contentious political climate in each performance the actors are periodically interrupted by news footage of israeli culture minister myriad of whose efforts to pull government funding from organizations or. bent disloyal to the state has been criticized as a form of censorship. us now via skype in tel aviv israel with us in studio mirage has some who co-wrote shame 2.0 and colin delaney who has been performing as i announced during the productions run here in washington d.c. welcome all of you to the stream it is really good to have you here i want to start with i'm a rat so this is going to be tricky having this double conversation together the idea of shame the original production what was it. you know one of the gun enough. yes i can begin though is another shame was about events that happened during 2014 during their israeli attack on gaza.

i can tell my story and then my dad can tell he is and afterwards i can tell how i expand the play so. the plane was a. belt of. a 12 matic event i went through in 2014 someone show the fault of mine wearing a t. shirts with palestinian flag on their. own facebook. during their gaza war and i was am in there and that is well and people know me and i was like whoa facebook clinched and because people know me. they hate moved to districts and they couldn't really go safely on the street i was there this event was such

a 2 hour matic event for me and been pushed out of the public's fur. what i did is the opposite a put this whole experience on stage and this was my narrative in. shame. and maybe more but cannot share. i love how i not always like directing as chatting to us. over to you. i 1st met an out when i was. assistant to a place she played and i was supposed to edition for the role in it but i was a bit too young. i mean comparing to not have a good scene i say that i want you to be my assistant ok so the assistant director on this is old but not that time i'll be done theater what i used toward got closed

and not just for me maybe we add the story of the story of the comments she get and we make. artists experiences working in. medan theater my suggestion was. interview me as if she writes all the details documentary like all actions you want from here. and the brothers and sisters and how many better to play yourself than yourself yes exactly. my story everything is written the. happen except for that one name we had to change just for you know similarity in names we don't really point in someone particularly. and then we started to have actually the original. because we were invited to the international school. festival it's like

pieces of theatre that not only relate to kind of a specific genre in theater but i'm in the room and this is where we start to perform. and culling of course then you join the production you are playing i want to bring up this week here for a reviewer of the play that's here and you see it mosaic theater d.c. metro theater arts rights shame to point out goes to the heart of what's dangerous about dissident art and one who cares about art that matters to us not miss this inspiring instance of what makes the work that so holy in the idea of dissident art is that what you thought you were signing up for and that what you see yourself is doing. well i have to confess there was a bit of naivete when i took on the project. my a path to the production was through some personal relationships they felt i was a match for the role so rather than the content pulling me to the piece it was the

relationships and the faith on their part that i would be a good match for the role and it is only as we were that i came to really only begin to get to know the stakes involved for rod and for a not and for all israeli artist i saw you all on the opening night in washington d.c. so shame is called shame 2.0 because this is a production that is playing color in washington have a look at my computer here colleen and i know that standing there together you can see the connection between the 2 of them this is this wasn't planned this one wasn't planned this one was them really embracing each other on the opening night i want to play you just a little scene we recorded it earlier in the stream studio that gives you a little insight into what is happening in this production have a look have a listen sometimes it's the little decisions that make all the difference

that sunny morning in 2006 i chose a t. shirt from my closet it was a political statement of course but it was also a rather naive one what started out as a torrent of abuse from members of the internet public went on to push us to perform this little play shame which led to others what i didn't know then was that these voices of public abuse weren't merely fringe voices but would go on to become the voice of the mainstream. that my plays would be heatedly debated in parliament that the government would push for laws to try and stop me as a friend to terrorists and so my personal transformation from t. shirt wearer to playwright is also the story of the radical dissent of my country

while despairing the worsening and critical situation in gaza and in all other parts of palestine for israeli artists for my country that i love there is also a little hope that art even if stumbled upon by hazard or chance can make a difference. at your facebook page in that quote is on your facebook page on the post here there's also a little hope that arts even if stumbled upon by has little chance can make a difference what difference is your art and art making. i think the most. a good example for what they import and so far is there. is

a. loyalty law that the minister of culture was trying to pass in the israeli parliament. a law that. every artist should be loyal to the states. and if not funds will be taken from him so i think this law that the minute i gave was trying so hard to pass is that is like testifying to the importance of art because if. there is a need to or a whole government pass a new law in order to to fight against a playwright or or a palestinian institution that meets that power in it that out indeed has power and i think that the. struggle here is about narratives and

about perception and i think that art has its role to gather. history we need. this politics in your so. yes so i believe in art. and mary wreckage is the current minister of culture faith israel and has tried and succeeded in banning some of your productions in the past. you mentioned they're testifying to the power of art and it brings us to this comment we got live on you tube says when you asked if they believe that art can inspire influence and that maybe our it could bring about political and social change so that is a question someone's asking before you answer it what ads i want you to hear someone the perspective of someone who thinks that it can this is a professor who sent us a big comment his name is on john johansen out of london and he talks to us about

using art as a tool a political tool because it told us performers can be quite significant as political resistance especially if it's based on social engagement participation interaction so for instance the freedom feature on the west bank in the palestinian territories they both build their scripts on interactive exercises with your audience and when they tour the also discuss the shows after performances with so they keep alive an absolutely topical conversation about the state of military occupation and. it's an argument you know i think they will contribute with more participate with democracy in pursuit of political freedom. do you see your work as a political resistance will i can't agree more with what the head of now because theater is a very very powerful tool 1st of all it connects people together it's

a reason to come together it reminds us maybe of mosques churches or synagogues it's a very holy place if you might call it this week it's power is that it's its general it doesn't really specify one member of the audience and then the other it reaches to everyone so imagine that you as a group of people come to watch a play and then you see this play is similar to your home similar to your stories similar to your struggle for let's say and then you realise it's far away from my state but something is happening it's like the political theater a bit of bread for example what he wanted to do either i mean i can't speak for him for him but what he wanted is that people lists emotionally involved. mentally and the. like more comparing what they're seeing on stage to life so when they go

out of fear that they will think about i'm not going to let this happen to me again or i'm not not going to just pass away as if it's normal i remember one of the pieces that affected me as an actor actually was a. project in jerusalem that empathy towards other people and you realise as a man that if you don't have something in return you don't give him pathy it's a it's a kind of proven science the project was to deal with it and if you're allman it's a class thing to give him but various i know but then we come to our plate. this theater can. change the answer is the family yes definitely yes does all of. one point or we've had many critics saying that what you're sending to the choir we are convinced convincing us we know what you're saying when we had a month you guys you know what we're going to keep saying it again and again to lose just completed something he was wrong we need to change it it changes even if

you know all that the terms on stage it will change something in your mind. theatre and all art i mean i love the way not in the plays conclusion talks about art and not just theater because. i see so many parallels in the play shame to the situations we face and struggle with in america obviously different situations different stakes different consequences but similar feelings what did you see from working on this production that you saw this is just like the states where. the notion that the screaming loud fringy voices have moved into the mainstream and that this is you know. there's no discussion it's just shrieking on either side you know or reacting to that or i think it didn't make it into the final cut of the play but certainly part of the

situation is this mass incarceration of palestinian men yeah which we used to mention in the play felt very reminiscent of our situation here and i think of like you know again drawing a parallel to our country and our struggles with race for example. how you know. black americans can't seem to protest they can't seem to take any they can't seem to demonstrate but childish gambino can make the video this is america which is like who can who can deny the deep and difficult messages in that and so that to me is like another example of resistance through art that the well 1st of this is america by the way back home we feel connected to everything that we see each frame of that clip. because they'll have for people who are not in the know is an artist and that video went viral around the world because other

people could connect with the sentiment of the being i think it's oppression like a feeling of oppression i want to just pause for a moment because my right to you recorded in our studio just a little bit earlier an excerpt from saying to point. have a look few days after the mess started with the i'll be done theater yousif comes to the book a friend. their own and asks for white bushmills no i saw the peanuts and. he sits down with a smile and he tells me you wanted to be an actor there medan fear that right you always wanted to be right here is your new manager with an interview to the press. cellphone and i read it i came in order to stabilize the company i came to bring back the theater into a cultural. this shouldn't be. a political

one we are the citizens of israel we pay taxes and we're proud to be part of the system. i give him back a cell phone and he looks at me with a bigger smile now and he tells me are you proud to be part of the system why do you represent what does that does the country represent you your day or the next thing you're going to do is to present as little in the euro vision all this theater of euro zone for the israelis to feel better with themselves to give your money just to win the freedom of speech flag but in order to do so you have to be a good arab the freedom you have to choose whether you're an arab in the nablus method or in the nazareth when i tell him listen we can make a change from within or the liberating movements use the colonizer suits to undermine him this is possible this is how you do it then he tells me show you show me what it succeeded show me where it succeeded why do you need this country for detach completely bring money from outside at least you have a total freedom because let me tell you something about israelis israelis you

cannot talk to them you can only talk about them only then they would listen when you said something about them outside but here inside they couldn't care less they are the winners you can try and talk to them about colonialism ok occupation cool but say it outside and see how 1st they will listen to the need told me. i will teach you and you look like a nice guy let's go to. this drink vodka now because of the holidays where some spices to make it stronger. no he wanted to play with a different drink from me today

so much step then that one clip that seemed there are audiences reacting brad to me on facebook says being censored is a badge of honor it means you are being effective keep it going and i do you see it as a badge of honor censorship. well. sometimes that like . one of my plays prisoners of starkey patient that was banned. yes i thought it was on though to be censored both is well and also. what happened was display that was banned this display was there about political prisoners and. whatever the result of it of bennett may play it was. programmed to have theatre

festival and that band steering committee and the whole festival collapsed and all the artists are left of the festival and a big media storm began and then people started to discuss the power far and discussed also what was so important to me about it to discuss the issue of political prisoners and for quite some time i thought as if i woke the walls of the theater and the whole country was discussing a play that was so important to me. there's a tweet here speaking of censorship because of course you guys are getting it both ways so jonathan cook writes in here that i not weitzman broke israel's great cultural taboo last year with her play on palestinian political prisoners this is a separate play the government banned it from the aker festival and now she plans to revive it through a cat crowd funding campaign so that censorship from the government but here

someone else writes that israeli artists who speak out these are just examples that they've listed actors and not twice one has had people in her neighborhood shout and spit at her these of course are speaking of the circumstances that i not his face have you want a similar circumstances lately because of the incitement that is going on by the system by the government. against palestinians and as you see it if i have 2 dogs if i take the beach i need to be really careful that there will be no disturbed because it's going to be immediately racist i mean the comment is going to be immediately racist if i you be cast also play it's going to be only support because i mean everything. everything is the in this racism. when it comes to an artist a palestinian artist in israel you are acting against the system it's no surprise to anyone if you are straight and alone with the system that's your choice no

judging may be. made but the thing i mean if you're not certain of the name of the system don't expect the system to be like welcoming you but still what they're not certain is really important because if the government is investing so much to change a narrative. it's a great indication that she's afraid this government is really afraid of this narrative and if this narrative goes viral for example like gumby you know that really got there is that it goes viral it might be dangerous to the state of israel for example maybe jewish now israeli jewish want to hate i want to know what happened with the palestinians in 48 and we know this for example when they see a plea but then comes they gave back up with all of the government of the right wing of. shut down the theater and there is nothing you can do about it because you don't have these we don't have infrastructure and that our struggle today is only

to paris that the month of a surviving strike that we're not even built to have in a critique in our. see the system just busy doing or not. getting shot and then we try again and then skip getting shot and then you try again i mean the development thing is really condition. and colin and i not it's been such a pleasure having you here on the screen we could talk for an hour we're going to rough it out right now i have to tell you about this if you're in the washington d.c. area in the next 5 days check out shane 2.0 it is on at the mosaic theater in washington d.c. thank you guests really appreciate your your company today now on to wednesday it will be the 1st of 2 special shows on nigeria's upcoming election a double live episode we will meet a young political candidates pushing for

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and chief officer of an iranian tanker. arrested.

and this is al jazeera live from also coming up saddam's military council says it's foiled a coup attempt talks on a transition to civilian rule continue. the un human rights council says it will investigate the philippine government so-called war on drugs. and empty beaches and political tensions we look at the dispute that's keeping russian tourists away from georgia. now police have arrested the captain and chief officer of an iranian tanker that was seized by british marines last week the new developments follow u.k. allegations that iranian vessels tried to impede a british oil tanker in the strait of hormuz leading to an intervention by a british warship but reports from london. british shipping in the gulf is now on its highest possible in the u.k. a move to maritime security level 3 after its government said this ship the b.p.

oil tanker british heritage was approached by 3 iranian vessels london says h.m.s. montrose a warship moved in to warn the iranians away well we're very concerned this is a very serious escalation of the situation and you know we are proud that the royal navy was there to protect their heritage. but we are monitoring the situation very closely we don't want to escalate tensions we want tensions to come down iran has denied the incident took place with the foreign minister mohammad javad zarif saying the british had made the claims to create tension but iran. warned the u.k. there would be reprisals for the seizure of an iranian tanker by british marines off the coast of to brawl to last week on thursday gibraltar police arrested the tankers captain and chief officer and have seized documents and electronic devices

the ship is accused of breaking e.u. sanctions by taking to syria the u.k. finds itself in a difficult position with iran like the e.u. it wants to keep tensions low and save the iranian nuclear deal the j.c. p.o. way but it also wants to keep its close alliance with the u.s. which has walked away from the deal and has hit iran with tough economic sanctions the u.s. department of defense believes the british tank incident reinforces its argument for an international naval task force in the gulf to protect commercial shipping threats to international freedom of navigation require an international solutions as a statement from u.s. central command tensions in one of the world's most important shipping channels have risen again chalons al-jazeera london well the u.s. 5th fleet has said it's working closely with the british royal navy to defend the free flow of commerce and freedom of navigation through the region how correspondent he has been monitoring reaction in uranium capital. diplomatic

relations between iran and the united kingdom have been suffering for many months now and the events of the last 24 hours will not help that situation and the arrest of senior officers of the gracewood one the oil tanker that was detained last week off the coast of japan by the u.k. royal marines that is likely to bring the same level of anger from leaders here into iran that the detention of the vessel the seizure of the vessel the oil tanker brought from the senior most levels of government last week iran's president and other senior leaders calling it a violation of the sanctity of international waterway something that was creating insecurity many senior iranian leaders also called the u.k. a move that was by all accounts taken at the behest of the united states an act of piracy now ron is very angry about the fact that 2000000 barrels of crude oil were

in the cargo vessel at the time of its seizure something that iran will find especially difficult now is trying to continue to sell oil in the face of unilateral u.s. economic sanctions and iran's economy is certainly continuing to teeter so this is something that leaders will have taken very seriously and the arrest of these 2 officers will no doubt escalate tensions even further earlier today iran denied reports that islamic revolutionary guard corps naval vessels tried to capture and seize a british vessel iran's government flatly denied any truth to those reports saying that in the past 24 hours there had been no encounter with any foreign vessels iran's foreign minister zarif calling the u.k.'s version of events again another attempt to escalate tensions with iran and meanwhile the rices news agency is reporting that the united states will not. impose sanctions on iranian foreign

minister zarif last month the treasury secretary steve had said zarif would be blacklisted in that week but sources tell royce's the decision could now be a hint that washington wants to keep the daughter to primacy open with iran now mediators from the african union say there's been progress in talks between sudan's ruling military council and a coalition of pro-democracy groups a draft deal was reached last week but the details still being finalized it was expected that the agreement would be signed on thursday but that didn't happen. at the volga to negotiate an delegations from the forces of declaration for freedom and change and the transitional military council met in a 3rd round of talks this evening and they're in complete agreement on the political announcement to determine all the bodies all the transitional stage the political document has been agreed unanimously what is left is

a proclamation. which establishes. the transitional period or the transition into. a civilian government. shall be. discussed and signed of the same time and that all comes as the military council says it's foiled an attempted coup the council says it was carried out by a group of serving and retired officers and that 16 people are being held and says they were trying to stop the deal being signed between the council and the forces for freedom and change well earlier we spoke to david shinn who is a former deputy chief of mission at the u.s. embassy in sudan he says there have been disagreements within the security forces since the overthrow of president i'm al bashir. no i suspect this is a real attempt and the timing seems to have been predicated around the signing of

this new agreement that has been announced in the last several days otherwise it would be extremely coincidental that for this to happen and there not be a relationship there have been disagreements within the security forces since the beginning of this effort to change the regime in sudan and there have been fits and starts before there are going to be some fits and starts in the future i don't see this as all that unusual. apparently in this case whatever was being planned was stopped that means that it should be possible to go forward with the agreement in the coming days time will tell whether that happens or not but you have a very volatile situation and sit down today and it's not too surprising that there are there are going to be setbacks there are going to be disagreements on both sides now the u.n. human rights council is to investigate what it calls

a staggering number of matters in the philippine government's war on drugs is accuses president ford regard to test a of inciting violence against drug dealers as well as intimidating judges and degrading women the philippines has rejected the allegations calling them offensive and one sided correspondent jim allen reports. it's scenes like these that have prompted international action more than 6000 people killed in the 3 years since president pretty good authority launched he's so-called war on drugs those are the government's own figures the dead all suspected drug dealers it says but rights groups see the actual number could be 5 times that figure now the united nations has taken what many see as he could to go 1st step towards accountability and comes after years of dock. human taishan and campaigning by both local and international rights groups the un's human rights council has ordered

a report on the philippines it will adjust series about elations allegedly committed by the government to jurong detect this crackdown this is a campaign against drugs because drug users and will be a source of course again i mean you know the crimes that are be committed now we're not going to quibble about how many of those crimes are committed by drug users but the justification for them being is not it's just not true that we are overwhelmed by the drug problem that required such. murder. the philippine government rejects the u.n. vote calling it a travesty and saying it cannot accept a politically partisan and one sided resolution it's already said it won't cooperate with any investigation critics have described to deter to drugs campaign

as a war against the poor with the majority of those killed coming from impoverished communities and they're included in the government's watch lists of drug users and peddlers but the rights groups say these lists are reliable and police have not explained how they are drawn up or verified but the terror to remains committed to his war and drugs despite widespread criticism the united nations human rights council is not the only international body now prepared to investigate. the international criminal court is carrying out its own inquiry into whether his drugs war policies that started when he was mayor of davos city in the southern philippines before becoming president constitute crimes against humanity jim duggan al jazeera italian prosecutors have opened an investigation into possible corruption and

evolving deputy prime minister matteo salvini head follows media reports that a covert russian oil deal with devised to funnel millions of euros to his ruling league party and or the recording of a meeting in october allegedly exposed as a close aide of solving and 3 russian men discussing a deal but there's no evidence that a transaction took place salvia he has denied his party received any money from moscow. european council president donald tusk has criticized russia's decision to ban flights to georgia he calls it unjustified and disproportionate relations between tbilisi and moscow have deteriorated since the visit of a russian politician to the georgian parliament 3 weeks ago speaking at a conference on the e.u. and eastern europe in the georgian city of but to me from where andrew symonds reports. it's clear new movies to european states you are wrong.