this is g.w. newsline from linda to oil tankers reportedly attacked in the gulf one appears to have been hit by a torpedo cruiser rescued leaving the ship's drift on the high seas the parents attacks come as tensions are between the u.s. and iran mount also on the program. leading research organization the well from foundation describes the latest evolved outbreak as truly frightening virus kills around 2000 people in the democratic republic of congo now to spread to neighboring uganda. and calm returns to hong kong after writing leaves dozens injured

protesters say they will continue their campaign in the case of those new allowing suspects to be extradited to china. i'm filled to hell welcome to the program. your secretary general antonio good taro says warns of the world cannot afford a major confrontation in the gulf region the statement comes after 2 oil tankers were reportedly attacked in the gulf of oman oil prices jumped by 4 percent a tensions between the u.s. and iran have been running high since president trump withdrew from our landmark nuclear deal last year. black smoke billows from the norwegian owned tank at the front. than a week in maritime authority says there will reportedly 3 explosions on board and

has described the incident as an attack the 2nd ship involved in the incident was the japanese called courageous both tankers had departed from saudi arabia and sent out an emergency signal at roughly 6 am i don't think we have. now we will have to look. for weeks ago a suspected sabotage attack on 4 tank is raised tensions in the region 2 tankers were badly damaged but the details surrounding these explosions also remain unclear the usa has accused iran of being behind that incident saying that when acts of revenge for u.s. sanctions on iran iran denies this experts fear today's explosions will only heighten tensions in the gulf region even further so tensions between individual gulf states and washington could escalate if the usa continues to take a hard line on iran iran will focus on making washington look bad in front of the

international community and its allies. iran has rejected any responsibility for the explosions t.v. stations have reported authorities have launched an investigation into the incident and teams of experts have already arrived at the scene let's get more on this from atlanta batter by political analyst specializing on iran welcome to you who is likely to have done this why. we in fact have 3 sets of actors that could be behind this obviously iran could try to escalate the situation in response to the u.s. maximum pressure complain it called economic warfare against the country we have iran survivals in the region that may want to drag through a false flag operation want to drag iran the us into war with iran and then we have a whole range of terrorist or militant groups in the region that may also seek to escalate the tensions in the region so it's very difficult to really look at who

has been behind this attack why is it so difficult because. the u.a.e. has been saying of the of last month's attack that it blames state act for that attack you can't launch one of these attacks against these enormous vessels with just a bit of string and a boat u. boat down the road these things takes organization why is it so difficult to pin down who's behind it. interesting lead that that report falls short of blaming a specific country or iran of that attack and unfortunately the situation in the region the such that states equipped militant groups with these kinds of equipment and but we cannot exclude anything so we should be prepared for any theory behind this and unless we see actual evidence we can only speculate about who was behind it it is interesting the speculation is that you as you say that the u.s.

did not name any names the united states has blamed iran for the 12th of may attacks without providing evidence that this is going to ratchet up the tensions between the 2 isn't it. yeah i mean we see we see a situation where ambiguity seems to be a strategy or at least in the communication to keep things ambiguous and even the u.s. said it's almost certain that iran was behind it and that makes the whole situation a bit volatile and big ambiguous as i said and leaves us with with a lot of question marks and that the u.s. navy's 5th fleet is in the region and that they took part in part of the rescues today. escalation is is a significant possibility in this. we actually saw a lot of efforts in the past weeks by regional countries such as oman qatar kuwait and iraq but also the japanese prime minister is currently in tehran the german

foreign minister was there to in fact make sure that there are sent messages sent back and forth between tehran and washington and i personally actually believe that they have had a major impact into trying to avoid that kind of escalation which makes today's incident even more questionable with regards to who really was behind it you have to live with the mystery for now iran analyst i meant about and i think it the state media in sudan are reporting that ousted former president obama al bashir has been charged with corruption news comes as mediator step up efforts to end the standoff between the country's military rulers and their civilian opponents protesters called off a campaign of civil disobedience this week and agreed to fresh talks with the army . if. you give any if any agreement needs to include i don't know an international guarantee. had this fucked up and we're only

prepared to discuss an agreement that leads to our proposal of a civil government. without discussion of any other issues. as are some of the other stories making news around the world the british government has approved the extradition of we keep its founder julian assange to the united states mr saunders lawyers are expected to challenge the decision which has to be approved by a court the final verdict not expected for months he's wanted in the u.s. for leaking classified materials in 2010. a severe cycler varing past india's western coast is set to lash coastal areas with heavy rain wind and waves cycling of via value had been due to strike the state of gujarat head on today but changed course and is now unlikely to make landfall. leading medical research

organizations describe the current outbreak of ebola in the democratic republic of congo is truly frightening the u.k. based welcome trust says the epidemic which is claimed more than 2000 lives is the worst in years and shows no sign of stopping it is now spread to uganda where 2 people including a 5 year old boy have died and uganda has sent family members about the day aussie including another young boy confirmed to be suffering from the virus of the world health organization is considering whether to declare the epidemic a global emergency. borders can't stop a virus but ugandan authorities are trying nonetheless 3 ebola cases have been registered in the country it's the 1st known cross border spread since an outbreak began in the neighboring democratic republic of congo last august fears are growing that this might only be the beginning worked out great in that the sea is still going on and by today we have over 2000 confirmed cases

and so the probability of more cases for singles from the sea into uganda these very high. ebola isn't new to uganda the country has seen 5 outbreaks of the disease since the year 2000 it has now stepped up efforts to contain the virus screening everyone entering uganda from the eastern. the government is also deploying an experimental ebola vaccine for health care workers along the border so right there shelby but again. frontline health walkouts. unring vaccination for the contacts. because of past successes in combating the disease uganda is widely regarded as being at the forefront of the fight against ebola feel that given the most recent cases many ugandans feel uneasy and wish

their country would do more to educate citizens about the virus the government does not done enough just as there is people about it because i think they are going to do it should have started the from the rural areas but you know when people have the symptoms they want to hide and in the mix with it. which now spreads davies's to 2 white areas. on friday the world health organization will decide whether this ebola outbreak should be declared an international health emergency. measure of calm has restored to hong kong in the wake of a series of large protests against a planned new law allowing suspects to be extradited to china or forces have been clearing the way barricades following a night of clashes that left 79 people injured a smaller number of protesters assembled in the city center today and the heavy security a city legislators have postponed the next debate on the proposal which a progress fear will erode civil liberties. interview or to honk sram lady is from

hong kong. so have the protesters come back today after yesterday's of protests it has been a relatively calm day a lot of people have actually returned to work will return to normal life however a number of people protesters were still together stu gathered around the parliament and in fact our correspondents talks to some protesters today let's have a listen. oh you can be in september at the bank i'm 17 years old and i'm a high school student and my classmates are having examined some bright but i decided to skate and to come here to protest. because the future phone call is more important to me and this is something that will affect the freedom of every homecoming citizen it's not quite so crucial i think you.

know i'm a bit frustrated but we must have this below average research and therefore we are not giving out for example some are coming in here folks. trying to caroline is there a way to go on strike. and my bus was ok for us to come here can see some here today but i think there's no justification police to use tear gas and rubber bullets out i. happen to go out. and speak up on the reaction to the protest yesterday so they would tear gas was used where they were seeing the pictures behind us that was quite a scene what have people been saying about yesterday's events well of course they are very angry still very angry about the extraditions role but they are furious about the police the behavior of the police many of them say that police used

excessive unnecessary force to disperse crowds when a lot of the protesters were actually just demonstrating peacefully and also today police arrested yesterday and today police have arrested a number of people and some of them are students and police actually searched the whole way to arrest the students and people are also very angry about that and tell us about the international reaction to yesterday's attacks all so germany has already expressed some concerns about this. the foreign office tweeted that they are very concerned about the situation in hong kong and that examining whether the current. extradition agreement between hong kong and germany there is one between them whether it can retain the editing if the extradition is going to be adopted and the u.k. . also had some reactions prime minister. the rights and freedom

set out and the 984 sign of british agreement should be respected because hong kong used to be a british colony and 984 they had an agreement and this is what permits to rescind may has that and also taiwan also expressed concern u.s. president donald trump said he hopes that hong kong and china will be able to work out and also a lot of reactions from some other parts of the world ok so the very very 2nd reading of this bill it's been postponed for now so what should we expect over the coming days well and other huge protests has been cold this coming sunday so we might expect another another protest on sunday because this is to weekend and so people don't have to work so they may come out again and on monday there should be another discussion to go on and that we can we can also expect some protests.

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