you. know this is deeply news live from berlin fears of confrontation grow as president donald trump refers to a rant as a nation of terror excuses the islamic republic of carrying out attacks in the gulf of oman the u.s. says these black and white images of iranian forces prove that terror on set off explosions on 2 oil tankers yesterday iran is calling the u.s. accusations alarming and wrong also coming out of. the

women's walkout in switzerland and a nationwide strike to demand a quality women want more time more respect and more pay. come to go for welcome to the show the u.n. secretary general antonio terrorist is calling for an independent investigation to determine who carried out yesterday's attacks on 2 oil tankers in the gulf of oman the u.s. military has released a video it insists proves that iran is responsible but terran says the allegations are baseless tensions have been running high since president donald trump told the u.s. out of the international nuclear pact on or around last year. the united states says this is the video that proves iran was behind the attacks u.s.

military claims it shows iran's revolutionary guard removing an unexploded limpet mine from one of the oil tankers it's also published a photo purporting to show damage and a mine attached to one of the ships president donald trump called into fox news to declare iran guilty they're a nation of terror and they've changed a lot since i've been president i can tell you they were unstoppable and now they're in deep deep trouble dr to me but he also said he was open to talks with iran. and we want to get him back to the table if they want to go back ready when they are the incident was sparked early on thursday when a fire broke out on a norwegian oil tanker following explosions the crew radioed for assistance. to prompt ok you're going to have to report this by i want that over on the open air more probably not whether that stuck with the back where. i get it but if

for some hours later a 2nd tanker japanese owned also called for help the crew said they saw a flying object hit the ship before hearing a blast the ships had passed through the strait of hormuz a strategically important waterway which carries a 5th of all global oil supplies. iran has rejected the u.s. accusations and says its navy came to the aid of one of the ships iranian state t.v. broadcast images of the rescue crew members the foreign minister said the incidents were suspicious. as a reminder of the potential for the incident to escalate globally iran's president hassan rouhani has met with russia's vladimir putin russia has cautioned against racing to judge iran both stressed there is strong security ties. under the current circumstances with all the external pressure and foreign sanctions being imposed the necessity for cooperation between the countries in this

region including our countries is becoming more critical each day. settled out to be steady. it's just weeks since the u.s. blame to run for a series of attacks on 4 other ships in the same region those full details have yet to be released iran has also rejected those accusations. earlier we spoke to trita parsi the founder of the national iranian american council and washington d.c. the organization lobbies for better relations between the u.s. and iran and strongly supports the iran nuclear deal we asked him 1st what he made of the video released by the u.s. military well i think the socket captain is coming out with a completely different story reinforces the fact that we simply do not have the information right now to make any judgments perhaps it was the iranians perhaps it

wasn't what we actually need some hard evidence is if you excel frankly does not seem to be able to prove anything for instance if we assume that iran is actually didn't do it but they were there and they were helping some of this get off the boat we know that for a fact they so had on that in a minute it would make sense for them to remove it because it would. pose a risk to their own safety moreover perhaps they were suspicious of other countries potentially being behind this and they wanted to take as evidence we don't know that it could also be that they were behind it and they wanted to remove evidence. video in and of itself this. not add any new knowledge to this and it makes it even more problematic when the captain actually comes out and says that mines really had nothing to do with it but rather it was something from the air that caused the attack on the ship around maintained it and then think there is no factual evidence who is around blaming for what happened when the iranians are making the case that

this was a false flag that this is done either by the saudis the u.a.e. or united states itself trying to pin the blame when you aren't in order to be able to escalate tensions towards war inshallah nj that exists in all of this is that i mean there's signed frankly seems to have a tremendous amount of credibility in the white house right now you have a serial liar as the president you have a serial fabricator as national security advisor who played a critical role in luring the united states into the iraq war so one would have to be very careful not to take their words at face value in saudi arabia u.a.e. you have 2 countries and for a very long time have been pushing the united states to go to war with iran so they too clearly have motive and then on the other hand you have the iranians who for many years actually have threatened to close off their all shipping in the persian gulf if their own oil could not be sold so you have plenty of party is that how plenty of motives and you also have played your part is that actually don't have

a tremendous amount of credibility which all reinforces the need to actually get evidence before any conclusions are drawn where do you think going from here. well i'm hoping that there would be some form of u.n. investigation that actually would be able to get to the bottom of this but also recognizing that as long as the united states is pursuing this maximum pressure campaign against you wrong as long as it continues to violate a nuclear deal and punish countries like germany and others for trying to abide by the nuclear deal there is likely going to be a lot of tensions in the region if we won to tensions to resolve as trump himself says that he wants to go back to the negotiating table when the passage in negotiating table is actually very simple start respecting the nuclear deal and then build new negotiations on top of it what trump is doing is that he's ruining and wrecking all previous agreements and then wants others to how it really comes

to the negotiating table to meet him even though he has completely destroyed his own credibility by going after these existing negotiating deals and frankly violating u.n. security council resolutions trade up i think president of the national iranian american council in washington thanks for your insight. let's now take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world interpol says that one of the alleged ringleaders of a deadly attack in sri lanka has been arrested in the middle east and deported the organization also said 4 other people were extradited to sri lanka in connection to the case the attacks took place in april when islamist militants killed more than 250 people on the island. a british court has set next february for a hearing to decide whether we q leaks founder julian assange should be extradited to the u.s. washington has accused the songs of conspiring to hack government computers and

directing wiki leaks publication of secret documents. in sudan the ruling military council has admitted that security forces committed violations when they broke up a protest camp last week over 100 people were killed in the capital khartoum and across the country in a crackdown on demonstrators protesters want the military to step aside and allow a civilian government to take over. the world health organization is calling on the international community to step up funding to find the ebola epidemic of the democratic republic of congo this week the disease spread across the border to uganda leading to the death of a 5 year old boy and his grandmother it's the 2nd deadliest ebola outbreak in history more than 1400 people have died but the w.h.o. has decided not to declare an international emergency. in the back of this pickup

truck with the body of the polish 2nd victim in uganda at ms embalmed who was 50 she passed away hours after her 5 year old grandson he was the 1st to die the family was exposed to a boda while on a visits to neighboring congo my sister kim to myself this was my teeth off the nth. of my 5th year my kids as we have. c.d.'s in the streets and schools they boarded the earth than death we are holes in the earth the swimming pool in the hearth laying on a bed in the fields this is the 2nd deadliest outbreak of ebola in history but this is the 1st time in this outbreak that the virus has crossed borders since it broke out in the democratic republic of congo last august the world health organization says it is not declaring an international emergency. at all but.

it was the view of the committee that the outbreak is a health emergency in the democratic republic of congo. and the region but it does not meet all the 3 criteria for republicans to emergency or international concern. under the under the international health regulations more than 1400 people have died since this outbreak was declared 8 months ago. when across what's your lender on a 24 hour strike for greater equality it's been nearly 30 years since the last such protests and demonstrators say to little has changed today women in switzerland earn 20 percent less than men and it was only 28 years ago that the last swiss canton was forced to grant. women the right to vote.

purple stands for parity or at least it does and switzerland today at midnight hundreds of women and gathered for the life he launched of a new nationwide strike aimed at highlighting switzerland's failure to defend the rights of women and families ok we literally did a quality is in shrines in the constitution but real effective quality doesn't exist for all women that it was because of them of that is that we have so many claims and so many reasons for this large popular protest by women but it was because despite well these laws we have really obtained equality. back in 1901 the 1st women strike in the alpine nation made history when half a 1000000 women rallied to call for gender equality. but that he is on thousands of swiss women from all walks of life are again downing tools in protest . they say despite its high living standards switzerland still falls short of the

mark when it comes to putting women on the level playing field with men. when it says often we are really behind our european neighbors when it comes to ensuring that women are able to do their jobs whether it's school hours a very high cost of day care no paternity leave the. activists hope this new puppy wave of discontent will force policy makers to put issues affecting half the population back into focus. to the women's world cup now in the 1st of today's matches former champions japan have secured a 21 victory over scotland japan when their friend when mana you were booed she lashed this early shot over scottish keeper les alexander shortly afterwards and unique a silver sauer double teams leave from the penalty spot a misplaced pass in the 88th minute offered scotland a late chance which la cleland hammered home but it wasn't enough. scotland bottom of group d. and looks to be heading for an early exit from the tournament. and

italy have recorded their 2nd victory in 2 games at this year's world cup a dazzling performance from cristiano g.n.d. saw the blues cruise to a 5 nil triumph against jamaica the striker opened her account from the penalty spot in the 12 minutes and went on to convert a corner in the 25th to make it to nil for italy to be completed her hat shake with this tender. there it is just after half time substitute out i got leave then went on to grab 2 goals for self 1st finishing from long range and then converting and neatly placed through. there watching d.w. news coming up next on business africa kenya is one of africa's fastest growing economies and urgently wants to borrow cash for its infrastructure at the same time

its budgeting to cut debt will take a closer look at the kenya conundrum. stay with us for this and much more on business africa with monika jones i'll be back at the top of the hour thanks for tuning in. to. dismiss for. free. to ask her. once experience of modern museum centered with her question cultural heritage foundation. researchers are looking for routers in the new projects of job change removes part of the history of. russian cultural heritage from the. treasure trove starts june 21st.