this is the w. news live from berlin and britain is poised to punish iran for seizing one of its oil tankers after friday's seizure of the senate imperial in the strait of hormuz do you think leaders could shortly announce pressure sanctions against tehran we will go live to london for the leaders have been holding crisis talks. also coming up another weekend of anti-government protest in hong kong and in violence police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse thousands of demonstrators and as protesters seek refuge in

a train station they are attacked by dogs thought to be chinese gang members plus. a big win for ukraine's president a lot of years alaska's party claims an outright majority after sunday's parliamentary elections can you now deliver on the promise forms bring peace to eastern ukraine. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program british prime minister theresa may has held a meeting of her cobra emergency committee to discuss downing street response to the iranian seizure of a british flag tanker in the strait of hormuz on friday foreign minister jeremy hunt at downing street for that meeting is updating the house of commons up situation amid reports that the government is considering freezing the iranian regime's assets now the senate imperial was seized by the iranian revolutionary

guard in the key shipping route of the strait of hormuz after tehran said it was quote violating international maritime rules tension between britain and iran has become increasingly frayed in recent weeks. of get more now from london correspondent barbara bizzle is joining us so how do we expect the u.k. to respond shortly. there will probably be some exit phrases but people here speak about mild sanctions because really in the face for what the u.s. already sort of puts on iran in the way of sanctions whole message how much is there really full britain to add on top of that on the other hand of course there is no discussion off any military action because what really happened throughout the last days here is that the british public and maybe parts of the british government. to the dire fact that gun boats diplomacy of olden times

just has no place today if you don't have the gun boats anymore it turns out that the people from the representatives of the british navy said half of all boats we don't have that many anymore to begin was and half of them are in for maintenance and so we know that there was just a lonely free gauge trying to sort of. protecting this ship in the in the straits of hormuz and that already also came to light and it's also worth noting barbara that the prime minister theresa may she chair that emergency meeting but as we speak her party the conservative tories finishing voting for her success for her successor what can we expect a result. the voting has stopped now yes just right now 17 for this time it has stopped the belt is closed counts votes will be counted in the next hours and officially we will only know who is going to be trees may

successor tomorrow at 11 o'clock here in westminster but supposedly something is going to leak throughout the later hours of the night because how could they keep this secret the tory party because it seems pretty clear that boris johnson is the the is favorite really to be the next prime minister and nobody expects a different result so we're going to have a transition of pair of power a very precarious time for the country to we know what his stance is on this situation. this is the 1st big political and diplomatic crisis that will hit him when he comes into office on wednesday supposedly wednesday afternoon this is very tight timing here trees mase going to leave downing street and just on the truman office which of boris johnson will enter on the other side and so he will have to deal with it and people from the foreign offices former colleagues say it will be a hard call because he this is from character and temperament not really suited to

handle a very delicate crisis like this now so these are not fans of boris johnson of course but he has so far when he was in for an up in the foreign office to the line that the european union does we try to keep the nuclear deal alive which try to negotiate with iran but who knows what he will do once he is in office even his closest advisors have no idea barbara faisal in london thank you. let's get a quick check now of some other stories making news around the world tehran says that it has identified and captured 17 iranian nationals it claims were working as spies for the american cia iranian state television has reported that some of those taken into custody have already been sentenced to death the u.s. president donald trump has said that the allegations are quote totally false. puerto ricans took to the streets of the capital san juan to vent their anger at

the refusal of the governor ricardo was aliev to resign he has been under pressure to step down after the publication of sexist and homophobic text messages exchanged by him and his team he had already promised not to run for reelection next year. a suicide car bombing in the somali capital mogadishu has killed at least 17 people and injured dozens more the militant group al-shabaab says that it carried out the blast which targeted a busy checkpoint near the airport the group has been trying to topple somalia's government for more than a decade. and india has successfully launched an unmanned spacecraft to the far side of the moon the shandra on 2 took off from the space center a week later than scheduled to to a technical glitch it's a major step forward in india's efforts to become a space superpower. and there's more on india's moon mission coming up in news asia that's in about 15 minutes time but 1st we had to israel where

authorities have begun demolishing dozens of palestinian homes in east jerusalem israeli officials say that the buildings were constructed illegally and constitute a security threat as they lie too close to a security wall separating jerusalem and the west bank but the demolition has sparked international criticism the european union and the united nations are calling for its immediate halt. smashing through concrete breaking international law according to the palestinian authority heavy machinery turns palestinian homes in the district to rubble backed by hundreds of israeli troops around 20 people have been displaced the united nations says hundreds more building owners are also affected palestine has pledged to complain to the international criminal court. it was a us think of the cabinet condemned as grave aggression out there because the this is a continuation of the forced displacement of the people of jerusalem from their homes

and lands this is a war crime and a crime against humanity the. palestinians are used to seeing their houses destroyed but this operation is larger than any in recent years residents had appealed to israel supreme court to save their homes but their claim was rejected. and they are destroying our dreams and the dreams of our children this is not something new for them but we are steadfast that they won't destroy out determination. even if they demolish all of the houses. but israel insists the demolition is justified it says the buildings are too close to a separation barrier and could be used to shelter terrorists. the palestinians know fully well that they are not allowed to build new the security fence and israel is totally within its rights when it destroys those buildings

those buildings which were built in legally and the destruction although what has been the poor old supreme court under those conditions we have no other alternative . the palestinian authority has warned this could be just the beginning it says thousands more buildings that line israel's wall could be targeted for demolition. a 7th straight weekend event a government protest in hong kong has descended into violence the demonstrations began peacefully as tens of thousands took to the streets against an unpopular extradition bill that they fear will erode the city's autonomy as protesters headed for the office of the china communist party police fired on them with rubber bullets and tear gas and today new developments suspected members of a criminal gangs attacked demonstrators for. a truss a vicious assault gangs of men all dressed in white attacking anti-government

protesters on their way home from another huge demonstration. the brutal attack this life streamed on social media showing journalists as well as protesters being beaten as the men rampage through a subway station and on to train as. far. to the way i saw somebody bleeding all over the floor in front of me i tried to drag him away but they wouldn't let me i had all sorts of weapons and i came over and attacked me to. the felt like a couple more than. an opposition lawmaker he was injured claims triad gangstas suggesting the shadowy criminal network was intervening in support of the chinese government. as the dozens of injured received treatment police finally arrived on the scene and work used by witnesses of taking more than an hour to get there despite frantic calls for help so far no arrests have been made on monday from

comms probating leader kerry now condemned the attack we absolutely do not hold all that sort of violence and that is that he made us feel good but rules is not a solution to any problem above those who only 3 more albums. but other pro china nor makers focus that condemnation on the anti-government protesters who threw eggs and paint at china's hong kong liaison office. once again protesters clashed with police well into the night. such and should be severely damaged and i think these 2 repost look who thought these provocative pictures would who she was the don't make the relationship between so to cover the whole world but it is the closeness of that relationship that pro-democracy protesters are worried to fight that concerns have expanded beyond the controversial extradition bill as fears grow that democratic freedoms are being eroded for years

that will only be stoked by the unchecked intervention of suspected criminal gangs . and correspond if you be congo's in hong kong covering the rest for us here she is with the latest on the aftermath of the violence. thousands attack on other in the citizen trigger city why anger towards hong kong government especially the police force as they appear to use this for possible force to protesters compared to tells us how to passengers on trains it has me with a precious when peaceful rallies told foul that was aroused criticism over excessive force used by police against protesters and that's why the emphasis of the pros has right now she is to call for an independent inquiry to investigate all these concerns but i'm all the way to hong kong government keeps turning a deaf ear to protesting on and race more and more people resulting in the long term or even more radical demonstrations as they attribute the pavia of the governors to the lack of democracy and looking ahead people are more determined to

carry on as there is a new round of protests expected on the coming weekend. you're watching g.w. news still to come growing alarming brazil over shoot to kill policies the policing tactics of rio the governor says that the tough measures are needed to crack down on crime but in this if people are being killed in the crossfire. first we have to ukraine where president followed in years olinsky party claims to have won an absolute majority following sunday's parliamentary election if confirmed the. sult would be the best that any party has achieved in ukraine's post soviet history selenski called snap elections after his landslide presidential win in april because parliament was dominated by his opponents he wants a parliamentary majority so that he can push through promised reforms and his fight against corruption. that connelly joins us now with more on this story so nick it looks like his party will have an absolute majority in parliament how significant

is this while this is big news we are in uncharted territory here. he's pretty says of how this level of support in parliament yesterday evening the celebrations a bit muted does it look like even though he was on record breaking 4445 percent he would still need a coalition partner overnight the counting of the direct vote of the direct members of parliament has really swept his the tide of his party on and he now has a real one percent mandate to change this country just to give an indication the nearest place to party and 2nd place is what about 12 percent so this is really a story of. the rest of his gamble to pull for those elections while his poll ratings were flying high has paid off ok so he has the mandate but you know he's also made some really big pledges here he's lacking a bit of experience so how do you see this playing forward.

well obviously he and his team have shown that they are able to really pull off you know what was the impossible just a half year ago he was someone who was a t.v. entertainer and who only announced some patients to go into politics on new year's eve so they do have a track record of achieving big and. you know proving their doubters wrong having said that they are really concerned to bring in technocrats experts people with policy experience to kind of violence that kind of image i think the greater risk here is now given that he has so much power concentrated in his hands the buck really now does stop with him in the past ukrainian president to be able to blame the parliament for getting the way of reforms now he really has to deliver on those promises to voters or else he will face their oath. next time around how is he likely to balance relations with the west and russia obviously this puts mr on position he's proven he's got a lot of ukraine started behind him on the head i don't think we're going to see

some kind of quick more with russia there was a policy running this election that was offering that basically run by a friend of person a friend of latin of putin's they went to russia during the campaign and picked up only 12 percent i think we'll see a lot more change internally on the domestic agenda and in terms of ending the conflict i think they'll be maybe greater willingness to engage better mood music but in the fundamentals i don't think ukraine side is really willing to let village in a sense can make be concessions to russia and bring this conflict to a quick end anytime soon. only in kenya thank you. 5 people and today that is the average number killed by rio de janeiro police since they launched a new anti drugs war at the start of the year most of the deaths occurred in the city slums the favelas but now victims' relatives are taking to rios tourist areas to protest against excessive police actions that are leaving innocent civilians dead. the 1st bullets only hit this tree but the next one flew further tichina

leads us past the tree to a spot behind her house where her husband and 2 friends were shot and killed by the police 8 weeks ago traces of their blood are here according to witnesses they were ambushed and shot in the back no one knows why the victims were not armed. i was at work when it happened and thank god for that because if i had been here i might have tried to protect my husband if i had done that i would be dead by police killing innocent citizens has become an everyday occurrence in the slums of rio de janeiro since the police launched a new anti drugs offensive at the beginning of 29000 they've killed an average of 5 people a day to gina's husband ricardo was 29 years old and she insists he was not a drug dealer since his death she hasn't been able to continue her work as a nurse because now she's a single mother of 2. so. the government is committing genocide

policeman hold a gun in your face in anyone's face workers with children and if you're unlucky they just shoot you die and the government is to blame the president also not so he's completely out of his mind rio's new governor wilson vittal is responsible for the hard line from now on we clean up he says in a video he himself posted snipers on the helicopters shoot at suspects in the favelas that's a new policy brought in since vittal took office and despite all the evidence he insists that if innocent people are killed it can only be by criminals and terrorists who must be wiped out. in a conflict like this it is normal for the number of deaths to rise when the gangs realize they can't fight us fewer and fewer people choose a life of crime murder as a deterrent has devastating consequences on the beach at relatives of those who

were killed in the cross-fire demonstrate this is the school uniform of 14 year old marco who bled to death in the arms of his mother. i mean my son said mama the police a crazy didn't they see me with my school things i answered don't talk my son but he repeated the sentence and then he never spoke again. but some police officers die as well and they see themselves as victims poorly trained and used as pawns in a civil war between the government and heavily armed criminal organizations violence will not solve our problem says the police union. it would be better if the police focus their energy on investigations on background checks robert been on a policy of pure confrontation but this is the opposite of president also not his view he prefers confrontation. boy life in the favelas is a life between fronts in a battle people like to chinua have no way of escaping the war between the

government and the drug lords. well it's certainly rising african star who is using his unique music to confront the legacy of colonialism cameroonian basi has become one of africa's most distinctive singer songwriters blending african latin american musical styles now living in france he's using his music to honor one of his colonialist here. bassy tells uncomfortable stories in unique soft times. throughout the local market about the singer songwriter is currently on tour with his new album titled 958 originally from cameroon as he came to france in 2006 he now lives in bordeaux bassy regularly comes across reminders of the country's colonial past and its slave trade. in this museum is today

there used to be a place where they would encourage people to colonize other countries this is where they promoted colonization bordeaux was the trade center where they developed a lot of things to trade not just slavery but also the exploitation of populations during colonialism. bassy takes on the colonial period and its consequences in his new album. it's dedicated to the memory of one of bassis political heroes a largely unknown anti colonial leader written on my o.b. who was murdered by the french military in 1958. 6 album tells the story of the freedom fighter a man who used words instead of weapons and of the colonial leaders who killed him .

bassy uses haunting gentle sounds to tell the story of only of his death and ruin his work reminds us that the effects of the colonial era continue to this day both in africa and in europe. you know my. it was a very difficult period and i think it is important that the countries involved take responsibility at least for telling the story of these different countries have a common history bound together by that period how can we talk about this common history right in order to build healthier relations. is colorfully cost fishing for a global citizen with universal appeal. to

swimming's world championships in south korea and adding p.v. has extended his dominance in the breaststroke of bents it took the gold medal in the 100 meters the british swimmer had broken his own world record in qualifying for the final though he fell short of that time today he finished well clear of his rivals to clean a 3rd straight 100 meter world title. and it's often said that sport brings nations together but an annual race in turkey goes one step further than that the cross continental swimming race held on the bosphorus in istanbul for eggs to get their europe asia and a unique competition. the july 15th march as bridge in istanbul the gateway between europe and asia. the backdrop to a unique sporting event the 31st edition of the bosphorus cross continental swimming race saw more than 2000 competitors from 59 countries swim between 2

continents the swimmers ranging from ages 14 to 89 had to brave more than just a growing 6.5 kilometer distance choppy conditions and by sea temperatures added to the challenge yes well what what is called and that. there is a low called the finish is so difficult because there was. much call. it's it's cool but it's difficult. to absorb it i mean the idea was really difficult i suffered a lot especially at the end. the water was really cold at times i had to give my all to pull through. but for those that made it to the finish line located on istanbul's european port it was all worth it. just to be that listening by those reviewing of. the race was won by turkish competitors in both genders cats agrees

with the fastest time posted just over 47 minutes but nationalities are of little importance in a sporting event which defies borders. finally to the world a question festival in the german city of spectators from around the world gathered there for this year's c h i o. international horror show the home riders were looking to take the top spots in the tour sosh and show jumping events here's how they got on. it was a memorable day for isabelle van't she rode to victory on bella rose in the dressage on her 50th birthday at dream results on a special day for the german rider made all the sweeter with a standing ovation and the 1st day cake. it was great that it worked so well today and on my birthday that was the icing on the cake or i in the showjumping it looked like another german rider would win but 3700 ths of

a 2nd made all the difference. i had to be content with 2nd place cynic's do you commission chief or is a lot of fun the lion watch dogs are put on a perfect performance on tobago to head into the jump off. well there too little came down to time and firing to. just one way for. world champions bloom from germany finished just short of a medal she managed to clear rounds but knocking down this royal rumble coaster 3rd place but overall it was a successful day for the german riders on home soil in front of 40000 equestrian funds. you're watching d.w. up next on news asia defiant to terror today the philippines president vows to carry on his controversial war on drugs in the state of nations address that story

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