generation ends it good malaria must go on so millions can live. this is deja vu news live from berlin tensions rise again in the gulf as iran seizes a british oil tanker iran's revolutionary guard says the stand out in peril has been taken into iranian ports a british government emergency committee has gone into session the u.s. government accuses iran of escuela tory violence also coming up germany's chancellor delivers her verdict on donald trump's racist remarks. i reject trump's

comments and stand in solidarity with the congresswoman he attacked was on the america's most forthright comments that her annual summer news conference at which she also credited young activists for spring her through asked faster on climate change. and the dutch supreme court finds the state partially liable for the deaths of 350 bosnian muslims in the massacre dutch troops that fail to protect the victims from bosnian serb forces. i'm calling assman a warm welcome to those of you watching on p.b.s. in the united states and our viewers all around the world tonight the british government's emergency committee is meeting at this hour after iran's revolutionary guard captured a british oil tanker in the strait of hormuz iranian officials say these 10 imperio

was stopped for quote noncompliance with international maritime laws and regulations and has been taken to an undisclosed iranian port the owner of the tanker has confirmed that it lost contact with the ship after it was approached by unidentified vessels and a helicopter. let's get more on this now i'm joined by reporter steven beardsley steven what else do we know what other details can you give us because a lot of this is still developing what we know as you said imperio this is a ship that was heading to saudi arabia is a massive oil tanker about $50000.00 tons it was being directed north towards iran the company the swedish own company that owns the ship has acknowledged that it was redirected that it actually is the word attacked it mentions several small craft boats and also a helicopter. we know that the revolutionary guards have actually released

a statement the iranian revolutionary guard saying that the ship failed to follow maritime rules do not respond to repeated warnings that was going the wrong way in a shipping lane but of course we know that this comes in the context of other escalations. there's also reports that are being confirmed now that there is a 2nd tanker that's also been redirected liberian flag tanker being redirected north as well so believe there are 2 tankers what about u.k. authorities how are they reacting right now as you said they're holding an emergency session we know also the president has said that he is in conversation with british leadership there the u.s. national security council released a statement saying that it will continue to work with allies do everything it can to defend our security interests against what it called malign behavior we also see that the british merchant shipping leadership or association has said that it would like to see more protection of its ships they're going through a very sensitive area there called the straits of hormuz sort of a bottleneck for one 5th of all the oil exported in the world. what we can imagine

then is basically a call for more sort of military basically protection is what that would sort of seem to imply so you can see this sort of escalating further so does this now apply imply i mean basically rising tensions now even a new level of escalation in some ways this is a rise. tory rise because we. no the iranian tanker was seized in for alter earlier this month and actually earlier today a british court injured brought her extended that attention for another 30 days so is it a coincidence that suddenly there's a british tanker that's been seized on the same day is that we also know that this is not a change in tactics for iran they've said that they will respond a tit for tat everything that's directed against them they've done it for decades and that this is basically them sort of fulfilling that promise you know you take our tanker we'll take yours we don't know the full picture yet but it would seem to suggest very strongly that this is a response to the seizure of an iranian tanker reporter stephen beardsley getting

us up to date there thank you much. meanwhile u.s. president donald trump has said there is no doubt that a u.s. warship brought down an iranian drone on thursday even though iran denies that it has lost any of its unmanned aircraft trump says the u.s.s. boxer patrolling the strait of hormuz brought down the drone because it had flown too close to the warship. a view from the drone that the u.s. claims it shot down of the ship the u.s.s. shot it down iranian say this footage credibly disproves the american claim that one of their drones moved too close to u.s. navy ship the u.s. has stuck to its guns u.s. president donald trump today addressed the issue in an event at the oval office when questioned by reporters as to the veracity of the story. we. said a drone had come within a 1000 yards of the assault ship the u.s.s. boxer pictured here and ignored calls to stand down. iran has responded with

derision the foreign minister suggested that perhaps the u.s. shut down its own drone by mistake. this is the latest scrape between the 2 countries over who is provoking whom in the strait of hormuz on june 20th iran shut down a u.s. drone it said had violated its airspace just days ago the iranian military seized a foreign tanker in the strategic strait saying the ship was smuggling oil they're released this footage on legibly showing the incident. united nations has urged restraint on all sides to avoid an open conflict. or figure harder to get now for that inquest for more let's bring in our washington correspondent helen humphrey hell no it seems we have a case of he said she said president trump says he has no doubt that the u.s. down the drone iran still claims that its drone returned home i mean it is either sign providing any proof here right kabul the latest that we have is

a video released by the iranian revolutionary guard which it says is footage taken from that drone and we can see in that footage you know essentially that footage hovering over the u s s box and there is a time stamp on the size and iran says that that was off the u.s. claims to have downed that drone now we cannot independently verify that video but the u.s. marines say that the downing all of that drone would have been not we would have been able to see that just you know with would not have been visible to the naked eye so we continue to see that of words which threatens of course to boil over into something far more serious as we see these continued military show of force this of course as you mentioned the latest flare up in the region between these 2 countries so that the seizing of this u.k. oil tanker can you put all of this regionally into context for us. well

the latest that we've heard is that president trump says that the united states stands with its ally the u.k. and that he will speak shortly to london although there is no written accord between the u.s. and the u.k. about how they proceed with this but you know tensions have been ramping ramping up for the past 3 months now between iran and the west with shortening intervals between these provocations and of course now we're talking about the targeting of civilian mariners who are just not crucial strait of hormuz doing their jobs and that is very worrisome indeed and we have seen further measures from the united states i mean early this morning secretary of state more mike pompei are saying that there are further sanctions against against companies and individuals believed to be helping iran in procuring movement nuclear materials and that a further $500.00 u.s.

troops are on their way to saudi arabia in a prepared this measure. our very own helen humphrey in washington for us thank you very much. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world kosovo's prime minister denied as resigned he stepped down after being called for questioning by a court in the hague investigating crimes against ethnic serbs during the country's 19982999 war with serbia mr howard denies said he had agreed to be interviewed at the court next week and didn't want to do it as prime minister. says there's no sign that he bola has spread from the democratic republic of congo to neighboring rwanda the case of a congolese woman who died from the virus had previously sparked fears that the outbreak could spread and after it was thought that she had crossed the border the w.h.o. now says she was not in rwanda

a strong earthquake has hit just north of the greek capital athens the 5 point one magnitude tremor sent people running out into the city streets there were no reports of casualties but the quake caused damage to buildings including harbor facilities at the major ports of korea's a 2nd tremor was felt some 40 minutes later. germany's foreign minister heikal moss has presided over the return of a looted painting to the world famous p.t. gallery in florence italy the still life vase of flowers by dutch master john fund high some was stolen in 1904 by retreating nazi soldier as a gift for his wife. 50 pilot whales were discovered dead on the beach in remote western iceland it's not known what caused the marine mammals to become stranded local biologists say have large groups of the social animals regularly do wash up on land in the area and die but they say it now appears to be happening more often

. as rejected u.s. president donald trump's racist remarks about 4 nonwhites u.s. congresswoman speaking at her annual summer news conference the german chancellor. said she stood in solidarity with them she also credited young people and the fridays for future movement with jump starting her environmental policy merkel to questions on a wide range of topics including her health. confident and satisfied the german chancellor appears relaxed in front of the cameras for anyone wondering how she's feeling after being seen trembling several times recently anglo-american answered. good. short and to the point it's not always merkel strongpoint on this occasion she also had some clear words for the u.s. president she criticized donald trump for his racist attack against 4 democratic congresswoman from ethnic minorities. i reject trump's comments and stand in solidarity with the congresswoman he attacked not far from

eccles press conference climate activists from the friday's for future movement were out on the streets. thousands took part among them the swedish student created to invade michael admitted the movement has pushed the german government to act more quickly on climate change he conceded more needs to be done if germany's to meet its commitments under the paris climate accord. concerning the 2030 goals we don't know the exact details yet but the experts say and i agree with them that the most efficient path to achieving those goals is to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions but we must also take into account the social impact. of. mikkel brushed off complaints from her party's coalition partners the social democrats over the election of the lion from

eccles c.d.u. party. business we shouldn't be overly proud about it but we also don't need to be the only ones in europe who are grumpy about it it's all flaky. after 90 minutes the press conference came to an end with a strong signal that the chancellor hasn't given up her job just yet. our political correspondent simon young was watching that press conference now this was as you mentioned wide ranging i mean she took questions for some 90 minutes what do you think what was her strongest message that she had today yeah i had the impression the main thing she wanted to get across was that she's still here and she's very much in control and everything's fine really from her point of view she

repeated how happy she was that her 2 allies her 2 female party allies have moved into top jobs this week on the line to the european commission presidency and a great karen bower to the defense ministry here in berlin she said she was relieved about that she also talked about lots of issues saying the challenge of climate change was something they had to get on top of and greater good added to the with her school protests that added to the urgency there she was talking about a range of other things modernizing germany's universities reforming the pension system building houses and so on so she's really saying i'm here i mean charge i know what i'm doing as we said there after she made her opening statements there was more than an hour of questions she was asked about a whole range of stuff of course also about offensive remarks by president donald trump let's have a listen to what she said about that. let me say clearly that in my view america's

strength lies precisely in the fact that it's a country where people of very different nationalities have contributed to the strength of america as a whole. so these are let me say comments that very much run counter to the firm impression i have i have to say that he does my look for me and it is gunther. that's the son. and later she she said when she was asked you know do you distance yourself from these remarks and and solid arise yourself with the. those congresswoman who were attacked by donald trump she said absolutely i do so she was pretty emphatic on that strong marks there now they've also been concerns of course about the chancellor's health we've seen these 3 different bouts of shaking that she's experienced in public she says she's fine what's your impression was she looked fine today she was there was no shaking or anything we've seen these

troubling incidents of her shaking when she had to stand but it was a sitting performance today to put it like that she said she knows what her responsibilities are and that she's she said to the journalists you know maybe so you know that i wouldn't say that i could carry out this job if i couldn't and she was sort of rather on a put in a personal way she said you know i'm i'm the one who cares most about my own health because when i eventually step down a couple of years i want to carry on enjoying life for a few years at least after that you know i'm feeling fine is what she said course continues after politics chancellor merkel she repeated that she will she wants to govern until 2021 that would officially be the end of her or her term here or coalition though it's been a bit shaky hasn't been the smoothest ride in the in recent years how long will she last will she make it to 2021 you know the coalition is shaky just like the chancellor but she said today that relations within the cabinet with her social

democrat coalition partners are very good but it has to be said the social democrats are under a lot of pressure they've really failed to reorganize since the elections a couple of years back and they are struggling in the polls we've got some key regional elections coming up in eastern states at the end of this year so. in actually in a couple of months time already so you know if the social democrats feel they have to sort of move to the left to restate their socialist credentials they may feel that they can't win elections any more inside government that may want to pull out and of course would mean a premature end to the political career of anglo-american. political correspondent simon young thanks very much. well the supreme courts of the netherlands has found the dutch they partially liable for the deaths of 350 bosnian muslims in the massacre the muslims were killed by bosnian serb forces after being expelled from

a un safe haven being guarded by dutch troops during the bosnian war in 1905 the murders were part of an organized massacre that left $8000.00 muslim men and boys dead. it's the final decision from the netherlands supreme court. and for the mothers of srebrenica it's a disappointment. on jenny hall as the dutch defense ministry and the dutch government are responsible for the start of the genocide in srebrenica if it's one percent 10 percent or 100 percent they are responsible it is their cynicism primitivism and their own incapacity that they can only recognise it for 10 percent . reasons that we don't know. why 10 percent according to the court dutch peacekeeping forces should have been aware that the $350.00 men hiding in the compound would be mistreated and even killed but the court also said even if they

remained in the compound there was only a 10 percent chance that they would have survived. in 1905 thousands of muslims were fleeing serb forces they headed to muslim majority strip in it's in bosnia where dutch un peacekeepers were stationed the court's decision is specifically about the $350.00 men who are hiding inside the dutch peacekeepers compound. due to the dutch battalion known as dutch but deprive these men refugees of the chance of staying out of the hands of the bosnian serbs. if you think the verdict is fair if people make mistakes. made a mistake. so be it that's fine i mean i'm human i can make mistakes so but to. say that you made a mistake but it's like 10 percent. but that's not fair whatever the percentage for the mothers of serbia the netherlands remains responsible. to japan now which

on thursday suffered its worst mass killing in 18 years in arson attack on an animation studio in kioto police are investigating a suspect in his forty's after a man broke into the building doused with fuel and reportedly shouted you die as he set it alight a subsequent blaze killed 33 people and injured dozens more some are still in critical condition. devastating details are emerging of the arson attack that shocked japan witnesses say the fire at the cato animation studio spread so quickly that people jumped from windows to escape the flames. others scrambled up the stairs in a desperate and futile attempt to save their lives many of the bodies were found in a staircase leading to the roof. police believe it was this man who was responsible for the deadly inferno he wasn't employed by the firm and questions over his motive

remain local media are reporting that the suspect had planned the attack because he believed the studio had plagiarized his work. a woman who wanted to remain anonymous says she interacted with the suspect at the scene. it was i asked the man whether he was ok then he yelled at me saying don't talk to me don't mess with me he seemed strange and he was so burned that i couldn't see his facial expression or . as investigators sort on says residents pay tribute to the victims still in disbelief over what happened in the neighborhood you'll better not but the. minute you do animation studio really cares about its anime fans. i don't understand why workers at the studio had to go through this. video this is unforgivable. just to get that amount of the day if these young people were

the same age as my grandchildren if my grandchildren had died in these conditions i wouldn't want to live anymore. the japanese anime community is also when shock and fans from around the world are rallying around the stricken studio. the crowdfunding campaign to help the company rebuild raced past its original target within hours. to ukraine now where the comedian turned president of a lot of hours ago and he is hoping to build on his landslide victory by also getting a majority in parliament as ukrainians go to the polls on sunday but as nick connelly found when he went to the picturesque city of the vive so landscape isn't the only showbiz newcomer trying to shake up ukraine's politics. everything's going to be all right it's the hit that became

a campaign slogan for. after 25 years on the stage and 10 albums ukraine's most famous rock singer is venturing out onto a new political stage as leader of a new party called force. sarver and the right to call myself a patriot and prove that i can protect the country from our enemies. in a crowded political scene starting from scratch promising to end the oligarchs stranglehold of ukraine's economy and stand up to russia. says his rivals a skid and plain 30. 2 year old faces of the old ukrainian politics we're not expecting this to be doing so well in the polls. so now they're throwing all they've gotten to discredit you know us and doing everything to stop us taking their power away from them.

is a new face in ukrainian politics 3 of the scandals that dog most established politicians but one that's familiar to almost all ukrainians from decades on t.v. so far so similar to present solecki but that's where the similarity between the 2 and to take this and as alinsky makes a point of keeping the tone light is not afraid of sounding professorial selenski switches between russian and ukrainian public. forms but ukraine. lends his appeal spans the social classes to his best among middle class which is the big cities. the 2 stars with very different personalities but both decided to take the plunge into politics. says look you want to ukraine's biggest stars give up the politics for 28 years we've been we've been waiting for politicians to do something to change this country never happened probably it will be better for musicians to sing

and for politicians to do politics it's our turn i hope to do as many things as possible and i'll do my best and when i see that my mission is accomplished i'm coming back very happily to be just musician. called education who's a nail biting days for this entertainer turned politician ok staked his reputation on this venture into politics but his party's poll ratings are all over the place some put boys in 3rd place others with no seats at all failing to pass the 5 percent threshold as election day draws closer just one it is clear that many ukrainians seem willing to vote for just about anyone but the politicians they know . sports now and wonder can defender matteis the licht has held his 1st news conference with his new club to syria. champions you ventas to rain the highly sought after 19 year old signed a 5 year deal worth

a reported 75000000 euros the dutchman captained i.x. through to the champions league semifinals linked with many of europe's very top clubs this summer gillett said he made his final decision after discussing it with a guy you might have heard of christiane bernardo the tour de france front runner yulian felipe has extended his lead by rather surprisingly winning the individual time trial at pole defending champion thomas finished 2nd in the stage and now trails i love felipe in the general standings by almost one and a half minutes. a reminder now the top stories that we're following for you at this hour iran has seized a british oil tanker in the strait of hormuz the tanker is called the standard imperio and iran's revolutionary guard says it's been taken to an iranian port a british government emergency committee has gone into session. and german chancellor angela merkel has rejected us president donald trump's racist attacks on

for congresswoman trump has rallied against the board nonwhite congresswoman in a series of tweets telling them to quote go back to where they came from. and don't forget you can always get the news on the go just download or from google play or from the app store and that will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications according breaking news you can also get the eat also use the d w up to send us your photos and your but. you're watching the news is up next i'll be back with the day we have news interview with all the top headlines i'll be back with that in a moment that you. look

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a radical depletion of forests. for 25. or has it. forests and money. tragic reality behind the exploitation starts july 24th double. play. when asked about domestic politics in other countries german chancellor angela merkel usually gives a 2 word answer no comment but today she made an exception at her annual press conference she addressed donald trump's racists and racist attacks against 4 u.s. congresswoman when asked if she stands behind them she needed just one word yes

tonight a chancellor who normally stays out of foreign disputes gives the clearest rebuke yet of trump's call to quote send them back i'm karl nason in berlin and.