they could be the future of collaboration it will be. granting opportunities global news that matters d. w. made some lines. this is you don't really use life for a girl and show down in the gulf britain says a royal navy frigate has driven off iranian boats trying to intercept a british oil tanker but iran denies there was any confrontation also coming up a powerful storm devastates greece's northern coastal areas leaving 7 dead and dozens injured and after

a ferry terrorized them at the africa cup of nations can madagascar keep their dreams alive a fans at home prepare for a nail biter ahead of tonight's quarterfinal. thank you so much for your company everyone britain says 3 iranian boats attempted to intercept a british oil tanker near the persian gulf but were driven off by a royal navy frigate iran has denied that its vessels tried to stop the tanker in the strait of hormuz saying it's boats were carrying out were teen duty's. the strait of hormuz one of the world's busiest shipping routes a 3rd of the world seaborne oil must pass through it. iran's navy is an active presence. at its narrowest point the strait is only 40 kilometers wide

the british iranian confrontation took place off the coast of the united arab emirates. britain says this frigate turned away iranian speedboats that threatened its oil tanker the british foreign secretary has responded by calling for calm obviously very concerning developments but also very proud of the royal navy. keeping british assets british shipping safe we'll continue to monitor the situation very very carefully the fear is that this latest incident will escalate it comes days after british authorities seized an iranian tanker in gibraltar claiming it was violating sanctions by delivering oil to syria earlier this week iran also started enriching uranium beyond the limits set down in the 2015 nuclear deal it signed with international powers today iran's foreign minister claimed that iran was helping to bring down its longtime rival the u.s. . that's not the america's role in world politics has ended america feels that it

has been defeated in the middle east of course one of the reasons for america's defeat is the people's resistance and the islamic republic's resistance. as tensions in the gulf simmer diplomats are scrambling to keep the nuclear deal from unraveling completely all right to talk more about this i'm joined now by didn't we use that charlotte posset she is in london for you now show this is the latest in a succession of incidents where tensions remaining so high in the region what is the british government planning to do. well of course this puts another strain on already tense relationships between iran and the west the u.k. government today try to well downplay the issue in a way they've said it is a matter of concern and they were calling on iran to ease the tensions in the region but of course this is

a matter of great concern here and one thing we have to remember is that according to u.s. and u.k. reports it was apparently the naval vessel that drove off these 3 iranian boats and one thing that we could see in the near future is that the u.k. and the united states taking this as evidence and the need to deploy more navy vessels to the region to safeguard commercial ships there now or today's incident is it being seen there where you are as retaliation for britain seizure last week of an iranian oil tanker off. well the u.k. government remains a matter of speculation but of course we have to remember what happened there a british the british marines ceased an iranian super tanker full of oil that was according to u.k. authorities headed towards syria and that would be illegal because they're e.u.

sanctions on the assad regime at the moment so they seize that ship iran in return said that that was an act of piracy and that there was a price to be paid so yes it appears that this incident in the gulf in the strait of hormuz was a matter of retaliation from iran now the u.k. seems to be between the proverbial rock and a heart place because on the one hand it's part of a group of european countries that are trying to save the iran nuclear agreement after the u.s. unilaterally were drew formit but at the same time it's seizing iranian assets on the high seas and appoint gunboats. absolutely the u.k. is in a bind there on the one hand the u.k. is saying that they are absolutely determined to keep up the iran nuclear agreement they are calling on iran to stop enriching uranium beyond the limit that was agreed upon in that deal but on the other hand the u.k.

has to keep the united states happy and the united states with drew from the iran nuclear deal so a bit of a bind and in between position they have in the u.k. on the one hand supporting the u.s. but on the one on the other hand not wanting to escalate the tensions in the middle east in with in the relations with iran any further. prosper porting from london thank you. next we turn our attention to greece where at least 7 people are dead after a powerful storm battered the north of the country scores of people were also injured after the violent storm in. toppled trees and power lines were all among the dead were a single tourist the storm followed very hot weather in greece with temperatures soaring to a some 37 degrees celsius over the past 2 days well the freak weather incident has also hit italy where 18 people were injured when

a storm pelted the town with massive hail stones the storm came during the peak tourist season. 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 promised all along the i dreaded coast people were surprised by the sudden onset of the storm. an enormous cloud arrived there was an incredible down pool with wind rain a really big storm. the wave of bad weather also broke windows in windshields in the resort town of milan about it sima 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 it was so eaten in all the things i patiently built up over the years have been ruined in just 2 minutes. 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. let's bring you up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world are saying in italy in eastern sicily massive wildfires have sent beachgoer scrambling into the water there have been no work immediate reports of casualties several blazes have broken out around sicily in recent days spurred in part by high temperatures and hot winds from northern africa. at least one person has been killed in a huge blaze at a gas fired power station near moscow several more were injured firefighters have

now put out the fire whose flames reach up to 50 meters the fire reportedly broke out in a natural gas pipeline. in france this parliament has passed a bill that would tax many of the world's biggest internet companies all the move has angered the united states with the white house saying it would unfairly affect american companies as finance minister when an american says it could raise up to half a 1000000000 euros a year. a remarkable story. of survival now their parents sent them away during germany's nazi period in the hope of saving their lives on our group of candor transport survivors and their relatives have made a remembers trip to berlin 4 of them were among the 10000 jewish children who were sent to the u.k. in the run up to world war 2 most of them never saw their parents again and often

they were the only members of their families to survive the holocaust and e.w. skate brady met with 94 year old kurt marx who was visiting berlin from the u.k. here's a story. who should i hate the people who who did it in the live anymore they're older than i am and. so but you know that. i go to school. and smoke was coming out of the school. and there was a commotion the teacher was outside the school and they said you go home today is those who were 13 year old boy who doesn't have to go to school has a day off i didn't. go to home as quickly as took me 25 minutes i suppose of a bicycle to get home and they hadn't told me this the night before a friend had phoned as those they had home tonight there's going to be trouble

tonight they knew what was going to happen it goes all planned it wasn't spontaneous it was pretty or and. unfortunately my father had not been at home so he wasn't. i didn't pick him up or call him so that was. the beginning of the realisation that it's impossible let's play by the screen then made a decision it was to move the school to english that was they had they had most of the director of school so he started this and i'm still a bit i think about it that in 2 months he organized the 1st group to go to england and he managed it in age weeks is quite incredible i mean we've all together there were 20 boys we all do it so that we weren't in the same class of school so it wasn't. there was no fear. for some it was traumatic some of the it was one of the younger ones because of

being way from home was difficult they would not be parents. that was the beginning of our trip to england and i was expecting soon or later to go to america with my parents. and then. time went on and in the last communication heard from them was in 1942 my father wrote on the 19th to tell me that they were leaving. and on the all we knew they were going to the east no detail. we know now was that they went to extermination camp. but this i didn't find out absolutely years ago. and you live with it nothing you can do about it. but at the same time you see what's happening what's happening here

what's happening in the whole of europe and all these various countries where the right wing is coming up again i remember that i do remember when my parents in those when the adults used to talk about hitler was just as mad can't last for 5 minutes you know but it lasted and he created. you know was what happened at the end result was it and it did happen and i'm afraid it's could happen i don't know i hope not. and that was mark's there speaking incidentally to keep brady who's here with me thank you so much for bringing us that firsthand account kate you sit down with several cannot transport survivors who were part of that rescue effort how did they strike you. of course is always a very moving experience and i think story in particular was very interesting it's

really quite moving to hear how matter of fact about this episode of his life now he is on but still that is something that he has carried with him throughout his entire life and as we heard there in his interview he didn't feel so much traumatized by having to leave his parents which of course for many of the 10000 children who was sent to the u.k. from from germany between 1939 it was a very traumatic experience it was only when he began to realize that he would never see his parents again that the real the reality of the situation really hit home with him and it wasn't for another 3 decades that he was really able to get closure and find out or indeed it happened to his parents. because that's of course the biggest tragedy is these families were just torn apart are going to talk about that in a 2nd a little bit more in detail but 1st tell us about the message that the survivors are trying to impart this in the i sat down with 3 different people yesterday all

of whom were children on those various trains from germany to the u.k. and there is certainly a sense of forewarning from all of them to take account of what is going on not only in europe but around the world right now especially when it comes to multilateralism and that was definitely that key message and that there should be continued cooperation between countries particularly when it came to the current state of the european union as well they were calling for more stability in the european union and a couple of them said separately to me how important they saw the european union as a way of keeping peace in europe and that's something that they feared crumbling of course all of the survivors that i spoke to currently live in the u.k. where they're experiencing firsthand as well the on goings of bricks it. stand by because going to turn our conversation because we have another firsthand account of

this one is from ralph from orica another kindertransport survivor and he shares what it meant to lose his parents to class i remember like yesterday. i remember entering that train in the 1st thing i said to my system where are our parents and she said they can't come but they promised in 3 months they will go to england and pick us up and sail to america that never happened so i felt betrayed i got a card from the international red cross in 1942 saying that your parents were victims of the holocaust we have very sorry that we have to tell you that they were murdered. that of course is the tragedy yes they survived yes they didn't witness what happened in nazi germany but they lost their parents they lost

everything yet many of them didn't even just lose their parents it was entire families even siblings were sometimes left behind all sent to different countries some of the children that was sent on the kindertransport to the u.k. for example some of the siblings made it's a palestine and some of them never were reunited even with relatives who did survive and so for a long time there was a long sense of uncertainty and it's really comes down to each individual survive a rage and see how each of them has come to terms with this tragedy that they have had to experience that they had to experience at such a young age and one gentleman that i was speaking to highlight is a as well how is such an individual some people are happy to speak about their experience and see that as a sense of closure and a chance to come to terms with those events themselves while others prefer to keep those things private and some people have never spoken about those events even 80 is on but we're so grateful that you got us those firsthand accounts so i think

they really help for tree what it really meant to keep pretty thank you so very much for that. right and next we turn to brazil where the lower house of congress has approved president gerry or both scenarios a landmark overhaul of the pension system he wants to reform to help him plug a big budget deficit while the bill one for more support from the chamber of deputies was expected. anticipation on the floor brazil's parliament as the votes are counted. the yes votes in green show victory for the government. many see that as a victory for brazil and for the poor. yes the fish here for hornish these reforms are aimed at reducing inequality g. here positioned to both sides. years i'm sure that is the goal of all

parliamentarians here argument is those who voted for and also against the bill. protesters against the bill like here in sao paulo who are not convinced yet that the form of this reform hurts poor brazilians enormously it's a time bomb but we're not going to see it immediately. follow this reform is not going to create employment just don't create anything it's not going to give a cent more for the workers absolutely nothing i doubt that it's not like that then a few years we will see misery on the rise and people who will not be able to retire i suppose it. is this man protest to see is the devil. they say the president will work them to death to turn around the economy. god. save the money of the little old poor people when the minimum salary that is bringing down the pension system it's not that's why we're here.

they may be back the bill has a long march into law and needs a 2nd fight in parliament and then 2 more in the senate. but now authorities in sudan have restored internet services more than a month after access was cut off amid a deadly crackdown on protesters well the move comes as the army and protesters are set to sign an agreement on power sharing a transitional government. but he was here with more on this developing story get us up to speed on what's happening in sudan well as you as our viewers mayor know throughout the sudanese uprising protestors have relied very heavily on the internet and particularly on social media to mobilize so you know it was a 4 month protest movement until they succeeded in their 1st call their move on membership and throughout that time they use. social media to organize protests to

give each other tips about how to resist things like tear gas etc but also to resist at some point social media was used closed women's groups were used to identify people that worked for the secret service for for example and they it was used like this up until the removal of on what the share around april 11th and then the protesters went ahead and staged a huge sit in in front of the army headquarters in hard to i was there back in may and this was really the heart and soul of the revolution they refused to leave until a civilian government had been formed and then on june 3rd of the seer the government very brutally cracked down on the sit in dispersing it killing about 100 people reports say there are also reports that women and men were raped during this dispersal actually quite horrible horrible accounts and some protesters told me that they look at this as a massacre. after that the government shut down the internets we were able to get very very few footage out of sudan from what actually happened that day up until 2

days ago when the government was more or less forced to restore the internet and since then the social media has been flooded with very disturbing harrowing footage from what happened that day there's a hash tag in arabic would roughly translate to a document to the army headquarters massacre it's been trending and we've had we've seen so many videos many protesters have told me this is made them relive the trauma they haven't seen it like this before and one of the videos we have one video that has spread throughout the past couple of days as you can see here a woman is being manhandled by a group of soldiers and forced to say military rule military rule as opposed to the clarion call of the civilian rule so. one month later it's these this footage just. coming out and it's fresh as ever but then that begs the

question i mean they know i mean i presume the authorities know that this all the all this footage and the protests will continue also show media so why have they decided to restore internet access you're absolutely right i mean during this blackout the military spokesperson actually came out and said social media is a national security threat but you know this week a court ordered the services to be restored after one lawyer named bob that has launched a lawsuit challenging this block that had been around for almost a month 1st the restoration was limited to landlines but then he demanded that it be extended to mobile services as well he argued that it's a violation of constitutional rights and also that it violates the contract between the companies the providers and the subscribers let's see what what he had to say will hold the morals of the fortunately there was a court order i would have been very sad if the internet was returned by an executive order and not

a judicial one because we need support from the judicial system so we can elevate it and so people gravitate towards the court system for their rights even if this case is isolated it will always remain in people's memories that it is possible to go to courts to get our rights back. with. what's next for saddam i mean in the short term all of these videos as you said the countries on the cusp of signing a power sharing agreement and with this brutality this already quite unpopular power sharing agreement might become just a bit more unpopular. even to him thank you very much. or have been to transition to a chair or something altogether different madagascar is in the grip of a football fever after the national team defeat it 3 times champions nigeria to top their group in the africa cup of nations well they now face tunisia in the quarter final stage it is a huge deal for this island nation. ok that

celebration as if they were already well champions football fans on the streets of the capital singing for the national team not against 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 to the more pleased to be with the team success is so inspiring if they can be this successful it's proof that everyone can achieve their dreams. lots of children have now started playing football on the street it's fantastic 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 leake 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 babies are 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. body. to go to the r.s. on remanent suicide sonata gaskill will win the africa cup but even if they don't the burress success has made a big impact on malagasy society. from gay people to their success has really brought people closer together foreigners and now

a gassier 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 sporting success the madagascar there is hope this will make the world sit up and take note of what the country is all about. go to madagascar you're watching it every new year's up next a new craze comedian turned president gets down to some serious work of governing that's next in focus on your family a little rock n roll and see you at the top of the hour.

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