this is deja vu news live from berlin a showdown in the gulf britain says a royal navy frigate drove off a rainy in boats trying to intercept a british oil tanker but iran denies that any confrontation took place also coming up. the man at the center of a bitter right to die battle in france has passed away vigils have been held for vincent long there been in a vegetative state since a car crash a decade ago. and flues prime minister has been listening to young people like

those taking part in friday's for future demonstrations across europe and as he assumes the e.u. presidency he says solving climate change should be europe's quote next heroic act . i'm brian thomas thanks so much for joining us britain says 3 rainin boats tried to intercept a british oil tanker near the persian gulf now london says they were driven off by royal navy forget the h.m.s. moat montrose escorting that tanker in the strait of hormuz the frigate seen here escorting other ships aimed its deck guns at the iranian vessels as a warning no shots were fired. iran has denied that any of its boats tried to stop that tanker saying they were simply carrying out routine duties now the british

government called for calm after the incident we are concerned by this action. they said and continue to urge the iranian authorities to deescalate the situation in the region while this incident comes after a warning yesterday from the iranian president hassan rouhani he said that iran was ready to retaliate after one of its oil tankers was seized off the coast of. last week britain claims that a rainy and tanker was delivering oil to syria in violation of sanctions. against you great britain are the initiator of insecurity and you will realize the consequences later that they know you are so hopeless that when one of your tankers wants to move in the region you have to bring in your frigates to escort it because you're scared to need it but that's just because 8 as times it 2. for more of this

let's bring in analysts simon ma been a lecturer in international relations at the university of lancaster in britain thanks so much for coming in for us attentions of already been a very high and high in the call for how much of an escalation is this incident. i think it's quite a seismic us collations be honest we've heard a lot of words or rhetoric we've heard cycles of tit for tat diplomatic rhetoric from both sides. calling on the oh the calling out the other i should say for these actions but this is it seems to be at least at the next step taking this to the next level of actually putting these words into action and i think what we've got to do is contextualize it further and say that look this isn't just a product of over recent tensions between the u.k. and iran but this goes back decades the iranian regime is always viewed britain with a great deal of hostility dating back to the 1953 could at the top pulled that the

democratically elected president a prime minister straight mohammad mosaddegh so there's a great deal of tension here deep structural tensions between the 2 states that really do escalate quite quickly when there are particular crises like this one and it really looks to be coming to the fore the sun awaiting for confirmation on a lot of the details in this story but it looks like that apparently these were reigning in revolutionary guard armed vessels trying to interrupt this british oil tanker how likely is iran to use vessels like those to block the strait of hormuz and disrupt the flow of trade in oil. well you're right to say that we're waiting for confirmation that the revolutionary guard have denied involvement as far as i'm aware at present because that doesn't mean to say that they're not involved is just posturing i guess that with regard to close in the straits of hormuz we've heard over the past number of years that iran has threatened to close the strait on

number of occasions and there it there are several ways of doing that of course one of the ways is might hang the straits by by by dropping deep ports and mines to prevent prevent ships from accessing but perhaps the more that the easier option the more obvious option is with with the use of these small boats that are able to then come india vessels such as what we saw what we saw today it seems like the more flexible the most strategic option that gives it gives iran the ability to get material and goods out of the strait without having to 2nd nothing gates these mines i think this is probably the law the whole obvious strategy that iran could use if it wanted to disrupt the trade flows through this busy waterway a sign like to jump in here and ask you this this incident comes just a day after the u.s. called for an international military alliance to safeguard freedom of navigation in the gulf are we likely to see this coalition coming together. that's the

$1000000.00 question i guess and if you look at it it is sort of prima facie level you would say that there are a great number of states who view iran with a great deal of comes all concerned particularly after what we're seeing this morning about the potential threat to to traffic to cargo flowing through the straits of hormuz but then the question comes what would that look like who would be involved what would be the strategic town mentions of the type of coalition and that's where we get really quite problematic and that's where all the political issues that that would characterize this coalition would emerge because they said certainly not a great deal of unification behind the u.s. on this so while i'm a significant good at it yes i'm sorry to jump in there and wrap this up simon mabyn from the university of lancaster thanks very much for coming in simon thank you. as preview on some of the other stories making the news at this hour police in

spain and 3 other countries arrested 6 suspected members of a gang the trafficked women for sex they seized about 3000000 euros in assets as well the women were mainly nigerian forced work as prostitutes in finland and sweden. the last ever v.w. beetle has rolled off the production line in mexico this car built to a revamp design from the late 1990 s. brings an end to a series that began with the w.'s very 1st model 938 the original beetle was in production for 65 years. ukraine has installed busy a giant metal cover over the destroyed nuclear reactor at chernobyl that structure is meant to contain radioactive dust from the reactor it exploded in 1906 that was the world's worst ever nuclear disaster. now a french quadriplegic man at the center of a bitter dispute over his right to die is passed away in hospital doctors removed

and sent on bears life support more than a week ago that against his parents' wishes following a legal battle that divided both his family and the country bears spent more than a decade in a vegetative state following a car crash the supporters have been holding a prayer vigil for him in paris. well let's bring in lisa lois joining us from paris on stay on the story lisa can you tell us more about what was behind the decision to take the patient off of life support. well it's been a long. battle between 2 sides of the family of the parents who were opposed to letting him go and letting him die and then the wife who's been fighting since 2013 for his right to die really now what happened is that after his

car crash he went into a deep coma and then came out of it a few years later and was in a state of minimal conscience as the doctors call it and that one point in 2013 apparently the doctors realized that his body was somehow reacting to the treatment refusing it they thought so that's when they stopped the treatment based on a law here in france that prohibits euthanasia but allows for passive euthanasia now 11 years after his accident finally the court case that the court paris court decided that this person could effect of lee actually be taken off life support that means that the doctors could stop feeding and hydrating him ok why was this decision taken now can you tell us something about the timing by. well it's you know it's a good dish decision but obviously this has been long ongoing for 4 years and years

and after a while the parents actually after the latest court decision they decided not to put in additional appears so they kind of gave up finally obviously there is a lot of concern here about other such cases they're about 1700 cases of people you know who are in an in a similar state in a vegetative state of minimal conscience really and some doctors are now obviously concerned that this decision this court decision this case might have an impact on all these other people here in france. the story for us in paris thanks very much. this is deja vu news still to come on the show there's ford's dream lives on that gas card in football fever as its national team prepares for the quarter finals in the africa cup of nations will join some of the fun.

but 1st this to greece where 6 terrorists are dead after a powerful storm battered the north of that country scores of people have been injured after the violent storm and how. it toppled trees and power pylons mung the dead are a couple who were killed when the strong winds flipped their car about the storm followed very hot weather and agrees with temperatures soaring to 37 degrees celsius over the past 2 days. now difficult weather has also hit italy where 18 people were injured when a storm pelted the town with massive hell stones that storm came during the peak tourist activity there. the east coast of italy during an aerial bombardment of ice. came down here and bowls the size of oranges. further inland streets were awash. people took refuge in

doorways and whited 10 to 15 minutes until the deluge of passed all along the a dramatic coast people were surprised by the sudden onset of the storm. an enormous cloud arrived there was an incredible down pull with wind rain a really big storm. the wave of bad weather also broke windows in windshields in the resort town of milan no matter team a about 200 century old pine trees were knocked down by a tornado. one woman was taken to hospital in a serious condition. the storm came at a bad time for tourists currently on the coast and it was devastating for many tourist operators there. was a cool story that in all the things i patiently built up over the years have been ruined in just 2 minutes really had to do with. the heavy rain came after weeks of sweltering heat in italy and one day after authorities issued

a yellow alert for rain and high winds in the north of the country. now for the next 6 months the european union will put climate change at the top of its agenda finland has just assumed the block 6 month rotating presidency in the finnish prime minister says the e.u. should provide global leadership on the issue he says it's important to take seriously the demands on this of europe's young people. 16 year old spent many fridays travelling 2 hours each way to protest at the finnish parliament holding signs pleading for climate action the climate itself wasn't too cooperative as he stood there through the winter it's really horrible in front of the it's always been the end it will be raining some sleet or snow or ice and most of politicians just go by and don't even look at us. or say hello and some even come to us but says it was all worth it as prime minister until now

has declared solving the climate crisis should be europe's next heroic act at the very least it's the top priority for the finnish e.u. presidency has credited the youth climate strikers for inspiration got to thank him in person and vice versa i really. have listened to their young listen and i need to listen more yeah that's why for back up appointed green politician picked the harvester as foreign minister to press the message in the foreign policy arena already overflowing with wars nuclear threats and humanitarian disasters harvester knows it will be difficult despite party government. and it's a climate. that the silence around the table you can hear the silence in the way that it's so surprising but harvesters says it's the activists

to whom he feels responsible. and they actually think the power. base is enough but i think it's good we need to see the society as opposed to politicians helsinki is determined not to be a hypocrite it's maximising sustainability minimizing everything else meetings will all be held in the capital there will be no bottled water mostly plant based meals . and e.u. bureaucrats traveling to finish meetings will receive a unique gift half a 1000000 euros worth of air emission offsets spent on projects in developing countries and yet lycee head of the presidency secretariat says the finnish way is not to lecture but to lead by example we want to be practical and what we promise we want to keep. says whatever finland achieves is great but it's so much more is needed he'll be protesting outside the e.u.

meetings rain or shine or salute or snow. ok we're happy to be joined now by todd you're miller he's a longtime climate expert x. divest an analyst for the euros a lot some bird foundation think tank close a german left party thanks for coming in tied to having me what do you expecting from the finnish presidency of the well 1st of all i'm expecting what has been the power for the course of your policy for the last several decades which is to talk a good talk but fundamentally not deliver anything the really existing record of european policy is lousy our central climate change policy trading has not delivered any actual emissions reductions while creating a new playground for financial criminals and that is the main time of policy and financial criminals but but but climate c o 2 carbon trading is going on there but it is not delivering any emissions reductions and that's the central point if you look at the history of you climate policy it hasn't done anything to actually

reduce emissions and we're seeing a situation where. in late spring in northern germany there were forest fire is next and therefore already make 2 for one already now we're living in a climate change world so if i hear somebody saying we're going to climb a new 2050 that's about as relevant as telling me there's a man going to be on mars by 232030 years won't think ok well you're saying the carbon trading is not working a france is proposing a flight on every plane takes off in france germany is looking at taxing carbon consumption and energy more seriously is that the way forward townsite times is the way forward for consumers i do believe that a carbon tax would be a better and more efficient way to protect the climate than emissions trading however you need to look at fundamentals the only thing in the last 40 years that has measurably reduced global greenhouse gas emissions is reductions in economic growth when the eastern bloc collapsed in the early ninety's that led to global emissions reductions where are you saying we need less economic growth absolutely in fact economic growth the fact that we have. an economic system that perpetuates

it to infinite growth on a finite planet is precisely the reason why we have not only the climate crisis but also the diet of biodiversity finds in others and the european union is fundamentally an economic growth project as a result i know that the european union will not deliver climate protection ok well climate activists have been targeting flying sometimes through mention this as a major environmental threat in the swedish 16 year old data to bird of course has been spearheading europe's anti flying movement that encourages people to stop flying by by air to lower carbon emissions but how much difference does it actually make to travel long distances by trains for example here's how it compares on a 600 kilometer journey from berlin to munich a train emits 34 kilograms of c o 2 per person with a typical car it moves up to 90 kilograms but flying pumps out a mass of 300 kilograms of c o 2 perhaps that's left many people thinking twice

about how they travel. on their vacations. it's summer break in germany temperatures have topped 30 degrees celsius around the country many germans are happy to take their vacation without getting on a plane martina flicka and michelle get a car among them they've shown trips abroad on budget airlines for years. was it all of course i could say i'll take flight so i can have a vacation somewhere who cares. but that's so short sighted that it's a terrible legacy to leave the world for the next generation was and the loss of that so is it right to assume some people are taking a stand on the climate crisis by staying closer to home. you'll be a young people leading the climate protection movement giving us a lot to think about not thinking of infantry gets a bad conscience for going away on vacation especially by plane on long haul flights but what else can you do especially if you want to see more of the world

out opposite it was not tough enough as much as your recent event was in this travel agency in the city of friedrichs often is fielding questions by vacation planners are the climate protests having an impact it's off to the usually high prices or a pretty biting factor the want to travel package or a feeling is cheap then other considerations go out the window stood to e a nationwide travel agency says travel choices haven't changed that much long haul trips are as popular as ever and booking numbers are increasing analysts say they don't expect that trend to change its we're not seeing any difference it's really hard to make total sense of these numbers because you have to factor in other things like weather and the political situation interest destinations but we can say that travelers are thinking twice about what. he says 3 times more people have registered with carbon offset organizations than this time last year the travel sector is counting on governments to take more action.

taishan sector you have to remember that we're talking about very large investments for example in alternative energy in the air travel industry will require political support and if the protests are encouraging that then we hope. it remains unclear what political support should look like usually it means taxpayers should help out but taxpayers still like to travel on oil burning cruise ships and budget airlines. martina still couldn't they have taken the train to lake constance instead of their car no guilty conscience. and. yes it was a good thing people should question the rule the place i usually take the train to work instead of the car. they say they're much more flexible with their car especially with all their baggage that protests it seems haven't yet made their

mark on german vacations. so what should be happening here the climate change activists extinction rebellion recently announced plans to disrupt flights to and from london heathrow airport this holiday season by using drones is that the right way forward well 1st of all the right way forward would be to change the incentives around this it would be to have political decisions whereby we tax at plane fuel or reduced value added tax on train tickets or do not cut back on regional train lines as been happening around him for example for many many years the point is that individual decisions about when and how to travel take place in a particular framework if the framework is airplane travel is dirt cheap. then i'll probably do airplane travel because also it's faster than i my my my holidayed hours and days are getting cut back all the time is a raise in the price so what i'm saying is that not going to start raising the

price would be one option the point is we need to make collective societal decisions about how we want to behave in this world now i do think that people asking themselves should i fly not fly is a useful exercise it's a useful exercise not in shaming oneself as as a sexual myself i don't think that shaming people into changing their behavior is going to be a very good effective way however we are solver an ethical individual act as we can decide not to do something one example if your favorite luxury hotel and your latest nation were having its towels cleaned by it's actually exploited mine as i wouldn't want you to feel shame but during that hotel i would you want you to decide not to go to that hotel because so should be your politics and not shaming presidents is the way forward taja muller climate expert activist and expert at the rosa luxemburg foundation thanks very much thank you very much. we have some sports now and madagascar is in the grip of football fever after the national team defeated 3 time champions nigeria to top their group in the africa cup of nations

they'll now face tunisia in the quarter final stage it is a huge deal for this island nation. ok celebrating as if they were already well champions football fans on the streets of the capital singing for their national team came out against the have won 3 matches in a row and now they're just 2 wins away from the championship game. it's one of the all time fairytale stories in africa cup of nations history and the whole nation is behind them. 24 year old to. sue is a huge fan he's been playing football most of his life but suddenly everything feels very different police to. the team's success is so inspiring if they can be the successful it's proof that everyone can achieve their dreams. lots of children have now started playing football on the street instead task. every time madagascar

when it makes me want to play more. i just want to play every day every day. madagascar doesn't even have a professional league but football helps people forget the challenges of everyday life about 3 quarters of the population live under the poverty line here but the national football team's success is giving them a sense of hope they visa born during the africa cup of being named the team's nickname the official football jerseys are almost all sold out in the market traders are enjoying the profits. we are really selling a lot of jerseys probably about 1200 every day. even foreigners want them go but a yeah. but. i don't go to the r.s. on remanent sue is sus and madagascar will win the africa cup but even if they don't the virus success has made

a big impact on malagasy society. up front to their success has really brought people closer together foreigners and malagasy are mingling more because we all watch the games together and i think it's a chance for the whole world to get to know madagascar's. this is about more than just sports some success from madagascar there is hope this will make the world sit up and take note of what the country is all about. and much more of that story a website interview dot com up next either of you business with ben physics and when we usually think about trade tensions is china and the u.s. then but now it looks like south korea and japan are the odds that well exactly is the threat of export curbs from japan which is becoming real and could slow down global supply chains south korean companies that make chips and devices are worried about this the small ones could fall under this pressure the big one. have stockpiles that are right for the short term it's the long term they're worried

about and that it could affect us it could take longer to get out smartphones and tv's and all sorts of electronic i'm not hearing samsung in the background here's an ad for example also apple which has a u.s. company so it could hurt the u.s. it could also hit the likes of weiwei in china ok well much more on this with ben straight ahead but you know if you. thomas thanks for being here.

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